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Word of Letters FourRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
I'm a word of letters four with close ties to snow.
Just half of my first my third letter will show.
One fifth of my fourth my first you may call.
Of my second 'tis best to say nothing at all.
What word am I?
Here's how:
According to the 2nd line, "half of my first (C), my third will show (L). This is because in Roman numerals, C = 100 and L = 50. Half of C (100) is, of course, 50 (L).
According to the 3rd line," One Fifth of my fourth my first you may call". This works out since one fifth of D, which is 500 in Roman numerals, is 100 (which is C - the first letter).
According to the 4th line, "Of my second tis best to say nothing at all". This is because 0 is well... nothing.
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Hey. I'm a bit stuck over here. for the past weeks iv'e been trying to learn Python. I feel that I know the basics pretty well.
I have been on YouTube watching numerous of different vidoes series explaining Python for beginners.
What I did after a week or two when I got all the basics down was to install a plugin/module called "EasyGUI".
but, with EasyGui are pretty limited.
I just wonder what I should do to move to the next step so to speak.
I don't want something too bad though. I wanna take everything about Python step-by-step. If I get too hard challenged right away I'll just quit because all I see is hard shit.
If you have any tips or guidelines of what I should do to improve myself then I'd appreciate if you shared them with me!
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Shake off summertime idleness: It's time to jump back into the kitchen with Kelsey.
Kelsey Nixon returns for a second season of Kelsey's Essentials this Saturday at 2 p.m. ET. She'll share her essential recipes, techniques, tools and tips to make you a pro in the kitchen.
Here's a sneak peek of what she's cooking up for season 2:
Sugar Cookie Crust Fruit Pizza Recipe
Kelsey's first episode is all about updating classic desserts, like her showstopping fruit pizza. A delicious, soft and chewy sugar cookie crust provides the base for a lemony cream cheese frosting and glazed fruit.
Kelsey dedicates episode two to the idea of simple sandwiches. She uses bread as a blank canvas and adds tasty, flavorful ingredients to make one killer sandwich, like her Fried Green Tomato BLT.
Stone Fruit Salsa With Cinnamon Chips Recipe
Later on in the season, Kelsey offers up her best ideas for small plates, including this sweet twist on chips and salsa. She turns flour tortillas into cinnamon chips, and whips up a sweet salsa from in-season stone fruits.
Tangy Maple Baked Beans With Applewood Smoked Bacon Recipe
And don't miss her episode on indoor barbecuing. She's got it all covered: ribs for her main, pie pops for dessert, and her Tangy Maple Baked Beans for a side.
Be sure to tune into Kelsey's Essentials on Saturdays at 2:30 p.m. ET to get these recipes and more from Kelsey.
More Ideas From Kelsey:
- Essential Summer Recipes
- Breakfast Burger Recipe
- Macaroni Salad Recipe
- Curried Deviled Eggs Recipe
- Pie in a Jar Recipe
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Act characterized by 2 individuals having doggy style sex. Performer starts to finger the recipients ass and using that same finger draws a fecal circle around the receiving partners eyes. Once the circles are completed, the performer shall end all sexual contact, run out the door and tip over the recipients garbage cans.
I was banging a stuff girl doggy style when she asked for a dirty raccoon. So I fingered her ass, circled both her eyes and then ran out the front door pushing over her garbage cans.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Results of notable races and Ohio ballot issues in Tuesday's election. (Winners are marked with an x.)
U.S. Senate
x_Sherrod Brown, Dem (i)
--Josh Mandel, GOP
U.S. House
District 2
--William R. Smith, Dem
x_Brad Wenstrup, GOP
District 3
x_Joyce Beatty, Dem
--Chris Long, GOP
District 7
--Joyce R. Healy-Abrams, Dem
x_Bob Gibbs, GOP (i)
District 9
x_Marcy Kaptur, Dem (i)
--Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, GOP
State House
District 89
x_Chris Redfern, Dem
--Donald J. Janik, GOP
Statewide Issues
Issue 1, Constitution Convention
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Winter 2014 National Newsletter (PDF File) National Association News
Chapters News: Commander's Own (Rosemount MN) Council Bluffs IA Des Moines IA
National Membership and Renewal Registrations: via US Mail (PDF) via ONLINE (PayPal)
Locating Veteran Records Affiliated website: Military History Network
Website Upgrade
With this 'issue' of the website we are 'updating' our appearance. We start by reviving the masthead from our original 'Red Bulletin', published during the 1944-45 North Apennines campaign, somewhere between Florence and Bologna.
Other changes, including a review, correction, and updating of all our links to information elsewhere are taking place this winter and spring. We will also provide a greater distinction between the two Red Bull eras: then, 1917-1991, and naw, 1991-2014 and beyond. We'll also be developing a better archive facility for all unit histories and publications and interface for our current battalions, brigades, and states.
503 Combat days !
The current issue of our newsletter features two reports of your Red Bull's combat history: 500+ days in WW II North Africa and Italy, and 3 days in Do Ab, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. Both stories will remain as permanent features in the history portals of our website.
Other Highlights ...
Mark your Calendars: our next Red Bull Reunion will be held October 4-5, 2014, again at the Stoney Creek Inn and Camp Dodge, both in Johnston IA.
The closure of our Tri-State Chapter, which was approved in principal at the 2012 reunion, was completed at this reunion. Their final treasury was adequate to allow all Tri-State members to be rolled into the National Association as Life Members. Yes, LIFE Members!
2013 Reunion Report
Colonel Steve Osborn, current G-3 of the Iowa National Guard was selected as the 2013-2014 President of our 34th Infantry Division Association at our October 10-11 reunion at the Snoney Creek Inn an Camp Dodge in Johnston IA
During the eleven years of the "War on Terror", we have had over 20,000 soldiers serve in the 34th Infantry Division in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as deployments for Noble Eagle support for homeland support in the U.S. Our 2014 Reunion will be a special "Welcome Home" for ALL these soldiers and their families.
Continued Honors - and Responsibilities - for our Ben Corell
Colonel Ben Corell proudly commanded our Red Bull 2nd Brigade Combat Team while it was deployed to Afghanistan from November 2010 to July 2011. He followed that by serving as your 34th Infantry Division Association President for our 2012-2013 year.
But last year the National Guard decided we could not simply keep him as our honored Ironman; Corell was given a new responsibility as Deputy Commanding General (Support) of the 34th Infantry Division in Rosemount MN. And in July 2013 he was given the rank commensurate with that responsibility. We are proud to tell all Red Bulls that Brigadier General Benjamin J. Corell was 'flagged' in a promotion ceremony by his commanders and family in a ceremony at Division Headquarters.
Your History: Bologna, 21 April 1945
The city of Bologna was liberated on the morning of 21 Apr 1945 by the 9th Bn, 3rd Bde, 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, 2 Polish Corps coming northwest on the Via Emilia, closely followed by the 34th Infantry Division coming north on Route 65. The 34th Infantry Division elements and their commanders were:
The Jeep on the left appears to be that used by MG Wladyslaw Anders, General Officer Commanding, 2 Polish Corps.
The Jeep on the right belongs to 15th Army Group. The officer wearing a garrison cap looks like COL Alfred Bowman, then assuming duties as Regional Commissioner (Military Governor) for the Emilia-Romagna region with headquarters in Bologna. In that Jeep, standing, is a Red Bull officer.
The National Guard is still waiting.
'Clicking' on the image above will bring up a larger image on a separate webpage.
"34th Division Regimental Lineages and Honors" (PDF file),
from US Army Center of Military History, 1953, extracted for us by Russ Bierl
1st Brigade Combat Team (Minnesota National Guard)
There were NO losses by the 1st Brigade Combat Team during its mission in Kuwait which officially ended 24 April 2012.29 Nov 2011, 1st Brigade Combat Team
Kuwait: Minnesota Guard's CWO Daniel Mellon recalls two decades, two trips.
25 Nov 2011, 1/34th Brigade Special Troops Battalion:
SPC Garrett Nelson works with 1-94th Cav as a driver trainer in the drawdown.
14 Nov 2011, 1-194th Combined Arms Battalion:
Convoy Escort Security: Safeguarding the Iraq Drawdown.
12 Nov 2011, 134th Brigade Support Battalion:
Throw a Wrench at It !
11 Nov 2011, 134th Brigade Support Battalion:
National Guard units make room for exodus as Iraq drawdown nears.
10 Nov 2011, Iowa Public Television:
Iowa Soldiers, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, Remember Afghanistan. (29 min. TV feature)
2nd Brigade Combat Team (Iowa National Guard).
Over 200 reports of the 2nd BCT's 2010-2011 deployment are archived here on our website.
The report of our 2nd Brigade Combat Team losses while in Afghanistan is also maintained in a permanent archive of this website."May they have no more hills to climb,
nor cold, nor rain, nor mud, nor enemy fire,
and may they now rest in Peace."
We also want to share with you this 22 June 2011 New York Times story/tribute,
Official Facebook Resources
Facebook of the 34th Infantry Division Association.
Facebook of the 34th Infantry Division.
Facebook of the 1st Brigade, 34th Infantry Division.
Facebook of the 2nd Brigade, 34th Infantry Division.
Facebook of the Minnesota National Guard.
Facebook of the Iowa National Guard.
Other Reports and Information Sources
The Red Bull Gift Shop at 34th Infantry Division HQ (Facebook)
"Lives During Wartime", New York Times, 10 Nov 2011: USAF CPT Peter N Shinn,
734th Agribusiness Development Team, writes about SGT Tessa Poppe.
The Red Bull Express: the official information publication of the 1st Brigade.
Units under command of the 1st Brigade Combat Team:
Webmaster's Choices, the positive side,
"Outpost in the Apennines" by T/Sgt. Savo Radulovic
Courtesy of the Army Art Collection
Photo by SPC Kristina L. Gupton
Courtesy of Task Force Red Bulls Public Affairs
The list of 'Home Stations' for all units of the division, just before it was activated in the Federal Service in 1941, is now online among our History Papers as a PDF file, five pages. The orignal document, here transcribed, was recently found in the Library and Archives of the State Historical Society of Iowa.
A new collection of the 1941-1945 histories of the 135th Infantry Regiment is now online and presented in our history section.
A report by COL Thomas Drake, commanding the 168th Infantry Regiment in Tunisia, was recently uncovered at the Iowa Gold Star Military Museum. This was his official report of the actions leading up to the capture of much of the Regiment in February 1943. It is now available here as a PDF file, 6.5 MB, Tunisian Operations, 168th Infantry.
In accepting Col. Drake's report, Major General Charles Ryder wrote on 1 May 1945:
"Knowing the conditions, I can only marvel at the gallantry of the 168th Infantry and yourself in the face of overwhelming odds. You and you alone were fighting the entire German armored force of General Rommel and the delay you caused saved the Allied Forces in Southern Tunisia from disaster. Both of you wrote a page in American history for which you can be well proud. The blame for your defeat can only be layed on the shoulders of those who completely failed to come to your support as had been planned."
We know, from our own experiences in World War II, what it means to lose a fellow Red Bull. To their families, their friends, their comrades of this generation, we will maintain this small remembrance in their honor, in your honor.
President: COL Stephen Osborn. 1st Vice-President: LTC Stephen Boesen. 2nd Vice-President: LTC Tim Sulzner. 1 Year Trustees: MSG Daniel Ewer, LTC David Visser, BG Craig Bargfrede, SFC Ashlee Lolkus. 2 Year Trustees: BG(R) Mark Zirkelbach, COL(R) Ron 'Curly' Albrecht, Past President, MAJ Jason Burley, CSM Joel Arnold. 3 Year Trustees: CW5(R) Herman Poggensee, LTC Scott Keeley, BG Ben Corell, Past President, SSG Tanner Johnson. Secretary: COL(R) Russell Bierl. Treasurer: LTC(R) Michael Musel. Sergeant at Arms: LTC(R) Jim Berg. Senior Historian: Vet(R) Pat Skelly, Past President. Facebook Managers : SFC Ashlee Lolkus and CW5(R) Herman Poggensee Chaplain: Chaplain (CPT) Skip Manus
The Commander's Own Chapter, with an office at the Headquarters of the 34th Infantry Division is in the process of formation. Meeting and business announcements and newsletters will be posted here as available.The chapters's postal address is:
This chapter, with about forty members, does not publish bulletins. Their members meet at monthly luncheons or dinners. They also host an annual Christmas Dinner.The chapter's postal address is:
The 100th Infantry Battalion (Nisei)(Separate), which was assigned in place of the 2nd Battalion, 133rd Infantry, from September 1943 through May 1944, and the 442nd Infantry Regiment (Nisei) which was attached to our Division from June 1944 through August 1944, have an especially honored place in our memories and history. We are pleased and likewise honored that many of their veterans have come to look upon the "Red Bull" as their 'home' division.
The 1st Ranger Battalion, though not a part of the 34th Inf Div, was activated in 1942 with 80% of its personnel coming from this Division.
Please be aware, that unit attachments were often for periods of days or weeks, but generally not for an entire campaign.
PDF (Portable Document Format) files may require Adobe Acrobat software for viewing.
Please click on the image to the right if you need to load it on your system.
Updated 2014 March 27.
Design Copyright © 2002-2014 Patrick Skelly,
for the 34th Infantry Division Association.
For Website information, contact Pat Skelly, Senior Historian.
For Facebook information, contact Ashlee Lolkus, Facebook Manager.
For Association information, contact Russ Bierl, Association Secretary.
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MISSING out on the play-offs was a bitter pill to swallow for George Ford but a first England start against New Zealand this summer could prove just the tonic for the Bath fly-half.
Ford and co slipped out of the top four on the final day of the season after losing to Harlequins at the Stoop but the margins could not have been closer – if the 20-year-old's last-gasp drop goal had gone over Bath would have advanced at the expense of the Londoners.
Bath's season is still not over with the Amlin Challenge Cup final against Northampton Saints this Friday but missing out on the Premiership final does at least mean Ford will be available for England's first Test in New Zealand.
Owen Farrell however, will not after Saracens booked their place at Twickenham, opening the door for Ford, who won his first two caps off the bench during the Six Nations, to wear the No.10 jersey for the first time.
"If I get the opportunity to start for England I'd love to do that, don't get me wrong, going out there is going to be tough playing New Zealand in their own backyard three times," said Ford.
"But one that this team is looking forward to and one this team needs I think to test ourselves against the best and to try and stamp our authority down a little bit as well. I think the boys are ready for that.
"It's just competition for places, you want that for your club and you want that for your country as well. The guys sticking their hands up this year there's loads of them in the fly-half position, and others as well, and it's only good for the individuals.
"You've got to keep getting better and performing at weekends to make sure you're in the frame for selection so it's only going to help."
Ford's stock has risen throughout the season, featuring in 21 of their 22 Aviva Premiership matches and playing a key role in their Amlin Challenge Cup campaign, justifying his decision to leave Leicester and join dad Mike at the Rec.
At last weekend's Aviva Premiership Award Ford was nominated for The Land Rover Discovery of the Season award, presented to the best player aged 23 years or under, losing out to Saracens No.8 Billy Vunipola but he didn't leave empty-handed, picking up the Gilbert Golden Boot gong.
But Ford refused to take the credit himself, insisting his teammates deserve just as much praise as he does.
"It's a great feeling, it's a massive honour to be a part of that group of players and I think it's just a reflection of how well the lads have played at Bath," he added.
"They've been outstanding so I've been pretty lucky to play in that team. I can take pride out of it but as a team we've had a big thing this year about sticking together and doing the best for each other, making each other look good in training and making each other look good in games.
"I think the lads have been brilliant at that this year, especially the forward to let the backs into it and impress themselves.
"I think one thing I would say is that the lads have put a lot of hard work, scored a lot of tries and earned a lot of penalties for the kicker to stand up and try and knock them over.
"That's all you can do, just try and reward your teammates for all their hard work they've done."
Be part of the world's biggest club rugby final. Buy your tickets for the Aviva Premiership Rugby Final on 31 May at Twickenham from www.tickethour.co.uk/premierrugby


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Brave schoolgirls and mobile phone technology have provided police with the best chance of catching a man accused of sexually assaulting students on a busy Melbourne tram.
Two year 11 students were assaulted on a packed tram travelling past the domain tram interchange on St Kilda Road in Melbourne shortly after 3.15pm on Friday 20 June, police say.
The 17-year-old high school students took photographs of a man, which police released on Thursday with a public appeal for him to come forward.
"They performed flawlessly, took some very good stills of the male, which will allow us hopefully to identify him and speak to him about what has occurred," said Detective Sean Campbell from the Transit Crime Investigation Unit.
He said with most members of the public now carrying high quality cameras in their pockets, these sort of offences were likely to be captured on film.
"In this day and age more often than not you're going to be caught on some form of media and instantly transmitted all over the place," he said.
The girls had boarded the tram at domain in a large group when the man targeted one girl "where he's proceeded to behave in a manner that's caused her to move out of the way," Detective Campbell said.
"He's then targeted a friend of hers who was unaware that she was being assaulted until her friends have drawn her attention to it then they've both proceeded to get off the tram and leave the area before contacting police."
The girl was not immediately aware she was being sexually assaulted because it was a crowded tram, he said.
Detective Campbell described the man's behaviour on the tram as "no doubt concerning".
"To say its not publicly acceptable would be an understatement," he said. "In the nature of the business i'm in it's not the first time i've seen something like this and I suspect not going to be the last."
The man got off the tram at Flinders Street, but police were unable to track his movements from there. He has been described as Indian in appearance, aged about 30 years old, with a medium build, brown eyes and dark hair.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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Conway's Law is one observation we can use as a guide on the initial stages of a Software project, it basically states that development modules organize themselves around the communication structure of an organization. So simply put, if you get three guys in a room that want to quickly roll-out a compiler and not interfere with each other's work, you will have a three part compiler. Why? because each person does not want to know what the other is doing as long as each has stuck to an agreed interface, everyone is happy.
So, an architectural decision has been made, not by a best practice but by social communication. If the same three developers collaborated on a high-level architecture, a good design, and worked closely on its implementation, my guess is that they would have better results. Not only in the quality of work produced but also other intangibles.
Ever have one developer that is over-worked while the other ten developers wished they could help? Well, not paying attention to Conway's law is probably the culprit. It is easy to fall into the the argument that: by giving each module an owner we have one throat to choke.
This type of thinking forgets some important items:
- People work on projects, someone will take unforeseen time-off.
- Dividing up modules does not necessarily divide work equally. Ever have a developer that had a super-easy module and wanders around like the floor like he's the only one that has his act together?
- Unforeseen work presents a challenge on which module it belongs as each module owner will attempt to push the new work onto another. For example, where should certain validations be placed: front-end, middle tier, or at the persistence layer? I bet you the group that with the least political leverage will get this extra work.
So what can we do to break down the social communication barrier? One technique is to implement review practices. Requirements Reviews, Design Reviews, or even Pair Programming, just as long as people are talking.
Remember, a majority of Software Engineering problems can be boiled down to a lack of communication, so don't avoid communication. The days of the unsociable introvert coder hiding in a dark basement as to avoid human contact is over.


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- Walter J. Ong S.J. Biography and Remembrances
Father Padburg's Homily at Father Ong's Memorial Mass
August 19, 2003
John W. Padberg, S.J.
From fly fishing to cosmology --
From a sixteenth century savant, Peter Ramus, to a freshman student --
From the origins of human consciousness and culture to the celebrationof the Eucharist --
From the meaning and the use of words to the very word of God.
To all of these Father Walter Ong turned his interest, knowledge, experience and imagination. And when he turned to anyone of them, he did so with the full force of his being. That is why it is appropriate to recall these three passages from Sacred Scripture as we remember Walter Ong.
But before I go further, to Walter's cousins, to his colleagues at Saint Louis University, to those academic colleagues here present from other places of learning, to his friends, his former students and his brethren in the Jesuit infirmary with whom Walter lived most closely in the last few years, may I offer in the name of the entire Jesuit community here at Saint Louis University our prayers and our sympathy at the loss of a man who was for so many reasons dear to you. To all his brethren of the Jesuit Hall community itself, of which he was a member for so many years, may I also as Rector of that community share our and my sense of loss. As we pray for Walter, we count on his prayers before the throne of God.
I have chosen these three readings from Sacred Scripture because of what they say in themselves and because of how Walter's life and work resonated so closely with them.
Job exclaims, "Oh, would that my words were written down . . . that they were cut in a rock for ever . . . . but I know that my Vindicator lives . . . . him I myself shall see; my own eyes, not another's shall behold him and from my flesh I shall see God." If ever there was a man who was a person of the word and of the consciousness thereof, Walter Ong was surely such. His whole intellectual life was devoted in one way or another to those realities and their implications, words and consciousness. Perhaps his most famous book was Orality and Literacy: The Technologies of the Word. It was also the most widespread of his works, translated into a dozen Western and Eastern languages. It ranges from human culture before writing was first developed on through typographic culture and to our contemporary electronic culture. It draws out the implications of those changes for fields as diverse as biblical studies, social theory and male and female relationships. Job would have his words written down and cut in the rock forever. Walter's words were not only written down; the title of an article by a Professor of New Testament says directly what Father Ong accomplished, " Walter Ong's Three Incarnations of the Word: Orality -- Literacy -- Technology." Often long before others had seen it, Walter understood what a change had occurred when knowledge and tradition were transmitted no longer exclusively by the spoken word (as was so long the case for all civilization) but also by the written word and by the rise of literacy, and how the rise of electronic communication is again transforming speaker, speech and hearer. So many of those changes he saw, understood, called attention to and worked out the implications thereof. Other of Walter's works such as the Presence of the Word and Interfaces of the Word explored the same phenomena and how they affected the ways we think, the social institutions we build, the ways we behave.
Walter's academic reputation was first made almost fifty years ago by a book, Ramus, Method and the Decay of Dialogue, a study of Renaissance intellectual history through the life and work of Peter Ramus, a sixteenth century educational reformer and logician. The book grew out of his doctoral dissertation at Harvard which, up to then, enjoyed the reputation of being the single longest doctoral dissertation ever done at that university. It may still be such. It was the fruit of research in more than one hundred libraries. Walter could be more methodical than even Ramus himself was.
However much books and ideas meant to Walter, and indeed they did, things, real things, living and inanimate, meant more. His theories have been very influential even though he often said he was not a shaper of grand theories but that he just pointed out how things actually were. He would have found himself perfectly at home with all the items in Lewis Carroll's lines, "The time has come the walrus said/To speak of many things/Of ships and tacks and ceiling wax/ Of cabbages and kings. "He loved the outdoors. Animals fascinated him. If a walrus would have been available, he would have watched it carefully, read about it and told you about it, perhaps more than you wanted to know. The fly fishing that I mentioned was one of his activities. He loved plants and flowers.
For years he personally took care of watering, feeding, planting, and repotting all the plants in the university library and many of them in Jesuit Hall. I don't think they included cabbages; perhaps there was a cabbage rose. As for "ships and tacks and sealing wax," things, ordinary objects, and how they operated, also fascinated Walter. I know he could discourse on maritime adventures and shipboard navigation. After many, many years of personally typing his manuscripts with little or nor secretarial help, for which the invention of the IBM Selectric typewriter was a godsend, Walter took on the convenience of the computer even if its challenges, when it became obstinate, might have led him to think that it was essentially made of tacks and sealing wax.
However much books and ideas and things meant to Walter, people meant far more. How men and women organized themselves in society was one part of that interest. It was well typified by his Cornell University Messenger Lectures on the Evolution on Civilization which resulted in the book, Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality and Consciousness. There he looked at contests in every form, from sports to political rhetoric, from the biological circumstances for human cultural activity to sexual differences and the person's search for freedom. One society about which he thought much was the Catholic Church. He loyalty to it was surpassed only by his awareness of its opportunities, to which he offered encouragement, and its problems, to which he offered suggestions for solving them. Emblematic of that interest were his early books, Frontiers in American Catholicism and American Catholic Crossroads. They were both published before Vatican II and both anticipated some of its insights and decisions. In more recent years, Walter repeatedly wrote on the Church's urgent need for a new cosmology and a new imagination linked to it. He said that we badly needed to take account of our current knowledge of the earth and the universe that is literally "new heavens and a new earth" different from the world with which Christianity for so many years has done its theologizing. He took very seriously the word of God in our reading from the Book of Revelation, "Behold, I make all things new!".
More than books and ideas and things and people in the aggregate, however, much more, it was men and women as individuals who meant so much to Walter. So many here this evening can attest to the warm, enduring friendships they enjoyed with him. He was deeply attached to his friends; he cared about them, wrote to them, remembered their anniversaries, comforted them in their sorrows, elebrated their successes. Of his students he demanded good work. More importantly he expected good work of them because he thought they were capable of it. He was utterly generous with the help he gave to them to live up to those expectations. And he remembered them individually for years to come and took delight into their accomplishments. As an example, I know personally of one first year Arts and Sciences woman undergraduate who had the courage or the rashness to take one of his courses, one hardly meant for a freshman. She had to work hard. She did well in it. A dozen years later he still remembered her, asked about her, was delighted at a visit from her.
The individuals and the brotherhood that they formed that were dearest to him were his brother Jesuits and the Society of Jesus itself. To the Society he gave himself, and to its works he gave all his life, his talent and his energy. For more than forty years Walter was a member of the Jesuit community at Saint Louis University. To the community members he gave a quiet, indeed undemonstrative, but real affection. To his specific friends within it he was everything that they could have wished for. To Saint Louis University, of which he had been Professor of English, Professor of Humanities in Psychiatry and was at the time of his death University Professor Emeritus, and of which he was probably the most distinguished and most internationally recognized and honored member, he gave a lifetime of devoted teaching and research, and to his colleagues he gave deep friendship and constant support.
But most of all, it was the to the Lord that Walter gave his whole life. His friendship with God was as undemonstrative as with his brethren. But it was even deeper. Walter was a pious man and that is good, but he was also a holy man and that is far better. He truly believed in a God "through whom all things came to be and in whom was life, the life that was the light of humankind, the light that shines in the darkness." For years he celebrated the Eucharist early every morning in this College Church and for years in this same church through the Sacrament of Reconciliation he brought God's mercy and love to countless men and women. The prayer of this man who was an intellectual of the highest order was that kind of prayer, but it was also the prayer of a simple man who knew that God was always beyond our complete understanding but not beyond our confident approaching because "the Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us." Because of Jesus, the Word Incarnate, "we will be God's people and God will be our God."
In one of his latest books, Hopkins, the Self and God, Walter Ong looked at the way Gerard Manley Hopkins, the English Jesuit poet, celebrated the completely particular, individual nature of each man and woman in the world the "I," who is me, myself and I. Walter gave that self and all his individuality and all his talent to ideas, to books, to things, to groups, to individuals, to the Church, to the Society of Jesus, to Jesus Christ. May Jesus Christ receive him, just as we ask that He may receive us, so that we may see His glory, "such glory as befits God's only Son, full of grace and truth."


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ONLY victory in their final league game will do for Basingstoke RFC, if they are to stand any chance of avoiding relegation from National League Three London.
Even then, they still have to hope Barnes suffer defeat at Westcombe Park as well, on the last day of the season.
Last weekend, 'Stoke slipped into the bottom three for the first time since the early part of the campaign, after a 41-32 defeat at Tonbridge Juddians.
Meanwhile, Barnes, victors at Down Grange a fortnight ago, climbed out of the drop-zone thanks to a 31-22 win against Guernsey.
This Saturday (kick-off 3pm), Basingstoke entertain third-placed East Grinstead.
Barnes, who now have a three point advantage over 'Stoke, have the easier-looking fixture, as they travel to 10th-placed Westcombe Park.
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Challenge Basingstoke RFC's director of rugby James Croker believes his team are up for the challenge.
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'Stoke will be boosted by the return of captain Freddie Gleadowe from injury and he is sure to inspire others around him.
Croker said: "We are going to have to make some tough decisions on selection this week as I felt every guy did really well at Tonbridge.
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THREE students from the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester were arrested on Sunday, May 25, in connection with alleged serious sexual assaults.
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Where can I get support for using MMS/CD?
MMS is a developing field. Things change as we learn more and make progress with different methods. Many people are working on this on different levels. This is an attempt to point you in the right direction for the information you are seeking.
|MMS is now called CD by Kerri Rivera and all her support groups.
MMS/CD must be mixed with an activator before use. There are 2 recommended.
MMS1/MMS/CD = all the same thing, 28% solution of sodium chlorite, a liquid.
CDS = chlorine dioxide solution; usually make this yourself, a liquid.
MMS2 = calcium hypochlorite, a powder.
Citric acid 50% primary recommended activator by Jim Humble groups.
HCl 4% or 5% primary recommended activator by Kerri Rivera groups.
As far as support groups go, there are groups following Kerri's MMS/CD and parasite protocol as found in her book and support groups for Jim Humble protocols as presented in his book. Kerri's groups are more heavily moderated to stay on topic than the Jim Humble groups. I am involved in administrating all these groups.
| Kerri Rivera Support Groups
|Jim Humble Support Groups
|NOTE: Kerri's groups are heavily moderated to stay on topic. These are support groups NOT debate groups, a positive, supportive atmosphere is maintained.
NOTE: less heavily moderated thus allowing for greater diversity of views, but these are support groups also NOT debate groups.
|CD Autism Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/AutismCD/ ASD support only
Genesis 2 Forum http://www.g2cforum.org/
|CDHealth Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/mojoother/ Adults following Kerri's protocols for various conditions
Yahoo group MMS_Humble http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Humble_MMS/
|CDS for ASD Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/cdsforasd/ for discussing CDS making as decribed in Kerri's book
|CD Autism Forum http://mmsautism.org/forum/ for discussing Kerri's protocols
Jim Humble's books http://jhbooks.org/
Kerri Rivera's book http://mmsautism.org/bookstore
These protocols require you to take responsibility for your own health. You need to get the book you want to follow first, and then get support on one or more of these groups. There are very experienced and helpful people on all these groups. Some are more active than others.
It is important to remember these are support groups for people who want and need help. We are not here to debate with doubters, we are here to help those who want help and appreciate it. Troublemakers get weeded out fast because they harm those who really need help. Many good people are freely donating countless hours of help for those who need it. Please pay it forward and jump in to start helping others when you get helped yourself. All of us working together can make a big difference in many, many lives.
There are many doubters and haters on the internet, just ignore them. That's what we are doing and we keep recovering people who want help. Please feel welcome to join us!
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In 2.5 years, 93 children previously diagnosed with regressive autism were able to shed their diagnosis, their symptoms, and return to an overall state of health and vitality. If you have any interest in finding out how they were able to heal you need to read this book. Kerri has a heart for children with autism, and she cares greatly about recommending safe, economical interventions that are helping to confront an epidemic. --Teri Arranga, Executive director of AutismOne.
Purchase here.
Kerri has outlined a very complete approach to autism recovery that includes an understanding of the importance of Biofilm theory and protocol. She recommends safe interventions that do no harm, and are helping to confront an epidemic. Kerri's approach includes common sense dietary recommendations, the use of supplements to restore balance to the body and immune system, as well as mild oxidative therapies to address chronic infection and inflammation. She has taken children who were in the throes of autism, meaning chronic illness, to healing. The symptoms being labeled as autism are fading away, the children are talking and socializing, and their ATEC scores prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what their parents are claiming: their children no longer have autism. Kerri's grasp of a biomedical approach to Autism recovery, paired with her passion for service has allowed families of all socioeconomic backgrounds to have what they might never have otherwise found: a means by which to help their children.
Who is Michael Harrah?
For a recent update on my story, here is a testimonial video shot in April of this year, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvkBaKss2r4&feature=c4-overview&list=UU8eoSbBWWJo80-BGMuVYJuw . Since about 1996 I have been fighting chronic fatigue syndrome, gut problems/pain/dysfunction, multiple chemical sensitivity, and lifelong lung congestion respiratory infections. By following Kerri Rivera's MMS and parasite protocol for about 9 months now, my lifelong lung problems have resolved and the chemical sensitivity is hardly noticeable. Gut problems are reduced in that I am no longer in constant pain but I do have to follow a very strict paleo/SCD/blood type diet. As long as I stay on it I don't hurt and I actually gain some weight. The chronic fatigue is also gradually resolving. I still have a long way to go to have normal energy but I can at least carry out light work all day long.
These are all huge improvements for me for which I am extremely grateful to my God who has led me through this. When I got very sick after graduating from law school in 1995 and pretty much lost my life dreams in the ensuing year, and figured out the doctors could not help me, then I decided to humble myself before my Maker. I've never regretted that and I soon found peace and joy flooding into my depressed heart. When the sickness dragged on and on and I realized I had lost my health, my wife of 10 years and my new career, I had slipped into depression but the solution was merely to humble myself and seek Him.
For me this path of many years of debilitating chronic illness and the struggling to get well without the benefit of professionals has taught me many valuable spiritual lessons. It has taught me to walk with, listen to, and trust in my God, and how to have thankfulness and peace in my heart through it all. I have done this through cultivating thankfulness in my thoughts, eliminating negative inputs, and praying to and worshiping my God.
I know today many people don't want to hear about God, religion or Jesus because so many have had such hurtful experiences with people and institutions who abuse those words. I understand that because I grew up in churches myself and when I finally truly humbled my heart, then my eyes were opened and I saw the hypocrisy and the many lies I had been taught, often by well meaning people. I had to learn to listen to God myself where he speaks in a still, small voice in my heart. Churchianity is not the real thing.
Our Creator loves us with an unimaginable love we cannot begin to understand. There was a point in all this not long after I had humbled myself, that the Most High God did reveal his love for me so I could feel it. I will never forget it. We cannot even imagine how powerful and good it is. It is there for all of us to have, we must only receive it and that can only be done by humbling ourselves and becoming like a little child in our hearts. I am speaking from my experience.
The One who created us is near to all of us and loves every one of us and he has provided a way that we can come right into his presence and receive the free gift of eternal life. This story has been abused by many religions and hypocrites but in my own personal experience it is true. The Most High God, our Creator, sent his only Son to earth. The churches use the name Jesus but his real name would have been Hebrew and Yahushua or Yeshua. By whichever name though, he really did show us how to live and gave his life up as a sacrifice to redeem all those who would believe in him.
You can read any of the Gospels in the Bible to learn what Jesus (Yeshua is his Hebrew name) said about how to be saved and receive the gift of everlasting life welling up inside of you. To receive this gift really only takes a simple, sincere prayer if your heart is humble like a child and you really want to receive it. To be humble, you've got to admit you do not meet up to your Creator's standards and you want and need this gift of salvation from him purchased by Jesus. The gift of salvation washes you and cleanses you from all your unrighteousness and that makes it so you can have a relationship with your God, you can walk with him daily. This is the only way I have found to have true peace and joy in my heart, regardless of the circumstances. It really does work and I've suffered through many years to prove it to myself.
I do not want to end this introduction without giving you a prayer, so that if you want to receive this same gift I have received you can do it be praying this simple prayer. If you are honest in your heart, this works and it will unleash power in your life you can't imagine. If you honestly seek God with your heart, he will reveal himself to you and all his love and goodness.
Dear Heavenly Father, I humble myself before you and admit that I need you and your salvation. I have sinned and failed to meet up to your standards. I want to receive the free gift of eternal life that was purchased by your Son Jesus Christ, who died and rose again. I repent and want to change my ways and follow you and your ways. Please give me this gift of salvation and a new life. I receive it now and thank you for this precious gift. Amen.
When you pray this prayer, then the Holy Spirit of God comes into your life and begins changing you. I wish I could recommend a church or place to go to help you continue once you have started this journey into a new life, but I cannot. The best thing is to simply seek God with your heart and learn to listen to him speak in that still, small voice. He does not speak to your head and your mind because that is usually demons putting thoughts into your head. It is your heart where he speaks. When you truly seek him, then you will find him, that is a promise he has given and he always does what he says.
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During the fall semester of each school year Dr. Mark Tatlock teaches 'Introduction to Urban Ministry,' a class offered as part of fulfillment of cross cultural units in the traditional undergrad program. Intro to Urban Ministry is designed to expose students to the dynamics of inner city ministry by personally investigating how principles of missions are implemented in urban churches and ministries within the greater Los Angeles. The office of Multicultural Student Advancement assists Dr. Tatlock with instruction and weekly field trips to Urban Ministry sites throughout Los Angeles County.


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I was happy that I could make raid tonight, having missed the full clear of MSV on Wednesday and Thursday. They were trying the second boss of Heart of Fear and wanted 3 healers - hey I fit that bill!
Blade Lord Ta'yak has essentially 2 phases and the mechanic is interesting. In the first phase he puts out a cyclone in regular intervals so you have to avoid that, and it starts to get really crowded after a while. He also does Unseen Strike, which remind me of Moroes' garotte ability (Karazhan), where he targets someone, then everyone needs to stack on that person to share the cone damage that he does on that person. There was a bit of confusion to whether you stand in front of or behind the person but then Az pointed out you can actually see the boss sneaking up on them so then you can position accordingly. I just stood on the person it was easier. Bummy thing was that when he does that cone attack you get knocked back and getting knocked back into a cyclone sucks ass!
So once we get that bit down it's the windy tunnel bit and avoiding more cyclones - like the last boss in Gate of the Setting sun. And you take a lot of damage so it's in your best interest to get their ASAP! I did something dumb and tried to tranq at the beginning but that meant I got left behind because everyone else got stampeding roar and ran away. But a few more attempts after that, we got it! So that was pretty exciting.
So yay! I got to be there for a new kill, and get a pic too! Mail legs and cloth wrists were the drops so grats to winners!
Monday, December 17, 2012
Sunday raiding - Blade Lord Ta'yak down!
Posted by Navimie at 10:30 PM
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Grats on your kill!ReplyDelete
- Slice213December 18, 2012 at 12:18 AM
Grats! Boo no resto druid loot!ReplyDelete
We almost have it down 8% grrr!
But 3 healing it? How was that? I am curious cause we were 2 healing it. How many unseen strikes did the raid have to take?Replies
I think it was like... 7? but I'm not sure.Delete
also...lots of druids in that group!ReplyDelete
But no pandas!!!! T-TReplies
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While nearly every current programming language has classes and objects, they have some radically different ideas about how one goes about defining classes.
In strongly-typed languages like C++ and Java, classes are declared. This means compilers (and other tools) have essentially complete information about the class during compilation, which in turn allows for certain classes of errors to be found and various optimizations to be applied. It can also be convenient for developers, in that it's fairly straightforward to read declarative syntax and understand its meaning.
In script-oriented languages like JavaScript and Ruby, classes are defined by executing program logic at runtime. This is a powerful approach in that it may be much simpler to write a program to generate a given definition than to create the declarative version of it. On the other hand, it can defeat the application of analysis at compile time: some analysis can typically still be performed, but short of executing the class definition logic, it is impossible to fully analyze it.
Macros, such as those implemented by the C preprocessor, provide an interesting balance between the two approaches. The result of the macros is a class declaration, and it's the declaration that's available to the compiler. However, the macros can simplify class declarations by providing for generation of those declarations when the preprocessor executes. This is frequently used, for example, to generate declarations for class members that are used repeatedly across a set of (related) classes.
C++ provides another take in this space via its template facility. Unlike the generics capability in Java, C++ templates are themselves programs that are executed by the compiler at compilation time, and resulting typically in new class declarations. (This is referred to as "template metaprogramming.") It's an odd sort of programming language based primarily on recursively matching type patterns, but it's still a programming language.
None of these techniques is necessarily better than another, but they certainly provide a different set of tradeoffs. With a more comprehensive view of the various approaches, one can hopefully be more effective in leveraging the strengths of whatever language is in use.


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Piedmont is renowned for charming residences and tree-lined streets. The residential community, less than 1.7 square miles in size, is an oasis of historic homes, community parks and verdant playing fields.
Capitalizing on the community's setting with its own superlative views and classic design is 305 Hillside Ave. The six-bedroom home, originally built three decades after Piedmont's incorporation in 1907, is an idyllic marriage of Old World craftsmanship and contemporary flair.
"It's where preservation meets innovation," said Anian Tunney of the Grubb Co. about the $2.895 million listing.
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A wrought-iron gate offers an Art Deco flair and opens to the enclosed front courtyard and garden featuring paving stones and a fountain. Casement windows, geometric dentil molding and arched pediments highlight the home's rectilinear design.
A wooden deck behind the home overlooks San Francisco Bay and extends the outdoor living and entertainment spaces of the luxury home.
Inside, the kitchen and all 5.5 bathrooms have undergone updates and transformations. The kitchen centers around an island with a granite counter and includes Dacor wall ovens, a Viking range, two dishwashers and a Sub-Zero refrigerator.
Nearby, a breakfast room and formal dining room offer a place for either relaxed or upscale meals. With its wooden wainscoting and ceiling medallion, the dining room is replete with period details. Like the breakfast room, the dining room opens to the home's tranquil courtyard.
Neutral tones from terra cotta, stone and hardwood finishes create a unified transition from one room to the next throughout the home.
Also on the lower level is a living room and adjacent sunroom hosting views of cityscapes and saltwater, both of which access the front courtyard and rear deck. A family room with fireplace, wet bar and access to a back patio through dual sets of French doors completes the public rooms on the lower level.
Upstairs are four light-filled bedrooms, including a master suite offering a dressing room and a spa-quality bathroom complete with glass shower, dual vanities and a contoured jetted tub overlooking the landscape.
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Marquis dominates as Padres win fourth straight
Right-hander strong through eight, Alonso drives in lone run on sac fly
SAN DIEGO -- What was intended as words of endearment sort of sounded like a slap in the face, though that's not at all where Padres rookie Jedd Gyorko was going when he offered a comment on the pitching of teammate Jason Marquis.
"I don't think he throws anything straight," Gyorko said.
It's probably a good thing he doesn't, otherwise the Padres might have had a difficult time pulling off a three-game sweep of the Marlins on Wednesday, as Marquis tossed eight innings in a 1-0 win before a crowd of 16,730 at Petco Park.
Neither dominant or dazzling, Marquis (4-2) used his sinker-slider combination with the occasional split-finger fastball to befuddle the Marlins (10-25), who managed one run in the three games as the Padres (16-18) won for the 11th time in their last 14 games.
But what did you really mean, Jedd?
"He's got a lot of action on his pitches, so it's kind of fun to watch him," Gyorko said. "He doesn't throw a ball over 90 mph but he can still carve up a lineup."
The same can be said of the Padres' pitching staff, which is a sharp contrast to where the team was just three weeks ago, when short starts were far too prevalent. But now it's the opposite.
The Padres have a collective team ERA of 3.19 during this blissful 14-game stretch. Only twice in the last seven games have the Padres allowed more than two runs.
"I thought the starting pitching has stepped up," said Padres manager Bud Black. "This series … they all pitched well. The pitching sort of set the tone and the defense was outstanding."
Such was the case Wednesday, as right fielder Will Venable made two diving catches. Third baseman Chase Headley made a difficult bare-handed play on a ball topped toward him, and Marquis got into the act when he started an inning-ending, 1-2-3 double play with the bases loaded in the third.
"Starting pitching will get stressed at least once, sometimes twice in a game," Black said.
In the seventh, with Marquis nearing the finish line, Justin Ruggiano and Greg Dobbs reached base on consecutive two-out singles. At the plate was rookie Derek Dietrich, playing in his first big league game. Dietrich singled in his first at-bat in the third inning.
Black went out to the mound, though, as it turned out, he let everyone else do most of the talking.
"He's a young kid, his first day in the Majors," Black said. "I just wanted to go with Jason's strengths. Jason and [catcher Nick Hundley] did all the talking. I let them dictate the conversation."
With the count 2-2 and having just missed with a split-finger, Marquis went back to his changeup and the ball just barely got to the plate, all 77 mph. Dietrich swung through it to end the inning.
"I felt like he got stronger and he started to find his stuff as the game went on," Dietrich said. "That two-seamer was working for him. He just made some good pitches. I was looking for him to get the ball up, and credit to him, he made the pitches when he needed to."
Marquis breezed through the eighth inning and Huston Street pitched a perfect ninth for his eighth save of the season, sending the Padres on the road on a winning note.
An argument can be made that the Padres weren't nearly as bad as their 5-15 start reflected. But the same holds true now, as they're probably not as good as this 11-3 run suggests. But to be sure, this feels a lot better than where they were three weeks into a long season.
"We're going to see where we are each game moving forward," Black said.
The Padres finished with four hits, and Marlins pitcher Ricky Nolasco (2-4) allowed one run on four hits and one walk over seven innings. He struck out nine.
In the sixth, Venable and Headley, who has a 13-game hitting streak, singled with one out. Carlos Quentin coaxed a walk from Nolasco and Venable scored the only run of the game on a sacrifice fly by Yonder Alonso.
"We saw a little bit of everything," Alonso said of a 5-1 homestand against the D-backs and the Marlins. "We were hitting the ball well, good defense, but the big thing was pitching. It was a lot of fun."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Yet another fee for airline passengers, but this time, some may find it worth the extra $9.
Ben Popken reports on NBCNews.com that United Airlines is offering passengers an expedited trip through security for as little as $9 per segment.
"Premier Access" offers the perks once reserved exclusively for preferred customers.
Besides zipping through security, Premier Access also gives customers priority boarding and faster check-in.
"It's the type of option that our customers tell us they value," United Airlines spokesperson Mary Clark told NBC News.
In a press release, United said it will set limits on the number of people who can partake "to ensure the benefits are available to the airline's premier-level frequent fliers" and eligible card members.


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What Makes A Great Game!
Recently, I've been thinking about some of the games I'd really love. From all of them, I've been able to take conclusion that it's not the gameplay that make me love it,nor the genre or the other things that have been discussed all this time.
THE ATMOSPHERE! That's what make me fall in love with this game.
I love STALKER because it have been able to deliver very convincing radiation infested era to me and how to survive there.
I love Metro 2033 because its make me feels like ... STALKER (despite its linear gameplay)
I love Crysis because of the setting it takes very familiar with the place I lived (tropical jungle).
I love Just cause 2 because its using the same place and language as mine (south east asian).
I love GTA because it allows me to wandering around the place I've never visited before (yes, big cities is not where I came from and I've never visiting new york, las vegas,miami,san francisco or even USA)
I love the Witcher 2 because It gives the picture of western medieval era perfectly
I love Assasin Creed (1 and 2) because it allows me to go to the place and time when the history was written (I'd love that AC 2 database section).
I love Call of Duty (1st,2nd and 4th) because of the setting its take across the world during the WW and cold war.
All of them above have very different gameplay,genre and even presentation. But I love them because of its different and convincing atmosphere that allows me to feels it, imagine it and even learn something from it!
what about you, guys?


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Swanson's film to be featured at the Apollo
PRINCETON — Movie-goers had better fasten their seat belts on Halloween night for the showing of "Unearthly Harvest," a 71-minute feature film written, produced and directed by John Swanson of Princeton.
"Unearthly Harvest" will be shown at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 31 at the Apollo Theater in Princeton, with movie-goers encouraged to come dressed in costumes. Drawings will be held for posters and T-shirts give-away. There is no ticket price charged for the showing, only a voluntary donation option, with all proceeds going to benefit the Bureau County Fair.
Swanson said there will also be a preview promotion of "Unearthly Harvest" shown during the Nightmare on Fairgrounds Road event, held each weekend in October at the Bureau County Fairgrounds in Princeton.
In explaining the story of "Unearthly Harvest," Swanson said the film begins with the strange and gruesome murders of two teens en route to a Halloween party. From there, the lives of local residents are disrupted when the evil Professor Desmond Samuelson arrives in town, with his traveling companions, Sandra and Steven.
"My movie centers on the collision of the unknown that Desmond brings to the story against the known of small town reality," Swanson said."From this premise flows both a love story and the story of good versus evil. This is a horror story with heart, with a real villain that you can sink your teeth into."
But "Unearthly Harvest" is much more than just a tale of gore and horror; it has a real story to tell, Swanson said.
Movie-goers will see many familiar names when the credits are run, with local residents acting in the film and also serving in many of the behind-the-scene aspects of the film, Swanson said. The movie was also filmed locally, at a home in Tiskilwa and at area businesses and parks. Fifty-five minutes of original music was written by composer Frank Macchia of California.
In looking at the creation of "Unearthly Harvest," Swanson said the film pays homage to the classic horror films of the 1970s with which he grew up and has loved for years. "Unearthly Harvest" is designed to pay tribute to the Roger Korman films, the "Dark Shadows" television show and to villainous actors like Vincent Price, he said.
The original film also contains stock footage from many AIP (American International Picture) films, which he obtained the rights to use for his film.
"I gave my film that '70s look through my camera work and lighting, and I directed it in that style," Swanson said. "They don't make films like this anymore, so I did."
In addition to the showing of "Unearthly Harvest" on Halloween at the Apollo Theater, Swanson is also showing "Threshold," a 20-minute "work in progress" in which Swanson has the lead role.
Looking at celebrating the Halloween season, Swanson said his goal for the showing of his films is simply for people to come and enjoy themselves, even if it means a good scaring.
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Insight The Transformer Bag
I love robots. They are so cute. And, I mean, they shoot lazor beams! What's cooler than that? And I mean, you might as well try to like them, just incase they take over the world one day. and of course you're thinking, "That's crazy, that'll never happen," but that's what Will thought, and I don't think he'll ever be the same again. I also love this bag. It's cute, it's over-sized, it features pictures of cute-as-a-button little robots, and it zips into a smaller, more transportable red bag. this is perfect for the beach, or, just to show your respect to our possible future rulers, becuase you never know.


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Neuronal migration disorder refers to a heterogenous group of disorders that, it is supposed, share the same etiopathological mechanism: a variable degree of disruption in the migration of neuroblasts during neurogenesis.[1] The neuronal migration disorders are cerebral dysgenesis, brain malformations caused by primary alterations during neurogenesis; on the other hand, brain malformations are highly diverse and refer to any insult to the brain during its formation and maturation due to intrinsic or extrinsic causes that ultimately will alter the normal brain anatomy. However, there is some controversy in the terminology because virtually any malformation will involve neuroblast migration, either primarily or secondarily.
Some specific disorders considered as alterations in neuronal migration are lissencephaly, schizencephaly, pachygyria, polymicrogyria and focal cortical dysplasia. Miller-Dieker syndrome, muscle-brain-eye syndrome, Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy and Walker Warburg syndrome are genetic disorders associated with lissencephaly.[2]


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Garberville Sanitary District expands service boundaries
SOUTHERN HUMBOLDT- A group of Garberville Sanitary District water consumers will now have more of a say in how the district works.
On Wednesday the Humboldt Local Agency Formation Commission approved the district to annex areas of the city and it's outlying parts that were formerly served by the Garberville Water Company.
The district bought out the water company back in 2004, but did not re-draft its official service boundaries. Until Wednesday, 84 land parcels were being served by the district that were not part of its boundaries, preventing those consumers from having an active voice in the district's service.
On Wednesday the commission approved the annexation of those areas, saying the new boundaries will help the district to plan better for the services they provide.
"There was a need to adjust the boundaries to make the to make the service consistent with those receiving the service consistent with the boundaries of the district itself," said Humboldt LAFCO Executive Officer George Williamson. "So I'd say just achieving that consistency through this action is probably the biggest benefit."


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Prayer in the Qur'an
In daily life, putting the Qur'anic understanding of prayer which is related in this book into practice is quite important. However, a majority of people, either because they are ignorant of the Qur'an or possess insufficient knowledge about it, never once turn to Allah sincerely as the Qur'an describes.
This book explains the importance of remembering Allah, which is stressed in the verse, "… And remembrance of Allah is greater still." (Surat al-Ankabut: 45) Paying due care to what has been related throughout this book and striving to pray as Allah wills is a responsibility upon all of us.
This is a great responsibility as well as a means that will save our eternal lives, for those who fail to pray are doomed to eternal torment in Hell. A verse reads:
Your Lord says, "Call on Me and I will answer you. Those who are too proud to worship Me will enter Hell abject." (Surah Ghafir: 60)
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Johnson stifles A's offense; White Sox rally late in tie
PHOENIX -- White Sox starter Erik Johnson went four innings, giving up one run and four hits with one walk and five strikeouts in a 2-2 tie against the A's on Sunday afternoon at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.
"Any lineup is going to be a good lineup here facing those big league teams," Johnaon said after facing Oakland's regular lineup. "For me, working ahead and throwing first-pitch strikes, and I did that a lot better this time."
The White Sox scored an unearned run off lefty Tommy Milone in the sixth. Gordon Beckham ended up on third after Yoenis Cespedes, battling the sun, couldn't catch a routine fly ball, and pinch-runner Micah Johnson proceeded to come home on a Jeff Keppinger groundout.
Johnson scored the tying run in the eighth when A's second baseman Jake Elmore couldn't handle a grounder by Blake Tekotte.
Oakland third baseman Josh Donaldson was just 2-for-17 with no extra-base hits when he stepped up to the plate against Chicago right-hander Dylan Axelrod and homered to center field to lead off the fifth.
It was the second run of the day for the A's, who got an RBI base hit from Eric Sogard in the bottom of the third against Johnson, following Stephen Vogt's leadoff double. Vogt, battling for a catching job, is 9-for-18 (.500) in seven games this spring.
For the A's, righty Dan Straily walked three in 3 1/3 innings, but didn't give up a run, allowing two hits and fanning two along the way.
Oakland's Brandon Moss collected two hits, bringing his Cactus League average to .533.
Up next: It wasn't exactly a stellar performance for Chris Sale when he was last on the mound against the Padres, allowing six runs on six hits over 2 1/3 innings. But that performance came after 2 2/3 scoreless innings against the Dodgers where he fanned four. Cactus League start No. 3 comes for the White Sox ace on Monday against the Brewers, with a 3:05 p.m. CT first pitch in a free exclusive audio webcast on whitesox.com. The game will also air on MLB.TV. Adam Dunn also is expected to return to the lineup after two days out.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The gay and straight domestic partners of Dallas County employees will soon be eligible for a $300 monthly subsidy from the county to help pay for health insurance.
The County Commissioners Court voted 3-2 along party lines Tuesday morning to offer the subsidy to employees who have same- or opposite-sex domestic partners who do not have insurance through other means. The subsidy will be equal to the amount the county contributes to an employee's health insurance.
County Judge Clay Jenkins, and Commissioners Dr. Elba Garcia and John Wiley Price, who comprise the court's Democratic majority, voted in favor of offering the domestic partner subsidy. Republican Commissioners Mike Cantrell and Maurine Dickey voted against it.
Commissioners made comments before several speakers addressed the court on the issue.
Dickey said the court shouldn't fund a special group outside of the Public Employee Benefits Cooperative because its members didn't approve it.
Jenkins and Garcia, who spearheaded the initiative, had initially hoped to offer domestic partner benefits through the PEBC, a multi-county partner agency, but other members — including Denton and Tarrant counties — would not allow it.
Dickey said approving benefits for domestic partners would lead to funding other special groups, such as obese people, smokers or people that have blue Pontiacs.
"We must stay within the realm of our group, of our PEBC, in order to offer our employees the best possible and lowest possible health insurance," she said.


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metalhobo wrote:
The OP can neither be quoted nor directly replied to. Oops.
Then quote me on this. Damn man, just quote me!
OK, congratulations on implementing a function that should have always been available from this forum's inception. Here's what to work on next (according to other members' compaints):
1. Ditch the reply/nesting functions.
2. Ditch the approved member nonsense.
3. Ditch the OP showing up first on each additional page of a thread.
4. Implement confused smilies.
tl;dr? Make the forum exactly like it was in 2012.


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Carl Wernicke created an early neurological model of language, that later was revived by Norman Geschwind. The model is known as the Wernicke-Geschwind model.
- For listening to and understanding spoken words, the sounds of the words are sent through the auditory pathways to area 41, which is the primary auditory cortex (Heschl's gyrus). From there, they continue to Wernicke's area, where the meaning of the words is extracted.
- In order to speak, the meanings of words are sent from Wernicke's area via the arcuate fasciculus to Broca's area, where morphemes are assembled. The model proposes that Broca's area holds a representation for articulating words. Instructions for speech are sent from Broca's area to the facial area of the motor cortex, and from there instructions are sent to facial motor neurons in the brainstem, which relay movement orders to facial muscles.
- In order to read, information concerning the written text is sent from visual areas 17, 18, and 19 to the angular gyrus (area 39) and from there to Wernicke's area, for silent reading or, together with Broca's area, for reading out loud.
This model is now obsolete. Nevertheless it has been very useful in directing research and organizing research results, because it is based on the idea that language consists of two basic functions: comprehension, which is a sensory/perceptual function, and speaking, which is a motor function.
However, the neural organization of language is more complex than the Wernicke-Geschwind model of language suggests. The localization of speech in Broca's area is one of the weakest points of this model.[1]
- ↑ Kolb & Whishaw: Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, 2003
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I'm Sick Of Farmville! Facebook Annoyances That Might Get You "Unfriended"
Navigating the world of social media can be a tricky thing!
-Harvey Helms
Okay, girls, put on your big girl panties for this one! I'm just like you in the mornings: :ooking at Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Google+ while sipping a delicious cup of coffee sweetened with International Delights French Vanilla (sugar-free of course!). Recently though, as I open up Facebook, I've been seeing 20 posts in a row that say "Please Help! I only need one more pig to be the King of Farmville." Really? 20 posts? Now, I'm not against gaming—in fact, I'll be publishing a column about women and gaming soon! I personally love the game Cat Shot! But I don't post about it on Facebook. So why does everyone else? I'm confused by this recent phenomenon!
Navigating social media is definitely interesting. What to post? How many posts? Is it a personal forum to let people who annoy us have it? I ask myself the same questions as I post: What info do I think is useful or entertaining? Recognizing special people that have made a difference? Do I need to let everyone know "Where I've checked in?" I think that's scary. Furthermore, some mornings as I read the rantings and ravings of certain friends, I wonder if they need to put the bottle of Chardonnay away before they post embarrassing comments—or worse, pictures that don't show them in the best of light. I've even had to call friends and have them remove pics of clients in questionable positions! Do you have friends who you think need a Facebook intervention?
My personal belief is that all of us are dealing with an incredible learning curve through the many social media outlets we have at our disposal. Between the onset of "Instant Celebrity" and reality TV, when did TMI become acceptable? No answers here; just posing the questions. I know the things that work my last gay nerve, but I wonder how it's affecting you! Two brainiacs, Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich from a blog called "Stuff Hipsters Hate," recently posted on CNN with the topic, "Annoying Us On Facebook?" Here's the hipster take on the issue with the 5 biggest annoyances:
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1. MUSINGS ABOUT THE WEATHER: "OMG the snow!" "It's raining cats and dogs!" I guess these two feel the weather forecast is boring? Maybe? I was always taught that you speak about the weather to make polite conversation when you don't know what to speak about. Maybe our shy friends are just getting started?
2. PASSIVE/AGRESSIVE COMMENTS: "I'm not naming names but…" Letting your friends have it in this forum is not something you'll easily live down. You might want to consider making a phone call instead of posting.
3. RANTS: These bear some similarities to # 2; BUT, they're larger and concerned with political commentary, religious beliefs, and other information that used to be labeled "Personal." You might want to consider that the world is looking at your posts—or at least that bosses or future employers might be taking a peek. Remember that today when you apply for a job, most employers will Google your name to see what comes up. Your sex video may not be the best reference.
4. OVERSHARING: If it takes more than a small paragraph, you might want to consider writing your first novel. You obviously have a lot to say!
5. CLICHES: "I love my life!" Or any other Forrest Gump "Life is like a box of chocolates"-type stuff. Not too bad if used sparingly, but only works every day if you're Eckhart Tolle or Oprah.
Well, we'll all keep trying to understand this medium the more we work with it.
(Oh, by the way, the weather is gorgeous here in California and my girlfriend was an hour late to lunch, and I hate world hunger, but my life is like a unicorn in an enchanted forest!)
We'll keep trying!
Harvey Helms is a beauty culturist and writer, drawing on 30 years of experience in cosmetics, fashion and design. Harvey has held positions ranging from Global Director of Beauty for Revlon Cosmetics to Executive Director of Special Events for Donna Karan Beauty. Harvey currently lives and works in Silicon Valley, where he just finished writing his first book in a trilogy of three: an engaging tell-all on the fashion industry. Follow Harvey on Twitter.com/HarveyHelms.


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Shop Chic: September's Top Street Style Looks
A lot can happen in two and a half decades. It was nearly impossible to settle on the most iconic collections of the past 25 years. Painful cuts were made. What remains are the designs that changed the course of fashion thanks to utter originality, wit and craftsmanship, or just plain beauty. From Gaultier's cone bras and Stephen Sprouse's monochromatic knits to YSL's army pants and Chanel's biker shorts, to the more recent offerings of Rei Kawakubo, Marc Jacobs, Miuccia Prada, Alber Elbaz, and the late Alexander McQueen—it's startling to see how clothes have evolved toward a more subtle, elegant, and personal expression. As fashion has become more accessible over the past decade, more recent trends really do hold up against the more rarefied offerings of the now retired (or sadly departed) éminences grises; they've become more expressive and unusual, too. Designers today truly are engaged in the quest for a modern approach to dressing—a multifaceted one that captures the intimate, spirited, curious, soulful, and intelligent personalities of women the world over. How lucky we are to reap the rewards!
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Azzedine Alaïa, F/W 1985
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With less than 24 hours remaining until polls open, party leaders on Monday rushed to get final photo-ops at sites symbolically significant to their respective parties.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Jerusalem's Menachem Begin Heritage Center, dedicated to the prime minister who first brought the Likud to power in 1977.
Outgoing Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon and Jerusalem's Mayor Nir Barkat joined the prime minister for his tour of the center. Netanyahu on Sunday named Kahlon the new chairman of the Israel Land Administration in what was described by opposition leaders as an elections ploy, and Barkat threw his hat in with Netanyahu on Monday.
"You and your government have strengthened Jerusalem in an unprecedented way," Barkat said. "I support you and know you will continue to lead with pride. I am confident that you will continue to defend Jerusalem, united against all international pressures."
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid visited his campaign headquarters in the southern city of Beersheba and denounced Kahlon's appointment as head of the ILA, calling it clear-cut political spin.
"'Chicken' is a polite way to describe what [Netanyahu] did. I have been saying for months that housing is one of the biggest problems for the Israeli middle class and suddenly they're reminded," he said.
Hatnua leader Tzipi Livni took a spin around Tel Aviv's Azrieli Mall, a throbbing symbol of secular Israeli culture. Joined by dozens of supporters, Livni went store to store, but not to shop.
"Tomorrow's elections are not shopping, it's a life decision," she said.
Though her stay was short, her appearance inspired at least one person to express support for her. "You gave your all during the Second Lebanon War, and therefore I will vote for you," Ynet quoted a shopper at the mall saying.
Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett highlighted his religious and security credentials by praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall and visiting homes in southern Israel damaged by rockets fired during November's Operation Pillar of Defense.
Bennett was photographed at a Rishon Lezion home destroyed by a Fajr rocket in November.
At the Western Wall, Bennett was reportedly heckled by ultra-Orthodox men who had gathered there, one of whom reportedly told him he had hutzpa and should remove his yarmulke.
"You want to draft our kids to the army; our mothers cry at night," Ynet quoted the man saying.
Bennett responded, "I love you."