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Kent Van Dyk, who graduated from Western's Faculty of Education in 2010, was featured recently in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper. Originally a chef, Kent is now teaching at Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School in Barrhaven, where he created a brand new culinary arts program for high school students. The curriculum includes kitchen safety and sanitation as well as the business of actually learning to cook in the state-of-the-art stainless steel kitchen.
Kent hopes his students will finish the course with "good basic cooking skills, the ability to look after themselves and feed themselves relatively healthily, economically, when they leave high school and go off to college, university, or enter the workforce."
The course has been hugely popular with Kent's students, particularly his Grade 10 class who are planning a finale gala dinner in the school foyer at the end of the semester. The article appeared in the Ottawa Citizen.


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People started to quit their farming jobs, to start making agriculture. They used it for pots, pans, spoons, some decorations for houses and more.
Sargon of Akkad conquers the land known as Mesopotamia and forms the worlds first empire.
Egyptians had unique art style. This women named Rosetta Stone helped the people translate hieroglyphics, and now today whenever you solve a mystery, and what ever you used that helped you, that's what now today we call a Rosetta Stone.
Queen H. Was the first women to be a pharaoh. She built many monuments. Ramses was the king for the longest time. He took over lands, protected Egypt. But after Ramses died, Egypt falls.
Queen H. was the first women pharaoh. She built many monuments for Egypt. Ramses was Egypt's king for the longest time. He took over lands, protected Egypt. Than after Ramses died, Egypt fell.
Pyramids took really long to build. Sometimes it took about 1-2 years. The Mesopotamia people and Egyptian people used them to build for pharaohs. The peasants were barried in the dessert. But Nobles were barried as mummies.
Sumers invented how many months in a year, how many days in a month/ year, how many seconds in a minute, how many minutes in a hour, and how many hours in a day.
Egypt is very well- protected. They protect their land by having a big dessert, witch you would die because its to hot. Then they have the Nile River, witch has to much presher, so it would suck you down.
Kush had lots of gold, copper, and stone. They were rich. Their farmers were also getting good money to. Followed by that, they made the first iron industry. Kush is located north of the Nile River. In fact, Kush was remained an Egypt territory for about 450 years, and wow I would not like that if I was alive back then, and thank goodness because I don't want to live in like the 200 BC.
Egypt is located in the desert, south of the Nile River. Egyptian language became once the language of the region. Egypt didn't like Kush. The only thing they did together as a team, was to trade gold and other stuff. Egypt often wanted to get gold from Kush, in exchange for that they would give what Kush wanted.
The Buddhas celebrate many holidays, but here are just a few of them. Buddhist New Year, Vesak, Sangha Day, Dhamma Day, and so on.
The Hindus celebrate lots of holidays. Such as Basant Panchami, Dashara, Durga Puja, Ganesh Chaturthi, and many more holidays.
Some holidays of Judaism are Rosh Hashanha, Yom Kipper, Sukkot, Purim, and many more holidays.
Buddhism people didn't believe in that god that the Hindu people did. They thought that it didn't matter what you did in your life, your special no matter what. So in that case a lot of people that were Hindus, switched to Buddhism.
Hinduism still is one of the most popular religion in the world. The Hindus believed in a god that made everything that exists. They thought that if you had a good life, like being a pharaoh or something, you would brought up to the god.
When Rome went to war when Julius was in charge, they lost some people but they rarely lost their fight. Julius never died till his friend murdered him.
When Julius C. was on a role, some of his friends were getting sick of it. They were jealous. So they killed him. Everybody was scared because Caesar kept Rome protected, but others were pleased and didn't like him.
When Rome was just being Rome, out of the blue, the Barbarians light Rome's houses on fire. All their food, clothes, tables, and so on. Rome was in starvation.
When Julius gets popular, people are starting to get gelious. Like his friend. When Julius wins more battles, that's when his friend finally got enough. So he killed Julius, stabbed knifes in him over and over again. Then when Julius died, Rome was getting into fights WAY more than they used to. Rome was falling apart.
Julius was a poor guy. But he gave things to other poor people like games. He one day took over Rome and some guys were getting enough of him, because he had lots of power. So those guys killed Julius. Than Julius's niece killed those guys and HE became the ruler of Rome.
The Minoans and Mycenaens were the best at building ships. They went out into the Mediterranean Sea to trade. Everybody was expecting goods when they came back, and they did get goods for Greece.
The Minoans traded goods around Greece. The trade that they did made them rich enough to build beautiful buildings. It was a great time for the Minoans.
Because Greece was on a island, the Minoans spent much time on the sea. Their ships carried goods such as olive oil, wood, pottery all over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. But one day by Crete, a volcano erupted and created a giant wave that flooded Crete. This eruption created clouds of ash, ruining crops and burying cities. That eruption may have led to the end of Minoans civilization.
After the Minoans eruption, the Mycenaeans became the major traders in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. But though they lived in Greece, historians don't consider them Greek people. Why? Because they actually didn't speak Greek.
Greece was surrounded by water. Greece had lots of mountains in its areas. Because Greece is covered with mountains, there isn't much flat areas for farmland.

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Brennans celebrate 50 years
Kathleen and Bill Brennan of 41 Hunting Ridge Lane celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday, May 27.
The couple met in New York City in November 1966, became engaged in two weeks and were married in 1967 at the R.C. Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Scarsdale, N.Y.
In September 1975, they moved to Wilton and built a home in which they raised their three children. Kerry Brennan Novak now lives with her family in Portland, Ore., Jennifer Brennan MacGregor, lives in Wilton with her family, and Bill Brennan and his family live in the Boulder, Colo. area.
"A wonderful couple and example of true love and kindred spirits, Kathleen and Bill have given much to both their love of family and their community," their children said. A celebration of their milestone anniversary with the entire family and their six grandchildren is planned in August.


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Spaceborne Imaging Radar
This article is missing information about the SIR-A and SIR-B missions.January 2017)(
SIR-C/X-SAR in the payload bay of space shuttle Endeavour on STS-59, 9 April 1994.
|Mission type
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|STS-59 and STS-68
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The Spaceborne Imaging Radar (SIR) – full name 'Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR)',[1] is a synthetic aperture radar which flew on two separate shuttle missions. Once from the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April 1994 on (STS-59) and again in October 1994 on (STS-68). The radar was run by NASA's Space Radar Laboratory. SIR utilizes 3 radar frequencies: L band (24 cm wavelength), C band (6 cm) and X band (3 cm),[1] allowing for study of geology, hydrology, ecology and oceanography. Comparing radar images to data collected by teams of people on the ground as well as aircraft and ships using simultaneous measurements of vegetation, soil moisture, sea state, snow and weather conditions during each flight. The imaging radar was able to take images anytime regardless of clouds cover. The Radar-C system was built and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The mission was a joint work of NASA with the German and Italian space agencies.[2][3] Each of the week long mission scanned about 50 million square kilometers of the Earth's surface, (19.3 million square miles).[4]
The SIR mission revealed hidden river channels in the Sahara Desert indicating significant climate change in the past.[5] SIR was also used for volcano research by keeping researchers a safe distance from hazardous and often inaccessible areas. The radar was also used to generate detailed three dimensional mappings of the Earth's surface.[2]
Radar also found temples in Angkor,[6][7] and ancient segments of China's Great Wall.[8]
- Orbital altitude above earth = 225 km (139.8 miles)
- The width of the imaged swath on the ground = 15–90 kilometers (9–56 miles)
- C-band beamwidth = 0.25 deg. × 5 deg.
- L-band beamwidth = 1.1 deg. × 6 deg.
- Scan angle range = ±23 deg. from boresight across narrow antenna direction only
- Bandwidth = 10, 20 and 40 GHz
- Pulse repetition rate = 1395–1736 pulses per second
- Total science data = 50 hours per channel, per mission (two missions, total 100 hours)
- Total instrument mass = 11,000 kg (2,4250.8 pounds)
- DC power consumption = 3000–9000 Watts
- L-band data rate = 90 Mbit/s
- C-band data rate = 90 Mbit/s
- X-band data rate = 45 Mbit/s
- L-band wavelength = 0.235 m
- C-band Wavelength = 0.058 m
- X-band wavelength = 0.031 m
See also[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to SIR-C/X-SAR.
- Seasat – Seasat Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in 1978
- STS-2 with SIR-A
- STS-41-G with SIR-B
- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
- TerraSAR-X
- Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
- TopSat
- ^ a b "Catalog Page for PIA00504". Photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ a b "Spaceborne Imaging Radar" (PDF). NASA/JPL. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ NASA JPL, Photo, SIR-C/X-SAR
- ^ NASA JPL, What is SIR-C/X-SAR?
- ^ "Space radar unearths secrets of the Nile" (Press release). Jpl.nasa.gov. 6 December 1996. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ^ NASA JPL Press Release, February 12, 1998
- ^ JPL, February 7, 1995, Space Radar Laboratory Images May Help Find Unknown Settlements
- ^ JPL, April 18, 1996, Space Radar Reveals Ancient Segments of China's Great Wall


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|L'abbaye de Fontenay
The founding of Cîteaux by Robert de Molesmes in 1098 gave birth to the new Order. Eleven years later Stephen Harding from Sherborne became abbot and was soon joined by St Bernard and some thirty companions. From then there was no looking back. Pontigny, La Ferté also in Burgundy, Clairvaux and Morimont were colonized by Cîteaux. Soon Clairvaux was ready to colonize and founded Trois Fontaines in 1115 and Fontenay in 1118. It forms a most beautiful group of buildings and offers an object lesson in the dignity of austerity.
The buildings of Fontenay are clearly articulated, so that church, chapter house, refectory and scriptorium can each be identified, and to each is given an architecture which is subtly graded according to the status of the component part.
Obviously the church occupied the first rank ; in this the art of building was taken to its highest degree. In second place came the chapter house. From here was regulated the life of the community ; here the Rule of St Benedict was read each day and here offenders against that rule were punished. It was given an architectural excellence appropriate to its importance. It is a most accomplished piece of quadripartite vaulting. In line with the chapter house, and across the passageway which connects the cloisters with the garden, the scriptorium offers a slight but significant contrast. It is a fine building, but it lacks refinement. A third example of the same architectural procedure is in the old forge, which stands to the south of the claustral buildings in order to use the current of the stream to turn its wheels. In the centre of all these buildings the cloisters formed the unifying link, offering a covered way between one part of the monastery and another, and an area of great peace and beauty.


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A novel 3D cell culture platform is enabling scientists to generate microtissues that closely mimic the behavior of human tissues from virtually any cell type. This proprietary technology is easily automated, offering speed and versatility, combined with consistency and reproducibility, for high throughput applications.
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Miniaturizing separation science
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A modern elixir of life
Scientists at Tokyo University of Technology are searching for foodstuffs that can slow the aging process. Focusing on mitochondrial regulation, researchers from the university's School of Bioscience and Biotechnology are using cell-based assays to help identify food components with anti-aging properties.
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PerkinElmer Healthcare Diagnostics (Shanghai) Co develops and manufactures instruments for the processing and analysis of clinical samples in hospital laboratories across China. A pioneer of time-resolved fluorescence techniques in this market, the company prides itself on creating cutting-edge automated solutions to address unmet needs in infectious disease diagnostics.
A more powerful approach to biomarker
SomaLogic is using its unique proteomics technology – the SOMAscan® assay – to help identify new biomarkers for a wide range of disease states. Capable of simultaneously measuring thousands of proteins in low volume biological samples, this technique is ideal for the detection of low abundance proteins, perfectly complementing existing technologies for basic science, biomarker discovery and pharmaceutical research.
Building functionality into the antibody supply chain
The Monash Antibody Technologies Facility (MATF) in Victoria, Australia, has added a new dimension to its high throughput service, off ering screening for antibody functionality. This time-consuming phase is crucial for many projects, and can now be outsourced to MATF, where comprehensive and fl exible automation completes testing in a fraction of the time.
Futureproofing biobanking procedures
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Igniting research on the open seas
Fluorescence measurements are helping a microbial ecologist to investigate the undersea environment, studying microbial enzyme hydrolysis in subseafl oor rocks, and how microbes respond to oil spills.
Seeing more clearly
Degenerative eye diseases affect millions of people around the world, causing progressive loss of vision and, in some cases, complete blindness. Researchers in Australia are using stem cell technologies to investigate ways of halting, or even reversing, the effects of common eye diseases.
Epigenetics – adding a new layer to health
Do you feel overwhelmed with advice on what to eat and drink, or how to exercise to improve and protect your health? Pregnant women in particular are advised not to expose their developing child to alcohol, pollutants and stress.
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Get ready for a Kylie Jenner inspired take on a textured and tousled up do, which will make you swoon.
Teen Vogue's May cover star is slaying style, beauty, fashion and the selfie game. We can't get enough of her cover shoot look, fresh and natural with textured tresses in a sweeping up do with whispys. YouTube Guru of TheBeautyBreakdown and Teen Vogue YouTube host, Claudia Sulewski teamed up with TRESemmé stylist Tyler Laswell to recreate Kylie's Teen Vogue look. Get ready for texture and effortless up do you'll love as much as your messy bun.
1. Mist in texture spray generously, root to tip, to get volume and prep hair.
2. Blow dry hair and tousle with your hands. Grab large sections and twist hair and blow dry.
3. Start to create your up do style, in the video Tyler created two corn row braids on the side and a bouffant in the front. Make sure your braids are braided down to the middle as they will go into a ponytail and then a bun.
4. Tie braids into a pony tail, secure tightly. Then cut some black elastic, wrap around the pony tail and braid it into the hair.
5. This is a three strand braid, once you have braided it all the way down, scrunch the braid up and tie into a bun, secure the elastic around the base of the pony tail with bobby pins. Now begin to style and play with your baby hair aka as whispys.
We love how Claudia styled her textured bun, adding a tribal statement necklace for a urban warrior feel. Check out the video below and create your effortless Kylie inspired updo!


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Kickstarter helping close gender funding gap
It's not exactly front page news that women are underrepresented in most business sectors. Thanks in part to crowdfunding that gap is beginning to shrink. Ruth Simon explains.
Who are the most active Bay Area VC's?
Who are investing in the most companies? Which VC's have seen the most exits? Which companies are gobbling up the most other companies? Cromwell Schubarth has it all for you.
A brief history of crowdfunding
Not as big of a seller as a Brief History of Time, this article nonetheless is a nice quick primer on some of the early highlights from the world of crowdfunding. Jordan Sale did a nice job on this one.
Dacshle's son attracts $500K to turn site into Kickstarter for local politics
Tom Daschle' son Nathan has raised a half-million dollars to turn Ruck.us from a political social network into a crowdfunding site for local politics. Sarah Buhr has the story.
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Android Phone App Numbers
At the recent Mobile World Congress event, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, confirmed that the Android Market app numbers have now topped the 150,000 mark. On top of that he claimed that are over 350,000 device activations every day.
Those are some very impressive numbers. However, Android still has a long way to go to catch up to the iPhone apps count which recently surpassed 350,000 on the App Store.
Plus, it seems 350,000 is some sort of magic number. According to executives at Intuit, their company has seen over 350,000 downloads of their tax return SnapTax app in less than three weeks after the app went live on the iPhone and Android smartphones.
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Monday, 9 July 2012
Its true!
The reason is mainly money, for most of the last 6-12 months i have spent more than i earn. I sat down other day to see here i spend my money and on what and to see if i could cut anything.
Going to the pub most nights and filling the booze fridge came out top of the list of stuff that can be cut, While is not what i spend most of my money on ( others are necessary, roof over head and car etc), So the choice was either to cut down smoking and drinking in equal bits or one or other, I decided that i would give up drinking (alcohol) completely ( so i could still enjoy a fag) until my finances are in order, My debt is not out of control but i would rather sort it out now before i have to make more difficult choices.
I did consider cutting the take-away budget but seeing as my cooking skills are akin to Nick Knights commentary skills, i just couldn't take the risk.
I hope to have paid of my debts by Christmas.
Update: I have just remembered i have a bottle of Blue WKD in the fridge, so that will be last drink.
Update 2: I wonder if this aggressive tax avoidance, What say you Mr Osborne?
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I am one of the luckiest people in the world.ReplyDelete
Because when I was seven years old, I suddenly got hayfever. Does not make sense yet? Listen further.
I started to smoke when I was at school. Peer pressure. I left the bank and started to work with Gallahers, tobacco product manufacturers. I had more cigarettes than I could smoke. But then, I realised that my respiratory system was not up to scratch in the summer. Smoking made it worse.
So I gave up. I used to give out cigarettes and people would say Aren't you going to have one yourself? I would reply No, it's bad for your health. I went back to banking not long after!
I did start again and then tried cannabis. OK but not really the wild experience I had been led to believe. I even grew my own for a while.
So I gave up again and have not smoked for over 25 years. More money, less coughing, better life expectancy (Hey, I enjoy my life!)
I am not going to advise you to give up smoking because only you can decide that.
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- Tachybaptus9 July 2012 at 20:17
I also gave up smoking because it was making me feel ill. It seemed more of an addiction than a pleasure anyway.Delete
But I have not given up drinking. I have the kind of head that I have to get off occasionally (I think SC might feel the same way about his). And there is a pleasure in the companionship of getting pleasantly sloshed with friends that simply doesn't happen with smoking, a solitary vice.
On the other hand, if you are unfortunate enough to be a banker, giving up banking is a really good idea.
I walked away from banking during 1999/2000 when I saw the stupid things so-called bankers were doing. I had learned my craft in the sixties, when there were still people about who remembered the gold standard or the gold exchange standard.Delete
So I developed an old head on young shoulders. It stood me in good stead as major banks would book my services until Brown's reforms rendered my information useless.
I promised them it would all go wrong and then was mildly upset to see that things carried on growing, having slung my hook. I even entertained self-doubt over my previous views as I saw a re-enactment of a Tom and Gerry type scene where they both rush off the top of a cliff and keep going, not realising that the ground has disappeared beneath their feet.
It took banking seven years to realise that the ground had disappeared beneath its feet and my forecasts came true. Halfway though this I saw the cracks beginning and made moves to get away which I did in May 2007, four months before the world as we knew it came to an end.
My information is still useless as the clock cannot be turned back.
Yes. I do have a tipple but rarely get drunk nowadays as I do not like hangovers. Merry, yes. Aristotle's Mean still applies.


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I wish I was that tiny
i don't really like the cut of the top on anyone else it would look kind of crap.
but she looks beautiful and the colour is great on her
I think she looks great in anything. Yes, she's tiny but she also perfectly proportioned.
She's too small for my taste. Her frame teamed with her babyface just doesn't equal sexy to me.
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This past Sunday, we were kind of tired. We had a huge Winterfell menu planned, but it was only going to be the two of us (me and Steve), so we pared it down. Instead we cooked a delicious and hearty meal straight from northern Westeros:
- Beef & Bacon Pie
- Onions in Gravy
- Crusty White Bread (to soak up all that gravy)
- Baked Apples
- Mulled Wine
I will say though, this menu is probably my favorite so far. All the flavors paired perfectly with each other, and everything was just so scrumptious! And since we had a dinner rather than a feast, we felt pleasantly full rather than stuffed. Plus we still had a TON of leftovers since we accidentally-on-purpose made two beef and bacon pies.
This was also my second shot at the mulled wine, and I definitely learned where I screwed up last time. I used Pondre Forte rather than Pondre Douce in my first attempt, which is meant to accompany savory dishes, not sweet wine. And I definitely used more than a tablespoon and a half last time, which is why the wine turned out almost undrinkable. WAY too spicy. This second attempt was extremely pleasant, slightly sweet, and definitely left me wanting more. I let it cool to room temperature before drinking it, however, and I think I might have enjoyed this as a hot wine drink. Will try that again next time!


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I've been having trouble finding my focus while writing. Part of it has to do with being stuck at home, at my desk – the same surrounding day after day. It's making me feel a bit claustrophobic. I would study elsewhere, but frankly, I find it quite distracting. The noise of coffee shops – plus all the distractions with people walking in and out as well as inevitably running into a few people that I know – doesn't help me concentrate. I wish there was a nice library where I could just go and work peacefully for a few hours – proper desks and chairs and an inspiring ambiance. Kuwait's national library is supposed to be opening soon – but I hope that I'll be done with my PhD by the time it actually opens. In any case, I think the stage I'm at in terms of my writing prevents me from working anyplace other than home. I need to have my books/research articles at hand as well as all my notes and research diaries. It doesn't make sense (nor is it really possible) to lug them around where I go. Anyway, I really can't complain about my home office – it's absolutely ideal. I've got everything I need organized just the way I want it … so it's really just about being able to mentally focus without getting bored or distracted … and to do that, I turned to music.
I remember once upon a time when I absolutely could not work without music. It was everything to me – and it helped motivate and inspire me. Unfortunately, I had been having a bit of trouble finding the right type of music to listen to while working on my thesis. I found all my favorite songs to be distracting … classical music and other instrumentals were a bit boring … and then I hit the jackpot with Tango music and Trance music.
Odd combination, isn't it? But it worked perfectly for me.
The soulfulness of the tango tunes and the hypnotic effect of the trance beats put me in the perfect zone. Having no/minimal lyrics also helps as I don't get distracted by singing along. With either of these genres I seem to be able to zone out the rest of the world and focus only on the words in front of me. Now, whenever I sit down to read or write, I've got my tango and trance playlist ready to keep me company.
[Suggested Albums: La Revancha Del Tango (Gotan Project) and 40 Summer Trance Hits 2009 (Various artists)]


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BALTIMORE (WJZ)— Nuisance flooding is the high water that swamps streets and sidewalks during storms. It's a growing problem for coastal cities.
Alex DeMetick reports nuisance flooding is breaking national records here in Maryland.
Sometimes it covers part of a street. When it's really bad, nuisance flooding submerges all of it.
A study conducted by NOAA researchers found it's happening in Maryland more than any other state.
"These type of events happen maybe a few times a decade. Now they're occurring multiple times a year," said William Sweet, NOAA researcher.
According to NOAA, nuisance flooding since 1960 increased 925 percent in Annapolis and 922 percent in Baltimore. For comparison, the next highest city ion the U.S. is Norfolk, Va. with a 350 percent increase.
It's happening here because sea level is rising faster in the Chesapeake Bay, possibly up to two feet higher in 50-75 years.
And in a state with a lot of low ground, "this area is going to erode substantially and this park we're sitting in is going to be underwater," said Dr. Donald Boesch, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
In Baltimore, trash is also a cause.
"That will then block the drains and the water can't escape as it's supposed to," said Jeffery Raymond, Baltimore DPW.
And then you get flooding.
So the city will start installing screens to keep trash out.
But as the sea level continues to rise, "the time between these floods is going to be much more frequent and the severity of them is going to grow in time," Sweet said.
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Completely agree. When i was younger I played CB/FB at a semi amateur level until i tore both knees - my brother was professional but suffered the same fate.I liked the way Adrian is spreading his whole body at those saves he made. Even though some were from offside positions, they were class saves.
Since then I have played in goal, albeit at 5/7 aside. In this format its more about making saves/reaction than positional play, claiming crosses etc. So my opinion is purely based on my experience of the GK role.
Generally Adrian has really impressed me on his keeper aspects, re: his saves, claiming crosses, commanding of his area. IMO he should have gone with the other hand regarding the Newcastle goal but generally he seems sound.
Im not saying Mings would not have saved the Abraham shot, etc, but I definitely believe Adrian is an upgrade on Mings and is more grateful of his current position. N.b. This is not a slant on Mings who from all accounts was the upmost professional.


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The Science of Climate Change Demonstrated
Global Warming, Junk Science, Popular Delusions, Superstition
at last weekend's Climate March. Yes, what we have here is science, alright.
Via Vanderleun.
Category Archive 'Superstition'
23 Sep 2014
The Science of Climate Change Demonstrated
Global Warming, Junk Science, Popular Delusions, Superstition
at last weekend's Climate March. Yes, what we have here is science, alright.
Via Vanderleun.
01 May 2013
This Marvellous Age of Science
Books, Consumer Protection Commission, Environmentalism, Lead, Official Idiocy and Incompetence, Ousiaphobia, Popular Delusions, Science, Superstition
The Left, as we all know, has Science on its side, and its regime of experts intends to govern us guided by the insights delivered by established science.
The Left's supposedly science-based policies, however, have a tendency to resemble primitive superstition, frequently incorporating Ousiaphobia (My own neologism: "the fear of substances") which in every way resembles the sort of fear that primitive natives manifest toward things declared taboo by tribal witchdoctors.
Our own witchdoctors come with Ph.D.s, of course, and our politicians enthusiastically embody taboos in legislation. One particularly notorious example was the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008 which banned ever-more-minute levels of the taboo element LEAD (symbol: Pb) in children's toys, &c.
That particularly absurd piece of legislation had much more far-reaching implications than banning the importation of toys painted with lead paint from China. It effectively prohibited the sale of used (and antique) toys carrying traces of the forbidden metal, and when the law (passed under George W. Bush, mind you) went into effect early in 2009, it was thought also to ban all children's books printed before 1985, because (oogah, boogah!) back then printers' ink contained minute quantities of lead. The act banned lead in levels of 300 parts per million, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission promised that it would enforce the ban since "[g]iven the way that kids tear and chew through library books… it's unlikely that libraries have many children's books that are more than 24 years old."
Our federal government has declared all children's books printed before 1985 taboo on the basis of the belief that children customarily eat books.
Apparently, the book purge is still underway, four years later. A commenter on a publishing blog (read by my wife) reported yesterday.
Most people in America go to school for sixteen long years. They get science courses, and learn that Darwin proved that life arose spontaneously by chance, and that Natural Selection is good as a basis for rejecting traditional religion, but is absolutely not to be tolerated in human society. I presume everyone gets Chemistry courses and learns that lead is an element, is a metal, and is heavy. Chemistry courses probably inform people today that compounds of heavy metals tend to be very poisonous, but it is clear that the relationship, or lack thereof, between very poisonous and "300 parts in a million" is very evidently not made clear. Neither is the obvious necessity of employing common sense and testing theories against historical fact.
If exposure to books with infinitesimal amounts of lead in the ink they are printed with really impacted children, every youngster who was so foolhardy as to devote significant time to reading would have to be presumed to have damaged his intelligence. In reality, it's the children who read a lot who went on to get scholarships to Yale.
Winston Churchill monkeyed around with lead during his childhood on a scale which would obviously appall today's scientific experts. You can bet that he handled, fondled, ordered and re-ordered, and played with every single one of those 1500 lead soldiers. He undoubtedly was additionally equipped with molds for making more of them, and he doubtless, like most hobbyists of his ilk, poured melted lead and cast his own lead soldiers which he then trimmed, tidied up, and painted. The boy Churchill's hands were, you can count on it, soiled with lead on many a day.
I fished with lead sinkers as a boy, and during some periods, I too used a lead pot, casting my own sinkers. I also learned to handload ammunition, and cast bullets. Amazingly Churchill lived to the age of 90, and I've made it into my sixth decade myself.
07 Mar 2013
Witchcraft in 19th Century Chile
Bruce Chatwin, Chile, History, Superstition, Witchcraft
The last major witchcraft trial took place in Chile in 1880. The memory of this unusual event was revived by British travel writer Bruce Chatwin in his highly-praised first book, In Patagonia (1977).
Apparently, a local sect of male witches called La Recta Provincia, "the Righteous Province," operated a sort of protection racket, punishing persons refusing to pay by supernatural means or merely murdering them. Accounts of their activities include the organization of a large underground system of government rivaling conventional governmental authority, the mutilation of children, and elaborate initiation ceremonies and rituals involving the use of human body parts.
Smithsonian has an interesting account of all this which could be more detailed, but which finally concludes with the concession that, in the end, the stories of supernatural powers and activities failed to persuade Chilean authorities, and that most of the relatively modest sentences originally handed down were overturned on appeal.
13 Nov 2012
In Japan, Blood Types as Destiny
Blood Types, Japan, Junk Science, Popular Delusions, Superstition
The BBC reports on the Japanese obsession with ketsueki-gata, a form of racialist junk science resembling astrology, which claims to be able to predict a person's personality, temperament, and behavioral propensities from his blood type.
Types defined at length.
19 Oct 2012
Geek Zodiac
Amusement, Nerd News, Superstition, Zodiac
I get for a sign:
The Robot — Law Abiding, Dedicated, Logical, Stubborn, Intractable, Cold
I'm not especially law abiding, but it's otherwise not a bad description.
Any real Geek, of course, would be intelligent and analytical enough to dismiss at once the notion that every human being born in the same year could possibly have the same personality traits.
28 Jan 2011
Subsidized Techology and Cold Weather
Automobiles, Electric Cars and Hybrids, Environmentalism, Popular Delusions, Superstition
Charles Lane was moved by a bad commuting experience to reflect on the insanity of governmental efforts to promote less efficient and impractical automotive technologies in the name of environmentalism.
Modern efforts by government to promote the use and adoption of inefficient and uneconomic technologies by cash subsidies in pursuit of newer, tidier means of doing things we can do perfectly well and much more cheaply already resemble the obsessive efforts of pre-modern European princes to create gold by funding alchemical experiments. Throwing money in the direction of superstition does not actually create new industries and technologies. It just wastes money.
21 Jun 2010
The Drums Are Talking, The Natives Are Restless
BP Oil Spill, Brain Pollution, Cult of Statism, Cult of the State, Journalism, Journalistic Malpractice, Superstition
We have a much larger journalism pollution problem than the current oil spill represents. Government responses, costs to government and private industry, and public interest in the matter have all been massively inflated by orders of magnitude beyond anything rational or appropriate, all for the self interest of journalists and news organizations. The American public is simply led around by the nose by people with the resources and ability to exploit and exaggerate the significance of certain kinds of unfortunate events.
Who cares about those oh-so-terribly-fragile, fishy-smelling, mosquito-infested marshes? What about the impact of all the journalism pollution on energy costs, people's jobs, American due process, the rule of law, our political decision-making processes, and the ever-expanding role and power of government and the immense regulatory burden we all have to pay for?
Take sensationalist reporting out of the equation, and we have an unfortunate industrial accident with some serious economic costs and a few seasons of regional environmental impact. Add in the media and we have a circus of emotional Sturm und Drang fueling stupid policy choices and lawless governmental behavior, with devastating long-term costs to every consumer in the country, the entire economy, and the trajectory of American government.
My understanding is that there are something like 4000 oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. The last major accident was in 1979. One oil spill every 30 years, one serious problem in a generation, strikes me as a pretty decent record.
Exactly how many gazillion dollars of extra energy cost would it be worth to reduce by some undefinable percentage the itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, remote possibility that every so many decades there could be an accident, fouling so many miles of beaches and inconveniencing the fishing industry (and a certain number of pelicans) for several seasons?
Perfection, of course, is unobtainable, even if regulations and costs are piled to the sky, there is always going to be
What happens in America when something goes wrong is that the press sees an opportunity to run with the story and to play heroic watchdog of the public interest. A scapegoat is always required for our civic religious ritual. The press gets to identify some business entity as heartless, irresponsible, and greedy, and one or more public officials as incompetent or corrupt. The press can do whatever it pleases with the data. Words are easy. Capping leaking wells is hard. There is always the same moral. We need bigger and more active government. We need to spend more in taxes and regulatory costs. Then, once we have punished the scapegoat(s) and made due sacrifice to Leviathan, all will be well. The Great Big Nobodaddy Government will see to it that life will be perfect and nothing will ever go wrong again.
14 Jun 2010
Press and Public Think Government Has Magical Powers
BP Oil Spill, Barack Obama, Government, Magic Thinking, Statism, Superstition
Gene Healy describes how our popular cultural habit of demanding intervention by a supposedly omnipotent and omniscient state will produce no real results other than a larger and more powerful state. The government will not, however, develop the desired capabilities of preventing untoward events and effectuating instant solutions.
01 Apr 2010
Islamic Jurisprudence in Action
Death Sentence, Islam, Islam, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Sorcery, Superstition
Remind me why the civilized world stopped practicing Colonialism again.
09 Dec 2009
The Flagellants Are Coming
Environmentalism, Global Warming, Popular Delusions, Religion, Superstition
As the New York Times so convincingly demonstrates, the most dangerous hazard mankind faces is human stupidity.
14 Jul 2009
Saudi Family Sues Genie
Bizarre, Genie, Lawsuit, Litigation, Saudi Arabia, Superstition
This news item from the LA Times makes it clear that adoption of sharia law by western jurisdictions will only produce an increase in litigation in new and interesting ways.
06 Jul 2009
Interest Groups Opposing Cap-and-Trade Bill
Cap and Trade, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Iowahawk, Popular Delusions, Satire, Superstition, Virgin Sacrifice
House members never bothered to read the Cap and Trade Bill, but Iowahawk did, providing in his latest an update on some key provisions provoking controversy.
Hat tip to Karen L. Myers.
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WINTER HAVEN — In an extremely close team competition, the Lakeland Dreadnaughts captured the 4th Annual Polk County Girls Weightlifting Championship meet on Saturday at Auburndale High School.
The meet had coaches comparing their own scoring calculations, unsure of whom had won.
When the scoring was made official, it was the Dreadnaughts totaling 36 points, squeaking by Lake Wales (34), Frostproof (33), and Bartow (32).
Lakeland winners were Jessica Piedra (101), Nadege Mesidor (110) and Lynisha Johnson (199).
"Actually I was a little shocked to hear we won, but I am very pleased," said Lakeland coach Jeremy Bennett. "This was a very pleasant surprise. These girls have worked hard, they earned it, they deserve it. Our three winners have been with me multiple years, and they are awesome lifters, but also we have some new girls who scored points and that was big for us as a team."
Lake Wales winners were Sommer Baker (129) and Destiny Cuevas (169). Both had personal bests, Cuevas in the bench press (160) and Baker in the bench press (160) and total 275.
Winners for Bartow were Shamaura Thornton (183) and La'Shana Loveless (Unlimited).
Frostproof had a couple of winners as Chole Martinez (119) and Alisa Mendes (139) were victorious.
Camryn Wineinger, the 154-pound winner from Lakeland Christian, perhaps garnered the most attention as she successfully lifted 190 pounds in the clean and jerk resulting in large applause and a new county record. The 190-pound clean and jerk is a record for all weight classes at the girls' county meet and her 320-pound total (bench included) is a record for the 154-pound weight class.
"This is our first year as a program at LCS," said Wineinger a senior for the Vikings. "However I have worked out since I was in the eighth grade to help me with playing softball. For the last two years I have been committed to the University of Memphis for softball, and I am really excited to being going up there."
The teams now move forward to their respective FHSAA District meets which begin next week.


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In the below video from ARRI, cinematographer Greig Fraser talks about his work on new film Lion.
In Lion, Dev Patel plays a man separated from his family in India as a young boy who, as an adult, sets out on a virtually impossible journey to try to find them.
Says Fraser about shooting, "You very much have to edit your locations because there's so much great stuff in India, that you could actually make a film on any street corner…Finding locations for a film is as much about the jumble of the story arcs and the narratives and the color shifts and the way things become bigger and smaller as the child goes from a small town to a big town. It's important to try and find images that sum that up and give you the impression and help the audience understand, 'Here's a small child in a small town, which to him feels big, but then what happens when he gets into a massive town? What does a small child feel like in a massive town?'"
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NDP Calls on Brian Jean to take action as Wildrose Holodomor Comparison Resurfaces
Edmonton -- The NDP today called on Opposition leader Brian Jean to take action against Wildrose MLA Rick Strankman after his comments making light of the Holodomor resurfaced in his hometown newspaper.
Eight days after the Wildrose Party apologized for saying that millions of Ukrainians were complicit in their own genocide, Mr. Strankman repeated the offensive claim in a column submitted to the Oyen Echo and published on June 14.
"Thousands of Albertans have family members who perished in the Holodomor," said Jessica Littlewood, MLA for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville.
"It was totally unacceptable for Mr. Strankman to use their memories for a cheap political shot on the internet, and it's equally unacceptable that he made a second attempt in his local newspaper. This is far more serious than a social media mistake."
Littlewood said it's now up to Wildrose Leader Brian Jean to take action.
"In recent weeks, it's become clear that Mr. Jean does not have control of his caucus. He needs to say enough is enough, these kinds of comments are completely unacceptable, and hold his caucus members accountable for their behavior and extreme views."
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sotomayor On Cover of Dumpy Judge Quarterly
LANSING, MI - In the midst of confirmation hearings, Sonia Sotomayor can notch another first as she becomes the only Latina to grace the cover of Dumpy Judge Quarterly. Devoted to dumpy-looking judges, their insights, passions, and rulings, the magazine has traditionally chosen rumpled white men, jowly black men, and frumpy black and white women. "This is a first for the Hispanic community," said editor Enoch Radwin. "But she almost didn't make the cut." According to Radwin, the editorial board was split between Sotomayor and a circuit court judge whose unkempt hair stood up like Stan Laurel's. "He looked like he'd been asleep for fifteen years. Judging by his rulings, we're not overlooking the possibility, but Sotomayor is historic and "Dumpy Judge" has always been in the fore front of leaping on popular bandwagons."
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
"I'm totally cool with being weird. Weirdos become leaders."
My children are often described as "crazy". What can I say, they like to have fun. And that's exactly what it is..plain old fun! But sometimes I find myself defending them - you know, to clarify. They aren't actually crazy or really weird, they just like to run around naked with rubber boots and a winter hat on...or maybe just put on their dad's clothes.
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Important strategies to build up Catholic families
We know how important parents and the whole family are in forming the faith of young people. The United States Catholic Conference of Bishops states that the family is "our first community and the most basic way in which the Lord gathers us, forms us, and acts in the world" (Follow the Way of Love). We know that the primary way by which Catholic identity becomes rooted in children's lives is the day-to-day religious practices of the family and the ways parents model their faith and share it in conversation, collaboration, and exposure to outside religious opportunities (see A Report on American Catholic Religious Parenting, Justin Butkus and Christian Smith, page 7). Parents are simply the most significant influence on the religious and spiritual outcomes of young people (Follow the Way of Love).
The family is the community where Christian faith practices are nurtured and developed. We have discovered through research that certain faith practices make a significant difference in nurturing the faith of children and adolescents at home. Among the most important practices are:
- Reading the Bible as a family and encouraging young people to read the Bible regularly
- Praying together as a family and encouraging young people to pray personally
- Serving people in need as a family and supporting service activities by young people
- Eating together as a family
- Having family conversations
- Talking about faith, religious issues, and questions and doubts
- Ritualizing important family moments and milestone experiences
- Celebrating holidays and Church-year seasons at home
- Providing moral instruction
- Being involved in a faith community and participating regularly in Sunday worship as a family
Strategies for success
What approaches can we use to equip and support parents and families in embedding these practices into their daily life so they become "habits of faith?" Here are several strategies for nurturing faith practices at home that involve both infusing these practices into our current parish and school programming and creating new initiatives to equip and support faith practice at home. We begin with three foundational strategies and then move to
more "programmatic" ideas.
1. Create a digital platform, using the parish or school website or by building a family faith-formation website. To reach parents, we need to use digital tools and methods, and a website focused on families is essential today. The website is the resource center and portal (i.e., links to other online resources) for faith-forming content (resources and activities in print, audio, and video) for families to engage in at home. A parish or school can develop a family faith-formation website featuring each of the faith practices with engaging activities — print, audio, video, apps, and more — tailored to families with young children, older children, young adolescents, older adolescents, and the whole family, including "how-to" information and videos for parents.
2. Provide "how-to" assistance to parents so they feel confident and competent to engage in faith practices at home with their children and teens. Provide parents with online practical information (print, audio, video) with actual activities to do at home. One simple way to do this is to create a short video of the children or teens experiencing the activity, and then make it available on the website or on a special YouTube channel for your families.
3. Communicate regularly with parents using a family email newsletter or texting to highlight activities and videos online. Use social media to reinforce and spread the practice. For example, set up an Instagram account for faith formation with photos of the children and teens engaging in the practice in the program or class, and then invite parents to post photos of their family engaging in the practice.
4. Incorporate faith practices throughout the year by teaching the practices through experiential activities in children and youth programs and then inviting parents to reinforce the practice through continued at-home experiences you provide online for easy access. This strategy can reap huge rewards from childhood through the teen years. Imagine what a difference it would make if families focused on one Bible story each month or one prayer
practice each month for 10 years. Here are two examples:
◗ READING THE BIBLE: Develop the "Bible Story of Month" plan to introduce children and teens to important stories and teachings in the Bible by teaching them how to read, interpret, pray, and apply the Scriptures to their lives. Select 12 of the most relevant and developmentally appropriate Bible stories for each age — from ages 5 to 18. Integrate the Bible teaching into one session or program each month; use videos to assist you. (Check out the animated videos at TheBibleProject.com or at JellyTelly.com.) Then provide online resources for parents to reinforce the Bible story by reading the story, watching the video, and discussing the story.
Be sure families have a good children's Bible: The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name by Sally Lloyd-Jones (ZonderKidz), and The Catholic Children's Bible (St. Mary's Press) are great resources. Another free resource is "Reading the Bible" from Living Well: Christian Practices for Everyday Life.
◗ PRAYING: Develop the prayer life of children, teens, and families by focusing on learning Catholic prayers, teaching the different forms of prayer, and experiencing a prayer practice each month during the class or program. Have children and teens experience the different types of prayer: contemplative, Scriptural, intercessory, praise (adoration), and thanksgiving. Develop a short video of the children or teens praying so parents can see prayer in action. Provide prayer activities and resources online for parents to continue the "prayer of the month" at home.
Living Well: Christian Practices for Everyday Life offers excellent online prayer resources for
5. Celebrate the seasons of the year at home by identifying a monthly seasonal event reflecting the calendar seasons and the Church-year seasons and then publishing the activities on the family website. Incorporate Scripture, prayer, learning, service and action, ritual, and family conversation into each seasonal event. Highlight a Christian practice that will be communicated and experienced through each event.
For example:
◗ JANUARY: Martin Luther King Jr. (working for justice and peace, serving)
◗ FEBRUARY: Valentine's Day (loving)
◗ MARCH: Lent (praying, serving/almsgiving, forgiving)
◗ APRIL: Earth Day (caring for creation)
◗ MAY: Mother's Day (honoring parents, loving caring)
◗ JUNE: Father's Day (honoring parents, loving, caring)
◗ JULY: Independence Day (working for justice)
◗ AUGUST: Back to school (celebrating new beginnings)
◗ SEPTEMBER: Fall harvest (being grateful, being generous, caring for the earth)
◗ OCTOBER: St. Francis (caring for creation, caring for animals, living simply)
◗ NOVEMBER: Thanksgiving (being grateful, serving, living hospitality)
◗ DECEMBER: Advent and Christmas (celebrating rituals, praying, serving)
A parish or school can develop family festivals and gatherings to support the seasonal plan using the four seasons — fall, winter, spring, and summer — or the church-year seasons — Advent and Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost.
6. Connect families to Sunday worship by incorporating preparation for Sunday in children and teen programs and then deepening the Sunday worship experience at home through activities, practices, and resources from a variety of age-appropriate and whole-family digital content on the website. These activities can include family conversation questions, a weekly table ritual, a podcast or video of the homily with a study guide for the parents, children's creative Bible activities, storybooks, videos presenting the Bible story, daily prayer, and weekly family devotion.
7. Create family immersion experiences on faith practices. Design extended programs (half-day, full day) that teach faith practices through immersion experiences — at church or in the community — where families can experience a practice first hand, such as hospitality at a homeless shelter, serving a meal at a soup kitchen, or caring for creation by planting a garden. Combine the at-church experience with activities for families to do at home.
Substitute an age-group program for a family program or add three or four family programs throughout the year that teach a faith practice by having the whole family experience it together.
8. Develop family life skills by adding a parent-child/teen component to age-group faith formation or by adding special parent-child/teen programs throughout the year. Focus on the types of skill-building that will strengthen family life and parent-child/teen relationships, such as: communicating effectively, discussing tough topics, making decisions and solving problems as a family, learning how to build strong relationships and express care for each other, supporting each other (encouraging and praising, giving feedback, standing up for each other), and treating each other with respect and dignity. Many of these skills can be developed using movies selected for their positive messages. An example of a movie that provides a foundation for follow-up activities is Disney/Pixar's Inside Out about the emotional life of a child growing up.
Over the next year try one or more of these ideas in your parish or school. There's nothing more important in faith formation today than equipping and supporting parents and the whole family in becoming communities of faith practice.
John Roberto is on the leadership team of Vibrant Faith, where he serves as the coordinator of training services. His publications include Faith Formation with a New Generation (2018), Families at the Center of Faith Formation (2016), Seasons of Adult Faith Formation (2015), Reimagining Faith Formation for the 21st Century (2015), Generations Together (2014), and Faith Formation 2020 (2010). He is the founder of LifelongFaith Associates and the Center for Ministry Development.
This article was originally published in Catechist magazine, March 2019


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'Mary Poppins Returns': Emily Blunt is Oscar-worthy say early viewers, critics
The LA premiere of the upcoming movie happened Thursday night and critics, actors, and other film enthusiasts pointed out this is the one film we needed the most right now
It's official: Emily Blunt has done it again. Lin-Manuel Miranda has done it again too. And, so has Rob Marshall! A couple of days ago we had assembled some of the finest bits of the upcoming 'Mary Poppins Returns' film that was sure to make it a hit with the fans, despite Julie Andrews not returning for even a little cameo for the revival film.
And, by the looks of it, we weren't wrong. Not nearly, going by the early viewers. Most reactions gushed about how equally iconic Blunt's Mary Poppins is, and serving as her perfect sidekick in the film, Miranda, is no less spectacular!
The Los Angeles premiere of the upcoming movie happened this Thursday night, and as of now, social media had pretty much blown up with critics, actors, and other film enthusiasts alike pointing out how this is the one film we needed the most especially with everything going on under the sun currently. For starters, Nick Kazdan believes 'Mary Poppins Returns' is "enjoyable as heck and pays the original justice," while screenwriter Gary Goldstein stated the film was "deserving of its standing ovation".
Julie Andrews (Marry Poppins, 1964) and Emily Blunt for Harper's Bazaar UK (2018) 😊 Such a beautiful parallel 😍 #MaryPoppins #MaryPoppinsReturns pic.twitter.com/rW1uhzQxBh— Fandomtrash (@WreckedByFandom) November 29, 2018
Actor Josh Gad kept it short and sweet, sharing: "Believe the hype. Wow." But he followed it up with another tweet later, saying: "Let's try this again. Cannot get #MaryPoppinsReturns out of my head. It's the movie the world needs right now and #EmilyBlunt and @Lin_Manuel are truly out of this world."
While Blunt's performance and the film made her husband, actor John Krasinski tear up, 'Hamilton' creator, Miranda, was back at it again with some eagerly anticipated rapping. The film has several other familiar faces to brag about too. There's Colin Firth, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, and to top it all, Meryl Streep too - making it the musical of the year, and seemingly at par with the 1964 original.
Blunt's performance has even gotten people talking about how Oscar-worthy she is as the Mary Poppins of this generation. The Playlist's awards prognosticator, Gregory Ellwood, shared she "is absolutely superb and her performance puts her smack dab in the middle of the Best Actress race."
And, for those wondering what a stellar job director Marshall must have done, yet again, Miranda would have you assured that it's remarkable. "I think [he's] the best at making movie musicals...to get to build an original musical and to watching him do it has been one of the great learning experiences of my life," said the actor who plays the role of Jack, the street lamplighter.
Here's what the rest of the fans had to say ahead of the film's December 19 release.
I got to see Mary Poppins Returns last night and oh baby it is magic & beauty. Emily Blunt is perfect in every way & @Lin_Manuel is BEYOND INCREDIBLE! He sings, he dances, he rides bikes & ladders, all with an accent, a smile & an expert touch. And THE SONGS! @marcshaiman genius.— Ben Schwartz (@rejectedjokes) November 30, 2018
MARY POPPINS RETURNS is a delight in the purest & brightest sense possible. The attention to detail to recapture the magic of the first is evident in every decision made by Rob Marshall, the cast & crew. Emily Blunt is absolute perfection & the cameos are heartwarmingly joyous!— Matt Neglia (@NextBestPicture) November 24, 2018
before there was "bye felicia," there was an animated penguin in mary poppins saying my name and i hold onto that so tightly https://t.co/DVDYQrkmXb— Felicia Fitzpatrick (@felicianicole86) November 29, 2018
MARY POPPINS RETURNS is full of beautiful visuals, fantastic acting and musical sequences that will blow you away. Emily Blunt will get a nomination for Best Actress, and has a solid shot at winning. Fans of the first film will be pleased! #MaryPoppinsReturns pic.twitter.com/icWDh96yEC— Skyler Shuler (@Skylerhxc) November 30, 2018
Michael's trying to sleep but I couldn't help myself. Trying to learn some old Mary Poppins tunes. @Lin_Manuel / #EmilyBlunt and the entire cast and crew were perfection. I wanna swing from every lamp post in Hollywood and sing til the sun comes up. pic.twitter.com/A5h2UNkfpw— Beth Behrs (@BethBehrs) November 30, 2018
Much like the Banks family, I didn't realize how much I needed Mary Poppins back in my life until she arrived. Emily Blunt is magical. @Lin_Manuel is a joy. And wonderful to see Navckid Keyd acting again. #MaryPoppinsReturns pic.twitter.com/mO0RSXW6J7— Stephen (Dirk) Libbey (@childe_dirk) November 30, 2018


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Every year I reserve the last two weeks for NaNo prep. Some years it goes better than others. 2019 has achieved an abysmal low.
On the 17th my computer's power supply cacked out. Would not recharge. To make it extra fun I had some governmental paperwork, that could not even be done over the phone as the governmental eforms also cacked. A rushed search for a new universal power supply and then a second universal power supply and I was good or a day and a half.
Then then that stopped charging. Holding it in hard made connection, but not enough to charge. The socket to the motherboard came loose, and my tech said that people don't do that kind of welding any more.
It was a five year laptop, that had already had 3 fans and 2 keyboards. Some keys were starting to stick again and the case grill had cracked off. I'd used it hard, but I was going to have to suck it up and finally leave Win 8.1 for the supposed bliss of a touch based interface.
That is actually why I don't want it even after 48hrs of working on set up. There's hidden settings, and control panel is NOT default present in the start menu. I've been having an ongoing issue that mouse ro;;over in both sometimes desktop and very frequent browser acts like a right mouseclick. It's not an ad and fussing with settings didn't help. I reduced the issue about 75% when I disabled touch screen in my browser. But it still happens, with a syster right click blocking what I'm working on.
It is a more powerful machine, but the ONLY neat feature was that my active desktop background appeared automagically when I logged in on the first boot. I'm still waiting for that burst of enlightenment and joy Win10 promised.
Make sure you back up into the cloud, its way better than any of the old hardware solutions. Backup your bookmarks and anything you do creative. Expect to take days to weeks to recover.
And try not to have a disaster near NaNo.


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Amazon India's new monthly subscription plan
The new subscription plan is available at Rs 129
MUMBAI: Amazon India has added a new monthly subscription plan for its Prime members available at Rs 129.
With an auto-renewal mechanism activated by default, the payment methods for this subscription are currently limited to debit and credit cards only. While users can pay by any credit card, the payment option from debit card is limited to a select few.
Earlier, Amazon India offered only a yearly subscription plan at Rs 999. However, consumers that have subscribed to it cannot switch to a monthly plan now.
Amazon Prime users can access Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Music store as well as get the facility of free and fast delivery.
Amazon Prime service was launched in India in 2016, three years after its global launch.
Also read: India fastest-growing market in first year for Amazon: Jeff Bezos
Netflix, Amazon may contribute to rising production cost in India


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The Tuf 13 tournament winner Tony Ferguson entered this fight with a professional mma record of 19-3-0 (79% finishing rate) and he is ranked as the No.5 lightweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Rafael dos Anjos). He suffered his last defeat in 2012 when he faced Michael Johnson, since then he has won six consecutive bouts beating Gleison Tibau (=Ferguson vs Tibau) and Josh Thomson in 2015 (=Thomson vs Ferguson),
His opponent, the black belt in tae-kwon-do Edson Barboza, has an official record of 16-3-0 (69% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.12 in the same weight class. He has also fought twice in 2015 losing to Michael Johnson (=Barboza vs Johnson) and winning over Paul Felder (=Barboza vs Felder). Ferguson vs Barboza is on the undercard of Frankie Edgar vs Chad Mendes – UFC Tuf 22 Finale. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Event: The Ultimate Fighter 22 Finale: Team McGregor vs Team Faber
Date: 2015-12-11
Where: The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Division: lightweight (155 lbs, 70 kg)
UFC Tuf Finale 22 fight card (main fights):
Frankie Edgar vs Chad Mendes
Artem Lobov vs Ryan Hall
Tony Ferguson vs Edson Barboza
Joe Lauzon vs Evan Dunham
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs Jason Knight
Gabriel Gonzaga vs Konstantin Erokhin
Ferguson's previous fight: Josh Thomson vs Tony Ferguson
Barboza's previous fight: Edson Barboza vs Paul Felder
Barboza's next fight: Anthony Pettis vs Edson Barboza
Ferguson's next fight: Tony Ferguson vs Landon Vannata
Official video:
(Alternative free embeddable highlights video hosted on Facebook)
Não deu para o BrasilTony Ferguson FINALIZOU Edson Barboza Assista o Card Principal online: http://goo.gl/eSKHzr
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Updated on 6/4/12.
幼小衔接:魔法拼音-2 for iPad on the iTunes App Store.
Cheerz Kids! is a Shanghai based developer of learning apps for children. They have developed more than 70 different learning apps for the Chinese market (using simplified and pin yin). Currently, they are offering a wide array of their apps for free download (Normally, they are $0.99). Many of the apps will not be that useful since they are geared toward the Chinese market for educational apps for young children.
There are some that can be useful if have children learning Chinese even though there is no English translation or support. The first one linked at the top is one of two Chinese phonetic flashcard apps. This one focuses on the finals This is pretty useful since it offers an array of flashcards with pictures grouped by sound (i.e. a, o, e, an, ong, etc.). You can find the other app that focuses on initials (i.e., b, p, m, f, etc.), it is green with a dog holding a pencil with the letters b, f, and p by either looking on the developer page or by clicking on the "more" button and then the "4-7" grouping. I gave up on trying to link it here since iTunes is mind-numbingly slow in loading, and my written Chinese isn't good enough to do a specific search. The interface is fairly easy to use and figure out even though it is geared for Chinese users. I really like the while in the flashcards, you can toggle a scrolling menu to select the sound family that you are working on. Keep in mind they only offer 4 flashcards per sound. You can probably work out the meanings of a lot of the flashcards, but there are plenty of Chinese dictionaries and translation tools out there that you can figure it out.
幼小衔接:四五快读学汉字-1 for iPad on the iTunes App Store.
Now this series of seven graduated "1000" apps is geared for more of the intermediate Chinese learner since these are designed to by like the equivalent of Chinese early readers for their 1st or 2nd grade children. This will be a little harder to navigate since it is a more complex learning app. These apps are designed to build on vocabulary in a series of stories. Each story builds on difficulty, and each successive app increases in difficulty of vocabulary. Again, keep in mind, there is no English translation, so you will not necessarily want to use this with a beginning learner.
Each "story" starts with vocabulary with stroke introduction and practice. For example, in Collection 1, the first reader focuses the characters for 人, 大, 中, 小, and 一 (person, big, middle, small, and one). Then you go through a series of picture flashcards with pinyin of common words or phrases that use the featured characters. Then there is a simple test to match the characters to pin yin and then fill in the correct character to complete the word that was introduced earlier in the flashcards. This part is fairly forgiving since it will let you keep trying until you select the correct answer. In the later readers, you will get simple sentences that will tell a simple story and more difficult fill in the blank matching. The one thing I didn't like is that for some of the testing, there is no audio button for the phrase for hints and you can't go back or skip forward. I also thought that with the reading section would be more useful if there were pictures to accompany the story so that you could puzzle out the meaning. I suppose that since it is geared to a Chinese market, they assume that the child will understand the meaning from the accompanying audio since they are using simple sentences and vocabulary.
You can find the entire series of "1000" apps either by looking on the developer page or by clicking on the "more" button and then the "4-7" grouping. The icons are similar to the one above with a different number in the lower right. Regarding the rest of the apps, the only ones worth considering are the "dragon" (series of 4 right now) ones, the flashcard (preschool level concepts) apps (series of 5 – icons have 3 cards to the left and a dog to the right), the Chinese songs app (series of 4, icons have music notes and dog), and the story ones (have to look for those) which are at an picture book/concepts level. Unfortunately, it was too hard to get links to the specific ones, but they are grouped with the "4-7 " apps (preschool flashcards grouped with "3-6"). If you look carefully at the list of apps, you will see some labeled with English, these are the English version of stories. The matching Chinese ones have similar icons with a slightly different design. (see below for the list of the English version titles.) These will be the most useful if you are not fluent in Chinese. The "dragon" apps are a far more difficult reading apps with learning activities. I would estimate that you probably need to be reading at least at their 2nd or 3rd grade level to manage using these apps. The rest of the apps are not that useful since there are plenty of English language based apps that do a better job of early learning concepts.
Phonetic and e-book apps are recommended for ages 3 and up. Chinese songs and flashcards series is recommended for ages 2 and up. 1000 series is recommended for ages 5 and up for beginner Chinese learners. Dragon series is recommended for ages 7 and up for intermediate Chinese learners.
E-book titles:
- Silly Suzy Goose
- It's a Book
- Pepo and Lelo
- Domino
- Sometimes
- You
- My Uncle's Donkey


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A couple of weeks ago news broke that Khloé Kardashian and her boo Tristan Thompson were expecting their first child together. Well, it looks like Khloe is going to have a little baller on her hands because they're having a boy!
According to Us Weekly, multiple sources have confirmed this tea and say that Khloe and Tristian are excited about this blessing.
Since learning that she's with child, Khloe has been adamant on maintaining her snatched physique.
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Breakfast Club
Breakfast club is open from 8am until the start of school. Children can come along to our breakfast club as and when needed, the cost is £1.25 per session and children pay on the day.
The club serves are healthy selection of breakfast items along with juices and milk.
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|Police drop graft case against Hasina
|Monday, 05 January 2009
Dhaka, Jan 4 (bdnews24.com) - Prime minister-elect Sheikh Hasina has been cleared of charges in an extortion case brought against her by businessman Tazul Islam Faruq, as police on Sunday signed off on the final report in the case.
"We submitted the report to Dhaka Metropolitan Judge's Court in the afternoon," investigation officer of the case and the Tejgaon Police Station's officer-in-charge Lutfar Rahman told bdnews24.com.
Faruq had filed the Tk 3 crore extortion case against Hasina with Tejgaon police on Apr 9, 2008.
Just last month, on Dec. 23 just days before the general election, he appealed to the same police station to withdraw the case against her.
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The Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes has done a lot again this year! While reviewing all of the projects underway this year, I was amazed by all the hard work done by so many volunteers. Over 170 volunteers worked over 3,200 hours in our Adopt-A-Beach, Adopt-A-River, Adopt-A-Trail, and our Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail Ambassador Program. In addition, we made good progress in planning and developing new hiking and paddling trails – Kettles Trail and Bay to Bay Trail.
From a purely financial standpoint, the Friends provided grants or purchased equipment for the benefit of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore of almost $77,000. About $33,500 of this total came from the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail Maintenance Fund managed by TART.
Click here to read a summary of all of our 2013 projects. You can also read more details on all of our projects by going to our Projects Page.


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Debbie's life is full and rich now and she can indulge her passion gone crazy in her appreciation of wines, so much so that she actually took courses and obtained the first level Sommelier certificate. She loves relaxing and hanging with her MinPin, Pennie. And she enjoys a quick drive to Galveston and a day soaking in the sun, waves, and ocean air. Her evenings are best spent listening to good music. She goes to country music concerts as often as possible and really enjoys Live Texas music in local bars. She has become more than just a career. She's now a fully rounded person who is better at everything because of it. Debbie has learned how to love life and herself and she has enthusiasm and wisdom to share with her audiences and clients as she inspires them to find the way up out of whatever place they find themselves and embrace the world that is waiting for them. Debbie Roman is your very own partner in personal growth and achievement from the ground up.
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02 May Motivation for Mum
We're all about beauty beginning from the inside and with Mother's Day hot on our tails, what better way to give her a gift full of motivation!
Is it a bit cliche to fill your brain full of knowledge and power?
Most certainly not! It's a well known fact that when you feel positive and inspired from within, you simply just glow on the outside. Pure beauty!
The Secret – Rhonda Byrne
Based on the law of attraction this bestseller claims that positive thinking can create life-changing results such as increased happiness, health, and wealth. This incredible book has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 46 languages!
Strong Looks Better Naked – Khloe Kardashian
Yes OK we all have a love/hate relationship with the Kardashian's but this is a must read and might just inspire Mum in ways she never thought possible!
Khloe shares her secrets for finding strength of body, mind, and heart with stories of her own struggles with weight, relationships, and her self-image.
The Power Of Now – Eckhart Tolle
German-born philosopher Eckhart Tolle tells us that happiness is achieved by living in the moment. And being Oprah endorsed – this will sure to delight Mum! A New York Times bestseller!
#GIRLBOSS – Sophia Amoruso
One of our absolute favourite reads! The story of how one woman can go from broke to success. It proves that being successful isn't about how popular you were in high school, Success is about trusting your instincts and following your gut, knowing which rules to follow and which ones to break.
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The U.S. says it will have the world's fastest supercomputer ready in just two years.
The U.S. Department of Energy says it has signed a contract with Cray Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to build a machine called Frontier, capable of computing at 1.5 exaflops -- a level 50 times faster than current supercomputers.
The department says its endeavor, which entails a $600 million investment for the development of technology and systems, will help yield new advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and more.


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Our Story
Today we find ourselves new. We are residents of York County. We are over 50,000 in number and growing. We are Family Trust:
- Financial professionals working on your opportunities in life.
- Board, committee members and staff involved in the community.
- Members and stakeholders, just like you.
1957: Opening in a stock room, the RHP&F Federal Credit Union helped textile workers consolidate debts and save for milestones in their life.
1988: Became Family Trust Federal Credit Union and years later, a new charter allowed us to serve anyone who lives, works, worships, or attends school in York County.
Today: Family Trust lives the credit union philosophy of "people helping people." We are dedicated to members and the community and strive to offer a helping hand when needed.
Our Passion Lies With Our People
As a credit union cooperatively owned by our members, you will never find us using profits to please a few stockholders. Rather, we're devoted to helping our members achieve financial success. We are members leading members, collaborating on ways to serve you better. Our volunteer board and committees include:
- Board of Directors (pictured right)
- Supervisory Committee (pictured below)
- Advisory Committees
The Supervisory Committee
This committee ensures that the financial condition of the credit union is accurately and fairly presented in financial statements, and the necessary internal controls are in place to protect our members' assets. Their goal is to confirm that operations are performed with the highest degree of accuracy and integrity.
To accomplish these objectives, they engage an independent certified public accounting firm to perform an audit of financial statements, management practices, and procedures. They're pleased to report there were no significant findings.
They also have internal audit staff, who report to the Supervisory Committee. Their duties are to review and audit internal controls, monitor compliance with regulations and policies, and provide reasonable assurance that risks are appropriately managed at the credit union. They also assist the committee in researching and investigating member complaints.
It is the opinion of the Supervisory Committee that Family Trust is financially sound and operating efficiently and effectively. The financial statements accurately represent its financial condition, and all business activities are handled in accordance with the Board of Directors' policies and government regulations.
For any concerns or comments, please write us:
Supervisory Committee
Family Trust Federal Credit Union
P.O. Box 10233
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This Crossroads set from EMG emulates the classic Strat tones of legendary guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. It is also a great example of EMG's Retro Active technology moving into the single coil sphere. This set features a clean white finish.
Unique Voicing
Each single pickup found here is voiced with its own individual resonant frequency. This ensures a brilliant balance if combined in positions 2 or 4 – with the timeless blues tone found in position 1,3 and 5. You'll also get the benefit of active pickups, paired with the dynamic response from vintage passives (with all of the tone and none of the hum/buzz).
- White Finish
- Single Coil
- Active Pickup
- Vintage Tone with No Buzz/Hum
- Benefits of Active Pickups with the Dynamic Response of Vintage Passives
- Includes EMG's Exclusive Solderless Install System
- x1 Battery Cable
- x1 Output Cable
- x3 Connect Cables
- x3 Pickup Cables
- x3 Pair Mounting Screws and Springs
- x1 5 Way Selector Switch
- x1 Stereo Output Jack
- x2 22k Tone Pot
- x1 25k Volume Pot