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A yearlong program to increase yields of wheat, corn and soybeans in China's less-fertile regions will rely on science and technology to invigorate agricultural production and benefit 70 million farmers, according to an official from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The program, dubbed Second Granary, is expected to reap an additional 9 billion kilograms of grain by increasing the output of medium- and low-yielding farmland, said Duan Ziyuan, deputy director of the academy's Bureau of Science & Technology for Development, at a seminar in Hefei, Anhui province, on Tuesday [15 December 2015]…Full Article ECNS.cn Dec 2015
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- Launched in 2014, China's "Second Granary" program is designed to boost crop yields in China's Huang-Huai-Hai Plain. One of the program's research funds will allocate CNY 36 million (US$5.6 million) to boost productivity on 4.7 million ha of farmland in the provinces of Shandong, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu.
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- The Huang-Huai-Hai Plain is a large alluvial flood plain named after the Northern Chinese rivers of Huang He (Yellow River) and Huai (flows through Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu), and Hai (flows through Beijing, Tianjin).
- In December 2014, China's south-to-north water diversion project began operation (middle route) and was expected to roughly triple Henan's wheat output from 150-200 kg per mu to 400-500 kg per mu (2.25-3 metric tons per hectare to 6-7.5 MTs per ha). The middle route of the water diversion project begins at the Danjiangkou Reservoir. Stretching across the Chinese Provinces of Henan and Hubei, the Danjiangkou Reservoir has a 1.7 million cubic meter capacity (9.5 billion cubic meters pumped through each year) and is tasked to supply water to Beijing and Tianjin. A total of 345,000 people were displaced to make room for the reservoir, which was the second largest relocation due to a water conservancy project (Three Gorges Dam being the first).


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OPW defends car-park proposals for Phoenix Park
planned, designated parking areas could improve congestion when huge events like Bloom are held in the park, the summary said.
Which veg plants need a lot of watering and which ones can withstand a bit of a drought?
It's difficult to come up with a definitive list, but here are some guidelines, writes Michael Kelly.
Here are our 6 favourite gardens at Bloom
From a dementia-friendly garden to an ABBA-inspired installation, there's a vast array of themes and designs in the gardens this year.
'Once we start singing, the words come back': Nora Owen on caring for her husband with dementia
The former minister for justice was speaking at the Moments in Time show garden, which will be on display at the Bloom festival in Dublin's Phoenix Park this week.
Award-winning fairy garden donated to children's ward at Portiuncula Hospital
The garden received a certificate of distinction in the postcard section at Bloom this year.
Gardaí say prickly hedges can help prevent burglaries
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Flowers, vegetables and windmills… Here's our top picks from this year's festival.
Journeys with TheJournal.ie: Waterford project for underprivileged teens proves Blooming brilliant
The first winner of 100 free Irish Rail trips is a group of talented teens whose sensory garden design is headed for the capital.
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Ancient Egyptian Stories Will Be Published in English for the First Time
While people may view inscriptions in Greek or Latin as pretty, they still recognize their merit as text. Indeed, writings from ancient Greece and Rome are revered and considered classics of Western literature. Egyptian hieroglyphics, however, are often seen as mere decoration. Sometimes, the characters are literally used as wallpaper.
Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson, a fellow of Clare College at Cambridge University, tells Dalya Alberge at The Guardian that the ancient Egyptian writing is just as compelling and layered as those written by the Romans. "What will surprise people are the insights behind the well-known facade of ancient Egypt, behind the image that everyone has of the pharaohs, Tutankhamun's mask and the pyramids," Wilkinson says.
The selections include stories like "The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor," the text from the Tempest Stela and letters written around 1930 BC by a farmer named Heqanakht.
By the second century A.D., hieroglyphic script had been mainly replaced by Coptic, a Greek-based alphabet, according to Owen Jarus at LiveScience. But hieroglyphics were on the wain since Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 B.C., and Greek became the empire's bureaucratic script. Humanity soon lost the ability to read hieroglyphics. That is until 1799 when French soldiers discovered the Rosetta Stone, which contained lines of the same text in Greek, Demotic and hieroglyphics. It was the first solid clue to understanding the writing, but it still took French scholar Jean-François Champollion to unravel the language in the 1820s. To do so, he had to understand that hieroglyphics is a complex collection of symbols that represent a mixture of objects, ideas and sounds.
Before this new volume, the Egyptian Book of the Dead has been the most widely available text from ancient Egypt. While that collection is interesting and includes spells that give instructions to the dead on how to make it to the afterlife, it's not easy reading. Unlike Greek myths or Roman epics, it does not offer non-academic readers much insight into daily Egyptian life or thought.
Wilkinson hopes his new volume will make the Egyptians accessible to modern readers for the first time. While many of the texts included have been translated previously, Wilkinson points out that the original translations took place over a hundred years ago, which make them stilted and difficult to read for today's audience. He hopes that these new translations can convey the complexity, subtlety and poetry found in hieroglyphics.


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2020 a Collaborative Post – Melissa Wantz (T.O.S.A.) & JP (SUPT.)
The year 2020 is certainly an interesting numeric configuration. If you subtract 1776 from 2020 you get the 244 years of the existence of the United States of America. If you think of the last time a year's numbers lined up like 2020 (repeating) that would be 1919, which was 101 years ago. Twenty twenty in Roman numerals looks like MMXX, which is cool. The Mayan system counts with 20s, and 2020 looks pretty elegant in this culture, too. Mayan numbers read vertically, and so the shell at the bottom is 0. The dot in the middle is 20, and the line at the top
is 5 (400s) or 2,000.
|Twenty is ten twins. The Mayans had twin gods Hunahpu and Xbalanque, who as kids were challenged to play a game of pok-ta-pok after angering the rulers of the land of the dead. Pok-ta-pok is like a mix of basketball and soccer, played by shooting the ball, literally, from the hip into a small hoop. The twins won the game and were welcomed back home as heroes. They later became rulers of the Earth after one was turned into the Moon and the other the Sun. Our sun has an outer shell called a corona that is 2 million degrees. In literature shells are typically perceived as feminine symbols representing birth, good fortune, resurrection. A conch shell in William Golding's 1954 novel "Lord of the Flies" governs the boys' meetings. Whoever holds it holds the right to speak. Freedom of speech has infinite value.
The year two thousand twenty seems like an opportunity to stop and think about numbers. Numbers lead us in many directions conceptually, and one attractive focal point is time. We measure time by counting numbers of events, some related to physical phenomena and others more arbitrary. I like to talk with children about their age, their birthdays, and how many orbits around the sun (years) they have traveled. To my mind, this helps ground them in realities they may not have considered. Thinking about numbers can provide context, and context can help us know the world or the self.
|One can be an interesting number. One Euro is what you can buy a house for in the Italian village of Gangi in Sicily. Or 1.12 dollars. Gangi has a population of 189 people and a bunch of empty homes from the 1800s. The emptiness is sad for the citizens because it represents a progression of sons and daughters going somewhere else. The village sits on a hill and looks from a distance like a turtle shell. The Maya associated turtles with water and the earth, and also with thunder and drumming. The father of the Hero Twins, the Maize God, is sometimes shown emerging from a turtle shell or holding one as a drum. Another Mayan deity, Pauahtun, wears a turtle shell on his head as he supports the world all by himself, like the Roman god Atlas.
As inhabitants in the 21st century, we are clearly immersed via our screens in a sea of information that challenges us to wade through its depth and complexity in order to understand a simple sense of what's going on in the present. For many, the ever-growing, exponentially increasing current of information and our access to it renders the "knowing and connecting to the past or future" even more troublesome. If we can't see in the London fog-like sea of present information, how are we to know where we have been or are going. Numbers, I say, numbers are a useful tool for this wading.
|Birds that wade include herons, cranes and snipes. Snipes are real, but a snipe hunt is a practical joke started in the 1800s. It is a quest in the dark for a squirrel-like bird that doesn't exist. The Byrds were a Los Angeles band, not a joke, and their 1965 hit "Turn! Turn! Turn!" gave comfort to people during a complex time by explaining the seasons of life in a simple way. Joni Mitchell was nine years old at the time of the London Smog of 1952, four poisonous days in December when people died and birds smacked into buildings due to air that was 66 times more toxic than normal. Some 18 years later she sang "I have come here to lose the smog and I feel to be a cog in something turning," but she was talking about Woodstock, New York, not London. She also said we are stardust.
When I think of 2020 and the 244 years of the USA, I think of dividing the difference (244) of the minuend (2020) and the subtrahend (1776) by a conservative 20th century average American life-span, say 70 years. In dividing 224 by this 70-year life span, we get 3.2. This makes me think that just 3 life spans and some change takes us from today's America to the moment of its inception in 1776. It seems so long ago, 1776, so distant, and yet just three life spans stacked upon themselves reaches back to the days of our Founding Fathers — yes fathers — in just three life spans somehow the singularity of "Fathers" seems repugnant in our enlightening to gender issues in 2020 America.
|Split 3.2 in half, and you find a pair of 1.6 twins, which is pretty close to the Golden Ratio (1.618033), related to the Fibonacci Sequence, a pattern where each number is the sum of the two before. Seen in flower petals, pine cones, tree branches, conch shells, DNA double helixes and spiral galaxies, the Golden Ratio is not, however, found in black holes, which are examples of singularity. In mathematics, singularity is the point where a function takes an infinite value, especially in space-time, where matter is infinitely dense, as at the center of a black hole. It is at this point that math ceases to be "well-behaved" (a person entering a black hole would undergo unequal stretching or spaghettification, a term coined by the late physicist Stephen Hawking). Not well-behaved was Virginia Woolf, a 20th century English writer who places characters in situations where they feel, interiorly, time-space boundaries stretch and collapse. Rhoda in Woolf's 1931 novel "The Waves" stands at the edge of a cliff in Spain one day to watch the ocean and feels that she is being dissolved by the passage of time. "Beneath us lie the lights of the herring fleet. The cliffs vanish. Rippling small, rippling grey, innumerable waves spread beneath us. I touch nothing. I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my ears."
Still, in my numerical and arithmetical wonderings, I chose to sidestep the more multi-step mathematical calculations that might drag both me and you into the potentially confusing and perplexing world of statistics. I could have easily researched the average lifespans of the various centuries and averaged those numbers. And I could have considered the average age that people have had children. If I used that calculation, say between 20 and 40, I could have infused my musings with these calculations to more accurately depict the idea of generations of a single family reaching back to the birth of our nation. With these numbers, I might have talked about how many grandmothers, how many great grandmothers it takes to reach back to that national birthday. I didn't use those numbers and calculations though, because I was trying to make a simple point: that 1776 really isn't that long ago—just three 70-year old people in a row gets us there.
|Oliver Jeffers paints and writes children's books. He also investigates the intersection of art and science in a series of paintings called "Measuring Land and Sea." In these, he places statistics across beautiful landscapes — waves, prairies, mountain ranges — trying to dissolve an impasse between feeling and reasoning. However, this doesn't work, he admits: "Rather than increase our understanding of the work, this combination makes things less clear by providing superfluous distraction…" In pok-ta-pok, no doubt, any distraction at all may result in defeat.
Yes, 2020 is calling out to us in all its morphemic and phonemic splendor. It beckons us to ponder numbers and their impact on our lives. And 2020 is there for at least 365 and ¼ days, till we discard it for another fascinating series of values, 2021… ah, a progression.
|"The Progression" is a 2010 poem about absurd numbers and putting up houses for absurd money. It was written by Omar Pérez, a Cuban poet who earned an English degree in Havana and studied Italian in Tuscany. Pérez believes poetry is a natural function, like drumming rain and the twin spirals of DNA. "The fact that we can give notice of it does not mean that we make it." Pérez found out at age 25 that he is one of three sons of the late revolutionary Che Guevarra, but this news did not distract him from his purpose. He told PBS: "When I was 25 years old, I was already a human being….I didn't want to become anything different. I was…what I wanted to be, a poet."
20/20 vision is rare after a certain age.
In honor of 2020, poetry, math, and creative collaboration, I offer this poem for 2020;
Twenty twenty
A repeating year
Numerical meaning
With struggle
Comes clear
The non – numeric
Left to the heart
The mind
The pen
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At Serenity Wellness Chiropractic Center & Massage, we take great pride in providing the most up to date quality chiropractic wellness care to our patients.
Below is an overview of the chiropractic services offered at Serenity Wellness Chiropractic Center & Massage in Sparta and Norton Shores, MI.
Spinal Adjustment
A gentle, low force adjustment is given to achieve a neutral position of the spine. This conservative adjustment is safe for all ages from newly born to great grandparents. The adjustment is designed to decrease irritation on the nervous system and increase range of motion resulting in optimal function of your entire nervous system. Patients have reported less pain, tingling, numbness, headaches, migraines, asthma, inflammation, and ultimately better quality of life. Dr. Leyder has been practicing since 2011 and is well known for her thorough, quality care which produces results.
The extremities, such as the hand, wrist, ankle, and knee are used on a daily basis. Due to active lifestyles, tough jobs, and high impact sports, many people have pain throughout their extremities. By adjusting the bones of the extremities, we are able to reduce muscle tension, improve tendinitis, decrease foot pain, increase range of motion, and improve function. Most people significantly benefit from having their extremities examined and adjusted because of regular use and abuse of the knees, wrists, elbows, hands, and feet. The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) can also be gently adjusted to relieve pain, tightness, or clicking of the jaw. Dr. Leyder has taken additional training in extremity adjusting which allows for very specific, effective care for you and your loved ones.
Many neurological problems occur from, or result in, extreme muscle tension or spasm, which pulls the bone out of alignment. Electro-stimulation is used in many health care facilities to painlessly fatigue the muscles through rapid stimulation. This forces the muscle to relax and allows you to receive adjustments with lower force and to hold your adjustment over a longer period of time.
Our traction table offers a service that adds flexibility to the joints of your spine. The discs between each vertebral segment do not have their own blood or nutrient supply. These necessary components for healing are only introduced into the disc during movement. This table incrementally moves each vertebral segment to increase nutrients and blood supply while increasing your range of motion and flexibility. The increased motion releases endorphins which naturally decrease the sensation of pain and allows the doctor to use less force during your adjustment. This is incredibly beneficial for patients with pain, tingling, or numbness going down their arms or legs as well as patients with chronic pain in the neck or low back.
Spinal Decompression
Non-surgical spinal decompression is achieved through the use of our mechanical decompression table using an on-board computer that controls the force and angle or disc distraction. The decompression is a very conservative, yet effective treatment for disc herniation and chronic low back or neck pain. The disc naturally dries our as you age, which puts you at increased risk for damage to the disc and joint. The decompression table increases nutrient flow to the disc, which assists in the healing process and reduces pressure on the nerves.
Low-Level Laser (Cold Laser)
The Cold Laser produces impressive results with patients typically experiencing almost immediate relief of muscle tension and discomfort. The Cold Laser is used to promote healing at the cellular level. The treatment is very comfortable for the patient and does not cause the patient to feel heat or cold. A typical treatment is about 8-16 minutes depending on the area being treated and almost all areas of the body can be treated including feet, ankles, knees, hips, low back, mid back, shoulders, neck, elbows, and wrists.
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At Serenity Wellness Chiropractic Center & Massage Spidertech Tape or Rock Tape are used for all taping purposes. According to Spidertech, the tape can support strained muscles, enhance muscle activation, improve performance, improve feedback and timing of muscles, prevent further injury, protect during healing, and improve circulation and lymphatic flow. The tape was designed for athletes and has been seen recently at the Olympic Games on some of the top athletes in the world. Application of kinesio tape is very quick but is designed to last up to 5 days. Taping can be performed on almost all areas of the body including feet, ankles, calves, knees, thighs, hips, low back, mid back, shoulders, elbows, wrists, and neck.


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Produced in collaboration with David Sherlock and Fredrik Miller, we are proud to present the Trance MIDI Essentials Bundle.
The Trance MIDI Essentials Bundle contains volumes 1 and 2 of the highly popular Trance MIDI Essentials series. Both volumes contain a diverse selection of carefully crafted construction kits as well as synthesizer presets. Accompanying FL Studio project files are also included, making this bundle the ultimate creative and inspirational tool for trance producers.
Every construction kit in this bundle has been written and performed with the genuine intention of being "release-worthy." You won't find any low quality "filler" content in this bundle. Instead, you'll find over 420 inspirational and usable MIDI construction kits that are sure to be used frequently in your studio.
Both David and Fredrik are passionate about creating great music, and want to deliver the highest quality trance MIDI packs on the market. With brilliantly composed melodies and intricate accompanying elements, this comprehensive bundle has an unparalleled aura of quality.
About the Creators
David is well known for his work with Freshly Squeezed Samples and his previous artist project Driftmoon, where he had signed releases on Armada Music, Enhanced Recordings, Blue Soho, and Always Alive Recordings. Furthermore, his previous MIDI packs (both freeware and commercial) have resulted in over 400 signed releases on every major label, being used by beginner and experienced artists alike.
On the other end of the spectrum, Fredrik is a full time seasoned jazz musician with a highly melodic and inspirational approach to music. He has produced music for TV, radio, and advertisement purposes. With all his work starting out on the piano, Fredrik's natural approach to composing and arranging melodies shines through in this product.
What's Included?
Among the 420+ MIDI construction kits you'll find MIDI files for pads, chord leads, arpeggios, plucks, basses, sub melodies, and much more.
Length-wise, the majority of the construction kits in the Trance MIDI Essentials bundle are 16 bars long, with a few being 32 bars. We've made sure to include variations and tweaks in the longer progressions to keep the composition interesting. Many other MIDI packs fall short in this area, and come packed with short, repetitive melodies and chord progressions that lack quality in terms of composition.
Additionally, you'll find FL Studio chopper files in this pack that can be easily used with the included MIDI files. Chopper files (or "slice" patterns) transform your otherwise static chord progressions (long sustained notes) into rhythmically pleasing sequences. We've added every popular trance rhythm including chord/progressive leads, buzz basses, rolling, and sub basses.
The chopper tool within FL Studio 11 allows you to quickly audition different rhythmic patterns in real-time via the file browser, allowing you to quickly and easily find the right groove for your track and generate thousands of different variations of a single construction kit or chord progression.
For non-FL Studio users we have included every chopper score as a standard MIDI file so you can study and utilize the rhythmic sequences in the DAW of your choice.
This pack is incredibly comprehensive, which is why we've organized it into a neat folder structure that includes BPM and key information as well as the supplementary MP3 demonstration files and FL Studio project files. It's quick and easy to navigate so that you can get to work instantly after finding a kit that inspires you.
Volume 1
The first volume in the pack features euphoric arpeggiated sequences, dreamy piano melodies, and much more. Both packs are trance-orientated, but Volume 1 leans slightly towards the lighter, more melodic side of uplifting trance.
The 210+ construction kits in Volume 1 are inspired and influenced by artists such as:
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Volume 2
Volume 2 leans towards the harder, faster style of trance. In this volume you'll hear more "classical" melodies in addition to darker elements. Combined with Volume 1, this bundle provides you with an endless amount of ideas and inspiration.
The 215+ construction kits in Volume 2 are inspired and influenced by artists such as:
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Record Label Influences
Always Alive, Enhanced Recordings, Armada Recordings, A State Of Trance, Amon Vision, Perceptive Recordings, Alter Ego Records, Anjunabeats, Anjunadeep, Deep Blue Recordings, Lost Language, Infrasonic Recordings, Fraction Recordings, Flashover Recordings, Monster Tunes, AVA Recordings and many others.
Construction Kit Properties
- 100% royalty free.
- 420+ Trance MIDI Construction Kits.
- Presets are included with each construction kit.
- FL Studio Project File included with each kit.
- All MIDI files and folders are correctly named and categorized.
- Each kit is correctly key and BPM labeled.
- In short, the way a collection of MIDI construction kits should be!
Product Explanation
This product contains MIDI construction kits and associated corresponding presets for each melodic element. These MIDI files can be used in a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) of your choice and are compatible with both Windows and Mac.
Additionally, each construction kit contains the FL Studio 11 project file used to produce the kit along with an MP3 demonstration of the final kit.
The presets are for Native Instruments Massive, LennarDigital Sylenth1 and U-He Zebra.
Other common terms for this type of product are: Construction Kits, Trance Samples, Drum Samples, Drum Loops, Trance MIDI Files, Trance Construction Kits and Trance Drums.
Technical Specification
- Format(s): MID, FXP, H2P, NMSV, MP3
- Type: MIDI Construction Kits
- Product Series: MIDI Essentials (Bundle)
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New 2019 Recycling Rules for South Park!
Recycling Update: You may be doing it wrong!
The old rule — when in doubt, recycle it – no longer applies. The only recyclable items in the City of Dayton and Montgomery County are limited to:
- Plastic bottles and jugs
- Aluminum, tin and steel cans
- Glass bottles and jars
- Cardboard and paper bags
- Magazines, newspapers and office paper
Please Keep It Clean. Rinse all items. Contaminated materials can't be reprocessed.
Do Not Recycle:
- Take-out food containers (clamshells, pizza boxes, Chinese takeout boxes, deli containers, etc.)
- Plastic grocery bags or baggies (if they are clean, take them to Kroger)
- Plastics butter or yogurt tubs, product packaging, plastic wrap, plastic drinking cups
- Styrofoam (UPS stores take clean Styrofoam peanuts)
Why the New Rules?
Global change has affected the recycling market. Until recently, China took 40 percent of America's gently used paper, metals and plastic. Now, it accepts hardly any of it which has disrupted recycling programs throughout the U.S.
So where will all the previously recycled stuff go? Into our landfill, which doesn't look good. Montgomery County predicts our landfill will be full in less than six years. Proper recycling has become even more urgent, since it will save space in the landfill, conserve resources, save energy and save water.
Find Out More. Your recycling gets picked up every two weeks. It adds nothing extra to your waste collection bill. Visit https://www.daytonohio.gov/399/Waste-Recycling-Schedules or call Public Works Call Center at 937-333-4800 for more information.
South Park Awarded $1600 Montgomery County Grant for Recycling Program
Two new blue bins are waiting for discarded water bottles, pop bottles and beer cans at the Gazebo (Park + Wayne) and Blommel Park (Park + Cross). And two weathered old park benches in the 200 block of Park Drive Boulevard have been refreshed with shiny new slats made of recycled material. All thanks to a 2019 Recycling Incentive Grant from Montgomery County. The blue bins will be emptied by the City every two weeks.
Clean streets, alleys and green spaces are the foundation of our anti-crime efforts! And recycling helps reverse the negative impact of waste.


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'Churches are intercultural communities with a clear mission'
The General Assembly of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance focused on how the Gospel has power to build united, diverse and relational churches.
Cultural diversity is one of the main strenghts of evangelical churches. Every week, people gather to celebrate their common faith in Christ, no matter what their national background is.
The Spanish Evangelical Alliance General Assembly (16-18 February) revolved around how Christian churches become communities based on relationships, frequently seen in society as a model of coexistence and intercultural work.
More than one hundred people attended the annual "Idea 2018", held this year in Palma de Mallorca.
The biggest Balearic Island is well-known as a destination for beach holidays, but tourists are not the only foreigners in the island. Many others land in Mallorca from the rest of Spain and from other countries looking for a job.
A roundtable in the 'Mar i Terra' theatre opened the conversation about the "challenges for intercultural coexistence" on Friday. This and all the other events of the weekend were co-organised with the regional Evangelical Council of the Balearic Islands.
Anna Moilanen, the Ombudswoman of the city of Palma de Mallorca, spoke about her work trying to persuade politicians to respond to the needs of a city that was visited by 16 million people only in 2017. "Our reality changes continually, like it or not. We need to decide if we want to be active agents of social transformation, or just passive agents".
Beyond tourism, one only sees the "tip of the iceberg" of other realities, such as the situation of homeless people, prostituted women and lonely elderly people. "We all have a responsibility", Moilanen said, and that is why political authorities should "build partnerships with churches, NGOs, universities, businesses, social platforms".
Joseph Adebola, a Nigerian entrepreneur who has been living in Mallorca for two decades now, explained his story to illustrate how an evangelical church can help foreigners. Trained as an accountant, he only found work as a collector of vegetables when he first arrived to the island as a migrant. Only years later, he could study to become a driving school teacher. He now has his own business to help other African migrants to pass their driving license exams.
"For God nothing is impossible", Adebola said as he explained how he was wholeheartily welcomed by a Spanish couple in his first visit to an evangelical church in Palma. "I realised how there are no differences among people in the body of Christ. I was alone, without my family, but they adopted me".
Adebola's wife could come to Spain later and they now have two children, both born in Mallorca. "There are obstacles, but we can overcome them. With sacrifice and a good attitude, we can be integrated in society. With God, nothing is impossible!"
Sociologist and member of the regional Education and Citizenship task force, Carles Vecina, spoke about "the need of listening". It is in the "face to face where the problems are better understood, and the potential for change is seen".
To address the issues in the areas of Mallorca with greatest needs, every project needs to be developed "with the people". He mentioned the good experiencies he has had with evangelical churches, "a space where we usually find people ready to do something for the neighbourhood".
The roundtable came to an end with Marcos Zapata, President of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance. He summarised the main ideas found in the Bible about how foreigners should be treated. "The biblical ethics,not only calls us to be tolerant, but to understand that the foreigner is a brother. When we help a foreigner, we are doing this to Jesus himself".
Zapata is the pastor of a church in Lugo (north-west Spain) with members of more than 25 nationalities. "The arrival of so many migrants helped us to change our strategies. We went from a multiculture approach to an intercultural model: to relate and to mingle".
Evangelical churches "help people to integrate and make them feel part of a community, and this has an unpayable value", he said. "Every culture has good and bad aspects, but the Gospel can redeem it".
On Saturday, the conversation was moved to an evangelical church in the centre of Palma. Three 15-minute plenaries were about the topic: "The church as a model of coexistence".
Pastor and coordinator of the "Alianza Joven" (Young Alliance) Oscar Perez opened the session focusing on the Gospel. "What Jesus offers is a community that shows the kingdom here and now, a communitarian space of relationships", he said. But Christians should not fall into the trap of trying to appear "relevant" to a certain culture, because the "Gospel is for all cultures".
Secretary General of the AEE and church planter Jaume Llenas then spoke about how identity is defined nowadays. In a context of "liquid identity" and "extreme individualism", people work to redefine themselves continually. In contrast, "the Gospel is not our morality or ethics, but who we are, sons and daughters of the living God. It is the great commission what gives us identity and an eternal purpose".
Rosa Barrachina, expert in social intervention and pastor in a church in Valladolid addressed the challenge of coexistence. She referred to Paul, Timothy, Luke and Barnabas, leaders of the early church. "They all developed inclusion in a time of diaspora (...) Intercultural realities make it possible for the church to creatively achieve the Great Comission".
A small group discussion helped to bring the conversation further.
The General Assembly was a space to report about the work of some projects and working groups of the Spanish Alliance: Alianza Solidaria (Solidary Alliance: social work in Latin American countries), Protestante Digital and Evangelical Focus (media platforms), the Children working group, the Youth Alliance, the Religious Freedom commission, the Missions working group, and the Theology commission.
After a lunch with typical Mallorca food, four workshops were offered: Coexistence in the social media, Our Muslim neighbours, Inter-generational Leadership and Dialogue in church about socio-political issues.
In the evening, more than 200 young people from at least five churches met together for "Idea Joven", a gathering in which pastor in Granada (south of Spain) Helder Favarin, spoke about how "we can change the world together".
On Sunday, members of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance preached in several church services around the city and shared the vision of the national body of evangelicals: "Unity, mission and transformation".
Learn more about the Spanish Evangelical Alliance (website in Spanish).
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Dreams present to us parts of reality and of the psyche that we often overlook or don't wish to see. They are concerned with the growth of the soul. The word for "dream" in Hebrew — chalom — is derived from the verb meaning "to be made healthy or strong." Dreams tell us that we live up to a mere fraction of our potential and that there are great treasures to be found in the unknown portion of our being. If we heed our dreams, they can help us develop new attitudes toward ourselves and others. They can deepen our spiritual impulses, expand our emotional lives, and produce all manner of changes in our careers and relationships. —Marc Ian Barasch, from an interview with The Sun
I wonder about this, the notion that dreams present aspects "of the psyche that we often overlook or don't wish to see" — because not only do I find that this is often true, I find that my dreams present these things, whether mundane or serious, through exactly the messenger I've been dying to see and communicate with for all of my adult life.
My mother.
She's been talking to me, via my dreams, on a regular basis since she died almost nine years ago. As I've written about before, these dreams are not always pleasant. In fact, for many months right after her death, the dreams were flat out nightmares. Night after night, I'd step into a room to face my mother, who had turned into a demonic presence with oxygen cords wrapped around her. And in one way or the other, this demonic presence who was and was not my mother would gleefully tell me that my mother was dead.
If I were telling a story, this might be the part where I'd wake up in a cold sweat, with a loud gasp. But in truth, I'd just slowly, painfully open my eyes, and stare at the bright blue sheets on the bunk bed of my college dorm room — the same sheets my mother and I had picked out together not more than two months earlier — and I'd feel a sharp, painful stab in my chest. Instead of having that moment where you wake up and think with a sigh of relief, "It was only a dream," I'd wake up and be forced to remind myself, "That was not just a dream." She was really gone.
I'd slide off the bed and begin the reality of my day.
It wasn't fun. It was grief. The first inklings of accepting my loss wanted to attack me through my subconscious, it seemed. But even those nightmares, while unpleasant, heartbreaking, and downright terrifying at times, reminded me of the harsh reality I had to face:
My mother was gone, and she wasn't going to reappear when I woke up. She was dead.
Because my heartbroken, panic-stricken 18-year-old-self did not want to face my new reality, I tried to escape these dreams. During the week, I'd read my books for my African American lit course until my eyes burned and I knew I could fall asleep as soon as I turned off the reading lamp. And every weekend, though perhaps not consciously, I would turn off the dreams in a different way — by shutting off my emotions with a quiet, but clear "Fuck you" through booze, ensuring that by the time my head hit a pillow, if I had any dreams that night, I wouldn't recall them.
The dreams were persistent, though. Some nights we'd argue: I'd yell at her to take off her oxygen mask, because she didn't need it anymore. She'd refuse. Other nights, I'd recite French presentations to her and she'd smile at me, tapping her feet as if I were singing, with the stupid oxygen tank tucked neatly under her knees, just as she'd put it when we were in the car together.
My favorite nights, she'd comfort me. Both hands placed on my cheeks, she'd look at me and say:
I didn't leave you. Don't cry. I didn't leave you.
When I'd wake up, the bright blue sheets tangled around my legs, I'd initially feel comforted by the soft, cool fabric. But then I would remember. I'd kick the sheets off that now felt like sandpaper and stare at the white concrete walls of my dorm room, feeling angrier and more alone than ever.
I can't remember when the nightly dreams stopped. Instead, it slowly transitioned to semi-frequent dreams, or what I now like to think of as visits, from my mother. At first it felt like torture, like every night she came back to life and then died all over again in the morning.
Of course, that was just my mind playing tricks on me. These days, I thrive on the dreams in which my mother makes an appearance. It's like she's acting in a brief, but much anticipated cameo role in my life. I love the new discovery I made through reading this interview — that chalom, the word for dream in Hebrew, is derived from the verb meaning "to be made healthy or strong" — because seeing her in dreams reminds me of my inner strength. So even if it's not really her, exactly, in my dreams, it doesn't matter.
Sometimes, we still argue, but I think that's important. Because who better than your mother to remind you that you need to live up to your full potential, to develop new attitudes, and to expand your emotional life?
That's exactly what she did for me when she was alive. So why not now?


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This program fits perfectly with the Department's for the Languages Education Initiative 2013-2015 as it leverages ICT by combining face to face, online and mobile learning to make languages more engaging, authentic and connects language learners to the native speakers overseas.
The children are fully engaged with this program especially the ICT component.
The program suits our school for a number of reasons. The first, it allows the program to be integrated into our curriculum as the classroom teacher is an integral part of its delivery. It is often difficult to integrate stand-alone programs where teachers come in for an hour and then leave, so this gives us the best of both worlds as we have our teacher online to support the classroom teacher, relevant class materials and an ability to undertake follow up work.
Secondly, the program means that our Chinese teachers are available at the right times and we are not trying to timetable one teacher in a two day block which would impact our teaching of literacy and numeracy.
Further to this, we know our teachers are experts, their teaching is authentic and monitored by a VIT registered classroom teacher and support by the team at My Chinese Teacher.
We would be unable to offer a Language in our school without a program like MCT. Each lesson is evaluated and changes are constantly made to suit the learning needs of the students. The lessons are targeted at learning specific words and conversations and revision is incorporated to ensure students' learning is consolidated. Follow-up work is clearly set out for classroom teachers to complete once the VC lesson is finished. The resources and support from the Chinese teachers and technical staff is fabulous. Any problems are quickly addressed and dealt with and feedback is taken on board and acted upon immediately to make the MCT experience even more rewarding and valuable for our students.


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LIVCLO – Smart Home Organiser:
Whether it is placing a toolbox on a shelf after use or returning a vacuum cleaner to the cleaning closet, keeping things tidy is a reliable way of creating a more organised home. But more often than not, this simple act can be a problem for the modern-day homeowner due to day-to-day challenges, such as a shortage of space or a lack of suitable organising options.
Created exclusively for Seaside Residences by Frasers Centrepoint Singapore, LIVCLO (short for Living Closet) is a home organising closet located near the living room that addresses these woes. Developed and outfitted for daily efficiency, LIVCLO ensures that things are kept tidy with its highly-functional features that allow homeowners to organise their belongings.
Here are some organising tips gleaned from LIVCLO at Seaside Residences that will not only help you achieve a tidier home but also free up more time for meaningful activities with your family.
Organised storage
As a rule of thumb, it is more efficient to store rarely-used belongings in higher compartments of shelves or cabinets and frequently used ones at eye-level or at the bottom for easier access. For instance, you can adopt this organising method by placing bulky luggage bags on a top shelf, item boxes in the middle and cleaning appliances at the bottom. For better organisation, you can even designate individual shelves for specific types of items.
"Effective tidying is not just about having sufficient storage on hand, it is also a process that is all about maximising every available resource."
Use vertical space
One of the best ways to maximise every square inch in a room is to utilise empty sections of wall space for storage and organisation purposes. Multi-compartment racks and wall shelves – carefully measured to fit shoes and storage boxes perfectly – can help in making this solution a reality. As a bonus, having plenty of vertical storage also means having a clear passageway, which makes it easier to move in and out of a tight closet.
"Get your belongings sorted out the smart way with efficient storage solutions."
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Storage attachments and containers, such as hanging racks and plastic boxes, offer simple ways to upgrade the functionality of a storeroom without taking up extra space. Put these see-through accessories to good use by using them to store cleaning products, hobby supplies, toys, winter clothes and much more for a tidier, more accessible storeroom.
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My stepmother loved to have power over me. To have power over me, she needed to know something that could blackmail and frighten me. So she went to my room every day when I was at school and searched through my drawers and especially my counter by my bed. My secret hiding place. Until this very moment.
I had always hidden everything under my Mickey Mouse notebooks. Including the message of a girl in which I was fallen in love, or whatever you call it, if you are not yet 10 years old.
She found the letter from Amelie saying that she found me sweet and that the last night was beautiful. We baked bake, my stepmother didn't like that because she didn't want me to have fun. I should hate life, because she also did.
The next day, my cousin's birthday, I not only noticed that Amelie's letter was gone. At the big table with the whole family, my stepmother stood up, cleared her throat, and left the note out loud. She was the only one who laughed. I was the only one who walked out of the room crying, shy and embarrassed.
One do not have to know something about you to expose you. It just has to be a person bad enough to either destroy your day or your life with these things.
That day my stepmother exposing me was a mini trauma to me. I talked to nobody for 5 days. I was, with what I did not want to tell anyone, placed on a marketplace of voyeurism. Naked and vulnerable.
As a psychologist, I always thought there is nothing worse for us than to reveal our secrets. But that's not true. The worst thing is when others reveal our secrets to the people who mean something to us.
Today I have to change and optimize my behavior to protect my privacy, because everything I say, watch, write or search is potentially being recorded. How do I do that? I imagine as often as possible, my stepmother would see everything I do, and remember the feeling of that time. Then I rething the step.
They can take everything but not our right NOT to share our data. Not disclosing our data carelessly, but first of all considering whether we want to disseminate it and then possibly encrypting it is our weapon.
Our privacy gives us back what has taken from us daily:
Power over our lives.


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This is it. Life is perfect. Life is fulfilling. Life is happening. For me, my life has purpose and is full with passion and commitment.
I am been living my life for over 28 years and over this time I have been blessed with meaningful relationships, opportunities and circumstances.
Relationships in my life are my support network, especially when I exhaust myself to the brink of burnout. As my enthusiasm and passion to make a world that is beautiful, connected and in balance takes it toll and sometimes I do need to chill out. But there is no time for chilling out until my job is done – whenever that is.
Opportunities flow like a roaring waterfall to say the least. Each day presents a new opportunity where I develop a new possibility to take me to the next level. Today, I am empowered and out to achieve beyond my own expectations –…
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Three tips for school holiday safety
SCHOOL holidays kick off this weekend with tourists and locals expected to be out and about to enjoy the spring weather.
This means our beaches, roads and tourist hot spots will be busier than usual and the community is being reminded to put safety first.
From fire and camping bans, to road and beach safety campaigns, everyone should be vigilant of current warning and alerts before they head for a day of fun.
If you are out and about these school holidays, here are three important safety warnings to consider.
With summer just around the corner, our beaches are beginning to heat up and local volunteer surf lifesavers will be back in red and yellow to patrol from Saturday morning.
While a day at the beach is fun, it can quickly turn deadly and Surf Life Saving Queensland is reminding all beachgoers to only swim between the red and yellow flags and listen to directions of those on duty.
"More than 80 per cent of rescues performed last year occurred outside of the flags. These people however are the lucky ones as their trip to the beach could have ended very differently had it not been for our lifesavers and lifeguards," SLSQ Chief Executive Officer Dave Whimpey said.
"The reality is though – our resources are stretched and we cannot be everywhere. Make your safety a priority and only enter the water at a patrolled beach. If not for yourself, do it for a loved one."
SLSQ released their 2018/19 Coast Safe Report on Friday which revealed the tragic statistic from last season, and the worst since records began.
In the Noosa region there were three drownings outside the flags, two in one week, which made up part of the 21 statewide surf deaths. Of those drownings, 12 victims were males aged between 51 and 73, and 10 international visitors.
Don't become a drowning statistic, always swim between the red and yellow flags. Make sure you paddle or surf with a...Posted by Surf Life Saving Queensland on Thursday, 19 September 2019
Queensland's volunteer of the year and Sunshine Beach surf life saver Craig Law is expecting 2019-20 season to start off with a rush just like last year's demanding season, which saw plenty of challenges.
"Luckily for us and the lifesaving fraternity, the zero fatalities between the flag was still maintained," Craig said.
He said there has been a massive increase in male drowning deaths as they over-estimate their surf swimming ability.
"I think it comes from the old bravado of 'I'm right, I can swim, I'll be okay' and then all of a sudden rips come across.
"The sea can be very unsuspecting at times — it looks all nice and calm and they go into an area where they get into trouble.
"Obviously the contributing factors are alcohol and going in after a big night on the sauce and then decide to head out for a swim.
"Instead of generally going with the rip, they fight against it."
Areas around Noosa's headland and Sunshine Beach are notorious for rescues and tragedy, and authorities are pleading everyone, even experienced surfers, to be aware of the risks of entering these "black spots".
After a horror few weeks of dangerous fire conditions, Queensland Fire and Emergency Services have extended a local fire ban for Noosa Shire and surrounding areas.
So, if you are headed camping the message is plain and simple: don't light a fire.
Under a local fire ban all open fires are prohibited and all permits to light fire which have been issued in the designated areas have been cancelled.
Due to the fire risk, day-trippers and campers are warned sections of the Great Sandy National Park, off the Bruce Highway near Tewantin, including Cooloola Great Walk, parts of Teewah Beach, the Cooloola Recreation area and the K'gari (Fraser Island) Great Walk are partially closed.
Fire crews are also continue to fight a blaze which broke out on Teewah Beach on September 8 after a fire was poorly extinguished by campers.
If you need to do work around the house, also think twice.
Power tools may be used during a local fire ban however QFES encourages people to use these with extreme care and ensure adequate equipment is available to extinguish any fire which may start. This may include having a person available to watch out for any ignitions that occur.
The other big warning is for smokers to properly dispose of cigarette butts.
Noosa Council's local disaster co-ordinator Carl Billingham said fire bans needed to be heeded and warned drivers or passengers to never throw cigarette butts from car windows.
"Not only is this dangerous, it's illegal, and carries fines in excess of $5222.
"The likelihood of bushfires remains high so we all need be vigilant and make sure we are all bushfire-ready," Mr Billingham said.
School holidays mean more cars on the road and police are pleading with all motorists to drive safely and arrive at their destinations with the launch of Operation Spring Break.
The joint operation between QPS, QFES and QAS will once again focus on safe driving behaviour throughout the school holiday period.
Assistant Commissioner of Road Policing Command Mike Keating said drivers must not be complacent.
"It's a great time of the year for road trips, but long trips can be dangerous," Mr Keeting said.
"Driving on unfamiliar roads and long distances is all the more reason to remain alert and take extra care.
"Distractions can have devastating consequences any time behind the wheel.
"We are once again asking drivers to always focus on the road despite what may be happening around them."
As September school holidays start, so too does Operation Spring Break. @MarkRyanQLD and Assistant Commissioner Keating were joined by @QldFES and @QldAmbulance representatives to officially launch the road safety focussed operation. More here: https://t.co/DscGndFzu1 pic.twitter.com/SICN558hne— Queensland Police (@QldPolice) September 19, 2019
He said police will maintain a strong presence on Queensland roads.
RACQ have also released startling figures showing more than one third of drivers admitted to speeding on freeways and highways.
According to the RACQ Annual Road Safety Survey, more than 30 per cent of drivers admitted to travelling too fast on high speed roads in 90 to 110km/hour zones.
RACQ's Lauren Ritchie said with many people heading away over the holiday period it was a timely reminder to stick to the speed limit.
"It's incredibly alarming so many people are willing to push the limits, particularly at such high speeds. It's also scary to note the higher the speed limit, the more people who admitted to breaking the law," Ms Ritchie said.
Ms Ritchie reminded holiday-makers heading off-road that normal road rules still applied.
"If you're taking your car on the sand, remember speeding and drink driving are still incredibly dangerous and illegal and police will certainly be targeting these areas over the holidays," she said.
RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Helicopter Director of Aeromedical Service David Donaldson said crews were on high alert for the holiday season having already attended more than 115 motor vehicle crashes this year, including 49 on the Sunshine Coast.
"Car crashes are one of the most common incidents our fleet of helicopters is called to, across the state, and school holidays were a peak time for incidents," Mr Donaldson said.


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With credos such as "Leadership through Musicianship" and "A Role Model of Excellence", the Rich South High School Band has set high standards of excellence for themselves. With focused determination, diligence and hard work, they live by these principals and embody their "We are The STARS" motto.
The Rich South Band, located in Richton Park, IL, is under the leadership of "Golden Apple Award Nominee" Mr. Y.L. Douglas, Jr. The program consists of a Marching Band, Jazz Band, Symphonic Band and Color Guard, which are all award winning ensembles.
For three of the last four years, Rich South has earned the distinction of "Best Band" in the Bud Billiken Parade, which is viewed by over 60 million people nationwide. In addition, the band has been featured on the ABC7 News segment, "Someone You Should Know" and in 2009 was even invited to participate in the Presidential Inaugural Heritage Festival. Just recently, the Rich South Band performed at the welcome ceremony for the president of China during his short stay in Chicago. With so many accomplishments to their name, the Rich South Band is a force to be reckoned with and their reputation has traveled far and wide.
So far, that the entertainment committee for the 2012 Olympic games in London, England, has invited the band to perform during the international games. They are scheduled to perform on three different days throughout the Olympic festivities.
The band has plans to represent each sponsor on their uniforms during their performances and they welcome any support from businesses, churches, groups or individuals willing to donate.
If you would like to make a donation or sponsor a student, please visit the Rich South Band site at: http://www.richsouthband.org/donations/
These young adults, along with their band director, have proven that they truly are STARS, and we look forward to cheering them on during the 2012 Olympic Games!


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In Joseph Bruchac's Four Directions, the Manitou tells the whale, "I can change you / into an island of stone . . . you will not die / as the animals die / but wear slowly away / into waters / that love you." No transforming deity but one of our time's finest writers, Bruchac deeply and meaningfully renders the experience of bereavement and the experience of living our earthly destinies. The concluding poem, "Season's End," beautifully evokes our human effort to come to terms with mortality: "Within the sweat lodge we will drum, / remembering we are promised nothing. / It is reason enough to join our voices, / my sons and I, for dead and living, / our breath reborn into song."
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Shelter Scotland Edinburgh Community Hub
Our Edinburgh Community Hub is a one- stop-shop for anyone who is homeless, facing homelessness or needs advice about a housing related problem.
The Hub offers specialist advice on Housing, Money & Debt, and Welfare Benefits as well as having a team of solicitors who make sure your rights are represented and fairly enforced. Support services are available to help those who require ongoing support. We help and support anyone dealing with issues affecting their ability to find or keep a home.
How to contact
If you need a computer or telephone to resolve a housing, money or debt issue, we can give you free online access daily between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Drop into the hub for more details.
Alternatively browse our advice topics, or speak to someone in our online chat team via the contact us page.
Drop-in Times for March 2020
- Tuesday 3 March: 11AM-2PM
- Thursday 5 March: 11AM-2PM
- Tuesday 10 March: 11AM-2PM
- Thursday 12 March: 11AM-2PM
- Thursday 19 March: 11AM-2PM
- Tuesday 24 March: 11AM-2PM
- Thursday 26 March: 11AM-2PM
- Tuesday 31 March: 11AM-2PM
Use the building telecom to ring Shelter Scotland, then proceed to the fourth-floor reception.
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Texas megabooster Red McCombs getting involved in a coaching search is nothing new. McCombs pushing Art Briles as a candidate at a small Texas college however, well that's a bit eye-opening.
The San Antonio Express-News caught up with the billionaire on Friday and he confirmed that he had spoken to the University of the Incarnate Word's board of trustees and was lobbying them to hire the disgraced and scandal-plagued former Baylor coach to run the program.
"You not only will be getting the best football coach available but also the best man," McCombs told the paper of what he said to the UIW trustees. "In two years' time, he would leave them with an unbelievable program in place and then could go to the big time, because that's where he should be in the first place."
A source close to the search told the Express-News that Briles is not being considered for the job, which opened last month after a 1-10 season for the FCS program.
Briles was of course fired by Baylor in 2016 after numerous sexual assault allegations were brought against the school. Subsequent lawsuits over the past few years have rendered the former Bears coach as nearly un-hireable at the college level and the scandal has even cost him a job in the CFL after just a few hours of outrage.
That's why it's downright shocking, especially given the dozens upon dozens of reports and negative headlines about what went on in Waco under his tenure, that McCombs would call the evidence against Briles a "bunch of baloney…a bunch of garbage," according to the paper.
Luckily it sounds like Incarnate Word isn't even entertaining the idea of hiring him and this is just some rich guy trying to help a friend… but the whole scenario and comments outlined by the Express-News are not exactly what you want to have associated with a coaching search. Yikes.


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ECB must not keep policy ultra-loose for too long, Weidmann says
[FRANKFURT] The European Central Bank must not keep its monetary policy ultra-loose for too long or it may struggle to wind it down, ECB governing council member and German central bank governor Jens Weidmann said on Wednesday.
"An expansionary monetary policy stance is justified for now," Mr Weidmann said.
"But we must not over-extend the period of ultra-loose monetary policy, because various risks and side effects are part and parcel of the current policy stance.
"The longer a central bank pursues an ultra-loose monetary policy ... the greater the risk that a slight tightening of policy, or even expectations of a slight tightening of policy, will send market interest rates sharply higher," he said.
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Yesterday I watched the documentary "Night Will Fall" on HBO. The documentary is the film history of the concentration camps during World War II. It is a compilation of military films taken when the camps were liberated. There were people in England and America who had the idea of putting together a film of what happened in those camps so that people would never forget. Unfortunately, that film collided with the politics of the late 1940's and was never made. Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein were involved in putting together the film, but it was not finished or released.
According to the HBO Documentaries page:
When British, Soviet and American forces liberated Nazi concentration camps in 1945, army and newsreel cameramen recorded the terrible discoveries they made. Later, Sidney Bernstein of the British government's Ministry of Information and his team, including supervising director Alfred Hitchcock, drew on this footage, shot at Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Auschwitz, to create a harrowing film titled "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey."
NIGHT WILL FALL reveals the previously untold story of this deeply moving documentary when it debuts exclusively on HBO. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter, directed by André Singer (executive producer of "The Act of Killing") and produced by Sally Angel and Brett Ratner (the "Rush Hour" series, "X Men: The Last Stand," "Hercules"), the film juxtaposes horrific raw footage and scenes from the 1945 documentary with insights from the survivors, the soldiers who liberated them and the filmmakers who recorded these appalling images. Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, NIGHT WILL FALL will have an encore presentation Tuesday, Jan. 27 on HBO2, when networks around the globe will also present it.
Despite the 1945 documentary's artistic pedigree, the initial support it received, and the use of some of the most riveting concentration-camp footage ever shot, Bernstein's project has not been widely seen. NIGHT WILL FALL tells the incredible story behind the film, featuring interviews with concentration-camp survivors, several of whom identify younger versions of themselves in the footage, as well as archival interviews with Bernstein (who later founded Granada Television), Hitchcock and director Billy Wilder.
In the 1980s, original reels and notes from the documentary, which had been stored since 1952 in the archives at the Imperial War Museums (IWM) in London, were combined with a commentary read by actor Trevor Howard. However, the final reel was missing.
Four years ago, the IWM began an ambitious project to digitize, restore and complete "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey," including the never-before-seen sixth reel. The finished film features heartbreaking interviews with survivors, soldiers, historians and archivists, which are presented along with unflinching, restored, rarely-seen archival footage and eyewitness testimony. NIGHT WILL FALL provides a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at how this forgotten documentary was made, and how it has finally been completed after 70 years.
NIGHT WILL FALL is directed by Andre Singer; produced by Sally Angel and Brett Ratner for a RatPac Documentary Films Presentation; narrator, Helena Bonham Carter; narrator for "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey," Jasper Britton; executive producers, Richard Melman, James Packer and Stephen Frears; written by Lynette Singer; director of photography, Richard Blanshard; editors, Arik Lahav-Leibovich and Stephen Miller; composer, Nicholas Singer.
This is not a movie to sit down and watch casually over coffee, nor is it a movie I would recommend for children under sixteen, but it is a movie worth watching. If you have HBO or HBO on demand, I would strongly recommend taking the time to watch this movie.


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A culmination of long-standing friendships and professional relationships has resulted in the formation of Probity Advisory where skilled professionals have combined in a unique consulting environment, providing an unparalleled service offering to the market.
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I was inspired to do this post by Shay-Lon who has an amazing blog and YouTube channel. She recently talked about how people are obsessed with looking a certain way depending on what the media tells you is 'in' at the time. People used to go out of their way to be skinny and now plus-size is all in and then soon it'll be something else. I mean it's okay to want to look good but honestly it's not that big of a deal and it shouldn't matter that much as long as you're healthy and happy about the way you look. So today I decided to share some quotes about having a positive body image:
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The whole country has begun its celebrations for the Royal Wedding this weekend. This event has been topping all headlines across the globe for several days and shows no sign of stopping! If you have a Chase digital piano at home then use the Royal wedding as an excuse to get playing!!
Play some Royal Wedding tunes on your Chase electric piano
Some of the music due to be played at the Royal Wedding this weekend is phenomenal. All of this music can be played at home on your very own Chase digital piano – what better way to celebrate such a monumental event? One of the most popular wedding pieces of music is Widor's Toccata which is regularly used as exit music at a wedding. There is talk that this particular piece of music will be used today as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leave Windsor Castle.
Widor Toccata on your Electric Piano
There is no doubt that if the Widor Toccata is to be played today at the Royal Wedding, it will be played by one of the world's greatest organists. The piece is fiendish for even the most accomplished musician, but if you can master it then you will be the talk of the town! The piece of music was written for organ although there are many versions which have been transcribed for the piano. If you want to try it out on your Chase piano at home then it is the next best thing after an organ! On an electric piano from Chase, you can switch to a magnificent organ sound with just the touch of a button.
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If you would like to celebrate the Royal Wedding by playing your digital piano but don't yet have one, head over to Chase Direct. A wide range of amazing digital pianos are available to order from the Chase Direct website today!


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Whenever I have a speaking event I always promise to send you guys some of my book recommendations, so here's my full list! I've included some of my favorite spiritual teachers too!
Sasha's favorite books:
Conversations with God by Neal Donald Walch (ALL OF THEM!)
Autobiography of a yogi – Yogananda
The ANASTASIA series (All books)
POWER VS FORCE (And other Hawkings books)
A New Earth – Eckhart Tolle
Way of the Superior Man by David Deada
The 4 Agreements
Cool books I haven't read yet:
A Course in Miracles (I've started it!)
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East
Christ's letters (http://www.christsway.co.za/dletters.php)
Trans surfing series by Vadim Zealand
Other Legit Spiritual teachers:
Matt Kahn
Abraham Hicks
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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