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Parents must follow an appropriate method to motivate and encourage their wards during the Board examination.
This is the one BIG question that lingers in every parents' mind when their son/daughter prepares for an examination. In an anxiety to help their children, parents often inadvertently add to their mental stress. The fundamental duty of parents is to ensure that the child goes through the process of preparing for his/her exam in a planned and relaxed manner.
It is true that exam scores have an impact on the child's future. But it is also true that high scores alone do not guarantee a successful career or life. In fact, with a myriad of new age careers that are evolving, there would be enough and more opportunities for students to be extremely successful in life. While the child should be made aware of the implication of low scores, parents need not be unduly nagging the child. It is extremely critical for parents to internalise this.
Every child is unique and has a unique set of skills and aptitudes. Hence, they need to create a wholesome nurturing environment at home rather than subjecting the child to undue duress. Ensure that the study room is well-lit, silent and airy. After all, the brain needs oxygen to be active and alert.
Prepare a schedule
As a first step, make a note of the exam schedule and put it up in a prominent place in your house. Sit with your child, create a study plan based on his areas of improvement, comfortable time zones, and school and tuition schedule. Make sure you create a schedule with his consensus and put it up in front of the study table with a column to note adherence or otherwise. Let there be sufficient break time between these schedules. Use different colour stars whenever a task is accomplished and a red cross mark whenever things are not complete. Also prepare a revised timeline to complete tasks. Identifying difficult lessons, critical chapters and taking out time for this is important. As you get closer to the exam dates, get your child to relax every evening. Encourage him to go for a walk or watch a 15-minute cartoon.
What is critical during the last few days before the exam are notes that come in handy for ready reference. You can help your child by collating important formulae and definitions, and by writing and putting them up near the study table. It is best to take photos of important points or pictures in your phone and allow the child to use it as a slide show during leisure.
Healthy food
Give your child lots of vegetables and fresh fruits, juice and lots of water. Make them snack on nuts and salads. Make sure your child does not skip a meal or overeat during these days. The brain needs lots of oxygen to be able to register information. Some kind of meditation, yoga or mental relaxation techniques will definitely help. Taking a few deep breaths is a good and easy method of relaxing. Apart from this, ensure that you duly encourage your child. Always use positive words and keep telling them that you understand that he has huge potential and you are extremely sure that he will do well.
The day before the exam is important. Give your child healthy food, help him keep his hall ticket, pens, pencils and other things at one place. Keep the unifrom ready. Ensure a good night's sleep. Ensure you avoid last minute panicking on the day of the exam. On the D-Day, give your children healthy breakfast; get them to stay away from books at least an hour before the exam. A good shower will help them feel fresh. Ensure that they reach the venue on time.
Encourage your child to take time to read the question paper thoroughly, plan the order in which to answer the questions, select numerical versus theory questions, and time the questions. It's always good for the children to start with the question they are most familiar with. Encourage them to write legibly and revise before handing over the answer sheets.
The author is CEO of MPower learning.
Keywords: board exams, parents' role, parents' support, encouragement of parents


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So, I was at a birthday party for one of my son's friends. I notice that there are hops vines in the back yard. This suprises me as although I knew about the hops (the house owner moved in with the vines already there and doesn't use them), I was under the assumption that they were promised to someone else. Anyway, it turned out that they never showed up, and so I now have a couple garbage bags of them. I'm attaching a couple pictures of them. Is there anyone out there that can identify the variety? Thanks.
I would guess Cascade. Big cones. Look jsu tlike the ones in my back yard. Saaz, nugget and pearle are alot smaller. Cascade is also the most popular and even non-home brewing garden centers carry them by me.
They call him easy.....easy brewer.....
You could buy some cascade and try to compare aroma or make a hopped cascade only beer. There are cascade hop heads. Put it in a beer and they will either confirm or deny your suspicions. Last year I made a "cascade" beer and drank it realized I put the wrong labels on my hops. It was sterling, not cascade. Radically different. Sort of gross. Lol.
Errr, that's where I have to correct you. My wife is older than shecky. -KCBrewer

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I have a 35 year old cactus, approximately 18 inches tall. I put it outside during summer so it blooms. anyway, I have noticed it is leaning pretty drastically, and keep turning it towards the sun to straighten up. but I also noticed that the base of the cactus is narrower than the top and that is where it seems to be bending over. how can I remedy this problem? plant deeper, plant in a larger pot? please help!! |
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- Posted by bmdhistory 6 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 5, 08 at 13:10
This is terrible - but it can be fixed most of the time! It sounds like your cactus is rotting. Cacti rot for various reasons, but the most common is poor drainage and too much water. Is your cactus planted in well draining soil? If not, you'll need to get some. Once a catus starts rotting, thinhgs will only get worse if you leave it alone. A sure sign of rotting is that the base is mushy. If the base is mushy, you will need to cut your cactus at the point where the mushiness stops. You may need to keep cutting until you don't see any more rot. Next, take your cutting and put it somewhere dry and out of the sun. Let the cut heal over. It will become dry to the touch after a week. Then, put the cactus cutting in dry soil. Do not water. THe cactus will eventually send out roots to find water. It is important that you don't water during this time. Once roots are extablished, you have a plant again and you can water it sparingly once in a while. I hope that this helps! Good luck! It has happened to most of us at one point or another! |
- Posted by murmanator AZ 9 (My Page) on Fri, Sep 5, 08 at 16:00
Before you get busy with a knife, do some basic detective work. To diagnose rot, poke around the base with a soft object, like a pencil eraser or your finger. If it soft and mushy you have rot. If it is firm lets look at some other factors: You said the plant is leaning towards the sun... in its present location is the sun only on one side, IE is it up against the house or a wall that blocks light from one side? This can contribute to a plant leaning. In this case you would want to place the plant more in the open so it gets sun from all sides. Be careful to introduce it to much more sunlight at one time, its best to move it gradually out to the open. Is the plant bending at the base or is the top leaning over and pulling the root ball out of the soil? In the latter case, you can plant it up to a larger pot, but only go one size up. You can also top dress the soil with some gravel to give more stablilty. Things to NOT DO: Plant it deeper. This will be bad. We never asked what this cactus is and if you can post a picture of it. This information would help further with other suggestions. |
I'm having the same issue with my cactus. I have been turning it towards the sun but it doesn't seem to help. I also checked to see if the root ball feels soft but to me it feels ok. I attached a pic of what it looks like. it have grown about two inches since I bought it. |
- Posted by senjanevada 9 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 8, 13 at 2:44
I put some rocks underneath to help it grow straight up. |
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THE COMMITMENTS Tickets
The Commitments, Roddy Doyle's best-selling novel, is now live on stage for the very first time.
Be amongst the first to experience this show as it makes its World Premiere at the Palace Theatre in London's West End from September 2013
The show, which has been more than two years in the making, has been adapted from the novel by Booker prize winning author Doyle himself and will be directed by award winning Jamie Lloyd (the man behind the recent production of Macbeth starring James McAvoy).
The Commitments is the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, a young working class music fan, who shapes an unlikely bunch of amateur musicians and friends into an amazing live act, the finest soul band Dublin has ever produced.
The show follows the journey of two members of a frustrated synthesizer band – the opening scene we find them playing but being ignored in a shop window – who turn to Jimmy, the local music expert, for help.
Placing a classified advert in a music paper, Jimmy auditions a number of wannabes before finalising the new line up who he names The Commitments. The humour kicks in as the band get to know each other and their instruments, and proceed through early rehearsals for their first gig. Just as they improve and begin to get a name for themselves they combust.
The backing singers are all getting off with the middle aged horn legend, the singer has entered Eurovision and the saxophone player has dangerous leaning towards a jazz career.
Featuring soul classics inc Night Train, Try A Little Tenderness, In The Midnight Hour, Papa Was A Rolling Stone, Save Me, Mustang Sally, and many more.
On adapting the story for the stage, Roddy Doyle says:
"I hadn't planned to write it myself but then I did. I really enjoyed it. We had met with a number of impressive writers but I found I was answering all the questions the producers and I were asking them. I told my wife "I'm thinking I might have a bash at the script myself" and she said "You took your time."
He continues "The biggest challenge was finding the way to tell a musical story about a group of people who can't play their instruments and who aren't a band. How do you get music in there from the very beginning?"
On selecting the songs for the show Doyle says:
"I wanted to go for well known songs, but also there to be a few surprises in there. Soul often isn't about the song itself, it's about the way it is sung or how it's interpreted. The songs were chosen because they help tell the story."
The show is packed with great songs but is also repeatedly laugh out loud funny. Doyle says:
"It was always going to be a comedy, it's about a band so it doesn't touch on life or death, you can say 'music is life and death to me', but it's not. Music is fantastic and seem like it's your blood but it's not."
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Ribbon Cutting Celebration for Woodworking & Furniture Design DepartmentPosted: 2012-05-23 |
Maine College of Art will celebrate the completion of the Woodworking & Furniture Design studio facilities in the Porteous Building on Thursday, June 7 at 5:30pm on the third floor. We will acknowledge the donors who made the renovations possible. Light refreshments will be served at 5:30pm with remarks by President Don Tuski and Associate Professor Matt Hutton at 6pm. This summer, the College is hosting the Furniture Society conference, dynamic range of intensives, lectures, demonstrations, presentations, and exhibitions. Join Matt Hutton and Assistant Professor Adam Manley on Saturday, June 9 from 10am to noon to tour the exhibits. Participants should join in the MECA lobby for coffee and donuts before departing together. Full schedule for the Furniture Society Conference Please RSVP for either or both of these events to Annie Wadleigh at firstname.lastname@example.com or 207.699.5015. Image: Tanner Price '12 |
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Please join us for our June 1 Open House to learn more about the four-year undergraduate program at Maine College of Art. This is an opportunity to learn more about MECA and experience Portland's vibrant art scene during the First Friday Art Walk. At the Open House, you can speak directly with MECA's faculty about the BFA program, learn more about the studio majors and Artists at Work, tour our facilities, schedule a portfolio review, and discuss scholarship opportunities. The thesis work of the 2012 graduates will be on view throughout the Porteous Building. Program schedule:
2:30 - 3:00 Registration and refreshments 3:00 - 4:00 Information session with the president, dean, faculty, and staff 4:00 - 5:30 Tours of MECA's facilities and residence halls You may also request to meet with an Admissions representative for a portfolio review or to discuss transfer options. We will be scheduling individual appointments throughout the day. At 5:30 you are encouraged to take part in Portland's First Friday Art Walk. Over 7,000 people come out for this festive monthly occasion to see artwork at the 60 participating venues including galleries, museums, open studios and restaurants. This event takes place in downtown Portland, recently named one of America's "Best Cities for Hipsters" by Travel + Leisure, and "The San Francisco of the East" by Chicago Tribune. Please RSVP here if you would like to join us. Image: Ray Ewing photograph from 2012 Thesis Exhibition |


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The British Ministry of Defence is still withholding high-level UFO public policy papers, along with other UFO documentation, despite the public stance that all material has been transferred to the National Archives, according to John F. Burroughs, a retired USAF security officer. Burroughs, 53, was stationed at RAF Bentwaters in the late 1980's and witnessed one of the most significant UFO events in English history.
Speaking to the Sedona MUFON section meeting on Friday May 16, Burroughs surprised the audience when he presented first results of his analysis of a declassified British MOD document, along with the stunning revelation that the MOD——despite the wide-spread perception that they've turned all classified UFO documentation over to the British National Archives——is still maintaining at least six major UFO/UAP Policy Papers, along with other documentation as classified, including a paper on Defence Policy and UFO's. The last is presumably a clear refutation of the MOD stance that UFOs, or at least UFO reports, are 'not of Defence Significance', however since it remains classified, there is no way to know.
Burroughs' two hour presentation included a brief review of the recently published book by St. Martin's Press, 'Encounter in Rendlesham Forest', co-authored with fellow USAF security officer Jim Penniston and former MOD UFO desk administrator Nick Pope; a discussion of the 'Sedona coordinate', a location specified by one possible decoding of retired Technical Sergeant James Penniston's controversial binary data, and details of Burroughs' struggle with the VA to acquire his complete service medical records, some of which have since been classified by unknown components of the US DOD.
The presentation fit together a number of pieces of an increasingly complex puzzle about what actually happened in the waning days of December, 1980 in a forest outside Joint Base RAF Bentwaters/Woodbridge, a key front line Cold War US airbase in East Anglia. It also offered a novel possible explanation of the mysterious classification of his missing medical data, beyond the ongoing scandal of VA lack of treatment of veterans that recently forced the head of the VA to resign.
The timeline of events Burroughs recounts is telling:
In June, 2000, the MOD shifted the titles of its public information Policy Papers, replacing the term 'UFO' with 'UAP' in order to throw investigators using the FOIA process to find UFO documentation off the trail. This served to mask documentation from public access on the basis of a technicality.
In December, 2000 the MOD commissioned a Top Secret Technical Memorandum 55/2/00 in 2000, which was intended to provide the pretext for closing down the MOD UFO desk. That Memorandum included a Key Recommendation that:
"It should no longer be a requirement for DI55 to monitor UAP reports as they do not demonstrably provide information useful to Defence Intelligence."
Subsequent to the internal release of the Technical Memorandum, the UK MOD shut down the public UFO reporting desk and began a process of transferring all of the UFO reports to the British National Archives.
According to a statement by MOD spokesman Dr. David Clarke in a June 21, 2013 video, Britain's Ministry of Defence revealed a new batch of UFO files for sightings which occurred between 2007 and 2009, the final release of such files from Britain. The implication was that the MOD had come clean. The video is attached to this article.
This seeming act of transparency was apparently a ruse, as FOIA requests by Burroughs have revealed two further versions of the truth.
One MOD response to a FOIA request admitted to the existence of the crucial high-level policy papers. Two of the policy papers, covering the periods of 1971-76 and 1996-2000, respectively, are titled 'UFO policy', while three more covering the periods of June-Dec 2000, Dec 2000-March 2004 and March 2004 are titled 'UAP policy'.
A subsequent MOD response to a follow up request further admitted the existence of a total of 18 unreleased UFO/UAP documents, including one titled 'Defence Policy Issues UFOs'.
"It's no big surprise, I guess, that the MOD is lying about transparency," Burroughs said in a phone interview from his Sedona home. "It's always a cat-and-mouse game with these agencies to get them to admit anything of substance about this subject."
It's now clear that MOD Scientific Memo 55/2/00 was designed to take a page out of the USAF playbook and provide a pretext for shutting down the MOD UFO report desk, a minimal public relations effort. The tactics mirror the process by which the USAF shut down acceptance of civilian UFO reports, with the refinement that a Top Secret memorandum limited in distribution to 7 copies was used in place of a public commission report.
In 1966, astronomer J. Allen Hynek in an off-the-cuff conjecture during a hastily arranged press conference, made the regrettable remark that lights observed in Michigan by over 100 witness which had garnered considerable media attention might be attributable to 'Swamp Gas'. It was a historic gaffe making Project Blue Book a laughing stock and triggering then Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford, the House Republican Leader, in whose district the sightings had occurred, to call for a congressional hearing on the subject.
That hearing took place on April 5, 1966 under the aegis of the House Armed Services Committee (89th Congress, 2nd Session).
In October, 1966, in the wake of the Swamp Gas incident and the initial hearing, the Air Force selected Dr. Edward U. Condon and the University of Colorado for a UFO research contract to do a study on the Blue Book project, the USAF's largely ceremonial public relations effort to accept and file UFO reports.
A subsequently leaked memo written by staff member Robert J. Low to university officials on August 9, 1966, indicated that the conclusion of the report was a forgone conclusion before it ever began. The memo read in part:
...Our study would be [ostensibly] conducted almost exclusively by non-believers who, although they couldn't possibly *prove* a negative result, could and probably would add an impressive body of evidence that there is no reality to the observations. The trick would be, I think, to describe the project so that, to the public, it would appear a totally objective study but, to the scientific community, would present the image of a group of nonbelievers trying their best to be objective, but having an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer. One way to do this would be to stress investigation, not of the physical phenomena, but rather of the people who do the observing -- the psychology and sociology of persons and groups who report seeing UFOs. If the emphasis were put here, rather than on examination of the old question of the physical reality of the saucer, I think the scientific community would quickly get the message... I'm inclined to feel at this early stage that, if we set up the thing right and take pains to get the proper people involved and have success in presenting the image we want to present to the scientific community, we could carry the job off to our benefit...
–– Condon Committee member Robert J. Low.
The Condon Committee effort was supported by a second Congressional hearing on July 29, 1968 under the aegis of the House Science and Astronautics Committee. That hearing included Dr. Hynek, the head of the Astronomy department at Northwestern University, Dr. James E. McDonald, Senior Physicist, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Dr. Carl Sagan, Dept. of Astronomy, Cornell University, and Dr. Robert L. Hall, Head, Dept. of Sociology, University of Illinois-Chicago among others.
It was the last serious effort at formal government sponsored discourse on the subject. To this day, many, including UFO reality advocate Stanton Friedman view U of A Physicist McDonald's testimony as the best prepared and presented set of unexplained cases ever presented.
Predictably, Condon's summation announced that there was no need for the USAF to maintain effort on Blue Book, despite the contents of the actual report, which includes a number of significant cases labeled 'Unexplained'. As a result, the USAF shut down the project and got out of the business of accepting UFO reports.
The MOD followed the same pattern over four decades later, commissioning a Top Secret report rather than a sham public accredited investigation that would recommend the shut down of the largely ceremonial MOD UFO report acceptance desk, and, having changed their terminology in advance an in accordance with the key recommendation, did exactly that.
"The memorandum itself is a masterpiece of bureaucratic double-speak," Burroughs stated in a press release accompanying the presentation, "You have to know what you are looking for and understand what is actually being stated."
The plan worked fairly flawlessly, as the MOD Technical Memorandum was largely overlooked by the UFO research community due in large part to the obscurity of wording and the intertwining of excess but relatively useless technical data on the reports, along with vague discussion of 'rare, but natural weather phenomenon.'
This tactic mirrors the content of a press conference held at the Pentagon in 1952 in the wake of the spectacular July sightings over Washington, DC of groups of as many as 7 UFO's of the form of silver saucers of phenomenal performance.
Air Force Director of Intelligence General Samford did make the oft-quoted statement that "However, there have remained a percentage of this total [of sighting reports], in the order of twenty percent of the reports, that have come from credible observers of relatively incredible things."
Samford issued a series of confusing statements discussing weather phenomena, but when pressed by reporters, admitted late in the conference that:
"There is nothing else known in the world that can do those things except the phenomena!"
— Air Force Director of Intelligence Lt. General John A. Samford
The properly confused press duly reported that the USAF felt that the Washington sightings were do to radar reflections resulting from temperature inversions, something the radar operators would later refute, although that was under-reported.
In 1956, Gen. Samford was appointed director of the National Security Agency, a posiction he held until his retirement in late 1960.
While experts such as Sheffield Hallam University lecturer David Clarke either overlooked or disregarded the significance of the material in MOD 55/2/00 — Clarke would later serve as an analyst/spokesman for the MOD on the issue, Burroughs notes — Burroughs dug deep into the document and discovered some surprising results.
[Clarke, in a 21 May Facebook posting takes exception to both the characterization of his relationship with the MOD and the assertion that unreleased MOD documents is 'news'.
The 'stunning revelation' that MoD is with-holding six UFO policy files is a load of old cobblers. The names and titles of those files are contained in the papers released by the National Archives in 2012-13. Gary Anthony and I made FOI requests for these files way back in 2006. MoD agreed to release them at that time and I have a complete copy of the DI55 UFO Policy file covering 1971-1996 sitting here on my desk. The 6 files will, however, be released during 2014.
— David Clarke, Facebook, May 21, 2014
Clarke says that the implication that he is working for the MOD or National Archives is a misrepresentation.
I acted as an unpaid consultant for The National Archives for the UFO files release - NOTE: National Archives is not MoD - simply to ensure that a valuable archive of material was saved for posterity. I did it for nothing and I asked for nothing in return.
— David Clarke, Facebook, May 21, 2014
Article revised by author]
To start with, the MOD admitted there is a real phenomenon, not a weather aberration at the root of the sightings reports data.
"That Unidentified Aerial Phenomena exist is indisputable. Credited with the ability to hover, land, take-off, accelerate to exceptional velocities and vanish, they can reportedly alter their direction of flight suddenly and clearly can exhibit aerodynamic characteristics well beyond those of any known aircraft or missile -- either manned or unmanned."
— British MOD Technical Memorandum 55/2/00, December 2000
This follows similar admissions by the USAF and France.
In a 1947 memo to then chief of staff Curtis LeMay, General Twining stated that:
"The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious."
In 1999 the COMETA Report, compiled by a prestigious panel of French scientific and military experts concluded that:
"They demonstrate the almost certain physical reality of completely unknown flying objects with remarkable flight performances and noiselessness, apparently operated by intelligent [beings]."
— COMETA Report, France, 1999
"These are but a few examples of confirmation that the phenomenon exists and the root cause is something beyond known human engineering capabilities," Burroughs maintains.
The choice of wording is not accidental.
Confirmation of the existence and nature of the phenomenon, Burroughs says, is a crucial and important conceptual distinction from 'Disclosure' of the facts, whatever they may be, as called for by Disclosure advocates.
"Disclosure is a political impossibility." Burroughs maintains, quoting again the COMETA report which concluded in part that:
"It is clear that the Pentagon has had, and probably still has, the greatest interest in concealing, as best it can, all of this research, which may cause the United States to hold a position of great supremacy over terrestrial adversaries, while giving it a considerable response capability against a possible threat coming from space.
Within this context, it is impossible for them to divulge the sources [or conclusions] of this research and the goals pursued, because that could immediately point any possible rivals down the most beneficial avenues. Cover-ups and disinformation still remain, under this hypothesis, an absolute necessity.
— The COMETA Report, France, 1999
"Confirmation trumps Disclosure," says Burroughs, 'in two respects. First of all it is politically workable. Secondly, it has already occurred."
Public acceptance of the confirmation of the phenomenon has the crucial attribute that it allows the maintenance of 'the orderly functioning of the body politic', a phrase at the heart of the 1953 Robertson Panel report, which was commissioned in the wake of the Washington, D.C, in the summer of 1952. That report was the impetus for a comprehensive program of public indoctrination that lasted for decades.
On one hand, the CIA, under the aegis of 'Project Mockingbird' co-opted the US national media (a transgression of their mandate not to interfere in US internal affairs) and began a campaign to reduce the UFO sightings reports problem to a socially unacceptable topic, the framework of which was recounted in 'The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA played America' by Hugh Wilford.
On the other hand, the CIA quietly funded the National Enquirer and soon the tabloid, which included a patently ridiculous UFO story amid juicy gossip and other low-brow entertainment, was a fixture at every supermarket checkout stand in America. This was documented in Terry Hanson's book 'The Missing Times'.
The combination worked, and soon thoughtful, serious discussion of the UFO topic was socially taboo, the subject reduced to the derogatory memes of 'little green men' in 'flying saucers' studied by people wearing 'tin-foil hats.' This social engineering produced a toxic atmosphere and relegated the UFO research community to a journalistic ghetto of belief driven obscurity.
In recent decades, a frontal assault on this circumstance has been mounted by a number of Disclosure advocates, who demand nothing less than a Presidential admission of 'an extraterrestrial presence on earth'.
Not only is this a political impossibility — the UFO topic is the electrified 'third rail' of American politics, as Rep. Dennis Kucinich discovered in a 2007 presidential candidate's debate — but it assumes as somehow a priori the exact nature of what would be 'disclosed'.
Whatever is known about the phenomenon in the bowels of the US security state is inextricably bound up with justifiably classified information, as the COMETA report notes.
Burroughs credits the concept of Confirmation to Las Vegas space and housing entrepreneur Bob Bigelow, who made an articulate assessment of the situation in a rare public appearance on George Knapp hosted Coast to Coast AM radio show in March of 2013.
Bigelow said in part:
"So, what I do is I try to distinguish the difference between Confirmation and Disclosure. To me, [there is] a very crucial difference between the way I choose to use those words.
And that is that Confirmation, to me, means simply the acknowledgment that the phenomena exists, that it is real. Getting the truth out that, just simply that the UFO topic is real, that these things really do exist, ET's really do exist.
And that's it. You draw the line, you stop right there. And you have just once and for all, established that it's real.
Confirmation is not Disclosure, it does not require and mean that details need to be immediately flooded out regarding craft and occupants and all kinds of things.
I also see that, to me, Confirmation is in process. I think this is an ongoing effort now, that is accelerating. I think it is on behalf of the phenomenon itself, because the exhibitions continue, and involvement in people's lives continue, so it's not as though there is an abatement in the prosecution of exhibitions on behalf of the phenomena, they don't stop."
— Robert Bigelow to George Knapp, Coast to Coast AM, March, 2013.
Finally, Burroughs presented a detailed correlation between statements in MOD Memo 55/2/00, a 2010 paper by physicist Hal Puthoff, PhD, and a 2003 paper by Jaques Vallee and Eric Davis prepared for Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS).
The extremely short version of this set of correlations is that observations by witnesses to Rendlesham and Burroughs' own life-threatening heart problems are consistent with the effects predicted by Puthoff's avante-guarde propulsion theoretical paper, which describes a means of engineering space-time to achieve faster than light speed without violating the terms of General Relativity.
Puthoff's paper, published in the peer reviewed Journal of the British Interplanetary Society is avant-guarde theoretical, and thus the correlation Burroughs describes hinges on the ultimate engineering of the Puthoff Drive and measured effects.
But if Puthoff is correct, John Burroughs exhibits the effects of a prolonged and close encounter with a form of blue-shifted EM radiation consistent with a propulsion field capable of interstellar travel.
The implications of that are obvious.
Finally, the British MOD report itself states that:
"The well-reported Rendlesham Forest/Bentwaters event[s] is an example where it might be postulated that several observers were probably exposed to UAP radiation for longer than normal UAP sighting times."
— British MOD Technical Memorandum 55/2/00, December 2000
Add to that the fact that Puthoff's theory of spacetime engineering would result in the paper's words:
"...an individual having spent time within such a temporally-modified field, would, when returned to the normal environment, find that more time had passed than could be experientially accounted for."
–– Puthoff, British Journal of Interplanetary Science, 2010
According to some accounts, Burroughs actually entered the object of unknown origin on the first night.
Both serviceman's watches were 45 minutes out of sync with clocks on the base after the incident.
The MOD report goes on to state:
"Currently the field characteristics of a UAP are unknown, but it is a corroborated fact that...some sort of field is emanated which has adverse effects on some people when they are close to the source."
— British MOD Technical Memorandum 55/2/00, December 2000
Burroughs includes the following statement in a media briefing PowerPoint presentation developed from his Sedona MUFON Lecture:
"It is reasonable to conclude that the phenomenon I was exposed to in Rendlesham may have been an advanced propulsion system along the lines of Puthoff's theoretical faster-than-light drive."
— John F. Burroughs, USAF, (Ret)
One of the responses to Burroughs' extensive FOIA request efforts admits that the MOD holds no information on the kind of radiation known to cause his heart condition. That information was not included in Burroughs' medical service records, portions of which have been deemed Classified by the US DOD.
Taken as a whole, it's clear that John Burroughs did not encounter a rare weather phenomenon in the Rendlesham Forest. Rare weather phenomena don't cause time to be slowed, nor do they induce specific life-threatening medical issues in the observer's heart.
Further proof of the nature of what he did encounter is probably locked in his DNA and in the portions of his service Medical Records, which someone at the DOD has seen fit to Classify so as to deny access to the Veteran's Administration.
"Why would they do that," Burroughs wonders instinctively, part of his law enforcement training, "unless something very important and very sensitive is included in my medical records?"
Confirmation of the true nature of the UFO/UAP phenomenon (as if more was needed) stands as a very likely explanation of what that sensitive something might provide.
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Virgin Media will continue to advertise an "unlimited" download service after adapting its traffic management policy, following a reprimand by the ad watchdog.
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The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered Virgin Media not to claim it service is "unlimited" and with "no caps" if it continues to impose restrictions that were "more than moderate".
Virgin Media has chosen to adapt its traffic management after rivals Sky and BT complained to the ASA that an ad on its website claimed its broadband services offered "unlimited downloads", despite reducing broadband speeds for some users.
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Around here the Drop Kick Murphys are on the radio a LOT. I know they're a local band, and I like them a lot, just curious if this is just a local thing or if they're getting air play in other geographies (starting to become more of a national act?). Having lived away from here from 92-06, I have to say I don't remember hearing many Boston bands elsewhere until they had become huge national acts. So what's the deale with the DKMs?
I love their music but rarely hear them anywhere but on my MP3 player.
I've heard them on the radio before and have been listening to them for awhile but I think they're getting more airplay since they did the song for The Departed
I haven't heard them (other than on Rhapsody) since I move from Boston 3 years ago.
I love the Dropckicks! I've got XM, and I never hear it. They never play it on the radio in LA either. I've got most of their CD's to make up for it....
I don't hear them on Sirius, either, which I spend tons of time listening to since I drive a lot for work -- that's part of the reason I wonder if they're ever on radio outside of MA/New England...
I know lots of folks that are into them in the NYC/NJ/Phila region. Saw 'em one St. Patricks at the Birch hill in NJ...talk about crazy ish.
Yeah, they are definitely a great band to see on St. Patty's day. We almost saw them on St. Patty's in Boston a couple years back but it was too much of a zoo so we went elsewhere.
I don't think I've ever heard them on the radio here in Chicago, but I don't listen to music on the radio very often. I have listened to them before and think some of their stuff is quite good.
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I'm still looking for a small compact .45 and it has to be single stack because of my hand shape/size so I'm considering the Kahr but really like 1911s.
I'm wondering what gutter sights would be like. I don't like how it looks without them but let's face it, i don't think too many people really use sights at all in a true defensive mode.
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Thanks to noted African-American scholar Carter G. Woodson, the nation celebrates Black History Month in February as a tribute to the birthdays this month of President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Douglass valued a good education. It's essential today, too. But it's largely lost in our media culture of Facebook, cellphones, big-screen TVs and texting, where grammar and spelling don't matter....
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According to BBC News, The Iraqi government appears to have lost control of its western borders after Sunni militants reportedly captured crossings to Syria and Jordan.
Officials said the rebels took two key crossings in Anbar on Sunday, a day after seizing one at Qaim, a town in the province that borders Syria.
The strategically important airport in the northern town of Tal Afar has also reportedly fallen to the rebels.
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According to EIN News, Czech MP causes storm after accusing the Catholic Church of agreeing to massacre of Jews, helping Nazis escape justice.
Speaking in the country's lower house of parliament Friday, Igor Jakubcik said the Church had been one of the biggest partners of the Third Reich, and accused it of agreeing to the expulsion and massacre of Jews as part of the Nazis' "Final Solution."
Jakubick further accused the Catholic Church of helping Nazi war criminals escape to South America.
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According to abc News, in the wake of a brutal murder by members of a religious sect, the Chinese government is renewing its crackdown on cults.
State-run publications, such as the Xinhua News Agency, are producing a steady stream of articles alarming citizens to the dangers of religious cults, known in Chinese as "xiejiao," which in English means "evil religions." Xinhua reports that the government has handed out four-year prison terms to 59 of the 1,500 cult members arrested since 2012. These 59 individuals were charged with "using religious organizations to disrupt the legal system."
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Equality of the sexes, worldwide, is "the major ethical challenge of our times," said Dr. Robert D. Finch, past president of the Humanists of Houston, at the recent American Humanist Association (AHA) meeting in Philadelphia. Finch went on to detail some of the outrageous abuses against women and girls that are encompassed in a new book by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, titled "A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power."
In his book (published March 2014), Jimmy Carter stresses the similarity between the racial prejudice that existed in the Deep South at the time when he was a boy and the worldwide prejudice, discrimination, and violence against females as a result of religious teachings and/or political and cultural forces.
When Carter was elected governor of Georgia, he found that black women prisoners staffed the governor's mansion. It was a terrible injustice, Carter writes.
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According to Ex-Muslims of North America, Twitter announced that it is restoring access in Pakistan to several accounts and tweets it had blocked at the request of Pakistan's government starting on May 18, 2014.
EXMNA, thank Twitter for taking a stand against censorship, and for refusing to use their software to comply with oppressive, theocratic blasphemy laws. Twitter's actions should strengthen the resolve of other international companies and organizations that find themselves in similar situations. Twitter was forged on the principles of open communication; we are glad to see them once again standing up for freedom of expression, and we hope they exercise due diligence in the future should the company receive demands for compliance with oppressive laws again.
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According to Standard Digital, the president of Atheists in Kenya Harrison Mumia has written to Dr. Prophet Owuor challenging him to show up at Kenyatta Hospital on July 19 for purposes of verifying his miracles.
In a letter sent to news rooms, the atheists question the authenticity of Prophet Owuor's miracles and they claim that there is no sufficient evidence to demonstrate that they happen.
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According to BBC News, the Sunni extremist group that has taken territory across Iraq has posted photos online that appear to show its fighters massacring Iraqi soldiers.
The pictures, apparently posted by ISIS, are said to show what happened to soldiers after the group took over an army base in Tikrit following the surrender of the garrison there, but it appears that all the people wear civilian not military clothing, ISIS claim they killed 1700 Shi'a men in Salahadin province.
Iraqi military spokesman Lt Gen Qassim al-Moussawi said the pictures were authentic and depicted events in Salahuddin province.
The BBC's Jim Muir, in northern Iraq, says if the photographs are genuine, it would be by far the biggest single atrocity since the time of the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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According to Huffington Post, the UK government has banned the teaching of creationism as science in all existing and future academies and free schools.
Creationism cannot be taught as a valid scientific theory in any free school or academy, the government has said.
The British Humanist Association with "Teach evolution, not creationism" campaign, has been advocating for the change since 2011.
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According to The Australian, the success of the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham in creating a proto-Islamic state in Iraq, confirms an unmistakable message — Islam, as it is conceived by a quarter of the world's population, seeks the destruction of the secular world and the imposition of Islamic rule.
To believe otherwise, such as that recent events are the fault of the West arising from a botched invasion of Iraq, is thoroughly delusional.
In broad terms, we can respond in one of two ways. The first option, another military intervention, would again prove a waste of blood and treasure. For the social and cultural destiny of Islam lies in totalitarian or authoritarian religiosity and no volume of drone strikes or boots on the ground can turn this around.
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By TOM ODULA and JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press
The gunmen went door to door in the Kenyan costal town, demanding to know if the men inside were Muslim and if they spoke Somali. If the extremists did not like the answers, they opened fire, witnesses said on Monday.
Al-Shabab, a Somali al-Qaida-linked group, claimed responsibility for the hours-long assault on Mpeketoni in which 48 people were killed. The attack began Sunday night as residents watched World Cup matches on TV and lasted until early Monday, with little resistance from Kenya's security forces.
After daybreak, Kenyan troops and residents stared at the bodies lying on dirt streets by still-smoldering buildings. Two hotels and many vehicles were set on fire.
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BY Portia Crowe , Chicago Sun-Times
Since Syria's conflict began in 2011, a stream of jihadist militants has travelled from Saudi Arabia to join rebels fighting the regime of Bashar al Assad. Although travelling fighters are a Saudi tradition going back to the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Saudi government worries that this time they may return home and take up arms against the monarchy.
So it was perhaps no surprise when the government this year criminalized the act of fighting in foreign conflicts, and named as "terrorist" several groups with which the Saudi jihadists identify: Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and various factions of al-Qaida.
What was surprising was the inclusion of another group on the "terrorist" list: Saudi atheists. (join AAI petition and action against this law)
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Photos: The best Olympic images by The Tribune's Chris Detrick
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This is a collection of some of the best photos shot by The Salt Lake Tribune's Chris Detrick during the Olympic games that just concluded in Russia. On March 13th, The Tribune will host a discussion at the main branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library were Detrick will present his photos and tell the stories behind them. The event, which begins at 7pm, will be held in the Nancy Tessman Auditorium. Admission is free.


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Kelly Hutton walked out of Hinesville Rite Aid with Christmas lights, candy and small trinkets after hearing the local pharmacy store was liquidating.
The Heritage Bank completed the acquisition of two Glynn County branches of Security Bank on June 12.
Two local barber shops are at risk of losing their licenses because of unpaid citations, after a June 8 meeting of the state board of barbers.
ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Labor reported Thursday that the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped to 9.7 percent in May, the highest rate ever recorded in Georgia. The jobless rate was up five-tenths of a percentage point from a revised 9.2 percent in April.
LUDOWICI - Ludowici Meats had its grand opening on June 6 with about 75 people on hand to join in on the fun.
Some 800 residents voted to change leadership in Coastal Electric Cooperative last week and two newcomers were welcomed to the board of directors.
Hampton Island Preserve recently put a huge dent - some $401,600 - in the $660,000 the development owes in delinquent property taxes, interest and late fees.
As part of their 2009 Better Newspaper Contest, The Georgia Press Association recognized two Coastal Courier reporters for their contributions to the field of journalism.
West Rehab Services and the Liberty County Chamber of Commerce broke ground for the new clinic that is expected to be open in the fall.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A tobacco control bill set to win Senate approval would give the federal government broad new powers to monitor and change a toxic substance that contributes to some 400,000 deaths every year.
The legislation, heading for a vote Thursday, would for the first time give the Food and Drug Administration legal authority to regulate the sale, manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products.
A La Quinta Inn will be going up on a grassy, vacant lot on Highway 84, but there are mixed reviews on what another hotel means for Liberty County.
With a $50,393 change order request on the table, Liberty County commissioners questioned why the engineering representative for a right turn lane on Islands Highway didn't plan to avoid the problem.
After Hampton Island Preserve manager Ron Leventhal vowed a lawsuit, Plum Creek was left sitting on the bank Tuesday night when Liberty County commissioners tabled a request to rezone land for the massive development.
MONROE, La. and OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - CenturyTel, Inc. and EMBARQ Corp. recently announce the selection of CenturyLink as the name of their combined company.
When a couple of local businessmen heard the Gum Branch Fire Department was having problems with its water storage system, they realized it was in their best interest to see it was fixed.
When Pastor Chad Chaddick was ordained, he expected to be a teacher, a caretaker of the sick and elderly, a counselor and an evangelist to his community.
National department store retailer Stage Stores Inc., which includes Bealls, Goody's, Palais Royal, Peebles and Stage, recently announced a donation of more than $3 million to over 850 community organizations as part of its Community Counts Program in 2014. The program at Stage has donated over $5.9 million to more than 2,000 organizations in the past five years.
After his third day of selling satellite television service door-to-door, Tristan Torgersen packed his bags and left.
Deeds filed in the Liberty County Clerk of Courts Office between Jan. 14 and 22 include:
Dropping birthrates and shrinking families are starting to have a negative effect on the global economy.
GAINESVILLE -- Port of Savannah officials have their hands full with an ambitious deepening project, but they're also watching how the transportation funding debate plays out in the Georgia General Assembly.
Companies across America want their employees' spouses to feel more included at the office, according to an article I wrote earlier this month.
According to a new report cited by CNN Money, Americans lie to their spouses about what they spend their money on. The report said one in five Americans don't tell their spouse about a purchase of $500 or more. And 7.2 million Americans haven't told their spouses about a secret bank account they have.
Property transfers filed with the Liberty County Clerk of Courts between Jan. 2 and 14 include:
Deeds filed with the Liberty County Clerk of Courts from Jan. 2-8 included:
Jeanne Evans with Coldwell Banker Holtzman, Realtors in Hinesville has earned the nationally recognized military relocation professional certification.
The board of the Georgia Academy for Economic Development recently announced the graduates from the 2014 Region 12 multi-day training program.
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since I go to trade shows I get big production recipes for things. I bought a small kitchen calculator that converts these humungo recipes into smaller, more managable quantities. I haven't tried this, so I don't know how it will react. But, I'm going to post the production recipe and the smaller "tester" recipe. Hope that it's useful for someone out there. If you work with this let me know how you like it. taste Great and works beutiful for icing and stenciling. Holds shape well ( at least thats what the recipe states!)Production Sugar cookie recipe
- 9 pounds granulated sugar 6 pounds butter or bakers margarine 6 pounds all purpose shortening ( Crisco is good I guess) 3 ounces salt 3 ounces baking soda 6 ounces baking powder Add and mix in : 3 pounds of whole eggs Butter and Vanilla flavorings to taste Add and mix in: 19 pounds of Pastry Flour
- Bake light for added shelf life.
- (here are the tester quantities for a smaller version:
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- 1 pound butter or margarine
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Christmas Tree Elegance 2014 was a smashing success – thanks to all of you! Thank you to chairs Maureen (DAV) and Arthur (RPS), planning committee members, tree teams, ticket sellers at the trees and at the table/window – any and all who helped us stage one of the most popular and beautiful Christmas traditions in Spokane.
Our preliminary ticket sales numbers are looking to be over 262,000 !!! This is an increase of 36,000 over last year – 25,000 at The Davenport and 11,000 at River Park Square. This is a tribute to all the creative ideas from the tree teams and good salesmanship by all of you….maybe a little attributed to the good weather.
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BioLineRx Announces Results From Interim Analysis Of Phase II/III CLARITY Trial Of BL-1020 For Schizophrenia
BioLineRx (NASDAQ: BLRX) (TASE: BLRX), a biopharmaceutical development company, today announced that results from a pre-planned interim analysis of the Phase II/III CLARITY trial of BL-1020, a first in class, orally available, GABA-enhanced antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia, indicate that the trial would not meet the pre-specified primary efficacy endpoint. After conferring with the study's independent Data Monitoring Committee (DMC), the Company has decided to discontinue the CLARITY study. No additional patients will be enrolled in the trial.
"These disappointing results underscore the difficulty of treating cognition in schizophrenia, which remains an unmet medical need," stated Kinneret Savitsky, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of BioLineRx. "We would like to thank the patients and investigators for their participation and engagement in the study. While we certainly would have preferred to see a positive outcome on this trial, the decision to perform the interim analysis, without waiting until the end of the study, provides us with the opportunity to allocate additional resources to our other projects in order to accelerate their development. This confirms the advantage of our business model, which is based on a broad pipeline with a number of compounds, at different stages of development, and for multiple indications."
As a result of the CLARITY study termination, the Company anticipates that planned research and development expenses will decrease for the remainder of 2013 and part of 2014 by approximately $6 to $7 million, thus allowing the Company's current cash reserves of approximately $28 million to fund its expected operations into 2015. The Company expects to meet a number of significant clinical milestones related to other pipeline assets in the next 12-18 months.
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1) I have built my website using percentages to set page widths rather than set a fixed size. It works well in resolutions between 800 and 1280 wide and fits neatly on the page. Can anybody suggest a way to stop it stretching further beyond the 1280 width (whilst still fitting inside 800) ?
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I tried to adjust for the sweetest of this skirt with my favorite snarky, tart tee from Pink Pineapple Shop. It also helped to balance out the volume on the bottom with a tighter-fitting top half.
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