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Quick update on books that have been read. May was better than it has been lately - 2000 plus pages. I am ahead of where I was in 2013 and behind where I was in 2014. Who knows where it will end up, after all we aren't even half way thru the year yet.
On the genealogy front, we have sent one of our family histories to the printer. It should be finished by the end of June. Th starting ancestor is William Morris Sr. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had 10 kids, all who lived to adulthood. This family was one of the main early settlers in the Kanawha Valley, otherwise known today as Charleston, WV. The volumes trace the entire family. Yes, I said volumes. The "book" turned out to be 28 volumes. We are having limited editions printed and will be donated to 4 different libraries or archives.
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The parents and grandparents of this generation know better than anyone how quickly technology can evolve. They watched as the music record morphed into the cassette tape. After what seemed a comparatively short time thereafter, they saw the CD come to life, and before they could catch their collective breath, the MP3 player and iPod arrived. The growth of the music technology business is fairly simple to track, but technology in general is an ever-evolving phenomenon, and many people, young and not-so-young alike, have difficulty keeping up with it.
Genealogy, like every other industry, is experiencing its own burst of technology evolution. Fledgling genealogy technologists may be unsure of possible options for digitizing their history, or perhaps they simply doubt their ability to use current technology. The annual RootsTech Conference in Salt Lake City this weekend has been designed specifically to provide technological support to genealogists everywhere. The conference is notoriously popular, offering lectures and training to over 4,000 registered participants a year and streaming online to thousands more.
Paul Nauta, public affairs manager for FamilySearch, says that technology shouldn't be a source of fear but simply a means to provide the best possible preservation of family records. Some genealogists see no reason to move on from their tried-and-true preservation devices, such as CDs, DVDs, and microfilm, but even those methods are showing their antiquity.
"CDs and DVDs have become a thing of the past," said Nauta. "A lot of people are shocked to find out that there's noticeable degradation in the quality of a CD within 5 years. DVDs are beginning to show degradation after 10 years." Even flash drives, the most current of the mass storage devices, appear to be losing some ground. Nauta predicts that the flash drive will be a thing of the past within five years, and its replacement will likely be something known as "the Cloud." Enter the Digital Age.
Cloud computing is a term that has only recently become popular among the everyday technology consumer. In general, "the Cloud" is a term used to describe all the data that is floating around internet space, like the cloud that surrounds Apple or Amazon. For most consumers, this storage system allows documents to be saved online without users facing the hassle of trying to transfer documents from flash drive to computer.
This concept is particularly useful in family history research; genealogists can store their data in a secure site, like familysearch.org, without the worry of losing it or transferring data. The Cloud also allows multiple users to edit a single page, like a page on Wikipedia or on a Google doc. For genealogists, this means that multiple family members can contribute different accounts of family history to an online family tree.
Mobile apps also rank high in genealogical significance. Technologists predict that within the next five years, computers will be less and less common, as nearly a third of the world's population will be using the smart phone. Nauta confirmed this prediction, noting that many countries, rather than try and play catch-up with developing technology, can easily stay current with an app: "You've got a vast majority of second- and third-world countries who are pretty much moving along with the rest of the world and are having more and more access to portable technology to allow them to get involved." Many family history companies are offering a variety of apps to make the process of genealogy more user-friendly.
Aside from the world of mobile apps and cloud computing, there are companies that offer digitization of family history files. This year's RootsTech Conference will be offering information on digitizing family books that may be too valuable to pass back and forth between family members. Having a digital version of the book allows multiple family members to view the history without the possibility of losing or damaging a physical document.
The challenge of learning to apply all the new technology may seem daunting to genealogists, but keeping up with genealogical technology, since it is based on software and the Internet, is much easier than the physical upgrades of cell phones, iPods, or computers.
And the amount and manner of technology used in family history is purely based on personal preference. Many people use technology to do family history every day without realizing it, whether it's uploading a family photo on facebook, blogging about a family reunion, or printing out photographs for a scrapbook. "Is that family history? You bet it is!" said Nauta.
The RootsTech Conference begins Feb. 2 and concludes Feb. 4. Rootstech.org provides further information on lecture topics, times, and registration for those interested in upping their ante in family history.

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A foreign friend,Mr.Cook,once described in an unflattering way his impression of the Chinese people:"Square faces,gloomy expressions,drooping eyelids,flat features,stem manner,a little fat,study,strongly built with lasting endurance..."
"It was precisely these people who,inspired by Chinese culture,constructed the grand Forbidden City,"says fashion designer Hu Xiaodan,whose latest achievement.The Forbidden City,will be formally presented January 23 on the catwalk of Beijing Poly Plaze.
"No matter how deeply it is tinged with feudal belief in the supremacy of imperial power,no matter how it is characterized by the injustice of power which put the wealth of the whole nation into one person's hands,The Forbidden City is still the crystallization of China's genius and wisdom,"remarked the 36-year-old designer.
The artist boldly blends echoes of The Forbidden City,the pinnacle of Chinese architecture,in his costumes,choreography and music.Not only does it unfurl before the eyes,a grand picture scroll of the mystery and magnificence of The Forbidden City,but also it brings back some of the ancient palace's unhappy history.Splendor and magic blend with the humiliation,corruption and suffering inherent in feudalism in a truly thought-provoking combination.
The buildings within the Forbidden City are arranged on either side of an axis symmetrically.In creating his fashion,the designer has drawn inspiration from the architectural details of almost all the important structures located along the axis,from studs on the vermilion Meridian Gate to the mythical beasts on the roof of the Gate Of Supreme Harmony,from the dragon throne to the couplet hung on the pillars of the Hall Of Heavenly Purity,from white marble columns and enamel clocks to the 100-year-old trees in the Imperial Garden.All these are reflected in his work.
By matching and grouping different dress styles,and using original lighting and commentary,the artist gives spectators a fantastic world where the limitations of time and space disappear.One critic noted:"Each spectator,whether familiar with Chinese culture or not,will discover a new harmony.Anostalgic,contemplative feeling that wells up in everyone's heart as they envision the heyday of the Qing dynasty and understand more fully the essentials of Oriental thought."
The designer believes that the ancient palace which has been inhabited by 24 emperous from the Ming and Qing Dynasty,is based on the principles of qian and kun."Qian stands for heaven and emperor,and kun stands for earth and empress,"Hu explains,"But both of them are actually spiritual symbols.They are elemental,robust,vast and profound,fully representing the Confuctian ideals of cultivating moral character,runing a state,unifying the whole world.They are the ideal integration of heaven,earth,and man."
He continues:"Nowadays,many people claim that they have seen ghosts in the Forbidden City.It is said that in the dead of night one can hear enchanting music and see graceful dances.Of course,it is nonsense to say that the place is haunted by the ghosts of the 24 dead emperors.But when you stand on the wide steps of the Hall Of Supreme Harmony,you feel that the Forbidden City is not merely a place of faded glory,but a place that still contains a truly passionate soul."
A graduate of the Stage Design Depantment of the China Central Drama Institute,Hu has worked as a stage designer for China's Opera Theater,creating stage settings and costumes.He has been in fashion design since 1987.His first important show:The Brilliance Of China was held in 1991,featuring gowns and qipoo with Beijing Opera mask designs.
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Trump, Erdogan discuss Syria amid tensionBy AAP Newswire
US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have discussed their security concerns in north-east Syria as US forces begin to withdraw.
The telephone call came after tensions were inflamed by a threat from Trump to "devastate" the NATO ally's economy if Ankara attacks US-backed Kurds in Syria.
Trump stressed "the importance to the United States that Turkey does not mistreat the Kurds and other Syrian Democratic Forces with whom we have fought to defeat ISIS," a White House statement said, referring to the Islamic State group.
The Turkish presidency said in a statement that the two men spoke about the possibility of establishing a safe zone in Syria, but did not mention the threat Trump tweeted at the weekend.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu earlier scolded Trump, telling a press conference in Ankara on Monday that "strategic partners do not communicate via Twitter and social media."
"Our channels are open," Cavusoglu said, adding that Trump has called Erdogan twice to talk about the need to coordinate the withdrawal of US troops from Syria with Turkey.
On Sunday, Trump tweeted: "Starting the long overdue pullout from Syria while hitting the little remaining ISIS territorial caliphate hard, and from many directions."
He also said it would "devastate Turkey economically if they hit Kurds." Trump also suggested the creation of a "20 mile safe zone" and cautioned Kurdish forces not "to provoke Turkey."
Trump announced the withdrawal of the 2,000 US troops from Syria in December, saying then that the years-long, hard-fought battle against Islamic State was over.
The move angered and surprised Washington's Kurdish and European allies. It also caused turmoil within the Trump administration and led to the resignation of Jim Mattis as defence secretary and Brett McGurk, the special envoy for the global coalition to counter Islamic State.
There have been mixed messages on the timeline of the US withdrawal from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who wrapped up a Middle East tour on Monday, and US national security adviser John Bolton, who visited Turkey last week.
Turkey's top diplomat attributed Trump's conflicting statements to the "tremendous pressure ... especially from security agencies" on the US not to withdraw. "We know the latest tweet was a domestic policy message," he added.
Trump's suggestion of a safe zone had in fact first been proposed by Erdogan, said Cavusoglu.
"Threatening Turkey economically leads to nowhere," he added.
Last year, NATO allies Turkey and the US imposed tit-for-tat sanctions on each other's ministers, as well as tariffs on imports over the detention of Christian pastor Andrew Brunson, who was arrested on espionage and terrorism-related charges.
The row escalated a currency crisis in Turkey, with the lira losing more than 40 per cent of its value against the US dollar. A Turkish court lifted Brunson's house arrest and travel ban in October and he returned to the US.
Washington has relied on Kurdish forces as the most effective in the fight against Islamic State in Syria.
Ankara considers Syrian Kurdish militias - such as the People's Protection Units (YPG), which controls large areas of northern Syria on the border with Turkey - to be an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) waging an insurgency within Turkey.
Last month, Erdogan said Turkey was delaying its planned military offensive in northern Syria but warned it was not "an open-ended waiting period."


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Willow Lodge is the place for your holiday or short break. Enjoy this light and luxurious two bedroom lodge. Take the gently sloping ramp to the front door and then experience the commanding marina view from the large veranda. Relax on two leather settees. Keep warm with the central heating or the multi fuel stove. Choose between the lounge's large flat screen TV/dvd player or the TVs in both bedrooms. Cook that special meal in the high specification kitchen with dishwasher.
Soak in the family bathroom's roll top bath in or shower in the main bedroom's en-suite. Select between the king-sized bed or two single beds. Save on your car space and use the travel cot, high chair, changing mat, toilet seats and toilet step provided (just bring your own cot mattress and bedding).
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Kelly, Colin Purdie (11 July 1915–10 December 1941), army pilot, was born in Madison, Florida, the son of Colin Purdie Kelly, Sr., and Mary Mays. After attending high school in his hometown, Kelly spent a year at the Marion Military Institute in Florida before receiving an appointment to West Point in 1933. While there, he met Marion Wick, a stenographer, whom he wed in 1937, shortly after graduation; they had one son. Although commissioned as a second lieutenant in the infantry, Kelly requested to be assigned to the Army Air Corps, and in September he was sent to Randolph Field to receive his pilot's training. In October 1939 he went to Texas for advanced training. In January 1940 formal induction into the Army Air Corps followed and Kelly was assigned to the Nineteenth Bombing Group at March Field, California. Kelly made captain on 9 September 1940. His career would have been similar to that of most young officer graduates in World War II had it not been for circumstances surrounding his death....


text: We're very excited to welcome Eily O'Connell to this year's wedding fair. Eily creates treasures of wearable art that have a mysterious and other worldly presence. If you're looking for a unique piece of jewellery to celebrate your love, Eily's work is perfect for you. Not only that, but our ecological impact is very important to […]Read more


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Inter Ads based in Haryana is a reputed and renowned organizer of various conferences and trade exhibitions of international level in India. They operate in complete coordination with their partner Global Exhibition management company which is know popularly for its outstanding excellence and innovation in the field of organizing exhibitions.
The excellent journey of providing tangible solutions of communication for both public as well private sector companies started in the year 1964. They diversified their business into a B2B module by organizing the significant meet of buyers and sellers in Russia. The major objective for them is to facilitate the economic growth of the country by attracting the foreign investments in the form of international conferences and exhibitions.


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I came across two stories today that absolutely highlight, albeit in different ways, the absurdity of our police force, whether on a state level (in this case Florida) or at the federal level.
First, let's look at the state case from Florida:
This weekend, deputies from Escambia County, Florida shot an unarmed man who went to grab cigarettes from the car parked in the driveway of his mother's home. A neighbor called police at 2 a.m. because he suspected 60-year-old Roy Middleton was stealing the car.
They ended up shooting at him fifteen times, getting him in the leg and many bullets sprayed his mother's car and the side of the house. Florida Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said his officers were acting under "standard protocol." Now, that may be the case, although it's hard to fathom how firing fifteen shots at an old man in his own driveway constitutes standard protocol when they easily could have used a Taser at the least, but that doesn't make it right because maybe the protocol is wrong. And they are on paid administrative leave of course.
Personally, I find the whole circumstances screwed up, whether, as I said, you want to talk about it from a protocol standpoint and if they were operating under such or if the protocol itself needs to be changed or from the standpoint of the police culture. Why exactly is the first reaction to use violence? Whether it's the stories we keep hearing of officers shooting dogs or something like this, why are ordinary, innocent civilians being treated in this manner? It seems very wrong to me. To be fair, it's still early, so perhaps something will come out to vindicate the police officers, but going off the available information, I would contend that something is afoul.
Then there is the case of the pressure cooker. Yes, I said pressure cooker in a sentence. I wonder how much I am risking by saying that in this post. Anyhow:
Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?
There are a few angles to this one. First off, the fact that the government knows what we are Googling is not comforting to me, whether I'm Googling "pressure cooker," "backpack," or not. Secondly, that a SWAT team, then, comes to confront and interrogate people with the assumption of them being terrorists. Third, this kinda flies in the face of the conventional thinking from many about the NSA leaks whereby there are no documented cases of abuse. How is this not abuse?
I sometimes think and fear that if another terrorist attack happened, the American people would willingly accept more encroachments on our privacy and liberty in the name of safety.


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Two years ago I went through recruitment and joined Kappa Delta with three of my best friends from high school, a year later our other best friend went though and joined Phi Mu. Over the course of these couple of years I have made the best memories of my life in college and Kappa Delta has molded me, not into a different person, but into a better version of myself. Every sorority girl loves her own sisters, in fact you usually find your best friends, life long friendships you can cherish forever, and future brides maids in your sorority, however there are some of us who find our best friends in other sororities as well. So why is it that it seems like Greek Life in general makes it seems like you are such a sinner for becoming best friends with someone in a different Greek organization, it shouldn't be that way. Since I started college I have made best friends and one of them so happens to be in ADPI. So yeah, I have best friends in other sororities, and I'm here to tell you why IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL & share some funny moments. Pan love can become more of a lifestyle than an idea, if we make it that way.
- Last year I came home to my house I lived in with my four other roommates and we had KD letters in the window seal and as I walked inside I noticed we had a new door hanger & it was a Phi Mu one. I thought hmm this is different but I didn't care.
- People give me strange looks because I am in public with someone in a different sorority and it's the end of the world…oh gosh. (complete sarcasm)
- I always ask Gabriella (my ADPI friend) if she is going to the Greek life event that week and we always wish we could sit together but are too afraid the building may collapse if we do sooo….
- Gab bought me a KD phone case & the cashier looked at her like "aren't you an ADPI?"
- Being confused on how to throw the KDPI (mix of KD and ADPI)
- People mistake me & Gab for being in the same sorority all the time, sorry we bonded over coffee and journalism and pan love…
- There was a sorority Dodgeball tournament and we lost but Phi Mu was still in and I was the only one in my section still standing up & cheering them on.
- I openly suggest to my sorority sisters how fun it would be to have a joint date party with another sorority, but it hasn't happened yet. So we will see.
It shouldn't be a thing to make other sorority girls your enemies, let's make it not a thing. Why are we so caddy? Why does it matter sooooo much what letters you wear on your chest (or even if you don't wear letters on your chest) to the point that you have to hate them just because they have 3 letters and you have 2 or their letters look a little different from you. I'm just here to say I think this shouldn't matter and if you like someone and want to hang out with them all the time than you do it, no matter if their ADPI, Phi MU, Non Greek, or if they were a big A on their chest. Just be kind. Support them for the decision they made to join another organization. We all have the same concepts. Be friendly. Share pan love.


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Saturday, May 21, 2016
It's a lazy Saturday morning. The sky is grey and full of clouds. Hayden and I spent the morning watching cartoons in my bed. It is one of his favorite things to do. I did a little more sleeping than he liked so he woke me to sounds of his toy pet parrot screaming that it wanted a pet lizard. How he got to the toy parrot which was perched high atop a cabinet is another story and one I was apparently asleep for. We will just imagine that it flew down on it's own rather than picture him scaling the shelving to get to it. This life of cuddles, cartoons, and craziness is about to get a lot more cuddly and crazy with the addition of another baby. To say I'm not at all scared would be a lie. To say I'm overjoyed would be an understatement. I never thought I'd get this chance again, but here we are starting over. This should be interesting.
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On Sunday, Rina and I hung out with our friends Netanel and Sharon and their twin children at Gunpowder Falls State Park.
We spent about four hours at the park doing various activities. While the kids played on the beach making sand castles, and Rina and Sharon relaxed and chatted, Netanel and I went to a different part of the beach area, where he rented a wind surfboard and I borrowed his kayak. This was the first time I'd gone kayaking, but I don't think it will be the last. He has a very good kayak, so it was easy to maneuver and move around. We were out for about an hour before returning to our respective families.
After we abandoned the boats, several of us at various times played with a frisbee while a charcoal grill warmed up for lunch. We then consumed a good number of hamburgers and hot dogs, while the kids were particularly pleased I had thought to bring a bag of potato chips.
Then it was time to head home and collapse. So far, the only part of me that's sore is my lower back, though if I had been sitting right in the kayak and was more used to it, that wouldn't be hurting that much. Even still, it's only a minor ache. I also managed to be outside for 4 hours without getting a sunburn, though you can see in the picture above how much I'm covered up in my sun protection clothing.
All in all, a fun time was had by all, most likely to be repeated before the summer is over. For my part, I didn't realize how nice a beach could be if it's not right next to an ocean, but the river was very nice and large, and while the beach itself was small, it was large enough for all the kids we saw to play in. A pleasant surprise, one that, as I said, needs to be repeated.


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Kadenz implemented a brand audit and refresh and was then tasked to develop a new website to showcase the ROI Brands and to include e-commerce capabilities to sell all ROI brand products online direct to consumer. Rik Bjornson, the principal at Kadenz now consults ongoing with ROI as their Design and Marketing Manager
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text: What is Rules Based Machine Translation (RBMT)? What is Rules Based Machine Translation (RBMT)? omniscien What is Rules Based Machine Translation (RBMT)? Rules Based Machine Translation (RBMT) systems were the first commercial machine translation systems and are based on linguistic rules that allow the words to be put in different places and to have different meaning depending on context. RBMT technology applies to large collections of linguistic rules in three different phases: analysis, transfer and generation. Rules are developed by human language experts and programmers who have deployed extensive efforts to understand and map the rules between two languages. RBMT relies on manually built translation lexicons, some of which can be edited and refined by users to improve translation. RBMT allows for some control via lexicon and user dictionary refinements and is relatively predictable in its output. However, these refinements can be very time consuming to implement and maintain and in some cases can lead to lower quality translations due to ambiguity of terms. As translations are provided by rules, often the ouput can read more "machine like" in writing style and although translations can be understandable, they are often not fluent. This is frequently referred to as "gist" quality, where the substance of the translation is reasonably clear, but considerably post-editing work is required to adapt the translation output to a specific target audience and writing style. RBMT developers have recently attempted to address some of the limitations of RBMT by augmenting their core RBMT technology with some of the techniques of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and have been marketing their products as a Hybrid MT model. There are a number of different "Hybrid MT" models and each should be understood for their benefits and limitations. A more technical summary of RBMT can be found on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule-based_machine_translation


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Sustainability: It's Actually Simple
Do you ever wish you could do more to be sustainable- but it feels way too difficult? You're not sure what to do, or how to do it.
We live in a throwaway society. Whether it's the Salon Industry or a Building Site, every day massive amounts of waste gets thrown away and contributes to ongoing issues for our Planet.
Sometimes it's hard to get your head around this whole sustainability thing. But it doesn't have to be.
In this episode, I'm talking to Amanda, the founder PaperNotFoil- a company who makes sustainable, biodegradable and reusable hair 'foils' out of recycled waste. We discuss the collective responsibility that we all have to do our part in helping the planet.
Amanda explains how making small changes within your business can make a big difference, and how it can be fun, too! It can be super easy to turn a blind eye to the waste you are producing when you feel like you have no other options
Today, we will not only chat about the options we all, in fact, do have, but also why it doesn't need to be a big deal. It's all about simplicity, fun, getting involved and doing our part to help out.
In this episode you'll hear:
- How to reduce waste
- Tips to reduce, reuse, recycle
- Cost-efficient ways to reduce toxins in your life
- Different things you can do to make your Salon more sustainable
- Why sustainability is fun and easy
- Ways to get involved
- Reasons why being sustainable can be good for your business
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CLICK HERE to check out Inc. Magazine's 10 Powerful Habits That Will Help You Become the Best Version of Yourself
CLICK HERE for the PaperNotFoils Website and HERE for the UK version
CLICK HERE for PaperNotFoil on Instagram
CLICK HERE to check out PaperNotFoil on Facebook
CLICK HERE to join the Salon Owners Collective Facebook Group


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Restore Nature to a San Francisco City Golf Course?
Restore Nature to a San Francisco City Golf Course?
Sharp Park Habitat Restoration Proposal Public Hearing April 30, 2009, 1pm San Francisco City Hall (ACTION ITEM)
Finally, Earth Day seems like a good time to remember that public lands issues, even federal ones, don't just involve areas that are removed from our bigger cities and towns. Areas in our own backyards are important as well for many reasons, not least is that they are often the first introduction that kids get to the outdoors, which can lead to a lifelong fascination with nature. They are no less worthy of protection than our wilderness areas and national parks. One such area is Sharp Park, a golf course located in Pacifica, but owned and operated by the city of San Francisco, located just to the north. The golf course is known habitat for the red-legged frog and the San Francisco garter snake, both federally-listed endangered species. The golf course and its impacts on these species have been the subject of controversy for several years now, and one of San Francisco's supervisors has come up with a proposal to turn the golf course over to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area so that the National Park Service can restore it, as it is doing on land adjacent to the golf course (alone or jointly with San Francisco). Our friends at the Center for Biological Diversity and Nature in the City are among the leading supporters of the proposal, which has attracted attention from all quarters. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will be holding a hearing on the proposal next Thursday, April 30.
We encourage people who support habitat restoration efforts to attend if they are able. The hearing will be at: San Francisco City Hall 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place 1 p.m.
More information on the issue can be found online.
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Tour of Communist Bucharest Small Group
One can't speak of Bucharest without mentioning the communist era. From the very moment you step into the city and wherever you go on its many streets, the communist blocks watch you from everywhere, while the imposing civic centre stands out with its huge Palace of the Parliament.
Available in
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- Spanish,
- German,
- Italian,
- French
- Be amazed by the almighty Palace of the Parliament
- See Ceausescu's private villa in the Primăverii district
- Visit the Free Press Square and the Free Press House
- Walk across Revolution Square
- Admire the fountains on Union Square
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The tour starts with private pick up from your accommodation.
Together we'll learn about Bucharest's communist architecture and history, the influence communism had over us, notorious Ceausescu and his wife, and everything they did to the city during their ruling.
The itinerary includes:
- Free Press House and Free Press Square
- Ceausescu's private villa in the Primăverii district
- Revolution Square
- Memorial of Rebirth
- Iuliu Maniu and Corneliu Coposu statues
- Former Communist Party Central Committee
- University Square: the Intercontinental Hotel and the National Theatre
- Dambovita River and Manuc's Inn
- Unirii Square and the Unirea Shopping Centre
- Boulevard of Socialist Victory
- Unirii Fountains
- Constitution Square
- Palace of the Parliament
Entry to Ceausescu's private villa and the Palace of the Parliament are optional, but we strongly recommend you visit them since they're both symbols of the communist era in Bucharest.
At the end of the tour we'll drop you off at your accommodation.Read more
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- Hotel pick up/drop off
- Transport by air-conditioned car/minivan
- Licensed English speaking guide
- Guided tour of all sights
- Meals
- Entry fees
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Alina took us to the Senate side of Parliament, where we were the only little group visiting at that time. It was such an amazing experience to be there and hear all the incredible facts about this grand building.
Would have never been able to see and learn so much without this tour.
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Anyone who has spent time around young children is aware of their tendency to ask the question, "Why?" Often times, this tendency can shift from comical to slightly irritating, especially when every answer you provide is immediately followed by yet another, "But why?" This curiosity, while it may seem silly at times to us older humans, is actually an innocent and productive example of the human desire to know. As soon as we become aware of cause and effect relationships, we develop a strong desire to know the cause behind every given effect. Unlike other animals, we do not simply react to our environment, but seek to understand it. We are not content with knowing that something happens in nature, we want to know why it happens. This desire to know the causes of things is the basis for all scientific and philosophical inquiry, and in fact, all rational inquiry. Moreover, the predictive ability of scientific theories, which is a key element in assessing their validity, takes for granted that an effect proper to a cause will happen necessarily. As human beings, our desire to know things on a deeper, metaphysical level (e.g., the causes behind events) is what separates us from other, non-rational, animals. Consider that when an animal has all of its biological needs met, it almost invariably goes into an inactive state or sleeps. By contrast, when a human being has all of its biological needs met, it begins to ask questions, questions whose answers do not pertain to any strictly biological need, such as: Why am I here? Where did I come from? Where am I going? What is the purpose of my life? What is the purpose of life altogether? And, the most sublime question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing?
I Demand an Explanation!
Whether in the simple events of our daily lives or in the most complex experiments in the laboratory, our experience of the natural world tells us that reality is completely intelligible, that is, that every coherent question about reality has an answer. Stated more simply, for every effect, there is a cause. Given adequate observation, we see (and indeed, even predict) that every observable phenomenon has a sufficient explanation for its occurrence. Reality is not absurd. Even when the cause of something is extremely difficult to assess, we never give up and assume that the event in question is simply a brute fact of nature that we must accept, something that "just happens". No, even if conclude that we may never know how or why a particular event occurs, we consign this to our human or technological limitations, because we know that there must be a cause, an explanation. This demand that every event have a sufficient explanation, that every effect have a cause, is an unavoidable fact of rational thought. In philosophy, it is known as the principle of sufficient reason. Rather than simply guiding our search for answers to our practical and scientific questions, we can quite easily apply this principle to questions of metaphysics (i.e., the study of fundamental reality beyond mere matter). "Does God exist?" is one such question, and it is to this that we now turn.
Someone Should Have Bought a Kindle...
The following is a simple thought experiment about the nature of cause and effect relationships. Suppose that you want to check out a book from your local library. Excited, you go there to do so, but you soon learn from the librarian that they don't have the book in stock, and will have to borrow it from another library through an inter-library loan. "Okay," you say to the librarian, "so I assume the book will be here in a few days then?" "Actually no," he responds, "because the library we're ordering the book from has to order it from another library first." Slightly disappointed, you ask, "Oh, so it will be more like a week or so before it arrives?" Checking the computer again with a confused glance, he apologizes, "I'm sorry but no, the book won't be here in a week either because apparently that second library has to first order it from another library." At this point, you're starting to get annoyed and to doubt that you will ever see the book that you're anxious to read. Then the librarian tells you something very strange, in fact, it's so strange that it makes no sense to you at all and you assume that he must be playing a prank on you. He says, "I'm so sorry, but it turns out that the number of libraries that need to first borrow the book before lending it to us is actually infinite." If we excuse for now the impossibility of a literally infinite number of libraries existing on the planet for the sake of our thought experiment, what can we still say about the possibility of you ever receiving your (apparently extremely rare) book? It's not a trick question. The answer is: zero, zilch, none.
Job Opening: Cause of All Reality
This might seem intuitively obvious, but let's examine this answer a little closer. Why would you never receive the book? The answer is, because an infinite number of libraries that all need to borrow a book before being able to lend can never provide the book. So, what do books and libraries have to do with God's existence? Well, in our scenario above, what would be required in order for you to check out the book? Of course, there would have to be a library that actually has the book in stock, one that doesn't have to borrow the book from another library. No matter how many libraries you add to the scenario, if they all have to borrow the book before lending it, then the book will never reach you. Now, switch gears and imagine that "existence" is the book in the scenario. What do we know about you? You exist (you have the book). Did you always exist? No, you were born x number of years ago. Why do you exist then? Because your parents conceived you, gave birth to you, and cared for you. But why do they exist? Because their parents did the same for them. But why do their parents exist? Because their parents . . . You can probably guess where this is going. If we could keep going back far enough with our questions and answers, we would eventually reach the first human beings as the explanation for why you exist, and beyond them, whatever creatures might have preceded them, and beyond those creatures, whatever environmental causes were needed to bring about their existence, and beyond those causes, whatever causes were needed to bring the Earth into existence, and so on and so on, all the way back to the Big Bang (assuming for now that the Big Bang marks the beginning of the universe as most physicists and cosmologists believe). Well then, where does God fit into this (condensed) narrative of the history of physical reality? Remember what we said about the libraries––there must exist a library that actually has the book in order for you to receive it. But you do have the book, you exist right now. That means that something must exist in reality that caused you to exist (through an extremely long and complicated series of other causes), without needing to be caused itself. This means that there must exist an "uncaused cause" in reality.
Wait, This Sounds Familiar...
Okay, what's the big deal? So there has to be an uncaused cause, but that could be anything, right? It doesn't have to be something like God, does it? Actually, when we think about what it means for something to be "uncaused", some interesting implications quickly surface. For one thing, in order for something to be uncaused, it would have to be eternal, that is, outside of time. This is because something that is uncaused could not have begun to exist at some past point in time, since the beginning of its existence (i.e., its creation) would require a cause. Also, as the only uncaused cause, it would have to be the cause, explanation, or creator of everything else that exists (i.e., all the "caused causes). Finally, an uncaused cause would have to be immaterial (i.e., not made of matter), because things that are made of matter are composed in a certain form, which requires a cause, and subject to change (which is a measured by time). So, in order for you and your iPhone and your dog and the Statue of Liberty and penguins and black holes and everything and everyone else to exist, there must be an immaterial (a.k.a. spiritual), eternal, and uncaused cause. What (or Who) does that sound like? In the words of Saint Thomas Aquinas, "And this everyone calls God."
† Under the Mercy,
Chris Trummer


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At the split screen where the Bible and commentary meet, on the right hand side is a half circle. Hold down the half circle, then toggle link panels button, and select sync panels.
The Journey X Blog
Thank you. I am still learning the new features of this app. Do you know if anyone has produced a video dealing with this latest update?
Logos YouTube page should have some for the iPhone, but if you have an iPad they should be pretty similar.


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Inspire, Engage, Unleash, Impact…
There is a major drought of inspiration and encouragement in our world today. Tauntisms.com exists to inspire you on your life's journey…
"En"couragement instead of "Un"couragement. "In"spiration, not "Un"spiration.
What is a "Tauntism?"
- "Taunt-" refers to 'stuff' collected by me, Greg Taunt.
- "-ism" refers to taking action or putting something into practice.
So, a "Tauntism" is a quote, saying, story, etc. – words to live by, that I hope will encourage and inspire you (and me) to take action, change a habit, begin a new one, or positively impact someone else.
Inspiration begins with an idea – As you think, so you live.
Why Tauntisms?
It's easy for us to "drift" or allow our lives to go "off course." Often, we feel like our life doesn't have any meaning or we fall into a rut. Step back and take a look at some Tauntisms. Recharge your batteries and recognize that life is much more than just existing.
My hope is that Tauntisms.com will help all of us refocus, recharge, and remember there is a purpose for our lives, even if we question it or don't realize it at the moment.
"Help me to accomplish the purpose of my journey." – Genesis 24:12, A servant's prayer
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- The Book of Taunt – Clever quotes, sayings, and anecdotes that make a powerful point.
- Thought Provokers – Motivational and meaningful stories, fables and collections.
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Tauntisms.com has been known by other website names in the past – IntenseLiving.com and InNotOf.com, but the goal has always been the same…
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DENVER, April 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Janus Foundation this week revealed the winners of its J Tank competition, which will channel $215,000 to non-profit organizations nominated by Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE:JNS) employees.
The second annual J Tank challenge allows the Janus Foundation, which has distributed more than $39 million to non-profits since its inception in 1994, to directly benefit causes that matter personally to its employee community. Employees submitted 28 proposals considered for the finalist round, where seven finalists made their case to a panel of judges why their non-profit should win the top $75,000 prize.
The winning non-profit, Camp Boggy Creek, will receive a $75,000 donation from the Janus Foundation. The first and second runners-up, Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver and Operation Underground Railroad, will receive $40,000 and $25,000, respectively. All finalists will be awarded a $5,000 donation for their charity, and Operation Underground Railroad will receive an additional $10,000 for winning the employee vote.
The winners included:
In addition, judges awarded $5,000 to their favorite employee-nominated non-profit. Winners included:
In addition, Sunrise Cambodia, sponsored by Janus employee Gwen Colin, Director of Strategic Initiatives, was named a finalist.
"It's heartwarming to see so many employees bringing causes that they care passionately about to the Janus Foundation for consideration," said Tiphani Krueger, President of the Janus Foundation and Executive Vice President, Human Resources, at Janus Capital Group. "The second annual edition of J Tank far exceeded our expectations, and we are proud to have built upon the success of last year's inaugural event. This year, we received 28 applications from our employees, and more than 450 employees voted in the competition."
The winning submissions were judged by Krueger and her fellow judges — former Denver Broncos player and President of Corporate Kickoff Reggie Rivers; Jessica Oh, Anchor at Denver's NBC affiliate 9 News; Amelia Earhart, Reporter at Denver's NBC affiliate 9 News; David Edinger, City and County of Denver and philanthropic strategist Bruce DeBoskey, owner of The DeBoskey Group.
About the J Tank Winners
Camp Boggy Creek
Camp Boggy Creek was founded in 1996 by Paul Newman and General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, with one simple premise in mind, that every child, no matter their illness, could experience the transformational spirit and friendships that go hand in hand with camp. http://www.boggycreek.org/
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity is a global nonprofit housing organization that builds strength, stability and self-reliance in partnership with people and families in need of a decent and affordable home. https://www.habitat.org/
Operation Underground Railroad
Since being founded in 2013 Operation Underground Railroad has gathered the world's experts in extraction operations and in anti-child trafficking efforts to bring an end to child slavery. https://ourrescue.org/
Seeing is Believing
Seeing is Believing is Standard Chartered Bank's global community investment program to tackle avoidable blindness in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. http://seeingisbelieving.org/
Pat Tillman Foundation
The Pat Tillman Foundation invests in military veterans and their spouses through academic scholarships – building a diverse community of leaders committed to service to others. http://pattillmanfoundation.org/
Light the Night
Light the Night is a series of fundraising campaigns benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) funding of research to find blood cancer cures. http://www.lightthenight.org/#
Sunrise Cambodia
Sunrise Cambodia is a world-class charity working on the ground in Cambodia to give much-needed help to at-risk kids, struggling families and poor communities in some of the most poverty-stricken provinces of the country. http://sunrisecambodia.org.au/
About Janus Capital Group Inc.
Janus Capital Group Inc. (JCG) is a global investment firm dedicated to delivering better outcomes for clients through a broad range of investment solutions, including fixed income, equity, alternative and multi-asset class strategies. It does so through a number of distinct asset management platforms, including investment teams within Janus Capital Management LLC (Janus), INTECH Investment Management LLC (INTECH), Perkins Investment Management LLC (Perkins) and Kapstream Capital Pty Limited (Kapstream), in addition to a suite of exchange-traded products. Each team brings distinct asset class expertise, perspective, style-specific experience and a disciplined approach to risk. Investment strategies are offered through open-end funds domiciled in both the U.S. and offshore, as well as through separately managed accounts, collective investment trusts and exchange-traded products. Based in Denver, JCG has offices located in 12 countries throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The firm had complex-wide assets under management and ETN assets totaling $204.7 billion as of March 31, 2017.
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Nice to see how COLEBROOK ROAD is being well received wherever it lands, whether it's St. Johns or Le Mans. People like what they hear and that makes all the toil and trouble worthwhile.
Here's some snippets of press, along with another great R.d. Cane photo.
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This week in Q&A - All-in or specialize by movie era? It can pay to be picky. Women in toy lines - it's still not a lot better than it was, but you can probably blame the entertainment properties, too. And foot pegs - an easy one!
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Here was another great evening from Chris Vervain Mask Theatre. As with their Trojan Women from last year this was Greek theatre pure in intention and well delivered, its inducements, its piety, and exhortations in full flow and the more compelling for it.
Once more, masks and once more, uncanny to look at. As a dramatic device they distance and yet fascinate. An audience member complained about not being able to understand the actors because of the masks, but I would only suggest that perhaps his hearing is defective. Vervain (and mask acting) demands enunciation from the cast, and they fulfil.
One realises, on seeing the cast unmasked, just how hard it must be to act en masque, under theatre lights and too, in Attic heat! Projection is required, clarity and force of voice. Tone of voice becomes crucial. There needs must be a physicality overwrought in appearance without mask, but necessary when wearing one. An expansive, almost stereotyped gestural code, close to mime, become critical. Too, en masse, nothing can match the picture of a stage full of masked players. The effect is spooky.
Vervain's masks themselves are excellent, and a lot of hard work must have gone into their construction. Fully rewarded. The large eyes implore and appeal to us, one imputes reactions onto the dull intimation of flesh which forms the masked face, as if willing emotion onto the blank form, animating movement upon their suggestive armature.
I am unable to comment on the achievements of the Vellacott translation, nor as to whether it was apposite here to use it as the source text for staging or whether Mr Vellacott intended for it to be staged (if I chance upon a copy, maybe it says in there). As a dramatic text it certainly works, and credit must go to the young actors for their feats of memorising a text full of odd words, classical references and names. No wonder a prompt sat close at hand, lest there be any mistake.
Happy to report, she was not needed.
All the actors did a good job. Alyssa Burnett's Messenger in particular excelled. Her narration of Pentheus' sparagmos on Mount Kithaeron was wonderfully delivered, never lapsing into oratory or straight factual relation. Burnett was sensitive to tone and nuance, the whole event given feelingly, as Hamlet may have said (and here sawing of air definitely needed!) Had it been an opera (and Partch wrote one for it, and I was briefly by these proceedings inspired to, too) applause for her. I just about restrained myself.
Special mention too to Briony Rawle. In Vervain's Trojan Women she had the lion's share (pun excused?) of the business, and on strength of that memory I booked to see this. Happy to report she is back, as Agave. As with her Hecabe from Trojan Women she found both power and pathos in the role, an investment of self well rewarded by developing a strong performance for us.
Praise too for Alexander Pett, his human Dionysus was by turns a coy, imperious, impish trickster, fey in his supernatural powers and a being given to flashes of caprce and anger. Will Bryant's Pentheus, falling in and out of that same thrall was finely done, whether offering a register of pique, or regal affront, or plain appeal, all was finely delineated (and again to reiterate, tone, voice and gesture are all we can judge on here).
Joanna Howden's Tiresias was convincing from wizened head to curled toe, her fingers gnarled and her shuffling frame bent. I wondered though if she might have benefitted from more age in the voice, but this is small matter. Cadmus, the poor put-upon king was well given by Emily Salmon and the revelation scene of Pentheus' corpse with Rawle was well done. Rowan Winter's herdsman was wittily rustic and expansively acted, in a Scottish accent no less!
It must be difficult to speak to a mask, through a mask. It must be hard too, to take a fake head (Rawle as Agave) (or skull, pace Hamlet again) and direct to it, and by extension to us, a great weight of grief and sadness. It must be hard to make the words live, and the themes of this most distant and different world live as relevant to our own, and yet the cast succeeded in doing so.
Costumes were fittingly "Greek" (I am not expert to determine authenticity, or how close to historical reality, though Pentheus benefitted from some very finely made sandals!) and again, looked purpose made, by Chris Vervain, Linda Kerr and Frieda Bier. Pentheus' head-covering was memorably nice, as was his purple robe and crown. The Bacchants carried thyrsus and were garlanded in ivy, just as I had hoped.
The Chorus too, delivered their lines with authority, splitting the speeches and narration between themselves in with assurance. Their choreography by Jemma Gould brought to mind black-figure vase work and proto-slyphides. (Are the Maenads kin and sisters to those same fey beings?) Lighting from Luis Alvarez was nuanced and unobtrusive, exactly what this piece demanded.
Finally (and the foregoing implies praise for Ms Vervain herself) praise to the trio of Penelope Anne Shipley, Anita Creed and Katie Arnstein for their performance of original music for this theatre experience. Singing with no actual instrumental backup, save the occasional tambourine or flute, their lines are naked, close to "elemental" and certainly suggestive of Dionysus' exotic appeal. I have good memories of the same with Trojan Women, but recall there perhaps less singing under/over the action, and more of music used to link and set scenes. In this memory I may be wrong, but praise to these young ladies for their music-making. Praise indeed to all for an arresting evening of theatre, an evening which sets up all kind of thoughts whirling: about history, religion, Fate, family and the arc of theatre from Euripedes to our present day. Lucky us to have these texts, and my gratitude to Vervain for having the wherewithal and drive to present them to us. I hope the actors and Vervain return next year. I will definitely see them again if so.


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A woman woke up after a big night out to find a bizarre set of photographs on her phone. They also happen to be beautiful.
Moya Lothian-McLean, who works in media and lives in London, decided to 'go hard' rather than 'go home' last weekend, finishing – as it proper – at her local kebab house.
Moya had no idea of her drunken escapades at the time. When she woke up, however, she discovered she'd carried out an impromptu photoshoot with the takeaway staff who'd served her.
The 22-year-old told Mirror Online: "I'd been out with my friends at a Frank Ocean night and I was in a very good mood.
"I don't usually blank out when I go out – in fact I'm notorious for remembering every embarrassing details. That's why it was so strange that such a huge chunk was missing from my memory...
"Personally I think it was because my friend accidentally brought my whiskey at pre-drinks instead of rum. Different drink = very different experience."
Despite Moya's hazy memory, she knows she visited Ali Baba's kebab shop in Dalston, East London. It's a well-known haunt and a favourite of Moya's.
"My standard order is shish kebab with cheesy chips," she told us.
"The guy in the second photo actually yells 'Cheesy chips!' at me when I go in because I get it so much. He remembers everyone though – I'm not a special customer."
Moya couldn't believe it when she found such precise, artistic photographs. They capture the early morning dynamism and joviality of a city kebab house.
The images look as though Moya put in a lot of effort to get right – but were simply the result of drunkness. Apparently the staff had laughed at her waving her phone around "like a drunk fool".
Moya added: "I haven't been back to show them the pictures yet – I'm slightly worried they'll just think I'm a big idiot."
Moya said that her friend – in a more sober state – was with her and helped her get home safely (very important). She said they both had fun looking through the photos while eating their kebabs at home.
Moya shared the pictures on Twitter. They received a welcome reception. One person called them "amazing", another said they were "like something from a National Geographic article".
Another commented: "This is bloody majestic". We think so too.


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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Who's Joseph Kony ? Alot of you might not know him, and some of you do. Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the the most wanted war criminal by the ICC (International Criminal Court). He is known for the abduction of over 30,000 children after losing many of his army fighters. The LRA started in Uganda but later was moved across Africa.
Watch This Short Documentary For More Info…
Interview: Ali Al Mawash (Socialite)
Ali a 17 year old Kuwaiti Socialite, with lots of dreams and passion. I met Ali a long time ago in the American School of Kuwait, and most recent I interview about his works and project and his outstanding blog that consists of advice and Ali's Biography. As for now Ali lives in Thailand with his family and planning to achieve his life time goals.
When/Why was AliAlMawash.com founded ?
alialmawash.com officially launched on February 29, 2012. The blog is a way to help me build my name globally as a socialite, trendsetter and philanthropist. This is something I've wanted since I was a kid and two years ago after some requests from people I finally started what is now alialmawash.com. I want to be able to inspire, educate and entertain the people of the world. The blog was coincidently launched on February 29, a leap year, which makes it more special than it already is to me.
–Who/What supported you into building your blog ?
My friends and family were my main supporters during the development of my blog, and with their help I have had great results. For example, in just three days I got 6,000+, which I am so proud of. This blog is really helping me achieve my dream and I have gotten a lot of great feedback from the sites visitors.
-What do you represent? What does Ali represent?
With me, I feel I represent a spark to the world. All my life I've befriended so many people that told me I was a natural entertainer, which really pushed me to start growing my name and socialize. I want to be able to help spread awareness to causes that the world is blinded by. I want to be able to help those in need and just give my advice on how people could think like me and get the great confidence that I have.
-What are you planning on achieving throughout your site ?
Through my site, I really try to make myself bigger and greater. I want to be able to gain notoriety. I do not want to be called a socialite just in Kuwait, but globally. I am really looking for this blog to be successful so I could be able to independently start doing good things for the world to make it a better place. I want to make people feel that anything is possible and encourage them to forget the haters do what they believe in. I have always been discouraged by jealous people but always know that I will get where I want to get I just have to work hard.
-Tell us more about about yourself..walk us throughout your story
Well my name is Ali Almawash and I am seventeen years old. I currently live in Bangkok and attend the International School Bangkok. Before Bangkok, I lived my whole life from the young age of 11 hanging out and putting myself out there with Kuwait's people. Since then, I have always been under the spotlight and sadly experienced some lows but some highs from getting my name out there. I have been social with many of Kuwait's teen elite and dealt with so many experiences that made me the strong and social person that I am today. I knew I wanted this so no matter what lows I got so I fought through it. I feel I am a one of a kind type character and I really want to show that to the world. I do not really care what people think now, so I'm confident in sticking to what I believe in. I am a fighter so when I want something I get it.
-What inspired you the most into starting a blog ?
I always knew I had the dream of becoming this public figure but never knew how I wanted to do it. Two years ago, I finally figured that I want to expand my fan base and what better place to do it than the internet.
The world will see more of Ali Al Mawash.
Visit: Ali's Blog
International Day: Cambodia Art Project !
Here it is ! The "International Day Art Project" which we had to do a poster about the country we we're representing or about the enviroment. It was a long 2 weeks of researching information about Cambodia and the Ankor Wat ! It was a major project to do this year which is like 30% of the total grade of the final score in three subjects, Geography, English & Art ! Ant the end of the last week, we got an exibtion within school wich each group having a booth and representing their countries. We we're being graded on both presentation and apperance…to be honset it was LOTS of work ! Thanks to a couple of friends that supported within this project !!
Event: Cloche
Cloche event will take place on 4th-6th of March.
Place: Yamouk, Block 2. Abdulaziz Bin Baz Street, House No.47
For More Info Please Call: 96998824
LMFAO's RedFoo: Happy Birthday Justin Bieber Video
LOL! "Happy Bieber Justin Birthday" 😀
Soundation: Making Music Online
I just found this "Music Composer site" which is pretty cool. I've been looking for a good software for music editing, as for now I was using Sony Acid Pro whcih is a really cool software too, but not what I had in mind. I tried Soundation and it was a really great, no download need to try it ! Thats one of the reasons that I got interasted to use it 😀 If you like music then my advice take a look at it..its free !
Inspiring People: Zed Al-Refai
One of the most inpiring people I have read and heard about is Zed Al-Refai. The 1st Kuwaiti and arab to ever climb Mount Everest in 2003 and the 46th person to ever climb the seven summits. Zed is also the founder of the Arabian Mountaineering and Alpine Climbing Club in Kuwait.
Check Out [More About] Zed Al-Refai
My Beats by. Dr. Dre DETOX Review
After listening to the amaziong sound quilty I just had to talk about this ! So, I just got the Beats by. Dr. Dre DETOX version before they we're out of stock !! These Limited adition Beats are the best headphone I have tried recently..a sexy black matte look, superouir HD sound quilty and outstanding noice cancellation 😀
These limited edition headphones are serouisly one of a kind..you should get a try at these !
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Willow Creek Chicken with Prunes and Carrots
There are times when you look in the fridge and think 'what am I cooking for supper tonight?' There is a hodge podge of ingredients there, which apparently do not fit together. So, there I was, looking at a whole fresh chicken, a packet of prunes and a bunch of carrots.
I made this delicious country casserole for supper which I served with steamed basmati rice and bok choy. We are still having cool nights, and this is comfort food deluxe. Leading ingredients are my favourite Willow Creek Extra Virgin Olive Oils, the go-to olive oil in our Kitchen. Willow Creek Olive Estate is in the Nuy Valley which is between Worcester and Robertson. The home also of the multi ward winning Nuy Winery, Conradie Family Vineyards, and Penhill Hill Manor which offers real class accommodation.
Willow Creek Chicken with Prunes & Carrots
What you'll need
I large chicken, cut in half, backbone removed
sea salt and freshly milled black pepper
Willow Creek Gourmet Squeeze Me EVOO
Willow Creek Garlic Infused EVOO
Willow Creek Jalapeno Infused EVOO
3 onions, sliced thinly
6 carrots, cut into short batons
100g pitted prunes
Chicken stock, I use Nomu
large pinch of saffron, or use turmeric
1 Tbs sweet smoked paprika
One of the easiest oils to use, squeeze for a thin stream
What you'll do
Keep the backbone of the chicken for the casserole as it will add to the flavours. Season the chicken well with the sea salt and the freshly ground black pepper. Flood, just to cover, the base of a large cast iron casserole. Season delicately the oil in the casserole with the garlic and jalapeno oil. Heat the oils gently and swirl to mix them together. Preset the oven on 180C.
Over medium heat, brown the chicken halves, skin side first in the oil, then turn over and brown on the other side. Remove and set aside. Add the onions to the oil in the pan, and again cooking slowly allow them to turn a light golden brown, take your time with this as the onions add great flavour to the dish. Return the chicken and any juices which may have run from it. Add the carrots and the prunes. Add sufficient chicken stock to cover, stir in the saffron and the smoked paprika and season well with the sea salt and the freshly ground black pepper. Bring to the boil, cover the casserole and place in the oven on a middle shelf and cook for 30 minutes. Turn down the temperature to 160C and cook for a further hour or until the chicken is tender. You can stick a skewer into the knee joint and if the juice runs clear the chicken is cooked.
Remove the chicken and then bring the liquid to the casserole to the boil and reduce if necessary. I usually thicken a sauce with kneaded butter, what the French call Buerre Manié. Half quantities of soft butter and flour. Stir the paste in a little at a time until your sauce is of the desired thickness. Remove the backbone and return the chicken to the casserole and heat through gently before carving and serving.
Serves 4 hungry people.
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Quite nice if you serve a Nuy Valley Wine with this dish. Conradie Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon would be perfect. We tasted this wine on a visit there in June and loved it. Do chill for 30 minutes before serving to add to the enjoyment.
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KDKA Radio's Mike Pintek Has Died at Age 65
Mike had been battling pancreatic cancer since May 2017
Related: Mike Pintek Through The Years
PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - KDKA Radio talk show host Mike Pintek passed away early Wednesday morning at the Vincentian Home in McCandless after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Pintek was 65.
For over 30 years, Pintek was the host of "The Mike Pintek Show" on KDKA Radio, which aired weekdays from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. In May of 2017, he was diagnosed with the disease but continued to broadcast his talk show. His condition was inoperable, so he began an aggressive form of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and participated in experimental drug studies to ward off the illness, all while continuing to entertain his thousands of listeners daily on KDKA Radio. Pintek was forced to take a leave of absence in late June of this year when his treatment was interrupted by a stroke.
Mike came to KDKA Radio in 1982 not as a talk show host but as a reporter. In 1985, he shifted to the role of talk show host and soon became one of Pittsburgh's most influential voices. He also worked on KDKA-TV as the host of "Pittsburgh 2-Day" and would serve as the station's news break anchor.
Mike got his start in radio as a news director / anchor at WNOW in York, PA in 1974. In 1976, he moved to the state capitol to work at top 40 station WKBO Harrisburg, where he worked in the news department with the late Fred Honsberger. Honsberger left WKBO to join KDKA Radio and Mike was named News Director at the station.
It was at WKBO in 1979 that Pintek broke one of the biggest stories of his career. In the early morning of March 28, Pintek and then WKBO traffic reporter Dave Edwards noticed that steam was not emanating from the cooling towers at the Three Mile Island Nuclear power plant in nearby Middletown, and that fire companies had been dispatched to the scene. Pintek's call to the company to investigate the incident led to him being transferred to the main control room, where he confirmed that it was not a fire, but a problem with reactor number two. Pintek was the first to report the news of the incident, which soon became the most significant accident in the U.S commercial nuclear power history. The accident resulted in a number of changes and new regulations for the nuclear industry.
That nose for news served Pintek well as he soon made the transition to talk. After a two year stint as the morning news anchor at WASH-FM in Washington, D.C., Pintek moved to Pittsburgh to join his former colleague Honsberger at the legendary KDKA Radio.
It was that news acumen that led Pintek to become a great talk show host. KDKA Radio News Director P.J. Kumanchik said, "I think that's what made him such a great talk show host because in terms of information, Mike was pretty much spot on."
KDKA Radio Program Director Jim Graci explains why Mike was so successful for so long. "He was constantly trying to seek opinions from his listening audience. He loved to talk to his listeners. He loved that bi-play. However, if you were going to debate him, you better be bringing it."
He knew the facts and he certainly had opinions. KDKA Radio Morning Show co-host Larry Richert says Mike's take was always unique. "Even if it was obvious to you and me something might be one way, Mike had an ability to see it another way and wasn't afraid to express that."
Sports director Jeff Hathhorn says Mike was the same off the air as he was on the air. "Mike had a thirst for knowledge, that's why he always asked questions of everybody. It annoyed some people though as Mike could be very direct."
One of those people who Mike was direct with on his very first day was producer Andrew Limberg. "The first day I came into produce his show, he looked at me and said 'who the hell are you?' I've never been more intimidated in my professional career," said Limberg. "I grew up listening to Mike and eventually he started trusting me. We developed a friendship that I will cherish for the rest of my life. He was blunt and in your face but he was also incredibly funny and always willing to listen."
In addition to his radio and television work, Mike appeared in the ABC Television movie "Dead and Alive", filmed in Pittsburgh in 1991 in the role of reporter Craig Shaw.
Mike would often open his show interacting with news anchor Rose Ryan-Douglas who says she cherishes those times.
"I loved it, because we got to interact more, you don't get to do that during a news cast and I always trusted him with our conversation because he was a newsman first."
Longtime KDKA Radio host Rob Pratte worked with Pintek for years on Saturday mornings and said he was a perfectionist. "If you'd see his penmanship, one of the last to use a real pen that you actually dip into ink," said Pratte. "His penmanship was an absolute thing of beauty, I mean artwork. Everything he did was class(y)."
Pintek disclosed his illness more than a year ago to his listeners. "And I decided to tell you because you are my family, my extended family because radio listeners are family. It's a very intimate relationship because radio is the most intimate medium we have," said Pintek.
Mike said making the announcement was one of the hardest things he ever had to do on the air.
"I succumb every now and then to say: why me? And I did a little bit of that. But the better question is: why not me? Why am I special?"
Pintek was special, and his listeners and co-workers at KDKA Radio will never forget him.
Pintek leaves behind his longtime partner Linda Guiler and her daughter Hadley, and sister Mary Ann Krynock (Dennis). He was preceded in death by his parents, Mary and Carl Pintek.
Services for Pintek are pending at this time.
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Some information about myself should be useful.. so here we go!
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In the tool we call this feature "Campaigns". To get started on making your first batch/broadcast/campaign message, navigate to the campaign section-
This will take you to the campaign's page where you can see all messages that may have already been created. There are three main tabs on this page:
- Archived
- Campaigns that have already run
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- Drafts
- Campaigns that you and members of your team are building to run in the future
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- Activated
- Campaigns that are currently running or are scheduled to run at a specific date
- Ghost of Christmas present
When you're ready to made a new campaign, click on the yellow fab plus button in the upper right corner of the screen.
Making the campaign
Time to make your campaign! This form will take you through the three main aspects of your message.
- Content
- Audience
- Timing
First you'll want to name your campaign. This is only for internal purposes, but we do recommend you name it something that would make sense to the rest of your team who will also be viewing messages or using the campaign tool.
Next is where you enter your content. There will be a previewer on the right of your screen, and a character counter beneath your message. Please try to keep SMS under a 160 characters, as this can cause multiple segments to send out as your message. Also, short texts are better and more well-received! If you find yourself saying "Apologies for this long text." in your message, that means it's too long: don't do that. Find a more concise way to get your information across.
Next is your audience. Here you can select an audience that you have already uploaded or one that is coming through on our integration. There is also a link to add an audience right from this page as needed. You can search this list as well if your institution has a lot of audiences.
"Do NOT deliver to" is a second option where you could select an audience that would be excluded from this campaign. That way you don't have to create a brand new audience on this communication without your exclusions.
It's possible you do not have an audience to choose from, and you want to paste a list of IDs. If you don't see a checkbox labeled "Create Audience by Pasting IDs", contact your project manager so they can turn on this feature for you.
Check the box and paste in your IDs. You can paste as many IDs as you need in this field. If you paste 5000 IDs or more, give the page some time to load. If you see some latency with bigger lists, that is to be expected. The IDs can be comma separated, separated by spaces, or separated by lines.
After you've pasted in your list, click "Verify". This will show you how many students you pasted in that are not in the Full Measure system.
Here, we can see I have one listed student and one valid student. If not all my students were valid, those two numbers would not equal each other.
Make sure after you've configured your campaign that you HIT SAVE before navigating away from this page!
If you go back to look at your campaign, you will see an audience that our system created from your pasted IDs.
If you had invalid students in your list, click on the blue hyperlink which will take you to your audience, and you can see more information about those students.
You can select an exclusion audience in the "Do NOT deliver to" section. NOTE: this feature is only meant to handle small audiences, anything over 1000 students is not recommended.
Now we can select the timing of your communication. You have two options here: select date and time or immediately. These are pretty straight forward. For select date and time you select a date and time in the future for your message to go out. This does need to be in the future, we won't look at past times and assume it should go out now. For going out now, you choose immediately.
Now let's say you're choosing "Select a date and time".
From here, you can select multiple send hours for your campaign to send.
This DOES NOT mean that your message will go out multiple times across the hours that you choose. This simply gives our system multiple hours in which to make sure we send all of the messages in your campaign. If the messages that started sending at 3pm do not finish sending by 4pm in the example, at 4pm again we'll look at all of the messages we haven't sent yet and continue to send the remaining.
We recommend picking 2 hours to send your campaign across. Unless it is an incredibly large campaign (more than 30,000 people), you do not need more than 2 send hours, and at most you won't need more than 4 consecutive hours.
Time to save your message! Click Save in the upper left corner of the screen. Click on the campaign icon again to get back to your drafts screen so you can activate your message.
Sending the campaign
When you are ready to activate your message, click on the radio button next to your campaign. When you activate your campaign, if it is configured to send immediately, it will send but then go directly to the archived tab. If it is configured to send at a select date and time, it will move to the activated tab where it will live until it sends the message.
What did the campaign do?
After your message sends, you can see information about the messages that are sending/sent out. Click on the three dots on your message in the list, and you'll see delivery stats and delivery queues. Delivery stats will tell you if your message sent, and to whom.
Delivery queues will give you a general overview of your message, including a count of successful and failed messages.
That's an overview of our campaign builder! Attached is a file with more screenshots that also walks your through campaign builder.
These screenshots include-
- Navigate to the campaign builder page
- Create a campaign by adding content, audiences, and timing
- Activate your campaign
- View stats on messages that went out
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Chadds Ford resident and CEO supports children and adults with special needs
By Richard Gaw
Over the past several years, Shawn O'Brien, a Chadds Ford resident and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cipher Pharmaceuticals, has seen many stage performances by the Melmark Players in nearby Berwyn.
The theater group is made up of residents of Melmark, a facility that provides residential, educational, vocational and therapeutic services for children and adults with autism, intellectual disabilities and other neurological disorders.
To O'Brien, these performances are as good as Broadway, and in a way, they're better. Over the years, he has come to know many of the actors by name. He meets them before and after shows. He sees the gleam in their eyes when they come out at the end of the plays and musicals and see that the audiences are standing and applauding for them. In many ways, O'Brien is a silent partner in these theatrical performances because for the past eight years, Shawn O'Brien has been one of the quiet leaders who have helped these actors - and hundreds of other people just like them at Melmark -- experience rays of hope and happiness.
"To see them blossom when they perform, and then come out and talk to everyone after the show, is one of the best moments I could have," O'Brien said. "To see the joy in the group is just fantastic. At each performance, there's always a new person. I am amazed at what they can do. It's a real pleasure to experience."
For O'Brien, the appreciation is met with the roll-up-the-sleeves work of helping Melmark achieve its mission. This year marks the seventh year he will serve as co-chair of the Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Classic Advisory Board, who organizes an annual golf tournament that has to date raised more than $3 million for Melmark.
These funds have supported a wide range of projects and services, including new classrooms that provide technology and innovative opportunities; a multi-purpose center with a full-time gymnasium; and program support for education, vocational training and adult services.
O'Brien co-chairs the advisory board with Denny Wilson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hsiri; and Jim Eaton, Senior Vice President of NAI Geis Realty. O'Brien, Wilson and Eaton lead a group made up of executives from some of the leading biotech and life sciences companies in the area.
On Oct. 5, the 10th Annual Hubert J.P. Schoemaker Classic will attract nearly 300 golfers to three premiere golf courses in the Berwyn area. The Classic was founded by Lee Ahrensdorf and Associates, in memory of the late Hubert J.P. Schoemaker, a pioneer in the life sciences industry, whose eldest daughter lived at Melmark for 28 years.
"We are honored to lead the charge in coordinating the Classic in memory of Hubert," said O'Brien. "When Hubert passed away 11 years ago, we wanted to put something special in place, as a way of bringing the biotech community together to raise money for Melmark. The success and longevity of this event has a direct, positive impact on the families served by Melmark."
Soon after moving with his family to Chadds Ford from Canada in 1999 as an executive with Astra Zeneca, O'Brien began dedicating his time at Melmark through a volunteering effort made by his former employer. After leaving Astra Zeneca in 2004, O'Brien has made sure that whatever company he has been with has provided volunteer leadership to local organizations just like Melmark.
In both his business and his work with Melmark, O'Brien believes in what he calls the three pillars of success -- to improve, to innovate and to transform. When he first began volunteering at Melmark in 2008, it was the height of the economic downturn, and O'Brien saw that the facility was not receiving the resources it needed in order to succeed.
Together with the members of the advisory board, O'Brien began to explore ideas on how to maintain the economic health of the facility, which he said "allows Melmark to continue to improve, innovate and transform."
Volunteerism has become a family trait in the O'Brien household. Daughter Shannon Elizabeth, a 2010 graduate of Unionville High School, worked at Melmark during her college summers, on her way to her degree in speech therapy and dance at George Washington University last year. During her years at Unionville High School, she coordinated the Best Buddies Program, which helps link disabled persons together with able-bodied persons.
"Now, Shannon helps the learning disabled communicate through dance," O'Brien said. "Volunteering has become a family thing, not just something I do myself."
There is another performance group that O'Brien enjoys seeing at Melmark. It's a music group called the Joy Bells, and to O'Brien, the sound the group makes is symbiotic with the people he has come to know.
"They just want to smile," he said. "They just want to have an ordinary day. At Melmark, it's the nurturing along with the technology that accelerates what the idea of 'Normal' has become for these individuals. Melmark is transforming them from having nothing in their life to being able to enjoy things."
The Schoemaker Classic will be played at the Waynesborough Country Club, the St. Davids Golf Club and the Gulph Mills Golf Club, and will also include a cocktail reception, silent auction, live auction and dinner, at the Waynesborough Country Club. For more information about the event, including sponsorship opportunities, visit www.schoemakerclassic.com, or call Ellen Donohue, Melmark's Vice President for Advancement, at 610-325-4996.
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