text: Evolution Studios' exclusive PlayStation 4 racing game has been updated to version 1.14 with a new free car and a new free tour. In the attached trailer you can take a gander at the spiffy but perhaps daftly-named Ferrari LaFerrari, a supercar that us simracers have got to know thanks to Assetto Corsa. The new update for Driveclub includes the LaFerrari and the Rimac Concept_One as new free cars and also the Startline Tour as a new free tour. The Startline Tour features 11 events and 45 objectives, and "mainly serves as a varied and well balanced introduction" to the game's offerings and modes. Meanwhile, the Rimac Concept_One will be free to download in the next week from the Playstation Store. Another new feature is Multiplayer Race Replays, which predictably allows you to save a replay at the end of any online race. Kudos to Evolution Studios for constantly updating the game with new features and content - while I do not own a PS4 I'd surely love to give this arcade racer a spin, since PC hasn't seen a quality old-school title in a while, if you ask me. Changelog Adds the Ferrari LaFerrari to your Garage! Complete Rank 5 of the "Ferrari Owners Club" Driver Accolade to earn access to this car for use in all areas of the game. Adds the Startline Tour. All new players will now jump into a brand new Tour when they first play the game called Startline. The Startline Tour is available for free and features 11 events and 45 objectives. This Tour mainly serve as a varied and well balanced introduction to DRIVECLUB and is based on some of the most popular and entertaining events from elsewhere in the game. Adds Multiplayer Race Replays to the game. You can now save a Replay at the end of any Multiplayer Race and view it later from the Replays menu. Adds a new Audio Settings option to change the acoustic settings for all cockpit cameras, so that you can change between internally recorded sound or externally recorded sound. Adds a new Single Event option to set "Time Of Day" for a Single Event to half past every hour as well as on the hour. Adds a new Single Event option to change the number of laps in a Race to any number from 1 to 25 laps. Adds a new Controller Settings option to allow adjustment of the steering lock rotation angle on all supported steering wheels. Includes general improvements to the game for better performance, stability and usability.


text:
In a new book, nurses speak out about a charged working relationship and the casual stories deliver a remarkably wide perspective.
In our transparency-seeking, report-card-issuing, memoir-happy climate, not much about medicine goes unexamined these days. One exception, oddly, is an aspect that used to be at the center of attention: the ever-titillating relationship between doctors and nurses.
From Cherry Ames to Dr. Kildare, the folks in the stiff, white uniforms once waltzed around providing vicarious fun for all. A few serious academic analyses from those days confirmed the intensely stereotypic sexual gamesmanship and complicated power plays underlying even trivial doctor/nurse interactions.
Now, of course, all that has changed, with nursing established as a powerful and educated profession, with gender stereotypes erased, salary disparities shrinking and job descriptions overlapping.
But has it really changed? Do we know for sure? In theory, doctors and nurses are now heading for a happy paradise of equality, collaboration and mutual respect. Human nature being what it is, though, one wonders if we are not first condemned to weather a Reconstruction-type era of confusion and ongoing mutual abuse, as all parties struggle to regain their footing.
In the meantime, not many bulletins are coming in from the field. You can bet that no doctor out there is planning to publish a manuscript entitled "Reflections on Nurses" any time soon. I am assuming my colleagues concur that such a project would be best left for retirement incommunicado somewhere on a distant Pacific atoll, where the mailman never calls.
It is hard to say which would prompt more angry letters: outlining some of the bad nursing care the present system enables, or searching for exactly the right words to describe the miraculous best. "Saintly," "selfless" and "devoted" all have condescending paternalistic overtones. "Professional" is just too cold. There is a limit to how many times you can use "fabulous" in one piece of writing. Better to keep quiet, we say, cowards all.
But nurses are made of sterner stuff. In "Reflections on Doctors," they have produced something quite extraordinary in recent medical writings: a compilation of 19 brief essays musing on the current relationship between the species. The book comes from Kaplan Publishing, whose guides take aspiring professionals from SAT preparation to licensure, and it is apparently intended to prepare incoming nurses for the terrain.
It does so not by theory but by anecdote: these contributors hail from the trenches rather than the executive offices or classrooms, and while some are writers by avocation, few can muster anything in the way of literary style. Still, their casual stories deliver a remarkably wide perspective on their subject.
Karen Klein recounts the two occasions in the course of a career when she refused to take a doctor's orders. The first time netted her a heartfelt apology when her judgment proved correct; the second time, for an equally correct judgment call, she got only a bloody handprint on the back of her uniform as the irritated doctor gave her a shove in the direction of the job she refused to do.
A heavily symbolic handprint, that, and in self-consciously literary hands it could have been fashioned into quite the metaphor. This nurse only hopes the doctor "got the help he needed."
Other stories are similarly matter of fact. Cara Muhlhahn, a nurse-midwife in New York City, describes a complicated cord-around-the-neck home delivery: "Yay! One more unnecessary Caesarean avoided because of excellent clinical management and great collaboration with doctors." Paula Sergi, a public health nurse, writes about the workaholic doctor she wound up marrying, "the person behind the woman who attends social functions alone."
Anna Gregory, an occupational health nurse, ruefully reflects on her looping career arc: as a nurse she increasingly took on "the doctor's job"; now, training as a doctor, she worries that when she finishes "all the docs will have been replaced by nurses."
In war-torn Kosovo, a team of hip young female women's health doctors and nurses groan when an elderly Albanian pediatrician joins their team, only to become captivated despite themselves by the old crone's clinical prowess.
Each story represents a step in understanding the inherent differences that separate the professions. While working as a rehabilitation nurse, Mindy Owen stumbles on a big one in caring for a quadriplegic teenager, the victim of a car accident. She becomes transfixed by a picture of the boy with his old basketball team, and shows the photograph to the boy's doctor. "Never do that again," he snaps. Only then does she realize that the doctor takes the photograph as a reproof, a message that because he cannot "fix" the patient, he has failed.
Nursing is intensely reality-based; medicine, often, not so much. "It was the first time I really understood the philosophy of some physicians," the nurse writes, "and the definition of failure to a doctor."
These nurses despise the lazy and arrogant doctors they come across (one wonders if the modern empowered nurse elicits worse behavior from these characters than did the old subservient model). They adore the paragons who spend endless hours with chronically ill patients and then happily play Santa Claus at the Christmas party.
Mostly, though, they write in shades of gray, describing interactions and relationships that are colorless, courteous, businesslike. You might actually call them dull. You wouldn't get a minute of good television out of them. You might, however, get some good medical care.

subset: commoncrawl


text: Anyone interested in a Chapman BassStick? It is the 7 string rosewood model, no longer being made, tuned B-E-A-D-G-C-F and is in great condition. The passive bartolini pickup and the Lace sensor pickup are selectable for a bass tone or a lead tone, respectively. Comes with the metal case and all the adjustment tools. A great crossover instrument for those bass players interested in the Stick sound. I can email pics to anyone interested, just PM me for details. Price is negotiable, but I'm asking $1000. I would consider a trade.


text:
|What could go wrong?
It's more than Dick Morris' ridiculous assertion that Governor Romney was "gonna win by a landslide" because all the polls said President Obama would win. All the conservative pundits got it wrong.
But the best example of conservatives heading to oblivion right now is Erick Erickson. Remember Erickson joked that Obama was a lock once Morris made his prediction. But he took a look at the same polls and made his prediction in November:
I believe Mitt Romney will win Florida, Virginia, and Colorado... I honestly change my mind hourly on Ohio, but my best guess is that Romney wins Ohio and consequently wins the Presidency...
If you take a polling average in Ohio, the President is three points ahead. Republicans tend to do two points better in Ohio than the polling and Democrats tend to do one point worse than the polling. That puts Ohio tied and I think passion for Romney makes up that gap...
I've never seen the Republican base more fired up.So Erickson looked at the polls, all saying President Obama was winning in Florida, Virginia, Colorado, and Ohio, and predicted Romney victories in Florida, Virginia, Colorado, and Ohio.
Because of passion.
For Governor Romney.
Now Erickson has looked at poll after poll saying the American people know Republicans are to blame for the latest shutdown of the government. He sees the polls that show significant drops in support for his party. He sees the guys at Princeton who accurately predicted the last election say if America voted today, Democrats would easily take back the House of Representatives. And you can guess what he says:
Polling shows more Americans blame the GOP than Barack Obama. I think this means the GOP is winning. You'll need to let me explain.No, I really won't.
Shutting the government down doesn't just mean we can't go hiking at Yellowstone this week, as much as that sucks. It means we aren't inspecting food imports or preventing outbreaks of food-borne illnesses. We're not researching cancer cures. We're not paying survivor benefits to those who just lost a loved one in Afghanistan. We're not paying thousands upon thousands of people, public and private sector, who are just trying to do their jobs.
Defaulting on America's debt is more than just telling the rest of the world our word isn't good anymore. It adds the one thing today's global financial system simply cannot withstand - a huge, steaming pile of uncertainty.
If politicians can't agree on an annual budget, a "clean," temporary continuing budget resolution has always been the non-controversial, even perfunctory fix. Essentially it says keep things going until we strike an agreement. When the government needs to sell bonds to meet its cash obligations, raising our agreed-upon debt limits has also been a non-controversial, even perfunctory fix. People in both parties have voted against both fixes to make a political statement, but never to actually stop either from happening. They then get to their real work - a budget resolution and a series of appropriations bills. We've actually made progress on both - under this President, the national budget deficit has shrunk dramatically.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has now equated a functioning government and a stable global financial system as "unconditional surrender" for his political party. Seriously - if the economy wins, he thinks he loses.
He really needs to get out more.
Another thought. Today I think about those people in the job I had over a decade ago - Congressional staffer. The younger ones tend to live paycheck to paycheck, like many Americans. A lot of them are being furloughed right now, dealing with any number of financial issues. They're looking at the "clean" continuing budget resolution the Senate passed with bipartisan support - the one that would give them job stability for at least a little while. And they're looking at the news reports that say it would pass the House.
Then they're looking at the one guy who won't let the House vote on it under any circumstances. For some of them he's the boss. For others he's the head of their political party. And now he's saying that their job stability, however temporary, is his "unconditional surrender."
I wonder when some of them will start talking to reporters.
Payback's a bitch, Mr. Speaker.


text:
- Home
- Government
- Departments
- Housing & Community Services
- Berea Community Outreach
Berea Community Outreach
Mission Statement
The mission of Berea Community Outreach is to support residents and connect the community by lending a hand to make a difference.
We strive to identify specific needs and provide services to the people who need it most with programs such as Berea Cares which mobilizes religious and civic organizations to serve the community.
Our programs include those listed to the left and much more such as:
- The School Backpack Program is designed for Grindstone Elementary students who are food insecure. They receive a bag of easy to prepare meals, snacks and drinks every weekend. The school guidance counselor gives us the number of children in need and puts the bags into their backpacks.
Cuyahoga County Programs
Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP)
The Ohio Department of Development offers several programs to help low-income Ohioans pay their utility bills and improve the energy efficiency of their homes. This application may be used for any/all of the following programs: Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), Winter Crisis Program (WCP), Summer Crisis Program (SCP), Percentage of Income Payment Plan (PIPP), and/or the Home Weatherization Assistance Program (HWAP)
WCP and SCP applicants should call the Council for Economic Opportunity in Greater Cleveland's 24 Hour Energy Assistance Appointment Line at 216-518-4014. The TTY number for the hearing impaired in 711.
The HEAP program beings July 1, 2016 and ends June 30, 2017. The one-time benefit is typically credited in January depending on when the application was received. Please note that your mailed-in HEAP application will take 12 to 16 weeks to process. Once your application has been processed, you will receive a notification letter informing you whether or not you are eligible for bill paying assistance. For more information view the Cuyahoga County HEAP page.
Division of Senior & Adult Services (DSAS)
The Division of Senior and Adult Services (DSAS) conducts HEAP outreach to residents 60 years and older and adults with disabilities 18 years and older. Call the HEAP office at 216-420-6700 for individual assistance.


text:
Why choose QA apprenticeships?
Find out why QA are one of the leading apprenticeship providers in the UK and what we've done to achieve this.
We've been doing this for a long time
QA are established training experts – we've been doing this for over 30 years. We deliver over 500,000 training days to a quarter of a million UK professionals every year.
Our specialist apprenticeship division has been running for over 6 years, and in that time, we've trained 10,000 apprentices (and counting) for a diverse mix of exciting customers.
We set the standards in learner support
In fact, 99% of our learners mark us as either good or excellent. The result? More QA apprentices pass their programme and our withdrawal rates are low.
From on-programme support (including face-to-face visits and online learning resources) to a learner services team dedicated to looking after our apprentices' wellbeing, we ensure our learners are well supported.
We believe in the career-changing power of apprenticeships
Our apprenticeships are designed with progression routes built-in so apprentices can build long term careers with your business.
We support true career progression – from GCSE-level traineeships all the way up to degree apprenticeships. QA apprentices progress through their career building the right technical skills for their role, as well as the soft skills to succeed in any workplace. We give everyone the opportunity to progress their career as far as they want to go.
We teach apprentices in the way they tell us they want to learn
- We're changing the way we teach to a blended model, so all our programmes have a mix of face-to-face and mobile accessible online learning content.
- With our new online platform, learning can be accessed anytime, anywhere and on any device so apprentices get high quality learning content on the go.
- We've invested in technology so apprentices get the tech-enabled programmes they want, and you get accelerated learning that improves productivity.
- In addition to providing online learning for apprentices, our digital course-ware and state of the art facilities enable us to be at the forefront of digital learning in the classroom too.
What makes us unique
Hear from our colleagues and apprentices to find out a little bit more about what makes us unique. Filmed at our training centres, get an insight into the career changing power of QA apprenticeships.
We're rated Ofsted 'Outstanding' in all areas
We're the first IT apprenticeships business rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted as well as the first to be rated Grade 1 in the new inspection framework.
We are extremely proud of our 'Outstanding' rating because it reflects the work and dedication we have put into the service we deliver. The report also highlights the partnerships we have built up with young people and employers alike.
The team of inspectors judged all three measures of success:
Want to find out more?
Trusted, awarded and accredited
Fully accredited to ensure we provide the highest possible standards in learning


text:
Be informed before you connect to Lynda.com!
The personal information and privacy laws of British Columbia require that we obtain your consent before we continue.
The personal information you provide in order to register and use Lynda.com may be collected by the Port Moody Public Library ("the Library") under s.26(c) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act for the purpose of delivering digital content to you. Please be aware that any information collected about you or contained within your Library account* will be stored and/or accessed outside of Canada through the Lynda.com service provider site over which the Library has no control and which is governed by the terms and conditions of the service provider.
* This information does not include material you have borrowed from the Library.
By registering, you are acknowledging and consenting to the handling of your personal information outside of Canada where the privacy requirements will be different than the requirements of privacy legislation in BC. Please be aware that occasionally Lynda.com may include third party links that may have independent privacy policies.
Please be aware that parents/legal guardians are responsible for their children's use of Lynda.com. While individuals under the age of 13 may use Lynda.com, access to materials restricted in Canada may be done only with the involvement, supervision, and approval of a parent or legal guardian.
Do you voluntarily agree and give your consent to your data being accessed and stored outside of Canada?
If you select "Yes", your consent will be effective from the time your account for this service is created until it is closed.
For questions regarding the collection of personal information, please contact our library director, Port Moody Public Library's FOI/Privacy Officer.
© 2019 Port Moody Public Library. All Rights Reserved. | Website Created by Vision Internet


text:
The Kents
« Back to music
The Kents are an emerging force from Lindsay, Ontario that call on anthemic intimacy. In 2016, they independently released their debut WAKING EP, which encapsulates lyrical explorations of family, loss and separation from the comfort of adolescence with a hook-hungry, pop filter that controls the chaos. The lead single, The Stakes, was featured on the Apple Music's 2016 Rising Stars, Spotify's Best of 2016 Viral Hits, Hockey Night in Canada, Canada's Walk Of Fame Emerging Artist and earned radio support from CBC including George Stroumboulopoulos and various other regional, national stations. They've shared the stage for sold-out shows with The Trews, The Strumbellas, The Elwins and Hollerado.


text:
is reliant on donations of clothes, toys, games, toiletries, jewellery, household goods, shoes, CD's, electrical goods, DVD's and any other saleable items to help raise vital funds to support the Charlie Cookson Foundation to provide financial support to parents providing 24/7 care to children with a life limiting condition.
You can view and buy our amazing donations everyday by searching The Charlie Cookson Foundation Selling Page on Facebook. Alternatively, you can pop down to:
Charlie's Shop based in:
Perth Green Community Association,
Inverness Road,
to have a look at what we have to offer. Collections are available, please call 07714 247664 or 01914661429 before making the journey to Perth Green.
Please contact us if you would like to make a donation or require any further information.
At the Charlie Cookson Foundation * Prams & baby items sales page we aim to raise funds for CCF.
All items sold on this page are donations given to the foundation to sell and help boost these funds.
This page will be used to sell larger baby items:
Cots / cotbeds
Moses baskets
We are grateful to receive donations of any items that can be sold either on the Charlie Cookson Foundation selling page, this page, the market stall and table top sales. All prams will be checked and cleaned before sale. We will do our utmost to list the items to the best of our ability.


text:
Hotels/lodging near Tropenmuseum are shown below sorted in the order of their distance (closest first). Explore our hotel guide to find lodging near Tropenmuseum (Tropenmuseum) for your upcoming travels.We show the best lodging close to Tropenmuseum so you can review the discounted Tropenmuseum stay options below and uncover the perfect hotel. Planning a group hotel block? Find a Tropenmuseum group discount
How should we direct your call?


text:
Part Number: PHPM1.0
Jandy PlusHP High Head Pump, 230/115 VAC, Up-rated 1.0HP
PlusHP pumps are designed with the high performance of a larger pump in a compact body, which makes it a great choice for pool and spa renovations, in-foor cleaning systems, spa-jet boosters, solar energy heating systems, and small equipment areas.
•Available in highly effcient two-speed models, which can save up to 60% on electrical consumption compared to single speed pumps.
•Designed with Jandy's patented Quiet Technology for whisper-quiet operation.
Technical Details
•Powerful, efficient, compact high-head pump
•Large trap basket for increased debris holding capacity
•Ergonomic Cam-Lock Lid with easy-to-read aligning indicators
•Comes complete with 2" x 2 ½" quick-connect unions
•Ideal for in-floor cleaning, spa-jet boosters, and solar systems


text:
Tuition Increase Is $125 Per Semester In-State
SOCORRO, N.M. April 30, 2013 – Financial took center stage at the April meeting of the New Mexico Tech Board of Regents – the annual budget, a tuition increase, faculty salaries, and the Lottery Scholarship.
The board approved a tuition increase at its regular meeting Sunday, April 21, in Socorro. The tuition increase amounts to $125 per semester for in-state students and $358 per semester for out-of-state students. Fees are not going up, so the increase in "tuition and fees" amounts to a 3.96 percent increase for undergraduates and 3.71 for graduate students.
This year's tuition increase has generated more discussion than usual. University President Dr. Daniel H. Lopez fielded questions about tuition for more than an hour at the annual spring student forum on April 11. After the Regents discussed the increase at length, they voted unanimously to accept the administration's recommendation.
Tuition – which accounts for less than 10 percent of the university's revenue – is linked to two other hot-button items: faculty salaries and the Lottery Scholarship. Tech administrators hope to link the budgeted increase in tuition revenue to an increased budget for faculty salaries. The regular budget includes 2 percent increase for all employees. Increased revenues from tuition any allow the university to add a $1,000 one-time bonus to tenure-track faculty members towards the end of the 2013-2014 fiscal year.
Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Peter Gerity said the staffing level has improved over the past two years. Before the economic downturn in 2008, Tech had about 120 professors. That number bottomed out at 91 in 2010. Tech is now back up to 114 professors – yet enrollment has climbed consistently over that time period.
Lopez pointed out that New Mexico Tech is doing more with less. Since state funding peaked in 2007, enrollment has increased by 200 students and state funding has decreased by $5.4 million. State appropriations provide $38.88 million to Tech in the 2013-2014 budget.
"We have a whole range of financial options that help students," Lopez said. "We try to make sure that no student has to leave school because of funding."
He mentioned the President's Assistance Fund, which helped 14 students – mostly super-seniors who had run out of other scholarships. Tech has numerous research jobs on campus to help students defray their college costs, he said.
A separate article will chronicle other items from the April meeting.
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech


text:
The ORIGINAL gathering place for a merry band of Three Percenters. (As denounced by Bill Clinton on CNN!)
Thursday, August 6, 2015
Smile for Big Brother. "ATF confirms surveillance cameras installed throughout Seattle."
7 comments:
So...stay the hell out of Seattle.
- August 6, 2015 at 3:49 PM
Just because they can.
Who's going to tell them no?
Their judges?
- August 6, 2015 at 5:16 PM
The Brits allowed so many cameras to be placed they're likely to be on at least one for most of their day. Seems like if someone objected to these cameras it shouldn't be that hard to take them out faster than they could be replaced. Camera lenses tend to have either magnification or field of view. Shouldn't be too hard to be within effective shooting distance yet not be seen by the camera.
- August 6, 2015 at 5:21 PM
it took cooperation from local government to install them....hint hint
- August 7, 2015 at 6:06 AM
Paintballs, anyone? Or .22s. Either is good.
I think now would be a good time to look into more work on an IR LED hat/head band.
B Woodman
- August 7, 2015 at 8:52 AM
A decent laser will fry any camera. The laser diode from a DVD player is NOT eye safe but is exempt from restriction because it is used in a sealed application. Remove, install in a portable power source such as a Surefire type pocket flashlight where the diode replaces the bulb and away you go........always remember, safety first.
- August 7, 2015 at 11:56 AM
Anon 11:56
You may want to bone up on the laser theory . Much testing has been done and a laser you or I could buy will not "fry" a cctv camera . It WILL blind it temporarily if you can keep the laser steady , but the camera will function as before once the laser is not aimed directly at the lens.
IR LED on the other hand will blind a camera in the vicinity of the LED. Even the cameras with IR filtering . But you need a fairly powerful set up . Not a car battery set up , but more than a button battery .
The headband idea or a hat with LEDs around it would block your face . That is all I would be shooting for .
- August 7, 2015 at 7:49 PM


text:
As Mom was dying of breast cancer I was fortunate to spend the final 10 days at her side. At one point we spoke about a story I'd heard of a young woman who had lost her father to cancer. He told her that after he passed he would somehow let her know he was fine. After the funeral she went back to her home, a very old house she was renovating. A light suddenly came on for a few minutes in her hallway. She was amazed because this light had never worked before. A few days later she had an electrician come in to check it out. There were no wires connecting the light and the electrician said it could not possibly have turned on. She then realized it must have been her father letting her know all is well.Cindy's comment that her family thought she was nuts typically accompanies stories like these. And I confess that at times I'm afraid my crediting them here will discredit me as a writer. There's a taboo against accepting these fairly frequent phenomena that science has not yet explained. Someday I believe it will, if it can get over its prejudice and look at ALL the data available, whether or not it fits preconceptions. This would require continuing to probe beyond the obvious cases of fraud and the quick conclusion that it COULD have been coincidence and so it must have been. Admittedly, odd happenings like this are difficult to examine; maybe they're impossible to measure. But let's keep looking at them.
I told Mom that story and asked her to somehow let me know she was OK after she passed. She said she would. A few days later Mom died. I was sitting at her computer in the laundry room when the Cremation Society wheeled her body out the door. One of my sisters immediately stripped Mom's bed and put the sheets in her 6-month old front loading wash machine—just about 5 feet from me. She turned on the washer and it started beeping and a light flashed with an error code. I found the washer user guide and read the error code that was flashing. It said, "Mother Board is out."
This is the honest to God truth! I knew it was Mom talking to me. The rest of my family thought I was nuts. But I KNOW it was her. That couldn't have been a coincidence. We had been using that washing machine for the past week and had no problems with it at all.
There was another time—perhaps a week or two later. As I sat at my kitchen table crying and missing her and talking to her, an angel that I had suctioned to the window popped off at me. I had to laugh. It was Mom again. She's still letting me know she's OK. I'm sure she is. It's just that I miss her so much—I still cry when I remember this.
I'm sorry to say I have no more such experiences with Mom since she's passed, though I talk to her every day, but my niece, who was particularly close to her grandma, had one she related to me.
Right before Mom died, this niece found out she was pregnant with her first child, my sister's first grandchild. On the day before her grandma lay dying, in the deep sleep that comes before death, this niece went into her bedroom and whispered into her ear, "I'm pregnant, Grandma," making her grandma the first to know she was going to have a baby.
A few months into her pregnancy, while she was in the doctor's waiting room, she thought about Grandma and how she wished her new baby would be able to meet his great-grandma. Feeling sad and missing Grandma, she picked up the nearest magazine to keep the tears away and it opened to an advertisement for the fragrance "Beautiful" by Estee Lauder. At that point my niece knew Grandma was with her and would see her new great-grandchild. "Beautiful" was Grandma's only and always fragrance. When you saw Grandma, you smelled "Beautiful."
Just as I challenge believers to rethink their dogmas, I also challenge non-believers to rethink their certainty that everything spiritual is bunk. My paranormal posts do both.
Ron from Princeton had this response to my paranormal posts:
I'm always curious about those stories, and what is not being told. There is usually a logical reason why things happen, and your story about the woman who died, and then a light that wasn't even hooked to wires worked, the washing machine broke down, I generally discount these completely.This expresses the skeptical view well, a view I shared years ago but no more. The eminent psychologist and philosopher William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience answers this logic in his comment on "the convincingness of these feelings of reality."
I have never been in a house where a light fixture was in place but "didn't have any wires running to it". Very unlikely. Who was the electrician who checked it out? Let's get him on the phone. The washing machine goes out, and the error message suggests "mother is no longer here" by saying "The motherboard is out"? First of all, I doubt seriously if the manufacturer actually put in an error message that said "the motherboard is out", more likely, a "system failure", or some other code indicating a problem.
Stories tend to get better with each re-telling, as the facts are adjusted to fit the wishes of the person telling the story. There is usually a logical reason for almost anything that happens, and "coincidence" plays a big part in many of these.
They are, as a rule, much more convincing than results established by mere logic . . . if you do have them . . . you cannot help regarding them as genuine perceptions of truth, as revelations of a kind of reality which no adverse argument, however unanswerable by you in words, can expel from your belief.He states that intuitions from such experiences "come from a deeper level" than our rationalism. "Something in you absolutely knows (his emphasis) that that result must be truer than any logic-chopping rationalistic talk, however clever, that may contradict it."
I'll just continue telling stories as they come to me, and now I'll tell a story about myself.
About 25 years ago I was agonizing about a decision that would direct my life's course and beseeching God for help in the decision. As I paced by my hutch, a plate that was propped up sat down and sent a cup into my hands. The drop from above startled me into accepting the answer that my insides had been telling me but my head had argued against. I then knew what I had to do, although the message was not explicit and I couldn't have presented a logical case for this decision that set an unconventional life course. My future was uncertain but the Something I usually call God was there with me.
The cups and plates had been arranged in exactly the same way for several years before that and have been ever since then, without moving. Like Cindy who just KNEW it was her mom, like Carol who knew her dad rang the bells, I KNEW the other side had spoken to me.
Spirit visitations tend to be dreamlike but are "more real" than dreams. They often come at bedtime or sleep-time, and they come unexpectedly—we have no control over such things. But some people seem likelier than others to receive them. In my experience, they are persons with spiritual sensitivity, but they range from fundamentalist believers to open-minded religious to agnostics who dislike religion.
Now a series of encounters with the other side in disconnected notes I've taken here and there. If you're familiar with this sort of happenings, you recognize them as authentic. Skeptics will disbelieve no matter what. I was one when I was determined to be "scientific."
** A dying man finds himself going up stairs and coming to a door. He opens it and sees a pleasant gathering of persons he knew before they died, but he can't join them. Assured about what follows death, he passes over shortly thereafter.
** Three weeks after Marie died, Katherine was sleeping when she woke to a touch on her body. Marie was sitting on her bed. "How did you get here?" Marie didn't say anything and looked the same as always.
** Mona was sleeping and woke up to her deceased dad's voice, "Mona." It was "so real," she told me, "just like him." She looked around and saw nothing, but had no fear. This has happened "a couple times," she said.
Once when she was doing dishes and crying about losing her precious grand-daughter, she had a fleeting glimpse of something white going by—like sheer, sheer flimsy material. The same appeared while she was walking in her living room. "Don did you see Mindy?" "No," he said.
Other contacts have happened in bed, where she first thought maybe there was a mouse.
Since her death, Mindy's cousin visits with her "all the time," Mona was told. This cousin was two years older than Mindy but they grew up together, very close to each other, and both were the only girl in the family.
Mona, like me, has enlarged her ideas as a result of these experiences. She's sorry she didn't believe her dying mom many years ago. The doctor was trying to resuscitate her and said, "We're losing her!" Her mom came back to this life for a while, then died, but before she died she told Mona she was on the ceiling as her doctor said that. Mona lives with the regret of not having believed her.


text:
Recent Posts
- I Am Running With More Gratitude Right Now, I Have at Times Forgotten How Blessed I Am – An Interview with Jeff Miller After Getting the ATR50K Grand Masters Course Record in 2018
- Some People Dream of Worthy Goals, While Others Stay Awake and Accomplish Them – An Interview with Herb Byun, 74 Years and Still Going Strong
- My Two Goals Were To Finish No Matter What And To Be The Happiest Person On The Course – An Interview with 14 Year Old Afton 50K Finisher Andrew Lewis
- I had 3 goals. 1) Finish the race no matter what. 2) Win. 3) Set a course record. – An Interview with 2018 Afton 50K Men's Champion and New Course Record Holder Justin Grunewald
- Afton 2018 Recap


text:
Join our Discord Server!
Our Discord is integrated directly with Noxcrew Factory Forums and Server.
If you wish, you can link your forum account with the Discord.
By linking your accounts together it automatically sync roles on the Discord server based on your forums rank.
Moderators will be moderators, Titans will be Titans, etc...
Linking your Noxcrew Factory to your Discord account is very simple.
- 1. Make sure you are logged into the forums
- 2. Head to the "External Accounts" section of your account (Click the link)
- 3. Scroll down to the Discord Integration section and follow the steps to link your account.
- 4. You will be asked to give Noxcrew Factory permission to view your account details; make sure to authorize these permissions.
- 5. You will see in real time your rank on the Discord server change based on these actions.
If you believe you're not getting the Discord roles you think you should have, disassociate your Discord account from Noxcrew Factory and try again.
This server and it's integration with Noxcrew Factory is a work in progress and as such, we are very much open to ideas and requests.
If you have any such ideas and requests that you believe will help expand the community, please let us know!
Discord Integration © Jason Axelrod from 8WAYRUN


text:
New Zealand Police has spent $5 million on a new fleet of speed cameras that could, through a software upgrade, be used to read as well as record vehicle licence plates.
Police have chosen cameras capable of Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), a controversial technology, rolled out in the UK in 2003, that has raised concern about Police tracking vehicle movements and invasion of privacy.
Last month, Australian company RedFlex Traffic Systems won the contract to replace New Zealand's fleet of mobile speed cameras. Computerworld subsequently requested the original tender documents and business plan for the project under the Official Information Act.
The tender document, under the heading "Capability to integrate with future applications", asks suppliers to provide information on software ugrades and "how the system can be extended to an Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) system".
Police have confirmed the devices bought from RedFlex, RedFlex Radarcams, are not able to undertake ANPR at present but can be upgraded.
According to Wikipedia, ANPR rollouts have led to fears of misidentification and "1984-style surveillance". Other concerns relate to the storage and misuse of information collected. Some oppose ANPR as a step towards an "automated" justice system, while others say the primary purpose of such systems is revenue generation rather than law enforcement.
ASX-listed RedFlex, based in Melbourne, claims to be the world's largest speed and red light camera outsourcing provider. It has contracts with more than 200 US cities, and is the largest provider of digital red light and speed enforcement services in North America, with photo speed programmes in nine states and photo red light programmes in 21.
In May Redflex cameras were deployed in Auckland to boost red light enforcement.


text:
How to Turn Tweets Into Customers
Kenny Lao of Rickshaw Dumpling uses Twitter and Facebook to update his restaurant's fans on a "moment-to-moment" basis. In this episode of "Smart Entrepreneur," he provides tips on how to manage social media, including picking the right message to convey.
Related "Smart Entrepreneur" Video
How a Startup's Social Vision Wins Customers
Targeting the 'It Girl" Customer
A Fashion Startup Goes Viral


text:
We use cookies to elevate your user experience and to enhance the quality of our site.
To find out more see our Privacy Policy
100% Cotton. Made in Italy.Read More
As the warm weather approaches, corduroy devotees needn't fear - it can be worn in summer, too. This lightweight, washed needlecord has a beautifully worn-in feel to it, making it the perfect fabric for a soft, casual suit.
|Color Filter
|Material Filter


text:
Got caught by both the conductor Brent Havens and vocalist Brody Dolyniuk for NOT standing up or dancing or singing along during the Music of Queen concert today.
Sorry bro,
a) it's the MPO after all, not Stadium Merdeka;
b) if I stand up I'd block the views of the people behind me;
c) I was more interested looking at the musicians because Brody's vocal was just so-so and
d) because I don't want to. I did clap and sing along, I was just not going to dance like the girls in front of me who only knew 2 songs (guess which ones).
By the way I was more of a rockstar than the vocalist who was dressed like he was in One Direction AND acted like he was Jim Carrey.
MPO musicians were excellent as usual though I caught two cellist screwing up a couple of notes at the same time and they looked at each other and broke into a little giggle.
Verdict: I enjoyed the Led Zep tribute concert much better coz it had a better vocalist with better showmanship. And speaking of showmanship, them folks could learn a thing or two from Heart:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxOaDeJmXk
You can see the full concert programme here: http://mpo.com.my/v2/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/QUEEN-FA.compressed.pdf


text:
Mahoney, Richard (2016) Of the progresse of the Bodhisattva: the bodhisattvamārga in the Śikṣāsamuccaya. Oxford: Indica et Buddhica.
The Buddha is credited with clearly and succinctly expounding the Buddhist path (mārga). Despite the eloquence and brevity of the Buddha's exposition, the corpus of Buddhist scriptures explaining the path is prolix.
It is generally thought that the moral precepts (śikṣāpadas), correct practices (samudācāras) and restraints (saṃvaras) for a bodhisattva are to be found in Mahāyāna sūtras. Yet it seems that the most likely outcome of reading these sūtras is not enlightenment, but confusion. Mahāyāna sūtras appear too extensive and complex to be of much practical benefit to an incipient bodhisattva.
This paper asserts that the Śikṣāsamuccaya (ŚS) and Śikṣāsamuccayakārikā (ŚSKā) are composed by Śāntideva (Ś) to counter the bewilderment which results from reading Mahāyāna sūtras. Both works explicate the essential principles (marmasthānas) of these sūtras for the benefit of a bodhisattva new to the way.
Further, this paper asserts that of all the various practices described in Mahāyāna sūtras, Ś believes that the practice of giving (dāna ≡ utsarjana) is fundamental. In the ŚS and ŚSKā the way of the bodhisattva (bodhisattvamārga) is essentially the way of giving (dānamārga).
In short, Ś expects a bodhisattva:
to give everything (sarva+√dā ≡ sarva+ut+√sṛj) in order to attain perfect enlightenment (samyaksaṃbodhi);
to make a worthy gift of his person (ātmabhāva), enjoyments (bhogas) and merit (puṇya) in order to give everything;
to preserve (√rakṣ), purify (√śudh), and increase (√vṛdh) his gift in order to make a worthy gift; and
to practice the four right strivings (samyakpradhānas) in order to preserve, purify and increase his gift.
It is asserted in this paper, then, that Ś considers the unsurpassed and perfect enlightenment of the Buddha attained by the practice of complete giving (sarvadāna ≡ sarvotsarjana) and complete giving attained by the practice of the right strivings. ...
Overall, this paper attempts to provide a comprehensive analysis of the content, structure, theme and meaning of the ŚS and ŚSKā. To the knowledge of the present writer, it is the first of its kind. ...
Mahoney, Richard (2016) Of the progresse of the Bodhisattva: the bodhisattvamārga in the Śikṣāsamuccaya. Oxford: Indica et Buddhica. (Open access PDF)
** Please read with Adobe Digital Editions (ADE)
Authors . Scholiast . Tabulae . Lexica . Repositorium
Indica et Buddhica Littledene Bay Road Oxford New Zealand T +64 3 312 1699 firstname.lastname@example.com © Copyright 2005—18 Indica et Buddhica Publishers


text:
Introduction to the Public Records Act 2005 HAMILTON
What are Public Records? How can I manage them for the benefit of my authority, its staff AND be compliant?
Information Leadership is offering the following course to support Archives New Zealand's public record keeping capability programme.
This one day foundation course offers a mix of training techniques to provide an engaging experience for all learning styles.
ONE DAY workshop
Trainer: Paddy Plunket
Cost: $380 excluding GST.
Includes lunch and refreshments
Venue: To be advised
Inhouse courses available please contact us to enquire
NB: Course dates are tentative until course confirmation four week prior, please only book your travel and accommodation needs once Information Leadership has contacted you to confirm.


text:
Jane provides a full spectrum of services ranging from initial clinical consultations, individual and family clinical support services, treatment referrals, crisis intervention, client transports, and broad scope case management and monitoring services.
With our case management and advocacy support, we'll supervise the treatment process for your loved one from admission through after-care. We provide full spectrum client services in the following areas:
Client Populations:
- Crisis intervention (all levels of resistance, addiction and psychiatric disorders)
- Drug and alcohol addiction and abuse
- Complex family systems
- Multi-generational wealth and high net worth individuals
- Eating disorders
- Sexual compulsivity
- Gambling addictions
- Financial disorders
- Gaming and internet addictions
- Shopping and spending addictions
- Hoarding/OCD behavioral issues
- Love and relationship addictions
- Complex dual diagnosis cases
- Complex psychiatric cases
- Depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders
- Co-dependency and enmeshment family systems
- Case consultation and case management
- Treatment planning and placement recommendations
- Therapeutic transports
- Post treatment planning, case management and monitoring
- Institutional consulting
- Equine assisted therapy


text: Dr. Kazanowski has been in practice for over 32 years. He and his wife, Dr. Janice Cobe both graduated from the University of Illinois, College of Dentistry in Chicago. Married in 1984, John and Jan have 3 children and reside in South Barrington. They enjoy traveling, golf, and especially watching their children participate in all kinds of sports. Dr. Kazanowski attends many seminars and dental meetings to enhance his knowledge and further benefit his patient's needs. Some recent "hands on" experiences include implant placement courses such as Surgical Placement of Dental Implants, Hahn and Osteoready Implant placement courses, BICON and IMTEC(certified in mini-implants for loose dentures), Endondontics(Root canal Therapy), ClearCorrect Orthodontics(certified for Invisible Braces), Cosmetic and Laser-assisted dental treatments, and other continuing education coursework to further incorporate into his practice.


text:
Kopelson Entertainment has hired Tiffany Paulsen ("The Nanny Diaries") to write "Rocket Ship" says Variety.
The story follows a father and son who move to New Mexico and uncover a large shiny object buried in the desert behind their home.
The discovery triggers events beyond their wildest imaginations.
Paulsen is presently writing the sequel "Further Adventures in Babysitting" for Disney.


text:
Even though we saw it not too long ago, Joe's next major feud should be with Finn. In fact, at WrestleMania 33, these two should square off for the first time on the main roster, and that match should only end one way: Joe targets the surgically repaired shoulder of Finn Balor to the point of referee stoppage and puts him back on the shelf for months following. The heat on Joe would be nuclear.
Of course, it would be a worked injury. Seth Rollins was a total accident, occurring while Joe was whipping him around the ring. For Finn's "injury", it would have to be choreographed to appear 100% intentional. Yes, that's not the easiest thing to pull off without actually hurting him, but these are two veterans at the top of their game. If Finn sells hard, it could look good. Picture Finn on the grandest stage of them all, walking back up the ramp, clutching his elbow and looking out to the crowd with the same look that we saw on his face not too long ago.
Instead of rehabbing, Finn would spend the three months at home or maybe helping out down at the Performance Center. While I'm sure being out of action is the last thing he wants, the benefit will be astronomical. WWE is constantly trying to make an underdog out of him, which is kind of hard when you're one of the most accomplished wrestlers and look like the definition of an elite athlete. But if after all of this, Finn's re-crowning is held off again and he has to fight his way back to the main event while watching other guys pass him by, he could actually properly fill that role. He could also come back with a vengeance. It would do him well to have a bit of an edge to the way he conducts himself, especially towards Joe. Seth didn't mean to injure him after all, but Joe did. Joe made this personal.
Meanwhile, it makes Joe a monster. He's charismatic in a way that other monster heels like Brock Lesnar and Nia Jax don't quite exhibit. His intensity is undeniable, and all of that goes a long way to getting him over. As Triple H's attack dog, he could be protected in a unique way and make it very clear to Stephanie that he doesn't work for her. When Finn Balor returns in the next couple of weeks or so, it makes every bit of sense for him to stand up to Triple H, taking issue with the idea that Hunter somehow created him. We already refer to a certain subset of wrestlers as "Triple H Guys", so make it official. Triple H, knowing what's best for business, could try to smooth relations and recruit Finn as one of his guys, but Finn resists. That's how he gets himself into this WrestleMania matchup with Joe, and Joe becomes his distinct foil.
Then there's the fallout. Seth will be back not long after (assuming Mania is out) and if they continue to draw out his match with Triple H, it will only cause fatigue. Instead, put it on Payback, it could use the eyeballs while SummerSlam will be packed with main event matches, and the name is quite fitting. Upon Finn's return, he and Seth can have an understanding. Maybe they're not best friends, but they're not intentionally getting in each other's way. Throw in a few tag matches, as WWE does, and the stage is set for Samoa Joe vs. Finn Balor vs. Seth Rollins at SummerSlam. Ideally, it'd be for the Universal Championship, but that's a whole other issue.
Regardless, Seth and Finn deserve a redo after the way their match last year went down. Adding in Joe would allow there to be an adversarial character now that Seth is also a face, and add a new dynamic to the match. Will they work together to take Joe out of the equation, or are these two former world champs too proud to buddy up? The build writes itself and the story could act as a return to greatness arc for Finn. He needs something to sink his teeth into, and this lets him play with the idea that sometimes when you fall down, just getting back up isn't enough. It's heartbreaking, but it'll let him push through and find something truly great on the other side. Sure you could slap a belt on him like he never even left, but why not use the real-life story to mold the fictional one?
Finn should be champion again by the end of 2017. He should be treated as the main eventer he is and given every opportunity while they still have him. But by working an angle where Samoa Joe reinjures the Demon King, everyone's stock can go up. It'll give him a new arc, a journey he didn't expect to have to go on. It gives Seth a chance to shine as a face, having had just gone through that journey himself. Finally, it makes Joe the biggest, baddest heel in WWE without a doubt.
Culminating at SummerSlam, these three have all of the tools to steal the show, if not put on a match of the year. All it will take to knock it out of the park will be for these experienced competitors, who have a total 47 years in the ring combined, to be given long leash. Creatively and physically, give them room to do what they know how to do, and this can be a defining moment in three careers.


text:
Luke Murphy said : > I see! Thanks for clearing that up. > > I'll have a dig around GS then and see what is possible. I assume if it > was possible to get a patch for this fix, you could bring that into your > installation? Sure, and it would not need to be similar to their export plugin that generates mbox files from the browser. Anything that could crawl the database and generate such files on the server side is more than enough. I'm hoping that their plugin will give enough clues on how to do this, and will eventually look into this, but that won't happen before the Summer, so any help on that front would be great of course. > I'll head over to we.lurk.org :) Happy migrating! Thanks :) a. > On 0, Aymeric Mansoux <email obscured>> wrote: > >Hey! > > > >lwm said : > >> Hey, any progress on this? > >> > >> I'd be happy to pitch in here as I just noticed the dreaded HTTP login connection. > >> > >> > 1. Somehow the login form hardcodes an http URL upon submitting the > >> credentials, which triggers the usual warning popup about sending info > >> over insecure channel etc, making the whole thing a bit useless ATM. > >> I haven't checked if this is easy to change in the GS templates, it > >> should but next issue is blocking further progress. > >> > >> It seems like could be then a fix that goes upstream? Where might I go looking?
> > > >It won't be fixed, we're slowly moving everything to https://we.lurk.org > >So far so good. There, everything works as expected, there is already a > >metalurk list, but we haven't migrated people from the old list yet. > > > >https://we.lurk.org/postorius/lists/metalurk.we.lurk.org/ > > > >The thing we are going to suffer the most from is the lack of archive > >export, and it seems there is nobody left from GS to help on this... > > > >http://groupserver.org/groups/development/messages/topic/5rfrpoUe7phtMsRnPC20py > > > >We fixed the problem with member exports, but would be great to move the > >archives to the new system as well. > > > > > >a. > >-- > >https://bleu255.com/~aymeric > > > >-- > > > >Read the whole topic here: Meta-Lurk: > >http://lurk.org/r/topic/2NMNMA20wpENHiToW2nqHw > > > >To leave Meta-Lurk, email <email obscured> with the following email subject: unsubscribe > > -- > > Read the whole topic here: Meta-Lurk: > http://lurk.org/r/topic/4YxSyZeCECw3uMp4U76eGW > > To leave Meta-Lurk, email <email obscured> with the following email subject: unsubscribe a. -- https://bleu255.com/~aymeric


text:
The Union government's stipulation that States set aside 15 per cent of the electricity they generate to the Central pool would affect Kerala which is facing a crisis in power generation, Electricity Minister Kadakampally Surendran has said.
Inaugurating an electrical section office at Alakkode, near Thodupuzha, on Saturday, the Minister said the Central decision was conveyed at a meeting of the State Electricity Ministers at Vadodara in Gujarat recently. The norm is impractical for Kerala which buys electricity from other States, he added.
The water level in the State's reservoirs has dropped considerably and the government is trying to avoid load-shedding during the annual examination time.
Only 40 per cent of water remained in the State's reservoirs. About 65 per cent of power is purchased from outside.
Electricity was being purchased at a high price even when the 60-MW Pallivasal extension project, scheduled to be completed in 2011, the 40-MW Thottiyar power project, and the second phase of the Chathankode power project, still remaining uncompleted.
Because of transmission problems, the State could not claim its due from the Kudankulam project resulting in a loss of Rs.70 crore to the exchequer.
Non-conventional energy could not be considered a solution to the power crisis. The first phase of the 200-MW solar energy project at Kasaragod would be commissioned in two months.
Availability of land is a major hindrance to exploiting solar energy, he said, adding that for a 200-MW project, at least 1,000 acres of land is required. Wind energy would also be promoted, he said.
Source- The Hindu


text:
The obvious consequence of granting an institutional monopoly on law enforcement is that police departments will feel no need to "please the consumer" because their consumers pay whether they like the service or not. Every week police officers abuse their power, injure law-abiding citizens, and usually get away with it. This week's headlines are no different. Here are just a few recent dispatches from the police state:
- A British Columbia cop kicked a suspect in the face (pictured above), fortunately it was caught on video.
- A Cleveland police officer sexually assaulted a male inmate.
- A former FBI agent was given to a pathetic two year sentence for a plan to kill his wife and boss.
- Hampton, Iowa police tell reporters that it suspended a police officer, but refuse to inform anyone of his crime.
- A Youngstown cop forced two children to the ground at gunpoint after their game of tag looked "suspicious," particularly because one boy had a backpack on.
- "NYPD officer works as drug dealer's bodyguard, tries to steal money from him, fails, and gets a paid vacation anyway!
- Another NYPD cop flashed his badge as he attempted to solicit sex from a 17-year-old.
- While a Greenely Colorado cop sexually assaulted a woman during a traffic stop, New Orleans PD had to fire two cops after their officers falsely arrested two women on prostitution charges.
- A Philly cop will get his full pension despite being convicted of repeatedly raping a 12 year old girl over a period of six years.
- Philly PD also apparently miscalibrated their breathalyzers resulting in a review of over a thousand drunk driving convictions.
- Woman files a federal complaint after Pentagon completely bungles her rape case. The rapist eventually was acquitted because the military "had 'lost' the underwear" she was wearing when raped. Later she gets a call from an Army investigator telling her she could come and pick up her underwear.
If the Fraternal Order of Police was just another large, national corporation, the outrage over this pattern of abusive, irresponsible behavior would be headline news. Congress would conduct investigations, reforms would be proposed, and the idea that they deserve a monopoly on the use of force would be revisited. Unfortunately, they are not just another large organization. They are the police, and as such, are deemed irreproachable.


text:
The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for—throwing and killing a small puppy in Myrtle Creek, Oregon.
The Case: The Douglas County Sheriff's Office gives the following account: A passerby saw a group of male juveniles deliberately and forcefully throw a male puppy to the ground. The witness ran toward the boys in an attempt to stop the assault, but the suspects fled. The witness then picked up the puppy and rushed him to a veterinarian. Unfortunately, the puppy died of internal injuries before arriving at the vet's office.
Animal Cruelty: Getting the serious attention of law enforcement, prosecutors and the community in cases involving allegations of cruelty to animals is an essential step in protecting the community. The connection between animal cruelty and human violence is well documented. Studies show a correlation between animal cruelty and all manner of other crimes, from narcotics and firearms violations to battery and sexual assault.
Scott Beckstead, senior Oregon director for the HSUS said, "It is well documented that a youth who commits cruelty toward animals is likely to commit violence against humans as an adult. The juveniles who cruelly caused the death of this puppy must be apprehended and held accountable. We are grateful to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office for understanding the serious nature of this horrific crime, and we are hopeful that this reward offer will help the authorities identify the young people responsible so they can be brought to justice."
The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is investigating. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Douglas County Dispatch at 541-440-4471.
Resources: The HSUS Animal Cruelty Campaign raises public awareness and educates communities about the connection between animal cruelty and human violence while providing a variety of resources to law enforcement agencies, social work professionals, educators, legislators and families. The HSUS offers rewards in animal cruelty cases across the country and works to strengthen laws against animal cruelty.
The National Sheriffs' Association and the HSUS recently launched ICE BlackBox, a free smartphone tool, to allow users to record video of illegal animal cruelty and share it securely with law enforcement for possible investigation and prosecution.
The HSUS recently doubled its standard cruelty reward from $2,500 to $5,000 thanks to a generous donation from an HSUS board member. To see information on statistics, trends, laws and animal cruelty categories, visit our animal cruelty statistics page.
Support the work of our Animal Cruelty and Fighting Campaign. Donate Now
Media Contacts
- Media Relations


text:
The feminist/libertarian author Camille Paglia recently penned an argument for the repeat of the drinking age in the US. Obviously as such a short piece, it raises more questions than it answers:
As I skimmed it, something popped off of the screen-
As a libertarian, I support the decriminalization of marijuana, but there are many problems with pot. From my observation, pot may be great for jazz musicians and Beat poets, but it saps energy and willpower and can produce physiological feminization in men.
I tried looking for some evidence of this, but could not find much in the way of real studies in this direction. There are some that have revealed the problems of male impotence, but unless one of our fellow readers has something on the topic, I'm not sure anyone is studying it-
Let's look at the basics here: cannabinoids are neurotransmitter suppressors, meaning that they slow down the activity between nerve cells. Hence, if faster reflexes or greater neurological capacity is what you want, cannabinoids are the perfect way to make sure you won't.
This has a natural effect on sex, which is not only a sensory experience, but also a psychological one. It stimulates the brain and thus a slow-down of neurotransmitter release means a dampening of stimulation and arousal.
Sure, plenty of marijuana-using men will smile and say that they are still able to 'perform,' but what they are talking about is having to overcome something that it working against them. It is not helping the process. As they get older, they often need to turn to impotency medications in order to be aroused.
Now, this really is the definition of 'living better through chemistry.' So much for marijuana being the 'natural high.'
But, Paglia isn't talking about that so much as the docility that comes with a pot-head. Marijuana dampens the normal 'aggression' of men, which is part of the reason so many men in this society, which values female virtues over masculine virtues, find it appealing at a deeper level: it takes away the aggression for which they have no way to otherwise vent.
Let's think about college. Men are squeezed into classrooms for hours and hours of talking. This is compounded by the fact that most modern people are not audio-learners as much as they are visual (because of internet, TV, and video games), and so the hours of sitting and focusing on listening is really against nature. Colleges developed athletics in large part to help men deal with the after-effects of the classroom.
Of course, athletics became 'professionalized,' and so the average student has to find a pick-up game of basketball or football... if he can find the space on campus, and if security will allow them to. There's the gym, where one can engage in mindless, robotic activity. But, it lacks real interaction unless you fall in with a trainer.
Alcohol and marijuana become the 'easier' alternative. Of course, with alcohol you have some of the effects that Paglia describes in her article, but many students shoot past that mark into drunkenness for an underlying reason: it dampens their anxieties and the desire to act upon them.
Paglia is talking about this 'calming' of men when she speaks of 'feminization.' Modern males are docile, compliant, and much less aggressive than their natural counterparts. The days of the great hunter and the man who builds monuments has been replaced by the Hipster who likes some formerly-obscure trend, or the vegan socially-conscious office worker, or the video-game addict.
Those men who don't fit in are pushed further and further out of the places of power within modern society. They are your sanitation workers and manual laborers, which is the only place where a dose of masculinity is still a benefit, so long as managers don't see it. If they come inside the air-conditioned spaces, they become subjected to the social climate of the feminine, where horse-play and male-bonding activities like teasing are quickly punished.
Christianity is about being a 'natural person,' which is why we see a growing disconnect between modern culture (and its gender-bending tendencies) and Christianity with its gender-affirming and -perfecting goals.
There are some clergy who are reading strange books and try to enforce a bizarre kind of rigid gender role system on their parishioners. I've heard of priests telling their community that the man 'must' earn more money than his wife, otherwise he is violating a sacred order of the world.
Aside from the poor bloke being a complete idiot in a lot of other ways (don't worry, I know I am a card-carrying member of that club), the fact that he demands complete obedience and subservience from his parishioners means that he really doesn't understand what he is talking about at all. Masculine 'aggression' is not about keeping you wife down. It is about racing ahead, and it is far more than just dollar-value. It is about achievement and making things and putting one's energy to constructive use.
The phenomenon of the cult-priest is one of attracting these feminized, non-dominant men. After all, there can be only one 'Alpha Male.' The rest must submit and surrender some part of that masculinity.
There are more constructive ways to maintain order without such repression, but that's for another day. Returning to the topic at hand, when men are forced to repress themselves, they either 'blow off steam' or try to dissolve it in some chemical bath.
The marijuana phenomenon is really about that. Marijuana makes being a man more bearable in a society that pushes against masculinity. That is Paglia's point, and it is well worth considering.


text:
Mortality in the South, 1850 (ICPSR 7424)
Version Date: Feb 16, 1992 View help for published
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s)
Robert W. Fogel, Unknown; Stanley L. Engerman, Unknown
Version V1
Summary View help for Summary
This study recorded information on deaths that occurred in 1850 in seven states of the southern United States: Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. The data were obtained from the manuscript mortality schedules of the 1850 United States Census. Variables identify the state and county in which each death occurred, and provide information on the age, sex, race, legal status (free or slave), place of birth, and occupation of the deceased. The month and cause of death as well as the number of days of illness before death are also documented.
Citation View help for Citation
Export Citation:
Funding View help for Funding
Subject Terms View help for Subject Terms
Geographic Coverage View help for Geographic Coverage
Distributor(s) View help for Distributor(s)
Time Period(s) View help for Time Period(s)
Sample View help for Sample
Counties in the targeted states were selected on a random basis. Rice- and sugar-producing areas were oversampled in an attempt to cover counties specializing in certain crops.
Universe View help for Universe
Deaths that occurred in 1850 in seven states of the southern United States: Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
Data Source View help for Data Source
manuscript mortality schedules of the 1850 United States Census
Method of Data Collection View help for Method of Data Collection
Original Release Date View help for Original Release Date
Version History View help for Version History
- Fogel, Robert W., and Stanley L. Engerman. Mortality in the South, 1850. ICPSR07424-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-10-13. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07424.v1
Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.
- The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
This study is provided by ICPSR. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community.


text:
The immediate aftermath to the horrific killing of about 50 people at an LGBT nightclub by an ISIS inspired gunman gave rise to the usual kinds of reaction in general. We knew what the Left would say and we knew what the Right would say and they all did. However, looking at some of the columns in the Western press, I did notice a recurring thing of how this one incident has been extra divisive.
This article in The Washington Post, soon after the attack, titled : The new norm: When tragedy hits, Americans stand divided , had a very succinct summary in it's first line:
Three of the most contentious questions in American culture and politics — gay rights, gun control and terrorism — collided in a horrific way in an Orlando nightclub early Sunday.And to drive home the point about divisiveness, the article had this to say:
Not since 9/11 has a moment like this brought the nation together, and that evaporated quickly. Since then, calamity seems only to drive the left and the right further apart, while faith in the nation's institutions deteriorates further.
Across the ideological and partisan divide, it no longer seems possible to even explore — much less agree upon — causes and solutions. So the response has been muddled, even while the next tragedy looms.
This short article in The American Interest: How to Tear a Nation Apart, explains how the use of guns by ISIS inspired terrorists is virtually splitting America, down the middle. The last two paras explain this point vividly.
Guns occupy a critical space in America's increasingly acerbic culture wars, a manifestation of the broader social convection currents taking place below the surface. For Jacksonians who are losing faith in the ability of established institutions to preserve order, the Second Amendment is a bulwark against totalitarian movements, like Islamism, that would undermine American liberty. Under this deeply held view, attacks by ISIS-enthusiasts strengthen, rather than weaken, the case for gun rights. But for cosmopolitan liberals, gun rights are an anachronism—a symbol of all the wrong-headed views espoused by working class whites. Set these two warring camps against each other in the context of an ongoing terror threat, and you push an already divided society even further down the path of tribalism and fracture.There has been much hand wringing by Liberals and the Social Justice Left after this. From blaming homophobic society in general to Christians who oppose who Gay marriage, and saying all religions are equally to blame - every attempt has been made to conflate issues and deflect blame from Islamists : the one group about whom they will not take names. In India, we had this tweetstorm against Narendra Modi about who he was not eligible to express grief at this event as Sec 377 was still on books in India. This was of course, not original, Republican politicians like Marco Rubio faced similar treatment on twitter.
The attackers in Orlando and San Bernardino accomplished something the attackers in Boston and New York didn't: They drove a wedge between patriotic Americans, and managed to ensure that our grieving over the dead was polluted from the outset by a din of vicious political assaults. By any measure, they and their fellow travelers must consider this a great success. Perhaps terrorists who choose to carry out their massacres with guns are actually "taking advantage" of American society in a rather different way than many liberals think.
Of course,this sort of Left Wing rhetoric which does not distinguish between, but rather conflates various levels of opposition - that ranges from opposition to allowing gay marriage to throwing them off buildings - two vastly different things, needed pointing out. Douglas Murray, writing in the National Review had this:
It isn't surprising that most gay spokespeople and publications lean left. For historic reasons — principally the political Right's opposition to gay rights — most gay spokespeople continue to think that the political Right is the sole locale from which anti-gay sentiment can come. For many years Pat Robertson was their worst nightmare. But Pat Robertson just wanted to stop gays from marrying. He didn't call for people to throw us off high buildings.
Despite the growing awareness that this was precisely what the Islamists wanted, gay "spokespeople," publications, and groups went through the 2000s sharing the old leftish delusions. These included the idea that, as a "minority," gays only had things in common with other "minorities." So gay people were meant to be the natural political and social bedfellows not just of other gays but of people with disabilities, racial and religious minorities, and even, perhaps, women. Of course it was ridiculous. Gay men don't have much in common with lesbians. Why — even if they had a unanimous view and voice — would they inevitably share the concerns of "all" people with one leg? Or Sikhs? Or Muslims? For this worldview to make any sense at all, you have to believe that there is a dominant, "patriarchal" voice in society, that this is the only bloc capable of bigotry, and that all these mini-communities ought to unite against this fantasy mainstream. Of course this not only fails in its reductive analysis of mainstream politics. It fails to take any interest in the crucial details of "minority" politics. Such as whether your interests are remotely aligned. Who could have known that one minority, Muslims, might not be hot for another minority? Such as gays.Whichever side makes sense to you, these are bleak times or as Mark Steyn mentioned how the Pulse Night Club would have felt like a Party at the End of the World


text: Ok, I know I harp on Wallymart just as much as I shop there, so I ride the line of hypocrite constantly...I digress. Anyway, last week I goes there and something ludicrous happens that either makes me feel really old, or this person just really clueless.. I go (glutton for punishment) into the music section to poke around, actually thinking they'd have "Dig!" on DVD. No such luck. But what I DID see was that the Rolling Stones FINALLY re-released "made in the shade", which hasn't been available in like, forever. Anyway, what's funny (part 1) is that this CD, while rightfully a featured selection, had one of those hokey placards around it that said "hot new artist". Thinking this absurd (as little insignificant things like this always end up bugging me) I felt the need to say to the comely young worker there "isn't this a bit ridiculous?" while pointing to the "hot new artist" sign... to which she goes "why?" "well, because (1) they're not a new artist, and (2) this album is like 20 years old" "really? I've never heard of them" now this is where the whole "am I too old or is she really this clueless" part comes in. What would you have thought in this sitch? I just smiled and got out of there right quick so I coiuld go shake it off... Anyway, I know, small potatoes, but HOW do you not AT LEAST have heard of the Rolling Stones? Is that possible?


text:
The enemies of liberty never give up in their quest to control the Internet. From SOPA/PIPA to now CISPA, Congress keeps hatching new schemes to facilitate the take-over of the Internet. Even the ACLU is on the side of liberty and a government free Internet.
In an attempt to re-create the backlash that killed anti-piracy legislation earlier this year, activists are planning a "week of action" beginning on Monday to protest the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Many of the groups leading the protest are veterans of the fight against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Free Press, Fight for the Future and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Brock Meeks, a spokesman for the Center for Democracy and Technology, said the protest will rely on similar tactics as the ones used to derail the anti-piracy bills, potentially including petitions and phone calls to members of Congress.
Read the rest here
Judy Morris,
Blogger, THL
Articles | Website


text:
University of Kansas
Jayhawks' offense hasn't clicked thus far, Bill Self maintains
Bill Self lays it on the line at KU media day: 'Our offense doesn't look very good'
Kansas' basketball offense has failed to light up the scoreboard since the official start of practice on Sept. 28.
"I'll be pretty candid," Bill Self, KU's 16th-year head coach said at Wednesday's media day at Allen Fieldhouse, "our offense doesn't look very good."
This is an offense that lost explosive guards Devonté Graham, Svi Mykhailiuk and Malik Newman off last year's Final Four team.
"It looked much better," Self said, "when you surround four shooters around Doke (Udoka Azubuike). Right now we are laboring to figure out the easiest way for us to score. We'll have to score different ways. We do have bodies," Self quickly added. "Foul problems shouldn't be as big an issue as what has been (the case) in recent years. We've been ridiculously thin the last two years, but the players we had playing were really good players. We just didn't have many of 'em up front."
Time will tell, but outside shooting may turn out to be an issue for this team.
"Honestly," Self said, "last year we were a 40 percent three-point team. This year we will not be that. We have guys capable of shooting over 40 percent in situations but I don't think over time, with the exception of maybe Lagerald (Vick). So it'll be different."
Self said while the offense may be lagging, having a plethora of big men in 2018-19 "should allow us to be more aggressive defensively defending the post and protecting the rim."
An abundance of talented players has Self pondering possibly red-shirting a Jayhawk or two.
Guards Devon Dotson, Marcus Garrett, Quentin Grimes, K.J. Lawson, Charlie Moore and Vick and forwards Ochai Agbaji, Azubuike, Dedric Lawson, Mitch Lightfoot, Silvio De Sousa and David McCormack appear to all be quite capable of playing significant minutes if asked.
"I haven't even thought about rotation yet," Self said. "I'm not saying this would happen at all so don't take it (as something that will occur). We don't even know how you play 12. Do you try to potentially just play 10 and potentially red-shirt a couple? Do you try to play 11 and red-shirt one? Do you try to play 12 and red-shirt none?
"I do think our players that are young are good enough if they are playing five minutes a game or seven minutes a game they would be much better off obviously at age 23 than they are at 18, so. …"
Self stressed: "We haven't got that far yet."
Of the lead guard situation, he noted: "You could make a case that Marcus Garrett could be our starting point guard. You could make a case Devon could or Charlie could. We could play ridiculously long or we could play two little guards at the same time. To be honest I don't know. Seven practices or whatever we are in, it's too early to tell."
He conceded having a batch of talented players "is a good problem as long as there is separation by the time the season starts. You need to have some separation so everybody can see … If you are going to sub, even the reserves need to see there's a little separation. (Players could say), 'I may get 10 to 15 (minutes). He may get his 25 to 30.' When everybody thinks they could be playing 20, I think that could create some chemistry issues. I'd like to see some separation."
Self said the team's lone senior, Vick, has shown signs of being a leader.
"He's been a 10, no question about that," Self said. "To me he seems more engaging, definitely more talkative, seems to be happy where he is. We're certainly pleased with him."
One interesting tidbit was revealed at media day. Newcomer Dedric Lawson revealed that his brother, K.J., was engaged to a fellow KU student.
"Congrats to him and his fiancee," Dedric said, not revealing his future sister-in-law's name. "Overall, he's a great human being," he added of K.J.
K.J. responded jokingly: "That ain't their business. But I met her here and she's a great woman. She does everything. We've got a great relationship and I'm just grateful for that."
One player was absent from media day. Self said walk-on Elijah Elliott had an academic responsibility but was definitely on the team.


text:
Ships to see and visit in Bremen
From historical sailing ships in the museum harbour in Vegesack to the historical sailing barge on the Schlachte Embankment, from luxury boats in the marina to pleasure boats at anchor.
Soak up the maritime atmosphere by taking a look at the many ships in Bremen. You can even admire some of them from the inside - while eating pancakes, visiting the theatre, sleeping overnight... Bremen ahoy!


text:
An Air France A380, registration F-HPJA from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Mexico City, had three tyres deflated after safely landing on Mexico City's runway 05R on June 14th 2017, reported The Aviation Herald.
Fight AF179 was cancelled due to lack of spare tyres at MEX and both passengers and flight crew layover time was extended. Flight AF179A departed at 01:29am CDT on June 16th after being on ground for more than 33 hours.
An investigation is ongoing to determine the possible cause of the incident.


text:
Speaking to Colin Murray on BBC 5 Live, Michael Carrick has revealed he once took a secret phone call on Manchester United's team bus prior to a Champions League match.
The midfielder was travelling with his teammates to the Santiago Bernabeu for the Red Devils' last-16 tie against Real Madrid in February 2013.
Sir Alex Ferguson's men drew with Jose Mourinho's side 1-1 on the night, after Cristiano Ronaldo's goal cancelled out Danny Welbeck's header.
But prior to the game, Carrick took a phone call from none other than a friend from back home... who had no idea the game was taking place.
Speaking about his mates, Carrick said: "They're rugby lads, so they kind of watch football, but they don't watch football if you know what I mean. They're not football fans.
"This sums it up - it was 2013, it was about quarter to seven. I was on the team coach and my phone rang, and I couldn't answer it because I was on my way to the game.
"So I've text him [Carrick's friend] back and he's gone: 'Call me. Call me.'
"So, I've quickly rang him on the sly on the bus, and I hate doing that.
"He went: 'How're you doing? What's happening?'
"I'm like: 'What do you want?'
"He went: 'Ah nothing, I'm just seeing what's going on?'
"I said: 'I'm just pulling into the Bernabeu, we've got Real Madrid in the Champions League.'
"He went: 'Oh right, OK, good luck then.'
"He didn't have any clue we were playing.
"Like, they obviously support me 100 per cent, but the fact he didn't really know what was going on was fantastic."
Carrick went on to add that his mates not knowing so much about football is a great escape.
The midfielder will have his United testimonial next month after spending more than ten years with the club.