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America's first official WWI artist created an art colony in 1937 in Maitland, Florida, originally called The Research Studio. His 21-year tenure at the art center included friendships with Zora Neale Hurston, Mary Curtis Bok, and Annie Russell, while also serving as a location for invited artists to create their own work.
Maitland Art Center Galleries
231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL 32751
Tuesday – Sunday, 11 AM – 4 PM
The story of Maitland's legacies united all of the Art & History Museums – Maitland, and extends beyond local geography, mirroring many American communities. The important individuals and families that made up these legacies include André Smith, the Waterhouse family, the Galloway family, the Dommerich family, the Hill family, and many more.
What united these people that founded our institutions? These pioneers were creative, innovative, entrepreneurial, and visionary. They came to this unfamiliar place and made opportunities for themselves and others. Drawn from a variety of social classes, they built both culture and community. Using archival photographs, artifacts, and documents, the exhibition explores these stories as they relate to the economic, technological, and social aspects of the American experience.
Maitland Historical Museum
221 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL 32751
Thursday – Sunday 12p.m. – 4p.m.
The Telephone Museum's permanent exhibit takes visitors on a tour of communications technology. Try your hand at the working switching station and then take a look at how phones have changed through history. This exciting collection features the story of the Winter Park Telephone Company founded in Maitland by Carl Galloway in 1910.
221 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL 32751
Thursday – Sunday 12p.m. – 4p.m.
This historic house museum reflects the life of a middle class Victorian family during the early days of the city of Maitland. The home was originally built by Maitland resident and carpenter William Waterhouse in 1884. Visit and learn about the Waterhouse family and the early days of Maitland and Central Florida.
Click the link below and preview a copy of a letter written by William Waterhouse to his brother in 1884!
William Waterhouse Letter
See video of Waterhouse & Carpentry Shop Museums
820 Lake Lily Drive, Maitland, FL 32751
Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 4 PM
Built in 1883 as the working shop of carpenter and home builder William H. Waterhouse, the Carpentry Shop Museum now houses a permanent exhibit of nineteenth century and early twentieth century tools. This museum offers hands-on opportunities as well!
820 Lake Lily Drive, Maitland, FL 32751
Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 4 PM
The Learning Garden is located next to the Waterhouse Residence Museum, this outdoor exhibit features plants popular in Victorian Florida. Bring friends and learn together the many uses of these plants during the Victorian era.


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Interviewed were Robert Walker, who spent 30 years in the sheet metal industry; Carol Clarke, vice president of corporate procurement/supplier diversity for Regions Bank; and Anissia Hatcher, policies and procedures process coordinator for Children's of Alabama. A fourth candidate, Daagye Hendricks, most recently parking manager for the Birmingham Airport Authority, withdrew her name from the running immediately before the interviews.
Perhaps one of the most eye-opening questions of the evening came from Board member W.J. Maye, who asked each candidate how he or she would handle an ineffective principal. It was somewhat of a trick question, since board members are required to stay out of personnel matters and report any problems they hear from constituents to the superintendent for action.
Two of the three candidates -- Walker and Hatcher -- said they would talk to the principal first, in an attempt to motivate him. If that didn't work, they said, they would take further action, including removing the principal. Only Clarke said she didn't think it was within a board member's role to do anything other than report the problem to the superintendent.
After the interview, Walker said he's been devoted to District 4 for 30 years, as he's been a neighborhood officer for most of that time.
"I'd like to focus solely on the school board for my district," he said. When asked what he thought about the state takeover of Birmingham's finances, he said he supports it "if it's necessary."
"Anything that will make it better, I support," he said.
Clarke said despite the board's issues, she feels the role of serving on the board is an important one.
"It's the most important thing I've ever hoped to do," she said after her interview. As for the state takeover, Clarke said "it's unfortunate for us, but I also see it as an opportunity."
Hatcher said her job in policies and procedures at Children's of Alabama puts her in a position to be able to work with all kinds of personalities.
"I don't see why we can't work collaboratively and work in tandem with the (Superintendent) Dr. (Craig) Witherspoon and the state," she said after her interview, adding that she too is in support of the state takeover. "My son is a second grade student at Princeton Elementary and it's important for him to be in a school system that's thriving."
The board completed the interviews at a little past 5:30 p.m. It will reconvene for a special called board meeting at 6:30 p.m. to select a new member for District 4.
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If you are not yet recycling or composting your food waste, you may want to take a look at what the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina has done. The 1,053-room hotel, located just minutes from the historic Gaslamp District, Seaport Village, and the San Diego Convention Center, last month launched a comprehensive food waste recycling program and is already seeing significant success. The hotel's food scraps are now diverted to the City of San Diego's Greenery, where restaurants and hotels are able to turn breakfast, lunch and dinner leftovers into renewable products, including compost. Conservatively, the San Diego Hotel & Marina believes they will now divert more than 200 tons of food waste from the landfill annually. Waste Management of San Diego (WMSD) is assisting the hotel with its program.
"Food waste is a major opportunity for beneficial reuse so we are pleased to help the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina expand and manage this program," said Jason Rose, vice president and general manager of Waste Management San Diego and Orange County. "The hotel's food waste can be transformed into a valuable resource such as compost for farmers and landscapers. It also cuts trash collection frequency, which ultimately reduces fuel use and green house emissions. The result is a greener San Diego for residents and visitors alike."
The food waste recycling program is just one part of an overall recycling program that was launched at the hotel with the assistance of WMSD. In the first three weeks of the program, the Marina Tower's diversion rate has jumped from 15 percent to 80 percent, with a goal of reaching 90 percent by the end of the year. The hotel has achieved more than a 300 percent increase in diversion and recycling as compared to previous months. Sheraton and Waste Management officials estimate that more than four times the amount of material will be diverted from the landfill in the next 12 months, compared to last year.
"Food separation and diversion, coupled with single-stream recycling, dovetails perfectly with the rest of our green initiatives throughout the property," said John Ford, hotel manager. "It doesn't hurt that our financial and environmental goals are aligned perfectly--the more material we can divert from the landfill, the lower our waste bill is."
The Sheraton is just one of many recycling success stories in California. Has your property experienced similar success with recycling? I would love to hear about it. Leave your comments here or write to email@example.com.
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Speech of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the international conference "Military and Political Aspects of European Security", Moscow, 23 May 2013
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, colleagues,
I would like to welcome in Moscow again participants of the international conference dedicated to topical aspects of security of our common Euro-Atlantic space.
The search of answers to the questions brought to the agenda of the meeting is even more important in conditions of the deep changes of the geopolitical landscape taking place in the world. The global balance of powers has not been defined yet. New centres of influence are being formed characterizing the process of establishment of the polycentric system of the world order. A priority place for some single region in the new international architecture is far from being guaranteed.
The whole set of factors affects security of all the countries, including those of the Euro-Atlantic region. The increasing military and political instability, extension of zones of turbulence in international relations, escalation of elements of chaos in them is of particular importance. It is evident that the disturbances that have overtaken the Middle East and North Africa will apparently be of a long-term and painful nature and most probably will be interconnected with the growth of risks far outside the borders of this region.
We can parry modern challenges only on the way of building-up collective actions of the international community based on strict adherence to standards and principles of the international law. As the President Vladimir Putin noted many times, nobody can solve global problems in the economy and policy alone – this is the main characteristic of the new epoch. The supremacy of law in international relations has the same meaning as in internal affairs. When settling crisis situations, we need to act in strict adherence to the UN Charter, avoiding arbitrary interpretation of UNSC resolutions and attempts to resolve the problems using unilateral forced methods.
At the current stage, one of the main trends in the field of security is reduction of the ratio of internal European risks, while the threat of challenged, the sources of which are outside the continent, increase. Therefore, the quality of security in the region is primarily determined by the ability of countries to unite their efforts in combating new threats at distant borders, certainly, and I will emphasize it again, in strict adherence to standards of the international law. The consolidation of our potentials is required for adequate reaction to real rather than artificial risks related to international terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, illegal supplies of regular armaments, especially to conflict areas, drug traffic, piracy, cyber attacks, natural and man-induced catastrophes, intensification of interreligious and intercivilizational frictions. We hear considerations in favour of collective, truly partner actions more and more frequently. In particular, I will refer to the opinion of Zbigniew Brzezinski expressed at the Tocqueville Prize awards ceremony on 14 October 2011: to avoid a dangerous recurrence of the recent past Europe needs a concept of the future binding of everybody as never before. A concept binding for everybody, I emphasize this, means indivisibility of security at the European continent.
Many countries of the Euro-Atlantic region contemplate about it today. It is evident that the current model of military and political relations is seriously lagging behind from the advanced level of trade and investment links, cooperation in the field of energy, culture, science and tourism.
The military correlation of forces has been evidently changing between countries and their unions in Europe for the last two decades. The aspiration to the build-up and modernization of offensive capabilities, creation and deployment of new types of weapons, expansion of NATO washed out the structure of security in Europe that was cemented by the system of contracts in the sphere of armaments control in the preceding period. The collapse of CFE has become one of logical consequences of this process.
Russia consistently advocates for the decrease in the role of the factor of power in international affairs, at the same time reinforcing strategic and regional stability, for neutralization of potential threats by political, diplomatic and other non-military means. We are ready to participate in the development of proper agreements based on principles of equality, real consideration of interests and concerns of each other.
We are still convinced that we need to make the repeatedly declared principle of indivisibility of security legally binding and so – actually working. The initiative of signature of a European security treaty issued by us is not of volatile nature and remains at the agenda.
We are convinced that the attempts to strengthen own security at the account of weakening our own partner lead just to the build-up of unnecessary tension, unjustified scattering of political and financial resources.
In general, the problems of indivisibility of security has rather good political grounds – the Charter for European Security, the declaration of OSCE summits in Astana and the NATO-Russia Council in Lisbon. Now the matter depends on its transfer to specific affairs.
As to OSCE, Russia is interested in the consolidation of its role as a mechanism of building of an equal and indivisible security system. We have a "window of opportunities" for this: the so called "Helsinki plus 40" process was initiated in Dublin last December, that is envisaged to help discover ways for ensuring full compliance of OSCE actions at the modern stage to the principles led down during its creation in 1975. The coordination of the uniting agenda, which is based on challenges and interests common for everybody, would allow to bring life to OSCE, deploy it the direction of real security problems, not to fix on narrow subjects and to "specialise" on humanitarian issues exclusively in the area "to the East from Vienna".
The NATO-Russia Council has large opportunities. This unique arena can and should be used for "scanning" horizons of security, discovery of problems and threats at an early stage, making decisions and development of measures for their joint neutralisation.
Within the framework of agreements with the European Union on the "roadmap" of the common space of external security, we are ready to search for opportunities to join our approaches, to find mutually acceptable solutions in the sphere of crisis management.
I am convinced that there are more common things than disagreements in the views of the leading international players to the most acute problems of the modern world, especially in what concerns not tactical but rather final goals. Nobody is interested in getting down to a new race of armaments and military confrontation. One of the main tasks at the current stage is fortification of confidence, consideration of security interests of each other. Only such a basis will allow us to set up the development and adoption of decisions in a broad range of problems of mutual interest.
And here it is time to translate words into deeds. The meaning of the "reset" of relations between Russia and the USA consisted in "advance(ing) our common global agenda". This thesis was made by US Vice President Joseph Biden during his speech at the Munich Security Conference on 2 February of this year. If we wish to avoid mutual suspicions about each other's intents, we need to jointly analyse existing risks and to develop truly collective, common approaches to their neutralisation, rather than imposing unilaterally elaborated decisions as the only true ones. This refers to AMD, long-term military planning and crisis management.
Working together as truly equal partners, we can efficiently supplement each other multiplying our potentials. Transatlantic solidarity should not be opposed to the common European unity.
Joint counteracting piracy is an example of such collective approach. It is based on the UNSC mandate defining the framework of interaction between all participants of the anti-piracy coalition. Effective coordination of efforts is reached on these grounds. I think that we may arrange cooperation in counteracting other global threats and challenges according to such model.
We do a lot together in the interests of stabilization of the situation in Afghanistan. However, we could have much more impressive results, if we combined efforts of ISAF working in the country, and CSTO conducting anti-drug operation along the external perimeter of IRA borders.
I will say in the end that all countries are interested in the reinforcement of their potential of counteracting new threats. We need to do a simple thing – to take care that our own potentials are not perceived as means able to do harm to the security of partners. Then we will have no obstacles for combining our efforts in the long view.
The today's conference is an excellent opportunity to better understand each other, to find additional points of support to advance to our common goals.
I wish you successful discussion and effective negotiations.


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A reader sent this query via email:
Question....is there a new person doing the daily Oregonian crossword puzzle? I have done them for years and look forward each day to receiving them in the Living Section. I could generally complete them or most of them every day. Starting about a month ago they seemed quite different....harder to solve for me and definitely a different format of questions. Just curious and any assisstance you can provide would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!Features editor JoLene Krawczak responds:
We are using the same crossword puzzle that we have used for more than 10 years and it's still done by the same person.
What has changed recently is the size of the crossword. Editors took advantage of the discontinuation of "Cul de Sac," the popular strip ended when creator Richard Thompson developed Parkinsons disease, to enlarge the crossword on the page. Readers had often requested the puzzle be larger.


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I sit here wondering what your life must have been like?
As I try to piece it together with fragments that I have found.
Did you find life hard, did you find life a pleasure?
Were your children a blessing or curse?
Ah the questions I should have asked.
Did your father speak with a brogue?
Did your mother fix wonderful food?
Did your uncles toss you on their knees?
Did your aunts have tea with you?
Did you travel or did you stay?
Ah the question I should have asked.
What was your childhood like?
Did you learn to read? Did you learn to write?
Did you go to Church?
Did you learn to cook?
Did you learn to fish?
Did you ride in a wagon to a new found home?
Or was it a ship that brought you here?
Ah the questions I should have asked.
What were my parents like as children?
Were they serious? Were they clowns?
Were they your pride and joy?
Ah the questions I should have asked.
As I sit here and fill in the past,
My life I must try to encompass,
But there will be things I leave out
There will be things that slip my mind.
So Ask the questions now while my
Memories are fresh and my life is moving along.
Don't wait for another day.
Do not delay or you'll look for answers,
That will be shadows of the past
Ah the questions I should have asked.
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Red Wings defenceman Nicklas Lidstrom and forward Pavel Datsyuk weighed in on their selections as Western Conference All-Star reserves this afternoon. Nicklas Lidstrom told the Detroit News's Ted Kulfan that his 11th appearance at the All-Star Game still matters:
January 7, Detroit News: "It's always an honor," Lidstrom said of the opportunity to play in the All-Star Game. "It's always a fun weekend and relaxing."
Most of Lidstrom's teammates will be headed to warmer climates for the weekend, but that doesn't deter Lidstrom's enthusiasm toward the game.
"Sometimes it crosses your mind when you hear guys are going to relax for the weekend, but on the other hand, you don't get many chances to play in this game," Lidstrom said.
Datsyuk is excited about the opportunity to play in Montreal.
"Where hockey is so big, it'll be a huge game and a lot of fun," Datsyuk said.
Datsyuk told the Detroit Free Press's Helene St. James that he's heading to Montreal as a substitute:
January 7, Detroit Free Press: I think that if the selections had been made a month ago, Marian Hossa would have edged out Datsyuk, but Datsyuk has just been so phenomenal the past month, there was no way he wasn't going to be selected. He has 46 points in 39 games, putting him sixth overall in the NHL scoring race.
Hossa may not be entirely sorry not to be going.
"I think Hossa said 'I don't want to go,'," Datsyuk said. "Maybe without Hossa no go, I'll be fastest player on ice."
Coach Mike Babcock approves of the NHL's choices...
"Nick, to me, is an All-Star first team, bar none," Wings coach Mike Babcock said. "No question about it. Pav has had a real good last month and a half, to say the least, and he's a real good player. We could have had more, but some other guys will get time off."
And, as Babcock told MLive.com's own Ansar Khan, regardless of whether he ends up as the head coach (see Khan's story--the Wings have to win both of their games, the Sharks lose both of their games, and the Wings tweak their goals-for-vs.-goals-against stat) or assistant coach, he's not planning on doing any work:
Babcock will be there, too, either as head coach or as an assistant to San Jose's Todd McLellan. That won't be determined until after Saturday's games.
"I'll be happy to watch him do everything," Babcock said. "I went to school in Montreal for five years at McGill. I'm going to take my oldest girl, show her around the school."
Something tells me that Babcock and his old pal, the legendary Earl Zukerman (McGill's guru of sports information) will have a good old time on the 23rd and 24th.
Babcock and Lidstrom also spoke to WXYT about their selections, and Henrik Zetterberg does the talking for Pavel--and he also challenges himself to be a better player.
Between Babcock's delight, Lidstrom's unbelievable amount of respect for a game that players as well as media members tend to blow off, and Zetterberg's dogged determination to become an All-Star calibre player again...Did I ever mention that I really, really, really like this team?
The fact that Jakub Kindl and Daniel Larsson are headed to the AHL's All-Star Game's pretty cool, too.
Also: WXYZ's Tom Leyden spoke to Datsyuk, Lidstrom, Babcock, and Zetterberg, and, man, the look on Z's face...


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Michigan had a shot to pull off a big nonconference win at Maryland - the Wolverines played a great first half and put themselves in position to win.
You can't ask for too much more. Of course, a win would have been nice, and a huge boost to Michigan's early hopes of being in the NCAA Tournament. But, as long as the Wolverines avoided a blowout, it was a win-win situation. Either Michigan literally wins the game, or U-M shows some progress on the road, in a very tough environment.
And we definitely saw a lot of positive on Wednesday night.
The Wolverines came out and simply outplayed Maryland in the first half. Michigan was the better team for the first 20 minutes, and it showed with a six-point lead at halftime.
What happened in the second half may be a better sign for the rest of the year, though.
No, not the outcome. No, not giving up 46 points after the break.
But Michigan showed some toughness - a trait that's been lacking for the past millennium or so. Maryland came out flying in the second half, and knocked Michigan back on its heels. The Wolverines were struggling defensively, turning the ball over and basically just looking overmatched in the early second-half moments.
They didn't fall apart, though. Zack Novak converted a four-point play after Michigan fell behind seven and the Wolverines and Terps then went back-and-forth almost the entire rest of the way.
DeShawn Sims and Manny Harris each had decent games, but nothing sensational. Harris, particularly, struggled to free up from the floor and hit shots. Anthony Wright missed his first six shots, Stu Douglass never found his stroke, neither David Merritt nor C.J. Lee gave much on the offensive end and the Wolverines got very little inside.
Those are some of the negatives. That lingering positive - that Michigan finally looks like a team that could win some games on the road - should not be overlooked.
Some of those issues you know you will have with a Beilein-coached team hurt in Maryland: when the 3-pointers weren't falling in stretches, Michigan's offense kind of hit the wall. And the rebounding was miserable (43-26 overall for Maryland, including 17 offensive boards). It was barely enough to keep Michigan from a win in an ACC arena.
Now, obviously, Michigan's got to fix some of those things - at least as much as possible. You know the Wolverines will get outrebounded frequently ... but 17 offensive rebounds are way too many. That just makes playing defense nearly impossible, to have to double up on the defensive end 17 times.
It will take a team effort to get better there. Zack Gibson got banged around underneath and, while Sims and Harris did a nice job, no one else really stepped up. In this scheme, without guys like Jevohn Shepherd and Anthony Wright crashing, it's not going to work.
So the win didn't come, but you have to trust Beilein will continue to make this team better. Already, they look more confident in what they're doing, more capable of doing what they're supposed to.
And more prepared to win some games. Michigan will be in position to win a lot more games this year - it's just a matter of what happens once the Wolverines are there.


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TRENTON — Returning home with the Eastern League Player of the Week didn't help Friday night as the Trenton Thunder lost 11-2 to the Altoona Curve.
It was a beautiful evening for a baseball game, with an announced crowd of 4,710 enjoying the scene at Arm & Hammer Park.
In a recent seven-game stretch, Rob Refsnyder was 14-for-28 with a .964 slugging percentage.
Friday night Trenton was shut out until the sixth inning when a walk to Gary Sanchez, a triple by Tyler Austin and a single by Refsnyder drove in two runs.
Currently hitting .335, Refsnyder now has 13 multi-hit games in his last 15 games. Last night he increased his consecutive-game hitting streak with a double and two singles, and now has 24 hits in his last 11 games.
Leading the team in doubles (19) and triples (5), and placing second in runs scored and runs driven in, Refsnyder in his last 26 games is hitting .429.
What's up with that?
"First of all," Thunder hitting coach Marcus Thamas said, "he's swinging at good pitches. Early in the season he was chasing balls in and off the plate. I never saw him chasing so many pitches. But we watched videos and made some adjustments."
Refsnyder, who played three years at the University of Arizona, began the season 0-for-12 and was hitting. .243 in the first week of May.
"My swing path was a little off," Refsnyder said, "and I've worked with Marcus a lot. I try and focus on pitches I can drive and keep it simple."
Refsnyder said he had a hot streak at the beginning of last year, when he hit .293 between Charleston and Tampa. "But not like this," he said. "I don't think for this long."
He was a good hitter in college, too.
Drafted by the Yankees after his junior year at Arizona, he hit .352 that season before being named Most Outstanding Player in the 2012 College World Series. He hit .476 to lead the Wildcats to the National Championship.
An outfielder in college, he has been a second baseman in the Yankee organization. According to manager Tony Franklin, his defense is, "No longer an issue."
"He's in a really good zone right now," Thames said. "He wants to get out of here and play in New York, and that's a good thing. He's really been grinding every at-bat. I'm really happy where's he's at."
Austin and Ben Gamel also had two hits last night. Losing pitcher Graham Stoneburner was raked over the coals, allowing 10 hits and six earned runs in five innings.
Altoona, which almost has the worst record in the league (23-37), had 15 hits.
NOTES: Trenton made four transactions before the game: Relief pitcher Cole Kimball, a Hunterdon County resident, was given his outright release; right-handed pitcher Phil Wetherell was elevated from High-A Tampa; outfielder Yeral Sanchez was demoted to Class-A Staten Island; infielder Rob Segedin was reinstated from the Disabled List ... Right-hander Shawn Kelly will do one inning of rehab Saturday. After appearing in 16 games with the Yankees this season, Kelley has been out since May 13 with a sprained lumbar spine ... Post-game fireworks tonight; tomorrow's give-away is Boomer Dress-Up Magnets.
WHO: Altoona (RHP Nick Kingham 1-6, 2.95) at Thunder (LHP Matt Tracy 6-2, 4.28).
TIME: 7:05 p.m.
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Alvin Orloff began writing in 1977 as a teenage lyricist for The Blowdryers, an early San Francisco punk band. After studying sociology at U.C. Berkeley he dabbled in underground theater with The Sick & Twisted Players, performance art with the Popstitutes, and deejaying at Baby Judy's Discotheque À Go-Go, but eventually returned to his first love, writing. He'd be happy to hear from you, so feel free to send him a message.
Orloff is the author of 3 novels: I Married An Earthling, a campy sci-fi send-up; Gutter Boys, a twisted tale of debauchery and unrequited love set in early '80s New Wave Manhattan; and Why Aren't You Smiling? a coming of age tale set on the queer fringes of the 1970s New Age explosion - all available from Manic D Press.
Orloff lives in San Francisco's über-trendy Mission District where he manages Dog Eared Books, a venerable and beloved neighborhood shop. He is currently working on a memoir focusing on how kooky queer club kids responded to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s & '90s.
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Banks have to comply with tough regulations on data security. And that affects how they procure the buildings that store the information. Data centre procurement hit the headlines recently because regulators imposed multimillion-pound fines on several high-street banks for failing to maintain adequate data storage and security. Financial institutions are now setting up new data centre procurement programmes in order to comply with increasingly tough regulations.
Quality control and programme tend to be the main drivers when choosing a procurement route. Many clients adopt a two-stage route with a single main contractor. Any two-stage process has to manage conversion risks, including being "held to ransom" by a high, stage-two lump-sum offer from an incumbent contractor. Although this risk can be mitigated by carefully drafted conversion triggers and termination rights, timing and commercial pressures often outweigh legal rights at this juncture.
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What is a fuel cell? It is an electrochemical device for converting the chemical energy in fuels directly into elecricity.
Why is it of high interest to scientists today? It can operate with two or three times the efficiency of other fuel-burning power producers. Thus the fuel cell, although not an energy source in itself, could help make our present fuel supply last years longer than expected.
Many scientists see the fuel cell playing a major role someday in providing electricity for automobiles and homes. Even now, large fuel cell systems are being developed for use as power plants for shopping centers and commuter trains. Small systems have already been used successfully in spacecraft.
In many ways, the fuel cell is like a battery. It contains no moving parts, is quiet, and wastes no energy as heat. Furthermore, it gives off no fumes. And like a battery, it has electrodes and an electrolyte.
But unlike a battery, the fuel cell will continue to produce electricity as long as fuel and an oxidant, such as air or oxygen, can be fed to the electrodes. In most batteries, one of the electrodes serves as the fuel and gets used up during operation. The fuel cell's electrodes never get used up. Only the fuel.
There are several types of fuel cells. Some use hydrogen as a fuel. Others use ammonia, alcohol, or various hydrocarbon fuels. But even though they may work differently, they all achieve the same result: They all produce electricity directly from fuels in an efficient manner.
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"There is a very unlimited upside for corn prices" in today's market, and the outlook is even less optimistic for soybeans, University of Wisconsin-Extension Service marketing specialist Brenda Boetel told attendees at the 2014 Agronomy Field Day sponsored by Country Visions Cooperative and the Fond du Lac County Extension Service office.
From several perspectives, starting with the prediction for record production of both corn and soybeans in the United States, the price outlook is not good for growers, Boetel said. She hopes many of them used the tools available for price protection before the lower prices set in gradually this year as the forecast for record crops solidified.
Those who did not protect their prices with one of more those tools could well be facing "cash flow challenges" with their 2014 crops, Boetel said. She suggested they watch for any upward price ticks and indicated that at the moment there is no potential for returns from storing 2014 production unless there are surprises during the harvest in October.
Boetel considers a futures price of $3.55 per bushel to be the breaking point for a "drastic drop" in corn prices to about $3.25 per bushel. The September futures closed at $3.56 per bushel on the field day.
The November soybean futures settled at $10.28 per bushel on the field day (Aug. 26). Boetel predicted soybean prices could fall to $8.90 per bushel during this year's harvest. At this time a year ago, the futures price was $12.71 per bushel, she noted.
Unless a very early killing freeze strikes a large portion of the Corn Belt or some other outside event intervenes, Boetel doesn't see much of a chance for a bump in the prices for the 2014 crop and warned that down price cycles often last for two years. To a question about obtaining price protection for one's 2015 crop, she suggested considering it for no more than 10 percent of production.
Corn grain growers in the parts of Wisconsin where the crop's maturity is lagging might enjoy a somewhat stronger basis than is likely where the yields will be plentiful, Boetel said. She suggested that the marketing cost of 20 cents per bushel plus the absorption of a 2-cent per bushel monthly storage cost would probably not turn out to be a good strategy for selling one's 2014 corn crop.
The prospect for a second consecutive year of very large corn crop without accompanying increases in usage accounts for the possibility that the 2014 prices could drop to one-half of the average price for the drought-affected 2012 crop, Boetel said.
According to the early August crop outlook reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this year's crop could average 167.4 bushels from 83.8 million harvested acres for a total of 14.031 billion bushels. She pointed out that the rating of 71 percent of the crop as excellent or good is the highest percentage in 10 years.
The trend line for the nation's corn crop suggests an average yield of 165 bushels per acre, Boetel said. But history shows that actual yields tend to top the August prediction, creating the possibility of a realized average yield of 173 bushels.
That would agree with the private Pro Farmer's estimate of a 171 to 175 bushel average yield that is based on its recent tour of several major corn states, Boetel remarked. Even a cutback of 2 million in the number of harvested acres would be offset by a 4-bushel per acre increase in the average yield, she pointed out.
Having a slight drop in the predicted usage of corn grown in the United States in the upcoming year compared to the past year is certainly not favorable for prices, Boetel pointed out. She reviewed the USDA prediction on usage for the major categories of feed and residual; ethanol for fuel; exports; and non-ethanol (seed, feed and industrial).
That total is 13.435 billion bushels compared to the availability of some 15.243 billion bushels from the 2014 crop and 1.181 billion bushels in carryover from 2013. This would leave a large carryover of 1.808 billion bushels at the end of August in 2015, representing a stocks to use carryover of 13.46 percent compared to 7.39 and 8.68 percent in the past two market years.
For the use categories, Boetel indicated that the predicted slight increase of 50 million bushels to 5.25 billion bushels for feed and residual could easily be offset by an extra supply of dried distiller's grain, which is a byproduct from the production of ethanol.
The predicted use of 5.075 billion bushels of corn to make ethanol would fall short of the 5.12 billion bushels used in the market year that is just ending, Boetel said. A yet-to-be-disclosed change in the the federal mandate on ethanol production is likely to fall between 13 and 14 billion gallons, which would result in minimal change in corn usage.
China's recent decision to suspend imports of dried distiller's grains is likely to cut into domestic use of corn for livestock feed in the United States, Boetel predicted. In addition, China has boosted its average per-acre corn yields from 73 bushels in 1994 to 96 bushels in 2013 on a similar amount of corn acres — about 91 million — as in the United States.
The ending stocks of corn around the world are the highest in 20 years, she continued. In addition, the very recent increase in the value of the U.S. dollar makes its export product more expensive to buyers.
After falling to about 20 percent as a result of price jump with its drought-stricken 2012 crop, the United States has rebounded to having a 31 percent share of the world's corn export market, Boetel pointed out. She noted that Brazil's anticipated harvest of 3.398 billion bushels in early 2015 would be 184 million bushels less than this year while Argentina's projected crop of 1.194 billion bushels would be 92 million more for this year.
The story is similar with soybeans, for which the United States accounts for 36 percent of the world's production compared to the 51 percent claimed by the South American duo of Brazil and Argentina. Boetel noted that the predicted U.S. crop of 3.816 billion bushels would top Brazil's most recent crop of 3.582 billion bushels.
For this year's average soybean yield, the USDA's prediction of 45.4 bushels per acre slightly exceeds Pro Farmer's estimate of 43 to 45 bushels, she said. If 84.1 million acres are harvested, that would be an increase from the 75.9 million acres in 2013.
As with corn, the anticipated demand of 3.541 billion bushels for crushing, exports, feed and seed would leave a carryover of 430 million bushels a year from now — more than triple the current carryover of 140 million bushels, Boetel said.
Boetel also reviewed the basics of the wheat market but acknowledged that she does not monitor it as closely as the other commodities. She observed, however, that wheat prices tend to be a precursor for corn and soybeans.
Grown around the world, wheat is enjoying a very productive year. She cited a very high yield of 572 million bushels of spring wheat in the United States this year and mentioned a quality concern with some of this year's wheat crop.
With no major statistical changes pertaining to wheat production and use in the United States, recent prices have generally been in a sideways pattern, Boetel noted. The September futures price for hard red winter wheat closed at $5.41½ per bushel on the field day, but the USDA's predicted low-end average price for all wheat in the new marketing year is $5.80 per bushel.
An overall problem plaguing the grain sector is the shortage of railroad cars, Boetel said. She cited shipping delays of 17 to 60 days as a result.
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Colorful traditional gold velvet dress decorated with metallic sequins and beads, ribbon trim, and rows of cowry shells. 51-1/2" x 36"
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The set includes buffalo hide leggings, breechclout, and shirt, all with matching lazy stitch beaded trim, the shirt with several anima figures - purchased from John Wallace and worn by Joseph Red Cloud - ex. Eberhart/Western Trading Post collection. Legg
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Very nice hand crafted fringed dress made with expertly tanned hides - ready to wear or bead. 47" x 45"
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Classic hand stitched 3-hide buckskin dress with rare sinew sewn and lazy stitch beaded horse figures and fine flowing fringe - ex. Eberhart/Western Trading Post collection. 48" x 46"
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Beautiful, traditional red tradecloth dress with sweeping pony beaded yoke, rows of mirrored conchos, ribbon work trim, and bugle bead/brass bell dangles, some with dentallium shells; shows great wear. 48" x 36"
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Museum quality white buckskin dress with fully beaded yoke chevron and shoulder panels with multiple triangular forms, 36 elk teeth, and beautiful cut-in fringe - ex. Denver Art Museum. 44" x 42"
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Classic older heavy black cloth dress with colorful ribbon trim adorned with over 500 (8 rows front and back) of fantastic "elk teeth", many of carved, shaped, and drilled bone pieces. 55" x 47"
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Beautiful, classic design, 3-hide dress with fine attached fringe and colorful flowing rows of beading across the shoulders and front and back of the yoke - ex. Eberhart/Western Trading Post collection. 43-1/2" x 49"
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Fantastic 3-hide dress with beautiful, flowing, fully beaded top, triangular yoke tabs, beaded hem, and fringe on the hem and sleeves; some restoration, mint condition. 43" x 45"
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Saint Theodore the Sacristan
Sixth century sacristan for the Church of Saint Peter in Rome, Italy. Saint Gregory the Great wrote that Theodore often saw angels.
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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- Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints
- Roman Martyrology, 1914 edition
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Marc Headley grew up Los Angeles, California. His mother was a Scientologist and raised Marc in the church. He started working as an employee for Scientology when he was 16 years old and was employed at the International Headquarters for Scientology (Int Base) in Hemet, California for 15 years and eventually escaped in 2005 with the assistance of the local police.
He began writing about Scientology shortly after leaving it. Headley's articles have appeared in news magazines, internet publications and websites in many countries around the world and in 2008, Marc was invited to speak at a European conference in Hamburg, Germany about the abuses that occur within Scientology.
Marc currently lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles, California, where he owns and operates his own business.
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Scientology Secrets
Author and former Scientologist Marc Headley joined Ian Punnett to reveal some of the behind-the-scenes secrets of the controversial religion. In the first-half hour, sports conspiracist Brian Tuohy commented on his Super Bowl XLV prediction, and May Pang, John Lennon's former girlfriend, talked about her Beatles exhibit at the National Arts Club in New York. ... More »Host: Ian Punnett
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Renegade ex-Scientology employee Marc Headley discussed his traumatic experiences living and working within the confines of the controversial religion, and the abusive treatment of staff members. ... More »Host: Ian Punnett


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Hewitt Vacation Packages
From Hewitt, it's about 90 miles (145 kilometers) to the north to Fort Worth and 95 miles (153 kilometers) to the north to Dallas.
You don't have to limit your sightseeing to the points of interest in Hewitt because the surrounding region has been endowed with a treasure-trove of fascinating natural and man-made attractions. Marlin, 20 miles (32 kilometers) to the northwest, and West, 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the south of Hewitt are also well worth checking out.
Waco is 7 miles (11 kilometers) from Hewitt. This regional center contains a diverse range of things to see and do, like Baylor University, Dr Pepper Museum and Floyd Casey Stadium. Waco Convention Center, Texas Sports Hall of Fame and Texas Ranger Hall of Fame are also worth a visit while you are in Waco.
Travelers to Brazos River Valley should go to the region's farms.
There are many thrilling adventures to be enjoyed. Around Brazos River Valley. Try mountain biking or horse riding to really know you are alive.
When planning your holiday to Hewitt, it's good to remember that the closest major airport, Waco Regional Airport, is located in in Waco, 10 miles (16 kilometers) away.


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Section 16. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a trustee shall allocate to principal the proceeds of a life insurance policy or other contract in which the trust or its trustee is named as beneficiary, including a contract that insures the trust or its trustee against loss for damage to, destruction of or loss of title to a trust asset. The trustee shall allocate dividends on an insurance policy to income if the premiums on the policy are paid from income and to principal if the premiums are paid from principal.
(b) A trustee shall allocate to income proceeds of a contract that insures the trustee against loss of occupancy or other use by an income beneficiary, loss of income, or, subject to section 12, loss of profits from a business.
(c) This section shall not apply to a contract to which section 18 applies.


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Joey Essex: 'TOWIE puts pressure on relationships'
Sam Faiers and her man open up about their lovers' tiffs ahead of series eight premiere
Posted: Friday 22 Feb 2013
Above: Sam Faiers and Joey Essex admitted that TOWIE puts a strain on their relationship
Above: The TOWIE cast appeared on The Morning yesterday
Above: Joey Essex and Sam Faiers will be appearing in series eight of TOWIE which starts on Sunday
THEY'VE had their fair share of fights.
Sam Faiers and Joey Essex have admitted that being a couple on TOWIE puts a lot of pressure on the relationship.
When the reality stars joined fellow The Only Way Is Essex cast mates on This Morning, they explained that small fights get blown out of proportion when they're seen on TV.
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"It does put much more pressure on a relationship I'd say..." Joey told the ITV show.
While Sam added: "If you have one little argument like you would day to day, and then on the show its so like blown up - which is great for the TV - but really, it's only a little argument.
"A lot of people always take one persons side and its hard... it we have a little argument automatically people take Joey's side for some reason!"
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Jessica Wright, who's dating co-star Ricky Rayment added: "It's very real, but around filming you do feel a little bit more tense, so there's always drama!"
We can't wait for all the drama to kick off in series eight on Sunday!


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To the Editor:
Why tax anyone?
Our tax money is given away like water, raising our debt. The only reason to raise taxes is to waste more.
The CEO of IBM says that he offered to give the government free software to eliminate up to $900 billion of health care fraud, but that the Obama administration turned him down. The administration doesn't care to save our money.
Barely half of the billions of dollars handed to General Motors and Chrysler in bailouts has been paid back. With how they're doing, don't look for the rest to ever be paid back.
A government grant of $2.6 million was used to study the alcohol drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes and AIDS. Non-citizens who are here illegally are costing billions of dollars in benefits.
Go after those who are not paying their taxes, and it's not just the rich. At the end of October, 47 percent of Americans were not paying federal income taxes. And while President Barack Obama was all over Mitt Romney about his taxes, it was revealed that 36 Obama executive office workers owed $833,970 in back taxes.
The rich can pay almost no income taxes, and close to half pay nothing at all. If you or I tried this, the IRS would be knocking at our doors.
With the shale energy boom in the Midwest, no one should need to pay any tax all. Some say that if our tax money were not wasted, we could have free health care, but because of ignorance and greed, the same people get voted back into office.
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From the turn-off to Potrerillo, the RP-307 continues north to reach TAFÍ DEL VALLE, 128km west of Tucumán, favoured by locals and tourists alike as a day-trip destination or longer retreat from the provincial capital, especially in the summer when the city swelters. Tafí is a rather sprawling village located in a mountain-side valley (from which it takes its name) in the western lee of the Sierra del Aconquija, sandwiched between the Rio del Chusquí and the Río Blanquita, both of which flow into the Río Tafí and then into the Dique La Angostura. This is where Tucumanos come to escape the city – the average temperature is 12°C lower than in the city. Blue and sunny skies are virtually guaranteed year-round, though occasionally thick fog descends into the valley in the winter, making its alpine setting feel bleak and inhospitable.
Apart from relaxing, the main attraction is the opportunity to explore the beautiful mountain scenery and unspoilt riverbanks; the trekking hereabouts is very rewarding. Popular trails go up Cerro El Matadero (3050m; 5hr), Cerro Pabellón (3770m; 4hr), Cerro Muñoz (4437m; one day) and Mala-Mala (3500m; 8hr); go with a guide, as the weather is unpredictable.
The village's main streets, lime-tree-lined Avenida San Martín, and avenidas Gobernador Critto and Diego de Rojas (Av Perón on some maps), converge on the semicircular plaza, around which most of the hotels, restaurants, cafés and shops are concentrated.
Famous for its delicious cow's and goat's cheese, available at small farms and stalls all around the town, Tafí holds a lively Fiesta Nacional del Queso, with folk music and dancing and rock bands, in early February.


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New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas continues to defend his department's "stop and frisk" policy as necessary to public safety, but there clearly are problems with the practice. Recent reports from Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux and Police Monitor Susan Hutson outlined serious concerns with the way officers are making and documenting stops. And at public meetings this week, New Orleanians raised valid questions about whether the department is improperly targeting young black men.
Ms. Hutson's report included troubling examples of stops that had no basis. In one case, an Uptown teenager complained that he was questioned while sitting on his mother's porch. "Officers pull up and pull him off the porch and say, 'I don't think you live there, you don't look like you live there.' That's not a legal reason to detain somebody," Ms. Hutson said. Certainly not.
At a City Council criminal justice committee meeting Wednesday, Superintendent Serpas countered that Ms. Hutson's report is outdated. But her findings ring true.
Residents at a meeting hosted by the NAACP Monday night and at the council committee meeting Wednesday complained about racial profiling. At the committee meeting, critics of the "stop and frisk" practices cited a recent directive from a 4th District lieutenant suggesting officers stop people on bicycles in "the hood." Superintendent Serpas called the phrasing "regrettable." The wording isn't the only problem, though. Simply riding a bicycle through a neighborhood is not a crime.
According to statistics released by the Police Department this week, 93 percent of more than 7,700 youths detained at the city's curfew center between 2009 and 2012 were African-American. NOPD had claimed to The Times-Picayune | NOLA.com that the department didn't track information on the race, gender or age of juveniles arrested for curfew violations, but Superintedent Serpas acknowledged last week that wasn't true. That misinformation is disturbing and undermines trust in the department.
As for the "field interview cards" officers fill out when they stop someone, Mr. Quatrevaux's analysis found that lax record-keeping makes it impossible to tell whether the department is engaged in racial profiling.
The purpose of the IG's review was to determine whether officers "were compliant with legal requirements to stop individuals only when there was reasonable suspicion" and whether "NOPD appeared to apply the constitutional standard of reasonable suspicion equally to all persons, regardless of their age, gender or race."
Auditors were not able to do so, according to the IG's report, because of gaps in the department's data. Although officers are required to fill out field interview cards for each stop, they often did not complete the forms in full, the report says. And in one in eight stops, officers failed to indicate on the cards whether a search took place. That is an especially troubling omission.
Police currently fill out more than 70,000 of the cards each year containing personal information on people who are stopped. The cards contain everything from a person's name and Social Security number to their tattoos and scars. NOPD leaders maintain that the cards and the database they fuel are smart investigative tools.
It is possible that field interview cards could produce leads for solving crimes. But residents have complained that cards were filled out on people who clearly had done nothing wrong.
Last July, The Times-Picayune | NOLA.com revealed that only 12,860 arrests resulted from 71,507 field interviews officers had conducted in the previous year. The remaining number, nearly 60,000 FICs, were still entered into the database even though the people interviewed weren't arrested. That would suggest officers are not using the "reasonable suspicion" standard for interviews.
A memo from a veteran in the NOPD training academy to department higher-ups last year indicated that "officers are being instructed to complete these FIC's whenever they come in contact with an individual regardless of the reason."
Superintendent Serpas argued last summer that many stops don't result in FICs, which he said showed that officers are using good judgment. During the previous year, he said, FICs had been filled out in about 41 percent of vehicle stops and 45 percent of pedestrian stops.
The superintendent said at Wednesday's committee meeting that Mr. Quatrevaux's criticism of gaps in field interview card records was valid. Superintendent Serpas said he favors a recommendation to include a description of each search but said it would be costly to do. If officers eliminated baseless stops, though, they might have more time to document valid ones.
Mayor Landrieu, who held a separate meeting this week to talk about crime and the Police Department, told the audience that there "is no place for racial profiling in this city" and said that officers should "be able to deal with somebody respectfully." He also defended the administration's crime-fighting approach and emphasized the importance of reducing the city's murder rate.
No one will argue against the importance of curbing violence in the city. But the Police Department must make sure that officers follow the law scrupulously when they stop and question people. That doesn't seem to be happening now.


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April 7, 1960-Jan. 17, 2014
DOVRAY - Services for David Dean Smith, 53, of Dovray will be at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, at the Log Cabin in Dovray followed by a reception at the same location.
He died peacefully Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, in hospice in New Hope.
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He was born April 7, 1960, in Tracy, to Charlotte and Duane Smith. He served with the National Guard.
Survivors include his daughter, Jessica; sons, Cody, Dillon and Matthew; sisters, Kathy Fiala, Belinda Henle; brothers, Blair, Guy, Steven and Jeffrey; and three grandchildren.


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Guideposts Books Offers New Series Exclusively for eReaders
Spirit Lifters series features devotionals, story collections
New York, NY—November 8, 2012—Guideposts Books (guideposts.org) announces the debut of its new series of short eBooks. The four individual eBooks in the debut collection of the Spirit Lifters series were created to demonstrate the powerful connection between faith and daily living, offer readers hope to overcome life's challenges, and celebrate God's hand in our lives. Guideposts plans to publish additional eBooks on a three-season schedule, with the next titles arriving March 2013.
The initial two devotionals will retail for $2.99 apiece: 101 Moments of Prayer: Inspiring Thoughts for Listening to God is written by longtime Guideposts writer Elizabeth Sherrill; 101 Moments of Trust: Inspiring Thoughts for Believing in God's Promises is from another longtime Guideposts writer, Marion Bond West. The other two eBooks are story collections from the editors of Guideposts magazine: The Power of Forgiveness: 15 Inspiring Stories of Love and Reconciliation, and God's Healing Touch: 15 Inspiring Stories of Triumph over Affliction retail for $1.99 each.
"Guideposts is blessed with fantastic writers in Elizabeth Sherrill and Marion Bond West. Their devotional writing uses a first-person storytelling approach, so their books are about real life and are practically mini-spiritual memoirs," commented David Morris, Vice President and Editorial Director at Guideposts. "We also have an abundance of great stories in our libraries, and know the Spirit Lifters story collections will deliver wonderful inspiration directly to our readers' Kindles, NOOKs, and other eReaders."
The eBooks are available at all e-tailers including ChristianBook.com, Amazon.com, and ShopGuideposts.org.
Guideposts, a nonprofit organization, touches millions of lives every day through products and services that inspire, encourage, and uplift. Its magazines, books, websites, prayer network, and outreach programs help people connect their faith-filled values to their daily lives. The flagship title, Guideposts, has a paid circulation of 2 million. The Guideposts family also includes Candy Cane Press, Ideals, Williamson, Summerside Press and Ellie Claire imprints.
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Infanticide: The Coming Battle - "First, they won't call it 'infanticide' (killing infants) but 'post-birth abortion'. The reasons are obvious. The word 'infanticide' strikes horror into our hearts. But 'post-birth abortion' makes it sound like the termination is simply an extension of abortion, which we are culturally adjusted to. Yet the terminology is grossly inaccurate."
Mental Illness and the Church - The death of Matthew Warren has ignited some powerful and long-overdue conversations in the church about the nature of mental illness and the church's response to it. This article is very helpful.
What Ted Kremer Wants - This is a neat story: "Serving as the Reds batboy on Thursday, Kremer asked for three things — 11 runs, 11 strikeouts for free pizza and a Todd Frazier home run. He got all three.."
Do Not Love the World - J.D. Greear: "If you read through 1 John, you'll come across a short statement that might seem a little confusing: 'Do not love the world or the things in the world'. This is the same guy who wrote that 'God so loved the world that he sent his only son'. Is John schizophrenic? Did he forget that he had written John 3:16? And what does it mean to 'not love the world'?"
3 Lies Porn Tells You - "For the amount of people who struggle with this, we don't talk about it near enough. We don't talk about it in our families. We don't talk about it in our churches. We think avoiding it will make it go away. Statistically speaking, over 50 percent of the men reading this post have had exposure to pornography recently."
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(Updated 3:09 p.m.) Eleven entrepreneurs with Rhode Island connections have made it onto Forbes' annual "30 under 30" list released Monday. more
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Inside the Ocean State Job Lot store in Pawtucket, Joe Auger flipped through a sales flier. He was on the hunt for an outdoor extension cord, the one advertised at $15 for 25 feet. One aisle over, his wife, Susan, found a gift for their … more
Ava Anderson LLC will close and reopen without the Anderson family that launched the business, the company reported on Monday in an online message to its customers, citing attacks against the company founder and her products. more
By Patricia Daddona
Nicole D'Andrea wanted her MacBook to fit inside her "Mr. Arrogant" handbag, one of several styles her company designs, so she put the zipper on the side. "I try to keep the pieces stylish but classic and functional," she explained. "I want … more
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(Updated 10:18 a.m. and 2:05 p.m.) A six-month research effort on Rhode Island's economy delved into the Ocean State's past as an industrial leader, its struggles during the Great Recession and its need to innovate to move forward again. more
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Seven months after layoffs, Swipely is in the midst of hiring. more
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(Updated 10:22 a.m.) A.T. Cross Co. could qualify for up to $1.9 million in state incentives through a move to The Foundry complex in Providence and an expansion of its workforce. more
By Mary MacDonald
The restaurant review was exuberant in its praise. Joie S. had just visited The Malted Barley, a new restaurant in Providence that features a rich variety of craft beers and hand-rolled, gourmet pretzels. "I AM SO EXCITED THIS PLACE IS … more
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If you've ever had anything custom-made, you know how satisfying the experience can be. Whether it's a new house, a bespoke shirt or even a special sandwich, getting exactly what you ordered is gratifying. That's why I think we should … more
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