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The big OilPull rumbled along the main perimeter road at dusk one day during the 2002 Old Threshers Reunion in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Just as it seemed to be running strongly, the old Rumely died. Rising resolutely to the occasion, the crew aboard scrambled to get the tractor going again as darkness fell. Now, this is serious fun.
The 2002 Old Threshers Reunion, held on a gorgeous Labor Day weekend in this picturesque southeastern Iowa community, drew a crowd of more than 113,000 and 1,463 registered exhibitors, spouses and other family members, according to Lennis Moore, Reunion CEO. Such events always are hostage to the weather, he said, but the mild temperatures and sunny skies this year might best be described as 'a dream come true' for him.
Rumely was named the featured tractor and steam engine for this 52nd annual event, and 23 OilPulls and two Rumely traction engines turned up to join the celebration. Along with the OilPulls, some 450 other antique tractors of every hue lined up like a regiment of soldiers across a grassy plot the size of several football fields.
A contingent of Murray County, Okla., Antique Tractor and Implement Club members drove more than 700 miles with 30 pieces to show, ranging from an eye-catching 1950 'icecap white' Farmall Cub with red wheels, seat and lights to a pair of snazzy burnt-orange Allis-Chalmers road graders.
White Farmalls, which are very rare, were built as part of a promotional campaign in the first three months of 1950 at the Louisville, Ky., IHC plant. They were Cubs, Super As and Model Cs, and any dealer could order them to use as 'demonstrators.'
The restored white Cub at Mt. Pleasant is owned by Pat and Dennis Goldsby of Goldsby, Okla. It came out of a Lexington, Okla., barn, they said, having been left there after its bum carburetor was pulled and never replaced. When they found the tractor, it 'seemed like it had been worked hard,' Dennis said. 'The head was busted and there were a number of missing parts.' Today, the father-son team has the little Farmall almost ship-shape again - '90 percent' they call it.
Other rare tractors at the Reunion included a 1943 red Huber HK, one of the last production tractors made by Huber Manufacturing Co. of Marion, Ohio, and owned by Marty Huber of Moline, Ill.; a 1951 Case DC Vineyard Special, owned by Buckert Farms of Hamilton, Ill., and a 15-30 International, donated to the Old Threshers organization by Viola Sargent of Lena, Ill., in memory of her late husband, Wendell. She said he bought the 15-30 in the mid-1980s out of Alberta, Canada, and spent five years on its restoration. The model was made from 1917 to 1920. 'We had a lot of fun traveling around the country, looking for parts,' she recalled, 'and he really enjoyed showing that tractor.'
Also present was the Hadley family's collection of well-kept, late-1930s ruby-red Graham Bradley tractors, some on original tires. Lawrence Hadley said his grandfather, the late Edward B. Hadley of Atalissa, Iowa, started the family on Graham Bradleys. Today, the tractors are owned collectively by Lawrence, who also lives in Atalissa; his brother, Leland Hadley; and their dad, Edward R. Hadley.
Another family with tractors present was the Marvin Crull family of Mt. Pleasant. Marvin bought the 1935 John Deere 'B' pictured on the cover of this issue at an auction many years ago for his sons, Mark and Mat. Today, granddaughter Makinzie Crull, 11, often takes the wheel of the restored 'B' - with an adult riding alongside.
For sheer numbers, the gasoline tractors took the prize at Mt. Pleasant, but steam traction engines offered an impressive show, too. Sixty-five full-sized engines and 20 scale models steamed their way around the show grounds during the event; all had passed the Reunion's own inspection process, according to Lennis, who added that a special Safety Team also was present to continuously monitor the engines during the show.
One of the biggest engines on display was a 1910 110-hp Case, serial no. 24150, which also is owned by the Old Threshers. This machine was purchased in 1972 from the J.J. Hingtgen estate in LaMotte, Iowa, Lennis said. 'Manufactured as a Canadian specification engine, it operated in the wheat fields of western Canada. Hingtgen dismantled the engine and made several trips back and forth to finally assemble the engine in Iowa. He used the engine to power a sawmill in LaMotte until he sold the engine to Old Threshers, who restored it in 1986 and 1987.'
Stationary engine collectors brought choice pieces too, and although they were fewer in number than the gas tractor folks, they seemed a happy crowd, sharing booth space with each other and visiting back and forth in the shade of their canopy tents. George and Hazel Martin of Wyaconda, Mo., shared space with Glenn Karch and his family, who live at Haubstadt, Ind. George said he'd attended all but the first of the 52 Reunions - 'and I didn't know about the first one or I'd have been there too.'
This year, he displayed his restored 2 1/2-hp United and Jaeger engines, both of which were manufactured by the Waterloo Gas Engine Co. 'Waterloo would sell engines to anyone who would sell engines,' George explained, 'so I've been making a collection of these.' He's got 15 so far, and he's not sure how many remain to complete the set.
George also exhibited an unrestored but operating Domestic mud pump that show goers enjoyed watching. 'It's about a 1920,' he said. 'It was made for contractors to use to pump out ditches.' The Domestic brand was the Reunion's featured stationary engine this year.
Wilbur Swartzendruber held court near the Martins' booth for onlookers fascinated by his big, white 1920 Superior engine. The 40- to 60-hp engine came out of Montana, where it operated two oil wells at one time, Wilbur says, and was brought to Wellman, Iowa, where Wilbur bought it in 2001. Restored by Earl Werts, Jim Stewart and George Miller Jr., the engine is now owned by Wilbur's family and permanently stored on the Old Threshers' show grounds.
Even running at an idle, the Superior rocks back and forth dramatically. Last year, Wilbur reported, he drove a steel pin through the hitch tongue into the ground to keep it from rocking and it broke a casting on the truck. 'It's got to rock,' he says.
Mike Trotnic of Parsons, Kan., set up shop with the stationary engine crowd, promoting the 100th anniversary reunion of the Shaw Manufacturing Co. July 4 to 6, 2003, in Galesburg, Kan. Mike says all Shaw-manufactured equipment or related items are welcome, regardless of condition.
For the second time in as many years, the Reunion invited Paul Gorrell of Burlington to put his large Crosley collection on display. Paul said he made about 30 trips from his home to the show grounds to bring everything. The exhibit included a Farmall Cub-style red Crosley tractor and a green Farm-O-Road, which looked like a miniature jeep. Both were shown with implements. FC
- For more information about the Old Threshers Reunion, contact Lennis Moore, Terry McWilliams or Billie Turley at 405 E. Threshers Road, ML Pleasant, IA 52641, (319) 385-8937; Web site: www.oldthreshers.org
- For more information about the Shaw Manufacturing 100th Anniversary Reunion, contact Mike at 5201 W. Main St., Parsons, KS 67357, (620) 421-2500, or John Hasty, P.O. Box 35, Galesburg, KS 656740, (620) 763-2357; e-mail: email@example.com


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The Membership Specialist supports the membership and fundraising work of CHT's Community Relations team, with a focus on recruiting and renewing new donors. Primary functions include administrative duties, writing, database management, research, volunteer committee support including preparing for meetings and assisting volunteers in their activities, communicating with donors, assisting with grant writing, and other special projects.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
• Annual Appeal coordination. Lead preparation of annual appeal materials, coordinating the mailing of fundraising appeals, and tracking its success. Evaluate donor retention.
• Member and donor recruitment. Implement and evaluate strategies to bring in new members and donors, establish campaigns to increase revenue from new donors/members and build long term relationships between members and the organization.
• Donor Retention. Play a lead role in the planning and implementation of an annual donor appreciation event.
• Database. Manage the donor database functions including data entry, running reports, exporting lists, coordinate with Executive Assistance as needed. Coordinate renewal requests, gift acknowledgements, pledge payments on multiple year pledges, segregate capital versus operating gifts, and online giving.
• Cornerstone Community Event support. Organize food and logistics to support CHT's signature fundraising event. Support volunteers, CEO and Director of Community Relations to ensure attendance and a successful event.
• Capital campaign support. Provide support to CEO, Director of Community Relations and volunteers to wrap up a capital campaign to create a community center in Burlington's Old North End. Compile and write minutes, committee tasks for each meeting.
• Support Board Community Relations Committee. Organize regular meetings and communicate to volunteers on the Board and in the community. Support volunteer and staff work, prepare agendas and compile minutes.
• Outreach and Organizational Supports. Broadly support and at times lead informational HopeBuilder breakfasts, Annual Meeting, policy and coalition work, and Board of Directors functions and meetings.
• Volunteers. Work with staff and Board to explore opportunities to develop and implement a volunteer program.
• Grant writing. Research, write or assist in writing grants as assigned.
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• Event planning experience preferred
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Deep in the heart of the Himalayas, is this spectacular ' Valley of Flowers'. Many varieties of Himalayan wildflowers bloom here. Post monsoons, the floor of the valley is covered with a carpet of myriad colors! It is an awesome sight of colors with a contrasting backdrop of majestic peaks.
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QUIZ: Which Tragic Met Gala Look Are You, Really?
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Someone call the fashion police, there's been several murders on the red carpet.
Ahhh yes! The Met Gala. The one night of the year celebrities gather together to...ummm...what exactly is it for again?
Whatever the reason, one thing we know for certain is that you can always guarantee that there will be several celebrities who totally miss the mark when it comes to nailing their red carpet looks. It can't be nice appearing on the 'worst dressed' lists the next day but remember they are better looking, wealthier and more famous than most of us will ever be, so don't pity them *too* much.
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Over the course of our years serving clients, it has been our honor to walk alongside people in some of the most difficult and complex situations they face, guiding them in financial decisions and being present to ease their concerns.
These situations bring with them the full range of human emotion, as you can imagine. Especially at big transition points, clients often come to us with mixtures of hope, worry, insecurity, and vulnerability. After all, personal finances are among the most sensitive and intimate subjects imaginable. In a world packed with sales people, how do you trust anyone to have your best interest at heart?
Trust is the central theme of the story that follows. It is a story of confidence earned the old fashioned way, through hard work, communication, and time spent in the trenches together. Trusting someone with your finances is a big leap, and it does not happen over night. One of our favorite clients learned this first hand when she came to us one day in 2018 with arms full of paperwork and no way forward.
She and her husband had been long-standing clients. He was calm and patient in his investment style. As the primary earner for their family, he made regular contributions to their accounts, and trusted that in due course their investments would bear fruit. She wished she could be more involved and active in her contributions, but since much of her time had been spent caring for her aging parents, she hardly had a minute to spare. Upon her father's death, however, her situation suddenly became more pressing. She was now faced with settling his estate. She stood to inherit a truly complicated array of bank accounts, tax-deferred retirement accounts, individual municipal bond holdings and old stock certificates, in addition to the family ranch. Though at first determined to do it herself, she became quickly aware of how complicated it would be to process the mountains of paperwork she faced, so she came to us for guidance.
Thomas and Chris sat with her and poured through the many folders of papers and documents she had brought along with her. Thomas explained to her that Chris would be taking charge of this project in efforts to be as helpful and available as possible. But when Chris stepped out to make copies of these documents, she expressed to Thomas reservations about working with Chris, because he was the newest member of the team. She worried she was being pawned off to someone inexperienced, and was hesitant to get started. After all, how could she trust someone with this massive and sensitive task when she had no personal relationship with that person?
Thomas assured her that she was not being shunted off, that he would be supervising every step along the way, and that he was certain she'd come to trust Chris just as he had over the four years Chris had been part of the team. So she agreed to move forward. Chris took a few weeks to prepare and get his bearings for what this project would entail. He systematically gathered information about each element of her inheritance, and realized just how extensive a task it would be. It would entail tracking down bank accounts and IRAs from small rural banks across the state, liquidating and consolidating investment accounts, determining cost basis for holdings that were never traded publicly, and contacting various financial institutions to get everyone on the same page. It also meant coordinating with her father's CPA to determine whether the correct Required Minimum Distributions had been taken prior to his death, and how best to correct the situation once it was determined that they had not. After taking stock of what work needed to be done, he came up with a game plan.
Over the course of the next several months, through numerous phone calls and meetings, Chris advised her on the next steps they needed to take together to chip away at this highly complex project, and the two started to make headway. At first, she was not so sure, grilling him with intense questions and skepticism. But as time went on she began to see that Chris' hard work and organization was paying off. As the process began to unfold and as check after
check started to come in from the accounts being settled, seeing the fruits of all this labor brought her relief and understanding that Chris really had her best interest at heart.
Chris had saved the most complicated pieces for last, sorting through and settling old stock certificates, some of which were still listed in her deceased mother's name. This required her to sign stacks of paperwork in order to consolidate and re-register these holdings. When she arrived and took her seat she saw folders neatly arranged, documents highlighted, and lines flagged for her convenience so she knew exactly where to sign, making what could have been
a mind bending task something she could make her way through with ease. She was impressed, and now forever convinced that Chris was on her team. He had taken extra time to flag and highlight those documents for her, and she was grateful. Nearing the end of 2018, as she and Chris finalized the last bits of paperwork, at last this complicated challenge was settled. They had done it.
Chris later received a warm note in the mail from her, thanking him for all his hours of care and dedication to helping her settle her father's estate. A client who started from a place of skepticism and hesitation had seen first hand the lengths to which this team will go to do the right thing and do it well. Trust is earned. We understand that well here. Our industry is packed with "advisors" just looking for the next sale. We take pride in standing with clients through thick and thin. The confidence and trust our clients place in us is our most treasured possession, so we thank each of you for placing that level of confidence in our hands.


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It's been demonstrated that microtubule stabilization in the axonal shaft precedes the standards and elongation from the axon7C9, whereas global microtubule Brefeldin A kinase activity assay stabilization induces the forming of multiple axons10. Furthermore, it's been proven that neuronal polarization or axon development could happen through cell-length-dependent build up of microtubules without selective microtubule stabilization11. Alternatively, F-actin can be more powerful within axonal when compared with dendritic development cones as well as the F-actin depolymerizing agent cytochalasin D causes neurons to build up multiple axons12. Along these lines many signaling systems have already been shown to regulate extensive remodeling of the cytoskeleton, which in turn precedes and instructs axon growth7C9, 13. However, whether the interplay between microtubules and F-actin sets the conditions for axon selection and elongation is still not well comprehended. Several lines of evidence show that axon selection can be induced by extracellular cues in a stochastic manner3, 14C16, suggesting that F-actin instability might lead to eventual microtubule stabilization. Other reports indicate that centrosome and Golgi apparatus positioning can predict axon selection2, 17C21, indirectly suggesting that microtubules might play a modulating role. Consequently, it is possible that microtubules might determine F-actin dynamics prior to and during axon formation to set up the conditions for breaking cellular symmetry. It has been recently reported that Drebrin promotes microtubule entry into spines of mature neurons, which are Brefeldin A kinase activity assay F-actin rich structures22. Drebrin inhibits cofilin-induced severing of F-actin and stabilizes F-actin23, 24. Drebrin also binds EB3 to promote neurite formation25. A recent study provides evidence that Drebrin contributes to the coordination of the Brefeldin A kinase activity assay actin and microtubule cytoskeleton during the Brefeldin A kinase activity assay initial stages of axon branching26. Drebrin is usually therefore a suitable candidate for investigating the molecular cross-talk between microtubule and actin prior and during axon extension. To address this important question we characterized the interplay between microtubule and F-actin dynamics in developing neurons during neuronal polarization. Results Drebrin E is usually segregated to growth cones with higher F-actin treadmilling rate prior and during axon extension We decided to study the impact of Drebrin overexpression on microtubule and F-actin dynamics directly. Rat hippocampal neurons were transfected with Lifeact-GFP or Drebrin-YFP together with the microtubule plus-end marker EB3-mCherry before plating. 24?hrs later, developing neurons (stage 2 to early stage 3) were imaged for 5?min using a body price of 2?sec. Drebrin-YFP overexpression marketed the admittance of EB3-mCherry towards the peripheral area of development cones (Fig.?1aCompact disc, Video?1). Nevertheless, EB3 rarely went beyond the central area from the development cone when neurons co-expressed Lifeact-GFP and EB3-mCherry. This is evidenced by quantification from the percentage of EB3 comets coverage performed in Drebrin-YFP and Lifeact-GFP expressing cells. (Fig.?1aCompact disc, Video?1). It's been previously proven that endogenous Drebrin localized in the transitional area of development cones25, 27. Nevertheless, we discovered that Drebrin-YFP localized in the peripheral aswell such as the transitional area of development cones. As a result, we examined the localization of endogenous Drebrin. We discovered that Drebrin is certainly mostly localized in the transitional domain name in some growth cones; nevertheless, it is not precluded from the development cone periphery (Supplementary Body?1a,b). This confirms an identical distribution of overexpressed and endogenous Drebrin signal. Furthermore, we discovered Brefeldin A kinase activity assay that endogenous Cofilin is certainly preferentially enriched along with endogenous Drebrin or overexpressed Drebrin-YFP in development cones (Supplementary Body?1cCh). Next, we determined the Drebrin-YFP indication amount and strength of EB3 comets getting into development cones of stage 2 cells. The quantification displays a relationship between the quantity of EB3 comets and the intensity of Drebrin signal; growth cones that received more EB3 comets experienced more Drebrin-YFP transmission (Fig.?1e,f). 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There are benefits to healthy eating. In 2014, University College London conducted a study that found that eating seven or more servings of vegetables and fruit each day decreases your risk of death by 42 percent. Wow! There are many diet fads that guarantee quick weight loss. However, eating healthy is not a diet trend or fad — it's a lifestyle.
Let's take a quick look at some recent diet trends and fads. Remember, you should always check with your health care provider before making changes to your diet.
The theory behind cleansing is that eating or drinking certain foods will cleanse your body. However, your body naturally cleanses itself. Your kidneys filter waste and then excrete the waste in urine. Your liver also removes toxins.
Several celebrities have their own cleansing diets. Foods included in the diet cleanse are low in important nutrients such as protein, calcium and Vitamin D.
The best way to keep your kidneys and liver healthy is by avoiding excess sugar and high fructose corn syrup, limiting alcohol, and by maintaining a good weight.
It is believed that the body needs to detox to rid itself of toxins in order to cleanse, repair and replace worn-out cells. Detox promotes eating certain foods while avoiding others. A guest doctor on a popular daytime talk show stated that 10 detox foods need to be consumed. They include but are not limited to green leafy and cruciferous vegetables, cold water fish and chicken, berries, and lemon water. A detox diet also eliminates foods such as milk and other dairy products, eggs, gluten, sugar, soy, soda, and alcohol. Like cleansing, the detox diet also has several important nutrients missing, such as calcium and Vitamin D.
Raw foods diet
The raw foods diet suggests eating raw foods is healthier than eating cooked foods. Raw foods include fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, and sprouted grains. Some raw foods diets may suggest raw eggs, milk and meat. Raw meat can be dangerous as it increases your risk of foodborne illness from bacteria such as listeria, salmonella and E. coli.
The theory behind eating raw foods suggests that cooking destroys nutrients. However, cooking may increase the nutrient availability in foods by increasing lycopene. Lycopene is an important antioxidant that may prevent certain diseases such as cancer. Cooking foods also helps decrease foodborne illness by destroying bacteria. Also, for those who have dental needs, raw foods are sometimes hard to chew.
It is important to properly clean raw food. Some foods are at higher risk of contamination such as sprouts, raspberries, green onions and lettuce. Pregnant women, elderly and those with a compromised immune system should not follow a raw food diet. As with all diets, before eating a raw food diet consult with your physician and work with a dietitian to help replace missing nutrients. In addition, when consuming raw food, drink plenty of water to avoid a bezoar. A bezoar is a solid mass of indigestible material that may accumulate in the digestive tract and cause blockage.
Alkaline diet
The alkaline diet promotes the idea that your body works better when it's slightly alkaline. However, your body maintains the correct pH of 7.35-7.45, which is slightly alkaline regardless of the diet. Fruits and vegetables are allowed on this diet along with soy, nuts, seeds and legumes. Foods not allowed include dairy, meat, grains, processed foods, sugar, alcohol and caffeine. Major nutrients are also missing in this diet, including protein. Research has not found any health benefits in eating an alkaline diet. Before eating an alkaline diet, you should consult with your physician.
Gluten free
A gluten-free diet excludes foods that contain gluten, a protein found in foods such as wheat, barley and rye. Extensive label reading is required, and the missing B vitamins need to be replaced in this diet. Fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry, fish that is not breaded, and dairy are allowed in a gluten-free diet.
Some people who follow this diet say it helps with energy, brain fog and chronic fatigue as well as with aches and pains. Mainly people who have been diagnosed with Celiac disease or as gluten-intolerant should follow this diet. Check with your physician before deciding to try a gluten-free diet.
Atkins, South Beach and Weight Watchers
All three are long-standing diet plans that promote healthy eating by focusing on certain foods in varying amounts. As with all diets, check with your physician before trying these diets. They can help determine what is best for you.
If you have questions about fad diets or the latest diet trend, contact your physician or a registered dietician who can help you find the healthiest eating plan for you. Happy eating!
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Partial walk out Bi-level backing onto scenic park green space with pond. Enjoy the tranquil setting from your huge upper deck with covered BBQ space overlooking the fenced yard with fruit trees & perennials. This fully finished bi-level home is move in ready for you to enjoy with immediate possession available. Concrete approach under deck is accessible from the street by double gate. Inside the home the abundance of natural light is accentuated by the vaulted ceilings and open great room concept. With 2 Bedrooms on the upper floors & 2 more downstairs + 3 bathrooms, so you should have plenty of space for the whole family. Master suite is huge with vaulted ceiling, walk-in closet & soaker tub ensuite. Warm up at either of your 2 gas fireplaces, central vacuum & central air! Great community close to shopping, schools & parks. Recently added deck and stairs allow you to sit back and relax and entertain with friends on the deck or in your large fenced yard.
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Last Wednesday evening, I joined a dinner for senior co-operative retailers. Neville Richardson, of the newly merged Britannia and Co-operative Financial Services, gave an inspiring talk.
The event in the next room was intriguing – the 'loose wives dinner'. I don't believe we lost anyone from our room to theirs or vice-versa… but you can never be sure.


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Well, it's that time of year again. The most difficult period for you if you belong to an emotionally neglectful family.
So what is Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN)? And now that you're an adult, how can you tell if your family has it?
Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN): When parents fail to respond sufficiently to the child's emotional needs.
CEN can be extremely invisible, subtle and unmemorable when it happens to you as a child. You may not remember it happening, but there are some clear signs of it in the family, even after the kids are grown.
Eight Signs of the Emotionally Neglectful Family:
- Your family tends to not talk about things that are emotional, interpersonal, painful, negative or generally meaningful.
- You love your parents, but you also harbor a deep-seated, unexplained resentment or anger toward them.
- You go to family events with hopes of enjoying yourself, but you often come away feeling empty and disappointed.
- Difficult or interpersonal problems in the family are generally ignored instead of addressed directly.
- It feels like your siblings are in competition with each other, but you're not sure for what.
- Affection in your family is expressed via action (doing things for people), and not so much by words or physical expression.
- Emotion – perhaps only negative emotion, but perhaps ALL emotions – are taboo in your family.
- You feel surprisingly lonely, or left out, when you're with your family.
If you read this list and feel that some of these signs describe your family, then you will be faced with some special challenges this holiday season. That's because CEN families are different from all others in very important ways.
The CEN family is operating without a vital ingredient; an ingredient that is not just important, it's essential. It's the glue that would bind and the energy that would spark. It's emotional validation, expression and connection.
Don't say that.
Don't share that.
Don't need that.
Don't feel that.
These are the unspoken messages of the CEN family. No one has to speak them because everyone knows. You must sacrifice your true self in order to make sure you don't rock the family boat.
Like a beautiful cake baked without sugar or a perfectly seared steak with no seasoning, the CEN family can appear ideal. Only those who taste it will notice that it's not right.
Each individual person in the family can be wonderful. But when you put all those wonderful people in a room together, it feels somehow lacking. Each feels disconnected and disappointed. Each feels inexplicably alone.
How to Survive and Thrive Through the Holidays With Your CEN Family:
- Know that this problem is not about you, nor is it caused by you. You are simply a victim of it.
- Understand that your family members most likely are not doing this on purpose; in fact they probably don't realize that anything is wrong.
- Before you go to your family holiday gathering, pause a moment to prepare. Remind yourself of the family's limitations, and that it's not your fault. Gather your emotional strength, and do your best to lower your expectations.
- Try to stop looking to family members for that warm holiday feeling. Sadly, they cannot give you what they themselves don't have.
- Think about other people in your life who can give you the feeling of belonging, connection, support, validation and love. Your spouse perhaps? Your friends? Your own children? These are the people to try to join with this holiday.
- Consider breaking the code. If your CEN family is not harsh – a more kind, benign type of family, you can surprise everyone this holiday season. Deliver some talk about your feelings or needs. Talk about some negative topic, or express your affection for someone. You may make some people uncomfortable, but discomfort can be a good thing.
- Start working on the effects of the CEN that you grew up with. Get in touch with your feelings, learn how to listen to them, use them and share them. And above all, make sure that you don't pass your CEN down to your own children.
For more information on CEN, how it plays out in adulthood, and how to heal it in yourself, see EmotionalNeglect.com and the book Running on Empty.


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It's Sunday,
go to Mass.
go to Mass.
How will God bring them to a good Church if, as it appears, they are after a Church/Mass of their own taste?
And why would you not go an Ordinary Form the Mass which is celebrated according to the Missale Romanum of 1969, promulgated by Pope Paul VI and thereby fulfil the Sunday Obligation?
I remember a lovely story of decades gone by about a mother of many children who needed to find a new home. She prayed and prayed for a place near a Church so she could get to daily Mass even with all her duties. Our Dear Father in Heaven found a little house for her and her brood right next door to a Catholic Church.
Pray to St. Joseph and ask him specifically to bring you to a good Church. Don't stop until he answers you. Forgive me, but sometimes our prayers are not specific enough, and we don't persevere long enough. God bless you in your prayers and your search.
Where? Where do I go to mass that is not a NO mass? Where i am told I have to support this apostate pope? I am an at-home Catholic with my rosary and my prayers until I can find a place to go to mass. I pray constantly for the Church and he people.
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Microchip MG2RTP - rad-hard 190K used gates 0.5 µm CMOS Sea of Gates
The MG2RTP series is a 0.5 micron, array based, CMOS product family. Several arrays up to 270K gates cover most system integration needs. The MG2RTP is manufactured using a 0.5 micron drawn, 3 metal layers CMOS process, called SCMOS 3/2 RTP.
The base cell architecture of the MG2RTP series provides high routability of logic with extremely dense compiled memories: RAM and DPRAM. ROM can be generated using synthesis tools.
Accurate control of clock distribution can be achieved by PLL hardware and CTS (Clock Tree Synthesis) software. New noise prevention techniques are applied in the array and in the periphery: three or more independent supplies, internal decoupling; customization dependent supply routing, noise filtering, skew controlled I/Os, low swing differential I/Os, all contribute to improve the noise immunity and reduce the emission level.
The MG2RTP is supported by an advanced software environment based on industry standards linking proprietary and commercial tools. Verilog, Modelsym and Design Compiler are the reference front end tools. Floor planning associated with timing driven layout provides a short back end cycle.
Key features
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Beardsley Zoo zoologist discusses species survival
Photo: Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut Media
Beardsley Zoo's Curator of Education Jim Knox presented "Saving Animals From Extinction: Tales of Species Recovery in Connecticut and Beyond" during the Fred Elser First Sunday Science progam at Greenwich Point Park's Seaside Center on Sunday.
Knox spoke on the international state of biodiversity and showcased the zoo's work with Species Survival Plans in Connecticut and beyond.
In addition to the presentation, there was a live marine tank and various activities for children.


text: Time for a pension intervention?January 25, 2011 Stikeman Elliott On January 21, 2011, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) issued a Guide to Intervention for Federally Regulated Private Pension Plans. This Intervention Guide sets out the situations in which OSFI will take action in its capacity as the Canadian federal pension regulator, and enumerates the various powers which it may deploy depending on the particular pension plan's "Composite Risk Ratio". The Intervention Guide uses a colour schematic to set out the spectrum of risk ratios. The palette ranges from green (Low Risk) to red (High Risk), but OSFI then goes the U.S. Department of Homeland Security one better by extending its spectrum beyond red to black (Permanent Insolvency). This "threat level" colour scheme,not to mention the use of a Winfreyesque expression like "intervention" with its connotation of concerned individuals surrounding a person suffering from some sort of addiction, may provoke a few snickers. In practice, however,the Intervention Guide should actually be helpful to sponsors and administrators of federally-registered pension plans, for it serves as a fairly reader-friendly summary of OSFI's current approach to pension regulation (which approach is set forth in greater detail in OSFI's April 2009 Risk Assessment Framework for Federally Regulated Pension Plans). Even better, it contains a useful checklist of all of OSFI's statutory and regulatory powers in the pension field, updated to reflect the most recent changes to the federal pension legislation and organized to indicate the circumstances in which those various powers may be deployed. DISCLAIMER: This publication is intended to convey general information about legal issues and developments as of the indicated date. It does not constitute legal advice and must not be treated or relied on as such. Please read our full disclaimer at www.stikeman.com/legal-notice.


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What's New in Stratusphere UX 6.0!
I'm very excited to announce the general availability of Stratusphere UX 6.0. With this release, the solution has received an architectural upgrade, a dashboard builder, support for new client devices, and application features to facilitate application strategy and reporting.
Under the Covers
Primary to this release is a new and highly-scalable architecture, which will support an increase of 400 percent in scale and increases of 40 percent in interface responsiveness and over 100 percent in reporting time. Additionally, Stratusphere UX 6.0 introduces a distributed Collector Appliance, for the aggregation and collection of Stratusphere Connector ID Key (an extremely lightweight in-guest agent) data and network data—related, Connector ID Keys now offer a feature to failover to another Stratusphere Collector in the event of an appliance or infrastructure failure.
Dashboard Builder
This release of Stratusphere UX will also introduce a brand new dashboard builder. The builder is graphical in nature and offers the ability to create and organize widgets that will provide visibility to the metrics and information you deem most important. Dashboard views can be organized in tab views that can be customized and saved to support specific use cases and team needs. From help desk to the network operations center (NOC), the Stratusphere Dashboard Builder will ensure you have the detail necessary to monitor user experience and workspace performance.
In-Guest Support and Visibility Extended
In addition to supporting all major versions of Microsoft Windows and Linux distributions, this release of Stratusphere UX will add support for Apple OS X (El Capitan) and macOS (Sierra). Visibility to physical devices is important, and we're excited to be able to bring the metrics and details that underpin user experience to Apple workspaces.
This release of Stratusphere UX will also provide increased details and metrics to support end-device network-layer visibility. Specifically, trace route functionality has been added to the product. Physical-layer connectivity can play an important role in the delivery of user experience; especially for remotely connected devices and teleworkers.
Read the entire article here, What's New in Stratusphere UX 6.0 | Liquidware Blog –
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Just when you think the illogical action in Raleigh is about to end, our Honorable Legislators turn around and top themselves.
This time, the Senate has passed a bill effectively outlawing wind power in most of North Carolina.
The reason (are you ready?): Homeland Security.
State Sen. Harry Brown of Onslow County, who introduced the measure, and his colleagues are desperately afraid the Pentagon is about to close down Camp Lejeune and Fort Bragg and move them to, oh, Massachusetts or someplace like that.
So they want to make the Tar Heel State as military-friendly as possible.
And how does one do that? By banning wind farms -- arrays of wind-power turbines -- in the flight paths used by low-flying military aircraft during training exercises. Look at map, and those flight paths cover almost all of eastern and central North Carolina, plus a significant chunk of the mountain region.
Too bad, Hippie. Take your windmill somewhere else.
Notice, however, that Sen. Brown's bill does not likewise prohibit other tall structures in flight paths, such as radio or television antennas, cell or microwave towers or skyscrapers.
This is not hypothetical. Back in 1981, some will recall, an Air National Guard jet clipped a guy wire on the broadcast tower for a Wilmington TV station and toppled it. (WWAY rebuilt its tower in a different spot.) TV towers are not prohibited under the law, though; only wind turbines.
One strongly suspects the whole "We don't want our bases shut down" business is an excuse, rather than an actual reason. Many Republicans in the legislators -- who have bent over backward to promote hydraulic fracking in this state -- seem to regard wind and solar power as somehow evil. Good ol' petrochemicals are the only power source that manly men should want or need.
This (may we humbly suggest yet again) is expensive folly. For economic and, yet, military security, our nation needs to draw its energy from a diverse array of sources. Wind power should certainly be part of this mix.
Wind turbines pose some local problems, but by most measurements, the pluses outweigh the minuses. Wind power is abundant and consistent, especially along the Tar Heel coast. Running wind turbines doesn't create greenhouse gases or other pollutants. Wind doesn't have to be pumped from unstable corners of the world, filled with terrorists, guerrilla fighters and two-bit despots intent on milking Uncle Sam for every penny they can.
Travel in Germany and other parts of Europe, and you'll see giant wind turbines gently churning away in the midst of placid fields. Rock-ribbed Republican farmers in America's Midwest are making money by allowing turbines amid their corn and soybeans.
Even Duke Energy has pledged public allegiance to wind power in a series of big print advertisements. One assumes that Duke's lobbyists will therefore be passing among state House members, telling them what a bad idea this de facto wind-farm ban will be.
In case the Honorables don't get the message, the voters should tell them, too.
A version of this editorial appeared in the Wilmington Star News, a Halifax Media Group newspaper.


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Has the President of the United States sent an emissary to your house of worship to commend it for its good works? Our humble little low church on the near westside hasn't yet been so honored, despite its many commendable efforts on behalf on the poor and unfortunate, so we're feeling a bit slighted. The Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City recently got a high-ranking visit and official effusive thanks, after all, and none of our congregation have beheaded anyone.
The mosque wasn't being thanked for the beheading, we are assured, but rather for its past support of the rescue and recovery efforts in the aftermath of a devastating tornado last year in the nearby town of Moore. We don't mean to diminish the mosque's good works, and will freely acknowledge Islam's longstanding reputation for charity, but there's no shaking a suspicion that the official effusive thanks from our government has more to do with the more recent beheading committed by one of the mosque's newest converts against a former co-worker in that very same nearby town. Islam also suffers a longstanding reputation for such brutality, especially lately, and by now it's an obligatory rite to respond to every Islamist outrage with official pronouncements that Islam is a religion of peace and has contributed greatly to world civilization and most Muslims aren't going to chop your head off and the rest of the familiar boilerplate. The practice began shortly after Islamist terrorists slammed airliners full of terrified passengers into the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon, when even good old President George W. Bush felt compelled to immediately rush to the nearest mosque and pose for a religiously tolerant photo-op, and after nearly six years of the current administration it has become an act of prostration.
The murderer had been fired from the food distribution plant where he committed his horrific crime, so polite opinion can conclude that it was just another one of those instances of "workplace violence" that happen so often in our capitalist society, like the time that poor fellow shot up the Fort Hood Army Base while shouting "allahu akbar," but this requires an extraordinary politeness. In this case the murderer had been fired for making his female co-workers uncomfortable with talk of stoning them to death for their wanton western ways, had a Facebook page full of rants about jihad and sharia, and chose an unusual method of murder that had recently been recommended by the Islamic State terror gang currently running amok in the Middle East. Such an obvious Islamic angle to the crime requires an extra amount of distraction, so the murderer's mosque is not only to be absolved of any suspicion but praised for its past largesse.
The obvious and understandable rationale for such obfuscation is to prevent a violent nativist purge of that vast majority of Muslims who probably won't chop your head off, but by now that is no longer convincing. Similar outrages by people espousing Islam have been frequent for the peat several decades, but the people attacked for the religion are mostly Jews, and the torchlights and pitchforks never seem to materialize. There are reports that the mosque has received threatening messages, and we don't doubt it, as Oklahoma City is full of people and we can't vouch for the friendliness and tolerance of all of them, but our long experience of the city tells us that it's not likely to embark on any ethnic or religious cleansing. Oklahoma City is a city of peace, has contributed greatly to world civilization, and the vast majority of its citizens will not chop your head off or otherwise molest you, but somehow our government never gets around to making such official pronouncements on its behalf and instead makes high-ranking visits to mosques to imply they're all a bunch of Islamophobic rednecks ready at a moments 's head off to another crusade with shotguns on the racks of their pickup trucks. We'd like to think this notion isn't all wrong, but it's wrong enough that the government can please spare us another round of the usual cliches.
As annoying as they are to us, we can only imagine that the next nutcase plotting to chop someone's head off finds such apologia a siren call. The multi-cultural theory behind all this praise for Islam holds that Muslims crave only respect, and that once it has been properly supplied they will take their rightful place in the glorious tapestry that is the global community, but by now the more criminally inclined among the faith have surely noticed that it is skyjackings and bombings and beheadings that prompt the official pronouncements of respects from the infidels. When an Islamist terror gang killed an ambassador and four other Americans at our country's consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the president blamed it on an obscure internet video and the country's lamentable constitutional practice of allowing such free speech, and told the General Assembly of the United Nations that "The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam," and those who believe that anyone who harbors doubt about the Prophet of Islam are slandering him were no doubt encouraged.
Thinking back to the culture wars of past decades, when crucifixes were being dunked in urine and pictures of the Virgin Mary were being covered in elephant dung on the taxpayers' dime, and polite opinion regarded it as the height of religious fanaticism to object to such free expression, we find it hard to imagine President Barack Obama or any of his acolytes scolding that the future must not belong those who slander the Christian faith. Nor can we imagine the administration taking a stand on behalf of the rights of Jews to defend themselves against Islamist terror or to rent an apartment in Jerusalem, and for that matter we can't even see it siding with the homosexuals or women who are routinely targeted for the most horrible abuse in an enlightened Europe that already routinely turns a blind eye to such offenses.
In the absence of anything more governmental or official, let us give our thanks to Oklahoma City and its well-above-average number of churches, and we'll assume there are at least two synagogues down there and offer them our thanks as well. We trust that you've also chipped in generously on a variety of worthy community causes, that none of your congregants have chopped anybody's head office, and we believe that it's important what we celebrate in our culture.
— Bud Norman


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Foreign investors and national economic policy formation in China : the case of the indigenous innovation ProgramWeimer Swader, Larissa
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|Bericht / Forschungsbericht / Abhandlung
|Hertie School of Governance
|Working papers // Hertie School of Governance
|http://www.hertie-school.org/fileadmin/images/Downloads/working_papers/61.pdf (2011)
|China , Auslandsinvestition , Wirtschaftsentwicklung , Wirtschaftspolitik
|BK - Basisklassifikation:
|15.79 (China), 85.30 (Investition, Finanzierung), 89.50 (Politische Prozesse: Allgemeines)
|3.6 Politik und Friedensforschung
Kurzfassung auf Englisch:
On November 15, 2009, the Chinese government promulgated the "Notification Regarding the Launch of National Indigenous Innovation Product Accreditation Work for 2009" (Notice 618), a new national accreditation program that is part of a bigger national innovation policy scheme. The new directive states that products can be accredited as "indigenous" if their commercial trademarks, patents, copyrights and non-patented technology and knowhow have originated in China. Further, Notice 618 explicitly specifies that "indigenous" products cannot be subject to foreign restrictions; the trademarks used must be registered in China first and cannot be constrained by any related foreign brand. After the accreditation procedure, "indigenous" products are added to a national catalogue that is used for the national government procurement market, i.e. "indigenous" products are given priority in government procurement projects. Notice 618 has attracted great attention from foreign investors in China immediately after its publication since their products would not qualify to obtain an "indigenous" product status. The immediate strong reaction of foreign investors against the implementation of Notice 618 has pressured the Chinese government to reconsider parts of its original indigenous innovation program and to submit a revised version. The content analysis in this paper revealed that changes made in the revised version of Notice 618 were able to be traced to the concerns raised by the foreign actor community as a whole at the meso level. Further, it can be assumed that foreign actors, specifically multinational corporations via their representative organizations, as a group had an impact on the national policy formation process in regard to the implementation of indigenous innovation in China. The findings of the content analysis have two implications for the Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). First, the importance of the indigenous innovation program and its serious discussion among foreign actors provides enough information for the GIZ to consider its involvement on the topic. Second, the foreign actors currently contributing to the discussion of the topic are in high demand, i.e. indicating that the GIZ in China could play a potentially crucial role in mediating the concerns regarding the indigenous innovation to influential Chinese state actors. Moreover, GIZ could acquire a position within the cumulative pressure group of meso-level actors. As a major knowledge transfer agent, the GIZ with its research department for "Innovation and Technology" can offer its expertise within the discussion of indigenous innovation in China. Hence, one of the policy recommendations for GIZ is to contribute to the topic at the macro level by providing unbiased and objective advice to its current partners at the Executive summary V NDRC and the Research Office of the State Council. Another policy recommendation presented in this paper relates to the GIZ as an actor with vast experience in project implementation. GIZ could play a major role on the provincial and local level, assisting local governments and firms to implement the changes within the development of the indigenous innovation program.
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In celebration of Shivratri 2016 donations of £215, plus on-line contributions, went towards the Nepalese charity 'All Hands Volunteers', nominated charity of student Amie who flies out to do hands-on volunteering with the charity shortly!
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'Ramana's Garden' in Rishikesh, India, is a wonderful children's home and school set up to support abandoned, orphaned, destitute and abused children who are given food, shelter and education so they may thrive. The school is currently raising money to install solar power.
The links below provide more humbling info about this truly wonderful cause:
http://www.friendsramanasgarden.org OR http://sayyesnow.org
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Fundraiser DIVALI event October 2015
WOW £820 raised by the Yoga Sanctuary Sangha from Divali celebrations, which means we can share the light in a tangible and practical way to help transform a school in rural India.
Huge Thank You to all the Yogis who brought some light out of their pockets - monies raised will go with direct effect to the Shahdol Foundation in India, this together with the donations from Deva Deva Yoga School in Holland, means we can make a real difference to over 600 under-privileged children attending the Shahdol school in rural India.
Donations from both Yoga Schools greatly exceeded the £1000 target required to create a new well for drinking water, and along with a couple of large individual donations from students of Deva Deva it means they also have enough left over to purchase a new tractor for their agricultural activities. Amazing, what a difference we can all make as a collective energy!
Message of Thanks from the Shahdol Foundation:
"Dear beautiful people, we from Shahdol Foundation are very grateful for your donation to the children on our school in India. the waterwell we had made in 2000 has dried up, and with this money we are able to make a new one. all the children are using this well on the school. now we have 630 children who have free education and 35 boys are living in the hostel next to the school. with donations like this we are really able to give something back to the world. in our tradition we say, come to learn and go to serve. in name of the children thank you my dear brothers and sisters, Namaste."
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Donations from Kirtan Events in June and September 2015 were sent to the Greek Rescue Organisations, who are receiving an ever increasing number of refugees on their shores.
The 'Hellenic Rescue Team' used donation of £550 in September to purchase supplies and distribute them to refugees stranded in FYROM. Donations in June of £650 was sent to Hellenic Red Cross and to Hellenic Rescue Team based on the island of Kos, who used the funds to purchase essential supplies such as water, food and blankets.
"On behalf of Hellenic Rescue Team's Board of Directors I would like to thank everyone in Yoga Sanctuary for their donations. It is always very nice to know that there are people who support our work, even outside Greece and people who care about the refugees' problem. We assure you that the money has been used to buy all the necessary products that the refugees need and we send you photos from the delivery.' ~ www.hrt.org.gr


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Today is the first day of the Second Quarter!
Last week of Intramural Basketball! This week boys will have early practice and girls will have mandatory study hall and late practice. Competitive play begins on Monday, October 26.
Attention Student Council Members: Any member interested in helping with October events should sign up on the lists posted outside Mrs. Pothast's classroom. Help is needed for the Book Fair, Parent Teacher Conferences, and the Staff Veterans Appreciation Project. The lists will be posted through Tuesday, October 20th so sign up soon! Please see Mrs. Pothast with questions.
Mark your Calendar! – Parent/Teacher Conferences at Skyview Middle School will be ONE DAY only: Thursday, October 29. Conference times are scheduled online. To find the link to schedule online and additional Parent/Teacher Conference information, please go to: KPBSD district web page > Schools > Skyview Middle School Blog > Student/Parent Information > Parent/Teacher Conferences. There will be no school for students on Thursday, October 29 and Friday, October 30.
Skyview Scholastic Book Fair October 26 – 29! Skyview Middle School will host a Scholastic Book Fair starting Monday, October 26. Families, faculty, and the community are invited to attend this fun event that helps inspire children to become lifelong readers. The fair will be open during students' school hours Monday – Wednesday and Noon – 8 pm Thursday during parent teacher conferences. The Book Fair offers specially priced books and educational products, including popular series, award-winning titles, new releases, adult bestsellers, and other great reads from more than 100 publishers. This year's Book Fair will feature the 4th annual Cake Decorating Contest with entries given away as door prizes during Parent Teacher Conferences. Participants with winning entries will receive Scholastic Book Fair gift certificates. Entries will be accepted in the library Monday and Tuesday, October 26 and 27 from 7:30 – 2:30. Contest is open to the public. For a printable contest entry form, please visit online: Skyview Middle School Blog > Skyview Library> Printable Contest Form. For additional information, contact Anne McCabe in the library.
Skyview Middle School is now accepting online payments for Class Fees, Athletic Fees and Lunch Fees! Parents have two options available to do this: Option 1 – sign on to Power School – click on the "Lunch and Fees Folder" then choose "Lunch Planner" or "Student Fees" OR Option 2 – visit the KPBSD website > Students/Parents> Online Payments> Skyview Middle School> Class/Activity Fees> sign in to Power School. Please note that online payments will take approximately 24 hours to process. If you need assistance, please call the office at 260-2500 and ask for Mrs. Kircher.
Kitchen Volunteers Needed – Skyview Middle School is looking for volunteers to help with serving lunches to students from 11:45 to 12:15. Kenai Peninsula Borough School District volunteer paperwork must be completed and approved. If interested, please contact the office.


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PTC, proud sponsor of HPE Discover named Technology Partner of the Year 2019 - Edge & IoT Solutions
17 June, 2019
PTC, proud sponsor of HPE Discover is named Technology Partner of the Year 2019 - Edge and IoT Solutions by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
HPE and PTC: Industrial IoT at the Edge
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I should also mention, that after the recent acquisition of a couple of bags of cavalry, that one thing I am going doing is getting cracking on the Gendarmerie de France.
My other bag will become either the Wurtemburg or Nassau-Saarbruck regiment.
At some stage in the (near) future, I would like to do the Conde regiment.


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A Phoenix judge has agreed to delay the trial of two men accused of being white supremacists who are charged in a 2004 bombing that injured a black city official in Scottsdale, according to court documents obtained Wednesday.
Twin brothers Dennis and Daniel Mahon had been scheduled to go on trial starting March 9, but U.S. District Judge David Campbell last week ordered that the trial be postponed by nine months. It is now scheduled to begin on Jan. 10.
In his order, Campbell said that he was extending the trail date at the brothers' request and based on a "substantial" amount of information disclosed by the government in the case.
The brothers are charged in a bombing on Feb. 26, 2004, when a package detonated in the hands of Don Logan, Scottsdale's diversity director at the time. The explosion injured Logan's hand and arm and also hurt a secretary.
The brothers, who were arrested in June 2009 at their home in Davis Junction, Ill., are charged with conspiracy to damage buildings and property by means of explosive. Authorities found assault weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and white supremacist material in the home.
They have pleaded not guilty. They remain in federal custody.
Their trial date has been postponed several times because of the amount of evidence in their case.
Logan has denied requests to speak about the case but spoke in court during a hearing for Daniel Mahon shortly after his arrest.
"This individual represents hate, and that hate is a danger to the community," Logan said as he repeatedly turned to look Mahon in the eye. "That someone would come to Arizona and launch an attack simply because my skin color is different from theirs, simply because of hate, ... is unconscionable."
In a letter filed as evidence in federal court, Dennis Mahon wrote that he led the White Knights of the KKK from 1987 to 1991, and that brother Daniel was never a member of the group, only a "small money supporter."
Dennis Mahon also is charged with malicious damage of a building by means of explosive and distribution of information related to explosives.


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Hand-woven in Santa Cruz, CA, this necklace features a Malachite with Gold Seed of Life pendant lovingly strung with Citrine, Malachite and Rutilated Quartz beads to activate and energize body, mind and spirit!
This necklace measures 15 inches (38 cm) and is woven from a vegan "sinew alternative" -- infinitely more durable than Hemp, yet earthy and organic in texture.
Every knot is tied with intention and infused with love, and every necklace is as unique as the person it adorns.
Malachite is considered to be one of the most powerful stones for change and spiritual evolution, and is regarded highly for its ability to clear and activate all seven chakras. It is also said to be particularly useful for manifesting good fortune, prosperity, abundance, and romance. As such, people are often drawn to Malachite when they desire a physical, emotional, or spiritual "reboot" – allowing them to more gracefully choose habits which are better serving of their higher good.
This Pinecone has been blessed with the Seed of Life, cast in 24k Gold. This sacred symbol serves as the foundation or "Seed" for the Flower of Life, and represents the Seven days of Creation. It depicts the origins of all matter, in geometric perfection, with six circles (the six days of work) resting inside a seventh circle (the day of rest, the sabbath).
This uniquely hand-crafted pinecone pendant is the exact one you will receive.
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The value of a great question
How your candidate's answers can affect your recruitment selection Did you know that even the best candidates can alter your selection process? Incredible as it sounds, the approach, direction and answers your candidates deliver can determine their suitability for your open role. Choosing a candidate based on one area alone can be detrimental if the … Continue reading "The value of a great question"READ MORE >>


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Found: a lovely quotation at the bottom of an e-mail from fellow Yahoo! group member Marion Sandner of Germany:
Wir Menschen sind Engel mit nur einem Flügel-
wir müssen uns umarmen um fliegen zu können!
Translation: We people are angels with only one wing – we have to put our arms around each other to be able to fly!
Isn't that sweet?
Not much going on today, dear readers. I thought I'd have a bunch of visits, but just one this evening and another one or two tomorrow after court. Today I'm going to use that Joann's gift card my son and his GF gave me for mudder's day and otherwise catch up on paperwork. Yesterday I used the other gift cards to buy a whole bunch of tops. Yes, tops. Nice ones, too! (Thanks, kids!) Apparently Kohl's and the other department stores in my area don't believe women of a certain age or size wear skirts anymore. Truly, even the skinny minnie departments had nothing anyone (who wants to be taken seriously) would want to wear to work.
You may laugh, but I was so disturbed by this that I actually spoke with the store manager, who was polite enough so that I couldn't really complain about his manner, but he couldn't have really cared less. So…. I think something needs to be done. I am proposing the following:
It may mean paying a little more for a little less, but it could well be worth it. But really, folks, how much does it cost for a manufacturer to make a simple skirt? Good Lord, the T-shirts were $16.00, (although they were on sale for 1/2 price), and the "nicer" shirts were upwards of $30-$65.00, so this was no discount garbage store. I don't get why they won't stock skirts. Is there some industry trend? A problem with suppliers?
C'mon Kohls! I want you guys to do well! The economy is terrible enough! Your workers need their jobs and I need a place to buy skirts- see how if we just walked arm in arm through this, we could both fly?
If anyone out there has any ideas, please share your wisdom with the rest of us. In the meantime, I'm not going to work in a t-shirt and panties. I want to win cases, people, not frighten the courthouse staff!
Anyway, getting back to that Joann's gift card, I'm going to use it on fabric – I already have patterns. And in my size, thank you very much! (Thanks C & D!)
And while I'm being such a cranky old lady here: Why is it that even the tops they sell these days show more cleavage than I showed at my Junior Prom when I had something worth seeing? Just one word for that now: EW! I have had to do more sewing on some of these things than I care to admit.
Last night was bell choir. We had some sad news from one of our members which I won't repeat here. And we got some good news upon my arrival home last night! A friend with cancer had some hopeful news and our great nephew, Shane Patrick Gavigan, 7 lbs, 2? oz arrived yesterday and the family is doing very well.
Ah life….
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Rebuyer's Remorse
Customer: "I have a coupon, and I'd like to get a price adjustment for my blanket and pillow I already purchased, please!"
Me: "Sure! Just let me okay it with the manager, first!" *since it's slow, the manager on duty comes up to the register to observe* "Well, since you purchased this a month ago, it's outside the window for a price adjustment."
Customer: "Can't I just return it and rebuy it?"
Me: "Sure, then you can use your coupon!"
(We go through the return for what she originally paid, and I repurchase the items. Since these were bought on an old sale, the items returned to regular price and ring up for those amounts.)
Me: "Okay, now I'll enter the coupon code."
Customer: "Oh, that's different from what I paid before."
Me: "That's because they're no longer on sale."
Customer: "Oh, okay, then."
(She gives me her coupon and I scan it. She pays the difference and goes on her way with her items. She ends up paying at least ten dollars more than she originally purchased them for!)
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New project! This time I decided to try something a little bit more challenging… This is my first time using 18 count Aida which is not plain white, it's ivory. It's supposed to be 17 cm x 12 cm. The only difference I can tell so far is the size: a lot more stitches but a lot smaller, so my feeling of achieving is also smaller, sadly 😦 oh! The needle is also smaller, and fragile, I hope I don't break it!
Happy stitching!
Looks like I'm finally getting somewhere… The good thing is that it's mostly half stitch, so at least it's a bit faster than normal… The bad thing is that it's so easy to mess up!
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David Byrne fans are in for a treat next year as he mounts a solo tour that he is comparing to a classic Talking Heads trek.
Byrne explained his concept:
Some months ago I went to Clair Bothers in Manheim, PA to test out tech for some new live shows. I had an idea that everyone in the band might be mobile… so there would be no risers, drum platform or any of that stuff. I'd experienced a taste of this on the tour I did with St. Vincent, where all the brass players were mobile.
With everyone mobile, I realized the stage could be completely clear. If we could have the monitors in our ears, the amps off-stage and the lights up high, then we had the possibility of a completely empty space.
The problem was that there are always a lot of people and gear around the periphery of a music show—amps, monitor mixers, stage hands looking bored, road cases, etc., which would be completely distracting—how to hide that stuff? A curtain or drape obviously, but as I might be doing outdoor venues then there arose the issue of wind and drapes or curtains. A relatively light wind can play havoc with cloth, and if you try and anchor it, you end up having made yourself a very large sail—big enough to pull down the entire rig.
In Vegas and some other places, lightweight chains have been used instead of curtains… so we looked at a sample. It seemed promising, so we tested it at scale, to see if it took light (it seemed possible that the light might go right through) and to make sure it didn't interfere with the wireless transmissions—or the whole mobile idea would be impossible.
It worked. It takes color beautifully.
Not only does it take color, one can cast shadows on the chain.
The band and I will be testing all of this in front of a live audience during a small number of shows in the beginning of March. We'll be doing some new songs… and many others that will, I assume, be familiar. I'm excited. This is the most ambitious show I've done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense, so fingers crossed.
Byrne is also in the midst of recording a new album.
03/03 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Theatre
03/04 – Wilkes-Barre, PA – F.M. Kirby Center For The Performing Art
03/06 – Buffalo, NY – Center For The Arts
03/07 – Hershey, PA – Hershey Theatre
03/09 – Waterbury, CT – Palace Theater
03/10 – Kingston, NY – Ulster Performing Arts Center
03/16 – Santiago, Chile – Lollapalooza Chile
03/18 – Buenos Aires, AR – Lollapalooza Argentina
06/25 – Zagreb, Croatia – Inmusic Festival
07/06 – Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival