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Hands up, who wants to be Shrek?
Free-Rain Theatre Company has called for expressions of interest for the titular role of Dreamworks' favourite ogre in Shrek The Musical. They're seeking a Canberran with high baritone – and an interest in green – to play the fairytale lead, while the roles of Donkey and Fiona are also up for grabs.
The creative time behind Shrek The Musical is musical director Nicholas Griffin, choreographer Michelle Heine, conductor Ian McLean and director Ylaria Rogers, who told Canberra Times the Shrek they are looking for will need "charisma", "the ability to nail a Scottish accent" and be a "master farter and belcher".
"We need someone who can belt out a tune…who's not afraid to let it all out, Broadway style," Ylaria said.
The director said they had received fifty expressions of interest in the role already – so if Shrek is on your bucketlist, check out Free-Rain Theatre Company here.
Shrek the Musical will be on at The Q in the October 2018 school holidays.


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Dates: Saturday, April 29, 2019
Times: 6:30-8:00 pm
RSVP/Contact: Rami Henrich
Website: http://www.meetup.com/Pleasure-Meetup
As we come up on 1 year since SESTA/FOSTA was signed into law, the April Sex Worker Support Group will continue our discussion of the ways laws, policing, and social perception impact sex workers. We will reflect on safety and self care, while discussing how sex workers have adapted to legal changes and challenges.
We will have refreshments! There is a suggested donation of $10 per person, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Please send us a message if anyone needs a ride so we can arrange help getting to and from the meeting.
18+ only
Come to our support group for sex workers, current and former. Whether you are in need of resources or support, can provide support for others or just need a space to vent, please join us!
We look forward to seeing you at 3984 N Sheridan: Group Room 2.
The monthly (on Saturdays) topic is a starting place for conversation and connection. Our intention is to follow the needs and interests of those in attendance. If you would like support or feedback on another topic or issue, please feel free to speak to a facilitator at the outset of the group or to share in the group.
This support group is for individuals who identify currently or previously as sex workers, including but not limited to escorts, cam/phone performers, professional dominants/fetish workers, adult film actors and strippers. If you are in the sex trade, you may experience stigma, shame, guilt or isolation. You may find it is a struggle to develop, manage and sustain positive and supportive personal relationships. You may have interpersonal conflicts within the industry, or difficulty with depression and/or anxiety. Support groups are a way to build community, share experiences and gain emotional support from others.
This group is co-sponsored by SWOP Chicago (Sex Worker Outreach Project) and is open to anyone who has previously or is currently working in the sex trade. (For the safety and protection of participants, this group is not open to consumers of sex industry services.) The group is facilitated by Sarah Hemphill, LCSW and Cassandra Damm, LCSW.
RSVP to www.meetup.com/Pleasure-Meetup
**As a reminder, there are 5 Mondays in April this year, meaning the group will be meeting on 4/29, the 5th and last Monday of the month
Upcoming dates (2019): May 20, June 24
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Indication of the Way into the Kingdom of Heaven
St. Innocent of Alaska
Perhaps the first work ever written in Aleut, this short treatise was only later translated into Russian (in which it appeared in 46 editions in less than a half-century), now available in a multitude of languages. Little more needs be said... a primer for all those who would be "like unto little children" and enter upon the path of the Way into the Kingdom. Saddle-stitched


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Yoav Giladi is a hemp breeder devoting his life to the research of cannabis Sativa L. plants. Born in Israel, Yoav's background is biology and plant breeding. For the past five years, Yoav has bred and grown industrial hemp across North America in licensed fields . recently Yoav worked at the Department of Phytopathology as a research engineer leading the cannabis research in the institute. Today, Yoav is the advisor for the Israeli Industrial Hemp Pilot Program.
Yoav is the first Israeli breeder who managed to register a cannabis seed variety in the USA.


text: There has been a series of knife attacks in recent years in China, many targeting children [Ng Han Guan/AP] A knife-wielding woman wounded 14 children at a kindergarten in western China on Friday. The attacker, a 39-year-old woman armed with a kitchen knife, was taken into custody in the city of Chongqing and no motive for the assault was given by police. The attack at the Xinshiji Kindergarten in the city's outskirts took place at 9:30am (01:30GMT) as the children were returning to class, police said. The victims were taken to hospital while guards and staff at the kindergarten restrained the attacker. Footage posted on social media showed injured children walking to ambulances from the school gate, with some being placed on gurneys. No information about the attacker was given, other than her surname, Liu. Violent crime is rare in China compared with many other countries, especially in major cities where security is tight, but there has been a series of knife and axe attacks in recent years, many targeting children. Such assaults have been blamed largely on the mentally ill or people bearing grudges. Chinese law restricts the sale and possession of firearms, and mass attacks are generally carried out with knives or homemade explosives. Almost 20 children were killed in school attacks in 2010, prompting a response from top government officials and leading many schools to add gates and security guards. In June, a man used a kitchen knife to attack three boys and a mother near a school in Shanghai, killing two of the children. Police said the assailant was unemployed and carried out the attack "to take revenge on society". SOURCE: News agencies China Asia Pacific


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Class of 2011 left school with a bang, to then start studying for their final exams at home. Amidst their end of school festivities, fancy dresses, tricks and shows, to make teachers and younger fellow students remember them, seniors also decorate (or mess up?) the building. This was part of this year's shenanigans. Quite a cute surprise!


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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players…
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"Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going." Paul Theroux
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu
"The journey, not the arrival matters." TS Eliot
"A journey is best measured in friends, rather than in miles." Tim Cahill
"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." Mark Twain
"Not all those who wander are lost." J.R.R Tolkien
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." Benjamin Disraeli
"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect." Paul Theroux
"A wise traveller never despises his own country." Carlo Goldoni
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Sometimes, especially when I've not been away for a while,
to read some travel-inspired thoughts…
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." St Augustine
"Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it." Cesare Pavese
"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world." Freya Stark
"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted." Bill Bryson
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." John Steinbeck
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home." James Michener
"One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are." Edith Wharton
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." Lin Yutang
"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." Henry Miller


text: A high powered meeting of the National Inter-Agency Coordination Committee was held in the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination chaired by the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health, participated by Dr. Nausheen Hamid, Parliamentary Secretary NHSR&C, attended by Federal and Provincial Managers-EPI and representatives of the development partners (WHO and UNICEF representatives). The meeting was organized in the backdrop of the visit of the Joint Supervision, Evaluation and Monitoring (JSAEM) mission to Pakistan (Gavi, World Bank, BMGF, USAID, UNICEF-ROSA and KfW) which was in the country for the past two weeks holding extensive deliberations with the provincial EPI programmes and their respective planning and finance departments. The mission apprised the minister NHSR&C on their findings of the visit and shared key recommendations towards reaching the unvaccinated children in Pakistan. The mission members also stressed the Federal and Provincial programmes to ensuring sustainable financing through the National and provincial recurrent budgets for procurement of the vaccines and delivery of un-interrupted immunization services across the country. The meeting highlighted the need for achieving universal immunization coverage across the country as a priority. SAPM on Health, Dr. Zafar Mirza stressed that it is a high time to mainstream the universal Immunization agenda through engaging national and provincial leaders and policy makers. "To win political support and ownership at national and provincial level, advocacy supported by evidence and data is needed, opined SAPM during his remarks. On the occasion, the National Program Manager, EPI presented the targets set by provinces and areas for achieving Universal Immunization. He also shared the determination of the programme in achieving the set targets. Senior Country Manager, Gavi, briefed the Minister on behalf of the Alliance partners and Mission members regarding the progress made so far in immunization programme. While debriefing the SAPM he underscored the need of expansion of fixed sites, improving microplanning and quality of outreach services and highlighting the need to generate demand for immunization services. "Universal Immunization is the only option. Let us set our clear vision. We need to get out of our comfort zone to ensure no child is left behind", said Dr. Zafar Mirza in his closing remarks. *-*-*-* ?PREVIOUS NEXT


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Expanding the power of their body and mind, people can get the abilities inherent in animals. The world for them becomes bright and saturated, as they can see and feel things that are not perceptible to humans.
100 years ago there were people who with the help of tattoos and surgery changed their appearance in order to resemble zebras or cats. Their purpose was to gain popularity and become celebrities.
Now, with the development of science and medicine, many people tend to use the wonders of progress, extending the capabilities of their body. It is not about looking like animals, it's about getting abilities that most people don't even dream about.
Magnet fingers
All we know about the electric fields around us, but very few people had a chance to feel the effect of them, except for that electric shock when you touch a "charged" wool sweater.
However, many animals are able to sense the invisible world of electricity around them. Sharks, for example, have special openings in their head, called the ampullae of Lorenzini. With their help, these predatory fish detect interference in the electromagnetic field generated by a potential prey.
It is believed that many species of birds, as well as lobster and bees, also feel magnetism, using it for the purpose of navigation.
There were enthusiasts who wanted to immerse themselves in the world of electricity, getting another, "sixth sense" in addition to the existing five. Implanting tiny magnets in their fingers, they are now able to feel electromagnetic fields produced by modern devices.
"Fingers are not attracted to the radiation source as the implanted magnets are too small. All you feel is a slight vibration that occurs when approaching any electrical appliance," says Peyton Rowlands, biohacker from Texas.
With the help of a mini-magnet implanted in his ring finger, Rowlands is now able to feel working microwave ovens and refrigerators.
Like a fish in water
Expressing their satisfaction with life, people usually say that they feel like fish in water. Who would have thought that one day this saying can become a reality!
Nadya Vessey from New Zealand was born with defective development of both legs, which, in the end, had to be amputated. Being helpless on land, the brave woman decided to turn her disability into an advantage.
Several years ago, a mermaid tail was designed for her. Now Nadia feels in water not worse than a dolphin.
Real batman
It is possible to acquire superhuman abilities without the help of modern technology. Daniel Kish lost his sight at the age of 13 months due to retinoblastoma, a malignant tumor of the retina. Two months later, his parents discovered that the child was able to orient himself in space, avoiding collisions with objects.
"From the early childhood I used echolocation for orientation using clicks. From the beginning I clicked so rarely and carefully, that my parents did not immediately noticed my abilities," says Daniel Kish.
Daniel learnt to visualize the surrounding area by clicking with his tongue and listening to the echo. Echolocation ability is inherent in certain kinds of animals, such as bats and dolphins.
Kish distinguishes at least two types of echolocation, which he uses in everyday life: active (by clicking) and passive, during which he is just carefully listening to the sounds around him.
Daniel believes that the ability of echolocation may be gained and developed by any person, just like, for example, an ear for music. Currently Kish holds classes for the blind people, accustoming them to better navigate in space using sounds.
Predator eyes
And what about the vision? Is it possible to improve the abilities of the human eyes and make them see better, in a broader light spectrum?
Biohacker Peyton Rowlands is sure that it is. Furthermore, he is currently conducting an experiment on himself, trying with a special diet to "teach" his eyes to recognize objects in the infrared spectrum.
The fact is that the retina of the human eye uses the molecules of the pigments rhodopsin and photopsin for sensing light, while the vision of some species of river fish is based on the porphyropsin, which allows them to detect light in the infrared wavelength spectrum.
Rowlands hopes that the removal of retinol (vitamin A), which is necessary for the production and photopsin and rhodopsin, from his diet can make his eyes use porphyropsin to detect objects, i.e. to see the world in the infrared spectrum, like the Predator from the famous film with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
One can envy many species of animals, whose abilities are not available to human. However, nature generously endowed Homo Sapiens with imagination and reasonable thinking, which throughout the history have helped to significantly expand human possibilities.
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Aug. 22 marks the 20th anniversary of President Bill Clinton and congressional Republicans' bipartisan Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). This landmark welfare reform law substantially changed the U.S. welfare system for the first time in more than six decades. PRWORA instituted work requirements, imposed time limits, and allowed states to craft their own welfare programs through the newly formed Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.
By following through on entitlement reforms started in the 1990s, Congress can defuse a ticking entitlement-spending time bomb and allow states to lead the way on holding costs down and better serving taxpayers.


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Currently the Parish is Vacant.
Until further notice all enquiries should be addressed to
Rev Roland Nicholson (01254 485909) or Rev John Hartley (01254 243700) or Rev Jane Bury (01254 659526)
10.30 am Parish Communion and Baptism
Amma Sue
If you have young children we have a Children's
Corner where there are bags of quiet toys which can also be used in your pew
during the service.
6.30 pm Evensong and Sermon
Tuesday 13 May
9.30 am Holy Communion
Sunday 18 May
Fifth Sunday of Easter
10.30 am Parish Communion
Rev'd Canon John Hartley
Mike Fields, Giles Tipton, Eileen Ridley, Irene
George Wills-Wilson
Deborah Renshaw
Monday 12 May
Benefice Office Hour 6.00 - 7.00 pm at the Vicarage, Mellor, for
discussion of arrangements for Baptisms, Weddings, or any other spiritual
Tuesday 13
Coffee Morning 10.00 – 11.30 am.
Tuesday 13 May 'Crazy for You' at Thwaites Empire Theatre, Ewood. Anyone wishing to go should see Rita for a
ticket costing £10. All are welcome to
join us.
Wednesday 14 May
Choir Practice 6.30 – 7.30 pm.
Christian Aid The envelopes are ready for the annual House
to House Collection in Mellor - if you could help with distribution and
collection during next week please see Hilda. Thank You !
Art Exhibition Weekend The Social
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make this a resounding success. It was wonderful to welcome so many people
into the church to view the paintings and take part in the Songs of Praise.
The event raised over £2570 which will help to pay our everyday running
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May at the Vicarage from 7.00 to 8.00 pm (ish). Tea and coffee supplied!
Wednesday 4 June "Thorntons Chocolate Heaven Night"
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Bringing any large vehicle to your location requires patience and planning. This is certainly true when you want to ship a camper roll-on roll-off from America. Whether the item is a car, truck, camper or other large piece of equipment it's important to have a number of essential details in place before making any moves.
With the amazing changes in technology in the last couple of decades, it is now possible to bring any vehicle to another country from the United States, without having to travel out of your hometown. When it's time to ship a camper roll-on roll-off from America, you can make the arrangements for transporting, securing and delivering the camper by computer and telephone, allowing you to concentrate on just a few details that you have to handle yourself.
This is certainly true if you decide to take care of the land transportation, port delivery, shipping etc. on your own or if you get the assistance of one of the experienced transport companies or shipping-service professionals located around the globe. In the particular situation of planning to ship a camper roll-on roll-off from America, the process is not complex.
But first, make sure that you have the original registration and tax documents in order for the camper. While you won't be sending these with the camper on the ship you should have them available to present in person or in the hands of your designated representative. The people transporting the camper to the sending dock and picking it up at the receiving dock should always have legitimate, current identification.
You should definitely make arrangements with the port authority and customs personnel well ahead of time. In fact, the process should be started two or three months in advance. If you use a transportation or shipping agent/service, they will have plenty of experience putting the necessary schedules and documents in place.
When you ship a camper roll-on roll-off from America the camper will be moved onto the ship and secured below on a protected deck, away from rain, sun and the salt-spray of the ocean. Keep in mind that almost every roll-on roll-off arrangement prohibits packing the vehicle with personal items that aren't associated with the camper itself. This differs from dedicated-container shipping. You can ship other items in the container you reserve. *Check with the shipping company or transport company if you have doubts about what is allowed and what is not.
One other factor you should consider in your plans to ship a camper roll-on roll-off from America: cost (of course). While this will vary depending on the final destination, estimates range from $1,500 to $5,000. If the vehicle or camper is in good, drivable condition roll-on roll-off service may well be the least expensive option. Be sure to include insurance in your cost estimates so the camper is covered from start to finish. If you purchase from an auction or private individual, it may be wise to enlist the help of a shipping service company that has worked with these sellers before.


text: The Bravern presents the "8 Ties" interactive digital installation from Oct. 31 through Nov. 6 , 11am to 6pm, mixing poetry and technology to promote the Hermès new Heavy Twill collection through the eyes of artist Miguel Chevalier. The exhibit includes an interactive, virtual-reality wall projection inspired by Chevalier's "Binary Wave" artwork as well as a virtual book illustrating new and unexpected ways to knot a tie. The event is free and open to the public. thebravern.com


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How to Find and Merge Duplicate Contacts in Google
With almost 90 percent of the world's smartphones running Android Why 2017 Is the Year of Android, Not Apple Apple's iOS may be popular in the U.S., but globally, Android is establishing its dominance. Read More , and with Gmail claiming a sizable chunk of the market share in the email sector 6 Most Popular Email Providers Better Than Gmail and Yahoo Mail Each free email provider listed here offers different benefits and all of these email services are popular choices. Read More , it's fair to say that billions of people around the planet are using Google Contacts as their primary address book.
If you've been using the app for several years, your contact list is probably a mess. And although Google can't help you establish whether the contact details you hold for a person are still current, it can help you identify and either merge or remove duplicate entries.
How to Find and Merge Duplicate Contacts in Google
To find and merge duplicate contacts in Google, you just need to follow the step-by-step instructions we've detailed below:
- Go to contacts.google.com and sign in using your Google Account credentials.
- In the panel on the left-hand side of the screen, click on Duplicates.
- Any duplicate contacts will be listed. The process uses the Name, Telephone Number, and Email address fields.
- Click Merge All if you want to accept all Google's suggestions automatically.
- Or mark the checkboxes next to the relevant entries and click Merge if you want to be more selective about your choices.
Your changes will be reflected across the Google ecosystem: on your Android phone, in Gmail, and in any other Google products.
Were you surprised by how disorganized your contact list was? Did the merging process work for you? If you have any questions, make sure you reach out in the comments section below.
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It was during those days of my MBA, when i used to read books in Crossword for hours together (for free, of course :-)), i spotted this book called "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". I just flipped through the book and kept it down. After so many years, finally in 2011 i read it completely and i was wonderstruck. I was so angry at myself about not reading it that time almost around 8 years back. Had i read it that time itself, i would certainly not have committed some of the financial blunders that i have committed within these years.
I was so very much impressed by that book, that i decided to read other books of him. After 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' i read 'Cashflow Quadrant', 'The ABC of Real Estate Investing' and one more small book, of which currently i am not remembering the name. All these books were impressive and easy to follow.
I also searched about Robert Kiyosaki and i found that on Wikipedia, people have criticized him about only giving some vauge ideas but not giving the full proof, concrete plan. I certainly did not agree to those comments. According to me his books are a real eye opener and they atleast make you think to become financially literate.
I am an engineering graduate with an MBA in Marketing. All these years i use to think that i do not need financial knowledge, i was afraid of the words "Debit" and "Credit". The reason for this is i struggled with those concepts in the first year of MBA when some of the subjects are common to all and finance was one of them.
But slowly and gradually i realised, that everybody (be it a doctor, engineer or any non-finance personnel) should have basic financial knowledge. They should be able to make bear minimum meaning out of the numbers that they read in their day to day life. By the phrase "numbers in day to day life", i mean:
- number in the payslip
- number in the financial statements of companies
- number in the passbook (which generally people will understand, for sure :-))
- numbers in the news (company performance for the quarter, year etc)
- numbers that are related to personal finance (insurance, FD etc)
I personally think that having this knowledge of 'numbers' and to be able to make meaning out of it, is no big deal. You just have to read and make yourselves aware about the basic concepts of finance. Once you develop interest, you can then google out the terms and you will find loads of sites helping you understand the language of numbers.
The reason i am saying this so passioantely and from the bottom of my heart, is beacuse, after reading Robert Kiyosaki, i was encouraged unknowlingly to increase my understanding about 'numbers' and there hidden meaning. Really now i feel so relieved, that i can:
- understand the P and L statement of a company
- make sense out of Balance sheet and Cash Flow statement
- can understand the language of ratios
- can make correct decisions in the area of personal finance etc
I know, for some this may be sounding a little childish. Even some may be thinking that an MBA is assumed to know all this. But, to be frank, i did not and that took a toll on me too.
From my experience, i just want to share that, it was Robert Kiyosaki, who enlightined me and then i further delved deeper into the basic number crunching and its analysis. Believe me its fun, once you start understanding it. I can proudly say, i now feel comfortable after i hold Economic Times and flip through it :-)))
I would strongly recommend following websites and books:
- http://www.accountingcoach.com/
- All Robert Kiyosaki Books (but Rich Dad Poor Dad, initially, as it is the basis for other books)
- Books of Ravindra Desai (On Shares, which has detailed Financial Analysis and that to in Marathi, for people who speak marathi)
- http://www.raagvamdatt.com/ (a website about personal finance)
Just wanted to share this new experience with you all. Try this out…its a fun learn…
K Sarang


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101 Steps Towards Better Leadership
We found a great thought-provoker about leadership styles and habits on InsideCRM.com. This checklist isn't perfect, of course, even with over 100 factors to keep top-of-mind. So, we thought we could make it more useful with a few critiques. I am sure you can find other corrections to make as well based on your own leadership experiences.
Edits we would make (open the article to follow along as we go down the list):
Under Body Language, point 8 recommends that you "always smile." This is way too broad. Smile only when appropriate, and when you can do it genuinely. False smiles at serious moments can strike the person with whom you are talking as condescending, even if you don't mean to be.
Meeting deadlines: This whole section is missing the critical step of getting buy-in on your goals from team members. Everyone is more efficient if they own a piece of the decision-making process and agree on the goals you choose. You don't have to govern by consensus, but you do have to invite participation and contribution to the planning and innovation processes.
Getting along with employees: Point 31 says "provide motivation": Easy to say, hard to do if you can't pay them a lot of money and let them run their own day. Ask for input from employees about how together you can build a sustainable engaged corporate culture.
- It bugs us (a lot) that "listening" does not appear in this section.
Manage yourself: Most of these points (especially 33-36 and 40-43) support our philosophy of Pursuit of Truth. This is a critical leadership success factor for sustaining employee engagement and innovation.
Under Boosting Productivity, #45 needs work: Making meetings productive is more than just being "organized and prepared." Meetings only have value if the agenda is short, forward-thinking and action-oriented. NO UPDATES. Deliver those by e-mail and require that they be read before the meeting starts.
Point 46, on the other hand, about keeping important tasks ahead of simply easy tasks, is critical. Against that, point 55 about doing the hard tasks first only works when you keep it subordinate to #46.
In Managing Finances and Resources, #61 about well-compensated employees must be clarified: Good pay is only part of the answer. Once people's basic financing needs are met, they actually look as much for non-financial compensation such as extra paid-time-off, participation in strategic initiatives, and public recognition for what they accomplish. (Click here for more of our thoughts on compensation.)
At last! Under Point #74 we find "Listen attentively". It is a crime to bury listening way down here under "customers." This should show up under every section , especially under "Getting Along With Employees".
Going above and beyond: Here we finally get to our favorite topic: Transformational Leadership! We think points 93-101 should be an integral part of how you lead, not "above and beyond." (For more on this critical topic, click here.) This section just scratches the surface of the difference between transactional and transformational leadership. Leaders who make the leap from the former to the latter truly rise above the rest!


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Dallas Fire-Rescue said it was called to a welfare check on the 4900 block of West Lawther Drive, along the White Rock Creek Trail north of Northwest Highway.
Police say the man was found floating in water in a densely wooded area. Due to the amount of time that the body had been in the water, police said they were unable to determine the man's race, age or what may have caused his death.
The medical examiner's office will try to make those determinations.
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Are you a true expert on Harry's adventures in the Triwizard Tournament?
The Goblet of Fire is a key turning point in the Harry Potter series. As well as being much longer than the first three books, the climax of the novel features Voldemort's return to power.
As dark as the ending is, the bulk of the story focuses on Harry's adventures as a champion in the Triwizard Tournament, and all three of the tasks are wonderful to read from start to finish.
The Yule Ball is another great aspect of the Triwizard Tournament, as it provides plenty of comedy due to Harry and Ron's embarrassing attempts to get a dancing partner.
The Goblet of Fire also contains one of the best plot twists in the whole franchise. The unveiling of Mad-Eye Moody's true identity is a masterclass in how to mislead the audience whilst simultaneously laying out plenty of clues along the way.
Given the wonderful execution of the plot and the thrilling nature of the Triwizard Tournament, The Goblet of Fire is a strong contender for the best book in the franchise.
How well can you remember the fourth Harry Potter book?
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The Silent Watch: Second Installment
He was gone. For a full ten minutes there was complete silence as if his vow had been somehow transferred to every citizen of Polsax. Then, all at once, the hall exploded. People were talking louder and louder to hear each other over everyone else' talking and Ally was pressed in on all sides.
"Ally! What in the middle and between?" Asked Leandra. Madame Florin demanded to know what kind of outrage the fool girl was in the hub of and to stop in immediately while Ally's mother questioned her sharply. In fact, the crowd of people asking the same questions of Ally was growing larger and louder until she simply ran away. Strangely enough, nobody even seemed to notice her absence.
She climbed the Grand Tree and sat on a limb swinging her legs. She tried to order her thoughts but they were too scattered. There was only one thing she knew at that moment. She knew only that she was fully determined and ready to take the vow that the Silent Watcher said he took so long ago. Even though she didn't really understand everything, she knew as if it had been etched into her being that this was right and even what she wanted. And yet, she couldn't explain it.
She looked out at the surroundings. The Grand Tree was in the very center of Polsax and she saw from her branch what she supposed she would look at for the rest of her life. She felt a drop as if of rain on her hand. She looked up from habit. But it was dark and everything above was just a tangle of branches.
He left in a sweep of his cloak before anybody moved and stalked out the door. Finally, he was free. Of course, his freedom left the whole of Polsax in danger but that couldn't be helped. He was getting far too old and needed to be replaced. How he hated to put his pain on the shoulders of so young a child. In a fluid motion, he lifted himself into the tree he had planted all those years ago and climbed to the highest branch that would support his weight. After centuries, he was used to being hidden. The darkness and the branches wrapped around him, making him feel comfortable. He was free. For a moment, he let himself forget everything else and just relished the feeling of freedom. Something that he hadn't known for a long, long time.
"This is for you, Aiden!" Maddie held out the gift. His brow wrinkled in confusion.
"A tree? What do I do with it?" He reached out his hand to accept it.
"We'll plant in right in the middle of the settlement we can tell Mr. Yown that it's a gift to grow with the town but-" Maddie lowered her voice to a conspiratorial whisper, "We'll know that it's a symbol."
The little boy's eyes widened, "A symbol? Of what?" He leaned in so as not to miss anything of what his older friend was telling him.
"A symbol of now, when I was 15 and you were 9. When we are old and our bones creak more than an old door we can see this huge tree that's grown up with us. And see the symbol of how much like the wind we felt and we can feel that way again."
He was confused again. "We feel like the wind? How?"
"You know what it feels like when you run through the field chasing a hawk? You feel free and so full of life and like nothing can ever stop you right?"
"Yes!" Now that she spoke of it, that was exactly how he felt, he had just never thought about it before. He hugged the little sapling to him, just starting to grasp how precious it was.
He reached out and grasped the branch he was holding more firmly, holding onto the vivid memory. Somebody else was down below him, but, through the tangle, he knew he was hidden. It was the girl. The girl who had given it all up. Oh how he wished things could be different! That he could have remained a child or even grown old enough for his bones to creak. He had lived to see the tree grow far larger than he or Maddie had ever dreamed either of them would see it.
He looked down at the girl again. He shoulders were firmly set and her chin strong. With every passing moment he knew more that she was the right one. Was that why it hurt so much to do this to her? He wasn't even making sense anymore. He just wanted to go back. Why did his freedom have to hurt someone else? A single tear fell from his eye as he looked down upon her. She looked up, as if sensing him above her. Her eyes seemed to look into him. He held still.
I love it! I like the way
I love it! I like the way you're developing the characters...can't wait for more!
This is really good! Write more, please?
It sort of reminds me of The Giver (which I read a few years ago). But it's obviously different as well. Have you ever read it? I'm hoping to see more, and find out what the Watcher does :D Keep it up!
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This is stunning. I was a
This is stunning. I was a cheater and read a bit of this part first, and decided immediately that I had to read the first installment. I want to read more! Magnificent.
"You were not meant to fit into a shallow box built by someone else." -J. Raymond
I'm so thrilled you've
I'm so thrilled you've continued this!
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I can't believe I missed seeing this before. It's great.
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There are many things that separate successful people from those who never achieve anything extraordinary. Today we are going to be talking about 5 important and very common things that keep most people from becoming successful and having the financial success that they usually dream of having.
1-You procrastinate all the time
It's hard to think of another thing that is as common and as prevalent in people who are frustrated and people who never achieve what they desire in life. Procrastination is the biggest enemy that all people who want to be productive can have and being able to get rid of this problem is going to be essential in life.
2-You spend more than you make
This is also always going to be a problem because you never have enough money to save and you are always just barely paying all of your financial responsibilities in time because you spend a lot of money on things you need. It doesn't really matter if you are making 20k a month, if you are spending $20,100, you are basically just living day by day and not planning ahead at all.
3-You are not investing
One of the things that wealthy people discover early in life is that they learn how to invest their hard earned money in order to get extra income. The principle is basically to make a dollar and find a way to invest that dollar to get an extra dollar out of it and end up with two dollars in your pocket.
4-You are afraid of failure
This is also a big problem that people have and it keeps them from achieving financial success. The main reason why this happens is because they fail to notice that the most important thing to do in life is to embrace failure as it's part of the process of finding and achieving success in every aspect of life. The sooner you learn to stop feeling afraid of fear, the easier it will be for you to start seeing results as you will start to venture into new things without feeling anxious and afraid of failing.
5-You feel that being rich is impossible without help
When I say help, I mean that many people believe that only those who come from wealthy families or those who get a big break by having a rich person or entity finance their projects can become financial success stories. The truth is that while it does help, there are many people who are self-made millionaires and they built their companies from the ground up.
There is nothing more satisfying than being able to make your dreams come true in life, but you need to make sure that you are working hard to make them happen and getting rid of those 5 things in your life is going to be a great first step towards those goals. Always keep this in mind and you will succeed.
Wow, this is a great post!
Now I realise the midtakes I have been making that prevent me from being successful.
A great lesson!


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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gradual \Grad"u*al\, n. [LL. graduale a gradual (in sense 1), fr L. gradus step: cf F. graduel. See {Grade}, and cf {Grail} a gradual.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) a An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps. b A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass. 2. A series of steps. [Obs.] --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gradual \Grad"u*al"\; a. [Cf; F. graduel. See {Grade}, and cf {Gradual}, n.] Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense reason, all summed up in man. --Milton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gradual adj 1: proceeding in small stages; "a gradual increase in prices" [ant: {sudden}] 2: of a topographical gradient; not steep or abrupt; "a gradual slope" [ant: {steep}] n : (Roman Catholic) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass
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Girls tennis
Rogers 6, Providence Country Day 1
Rogers won six of seven matches as it defeated Providence Country Day 6-1 on Thursday in Newport.
Liza Nunes (6-3, 6-0), Josephine Carwile-Ridnour (7-5, 7-5) and Jaden Petrie (6-0, 6-1) each won her singles match to help the Vikings climb to 6-2 in Division III. Tess Nunes played well in the top singles spot but bowed 6-2, 3-6, 0-1.
Phoebe MacDonald combined with Keeley Sheeky to win 6-0, 6-1 at No. 1 doubles and Emma Patterson and Kayleigh Mosher teamed to win 6-0, 6-0 at No. 2 doubles. Georgie Fleming and Grace Burgess took the No. 3 doubles match 8-1 in a pro set.
Mount Hope 5, Portsmouth 2
Portsmouth won a singles match and a doubles match but Mount Hope won the rest as it scored a 5-2 win on Thursday in Bristol.
Danielle Mazur took her No. 3 singles match 6-0, 6-4 and the Patriots No. 3 doubles team of Anna Schnorr and Ellie Ramroth won 6-7 (5), 6-3, 10-5. Portsmouth's Delaney Lippert played well at No. 1 singles but fell 6-4, 3-6, 5-7.
Girls soccer
Tiverton 5, Shea 0
Host Tiverton got two goals from Victoria McGovern as it easily handled Shea 5-0 on Thursday night in a Division III match.
Mariah Ramos and Brenna Nobrega each had one goal and Shea knocked a ball into its own net for the final Tiverton score. Kayana Urrego and Ramos each had two assists for the Tigers (5-2).
Boys cross country
Vikings drop two
Lucas Barnes and Graeme Clougher cracked the top 10 but it wasn't enough to stop Rogers from falling to Prout (23-38) and host North Kingstown (18-43) on Thursday at the Bradford Preserve.
Barnes placed fifth with a time of 15 minutes, 42 seconds and Clougher was seventh, six seconds behind Barnes. Michael Phelps (33rd, 17:46), Manny Simmes (37th, 18:54) and Angelo Cuevas (38th, 18:54) rounded out the Vikings top five finishers.
Girls cross country
Vikings swept
Prout and North Kingstown each scored a 15-50 win over Rogers on Thursday at the Bradford Preserve in North Kingstown.
Lauren Martland was the top Rogers finisher and the 25th overall with a time of 22 minutes, 10 seconds. Hazel Peters (28th, 22:28), Leslie Ortiz (33rd, 23:04), Emma Serth (34th, 23:06) and Meghan Leddy (35th, 23:35) completed Rogers top five finishers.
JV boys soccer
Middletown 0, Woonsocket 0
Middletown held a 10-3 margin in shots but neither the Islanders nor host Woonsocket could put the ball in the net as the teams played to a scoreless draw in a match that lasted just 40 minutes because of darkness.
Digby Alexander had two saves and Ryan Pine, Will Psaras and Aiden Key played well for the Islanders (5-0-2).
Girls middle school soccer
Wickford 1, Gaudet 0
Wickford edged Gaudet 1-0 in a battle of unbeatens on Thursday in Middletown.
Wickford (3-0) scored early in the match and Gaudet never could muster a goal. Defenders Emily Ryan, Carys Carey, Saylor Redfern and Olivia Dube and keeper Ginnie Hamilton played well for Gaudet (3-1).
Boys middle school cross country
Tiverton sweeps
Tiverton's Nick Mercer won the race and four teammates finished among the top eight runners as Tiverton topped Thompson 23-32 and Riverside 19-36 on a 1.8-mile course at Fort Adams State Park on Thursday.
Mercer completed the course with a time of 10 minutes, 54 seconds. Ben Pacheco (5th, 11:24), Connor Nobrega (6th, 11:31), Owen Messenger (7th, 11:52) and Andrew Weaver (8th, 12:00) rounded out Tiverton's top finishers.
Thompson lost to Tiverton but defeated Riverside 20-39 to earn a split of the meet. Shane Marshall (2nd overall), Jakob Bregenhoj (3rd overall) and Kevin Ochoa (13th overall) were Thompson's top three finishers.
Portsmouth earns split
Kevin Sullivan finished second overall as he helped Portsmouth top Kickemuit 23-32 on Thursday at the Portsmouth Middle School's 1.8 mile course.
Sullivan completed the run with a time of 12 minutes, 1 second. Sean Collins (5th, 12:09), Drystan McClain (13th, 12:42) and Wake Zani (17th, 12:49) were Portsmouth's other top finishers. Portsmouth beat Kickemuit but fell to Barrington 21-34.
Girls middle school cross country
Portsmouth sweeps
Portsmouth placed five runners among the first nine finishers as it defeated Barrington 25-30 and Kickemuit 23-32 on the Portsmouth Middle School 1.8-mile course on Thursday.
Piper Dionne (4th, 13:34), Sonia Staroscik (5th, 14:09), Allie Kaull (7th, 14:14), Nora Cooney (8th, 14:17) and Hailey Labonte (9th, 14:17) were Portsmouth's top five finishers.
Tiverton wins two
Thompson's Olive Brenner won the race but Tiverton beat both its opponents in a tri-meet on a 1.8-mile course at Fort Adams State Park on Thursday.
Brenner finished with a time of 11 minutes, 54 seconds and helped her team defeat Riverside 20-35. Tiverton placed five runners among the top 10 en route to a 27-28 win over Thompson and a 20-35 victory over Riverside.
Maeve Banal was Tiverton's first finisher and runner-up to Brenner overall as she finished with a time of 12:16. Ellery Pacheco (4th, 13:09), Samantha Bettencourt (7th, 13:44), Zoe Peckham (9th, 13:52) and Catherine Sullivan (10th, 13:53) completed the top five for Tiverton.
Bella Connerton (3rd overall) and Camilla May (6th overall) completed Thompson's top three finishers.


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Daily Archives: November 23, 2015
In the past 3 weeks or so I've been smoking the reefer for my migraines I haven't had a single migraine! I wasn't getting "high" however, but the past 2 times I THINK it might have started to work(maybe my body just had to get "used" to it or find out what to do?): my pupils dilated and my eyes were bloodshot. It lasted for about an HR and the first time I spent the entire HR staring at my bloodshot eyes in the mirror and stroking my hair and then I got really hungry and went downstairs and made a sandwich! It was 12 HRS or so after I had last taken my anti-depressants in the morning(and before I took my bedtime one) so that might have something to do with it; maybe they interfere and react with eachother and one has to be out of my system for the "high" to "work?"
The second time was the same as the first except I wasn't hungry that time and I laid on my bed and listened to music and watched the patterns on my wallpaper. Everything was also more "clear" and 3D ,sort of like when you put on 3D glasses and watch a movie in 3D. It was so funny as well as the smell was wafting out of my bedroom and the 17 YR old goes, "It smells like weed!" and I nonchalantly passed it off as "It must be my insense!" and he snorted, "RIGHT!" and then passing by in the hallway the 21 YR old said, "Do you smell that awful smell' that SKUNK outside?" and I just laughed my ass off and went back to my room. Later on my hubby also complained to me, "Your room REEKS; it smells PUTRID!" They also call the Reggae I love "Stoner Music" and my oldest affectionately calls me a "Pothead."
As well, the kids ruined the Christmas tree; I had a "theme" only putting up certain ornaments and then they came along and added others,and my hubby said they "wanted to be a part of Christmas"…..even though they HAVEN'T bothered to help me decorate OR dismantle the tree in 2 YRS yet NOW they decide to?Why, just to wreck my creation? I also realized that with his long beard that Santa looks like an old Amishman,and my hubby has REALLY over-done the outdoor Christmas lights on the house this YR; it reminds me of Clark Griswold's from that National Lampoon movie "Christmas Vacation." There's so many it's downright tacky and gaudy(or as the French would say, "Tres gauche!")and we'll likely blow out the electric power in the entire street!
I also realized that the 17 YR old almost died( and God SAVED him!) 4 TIMES: before he was born when I had the massive hemmorage( so bad it even soaked thru my mattress,and I still have the stain) at birth when he wasn't breathing and he had to be resussitated, when he had leukemia,and then his recent suicide attempt. His Guardian Angel must have a hard job and be so stressed and should win Guardian Angel of the YR award,and probably wonders what he did to deserve such a difficult assignment and the 17 YR old is like a cat; he has 9 lives! It's obviously NOT his "time" and God must have a plan for him…
We had our first SNOW yesterday,too, a light "dusting!"


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The Presidential Preference Primary for 2016 in Citrus County, FL begins FRIDAY (TODAY) March 4, 2016 and lasts until March 12, 2016! The early voting stations are located as shown below:
Beverly Hills, Crystal River, Homosassa, and Inverness.
The Presidential Preference Primary for 2016 in Citrus County, FL begins FRIDAY (TODAY) March 4, 2016 and lasts until March 12, 2016! The early voting stations are located as shown below:
Beverly Hills, Crystal River, Homosassa, and Inverness.
THIS EVENT IS STILL OPEN, GO BY THE PLANTATION Saturday, March 21, 2015
STILL OPEN FOR PARTICIPANTS special room rates for players spending the weekend. March 20th-24th 2015
TEAM CHRISTINE' in partnership with The Plantation on Crystal River and the Chirichella family will be hosting a 4 man / women Golf scramble at the prestigious golf course Plantation Golf & Country Club in Crystal River Florida…This event is going to be on the 21st of March to help support my wife Melissa Noll Brown, her son Robert Chirichella who was diagnosed with a very rare form of brain cancer back in..November 2014..Absolutely 100% of all monies fundraised or donated thru this event will go directly to help him with the overwelming cost of treatment not covered by his current insurance..They'lll be prizes, food, fellowship, a hole in 1 contest with a chance to win a BRAND NEW KIA and much much more….Robert and his family, his wife Samantha Chirichella and their little guy Trey are local folks raised in this great community…You may stop into the Plantation to pick up a flyer, you can also pay there as well Melissa Noll Brown and I will personally mail or drop off a flyer to you…If you are unable to make it you can personally help by going to GoFundMe.org, type in Robert"s full name and donate that way as well..If you have questions of you want to play, message me personally, TEAM CHRISTINE is honored to help in anyway we can, we'd love to pack the golf course on the 21st of March, hope to see you there….#wagehopeforrobert
Approximately at 1:30 P.M Wednesday, March 18, 2015 there was a multiple vehicle accident on hwy 44 in the east bound land around the area of the Greek Orthodox Church and the Crystal Oaks entrance to 44. It appear 4 vehicles were involved with the worst damage being incurred by a later model pickup that had it's roof crushed down to the side of the truck bed, the Medical Examiner wagon was there, further information will be provided as it becomes available.
Update: Lehman Strickland 67 of Inverness was killed and his wife Sandra was airlifted to Bayonet Point with serious injuries.
A bad accident occurred in front of the turn into Meadowcrest Blvd in Crystal River today, Thursday, May 9, 2013. It was between a motorcyclist and possible a smaller SUV type vehicle. The rider of the bike appeared to be seriously hurt. The highway patrol and Citrus Sheriff's office were on the scene with traffic being directed through the parking lot of the West Citrus Center government building.
Sid Kennedy while waiting at the new traffic light was confused by the flashing yellow arrow and made the turn into MeadowCrest Blvd directly in front of the motorcyclist, Benjamin Barlow, 27, of Homosassa. Barlow received serious injuries of a broken leg and possible head injuries. Mr. Barlow was not wearing a helmet. He was airlifted to Ocala Regional Medical Center where he is listed as being in critical condition at this time.
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Character-driven picture books are built around a loveable character who is introduced to readers and then appears in a subsequent series of books. Olivia, Fancy Nancy, and Ladybug Girl are a few familiar examples. Since some dance books are also character-driven, I've decided to develop an informal blog series to feature the characters who dance through the pages of those particular books.
The first blog post I ever wrote introduced the early readers of my blog to Katy Duck -- a dancing duck who has shown up in board books, a picture book, and even an easy reader. I decided to use that post as the launching point for this "Have You Met..." blog series. Although it is not a regular series, I add to it as the muse hits me and as I learn more about other characters -- both old and new -- who have graced the pages of a variety of dance books for children.


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Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Hidden Voices
Many years ago, my good friend and fellow scrivener of scariness, William R. "Mr. Bill" Trotter, gave me a tape of some dark music he thought I might enjoy. Among the many excellent selections were Ingram Marshall's Hidden Voices, which may be the eeriest piece of music I've ever heard. Much like Ennio Morricone's Carpenter-esque soundtrack to The Thing, Hidden Voices, when played in an otherwise silent, dark room, is almost enough to make me turn on all the lights in the house and put on some lighthearted death metal.
It's a disconcerting, minimalist composition, featuring mostly human voices, distorted and warped, that conjure up a nightmarish yet strangely beautiful atmosphere. To my mind, it's the perfect soundtrack for Lovecraft's "Dreams in the Witch House."
Back in the mid-90s, I played this piece for my at-the-time co-editor of Deathrealm, Dani d'Attilio—who was also a budding writer of no little talent. As a writing exercise, we both wrote stories based on the impressions that the music left us with. Her story was so different from mine that one would never guess the source of inspiration was the same for both; yet, an astute reader might be able to discern emotional peaks and valleys common to both, which corresponded to the musical flow. I liked her story, which she actually titled "Hidden Voices," well enough to run it in Deathrealm #27 (Spring 1996—the issue that was banned in Canada because of Ian McDowell's wonderful cover art). My tale was "Silhouette," which appeared in Cemetery Dance #24 (Summer 1996), and was subsequently reprinted in The Best of Cemetery Dance. (It will also be appearing in my upcoming collection, Other Gods, from Dark Regions Press, this spring.) To this day, I think "Silhouette" may be the creepiest story I've ever written, due entirely to the powerful inspiration of Marshall's music.
Hidden Voices is difficult to find on CD anymore; it's on an album titled Three Penitential Visions/Hidden Voices, which includes three other tracks. For Christmas, I received a nice iTunes gift certificate, and I was thrilled to find that the entire album is available on iTunes for $9.99 (in fact, you have to purchase the entire thing; you can't get just the individual tracks). It's well worth it; Hidden Voices is by far the strongest and most distinctive composition on the album, but the others are none too shabby. If you've got a hankering to listen to something that will likely raise the hairs on the back of your neck, Hidden Voices is the ticket.
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- David Niall Wilson said...
I'm going to have to give it a try. I usually listen to PANDORA - they let you create a "station" by inputting songs and artists you like, then weeding out from the "similar" sounds until you have what you are after (more or less) and you can usually buy and download the music with a click or two if the fancy strikes. I'm going to try adding your artist to my Pandora station and see what I get.
- January 2, 2008 at 9:05 AM
- Stephen Mark Rainey said...
I listen to Pandora quite a lot. I think I've already entered Ingram Marshall into it, and they didn't have anything. The stations I've created are quite cool, although there's a lot of repetition. At least you can skip or eliminate titles you don't want to hear.
- January 3, 2008 at 10:04 AM
- David Niall Wilson said...
I also like that if you open the menu on a song, it tells you WHY (from your earlier choices) they chose it. As long as you seed it regularly with new stuff, it doesn't repeat too much...you are right about Ingram Marshall, though...nada.
- January 3, 2008 at 1:55 PM
- Stewart Sternberg said...
Thanks for this tip. I love offbeat music. The Hillside Thickets and their tributes to Lovecraft. Who can forget that lovely musical: "Shoggoth on the Roof." And then there's always Alice Cooper for dark tongue-in-cheek.
However, when it comes to listening to pure atmosphere, nothing beats Bernard Herrmann for me.
- January 7, 2008 at 3:02 PM
- Stephen Mark Rainey said...
I'm particularly fond of Herrmann's score to THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.
Ever listened to the Herrmann orchestration of Holst's THE PLANETS? Best I've ever heard. I haven't checked it out in many years, but I used to have an LP of it on the Phase IV label, I believe it was.
- January 7, 2008 at 3:06 PM


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Thursday, March 21, 2013
The Fruit of the Spirit ..... And an Announcement!!!
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Great magazine. Thank you for sharing. It was very encouraging. Do you send this out my mail as well?ReplyDelete
@Elanee - I believe Esther does print a few out, but I'm not sure. Thanks for the comment too! :)ReplyDelete
@Esther - is it okay if I print a couple out for some friends?
We usually print twenty copies, to hand out to whoever reads/will read it. We only give it to local people, though.ReplyDelete
It's fine if you want to print some out, Rachel! Anyone who wants to can print these. We just hope and pray that people will be encouraged by our writings. :)
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Excellent issue!! Loved reading it! Especially loved Because I Love You. You are very good writers and you use your talents to glorify Him!
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"(..) it is correct to insist, as Spinoza does (..), that ´the Body cannot determine the Mind in thinking, and the Mind cannot determine the Body to Motion". We should take this to mean that we cannot infer from a cause described in physical terms that a specific mental event will ensue as effect (..): mental and physical concepts belong to independent explanatory systems." D. Davidson in Truth, Language, and History, Oxford University Press (2005), p. 305-306.
[Re-posted from The Old Site, original dd. 17-05-2008. The original stated at the end that it was [to be redone] and I'll try to redo it but I don't know whether I have the stomach for it. I kind of hope it will set me up for something I wanted to do on 'Tat Tvam Asi' after seeing a documentary on the nth physicist (B. Alan Wallace or so) trying to find 'deeper truths' (and naming one specific person only serves the purpose of maybe catching some lost souls via google and, who knows?, rescueing one of them from the stupidities characteristic of the intersection of science and religion). Anyway, the basic reason why so much of religion is appealing is because it focuses on the right kind of conclusions such that it is tempting to also buy the absolutely false premises that go with it. The truth is not found in the past – or by stripping a lot of surface layers. The truth is found in the future – and the new surfaces that are constantly created.]
I cleaned the quote above from the jargon. What follows here can do without.
One should wonder about the mind and the body. It is one of the classical wonders that will forever stay actual.
There are those who believe in scientific achievement instead of in scientific method. They think mind and the mental are merely convenient, a 'soft' escape for the weak of mind. But the majority of people, and with an extremely wide margin, are still true believers. They believe the mind is fully detached from all the merely material claims of science and that the really deep truths are reserved for the spiritual.
Both extremes have been and are instinctively repulsive to me.
The third way, the middle way, the way of Horace, is to reconcile mind and body as independent but interconnected: monism but with a twist. The type of monism Davidson sought to establish bringing together historical thoughts and his own modern language philosophy. Can there be two spheres that are, at the same time, ultimately independent and unescapably interconnected?
Let me not run of in too abstract musings but try to take an example, from the heart of the present matter.
If one – not just instinctively – thinks one wants to raise one´s arm there is really no issue whatever in connecting that thought to brain activity and that brain activity to activating nerves in turn controlling the arm's muscles. Only those that are ludicrously maintaining that knowledge out of the Dark Ages outdoes present-day knowledge would challenge this. Let's not bother here with the ridiculous. The interconnection, some form of physicalism, is established. But the interconnection does not suffice for strict dependence. It would be quite feasible to measure the brain activity during that thought and it would then be quite demonstrable that, even in the same person, that same thought with that same result would not be characterized by exactly the same brain wave activity [if the experiment has not been tried it's just because we all know that there can't be such strict dependence, it would be too easy].
If so, the thought and physical brain activity are not strictly paired. In fact, it is quite sufficient to note that different people can have similar thoughts with similar consequences. This is in itself enough to show that the actual physical brain activity that has to go along with such a thought is not, and cannot be, a sufficiently determining factor even if, physically speaking, it is always the brain activity that results in the arm's raising (and never the thought itself).
Maybe Davidson and others would find this reasoning sloppy and it probably is, but I don't have the luxury of refining it.
Sloppy or not, it is convincing in illustrating Davidon's point of there being no strict laws coupling the mental and the physical. As a behaviourist of sorts this kind of illustration is crucial. It does not establish that there is something spiritual that somehow evades or floats over the material world. But it does show that the sphere of thought is not limited to the sphere of what is given physically, it allows for imagination.
The imagination it allows is linguistic and creative. We cannot realize things in the material world that would go against the physical laws but we can – and do- create in our imagination possible material connections (e.g. a key and a lock) that we subsequently can realize materially, as longs as they don't defy any physical laws. The only limit to this creativity then is what is physically possible. [But this is not a limit that makes creativity bounded. It is a restriction on one side only, i.e. it is the kind of restriction that allows for endless progression of creativity.]
The beauty of language is that – even though it requires the physical possibility to communicate between bodies – it is fully free to develop regardless of physical realities. There are only linguistic limits to what can be expressed in such linguistic communication. We have science fiction to prove our physical laws are no essential to our type of language making sense.
Because of this – although for sure I will have to explain this in more detail in another place – I don't believe Davidson's brand of monism can be fully correct. Mental explanation is not merely independent in explanatory ways, it is quite radically independent [Bon, I hate this turn of my old argument, mainly because I hate the word 'radical'; it's overused to support mediocre points of view]. The mental is a world on its own just needing a physical substratum (more or less like fish need a liquid substratum).
Again, establishing the mental, through language, as independent is not at all establishing any spritualist or dualist claim. The physical world has given rise through evolution to biological species with linguistic abilities. Such kind of species have established thought and this led to all things mental. These things do not live isolated from the material world but just happen to be able to express things unrestricted by the physical world (as long as there is a physical world with the relevant features in which things can be expressed).
So, don't please go overboard on this: the mind, the spiritual & so on, & so forth did not exist before material things existed. Nor do they exist as long as the material world existed. Physicality predates mentality. It would be interesting as a scientific exercise to date mentality/spirituality as it would be a convenient way not to have the New Age'rs go astray time and again.
One may well make stories in which people lift weights merely by thinking to make it so but one will never actually lift those weights in that way.
[Coming back to 'Tat Tvam Asi' and to B. Alan Wallace. The logic of the above is that the ancient trick of digging deeper and deeper to ancient origins and original truths is just that: a trick of quacks exploiting the truth that you and I are not different just because we are associated with different bodies to bound people's imagination to theirs. And so to rule over them and to kill them mentally. Because what is truely of the mind is something that is built on language & communication and everything else that can be gathered from the surface. Any true depth is created in the future by adding layers and layers of new creative surfaces on the substrate of what existed originally but was so restricted and limited that it gave occasion to this very human need of discovery of new things. What is old cannot house the new, as it is the new that is being sought because the old simply no longer can cope with what we have become.]
[Whilst writing this I was listening to Shostakovich-Silvestrov, Gryphon Trio, Aline Kutan, Analekta 2006.]


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Wexford County Council opens Books of Condolences following Las Vegas Atrocity
Earlier today, as people around the world continue to come to terms with the horrifying details of the Las Vegas mass shooting atrocity, Cathaoirleach of Wexford County Council, Councillor John Hegarty opened a Book of Condolences at Council Headquarters at Carricklawn, Wexford for the families of those killed and injured in the attack.
Speaking at the signing, Councillor Hegarty expressed sympathy on behalf of the people of Wexford to the families of those killed and injured.
"For centuries, Ireland and the United States have shared a unique bond forged through family, friendship, culture, business and tourism" said Councillor Hegarty. "Today, as the people of Wexford come to terms with this atrocity, we stand beside the people of the US, united in sadness and in horror at the nature and scale of this attack, while our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those people caught up in this unspeakable act".
With effect from 9.00am tomorrow, Thursday 5 October, Books of Condolences will be available to members of the public for signing at the following locations during normal office hours:
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A woman died Friday after being stabbed in the back inside her southwest Houston apartment, the Houston Police Department said.
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Credits (top pic):
Jumper and Skirt: Soft angora knit & Mini skirt (Chocolate) by bonne chance! NEW @ Geeks'n'Nerds
Hair: Marin (Rye) by Wasabi Pills NEW @ Geeks'n'Nerds
Boots: Laud (Black) by Maitreya
Skin: Gigi (Blonde) by Curio
Body: Physique by Slink
Hands: Relaxed by Slink
Evil Bookshelf Robots: Dewey the Robot (various colours) by Alouette NEW @ Geeks'n'Nerds
Pose: Lulu (Pose 8) by Imeka NEW
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Dress: Flora (Green) by Legal Insanity
Hair: Aya (Type B/Moon Stone) by D!va
Boots: Laud (Black) by Maitreya
Skin: Miko (Asia) by Glam Affair NEW @ The Kawaii Project
Body: Physique by Slink
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Bed, Book and Pose: Miami Dreams Bed by LISP
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I think my evil plan for world domination may have got off to a bad start, at least with these robots as my minions! Aren't they cute? I got them from Alouette at the latest Geeks'n'Nerds event where I also found this equally cutesy hair from Wasabi Pills and this stunning Angora jumper and matching pleated skirt from bonne chance. There is a hud for the skirt that gives a number of equally delightful colour choices to this one. The pose is from the awesome new Lulu set from Imeka.
The bottom pic is the result of a random visit to the Legal Insanity where I found this amazing sixties style mini dress that was just made for this pose! As you can see I've been back to the D!va mainstore and got this blonde version of their lovely Aya hair.
L&K Rachel 💘