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WiAt least, it's no surprise to the owner of one of the most prominent and longest established Equestrian centers in the Katy area of Texas, Dr. Layne Spitzenberger. Dr. Spitzenberger is the 6th removed granddaughter of the famous pioneer Jessie Chisholm, who founded the famous Chisholm Trail moving Texas longhorn cattle to the Kansas market on horseback.
She's been the boss of one of the best known horse riding schools in the area at the Circle Lake Ranch stables where they've been offering horse riding lessons to youngsters via summer camps for almost too many years to remember. And according to Dr. Spitzenberger, the popularity of the summer camps with eager youngsters from all over this part of Texas never seems to wane.
"In this day and age, when it seems as if young children have more distractions at their fingertips than ever before, it's gratifying and very encouraging that the popularity of our summer horse camps never seems to pale."
Dr Spitzenberger continues "It indicates to me that even though they have computers and consoles at home that allow them to play simulated games, young children still have an instinctive understanding that there is nothing like the real thing!"
One advantage that the Circle Lake Ranch has over many competing Equestrian centers is the range of facilities that they are able to offer, the availability of which owes a lot to how long they've been running horse riding lesson camps.
Dr. Spitzenberger again: "When we first started back in the 1990's, we didn't have the facilities we have now of course, but over the years, we've focused on upgrading what we can offer one step at a time. And of course, staying ahead of the curve - not to mention the competition - is a never ending job."
"For example, we've had a fantastic indoor classroom equipped with a full size horse for some time now, but this has been significantly upgraded this year with the addition of an overhead projector which greatly enhances the indoor riding experience. We also have a horse riding simulator - students can sit on the mechanical device and it simulates the movement of the horse at the walk, trot and canter."
The Katy summer camps offered by Circle Lake Ranch are open to youngsters between the ages of 6 and 14 and there is something for everyone, no matter what their experience level.
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Leaving the last few words to Dr. Spitzenberger, "Five days is often all that is needed to create lifelong horse enthusiasts and as horse people ourselves, what could be more satisfying and rewarding than that?"
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In my recent trip last summer visiting New York i had the opportunity to come in contact with EMDR.
It was a magic period , or at least perceived as such, by me.
A total respond to my singing "when you wish upon a star" a gift a strong push to rebound.
My experience was so complex and new, making me dream of new life, new possibilities and perspectives that is difficult to describe in its totality.
Making things smaller, today i wish to write down only a part of it:
My encounter with EMDR.
In 2000 i had a nightmarish experience. My beloved father became totally paralyzed in a less than a week period the doctors could not diagnose the cause could not figure out a treatment protocol,we were trapped in a dysfunctional hospital for some months. He was hospitalized under difficult ,unbearable conditions .
This was experienced by me as a frontal collision with a huge track. I had made this repulsing hospital my home , literally living there ,constricted to eyewitness horrible - for my up to date self- things, marginal behaviors, death , inhuman reasoning, a big devastating earthquake and how everybody was acting it out while in a hospital that was literally "under construction"as a building .........
To take a shortcut at the end my father got well and i was able to return to my town ,home and family after a period of some months which was perceived by me as an eternity.
Everything seemed to be again o.k.
but then suddenly
i began to wake up at night reviving the earthquake,returning in a deserted hospital by horrified flees of "humans", staying me and my little sis by my fathers bed and imagining we would be able to carry him out in every single aftershocks during the night, to dream again and again of sleeping in a chair in a hospital's corridor, or trying to pull my paralyzed father in my shoulders out of that hell e.t.c.
It was clear to the other part of my brain that something was asking for help, could not function properly , in other words a "S.O.S"sign was ON.
It would be rather boring or out of context to enumerate the attempts of getting out of my PTSD. First of all i had to understand and name it in order to understand who should i address for help.
I have tried to get into treatment with a gestalt therapist. She was a good one ,i was a difficult "not naive" client , knowing too much in theory,and this prooved to be a "light medicine" that need too much time to heal ....
the end came
with my
somatic collapse into an autoimmune illness crisis ,DVT, Pulmonary embolism, that almost cost me my life and anyway marked me for life.
All these have been visited and revisited by me thousand of times either alone and/or in several "companies" in an effort to understand, to contain and assimilate them.
I almost believed that things had fallen into place.
Then my visit to New York ,a short pack of sessions offered with an EMDR therapist - the best hands i can imagine to let myself in- and the clear image of my wounds came back into light.
When i first entered the session a big part of me was not at all convinced. In any case procedures that have a strong formal pattern were always making me disbelieve and my mind tends to underrate them...
I was surprised to see how easily my "locked doors" began retreating.
Things got stirred up , re..........cannot yer find the word and
something BEGAN
Recently back in Greece i had the opportunity to follow a short presentation of the method in my reading club and got to know a lady who works as a certified EMDR therapist in Athens.
Suddenly it was clear that minding, understanding, analysing , was not enough to CHANGE.
A good start, yes, but i needed for that the hidden wounded parts of myself that tend to be deaf and blind and wake up at "night" unconsciously almost urging me to spasmodically take care of them (the wrong way), feed them, make them happy again.
I felt it was a "key" offered" to me out of LOVE and i am working out the way to my visiting her in treatment. (of course i need to raise the money first and then face my guilts for spending money for....me ,with all these financial difficulties we are facing and ......but i know that even aiming at it , praying and expecting will lead me to the right "place")
Do not get me wrong i do not disregard all the way i have been walked already IT WAS ONLY TOO NECESSARY.
it is not enough
Parts that are disconnected, cur off ,do not function in tune, wait and hide , untamed because hurt, mute because horrified, blind to avoid revive painful situations take hold of self sometimes CLAIMing to be nurtured, taking care , treated to joy in a unutterable dis-articulate language that cannot wait anymore and want a quick fix.
But i am so very thankful
for the trip to NY, my first session offered to me as a gift out of LOVE,
that my hand is held all the way long,that in every turn there is hope and help .
We need only to be as open as possible to the GOOD and LOVE and POSITIVE that DO SURROUND us.
Good luck dear Sparkfriends take good care of yourselves and of the cosmos
and be happy
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The Brain is indeed a Complicated Organ. How Wonderful that You pressed on until you found Answers & Healing! Congratulation!!
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Wow K!
Knowing how and when your heart got hurt by this trauma is a great breakthrough.
Obviously behind all this is fear and insecurity. Your soul needs to know that all is fine now, and that it is safe, to switch off the alarms going off. To get out of this STATE OF EMERGENCY.
You are such a brave brave woman.
(Ask Winston Churchill about the bravery of the Greeks.)
Talk softly to that child in your heart, and be kind to her.
So much love!!!
I am praying for you
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I had to look up what EMDR was. I have never heard of it before.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing?
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Kleoniki, you have been through so much in your life.
I hope this gift of love helps you to move forward.
Filakia nad thinking of you often.
Love you
Anastasia xxx
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Since the days of MGR to the last Karthi movie, double roles have always been a spicy hit amongst Kollywood fans.
Now, there is a fresh change in the trend as Surya will surely sweep you away with his gimmick in the upcoming KV Anand's movie Maatran.
Close sources to Surya tell us he will be playing the role of a conjoined twin .Simply put it is condition where 2 bodies are joined and their functions and mechanisms are shared in unison. The bodies are bound to eat, sleep and other day to day activities together.
Well Tamil cinema is surely going to witness something new with this experiment, Surya is definitely eyeing off beat roles in an attempt to prove his versatility with every new movie. Kudos to him, we will have to wait and watch how he pulls it off on screen for this one.


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Anyone whose only acquaintance with the works of Val McDermid is through The Wire in the Blood, the television adaptation of her Tony Hill novels, will be familiar with her penchant for gore. The latest in the series, The Torment of Others, proves that when it comes to depicting violence and depravity, the television screen has nothing on the printed page.
Hill, the eccentric psychologist "whose profiles had nailed some of the country's most notorious serial killers", is reunited with DCI Carol Jordan, his colleague, friend and unrequited love. Jordan, an inspired career policewoman, is recovering from a rape, the result of a botched undercover operation. When she is asked to head a new serious crimes unit in her old stamping ground of Bradfield, she decides that work might give her back a sense of herself.
Immediately, she is flung in at the deep end. Two boys have been abducted and two prostitutes murdered. Worse, the murders are replicas of a series that took place two years before, for which Derek Tyler was convicted on apparently incontrovertible evidence.
Could Tyler be innocent? And whose is the voice that crops up throughout the novel, with its chilling insights into the mind of a killer insatiably pursuing power over others?
Jordan seems to be going to pieces. She misses clues; she fails to see a personal crisis in one of her oldest colleagues. But when an undercover operation to trap the murderer goes wrong and the decoy, Paula McIntyre, is abducted, she finds the wherewithal to husband her emotions. In Carol Jordan, McDermid has created a mature woman who understands the difference between living with a problem and dwelling on it.
Tony Hill is a trickier proposition. He could so easily descend into parody - the brilliant, flawed maverick in love who is unable to do anything about it: "It's your own fault. Because you couldn't give her what she needed. Because you're a pathetic excuse for a man. Because you led her into the lion's den but you couldn't rescue her. Because love is only worth something if the actions match the words." But he is rescued from caricature by McDermid's sensitive portrayal of his frailty and the character's realisation that he can analyse the minds of others only because of his own pathology. "You think like a detective," he tells Jordan. "I think like a nutter."
The Torment of Others has a thoroughly modern brutality. But, despite that and its many contemporary references - street talk, drugs, the suggestion that Jordan read Lucky, Alice Sebold's memoir of a rape - this is a classic police procedural novel.
It is thus not a surprise to say that Hill and Jordan do discover the identity of the murderer. What is more surprising is the sheer, grinding tension throughout. Even as Hill and Jordan are unravelling the truth, McDermid intersperses their efforts with hideous insights into the deviant megalomania of the voice.
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Florida Continues High-Tech Boom with Biotech Business
(NewsUSA) - If you're in the biotech industry and wondering what state is first in class for medical device and pharmaceuticals manufacturing, as well as research and development (R&D) in this industry, the answer doesn't lie in the west or the northeast. Florida is where you'll find that leadership and expertise.
In fact, the state retains more than 325 biotechnology companies and R&D institutes that are creating some of the most exciting advancements in innovation and discovery, particularly through patents and clinical trials. The high-tech center of Florida rivals some of the greatest in the country and the work of these researchers is turning heads.
Companies such as: BioFlorida, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, the University of South Florida Research & Innovation, NSU Cell Therapy Institute, High-Tech Corridor, The Max Planck Institute, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, and Scripps Florida are working in the industry across the state.
The state's biotechnology industry would not be the powerhouse that it is today without the help of Florida's universities. The three public universities of the High-Tech Corridor, the University of Florida, University of South Florida and University of Central Florida, attract more than $230 million a year combined in research funding from National Institutions of Health.
Mark S. Long, Director of the University of Florida's Sid Martin Biotech Institute -; which is a biotech business incubator that receives $750 million in research funding annually, and serves biotech start up companies by helping with legal issues, management, accounting and mentoring -; says there is a huge research enterprise in Florida, making the state appealing for biotech business.
"There are many factors that make Florida attractive," Long says. "The weather, no state income tax and the commitment to education."
He also says that the workforce is key for every company.
Nothing is more important to a company's success than its workforce. More than 27,000 Floridians work in Florida's biotechnology, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and medical device manufacturing industries, and the universities are among the nation's top producers of STEM graduates, according to Enterprise Florida.
"Can I get the people I need to do this?" Long asks. "The answer is yes. There is a commitment here to education."
The strength of Florida's research universities make up the scope of Florida's biotechnology industry. Between 2012 and 2015, nearly 5,000 bioscience-related patents were issued and more than $1 billion in R&D was conducted. As a result, solid job growth in this field has increased drastically as more biotech companies relocate to Florida to be closer to the advancements in medical innovation.
Florida's life sciences industry continues to have a positive impacts on human well-being worldwide. The state has recruited acclaimed scientists and established expertise in critical areas of immuno-oncology, ophthalmology, cell therapy and regenerative medicine, marine biotechnology and neurodegenerative diseases.
"Across Florida, we are seeing multiple drivers of growth," says Nancy Bryan, President & CEO of BioFlorida, the voice of Florida's life sciences industry.
"Companies are choosing Florida to relocate, existing companies are expanding, universities and institutes are laying the framework for spinouts, and new and established incubators and accelerators are creating the right climate for growth."
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Wedding, a classic Regency romance back in print and in trade paperback for the first time.
Though the widowed Chloe Stanforth loves her house by the sea, a series of puzzling incidents has left her unsettled and anxious to find a new home. Her situation is complicated by the arrival of her husband's cousin, for whom she has long harbored a deep and guilty attraction.
Back from the war, Justin Delamere hopes he can finally woo Chloe, until he suspects her guilty of treason-and murder. Can he trust the woman he's always desired, and can Chloe surrender her most private secrets to the man who controls her freedom and now her heart?
Chloe, one of the widowed ladies of Stanforth, awaits with relief the arrival of the new lord, Justin Delamere. She is eager to escape the isolated manor for London: Strange things have been happening around the manor for the past year, including a peculiar interest by many people in apples. Apples? However, Chloe doesn't anticipate falling in love with the new Lord Stanforth. Justin himself desperately wants Chloe to stay, but is wary of her possible involvement in the strange occurrences, which he has been asked by the government to secretly investigate. A typical romance in the Regency style, with a puzzling mystery and some light comedy added, this is an entertaining novel. Recommended for libraries that collect this genre.-- Leslie A. Bleil, Western Michigan Univ. Lib., Kalamazoo


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The global IP Video Surveillance and VSaaS Market are expected to grow at CAGR of 37.3% during 2012-2020. Increasing adoption of advance surveillance systems by the government sector and increased maintenance cost of existing surveillance system are major driving forces assisting in adoption of IP surveillance system. This report provides information about growth potential of the market for global players and researchers. The report delivers key intelligence about future trends in IP surveillance market. Traditional surveillance systems are not competitive with respect to capabilities of flexibility and scalability and ultimately results into increasing cost of the systems. Moreover, the capacity of conventional storage device is also less. IP surveillance system eliminates the problem of flexibility and scalability due to its compatibility with existing infrastructure of the companies. Additionally, the storage capacity of the cloud based solutions currently used in IP surveillance systems is comparatively high. IP surveillance system delivers system intelligence facility with the help of video analytics and video management software. Requirement of higher bandwidth to transfer HD real time data and cost of IP camera are acting as restrains to increase adoption of IP surveillance.
The key players of IP surveillance system market included in this report are Axis communication AB, D-Link, Genetec, GeoVision INC., Panasonic Corporation, Arecont vision, Mobotix AG, Milestone System, March Network, Avigilon Corporation.


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Illustration by Bob AulRichard A. Clarke served as the National Security Council's head of counterterrorism under Republicans and Democrats, from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. But the Virginia conservative left the Bush administration when it became clear that its War on Terror was among the greatest strategic mistakes in American foreign policy. Salon.com's Joe Conason interviewed Clarke following the publication of Clarke's new book,Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror. Conason asked Clarke about Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that no U.S. administration had ever responded to the terrorist threat:
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It's possible that the vice president has spent so little time studying the terrorist phenomenon that he doesn't know about the successes in the 1990s. There were many. The Clinton administration stopped Iraqi terrorism against the United States through military intervention. It stopped Iranian terrorism against the United States through covert action. It stopped the al-Qaida attempt to have a dominant influence in Bosnia. It stopped the terrorist attacks at the millennium. It stopped many other terrorist attacks, including on the U.S. embassy in Albania. And it began a lethal covert-action program against al-Qaida; it also launched military strikes against al-Qaida. Maybe the vice president was so busy running Halliburton at the time that he didn't notice.


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Labor Day is an occasion for end-of-summer barbecues, one last splash in the pool, and the beginning of football season. But it's also an occasion to recall some of the champions of American labor. Here are five names to remember.
The ratification process is easy to take for granted; people often read about the intense debates at the Convention and assume that the document activated itself when it was signed.
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The Purple Heart is a symbol of the sacrifices required to defend our nation and stands as a living connection to our Revolutionary forebears.
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Throughout this week, NBC's Education Nation Experience will be set up on our front lawn, inviting visitors to step inside and learn more about the current state of our education system.
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Pax 2 won't rip bong-sized hits like the Mighty or Crafty, but it's tiny package and no moving parts make it a very streamlined and easy to use option that's basically foolproof.
What's better in version 2?The mouth piece no longer sticks or causes the entire thing to fail. It's far easier to clean. The oven chamber size is larger. The battery is much longer-lasting between charges. It's smaller and lighter. On and off is more intuitive. Pax 2 is a thoughtful and major upgrade.
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In contrast to industries like media and retail, where digital technology has been a significant disruptive force, process-oriented industries such as energy, transportation, industrial goods, and health care have not yet seen its full effects. (See Exhibit 1.) For management teams in these industries, it can be difficult to know how to start implementing digital technology—or even to see the need.
As a result, many companies have yet to take action to capitalize on digital. Some of these late adopters say they are hindered by legacy IT systems or don't have the necessary capabilities in place. Others spend months studying the market and getting bogged down in large-scale strategic and conceptual considerations, believing—incorrectly—that they need to understand how and where the journey will end before they can take the first step. The development cycles of digital technology are extremely rapid—far faster than for most traditional products and services—and this deliberate (and outdated) approach means that these companies are essentially fighting yesterday's battles.
Given the pervasiveness, low cost of entry, and potential impact of digital technology, it's imperative that late adopters act today to launch new digital products and services and digitize internal processes. This means they must implement far more nimble development processes and become far more comfortable making decisions amid uncertainty. Rather than using a top-down, strategy-driven approach (which worked in the past), these companies need to innovate using build-assess-learn cycles, even when not entirely sure of the outcome. They need to focus on pilot tests and prototypes that can be developed and rolled out quickly, assessed for performance, and scaled up (or shut down) accordingly. They need to embrace the concept of "fail fast and fail cheap" and build up their digital capabilities through direct experience. And rather than making a single big, strategic bet, they need to manage multiple initiatives, trying out new business models with low sunken costs, killing off the losers, and scaling up the winners.
Our experience with companies in virtually all industries shows that success with this kind of trial-and-error approach requires a structured transformation methodology built around three steps: securing quick wins at the outset, scaling up successful initiatives, and leading and sustaining change. (See "Three Stages of a Digital Transformation.") Together, these steps can help management teams determine where to start, how to manage the process, and how to generate sustainable progress with their digital transformations. (See Exhibit 2.)


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My Attention was drawn to this function on our decoders after one of my blog readers complained of his decoder updating automatically….
He uses strong MPEG4 decoder and when ever he loads patch software to enable him use biss keys it will only work for a moment once the decoder is turned off and then reboot it starts updating automatically..
Well this update is possible via OTA.... OTA means; Over-the-air programming (OTA) refers to various methods of distributing new software updates, configuration settings, and even updating encryption keys to devices. One important feature of OTA is that one central location can send an update to all the users, who are unable to refuse, defeat, or alter that update, and that the update applies immediately to everyone on the channel.
A user could "refuse" OTA but the "channel manager" could also "kick them off" the channel automatically. this is so that the user does not have to go to a store or a service center to have applications provisioned, parameters changed or firmware or software ... Its an over the air update instead of using drives to load the soft-wares it does it automatically through a particular frequency that will link the decoder and its model to that of the manufacturers…
So far so Good here in Africa we have one company common with this update and this Company is MYTv…
MyTV does over the air upgrade.. this would have been the best and most suitable but the disadvantage is that mytv doesn't support Biss or Powervu.. so whenever this OTA upgrade is done we loose some of these basic functions like BISS. Except we load another patch via usb or any other format to the decoder.
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Simply GOTO Menu on your Remote è Installation update, now if you always get this OTA Update you should see MYTV Frequency with signal… to stop this simply change the frequency or simply change the sat. to a non working TP.
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The Augusta Heritage Center of Davis & Elkins College is accepting applications from artists who want to join the jurying process for the 2014 Augusta Festival.
Thousands of people from throughout the region attend the Augusta Festival in Elkins City Park each year. The celebration of dance, crafts and music caps off a five-week summer sessions of traditional arts and music classes on the Davis & Elkins campus.
This year's festival is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9.
Among the art classifications are wood carving, glass, textiles, jewelry, botanicals, leather, pottery and more.
The Augusta Festival Juried Craft Fair stresses original, individually handmade craft items with an emphasis on traditional techniques. The Augusta Festival Juried Craft Fair will be juried by a committee of qualified professionals from within the arts and crafts community. Decisions of the jurors are based on merit and quality as well as overall balance of the various media represented.
Applications for the Augusta Festival Juried Craft Fair are available at www.augustaheritagecenter.org. The deadline for submission is March 15. Applications received after March 15 will be considered if space is available. For more information, call 304-637-1209.
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Right on the water. The sound of the surf is so relaxing and just adds to ones enjoyment while there. Have stayed there at least 6 times over the years and plan to return again. Sunsets/sunrises are beautiful.
Right on the water. The sound of the surf is so relaxing and just adds to ones enjoyment while there. Have stayed there at least 6 times over the years and plan to return again. Sunsets/sunrises are beautiful.
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We stayed here for 10 nights during the Christmas holidays. Joy and Dave were Amazing!!. And the apts. are so great!!. Clean, and anything we could possible need. Actually Joy and Dave had an amazing Christmas dinner for us which we did not expect. Please anyone, if you want a comfortable, clean, great location while in Rincon, please stay here. We highly recommend it!!
i have always have a fondness staying in rincon. this is another great example. the property fumes with gorgeous pride of ownership and have allowed for all of us to taste there love for there home. waking up with unrestricted access to the beach is heavenly. the aqua see through blue is priceless. if your lucky as i was the hubby will show you how they built there dream home with there picture book. very humble and gracious to see that they put there all into this. a great standard to follow. gave me great inspiration to move out there and make my dream home as they did. don't miss out the chance. you don't want to look back and regret that u didn't take the opportunity. thank u joy :)
Impressed with the beauty of the gardens in the surroundings and beach deck. The place is very quiet, peaceful and with great privacy. The view is spectacular. The owners take really good care of this little paradise.
We stay last week for 5 days, Sunset suite was absolutely fantastic, very clean and spacious. We spent all night watching at the stars from the private balcony with the sound of the sea just under our feet.
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Joy was full of attention, with priceless information about Rincon and PR way of life.
Romantic getaway for lovers, like us...we enjoyed every single moment spent at Amirage
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We can't thank Joy and David enough for a wonderful honeymoon experience! From the moment we arrived, we knew we had found a very special place to spend a very important week of our life. Joy had a chilled bottle of champagne and a fruit and cheese basket waiting for us in our sutie, along with a very sweet card and wedding gift. We enjoyed a romantic picnic on our balcony by candle light our first night. We will always treasure that memory!When we woke the first morning, we could not get over the gorgeous view right out our bedroom window. The hotel is clean,, spotless, and very well equipped with anything you could need. Joy and David go out of their way to make you feel like guests in their home. We had wonderful banana pancakes from her banana tree, and enjoyed the beautiful gardens that they have created. This is a well maintained, and very relaxing hotel. We enjoyed the hot tub, and kayaking, and just relaxing on the beautiful decks taking in the incredible views. Rincon is a fun and interesting little town. Plenty of great food, and fun beach bars, and beautiful sunsets. We highly recommend anyone check out Amirage. We saw the other hotels, and resorts that we found on this site, but honestly, I don't think you could match this experience. Thank you again Joy and David for making our honeymoon PERFECT in every way!!!! Dan and Adair (PS.. sorry it took so long to post this! , and We are coming back!!!! )
We can't say enough nice things about Amirage and it's wonderful owners, Joy and Dave. Over the last twenty-five years I've traveled to the Caribbean area about 20 times for a week or two at a time, We always look for those places that are quiet, low key and not on major travel reservation websites or in travel guides. We hit the jackpot this year with Amirage! It is a unique well designed and well built House sitting right on the water. The entire property was very tastefully appointed with among other things lots of flowering tropical plants. Our Apartment had everything you could want and more including a private balcony overlooking the entire bay. We were less than a one minute walk from our private balcony to waters edge without leaving Amirage property. I walked 3 1/2 miles one way on the beach from the property, and the beach went on way beyond that.
Dave and Joy were the perfect Host and Hostess! They gave us lots of good advice and told us about a hidden gem of a restaurants right at waters edge which turned out to be perfect... We ate there twice. They even were kind enough to included us in a private cocktail party on their deck with some friends of theirs. We felt honored to be included. They respected our privacy but always seemed to be there when we needed some advice. They are very nice people, and they also have a young gentleman who works for them who is very nice and helpful as well. Because of all of the above we will definitely be going back to Amirage hopefully to stay longer.
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From Judgment and Decision Making, Eric Luis Uhlmann (Northwestern), David Pizarro (Cornell), and David Tannenbaum and Peter Ditto (UC-Irvine): The motivated use of moral principles. Don't make me scrape off that fake tan: Our era's greatest scourge — the carrot-colored hot mess. From LRC, Charles Wright on too much health care: We can't afford life's creeping medicalization. A review of What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell (and more and more and more and more). Christina Binkley on the relentless rise of power jeans: World leaders and executives wear them (mostly well) — and how to get denim right. Newsweek surveys of how heads of state spend their vacations. Jacob Weisberg on gay marriage and marijuana: You can't stop either — why that's good. Is Ultimate Fighting gay? Thaddeus Russell investigates. An interview with Jim Holt on the "puzzle of existence". Old hipsters now need hip replacement: A review of The Birth (and Death) of Cool by Ted Gioia. From n+1, why turn your blog back into a printed book when the whole point of blogging and reading blogs was thought to lead to an inexorable emancipation from the bindings of the page, the severe duties of print? Sex for Cartoons: Jay Cantor's Krazy Kat is a fascinating, overlooked novel about human urges in 2-D characters. Adam Sternbergh on why you should resist the lure of book clubs. Can we say goodnight to the bad guy, already? In a craven country where we simultaneously crave more Gordon Gekko and loathe the Bernie Madoffs, something's gotta give — a manifesto for the end of cultural hypocrisy.
Jukka Mikkonen (Tampere): The Realistic Fallacy, or: The Conception of Literary Narrative Fiction in Analytic Aesthetics. The vestigial tale: In our modern click-and-skim world, there's dwindling time and space for the expertly crafted narrative. What's the role of fiction in a world gone completely berserk? From PEN America, Albert Mobilio, Benjamin Anastas, Nadeem Aslam, Brian Evenson, and Jan Kjaerstad discuss religious faith and its relationship to fiction (and from Bookforum, God, Living is Enormous: How might the novelist reconcile fiction and faith — make-believe and must-believe?). From Dappled Things, an interview with John C. Wright on "the soul of sci-fi". A review of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis by Michael Ward. John Gray reviews The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. The future that had arrived: While popularly known as a writer of science fiction, the late J. G. Ballard was a veritable philosopher of contemporary culture. From LRB, Frank Kermode reviews William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey. Despair and hope: A review of There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. On the new Russian realism: An interview with Jeff Parker and Mikhail Iossel, editors of Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia. In the Shadow of the Patriarch: Enrique Krauze on Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the demons of his time. The name of this land is Hell: An article on Mexico in literature.
From National Geographic, when Henry Hudson first looked on Manhattan in 1609, what did he see? Hudson is not my hero: A review of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City by Eric Sanderson (and more; and more by Philip Nobel at Bookforum). The Hudson: Is any other river as confusing? From New York, about New York's governorship, as about so much in his recent political career, Rudy Giuliani can't fully, wholeheartedly make up his mind; and Mike Bloomberg owns this town: With shrewdness and luck, an imperious idea of democracy, and plenty of money, the mayor has made himself the only political player in New York who really matters. New York City's oddball mayoral candidate Reverend Billy is mobilizing young voters in droves in his race for City Hall (and more and more). From The L Magazine, a look at the heroes and villains of New York City; and an article on the whitest neighborhood in New York City. A Brooklyn of my mind: When all that's left of a place are street names and house numbers. From The Village Voice, a look at how New York City's seven newspapers are (nearly) surviving: Print is undead, and NYC is the only city where you can still read all about it. Matt Harvey exposes the media bullshit behind New York's supposed heroin epidemic. Window shopping, NYC: Never mind all that gloomy talk of falling real-estate prices — for many renters, even a heavily mortgaged apartment is the stuff of daydreams. NYC is filled with obelisks, and a tour of them will take you all over Manhattan and beyond. A review of Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York by William Grimes.


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SEMATECH's thought leaders and technical experts will be on hand during SEMICON West, July 15-17, 2008, to discuss technical and manufacturing solutions that will enable continued progress in device scaling. SEMATECH President and CEO Dr. Michael Polcari said, "Throughout the week, the semiconductor community will have the opportunity to hear our technology experts address the industry's most critical challenges and provide unprecedented access to the information needed to guide implementation of strategies and best practices."
The lineup includes an appearance by John Warlaumont, SEMATECH's vice president of advanced technology, as a keynote speaker at JEMI France and SEMI's co-organized seminar on "Strategic Research Alliances." Warlaumont will join four other executives in addressing the importance of collaborative research alliances in the semiconductor and related industries during a technical session beginning at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 15 in the Golden Gate (A2) Conference Room of the San Francisco Marriott.
Additionally, four expert technologists representing SEMATECH and its subsidiary International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) will appear on the Device Scaling TechXPOT Stage. Their talks, which will cover front-end scaling, enhanced fab productivity, extreme ultraviolet lithography, emanufacturing, and nanoscale metrology — are detailed below.
"CMOS Scaling for High-Mobility Channels"
Prashant Majhi, Front End Processes program manager for CMOS Scaling, SEMATECH
10:50 a.m. Tuesday, July 15
Majhi will address trends in CMOS scaling and the impact of key process elements on performance — including increasing reliance on new materials and architectures, the development of non-planar alternatives, and the need to reduce operating voltages — and how these trends can be addressed through heterogeneous integration and system level improvements.
"The Green Fab Challenge: Going Clean, Going Green"
10:50 a.m. Wednesday, July 16
James Beasley, Environmental Safety and Health technology manager, ISMI
Beasley will discuss ISMI efforts to produce a standard methodology and approach for evaluating and certifying semiconductor facility environmental performance based on the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building rating system.
"Metrology Readiness for the 45-32nm Nodes"
Benjamin Bunday, Project Manager of CD Metrology and Senior Member Technical Staff, ISMI
11:10 a.m. Wednesday, July 16
Bunday will highlight the status of CD, overlay, thin film and defect metrology equipment for future manufacturing, and will present high-level results from ISMI's Metrology program as compared to the specified requirements from the ITRS.
"3D Device Issues at 22nm Node and Beyond"
Rusty Harris, Front End Processes project manager for non-planar CMOS, SEMATECH
3:50 p.m. Wednesday, July 16
Harris will explore several key requirements for making 3D devices a reality and will look ahead at the future of 3D devices.
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F.T Island posed for 'W'! They showed many different sides - all of them poetic - either by going for a retro look in plaid pants and yellow lighting, the classic look in black and white, or more modern chic with blue-ish neon lighting reflecting on their faces.
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AD WATCH — First in Score: American Crossroads released minute-long radio ads in two Senate battlegrounds today: Alaska and North Carolina. The Alaska ad ( http://youtu.be/k0k1P_LGCpE) reprises Republicans' charge that Democrats are meddling in the upcoming Republican primary before it goes on to laud frontrunner Dan Sullivan. It will join an existing $130,000 buy, said spokesman Paul Lindsay, and it comes a day after Club for Growth Action reported spending $19,000 on direct mail supporting Sullivan, a reminder of the cross-section of conservatives rallying to get Sullivan over the finish line. Crossroads' North Carolina ad ( http://youtu.be/8ZUAbh8Uo5w) is focused on education and contrasts Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan with Republican Thom Tillis. It's backed by $130,000 for a week, Lindsay said. That ad comes a day after the DSCC kicked off a $9.1 million campaign with an education-focused attack ad against Tillis: http://abcn.ws/1lWxEzr.
First in Score: Oregon Republican Senate candidate Monica Wehby is going up today with her second TV ad of the general election, which focuses on spending and the national debt. "We're $17 trillion in debt," Wehby says on camera. "At some point this debt's going to come due, and it's going to have to be paid by somebody. We should not be doing that to our children." FP1 Strategies is producing Wehby's ads. The campaign said the ad is running statewide but declined to share further details. http://youtu.be/1ZlzYL1UcdU
NEVER MIND! "6th District race still up in air as Grothman leads Leibham by 214 votes," by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Don Behm: "A recount likely will be needed next week to confirm a winner in the GOP primary for the 6th Congressional District where state Sen. Glenn Grothman holds a razor-thin margin of victory over rival state Sen. Joe Leibham." http://goo.gl/wk2Q4v … AP withdraws call for Grothman: http://goo.gl/EefOHD
FLASH — "Hearing set for Hanabusa's request to delay election," by Honolulu Star Advertiser staff: "U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa on Wednesday asked a state court to delay Friday's vote in two Puna precincts that could settle her Democratic primary against U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz. The congresswoman is seeking a temporary restraining order from Circuit Court in Hilo to postpone the election until Puna residents have had more time to recover from Tropical Storm Iselle. A hearing has been scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Thursday before Judge Greg Nakamura in Hilo. ... Hanabusa trails Schatz by 1,635 votes after Saturday's election. ... 'Sen. Schatz continues to focus on helping Puna recover,' campaign spokeswoman Meaghan Smith said. 'The Office of Elections or the courts will determine the best way to move forward to maximize voter participation.'" http://goo.gl/w9ZtqM
As college Republicans fan out, Jeb Bush hits the trail and the cycle's biggest vendors are tallied, here's POLITICO's Morning Score: your daily guide to the 2014 midterms.
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TODAY ON POLITICO: "The 'amnesty' card: GOP launches 2014 border war," by Alexander Burns: "It's hard to overstate how sharply the GOP's new strategy breaks with the party's determination to enact sweeping new immigration policy in the aftermath of the 2012 election, when Obama won more than 7 in 10 Latino votes and prompted the release of a grim Republican National Committee report to endorse immigration reform as its primary policy recommendation. Many prominent Republicans, from House Speaker John Boehner to billionaire super-donor Sheldon Adelson, still support immigration reform in word. But with the 2014 election squarely in sight, the party has spun away from a national quest to reintroduce itself to Latinos and planted itself squarely on the turf of the midterm campaign — where individual races are playing out in largely conservative territory in the Deep South and Mountain West states with fewer Latino voters." http://politi.co/1yyv9ZX
'Open Mike': In the latest edition of the video series, Mike Allen talks to Mitch Stewart, the Obama for America campaign veteran who's now a senior adviser to Ready for Hillary. "Lightning strikes and Secretary Clinton decides not to run," Allen asked. "What happens to Ready for Hillary?" "If she were to decide not to run, I think that a lot of that work would be transferable to whomever the nominee is," Stewart said. "So I think it is to say that it is still additive to Democratic politics as a whole." Video: http://politi.co/VnGvTx
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FOLLOW THE MONEY — "Obama Campaign Alums Still In Demand In 2014," by the Center for Responsive Politics' Andrew Mayersohn: "So far, this election's top overall vendor is Waterfront Strategies, an 'internal branch' of GMMB, the biggest cog in the Obama media machine. Waterfront has handled nearly $42 million in media buys, almost entirely by liberal super PACs, making it the cycle's biggest media vendor as well. … The cycle's top Republican vendor, Communications Corporation of America, handles fundraising rather than media. The Virginia-based CCA (not to be confused with the broadcasting company of the same name) specializes in direct mail — a longtime favorite fundraising method of conservative groups — and has done more than $17 million worth of business with Republican candidates and committees this cycle, mainly the Republican National Committee." http://goo.gl/szPOFD
COLLEGE REPUBLICANS IN THE FIELD: The College Republican National Committee is planning a nearly $2 million investment in a new field program on campuses this fall. They plan to target campuses in 16 states, and are bringing on three regional political directors and 30 field representatives for the effort. Half the resources will be devoted to field work and the other half to online advertising. http://politi.co/1rvtX6X
First look: The NRCC is going up with a web ad today attacking Aaron Woolf, the Democratic House hopeful in NY-21, as a "Manhattan multimillionaire" who once suggested Americans should pay more for their food. It's part of an NRCC strategy that might be more familiar to Democrats — hammering their opponents' wealth and contending it makes them out of touch. It's also in line with a similar tack the group has taken against Sean Eldridge, the wealthy venture capitalist who's bidding for another House seat in New York. The ad, produced by Harbinger Outreach, is backed by a buy in the "thousands," according to NRCC officials. Woolf is running against Republican Elise Stefanik, a former Bush administration official, for the seat now held by retiring Rep. Bill Owens, a Democrat. http://youtu.be/ukF2uV0KEtQ
AR-Sen: Senate Majority PAC reported spending $238,000 on ads against Republican Tom Cotton. http://1.usa.gov/1yyrLyc
AZ-01: Republican Adam Kwasman said he has had cancer for a year and "said he did not tell the public because it has not affected him." http://azc.cc/Vntbyr
FL-18: Republican Alan Schlesinger released a TV ad calling primary frontrunner Carl Domino a "closet liberal." http://goo.gl/HCsjnk
NY-11: GOP Rep. Michael Grimm went on the attack against Democrat Domenic Recchia and said no colleagues asked him to resign after he was hit with federal fraud charges. http://goo.gl/4Z3Pwm
VA-10: Former GOP Sen. John Warner is endorsing Republican Barbara Comstock, the House candidate's campaign said. http://goo.gl/Q6AJEp
CODA — QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I'm excited about signing books." — Hillary Clinton, asked about developments in Iraq. http://politi.co/1owaHsD
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Fashion heiress Margherita Missoni is pregnant with her second child, with husband Eugenio Amos.
The 31-year-old Italian took to Instagram (below) on Christmas day to share a picture of her growing baby-bump, with a caption that hinted that she's expecting a baby brother for her 15-month-old son Otto: "In case you had any doubt #MerryChristmas #mumsofboys #dressfortheoccasion".
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Depending on who the prank is for, I read one a few years ago out of a Captain Underpants book that I have been wanting to execute ever since. Take 2 ketchup packets (like the kind from McDonalds) and put one under each of the little humps under the toilet seat, when your husband sits down...Squirt! ha ha ha
A little too much? Better than celophane under the toilet seat, right?
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Greg Ball, Ernie Davis, Justin Wagner violated campaign finance laws, NYPIRG finds
Sen. Greg Ball (R-Patterson) has raised about $960,000 for his bid for re-election to the New York State Legislature, according to state campaign finance records.
But the identities of 387 donors who gave the colorful and outspoken senator $100 or more for his campaign are a mystery, claims a report issued Tuesday by NYPIRG, a good government nonprofit.
The report, titled "Malignant Neglect: The Abject Failure of the State's Campaign Finance Laws," found that Ball's failure to identify donors made him one of the worst violators of campaign finance rules in New York between January 2011 and January 2013.
The report paints a picture of politicians skirting campaign finance laws with ease, because the laws aren't enforced by weak state election officials. It found nearly 104,000 campaign finance violations throughout the Empire State in those two years.
"In Albany, it is unfortunately the worst of times for voters longing for ethical and transparent government driven by a functioning electoral system," the report says.
Ball's campaign listed partial information for 25 donors, such as only their home states, the report alleges. For another 362 donors, his campaign provided the state Board of Elections with little or no information, other than a name. Some donors gave as much as $5,000.
"By failing to disclose their addresses, his committee obfuscates any attempts to determine who funded his campaign," the report states.
Ball also didn't disclose the identities of 995 entities that received campaign expenditures of more than $50, as required by law, NYPIRG claims. That's nearly 67 percent of the total he spent over his two elections, the report states. He also failed to include other required information for 489 expenditures.
The senator's communications director, Joe Bachmeier, issued a statement saying Ball would correct the errors.
"We will provide all the information necessary and are glad that NYPIRG has brought it to our attention," said Bachmeier.
Other Hudson Valley politicians were also named in NYPIRG's report.
Mount Vernon Mayor Ernie Davis was also among the worst violators in regard to missing information on campaign expenses, with information missing for 479 recipients of campaign cash. So was Justin Wagner, Ball's Democratic challenger last year, with 379 omissions.
Wagner declined to comment.
Davis said he was unaware of the violations, but added that alleged errors in his financial documents probably weren't unique.
"I don't know anything about it," he said. "I'm sure whatever happens in this campaign happens in every other campaigns."
Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner failed to report the dates of 112 donations, the report alleges. He said he would gladly provide information on the dates if he can obtain the information.
"I will have someone look at my records and provide the info," he said. "This is the first time anyone complained to me about this. I also think that NYPIRG should have advised me of any inaccurate reporting. Compliance is very important."
Lastly, two political action committees established to defeat Ball -- Truth about Ball and Recall Ball -- did not file information with the state of Board of Elections since 2008. Together, they last possessed $250,000, according to their most recent filings.
The report acknowledges that missing dates, names and addresses might not seem significant. But many omissions can add up to conceal worse offenses, the report argues.
"The failure of a candidate to provide the address of a vendor they paid is not ipso facto evidence of corruption," the report says. "However, these omissions -- in such huge quantities -- can prevent auditors or members of the public from uncovering more serious violations of the law."
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo released a statement saying the NYPIRG study was evidence that lawmakers should devote more attention to his proposals to clean up political fundraising, including public campaign financing, tougher enforcement and other measures.
"The buildup of over 100,000 campaign finance violations over the last two years is unacceptable, and a clear sign that the current self-policing system at the Board of Elections does not work," the governor's statement said.


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Hi again! This is my second card for today and it is for the Less is More and Addicted to Stamps and More challenges:
(A2: Stamps: CAS-ual Friday; EF: Darice: Embellishments: SN@P)
LIM has a color challenge this week and the ATSAM challenge is to make a CAS card. I used a border embossing folder and embossed the right side of the white panel. The word "awesome" is from the SN@P embellishment set, as is the ticket and the pennant. I stamped the "you are so" using a stamp from CAS-ual Friday. I hope you like it!
Thanks for stopping by.
Here is a link to challenges in case you want to share in the fun.
Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge #89 – CAS
Less is More: Colour Week 166 A Touch Of Turquoise
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Stop apologizing for the ACA site
I'm tired of President Barack Obama mewling "mea culpa" about the health care website.
He should say to those states having problems signing up, "You were supposed to design your own website. If you couldn't, we said we'd design a federal one for you."
Hating the government as much as those red states do, why would they ever let the government design something they could do — in fact, were supposed to do — themselves? It's a self-fulfilling prophecy: "The government does a lousy job. We will refuse to design our own site, then complain when the government one is dysfunctional. Just like we knew it would be."
I actually think it was a tactic on their part. If those states had executed their responsibility under the Affordable Care Act, this problem wouldn't exist.
There is little discussion about the fact that the state run exchanges are working quite well. When will Democrats learn to stop apologizing all over themselves? The right never does.
Rosalie Howarth
Walnut Creek
Conference being ignored by press
For almost two weeks, the U.N. Climate Conference has been taking place in Warsaw, Poland. Yet, we are seeing virtually no coverage of this vitally important event in the daily press.
Amy Goodman has been broadcasting from the conference on Pacifica Radio: Reports from representatives of island nations of the devastation of their homes; eloquent appeals from young people to save the Earth; and reports from scientists on the effects of climate change.
Several days ago, representative of 133 poor countries walked out of the conference — protesting the refusal of the rich nations to discuss compensation for damage from climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gasses.
Why are the newspapers not reporting on this daily? In whose interest is this information being censored?
Lydia Gans
Response to a letter and column
I would like to respond to Claire Baker's letter, "Too many tragic gun accidents," and E.J. Dionne's column, "Is the United States becoming kinder, gentler nation?" both of which were printed on Nov. 19.
Baker ignores the fact that many more lives are saved by the lawful use of a firearm than are lost through the negligent use of a firearm. Also, most firearm accidents, which have been declining in the last few decades, occur when criminal activity is involved, such as gang activity or selling illegal drugs and a gun is present in the home of someone not legally allowed to handle a firearm.
Dionne's column ignores the fact that Australia's gun confiscation has done more harm than good, as shown by such headlines in Australia as, "New plan unveiled to tackle out-of-control gun violence" or "Is Australia staring down the barrel of gun crisis?"
We don't need unworkable ideas that only aggravate a situation and trample on the rights of innocent people.
William Ellis
Walnut Creek
Inherent right of a child's existence
To elect to have unprotected sex is a choice.
If the act results in incarnation, should the law have the power to veto what is a natural phenomenon? To render the occurrence null and void via abortion-on-demand?
The unborn child is a sovereign power, "For children, being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth … The elder shall serve the younger." (Romans 9:11-12)
"As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sake." (Romans 11:28)
Refusal to recognize the inherent right of the child to exist leads to annihilation of the youngster due to no fault of his or her own. Sadly, we've become a desensitized society.
The unborn should come with a warrant of security. Jesus said, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me; for of such is the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 19:14)
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Brian Murphy wants you to understand that Persian carpets have soul. As bureau chief for The Associated Press in Athens, Greece, and The...
"The Root of Wild Madder: Chasing the History, Mystery, and Lore of the Persian Carpet"
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Brian Murphy wants you to understand that Persian carpets have soul. As bureau chief for The Associated Press in Athens, Greece, and The AP's international religion writer, Murphy covered the conflicts in Iran and Afghanistan, and has traveled extensively in surrounding areas.
Politics have affected the making of carpets — an important Middle East export. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 sent millions of refugees into Pakistan, many of them weavers, willing to work for rock-bottom pay.
"For decades," Murphy writes in "The Root of Wild Madder," "the economic center of gravity in the carpet world has been drifting east. Pakistan, India and China have emerged as new giants in hand-woven carpet exports. … For them, it's mostly straight-up capitalism: a reasonable product for a competitive price."
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Those carpets, he explains, are fine, but they lack the soul of traditional rugs. Hooked on the beauty of hand-woven rugs, Murphy set out to educate himself about what makes a carpet superlative or inferior, and why some rugs grow more beautiful with time.
Armed with a translation of the "Divan of Hafez," a collection of poems by the 14th-century Persian writer whose work a rug merchant assures Murphy is essential to know for a true understanding of Persian rugs, he seeks out yarn dyers, weavers and rug markets in Iran, Afghanistan and neighboring countries.
His quest carries him across history. He begins to see weaving rugs as a "theology of the loom," with carpets as one of the great crossroads of spiritual and creative yearnings. "The challenge for dedicated weavers," he writes, "is the same that has taunted artists forever: trying to sense a divine power and represent this feeling in form and color."
One of his guides explains, "The weaver — whether he knows it or not — is making a version of paradise: a perfect, self-contained world."
The work that goes into such a creation is daunting. A carpet 4-by-6 feet with a good knot count can take up to two months for two weavers working eight hours a day. "Few tasks I can think of, apart from specialized work such as archaeology or delicate surgery," Murphy writes, "require so much effort with such incremental progress."
Many rugs are woven by children, whose small, flexible fingers are ideal for intricate weaving. One importer explained, "We don't realize sometimes that if it weren't for the 7-year-old weaving, his six-member family could be dying of hunger."
Murphy learns how to assess a carpet by studying the back, and to see the differences between natural and chemical dyes. Rugs woven of yarns colored with vegetable dyes are made with the same precision as those done with chemical dyes, but subtleties are lost, Murphy insists. After 1868, when coal-tar dyes were developed that could be made for a fraction of the cost and trouble of growing madder, the weaving of madder-dyed carpets steadily declined. That trend is reversing. Murphy found the percentage of naturally dyed wool in Iranian carpets has steadily risen since the 1990s.
The heart of the matter is madder, a hardy plant whose roots contain a pigment so potent that it turns the teeth red of dyers who handle it. Animals who eat it have red bones. "There are thousands of species of madder," he writes, "but only a small percentage contains sufficient quantities of the pigment alizarin and related components in its roots." Dyers' madder is Rubia tinctorum. Madder-dyed carpets grow more beautiful with time.


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I'm assuming that the exponents are 5x-1 and 3(x+11) even though there are nor parentheses around this expressions.
If that is the case then you would take the common logarithm of both sides:
log(4^5x-1) = log(2^3(x+11))
Then you could use the power rule for logs to get:
(5x-1)(log4) = (3(x+11))(log2)
simplify, and get variable terms on the same side:
(5x-1)/(3x+33) = (log2)/(log4)
use FOIL to multiply the left side, and a calculator to find the value of the right side:
15x^2+162x-33 = .5
subtract .5 from both sides:
15x^2+162x-32.5 = 0
use the quadratic formula to solve for x:
x=((-162)+or-sqr rt(162^2-4(15)(-32.5))/(2(15))
x=(-162+or-sqr rt(28194))/30
x = -131.34 or -192.66
where'd this problem come from???
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I want to dissolve the fear in my life. I want to live from a place of trust and openness, and not let insecurity get in my way. I've decided that in order to do that I need to acknowledge my fears and then wish them goodbye, not let them have power over me.
Most of my fears stem from my past. Growing up in a wealthy community, but not coming from a wealthy family, I looked around me and constantly made comparisons and judgments about myself. I figured out what I needed to do, wear and say in order to be accepted. I bought into the whole popularity contest, though no one pushed me into it. I brain washed myself into thinking I needed to 'be all' and 'do all' tot ultimately be popular. Funny thing is, I don't know now if I ever was.
What I do know is that now I'm left with a hangover in my 40's that still tells me to do whatever it takes to be liked and please others. Finally, years ago Art said to me, "Allison, we are going out on a date tonight and you are going to pick the place." At that point I didn't even want to make the decision of where to eat because I wanted him to be happy. I'm sure now that Art has awakened the independent beast inside of me he wishes he could go back in time. I know what I want all the time now.
I still struggle with friendships. Growing up, the only friend I can remember that I really trusted, that I knew truly cared about me was a girl named Marnie Reed. We spent the summers in Colorado together riding horses, playing tennis and talking about life. Back home in Texas, I seemed to put on the smile, agree with everyone else and do whatever it took to be liked. I was kicked out of the popular group in middle school, never had guys that liked me except from other schools ( as a senior in high school I was nominated for homecoming queen but no one asked me to be their date so I asked a guy from another school) and just felt confused as to who I was and where I belonged. I still carry that empty feeling with me at times and have to dig deep to go to a party even if I know everyone.
My writing. Sometimes I'm afraid that the things I write are stupid. I'm not eloquent or particularly funny. I'm honest but often I feel like I'm thin crystal that breaks too easily. I want to be a thick, beautifully beveled crystal bowl that can survive if dropped.
So, what am I afraid of? I have it all. A husband that loves me for exactly who I am and cherishes my quirkiness (he calls me a Texas twit), two boys that are there for me all of the time, a great life in Aspen and a bulldog that thinks I am the best dog mom in the world because I'm the one that feeds her. Really! I have it all.
I have nothing to be afraid of. I have nothing to fear but fear itself. Who said that anyway? Well, I guess all I'm saying is that I need to stay focused on what I do have and all that I love and drop the rest. Sometimes it just feels good to talk about it.


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For those of you who spent time in China, and then went home, what was the reverse culture shock like? Obviously some aspects are going to be better and some are going to be worse, but they are all going to be different. How did you adjust?
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