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Typical subliminal message
Subliminal perception is a deliberate process created by communication technicians, whereby you receive and respond to information and instructions without being aware of it. Messages in the form of printed words, pictures or voices presented either very rapidly or very obscurely bypass your conscious awareness. Anything consciously perceived can be evaluated, criticized, discussed, argued, and possibly rejected. Anything programmed subliminally to your subconsciousness meets no resistance. This subliminal information is stored in your brain and capable of influencing your judgment, behavior and attitudes.
The use of subliminal techniques in print communication media has been going on in the United States at least since the World War I period. For example, Norman Rockwell's first cover on The Saturday Evening Post during 1917 incorporated embedded SEXes. Whenever an embedded word or picture accidentally became consciously visible, the readers would pass it off as a joke, an accident, or a product of their imaginations.
Serious commercial experiments with subliminal messaging were conducted in the mid 50-s. On June 22, 1956, the British Broadcasting Corporation experimented with projecting subliminal images on television. Pictures were flashed on the screen too quickly to be seen consciously, but they did make an impression on the subconscious. The BBC experiment was followed by experiments by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Mexico's Televisa commercial TV and radio network, US TV station WTWO in Bangor and many more.
Experiments were not limited to television. In 1958, radio station WAAF in Chicago broadcast "subaudible" commercials. Seattle's KOL broadcast hardly audible taped messages "below" the music played by its disc jockeys. "How about a cup of coffee?" was one, and "Someone's at the door" was another. On December 8, 1972, The New York Times reported that In-Flight Motion Pictures, Inc. would begin selling subliminal commercials embedded in the movies they would distribute to all the major airlines. Supermarkets across the country are reducing theft an average 30 to 50 percent by broadcasting subliminal messages such as "I will not steal" and "We are watching you". Stimutech, Inc. of East Lansing, Michigan markets a computer video system that flashes subliminal messages on your television while you watch the regular programming. Subliminal messages are prepared by teams of psychologists who use Freudian ideas to change the thinking patterns and behavior of the viewer.
The most known experiment with subliminal messaging was conducted by a marketing researcher and psychologist James Vicary in 1957 during the presentation of the movie Picnic. Every 5 seconds the words "Hungry? Eat popcorn. Drink Coca Cola" were projected for 0.003 seconds. That is extremely fast. What you see in the picture on the left, for example, flashes for 0.04 seconds. Sales of popcorn and Coke in that New Jersey theater increased 57.8 percent and 18.1 percent respectively. Numerous scientific researches following these experiments confirmed beyond any doubt that subliminal messaging works. When advertising industry and government agencies understood the potential of subliminal messaging they started investing millions in developing and perfecting of subliminal techniques, which can be used not only for marketing, but also for propaganda and mind control. In 1962 Vicary suddenly confesses that he fabricated the results of his experiment... Why would someone discredit himself in such a way and lose his dignity and credibility? It's obvious that he was paid to do so by those who use subliminal messages to manipulate you. Remember the quote from "Usual Suspect" : The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist... That's exactly the trick they are trying to pull, I.E. convincing the world that subliminal technique does not work. And they did a pretty good job. There are so many people that refuse to believe that a secret technology which modifies behavior invisibly, channels basic value systems, manages human motives and drives them into pathological behaviors in the interest of certain power structures has been in existence and widespread use for decades if not more. They will call you crazy if you'll dare to say anything like that and yet subliminal messages are being bombarded at you continuously throughout the day, through books, movies, magazines, television, radio and music. Every major newspaper, every poster, every magazine in America have subliminal messages embedded in them.
So how can something that we don't notice affect our behavior? Well, unheeded doesn't mean unseen. Let us first understand how our perception works. As you know, our mind consists of two interacting parts: conscious and subconscious. The subconscious part of mind operates below the level of conscious awareness, it controls reflexes, automatic functions and handles the processing and storing of incoming information. Subconsciousness is able to process 20,000 bits of information simultaneously, while consciousness can deal only with 7 ± 2 bits of information at the same time.
Instead of the simplistic five senses of Aristotle—sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell— there are at least thirty-seven known, differentiated sensory inputs into the brain. All of the information picked by these senses is sent to the brain and absorbed by the subconsciousness, however, only very concrete and relevant data is passed to the conscious mind after it has been processed and reduced. All the rest remains ignored. A good example of this is the Cocktail Party Effect : You can talk with a friend in a crowded party and still listen and understand what he says even if the place is very noisy. You can simultaneously ignore what another nearby person is saying, but if someone over the other side of the room suddenly mentiones your name, you notice that sound and respond to it immediately. Not only that your name immediately triggers your attention, you usualy are aware of the entire sentence it has came in. From this experience we can learn that our brain records everything that takes place around us. Interesting that certain words like SEX, BLOOD, DEATH, FUCK and such have the same effect in triggering your attention as your name.
So, only the information considered as "relevant" goes to the consciousness. Non essential information, short or vague stimuli are stored in the subconscious without reaching our awareness. Important to stress that they are NOT discarded, but stored. E V E R Y T H I N G you have ever experienced in your life, from every stranger's face you have ever glanced at in a crowd to every spider web you gazed at as a child, can be retrieved from your memory by hypnosis or by electrical stimulation of the brain cells in temporal lobes. Hence whatever was subliminally put into your brain will stay there forever and in the right circumstances will trigger the right reaction in you. That is not being said that subliminal messages determine your reaction in an inexorable manner. The accepted opinion is that subliminal messages rather strengthen, accelerate and reinforce reactions in persons who are ALREADY PREDISPOSED to the subject of the message. But I guess one can't be sure.
The most common subliminal message is S E X.
Clone High E09 (click for animated gif)
Barbie Mermaid Tale 2
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Screenshot from House (S06E05)
Harry Potter and the Half-blood prince
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Since almost all people have a strong affinity to sex, a sexual subliminal message would be the most effective one. Embedded on a product it's supposed to trigger viewer's attention, emotions and stir up affinity in him toward the product. Unfortunately, as you are going to see for yourself, this principle has been heavily misused, abused and misapplied. Blatant sexuality on the verge of pornography can be easily found in public advertising, family movies, cartoons and children products.
This poster had been one of the major urban legends of the late 70s. It was always puzzling why this image in particular became incredibly popular (over 12 millions copies sold). After all, there were plenty of other posters of scantily clad attractive young women.
The word SEX in print media is usually embedded into hair, creases in clothing, facial lines, or rough background surfaces. Often some noise added to disguise it, like in the House snapshot, or it can be spelled as "ssex" or "sexx", etc.
Letter-looking patterns can naturally occur in such mediums. An artist usually looks for these patterns and starts from there. For example in the following Jantzen ad the letter "X" is already formed by the stitches of the man's shirt. Then the shadow of his hand was modified a bit to look like an "E" and the letter "S"—purportedly a water ripple—was lightly painted in the gap under his arm.
Letter-looking patterns can naturally occur in such mediums. An artist usually looks for these patterns and starts from there. For example in the following Jantzen ad the letter "X" is already formed by the stitches of the man's shirt. Then the shadow of his hand was modified a bit to look like an "E" and the letter "S"—purportedly a water ripple—was lightly painted in the gap under his arm.
Another technique is to write numerous SEXes in interweaving mosaic-like manner on a transparent overlay which can be superimposed onto any photograph at any intensity level desired.Another interesting technique is embedding of anamorphic images—kind of what you see when you look into a funny mirror at an amusement park or into a shiny coffee pot at home. These distorted, often grotesque images serve as a decoy for the real message which can be hidden within the ground (foliage, flowers, landscapes, reflections in bottles, ice cubes, symbols, and so forth). Although it is not consciously obvious, it may very well be obvious to our subconsciousness and recorded there.
A surprisingly large amount of subliminal death symbolism is also utilized—skulls hidden in ice cubes, clouds, etc., the word DEATH or DETH often hidden in backgrounds.
During the evolutionary development of humans, subliminal perceptions were certainly involved with survival and adjustment. Creative innovators such as artists, poets, writers and composers have utilized man's subliminal potentialities for many centuries. In at least one Rembrandt painting, for example, a hidden SEX appears (spelled as seks in Dutch).
The ability to see subliminal embeds can be developed and perfected. As in anything else, the more you do it, the better you get. I suggest you to take this fun test to see how perceptive you are and train your vision to see subliminal messages.
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Can you see the layers inside, soft juicy and yumm. I am sure you cannot stop with one. What are you still waiting for , try it for yourself ! :)
Badusha Recipe - Ingredients
Recipe Category: Sweet | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Maida - 1 and 1/2 cups
Butter(at room temperature) - 1/4 cup
Oil - 1.5 tbsp
Curd - 2 tbsp
Cooking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1 tsp
Water - 1/4 cup(+ or - adjust accordingly)
Oil - as required for deep frying
For the sugar syrup:Sugar- 1/2 cup
Water - 3/4 cup
Elachi powder - a generous pinch
Saffron - 2 strands
Lemon Juice - 3/4 tsp
- Melt butter, In a mixing bowl add melted butter, curd, oil, cooking soda, sugar and mix it well. Now add maida and mix.
- Mix well , it will look like bread crumbs. Then add water little by little to form a soft dough. Knead it again for 10 mins. Divide lemon sized balls and keep aside. Allow it to rest for 10 mins.
- Start shaping the badushas. You can make decorative ends as swirls or simply just like dougnuts by pressing the balls, making a dent with your thumb in the middle as shown below. See the video below the steps for making badusha swirls. When you shape them itself the badushas should be smooth...there should not be much cracks (for this kneading it to a soft pilable dough is very much important) because when we fry the badushas in oil, the cracks would open up big and sometimes they may even start to break.
- Add sugar and water in a pan to make the sugar syrup. When the sugar syrups forms to a single string consistency then add saffron strands, elachi powder and lemon juice(this is to avoid crystallisation), keep aside. Simultaneously while making the sugar syrup itself you can start frying the badusha.
To be noted: It is very important to fry it only in this method to get perfect layered badushas : First heat oil in a kadai - check by adding a pinch of the batter if it rises immediately then that is the correct stage. Now add some 3 badushas and immediately switch off the stove.Let the badushas get cooked in the preheated oil....When the shh sounds leaves and the bubbles disappear, then switch it on. Keep in medium low flame, flip it to other side once it gets browned on one side and fry until golden brown(Do not fry in high flame). Follow the same procedure for frying the remaining badushas.
- Drain it in tissue then add it to the prepared sugar syrup immediately. Dip well on both sides, keep immersed for 2mins then transfer it to a tray with butter paper/silver foil. Once the sugar syrup turns non-sticky you can take and store them. It tastes too good when left for 2-3 hours, Only then the sugar syrup gets sets well inside.
I hope its clear and understandable. This is easy but sure comes by practise- trust me if I can get it, anyone can get it right too :)
My Notes:
- The orginal recipe says to remove the kadai from fire then keeping it back. But instead I follow the switching off and on method for convenience.
- Do not fry the badushas in high flame. While frying if it cracks / breaks either kneading was not enough or the flame should have been high so make sure you knead for 10mins to get a very soft dough and also fry in medium low flame.
- Keep stored in a clean container(do not refrigerate), it keeps well for 4-5 days in room temperature itself.
- Badushas with the decorative rims are slightly crispy at the ends alone, while the donut shaped ones are juicy and soft.
- Do not add more saffron than the mentioned amount as it will totally change the flavour and spoil the taste.


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Atlantoxerus getulus
|Scope: Global
|Scientific Name:
|Atlantoxerus getulus
|Species Authority:
|(Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Aulagnier, S.
|Amori, G. (Small Nonvolant Mammal Red List Authority) & Temple, H. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
This is a widespread species, occurs in a variety of habitats (including anthropogenically disturbed habitats), and common wherever it occurs. Introduced outside of its range, where it has become a pest species. No major threats, and safely considered Least Concern.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Endemic to the most western part of North Africa, in Western Sahara, Morocco and a small area of northwestern Algeria (Ksours Mountains). Ranges from the coastal zone up to 4,165 m mainly in the Middle and High Atlas south to Agadir, in the Anti Atlas and in the northern edge of the western Sahara, south to Sequiat el Hamra. Introduced to Fuenteventura (Canary Islands) in 1965.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Algeria; Morocco; Western Sahara
Introduced:Spain (Canary Is.)
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|Abundant in the lower slopes and valleys, they are still very common up to 2,000 m in the Grand Atlas; above this, densities decrease with increasing altitude. Densities also decrease dramatically in the eastern part of the range. Some local patches can be numerous in desert region. Population fluctuations are suspected to occur.
|Current Population Trend:
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|Inhabit stony regions and open habitats from mountain slopes to desert. Avoiding bare areas and forests, they are common in open country with scattered trees and bushes of Juniper (Juniperus spp.), Thuya (Tetraclinis articulata) and Argan (Argania spinosa). Shelter in burrows excavated under rocks or among stones in screes consolidated by vegetation. Also present in various agricultural habitats, favoured by stone walls where they can seek refuge. Even though they require permanent water in the south, they never enter irrigated fields. Diurnal, and social, with the most simple family unit composed of a single female with her young. Litter size: at least four. Capable of producing two litters per year.
|Major Threat(s):
|There are no major threats. Widespread within its range, and uses poor agricultural habitats. On Fuenteventura (where they are introduced), they are regarded as a pest; it is forbidden to transport animals from one island to another as they prey on the endemic invertebrates, such as snails.
|Conservation Actions:
|Occurs in Toubkal National Park in Morocco and probably in other protected areas, too.
|Aulagnier, S. 2008. Atlantoxerus getulus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T2358A9435264. . Downloaded on 07 December 2016.
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Below is a quick guide to PBP and my expectations as a GM:
I will need all of you to get an alias set up in your characters name. I would like your basic build and gear on his/her information section (I'll have a sample format I'm my alias that you can use. Also if anyone needs help creating their alias, feel free to ask).
To make things faster, I will roll initiative checks. I'll post the order of turns and who's up next. Feel free to post out of turn and I will try to adjust accordingly if something changes. Also feel free to simply wait till your turn.
If you see something like this:
If you need help formatting your post, just click "show"below next to how to format your post.
I would like most of the ooc chat to be contained in this thread, however I understand that sometimes you will need quick brief clarification, so use the ooc format in those instances
To make it easier for all, anything your character actually says out loud please put in bold.
Any time you could possibly do damage, please roll it with your attack rolls. This you don't have to wait for me to say "It hit, now roll damage."
For battle, I will try to have maps of each battle posted and updated regularly. What I would prefer your battle post look like, is a description of your characters actions (feel free to be as creative as you'd like with your descriptions) followed by a spoiler with the more specific; mover, standard, full-round, swift, free description(example below). But that's really up to you. My job here is to help you all have fun. So the way you choose to do it is fine as long as it's clear.
On that note, if you have a complaint about the way I do anything, feel free to talk to me. I will try to listen and fix the problem if I can. However as the GM I reserve the right to be right.
Any questions?
"Magic freak, huh?" Senthiri's hand glows briefly. The light passes to his sword, then disappears. Senthiri takes a quick step and pulls some powdered iron from one of the pouches at his side. He chants while moving his hand in very measured, precise movements. Suddenly Senthiri grows to nearly 12 feet in height.
Actions:Swift action-use one point from Arcane pool to add +1 enhancement to my longsword for 1 minute; 5-foot step to h4; full round action:Cast enlarge person on myself, duration, 1 minute.
New Stats:
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How do I make an alias?
This is mostly intended as a test post, but I've put together a profile for this campaign. It's not fully stated because I decided I liked Gax better as a tiefling than as an elf (he's a bit seedy to be an elf). Abilities, Skills, Traits, Background, and Feats are in the profile but weapons, saves, AC/weapons/hp/cmb/cmd, and gear I'm still working on.
Take a look at Gax.
PS: This is Toine (Anthony)
It looks great. I love the background, and I really appreciate the detail you've gone into for skills and abilities.
How would you feel if I used some of your background characters in the campaign? Not that I have any ideas for it yet, but I might at some point, and it would bee a good thing to know. This question goes for everybody.
I deliberately tried to include some named characters so that you had the option of including them. I figured that having a history makes it so that at some points my toon's history can pop up in the story, which I like.
Oh, I'll note that I've revised the background to include a couple other names: Isery, Gax's demonic mother, and Cetyi Kosap, the matriarch at the rural temple where Gax was raised. I meant to include those, but I didn't get around to coming up with names for them until just now.
What is that you say Timmy? The tree is plotting against us? What does Timmy think. *grabs another skull* Is the tree plotting against us Timmy? Yes you say?
Blood for the Blood God!Blood for the Blood God!BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
What do you want Fat Statue Man? What? DO NOT MEDDLE IN MY AFFAIRS TREE! FOR YOU ARE CRUNCHY AND GOOD WITH KETCHUP!
|Tobiaal ald Kheled'Askech
|Bullpup Rustycap
|Tobiaal ald Kheled'Askech
Alright, so we're almost set to go. Just waiting for a couple more things. But I think it's close enough that we can start taking care of some mechanics.
Format: I can see that most of you were able to get the spoiler format down, which I'll take to mean that you got much of the other format stuff down. The one thing I know I've had a few questions on is dice. That is also part of the forum. If you click show at the bottom of this forum, you can see dice at the bottom. It's fairly simple. The nice thing about it is that you can roll anything with it. 1d1001 + 3 ⇒ (267) + 3 = 270 That part will be more useful for me than you, but it is there.
Profiles: Those that are complete look great. Thank you guys.
So, here's our party;
Gax, the Tiefling Wizard Divination; Foresight
Kharn, the Damphir Cleric (Undead Lord) (Negative Energy)
Bullpup Rustycap, the Gully Dwarf Rogue
???, the Druegar Monk (Gray Disciple)
???, the Human Paladin
So you guys will be heavy on magic, with a good amount of melee. You will need to be aware of healing. Some of you have access to it, but not as much as say, a healing Cleric. So be aware.
We will be starting out in a small town in Varisia called Sirathu. I'll be starting you in a tavern, you can come in for your own reasons (Such as chasing a dark furry naked tail). I'll have the first post up by Monday, after that you can post your entry to the tavern at any time.
Additional traits: To go with your bakcgrounds, I'm giving you each an additional trait;
Gax, Charismatic Foresight; Your gift with foresight helps you in your scams. You gain a +1 trait bonus to Bluff and Dimplomacy.
Kharn, Mental Instability; Your insanity protects you against mental attacks. +2 trait bonus to saves against Confusion and Insanity.
Bullpup, Animal Experience; Your experience with footie and your friends pets has helped you learn how to work with animals. +2 trait bonus to Handle Animal.
Everyone else, I'll post it up when you get finished.
Now, any questions? About mechanics, setting or anything?
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Heya Ben can we get a little more description as to wheree this town we are starting in is and the countryside/city area around it? Also what "kingdom is it in? All of these should influence when and why we came to town and what we are doing there.
I will try to get the rest of my story and all up by sat but am on my work week so not sure if it will be completed by then.
Also: How do you want me to enter my animal stats?
I'm working on the description, but it is a dryish area. And as I said it is in Varisia. It's shown on the map, just south of the Cinderlands along the Yandabakari River. It's a small town, population of about 300. Has a reputation for high crime element, but some of you may have possibly heard rumors that someone is trying to clean up the town. Being so close to the Cinderlands (large expanse of dead area, mostly controlled by orcs) it does deal with raids occasionally. But since it is not the closest town, it's not extremely often. It is a holding of Korvosa so they take care of protecting it from raids.
Varisia is a loose holding of several different city-states that are constantly fighting to control the land.
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Testing the dice, oh-oh, this whole post is just a test of the device.
Gax scans the tavern for easy marks. Perception 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (10) + 0 = 10
Upon realizing that the room is populated by a half dozen demilichs he pulls out a dagger and stabs the nearest one. 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 2 1d4 - 1 ⇒ (3) - 1 = 2
His previous attack having done whatever it did, Gax then throws the dagger at another demi-lich just ten feet from him. 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13 1d4 - 1 ⇒ (1) - 1 = 0
His mighty attacks now complete, the nearest demilich then attacks, casting Canoptic Conversion. Gax takes 20d6 ⇒ (2, 1, 5, 6, 1, 1, 5, 5, 4, 6, 4, 4, 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 1, 6, 5) = 71)damage (DC25 Fortitude Check to halve damage 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5).
As Gax (almost assuredly slips unto unconsciousness with a massive number of negative hitpoints) he looks at the demilich and asks with horror: You have class levels?
The Demilichs laugh coldly.
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Oh look this boot smells like momma
"Water that's muddy and nice fuzzy cheese, high blup is wise and fleadorp is lazy, humm humm humm humm, no footie i am not sharing with you."
A crash sounds, echoing through the tavern. A large DMly voice comes immediately after it, "I LEAVE FOR A FEW DAYS AND YOU GET IN A BAR FIGHT?!?"
After a few moments of silence the voice speaks again, this time much softer, "That's okay, I forgive you. This time. But stop this foolishness and get over to the Gameplay tab. I have started the game." A large finger appears and points at the top of the page. "And don't think I won't know if you don't"
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Am I stepping on anyone's toes with the way I'm playing? I feel like some of my posts are a little long and I don't want to monopolize our story. I'm trying to RP as Gax would though, which is to really mix it up and try to make people think he knows more than he does to make himself kind of the center of the group.
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@Tobia Are you playing with formatting there? Rolling up a character for something? . . . meh. Whatever. Anyway, with you I just want to make sure that I have it clear about the spoiler with the dc 20 Sense motive. That is info for you only, but only if you meet the dc 20 sense motive.
@Gax I love it. I think that is what is so great about PBP is it gives more freedom for roleplay of your characters, because it adds narrative.
@Bullpup, cool. Will do.
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Am I stepping on anyone's toes with the way I'm playing? I feel like some of my posts are a little long and I don't want to monopolize our story. I'm trying to RP as Gax would though, which is to really mix it up and try to make people think he knows more than he does to make himself kind of the center of the group.
I think it is going great it adds flair. not stepping on my toes at all


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Blues, brisket and the "State of the City" address.
This year's annual Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce banquet features all three, and chamber board President Chris Wood said he hopes to have a new executive director to introduce then. He said the chamber is still in the hiring process for someone to replace outgoing director Sharon King.
The event also includes speeches by the past and current chamber board presidents and presentations of several awards.
"It's a wrap-up of what we did the year before," said past president Wanda Graham.
The event is open to the public.
At the banquet, which has the theme "A Celebration of 2010," King, also the mayor, is scheduled to give a "State of the City" address. King said she would cover the Ute Water Project, growth at Cannon Air Force Base and Eastern New Mexico University, and new housing development.
"I think that's pretty exciting to see what our growth is there (in housing)," King said.
PVille Blues Band, a local group, is to provide entertainment, and Mark's Restaurant is catering a meal of brisket, barbecue sausage and side dishes.
The awards to be given include Workhorse of the Year for a community volunteer, Ambassador of the Year for a member of the chamber's Ambassador program, the Harley and Faye Borden Award for businesses that have improved their buildings' exteriors and the Warm Heart of the Sunbelt Award. The awards are given out each year, except for the Warm Heart of the Sunbelt Award.
Graham said the chamber gives out that honor only on years when someone is especially deserving.
"It's a special recognition for their extra hard work to build the community," she said.
Graham said identities of award winners won't be revealed until the banquet.
In his speech, Woods said his presentation would cover goals and priorities for this year, while Graham said she plans to go over last year's accomplishments.
"We're going to have a great time," Graham said. "Come join us."


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How to Host a Diaper Drive
Do you know each baby will use more than 6,000 diapers at a cost of $2000+ before potty training? Diapers are not covered by state aid, WIC or foodstamps so families must shoulder the financial burden alone!
No mother should ever have to choose between food and diapers. You can help local families in need! Hold a diaper drive at your work, a grocery store or place of worship to collect new, unopened packages of disposable baby diapers and wipes to donate to us. We serve over 500 single, young or low-income women every year and diapers are our most requested item!
Tips to host a successful diaper drive:
- Choose a final collection date and place. It helps to give 2-3 weeks notice. (Or set up a booth at a local grocery store.)
- Set up a collection bin. Have fun with this! It could be a large box wrapped with pretty paper or a play pen that you can later donate to our center. It helps if you "seed" it with a couple packs of diapers or wipes.
- Put a Diaper Drive poster over the collection bin and several other strategic locations (like the ladies bathroom!).
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Environment - Dec 5
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Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage
China: boom or boomerang?
Orville Schell, truthdig
Perhaps no other country has so many positive and negative trends as the home of a quarter of the world's population.
Truthdig Editor's Note: First the Terminator, then the president … there's no shortage of people trekking to China, filled with wonderment and doubt about the future of the world's most populous nation and fastest-growing economy. It's a place full of monumental contradictions. There is no one better to make sense of it all in a Dig than Orville Schell, dean of UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and author of nine books on China. He has just returned from a trip to China.
...In 2004, China overtook the U.S. as the globe's largest consumer of industrial and agricultural goods, and the consequences have been catastrophic for the country's environment. Whether sufficient costly technology can be brought to bear quickly enough to both allow the high rates of economic growth to continue and to begin to compensate for all the environmental degradation that has already taken place is one of the most important questions China faces.
While there is an increasing awareness of China's environmental problem, and while impressive strides have been made to understand the situation, the added increments of environmental degradation brought about by the growing population, increased consumer demand, the expanding industrial base, growing dependency on an export economy, greater human mobility and the consequence of ever larger resource use have so far meant that the desecration of the environment, as has just been so painfully made evident along the Songhua River, continues to far outpace any remedial action.
China now faces:
* Having one of the fastest-growing but least efficient energy systems in the world.
* Acid rain falling over one-third of its land mass.
* 75% of its lakes and rivers seriously contaminated and half of the water in its seven major rivers being unusable even for agriculture or industry.
* Having 16 out of the world's 20 most polluted cities.
* Very serious deforestation, especially in the foothills of the Himalayas.
* Advancing desertification.
* Precipitously dropping groundwater tables all over the dry North China Plain.
(3 December 2005)
Recommended by David Roberts of Gristmill in his post: Pajamas, Truthdig, and China.
Truthdig, the site on which the article appears, is a new publication worth watching. From its About Us page:
Truthdig is a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. The site is built around major "digs," led by authorities in their fields, who will drill down into contemporary topics and assemble packages of content—text, links, audio, video—that will grow richer with time and user participation.
What planet are you on, Mr Bush? (and do you care, Mr Blair?)
Geoffrey Lean and David Randall, Independent
Tens of thousands of people marched in 33 countries yesterday to express concern for the environment. But will their leaders respond?
More than 100,000 people took to the streets in more than 30 countries yesterday, in the first world-wide demonstration to press for action to combat global warming.
The marches - timed to put pressure on the most important international climate-change negotiations since the agreement of the Kyoto Protocol eight years ago - took place against a background of a blizzard of new research showing that the heating of the planet is seriously affecting the world sooner than the scientists predicted (see panel below).
The protests were directed primarily at President George Bush, who has been assiduously trying to sabotage the protocol and has ruled out even talking about setting targets for reducing the pollution that causes global warming, once the current targetsexpire.
Harlan Watson - the head of the US delegation to the negotiations, being held in Montreal - announced at the opening of the meeting: "The United States is opposed to any such discussions."
Yesterday's march in London was also directed at Tony Blair. Ten thousand demonstrators - who created a party atmosphere while carrying banners linking the President and the Prime Minister as "climate criminals" - took a special detour to hand in a letter at No 10 Downing Street.
They are concerned that Mr Blair - who put climate change at the head of the international agenda by making it one of his priorities for this summer's Gleneagles Summit - may have recently trimmed his position to please Mr Bush. The letter demanded that he reaffirm the Government's commitment to a new international treaty with legally binding targets on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants that cause the climate change.
(4 December 2005)
Eco-literacy and America's 'nature-deficit disorder'
Joel Makower, WorldChanging
It's axiomatic that the more people truly understand something, the better able they'll be to create informed opinions and decisions. And in the case of environmental literacy, what we don't know truly could hurt us.
That's why a new report on American's eco-literacy is so humbling to those of us in the environmental information business -- and why it is one of the more important reports I've read of late.
The report, Environmental Literacy in America, comes from the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, a nonprofit chartered by Congress in 1990 to promote "environmental education in its many forms."
...The report... represents an analysis of nearly a decade's worth of research on Americans' environmental literacy, conducted by NEETF in partnership with the Roper Public Affairs unit at GfK NOP (which also conducts the Green Gauge survey I covered recently).
The bottom line, according to the report:
Most people accumulate a diverse and unconnected smattering of factoids, a few (sometimes incorrect) principles, numerous opinions, and very little real understanding. Research shows that most Americans believe they know more about the environment than they actually do.
For example, says Coyle:
That is why 45 million Americans think the ocean is a source of fresh water; 120 million think spray cans still have CFCs in them even though CFCs were banned in 1978; another 120 million people think disposable diapers are the leading problem with landfills when they actually represent about 1% of the problem; and 130 million believe that hydropower is America's top energy source, when it accounts for just 10% of the total.
(4 December 2005)
On climate change, a change of thinking
Andrew C. Revkin, NY Times
IN December 1997, representatives of most of the world's nations met in Kyoto, Japan, to negotiate a binding agreement to cut emissions of "greenhouse" gases.
They succeeded. The Kyoto Protocol was ultimately ratified by 156 countries. It was the first agreement of its kind. But it may also prove to be the last.
Today, in the middle of new global warming talks in Montreal, there is a sense that the whole idea of global agreements to cut greenhouse gases won't work.
A major reason the optimism over Kyoto has eroded so rapidly is that its major requirement - that 38 participating industrialized countries cut their greenhouse emissions below 1990 levels by the year 2012 - was seen as just a first step toward increasingly aggressive cuts.
But in the years after the protocol was announced, developing countries, including the fast-growing giants China and India, have held firm on their insistence that they would accept no emissions cuts, even though they are likely to be the world's dominant source of greenhouse gases in coming years.
Their refusal helped fuel strong opposition to the treaty in the United States Senate and its eventual rejection by President Bush.
...But the current stalemate is not just because of the inadequacies of the protocol. It is also a response to the world's ballooning energy appetite, which, largely because of economic growth in China, has exceeded almost everyone's expectations. And there are still no viable alternatives to fossil fuels, the main source of greenhouse gases.
Then, too, there is a growing recognition of the economic costs incurred by signing on to the Kyoto Protocol.
As Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, a proponent of emissions targets, said in a statement on Nov. 1: "The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge."
...from here on, progress on climate is less likely to come from megaconferences like the one in Montreal and more likely from focused initiatives by clusters of countries with common interests, said Mr. Benedick, who is now a consultant and president of the National Council on Science and the Environment, a private group promoting science-based environmental policies.
The only real answer at the moment is still far out on the horizon: nonpolluting energy sources. But the amount of money being devoted to research and develop such technologies, much less install them, is nowhere near the scale of the problem, many experts on energy technology said.
(4 December 2005)
While there is truth in Revkin's article, there's also a streak of apologism for Bush and Blair. For example, it's very doubtful that the intransigent stance of the Bush administration against Kyoto was due to China and India. After all, the Bush administration has denied the reality of climate change for years.
Sadly, the article makes no mention of conservation, efficiency or population control -- are these not real answers to climate change and energy shortages? Jared Diamond might say that cultural taboos prevent us from taking these solutions seriously even when they are staring us in the face. Which will win out - cultural taboos or our sense of survival?
UPDATE (Dec 5): More criticism of the article from Climate Protection Campaign.
Climate Indymedia is born
Lloyd Hart, UK Indymedia
A global group of climate and media activists are establishing a topical indymedia site on climate issues. We are concerned that news reporting on climate issues too often is biased against local communties solutions and the concerns of local communities to government and industry are not being heard. We hope to provide a place for a range of news and views on climate issues to have a voice.
Our site is supported by members of many grass roots environmental, social, climate and alternative media organisations. We hope that you will take advantage of our site to post your stories so that people globally can access of the views of the majority world on this important issue.
(4 December 2005)
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Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. will reportedly release its long-awaited cost-effective PlayStation 3 game console in late October, in time for late year sales. However, the new console will supposedly not be compatible with PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games at all, a significant drawback to experienced PlayStation gamers.
Documents from Best Buy retail network in the U.S. published by Engadget web-site reveal that starting from the 28th of October the retail chain will sell Sony PlayStation 3 40GB with Spider Man 3 movie on Blu-ray disc for as low as $399, the lowest price for a PlayStation 3 ever in the USA. The new "low-cost" model will also be on sale in
Play.com, an online store based in the
Alleged Best Buy document published by Engadget web-site
Given that modern PlayStation 3 60GB (PAL) and 80GB (NTSC) do not feature build-in PlayStation 2 processors for backwards compatibility, but rely on software-based approach, it is unclear why would Sony reportedly axed this feature, if PS2 games are still supported on more expensive PS3 versions. It is also uncertain whether the console will finally revitalize sales of SCEI's latest game machine, which have been lagging behind Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox 360.
Alleged Best Buy document published by Engadget web-site
Sony PlayStation 3 console is based on the Cell processor developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, the RSX graphics chip by Nvidia Corp., wireless network and Bluetooth connectivity and is equipped with Blu-ray optical disk drive. There are several versions of the consoles available around the world with 60GB or 80GB hard disk drives and variable compatibility with PlayStation 1/2 games. In the U.S. PlayStation 3 80GB is sold for $599, whereas the hard-to-find 60GB model retails for $499.
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. did not comment on the news-story.


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THQ has officially announced that the demo for the new "UFC Undisputed 3: video game is out and ready for you to play! Here is the official announcement from their community page:
We've packed this demo with 4 of the most prominent UFC fighters – experience a fantasy matchup between current UFC Light Heavyweight champion Jon Jones and current UFC Middleweight champion Anderson Silva, and get a brutal taste of our new PRIDE Mode in a classic rivalry between renowned UFC fighters and former champions Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Wanderlei Silva. The playable demo also offers mirror matches, enabling you to play against your friends or our opponent AI as the same fighter. The UFC Undisputed 3 demo offers the ultimate test of skill for everyone. Check out our new trailer and demo download instructions below, and get back in the Octagon or stomp some face in the PRIDE ring, your move!
This link here should help you get the process of downloading it started, and if you are unsure of what to expect or need a reason to give this a try, check out our in-depth coverage and sneak peek preview of the game from last week!


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Church Staff
Rachel has been Minister of Children at Bethany Church (Bethany Lane Baptist Church) since 2004. She has a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration degree from Angelo State University and a Master of Arts - Christian Education, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. She is married to Mitch Parson, who has a daughter, Kate Parson. They also have a Yorkiepoo named Mr. Peabody.
The Lord has a plan for each of our lives. For me it has always been with children. From the age of eleven God planted a love of children in my heart. I began helping in the nursery, every chance I had. When The Lord moved my parents and family to manage a Baptist youth camp in the mountains of New Mexico, He began drawing me near to himself thru the conviction of sin that I had committed against Him, which lead to my salvation. His plan continued to progress in my heart and education with a calling to attain a Seminary degree in education. I am blessed beyond measure to have been called to full time ministry and to Bethany Church.


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Gravity Crash ReviewBy Jeremy Zoss - Posted Dec 11, 2009
Retro-flavored Gravity Crash looks like Asteroids or Robotron, but you'll battle the pull of gravity just as much as space aliens or enemy turrets. It's a game with sleek presentation, but it's rather brutal. Consider yourself warned.
The Pros
- Slick vector graphics
- Lots of content for the price
- Easy to use level creator
The Cons
- Often frustrating
- Old-school shallowness
- Many unimaginative levels
With its vector graphics and dual-analog control, you may expect Gravity Crash to be yet another Geometry Wars clone. It's not. This retro throwback takes its cues from Thrust and Choplifter more than Asteroids and Robotron.
The Wayback Machine
There has been a definite revival of old school arcade-style games in recent years, many of which have embraced both the quarter-eating challenge and retro visuals of yesteryear. Gravity Crash is the latest in the long line of these throwback games, but fortunately it borrows from different classic arcade games than most of its peers.
As a small spacecraft, your goal in Gravity Crash is to navigate maps in search of objectives to either collect or destroy. There are gems to pick up, crew members to rescue and enemy buildings to destroy. Along your way through these maps, you'll encounter resistance in the form of ships, aliens and turrets, but as the name suggests, your real opponent in this game is gravity itself.
It's Not The Fall, It's The Landing
Each level takes place around a different planet, and the pull of gravity constantly tugs your ship downwards towards rocky death. Battling gravity is simple in theory – you just need to fire your thrusters in the direction you're falling to counteract it. However, it quickly becomes clear that this is where the bulk of Gravity Crash's challenge lies: scrape so much as a pixel against anything and you explode. With rocky, mazelike levels, hostile enemies, environmental hazards, collectibles to watch out for and fuel usage to manage, it's harder than it sounds. Crash three times and it's game over. You can continue, but your level score will be wiped. Your ship is equipped with shields that can be triggered manually or automatically, although each method has a tradeoff – choose manual, and they deplete and refill over time. Choose automatic and they'll deploy on their own, but you'll need to find crystals in the stage to refill them. Another type of crystal is required to keep your fuel levels up, so you're always hunting for something just to stay in one piece.
Gravity Crash's steep difficulty would be less aggravating if the levels were more interesting. However, gameplay doesn't change much across the lengthy campaign. Most stages are back-tracking scavenger hunts that send you looking for objectives through vector-drawn areas that all look the same. Aside from a handful of fun boss fights, most levels just feel like more of the same. There are some clever ideas at play in some worlds (destroying power plants lowers force fields, triggering lava floods to destroy enemy bases), but they're too few and far between to make the campaign truly addictive. Fortunately, Gravity Crash ships with a great level creator that allows players to use every concept that the Just Add Water team developed and share their created stages online. I have no doubt that gamers will come up with some truly fresh levels for this game.
Pro-Retro or Anti-Retro?
In the end, the amount of enjoyment you get out of Gravity Crash is going to be directly tied to how much you like old school gaming. If you enjoy a good challenge, you'll probably dig Gravity Crash's exacting, repetitious gameplay. There are two control schemes to choose from and multiple gameplay options, including campaign and Planet mode (which lets you replay unlocked levels to master them). There's the aforementioned level creator and even multiplayer. But every mode still relies on that same classic arcade simplicity, so if you prefer the depth of more modern games, this one isn't likely to speak much to you.


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Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend and I are in our early 30s and have been in a serious relationship for two years.
He is choosing not to go on a vacation with my family. I am incredibly hurt and angry about this. He says he can't afford it, but this makes no sense considering his income and expenses. The trip is three months away, and the cost is minimal. It would require him to take only two days off — which he has said he could do.
I have explained to him how important it is to me that he go. My family is very important to me, and, thus far in our relationship, I have cut back on a lot of family time because he doesn't seem to enjoy it. We have been on two trips with his family — including a two-week overseas trip — and spend quite a bit of other time with them.
He's just not getting how important my family is to me and how much I want him to be a part of that. He has never been too excited about the family functions we do attend, but, when I ask, he says he has no problem being around my relatives.
Is this something I should just get over and go without him, or is it a sign of bigger problems?
— Anonymous
Dear Anonymous: Who is "just not getting" whom?
He has told you through his demeanor, actions and choices over two years that he doesn't embrace your family as his own. He has also told you that it's not the idea of family he resists, because he's tight with his; it's just that he won't rally for yours. He is quite clearly comfortable with the extra effort you have made to embrace and spend time with his family, while giving you no such effort in return.
The one thing you haven't yet acquired as proof of his lack of interest in embracing your family is his admission of this to your face.
If you think it's a good use of your time to wait for the confession before you believe what the evidence is telling you, then go on your trip solo and keep waiting for him to say the words.
Obviously, though, I don't think it is. Instead, it's time to figure out just what you would do if he did finally confess.
Would you go back with a fresh round of pleading? If you hit the same wall, then what?
Would you resign yourself to seeing your family less as a sad but reasonable price to keep someone you otherwise feel lucky to have at your side?
Would your idea of a "reasonable price" be more along the lines of restoring your lost family time and just leaving your man at home?
Or would you decide that this one life vision — in which your companion is an addition to your family instead of an alternative to it — is non-negotiable and break up with this guy?
Whatever it is, that's your next step.
Write to Carolyn Hax — whose column appears on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays — at email@example.com.


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The old adage about good wicketkeepers being neither seen nor heard has fallen by the wayside in these days of excessive appealing and chivvying team-mates in the field, but Brad Haddin has been unobtrusive in one respect. Very quietly, he is about to set a world record.
When he held a thin nick from James Anderson off Nathan Lyon yesterday, Haddin completed his 25th catch across the four Investec Tests. Only his compatriot Rod Marsh has claimed more in a series: 28 in five Tests against England in 1982-83 and 26 in six versus West Indies in 1975-76.
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Is it just me, or does all the Simpsons figures standing everywhere ruin the feel completely and make it seem like a bad theme park?
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I agree except i do like the one of Bart and Milhouse on top of the building and the old man (cant remember his name) in the freezer
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There is one in Universal Hollywood and Orlando. The ones such as the one in the picture, were 7-11s that were converted into Kwik-E-Marts temporarily for promotional purposes.
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Yea the one in Orlando is great since i live near by it. They sell Comic books and Duff soda and stuff. Its very novelty but its cool


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"We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'"
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Boiling down The Bard
Metamorphosis Theatre Company puts on 37 plays in 90 minutes with 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)' at Fremont Centre Theatre
By Carl Kozlowski 08/02/2012
If you're looking for a night of classic theater that won't leave you bored to tears, Metamorphosis Theatre Company has the show for you.
The group's production of "The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)" at South Pasadena's Fremont Centre Theatre leads audiences through The Bard's entire 37-play canon in just 90 minutes, while giving people plenty to laugh at throughout the production.
The idea to take on the show, which has proven popular in prior productions nationwide, came after Metamorphosis members saw how their previous show "The Bible: The Complete Works of God (Abridged)" proved to be a smash. MTC Artistic Director Justin S. Fisher says doing shows like the two "(Abridged)" productions were ways to get noticed in a crowded entertainment marketplace.
"We're trying to launch with getting expanded attention from the public, now that they can find us at the Fremont every time," says Fisher. "They can expect a certain quality, and we have a passion for making people laugh."
If not funny than quirky seems to be a direction in which the Fremont appears headed this month, with a one-night-only performance Sunday of "The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Lone Fishermen Who Have Found Dead Bodies," penned and performed by award-winning playwright T.S. Cook.
"When dead bodies are found in the sea or in a lake, who is the person who always does the finding? It's the lone fisherman. Why is he out there and what does he think when he makes his discovery?" asks the play's press clippings.
The show, which just finished a six-performance run in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, features The Fisherman, who "tells some salty jokes, recalls some great stories, and plays tag with a Coast Guard cutter," according to the clips.
The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15.
This season's other MTC show will be the world premiere of the new comedy "Slice" by South Pasadena author Paul Kikuchi, about the relationship between a young sword maker and a young shoemaker in Japan and how they came to create the famous Japanese sword known as the Katana.
MTC formed in 2007 and produced shows in several Pasadena venues before settling in at the Fremont in 2010. They are now the theater's main troupe, with MTC putting together two productions a year as well as a monthly improv show, while other groups rotate in between with their own shows.
But for now, "Shakespeare" should provide plenty of entertainment.
"It's the easiest way to get all your Shakespeare in one evening, and it's understandable for anyone," says Fisher. "Even if you have trouble understanding a typical Shakespeare play, you'll have no problem understanding this one. I wouldn't say it has a plotline running through the show, other than they do all the plays in fast, funny, mashed together kinds of ways. Most scenes are mash-ups, except for the biggest plays, like 'Romeo & Juliet' and 'Hamlet.'"
"The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)" runs through Aug. 12 with performances at 8 pm Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays at the Fremont Centre Theatre, 1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena. General admission is $20, $15 for seniors and students with ID. Call (626) 441-5977 or visit fremontcentretheatre.com.
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JOHN "JAY" F. PELKINGTON III, 74, passed away Saturday, March 22, 2014. Born in New York, NY, Jay attended St. Jude's Catholic School and was a '58 graduate from CC. A past President of the Homebuilder's Association he also belonged to the Coldwater Lake Sailing Club, Pine Valley Country Club and was the honorary president of the GOOFS.
Jay enjoyed sailing, golfing, sports, playing with his dogs, and spending time at the lake.
Surviving are his wife, Penny Pelkington of Coldwater, Michigan; daughter, Lisa (Herb) Maier of Grabill; son, Brian (Diane) Pelkington of Huntertown; daughter, Mandi (Bryon) Bomia of Monroe, Michigan; grandchildren: Megan and Jason Maier, Paige Pelkington, and Jaye and Brodie Bomia; brother, Bob (Camilla) Pelkington of Huntertown; and four-legged children, Rosie and Annie.
Jay was preceded in death by his parents John F. Jr. and Elsie Pelkington; and brother, Patrick Pelkington.
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A new study from the US Department of Education shows New Jersey has one of the lowest high school dropout rates in the country. Education advocates say statewide averages disguise an ongoing struggle to help students in the state's less affluent areas.
Federal education officials say 87 percent of New Jersey high schoolers get their diplomas on time.
Cecilia Zalkind with Advocates for Children of New Jersey says those numbers point to the high achievement of students in the suburbs.
"But when you look at those pockets of poverty or where children face challenging conditions like Newark, some of the other urban areas, some of the rural areas of our state it's a different story."
For example, according to the state, less than 70 percent of Newark students finish high school.
Zalkind says the state is making an effort to boost these numbers in poor areas with early intervention programs. But that means it's going to take some time before the achievement gap between towns and cities in New Jersey begins to shrink.
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Want to live near the beach. Is Rockaway Park close to Manhattan? I really want an apartment close to the beach, but my new job is in Manhattan. I'm hoping to find something on Shore Front Parkway
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If you want to find an apartment in that area just typed in where you want to live in the search bar and the listings wil come up. Then you can look at the map and see how close the partments actually are to the water. Just so you now, the rent is going to be ridiculously high the closer you get to the water. I would suggest looking at places outside of Manhattan that aren't near the water unless money isn't an issue. You could be the daughter of some pro athlete or a ceo of a company, I wouldn't know, but it's just a suggestion. Good luck and happy spending...
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By E. Morgan Williams, Publisher
www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service (ARTUIS)
Kyiv, Ukraine, March 23, 2004
KYIV - Luis Gomez de Aranda, the Ambassador of Spain to Ukraine
since October 2001, has been very interested in the arts and history of the
various countries where he has lived during his long career as a diplomat.
He furthered his interest in the arts by starting to write poetry ten years
The Spanish Ambassador to Ukraine visited the Ukrainian Genocidal
Famine (Holodomor) 1932-1933 70th Anniversary Commemoration
Exhibition "To the Dead, and the Living and the Unborn," at the Ukrainian
House in Kyiv, Ukraine, November 21-29, 2003. The Exhibition featured
almost one-hundred art works related to the murder by starvation of over
seven million rural Ukrainians by the Soviets under the direction of J.
Luis Gomez De Aranda, Ambassador of Spain to Ukraine(Click on image to enlarge it)
Ambassador Luis Gomez de Aranda said he was moved by the
Holodomor exhibition and the visual depiction of the horrors experienced
by the Ukrainian people. He said he decided to send us a poem he had written
earlier, before the Exhibition, about the famine terror
in Ukraine during 1932-1933. He mentioned it was the
first poem he had written about this tragic event.
The following is the English and Spanish text of the poem "UKRAINE 33"
[originally written in Spanish] by the Spanish Ambassador to Ukraine,
Mr. Luis Gomez de Aranda:
Trains and caravans are in the distance,
nearby vision of red soldiers coming.
Neither rye, nor wheat in the house;
wall newspapers and arms, posters lying.
There are engines, trucks, and gun-fires;
neither oat, nor horse at the house.
Only light in the Kremlin, late evening,
maps and pen on the desk at night hours.
In rough trunks all new seeds germinating
seeds of lead, and gray patches all over
on the snow red star is in blossom,
and a cross with arms raised to the nowhere
Flags on walls that are old and all rotten
thousands icons there, and those mud patches
seem like huge spikes, they are like vision
and the wings of glory in futures.
This is bird that is injured, a woman
presses it to her chest very closely.
To her chest, to her soul where trembles
hawthorn branch, still alive though hopeless.
Both good things be memorized in the soul
and the things that were never in blossom.
Those nights were so clear in summer
and the stones were stones, like always,
and great river was solemnly flowing
never changing its course, calm and gorgeous.
And the moon was the moon, as accustomed,
rain in summer, as always, was friendly
giving hope to fields and the homes.
But in winter - it happened abruptly,
there appeared red flags, not the snow.
Sound of church bells was heard in the dawn,
In the afternoon - funeral flow.
Like a piece of old linen in coffer,
that brief instant consecrates forever
it turns out to be mourning shroud.
Powerful sceptre encircled by star pearls,
watches all this nonchalant and quiet
from the height of its distant ice throne;
Women walking around like shadows,
Eyes are searching for something in snow
In the well, in the courtyard, in anything.
Trains and caravans are in the distance,
Nearby vision of red soldiers coming.
Neither rye, nor wheat in the house:
Wall newspapers and arms, posters lying.
Only light in the Kremlin, late evening,
Maps and pen on the desk at night hours........
Lejos trenes y oscuros furgones,
cerca un sueno de botas pesadas.
No hay centeno, ni trigo en la aldea;
hay pistolas, murales, pancartas.
Hay motores, camiones, fusiles;
no hay caballo, ni avena, ni paja.
Una luz en el Kremlin, ya tarde,
una mesa, una pluma, unos mapas.
En los troncos rugosos germinan
las semillas de plomo y el barro
roja estrella es, florece en la nieve,
y una cruz con los brazos alzados.
En las viejas paredes, banderas,
mil iconos cual soles, y el barro
toma cuerpo en espigas gigantes,
y en futuros de gloria y alados.
Es un pajaro herido y lo lleva
la mujer, junto al pecho, en el brazo.
Junto al alma, y apenas temblando,
una rama de espino.
Un recuerdo de cosas que fueron
y un recuerdo jamas florecido.
Mas la noche fue clara, un verano,
y la piedra fue piedra,
y el gran rio, solemne y tranquilo,
siguio; el curso que nunca dejara.
Y la luna fue luna, cual suele,
y la lluvia en verano, en el campo,
como suele, fue amiga y fue casa.
Mas llegado el invierno,
en bandera devino, y rendida, la nieve.
Se hizo al alba un repique de iglesia
y a la tarde se hizo,
como un funebre canto.
Como el pavo en el arca olvidado,
que un instante muy breve consagra,
para siempre, en reliquia o sudario.
Sumo cetro y perlado de estrellas,
mira absorto y distante, en la altura,
sobre un trono de hielo y callado;
y mas cerca mujeres
con el ojo prendido en la nieve,
en la nada, en el pozo, en el patio.
Lejos trenes y oscuros furgones,
cerca un suen;o de botas pesadas.
No hay centeno, ni trigo en la aldea,
No hay caballo, ni avena, ni paja.
Una luz en el Kremlin, ya tarde;
una mesa, una pluma, unos mapas........


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