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The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Harford Community College $648,953 to encourage academically talented students with financial need to continue their education and pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education fields. The College's STEM division, through Dean Deborah Wrobel and Associate Professor Tami Imbierowicz, secured $390,000 in scholarship funding over a five-year period. This important funding will provide two-year scholarships of up to $10,000 per year to HCC students.
The competitive NSF Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) program made the award to financially assist academically talented biology and engineering students. The money will help them achieve their best academic performances in STEM fields and maximize graduation and transfer rates to four-year colleges and universities. Scholarship recipients will be a part of HCC's HI-StEM (High Intensity Student Engagement Model) program, a cohort learning community led by STEM faculty to create stronger connections and engagement with STEM students through targeted academic programming.
Collaboration with partners at Aberdeen Proving Ground and industry, along with experiential learning opportunities such as field trips and course-based research involvement, will be part of the student cohort experience. The program focuses on partnerships between academic institutions and industry to promote improvement in the education of STEM areas at the undergraduate and secondary school levels.
"With the award of our second National Science Foundation grant this year, Harford Community College will have the additional tools we need to prepare our academically talented students for high-demand career pathways in STEM areas. This grant will also leverage the expertise of the faculty here on campus by giving us the resources we need to stay competitive in our ever-changing global economy, further positioning HCC to be a national leader in higher education," commented HCC president Dianna G. Phillips, Ph.D.
Tami Imbierowicz, Associate Professor of Biology & Environmental Science in the STEM division, has been a faculty member since 2001. She will lead a team of HCC faculty and staff that includes Evan Bucklin, Supawan King, Jaclyn Madden, and Sheila Allen, who combine years of teaching experience and research in mathematics, biotechnology, biology, engineering, and student development. The team brings a strong background to develop the curriculum and pathways program for these S-STEM scholars at Harford Community College.
All NSF S-STEM awards are expected to generate knowledge," said Kevin Lee, program manager for NSF's S-STEM program. "The HCC project's research will address to what extent does increased student-faculty engagement increase student retention, graduation and transfer rates of biology and engineering students in a community college."
The National Science Foundation funds research and education in all fields of science and engineering through grants and cooperative agreements to more than 2,000 colleges, universities, K-12 school systems, businesses, informal science organizations, and other research organizations throughout the United States. The foundation accounts for about one-fourth of the federal support going to academic institutions for basic research.
NSF receives approximately 40,000 proposals each year for research, education and training projects, of which approximately 11,000 are funded.
Students interested in applying for these scholarship opportunities at Harford Community College must be a declared major in engineering or biology, have the potential to achieve at least a 3.0 GPA in each course for the targeted disciplines, and show a financial need. Applications will be accepted through August 15, 2017. To learn more about these scholarship and the HI-StEM cohort, contact Tami Imbierowicz at firstname.lastname@example.com or 443.412.2122.
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[Jester] HI AND HAPPY THURSDAY MODS, PEEPS, LURKERS, AND CRITTERS...
[Jester] SINCE WE HAVE A FULL HOUSE TONIGHT MAYBE I SHOULD GET STARTED RIGHT AWAY....
[LH] Jester I see Gold and Silver down again today, and people not sure what to expect with the end of QE
[Jester] LH WELL MOST PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT QE ACTUALLY EVEN IS.... SO I DON'T DOUBT IT...
[LH] Jester That was just the Fed printing more money each month right
[Jester] I WAS GOING TO TALK ABOUT IT LAST NIGHT BUT WE RAN OUT OF TIME...
[Jester] LH SURE BUT FOR WHAT PURPOSE IS THE ISSUE...
[LH] Jester and buying Treasury Bonds
[Jester] LH AND?
[LH] Jester Well not sure
[Jester] LH MORE TAXES TO PAY IT BACK... JUST SAYING...
[Jester] WHERE DO YOU THINK THE QE MONEY COMES FROM?
[LH] Jester Interest ?
[Jester] LH YOU
[LH] Jester Yeah paying all sorts of taxes
[Jester] ACTUALLY THEY DO PRINT THE MONEY... YOU GET CHARGED INTEREST ON IT.. AND PAY IT BACK WITH TAXES... COOL PLAN YEAH?
[LH] Jester Yeah to bad my checking account doesn't work like that
[Pilgrim] not a cool plan for tax payers however
[LH] Jester most people have no idea that the money is made out of thin air
[Jester] OKAY... SO... WHO WILL LIKE THE TRUTH ABOUT QE?
[Jester] OK THIS IS CALLED.. The Truth About Quantitative Easing
[Jester] SO THERE...
[Jester] QE is a tax.
[Jester] That's an odd thing to say about the Federal Reserve's bond-buying stimulus program, known as quantitative easing, or QE. But the reality of QE is different than what most people think.
[Jester] To talk about this, I sought out Warren Mosler, a former hedge fund manager and now trailblazing economist. So on one Sunday afternoon, with Mosler in Italy and me in Gaithersburg, Md., we chatted on Skype about the Federal Reserve and its doings. Mosler was also a successful banker, and he talks about this stuff with the ease that comes from deep familiarity with the plumbing of the system. The US system, importantly, is one of floating exchange rates and a nonconvertible currency. Meaning the government does not fix the price of the dollar against anything (contra what is done in Hong Kong, where they peg their currency to the dollar). And it is not convertible into anything except itself. (You can't present your dollars to the Federal Reserve and demand gold, for instance.)
[Jester] With those parameters, we started with a simple question: What would the natural rate of interest be if the government didn't try to interfere in the interest rate market? ('Natural rate' in this context means the risk-free, nominal rate of interest.)
[Jester] Well, before we can answer that, think about the ways the government interferes in the interest rate market. There are two ways, Mosler points out. The first is that the government pays interest on bank reserves, which are essentially checking accounts held at the Fed. Currently, that rate is 25 basis points, or 0.25%.
[Jester] The second is to offer 'alternative accounts at the Fed called Treasury securities'. These are essentially savings accounts and pay higher interest than the checking accounts (or reserve accounts).
[Jester] 'If we eliminated these things, there would no interest paid on reserves, and there would be no securities,' Mosler says. 'So the natural rate of interest would be zero.' Like in Japan for 20 years.
[Jester] Note this doesn't mean there would be no interest rates. It means absent these interventions, the market would determine interest rates based on credit risk, etc. But there would be no floor — no risk-free rate, no natural rate — put in place by the government.
[Jester] 'Not that you should do it that way,' Mosler says, 'but that's the way to look at it. The base case is zero. Then the Treasury comes in and offers $17 trillion in securities. And that's a distortion, to some degree. If the Fed did QE and bought them all back, it would put you back to where you started. In some sense, QE is undoing what the Treasury has done.' When the Fed buys securities, it is as if the Treasury never issued them in the first place.
[Jester] Or as Mosler puts it: It can be argued that asset pricing under a zero interest rate policy is the 'base case' and that any move away from a zero interest rate policy constitutes a (politically implemented) shift from this 'base case'.
[Jester] In other words, the government doesn't have to pay 3% on a 10-year note, as it does today. It doesn't have to issue bonds at all. It creates dollar deposits (money) in member bank reserve accounts when it spends. By issuing securities/offering alternative interest-bearing accounts, the government pays a lot of interest to the economy.
[Jester] SERIOUSLY?
[Jester] 'So in that sense,' Mosler says, 'issuing securities means paying higher rates than the overnight rate. It is a spending increase and has an inflationary bias by adding net financial assets to the system.'
[Jester] WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? BET YOU CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION BUT HOLD ON FOR A SEC WHILE I FINISH THIS ARTICLE...
[Jester] The mainstream view says that when the government sells Treasury securities, it is taking money out of the system, that it's a deflationary thing to do and it offsets the inflationary effect of deficit spending. 'Not true at all,' Mosler says. 'Selling Treasuries does not take money out.' What's happening is akin to a shuffle between checking accounts and savings accounts.
[Jester] EXCEPT WHERE DID THAT INTEREST GO?
[Jester] Let's turn back to the case of QE, where the Fed buys securities. In this case, the economy loses the interest income from those securities.
[Jester] 'QE takes money out of the economy,' Mosler says, 'which is what a tax does.' Hence, as noted above, QE is a tax.
[Jester] 'The whole point of QE is to bring rates down,' Mosler says. 'If it does bring rates down, that means the rest of the securities the Treasury sells pay less interest too. So it lowers government interest expense even more. Because the government is a net payer of interest, lower rates mean it pays less interest.'
[Jester] But does it help the economy? Hard to see how it does. Mosler has an interesting take here. I'll paraphrase as best I can.
[Jester] Let's say people ask why the Fed is buying securities. Well, to help the economy. So now people have to think about whether that policy will work or not. If it's going to work, that means the Fed's going to be raising rates, because the economy will be getting stronger. The only time QE will bring rates down is if investors think the policy won't work. It's a policy that works through expectations, and it works only if investors think it won't work.
[Jester] 'It's a disgrace,' he says. 'On top of that, most investors don't understand it,' Mosler says. 'You've got the Chinese reading about how the Fed is printing money. And they go and buy gold. There are knock-on effects all over the world, and portfolios are shifting based on perceptions.'
[Jester] QE, then, because it costs the private sector interest income and doesn't add money to the economy, is not inflationary. 'The evidence is that it is not inflationary,' Mosler says.
[Jester] Let's look at it another way. The bank of Japan has been trying to create inflation for 20 years. The Fed's been trying to create inflation as hard as it can. The European Central Bank too. 'It is not so easy for a central bank to create inflation,' he says, 'or you'd think one of these guys would've succeeded.
[Jester] 'People act like you have to be careful because one false move on inflation expectations and, bang, you have hyperinflation,' Mosler chuckles. 'If you know what that false move is, tell Janet Yellen [the current Fed chief], because she's trying to find it.'
[Jester] Though he no longer runs a hedge fund, Mosler is still involved in financial markets. He has a portfolio he runs for himself and for other people. I asked him if he fears interest rates going up. 'It could happen,' he says. 'It's a political decision where rates go.'
[Jester] WHICH PRETTY MUCH SUCKS IN MY OPINION...
[Jester] And that's a good place to leave it. Because it brings us back to the beginning. Without the government wading into the interest rate market, the base rate would be zero. And everybody would be working off that. But instead, we have the Fed trying to find monetary nirvana.
[Jester] AND LINE THEIR POCKETS ALONG THE WAY...
[Jester] As Mosler says, it's a disgrace.
[Jester] http://www.moneymorning.com.au/20140512/the-truth-about-quantitative-easing.html
[Jester] SO THERE YA HAVE IT... I PRINTED THE WHOLE THING IN HOPES THAT PEOPLE WOULD ACTUALLY READ IT...
[Truth] Jester interesting.
[Jester] SOOOOO... WAS THAT WHAT YOU THOUGH QE WAS? I DOUBT IT...
[Truth] no
[LdyFaith] Jester,,, very enlightening,,,, and not at all what I thought
[Jester] SO I GUESS THE REAL QUESTION IS... WHY DID THEY STOP IT? HMMMM...
[Jester] SOMEONE HAS TAKEN CONTROL OF AN OBVIOUSLY BAD SITUATION AND STOPPED THE BS... WE WILL SEE HOW IT ALL PANS OUT NOW...
[Betsy Ross] Jester They get a slap on the hand?
[Jester] Betsy Ross I DOUBT IT... THEY ARE ABOVE THE LAW... THEY ARE THE LAW... NOTWITHSTANDING OUT OF ORDER BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS...
[Jester] SO... LET'S TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER AND GO A LITTLE DEEPER...GOT ANOTHER ARTICLE TO BUILD ON THAT ONE...
[Jester] QUANTITATIVE EASING: PERCEPTION VS. REALITY
[Jester] The US Federal Reserve's Quantitative Easing (QE) program of bond buying has been one of its most controversial policies in recent years. In this week's Trends and Tail Risks, we examine QE by studying its impact upon the yield of 30-year U.S. government bonds. The results show that the market priced new developments in a manner that was totally opposite from how the program was supposed to work. The pricing paradox has important implications for how the bond market may trade in what the Fed promises are the waning months of its QE program.
[Jester] SERIOUSLY? THEY LIED? OOPS...
[Pilgrim] say it isn't so!! lol
[Jester] I CANNOT PUT A CHART IN HERE BUT THERE IS ONE IN THE ARTICLE WHICH POINTS OUT FIVE POINTS OF DECLINE AND EXPANSION....
[Jester] The five points above illustrate important dates in the Fed's QE program. The first four dates were important points that each marked an expansion of the bond buying program. These took place 1) November 2008, 2) March of 2009, 3) August of 2010, and 4) September of 2012. Each instance marked an enlargement of the program or its extension into new bonds. +
[Jester] The first announcement (QE1) was in November 2008 when the Fed announced it would buy $100b per month of mortgage backed bonds, whose value was plummeting in the forced liquidation caused by the Fed's decision to let Lehman Brothers collapse. Falling prices for these bonds threatened the solvency of the leveraged US commercial and investment banks who owned them. The presence of such a huge buyer definitely helped to stabilize these asset values with the Fed acting as a large and willing buyer. As bond prices rose, yields fell, which lowered the cost of mortgages and incented new mortgage loans. This was probably the last of the QE programs that worked as it was advertised.
[Jester] THIS IS WHEN I LOST MY ASS IN THE REAL ESTATE MARKET... HAHAHHAHA
[Jester] BUT I DIGRESS...
[Jester] This strange paradox first appeared when the Fed, disappointed with slowing growth, extended its bond buying in early 2009 to include $300b of longer duration US government treasury bonds. The Fed justified further easing with the worthy goal of wanting to lower long term interest rates and 'stimulate' the general economy. The end result? Yields on 30 year duration US government bonds rose very quickly from 3.6% to 4.75%, handing holders of these bonds a large capital loss. Yet the Fed was aggressively buying these bonds! How could their price fall? What was really going on?
[Jester] HMMM...
[Jester] This pattern would repeat again in August of 2010 and again in September 2012. Each time the Fed expanded QE, bond prices fell and bond yields rose. The stock market did go up each time which was the real goal of the Fed anyway, leaving almost no one to ponder this paradox in the bond market. Yet the actual outcome in the bond market was completely at odds with what the Fed had expected to see and how they had sold QE to the American public. When the Fed started to discuss the possibility that it might 'taper' its bond buying program in mid-2013 (point 5), yields shot up as bond prices fell. Many commentators expected bonds to crash in 2014 because these observers believed that these bonds would fall in price (rise in yield) without the Fed constantly buying them. These observers were shocked when yields resumed their secular downtrend that started back in 1981 and turned lower again even as Fed bond buying got smaller and smaller. Year to date, 30 year U.S. government bonds have outperformed equities and clocked their best year since 1987. How to make sense of this?
[Jester] We believe that the simplest answer behind this paradox is that the Fed's QE program works far differently from how it was designed. As evidenced by the direction of bond prices, the market interprets QE as strongly pro-growth, as a sign that the Fed is willing to punish those who try to invest in safe assets of the strongest credits. QE is essentially the Fed's war on safety, its gamble to kick start growth. How else can we explain the fact that the market's first reaction to the Fed's bond purchasing makes the prices of the safest bonds fall – even when the Fed is buying those bonds? Safe is clearly no longer an absolute term. We believe that the secular bull market in U.S. long dated bonds, that began in 1981, is still very much alive as long as over-indebtness weighs upon our economy.
[Jester] The realities of our over-indebted world have forced the Fed to throw away the old playbook. Clearly we live in a complex and challenging age of increasing government intervention in markets, where intervention will, sadly, be increasingly required to prop up growth and support the credit markets to prevent an even worse outcome. Despite this challenging backdrop, investors who have a deeper understanding of the fundamentals will outperform in any market environment.
[Jester] AND THERE YOU HAVE THAT ONE...
[Jester] AGAIN... IT DID NOT WORK THE WAY EVERYONE THOUGHT... DID NOT HAVE THE RESULTS THEY PLANNED... GO FIGURE...
[Pilgrim] the law of unintended consequences plays out AGAIN
[Jester] Pilgrim WELL PEOPLE TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS GOING ON WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON... NO ONE ACTUALLY TRIES TO FIGURE THAT OUT... THE STANDARD THOUGH PATTERN IS "DOES THAT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE RV?"... HAHAHHAHAH
[catinthehat] If lehmans brothers was leveraged at 50% imaging what BOA/countrywide CITI held in over leveraged mortgage backed securities...... The system is doomed just waiting for the Ka Boom
[LdyFaith] Jester,,, no QE,, not raising interest rates,,,,,,, every balloon has a popping point,,,,3rd option?
[Jester] I AM WORKING ON AN EYE OPENER REPORT THAT I HAVE NOT THOROUGHLY VETTED YET.... MAYBE IT WILL DECIDE WHAT TO DO BY SECOND SESSION TONIGHT...
[Jester] WELL THERE YOU HAVE IT FOR THE EARLY SHOW... I AM GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE BREAK... GTP... AND LET THE MODS WRAP THAT UP FOR THE PEEPS THAT CANNOT GET HERE EARLIER...
[Jester] BE BACK IN A BIT...
[BocaLinda] jester do your sources say we're any closer to seeing the trn released?
[Jester] BocaLinda RELEASED? I DOUBT IT...
[BocaLinda] jester what about digitally then?
[Jester] BocaLinda I ONLY BEEN TELLING YOU THAT FOR A FEW MONTHS.... HAHAHAHHA
[BocaLinda] jester I meant digitally released... but I'm asking now if your sources are giving any indication that the trn will show up anytime soon?
[Jester] BocaLinda HMMM... SO EVEN THOUGH YOU GET THE MOST POWERFUL UPDATE AVAILABLE YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IT?
[Jester] HAHAHHAHA... OH YE OR LITTLE FAITH...
[BocaLinda] jester I must have missed that. what was the powerful update pls n thx!
[Jester] BocaLinda I SENT IT TO YOU BY EMAIL LAST WEEK... YOU REMEMBER?
[BocaLinda] jester oh, that. ok. I got it then. thx.
[Jester] BocaLinda I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT WAS READILY APPARENT...
[BocaLinda] jester hmmm...
[ [diditrvyeet] Jester a while back i read articles saying fear deflation. what are your thoughts of that taking place.
[Jester] diditrvyeet DEFINE THAT PLEASE....
[diditrvyeet] Jester what i remember is deflation is prices only come down because no one has money to buy
[Jester] diditrvyeet ACTUALLY DEFLATION IS A DECLINE IN PRICES BECAUSE OF LESS SUPPLY OF MONEY OR CREDIT... NOT SURE WHAT YOU ARE ASKING...
[Jester] GOES ALONG WITH THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND PRINCIPLE TO A CERTAIN EXTENT..
[diditrvyeet] Jester well it seems inflation is going to hit and catch up to us but how the job market is figured it will get worse before better. just thoughts of deflation following or am i on the wrong thought process
[diditrvyeet] Jester and thanks for tonight's earlier discussion, that will take me awhile to digest.
[Jester] diditrvyeet WAS JUST EASIER TO DO IT EARLIER... WAS LONG AND I LIKES TO MAKE SURE I WAS ABLE TO GET IT COMPLETED...
[Jester] HAPPY HALLOWEENY EVERYONE...SEE YOU TOMORROW
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Akan Volcanic Complex
|Akan Volcanic Complex
|阿寒岳, Akan-dake
Mount Meakan, Akan-Fuji and Mount Oakan on a satellite image of Eastern Hokkaido
|Highest point
|Mount Meakan
|1,499 m (4,918 ft)
|43°23′11″N 144°00′32″E / 43.38639°N 144.00889°ECoordinates: 43°23′11″N 144°00′32″E / 43.38639°N 144.00889°E
|Kushiro Subprefecture and Tokachi Subprefecture
|Ashoro District and Shiranuka District
|Ashoro, Kushiro and Shiranuka
|island arc
|Type of rock
|Last eruption
|November 2008
Akan Volcanic Complex is a volcanic group of volcanoes that grew out of the Akan caldera.[1] It is located within Akan National Park, about 50 km Northwest of Kushiro in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan.
A number of peaks are arranged around therim of Lake Akan (a.k.a. Akan-ko[2]), which fills a 24×13 km caldera,[3] the tallest being Me-Akan (Meakan), O-Akan (Oakan) and Akan-Fuji.[1]
Oakan is prominently located at the Northeast side of the caldera, while Meakan occupies the opposite, Southwest side, in a cluster of nine stratovolcanoes that include Akan-Fuji, one of many symmetrical Japanese volcanoes named after the renowned Mount Fuji, and Fuppushi volcano[4] (a.k.a. Fuppushi-dake, not to be confused with Mount Fuppushi, which is located in Southwestern Hokkaido).
The Akan caldera was formed 31,500 years ago. Its elongated shape is due to its incremental formation during major explosive eruptions, from the early to the mid-Pleistocene periods.
The Nakamachineshiri crater of Meakan volcano was formed during a major eruption about 13,500 years ago.
The Me-Akan group of nine overlapping cones on the eastern side of Lake Akan has had mild eruptions since the beginning of the 19th century.[5] The last eruption of this historical volcano was in 2008.[3]
Oakan, Meakan, Furebetsu and Fuppushi are the major post-caldera volcanoes of the Akan volcanic complex.[1]
Me-Akan is one of the most active volcanoes of Hokkaido. Its summit contains the active craters of Ponmachineshiri and Naka-Machineshiri, sites of frequent phreatic eruptions in historical time. Akan-Fuji and O-Akan have not erupted in historical time.[4]
Akan is rated with a volcanic explosivity index of 4 on the Smithsonian VEI scale, the scale's fourth-highest score, based on the volcano's largest known eruption, around 7050 BC.[6]
Following are prominent features of Akan:[7]
- Me-Akan-Dake (Mount Meakan) (1499 m) Stratovolcano
- Akan Fuji (Akan-Fuji, Akan-Huji) (1476 m) Stratovolcano
- Kita-Yama (1400 m) Cone
- O-Akan-Dake (Mount Oakan) (1371 m) Stratovolcano
- Kenga-Mine Cone 1336 m
- Nishi-Yama (Nisi-Yama) (1300 m) Cone
- Fuppushi (Huppusi) (1226 m) Stratovolcano
- Miname-Dake (1217 m) Stratovolcano
- Higashi-Dake (Higasi-Dake) (1140 m) Cone
- Furebetsu (Hurebetu) (1098 m) Stratovolcano
- Kobu-Yama Cone
- Futatsu-Dake Pyroclastic cone
- Nakamachineshiri (Nakamatineshiri) Crater
- Ponmachineshiri (Ponmatinesiri) Crater
Thermal features[edit]
- Akan-Kohan Thermal Feature
Other peaks[edit]
- Mount Ken[citation needed]
- Mount Ahoro[citation needed]
- ^ a b c "AKAN Caldera". Quaternary Volcanoes of Japan, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-12-19. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
- ^ "Akan-ko: Japan". Geographical Names. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
- ^ a b "Akan". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
- ^ a b "Akan Volcanic Complex, Japan". Volcano Photos. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
- ^ "MEAKAN-DAKE". Quaternary Volcanoes of Japan, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-12-19. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
- ^ "Large Volcano Explocivity Index". Countries of the World. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
- ^ "Akan". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2011-03-09.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Akan Mountains.
- Akan Caldera - Geological Survey of Japan
- Akan: Global Volcanism Program - Smithsonian Institution


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Ladies and gentlemen, it is with immense regret that I share with you the news that Nelle Harper Lee died yesterday, the 18th of February, 2016.
We have lost the one of the greatest literary masters our world has had to produce. And along with the world, I mourn the loss of her genius and the fact that I would never get to read more of her work.
This woman was a lawyer, an author and someone who shed light on the plight of racism. She gave us Atticus Finch, who in many ways, was a bit of all of our fathers, And she taught us that we are no better than anyone else.
It is not always, that someone so amazing is amongst us, ergo, it is very difficult not to mourn them. I may not have known Ms. Lee at all. I was just a speck in her nebulae of fans. But she affected my life profoundly and I would not have been the same person I am, if Ms. lee hadn't written To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Every day, you inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes.
On March 20, 1764, a 20-year-old Thomas Jefferson wrote that he got a killer, two-day headache after he behaved awkwardly in front of a girl he fancied.
The number 4 is considered unlucky in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam because the words in those countries' languages for "4" sound like the word for "death." Many buildings there skip a 4th floor or the floor is labeled "F." Fear of the number 4 is called "tetraphobia."
In 2003, there were 21,514 bowling-related injuries requiring hospital emergency room visits. Most of these involved bowlers who dropped balls on their feet or got their fingers caught between two bowling balls in the bowling ball return.
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The Law Enforcement Crossover: Corrections to Law Enforcement PSAV Certificate program provides job-related training for candidates who have a Florida correctional officer's certification and seek to become a full-time or part-time law enforcement officer that requires entry-level certification in accordance with Chapter 11B-35, Florida Administrative Code, and Chapter 943, Florida Statutes.
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1. Polly and her fellow comrades are forced to disguise themselves as boys because of the law forbidding female participation in the armed services. However, their female regiment succeeds where all men before them have failed. What is it about these girls that make them so successful?
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3. Polly feels that her regiment ends up being viewed as mascots instead of true soldiers, and is angered by this. Do you agree with her opinion or do you feel that they did, in fact, initiate change?
4. Do you think that Polly and the rest of her regiment will succeed as soldiers as they head off to war, yet again, at the end of the novel?


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So I was just minding my business, scrolling through Facebook one morning when I came across a video of Bobby Flay making this Banana bread French Toast with Banana Nut Bread.
Ya'll….I drooled all over my iPhone screen.
I told myself NO. Because #diet…#lifestylechange………
I haven't made banana bread in years. But the idea of the banana bread stayed with me. I haven't made banana nut bread in forever. Since before Pookah was diagnosed with his wheat allergy.
But all week, I thought about it, imagined it, and finally, decided, I had to have it.
I experimented for weeks trying to get the right combination of ingredients and to make it taste GOOD.
And guys….
Let me tell you that this is in NO WAY healthy…
Cause butter…
Cinnamon sugar crust…..
I made it and even CDub had to try a piece.
I cut it and had a piece at 7 pm with a cup of coffee….cause…Banana Nut Bread Ya'll
This recipe is a combination of many many recipes that I have hoarded over the years. The trick with all gluten-free baking is to not only get the consistency right, but in this case especially, to make it moist.
I've experimented and experimented and this is by far my best version yet of a Gluten Free banana nut bread.
- 1 stick of butter. REAL BUTTER
- 1 cup of sugar
- ½ cup of brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tsp of vanilla
- 4 Ripe Bananas
- ¼ cup of Sour Cream( DO NOT USE LOW FAT)
- 2 cups of Gluten Free Flour( I always use Pamela's Artisan Flour Blendfor baking)
- 1 tsp of baking soda
- ½ cup of chopped walnuts
- ¼ tsp of cinnamon
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- ¼ cup of sugar
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
- In a separate bowl, add dry ingredients( flour, baking soda, cinnamon) and mix together. Set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar( white and brown)
- Add one egg at a time, beating well in between each addition
- Add vanilla, blend well
- In a separate bowl, mash bananas( I used a potato masher) and add sour cream to mix.
- Mix well.
- Add to butter mix and blend well.
- Add in dry ingredients, Mix until just incorporated.
- Fold in nuts.
- Grease your pan...with BUTTER( cooking spray tends to darken the sides too much)
- Pour mixture into greased 9x5 loaf pan
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@ Wojpen,
Have set Truck profile, lenght 17,30m height 4,35m, width 2,5m, weigtht allowed 60t, real weight 44t, see pictures below.
Spoiler: Sreenshots
As far as i can tell, the program doesn't have info from maps above the maximum height limit of 4m.
It think it calculates with info from everything less than 4m height and compares this with the truck profile settings, so when you have a bridge of 3,80m he will take another route, but when you have set the height to 4,35m, he doesn't calculated that anymore, just from the maximum height of 4m.
I know one thing for sure, i don't get any warnings when route is calculated, and i can't drive with 4,35m, we have a lot of normal road crossing/bridges and most of them are maximum 4,15m.
I looked at it with both map providers, tried alternative routes and when you have the route calculated and it shows on the sreen you have the option arrow ( right below ) and the restrictions button is grayed out ( looks like he can't see any restrictions ).
Made a screenshot of it, last picture.
Grtz. Ludo.


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Talk:Ya (Cyrillic)
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I think I did good job on this and that it could serve as a template for other Cyrillic letters. If there are any objections to this being used as a template, put them here. Nikola 09:52, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- It's good, Nikola, but the see also section should be broken up into two or three lines, so that I don't need to scroll horizontally. And some letters need disambiguation (be points to a disambiguation page; this should be fixed before using this article as template). Keep up the good work -- Cordyph 09:59, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Now? Perhaps all letters should link to Cy (cyrillic) as ambiguations might appear later? Nikola 05:22, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Hi Nikola. Comments in articles are likely to be deleted. If you want to create the articles for other Cyrillic letters yourself, I suggest to store the template on your user page. If you want others to participate, you might think about setting up a WikiProject. -- Cordyph 19:55, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Perhaps not. I'm not so good at working with people :) If people start writing about other letters, I'll easily correct the mistakes, comments or not. If not, I'll write about them myself. Thanks for all your help :)
- By the way, I admit that table should have borders but this way it is again off the screen :( Nikola 05:45, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- That depends on the screen ;-) It was okay on my monitor, but if it looks ugly on a small monitor, I suggest adding another row. -- Cordyph 12:45, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- If one row is added then there are three empty spots bottom left, which is ugly. If two, even more. The way it is now it fits on my screen, maybe it'll be ugly for someone but I wouldn't touch it anymore. Nikola 18:12, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Page Move[edit]
(from the village pump and User_talk:Vancouverguy)
I accidentally moved Ya to whatever russian charecter it was to conform to A, B, C, etc., and messed up the "move page" button. Vancouverguy
- I'm not sure I understand the Ya problem. Do you want it moved back or somewhere else? Where should it be? How can you mess up a button? Angela 21:04, Sep 27, 2003 (UTC)
- And I was just going to ask for moving it back ;) Nikola 21:18, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I was going to move it back, too.Vancouverguy 21:24, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Click on the "move page" button on Ya, it brings up:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /usr/local/apache/common/php/SpecialMovepage.php on line 52
I was trying to move it to "Я" Vancouverguy 21:26, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I moved it back. Worked fine for me... --Brion 21:31, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
It would be nice to have it in line with A, B, etc.Vancouverguy 21:32, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
I don't think it's technically feasible to move it to Я that might throw off the software (like with Kanji etc.). Article titles are a lot more finicky than article text. - Hephaestos 21:34, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- I just tried to create an article at Я and it won't let me do that. Angela 21:35, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Why does it work for ß, and not Ya? Vancouverguy 21:36, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- ß is a lower-order ASCII. - Hephaestos 21:38, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- Oh.Vancouverguy 21:49, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
- It's ISO-8859-1 actually. Nikola 06:08, 26 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Guys — keep the pages at Ya (Cyrillic) (etc.) for now; we can still move them to Я (etc.) when Wikipedia switches to UTF-8. — Timwi 13:58, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Use in English[edit]
Ya and I (И if that comes out) are used in English in place of R and N to indicate Russianness (if that's a word). Perhaps a section on this page can discuss this. —msh210 23:15, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- There's already a link to faux Cyrillic. —Michael Z.
Isn't there a pun dividing Yabloko as "I (=Grigori Yavlinskiy)-block"? --Error 01:24, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
- I don't think that would be grammatical. Ƶ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]
- No. Yabloko has been never treated as a block because it wasn't formed by blocking some pre-existent orgs together. KonstKaras 00:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Should this be moved to Ja (Cyrillic)?[edit]
Maybe the name "Ja (Cyrillic)" is more consistent? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pkukiss (talk • contribs) 02:57, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
Should "Backwards r" be pointed to a disambiguation page instead?[edit]
Even though speakers of English and other European languages written in the Latin alphabet often use the phrase "backwards r" to refer to the Cyrillic letter Я, the phrase "backwards r" can also refer to ʁ, which is the symbol for a voiced uvular fricative in the International Phonetic Alphabet. The Я is pronounced as /ja/ (the English ya sound), whereas /ʁ/ has a "guttural r" sound.
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i pulled these photos from january editions of both italian vogue and italian marie claire. when the best fashion magazines in the world from the fashion capital of the world, look like they could have been styled from your wardrobe i guess its safe to say you might be doing something right. the funny thing is i'm not even trying to do anything right… sometimes i actually wonder, am i really even fashionable? whos to say? am i just really so far behind that trends are actually relapping me and it just makes me look like i'm ahead? haha so many questions. :) its all a big circle i think. either way i feel beyond honored when people are interested in my fashion advice and what i'm wearing inspires other people around the world. and i am so very thankful for all of your comments. xoxo
the bottom picture is a photo of me working in the office last week. i'm wearing a mixture of all things i've worn lots before… but i just keep switching it up and it looks kinda new :) my free people skinny flares, sam edelman zoe shoes from forever ago, my favorite jessica simpson hat and curve sheer dress i've been wearing for the past year and veda leather jacket.
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Currently an international student at a UK university who probably shouldn't spend as much time drama-watching as she does! Sometimes homesick, sometimes love-struck by EXO or drama male leads, sometimes just plain crazy and fandom-obsessed. It's nice to meet you guys and happy drama-watching~
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Mockingjay is the third installment of The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. It released on August 24, 2010 and will have an initial print run of 750,000 copies. The novel is preceded by 2008's The Hunger Games and 2009's Catching Fire.
The Hunger Games is a futuristic trilogy for ages 12 to adult by Suzanne Collins, author of the bestselling Underland Chronicles series for middle-grade readers. Published in September 2008, "The Hunger Games" was an instant bestseller, appealing to both teen readers and adults. It has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 60 consecutive weeks since publication, and also has appeared repeatedly on the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Called "addictive" by Stephen King in a review in Entertainment Weekly and "amazing" by Stephenie Meyer on her website, "The Hunger Games" has captured the imagination of critics and readers alike.
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capital surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capital is harsh and cruel and keeps the other districts in line by forcing them to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight-to-the death on live TV. One boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and sixteen are selected by lottery to play. The winner brings riches and favor to his or her district. But that is nothing compared to what the Capital wins: one more year of fearful compliance with its rules. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her impoverished district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to death before -- and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. Acclaimed writer Suzanne Collins delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. For more information about "The Hunger Games" and to download digital images
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Watch the 3rd SIETAR Europa Film Festival trailer
Film Festival timetable // 22nd - 24th of September
An international documentary film festival will be an important part of the four-day intercultural program of the SIETAR Europa Congress to take place in Krakow, Poland, September 22-25. Participants in the congress can look forward to lively discussions with the film director or a main character after each showing. In this virtual world we have decided discussions and interviews would be done via skype.
We have dedicated Friday morning on training-oriented issues, such as analysing films on theoretic and methodological levels. For this, we will be using excerpts of documentaries for 'instruction' on how to look at / how to address film in training sessions. In the second half we will address the practical side of digital story telling.
It will be an exciting morning and for those who want to continue, we offer a special after-dinner get together on Friday evening.
On Saturday we pay special attention to documentaries, which focuses on Poland, our host country . The closing film is a very special document on Danny Chanoch who went back to Auschwitz with his daughter and son. Danny will be available for Q&A afterwards.
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December 11th, 2004, 08:20 PM #1
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Is it just me, or is this network lousy at tracking sales\impressions? CJ seems to do a much better job of tracking, and the revenue is better. Seems I convert better on other networks. The items are good. What's the deal?
December 11th, 2004, 09:11 PM #2
Razor I do sometimes find their reporting a bit confusing as they don't post commissions until the item has been shipped. Also quite often I see a cancellation for a transaction that wasn't even posted as a sale in the first place. Another thing is that some of their merchants seem to take rather long to pay up, which is a bit of a pain in the butt. On the whole though I can't really complain about them - they certainly convert better for me than LS.
December 12th, 2004, 05:31 PM #3
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The thing that I really question is overall sales volume and click throughs. I have some very good merchants that I am promoting for on BeFree. But, they are not generatinh anywhere near the sales or leads that CJ or Linkshare do. I know my sites get traffic, but the sales just aren't there on Befree. It doesn't make sense why they would perform so much less than CJ, Linkshare, Shareasale, or Performics. The numbers are just way off with them...
December 12th, 2004, 08:40 PM #4
Razor I can't speak for Performics as I haven't signed up with them, but I can say that BeFree outperforms Linkshare and quite often CJ as well for me. I have two merchants that convert very well on BF - the rest are so so! However, I must admit that when I take into account the number of clicks as compared to the number of sales it could be better. The problem you are having with BF I'm having with LS. I have the merchants, I have the goods, but sales have plummeted the last few months and, like you, I am at a loss to explain it. CJ has it's moments for me - one month I'll do extremely well and the next sales come in dribs and drabs. I've just given up worrying about it as it doesn't help to complain to the networks - you never get an honest answer. I've suspected for a long time now that tracking on just about all the networks is not entirely 100% accurate, but none of them will admit it of course. I think there is a lot of skullduggery going on, but we can't prove it unfortunately.
December 16th, 2004, 07:34 AM #5
I think their tracking sucks to tell you the truth. I put up some pages last week for Nickelodeon and can say that they haven't tracked anything yet. I've clicked on some of the products and even that doesn't show. All my links appear to be correct. I'm gonna test some other links and perhaps purchase something for the kids and see if that tracks. Wish they would just consolidate into CJ.
December 16th, 2004, 08:12 AM #6
I think what you guys are describing is probably merchant-specific. As far as tracking goes, every network is about the same. By every general metric I track (conversion ratio, EPC, average order size), the three major networks are fairly equal. On each network, I have merchants whose stats are 10x the average and other merchants that are 1/10th the average. Same goes with indies, too.
There are many distinctions between the networks, but tracking reliability isn't a major one.
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43 years on and still no definitive answers... a timeline
1972: Mrs McConville is dragged screaming from her home in Divis flats in west Belfast by an IRA gang of around 12 men and women. It is the last time her children see her alive. She is shot in the back of the head and secretly buried, so becoming one of the Disappeared victims of the Troubles. In the 43 years since, no one has been charged with her murder.
1999: One year after the signing of the historic Good Friday peace accord in Northern Ireland, the IRA finally admits responsibility for killing the 37-year-old widow, claiming she was an informer for the British Army. The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains is set up by the British and Irish governments and the IRA passes on information on Mrs McConville's possible whereabouts on a stretch of coastline in Co Louth. But subsequent searches by the Irish police fail to find her body.
2001: Academics, historians and journalists embark on a five-year project to collate an oral history of the Northern Ireland Troubles. The Boston College initiative involves interviewing former paramilitaries about their roles in the conflict on the understanding their accounts would not be made public until after they die.
2003: The body of Mrs McConville is finally found by a dog walker on Shilling beach in Co Louth after a heavy storm exposes her remains.
2006: An investigation by NI's then Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan rejects the IRA claim that Mrs McConville was an informer.
2008: Brendan Hughes, a former IRA commander in Belfast who was one of the figures interviewed for the Boston College project, dies.
2010: A book containing excerpts from Hughes' interviews is published. Among claims outlined in Voices From The Grave is the allegation that Gerry Adams ordered the murder of Mrs McConville. Mr Adams emphatically rejects the accusation. In the same year Dolours Price, who was convicted of the IRA's bombing of the Old Bailey in 1973, makes similar allegations about Mr Adams. Price indicates that she has also spoken to researchers at Boston College. Mr Adams again denies the claims and highlights both Price and Hughes' criticism of his and Sinn Fein's involvement in the peace process.
2011: The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) launches a legal bid in the US to try to obtain tapes within the Boston College archive that relate to the murder of Mrs McConville.
2013: Dolours Price dies in her Dublin home of a suspected overdose of prescription drugs. Later in the year the PSNI wins its lengthy court battle with Boston College and a number of the tapes are handed over.
2014, March: Veteran republican Ivor Bell (78), from Ramoan Gardens in west Belfast, is arrested and charged with aiding and abetting the murder of Mrs McConville and IRA membership. His lawyer tells a court that the prosecution case against his client is based on an interview he allegedly gave to the Boston College project. The solicitor insists Bell will fight the charges. Mr Adams, in response to the renewed focus on the McConville case in the wake of Bell's charges, issues a statement indicating he is willing to speak to the officers investigating the case. He again refutes any suggestion he had anything to do with the crime. At different junctures through March and April, four women and one man, with ages ranging from 56 to 60, are also arrested and questioned about the murder. All five were subsequently released but police are preparing reports on the four women for the Public Prosecution Service to assess.
2014, April 30: Mr Adams, after back and forth contacts between his lawyer and detectives, presents himself at Antrim police station for interview. He is immediately arrested and taken into custody - a move that Sinn Fein brands unnecessary and an example of "political policing".
2015: In June, a PPS lawyer tells Belfast Magistrates Court that its prosecution of Bell will proceed - ending months of uncertainty about the case. In September, the PPS' deputy director Pamela Atchison announces the prosecutorial decisions on the files of Mr Adams, Mr Storey and the five others.
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It's been roughly seven months since I last posted on After the MFA. That fact in itself isn't a big deal for me. I always told myself that I would only write here if I had something to say. I can honestly say, I didn't have much to report over these long months. A grueling east coast winter, a job change and, with it, a significant change in work-life balance all left this writer a bit tongue tied. Great — I'm thankful for having not contributed to the overbearing noise on the Internet.
But something about tonight… sitting in my backyard, puffing on a fine cigar, watching the planes descend towards JFK over my head, listening to trucks grinding their gears down Bedford Avenue. It's all making me think about my life after the MFA now that it's nearing the four-year mark. I officially departed the halls of academia in August 2005, when I handed in my creative project and bid farewell to workshops, creative responses, constructive feedback and the inevitable after-class beer sessions.
Since that landmark date, I've done the following:
- Left my home stat of California and moved from San Francisco to New York City with my wife and two small kids
- Left my job of 8 years, started a new one, and a few months later started a newer one
- Written a draft of a television pilot script
- Revised three of the nine stories I wrote for my final masters project
- Started three drafts of three different novels
- Written a total of one new story (!)
- Submitted stories to about a dozen publications
- Started this humble website and posted to it continuously for roughly two years
- Contributed a submission to "Not Quite What I Was Planning," the six-word memoir project
- Joined a writing group, still trying to get us to meet on a regular basis
- Attempted to do the old get-up-early-in-the-morning-to-write routine a total of two different times… gave it up twice
- Pondered the idea of entering a Phd program, only to come to realize it is a big gamble of time, effort, and expense with small chance of realized gains
What I haven't done is a shorter, but probably more significant list (to me). I have not:
- Published in a personally significant journal or publication
- Started teaching
- Felt satisfied in any meaningful way with my post MFA writing life
Don't get me wrong, this is not a self-pitying post meant to stir up the comments in support of my wayward ways. I'm taking stock. I needed to see myself state for the record how I view my post-MFA life. And the answer is … not so wonderfully.
I entered into my MFA program with two major goals in mind: to instill a greater sense of discipline in me for the craft and process of writing and to gain the qualifications to teach writing. Four years down the road I can see that I achieved neither of those goals.
I did meet some great people, write some half-way decent stories, and read a lot of stimulating literature I might not have otherwise exposed myself to. Those two years I spent were not a complete waste. Not even close. In fact, I think my life would have been significantly worse had I not earned my MFA. But, in 20/20 hindsight, I'm pretty confident I would have done a few things differently. What those changes would have been, I'll have to address another time. My cigar just went out, it's late, and I think it's time to go to bed.
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With wit, humor, and style, Joanne Hanks takes you on a wild ride through the insanity of the Mormon-based polygamist cult that was her life for seven years.
Get ready to laugh. Get ready to be outraged. And get ready to see polygamy as no one has ever revealed it before. Joanne tells their crazy story with humor and honesty. You'll share her angst over sharing her husband. You'll meet her "sister wives", a prophet calling himself a "celestial stud service" who seeks divine guidance on threesomes, and apostles who dress in weird robes to curse the White House. You'll fume at gut-wrenching tales of racism, sexual abuse, fraud, and manipulation. And you'll find out why no one remembers when Jesus destroyed the world on March 26, 2000.
"It's Not About The Sex" My Ass is more than an entertaining listen. It's a cautionary tale about the power of delusional thinking and a hopeful tale of one woman and her family who came to their senses and found the courage to leave.
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"A Serious Tale Told With Honesty, Wit & Humor"
I will certainly listen again because it is just that interesting and entertaining.
I most appreciated the author's candor about her own acceptance of religious ideas and practices that many listeners and readers will no doubt think are outlandish. Her descriptions of her gradual acceptance of ever more strange doctrines and the gradual lifting of the veil of belief to reveal the absence of truth at the core of the True and Living Church.
The story is told in the first person from the author's point of view. The tone is conversational and occasionally reminded me of Julia Sweeney's delightful "Letting Go of God". Ms Hanks' story is not a stand-up comedy routine. It is a serious story about real people in the grip of a strange and potentially dangerous ideology.
It made me sad and then it made me laugh. The greatest benefit I derived from Ms Hanks' story was being reminded that none of us are immune to being bamboozled. As Carl Sagan said ""One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." Ms Hanks and her readers are fortunate that she was eventually able to recognize the bamboozle.
"a great book"
the book is very enjoyable to listen to. it is an honest autobiography of a self effacing lady told in a non vindictive humorous style.
"Funny, insightful, well written with a great narrator"
This book is particularly insightful for anyone who grew up Mormon, or are surrounded by members of the LDS church. It is both funny and liberating to hear someone be so open about their experiences and downfalls. It serves as a great expose on religion general.
"Highly Recommended"
This book will have you laughing out loud at its hilarious dry wit while at the same time taking you into a sobering and frightening world that becomes a prison of belief for its members. It's a rare treat to both find the humor in life in a dangerous cult while evoking feelings of being trapped in a world of insanity and finally emerging into a healed and happy life. Extraordinary!!!
"Interesting first-hand account"
There was no big reveal or anything surprisingly shocking here. But, it was an engaging first-hand account of the inner experiences.
"Honestly told with all the humor needed to endure."
How refreshing it is to listen to this woman's story told simply and clearly about her complex journey through religious fanaticism.
Most of all I salute her choice of stand-up comedian/ philosopher in her path back to sanity. No spoilers here; but I will say that I'm about to start enjoying this book again right away now that I KNOW recovery was so honestly and completely achieved.
"A Beautiful Conversion of Tragedy To Comedy"
Didn't read the print. I loved the narrator so I think audible was perfect medium. I kept thinking I was listening to the author.
The underlying story is important. Many of us are potentially vulnerable to "buying into" a false religion; a utopian dream. She followed her heart into polygamy and she followed her heart out. The author presented a serious situation with self-deprecating humor. She is very funny. I hope she writes more books.
"Entertaining and Informative"
This was a truly sad story with a tounge-in-cheek approach. It conveyed some fundamental knowledge about Mormons and one example of one of its close derivatives the "True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days", the latter being the main subject of this book and called by the name TLC.
The book demonstrates the results of organized religions that rely on traditions rather than adhere to the Holy Bible. The Mormons assign the label of Apostates to those followers of TLC. This book is primarily the subject it covers. TLC doctrines and teachings include that of 'plural marriage' or polygamy. In this case, men have many wives. The more, the better.
The stories in this book are mostly the personal thoughts and experiences of the author. Joanne Hanks demonstrates a few of the siuations where members are brainwashed resulting in, primarily, ways in which supposedly Holy Christian leaders are reincarnated prominent past Christians wo make up several way to have sucess with many women. Their multiple wives make for husbands to have multiple sex partners. The religious reason for these multiple sex partners is the propagation of humans to fill the earth once all non-congregants are destroyed by God. The authors thus purport that TLC higher-ups use the device of supposed instructions by God to excuse their actions, especially those that involve sex.
"Cult or religion?"
Great insight into polygamy and the Mormon religion. I like the remarks of the author and her story of coming out of a cult.
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Thunderhawk » August 2nd, 2015, 10:15 pm
11 Financial Events As We Enter The Month Of August 2015
#1 Puerto Rico is going to default on a 58 million dollar debt payment that is due on Saturday. Even though this has serious implications for the U.S. financial system, Barack Obama has said that there will be no bailout for "America's Greece".
#2 As James Bailey has pointed out, the most important trendline for the S&P 500 has finally been broken after holding up for six years. This is a critical technical signal that will likely motivate a significant number of investors to sell off their holdings in the weeks ahead.
#3 The IMF is indicating that it will not take part in the new Greek debt deal. As a result, the whole thing may completely fall apart…
Leaked minutes of the fund's latest board meeting, which took place on Wednesday, showed staff "cannot reach agreement at this stage" on whether to take part in the new €86bn (£60bn) bailout for Greece.
The document said there were doubts over the capacity of the Athens Government to implement economic reforms, as well as the over the sustainability of the country's sovereign debt pile, which is now projected to hit 200 percent of GDP.
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, only sanctioned a new Greek deal earlier this month on the condition that the IMF takes part.
#4 Italy is going down the exact same path as Greece, but Italy is going to be a much larger problem for Europe because it has a far, far larger economy. This week, we learned that youth unemployment in Italy has reached a 38-year high of 44 percent, and Italy's debt to GDP ratio has now hit 135 percent.
#5 The Canadian economy has officially entered a new recession. This is something that was not supposed to happen.
#6 The price of oil plummeted close to 20 percent during the month of July. It was the worst month for the price of oil that we have seen since October 2008, which just happened to be during the height of the last financial crisis.
#7 Commodities just had their worst month in almost four years. As I have written about previously, we witnessed a collapse in commodity prices just before the stock market crash of 2008 too.
#8 Thanks to EPA requirements set by the govt. , the U.S. coal industry is imploding, and some of the largest coal producers in the entire country have just announced that they are declaring bankruptcy…
On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that the biggest American producer of coking coal, Alpha Natural Resources, could file for bankruptcy as soon as Monday.
Competitor Walter Energy filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, and several others have done the same this year.
#9 For the month of July, the Shanghai Composite Index was down 13.4 percent. Despite unprecedented government intervention to prop up the market, it was the worst month for Chinese stocks since October 2009.
#10 A major red flag that a recession in the United States is fast approaching is the fact that Exxon Mobile just announced their worst earnings for a single quarter since 2009. Compared to the same time period one year ago, Exxon Mobile's earnings were down 51 percent.
#11 Chevron is another oil giant that has seen earnings plunge. In the second quarter of this year, Chevron's earnings were down an eye-popping 90 percent from a year ago.
Blessings ThunderHawk
Walkingstick » August 2nd, 2015, 9:22 pm
Cabinet agrees with the completion of the transfer of powers 15 provinces within three months
Sun 02 Aug 2015 twenty-eight past six p.m. | (Voice of Iraq) - Dhi Qar announced the governor of Dhi Qar, Yahya Mohammed Baqir al-Nasseri, Sunday, in an agreement between the local governments in the governorates not organized into a Region and the Council of Ministers to complete the transfer of powers from the federal ministries measures within a time limit Set three months, and among the transfer of powers will be gradual, he referred to support the Council of Ministers to the demands of the provinces.
He said Yahya Mohammed Baqir al-Nasseri told a news briefing after attending the coordination meeting held on Saturday, and chaired by the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi received (range Press) a copy of it, that "coordination meeting discussed the completion of the transfer of powers from the federal ministries to local governments in the governorates not organized province of mechanism," noting that "the meeting resulted in the identification timeframe for the completion of the transfer of powers standing three months."
He said the governor of Dhi Qar, that "transfer the powers of the eight ministries provided by the law 21 will be gradually and within the time limit set by the coordination meeting. " He said the Nazarene that "local governments confirmed during the coordination meeting its commitment to the transfer of powers in accordance with the legal framework established by the governorates not organized law province that," stressing that "Council of Ministers expressed full support to the demands of the provinces in this regard." He expressed the Nazarene "I hope that made the transfer of powers process properly and fast do not cause overwhelm the interests of citizens or affect the administrative work in the provinces and ministries concerned."
The coordination meeting of the provinces unregulated province may held on Saturday, at the conference room in the Council of Ministers headed by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the presence of eight ministers as well as governors and heads of provincial councils in 15 governorates irregular province.
He was the governor of Dhi Qar, it revealed on Thursday (July 3, 2015), for a formal meeting under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Saturday and another meeting with the President of the House of Representatives on Sunday, in Baghdad in order to complete the transfer of powers to the provinces procedures, and had been expecting moved on schedule in the fifth month of August next,
affirmed the support of the provincial council of the local government. mentions Article (45) of the second amendment to the law of governorates not organized in the territory of Law No. (21) of 2008 voted by the Parliament in its meeting held in the (23 June 2013), states that "A commission named (the supreme body for coordination between the provinces) headed by the Prime Minister,
and the membership of Ministers (Municipalities and Public Works, and Construction and Housing, labor and social affairs, education, health, planning, agriculture, finance, sports and youth) and Minister of State for Provincial Affairs, governors and heads of provincial councils take "transfer sub-circuits and devices, jobs and services and disciplines practiced by those ministries with allocated public budget and staff and workers allocations, to the provinces within the scope of its functions set out in the Constitution and relevant laws gradually and within a time limit not exceeding two years and remains the role of ministries in the planning of public policy. Add Comment
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Abadi confirms the government's commitment to the transfer of powers to the provinces
02/08/2015 03:11 |
Direction Press / Agencies
Supreme Commission for coordination between the governorates not organized province, a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the presence of ministers, governors and heads of provincial councils was held.
It was agreed that it accomplishes body its gradually as of the effective date of the law and the movement of some powers immediately and others within six months and again during the year and more and define the powers of movement within the powers of the federal ministries and set the mechanism of transfer functions by decision of the Council of Ministers and in coordination with the Supreme Commission for coordination between the provinces non-performing province.
He said Haider al-Abadi, according to a statement his office had seen "direction Press" on Sunday, the government's commitment to the transfer of powers to the provinces in an orderly fashion, calling on the Conservatives to cooperate and move away from the wrestle and compete with other provinces.
He said al-Abbadi in his speech that the country is going through many challenges in the area of services, the economy and financial liquidity security and fighting a serious war with terrorist gangs hiding between citizens and fight him in many of the pieces and achieve victories him and this war is draining our economy and our money and we need to strike a balance between the provision of services and provide security.
He added: We have inherited a difficult situation in the field of electricity, water, schools and services and in other areas in addition to security and cooperation on the Conservative and not wrestle and commitment to their provinces prescribed quotas and not to encroach upon the rights of other provinces.
He said the demonstrations, which came out Friday warning us that there is a problem and the defect must work in order to be treated, noting that pretend right guaranteed by the Constitution and salute the commitment of came out to protest and security men, indicating that the charge must be for all Iraqis and its role is not to incite the masses but responds to their demands.
And between the prime minister said the reduction of the salaries of officials step in the right direction and some believe that what is provided is a large amount of the reduction for the budget but we feel that this is important in order to achieve social solidarity.
He said Haider al-Abadi said total oil imports for the first half of this year up to 23 trillion dinars and total salaries 21 trillion dinars and we have a war with terror require not only salaries but also weapons and ammunition, noting that the lack of money leads to crime, large sums of money, but we will deal with this crime in all its packages and cruelty unchanged if terrorism for the security of the citizen.
The prime minister said there is pumping money to stir dilemmas and incitement via satellite, owned by some politicians and call to be revealed receivables politicians as a whole and not just officials.
(Et al) published recommendations of the Special Parliamentary provinces to transfer the powers of the provinces
By Mohammed Emad 2.8.2015 5:42 |
Brother - Baghdad
Committee recommended the regional and provincial parliamentary "Presidency of the Council of Ministers to notify the concerned ministers decoding its sub-district and working in the provinces, according to Article 45 of the provinces is associated with the law in the territory of No. 21 for the year 2008 average , the powers transferred to the province. "
The Committee of the Regions and the provinces by Mahmoud Reda Amin told a news conference in the House of Representatives in the presence of a number of members of the committee and attended by the correspondent for News Agency (et) that his committee and in the presence of the Presidency, ministers, governors and heads of the provinces came out with recommendations for the transfer of the powers of the competent ministries to the provinces, stressing the High Authority coordination between the provinces to fulfill its mandate and set forth above article, considering that the legislation contained therein are complementary to the terms of reference of the provinces and within a certain validity to the administrative decentralization in order to complete the legislative system for the governorates.
He called for the transfer of the powers of the competent minister, which was practiced by the sub-district transmitted according to the law No. 19 of 2013 to the competent Governor or the President of the branch circuit, indicating that the circuit will be transferred under the supervision of the competent governor and provincial council shall exercise the legal powers it as it comes to him.
And Aaudhav that among the recommendations continuation of the ministries concerned to develop the capabilities and skills of workers in the sub-district movable and providing them with information that will continued regularity of their work, adding that the conferees called for the House to issue a statement confirming to decipher the relevant departments of the ministries after 8.5.2015 and attached to the governorates working in it .
"The mandate of the Committee of the Regions and governorates not organized in a region to follow up the implementation of these recommendations."
JDTolle » August 3rd, 2015, Commitment matters
Put your mind to it. And while you're at it, put your fingers, toes, arms, legs, eyes, mouth and heart into it.
If there's something you wish to make happen, put your whole self into making it happen. And it is very likely to occur.
Yes, it will take a good bit or work and yes, there will be ups and downs, setbacks and disappointments. That's precisely why you must commit the whole of yourself to the endeavor.
No, you can't achieve the impossible, yet there are a whole lot of wonderful, possible things you absolutely can achieve. And all sorts of things that were once considered impossible have a way of becoming possible with enough effort and dedication.
Put your mind to it, and everything else. Put your passion, imagination, creativity, love and sweat into it.
Commitment matters, and you can feel its power course through every part of your being. Commitment matters, and with it you can change your world.
Ralph Marston Wishing All a safe and blessed day JDT
P.S. So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Remember the Compute Stick that Intel debuted a few years ago? The Compute Card is the successor to it. This little credit card-sized device is meant to be used when your smart devices go obsolete.
Hidden within the card-shaped container is a full Intel computer, complete with a 7th-gen Intel Core processor, RAM, storage, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. The card itself uses what Intel is calling the "USB-C plus extension connector" to provide USB and PCIe data connectivity alongside HDMI and DisplayPort video signals to the device.
As mentioned earlier, the Compute Card is mainly targeted at Internet of Things-capable devices such as smart TVs and smart appliances. As technology marches forward, the components inside these devices may age and eventually become obsolete. With the Compute Card, you'll be able to slot in this device and immediately upgrade said device, negating the need to go out and purchase a new IoT-ready appliance.
For now, Intel will be working with Dell, HP, Lenovo, Sharp, Seneca, DTx, InFocus, TabletKiosk, and Pasuntech to explore the possibilities of the Compute Card. The card itself is expected to be available by mid-2017.
Source: CNet