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By Sandy LaumeyerCourier Correspondent
Board Votes 4-1, To Examine Options
February 5, 2014 | Volume 101 / Number 6
Whether the Nashua School have a four-day or a five-day school week was first addressed two years ago. But because of the superintendent at that time leaving and a new superintendent coming in, the board voted to table the issue.
Last fall, the current school board decided to revisit changing to a four-day week. Board members did lengthy research and held public meetings to receive input from parents and teachers.
At the school board meeting Tuesday night, a motion was made that the board have the ability to explore and adopt a four-day or modified four-day school week. A facet of the motion was that changing to a four-day week is contingent on several factors. The first is successful development of a school calendar. The second is successful negotiations between union and non-union staff.
The vote on the motion was 4 to 1 with board members Brenda Koessl, Ryan Williams, Dale Pugh and Cole Sibley voting for it and Joe Laumeyer voting against it.
An example of a modified four-day school week would be one in which there are 10 weeks out of the school year that would be five-day weeks.
Whether a four-day school week at Nashua will actually transpire remains to be seen. For now, the board has decided to delve much more deeply into the possible change.
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Still have drain after a month after LBL. How long is too long? (Photo)
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Definition: 'Einthoven Law'
Einthoven lawType: Term
Pronunciation: īn′tō-vĕn
1. in the electrocardiogram the potential of any wave or complex in lead II is equal to the sum of its potentials in leads I and III.
Synonyms: Einthoven equation
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Fire destroys 104-year-old building, pub in Tuttle
TUTTLE — A 104-year-old building downtown that housed several businesses went up in flames early Tuesday.
Firefighters arrived at the building at 2 SW 3 St. about 5 a.m. to find fire shooting from the roof and from several windows.
Fire Capt. Larry Steverson said the main body of the fire was in Grady's Pub and Grille.
Crews from Mustang and Oklahoma City were called in to assist. The fire was extinguished about 10 a.m.
Most of the fire damage was contained to the second floor, but every business has heavy water and smoke damage, Steverson said. He said the air-conditioning unit and the kitchen of the pub were the first to catch fire.
Agents from the state fire marshal's office are investigating the cause.
The building contained nine businesses, including two engineering firms on the second floor and nutrition store on the first floor that had been open only one week.
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THE ANNUAL Wicklow RNLI Lifeboat Service of Remembrance was held on New Year's Day to honour all the deceased Wicklow lifeboat volunteer members, sailors from the town and all those associated with the sea.
Things began with a short religious prayer conducted Fr. Donal Roche and Rev. John Clarke. Flowers and wreaths were then taken onboard the lifeboat and were launched into the bay as a floral tribute.
A minute's silence was also held in memory of all the former members of Wicklow lifeboat who have risked everything to save the lives of others ever since the local lifeboat station was established in 1857.


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OKC Thunder: Kevin Durant's 3-pointer caps Thunder's comeback win over Lakers
LOS ANGELES — The Oklahoma City Thunder couldn't get over the hump. For 2 1/2 quarters, it lingered there, like smog in the Los Angeles sky. No matter what the boys in the road blues did, they just couldn't crack the seven-point barrier. They tried and tried but had no idea how to hurdle that hump. Until they got the ball to Russell Westbrook. The Thunder's star point guard carried his team in the fourth quarter. He brought Oklahoma City back from a nine-point, fourth-quarter deficit and did the heavy lifting long enough for Kevin Durant to drill a series-changing 3-pointer from the top of the key with 13.7 seconds remaining to lift the Thunder to a 103-100 win over the Lakers in Game 4 on Saturday night inside Staples Center. The Thunder's first chance to close out the series will be Game 5 at 8:30 p.m. Monday inside Chesapeake Energy Arena. With how dialed in Westbrook has been, it's hard to imagine the Thunder not finishing off the Lakers at the first opportunity. Westbrook scored a team-high 37 points on 15-of-26 shooting to slay the Lakers. He poured in 10 of his points in the fourth quarter. "Westbrook had a heck of a game," said Lakers coach Mike Brown. "He imposed his will and he made plays especially when it counted in the fourth quarter, which led to a 32-point quarter for those guys." Westbrook knew he needed to do something. After falling behind by eight with 10:07 left in the second quarter, the Thunder got within seven nine times. The final occasion came with 5:36 remaining in the fourth quarter. Westbrook quickly grew frustrated with the seesaw affair and simply took over. After the Thunder pulled within nine on a pair of free throws by Durant with 7:19 remaining, Westbrook peeled off nine straight Thunder points. He hit two pullup jumpers, the second bringing OKC within seven for the final time, and finally got his team over that pesky seven-point barrier on a driving layup and three-point play. It pulled the Thunder within 94-90 with 4:54 remaining. Westbrook's run ended on another pullup jumper with 4:16 to play that pulled the Thunder back within four after Kobe Bryant made one of several difficult fadeaway jumpers. "My job was to try to keep us in the game, regardless of what was going on," Westbrook said. "I was kind of upset because we weren't able to get a stop. It kind of felt like we were down 10, eight, 10, eight. We just kept going back and forth. So it was kind of frustrating, but we just kept fighting." Making his night all the more impressive was Westbrook slipped and crashed to the floor on the final play of the first half, hurting his hip and requiring treatment at halftime. When he limped off the floor, you hardly could envision him matching Bryant shot-for-shot in the decisive period. "Russell made so many big shots for us tonight," said Thunder coach Scott Brooks. "When we didn't have good offensive flow, Russell came up and made a big shot." The Thunder desperately needed Westbrook's spark. The Lakers led 29-24 after one quarter thanks to a combined 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting from Bynum and Bryant. Behind that potent inside-outside attack, the Lakers shot 60 percent and set the tone for the game. For the second straight game, Oklahoma City also couldn't control the Lakers' ball movement, which helped L.A. get open looks on the perimeter and high-percentage shots from in close. The Lakers recorded nine assists on their 12 made field goals in the opening period. In Game 2, the Lakers had just three assists in the first half. The same essential recipe fueled the Lakers to a 56-46 halftime lead. Only in the second quarter, L.A. got more contributions from its role players and continued its dominant rebounding. Lakers guard Ramon Sessions capped an 11-5 run over the first four minutes of the second quarter with consecutive driving layups to put L.A. on top 40-29.


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Definición de Brahmin en inglés:
2US A socially or culturally superior person, especially one from New England: he did not talk like the son of a New England Brahmin [as modifier]: a verbal style filched from one of her Brahmin bosses
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- For me, it's the voice of the New England intellectual Brahmin (despite the fact that Carter was born in New York): patrician, witty, a pilgrim in the land of ideas.
- Is the New Yorker part of the old pre-Roosevelt world of Brahmins and mavens?
- Evans' commitment to Sacco and Vanzetti may be seen as the culmination of her evolution from Brahmin matron to social activist; however, the case had more complex implications for Evans.
3 (also Brahminy bull or US Brahman) An ox of a humped breed originally domesticated in India, which is tolerant of heat and drought and is now kept widely in tropical and warm-temperate countries. Also called zebu.
- Bos indicus, family Bovidae; now usually included under the name B. taurus with other domestic cattle
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- Santa Gertrudis, rather than Brahmans, are bred on Caldervale, a 380,000 acre central Queensland brigalow block near Tambo, and are grown out early on Colonial's two NSW properties near Tamworth and Moree.
- A Florida rotational crossbreeding study involving the Angus, Brahman, and Hereford breeds revealed that calf survival rates were similar for the three sire breeds.
- The drovers are off to bring in the Brahmans, Droughtmasters, Angus and Shorthorns.
- Brahmin (sense 1), Brahmin (sense 2).Oraciones de ejemplo
- The Brahminical literary tradition regarding Ayodhya is essentially mythological and can't be proved or disproved by archaeology.
- It will thus facilitate the take-over of the State by the Hindutva forces and the rapid metamorphosis of the Indian society in the Brahminical mould.
- Little wonder, too, that the 'lower' castes have, over the centuries, flocked in droves to convert to Buddhism, Islam, Sikhism, and Christianity in order to escape from the shackles of the Brahminical system.
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Street talk: FMCG firms must adapt amid power shift
By Rod Street | 19 October 2011
The prospect of a slow recovery in the West and the rise of the emerging markets in the East means FMCG companies in the US and Europe must change how they operate at home to survive, writes SymphonyIRI's Rod Street.
In the West we are facing a new, unique inflection point in the market economy. Many grocery markets in Europe are not just at a standstill but have declined in terms of sales volume as households face a mammoth squeeze on their budgets. Economic pundits are now starting to understand just how long the recovery from a debt laden recession might be.
At the same time the pressure for earnings growth on every public company does not change. A quick scan across the leading FMCG manufacturers tells you that they are all racing at new geographies to fuel growth, relying on the emerging markets to underpin their revenue and profit expansion, which is so critical to underpinning their share price.
Company analysts are dissecting the portfolio of some of the world's largest FMCG companies to calculate their emerging markets rate of growth and share of turnover. This is turn is seen to determine their overall potential for organic development. The grocery sector is not alone and the same analysis is happening in other industries with more potential for growth than the mature grocery sector - including pharmaceuticals, electronics and mobile phones.
All of this pressure to grow is going to have an immense effect over the next decade: on FMCG companies, on the economy and perhaps most markedly on the psyche of those working in the Western business units. Just as they face the most immense squeeze in their markets - all positive corporate attention goes East.
Some have not realised the scale of the shift we are facing. The Institute of Fiscal Studies published a paper this week that highlights the extent of the income squeeze in the UK: an expected 7% reduction in average income will mean that real incomes will not attain 2008/09 levels until the middle of the decade. The same squeeze has already arrived in Greece and Ireland but will be arriving in most other heavily indebted Western economies before too long.
When Goldman Sachs created the term 'BRIC economies' in 2001, it predicted that by 2010 they might comprise more than 10% of global GDP. Even before the recession, in 2007, they had reached 15%. By 2020, the Conference Board estimates that emerging economies may have a 50% bigger share of global GDP than the advanced economies. China alone may be as much as a quarter of world GDP and by then there will be many places in China where GDP/head will be as high as parts of Europe.
This represents a shift that the advanced Atlantic economies have never seen before – the centre of gravity is suddenly 8000 km away.
As a result we will see a massive shift in focus and energy in FMCG companies. For the successful the impact will be a transformation. The 'key' country units of the post-war period (USA, Europe Big 5 etc) are about to be overshadowed by the new BRIC country units that offer the huge scale and opportunity needed to feed multinational growth.
This presents a real leadership challenge to those running these operations here: What should be our goals and strategy when growth is limited or non-existent? How do we secure investment and innovation for our markets? Do we need to rethink our operating models to succeed in the next decade?
Most efforts to simply continue with past strategies for topline growth are doomed to fail in the face of brutal trading conditions, concentrated distribution channels and frugal, sophisticated shoppers. Investment cases internally will struggle to meet both internal hurdle rates and prospective revenues from the emerging markets because they cannot offer the same growth trajectory and prospective incremental returns.
To succeed companies will need a shift in mindset.
This needs to be a shift that exploits the new reality and deploys this insight in rethinking go-to market approaches, business models and operating structures.
The streamlined businesses that take this on board will be adept at tackling a wider range of shoppers, penetrating new channels, pressing category adjacencies, tightening pricing skills, and avoiding waste in every function (including marketing and sales spend). Such a step change will require new managerial skills in established markets. Those that lead here will have assimilated the new reality and reflect the reduced importance of the old established markets in the corporate mix and the wave of new ideas coming from the emerging economies.
The winners, as there are always winners, will succeed in the face of a growing war of attrition in established markets, where the near term demands adequate financial returns and the long term a game to eliminate weaker participants.
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News Summary: Apple calls lawsuit 'silly sideshow'
THE ASSESSMENT: Apple CEO Tim Cook is calling a shareholder lawsuit against the company a "silly sideshow."
ABOUT THE DISPUTE: Investor David Einhorn sued Apple Inc. last week, saying a proposal slated for a vote at the company's annual meeting in two weeks would make it more difficult to enact his plan to reward shareholders by distributing a new class of shares.
COOK'S PROMISE: Repeating previous statements, Cook says Apple is "seriously" looking at ways to hand out more cash to shareholders.


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This system provides 10 different sizes of addi Turbo® tips, 3 different lengths of pliable blue cord, and 1 connector piece, which helps to either store stitches or combine cords. The tips require no tools to change: simply insert the cord deep into the tip, twist and release. The tips will remain secure until you change them, thanks to the revolutionary locking mechanism!
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DAILY PROMPT Can't Watch This When was the last time you watched something so scary, cringe-worthy, or unbelievably tacky — in a movie, on TV, or in real life — you had to cover your eyes? I don't have the … Continue reading
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Sherlock Holmes had his pipe. Dorothy had her red shoes. Batman had his Batmobile. If we asked your friends what object they most immediately associate with you, what would they answer?
I am not entirely positive that today's Daily Prompt inspires me to write much of interest, but I am always happy to share my love of the aviators. These particular ones are from Betsey Johnson, but I have many pair.
Maybe you have a signature object you can go on and on about. Tell me about it in the comments!
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I'm linking up with Ramblings of a Suburban Mom, and getting some things off of my mind. If you read my heads-up post about Tuesday being PINCHme Tuesday and you chose to participate – I sort of apologize. This week … Continue reading
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I can't believe yesterday was not Tuesday. But I had time to get used to it, so I'm okay with today being Thursday. Do you ever lose a day along the way?
Today's thrifty store of choice is Jane.com. Jane was introduced to me by my lovely friend, Laurie. I would link you all to her so you could bask in her awesomeness, but she doesn't blog. I know for a fact she would lynch me if I sent you to intrude upon her personal life on The Facebooks, so you will just have to take my word for it.
Jane.com is like a craft fair/boutique type of online store. You will find household goods, clothes, toys, jewelry, personalized items, makeup…the list just goes on and on. I adore a good amount of their clothes (and have purchased my fair share) and I REALLY love that I can buy personalized items for pretty much the same as non-personalized items elsewhere (maybe even cheaper!).
If you purchase from them you will need to keep in mind that all of the items are coming from different vendors. You may not and likely will not receive your items in one shipment and each item will likely have different shipping costs. I have never found this to be too much of a nuisance considering the great deal I'm getting.
A few of my favorite finds have been maxi skirts, chevron blouses and personalized necklaces for the littles. If you keep an eye out, you may even luck upon a grab bag or two like I did. Five pieces of statement jewelry for less than ten bucks? Don't mind if I do.
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From the yeasty warmth of freshly baked bread to the clean, summery haze of lavender flowers, we all have favorite smells we find particularly comforting. What's yours?
I have many favorite smells. The smell of a newborn baby. I mean, a new-new newborn baby, fresh from the factory. I can't describe it in a worthy way. The air is sweet and clean and… new. I don't know if that's everyone's experience or just mine. My newborn babies smell good.
I like the smell of freshly mown grass. This is a common one. You either love it or you hate it. I have only recently learned, or perhaps relearned as maybe I knew it before, that the smell that I love so much is actually a chemical that the lawn gives off trying to save itself from the injury you are inflicting upon it. That makes me sad. It is sad that it smells so good.
I love the musky smell of a good rainstorm. I think everyone gets this one. Right?
I love the smell of Thanksgiving dinner cooking. It's almost too many aromas at once. Sweet and savory overload – a welcomed experience.
The smell of coffee brewing is one of my most odd favorites. Odd because I do not drink coffee. Not the freshly brewed, never experienced the transformation into a white chocolate mocha kind of coffee anyway. It is my fervent wish that coffee tasted as good, straight out of the pot, as it smells while it is brewing.
I have a feeling that I could go on like this for many hours, but I have to eat lunch now. BLT's smell good.
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There are times when human beings can become so broken that truths of how they are being victimized do not "set them free." This is certainly the case for many victims of parental and spousal abuse. They are not helped by people explaining to them that they are being battered, exploited, uncared about and disrespected. They know it already and somebody pointing it out is not helpful.
So, it seems to me that it is also possible that human beings can become so broken by the abuse of the corporate elite that they also are no longer set free by truth.
While certainly the corporate-controlled mainstream media does not report many important truths, the majority of the American people do know enough to oppose the war in Afghanistan, but they do almost nothing in response to recent troop surges.
Polls show that the majority of Americans actually support single-payer, Medicare-for all plan and even a larger majority support a public option, yet there are relatively few people on the streets protesting the Democratic party betrayal of them.
And look at the 2000 U.S. "banana-republic" presidential election, in which Gore beat Bush by 500,000 votes and the Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount, and 51 million Gore voters were disenfranchised. Yes, there were small protest demonstrations against this election farce, but the numbers of protesters were so small that they empowered rather [than] concerned the future Bush administration, which went on to almost vaunt its regime of anti-democracy and piss on basic human rights. How humiliating for an entire nation. The shame many Americans feel, at some level, for allowing torture and other abuses is similar to the shame that spousal abuse victims feel -- and this routinely makes people feel even weaker. So, while not all Americans are broken, demoralized, and feeling powerless, many are.
I wish the answer to restoring democracy was simply one of people getting more journalistic truths through a non-corporate media --and certainly I am all for that -- but I think that much more is required. We need to take a look at what forces in American society are breaking the American people from the ability to resist tyranny and dehumanization, and we must start considering what are the antidotes to this. At least that's what any psychologist or social scientist who gives a damn about genuine democracy should be doing.
So, our feelings of powerlessness are rooted in modern life, exacerbated by present political realities. I'd like to point out another factor, which is what Paul Rogat Loeb refers to as our "historic amnesia." Historian and social activist Howard Zinn spent decades trying to offset that amnesia by providing an alternate history of our country, emphasizing various movements that have spanned decades (or generations) and eventually brought about change. He told stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things and his book, A People's History of the United States has sold two million copies. So, it's obviously struck a chord. What do you think about the power of stories as an antidote to the ennui you describe?
Stories of resistance to tyranny are great for the morale, so Howard Zinn did a great service by popularizing historical examples. These can be inspirational. A broken person and a broken people need morale. Inspirational models whom people can identify with can be energizing, and energy is exactly what demoralized people need.
It is important for people to know that yes there are historical examples of people rebelling against the elite. It is important, for example, for us to know that there once was something called The People's Party in the U.S. and a huge Populist revolt that scared the hell out of the elite in the 1880s and 1890s.
But historical truths are not enough because sometimes people say, "That's just history, now is different, rebellion isn't possible." That's why not only historians need to report rebellions but journalists must report current resistance to the ruling elite corporations and their political lackeys, current resistance to this "corpocracy."
Bill Moyers has done a good job reporting on current resisters. I have seen a couple of examples on his recent shows. One is Steve Meachum and his group City Life which has successfully kept people from being thrown out of their homes in foreclosure. Another example is pediatrician Margaret Flowers, a member of Physicians for a National Health Program, jailed for the cause of single-payer/Medicare for all.
Good examples. I interviewed Dr. Flowers* last May, shortly after she was released from jail.
Historical examples and current examples of resistance against the corporacy can be inspiring, energizing, and morale boosting.
The elite know that to win the class war, just like wining any war, the goal is the crush the spirit of resistance of your opponent. So if you want to win the class war, you must care about the morale of your class.
Remember the "Tank Man" in China? While it is important for the people in China to know all the ways that they are being victimized, the problem is if they are completely terrified of their authoritarian government and too broken to resist, what's the good of knowing more and more about how they are being victimized? So, that one image of the guy getting out in front of the tank -- "the Tank Man" -- is hugely important.
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This is the first time I saw MTT conduct. He is magnificent! The program was delightful also. And of course the members of the symphony orchestra are perfect. Who could ask for more?
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Seats were excellent, program was well done (as always, with MTT on the podium), just a wonderful evening.
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Absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. An amazingly talented group of performers.
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Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy – Overture
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Stravinsky: Scherzo à la russe
Prokofiev: Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
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I. Introduction
This is a short extract from Liz Greene's Psychological Horoscope Analysis. The complete report of 18-25 pages can be ordered as an E-Horoscope or a bound booklet in the Astroshop.This horoscope analysis - using the insights of astrology and psychology combined with the tools of advanced computer technology - offers you an astrological portrait which is uniquely and individually focussed and which aims at providing greater self-knowledge. II. Your Psychological Type
This short chapter describes your typical or characteristic way of responding to situations in life.The rich array of individual attributes portrayed in your birth horoscope is set, as it is with everyone, against the backdrop of a certain temperament bias. We might call this bias your psychological "type". Other people are the most important thing in the world to you, and you tend to live your life for and through them. Your gifts are those of the heart. You have great empathy for people's unhappiness, and may often find yourself playing the role of good father to those friends and loved ones who need an understanding and nonjudgmental shoulder to cry on. You adore feeling needed, and dislike hurting others; and you are capable of immense loyalty and devotion to those who are close to you. Your [...] [..] Your valuing of others and your tactful response to their needs is enhanced by common sense and the ability to cope with the ordinary demands and challenges of everyday life, and you possess a rare blending of empathy and tolerant acceptance of another's limitations which [...] III. Character and Shadow
In this comprehensive chapter of the Psychological Horoscope Liz Greene provides valuable insights about your essential character traits.The interplay between the conscious and unconscious sides of you is a constantly shifting dance, changing at different stages of your life and altering according to the pressures and challenges which you encounter. The tension between the primary characters in your inner drama is the source of energy which provides your life with movement, purpose, conflict and growth. [..] You have little patience with hypocrisy, and are not averse to directly challenging and, if necessary, offending those who offend you by their refusal to be themselves. You are intelligent without being an intellectual snob; you enjoy luxury and pleasure and are unafraid [...] You want the good things in life, and are honest enough to admit it. You do not have to pose as a spiritually evolved soul, a humanitarian altruist, or a high-minded aesthetic collector of art; you want security, a nice place to live, good food, sexual pleasure and emotional [...] Hidden traits In contrast to your direct and unpretentious way of handling your life, there is another protagonist in your inner psychic drama; and this hidden side of you contains all those qualities which really belong to you but which you have excluded from your conscious values [...] A minor character [..] It is not that you are conventionally religious, nor even mystical in any usual sense; for the world of the imagination is too chaotic, passionate and sometimes dark for you to worship it in the humble posture of the spiritual devotee. But most of what you experience outside [...] IV. The Family Background
In the complete horoscope analysis, this chapter deals with your family myths as well as with your perception of your parents and their relationship.Although you are an individual, you have emerged from a family background. Thus you contain certain inner patterns, myths and attitudes toward life which you have acquired from the psychological soil of this background. V. Relationship Patterns
This chapter describes attitudes, needs and characteristic patterns in close one-to-one relationships.Both astrology and psychology teach us that nothing that occurs within a relationship is chance. Your birth horoscope describes what you are like inside, and therefore what kind of patterns, needs and compulsions you are likely to bring into your relationships with others. You may not care to put much time and energy into adorning yourself, your speech or your behaviour just to please some social requirement of finesse; but your secret need to develop your intellectual and aesthetic side draws you toward women who seem to embody that elusive element called "class". Physical beauty matters a great deal to you in a partner, and it must be a very special kind of beauty: the kind that seems at home in every setting including the best restaurants and the most fashionable [...] VI. Paths toward Integration
The final chapter of the Psychological Horoscope Analysis contains insights into the potential for growth as shown in your birth chart.The following paragraphs provide some suggestions of ways in which conscious effort might make it possible for you to achieve greater harmony between the different components within yourself, and to strengthen that centre of the personality which psychology calls the ego, the "I". Appendix
These small samples from different chapters convey an impression of your personal Psychological Horoscope which comprises 18 - 25 pages. It can be ordered as an E-Horoscope or bound booklet in the Astroshop. Please read a complete sample report (of a different person) to get an overview of the extent of the complete horoscope.You may wish to take a look at the range of our reports.


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Fly-fishing documentary dips deep, below the surface of friendship
On its lovely, rugged surface, the dramatic documentary "Low & Clear" seems like a roustabout buddy movie with fly fishing at its center. But in the tradition of the greatest of all fly-fishing movies, "A River Runs Through It," this documentary is beneath its surface about so much more.
Like all good sports stories, it pays masculine homage to the rough ritual of play that so often exposes with compelling urgency those strengths and failings that make us fully human. And like all fine literature it carries the weight of myth rooted in everyday things — like friendship, rivalry and a shared journey.
The movie tells the tale of two lifelong but estranged buddies — J.T. Van Zandt and Alex "Xenie" Hall — as they reunite for a trip to the roiling rivers of British Columbia to catch fish and rekindle their friendship.
Two more unlikely fishing partners would be hard to imagine. Van Zandt (musician, boat builder and eldest son of the late Texas music legend Townes Van Zandt) is the prototypical Zen angler — more attuned to the peaceful pace of nature, the soothing rhythms of the cast, the organic luring of his prey, than to the carnivorous taking of fish. "Xenie" Hall (itinerant firewood salesman) is the very model of the gonzo wild man — lustfully counting his catch, restless and impatient with quietude, always dashing off to pursue bigger and bigger fish.
The two men's angling styles aptly reflect their lives — one contemplative, patient and philosophical; the other brash, jittery and impulsive.
Directors Tyler Hughen and Kahlil Hudson deftly capture the dynamic tension between the two men in their rough moments of levity, their warring philosophies of sport, their easy camaraderie and largely unspoken rivalry.
As Xenie catches loads of fish, Van Zandt's laid-back ethic is sorely tested. But by and large, J.T and Xenie are inextricably bound by their shared love of nature, of trout and of fly angling.
Amid the buddy bonding, Hughen and Hudson are not afraid to let their cameras paint the lovely stillness and majesty of the world where men and fish coexist.
Not surprisingly the breathtaking, painterly nature of their cinematography has won cheers. The 70-minute film premiered at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the "Audience Award."
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Thunder has joined a small, elite group of teams in Western Conference
Sam Presti and Clay Bennett looked awfully somber Wednesday night in the Chesapeake Arena catacombs, considering they had just come from the pandemonium of the basketball floor.
Their ballplayers were adorned in Western Conference championship shirts and caps. Their fans were shrieking like schoolgirls after the biggest sports night in Oklahoma City history.
But Bennett and Presti were on a mission. Bennett, the Thunder chairman who once was the Spurs' rep on the NBA board of governors, and Presti, the vice president/general manager who earned his wings in San Antonio, were paying their respects to those they had conquered.
They exchanged hugs and handshakes with Spurs general manager R.C. Buford and assistant GM Danny Ferry and coach/president Gregg Popovich.
Popovich, in particular, was magnanimous, patting the backs of the Thunder brass.
And Presti walked away with red eyes and lumpy throat.
My theory: Presti was emotional with his mentors, not because he felt so bad about beating them, but because he knew how monumental was the achievement.
Winning the NBA West is not for the faint. The NBA West is a closed society. An exclusive club. Only the stouthearted need apply.
Between 1998 and Wednesday night, only three franchises had won the Western Conference. The Lakers (seven), the Spurs (four) and the Mavericks (two).
Back East, they pass around the conference title. Nine franchises in those 13 years. Indy and Philly, New York and New Jersey, Cleveland and Miami, Detroit and Orlando and Boston. No franchise more than twice.
But the West is not egalitarian.
Which makes the Thunder's ascension to the NBA Finals even more special. And who the Thunder dispatched to get there.
The Mavs (still with franchise cornerstone Dirk Nowitzki). The Lakers (still with franchise cornerstone Kobe Bryant). The Spurs (still with franchise cornerstone Tim Duncan).
That's why Popovich mentioned the "great, great stuff" of the Thunder's run. And Presti was clearly moved by the achievement.
"You have to embrace and respect these opportunities when they are presented because there is nothing promised or guaranteed," Presti said. "Every season is unique, and you are not entitled to anything other than the same number of days to improve as the other 29 teams when camp starts each season."
The West has been so stingy with its trophy because of stability. Its superstars tend to stay put. Back East, LeBron fled Cleveland. Dwight Howard appears ready to scram from Orlando. Allen Iverson wore out his welcome in Philadelphia.
But the Lakers, Spurs and Mavs have remained solid with marquee talent and the core around it. Systems remain in place. A culture is established, be it the dogged professionalism in San Antone or the showtime feel in LA.
Such stability and sustainability closes the door to worthy teams. The Rasheed Wallace Blazers. The Chris Webber Kings. The Kevin Garnett Timberwolves. The Steve Nash Suns. The Deron Williams Jazz. The Carmelo Nuggets.
All reached the West finals. None advanced.
Until the Kevin Durant Thunder. Which is why Presti and Bennett weren't the only emotional members of the franchise.
Durant was particularly moved, and the end-of-series embraces between the Spurs and Thunder seemed more than the standard pleasantries. Durant and Duncan shared a moment together in what appeared to be a ceremonial bequeathing of the crown.
"He just told me congrats and good luck," Durant said. "I respect Tim Duncan and the whole organization so much. You know, just their professionalism. They do things the right way. They play the game the right way. They're a family, and that's something that we kind of try to model here, as well.
"It just felt good for somebody of that stature with that many championship rings to recognize us that way, and it also felt good to come out there and get a win against them."
Of course, the expected course is for the Thunder to get many more. Presti's caution is well-noted, but the Thunder's youth appears to signal a new era in the NBA West.
"They've got a very bright future, really," said Spurs statesman Manu Ginobili. "When your best three players are 22 and 23, it's hard not to be optimistic about the future of this franchise.
"They are great. They have so much talent, and they are so athletic, and they've got a great front office. I mean, we know Sam Presti. He's a really sharp guy, and he pulled this basically out of nothing."
From nothing to West supremacy, which as history shows, is not easy to do.
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