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Mandeni host Craft Exhibition event
Mandeni Municipality hosted a Craft Exhibition Event at the Sibusisiwe Community Hall on Wednesday, 24 May 2017. The Craft Exhibition event aimed to showcase the unique handmade work created by the talented men and women of Mandeni.
Mandeni Mayor Cllr Sphesihle Zulu said Mandeni is committed to promoting and developing local craftsmen and women who try to make a living using indigenous cultural methods of creating uniquely South African crafts. "The beautiful craft and hand-work you display here today makes us as Mandeni to ponder as to how can we market this craft, to prevent a scenario where a person travels to Durban station to buy craft for traditional ceremonies rather than promoting our crafters in Mandeni, I therefore ensure that as Mandeni we will pledge ourselves to assist you to market your craft work," said Mayor Zulu. Mayor Zulu continued that the Mandeni Municipality is committed to conquering the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. His worship Mayor Zulu further said Mandeni is gearing forward with radical economic transformation that will benefit the people of Mandeni while also making the Municipality a great investment destination for investors. Mayor Zulu also condemned the brutal killing and abuse of women and children in the country.
South Africa's First Lady Bongiwe Ngema Zuma thanked the Mandeni Municipality for having her be a part of the Craft Exhibition event. "I would like to thank you for inviting me in this beautiful event I would like also to thank Mama Nonhlanhla Mbusi of Mathonsi Simunye Community project for great effort they have shown in craftsmanship, and I'm honoured to announce that their work had been exhibited even abroad in countries like Australia and Shangai" said First Lady Ngema.
Mandeni Municipality deputy Mayor, ward Cllrs, ward committee members and the community attended the exhibition.


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Plans to establish a new enterprise zone in Northamptonshire will be among a host of pledges made by Chancellor George Osborne at an event in the East Midlands today.
The Conservative secretary of state is set to outline a 'timetable' for a 'stronger' East Midlands, at an event at around 3pm today, spelling out what a Conservative government could do for the region in the first 100 days of a new Parliament, if the party is elected.
Among the legislation to be outlined today, the Chancellor will announce plans to freeze rail fares for five years and to plough ahead with the construction of high speed rail line HS2.
He is also due to say that Corby would become one of a number of new enterprise zones, which he says would allow the town to attract more central government funding for developments and would see businesses within the established zone faced with lower business rates.
Also among the measures the Chancellor will announce today are commitments to launch a spending review, which he said will commit to investing £5.2 billion in better transport across the Midlands.
As part of the review, he said the Conservatives would upgrade the M1 through the region, he said, and fix junctions on key roads in the East Midlands, including on the A38 at Derby, A52 at Nottingham, and A46 at Coventry,
It would also electrify the Midland Main Line from Bedford to Sheffield and open negotiations with councils across the region, including in Northamptonshire, about creating a "new wave of City Deals".
On a national scale he will announce a new law to prevent people working more than 30 hours on the Minimum Wage paying income tax.


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Not so long ago I made the illustration for the poster of a feminist event in Barcelona.
I just wanted to help a little group of girls to have a good poster to have better impact.
As far as I knew, in an previous edition they were not very successful.
The poster image was uploaded to the social networks and people started to share it everywhere. I like to think that I might have contributed to that in some extent. ;-)
As usual in the videogame industry, (with feminist related things) the event caused a lot of controversy and the poster has gone around all over the internet. xD
Because of this, the event was canceled at first, but finally was held with new sponsors.
I´m very happy with the outcome of the event because the message reached so many people. :-)
A lot of people thinking in the meaning of gender equality.
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To avoid being struck, the cranes and construction trucks had been pushed to deep center field. Concrete slabs ringed the outfield, and dirt and gravel filled the infield. This is what David Wright saw as he stood beside home plate — rather, where it will be — and cocked his bat, ready to face the first unofficial pitch in Citi Field history.
The purpose of this exclusive batting practice session, held on a crisp afternoon early last September, was to give team officials insight into whether the Mets' new ballpark would play fairly. Although he ripped a few balls over the wall, down the left-field line, and although the rookie Nick Evans clobbered one into the second deck in left — no small feat — Wright came away no more convinced than anyone else. Really, no one knows for sure how Citi Field will play, no matter the distances that will soon be noted on those fences.
"I know the gaps look big, and you've really got to step into one to get it to center field," Wright said last week in a telephone interview. "But it was a chilly, windy day, right around 2 o'clock, and who knows what way the wind was blowing? The bottom line is it's impossible to know."
For the most part, the wind has been blowing right in the Mets' faces these days, with all the agitation the team is encountering from its naming rights deal with Citigroup and the Bernard Madoff investment scandal. By contrast, a discussion of Citi Field's dimensions — too large? just right? — is a welcome distraction.
Judging strictly by its dimensions, Citi Field should play just as it looks, which is big. The Mets set out to build a challenging, but fair, replacement for Shea Stadium, a noted pitcher-friendly park, and Citi Field's spacious, asymmetrical dimensions and noticeably high outfield walls seem to support their goal. The left-field foul pole stands a relatively enticing 335 feet from home plate, but the distance to left-center jumps to 379 with a 15-foot wall. A 16-foot wall guards a sliver of straightaway center, which is 408 feet away, and right-center field measures 383 feet before angling in to 330 down the right-field line. The deepest part of the park, a nook in right-center, is 414 feet from home.Continue reading the main story
"We've had clients say that they want a hitters' ballpark with a lot of home runs, if you will," said Mike Sabatini, a senior designer for the stadium's architect, HOK Sport. "And we've had a lot of ballparks go the other way, where they don't want that to happen. They want it to be more playable. In working with the Mets, I know they've thought about this a lot, and they want it to be as neutral as possible."
Striking a balance between a hitters' haven and a pitchers' delight is a difficult task, one made more challenging by wind patterns. Other teams, including Philadelphia and Cincinnati, commissioned wind studies before completing the outfield dimensions of their stadiums.
Jeff Wilpon, the Mets' chief operating officer, said the team elected not to because they felt that there were too many variables — the three-tiered stands in left field, the administration building beyond the concourse in right-center and the right-field overhang, for starters — that could diminish the value of the findings.
Such uncertainty made it unrealistic for General Manager Omar Minaya to try to tailor his team to the ballpark, as reflected by his pursuit this winter of two polar-opposite starting pitchers: Derek Lowe, who had the second-highest ground-ball percentage last season, and the newly re-signed Oliver Pérez, who had the lowest, according to Stats LLC.
Players who have visited Citi Field have already begun conjuring formulas for success. When Carlos Delgado toured the park, he mentioned to Wilpon that he should start hooking the ball down the line. When Francisco Rodríguez and J. J. Putz, the Mets' new closer and setup man, visited in December, they promised to keep the ball up the middle.
"All the pitchers want it to be big, and all the hitters want it to be small — that's just how it is," Wilpon said in an interview last month. "We decided to just build it big, thinking we can always change it later."
Shea Stadium was regarded as one of the more pitcher-friendly parks in the National League, if not all of baseball, and Citi Field technically has shorter dimensions down the lines and in center. But what could make Citi Field even more of a challenge to hitters is the height of its outfield fences. Many of the newer ballparks have at least one high outfield wall — think left field in Houston and right field in San Francisco — but at Citi Field, aside from a stretch between the right-field foul pole and the right-center field gap, every wall will stand at least 11 feet.
"That tells me I better start going down the lines a little more, that's for sure," Wright said.
Shea had a symmetrical outfield, where center field was 410 feet from home plate, the gaps were 378 feet and the left- and right-field lines measured 338. Those generous dimensions, combined with winds that often blew in through an open center field, led ownership after the 2002 season to briefly consider moving in the fences.
Hitters consistently grumbled that the ball did not carry at Shea, and statistics supported their assessments. In every season since 2000, the Mets' pitching staff has posted a lower earned run average and has allowed fewer homers and a lower batting average at Shea than it has on the road.
Meanwhile, Mets hitters have, on average, fared worse at home. Only twice since 2000 did they hit more homers or score more runs at Shea than they did on the road. The "Bill James Handbook," a noted statistical reference, takes it a step further. Using a metric called a park index, which measures how much a stadium affects a particular statistic, it determined that Shea over the last three seasons was one of only two National League parks not to favor hitters in six primary categories: batting average, runs, hits, doubles, triples and homers. (Petco Park in San Diego was the other.)
Still, Wilpon did not want to simply go in the other direction, and turn Citi Field into a New York version of Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park, which has become a home run haven. In fact, aware of how reachable the left-center field stands in Citizens Bank are, Wilpon made sure the same area was no pushover at Citi Field, pushing back the fences and making them higher. In the interview last month, he said the Mets did not acquire Putz and Rodríguez so that a "couple of bloops and a bomb" could cost the team a game.
The dimensions of Citi Field were not locked in from the first day. Data collected by the Mets' statistics department revealed that a disproportionate number of fly balls at Shea from 2003 to 2005 would have been home runs at Citi Field, motivating Wilpon to alter the initial designs. At different stages, he used overlays of other HOK-designed parks to see how they compared with Citi Field.
On a recent afternoon, Wilpon showed those overlays to a visitor and pointed out that, with the exception of the cavernous Coors Field in Denver, none of the newer stadiums are, in total, as big as Citi Field. It is also slightly bigger than the average major league ballpark.
"I want balls that are hit well to go out," Wilpon said. "I didn't want this to be a bandbox. As long as it doesn't play like a bandbox Day 1, we've got plenty of tweaks we can make to make it play fairer."
Regardless of how the ball carries in 2009, the Mets would wait at least one more season before mulling those tweaks. Putting a home run line on the fences (and taking out padding high on the fence so a home run would ricochet differently from a ball in play) would be the first option. Moving the fences closer would be a last resort, one which Wright jokingly said he would have pushed for a bit earlier than scheduled had he not launched a couple over the wall that afternoon in September.
"Now we'll have to see if I can do it when it counts," he said.Continue reading the main story


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Fingers crossed, I'll be bringing this baby home soon. Particularly happy with the sound and the feel of the neck, and that it's a real bang for the buck. A friend of mine knows someone in Tom Lee, so hopefully I can get a good discount on top of that.
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I think this is the only sane solution to this problem. Lets split up the Element interface. I'm not attached to these names, but something like ElementExposed and Element. Element inherits (mixins?) ElementExposed and only the methods on ElementExposed are exposed to the on* lookup chain. ElementExposed would have everything that is currently on the Element API and all new methods would go on Element. You could imagine that over time we could figure out the minimal set of APIs required by web compat to leave on ElementExposed and move everything else to Element. In fact, we should do this for form and document as well. It's a nasty wart to put on the platform, but it's better than being unable to expose APIs with good names or with exposing APIs with good names and breaking existing content. Ojan On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Aryeh Gregor <email@example.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <firstname.lastname@example.com> > wrote: > > You're not misunderstanding, but you're wrong. ^_^ The element > > itself is put in the lookup chain before document. See this testcase: > > > > <!DOCTYPE html> > > <button onclick="alert(namespaceURI)">foo</button> > > > > (namespaceURI was the first property I could think of that's on > > Element but not Document.) > > Awesome. It seems on* is even more pathological than I realized. So > definitely, I don't think we want to avoid adding short names to Node > or Element or Document forever just because of this. If the cost is > making bare name lookup in on* slightly more pathological than it > already is, I don't think that's a big deal. Authors who want to > preserve their sanity should already be prefixing everything with > "window." or "document." or whatever is appropriate. Let's add > .matches() and just make it not triggered as a bare name from on*. > >Received on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 02:59:23 UTC
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- Anonymous9 February 2017 at 06:58
Ah yes, Wally Wood and his penchant for big tits.ReplyDelete
He was the guy who first drew Power Girl!
Know where I can get a cheap copy of the Compleat Sally Forth? And where did you get the strips from?ReplyDelete
This one's from the issue of Witzend it appeared in, Neil. As for The Compleat Sally, I bought mine when it first came out, and haven't scanned it yet, and imagine it's well expensive on ebay. You could've try amazon, I found a cheap second hand copy of Ariel on there.ReplyDelete
I checked both. No luck, Pete, but thanks for the options. Don't ruin your book to scan anything though the thought is kind. Thanks for the info on the Witzend. Much appreciated. I did get the Compleat Cannon by Woody years ago at a bookstore so am glad to at least have that.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11 February 2017 at 13:15
So... does this mean you're still mulling over whether the interwebs are ready for an adults only version of the blog then, Pete?ReplyDelete
You are the devil are my shoulder, Sean! I am leaning towards BAOB Adults Only, especially now I'm twittering, but I will need to get a backlog together like I have on this one, so be a little while I think.ReplyDelete
Could anyone draw sexier women than Wally Wood? All the blood is rushing away from my head.ReplyDelete


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A fourth New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to helping other officers cover up the circumstances of the shooting of six civilians on the Danziger Bridge after Hurricane Katrina.
Robert Barrios, 29, admitted to participating in discussions with other officers to "get their stories straight," as well as providing false statements to homicide detectives who helped with the investigation.
One of the facts Barrios lied about was firing his weapon. The officer now says he did not fire a shotgun he was carrying that morning, but lied -- saying he shot at civilians -- because he was concerned about the other officers getting in trouble for the shooting.
Barrios, who resigned from the New Orleans Police Department after he was charged earlier this month, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon to conspiring to obstruct justice, a crime that carries a five-year maximum sentence. He was the second police officer involved in the shooting to plead guilty.
Two other officers who were involved only in the investigation of the shootings have admitted to participating in a massive whitewash to conceal the fact that officers shot at unarmed civilians, killing two men and injuring four others.
Attorneys for other officers involved in the shooting have maintained that the officers acted properly.
Although he was assigned to the 5th District before the storm, Barrios reported to work after Katrina at the 7th District's temporary refuge at the Crystal Palace catering hall. He was one of the officers who jumped into the back of a large Budget rental truck when they received a report of police taking fire on the Interstate 10 high-rise, which parallels the Danziger Bridge.
When the truck arrived at the bridge, officers shot at people walking on Chef Menteur Highway toward Gentilly. James Brissette, 17, died, while four other people were wounded. Another man, Ronald Madison, 40, ran across the bridge with his brother, Lance Madison. Ronald Madison was shot and killed on the Gentilly side of the bridge. Lance Madison was arrested that day for allegedly shooting at police, but federal prosecutors assert in court documents that he was framed.
The truck was driven by former officer Michael Hunter, who pleaded guilty earlier this month to participating in a cover-up. In his plea, Hunter described seeing one of his supervisors shoot wounded people on the ground with an assault rifle, even though other officers had stopped firing their weapons and were not taking fire. Hunter also said another officer shot Madison in the back as he fled, even though he never turned around or threatened officers in any way.
Barrios' plea deal does not contain the same sort of explosive assertions, although he does concur with Hunter's assessment that there were no weapons near the wounded people on the east side of the bridge.
In court documents, he also describes one officer -- called Officer C -- climbing out of the back of the truck and "immediately begin firing an AK-47 assault rifle" at a pedestrian walkway, behind which the civilians hid.
The description of Officer C as carrying an AK-47 rifle matches the NOPD investigative report's description of officer Anthony Villavaso, who had been Barrios' partner before the shooting.
Villavaso was one of two officers who carried an AK-47 rifle to the bridge, according to the NOPD. The other was a sergeant. An attorney for Villavaso did not return a call for comment.
As part of his guilty plea, Barrios admitted he lied about seeing civilians with guns when he gave a statement to NOPD investigators, as well as lying about hearing other officers shout "Police!" before firing their weapons.
Barrios was the second person to plead guilty in the Danziger Bridge case on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, a civilian, Marion David Ryder, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ginger Berrigan to lying to the FBI and being a felon illegally in possession of a firearm.
Ryder, 45, of Opelousas, pretended to be a St. Landry Parish sheriff deputy during the aftermath of the storm. On the morning of the Danziger Bridge incident, he was escorting rescue workers on the I-10 high-rise as they drove to eastern New Orleans. He seems to have been with or near the group of NOPD officers who made the distress call saying police were being fired upon.
Ryder played a key role in the original NOPD narrative of what happened on the bridge. He is described as identifying Ronald Madison and his brother, Lance Madison, as shooters who fired at police on the I-10. He was described in the NOPD's internal investigation as a sheriff's deputy, although prosecutors assert in court documents that detectives knew soon after the storm that Ryder was a fake.
The Opelousas man, who had a felony theft conviction in Texas from the early 1990s, admitted he lied to an FBI agent about the incident when interviewed on Sept. 26 last year. At the time, Ryder said a person running away from I-10 whom he had chased through a trailer park had shot at him.
In his guilty plea, Ryder maintains that he heard what sounded like bullets hitting the underside of the highway bridge and then spotted at least two people running toward the Danziger Bridge. He ran down an on-ramp to chase them, but never got close. The men never fired a weapon in his direction, he said in court documents.
After the incident was over, Ryder was taken to what prosecutors describe as a "makeshift NOPD police station," where he lied and identified a man in handcuffs -- Lance Madison -- as somebody who had shot at him.
Although the NOPD's report states that Ryder identified Lance Madison, the only man arrested at the bridge, as a shooter, he supposedly did so on the Gentilly side of the bridge. But Ryder says he never went there.
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Our Mission Statement:
The Red Rock Outdoors Club provides an environment for students and members of the community to learn about and appreciate Southern Utah by participating in outdoor activities: hiking in the desert, condor viewing trips, outdoor photographic instruction and more.
Our overall goal is to provide and develop a community for DSU students and St. George residents alike to share their enthusiasm for the region by being involved in outdoors events. Participants will enjoy the unique landscape, without harming it, and learn to preserve it for current and future generations.
Because all events have an academic component, we have established a bibliography and a review section of works about the region for all those who enjoy learning about Utah and the Southwest.
Next Club Event: Geo-Cashing with Sasha Depew
With this spring semester also arrives a fresh chance for all students to get involved with community concerns as well as other students by participating in the Red Rock Outdoor Book Club!
Our focus will be particularly on Western texts and will aid the student in understanding the Western beginnings leading up to present day. Get involved in understanding the home you live in as well as interact with other like-minded individuals eager to learn. Activities will be planned to get out into nature as well as to meet and discuss books. See also "EVENTS."


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The day after Governor Jodi Rell delivered her budget address to the legislature and the state, the reviews began drifting in.
Quasi-socialist mayor of New Haven John DeStefano thought, "It was very powerful. It touched a lot of the right bases."
Other Democrats said the plan was under funded by some $3 billion. Majority Leader Martin Looney of New Haven said, "It's another partial deficit-mitigation plan, rather than a comprehensive budget, and John Geragosian of New Britain said, "It punts to the legislature the politically hard work. It is a partial effort, but it is not a serious effort."
Don Williams, President Pro Tem of the senate, sniffed at the plan and cautioned that it may not meet the fairness test. "As we go forward in the coming days and hours and hold the budget up to the light, it's got to pass the fairness test"said Williams, a canned response. Among Democrats, "fairness" is unrelated to equity; it is simply a command barked at the dogs to bite the leg of a millionaire.
Republicans were in an ebullient mood. Republican Party Chairman Chris Healy gushed, ""I'm thrilled with this, to be honest. I can sell this. I can defend this any day. And there is no tax increase across the board, which is also a home run."
Even fiscally conservative Republicans who previously had locked horns with Rell on matters of principle and strategy dusted off their compliments. House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero of Norwalk said, "She is a regular, down-to-earth person. That's always been her strength." And Senate Minority Leader John McKinney of Fairfield managed to squeeze in a reference to President Barack Obama, now playing FDR in the Washington beltway.
Not an ideologue, Rell's aversion to tax increases, McKinney said was based on economics -- not politics: "I don't think that is a Republican idea any longer. President Obama stands before the nation and says, 'We should not be raising taxes at this time.' So it doesn't make sense that it's good for President Obama and not good for Gov. Rell."
There were some rumblings on the conservative-libertarian Right as well. Lew Andrews, the Executive Director of the Yankee Institute, thought Rell had missed a golden opportunity to readjust the political playing field and make significant reforms adopted in other states that "could produce dramatic savings -- paying high school students to graduate early, identifying waste in Medicaid, using work-release programs to produce prison reform -- which she completely neglects. Instead, she [intends] to spend millions on a Connecticut version of Roosevelt's discredited WPA make-work program. This is a plan that puts already comfortable public employees ahead of distressed taxpayers."
Recognizing rightly that every state mandate is a tax on municipalities, municipal officers were pleased that Rell's plan eliminated some costly mandates, a quick and sure way to provide relief to over stressed town governments.
Cost saving measures within the executive department outlined in the governor's plan include a more than cosmetic remake of departments.
All in all, not bad for a governor who does not have hanging about her the ivy that caresses the walls of Yale or Harvard. It will take the Brights some time to put the plan under a microscope and explode it.
And there is an unanswered question: In the past, under the direction of the governor's chief aide Lisa Moody, Rell has been content to use her proposals as bargaining chips in huddles behind closed doors with Democrat leaders, and she had emerged from these claustrophobic mini-conferences with the gold fillings missing from her teeth.
It is not enough to propose measures; the governor must be willing to publicly campaign for her program. Abigail Adams, who once called Thomas Jefferson on the carpet for allowing others to defame her husband, would understand. The way ahead is full of battles, and there are some who believe Rell hasn't the stomach to press her budget on the legislature by using her bully pulpit to rally support for her ideas.


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Satan's Plan
The Satan saw our heilige Yid, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, doing mysim toivim, good deeds, and resolved to overwhelm the Besht. There are many angels, the Satan called upon some to assist, saying "Shlekht molakhim, evil angels, will guard the way to Shomayim." The Satan intended that every prayer, no matter when, no matter where, no matter who, would rise only so far before it fell back. These prayers would never reach schaaray Shomayim, Heaven's gates, and the Satan intended that no tefilos at all would come before kisay shel Rachamim, the Throne of Mercy.
"Many days will come and go, no prayers will reach the Throne," the Satan said. "I will meet with Hashem Yisboirekh and say that the Yidn have deserted, that not even the sainted Rebbe Israel has stayed faithful, and that the Toira should depart from the Yidn forever."
The dark angels were stationed, no highway or byway was unguarded, silent and invisible they were as they waited, and before the very Gates of heaven? A great army assembled and allowed no prayer entry.
The prayers flew upward, as Yiddishe prayers do, and the Satan's agents halted them, leapt upon them, choked them, flung them into toihu und voihu, emptiness and chaos. The groans and wails of these bruised prayers filled all of space. The oilum was heavy with the weight of these orphaned prayers, except on erev Shabbes, when the tefilos of the Yidn burst forth like water escaping a blocked hose. Satan's army of evil, encamped at the Gates of heaven, stopped them, for not even Satan's foul minyons were numerous enough to stop their ascent.
Time passed, no tefilos reached the Throne, and Satan said to Hashem Yisboirekh "Take Toirah from the Yidn."
"After Yoim Kipper," God replied, but the Satan was impatient.
"Send out the command now," he said, "but give them until the Day of Atonement," and Hashem agreed.
How did Hashem's will become manifest? The bishop Dembowski, yemach shmoi, his name be erased, proclaimed to his priests "Seize every book in Hebrew, take their Torah scrolls, and burn them," and this is how he intended his Jews to observe Yoim Kipper. In our year it was 5518, in his 1757. All his priests did as asked but in Komenets and Lviv they were especially zealous.
And our heilige Yid? The Besht knew the Satan's work when he saw it, he did not know how to overcome this evil, and every day the Yidn suffered more and more: the holy scrolls were wrenched from their arms as they carried them from the aron koidish. The Yidn cried, bereaved mothers whose babes were snatched from their breasts, and vowed "On Yoim Kipper we will burn with our Toirah!"
Deprived of sleep, deprived of food, the Besht sent the strongest prayers he had to Heaven, tefilos so might and majestic that only the Satan could stop them. A storm raged in our heilige Yid's heart.
The Besht entered the shul with the saintly rabbi, Yakoiv Yoisef of Polnoye, by his side. No one present could miss the struggle etched into the Besht's face. "We are saved," they said.
"Koil Nidro", the Besht sang, and his strong voice belied his weak heart. Sorrow and fear accompanied all who listened. Yakoiv Yoisef called each verse of the Ahl Chét aloud, the Besht responded aloud to each call, for this was the custom, but not this time, for the Besht did not reply when Yakoiv Yoisef called "Open the Gates of Heaven!"
The shteibl's silence sounded like the death groan of a dying people. Yakoiv Yoisef repeatedly called "Open the Gates of Heaven," the Besht said nothing, and then the silent fever broke: silent no more, the Baal Shem Toiv fell forward to lay prone upon the floor, screaming like nothing human ever heard, and it seemed like all day passed as we shared our silence and watched. Slowly he raised himself from the floor, his face full of sorrow and grief now a face of radiant wonder.
"The Gates of Heaven," he said, "are open." And that's how we concluded Koil Nidro.
What he had done as he lay prone on the floor took time to circulate. Perhaps it is still not known, perhaps it will never be known, but this is the story we heard.
The grandest of Heaven's Gates guards the road that leads directly to the kisay shel Malchus, the very seat of Hashem. Our heilige Yid lay down to go up, and as he approached the Mikdosh Melech, the Palace of the Monarch, he saw the hundreds of thousands of prayers panting their life away just outside the grounds.
"Heaven is waiting," the Baal Shem Toiv called to them, "why do you linger?" Satan's minyons fled, and the tefilos now had a way to enter but were too weak to move.
"Heaven awaits us," the Besht called, and he pushed the prayers forward.
Satan's army remained at the Gate, though, and the Satan personally came forth to lock the Gate. The Besht saw the lock was solid, that the Throne was inaccessible, and he sought another way in.
There dwells in Heaven an avatar for each of us on Earth, it was to this place in Heaven that the Besht journeyed while he lay prone on the floor of our shul, and it was his own avatar that he sought. "I seek your advice," he asked. "How do I bring our blocked prayers forward?"
"Perhaps the moshiach knows," our heilige Yid in Heaven answered, and so they went to where the moshiach awaits the time Heaven calls him to descend.
"Be laibadik," moshiach told our Besht. "Be of loving heart. Use this token."
Our Besht took the token, went back to the locked Gate, the lock fell apart, and the tefilos were a flame that consumed the Satan's army.
At that moment, in Komenets, the bishop Dembowski, yemach shmoi, stood by the fire kindled to consume our sifré koidish, the siddurs, the machzors, the Talmud, the Toirah itself. He began by burning the Talmud, volume after volume he hurled into the fire, but suddenly he stopped. A seizure of some sort overtook him, he fell, no one else was brave enough to stoke the flame, which died down and went out.
Good news travels fast, and the less zealous priests, perhaps fearing that this curse would befall them also, left our holy books alone. Thus it was that in 1757 our holy books were saved. It was the Yoim Kipper of 5518.
Blessing Authors Creation
בָּרוּךְ שְׁמוֹ. בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יהוה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶֽלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם הָאֵל אָב הָרַחֲמָן הַמְהֻלָּל בְּפֶה עַמּוֹ מְשֻׁבָּח וּמְפֹאָר בִּלְשׁוֹן חֲסִידָיו וַעֲבָדָיו וּבְשִׁירֵי דָוִד עַבְדֶּךָ
…Blessing authored creation. A blessing: You Are G!d. Our G!d. My G!d. Universal Monarch. The G!d. Source of mercy, your people speak praise, your pious servants use glorious language and the songs of Your Servant David. (Morning Meditations)
The Hebrew pi'yut (hymn) barukh sh'amar begins with a series of phrases which poetically use barukh "bless" to establish precisely how each day is created. The py'tan (liturgical poet) ends these assertions with the phrase barukh shmo, literally "His Name: Blessing". The poetic theme relates directly to the opening words of Torah bréshit bara elo'him "it began when G!d Created", thus "Blessing authored creation", and the Siddur immediately continues with the formal blessing which begins each day. In doing so, however, the Siddur leads us to understand that human language continues the work of creation. The Hebrew
וּמְפֹאָר בִּלְשׁוֹן חֲסִידָיו וַעֲבָדָיו
um'fo'ar bil'shon hasid'ahv v'ahv'adahv
can be understood to mean "glory from upon my tongue, piety is kindness (hesed) and service". King David's songs in Tehilim (Psalms) begin mizmor shir , and each of the six songs deal with kindness as a specific devotion and service. Blessing creates loving interpersonal relationships based on devotion and service. Creation continues on account of this, not in spite of it.
Forgiveness is compassion
סְלַח לָֽנוּ, אָבִֽינוּ, כִּי חָטָֽאנוּ, מְחַל לָֽנוּ, מַלְכֵּֽנוּ, כִּי פָשָֽׁעְנוּ, כִּי אֵל טוֹב וְסַלָּח אָֽתָּה. בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ, חַנּוּן הַמַּרְבֶּה לִסְלֹֽחַ
Pardon us, dear G!d: we transgress. Forgive us, our Monarch: with intent we offend. But You Forgive and we benefit. A blessing: You Are G!d. Forgivess is an act of Your Compassion. (Amida)
Every bracha (benediction) begins with the same three Hebrew words:
barukh atah yhvh
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְיָ
Rabbi Jacob Emden (1697-1776) demonstrated that barukh is a noun rather than the past tense of a verb; "blessing" is correct. The common translation of "blessed are You" is absurd: G!d Blesses me, and surely I am not to bless G!d. When barukh is a noun I am lead to know that You Are G!d, for even (or especially) among the pious it is common to enter prayer as ish daht (mindful) rather than ish torah (soulful). Every bracha is less a cognitive experience than a spiritual one, and this blessing especially.
Return vs Settle
וְאָשוּב אֵלֶיךָ בִּתְשוּבָה שְלֵמָה
I will return to You completely. (Rabénu Bachya's personal prayer)
Rabénu Bachya's poetry doubles the use of the verb shuv — שוּב — which expresses the idea of both "return" and "settle" (shav). The Hebrew word t'shuva — תּשוּבה — is correctly interpreted as "repent", but more precisely it means "return to a settled state". Rabénu Bachya was medieval Jewry's foremost ethicist. His ethical insight requires complete return; returning to G!d is one thing, returning completely another. How does one return completely? By returning also to people we affect: in the Image of G!d were they created…
וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ, בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא אֹתוֹ: זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה, בָּרָא אֹתָם
Gratitude & Confession
אוֹדֶה לאֵל לֵבַב חוֹקֵר בְּדָן יַחַד כּוֹכְבֵי בֹקֵר — מבּוֹא לסידוּר קוֹל המקוֹם
Gratitude to G!d, Who Searches (and Judges) the heart once the stars rise each morning.
The Hebrew word oe'deh — אוֹדֶה — poetically connotes thankfulness, from the verb le'hit'va'deh — לְהִתְוַדֶה — "to confess" or "to give thanks"; the verb le'hit'ahd'ut — לְהִתְאַדוֹת — is quite similar, it means "to vaporize", and I marvel at how Hebrew teaches me.
Telling someone I am grateful requires me to subdue — to "vaporize" — my ego. A confession? Do I not vaporize a resentment, perhaps, or any pesha or chet? I think I do.
Jacob or Israel?
יז וַיַּעֲמִידֶ֤הָ לְיַֽעֲקֹב֙ לְחֹ֔ק ׀׀ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּרִ֥ית עוֹלָֽם: — דברי הימים א: טז, יז
It stands for Ya'aqov as law | For Israel it is an eternal covenant.
The version of Divré Ha'Yamim (Chronicles) on the Mechon-Mamre website — http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt25a16.htm — presents this section of Chronicles as liturgical poetry written in parallel columns. Jacob and Israel are the same person. Yet for Ya'aqov "it" stands as law while for Israel "it" is an eternal covenant? What does this mean?
The call —
וַיַּעֲמִידֶ֤הָ לְיַֽעֲקֹב֙ לְחֹ֔ק
It stands for Ya'aqov as law
The response —
לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּרִ֥ית עוֹלָֽם
For Israel it is an eternal covenant
Jewish tradition assigns Chronicles to Ketuvim "scripture" rather than to Navi'im "the prophets". Were Chronicles sought for historical perspective it would be assigned to the library of prophetic books, for historical perspective is the special province of the prophetic books. Chronicles is a liturgy of Israel, as indeed are all of the books listed in the library of 11 scriptural books:
|Poetic (3)
|Tehilim, Mishlé — משלי — and I'yov — איוֹב
|Lectional (5)
|Shir Ha'Shirim — שִיר הַשִירִים ; Rut — רוּת ; É'kha — איכה ; Qohelet — קהלת; and Estér — אסתר
|Theological (3)
|Dani'él — דניאל; Ezra — עזרא; and Divré Ha'Yamim — דברי הימים
Finding the right words
אוֹדֶה לאֵל לֵבַב חוֹקֵר בְּרָן יַחַד כּוֹכְבֵי בֹקֵר
I thank G!d, the Searcher of all hearts and praise G!d together with the stars of the dawn.
This remarkable prayer is collected by Rabbi Abraham Twersky in his book Living Each Day. The Rav cites it as "introduction to morning service", but I have never seen such an introduction. The prayer is not found in my Nusakh Sfard siddurim, but there are many versions of Nusakh Sfard.
Something fascinating happened to me because of this prayer: I read it incorrectly. In copying and interpreting the prayer I transcribed b'dahn — בְּדָן — rather than b'rahn — בְּרָן — and I was thus interpreting the wrong word, something I was completely unaware of until I showed Living Each Day to my wife, who told me I had read it incorrectly.
I thought Rav Twersky interpreted "praise" for b'dahn and I was forced into an investigation of Hebrew such that I have rarely encountered before: neither my grammars nor my lexicons or dictionaries list "praise" as an interpretation of b'dahn; the interpretation "praise" is, however, sensible for b'rahn. Interpreting the wrong word forced me to learn better Hebrew!
The Hebrew ahv'dahn — אבדן — means "loss". Praise requires a loss of ego, and thus the interpretation of praise is cogent ivrit ruchanit "spiritual Hebrew". I stand on the shoulders of giants: Rav Hutner, ahlahv ha'shalom, was once asked why modeh — מוֹדה — meant both "grateful" and "confess". He replied "gratitude is a confession that I couldn't do it without you".
Rav Hutner's logic applies perfectly in this context. Why does b'dahn mean both "in judgement" and "praise"? Because praise is a judgement that I couldn't do it without you.
I'm grateful to Rav Twersky for improving my ivrit ruchanit. I could not have done it without him.
Reminding G!d
עֲשֵׂה עִמָּנוּ צְדָקָה וָחֶֽסֶד וְהוֹשִׁיעֵֽנוּ — תפילות יומיות, נוּסח ספרד
As for us? Rescue us! Act charitably and kindly. (Daily Siddur, Nusakh Sfard)
Astounding. Do we actually need to remind G!d to be charitable and kind? Ridiculous! It is easier, however, to remind G!d than to remind ourselves. Perhaps we will remind ourselves because we remind G!d.
A dove in the wilderness
יוֹנָתִ֞י בְּחַגְוֵ֣י הַסֶּ֗לַע בְּסֵ֨תֶר֙ הַמַּדְרֵגָ֔ה הַרְאִ֨ינִי֙ אֶת־מַרְאַ֔יִךְ הַשְׁמִיעִ֖ינִי אֶת־קוֹלֵ֑ךְ כִּי־קוֹלֵ֥ךְ עָרֵ֖ב וּמַרְאֵ֥יךְ נָאוֶֽה: — שיר השירים ב, יד
My dove? A circle within the boulder, a secret within the step, my vision from the mirror, what I hear of your voice — your voice? A wilderness, when dawn is a multitude and the mirror is desire.
The Hebrew for dove — יוֹן — within Shir Ha'Shirim refers to G!d, not to love. In its natural habitat everywhere on the known Earth, the dove is a simile for Ha'Shem. The Hebrew ah'rév — ערב — literally means "wilderness", but here I decode it as when dawn (ער) is a multitude (רב): it is always dawn somewhere on Earth. Mystics understand cirlce within the stone to refer to Moshe, whom G!d Placed in the cleft of a rock when passing by —
וְהָיָה בַּעֲבֹר כְּבֹדִי, וְשַׂמְתִּיךָ בְּנִקְרַת הַצּוּר; וְשַׂכֹּתִי כַפִּי עָלֶיךָ, עַד-עָבְרִי
And as My Glory passes I Will place you within a gouge of
the rock. It will be as if My Hand covers you until I Pass by.
Every step is a mystery, for one does not know what's around the corner, though ma'dréga — מדרגה — refers less to footsteps — צעדים — than it does to advancing along a stairwell — חדר מדרגות — e.g., it defines moving up a level rather than moving across the same level. One can walk down a stairwell, of course, but I do not understand there to be any such thing as a "lower madréga".
Crime or Sin?
כ וּבָ֤א לְצִיּוֹן֙ גּוֹאֵ֔ל וּלְשָׁבֵ֥י פֶ֖שַׁע בְּיַֽעֲקֹ֑ב נְאֻ֖ם יְהֹוָֽה: — ישעיה נט, כ
To Tzion comes a redeemer. Repent from crime, Jacob, is G!d's Word. (Isaiah 59:20)
Jacob is a poetic description of Israel's kingdom, and our prophetic storyteller is unhappy with Jacob. Isaiah has said that a redeemer will emerge, not that the redeemer will. This makes a pun: a redeemer (go'él) will emerge — or profanity will pollute (go'ahl).
It is not clear, whether in standard interpretation or mine, to whom a redeemer will come. Most interpretations suggest "to those in Jacob who turn from transgression", to paraphrase (and modernise) the old Jewish Publication Society translation. I'm less definite: "Repent from crime, Jacob". It's not clear to me that Jacob will be redeemed: perhaps it is those affected by Jacob's go'ahl.
What is clear to me, though, is that the choice is Jacob's only until such time as it is G!d's.


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(Required Image 3). (Required Image 4). I added colors to my radar screen and buttons as well.
(1) & (2): My image actually draw two of my scenes from last week. The one in the middle was my extension space; the side ones are my space 2 scene. In order to include them in my encompassing scene, I simply had to calculate what scale needs to be to fit inside the cockpit windows.
I used the range()function with three arguments as well to draw the radar screen. Although it did not come out exactly as I intended, it portrays expanding circles.
Image Added. This basically draws 5 circles; the first circle starts with radius of 24 and increases by 3.
(3) & (4): In order to demonstrate several levels of encapsulation, I decided to draw a TV screen which would surround the scene of Apollo 13 cockpit. One difficulty I faced was to have different colors for my scenes. The solution was to fill my scenes separately; in order words, don't change turtle's background color.
My encapsulation scene looks like below.
Image Added. The scene is supposedly showing a TV screen, which is also showing what astronauts in Apollo 13's cockpit are seeing through the windows.
Although I am not sure what was expected in regard to making complex scene without using complex code, I interpreted it as create another file, which imports several libraries of my function. Here is what I did.
Image Added. Basically, I used one command line, task5.complexScene(), to draw my encapsulation scene. Read my import line and the libraries.
I learned to use the sys library to allow users to have some inputs in computer programs. The fill and color parameters also made my shapes and scenes to be drawn with more flexibility. One thing to mention is conditional 'if __name__=="__main__":.
I realized this condition is very useful when I import a library to another and repeat this process more than once. Regarding the user-controlled feature, I wanted to incorporate it more into my shapes but found it difficult. I think one should think ahead of user input when drawing shapes or creating computer program in general.
For this project, I imported turtle, math, random, sys, and my own libraries that contain my shapes and scenes. I did not use someone else's code for this project.


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CAGP 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting (Nov 14-15, 2007)
This year's meeting was slightly different from previously as it consisted of a two-day conference. The 1st day was in French and the 2nd in English when the first day was more general while the second day tackled subjects more specific to geriatric psychiatrists. Both days were very well attended and it appears by now that the second day (November 15, 2007) broke the attendance record of previous years. The ASM was appreciated and the post-annual meeting was very well attended by the membership. All in all, it was a very interesting and worthwhile meeting for all involved. Montreal's shopping was also prominent in everybody's mind especially with the mild weather that we were enjoying in November. Thank God, the meeting did not occur 2 to 3 weeks later!
PLEASE NOTE: The CAGP cannot provide patients with the names of physicians providing care to patients. The Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons in most Canadian provinces and territories maintain a website for patients to find a physician by specialty. A list of these governing bodies is available on the Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada's website.


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Jenny here again with another insight into another Indian safari, although this time it is on land for those who are queasy on boats. I'll start off with the Kanha National Park, Madhya Pradesh with good reason. It was here that inspired "The Jungle Book" that many of us grew up with and countless others have seen the movie in one incarnation or another. Tales of Mowgli and Baloo have given many hours of delights, and now you can see where the idea came from.
The best times to visit here for a glimpse of panthers and tigers is from March to May time yet the overall season is October to sometime in June. The park now covers almost 1000 square kilometers and is split into two regions which are Banjar and Hallon. If you are into tigers (Bengal) this is one place you can see these majestic beasts roaming around along with over 300 species of birdlife.
Along with the Tigers, there is an abundant supply of other animals you can glimpse such as leopards, wild dogs, foxes, wild cats, jackals, wild boars and one of the rarest species of deer the Barasingha. As well as our four-legged friends there is also many reptiles slithering about that include cobras and pythons among others.
If there is anything wrong with the Kanha National park, it is it is quite commercial, and there are loads of stores where you can buy souvenirs, yet this shows the number of tourists the place gets over the course of the year.
If that one is a little too touristy, you could also check out Manas National park which is now a "Natural World Heritage Site" which is an elephant reserve, tiger reserve, and a Biosphere Reserve. It shows they are doing a lot to preserve nature at its best rather than out o just make a quick buck here and there.
Manas is also well-known for its breathtaking scenery as well as its wildlife. So for all the landscape photographers, there are plenty of forested hills, tropical evergreen forests and grasslands to catch your attention.
As preservation is high up on the parks list, they currently have the highest number of endangered species in India which is listed in the IUCN red book. This might give a better chance of spotting some rarer species than are in other parks while you are out watching the rhinos and tigers at the watering hole as you wade around the park sat on top of an elephant.
While making your elephant trip from Mathanguri to Manas, you can pass the local tea pickers and see where your morning cuppa comes from.
There are plenty more parks around India, yet these are two of the best in my eyes. This sums up the India side of things for a while, andI'll think what to serve up for you next time.
Now it's time for a cup of tea, and you will know where it came from.
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The investigation, Competitive Assessment of the U.S. Large Civil Aircraft Aerostructures Industry (Inv. No. 332-414), was requested by the House Committee on Ways and Means (Committee) in a letter received March 13, 2000. It follows two previous ITC studies on the LCA industry: Global Competitiveness of U.S. Advanced -Technology Manufacturing Industries: Large Civil Aircraft (published August 1993) and The Changing Structure of the Global Large Civil Aircraft Industry and Market: Implications for the Competitiveness of the U.S. Industry (published November 1998).
As requested by the Committee, the ITC will examine the civil aerostructures industry (e.g. fuselage, wings, and landing gear) in its capacity as a major supplier to the LCA industry. The study will not include nonstructural components such as avionics and engines. The report will discuss the composition of the industry and recent trends, the process of new aerostructures development, the means and trends in government supports and other financial assistance, and the relative strengths and weaknesses of the aerostructures industries in the United States, Europe, Canada, and to the extent possible, Asia. The report will focus on the ability of the U.S. civil aerostructures industry and certain of its suppliers to compete over the short and long terms with those industries in Europe, Canada, and to the extent possible, Asia.
The ITC expects to submit its report to the Committee by June 13, 2001. The report is expected to be made available to the public thereafter.
The ITC seeks input for its report from all interested parties. A public hearing will be held on December 6, 2000, in connection with the investigation. Requests to appear at the hearing should be filed no later than 5:15 p.m. on November 22, 2000, with the Secretary, U.S. International Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20436.
The ITC also welcomes written submissions for the record. Written submissions (one original and 14 copies) should be addressed to the Secretary at the above address and submitted at the earliest practical date and no later than 5:15 p.m. on December 20, 2000. All written submissions, except for confidential business information, will be available for public inspection.
Further information on the scope of the investigation and appropriate submissions is available in the ITC's notice of investigation, dated April 17, 2000, which may be obtained from the ITC Internet site (www.usitc.gov) or by contacting the Office of the Secretary at the above address or at 202-205-1806.


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3 or so, yeah.will1b wrote:To say I haven't been here in a while would be an understatement - I pretty much turned my back on you lot for the last 3 months or so.
Welcome back!But I'm back.
I don't really think this clan requires all that much responsibility?I have trouble keeping up a lot of responsiblities (Eg. Clans, School, YouTube, RL friends etc.) because I'm useless at time management and distributing time equally.


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Taking the intimidation out of retirement saving
Everything you can learn about retirement saving has got to be useful. These considerations will hopefully help and contribute to your situation.
Saving for retirement is a scary prospect. In fact, just 14 percent feel confident they will have enough money to live on when they retire, according to the 2012 Retirement Confidence Survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. And 60 percent say they have less than $25,000 saved for retirement, the survey reveals.
Retirement planning and saving doesn't have to be frightening or fruitless. Knowledge is power, and when it comes to preparing financially for retirement, the more you know, the more likely you are to succeed – and feel secure about your future in your golden years.
"…just 14 percent feel confident they will have enough money to live on when they retire…"
How much is enough?
Uncertainty over how much they need to save is a big concern among workers. Thirty-four percent of Americans have no retirement savings at all, according to a poll by Harris Interactive. How much you need to save now in order to have a good life when you retire depends on many factors, including your current income and age, the age at which you plan to retire and the expenses you anticipate you'll face during retirement.
Fortunately, retirement calculators can help you get a better picture of how much you need to save. You'll find plenty of calculators and information about saving for retirement from resources like freecreditscore.com. The calculators can give you an idea of how much income you'll need from investments to live on during retirement, and how much of your current income you need to save between now and retirement.
Crunching credit numbers
Another important consideration is how you will interact with credit when you retire. It's important to manage credit wisely during retirement, just as it is throughout your adult life.
Studies show that many Americans don't regularly monitor their credit, which can be a costly mistake. In fact, 65 percent of Americans have not ordered a copy of their credit report within the past year, and 31 percent don't know their credit score, according to the National Foundation for Credit Counselling's Financial Literacy Survey.
Your credit report and score are important during retirement for a number of reasons. First, your score directly affects the cost of many important financial needs, such as auto insurance and interest rates. Also, while you should strive to minimize debt during retirement, it may not be practical – or even desirable – to completely eliminate credit use in your golden years. Finally, not keeping an eye on your credit report and score may mean you fail to quickly catch instances of fraud or identity theft. Senior citizens are often a favourite target for identity thieves and scammers.
Understanding your credit – leading up to retirement and during – should be a key part of your retirement planning. Websites like freecreditscore.com can help by offering enrolled members monthly statements, credit reports, credit score alerts, identity protection alerts and fraud resolution support.
Understanding your Social Security benefits
Too often, people planning for retirement either rely too much on Social Security or overlook it altogether. Neither route is best. It makes sense to incorporate Social Security as part of your overall retirement saving plan, as long as you understand what to expect from the program.
The Social Security Administration provides every taxpayer with statements about how much they can expect to receive when they retire. Your SSA statement is now available online. Simply log on to www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount for an estimate of the amount of Social Security benefits you could receive upon retiring. Knowing how much you can expect from Social Security can help you plan your retirement savings strategies.
Saving for retirement doesn't have to be intimidating. It's never too late – or too early – to take control of your retirement savings goals. – (BPT)
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The Comfort Of Zombies
Call me a sick twist if you will, but there's just something comforting about zombies. Maybe it's because they're so damn disposable. Or maybe it's because it's October, but I'm craving those crazy canibals as much as they would crave me in a dark alley with some bacon salt and a gimp. This is how bad I've got it. I even don't mind The Walking Dead promos on AMC even tho I've seen them for the MILLIONTH TIME. I dreamt about zombies last night and I woke up happy. This is bad. But really, it's good. When times get dark, it's those cold zombies that keep me warm.


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A Naturalist might ask a theist, or Christian to be specific, for proof of the existence of God. One might point to the bible, and then the naturalist will say that is rubbish, it is full of magic tricks called 'miracles'. These are impossible, he/she might say, because of Hume's argument against them: it is far more likely that a witness to such an event is either lying or mistaken, than the laws of the universe have been altered.
But imagine this: You ask for proof of divinity and Jesus rises from the dead and says that death no longer has a hold on humanity if you believe in Him. So you say that is rubbish, because clearly people don't rise from the dead. Let's say we go a step further and a miracle of one kind or another happens and you see the reports of it on the news. You then say that that too is rubbish and the whole lot of people must have been drunk, high, or stupid to believe anything they are reporting to have seen (or even better, it was some magician trying to make a name for himself by making a building disappear in NYC…damn those magicians…good special effects these days…). Then, let us say that a miracle happens right before your eyes. What do you say then? "O well, I must have had something bad to eat last night, I'm hallucinating, tired, delirious, insane, dreaming, mistaken, etc etc. You will never, ever, come to the proper conclusion, the truth of the matter, because you exclude miracles from the start. Even if one actually occurred right before your eyes, God proving His divinity and power over natural laws (not that a miracle must be that way), you would still not recognize it for what it is.
In conclusion, when a naturalist claims that they just can't believe what was written thousands of years ago about miracles, and they sure would like to see some in the present day, preferably right before their very eyes, this very instant so that they may believe, they are mistaken or lying, because they still would not believe.


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Name of Recipe (English): The Beans & Tuna Salad
Name of Recipe (Slovenian): Fazulovy salat s tuniakom
Continent: Slovakia
Why kids would love Slovakia: The real inspiration for Dacula lived in Cachtice castle in Slovakia – and SHE was a woman!
Why is this recipe special to Parents? Simplest recipe in the world with healthiest consequences.
Why Big Chefs Care: Tuna have more red muscle than other fish in order to fuel their eternal swim (like some sharks, tuna literally do not stop swimming). To burn the oxygen required by these hefty piscine muscles, tuna have myoglobin, a type of protein, in their muscles. Myoglobin actually forms the pigments that gives raw "red" meat its color, and is also responsible for making red meat that has been frozen turn brown.
Beans are a super food, fiber ALL STAR + stabilizes blood sugar, high in folate, magnesium, potassium, calcium, protein and plethora of vitamins.
Why Little Chefs Care: Tuna doesn't taste like other fish while remaining very healthy.
- Tuna (1 Can and for better taste in Sunflower oil)
- Beans (1 Can) (The personal favorite of this chef are Kidney Beans!)
Instructions (Here Big Chef will judge when and how can little chef participate)
This recipe is really easy, in my opinion as long supervised all little chefs can take part in cooking most of this recipe. Of course this is finally a decision made by all Big Chefs. The first step is to open both cans and mix the ingredients together in a bowl.
Remember tha it has to be a microwave approve bowl since the next step is to microwave the ingredients.
Take out of the microwave and now you are ready to serve! Enjoy! In total preparation time does not take more than mere minutes, of which 2 minutes are microwaving!
Local wording for invitation to eat: Dobru chut!


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Today I'm looking back on a great weekend spent in the company of good friends.
I kicked the whole shebang off Friday evening by treating my man to a three course dinner. It was a retro inspired dinner with courses we knew from our childhood. Highly appreciated, I can say.
Saturday evening hubby cooked for me! A two course dinner. That's ok folks, I still love him. He's a great cook, so everything (both two courses I mean) was delicious. Starting to look like ¨Dinner takes all¨ at our place! Really a lot of fun, and perhaps something we could make tradition!
Earlier that Saturday we attended a birthday party, celebrating sweet Mr. P turning ONE! Baby S highly enjoyed herself, and was especially content with the delicious cake! Yumm! Mommy had a good time too, catching up with her friends. Seemed like ages since we talked, but I guess it was only a few weeks. Time goes by slower in the winter I tell you. Can't wait for spring!
The weekend also included a late lunch/early dinner with good friends at our favourite restaurant, Cafe 57 (http://www.cafe57.hu/). The two families, both with kids the same age, made good use of our iPads, entertaining the little ones with Pippi Longstocking and Dora. Hey - don't judge us! If we let them watch a movie once in a while, what's the harm in that?
How did you spend your weekend?
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I am a follower. Thanks for a chance to win some beautiful fabric.
I think we may sneak in one more giveaway before Christmas. I will be back next week to show you the progress of my art quilt. For now, here are some stockings I hand dyed with Kool Aid. They are made out of Pellon batting. As soon as they post the tutorial on their website, I will let you know.


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In part 1 we learnt about the tiles. We learnt how they are organised, what they mean, and even some history.
Now it's time to learn to play.
Before we start, just a reminder that we are not talking about the traditional game of Mahjong that is usually played by four players, which is more complex and arguably a much deeper game.
We are talking about the Single Player Solitaire game, played with Mahjong tiles.
Essentially, Mahjong Solitaire is a tile elimination game. The aim is to get rid of all the tiles on the board. It's actually a very simple game.
Tiles are eliminated in pairs. For a tile to be eliminated, it must:
(i) be playable,
(ii) match another playable tile.
Let's look at each of these.
Tiles Must Be Playable
For a tile to be playable, it must:
– have no tile covering it,
– have a free (unobstructed) long edge.
No Covering Tile
For a tile to be playable, no other tile can covering any part of it. Let's have an example.
In the screenshot above, there is only one tile (the highlighted 1 Character) that is uncovered. Every other tile you can see is fully or partially covered. (Did you recognise that playable tile? Don't worry if you didn't – it's just practice)
One thing to be aware of: because tiles are stacked on top of each other, we can't put the "camera" exactly above the tiles. To show depth — important to see how high the tiles are stacked — the game's camera is offset on a slight angle. This can make tiles look like they are obstructed but they are not:
In the above picture, the yellow-highlighted tiles are all uncovered, even if some of them may look partially covered. If you looked from directly above, you would see that none of the highlighted tiles has any other tile covering any part of it.
Note: some of the highlighted tiles are still not playable, because they are 'blocked in', as described in the next rule.
The tile must have a long edge unobstructed
Each tile is rectangular. This means it has a long edge and a short edge. In case you've never seen a rectangle before, here's what I mean:
At least one of those long edges must be completely free, and not touching any other tile.
So, if a tile has another tile on both the left and the right, it is not playable. Again, an example:
Matching Tiles
Well, this part is easy. Let's start with the exceptions:
Seasons and Flowers
– Seasons can match any other season. There is one of each season in the set.
– Flowers can match any other flower. There is one of each flower in the set.
If, like me, you sometimes have trouble telling the flowers from the seasons (with some tile sets this is harder than others), the color of the number and characters is usually a big clue. You can review part 1 for an example.
Everything Else
All other tiles: suit tiles, dragon tiles, and wind tiles, can only match identical tiles. There are four of each in the set.
Variation: Four Rivers
Another variation of Mahjong Solitaire is called Four Rivers. It has different rules about when tiles can be matched. I'm not going to confuse things by describing it here – that's a future article. For now, just know that it exists.
Summing up
In part 2 we have covered the rules of how tiles are eliminated.
In part 3 (the final part), I'll talk about some strategy, some features in Dogmelon's Mahjong Solitaire, and finally I'll make some personal observations on playing Mahjong Solitaire.


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Corinth is located in Saratoga County of New York, USA. It's a small town with mainly white population and few Native Americans and Hispanics as well.
The key local businesses of this place are trucking, website designing, telephone services, education, road side services, real estate, pet care services and cleaning and accounting and home building services.


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Meaning name Athamus
Names › A › At › Ath › Athamus
Athala - Old German name meaning "noble."
Meaning name Athamus
Athanasia - Feminine form of Greek Athanasios, meaning "immortal."
Athenais - French name derived from Latin Athena, meaning "of Athena."
Athene - Greek myth name of the goddess of wisdom. Plato fancifully derived her name from a-theo-noa, meaning "mind of God," but the true meaning is unknown. Her Roman name is Minerva ("intellect").
Athirat - Ugaritic name meaning "she who treads on the sea." In Semitic mythology, this is the name of a mother goddess.
Athol - Scottish surname transferred to unisex forename use, derived from the name of a district of Perthshire, Scotland, composed of the Gaelic elements ath "ford" and al "rock, stone," hence "ford of the rock; rock-ford."
Athamas - Greek name meaning "rich harvest." In mythology, this is the name of the father of Phrixus.
Athanas - Short form of Greek Athanasios, meaning "immortal."
Athanase - French form of Greek Athanasios, meaning "immortal."
Athanasios - Greek name composed of the elements a "not" and thanatos "death," hence "immortal."


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About Trafficking
Human trafficking is a term used to define both labor and sexual exploitation. There are an infinite number of stories and ways this issue presents itself today – from humans being trafficked internationally or into the United States, to victims who are born here, and are exploited through sex, labor or domestic servitude. My work focuses primarily on the sexual exploitation of minors and adults who were born in the US.
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The RVing Minstrel
A roaming minstrel at heart, I love to travel and owning an RV allows me to experience all the glory that is the United States. There are always places and events I want to discover and experience and RVing allows me to do what I love most, travel and make music.
I purchased my first (new) Travel Trailer in 2009 from Demontrond RV. A 29′ foot Forest River Surveyor which taught me that owning a NEW travel trailer (as opposed to used) did not assure I had a working, trouble free unit.
Having to file the "LEMON LAW" with Forest River before proper repairs were made assured that I had the worst "first time RV owner" experience and the selling dealership Demontrond RV did nothing to assist in rectifying (pun intended) the problems with my first travel trailer.
My second Travel Trailer was a VERY SMALL 21′ travel trailer and while it was quite a step up from the Forest River (in quality and build) it was very cramped for 2 people as we soon learned when my partner and I were rained in at Chasuatta Gambling Casino for 3 days and had to stay in the 21′ Edge TOGETHER FOR 3 DAYS.
It is amazing that someone wasn't killed (Cindy).
My third RV was a 28′ 5th wheel and the mounting problems with this unit were very reminiscent of the Forest River experience. Exterior walls had delaminated, roof membrane is disintegrated, air conditioners rattling, slid-outs scrapping etc.etc.. the list went on and on.
Anyone buying a new RV should document, document, video record and take way too many pictures. Save emails, receipts, and anything else having to do with your new RV, travel trailer or 5th wheel. Hopefully, you won't need them but, they are very important to have if you do need them.
I love to video record my travels and RV'ing experiences as well as live performances when I entertain at the local RV Rallys, Nursing homes, art festivals or just making music and relaxing in my RV. F
Follow me, the RVingMinstrel, as I travel the countryside making music as I go.


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Candied Cranberry Cheesecake
Additional Information
Step 1
Make crust. Prepare cheesecake crust following recipe instructions. Bake and cool. Set aside.
Step 2
Make cheesecake batter. Prepare Creamy White Cheesecake batter following recipe instructions. Remove 2½ cups batter. Using Juniper icing color, tint removed batter light green.
Place white and green batters, separately, into two glass measuring cups with spout.
Step 3
Bake cheesecake. Pour small amount white batter into center of crust-lined pan. Pour small amount green batter into center of white batter, allowing batter to travel to edges of pan without stirring. Continue pouring batter into center of previous pour, alternating colors, until all the batter is used (decrease amount of batter each time). Bake at 300ºF for 2 hours 15 minutes to 2 hours 30 minutes, or until center of cheesecake jiggles only slightly and cool.
Step 4
Make sugared cranberries. To make sugared cranberries, combine 1 cup granulated sugar and ½ cup water in small saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Pour warm syrup over cranberries and chill 1½ hours, or up to 12 hours. Drain cranberries.
In small bowl, combine remaining ¼ cup sugar with sprinkles. Working with about ¼ cup cranberries at a time, roll cranberries in sugar and spread out on parchment paper to dry.
Helpful Hint: If sugar becomes clumpy, add additional granulated sugar.
Step 5
Decorate cheesecake. Top cheesecake with sugared cranberries. Garnish with fresh herbs (rosemary, sage and thyme), if desired.
Juniper Green Gel Food Coloring Icing Color
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1/4 cup White Sparkling Sugar, 8 oz. (optional)
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1-1/4 cups granulated sugar (divided, optional)
12 oz. fresh cranberries (optional)