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"Talktime Earn APP" Now a days trend of free talktime earn is growing rapidly, android users use these apps to earn considerable talktime for their phone expenses. Earning with these apps is quite easy, users just need to download the apps from given links and after download confirmation they got talktime in their wallet. User can use that talktime to recharge their phone, they can also recharge another number with that earning amount. You can also earn free recharge by inviting friends to download these apps. Different earning apps have different features, and today we have selected some genuine app which provide free talktime on downloading apps.
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- First of all user need to download the apps from link given below
- Open the Application
- Enter your phone number and other details
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- behind apps the earning amount will be shown for every app
- click on the application link
- Read instructions carefully
- Download the app
- Complete the task instructed in the application Link
- Wait for confirmation from the advertiser
- Check your talktime in Wallet
Note: Confirmation may take upto 48 hours so be patience.
List of top 5 talktime earn app is given below
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One of my favorite talking animals is Phillip Pullman's polar bear, Iorek Byrnison. I remember being very struck by this moment when Lyra meets Iorek:
"Lyra's heart was thumping hard, because something in the bear's presence made her feel close to coldness, danger, brutal power, but a power controlled by intelligence; and not a human intelligence, nothing like a human, because of course bears had no daemons. This strange hulking presence gnawing at its meat was like nothing she had ever imagined, and she felt a profound admiration and pity for the lonely creature. He dropped the reindeer leg in the dirt and slumped on all fours to the gate. Then he reared up massively, ten feet or more high, as if to show how mighty he was, to remind them how useless the gate would be as a barrier, and he spoke to them from that height.
'Well? Who are you?'
The voice was so deep it seemed to shake the earth. The rank smell that came from his body was almost overpowering."
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Vacuum is the second chapter of the second book, and the twelfth chapter overall, of Child of Destiny, written by MightyBrit. It finally reveals the identity of Diyi's kidnapper through a series of flashbacks, which are presented in italics.
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The Spirit World
Aang nearly choked on his own breath; shock shook his whole body. He was glad Koh wasn't around anymore as restraining his emotions was impossible. Diyi? How could it possibly be Diyi? She'd been missing a month and yet, here she was, and she was old and killing animals and eating meat! He buried his face in his hands and let it all sink in.
His silence was rudely interrupted by Diyi's voice. "Oi! Hey! Are you coming? Enma wants to see you."
Aang looked up. "You're not Diyi. You can't be. You've only been missing a month or so!"
"Hello? If you haven't noticed we're in the Spirit World and time runs differently here, remember? It may have been a month for you, but I've lived here for about fourteen years," she said, swinging around a chunk of venison she hadn't put in her bag yet. "Been eating meat for about that long too! Now, are you coming?"
Aang nodded absentmindedly and followed her deep into the dense, dead forest. They were silent for a while, but soon Aang had too many questions to keep silent. "So, you've been here for fourteen years?"
"Pretty much," answered Diyi as she jumped over a toppled tree.
"Doing what?"
"You know, living life, hunting, learning to fight, stuff like that."
"You're an Air Nomad!" complained Aang. "You're not supposed to learn how to fight; our society is peaceful and we shouldn't..."
Diyi raised her hand to interrupt him. "Wow. Would you shut up? Just because I'm an Airbender doesn't mean I'm an Air Nomad. I don't have your funky head-arrows or the messed up belief system that got you all killed."
Aang ignored the insults. "Wait, how can you bend if you've been in the Spirit World the whole time? Bending doesn't work..."
Diyi interrupted again, this time with a sigh of annoyance. "You can only not bend here because you're only half a person. You need a body and a soul to bend, which means I can and you can't," she answered as she created a small whirlwind of air above her outstretched hand to prove her point.
Aang was mesmerized. It had been years since he'd seen anyone Airbend other than him. It filled him with joy; he smiled and laughed. "That's amazing! You can really Airbend!"
The young girl wasn't going to reject compliments. She smiled proudly. "Taught by the Spirit of the Sky herself. You tend to be good at something when your teacher is the woman who invented the whole art," she laughed. "Here we are."
The two Airbenders reached a small clearing where grass still grew and life still flowed through the Spirit World. Aang saw spirits with strange shapes jump away from the clearing as soon as they entered. Sitting in a large shrine in the center was Enma. Poised in his typical meditation stance, the humanoid monkey had his eyes closed and was nearly perfectly still. Aang remembered their last encounter, back when he had first met Koh – the monkey had been nothing but rude.
"So, Enma raised you, huh?"
"Partially, but he's frozen like that a lot of the time," Diyi said, pointing at the spirit and his eerie stillness.
"Tiankong comes and checks up on me sometimes, but she's really busy, so pretty much all the air spirits here raised me. The rainclouds are fun to play with, and the birds taught me how to hunt and took me wherever I wanted to go."
"But, Enma wanted to see me? How did he know I'd be here?"
"Enma knows everything," she said, a little sad.
"What's the matter?"
"He's always said you'd come for me one day," she said. "And that was the day I had to leave here."
Aang felt bad. He knew exactly what it was like to lose a home. "That's not a bad thing, Diyi. The other world is just as beautiful as this one... and that's the great thing about spirits, they're always with you. No matter where you go."
"Oh, ick! Come on! Are you always this bleeding heart? Grow a spine... I can't believe I have to actually go with you!" Diyi cried out frustrated and she stormed off down a set of stairs in the shrine, where Aang assumed she slept.
He smiled slightly to himself. It wasn't the result he wanted or was even expecting in his wildest dreams, but it wasn't necessarily bad. She definitely needed some training, but she had... potential.
In front of him, Enma began to stir. Aang turned to look at him. "Hello, you wanted to see me?"
"Yes, it's been a long time, my friend," came the thickly accented Indian voice as the monkey stood up and faced him. Aang looked on in shock, he hadn't noticed the first time he met Enma. How could he possibly have? But now, the voice was so clear and familiar in Aang's head.
The Southern Water Tribe
"Sir, another ship is incoming. This one's from the North," said the soldier, who popped into the tent to deliver his message and popped out again as soon as Hakoda nodded to him.
"I thought you said you couldn't send out scout ships," asked Katara.
"We can't, but as soon as we found out bending was gone, I sent out messages demanding all ships to return home immediately. I also sent one to Sokka on Kyoshi, I was expecting him to be here by now."
"You were expecting Sokka to be on time?"
Hakoda laughed. "Good point. Come on, let's go see how many more spears we have."
Father and daughter ran out past the walls that protected the Tribe out to where the new ship was docking up. Normally, Waterbenders would simply bend some ice around the hull of the ship, so it stayed docked to the icy land, but now soldiers were bashing in metal pegs and holding the boats to shore with the spare ropes from the ship's rigging.
The sailors disembarked. Hakoda counted twelve men as they passed him and greeted him with the traditional salute. He thanked the spirits for the dozen more men that would protect the tribe – that made nearly fifty now. The captain of the ship disembarked with his first mate. They were carrying a makeshift stretcher, which was actually an old door, with a heavily bruised and bloodied man on it. They put the stretcher down to salute Hakoda, so Katara examined the man's injuries.
"One of ours?" asked Hakoda.
"No," answered the Captain. "We found him on top of the Needle Rocks up north. There were signs of a wreck; there's a nasty current that can smash up a ship in seconds that flows up there sometimes. Anyway, we looked, he's the only survivor. He looked like a Northerner, so we picked him up."
"Did you get his name?" asked Hakoda, concerned.
"It's about all we did get out of him, sir. It's Hydros."
"Do you know him?" Hakoda asked his daughter.
"I know of him, Sokka's mentioned him a couple times," said Katara, as she ran her hands over Hydros' chest, trying to feel the wounds. She gasped when she felt it, "Dad, he's got at least two broken ribs, maybe three, I can't tell through his coat. He might have punctured a lung. We've got to get him somewhere warm and clean or he's dead."
"Your grandmother's place is probably the cleanest."
"Let's go then," said Katara, urgently. The captain and his first mate picked up the stretcher and hurried towards town with Katara and Hakoda in tow.
"She's going to complain about this," sighed Hakoda.
"When is she not complaining?" joked Katara.
The Shrine in the Spirit World
Aang was more shocked, than angry, at least for right now. "What? How? You're two people? Pathik and Enma?"
"Yes," answered the monkey spirit. "Have you never wondered why I am so knowledgeable and yet possess no bending arts?"
"Well, yes," said Aang, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly, "and no." Enma smiled at his confusion. Aang grimaced a little bit; it was weird to see a monkey smile.
"I am a half-spirit, Aang, born of both a spirit and a human. I exist in two separate forms, one on each world, and can jump between them when I please," Enma explained, going to a small cabinet in the shrine where he got out some banana and onion juice. "My long motionless meditations are simply when I am residing in my other form."
"That actually makes a lot of sense."
"Doesn't it?" laughed Enma. "Sorry about yelling at you the first time we met. I didn't know what the Avatar looked like yet."
Aang chuckled too, but then the whole truth dawned on him and he stopped abruptly. His face and tone darkened. "You took Diyi and you lied to me about it."
Enma bowed his furred face in shame. "In my defense, you never actually asked me."
"Koh said it! I was betrayed! You betrayed me!"
"Yes, I did," said Enma, his voice was low and full of regret. "But, please, as someone who has been your friend and ally for many years, allow me to explain my actions."
Aang was angry, but he nodded his agreement and sat down without a word.
Enma let out a long sigh of relief and began his story...
A few nights before Diyi's disappearance; the Spirit World
Enma was beating a tree with a large stick that he'd picked up from the ground, trying to shake loose the bananas at the top. Without warning, a strong gust of wind shook the tree violently and ruffled Enma's fur. The bananas fell neatly into his outstretched hands.
The monkey spirit turned around and met eyes with a scarily beautiful woman. She had pale blue skin with eyes that looked like hurricanes were raging within them. Her hazelnut hair and long gown fluttered gently in a breeze that wasn't there as her bare feet hovered half an inch off the dirty ground.
"Tiankong," Enma bowed low in her presence. "What can I do for the great Spirit of the Sky?"
"I need your help, Enma," said her voice like echoed like a fell voice on the wind. "I need a champion."
"I'm honored, ma'am, but shouldn't it be one of your own people?"
"I have no people, Enma. There is one Airbender left and he is the Avatar. He cannot be my emissary in the other world, he has other responsibilities."
"So, you would like me to...?"
"No, Enma. You're not appropriate either."
"Thanks?" Enma asked, not sure whether to be insulted or relieved.
"The child; I need the baby. Bring her here; we will raise her to be the influence we need in these dark times."
"You want me to kidnap Diyi? She's barely an hour old, I can't..."
"Enma," Tiankong said, her voice getting higher and louder. "The Great Maw is awake and he wants revenge against all of the Elemental Spirits. He'll destroy every single person on that entire world to get it! I need to do something, to send someone there who'll fight to stop it all."
"But, ma'am, she's just a child," begged the monkey spirit.
"She's my only option. The other spirits have already started their attempts to stop this disaster – Taiyang's got that old man in Ba Sing Se maneuvering things for him, Yue's reaching out to some warrior she knew in her human life, and Dimian... Well, Dimian's doing the neutral jing thing, but at least she's doing something!"
Enma sighed deeply. "She won't be harmed? She'll have a good life?"
Tiankong laid a hand on Enma's shoulder. It was cold to the touch. "The best I can offer her."
A tear dropped down Enma's furry face. "Alright," he said quietly.
Two nights before Diyi's disappearance; the Western Air Temple
Pathik crept into the room, careful not to make a sound. He maneuvered carefully on his tiptoes, so he wouldn't wake Ran and Farsi or the slumbering infant in the crib. He picked her up gently and she murmured quietly, but didn't wake.
Pathik breathed a sigh of relief as he crept down out of the room, down the corridor. Now, he just had to get out the Temple, to where the spirits would meet him and take Diyi through the breach in the North Pole. Quietly does it.
He crept out into the open courtyard area, stealing a look back to check if anyone was following him, then he turned back to come face to face with a very angry, and very large, sky bison. Appa snorted a large burst of air from his nostrils, sending the dust that lined the temple floor all over the place.
"Appa, please," begged Pathik. "This isn't what it looks like."
Appa let out a low growl and Pathik stepped back from the massive creature.
"I am doing something that must be done, my friend! Please, I am not the villain here; I am helping all of us."
The sky bison made another growl, louder this time, and moved forward, forcing Pathik to retreat back into the corridor. If Appa's growls got any louder, they'd wake up the entire temple. Pathik slowly retreated and returned Diyi to her crib in defeat.
Appa, unable to fit inside, stood by the entrance of the corridor for the rest of the night. Pathik didn't dare leave it.
One night before Diyi's disappearance
Pathik once again stealthily crept into Diyi's room. He sneaked past her sleeping parents and reached slowly down into the crib.
He heard a quiet, but stern growl and his hands froze instantly. He glanced out of the window and saw Appa's massive girth floating outside of it.
Under the angry gaze of Appa's huge yellow eyes through the windows, Pathik withdrew his empty hands from the crib and quietly left the room.
The night of Diyi's disappearance
Darkness settled over the Western Air Temple. The Air Nomads retreated to their beds as Aang kissed goodnight to Katara and drifted off to sleep beside her. In the courtyard beyond, Appa stood alert. His massive yellow eyes scanned the empty area in front of him, watching protectively.
Pathik walked towards him. He held his hands in the air to show Appa he wasn't going to try anything, but the sky bison gave a growl anyway. Pathik stopped a good ten feet from Appa and they stared at each other in stalemate.
Pathik quietly spoke. "Appa, please. I need you to listen to me."
Appa snorted, sending dust up into the air.
"The Spirit of the Sky wants the girl, Appa. She's not going to let her stay here. She's sent me to get her and if I don't bring Diyi to her soon... Well, I don't know what she'll do, but it won't be good, Appa."
Appa's brow furrowed.
"Please, Appa. I have to take her. Otherwise, she's going to hurt everyone here. She'll stop at nothing... She'll hurt Aang."
Appa's eyes widened with fear at the last comment.
From the back of the temple, a dark black mist began to seep in. Appa growled at it, and Pathik spun around to see.
He turned back around with a panicked look on his face. "The spirits of thunderstorms... Appa, she's sent them. They're going to get her, no matter who gets in the way. I can tide them over, but please, Appa. I know it's horrible, but I have to take Diyi. Will you help me?"
The black mist swirled and formed into seven solid shadows, featureless, but essentially human shape. They began to march towards Diyi's room, but no sound echoed from their footsteps.
"Appa, please!" cried Pathik, desperate.
A massive tear dropped from the sky bison's eye. Appa slowly nodded.
"Thank you," Pathik said as he laid a hand on the bison's face. Then, he ran off and talked to the seven spirits in a pleading tone. Appa let out a sad whine, then jumped to the sky and flew into the sky.
Appa saw the shadows march closer to Aang's room, so he crashed through the wall to Diyi's room. There was a massive bang and rubble flew everywhere; he spun around and used a blast of air from his tail to send poor Ran and Farsi into the wall and knock them unconscious. Carefully, with his teeth, he lifted the baby Diyi out of the crib, and then took off silently into the night.
He winced when he heard Aang's screams of anger echoing from the temple as the bright lights of flaring candles throughout the temple illuminated the darkened sky.
The Spirit Shrine; Present Day
Aang hung his head in shock and sadness. "Appa..."
"He is not responsible," replied Enma in the most comforting voice he could muster. "Do not blame him."
"But, why? Why would he do that to me? He's my best friend..."
"He did it to protect you. He was scared you and Katara were going to get hurt. He is not to blame; I was the one who was too weak to stand up for Diyi."
Silence hung between them. Neither said a word until Diyi reappeared from her room underneath the shrine.
"What are you two just standing there for?" she asked, breaking the quiet.
Enma nodded. "Yes, the time has come," he said, putting his hand gently on her shoulder. "You're ready. Go with Aang. Help him to stop Zhao and close the breach between the two worlds."
The monkey spirit turned to Aang. "I'm sorry for my part in your separation from Diyi, Aang. But, now I ask that you guide her through your world. She is your greatest weapon against what is to come."
"And what's that?" asked Aang, still a little downtrodden as he processed all the information that was running through his head.
"Contrary to popular belief, I don't know everything. Let's just leave it at..." said Enma as darkness leaked into his voice, "bad."
Aang nodded absentmindedly.
"Well, let's go then," whined Diyi.
"Do you know where the breach is? How to get through it?" asked Enma.
"Yes. No problem. Easy," Diyi said quickly as she started to walk away.
Aang stared into space. "Enma... I mean, Pathik... Is Katara okay?"
"She's fine. She went to be with her father."
"Good. As long as she's away from you," Aang said coldly, as he turned and walked away from the shrine. Enma bowed his head low and let the shame wash over his face.
Vacuum suffered from some serious delays because of schoolwork and massive amounts of writer's block. MightyBrit found it very difficult to write the last few lines of the chapter because he found it tricky to get Aang's emotional state right.
Diyi's character is deliberately the exact opposite of Aang. While he is polite and caring, she is belligerent and crass. He is vegetarian, while she is a capable hunter and very fond of rare meat. Her character will deliberately cause conflict and problems with Aang. Even her age is the complete opposite of Aang - he is a lot older than he appears after being trapped in the iceberg for so long, and she is a lot younger than she appears because she grew up in the Spirit World.
I'm not entirely sure yet... Why don't you let me know on the talk page or in the comments?
Oh, and I've already started on the next chapter. So, it shouldn't take nearly as long. Sorry for the delays.
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The First Airbender - Stolen - Sharks and Sea Serpents - Asylum Seeker - The Swordmaster of Kyoshi Island - Cold Snap - Due North - Better to Have Loved and Lost - Wrath of the Blackened Blade - Water's Fall
Book 2: Anger
The Many Failures of Avatar Aang - Vacuum - Sharks in the South - Distortion - Shot in the Dark - Best Laid Plans - Healed, But Broken


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The Simple Ways For Stress Relief
Stressful situations are everywhere around us. We cannot hide from them, nor can we eliminate the stress completely. What we can do is find the best ways and techniques to fight against it. So, we can relieve the stress and try some of the Traditional Japanese Stress Management techniques.
How do Japanese people reduce stress?
Perhaps, it is not so well-known that many parts of our body have certain hidden powers, and special attention should be given to the fingers. Maybe you didn't know that every finger is connected to a certain emotion or a feeling. By putting some pressure or massaging a specific finger we could get rid of a specific pain. You could also try putting your palms against each other and press them together for a few seconds, in order to eliminate negativities in your life. That is what Japanese people have been practicing for centuries.
The powers of our fingers
- Our thumbs eliminate stress and worries
- Our index fingers eliminate our fears
- Our middle fingers eliminate our anger
- Our ring fingers eliminate our sadness, depression, and indecision
- Our small fingers eliminate our lack of energy, anxiety, and pessimism.
And how is all of this even possible? Well, our hands are connected to our brains, to the area which is responsible for your emotions. You should press, with your thumb and index finger, a specific finger related to your trouble. Hold it for about 30 seconds, take a break for 30 seconds, and press again. You can do this as often as you like, but you should feel the relief even after two or three times. You should do this with fingers on your both hands.
This technique is actually based on a Japanese art known as Jin Shin Jyutsu = the art of happiness. Japanese also suggest that our fingers are connected with other organs, so that:
- Our thumbs can fight against headaches, skin disorders, stomach, and spleen problems.
- Our index fingers can fight against our muscle ache, kidneys, bladder, and digestive problems.
- Our middle fingers can fight against menstrual pain, headaches, fatigue, gallbladder, liver, eye problems, and circulatory problems.
- Our ring fingers can fight against problems with digestion or respiratory system (especially asthma), colon and lungs.
- Our pinky fingers can fight against bone problems, heart, and intestines.
Other Eastern techniques to fight against stress
If this finger technique isn't satisfying for you and you want to try something different, then you should check some of the following.
According to many benefits, yoga can help you: lose your weight, eliminate back pain, tone your muscles, make you more flexible and fight against depression and stress. This technique (or better said – ART) is known to have been practiced even 3,000 years ago, according to the paintings found in India. Yoga is said to be able to unite the body and the soul through meditation. There are different kinds of yoga but they all have the same goal: they are helping you achieve a balance between your physical and spiritual self.
Aikido is a martial art, but not like karate or taekwondo. It helps in fighting against violence, but it is actually meant to reject it and to promote respect for others. Its circular movements can improve your concentration and eliminate stress. The world 'aikido' means the way of energy and harmony.
Forest bathing or 'Shinrin Yoku'
This technique refers to walking barefoot through a park or a forest. Would you dare try it? It is said that walking through nature allows it enter your body through all of the senses. Your mood improves, creativity rises, and you even become healthier. This should be done at least two times a week for about an hour. But, you mustn't bring your phone or other similar devices! You should interact with nature itself, no virtual world to be allowed! Some studies have shown that this practice can also reduce your blood pressure, the levels of the stress hormone (cortisol), and anxiety, and at the same time improve the functions of your immune system and revive your cognitive functions.
This is Japanese technique which helps you get rid of the stress problems such as shoulder and back pains. There are many other benefits from this technique, such as tension reduction, energy boost, toxin elimination, and blood pressure regulation. It also helps you in fighting against anxiety and sleep disorders. All you have to do is press several specific points of the body, each of them related to the central nervous system and vital organs. For more info read this article.
Tai Chi
This technique is also about finding the balance between your body and mind and it refers to using slow and vigorous movements. This is fun and people of all ages can sometimes be seen in parks practicing it. Tai Chi reduces stress, helps you in convalescing, increases flexibility and the amount of positive energy.
Do-in is Chinese technique and it is specially made for the elderly people. It is a set of breathing exercises which tend to reduce nervousness and get a better balance. Do-in can also help in achieving a sense of complete calmness. It can even be practiced in a workplace during stressful times.
If all of this don't help, then you can follow the example of these stressed Japanese workers who smash plates to ease recession blues.
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Audi to Supply International Olympic Committee Again
Audi has become the new automobile supplier of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and will remain so until the end of 2016.
The Volkswagen Group has been long-time supporters of the Olympic Games, acting as the official vehicle of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and will once again assume the role for the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi next year. Audi will also be a partner at the National Olympic Committees in Germany, Finland, Russia, and Switzerland.
The German automaker will be providing more than 40 cars to the IOC with models through its entire range. It will also supply vehicles in support of international events like the IOC session in Buenos Aires this September.
"Through our cooperation with the IOC as the top-level global organization we aim to link our brand even closer with international sport," says Luca de Meo, member of the Board of Management of AUDI AG for Marketing and Sales. "We're going to shape many exciting joint projects in the future."
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text: World 9 April 2009 American Bolshevik Observations on espionage Sign up for our weekly email * The social maelstrom of early 20th-century America had many by-products. Mass strikes in Massachusetts mill towns; thousands of workers rallying in Union Square, New York; and a generation of idealistic young intellectuals, among whom was one Isaiah, or Cy, Oggins. Like the great American reporter John Reed, Oggins looked east for a way out of the brutal injustice and exploitation around him, to where the Bolsheviks were, in his eyes, building the world's first workers' state. The vision was so attractive that Cy became one of the first US citizens to spy for the Soviets. Years of journalistic detective work by Andrew Meier, a former Time Moscow correspondent, have gone into a haunting new book that tells how Oggins and his fiery wife, Nerma Berman, spent the decade from 1928 onwards criss-crossing Europe as spies for the nascent Communist regime – before falling victim to Stalin's Terror themselves. Like so many on the US left at that time, Oggins came from an eastern European Jewish immigrant family that scraped a living to invest in the children's education. On a scholarship to Columbia University, young Oggins got caught up in New York's fevered atmosphere of progressive politics. He gained his spurs in the anti-war movement of 1916, graduating with Nerma to the leftist circles of Greenwich Village, fighting the anti-red backlash and surfing the wave of worker militancy that swept across the States during the winter of 1919-20. By 1924 J Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation had driven many activists of Cy and Nerma's type underground. Perhaps it seemed a logical next step to adopt the clandestine life of a spy. Cy and Nerma's spying career took them all over a continent beset by economic crisis and political upheaval. In Berlin, Oggins posed as a wealthy antiques dealer to run a strategic safe house of communist militants. In Paris he spied on the surviving Romanovs; while in Manchuria, he sent secret despatches on the Japanese occupying army and its puppet emperor, Pu Yi. But the revolution was already beginning to devour its own. As Stalin turned his attention to the threat to his ambitions posed by Trotsky and his followers, Oggins stayed loyal to the party. Although still "true communist believers", Cy and Nerma were already trapped by the unyielding logic of the party machine. In February 1939, like so many of the million men and women killed during Stalin's purges, Cy was accused of treason and anti-Soviet activities. Fortunately, Nerma had already returned to New York with their son, Robin. In the dreaded Lubyanka, Prisoner 568 was questioned by interrogators using the disorientating techniques of the Spanish Inquisition to elicit admissions of "guilt" and "remorse" for crimes of which the accused had no knowledge, let alone being culpable of them. He was then sent to the Siberian slave labour camp Norilsk. In 1947, Oggins was executed at Laboratory Number One in Moscow with an injection of poison. His fate remained secret for decades. Was Stalin ashamed of his treatment of his brightest foreign spy, or would the death of a US citizen at his hands have been too awkward for both sides in the new Cold War? For Cy and Nerma's son, the tragedy was to lose an intelligent, loving father. In the process, the US left lost two flowers of activism who volunteered to serve the Soviet state just as it turned the Bolshevik party and its supporters worldwide into instruments of the Stalinist bureaucracy. By the time they became spies, Cy and Nerma were no longer participants in their own drama, but mere stage extras in the increasingly bitter competition between two embryonic superpowers. "The Lost Spy: an American in Stalin's Secret Service" is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (£20) Patrick Sawer is a senior reporter for the Sunday Telegraph Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 13 April 2009 issue of the New Statesman, Easter 2009 More


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They're not unique. How well does your team understand the business processes which govern the day-to-day operations? When I hear managers say "I have to protect the team…" I absolutely know that there's bureaucracy running unchecked. Have a handful of teams doing this and your company will begin to slow to a crawl and you won't know how it happened. Well meaning people to be sure, but unaware of the implications of adding process on top of process. As a CEO or COO, make the investment in understanding how the teams and their processes affect one another. You'll be shocked at how much this is slowing you down.]]>
Interestingly enough, both late stage and early stage investment expanded from Q3 to Q2.
I was looking for guidance on how to authorize shares, and then the mechanism to issue a specified percentage of shares to the founders. I also wanted to better understand what the non-obvious effects are to the founders down the road when it comes to issuing or authorizing more shares, or an equity event occurs. What I found was this post from Fred Wilson (the link to answers.onstartups no longer works, here's another link to the post by Joel Sposky that Fred refers to.)
If you need guidance on how to handle giving equity to advisers, Jason Calacanis has a pretty detailed rundown here.
If you do issue shares that have restrictions (such as a cliff, vesting, etc) you have 30 days to file your 83(b) election to the IRS. The topic is covered in Do More Faster by David Cohen and Brad Feld. There's an in-depth discussion of it here.
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"And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension."
-Aryton Senna
This may seem like an odd post for someone who usually writes about innovation and entrepreneurship, but.. too bad.
When I was 10 or 12 years old I played baseball, either catcher, pitcher, once in a while I played 2nd base. Second was my favorite position because I got some pretty good plays. What was weird was, and I didn't really consider it at odd at the time, I knew where to stand. Not in the "you play 2nd, so you stand about 5-10 feet off 2nd base" but in a very different way. There was this odd thing that I'd experience – as the batter got settled into the box I'd shift around a little bit: left; right; front; back; back a little more. The best way I can describe it is feeling like you're standing in a small depression in the field. A little to far left and it wouldn't "feel" right, I'd feel like I was out of the "groove" and I'd move back. I'd then test it a little bit, move to the right. Same thing, out of the groove. I somehow "knew" where to stand. And once, just once, I heard the crack of the bat… and the ball was in my glove. I never saw the line drive that got fired straight at me. I don't recall ever having moved my arm to make the catch, and I didn't know how the ball got there. As a kid I didn't know to question it, I got the out and that's all that mattered. I didn't want to sound like a weirdo to my team so I didn't talk to them about it.
In they 90's I found a copy of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book "Flow" which goes through the psychology of optimum performance. I've since lost the book book but did pick up a copy from Amazon lately while I researched this post. What he describes is the state of "flow". The disconnect between the body and the consciousness. How athletes and others see events before they occur. A transcendence between what is going on around you, and what is about to happen. Schumacher described it as "the perfect lap" where you literally don't know how you just did what you did. It's not a result of just training, it's not a result of great reflexes, it's not luck. It's well beyond that. Senna had the seeming ability to bend the car around the armco at Monaco. You're at 120 mph and 2 inches from the barrier. How do you bend the car around anything?
Flow is where everything becomes effortless, you're a super-human, you have no limits, you can go all day, and you become one with what's going on around you. It just happens. You can't force it. It's a Zen-like state that when you experience it, leaves you in tears and in awe. If you're lucky, even pro athletes may experience it 2-3 times in their life. I've experienced it twice, once in baseball, once in cycling.
There's a level of performance above that which most of us experience, what most of us know about. If you're lucky, you'll experience it once in your life. It is a humbling "that wasn't me doing that" experience.
If you're an athlete at any level, I hope you experience flow at least once. If will change you. If you're a young athlete, you're more prone to these types of moments. There's still some research going on to try and identify exactly what's going on in the brain. But I think we're a long way from being able to explain it.]]>
Both require effort and effort is table stakes. Resonate will help you learn how to tell a story so start there. Sketch and InVision will turn that story into something tangible that people can play with and you can begin to get feedback.
First, start with friends and family. Explain your idea to them, if they can't tell what the hell you're talking about then you need to re-craft your explanation. If they "don't get it" it's not their fault, it's yours. You're unable to explain what you do or what you solve.
Once they "get it" most of them will say "it's great". You've reached the end of their usefulness. Your next challenge is to build a prototype and this is where Sketch and InVision come in to play. There's great videos out there that will help you with Sketch. The InvisionApp will help you turn the images you create in Sketch into a clickable demo.
You really don't need a developer or technical co-founder just to get a prototype together and start getting feedback from people. You just have to put some learnings into practice.
If you expect somebody to do all this for you then you should just describe your idea on Facebook, sign over all future rights, and let others run with it.
Ever sit in "brainstorming" sessions and absolutely NOTHING of value comes out at the end? I'm willing to bet that someone(s) shot down quite a bit of ideas that were only in their infancy.
Do this. Grab a copy of "Originals" by @AdamMGrant. You'll find that when organizations are asked for ideas, on average, 87% of those ideas generated are original. Eighty. Seven. Percent. What would your organization do with an inflow of 87% of new and original ideas? Could you test them fast enough to see if there was consumer adoption? Could you implement them fast enough to recognize the cost savings in the current fiscal quarter?
Originals is easily my favorite book I've read this year. Quantity over quality. Be prolific in your output. Stay up late. Get up early. Write everything down. I think you're going to shock yourself.
In the early 2000's we were accustomed to long software development times, huge up-front cost outlays, and if we were lucky, something that was close to what we wanted. Sometime after I'd read Re-imagine! I told the head of SDLC initiatives that we would need to decrease our development time from 9 months, to 9 weeks, to eventually 9 days. I got laughed at. He was a "ain't broke, don't fix" kinda guy.
In 2015 I attended a meetup heavily attended by PMPs but the topic was around Agile Adoption and how it accelerated delivery and improved the interaction between the "business" and "IT" (hint: both groups are "the business"). I sat next to a CFO-type who I don't believe listened to one goddamn word the panel said because he asked "What's the ROI of adopting Agile?" I don't believe that's the right question. Look around you, are your competitors learning to execute for their customers faster and more effectively? With shorter turn-around times and with higher customer satisfaction? If the answer is yes, then you go figure out what the ROI of Agile Adoption is. Stop using the "What's the ROI of…" argument to duck change. Do your damn job.
Through the use of tools like Sketch and Invision we can get MVPs in the hands of prospective clients in a matter of hours to get their feedback. Can we conceptualize and iterate on a day-to-day basis? I don't see why not, it may already be here. But if many people continue to adhere to the ain't-broke-don't-fix mentality, they'll get left far behind.
And then there is
11… Difficult and time consuming – It takes effort to make anything seem effortless. It takes great effort to simplify, to edit, to truly focus on one key feature you want someone to use. Taking the easy way out is just that, easy. You don't have to have the difficult discussions telling people that their pet idea isn't going to make the cut.]]>


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With No Parents, Ladeeta, 18, Presses On
By FELICIA R. LEE
Published: April 6, 1993
It was 3:30 on a Monday morning and Ladeeta Smith could not sleep. Just hours earlier, she had visited her mother in a Bronx nursing home, and she was haunted by the image of her emaciated body covered with sores. At 41, Patricia Bobo Smith was dying of AIDS and no longer recognized her daughter.
Later that day, Ladeeta would walk into Boys & Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where its signs proclaim, "We Are Survivors." The 18-year-old senior would turn in final semester reports, lead an English class discussion and put finishing touches on the college applications that she hoped would take her far away from this tattered neighborhood.
"I know that if I don't get my education I won't have anything -- and I want everything," said Ladeeta, a tall, thin girl who wears her hair in long braids swept to one side of her face and a tiny ring through her left nostril.
"I want family and love and money," she said, waving in the direction of Brooklyn streets lined with garbage. "I know I can do better than this.
"I know Mommy would want me to go on, she would not want me to sit around and cry," Ladeeta said. "If I get down and start doing poorly, who knows how long it would take me to get back up?"
Ladeeta Gaynell Smith has survived almost every plague of adolescence in neighborhoods defined by hopeless girls with babies and angry boys with guns. Not long ago, isolated in the projects without relatives or support, she was losing herself to the same despair that had driven her mother to crack houses and her father to drink himself to death.
She ran with a gang of girls who beat and robbed other girls of their jewelry and cash. She struggled alone to take care of her two younger sisters, Lakisha, now 13, and Latreece, 5. She was more often absent from school than not. Her first job was holding drugs and cash for a major neighborhood crack dealer.
"It was all I knew," she said.
Ladeeta's story shows how much darker childhood can be in an age of AIDS and crack. Like a shattered mirror, her life reflects fragments of the experience of many.
"I think a lot of kids know they're not going anywhere," Ladeeta said. "People aren't motivated because they see people who aren't educated who are surviving."
Ladeeta was able to envision another life only after her grandmother plucked her from the chaos of her mother's home and enrolled her in a school where she found teachers who are convincing her that she can have a future.
"Sometimes I think, how far am I going to be able to go being female and black -- two things against me," she said.
Although she no longer sees most of her friends from the projects and has been accepted to three colleges, Ladeeta worries. That her two younger sisters do not succumb to the same pressures that tempted her. That she will be able to navigate the world of college as easily as she could the streets of Brooklyn. That the trauma of those years of watching friends die and watching her mother waste her life will come back to haunt her. Changes New Drug, New Violence
It was 1984 and there was a new drug in the Cypress Hills housing project called crack. Ladeeta, who was 9, did not quite understand what was happening in her East New York neighborhood. The boys who used to be her friends now stood somberly on street corners crowded with people looking for a high. They would warn her if they expected trouble and shoo her into the apartment. The older guys had new jobs where they carried guns about the vacant lots and abandoned buildings and shot at boys from other projects.
"More people started getting high because it was right there," she said. "Older people I respected started smoking and fighting and stealing right in the streets. They would have shoot-outs."
Ladeeta said that there was still a sense that everyone who lived in the project was family. When the shoot-outs came, though, she learned to duck for cover. One girlfriend was shot in the arm. Another died from a gunshot in the back.
That was later. The first ones to die were the boys: friends like Butch and Pig and Charles who became caught up in what seemed to be the easy money and adventure of street life. In all, she has seen eight friends die.
At the end of 1986, Ladeeta's father died. Elbert Smith was an alcoholic who had a convulsion that Ladeeta believes was related to pills and liquor. No one in the family would talk about it, she said, although his death changed their lives completely.
Ladeeta's older sister, Lavelle, had gone off to Clark Atlanta University in Georgia. Her mother, who had lost the man she had been with since she was 14, fell heavily into drugs.
Ladeeta was 12 when her mother -- who was three months' pregnant -- began staying away from home for days at a time. When she did come home, she was often high.
"I saw her high plenty of times," she said. "They start singing and dancing and acting all jolly. I was disgusted with her. I would walk past her like I didn't know her on the streets."
That left Ladeeta to take care of the house. "I had to cook and clean and go shopping," she said. "I thought everybody was talking about me and my sisters and how my mother was a crackhead." 'Never Did Teen-Age Stuff'
In June 1987 Ladeeta went to Kings County Hospital to pick up her mother and the new baby, Latreece. They came home on the bus. When they got there, her mother went out to look for drugs.
Left at home with her two sisters, with little money and no telephone, Ladeeta's only diversion was a group of girls who rode the subways and robbed other girls. She saw it as an escape.
"I never did teen-age stuff like go to the movies, to dinner," Ladeeta said.


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10 Novels That Should Be Added to the Young Adult Canon: Today in Critical Linking
We hereby vote these books be elevated to the status of universal teen year must-reads, right now. (Some indispensable modern classics—like Speak and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian—are excluded here, because, despite repeated censorship attempts, they're already being read in high schools everywhere.)
If you are looking for some interesting YA for yourself or someone else, this list of 10 Novels That Should Be Added to the YA canon is a great starter.
A short-form novel "coauthored" by humans and an artificial intelligence (AI) program passed the first screening process for a domestic literary prize, it was announced on Monday. However, the book did not win the final prize.
Looks like computers, with the help of humans, are starting to be able to write bad novels.
This poster displays results from the content analysis of youth fiction books published since 2013 with Native American main characters. 75% of books written by non-Native authors were set before 1900, compared with only 20% written by Native authors. Increasing the time period granularity makes the results even more striking. No books by non-Native authors were set after 1950, whereas 75% of books by Native authors were, with 2/3 of books written by Native authors set in present day.
Looks like Rowling isn't the only non-Native author to be stuck in the past when it comes to writing about Native American characters.
Film rights for The Hate U Give, a YA novel inspired by Black Lives Matter, have sold to Fox 2000,Temple Hill and State Street in a competitive situation.
Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg will star and George Tillman Jr. will direct the film adaptation from a script by Audrey Wells.
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She may have split from her Diversity boyfriend ahead of her world tour with Little Mix .
But Jade Thirlwall looked to be having a great time as she hit the town with bandmate Leigh-Anne Pinnock on Monday night.
The petite stunner showed off her enviable abs in a yellow, black and grey crop top and a pair of high-rising black trousers, as she arrived at Cirque de Soil nightclub with a gorgeous man-hunk on her arm.
With her hair down in loose waves, Jade was all smiles as she followed her pal into the swanky London club.
Bandmate Leigh-Anne went for a dressy look and rocked a sophisticated silver dress and pointy courts for a night out with her bessie.
The gorgeous singer was accompanied into the night club by footballer boyfriend Jordan Kiffin.
Both Jade Thirlwall AND Jesy Nelson have split from their boyfriends - who are both members of Diversity - ahead of their US tour.
Jade, 21, had been dating boyfriend Sam Craske since 2012, around the same time Jesy, 23, began dating Ashley Banjo's younger brother, Jordan.
Jesy and Jordan previously split in March last year, but got back together shortly after.
Now, the Mirror can reveal the girls, who both attended their manager's birthday on Tuesday night at London's Steam & Rye, are both single again .
A source close to the stars said: "It happened very recently for both couples.
"While it's strange timing and quite a coincidence that both girls were dating boys in the same dance troupe, it seems to have stemmed from the amount of time they are able to spend together, because of their conflicting schedules.
"The girls are about to go on a huge US tour, which will see them spend the entire rest of the summer apart.
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We're attending a wedding in Oahu, so we'll be there for 3 nights. After that, we're flying to Maui, renting a car, and I've rented a 1 bedroom condo on the beach near Kaanapali. I'm trying to work out an itinerary that will let us enjoy some of the special parts of the island, but I don't want to run around like crazy and not just relax and enjoy being there.
So, what are the musts? The road to Hana looks great, and it appears to take the better part of a day. We'll go to the volcano, but not at dawn, I don't wake up that early when I'm on vacation! We like snorkeling and there seem to be many good options for that. What else? All suggestions greatly appreciated.
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We're attending a wedding in Oahu, so we'll be there for 3 nights. After that, we're flying to Maui, renting a car, and I've rented a 1 bedroom condo on the beach near Kaanapali. I'm trying to work out an itinerary that will let us enjoy some of the special parts of the island, but I don't want to run around like crazy and not just relax and enjoy being there.
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A trip out to Ho'okipa Beach to watch the kite surfers followed by walk around and some shopping up in Makawao is a fun way to spend a half day. I like to combine that with lunch or dinner at Haliimaile General Store just down the road from Makawao.
The last time we were on Maui we enjoyed a visit to the Schaefer Gallery at Maui Arts and Cultural Center.
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RTH is a 12-hour day if you stop to sightsee -- which is the point of the drive. You'll pass through Paia enroute, but that might be better combined with a trip up to the crater and Upcountry. Iao Valley in Wailuku is and worth an hour-plus.
Drive north to piney Kapalua. Go into Lahaina Town for a little history and a lot of 'galleries', restaurants, bars.
Would you be interested in the Maui Ocean Center at Maalaea?
Drive into South Maui. Good beaches start with the Kamaole Beach Parks in South Kihei and go on through Wailea and Makena. Past Makena you'll see the black lava from Haleakala's last eruption as it meets the blue sea -- starkly different from the hotels and shops in upscale Wailea.
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If you're going to go to the volcano during daytime, combine it with a trip to upcountry (per wekewoody). Last time we were there, we hiked about 5 miles (round trip) into the crater late morning/early afternoon, and stopped in Makawao on the way back to Kaanapali (we would have loved to have had a meal at Hailemale General Store, but we were there "between times" - too late for lunch and too early for dinner.
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We are planning to drive to the crater today and was also thinking of doing Upcountry if there's time in the afternoon. Makawao sounds great. Any other recommended sights along the way? We are staying in Wailea. Thanks!
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Upcountry Maui, the grounds of the Tedeschi Winery are very nice, for a short visit. It's surprisingly cool up there, and way down below, you can see the Makena Beach Resort. The Lavender Farm also has some interesting gardens, with a lot of unique (at least, to me) plants. Then there's Surfing Goat Dairy, if you want to try something a little different. You can see it fairly quickly. The kids are really playful and cute!
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Well, I should certainly be able to put together an itinerary with all these suggestions! Thanks, wekewoody, ChiSue,sf7307 and kanunu. Really looking forward to the trip.
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Have a great trip!
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Remember that your 'list' can be thrown away or the activities postponed. Just enjoy being on this pretty island. I would probably do ONE of these things if I had 7 -10 nights on Maui. Enjoy Island Time and take some of it home with you. Aloha!
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I love the sunset from the west-facing pull out parking lots on Haleakala, esp. when the clouds are just below your level.
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Alice, it's easy to wake up early on HI - don't know where you live, but they are 3 hrs behind CA, 6 hrs behind East Coast.
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This might be interesting reading.
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Good link, wekewoody! And Dayenu (love the handle), we're on the east coast, and you're probably right about the waking early, at least to start. sylvia3, I read about seeing sunset from Haleakala, maybe we can make that happen. And ChiSue, I am going to try HARD to keep a relaxed, enjoy just being there attitude. At some point we'll take a longer trip and can fit in more activities without running all day every day.
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Yesterday's Manchester Paper had a story by reporter Kathryn Marchoki that really shows the divide of understanding between liberals and conservatives when it comes to municipal government – actually almost any government.
The piece is about one Robert G. Geisel Jr., former Greenfield tax collector who is accused by the Greenfield (pop. Approx. 1,800, budget $1.5 million) Police of taking $3,331.00 in cash which was given to him by citizens for property taxes. It also states in the subtitle; "He and his librarian wife were well regarded in community".
The Marchocki article goes on to detail three separate times in a 2004 -2005 period when cash was given to Geisel for property taxes and three times people were given receipts as the basis for the charges that total $3,331.00 so far.
The vast majority of the article is about how well liked the couple is and how the guy's wife, now deceased, having won library awards. People are interviewed who have nothing but good things to say about Mr. Geisel. Since the facts of the case are not all known, that seems fair enough. Actually it seems more than fair.
But the interview with Hillsborough County District Attorney, Michael Valentine is what is especially eye catching.
Valentine says the investigation of missing money started in 2005! That was some time ago for a simple bookkeeping investigation. Isn't it?
Then Valentine is quoted as saying that Mr. Geisel if convicted would not likely receive the maximum penalty. He says factors such as past history, degree of accountability, seriousness of the crime and willingness to pay restitution would play a part.
And that is the leap public officials and some citizens make when faced with a potential crime such as this. They skip right over the fact that this is a matter of public trust and the money involved belonged to taxpayers until it was take from them by government.
The fact is, there is no "other" town tax collector to go to. The municipality uses its power of taxation and threat of court action or loss of property to acquire its funding. Pay up or pay the price.
Then let something like this happen and the wagon circling begins at the municipal and state levels.
You only need look back a few years to the Town of Ashland and former town clerk and tax collector Rosie McNamara who pleaded guilty to stealing $111,000.00 when $2.4 million was the total amount missing. The "insurance company", the NH Municipal Assoc., paid the town $660,000.00. Quite a wide array of figures. So naturally, the taxpayers footed the bulk of the bill.
The Ashland nightmare, as is often the case in these situations, started with small amounts before it finally escalated into the largest theft of municipal funds NH has ever seen. It was definitely mishandled.
So before we start making excuses for some "wonderful public servant" who may just have stolen public funds, how about we find out how much the final total is. And while we are at it keep this thought in mind:
If you can't come up with your $3,331.00 in property tax money does a newspaper reporter do a front page story about what a great guy you are?
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This year's parade will be led by members of the Sweetwater and Town and Country Garden Clubs who will be carrying 48 roses in honor and memory of the 48 Douglas County citizens who have been killed in action. The parade's color guard will be from the US Navy Sea Cadets Warrior Division. Bagpipers will lead the opening music, and will be accompanied by veterans bearing US Flags.
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1110https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/atom/replies?topicUuid=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014876560HTTP Server 8.5 does not redirect requests to nodes in cluster on Linux Replies2012-08-17T15:17:11.818ZIBM Connections - Discussion Forumurn:lsid:ibm.com:forum:77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014876589Re: HTTP Server 8.5 does not redirect requests to nodes in cluster on Linux2012-08-17T15:17:11.818ZScott Johnston2000000W4Pactive2012-08-17T15:17:11.818Z Thanks for writing in and explaining your scenario.

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 Starting with the release of WebSphere Application Server v8.0 and the switch to using IBM Installation Manager, there was a movement to cleanly separate "installation" from "configuration" which had a significant impact on the process for setting up a web server with an application server.

 With Installation Manager, IBM HTTP Server, Web Server Plug-ins, and the WebSphere Customization Toolbox are viewed as completely separate installation 'packages'. Nevertheless, Installation Manager can install all of them at one time (similar to the previous install technology). However, there is now the extra post-installation step to configure the web server plug-ins.

 Because the web server plug-ins are separate from the web server and they have their own configuration tool, there can now be a one-to-many mapping between the plug-ins and web servers. That is, the plug-ins can be installed once to a machine and can be separately configured to function with all the web servers on that machine. For those who prefer the previous model, the web server plug-ins still can be installed multiple time to the same machine to create the one-to-one mapping as well.

 The WebSphere Application Server Information Center has illustrations of several common/popular topologies with the step-by-step installation and configuration process mapped out. The article is located at this URL:
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 Installing and Configuring Web Server Plug-ins
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What can be said that hasn't been said about 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'?
Along with 'GoldenEye', 'Perfect Dark', 'Super Mario 64', it was not only one of the flagship titles for the ground-breaking Nintendo 64 system but it is also one of the best console games ever produced.
A development team of hundreds took three years to create the 40 hours of epic gameplay that included the perfect blend of puzzle-solving and combat. For anyone who played 'Ocarina' and adventured through its lavish 3D world to see Link travel in time to grow from a naïve child to a valiant, full-grown hero, the experience was never forgotten.
Knowing and appreciating all of this, how does one improve upon an everlasting title that was almost flawless and left such an indelible impression upon gamers? You start from the ground up. With the extended features of the Nintendo 3DS at their disposal, Nintendo EAD and Grezzo deconstructed 'Ocarina' polishing up the best parts of the game and revamping the elements that needed to be reworked.
Back in 1998, players can remember having to pause the action while equipping items, checking the map or your inventory. This is 2011 and Nintendo will have none of that. By using the 3DS touch screen for those purposes, 'Ocarina' moves much more quickly and fluidly, even if tapping the touch screen isn't the most intuitive of actions. The touch screen also brings up that exasperating broken record fairy 'Navi' and a first person view of things.
Yes, sadly that perennial pest Navi is still a major part of the redo, although she doesn't harass you as much as she did on the Nintendo 64 with her grating - Hey, listen! - that caused a generation of gamers to grind their molars down to dust every time they heard it. We could have done without the screeching banshee but I guess it wouldn't be 'Ocarina' without Navi buzzing around and being a pain in the tunic.
Nintendo EAD and Grezzo put the built-in gyroscope to use as well allowing you to survey Link's world by tilting and turning the 3DS. The Sheikah Stones found throughout the journey, now offer hints and clues to players.
Along with improved, updated graphics and audio, 'Ocarina' on the 3DS has some new modes just to keep things appealing, as if the original adventure itself wasn't enough.
In the 'Master Quest' challenge, the location of everything has changed because the directions have been reversed. What was north is now south, what was east is now west. You get the picture. The enemies also do increased damage. So, not only is everything not where you left it but the baddies took steroids while you were gone. 'Boss Gauntlet Mode' becomes available after you finish the game. In it, you can complete all the boss battles again and compare your scores with those of your friends.
'Ocarina' isn't just another bygone title ported or resurrected to pad out the 3DS game library. Nintendo has worked hard with Grezzo to make 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D', the definitive edition and while doing so, they did not meddling with the things that make 'Ocarina' a timeless masterpiece.
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text: 31 photos $929,000 77 acres 6334 Waggoners Gap Road, Landisburg, PA 17040 - Perry County 77 /- Ac. PERRY CO. LOVELY HOME AND BUILDINGS IN Art and Sharon Kling Farm, Spring Township, Perry County. 6334 Waggoners Gap Road, Landisburg, PA 17040 77 /- acres total with 30 /- acres tillable, 20 /- acres wooded and the balance pasture. Directions: From New Bloomfield, take Rt. 274 West a few miles and turn left of Rt. 74 South. Follow Rt. 74 South a few miles to the farm on your right. This farm is in a great location, and yet very private, and has no zoning. All buildings are back off of the road, and well maintained. This farm is within easy commuting distance to Carlisle, Harrisburg, or the communities in Perry, Juniata, and Cumberland counties. . This farm would work well as a horse farm, beef cattle farm, alpaca, or other grazing livestock. The owners presentl John Mattilio Farm and Land Realty, Inc.


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tree felling , a large silver birch
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Added 20/01/2014
it is a very large conifer outside the front of the property which I want removing.
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There is a large tree in the back garden which we would like cutting down, depending on price....
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3 conifers at in the front garden (all next to each other) have reached a height of around...
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