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|Behavioral psychologist Sherry Pagoto, PhD, is taking part in a campaign to encourage colleges to reduce easy access to tanning beds on or near campus.
Behavioral psychologist Sherry Pagoto, PhD, is taking part in a campaign to encourage colleges to reduce easy access to tanning beds on or near campus, according to a May 27 Boston Globe story. Tanning beds are linked to an alarming increase in melanoma among young people. Some local campuses are responding with policy changes, the Globe reports.
Dr. Pagoto, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, published a study in JAMA Dermatology that found 48 percent of U.S. News and World Report's 125 top colleges had indoor tanning facilities either on campus or in off-campus housing surrounding the schools. On May 20, she was a panelist at a forum presented by the Prevent Cancer Foundation's Congressional Families Program and Disruptive Women in Health Care in Washington, D.C., to call attention to the issue. She joined other speakers, including a melanoma survivor, to highlight why tanning beds are a pressing problem across college and university campuses.
"I doubt there's a university that's intentionally doing something they know is harmful," Pagoto told the Globe. But she added that on-campus tanning facilities and allowing the use of student cash cards to patronize local off-campus salons create a perception among students that colleges endorse tanning despite its association with a greatly elevated cancer risk. Research shows that tanning only once can increase a person's risk of developing melanoma by 20 percent, and those who use tanning beds 10 or more times have a 34 percent increased risk.
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Kassadin Build Guide by stinglock
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Kassadin Build
Ability Sequence
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Welcome to my Dominion Kassadin guide.
I'll add images to this eventually, until then the skills will be referred to by the following terms.
Q Null Sphere : Silence
W Nether Blade : Melee Skill
E Force Pulse : Wrble/Warble
R Riftwalk : Rift
This build will keep you tanky, keep you alive and pretty much allow you to kill and chase that Akali/ Shaco/ Evelynn down IF YOU HAVE TO. Cos yeah, you know you don't have to right?
Don't you forget that! You will notice your ap start to go over 500 and your damage start to melt them, but know when to fight, and when to kite, and when to engage.
You're role is the primary assasin, moving from point to point killing and allowing others to cap, and ensuring they wont get distrupted should some nasties start rolling/creeping your way.
21/12/11 EDIT: Reworked for S2 Masteries, and Images added.
Quints = Greater Quintessence of Ability Power
Reason: You're starting with an item that only provides (reduced)surviabiliy, you need ap from somewhere otherwise people will laugh at your lack of deeps.
Blues = Greater Glyph of Magic Resist
Reason: duh, earlygame. As you're not going to be touching on mres until after you're ap sauce is done, you want something to go with your sexy passive to keep you up against those nasty casters.
Yellow = Greater Seal of Vitality
Reason: This gives you a nice hp boost during the frequent level ups. If you have a problem with mana get mana regen. (Had to replace Greater Seal of Evasion, they were great and worked well with minion farming and the s1 masteries. )
Red = Greater Mark of Magic Penetration
Reason: Limited imagination possibly? Kass is all magic damage. Should you really need to, this will allow you to skip sorc boots for another set and starts you off with pretty standard magic pen.
Yeah, that's right, you're going into the def tree hardcore, get that 1.5% reduced damage (used to be 4% :(), add it to your passive Void Stone, and that's 16.5% less magic damage from the start of the game. (odyn's veil will take it to 26.5%).
We're going to use that to get up close and personal to the casters and make their life hell.
Ardor used to go lovely with the archmages and your build. Now with the s2 masteries, there is no real need to dump into the def tree as much and you could probably skip out the last 9 points if you wanted some utility.
We go through and grab hp masteries, pickup some move speed as well as finish off with the reduction on disables which is always handy.
Items items items....
Runes/Masteries set you up with some nice (but small) ap pool, and a pretty solid build that can take some hits and dodge some hits too. This being said, you want to get your rod asap, so start with half of it.
Catalyst the Protector: The half that keeps you alive.
Reduced regen yes, so it's not as effective as it was on SR or TT, but that's okay, we passively lvl up in dominion, it gives us some nice hp, and mana to keep us up, and casting in the first few battles.
Rod of Ages: Hated, loved, despised, famed.
This Rod doesn't take ages to charge, check the tooltip, 1 charge a minute, 10 charges max.
Get this item before 3-4 minutes if you're unsure about it. I end up throwing boots on the first chance to shop and I get it finished around the 5 minute mark.
They key point to note is this will be an endgame, not a midgame item for you, as it was on SR, it shines endgame on dominion when it's always fully charged and midgame you will smile as those green bars get smaller and smaller.
I nice serving of HP/Mana and AP, you won't find another item that provides the benefits that the rod does, should you not like this item go for a ryalis or something, you get the full slow with your silence and a nice aoe with your rift walking.
Sorcerer's Shoes: You get these boots (or whatever boots you prefer) for mobility and magic pen, should they be all AD based champs get your feet on some dodge boots, should you truly fear the cc and despise cleanse, sigh, mercs.
Mobility if you want to be a cap***, but don't forget to slap on a Phantom Dancerafter you've grabbed the Priscilla's Blessing.
Rod of Ages: Pull on a pair of lvl 1 boots after catalyst if you need movement, otherwise just focus on holding mid and bot, or cleaning up top until you can get your rod done, once that's done the fun really starts.
Rabadon's Deathcap: I see most guides suggest the large rod first, really, it doesn't matter too much, get what part you can afford, and the other one after, should you encounter a vast amount of magic damage get your odyn's first, should their be an abundance of stealth (of even just one roaming capper), get the hextech sweeper before this item. Should you not care just get your magic cap on and get to work.
Odyn's Veil: Check it's passive, it goes nicely with Void Stone as mentioned above.
24% magic reduction, and a free aoe too, oh, and did I mention it comes with 50 magic resist 350hp and 350mana? That's pretty nifty hey.
Hextech Sweeper: This is your anti-stealth item, you are teh assasin. You don't want them to be using silly things like shrubberies, cloak, shroud or stealth or deceive when they're on 10%hp do you? This ends the games and brings the pain. Nothing like just Force Pulseing an akali shroud or landing it on the shaco as he decieves behind you. I'm pretty sure I use the active endgame as fireworks, feel free to use it brushcheck or antistealth an areas should be you even slightly concered as it has a 1min cooldown and lasts for 6 seconds.
Skip it if you don't need steath detection Usually only really needed if you come up against two stealthers.
Archangel's StaffArchangels: This is like, um, well, not really for the mana regen it provides, more for it's passive and that 3% conversion. Watch your ap boost after this item and forget the charge, it's endgame now, hold the three you have or cap cap cap.
For AD heavy teams, look at, Frozen Heart and/or Zhyona's Hourglass.
Perhaps swap out Hextech Sweeper or Odyn's Veil for them.
Skill Sequence
Playstyle usually determines this, and as such, I enjoy having damage at my disposal for capping the windmill earlygame. 2 points to Force Pulse, and 1 point to Null Sphere.
By the time you have capped mid and are walking up to the second point, bam, lvl up.
Get a second point in Null Sphere or Nether Blade(great for triggering Force Pulse with low cost and mana regen should you be hitting with it)
And ensure you lvl Force Pulse at every chance you get, should they have some pretty crazy cc or damage Null Sphere is your goto skill, this allows you to poke and has a greater range but at the sacrifice for damage.
Force Pulse is your main source of damage, until hitting level 6, you can silence, run in and then drop this on them, and anyone near them for the slow while you melee them and get some mana back.
Once you get Riftwalk, more possiblities start opening up and there's not that many walls you can't jump over, every few seconds. The key with rift is knowing when to charge, and when to time it out to conserve mana and cover distances.
With your Riftwalk you generally always want to charge if you're going to def a point from a capturer, silence them first, then close the gap with your charged rift onto their head as you silence and melee them for some lovely mana as the tower drills down on them.
Summoner Spells
Flash: I tend to use flash very very loosely when playing as kass, I keep it up for large fights and don't hesitate to flash afer capping mid at the start to get me to the windmill faster should our team be scrambling back from the point and not dominated it.
Use it space out our rift jump if you're chasing and don't need to rift onto their heads or want it charging, the mana usage is quite ridiculous when chained but single use it helps you bounce around the map from point to point.
Cleanse: Dying isn't great in dominon, this bad boy is use sparingly and is your get out of jail card, you only have one of them, and you usually will be using this after eating the enemy teams's cc and then rift/flashing out on 100-200hp.
Both flash and cleanse are not fixed in stone, should you feel you need something else, take it, but these two are the only ones that can save you in a pinch.
I won't discuss the other options, take them if you want. Good luck trying to rift out when OOM and covered in CC and/or silenced/feared/taunted, I hear it doesn't work so well.
Unique Skills
Pushing Minions:
Do it when you're low on mana and have atleast one point in your Nether Blade. You don't have to trigger the skill as the passive is enough, but push push push, after about 10-20 seconds of this you should have more than enough mana to deal with the approaching threat, but if they are slow like rock, you will easily be able to Riftwalk up, meet and beat them meanwhile your your minions are capping/neuting the point for you.
Timing, then Riftwalk, then Force Pulse, then Null Sphere.
That's the order of importance I find, not for leveling but what you have to remember and focus on to kite properly. well timed rifts give you the element of surprise, a well placed pulse will do the main damage and slow, and the null just gets put on the lowest/most dangerour foe.
To kite effectively, you want your timing sorted . No point rifting in too early when silence isn't up and you have no charges on the Force Pulse, if in doubt, get the fk out.
There's always a squishy sitting on a point that thinks he's safe and doing a good job defending, make his life hell and he will get backup. The moment they divert forces to help defend, they have just made themself vulnerable and your team should strike while you play kite and killing times with them.
After your timing is good and consistent, you want to work on your rift walking, do it randomly, smart cast fkn everything, learn, judge and estime how far you can rift over things and predict where you will land. Did you land where you thought you would? Smile as you drift past the bush to their point, you are slowly getting it and riftwalking will become second nature.
With your Force Pulse, if it's up, and you can hit one or more, do it, othwerise Null Sphere and use an unstacked riftwalk to catch and start some melee, they will either retaliate, or flee, both of these will hopefully be made happen with skills, which means bammo, it's slowtime again. Just remember not to miss this skill, it's a skillshot and your main source of damage and needs charges to be used.
Last, and most certainly not least, is the Null Sphere . Use this when running away or as an opener if you need some charges for the Force Pulse, depening on how you're playing, this can be used tactially on certain targets, or simply as a damage and charge tool, which is usually how I use it. Don't forget to use it to end any of those damn channeling spells.
Kass is build stronger to last longer.
I seem to always want to get a pd on kass in dom mainly for the AS, as I just love his melee skill when you're build is almost done, nothing like crushing minions waves and getting mana back in the process.
This build as you've problably noticed ends up with just over 3khp, and well over 3k mana with your kiting skills you can ruin people who try and take your cap points, I tend to occasioanlly when on ~50% hp grab a health pack, and sit in the bush if I see someone prancing or rolling over, nothing like rifting out with a silence to the face, and big fat slow and some awesome looking melee animations.
Oh , yeah, and you end up with a bit of ap too, i dont think this guide fully rocks the archagels or rabadons math.


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Morse CodePublished by OneSwitch.org.uk Friday, 25 November 2016 8:18 am.
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Morse code fascinates me, probably from a mix of a love for early electronic music and one-switch anything. It used to be a fairly established way of typing for one-switch users, and speeds of 20 words per minute or more are possible. I wonder what speeds are possible now with predictive text.
The top three videos link to war, but Morse code had far more altruistic origins. To simply bridge great distances so people could communicate with one another in a shared language. Some more links here: Morse translator and trainer, Morse Training by the Koch method, Raspberry Pi Project and a fairly bad three stooges joke.
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M° Cadet
13 euros
(nourrito + frites + boisson)
Nous restaurant, serving quick but healthy and delicious food, has opened a new restaurant on rue de Châteaudun. Healthy food eaters will love it!
Nous Restaurant creators Paula and Henri met during a trip to Shanghai, where they enjoyed getting together in little "healthy" food joints. When they came back in France, they wanted to open a similar kind of place, that served healthy and delicious food. And that's how the first Nous restaurant was started, on rue du Paradis.
Due to the restaurant's success, the owners were able to open another location on the rue de Châteaudun. Cozy and welcoming, the restaurant serves vegetarian and gluten-free food made with fresh products and different flavors. Whether it's for a quick lunch or dinner, we're happy to find 100% fresh-made cuisine. Paula and Henri wanted to prove that you can eat healthily, even when you don't have much time or money to spend.
The menu includes some of the same dishes that were so successful at the Rue du Paradis location, like the "Chicken Nourger," "veggie noulettes" with Camargue rice and a seasonal salad, roasted chicken or the "Nourrito," all of which have been inspired by the creators' travels.
Lunch Combos:
Nourrito + fries + beverage for 13€
Nourger + fries + beverages for 14€
Soup + large salad for 9.50€
Besides the to-go combos for lunch, Nous Châteaudun also serves lunch and dinner at their tables with a plate service. It's the perfect way to try their soup of the day, sip on a cocktail special or pair your food with a carefully selected natural wine.
At Nous Châteaudun, Paula and Henri continue their effort to defend the healthy street food cause, all for a fair price!
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Nourrito + fries + beverage for 13€
Nourger + fries + beverages for 14€
Soup + large salad for 9.50€
noupe + grande salade à 9,50€
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Yeah poor today.
Truth be told he's been average this season.
Ozil is the very definition of a luxury player tbh.
Bollocks as usual.
He is playing like one, though, that I'll give you.
Something isn't right because this is the kind of performance reminiscent of the second half of 13/14. Absolute dire today.
Ozil hasn't been average all season and he definitely wasn't poor today. My pea like English brain simply can't appreciate the subtlety of Ozil game.
I give it a year until you absolutely hate him.
Ozil is more of a luxury player than Arshavin.
He can demand trophies all he wants but he's gotta contribute too
I fully understand he's a glorified Nasri, except an even a bigger pussy. He can't get out of second gear when running, never sprints, scared to shoot, can't press or put a foot in, when he shoots usually fluffs it. Sure he can pass and move well, but he's a lazy cunt who needs choking in the dressing room to sort his attitude out. Let's be honest, he won't dare punch back.
As for his quality passing and movement, it's been average at best this year. Last year he was quality, bar his cowardess in front of goal. As for every other season he's been here, he's been decent but nothing special.
What about the fact in nearly every big game he's been shit?
He clearly doesn't want to be here either, didn't in his first season and still doesn't now. Time to cut him loose, he never wanted to be here.
Oh he was shit again today.
Fuck OFF OZIL!!!
If this thread isn't an indication of how fickle football fans are then I don't know what is.
World class player on a really bad run of form. Not a luxury player, not a glorified Nasri, none of the rubbish being spouted.
You don't know what a luxury player is. Ozil is the prototype of a luxury player, ie he doesn't defend and press, that's what the definition of them is.
Nothing fickle about the assessment of Ozil, he's been a lazy disinterested cunt since he joined. How long does 'a bad run of form' need to last for?
As for Nasri, Ozil's end product isn't showing to be significantly better, maybe bar last year, but let's say if he can score more than Nasri, he hasn't yet.
The fact that you think he's been a lazy disinterested cunt since he joined pretty much makes your assessment of him asinine.
Or just not a deluded fanboy like yourself who doesn't know what the fuck a luxury player is. His game obviously dropped since leaving Real and they got rid for good reason, ie yes he's a lazy disinterested cunt.
You spend a lot of time insulting people you know. And it doesn't help that you don't make particularly good or valid points either.
You came on this thread to tell people Ozil wasn't a luxury player, you were educated to what a luxury player was, ie Ozil. Which probably should of been the end of your input.
You don't half spout bullshit on here.
The lazy argument is a myth and has been debunked so many times it's a joke.
Whats bollocks as usual? How is ozil not a luxury player? (exclude coq... my bad)
Lazyness debunked how? Because he covers allot of distance while very slowly jogging? I remember Theo rightly copping flack for ducking out of a challenge last season. Well Ozil did the same yesterday.
I wouldnt say its fickle at all. Hes been dire by his own standards, and without displaying his strengths his weaknesses are even more glaring.
Kinda interesting that the mobile striker we have been clamouring for hasnt helped him remotely tbh.
It's absolutely fickle to call him things like a luxury player and a glorified Nasri when only last year he was far and away our best player and started this season off in a rich vein of scoring form.
To acknowledge his poor form, criticise his performances and demand more from him is to be expected. But to disregard his obvious quality and say things like "he's been a lazy disinterested cunt since he joined" is as fickle as it gets.


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Verbal learning includes a sequence of actions that improve learning through memorization. The advance of verbal learning entails achievement and maintains knowledge through recurrence that is recalled when necessary. The recurrence induces learning through methods of serial learning, free recall and paired-association. Each technique helps to remember information that is either unrestrained or acquired during techniques or measures like Mnemonics. These considerable processes support verbal learning and exhibit verbal learning as it is current in humans.
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Verbal learning is a psychosomatic or intellectual learning approach that declared as a technique of learning by Herman Ebbinghaus. Terry stated in 2009 that verbal learning takes position during the recollection of the sequence of terminology with short sounds. In the bulk of the cases, the vocabulary was not accurately absolute words but in its place were consonants and vowels (Terry, 2009). Ebbinghaus intended serial learning or the process to be capable of memorizing a list in categorize until the individual could reiterate flawlessly (Terry, 2009). The competence to transfer information from one directory of terminology to a different one, the degree of intervals involving repetitions, and the quantity of repetitions among words are mechanisms that manipulate verbal learning. In 2009 a study conducted by Zimprich and Rast. Each received a catalog of twenty-seven vocabulary, each one made up of two or three syllables. Each solitary word displayed on the screen for almost two seconds that each recited each vocabulary out loud and afterward was told to memorize the vocabulary but not in a particular display. The identical vocabulary was given to the matching individuals following some moment in time, but at this occurrence the vocabulary was exhibited in an altered order...


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MessageAccording to one story, McCain was telling people to write-in Bush during that poll to "show support" once he realized he wasn't likely to win the poll, so you could read that 10% as being mostly for him as well.-----Original Message-----Thomas Sewell wrote:
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Subject: Re: [RLC-Action] 2008 Presidential EndorsementStraw polls this year, SRLC is probably the one he's talking about.SRLC:CPAC:
Thanks Tom. I am not particularly amused by the rather large number of people that wrote in "Bush" in the HotLine straw poll. Obviously, there was some sort of orchestrated effort to make that statement, whatever it's supposed to mean. Perhaps there was no option for "None of the Above," or "Other," but writing in "Bush" is still a pretty goofy response. Does anyone know of other Republican straw polls?
Doug Harrison
- I'm surprised to see Frist high in those polls. I have more faith in this one:
Fox News also has a poll
Tasty Thoughts from the Elitist Pig
- Guilliani has been openly pro-choice. He has no chance
with the primary voters - maybe a good VP choice!
I like Newt - but I'm sure he had a vote here or there
that someone hates. I know he had some personal
issues, but I don't think it stops him from a serious
run. He seems the most libertarian at this point...
let the FLAMES BEGIN! :-)
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> I'm surprised to see Frist high in those polls. I__________________________________________________
> have more faith in this one:
> http://www.pollingreport.com/WH08rep.htm
> Fox News also has a poll
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188633,00.html
> Dave
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- Guiliani can't win the nomination; not only is he pro-abortion but he's also anti-gun. The Republican base that votes in the primaries will never hand the presidential nomination to him.
McCain, by contrast, has little to no real support among the GOP primary voters. His appeal now is entirely generated by favorable anti-GOP media puffery. He is the "media candidate" this time around, just as others like John Anderson (in 1980) and Pete McCloskey (in 1972) in the past have been fawned over by the mainstream media, and then utterly rejected by the GOP voters. (See? You've never heard of either of them, have you. That's my point. The mainstream media has *always* pushed any statist, socialist, anti-GOP Republican candidate they could seize upon; this pattern goes all the way back to Bill Scranton and Nelson Rockefeller in 1964 when the MSM was pushing them against Goldwater for the GOP nomination.)
Who would we be supporting? Sen. George Allen, of Virginia. He describes his political philosophy thusly: "If people are doing what they want to do, and they're not harming anyone else, then they shouldn't be bothered by the government." In other words, he's a moderate libertarian, and in fact has identified himself as such on occasion. Read up on him, and see if he isn't the answer to continued statism and socialism of either today's President Bush or tomorrow's Hillary Clinton. ---Tim CondonOn 5/3/06, Ray Holtorf <rayholtorf@...> wrote:
Guilliani has been openly pro-choice. He has no chance
with the primary voters - maybe a good VP choice!
I like Newt - but I'm sure he had a vote here or there
that someone hates. I know he had some personal
issues, but I don't think it stops him from a serious
run. He seems the most libertarian at this point...
let the FLAMES BEGIN! :-)
--- Dave Nalle <dave@...> wrote:
> I'm surprised to see Frist high in those polls. I
> have more faith in this one:
> http://www.pollingreport.com/WH08rep.htm
> Fox News also has a poll
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188633,00.html
> Dave
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>> Tasty Thoughts from the Elitist Pig
> http://www.elitistpig.com
- Allen has certainly been polling surprisingly well, but I don't think
it makes sense to count out Giuliani and McCain at this point. The
primary voters will be aware of how important it is to smash the
Democrats coming out of a troubled administration, and Giuliani
offers the best chance to do that.
As for his stands on guns and abortion, those are likely more
flexible than his detractors paint them. Last I checked his position
on guns on a nationwide basis was not anti-gun, but more
pro-registration, which is not exactly the same thing. He's not a gun
banner by any means. As for abortion, while it's a hot issue with a
minority of the GOP, just as in the general public, there are an
awful lot of people who are indifferent on the issue and won't make
it their first priority in picking a candidate. Plus Giuliani can
certainly spin his position more palatably for the pro-lifers if he
chooses to do so.
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> My money's on Virginia's Dick Allen to win ...Another serious candidate who many members
like is Sen. Chuck Hagel, but prospects for those
with only legislative history is pretty dismal.
Others who have good LI ratings, but may not
be acceptable to members, are Sam Brownback
and Rick Santorum.
> I believe the Draft Sanford movement went intoCorrect. The Board had authorized me to put
> hibernation when Sanford explicitly said he wouldn't
> run due to his commitment as governor.
together a 'Draft Sanford' website, but the project
was abandoned when he clearly denied any intent
to abandon his gubernatorial term (maybe 2012?).
Note: An RLC Presidential endorsement is a
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This he said after the Supreme Court scrapped the Contempt of Court Act 2012, which was enacted in a hurry to save the new Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf from being disqualified by the judiciary on the lines of the previous incumbent, Yousuf Raza Gilani, in Jun. The court has been targetting the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) prime ministers by asking them to reopen graft cases against the party chief and the President of the country, Asif Ali Zardari. The apex court, in the process, resurrected the Contempt of Court Ordinance of 2003. It was under this ordinance that Gilani was convicted and subsequently disqualified.
The government filed the appeal after PM Ashraf was issued a show-cause notice for contempt of court over his failure to act on the court's order to write to the Swiss authorities to reopen the graft cases against Zardari. The government has been facing a tough challenge from the judiciary and officials who met on Tuesday to find out a way within the means of the Constitution to resist the designs of the judiciary. They also decided against writing to the Swiss authorities over reopening the graft cases.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday summoned Ashraf to personally appear on August 27 to explain why he did not act on orders to revive the graft cases. A five-judge bench headed by Asif Saeed Khosa served the show-cause notice under Article 204 of the Constitution. The apex court warned that it would take action if the government failed to come up with any action by the next date of hearing. It mentioned about Gilani, saying the latter deliberately violated the court's orders which led to his disqualification. The bench said Ashraf was doing the same.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Irfan Qadir sought more time from the court, saying the case could be adjourned till Sept first week owing to its 'sensitive' nature. The court, however, rejected his plea, saying it had given the government enough time to act on the issue.
The court has been pressuring the government to revive the graft cases since Dec 2009, when it scrapped a graft amnesty that benefited Zardari and several other tainted leaders. The government refused to act, citing the President enjoys immunity in Pakistan and abroad. On Jun 19, Gilani was disqualified as the prime minister and after a lot of drama, Ashraf was appointed his successor. Observers of Pakistan politics believe the tussle would intensify further and the judiciary could also end up in ousting Ashraf.
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alright, so i've been playing Cassiopia a LOT lately, and am not entirely certain the builds here are good. sooo ill give my own insight
alrighty, so for the runes i like to use magic pene marks, mana/lv seals and cd/lv glyphs with 2MS quints and a pene quint. i put the option of mp reg seals because theyre great for early game harass. but the mp/lv gives GREAT late game damage with Archangels Staff. the choice is completely up to you
for masteries i go with a standard 9/0/21 but with a slight change from (what ive been told is) the default caster masteries. i max expanded mind for the extra late game mana, quickness for even more harass speed, and perseverance because of the extra mana regen. all of it helps tremendously for the harass aspect of this guide.
so for items, i always start dorans ring because unfortunately i dont have much early game AP, but it works. trust me :D
after the dorans, you want lv1 boots and the mana regen from meki pendant. after that you can choose which comes first, but you want pene boots and the tear. after both of those, go for archangels staff, and the rest of the items are up to you
if youre doing well team wise, take your time and go for ROA. if youre in need of some more pene because theyre building magic resist, go for void staff. maybe you just need hp/extra slow because theyre getting away too fast-rylai scepter is the way to go.
no matter what you go for, i usually dont get rabadon until late game if it drags on too long. that passive just tears through them with your already maxed mana-AP.
Skill Sequence
some speculation about my skills, i dont get fang right away, and i dont max it right away. why? because her poison is still a great aspect of her harassing, and lv 3 fang with pene is great. also, i dont get fangs at level 2 either. why? simply because you dont have enough mana regen that early for it to be successful with harassing. as you get used to her, you can do insane amounts of damage overtime with her W followed by Q. that slow will help getting the timing right on her Q.
Summoner Spells
well, i always get exhaust with her mastery because if you end up against a trynd, a zhao, or any nuke that has hp, that little reduction of magic resist can go a long way. plus you slow them so theyre in range for spams of your fangs, and you can land your Q and E quite nicely while they do little damage back. also, ignite is great because a lot of the time people dont realize theyre DOT'd with two poisons (yes her Q and W stack on themselves) so if you add that true damage in the mix their hp gets drained fast as they run to their turret. just another way to harass both early and late game.
so yea, mana+that archangels staff do tremendous damage late game, and the constant mana regen gives you MUCH spamming opportunities. plus, if you find yourself oom, with all this mana regen you can constant-cast your Q to harass as your teammate goes in for kills. i realy hope you enjoy this build (if anyone actually ends up reading it haha) and i cant wait to hear both the good and bad critiques of it :]
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- The Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize
This poetry book series honors the memory of Richard Snyder (1925-1986), poet, fiction writer, playwright, and long-time professor of English at Ashland University. He served for fifteen years as English department chair, and in 1969 co-founded and served as co-editor of the Ashland Poetry Press. He was also co-founder of the creative writing major at Ashland University, one of the first at the undergraduate level in the country. In selecting manuscripts for this series, Ashland Poetry Press editors keep in mind Snyder's tenacious dedication to craftsmanship and thematic integrity.
The Winner of the Snyder Prize Receives:
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UND researchers study impact of oil boom's temporary housing
GRAND FORKS -- Long after the oil boom and its workers have left, sprawling patches of leveled gravel, colored only by hints of blue tarp or a few grommets, may be all that's left of crew camps in western North Dakota.
At least that's what University of North Dakota professors William Caraher and Bret Weber imagine as they collect information on crew camps from five cities in the Oil Patch. Grommets, once attached to the blue tarp used for housing, and some staples from disintegrated wood pallets could be found. Fragments of utilities masts or bits of plastic might litter the ground or there may be nothing at all, they say.
Since April, Caraher and Weber have led a small team twice to these cities to study, in part, the "signature" a camp leaves on the landscape. The idea first came about over beers, said Caraher, and it turned into a research project.
"These man camps are only going to be there for 20 or 30 years, depending on labor needs," said Caraher, who has a background studying ancient Cyprus. "What's that going to look like in 300 or 500 years?"
Crew camps 101
Caraher and his team visited Tioga, Stanley and Ray, along U.S. Highway 2, and Watford City and Alexander, south of Tioga. They've studied 30 camps so far and broken them down into three kinds.
Type 1 camps are located closer to cities and offer comfortable living, where the food is good and the rooms clean -- at one camp the team stayed at, a maid cleaned daily. Built by Target Logistics and Halliburton, these prefabricated camps are notable for their tight restrictions on alcohol -- none is allowed -- and lack of domestic space. Type 1 camps could range from a couple hundred beds to more than 2,000, and the cost could run $100 or more per bed per night.
The "institutional barrack" style lodging is made by the same companies that made barracks in Afghanistan and Iraq, Weber said.
"There's really no social life," he said. "It's a really sterile environment."
Type 2 camps represent RV parks, less formal environments that could hold an area for a grill, or maybe a wood pallet used as a front step or a place to keep boots clean. The largest Type 2 camp the team encountered had a few hundred trailers, Caraher said. Lots without trailers in these camps can cost $800 to $1,000 per month.
"The overall impression that we got was that people in Type 2 camps had lived a little bit in one of the fancier camps, and just got tired of living in a place where there was almost no social space," Caraher said. "If you're going to be out in the oil fields for two, three years, you might as well buy an RV and pay a little extra money so you can have your guns and your beer and a grill outside."
People in Type 3 camps were usually living in tents or broken down campers within shelterbelts or behind farmer's buildings. Like Type 2 camps, they can be found more on the periphery of cities.
The research team's main distinction between Type 2 and 3 camps was the water and sewage hookup, which is a matter of residents' comfort and public health.
"It's a constant management problem, and so that little white pipe is terribly important. It's a huge difference for life in the camps," Weber said. "If there was a hook-up, then everybody's in a nice, neat row, you're paying rent and there's some order to living there."
Caraher said they believe Type 1 camps will leave almost no signature on the landscape as they're designed to be completely portable, while Type 2 and Type 3 camps might leave more. Type 2 camps might have had pallets or other discarded objects thrown aside from residents, while Type 3 had the least access to trash removal.
Hard luck
It might seem that workers are maximizing their money by intentionally living in poor conditions, but that's not what they found, they said. The ones living this way were in the minority, and they hated being away from their families and living in substandard housing, Weber said.
"Mainly, I was seeing people who did not want to be living that way, who were kind of stuck waiting for jobs," Weber said.
Through this experience, he said he's realized crew camps are an inappropriate solution to a temporary problem.
"Both the county and state government have a responsibility to make sure people have a decent place to live, whether it's temporary or not," he said. "When we have people coming to the state and there's no sewage, nowhere to take a shower, we're making enough money as a state to offer that basic stuff."
Weber, who has a background in social work and was recently elected to the Grand Forks City Council, said he finds the project relevant to his work. He's currently in the process of working with the community college at the Fort Berthold Indian reservation to find out the impact of the oil boom on Indian Country, he said. He's also interviewed county social service directors to find out how it affects social services around the state.
"I'm interested in the well-being of communities," he said.
Of the thousands of workers in the Oil Patch, Caraher and Weber's team has so far interviewed 36, a quarter of which were women.
Most tended to be 45 and younger, and told stories of hard luck mixed with making it big -- they found people in Type 3 camps making good money and ones in Type 1 camps going broke, Weber said.
Overall, the experience out there seemed less like the Wild West and more like a scene from the "Grapes of Wrath," a novel by John Steinbeck following a poor family's experience as migrants during the Great Depression, he said.
"We went to one camp where the whole camp was getting ready for a labor walk-out," Weber said. "They hadn't been paid for a few weeks. They were working really hard -- they'd been promised one thing and were getting another. They'd come out there with the promise of making big money, and they were living hard."
The team plans to head back several times with different teams to further their research, particularly in the winter to see what strategies residents take to make their living situation more habitable, Caraher said.
Funding for the project came from the Institute of Energy Studies at UND and the vice president for collaborative research. It's a success story for that kind of grant, he said.
"We'll continue off and on as long as the oil boom continues to make it interesting, and certainly if the boom busts," Caraher said.


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By now, you definitely know that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first of what Disney is calling the Star Wars "Anthology Films," spun off from the main saga. But did you know Rogue One is not the first live-action Star Wars spinoff film? In the 1980s, Lucasfilm produced two TV movies based on Star Wars, The Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor. They never played theaters in the United States, but they did get theatrical releases overseas. That's just one of the galactic facts featured in the newest episode of You Think You Know Movies!


text: I am tired of looking at the ugly black boxes I currently own. There was a time when I wanted my living room to be HT first and living room second, but no longer. I will be ditching my venerable SVS for something more discreet as well. So the criteria for my next speaker purchase will be: 1- stylish, classy, original. 2- Good sound on par with my current setup (Paradigm Monitor series). I am no audiophile but I am not willing to compromise SQ too much either. I am completely satisfied with my current setup in that regard. 3- Space limitations are pushing me toward monitors rather than floorstanders, but I could make the later work if it's the right speaker. 4- Budget is a concern. For reference, the Norh Marble 4.0 is on my short list. $700 is more than I would like to spend for a pair of speakers, but they look absolutely gorgeous and I have wanted them for a long time: Still, I may have to settle for the Ceramic version ($450). I looked at MMGs ($550) as well but placement would be problematic, as they need to be feet away from the wall (or so I heard) But I think you get the idea. I am just looking for speakers that you think look good, sound good, and priced under $1000 (I will probably spend less, but this figure gives more latitude to suggestions ) -- H


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One lawsuit dismissed in battle over County Club building
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a group of Country Club-Hawaii apartment owners who challenged the Banyan Drive building's board of directors for control of the condominium-hotel property.
On Friday, Kauai Circuit Judge Randal Valenciano granted a motion by defendants Sadao Aoki, Pearl Macomber, Dennis Compton and Robert Eaton to dismiss the suit.
Valenciano, who heard the case because all four Big Island circuit judges recused themselves from hearing the suit, ruled the group calling itself "The Association of Apartment Owners of Country Club Hawaii, Inc." didn't have legal standing to sue because the mail-in election the group ran was not according to the apartment's bylaws.
Steve Strauss, attorney for the apartment owners' group, led by Carl Oguss, asked Valenciano to hold off on his ruling so another election could be held, but the judge denied the request.
The dismissal was without prejudice, which means plaintiffs can re-file the suit, and Oguss said he intends to do so.
"We suffered a very strange fate on Friday," Oguss said. "… The only thing we had to do is prove that (apartment) sales had occurred before 1987, before the declaration of bylaws were written." Oguss claimed Strauss had evidence Oguss said would legally invalidate the building's bylaws but failed to submit it to the court.
"We're wondering if this is merely gross negligence or truly willful misconduct," Oguss said. "The suspicion of my board is that this is willful misconduct."
The dismissal upholds the authority of the building's original board of directors chaired by Macomber, a board Oguss claimed was improperly controlled through proxy votes by building leaseholder Herbert Arata.
"As I said all along, the truth will prevail," Kevin Aoki of Property Professionals said Tuesday. Aoki, who was the building's former managing agent, is Sadao Aoki's son and Arata's nephew.
Honolulu attorney George Van Buren was appointed as a receiver for the property due to financial gridlock and non-payment of bills caused by the battle of the boards. Valenciano terminated the receivership as part of his ruling. Van Buren said he will turn over maintenance fee funds collected from unit owners to the Macomber board.
The building had been more than $200,000 in arrears in paying its electric bill to Hawaii Electric Light Co., and the utility had threatened in February to turn the lights out at the six-floor Hilo building if payments were not paid.
In April, the utility said Van Buren was making progress in paying the outstanding bill. Van Buren said Tuesday "at least" $150,000 is still owed HELCO.
The building's managing agent, Richard Emery of Hawaii First, called the ruling "very good news, because we know now who is in charge, and we can move forward in a positive way," and added he and the board "are doing our best to make payments to them."
"If we look at ownership (of apartment units), we had some paying this rogue board, we had some paying the receiver, and you had some waiting to hear from the judge," Emery said. "Now that the judge has made his decision, we're expecting those who had been waiting to make their payments and in very short order we should be in a position to pay everybody.
"I feel we can move forward and get Country Club-Hawaii squared away. They have a lot of opportunity, and if we can get everybody working together through the elected board of directors, we can solve all their problems in the next few months."
Another lawsuit brought by Oguss' group, which names Arata, his wife, Alyce Arata, both Aokis, Property Professionals and Ala Kai Realty is still active. That suit alleges misuse of apartment owners' common area maintenance fees to operate the building's hotel operation and pay its state transient accommodations taxes.
Valenciano is also the judge in that case, and his ruling Oguss' group lacks legal standing to sue could have implications in that case, as well.
"I haven't actually seen the written order …," said Peter Steinberg, Oguss' attorney for the still-active lawsuit. "We are studying the outcome and can't really comment yet."
Emery predicted a similar outcome.
"They didn't have the standing to file the (first) suit, so you can pretty much figure out what's gonna happen on that one," he said. "The judge basically said … the Pearl Macomber board is the correct board."
Neither Strauss nor Macomber returned phone calls Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Cannot access NAS ?
I can see & manage the NAS...I cannot access the data !
I have a small home network on its own subnet. 10.0.0.xxx
Two macbook pros.
One NAS RAID backup device.(Linux/Unix)
One Windows machine (ShuttleSX38Pro).
The NAS RAID device (TeraStation ) is the backup for important Windows data.
The Widows machine, under XP Pro & then Vista, accessed the NAS faultlessly on the network. The NAS device could be accessed via the client software or IP address in IE using username/password. Using Windows Explorer data was transferred from Windows to NAS by connecting via COMPUTER/NETWORK, using the same password, to reveal r/w access the folders on the NAS.
I've done a clean instal on Windows 7. I've set up a workgroup. I've lost data access but the client utility and browser can still ' see ' & manage the NAS.
The NAS is only accessble via the Internet Browser or the Client Utility to manage the NAS device....no folder access.
When in the explorer browser I click on W7 ' Network' the device icon comes up. When I click on the icon I can see the shared folders but cannot access them !
I get a Windows panel -
Enter Network Password
Enter your password to connect to: HD-HTGL6
It states the ComputerName/admin and asks for the password Or enables me to switch to another user; I use my Windows account credentials....but
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Am I meant to be logging on with Windows 7 credentials ?
Am I meant to be logging on with Terastation credentials ?
Any advice welcome ?
Why does the Logon Screen refer to the Computer as a Domain ...rasther than a Workgroup ?
What has Windows 7 done ?
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Here is a possible solution from another member here H2SO4. It has worked for others in the past.
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Living in a hotel after retirement has been my fantasy for long. Let us calculate how much it would cost to live in a hotel after retirement.
Yes, this is a fantasy post and I will never be able to pull it off, but it is intriguing to calculate the costs and consider the benefits of hotel living.
The first time I was exposed to the idea of hotel living was when I saw the James Bond movie, Diamonds are Forever.
There was a character (a bad guy of course) who live in the top floor of a Las Vegas casino. He was modelled after maverick tycoon, Howard Hughes (the 'aviator') who spent years in a hotel (at Las Vegas where he owned several).
Ah! To be a recluse seems so inviting! Only the rich can afford that though.
A fantasy that was gathering dust at the back of my mind was jolted back to life by two events that occurred in the last two weeks:
1) Dadi Balsara, who founded the Mount Everest Water company (and sold it to Tata) died last week. after staying in room no 901 of the TajManSingh Hotel since it started in 1978. That was his official address! The 5-star hotel rewarded his loyalty by charging his only Rs. 15,000 a day. He had Rs. 250 Cr in his account when he died, so it was not much of an issue for him!
2) Omar Sharif who remains immortal on screen in Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago, died a few days ago after long hotel stays in Cairo and Paris. He is supposed to have loved that fact that all the staff knew him and he did not have to worry about cleaning and an ambulance was available on call when he needed one!
Hotel living has some serious advantages the way I see it. We don't have to clean or cook and worry about property and water taxes.
Photo credit: PortoBay Hotels & Resorts (flickr)
We can be as social as we want to be: stay in your room or have an active social life.
Instead of living in a remote retirement villa or alone at home, there would be a doctor on call and an ambulance to take us to the best hospitals in the city.
The more I think about it, the more I fall in love with the idea.
Now, what would it cost a couple (with no children or with independent children) to live in a hotel?
Let us assume they opt for a three-star hotel.
The current tariff in a hotel I know is Rs. 4500 per day (all inclusive+ breakfast).
Taking into account Rs. 1000 (all inclusive) per person, per meal, the couple would need to spend about Rs. 10,000 a day.
That is Rs. 36.5 Lakhs a year on hotel costs alone. If we add tips, other expenses such as travel, medicines etc., let us make it a safe and round Rs. 45 Lakh a year.
Now if this is the current cost, how much would it take to live in such a hotel for 25 years?
The biggest advantage of hotel living is royalty benefit. Your costs will not increase as much as it would elsewhere. So let us assume a low inflation of 6% a year.
We invest in such a way that the entire portfolio earns about 8% a year after taxes. Not easy, but we will go with it.
With these assumptions, the corpus need for 3-star hotel living is about Rs. 9.1 Crores.
This is not such a high figure. Unattainable for me, but it is not as high as I thought it would be.
If I wait for 10 years and then choose to live a hotel, I will need Rs. 23.5 Cr at 10% inflation (no loyalty benefit before you become a guest!) 🙁
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December 02, 2016
1. the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event.
synonyms: arrival, appearance, emergence, materialization, occurrence, dawn, birth, rise
Advent comes upon me suddenly every year, and I feel unprepared to provide a soulful Christmas preparation that is not solely baking and hunting for the best Christmas gifts. We end up doing some meaningful things, but I always feel a little harried.
This year I prepared in advance....maybe because it is the first year in many that I am not pregnant or caring for an infant. I thought I would offer some Advent suggestions for all who may read so that you might be jump started to get ready for this amazing season. Now is the time to make a plan and be ready for that first Sunday of Advent, right after Thanksgiving.
Advent is worth celebrating. Advent is considered the start of the liturgical year, as we prepare our hearts for Christ's coming--both in the end of time and in to our hearts more fully in the same way that he broke into this sinful world. A celebration of Advent saves the season from degenerating into a panicked commercialized circus. It reminds us for four weeks that we are not waiting on Santa, but on Jesus.
First, I would ask the Lord, "What do you want to do in me and in our family this Advent?" Then ask him to lead you to resources that will help make your Advent celebration intentional.
—The Advent wreath is a great tradition, partly because nothing quiets children and adults like darkness and a couple of burning candles. The symbolism of Christ bringing light into the darkness is right there before us. You do not need a specific Advent wreath to do this. I just bought a wreath of greens, wrapped a beautiful purple and gold ribbon around it, put four candle holders in the center of it with three purple candles and one pink one. (The pink one is for Mary, but you don't have to have a pink one). You will need a center candle of white for Christmas Day. We have a special table for the wreath, and on it we put a purple cloth we found at an ethnic resale shop. Along with the wreath, we usually put some nativity scene and an icon of John the Baptist, as the one who called us to prepare the way for Jesus. We let different children light candles, blow out the candles, and lead the prayers.
—This year I am going to use this small booklet you can find on Amazon for $1, O Radiant Dawn. It is a FIVE minute daily guide to lighting the candle, has beautiful selections of individual verses for each day and then asks a discussion question (one for older children or adults, one for younger children). It is good to have a short liturgy to do so that all can enter in. This book recommends learning the hymn, O Come, O Come Emmanuel by singing a verse everyday. You could choose any hymn. We will plan to do this everyday, and if we get in four days, that will be sixteen times around the wreath as a family. I may choose to do this in the morning starting the day, as it is dark where we live when we get up.
—In the evening, we will read a chapter in the storybook, Bartholomew's Passage: A Family Story for Advent by Arnold Ytreeide. The first one in his series is Jotham's Journey: A Storybook for Advent, which we read for a couple of Advents. I will offer that whoever is reading may have to edit some violent scenes of Essenes defending themselves against marauders and such. This is a fiction series but helps place the nativity story in historical context, and we all learned through the story. Children are usually begging for the next chapter every night.
—Another chapter book that brings me to tears and my father has read to all of his grandchildren, as it is his favorite book, A Tree for Peter, by Kate Seredy. Though it is not directly about the nativity, it is all about opening our hearts to love and transformation, and this is catalyzed in the story by a Christ figure. You could also simply choose a different picture book every night. I will provide a list on another post, if you need suggestions.
—I will also be asking my children to choose one person or family who is in need for them to serve in some way over Advent. This could be making a meal, shoveling snow, free babysitting, writing someone who is lonely. I hope this will help pull them away from a self-focused expectation of Christmas.
—I am still praying about my own personal devotional time during Advent, specifically about what book God would have me read for the deeper stirring in my soul as I wait on him.
—A dear friend of ours brings Advent calendars every year for each child. The anticipation of opening each window is an exciting moment every day. Before we had the generosity of this friend, we all shared one calendar and took turns opening windows. This is a great way to build anticipation.
—Advent will also include beautiful music, and I have to admit that we are not liturgically correct and do listen to Christmas music during Advent. But here is a beautiful Advent collection: Birth of Jesus: A Celebration of Christmas by John Michael Talbot.
—And Advent will include baking, making Welsh Cakes for some friends. This happens throughout Advent with different children helping me on different days as they learn the family recipe and method. Then we all have fun packaging and distributing them.
—Try Joni Eareckson Tada's book of hymns that comes with a C.D. and a story about each hymn: O Come All Ye Faithful: Hymns of Adoration and Joy to Celebrate His Birth. This is a great book to work through over Advent, especially if your family is musical.
Many people use the Jesse Tree figures which you can google and download. These are figures that tell the story of the Scriptures over the whole of Advent and are a great way to review God's work in history leading up to his coming. You can find paper downloads and have children color them. I have a dream of felting these figures someday to hang on a tree, but that would mean getting ready for Advent in January, and I haven't yet gotten that good.
I hope that as you wait on God as to how you should live into Advent you will be able to see it not as a heavy burden, but as a tool through which to open your hearts and your homes to God's light. Remember, do not let perfection rob you of what God could bring. It will rarely be perfect or rarely what you imagined. But it will be full of life and laced with the presence of God himself.
February 08, 2016
The morning came far too early. 4:22 a.m. blinked loudly on his mobile. I lay in bed, listening to him snore. Listening to the kids toss sleepily in their beds next door. Ultimately, helped out of bed several hours later with no added sleep, I started the day in a fog. As the smell of the coffee started to awaken my senses, I peered out our back sliding glass door. The new day was dawning grey, and a heavy fog clung sleepily to the trees in our backyard. Low to the ground, like a blanket, it wrapped itself upon our world and reflected back to my soul the very same emotions it was grappling with. Heaviness. Thickness.
At 38 weeks pregnant I went into labor and our miracle baby was placed into my arms. We were up for days at a time, but despite our exhausted bodies, our spirits were filled with awe and wonder as we spent four full days in the hospital cherishing her every breath, counting her fingers and toes and photographing her endlessly, as if we had never before seen such a tiny and perfect human-being.
Now four short weeks later, and just as exhausted, my soul knew that change once more was coming. I cancelled my best friends weekend visit, didn't schedule any play dates, and tried to make sense of the emotions I was grappling with. Later in the day, the fog burned off with the rising of the sun, but the wetness in the air remained. Humidity clung to me and the heat made me far less patient than I wanted to be with my tiny beloveds. Soon I received the email we had been waiting to read for years and the heaviness not just of body, but of spirit, made sense.
Our daughters were ready to come home. They were waiting for us to get them. Their Article 23 Letter was released. Their Birth Affidavits were sent. The orphanage received their passports. All was in place for their new parents to fly to India to bring them back.
I cried in awe of what God had done... years of prayer culminated in this incredible news. Our never-ending years of adoption headaches and paperwork and nightmares and financial instability were about to come to an end. So I should have been filled with joy unspeakable, but instead I realized- that the heaviness inside of me was not only depression and exhaustion from this season of rapid change- but recognition of what God was calling us to do.
The weight of it all settled on me, wrapped itself around me until I felt suffocated and unable to move. 5 incredible children ages 6 and under. All with the need to be loved-on and held. Rocked and believed-in. Advocated-for and encouraged. Built-up and taught. Fed and hugged. Sung-to and embraced. This is the heart of our family and the mission we have worked towards for over six years. But as the journey of adoption is about to end on a timetable that is not our own, I can't help but feel completely unequipped to raise the precious souls God has entrusted to us. The heaviness knocks the wind out of me. I stagger under the burden of what He is asking us to do.
But then I remember that He who calls, promises to equip. He who beckons the sun to rise and puts the world to sleep under the guidance of the moon, assures us that His timing is perfect. Birthing our daughter on April 13th and picking up our last two on June 6th doesn't make any worldly sense. But God created us. And He created them. And when He decided to put all of us together under one roof and declare us family, who am I to question His timing in doing so?
Thus with a timid voice and buckling knees, with a tear-strewn face and an exhausted body, with a depleted bank account and a myriad of questions without any answers, I am choosing to stand up boldly and proclaim that He understands the timing far better than I do and for now, that knowledge has to be enough. Our confidence in His scheduling must empower us to end our adoption journey well. As all 5 of our children look to us in the busy, tumultuous weeks and months to come for assurance and guidance, they must see us looking boldly to Him. In place of our weakness and fear, may they see His strength and hope, for they will weather this season of transition only as well as we do.
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so refreshing to look at. :)
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I'd buy this!
BoomBlaster Artist
Looks great! +1
Nice, I like how it looks on men's mock-up. One question, on your background image shows the boat with some color and the actual mock-ups don't have those colors. I like it with color.
love it man… especially the male version
Yea, I think so too that it's better with the colors.
I prefer the coloured one that is pretty cool ! Voted.
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the right one is great!
I like the male version but I would like to see it with the color from the background image. Then I would buy it.
OH YEA! Way awesome!
I like the colored one!
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Movie of Renata Schmidtkunz. Introduced in cinemas in 2011, with production teams of Austria. You can watch Das Weiterleben der Ruth Klüger online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in German at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2011.
Rating: 5 by 6 users./
Runtime: 85 minutes
Ruth Klüger.
85-minute film (full movie) directed by Renata Schmidtkunz.
The original audio of Das Weiterleben der Ruth Klüger has dialogues in or German, it was produced in Austria.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2011.
Screenplay written by Renata Schmidtkunz.
Oliver Indra, Heribert Senegacnik and Avner Shahaf.
Franz Grabner, Renata Schmidtkunz, Johannes Rosenberger and Andrea Ernst.
This film was produced and / or financed by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Navigator Film and Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF).
Composed by Gerhard Kuebel and Norbert Rusz.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Das Weiterleben der Ruth Klüger has a duration of 85 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in English or German in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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