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Flower Essences for your Pets
Flower Remedies for your animal friends
Our pets
The emotional needs of pets are often overlooked or simply not realised. Horses, dogs and cats are sensitive and intuitive creatures as no doubt are other animal varieties. Those animals we share our lives with often experience similar emotional states that we do such as love, trust, abandonment, fear, anxiety and grief.
Your own state of mind is important when you are around your pets – you would be surprised how much they pick up and reflect from your attitude. At times you may find that it may be your own attitude that needs changing rather than theirs and you may both find it beneficial to take flower essences.
Long-term fear or emotional stress depletes vitality and lowers immunity and resistance, and therefore a happy pet is usually more resistant to infections and illness. General behaviour, performance and health all benefit by improving the emotional wellbeing of your pets along with patience, care and understanding, helping them to be happy, calm, and willing to communicate and be trusting. A confident, happy horse is less likely to injure itself; a contented pet will be less grumpy or attention-seeking.
Just like humans our pets' needs are simple – they love to be loved and will love you in return. Their disposition is determined by their life experiences as well as by their family lineage in the same way as it is for people. Respect for pets allows them to feel safe and therefore have more trust in humans and in themselves.
Pets and Flower Essences
Flower Essences are vibrational medicines which are non-physical in nature and therefore non-toxic. They help maintain health and fitness by keeping your pets emotionally balanced and calm.
Pets respond well to Flower Essence Remedies and results can often be seen within a few days. Although they are not a substitute for veterinary care they do support their emotional and physical healing process – and can safely be used in conjunction with other forms of medication and therapies.
At times when both animals and their owner / trainer are experiencing emotional upheaval or challenges it may be recommended that both parties take remedial essences. I prepare Personal blends in the same way for pets as I do for an individual person – by intuitively tuning into their energies.
To help me tune into your pet to allow me to choose appropriate combinations it would be helpful to receive a few details to work with such as your pet's name, a brief description of symptoms, and any relevant environmental situations to assist with this.
Non-alcoholic Essence combinations and Personal flower essence blends are now available prepared with Colloidal Silver. Please let me know if this is your preference when placing your order.
All Flower Essence remedies can safely be taken alongside other medications and therapies to support the healing process.
Calming Essence – Suitable for you and your pets
Animals easily absorb energies so respond greatly to situations of trauma, shock, stress or emergency medical situations. These situations can result in fear, panic or other adrenalised states, hindering an animal's ability to receive the full benefits of healing support.
This essence blend is very useful in situations where there may be some form of crisis, trauma, shock or accident. It is also for general calming or soothing. It assists your pets to be less reactive in situations when they appear to be anxious, unsettled or jumpy. Separation anxiety is a situation where this essence blend would be useful. Thunderstorms frighten many animals and Calming Essence given at the first rumble can assist greatly with calming them.
Courage Remedy – For horses and other pets
This essence helps to promote self confidence in animals that are nervous and insecure. They may be anxious about their relationships with
their human caretakers or with other animals they live with.
This blend helps your pets overcome fear and gain confidence, promoting strength and courage. It is calming and helps easing sensitivity.
A Testimonial – I decided to ask Solara to do some healing on our horse Ecka. He had been hurt by a farrier some time ago and he had changed from this incident. He became stand-offish and untrusting. His body was now more tense than ever. He was still loyal and kind but I knew he needed emotional healing.
Over three days Solara remotely sent a blend of flower essence remedies via radionics, which is a very gentle way of helping the horse release stored emotions from trauma within the mind, body and spirit.
Whilst in the paddock, Ecka began to deeply relax. His muscles softened and his face relaxed. The muscles behind the occiput (the poll) relaxed and he began to be calmer within himself. Whilst handling him now he is more accepting and peaceful. I sense he feels heard and can start a new chapter.
With much appreciation to Solara (Melissa, Melbourne)
Colon Cleanse Remedy – Colon Cleanse is for the whole family and their pets.
This combination of Essences acts as a tonic for the organs of the lower body, assisting with detoxifying the intestines. It has been known to assist with ridding the system of invasive worms and parasites within the intestines, pancreas or duodenum. It also assists in improving digestion and reducing acidity in the stomach and urine.
Major components of the body's immune system are located in the lining of the small intestines, and the body can most effectively heal and repair itself when its processes are supported naturally. This combination of flower essence remedies that assist in gently keeping both you and your pets free of most worms and parasites.
Flexibility & Focus Remedy – For horses and other pets
This essence blend is for horses and animals that are highly strung or over-sensitive to what is going on around them. It is for calming impatient, over-excited horses and animals and easing stubbornness and resistance to co-operation. It helps promote gentleness, focus, and a more flexible attitude.
This essence helps soften an animal's attitudes and fixed ideas. It eases sensitivity and brings balance to mind and emotions. It helps clear the aura, stabilising and transmuting any dysfunctional energy located within the body.
Hostility Remedy – For horses and other pets
This is a blend for building trust where there may have been past abuse or trauma resulting in loss of trust in humans or other animals.
It addresses issues of aggression, outbursts of violent, or inappropriate behaviours that are out of character or unacceptable; e.g. a horse that lashes out or bite, or a pet bird that tends to be nippy.
This essence eases an animal's feelings of vulnerability which causes them to react in a prickly, snappy manner. It assists them with feelings of safer boundaries thus allowing for more gentleness.
Transition Essence – Suitable for you and your pets
This essence blend is for assisting your pets to adjust to new or changed environments as well as easing emotional attachments to say a previous owner, or another animal that is no longer present.
It is for supporting major life transitions of all kinds including preparing to depart from life. It eases feelings of confusion or turmoil within, removing fear and anguish.
Trust Remedy – Suitable for you and your pets
This essence blend is for establishing trust in their owner /trainer's guidance and authority – particularly with horses. This could be in situations where an animal has a new owner or trainer. It is also for strengthening trust in the animal's own self-worth.
Vitality Remedy – For horses and other pets
For animals that appear to be dull, lethargic, or lacking interest. An animal's emotions and moods can sometimes vary just like those of humans, depending on what's been happening around them.
This essence offers support for the health and vitality of the immune system. It helps bring renewed enthusiasm and interest in life as it uplifts their energies.
Digestive Well-Being Remedy – Suitable for you and your pets
For use when there appears to be digestive symptoms such as poor appetite, stomach discomfort poor appetite, stomach discomfort or colic, soft or loose stools, or vomiting.
* In situations where there appears to be much discomfort Digestive Well-Being can be given as frequently as every 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes and can be tapered off as symptoms begin to settle.
Once symptoms appear to have settled it is suggested they continue to be used once or twice a day for a minimum of 2 weeks. If symptoms have been present long-term then it may be necessary for this combination to be continued for longer periods.
For horses showing any of the following Serious Symptoms your vet should be consulted: Rolling uneasily ; Kicking at the belly ; Turning of the Head to the belly ; No digestive sounds ; Excessive sweating ; Pawing at the Ground ; Repeatedly lying down and standing up ; Straining to pass manure, without passing any.
This essence blend can be used when an animal (or person) is pining or grieving over the loss of another. This could be regarding the loss of other animals or people. Grief and loss are part of life for both humans and animals, and this remedy will help them adjust and more easily move through emotions associated with grief.
It is helpful also to use when a pet is left in the care of other people for a time. Can be added to their water or given directly into the mouth.
Harmony Remedy – For horses and other pets
This essence blend is useful to promote harmony between yourself and your pet, and to assist them to live harmoniously in any community of animals.
This remedy is also useful for animals that may have suffered some kind of neglect earlier in life. These animals may be needy, have a fear of abandonment
or of missing out which can result in jealousy or greed with food.
This essence gently eases painful emotions and fears held within, allowing more love and trust to grow.


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By David Bicknell
The Government is expected to launch its Open Public Services White Paper in London today, giving details of how so-called 'John Lewis-style mutuals', will take over the running of much of the public sector.
The shake-up of the state will hand "choice and control" to communities across the country, opening large parts of the public sector to the "best possible provider."
The Open Public Service White Paper is being mooted as the sector's biggest overhaul for 50 years, with private firms, voluntary groups and charities cleared to take over the running of schools, healthcare and council services.
The emphasis is expected to be put on "mutuals", where staff control the planning and spending decisions for local services. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has already suggested that mutuals could have a "transformational" impact on service quality and morale. By 2015, it is estimated, one in six public sector employees will be working in mutuals.
Already a 'Mutuals Taskforce' is in place, supported by a pilot 'Pathfinder' programme to help point the way for would-be mutuals to learn from.
Maude has already pointed to the example of an intermediate care unit in Swindon which was launched as a pilot last summer, bringing together around 900 nurses, physiotherapists, doctors and other staff previously employed by the primary care trust and local council.
"It's a mutual where there's no financial incentive. They will own it, but with no profit share or anything, no financial upside, they will have to take out 30 per cent of their cost over the next four years and they are really excited about it," Maude told The Independent on Sunday.
If you're considering setting up a mutual, what are your concerns? What questions would you like the Government to answer about mutuals?

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It's getting to that time of year again when family and friends get together throughout those hot summer days and enjoy having a catch up on whats been going on in life.
So therefore, these Banana Bread & Sticky Toffee Pudding Beers, which have been spotted at Asda, are a definite must have for those who love to have an alcoholic drink when socialising. We can only start to imagine that these will tickle your tastebuds for all of the right reason and both flavours sound absolutely delicious for you to sip on. Plus, they'll also go down a right treat when tucking into some BBQ food too!
We've managed to find them available in the 4 for £6 offer, or they're only £1.83 for a bottle, at the time of publication, in-store at Asda.


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Young Professionals Evening Lecture Series
The Importance of Soft Skills in the Workplace
Come join the IEEE Oregon Section and IEEE Young Professionals for our first Evening Lecture Series!
Lucky Lab will be serving us a delicious pizza and salad buffet-so come hungry!
Past Section Chair John Prodhosky will be enlightening us on the Importance of Soft Skills in the Workplace, and his experiences with improving his career by working on these skills. Come to gain valuable insights into the workplace, meet fellow engineers, and connect with IEEE!
Date and Time
- Date: 25 Jan 2017
- Time: 06:00 PM to 08:30 PM
- All times are (GMT-08:00) US/Pacific
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- Co-sponsored by Anna Revolinsky
- Starts 06 January 2017 12:00 AM
- Ends 25 January 2017 05:00 PM
- All times are (GMT-08:00) US/Pacific
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6:00pm: Doors open, social hour begins
6:30pm: Pizza and salad buffet begins
7:00pm: Lecture begins
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Spring is my FAVOURITE time of the year. It means it's time to get those seeds started and one of my biggest and most unique passions is the use of edible FLOWERS in my smoothies, juices and raw dishes!
I think that food needs to be as visual and colourful as possible and when you love to eat raw and natural foods like I do, I also get great pleasure out of the appearance I can create for my guests and family.
There will be some spring flowers almost ready to 'pluck' to use in your salads and as garnish on your gently steamed vegan dishes. However, it will also be time to plant the seeds for your summer edible flowers and March is the best season to get those seeds in your trays and gentle coax them into germination.
My favourite edible flowers are as follows:
- Edible rose petals
- Nasturtium
- Lavender
- Chamomile
- Pot Marigold
- Borage
- Dandelion
- Basil flowers
I love to use fresh edible flowers with semi raw dishes and this light lunch time snack is a favourite of mine I created for my friend Cody from Hawaii last year using Nasturtiums. It was very simple and involved a gluten free wrap containing the following:
- Sliced lengthways spring onions
- Tomatoes
- Cucumbers sliced lengthways
- Hummus
- Baby leaf lettuce
- Nasturtiums for topping
I also love to use the dibble rose petals in my smoothies and I find that they are very complementary to anything containing strawberries or coconut cream, so I used them with my For the Love of Lenny Smoothie here:
- 3 apples
- About 5 strawberries
- 1/2 lime
- Full fat coconut milk
- Edible rose petals
- Passion fruit seeds
- Coconut nectar
Mmmmmm, this is probably one of the tastiest smoothies I have ever made. The inspiration lies in an amazing guy I know called Lenny whose smoothies are the best I have ever tasted. My creation is a slant on one he gave me which was unbelievable.
It isn't the most 'slimming' due to the coconut cream, but perfect to make you feel better, as it's so uplifting and visually beautiful. The combination of apple juice and strawberries are sublime and the creamy coconut reminds you of summer time.
You will need:
- A blender
- A juicer
- Juice 3 apples
- Chop up the strawberries
- Blend the strawberries & nectar in the apple juice but for only 1-2 secs to not liquidise them but to aggravate them in the apple juice
- Squeeze some lime juice into the results and pop a slice in with the mix
- Take your full fat coconut milk and add a fraction of water until it is thick like double cream. You don't want it watery or solid
- Carefully pour the coconut cream so it floats on top of the juice
- Sprinkle rose petals and add a slice of lime or fruit for decoration
Finally, here is a wonderful vegan 'warm' recipe which is a strong favourite of mine with amazing shitake mushrooms garnished with micro marigolds:
Springtime Vegan Shitake Mushroom Broth with Edible Flowers
Makes 4 small or 2 average servings
- 10-12 shitake mushrooms (diced)
- ¼ cup finely diced red onion
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 clove minced garlic
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp finely ground white pepper
- ½ cup fresh corn
- 1 tsp agave or coconut nectar
- 1 TB chopped fresh ginger
- ½ cup of finely chopped kale – stems and leaves
- 1 TB soy sauce
- 2 cups water
- 5 small dried Moral mushrooms – optional
- 1 cup vegetable broth
- 1 TB finely minced fresh chives
- Fresh edible flowers for garnish (I have used micro marigolds)
- Heat a soup pot on high with the olive oil
- Sauté the onions and shitake mushrooms until they are soft and caramelised, being careful not to burn them
- Season with the salt and pepper
- Add the corn, kale, garlic, agave or nectar and ginger and sauté for 1 minute
- Add soy sauce, broth & water and bring to the boil
- Immediately reduce to a low heat and simmer for 30 mins covered until the kale is soft and the flavours have all mixed together beautifully
- Add dried morels during the last 15 minutes of cooking
- Add more liquid if needed
- Serve and garnish with chives and the edible flowers
Enjoy! Love Anneka x


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This past week, I heard someone describe me. It was kind of funny. And it got me thinking about things that would and wouldn't be said about me.
10 Things That Would NEVER Be Said to Describe Me:
- She has no opinions of her own.
- She's so low-maintenance.
- She's a rule-follower.
- She loves talking on the phone.
- She's just so normal.
- She's very frugal.
- I wish she was more independent.
- She's very committed to her exercise routine.
- She always packs very light.
- Her sense of direction is amazing.
10 Things That WOULD Be Said to Describe Me:
- She's the one who sends all the emails. (This is the one I heard to describe me last week by a co-worker.)
- Recommending a good restaurant is one of her spiritual gifts.
- Her hair is usually some shade of red.
- She eats things like tofu, but won't eat things like pudding.
- She'll die before she gets through her entire Netflix queue.
- Man, she really likes that Old Testament.
- That girl loves grocery shopping.
- She probably needs a second closet for all those shoes.
- When she's tired, she snorts when she laughs.
- She thinks everything through before it comes out of her mouth.
What would, or wouldn't, someone say about you?


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What if….
I fell into you now
Would you allow me to press myself deep into your shoulder
Be the shelter my heart longs to find
Open your arms so I can nestle against your skin
Allow me to close my eyes and breathe you in
The top of my head slips under your chin
While my exhale dances across your collarbone
I want to feel your finger brush against my cheek
Softly lift my chin up and look into my eyes
What if….
I whispered
I love you
Would you let go and watch me fall
Pull away my blanket of security
Allow the ghosts of self-doubt to haunt me once more
When tears flow down my face
Will you turn away and leave
As I released those three words from my heart
Would you pull me closer
Let my head rest against your chest
Fingers pull through my hair
My tears flow from a place of surrender
Pulling back to look upon my face once more
Tell me you will love me
What if….


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Sa'ee – Standing at Safaa or Marwah
Note: I wasn't able to find the above wording in the Hadith references I have access to; but am assuming reference [1] (from which I have taken the above) has access to more resources and references than I have. The wording I was able to find in the Hadith references I have access to (Sahih Muslim) is as follows,
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- This 'supplication' post/sheet only covers what should be said and does not address the actions to be taken (if applicable).
- Though this post does not strictly present a Supplication it is still tagged as one to enable easy organisation and access.
- Please check with a scholar on the wordings above.
- "Getting the Best out of Al-Hajj (Pilgrimage)", By Abu Muneer Ismail Davids, Published by Darussalam, Second Edition – August, 2006, Chapter 6, pg 261 [10004]
- "English Translation of the Sahih Muslim". Compiled by Imam Abul Hussain Muslim bin al-Hajjaj. Darussalam. June, 2007. Volume 3, Hadith #2950 (Sahih), pg 346 [10007]
- "Fortress of the Muslim, Invocations from the Qur'an and Sunnah". Compiled by Said bin Wahf Al-Qahtani. Darussalam. 5th Edition Apr, 2006. pg 170 [10003]


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Lately, for reasons that are unclear to me, my thoughts have turned to the doctrine of transubstantiation, and those thoughts have reached a form that is probably blog post-worthy — hence I share them with you now.
One very basic point we learn from Lindbeck is that when we are confronted with a doctrine, we should look to its consequences for behavior rather than focusing solely on the thoughts it prompts in someone's head. With trinitarian doctrine, for instance, Lindbeck thinks we are dealing not with positive truth claims but with a kind of grammar that guides the way we concretely talk about God in trinitarian terms — i.e., the doctrine is not primarily about what we believe but what we say.
In the case of transubstantiation, the practical payoff is obvious in liturgical terms. If the bread really and irreversibly "becomes" Christ, then we need to take the utmost care of it, be very selective about who gets to participate in it, and carefully preserve any leftovers. In the last resort, it even becomes possible to envision the direct worship of the reserved Eucharistic host.
What is less clear is what we should do with the apparent consequences of the doctrine for the world outside the liturgical space. One implication, for instance, is that if a consecrated host is taken from the church setting and lost, then the real Body of Christ is just kind of sitting around, decomposing, being eaten by rats, etc. The immediate practical response to that implication is, once again, to carefully keep the host inside the liturgical context where it can be properly cared for.
Yet what do we do with the claim that the host still is Christ in the unfortunate event that it falls outside the liturgical circle? In some settings, people have drawn the conclusion that the power of Christ is available for abuse by those outside the church — witches or Jews, for instance. The seemingly narrow claim about the status of a particular wafer of unleavened bread then takes on much broader consequences for the relationship between the church and the world, which is envisioned as one of antagonism. We need to carefully contain the transubstantiated host within the liturgical context because it represents a power that outsiders want to seize for themselves.
Even without that explicitly polemical bent, however, the claim that the host really is Christ even outside the liturgical context represents a broad claim for the liturgy over against the world — it claims that the liturgy is more real than everyday reality. There's already the seed of that assertion of superiority in the very demand that we recognize the little bit of bread, in defiance of all common sense, as the Real Presence of Christ. The claim that the liturgical act has irreversible consequences that hold in some sense outside the liturgical context then draws out the quasi-totalitarian assertion of liturgical superiority — which helps make sense of a world in which, for example, the Pope was claiming the right to choose kings and divvy up a previously unknown continent between rival powers.
I leave the consequences of this observation for the later Protestant responses to transubstantiation as an exercise for the reader.


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Barbara Babcock
On her book Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara FoltzCover Interview of January 25, 2011
In a nutshell
Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz is primarily a biography of an important figure in American legal history. Very famous in the late nineteenth century, she has been largely forgotten until recently. Most of the stories I relate in the book of cases, causes, and campaigns, have not been told before.
Foltz's life was eventful and interesting—arguing to all-male juries, stumping in political campaigns, working for woman suffrage and criminal justice reforms. She attained a kind of celebrity that few people of either sex enjoyed, partly because of the human interest of her situation. Foltz was a single mother of five young children when she burst upon the political and legal scene in California by waging a great battle to learn the law and join the Bar.
Her story casts new light on the post-civil war period in the United States. Foltz was there in 1879 when California averted class and race war by framing a new constitution; she participated in the Southern California land boom in the eighties, and oil boom at the turn of the century. In her radical political phase, she joined a socialist-utopian movement, and ran for city attorney of San Francisco on the ticket of the People's Party. Many other forgotten characters, male allies and movement women, are revealed in the search for Clara Foltz.
The book is also about Foltz's thought. Today we would call Foltz a "public intellectual." She commented on the criminal justice system, and campaigned for a public defender. She spoke on the subject on a platform with the nation's most distinguished law professors and judges at the Chicago World's Fair. Her vision of that office and its necessity is still important. She anticipated the Progressive era jurisprudence also in her campaign for parole, and her proposal for speeding up the rate of legal change to match the pace of technological innovation.


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Church History and Highlights
First Assembly of God, now over 100 years old, had an interesting and exciting beginning. In the fall of 1909, a lady evangelist, Mrs. Millicent Goss, and her husband Howard, came to Malvern from Texas. They immediately set up a tent on the west side intersection of Dyer and Main Streets, across from the building that was then occupied by J. B. Nunn's General Store, and began revival services. This revival brought out people from all over the community because it had something new about it…the message of Pentecost. The revival fire caused a spiritual move in the community. There was a continual revival for almost a full year. The news spread fast with people coming to Malvern from all over the United States to hear the message of Pentecost. As a result of this meeting, a Pentecostal Fellowship was formed.
From this first tent location, two other tent locations housed the church meetings until a permanent location was secured. The other tent locations were on School Street and South Main Street, across from where the present church office sits. Not being affiliated with any denomination, the group of worshippers named the church "The Apostolic Faith Movement." Within a matter of time, the property where the church is now located was purchased. On October 28, 1909, the present triangle of property was sold to the trustees of this church for $1. The first structure, a large one room wood-frame building, was erected in December 1909. It had large side window openings, covered with wooden panels which could be raised up for ventilation. It was complete with sawdust floor, wood heater, and kerosene lighting.
Those early years of the twentieth century witnessed a large growth in the history of the church. Many people were won to the Lord during these days. There were close to eighty-five charter members who signed the roster roll during the first months of the church's beginning.
Rev. E. N. Bell came to Malvern to serve this group of people as their first elected pastor from January 10, 1910, until late 1914. Then Rev. A. P. Collins was elected, followed by his son-in-law, Rev. Hardy Mitchell. Rev. Fred Lohman was pastor from 1915 – 1917. In 1917, while Rev. Lohman was pastor, the fellowship voted to become affiliated with the Assemblies of God Incorporated, which was headquartered in St. Louis, MO. Rev. E. R. Fitzgerald was elected in 1917 and the church became known as the Assembly of God of the Apostolic Faith. During his pastorate the church was set in order with a charter membership roster roll being set.
The first official deacon board elected consisted of Walter Tillery, Johnny Clem, Mart Phelps, Oden Baker, and John Whatley. The first trustee board elected consisted of Marion Otts, Otelius Holst, and Murril Phelps. The first president of the Women's Missionary Council was Mrs. J. A. Purdy. The first president of the Christ Ambassadors was Harold Helms. Blessing Bearers was organized in 1957 with Mrs. Arlie Hodges as president. Men?s Fellowship was organized in 1965 with Harold Grissom as president.
An interesting note concerning the church's beginning: on two different occasions, pranksters placed lighted sticks of dynamite in different parts of the building, but the ignited TNT failed to explode!
Malvern became a strategic point in the history of the Pentecostal movement. It was here that Pastor E. N. Bell published "The Word and the Witness" which was a forerunner of the "Pentecostal Evangel." The back of Mart Phelps' grocery store was used for the purpose of printing the magazine. In 1914, Gospel Publishing House was established in Findlay, Ohio, and publication of the monthly magazine was transferred to that location. Soon afterward, it was merged with "The Christian Evangel." In 1919, the magazine became known as the "Pentecostal Evangel."
From "The Shed," as the wood building was called, the congregation built an open-air tabernacle where they worshipped. It finally had to be closed in due to weather conditions. In 1927, during the pastorate of Rev. LaFayte Romines, the membership voted to build a larger auditorium, finding the tabernacle didn't serve the present need of the people. Rev. Romines announced a work day with dinner on the ground, and the foundation was laid. The fourth house of worship was built, the red brick building. As the congregation grew, several Sunday School rooms were built on the back side of the church.
In 1938 the church experienced one of the greatest revivals in it?s history with evangelists J. W. Tucker and Murray N. Brown, who were prospective missionaries to Africa. There were between 135 and 140 saved, and 65 filled with the Spirit, and 49 joined the church. Rev. Claude Asher, who came to Malvern the 10th of July, 1937, was pastor at this time.
In April 1956, during the pastorate of Rev. John Paproski, the red brick building which was then 29 years old, was torn down and a new structure was began to be erected. A new building, completed in 1957, was constructed. Contemporary in styling, it had a pink Roman brick exterior design with cast stone. The auditorium seating capacity was 750. The church consisted of five assembly rooms, forty-four classrooms, a nursery, Sunday School office , and a pastor's study. Valuation of the building was $250,000.00. The first service held in the new auditorium was on December 9, 1956. The church became debt free on August 18, 1963, when special services were held to burn the mortgage.
Rev. David A. Hastie served the church as pastor from 1966 – 1967, coming to Malvern July 17, 1966, from Ft. Smith, Arkansas where he had pastored Faith Assembly for several years. Then current board members were Irva Martin, James Pennington, Ray Jenkins, Harold Grissom, and Harold Helms. Secretary was D. W. (Doc) Hardin and the treasurer was Paul Bowdle. Trustees were Floyd L. Parker, Fred Sebren, and Elbert Coston. Active membership was 235, with the previous year's Sunday School average attendance being 259.
Because of continual growth and the need for additional ministry to children and youth, the two-story Educational Building was built in 1974 under the pastorate of Rev. Larry Moore. In 1988, Pastor Moore had the two-story sanctuary building completely remodeled. Not only did this add more room, but also enabled the start of televised services, allowing those throughout our area to share the ministry of First Assembly of God. A sixty-nine foot tower and installation of stained glass windows enhanced the beauty of the building. It appears the same today with the exception of the pitched metal roof.
The first parsonage was built during the pastorate of Rev. Fred Lohmann between 1915-1917. The second parsonage (the present office building), was built in 1947 during the pastor-ate of Rev. G. E. Chambers. Rev. Chambers lived in it only a short time, leaving Malvern to pastor First Assembly in Hot Springs, AR. It replaced the old one that was sold and moved across the street on East Highland Street.
Today, the present property of First Assembly of God consists of the two-story church building, two-story Educational Building, the church offices, the bus parking lot, a house, and thirty-two acres of property on Tanner Street which was purchased for the relocation and con-struction of a new facility. On the Tanner Street property, a building has already been built which consists of rooms for our youth group to hold weekly services, an open-air pavilion, and a shop to store equipment in.
From its small beginning 100 years ago of a congregation of people, numbering less than 100, First Assembly of God has stood firm as a lighthouse to the community, the nation, and to the world. From this powerful church God has called many men and women into full-time ministry…becoming evangelists, pastors, teachers, and missionaries; all who have helped to spread the full-gospel message around the world. Multitudes of lay people have found their place in the kingdom of God.
Now, over 100 years later, Pastors Jimmy and Kathy Bobo, the Ministerial Staff, Board, and Congregation of First Assembly of God are looking to the future for what great plans God has in store for us. The best is yet to come.


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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Federalism in Fracking: Updates on the Regulatory Experiment
Legal scholars have finally begun to take on the pressing federalism questions raised by the expansion of shale gas development, including hydraulic fracturing -- also described as fracing, fracking, hydrofracking, or whatever else you'd like to call it. (I usually refer to the whole process as tight sands and shale gas development, since it appears that many of the risks arise not from the process of fracking itself but from other stages, such as disposal of drilling and fracturing wastes. But fracking is so much easier--and perhaps more fun--to say.)
In a thorough and interesting article forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Professor David Spence explores fracking federalism issues through traditional justifications for federal regulation, such as externalities that cross state boundaries, races to the bottom, and national interest in the issue. He concludes that federal regulation should be limited to the areas in which fracking has interstate effects or involves national interests, such as greenhouse gas emissions and disposal of fracking wastewaters through treatment plants into rivers. Professor Spence believes that many of the effects are local, suggesting that the areas for proper federal involvement are somewhat narrow. In a New York Times op-ed, Professor Jody Freeman proposes a more comprehensive, cooperative federalist regime involving a floor of federal requirements.
I'm glad that the scholarly conversation about the best level(s) of governance for shale gas development has begun in earnest, and I hope that it will expand. In the meantime, the grand regulatory experiment continues to play out at the state, local, and sublocal levels, while the EPA continues to study fracking and occasionally get involved. It wouldn't be fair to suggest that this is an organized experiment--indeed, these efforts might best be described as hasty and sometimes haphazard responses to a rapidly expanding practice. States do engage in some comparison of their regulations through the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. But the IOGCC sometimes appears to focus more on building a high fortress around state authority, and I worry that this distracts from its efforts to encourage states to compare and improve their oil and gas regulations. In addition to the first link on its Hydraulic Fracturing page--"States' Rights"--the IOGCC's page includes links such as "States Challenge Attempted Federal Power Grab in Hydraulic Fracturing Issue," and a full-paragraph reference to a much-criticized 2004 EPA report that concluded that fracking for coalbed methane posed few risks and that further study was unnecessary. (The EPA has since commenced a new study of fracking in shales.)
The State Review of Oil & Natural Gas Environmental Regulations (STRONGER) also inspires some important state coordination. STRONGER, formed by the EPA and the IOGCC in 1988, emerged after the EPA decided to not regulate oil and gas exploration and production wastes under Subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The organization suggests waste management guidelines that states should follow and conducts voluntary reviews of state oil and gas regulatory programs, including hydraulic fracturing regulation.
STRONGER and the Ground Water Protection Council--a nonprofit association of state regulators--also have worked together to form the Risk Based Data Management System, which tracks some "oil, gas, injection well, and source water protection activities." That system provides a link to FracFocus, which discloses chemicals used at certain hydraulically fractured wells. Like the IOGCC, however, the GWPC focuses some of its efforts on supporting state-level authority over hydraulic fracturing. In 2000, it issued a resolution supporting a congressional clarification to exclude hydraulic fracturing from the definition of underground injection under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Congress granted the GWPC's wish in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
As states coordinate (a bit) and in some cases resist federal regulation, they have begun to make regulatory changes of their own. In December 2011, West Virginia passed a relatively comprehensive revision of its oil and gas laws to address shale gas development risks. Pennsylvania, which has updated its shale gas regulations several times, most recently passed Act 13 (HB 1950) in February 2012. This Act strengthens many state environmental regulations for fractured (unconventional) wells, but it also raises new federalism issues by expanding state preemption of local control. In addition to reaffirming the state's existing, general preemption of local oil and gas regulation, the Act provides that any local ordinance regulating oil and gas activity must "authorize oil and gas operations, other than activities at impoundment areas, compressor stations and processing plants, as a permitted use in all zoning districts," with exceptions for residential areas. It also requires municipalities to "authorize natural gas compressor stations as a permitted use in agricultural and industrial zoning districts and as a conditional use in all other zoning districts" if the compressor stations meet certain standards.
Some concessions to municipalities accompany this broad preemption of municipal regulation in Pennsylvania. Act 13 allows them to charge an unconventional gas well fee and strengthens certain state-level environmental protections, for example. Several municipalities objected to this expansion of state authority, though, and they sued the state. In July, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in Robinson Township v. Pennsylvania (2012 WL 3030277) struck down many of the preemption provisions, including those requiring that states authorize oil and gas operations in most zones and compressor stations in industrial and agricultural zones. Specifically, the court found that these provisions violated substantive due process by forcing municipalities to "to violate their comprehensive plans for growth and development." Governor Corbett has appealed to the state supreme court. Despite the ruling of the commonwealth court, the state's public utility commission is continuing to review local ordinances to determine whether they comply with Act 13.
As Pennsylvania attempts to preempt local action, courts in New York have allowed the towns of Dryden and Middlefield to ban oil and gas development and fracturing through their zoning ordinance, despite general state language superseding local laws relating to the regulation of oil and gas. At the sublocal level, a New York court allowed a property owners' association to prohibit gas development by enforcing a restrictive covenant that banned "commercial uses" in the community. See Weiden Lake Property Owners Association v. Klansky, 32 Misc.3d 1234(A), Sullivan County, NY, 2011. Colorado is seeking a middle ground; its Regulatory Task Force on Cooperative Strategies Regarding State and Local Regulation of Oil and Gas Development issued recommendations in April.
As scholars exchange ideas, states, municipalities, and private governments will continue to spar over the proper location and content of regulatory authority. Hopefully the experiment will lead to something better; there's progress, but much room for improvement remains.
-Hannah Wiseman


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The logline states:"He's a larger-than-life celebrity who's known for one thing: being a criminal. And boy does he love it."
Some people just like being bad. Well, Charles Bronson loves being bad all the time. This film is the biopic of Great Britain's most notorious prisoner, Charles Bronson, who went to prison for robbing a post office for less than 15 dollars. Charged with a six-year sentence, the madness of Charles Bronson begins to ensue throughout the film.
From the get-go of this film, we learn that prison is Bronson's playground and that the outside world isn't a place for him. He loves to be bad. The character development is excellent as we see Michael Peterson (his birth name) transforms to create his bare-knuckle fighting "Charles Bronson" alter-ego.
95% of biopics are atrocious in my opinion, but Bronson is brilliant because of the director's on and off linear/non-linear storytelling along with his unique way of having Charles Bronson narrate his own life. If you like Tom Hardy, then this is a film that put him on the map that propelled you to love him in films like Lawless, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception and The Revenant.
This film has one of my favorite soundtracks in cinema. I actively seek out Winding-Refn films so I can explore new music. That is how good of a director he is. Shot for shot, this film is so strategically well done with its crisp camera angles, high color contrasts, and strategically placed dialogue, which are all staples in Winding-Refn's filmography.
This film is the closest movie that you will ever see that will compare to A Clockwork Orange. But, I prefer Bronson any day of the week over Kubrick's classic because this is all based on a true story. The story of Charles Bronson isn't enough to captivate an audience, but the way Winding-Refn tells the story and Tom Hardy's performance is more than enough to captivate you. The duo takes an average tale of a crazy prisoner and turns it into a breathtaking experience.
Throughout the entire film, we want to know what makes this character tick. Winding-Refn gives you the pieces and ingredients to make your own conclusions of why, but he doesn't tell us because it is a wise choice not to say to us. Imagine if there would be a flashback of his childhood of some crazy experience showing us why he is as mad as he is. It would totally upset me as a viewer to see that. Instead, the director wants to let us know that there are things beyond our ability to ever comprehend. Some people are just pure evil.
But do you want to know my interpretation? Well, Charles Bronson is a powerful creative mind which creates astounding paintings during his time in prison. He has such creative energy in his brain that he does not know how to channel it properly, and that is why he acts the way he does. But, once he is in prison, he learns to appropriately channel that madness into his artwork. Being a crazy artist is what the explanation of this film is.
Imagine if there was one teacher at his school who would have understood that with young Michael Peterson, introducing him to art and paintings instead of disciplining him and reprimanding him in front of his classmates.
He could have been Britain's most notorious artist, not its most famous prisoner.
"The Zos Knows"
-David Zosel
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I finally got my new pair of walking shoes–Adidas Supernova Glide–and took them out for my first Sunday morning fast walk this May.
Of course, playlists ensued. Here are a few tracks that kept me stepping. For some reason this morning, I needed to revisit the rock/blues of my childhood.
Never Been Any Reason by Head East
Since You've Been Gone by Rainbow
Aint Wasting Time No More by The Allman Brothers Band
Do You Know What I Mean by Lee Michaels
(Had no idea how cute he was till I found this video. He reminds me of Hugh Grant when he smiles.)
Bell Bottom Blues by Derek and the Dominos
(Okay, this was more of a cool down track.)
Hmm. I'm sensing another theme here. Most of these are "been left or mistreated by my lover" songs.
I wonder what that's about?


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As reported in the New York Times, legislators from New Jersey and New York will introduce a bill in Congress shortly seeking to alter a longstanding Federal Emergency Management Agency ("FEMA") policy and require that FEMA qualify condominiums and cooperatives for federal disaster assistance.
Under the current FEMA policy, co-ops and condominium associations are considered "business entities" that do not qualify for FEMA assistance, which can include up to $30,000 per household. After the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, thousands of homeowners were surprised to learn that their condos and co-op were largely barred from federal disaster assistance given to similarly situated single-family homes. Presently, while individual homeowners may apply for FEMA grants to restore the interior of their units or their individual homes, a community association may not request a FEMA grant to repair a common roof, remove debris or replace vital operating systems destroyed by a natural disaster. As a result, countless condominiums and co-ops have not been able to obtain grants for damages to roofs, siding, decks and other common areas.
While FEMA officials were sympathetic, they based their rejection on the Stafford Act, a federal disaster law that excludes co-ops and condos. The proposed legislation, if enacted, would alter the Stafford Act to make residential condominiums and co-ops eligible for FEMA assistance and remove the $30,000 cap for assistance.
The Community Associations Institute ("CAI") is continuing its efforts to include community associations in this legislation. You can follow CAI's efforts here.
For more information on this or any other issue concerning your community association, please contact one of our Community Associations attorneys. For breaking news or updates on new blog posts, follow us on Twitter at: @njcondolaw.


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Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infections
Methods of Infection
In utero/congenital (5%)
- Rare
- Congenital abnormalities as birth-similar to other congenital infections
Triad of findings
- Cutaneous: scarring, active lesions, hypo- and hyperpigmentation, erythematous macular exanthem
- Ophthalmologic: microopthalmia, retinal dysplasia, optic atrophy, chorioretinitis
Neurological: microcephaly, encephalomalacia, hydranencephaly, intracranial calcification
Intrapartum (85%)
Mother must be shedding virus at time of delivery
- Mother must be shedding virus at time of delivery
Postnatal (10%)
- Almost always HSV-1
3 types of infection from intrapartum (and postnatal) exposure
- Disseminated
- Frequency estimates range from 8-60/100,000
- Estimated 1500 new cases in the US annually
- Equivalent to neonatal HIV incidence before antiretroviral use in pregnancy
- Higher than congenital syphilis, toxoplasmosis, and rubella in years these weren't epidemics
Most maternal HSV infections—asymptomatic with cervical viral shedding
- High shedding/low infection rate: protective transplacental antibodies
Increased risk of transmission
- Acquisition during prenancy, particularly near delivery (vs. reactivation)
- Seronegative mother (protective maternal Abs if seroconvert prior to delivery)
- HSV isolated from maternal genital tract before delivery
- Use of fetal scalp monitors
- Cervical HSV infection
- Prolonged rupture of membranes
Vaginal delivery (although there are reports from C-sections)
- C-sections recommended for women with active lesions at delivery
Clinical Manifestation
SEM - infection contained to Skin, Eyes, and Mouth/mucosa
- 45% of cases
- Present days 10-12
- Vesicular lesions on skin, eyes and mouth
- No involvement of CNS or visceral organ
- 30% of cases
- Present days 16-19
- Sx: lethargy, poor feeding, seizures, temperature instability, bulging fontanelle, ± cutaneous lesions
- CSF: pleocytosis, HSV DNA will confirm diagnosis (may be neg early in disease)
Morbidity HSV2 > HSV1
- Developmental delay
- Epilepsy
- Blindness
- Cognitive disability
- Early acyclovir improves outcomes and survival
- 25% of cases
- Present days 10-12
Highest fatality rate (death in 30%)
- Usually related to coagulopathy, liver dysfunction, and pulmonary involvement
Multiple organ system involvement
- Encephalitis in 60-75%
- Clinically looks like bacterial sepsis (indistinguishable on exam)
- 20% never develop cutaneous vesicles
Differential diagnosis (CNS and disseminated)
- HSV infection
- Bacterial sepsis
- Enterovirus infection
- Congenital CMV, rubella, or toxoplasmosis
- Neonatal VZV infections
Mom: PCR for viral DNA, direct fluorescent antibody study, isolation in
culture, type-specific serology
Baby - Highly suspicious of infection
- Swab conjunctiva, mouth, axilla, and any suspicious lesions AFTER 24 hrs to show infection rather than colonization
- If positive start acyclovir and do close examination to determine extent
Baby - CNS or disseminated
- HSV DNA PCR assay, viral PCR on blood, serum, and CSF
- PCR especially beneficial in neonates without overt sx
Important to have a high index of suspicion:
60-80% women with HSV+ baby have no evidence of genital HSV infection, no history of HSV infection, and no sexual partner with HSV history!
Consider especially in infants with fever, negative bacterial cultures and no improvement at 48-72 hours after starting antibiotics for rule out sepsis
Before starting acyclovir therapy:
Obtain HSV cultures of: skin vesicles, oropharynx, conjunctivae, urine, blood, stool/rectum, CSF and CSF for viral PCR
- IV acyclovir (20 mg/kg/dose Q8 hrs)
- Side Effect: neutropenia but without adverse clinical outcomes
Treatment at end of pregnancy to prevent recurrences
- Systemic treatment to avoid progression
- High dose IV acyclovir Q8hr for 14 days
CNS disease:
- High dose acyclovir Q8hr for 21 days
- With CNS involvement recheck CSF PCR after treatment course
- If still positive continue IV acyclovir until negative
Disseminated disease:
- High dose acyclovir Q8hr for 21 days
- Rate of normal development 24 mo after infection: 100% (up from 62% before acyclovir)
- Possible recurrent cutaneous outbreaks in childhood — antivirals to reduce frequency
CNS disease
- Rate of normal development 24 mo after infection: 31% (up from rare before acyclovir)
- Mortality 6% (down from 50% with introduction of acyclovir treatment)
Disseminated disease
- Rate of normal development 24 mo after infection: 83% (up from rare before acyclovir)
- Mortality 31% (down from 85% with introduction of acyclovir treatment)
- Corey L., Wald A. Maternal and neonatal herpes simplex virus infections. New England Journal of Medicine 2009. 361:1376.
- Kimberlin DW. Neonatal herpes simplex infection. Cinical Microbiology Review 2004. 17:1.
- Flagg EW, Weinstock H. Incidence of neonatal herpes simplex virus infections in the United States, 2006. Pediatrics 2011. 127:e1.
- Thompson C, Whitley R. Neonatal Herpes simplex virus infections: where are we now? Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 2011. 697:221.
- Kesson A. Management of neonatal herpes simplex virus infection. Paediatric Drugs 2001. 3(2):81.
- Jones CA, Walker KS, Badawi N. Antiviral agents for the treatment of herpes simplex virus infection in neonates. Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2009. Issue 3. Art. No.: CD004206. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004206.pub2.


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Here is a maintenance release of Kombustor, MSI's GPU stress test ang benchmarking utility included in MSI Afterburner package. More information about the branch 2.x.x of Kombustor can be found HERE.
*** UPDATE ***: MSI Kombustor 2.0.2 is available.
*** MSI Kombustor 2.2.0 beta available! ***
You can download MSI Kombustor 2.0.1 here:
For multi-GPU support (SLI and CrossFire), read this article: (Tips) How To Enable SLI and CrossFire Support for MSI Kombustor 2.0
MSI Kombustor OpenGL 4 benchmark scores are listed HERE.
All latest news related to MSI Kombustor can be found HERE.
MSI Kombustor 2.0.1 changelog:
- New: added the support of the new Radeon HD 6990
- Change: added NVIDIA driver branch version in score details.
- Change: minor updates in the multi-GPU management code for post-processing.
- Bugfix: Anti-aliasing select box displayed only Off (no AA) for OpenGL renderers
- Bugfix: the online score page was opened at the end of the burn-in test benchmark


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Chloë is an American television and film actress that started her career as a model and fashion intern back in the mid-1990s.
Her film debut was in a leading role in the very controversial 1995 film Kids. This film set the stage for a very long line of roles in critically acclaimed independent and often avant-garde films - garnering her the title as "Queen of Contemporary Independent Cinema".
It wasn't until 1999 when Sevigny gained stardom in the academy accliamed film Boys Don't Cry. Sevigny received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress for her role in this film.
Although her roles in both Party Monster and American Psycho weren't leading roles, they are two very big reason's why we love this independant original movie star.


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Entries linking to humorless
mid-14c., "fluid or juice of an animal or plant," from Old North French humour "liquid, dampness; (medical) humor" (Old French humor, umor; Modern French humeur), from Latin umor "body fluid" (also humor, by false association with humus "earth"); related to umere "be wet, moist," and to uvescere "become wet" (see humid).
In old medicine, "any of the four body fluids" (blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy or black bile).
The human body had four humors—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile—which, in turn, were associated with particular organs. Blood came from the heart, phlegm from the brain, yellow bile from the liver, and black bile from the spleen. Galen and Avicenna attributed certain elemental qualities to each humor. Blood was hot and moist, like air; phlegm was cold and moist, like water; yellow bile was hot and dry, like fire; and black bile was cold and dry, like earth. In effect, the human body was a microcosm of the larger world. [Robert S. Gottfried, "The Black Death," 1983]
Their relative proportions were thought to determine physical condition and state of mind. This gave humor an extended sense of "mood, temporary state of mind" (recorded from 1520s); the sense of "amusing quality, funniness, jocular turn of mind" is first recorded 1680s, probably via sense of "whim, caprice" as determined by state of mind (1560s), which also produced the verb sense of "indulge (someone's) fancy or disposition." Modern French has them as doublets: humeur "disposition, mood, whim;" humour "humor." "The pronunciation of the initial h is only of recent date, and is sometimes omitted ..." [OED].
For aid in distinguishing the various devices that tend to be grouped under "humor," this guide, from Henry W. Fowler ["Modern English Usage," 1926] may be of use:
HUMOR: motive/aim: discovery; province: human nature; method/means: observation; audience: the sympathetic
WIT: motive/aim: throwing light; province: words & ideas; method/means: surprise; audience: the intelligent
SATIRE: motive/aim: amendment; province: morals & manners; method/means: accentuation; audience: the self-satisfied
SARCASM: motive/aim: inflicting pain; province: faults & foibles; method/means: inversion; audience: victim & bystander
INVECTIVE: motive/aim: discredit; province: misconduct; method/means: direct statement; audience: the public
IRONY: motive/aim: exclusiveness; province: statement of facts; method/means: mystification; audience: an inner circle
CYNICISM: motive/aim: self-justification; province: morals; method/means: exposure of nakedness; audience: the respectable
SARDONIC: motive/aim: self-relief; province: adversity; method/means: pessimism; audience: the self
word-forming element meaning "lacking, cannot be, does not," from Old English -leas, from leas "free (from), devoid (of), false, feigned," from Proto-Germanic *lausaz (cognates: Dutch -loos, German -los "-less," Old Norse lauss "loose, free, vacant, dissolute," Middle Dutch los, German los "loose, free," Gothic laus "empty, vain"), from PIE root *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart." Related to loose and lease.
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The National Archives Catalog was updated over the Labor Day weekend for the first time since April. Updates had been suspended due to technical difficulties, but hopefully the Catalog will again be updated on a regular basis henceforth.
I am not conversant with the full extent of the update, but it's certain that there are many additional series descriptions, file description, item descriptions, and digital images. Here are some examples.
Digital image updates include Maps and Correspondence Relating to Minor Civil Divisions, 1940-1950 from the Bureau of the Census.
Numerous series descriptions for records in Record Group 28, Records of the Post Office Department, have also been added. These are records that the National Archives received after the publication of Arthur E. Hecht, et al., Preliminary Inventory 168, Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Post Office Department, published in 1967. Watch for additional series and file descriptions to be added over the coming months.
File descriptions provide information about contents of specific files. For some examples, here's a link to files described in the Records of the Post Office Department.


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If you are just a beginner runner or someone who is looking to improve your fitness or competitive time over a 10k or half marathon Parkrun is a great motivator.
Every Saturday morning at 8am you can join a group of like minded runners, joggers and walkers in Lower Hutt in Wellington and or Auckland for a 5km timed run. All you have to do is visit the Parkrun website and register to get a barcode – yes a barcode and bring that along to your run.
Once you finish your run or walk your time is captured & posted on the Parkrun website. This provides added motivation to come back each week and try and run faster. So check out Parkrun in Lower Hutt if you are living in Wellington to join up.
Happy running!


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Afternoon Four Seasons Award (Shiki-shÅ) Information + Notable Recipients ListSunday, May 30th, 2010
If you're a follower of anime and manga news online, you might notice that a couple of times a year, articles are posted here and there announcing the winners of major manga prizes/awards like the Kodansha Award, the Shogakukan Award, the Japan Cartoonists Association Award, The Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, and so on. As some of you know (especially with the release of Bakuman), magazines also run newcomers' awards in order to discover and encourage talented creators. These generally (and rather understandably) escape the notice of most people. With the apparent increase in English-language manga fans interested in what may have once been esoterica for fans over here like what magazine a given series ran in (I bet the majority of you could tell me what magazine Yotsubato! runs in!), I thought that folks might find some information on some of these awards to be interesting or useful.
For no reason other than the fact that I've seen its name pop up a lot recently while browsing the web, I've decided to start with the Afternoon Four Seasons Award, also known as the Shiki Award or Shiki-shÅ. Unsurprisingly, the Afternoon Four Seasons Award is awarded four times a year by Kodansha's monthly seinen manga magazine Afternoon. The award was announced in the very first issue (the 1987/2 edition) of Afternoon, published in December of 1986.


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Who doesn't like stunning holographic nails!!
This post is to introduce you to the holographic flakies we recently launched in our shop.
I have swatched the flakies on black and red base. Am sure you will love the effect. These flakies work great with both gel and regular nail polish.
Directions to use:
With regular nail polish:
1. Apply a layer of dark color like black, red, green etc. and let it semi dry (around 80-90% dry)
2. Take the flakies in an eye shadow brush and gently rub on the base color.
3. Seal it with a good top coat.
With gel nail polish:
1. Apply a layer of dark gel nail color like black, red, green etc. and cure it under UV/LED lamp.
2. Take the flakies in an eye shadow brush and gently rub on the base color.
3. Seal it with gel top coat.
Are you ready to see the spectacular shining nails? Here you go.
Isn't it gorgeous?
The photo above is taken in sunlight.
Here is the macro shot of the holo nail!
Do you want to see how the holographic flakies will look on red base?
Which of the two did you like the most? Black base or red base? Do comment below. ☺
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You are the author of your life – Chalmers Brothers
I recently heard Chalmers Brothers speak about his book Language and the Pursuit of Happiness. The way we observe ourselves dictates how we live as well as our perception of the world. Something else Chalmers said was that the "explanation is not equal to the event". The USA loses to Belgium in the World Cup. That is the event. My explanation might be, "But they made it to the group of 16". Your explanation might be that Tim Howard (the goalie with a record 16 saves) is the only worthwhile player on the team. A Belgian's explanation might be that it was preordained. Same event, different explanations and obviously, different perceptions.
We can get so blinded by our perspective, that if we never question our beliefs, we start to confuse it with reality. Let that sink in for a minute; we confuse it with reality. I can remember when I was a restaurant owner some twenty years ago. The brothers that sold me the restaurant, wanted to sell me another. I did some number crunching and figured that at the pace the sales were dropping there was no way to make a profit. When I went back to the brother's to explain this, they were dumbfounded. They had for some 20 years run a profitable restaurant chain; never in their wildest dreams did they ever predict that sales would go down instead of up. This idea was WAY out of their paradigm. Well, of course, after about a year, their last remaining restaurant eventually failed. The story they were writing was not equal to the event.
So how do you improve your explanation…or change the way you write your story? Here are some ideas:
1. Language. Think about the language you use. I recently had a client who said "Fat people can't wear stripes" referring to himself. I said "I'm curious about fat, tell me more?" Him, "Hmmm. That was mean. I wouldn't call anyone else fat." Me, "How does it make you feel?" Him, "Horrible". Think about your self-talk. What language are you using? If you wouldn't call your assistant, boss or spouse – lazy, stupid, dumb or ugly, maybe it's time to switch up the language you use.
2. Observer. Be the observer. An executive I coached last year had a huge breakthrough when he realized that he had to be the observer when it came to conflict. So if he was pushing back on a deadline at work or negotiating on a car, he was much more effective if he could mentally take a step back and observe. It helped him disconnect from his primal reaction of fight or flight. When he was the observer he was less tied to explanation of the event. He could listen, observe and detach. Stand outside of yourself and observe the landscape. You will soon have a totally different perspective that may serve you better.
3. Grand Illusion. Chalmers posits that we all think that everyone else sees events from the same perspective; as he calls it – "the Grand Illusion". I have experienced this in many of the companies I've worked for. We roll out the new plan and expect immediate buy-in because the higher-ups think that the entire company sees their perspective i.e. the potential results; whether they be long-term or short. In their eyes the rationale and long term benefits from the new plan are self-evident. Quite often, they are not. Most employees see any change in the organization as a bad thing and frequently jump to the conclusion that their job is potentially at stake. Don't assume everyone sees the event from the same perspective; it's nothing but an illusion, the Grand Illusion.
4. Serving. Is your thought serving you to the end result you want? If you are interviewing for a new job and go in with the thought that you'll never get this job….uh…well…you probably won't. If you present the new initiative to your boss with the attitude that you will succeed; odds are you will. I've seen so many folks go into an exam and when asked, "Do you think you will pass?" They answer, "I'm not sure; probably not." It's the old adage, expect the worst and hope for the best. You don't want to be overly confident because – What? You might actually succeed? It is easier to explain failure this way. "Yeah, I knew I would never pass". Think about how your thoughts are not serving you and the results you want.
5. Listening. Chalmers says that listening is not hearing. I get caught up on this one frequently. I can ask my son a question like, "When are you going to Charleston?" and then forget about listening to the response. I can hear him just fine but I'm not registering the answer. Most likely my phone just went off with some kind of notification that 99% of the time is meaningless. I frequently listen to audio books and there may be some passage that sends my thoughts off in a different direction like…sleep is important…yeah I need to get more sleep…I'll tell you who needs more sleep is my son…maybe I should get him to listen to this book…forget it, he won't…he never listens to me…uh…what was that last passage? …was it something important….should I back it up…wait I'm driving that's not a good idea…that causes accidents…I don't want to be a statistic…sheesh…did they just say something about REM sleep….and so on. It can be difficult to pay attention with a ticker tape going off in your head. Stop the distractions. Turn off the phone, or the radio, or your computer monitor and be present. What's more important here…when your son leaves for Charleston or a Facebook notification….I thought so. No one ever says hear up…it's listen up.
6. Shift. Look for paradigm shifts. Look for opposing viewpoints. My father has always famously said he went to Korea a Democrat and came back a Republican. I'm not suggesting you enlist in the army or travel to Korea but you can seek out different sources. Different explanations. Test your beliefs. When you have an array of explanations available it's much easier to not be as tied to the interpretation. If you disagree with the direction the Accounting department is going, go ask some questions that will prove you wrong. "Can you tell me again what the advantages are of the new XYZ system? And how much time is this going to cut from Month-End?" Look for the shift. Every good book has a shift. The hero finally decides to take on the dragon. So what shift do you need to make to challenge your beliefs?
So imagine the book you are authoring. Is it an adventure? Is it a drama? Or a comedy? The amazing thing is that you are holding the pen. You get to create whatever you want so choose wisely.


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To Thomas Jefferson from Steuben, 15 February 1781
From Steuben
Chesterfield Co. He. 15 feby 81
General Muhlenberg has just forwarded me the inclosed Letters. What can have given rise to a correspondence of this nature I cannot say. It was contrary to my wish or desire. I shall be glad to know your Excellencys pleasure respecting the Exchange proposed by Genl. Arnold, both the Prisoners belonging to the State.
I inclose a Receipt for the Twenty Guineas sent in agreable to your desire.
I am extremely anxious to get off the Detachment for the Southard. I inclose an exact state of what Cloathing we can have ready here, and I must intreat your Excellency to take such measures as will insure us the remainder by the day fixed. I need not point out the necessity of our exertions. The inclosed Copy of Genl. Greens Letter will suffice.
There seems to be a difficulty in getting the shirts made up. This surprizes me especially after Colo. Carey informd me had wrote Mr. Armstead offering to make a large number I think 150 and was never honord with an Answer. I am convinced many private families would gladly assist.
I shall give the necessary direction for Arranging Colo. Taylors Regiment in the manner you mention.
Dft or FC (NHi); in the hand of an aide; endorsed: "Copy to Governor Jefferson feby 15." The enclosures, except for "The inclosed Copy of Genl. Greens Letter" to Steuben of 10 Feb. (RC, NHi; see also note on Greene to TJ, 10 Feb.), have not been fully identified, though it is certain that one was a (missing) letter from Arnold to Robert Lawson of 12 Feb. in which Arnold proposed "to exchange Colonel Werneck taken at Westham and two of the Gentlemen you mention for Lieut. Col. Elligood and the two soldiers of Colonel Simcoe's Regiment" (Arnold to Muhlenberg, 23 Feb., NHi). Arnold himself had apparently initiated this proposed exchange of prisoners, but Lawson had written to Steuben on 24 Jan. that this was in his opinion only a pretext and that he was "rather inclined to think that he [Arnold] wished to know where our outposts were and what movements we were making"; Lawson had therefore stopped the British flag at Suffolk, answered Arnold's letter non-committally, and reported the whole matter to Steuben, who approved Lawson's course, declared that he had no intention of entering upon a general exchange of prisoners, and said that there were only three persons that he wanted to exchange at that time—"Parson Hurt, Capt. Pearce, and Mr. Cocke" (Lawson to Steuben, 24 Jan.; Lawson to Arnold, 24 Jan.; Steuben to Lawson, 28 Jan., all of which are in NHi; see also TJ to Steuben, second letter of 17 Feb., for an apparent variation in the spelling of the names of the men and for a further note concerning the outcome of these negotiations).
On the subject of the twenty guineas it is worth noting that Steuben had just issued orders forbidding any flags to be sent to the British when he received TJ's letter of 2 Feb. requesting that the money be returned, a request with which he complied (TJ to Steuben, 2 Feb. and the following in NHi: Steuben to Lawson, 6 Feb.; Muhlenberg to Steuben, 12 Feb.). Colo. Taylors regiment: For TJ's proposal, see Taylor to TJ, 8 Feb. and TJ's letters to Taylor and Steuben, 13 Feb.


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The Tamworth Youth Development Strategy has grown out of decades of work focused on providing positive development opportunities for youth as well as to revitalise the Coledale community. Coledale is a former public housing suburb of Tamworth which experiences many of the challenges that are common for concentrated communities of disadvantage.
Change is building in momentum, particularly through a large-scale community development and rejuvenation initiative known as NOW ~ Neighbourhood, Opportunities, Working Together.
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text: October 10, 2020 Columbus Day Must Remain Stop All This Political Correct Crap by International Herold Local New York Metro, Miscellaneous Page • We 've been hearing all this anti Columbus rhetoric for way over 30 years …but now it has reached a crescendo as the whispers are getting louder among it's Amen Corner. The new Politically Correct Police are vigorously pushing and promoting their agenda. I will say this up front that I'm not a bigot or a racist so please I don't need anyone to preach morality to me .I've never uttered or hurled a projarative towards any one of any group even in anger in all my entire life nor have I hindered any groups Progress to rise up rungs of the ladder to obtain the American Dream.This Liberal Political Correct Crap must stop..In trying to push forth thier agenda they steam roll over Everyone elses cultures caring nothing about any feelings or sensitivity other than thier own. Columbus Day was well in place and celebrated way before any of the politically correct new comers immigrated to this country and decided to call it home.It appears that if any other beliefs don't fit into your grand scope of your ideology it most must go.That was never the American way. What your doing is stirring up a hornets nest of new reverse discriminstion.If this nonsense continues to escalates pretty soon low life's such as The KKK and Neo Nazi's will get into the frey.I hope it never gets to that point because I find those groups the most disgusting of all mankind and how dare all of you and your ilk attempt to place me and others who honor Columbus among them.This was a peaceful nation for the most untill the Politically Correct Police reared thier ugly head creating new issues such as this one. Columbus Day is a treasured American Holiday for many centuries. When I see these Anti Columbus Crowd looking to tear down statues of Columbus it reminds me of ISIS smashing ancient Assyrian and Judeo-Christian Artifacts in Palmyra Iraq. What gets our goat is these Latino Americans knew well in advance of any plans before deciding to immigrate to America our love ,and Admiration for Christopher Columbus & yet they decided to move here. Then why did they move and lay stakes in a Nation that had a Columbus Day in place already?I would never in a million years migrate to the any nation that honored Hitler.Let them now accept the American standard. We find that those who subscribe to Political Correctness never allows for any compromises of their views ..its either thier way or the hi-way. Since all those in the forefront of this Anti Columbus movement respects nobody elses Culture, Heritage or Traditions We at the International Herold can lend absolutely no sympathy whatsoever towards their cause. READ BELOW Italian-Americans fight movement to abolish Columbus Day No Commenting On This Post Any Comments Sent will Be Not Read And Deleated By The Blog Administrator INTERNATIONAL HEROLD Share this:parlerFacebookTwitterEmailPrintLinkedInRedditTumblrPinterestPocketTelegramWhatsAppSkypeLike this:Like Loading... Related


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Recently, I read a few posts about AIs, including Uncle Bob's post, in response to Grady Booch (about this tweet).
I think the fact that some people believe AIs might replace developers leads to interesting questions about what is programming?
What is programming?
As Bob recalls us, Alan Turing defined programming as a sequence of simple statements of the following form:
Given that the sstem is in state s1,
When event E occurs,
Then set the system to state s2 and invoke behavior B
We express some needs in terms of state transition to be executed by a machine, in other words we build state machines in order to satisfy precise specifications.
This explanation makes it crystal clear that the complexity increases with the number of states in the system.
The perception
Lots of people consider coding as a translation in a given language. You can translate a text from French to English, so you should be able to translate specifications from human readable to computer understandable.
Of course, it is only the emerged part. The translation from human readable to machine understandable code is already automatic, it's called the compilation.
Developers must be Domain Driven
Under water, developers must express business needs in an unambiguous way, which is the hard part. Coding would be a translation only if the requirements were already a precise state machine, ie a suite of exhaustive Given/When/Then.
As the specifications are never precise enough, we developers must complete them. We have to challenge existing specifications with our understanding of computer, and we have to fill the missing parts with our understanding of the domain.
Thus, considering developers as simple translator who do not need to understand what they are writing about is a sure recipe for failure.
The future
Believing that coders can be replaced by AIs is believing that coders do not need to understand what they are writing about.
AIs might help developers to do a better job though, if they are designed to optimize automatic part like compilation.


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Coping with surpluses
Repaying national debt is becoming increasingly fashionable
"I USED to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope. But now I want to come back as the bond market: you can intimidate everybody." These famous words of James Carville, one of Bill Clinton's election advisers in 1992, summed up many people's view of the power of the Treasury bond market. Yet if the American government's forecasts of endless budget surpluses are correct, that mighty market could disappear. On present trends many other governments could also see their bond markets shrivel.
Only five years ago almost all rich countries had budget deficits, averaging 4% of GDP, and governments and economists fretted about an ever-growing mountain of debt. Today, budget surpluses abound. America's general-government surplus (central, state and local governments, and social-security funds) is running at 2% of GDP, against a deficit of 6% in 1992. Mr Clinton has boasted that government debt held by the public will be eliminated by 2013. But America is not alone. J.P. Morgan forecasts that most rich countries will have a budget surplus by next year (see chart).
The euro area is likely to move into budget surplus next year. Even Italy, which had a deficit of more than 10% of GDP in the early 1990s, will move out of the red. The glaring exception is Japan, which has a budget deficit of around 8% of GDP. As a result, OECD countries as a whole are still forecast to run a deficit of 0.6% of GDP next year—but that will be the smallest since 1973.
Budgets are moving into the black for three different reasons. First, after two decades of profligacy, governments have tightened their belts. Since 1995 almost every rich country, apart from Japan, has reduced its structural budget deficit (ie, the gap left after stripping out the effects of the economic cycle). And this has mainly been done by cutting spending as a share of GDP, not by increasing taxes. Second, strong growth and falling unemployment have boosted tax revenues and reduced the bill for welfare benefits. In the euro area, especially, unemployment is falling faster than expected. And third, many governments are likely to enjoy windfalls from the auction of third-generation mobile-phone licences. Britain's recent auction raised £23 billion ($35 billion), some ten times more than expected. Germany's auction later this year could raise euro60 billion ($55 billion). In total, sales of licences in the euro area could bring in up to euro150 billion (just over 2.5% of GDP) this year or next.
Unlike privatisation revenues, which under most budget rules are not counted as revenue, proceeds from the sale of mobile-phone licences can be treated by governments in the same way as rent from an asset—ie, spread over the term of the licence. So if $20 billion is raised on a 20-year licence, this is equivalent to an annual rent of $1 billion. This is the treatment favoured by Britain's Office of National Statistics (and the basis of the figures in the chart). An alternative method, which Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Union, is said to favour, is to treat the money raised like the revenue from the sale of a patent, counting it all in the year of the sale. Either way, governments will need to sell fewer bonds.
Less government borrowing is welcome. By freeing the private savings that previously financed budget deficits, it can help to "crowd in" more private investment. Lower debt-service payments also help to reduce the burden on future taxpayers of higher pension and health costs as populations age. And lower debt creates more room for governments to use fiscal policy to cushion the economy against future recessions.
Yet none of this means that every government should aim for the complete elimination of its debt. Sometimes it should be boosting public investment instead. If a budget surplus is achieved by starving, say, education or public infrastructure of funds, this could actually reduce future growth. Or, in a high-tax economy, cutting taxes might deliver bigger benefits than eliminating public debt. The challenge for many European governments is not just to lower their borrowing, but to reduce spending and taxes.
The valley of debt
That is not all. After worrying for years about excessive public borrowing, some economists are now, paradoxically, fretting about a shortage of debt instead. Government debt plays an important role in the financial system. Government bonds are used as a broadly risk-free asset against which other financial instruments are priced (see article). They are counted as part of banks' capital, and prudential regulations often require pension funds to hold a minimum share of their assets in government securities. Central banks also use government securities in open-market operations to influence interest rates.
In America and Britain the shrinking supply of government bonds has made bond yields less reliable as indicators of inflationary expectations. And by putting downward pressure on long-term bond yields, it may require the Fed to raise short-term interest rates more aggressively to cool down the economy. But fears about the consequences of shrinking debt are much exaggerated. If government debt continues to shrivel, markets can find new instruments to replace government securities as a benchmark. Prudential regulations on pension funds' investment can be relaxed to allow more investment in private securities. And central banks can widen the range of assets they use for monetary operations.
Even so, a recent OECD study suggests that governments may decide that the complete elimination of their bond issuance is not desirable. Even if its net debt were zero, a government could still foster a liquid bond market by continuing to issue bonds and investing the proceeds in domestic or foreign private-sector assets. One advantage of this is that it would eliminate the cost of re-establishing a government-bond market in a couple of decades' time, when the rising costs of ageing populations will surely force governments to start borrowing again.
Look at Norway. After years of budget surplus, the government has a negative net debt (debts minus assets) of 50% of GDP. Yet it continues to issue bonds, with a gross debt of 34% of GDP, investing the proceeds in the so-called Petroleum Fund, which is allowed to hold up to 50% of its portfolio in domestic and foreign equities. Such a strategy would be trickier for a big economy such as America's. The weight of money behind such a fund could move share prices, and investing abroad could cause big shifts in capital flows.
It is easy to get carried away by talk of governments' repaying debt. But it is premature to worry about a government-bond famine. The global stock of government bonds is still more than $15 trillion, equivalent in size to the combined GDPs of America and the euro area. And even if most countries run surpluses next year, these could quickly swing back into deficit if economies stumble into recession—as happened to Britain's surplus in the late 1980s. Moreover, as budget surpluses mount, support for continued fiscal restraint is likely to erode. Many governments, including those in America, Britain and Australia, have already pencilled in some fiscal easing this year and next. In Europe there will no doubt be heavy political pressures to use the mobile-phone windfalls to finance extra spending.
Governments would be wise to resist. Their efforts to balance their budgets are commendable, but in most cases they do not go far enough. If governments' accounts included future liabilities such as unfunded pension obligations, most budgets would still be in deficit. To lighten the burden on future taxpayers, governments (ie, current taxpayers) need to save even more today.
It is worth recalling the early 1970s, when there were also serious worries about a shortage of public debt. Net public debt in OECD economies fell to a post-war low of 17% of GDP. Today, despite the prediction of further declines, that figure stands at 44%. Herbert Hoover is still right: "Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt".
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline "Coping with surpluses"
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