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This course is an introduction to the social, economic, and political development of modern Mexico. We start with an analysis of the effect that colonial patterns of domination had on Mexican society after independence in the early 19th century. Thereafter, two centuries of state and nation formation are examined. Throughout this period, the course explores issues such as class structure, race, gender, national identity, the role of the church, foreign influences, modernization, social movements, authoritarianism, revolution, economic cycles, and the development of civil society. One of the central themes that runs troughout all of Mexico's history is the challenge for the Mexican government to enforce and for Mexican society to abide by the law: from colonial times when the viceroys "obeyed, but did not comply" with the King's orders, to the golden years of the PRI regime, when the law was usually understood as "negotiable," to the present time, when drug trafficking organizations overpower or co-opt law enforcement institutions, the weakness in the rule of law is analyzed as one of the greatest impediments for Mexican prosperity and social development. By the end of the course, students will gain an understanding of the complexity of Mexican society and of the current issues facing the country's leaders, including how to approach globalization, how to constructively integrate its economy with that of the U.S. through NAFTA, how to assess the impact of migration of undocumented workers, and how to confront drug violence.
Instructors:LOMBERA, JUAN
Day and Time:MW 0630PM-0800PM
Room:CLAUDIA COHEN HALL 203
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Registration Notes:CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS
- Major Concentrations: World
- Major/Minor requirements fulfilled: Latin America/Caribbean, Seminar


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Hospitality Program 2014 FIFA World Cup
Hospitality Program
We were asked to develop a multi-wave 5-week end-to-end World Cup hospitality program to accommodate 50 guests per wave for a HNW client who was hosting guests from around the globe. Guests were to stay 5-7 days on average and watch a minimum of one match. 6-star accommodation, transportation, entertainment, security and logistics would be critical success factors.
We designed and executed a custom itinerary from start to end in Brazil for 50 guests per wave. With severe constraints on accommodation a decision was made to hire a world-class full-service yacht covering 465 feet. Guests were treated to a minimum of 1 match featuring host country Brazil and with a full-time yacht staff of 89. We designed a full-service program with the boat at the center offering 24/7 service and entertainment.
A private jet was hired to take guests from the base in Rio to different venue cities on 7 different game days. On non-match days the yacht set to sea, touring the coast and nearby islands allowing guests to participate in on-water activities. On- and off-shore daily programs were coordinated with ship staff and local experts. A security team of up to 8 people was hired to ensure safety and manage daily travel logistics. Advance scouting in each market allowed for a seamless experience in each venue city. The guests visited 5 cities throughout the World Cup program.
The program host achieved stated goals of treating guests to a once in a lifetime World Cup experience beginning with private air arrangements to and from Brazil, world class full service yacht, private security, daily event programming, premium seating and hospitality from the Opening through to the Final.
In total our project coordination covered 34 days, 150 unique guests, 350 game day hospitality packages, 7 matches, 10 charters, and 5 cities supported by more than 5 project vendors and 110 combined staff.
Engagement Areas
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|A m/52B anti-tank mine detonating
|Mines are an important part of the Arctic Ranger arsenal, and are used mainly for ambushes and to mine incoming trails into your base. The mines used are of a wide variety, divided into anti-personnel, anti- vehicle and anti-tank mines. Anti-personnel mines are either dug into the ground or strapped on a tree, anti-vehicle mines are strapped up on trees, and anti-tank mines are dug into the ground or snow.
|Mine m/10:
|This is a small circular mine, roughly 8 cm (3 inches) in diameter and 3 cm (1 inch) tall. Due to it's appearance it is sometimes referred to as the "hockey puck". It weighs around 200 grams, 120 of which is explosives (TNT). It is totally non-metallic and therefore difficult to detect. Like many other anti-personnel mines this mine is now banned. Despite what one might think of mines, this was a very merciful mine due to the fact that it only took off your foot, leaving you with an intact knee joint so you can more easily use a prosthetic leg (I would personally rather step on one of these than have half my face blown away by shrapnel). When it was allowed, it was used mainly to boobytrap areas that where already mined with anti-tank mines, in order to make the area more difficult for enemy engineers to clear.
|Mine m/12:
|This is a directional shrapnel mine, basically the same as the American M1A1 Claymore mine. It weighs 3 kg, 0.7 of which is explosives (RDX). It is filled with 449 shotgun-sized steel balls that are scattered into a 60 degree arc when ignited. It is effective within an area of 50 m deep, 20 m wide and 2 m high. On the front of the mine is the famous text "THIS SIDE TOWARD THE ENEMY" (in Swedish, of course). It is usually placed on a tree, but can also be placed on a leg support (see picture). You can either ignite the mine elctrically, or attach a percussion ignitor, which you either pull by hand or set up as a tripwire. Since all anti-personnel land mines are officially banned you have to rename your equipment to stay operational, so it is now called a "defensive charge" instead of "anti-personnel mine" (don't you just hate all this politically correct bullshit?). It is mainly used as a perimeter defense or to boobytrap incoming tracks into the base, but can also be used in ambushes against enemy troops or unarmored vehicles such as supply trucks.
(alarm mine)
|This is a small tree mounted "mine" used only during training in peacetime. It is used the same way as the above mentioned m/12 anti-personnel mine, for perimeter defence and incoming tracks, and is triggered with a tripwire. It is basically a firecracker, giving off a loud noise, bright light and smoke when it is ignited. The advantage of this is that you don't turn to Swiss cheese when you trigger one during training missions.
|Mine m/13R:
|This is a smaller version of the m/13
anti-vehicle mine (not used by Arctic Rangers), hence the
extra R for Reduced. It is basically a very large version
of an anti-
personnel mine such as the m/12 or Claymore, and is sometimes nicknamed "Turk TV" because it looks like a small television. It weighs 10 kg, 5.5 of which is explosives (RDX). It contains 843 steel balls, each with a diameter of 9.5 millimeters. The enormous firepower is roughly equivalent that of an entire rifle company opening fire simultaneously, and it effectively kills all living things in an area 100 m deep, 70 m wide and 3 m tall. It destroys almost any vehicle at ranges up to 50 meters. On the front of the mine is the famous text "THIS SIDE TOWARD THE ENEMY" (again, in Swedish). It is generally placed on a tree, and is either triggered with a remote ignitor or with a ripcord. The main targets are enemy supply trucks and other smaller lightly armored or unarmored vehicles. Several of these can be connected with det cord (read more about det cord in the "Igniting devices" section) so you can ignite them simultaneously.
|This is a small cylinder-shaped mine weighing 2.6 kg, 1.5 of which is explosives (RDX). It contains a solid copper disk, which turns into a superheated 80mm slug upon ignition. This slug exits the mine at a speed of 2000 m/s and can penetrate up to 60mm of armor plate, and is effective against targets up to 30 meters. It is placed on a tree, and is equipped with a small detachable sighting mechanism. It is either triggered with a remote ignitor or with a ripcord. The main targets are enemy supply trucks, engineer vehicles and armored vehicles such as MT-LBs.
|Mine m/6:
|A big landmine, weighing a total of 8 kg, 4 of which is explosives (RDX). It is equipped with magnetic detection, which means that it can ignite even if a tank runs straight over it (so the tracks pass on each side of the mine). It is also equipped with an anti-handling device, so it ignites when enemy sappers try to lift them by hand. This means that it will ignite even if the enemy tries to clear it with plough-fitted tanks, that normally clear a path by pushing mines to the sides. This type of mine is used mainly on roads, especially to mine the debris around a demolished road culvert. Any enemy engineer vehicles that attempt to fix the demolished road will first have to face the anti-tank mines. To make their job even more difficult, you can place non-metallic m/10 anti-personnel mines (see above) around the anti-tank mines. And if you want to be realy evil, you can put a sniper 500 m away and shoot at them when they try to clear the mines by hand......
|Mine m/52B:
|A big and flat landmine, weighing a total of 10 kg, 8 of which is explosives (TNT). It is an old fashioned pressure-triggered mine, and has no magnetic detection. In the winter you attach a special tilt rod, which basically looks like a radio antenna. The tilt rod ignites the mine if it is bent out of alignment with the mine, which is usefull if you place the mine in deep snow, where the tank would normally run several inches above the mine without igniting it. This type of mine is used in the same way as the above mentioned m/6. Instead of using it as a pressure-ignited mine you can place plastic explosives in the fuse well and remote igniting them with det cord (read more about det cord in the "Igniting devices" section). At the top of this page is a picture of a m/52B mine detonating, remote ignited from a distance of 300 m.
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I know from Rebecca's blog that she has been busy putting on her binding - I hope you are enjoying your new quilt Rebecca.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Girlfriends Galore Quilt
I know from Rebecca's blog that she has been busy putting on her binding - I hope you are enjoying your new quilt Rebecca.
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Beautiful fabrics! A stunning quilt, quilted beautifully also.ReplyDelete
It's stunning Karen (and Rebecca). I still have a stash of Girlfriends fabric, I'll have to pull them out now I'm inspired by this beauty.ReplyDelete
A stunning quilt! All those diamonds on the bias - WOW!ReplyDelete
Beautiful colours,ReplyDelete
Nice quilting.
Beautiful!!! I love the colors! Wish I could see it in real life! :)ReplyDelete
I have eyed off this quilt many times, those colours just draw me back time and time again. Beautiful quilting on a beautiful quilt! xoReplyDelete
Wow! This is so incredible. I second what Cathy says above, beautiful quilting on a beautiful quilt.ReplyDelete
I've always had an eye for that quilt, too. This is a lovely version, beautifully quilted :)ReplyDelete
It's gorgeous. Your work and hers.ReplyDelete
Beautiful work as always Karen.ReplyDelete
I was lucky enough to see this stunning quilt top in person before it was quilted.
Can't wait to see it all finished!!!


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There is something uniquely gleaming about Silje Nergaard; a warm yet clear lustre seems a defining trait of her whole artistic enterprise and indeed of the person too. Her expression is jazz songs, yet with hints of something deeper and more sacred than is perhaps usual for this genre. Her music has a distinct copper tone to it, clean and with panes and timbres that seem to reflect and spectre the light in a way that reminds of sanctity. Darkness out of blue is an enigmatic title, perhaps it bespeaks such sanctity.
Strong songs, melodies like dragonflies; of elegance and lustre and shyness, and words that weave narratives and invoke images of the same soft swirling air: Silje Nergaard's records have all been distinguishes by a sweep of profundity. -A heart of complexity that has been drawn out into delicate sheets of music and emotion, into phases that flow and swoon like deeply coloured sheets in a gentle breeze. Her music and her voice is something entirely her own; an expression that stands out, cherished and revered by so many, at home and abroad.
Silje stepped into the limelight only 16 years old when she made an appearance at the renowned Molde jazz festival. She soon relocated to London and embarked on a very promising career within suave jazz pop. Her debut "Tell me where you're going" was released in 1990 to much acclaim. Two more English language –and London based- records ensued. But then Silje Switched to Norwegian and went into partnership with the Norwegian Label Kirkelig Kulturverksted. Their releases are always distinguished by a kind of sanctity of timbre and a resonance of profundity; traits that also feature in Silje Nergaard's expression.
Not least in the mature phase of her career; in which she stands forth as an artist who manages to merge the suave sophistication of jazz with melodies, timbres and imagery that carry this inward luminosity and nuanced thoughtfulness. The poetry and mood of the words -written by Mike McGurk- is mirrored in the album titles: Port of call, At first light, Night watch, and lastly, Darkness out of blue.
The now classic "Port of Call" from 2000 marked her return to English language and defined her second coming as an artist,. It was met with landslide acclaim and the record set a standard for Silje's further musical path; sophisticated jazz, distinguished by force of melody and warm, gleaming timbres. Her singing is the main reference point in this respect, always able to give the songs all that character and captivating lure. The last six years have seen three Nergaard releases in addition to a best-of album and with the phase of her career initiated by Port of Call Silje has grown into an artist of international renown, with dedicated audiences throughput Europe and a respected position within jazz- and musical circles.
On Darkness out of blue the producer Pňl Svenre, who had not worked with Silje before, found the collaboration challenging -a compliment from a producer- due to the degree of control she exercises and the close scrutiny she pays to every detail. After twenty years as an artist her level of professionalism is extremely high; to the degree that she knew, she says, that for this record she had to leap anew into the subject matter of music and find new challenges and opportunities. So for Darkness out of blue she put together a brand new band, and started over again. "A challenge and a refreshing release form patterns" says Silje on her web site. "Sometimes one must leave behind even constellations that are dear and successful. As an artist with a spectrum of influences I found that I had to involve new people and try out new solutions in order to keep my musical stance open and give the maximum leeway to my songs.
In advance of the new record Nergaard and band have been trying out the new material on live audiences, to excited reception, and they have also been focusing on polishing their performance as an ensemble. This is music that demands the utmost perfection in execution, and Nergaard is also famed for dazzling performances. In Silje's own words the new band is "exquisite" and she says they are truly forward to the upcoming Norwegian tour. And Darkness out of blue, assures Silje, is not a sinister record; though thoughtful, perhaps more than before, it is interspersed with opposite traits, making it thus complex and, as before, a subtle balance between sophistication and sanctity.
The Norwegian media and critics have already embraced it, released as it was on Feb. 26th. Germany is next, with the date set for April 26th, while the rest of the world will have to wait another three days, until the 30th.


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Our Achievements So Far
By JAMES F. BYRNES, Director of War Mobilization
Delivered at Rally of Cotton Textile Workers, Spartanburg, S. C., May 31, 1943
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. IX, pp. 519-521.
I AM happy to be back home even for a day. I am particularly happy to join you in paying tribute to the men and women of the cotton textile industry who, tending their looms and machines, are doing their part in winning the greatest war in the history of mankind.
I wonder if you yourselves realize what you are doing in this struggle. In the last war American troops were outfitted with clothing and equipment for fighting in a relatively small sector of western Europe. In this war troops must be provided with clothing and equipment to fight in all parts of the world under every conceivable climatic condition.
Cotton is no less than steel or aluminum as an essential war material. More than 5,000 articles in which cotton is used are purchased for our armed forces.
Rafts like the one which saved the life of Eddie Rickenbacker and his associates, and parachutes which drop fighting weapons out of the sky for our paratroopers are made from King Cotton.
The task of meeting the rapidly growing war demands for cotton textiles has fallen mainly upon American cotton mills. Management and labor have responded magnificently. The bolts of cloth produced by the industry in 1942, if sewed together, would reach around the world 282 times. The remarkable part of this achievement is that the mills are turning out 66 per cent more textile products with 30 per cent less spindles than the industry had in the last war. Textiles have really gone to war.
Praises Labor Record
Textile workers are justly proud of their war work. Although firmly determined to preserve their right to strike in time of peace, with few exceptions they have patriotically refused to countenance the right to strike in time of war. We have had some stoppages of work in industries producing weapons of war. They have justly aroused criticism. But when you condemn the few who strike, do not forget that the great mass of our workers and, with rare exceptions, the leaders of organized labor, are doing as much as any of us, and more than many of us, to see that there is no interruption of war production. Do not forget that during 1942, only 1/20 of 1 per cent of the time of workers engaged in war work was lost on strikes. The striker in war industry is almost as rare as the slacker in the Army.
But we have a big job ahead of us. The Nazis and the Japs started to prepare for this war years before we as a nation woke up to what was going on. While they were plotting our destruction we were passing neutrality laws that helped them out. Not until after France collapsed and Britain was besieged and Russia attacked, did we begin to realize what was happening in the world.
But in the meanwhile we had lost precious time, and our enemies launched their treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor, mistakenly believing they could beat us down before we could equip ourselves for battle.
It was humiliating for a nation as great and proud as ours to remain for months on the defensive, to be unable in the winter of 1942 to send the reinforcements necessary to save the Philippines, to be unable in the summer of 1942 to open a second front in Europe to help Russia.
It was not easy to reply to critics who complained that we were losing the war by default. The President could not tell them what the general staff was doing to rebuild our Pacific Fleet and to strengthen our supply lines in the Pacific by the capture of Guadalcanal. The President could not tell them how the general staff was assembling ships, supplies and men to drive the Nazis from Africa and to expose them to attack in Europe from every direction.
Lack of Preparation
Military operations require more than the brilliant ideas of clever strategists. They require extensive preparations. As important as the co-ordination of our air, sea and land forces in actual battle is the preparation which must be made long before the battle begins to bring together at the right place and the right time the necessary men, supplies and equipment. Hitler won the first battle of Europe not in 1939 or 1940, but in the preceding five years of preparation.
We have at length caught up with the Axis in our preparations and are forging rapidly ahead. We are now girding ourselves not for a single attack on a single front, but for many attacks on many fronts both in the European theater of war and in the Pacific Those attacks will proceed when and where the enemy least expects them. And they will not cease until the last vestige of Japanese treachery and Nazi tyranny are blasted from this earth.
This is the harvest year for the Navy's ship construction. It is the year in which the great majority of the vessels for which plans were made a year and two years ago will actually join the fleet.
In the first five months of this year we have completed 100 fighting ships. It means that in five months we have finished almost as many warships as were finished in the entire year of 1942.
During this year we will double the size of our fleet. That accomplishment is without parallel in history. It is bad news for Tojo.
These are fighting ships—battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, escort ships and submarines. These do not include the several thousand landing craft which have been completed during the last five months.
This year's warship construction will be marked by two special achievements—aircraft carriers to give air coverage to our convoys and to our attacks and escort vessels to destroy the enemies' submarines.
The Navy has developed a special convoy vessel, the destroyer escort. It has but one function—to hunt down submarines. More of them will be built this year than there were destroyers in the fleet at the end of 1942. Within a year and a half we will have more of these vessels than any other single class of vessels in the fleet.
War on U-Boats
Living up to our disarmament agreement, we junked a large part of the fleet following World War I. But the Navy fortunately kept up its research work. We put on paper some of the most effective devices and implements of war in naval history. They had to be built. They have provedto be marvellously effective. With the airplane and the escort vessel, they have contributed to the splendid record in the month of May, when we lost fewer ships and destroyed more submarines than we dared to hope for.
The submarine is still a deadly menace, but our attack against the submarine is even more deadly. Recently one of our convoys was set upon by a pack of Nazi submarines. They got one of our merchant ships, but we got four of their submarines.
History will some day record the part radio and the radar have played in giving us fighting superiority over the Axis. But let me give you one instance. On the night of Nov. 24 off Guadalcanal there lay a Japanese battleship. It was a stormy night. Eight miles away was a ship of our fleet. With the use of the radar our ship, with its second salvo, sank the Jap battleship in the blackness of night, eight miles away. Is there any wonder that the Japanese admiral Yamamoto who boasted he would dictate the peace to the U. S. in the White House has quietly passed away?
This war imposes great and grave responsibilities upon our merchant marine. Ships must maintain lines of supply to our far-flung battlefields.
During the twelve month period ending May 31, 1941, we constructed 50 dry cargo ships and 22 tankers. During the twelve month period ending tonight we have constructed more than a thousand ocean-going dry cargo ships and almost 100 ocean-going tankers. Remember this record has been achieved on top of the gigantic naval construction program.
We are building merchant ships four times as fast as they are being sunk. The merchant fleet of the United States is growing so rapidly that we are shipping and delivering more cargo than ever before in history. But we still need more ships and still more ships to carry out the unconditional-surrender war plans of the United Nations.
Only by comparison with our achievements in World War I can we grasp the progress of our effort now. In World War I our forces were equipped in very large part by arms and munitions lend-leased to us by our allies. In this war we have had to assume the burden not only of equipping our own troops but of helping equip our allies.
Vast Gain in Armament
We have, for example, shipped to lend-lease countries almost twice as many motor vehicles as we produced for ourselves alone in the last war. If all these vehicles were parked bumper to bumper they would reach twice across North America.
In the month of May of this year we produced three times as many pieces of artillery for ground troops as we did in all nineteen months of the last war.
Our production of high explosive powder has been six tunes greater than during the last war.
Because we were unprepared we bad the tremendous task of providing training camps. By April 1 of this year we had spent $10,000,000,000 in buying land and in building all over the United States airfields and training camps such as you have here at Camp Croft. We provided housing for 5,000.000 men.
In modern war we must have machine guns for airplanes, machine guns for anti-aircraft and for ground troops. Between June 1, 1940, and June 1, 1941, our ordnance plants turned out 25,000 machine guns and sub-machine guns. The year following we turned out 700,000. Between June 1, 1942, and the present date we turned out 1,500,000 bringing our total to 2,225,000 since America began to rearm.
Let me give you some idea of what we have in store forour enemies. A week ago last night there occurred the greatest and most devastating raid in history. The Germans know what it did to Dortmund and its war industries. Our bombing strength is being added with increasing intensity to the strength of the British. The tonnage of bombs that we have already produced is sufficient to load our planes for 542 raids the size of the Dortmund raid and we are producing more every day. America means business.
For the seven years preceding June, 1940, while we were building automobiles and refrigerators, Hitler was building airplanes. He relied upon those planes to enslave the world. American skill and energy are producing planes to free the world.
News for Hitler
Between June 1, 1940, and June 1, 1941, we made 10,143 airplanes. Between June 1, 1941 and June 1, 1942, we made 30,248 airplanes; and between June 1, 1942, and today we made almost 60,000.
I have some bad news for the man Mr. Churchill calls "Corporal Hitler." I have some bad news for the Japanese, too. I am permitted to announce that the 100,000th airplane manufactured since we began our war production program came off the assembly line today.
Do you remember how the Nazi and Japanese propagandists scoffed when President Roosevelt first announced that we were going to build 100,000 planes? Well, they do not scoff now. They know that America means business.
I cannot tell you how many of these planes are bombers, how many are fighter planes, how many are training planes and cargo planes. That is a military secret. But I can tell you that in the beginning of our program the proportion of trainees was large. Since that time our planes have become heavier and heavier. The proportion of bombers and fighters has become steadily higher, and they are bigger and more devastating.
I will make no prediction about the number of planes we will produce in the next twelve months. You may draw your own conclusions.
Russia and Britain are both producing planes in tremendous numbers in their own factories. Not only America, but all the Allies mean business. Our combined might will drive the Axis from the skies, and hold a protection umbrella over our ground forces as they triumphantly march to victory.
It has not been so very long ago that we were told by some who claimed to have special knowledge that the Germans had a peculiar genius for air power and that neither Britain nor America singly or jointly could beat them in the air.
But the history of this war is proving that the Nazis genius In the air is no greater than the genius of a gangster with a gun against an unarmed victim.
Before this war is over, Hitler will learn as the psalmist foretold:
"Behold, he travelleth with iniquity; yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He hath made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate."
But this is no time for over-confidence. Remember in June, 1941, Hitler was over-confident. It was Hitler's over-confidence which caused him to attack Russia and gave us the time to catch up in our preparations.
Thus far we are only on the outer fringes of this war so far as personal deprivation on the home front and the loss of blood on the battlefront are concerned. We have been
in this war almost as long as we were in the last war. So far our casualties in this war have been only 86,862. Our casualties in the last war totaled 233,184. This will be a much tougher war.
"Tough" Road Ahead
There is no doubt in my own mind but the American people will steel themselves for the tough weeks and months that lie ahead. Already the mothers who have lost sons have shown the mettle which makes America great.
Let me read you some lines that came to me from a letter by a mother whose home is in Aiken and whose son was killed in Guadalcanal.
"One of the first things I thought of and said, when I heard about George, was that it is not the length of time we live, but how we live and what we do with our lives that counts. It would not have been fair for other boys to have given their lives and not one of ours. Thank God, he had courage enough to give his life for what he knew was right." There are thousands of mothers just like this one. They e America's answer to the Axis propaganda that we are too ft, too weak, and too indifferent to our liberties to make the sacrifices which must be made before victory is won.
We have a long, hard road ahead. The hardest fighting is yet to come. We have not yet a firm foothold anywhere on the Continent of Europe, excluding Russia. Japan still holds her stolen empire rich in vital war resources. Thousands of our boys are prisoners of war in the Philippines and the flag of the Japanese aggressor flies in place of Old Glory over Corregidor.
There can be no cheer in the American hearts until the Nazis are crushed in Europe and the Nipponese in the Pacific, until China is free from aggression, and Quezon, MacArthur and Wainwright march in triumph through the streets of Manila.
Hitherto our energies have been largely engaged in production in preparation for attack. Now we must not only keep up our production and increase it at critical points, but we must assume a major part in the all-out military operations against the enemy. We must keep up our all-out production at the same time that millions of our men are engaged in all-out attacks. This will put stresses and strains on out military machine, on our civilian economy, on our private lives. We must streamline our governmental operations. We must act with greater dispatch and greater efficiency
than ever. We must learn to work, to fight, to sacrifice together as we have never done before. We must accept willingly and gladly a self-discipline to which we are not by tradition accustomed.
Joint Effort Necessary
Masses of men and women cannot work together if they are always thinking whether the other fellow is doing his part. Masses of men and women can work effectively together only if they are actuated by a desire to outdo each other in contributing to the common effort. The American people on the farms, in the factories and in the mines, as well as at the battlefront, must work together as one team.
Your government has no right to call upon you to work as a team if it is not going to demand of government officials that they work as a team. I admit that officials of the government have made mistakes. That is to be expected of human beings. But the people have a right to expect government officials to sacrifice all pride of opinion and co-operate just as officers of the Army and Navy are required to co-operate.
We must be just that. There have been controversies in government. But that these controversies and their effect upon the war effort have been greatly exaggerated is clearly demonstrated by the statement I have made of our progress.
The President has taken new and resolute action designed to unify and solidify our war efforts here on the home front. As part of this action he has designated me as Director of the Office of War Mobilization. Later this week the war mobilization committee will meet. Until that meeting I can make no statement as to our plan, but I pledge you that I shall do all in my power to bring about the same co-ordination of efforts among the civilians in governmental agencies that exists on the military fronts.
Victory in war cannot be achieved cheaply. We must pay dearly for victory with the lives of our fighting men. We must also pay for our victory by unremitting, and when need be, unrewarded toil on the home front. We must also pay for victory by willing sacrifice of the things we can do without. We must demonstrate that we are worthy of our freedom by our willingness to work, to fight and, if need be, to die for our freedom.
We must so conduct ourselves that future generations will speak of the men and women of 1943 as we speak of the men and women of 1776.


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As a veteran real estate professional working in Pittsburgh, Jason Cohen well-equipped to assess the risks and potential associated with a property. In this post, Jason Cohen uses his hard-won experience to highlight a few red flags that buyers should make note of when they tour a home.
With their new appliances, sleek countertops, and freshly-painted walls, remodeled houses are meant to impress. For a potential buyer conducting their first walk-through, the surface appeal of a touched-up house can be appealing; however, first-time buyers should avoid making a decision based off of aesthetic appeal. Unfortunately, a number of renovators choose to prioritize cheap cosmetic updates over more vital (and expensive) structural renovations – leaving the unaware buyer with the heavy financial burden of making expensive repairs. Don't be pulled in by a flashy hack job – watch out for these warning signs when you walk through a home!
Cracks in the Walls
Contrary to what old horror movies might suggest, wall cracks aren't par for course in old homes. Watch out for splits in brick walls, and makes sure to consult an expert if you think a wall fissure might be more than a cosmetic problem. Don't take the issue lightly! Wall cracks can indicate severe structural issues and shouldn't be left unchecked.
Old Roofing
The last thing a buyer wants to do after shelling out tens – or hundreds – of thousands of dollars on a home is sink even more resources into fixing its roof. When built well, roofs remain strong for roughly thirty years. When done incorrectly, they last for considerably less time and can demand as much as $30,000 to repair. Be proactive by enlisting the help of an expert to inspect the roof or asking to see the property's inspection records.
Fresh Paint in an Old House
A fresh layer of paint usually isn't something to worry about. However, if it seems as though a house hasn't been fixed up beside a few patches of paint on the ceiling, beware! Some sellers attempt to cover up termite or water damage by painting over it. Make sure to ask the seller about any suspicious paint jobs before you proceed with the buy.
Water in the Basement
Properly maintained basements aren't soggy. Moreover, buyers who see water in the basement should worry about more than cleaning on rainy days; according to home inspector William Kibbel, "The wettest crawlspaces (and basements) seem to be directly related to exterior drainage issues. Ground sloping towards the foundation, clogged or missing gutters, and downspouts not properly extended can all contribute to elevated moisture levels and even regular water intrusion." If you have the funds and time to optimize a home's exterior drainage problems, you should purchase the house. Otherwise, you may want to let the property go.
Uneven Flooring
Saggy flooring near a home's bathrooms often indicates greater problems with the property's plumbing system. Make sure to have an inspector check the plumbing, lest you find yourself with serious issues down the line!
Never, ever be afraid to ask questions. Buyers are entitled to the right to inspect potential purchases and ensure that they really are getting everything they pay for. Take walk-through inspections seriously, and don't be fooled by a flashy renovation!
For more informative real estate content, please visit Jason Cohen's website at JasonCohenPittsburgh.org.


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UNESCO started International Literacy Day 40 years ago.
The day reminds people that literacy is a human right.
A good basic education equips pupils with skills required for life and more learning. It is the foundation of all learning.
Literate parents are more likely to send their children to school.
Literate people are better able to continue their education.
Literate societies are better able to manage development.
Why is Literacy important?
Literacy is:
- a human right
- a tool of personal empowerment, and
- a means for social and human development.
Contact your local literacy organization or library for more information about literacy in your area.
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My Dearest Darlings, today I briefly entered something resembling the real world, I was milling around a muti-plex amongst the style free and dangerously pale people of geek-dom to embark on a mission to supply you with another film review. Watchmen is the long awaited screen adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore. It won't surprise you to know that as a Heroine myself I have more than a passing interest in the depiction of the 'Super-Hero' in popular culture. This peculiar fictional construct and largely American phenomenon explores the notion of a rare breed of humanity gifted with fantastic abilities. From Batman to Superman, to The X-men and to the current TV series Heroes I am fascinated by your desire to dream that miraculous masked saviours will save the day. The icons of this genre are of course male heterosexuals who act to save humanity whilst generally feeling alienated from those they regularly rescue.
The 20th century comic book is the nursery for these figures that with the advancement of computer technology and CGI are ever more convincingly portrayed on your various screens. It is often the male outsider that creates these icons and it is to male outsiders these heroes naturally appeal. So it is not surprising that given the opportunity to be bestowed with superhuman strength and heroic good looks these fictional characters objectify and dehumanise the female of the species. Throughout comic book history women are more often than not depicted as screaming victims unable to save themselves from some terrible plight. The few female 'super' heroines that exist in this universe are fetishised into scantily clad dominatrices whose sole purpose is to satisfy the male quest for sexual gratification.
Watchmen purports to be an intelligent version of this genre and indeed it does explore some questions that are not usually confronted in the average Super Hero movie. The over arching theme of this film is whether humanity deserves to be saved. Set in an alternative 80's America where Richard Nixon is president the retired masked heroes are being pursued by an unclear threat, their position in society questionable and perplexing. The story is revealed through a series of flash backs which suggest that these heroes are not morally just examples to humanity but are as susceptible to corruption and cruelty as you all are.
The main character of interest is Dr Manhattan who as a result of an accident in a physicists laboratory is gifted with a god-like understanding of time and the ability to deconstruct and dematerialise matter. Shining blue throughout and generally naked this character acts as a metaphor for humanities existential angst. Other wordly and mysterious the character of Dr Manhattan is the device that invites the audience to explore the nature of planet Earth and it's position in the universe.
The special effects are flawless, with spectacular vistas of destruction and violence throughout. The costumes are efficient though not ground breaking though alas the make-up and wigs are frequently questionable. I of course being an expert in this field believe that one shouldn't notice make-up or obvious wigs as it can distract from the viewing experience, in this case I frequently was a gasp at the clumsy prosthetics and unprofessional ageing make-up.
Though the major cause for disgruntlement from this movie reviewer was the unfortunate portrayal of women. In a cast of many only two female characters featured at any great length; Silk Spectre I and II, mother and daughter are both versions of the scantily clad crime fighter. Both are defined mainly by their conflicting and complex relationships with the male protagonists. The first Silk Spectre is shown as a retired drunken lush who bitterly laments her past relationship with The Comedian whilst Silk Spectre II is subjected to being plucked from one location to another, she is quite literally materialised and dematerialised by Dr. Manhattan. The original Silk Spectre is depicted being aggressively sexually attacked by The Comedian, violent and disturbing this yet another depiction of violence against females that is apparently later forgiven as The Comedian would later father Silk Spectre's daughter. Other females that are seen on screen are either prostitutes or bitter and twisted ex-girlfriends. Of Course this is not the fault of the film maker as the movie version remains loyal to the original graphic novel, though it is unfortunate to yet again experience women being reduced and sexualised so brutally and to hear the line during the attempted rape scene; "You mean 'No!' as in Y.E.S" does nothing to help the cause for 'post-feminist' politics.
This problematic component of the film is utterly nauseating, though I as an enlightened soul can see these complexities I fear that many others will consume this undertone with out questioning it. And thus a new generation of translucent faced computer addicts will project this version of femininity into the world, with out fully understanding or embracing the true wonderment and potential of women-hood. This problem aside this film is a spectacular adaptation and will no doubt be an enjoyable addition to the comic book movie catalogue, I simply hope that before long a female character is permitted to exist in the wondrous universe of the Superhuman.
Happy Viewing My Darlings,
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Before me is a bucket of gooseberries to be processed. Each and every berry must be picked up and aligned in the fingers of each hand. The blossom end to one hand, the stem end to the other. That dried blossom end must be removed as must the stem; otherwise the berries are useless. They are absolutely round, hard, green, and sour. When cooked up with sugar into a sauce, or pie filling they become delicious beyond the telling.
I pick up a berry, and suddenly something wonderful happens: the thumb nail of one hand scuffs off the remnant of the blossom and the opposite nail "cuts" off the stem-- and the job is done-- for that berry-- almost before I can think to do it. It's as though the nails had had a complete course of training.
I think of those thumb nails doing their precise work so well. I try to imagine a finer technology for this work and cannot. In these days when "technology" is the password to contemporary living, I find myself sitting here with these gooseberries employing what may well be the oldest and even the first technology of them all: the nails on those miraculous opposing thumbs that are good for nothing in particular and just right for everything.
They are surely one of the first principles in evolution-- from claws and talons to my sophisticated nails-- so ubiquitous are they among the species.
I catch my breath at the thought of that first little African mother-of-us-all, busy discovering how many things she could do with her nails. I think we must call them The First Tool. We who tinker with things could not get through a day without them. I could not.
Not only can these nails do their every work, they have a strange sort of consciousness about them. They seem to talk back and forth to the brain. They tell the brain when they have accomplished their task, sometimes, even, that the task is impossible and must be aborted. They even remark on the quality of the work. It's as though I were a by-stander in my work with the berries.
I drift off into a reverie as the repetitive action goes on and on, a full hour to do a single quart of berries. I dream away about this and that, and still the work goes on, and goes on well!
I'm dazzled.
And all of us, everyone, has this remarkable set of tools with us all the time, everywhere we go, If only just to scratch an itch. Think of it!
I have written that an angler's fly box is private and intimate, not for the gaze of the general. Our manicures are like our fly boxes, private, and personal-- nobody's damned business. These nails are our most personal tools, to be kept up, cleaned, and sharpened, each in its own personal way-- for me right now, to work these berries.


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Activision already has a lot of games to show off at this years Comic-Con including the likes of Spider-man and Prototype 2 but appears that the publisher is planning one more reveal.
A new James Bond game may be revealed by Activision at this years Comic-Con so prepare yourself.
The game is likely to be the recently outed Goldeneye Reloaded thanks to a domain registration that was made by Activision.
We should get to see exactly what this game is all about in a couple of weeks time.


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Mark Wahlberg stars as Jim Bennett, a downtrodden prodigy who gave up on his career as an author and now teaches English at a Los Angeles college. As the film unravels we learn that Jim is in debt to a number of Korean mobsters and a loan shark named Neville (played by Michael K. Williams) because of his gambling and gets no help from another loan shark played by John Goodman. Jim then convinces his Mother to give him enough money to settle his debts, but instead he heads to Vegas where he loses every penny. Only the names have been changed in this remake of the 1974 classic directed by Karel Weisz and starring James Caan.
Overall, the majority of critics believed it to be very unnecessary to remake the Gambler. Many critics, and fans alike, hold so much affection for the original that it was always going to be very difficult to improve on the original outing. Karel Reisz, who's debut 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' is an absolute masterpiece, did such a stellar job with the Gambler, as did James Caan I n the lead role (named Axel Freed in this version).
Perhaps the most loved aspect of the original film is the honesty of the script. James Toback's first script was heavily based on his time as an English teacher and the demons he battled with his gambling addictions. The audience recognised this in James Caan's portrayal of the character and understood his pain. Axel wasn't necessarily a bad guy, he'd just fallen down a bad path that he was desperately trying to get out from. In contrast, Wahlberg's Bennett comes across as a spoiled, self-entitled whiner who deserves all the bad karma coming his way.
As implied by Bennett's student Amy, portrayed by Brie Larson who says "You're one of those guys who started out with no problems at all, and now you have all of them."
A key factor for any keen gambler is to keep their head and remember their strategy, even with games like multi-tabling or speed poker that requires the player to make rapid fire decisions. Jim Bennett doesn't have these characteristics for most of the film, instead he is reckless with his wagers in the hope of a big, instant win that doesn't come. Nothing leaves a sour taste in the mouth of a movie goer more than a character who attempts to take shortcuts. It's the formula of a great movie villain, but not a protagonist.
For all the negative reviews of the film, the Gambler isn't in anyway bad when considered in solidarity. The script is very well written by William Monahan, best known for writing the Martin Scorsese film The Departed'. Rupert Wyatt is a very competent director who along with cinematographer (Grieg Fraser of Zero Dark Thirty) creates the most stunning blackjack sequences you'll see outside of a James Bond movie and show off the many great sights of downtown Los Angeles. Plus, you know you'll always get the best performances out of the likes of Jessica Lange and John Goodman. It doesn't matter how honest the intentions were, critics love the original Gambler movie too much to care about a remake.


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Traffic Signal Box Art
The two pictures here are taken alternatively from the intersections of Queen Street and Adelaide Street, and Queen Street and Macrossan Street. The thing both have in common is traffic signal boxes (TSBs) which control the traffic lights. They've been painted! The image of the two diners called Toast was painted by artist John Knap in 2001. He has painted at least eight others. The image of the Story Bridge was painted by artist Justin McLeod in 2001. He two has painted at least seven others.
Artforce is a public art project that gives Brisbane residents the opportunity to turn the city's traffic signal boxes (TSBs) into works of art. Anyone can apply to paint one, although the two rules are:
- The artist must reside within the City of Brisbane
- You must get your design approved by Queensland Urban Ecology
One of the great things I believe a community can do, is to take something which is inherently ugly and turn it into something beautiful. This is one thing which the Brisbane City Council have done very well. All around the city are Traffic Signal Boxes which have been converted from dull, lifeless, grey pieces of visual pollution into fascinating and varied works of art. There are literally hundreds throughout the suburbs of Brisbane, with a significant number in the City itself. The pictures here represent a mere two of these.
Cheers, I Love Brisbane, Wes.
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This is a SPOILER-FREE review of Netflix's Mute.
Netflix's Mute, which is now available to stream, fails to achieve the heights of other successful entries within the cyberpunk genre like Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and even newcomer Altered Carbon. It's like someone went to a science fiction-themed Home Depot, picked out all the right parts but forgot the most important piece back in aisle 7...the story.
Alexander Skarsgard plays Leo, an Amish gentlemen who is unable to speak due to a boating accident in his childhood. There is a way to fix his vocal complication but his beliefs won't allow him to get the surgery. He's now a bartender at a Berlin nightclub where the customers, along with most of the staff, wear costumes that look like they were purchased from a Fifth Element yard sale. He has a blue-haired girlfriend named Naadirah (Seyneb Saleh) who also works at the club and when she suddenly goes missing, Leo sets off on a forgettable journey in search of his lost love.
When done successfully, sci-fi can be a compelling medium due to its capacity to examine the human condition in a futuristic setting where anything is possible. Blade Runner, for example, delved into whether or not Artificial Intelligence can be more human than humanity, while Altered Carbon explores the downside of immortality. The main problem with Mute is that it doesn't use its technologically-advanced backdrop to say anything new. There are hints of a war in Kandahar via a news video, problems with cloning, and a large number of American soldiers going AWOL, but other than those brief glimpses, co-writer/director Duncan Jones (Warcraft, Moon) has created a world that feels empty.
If we haven't scared you away from Mute yet, there are two reasons that make the film tolerable, namely Paul Rudd (as Cactus Bill) and Justin Theroux (as Duck). Since Skarsgard is bereft of his lovely deep-Swedish voice, Rudd and Theroux do most of the talking as the film's main antagonists. They're ex-military medics who call each other "babe" and "hun." Bill and Duck's exact sexual orientation is perplexing at times, which helps keep their characters fresh and exciting. Depending on the scene, it's easy to get the impression that they were once lovers or just old fraternity buddies. Either way, the actors share a fun chemistry. Sadly, they are not the characters we're supposed to be rooting for.
As the film progresses, Leo's story becomes more absurd, especially when he starts fighting other men that should be able to best him in combat. The troubling thing is, there's never a scene detailing how Leo became such an effective fighter. While he doesn't do any fancy flips or kicks, he does take on ex-military and other armed individuals with relative ease. Perhaps the writers were going for a "love conquers all" approach?
Mute begins with an Amish Proverb that says, "In order to mold his people, God often has to melt them." If one were to take that quote to heart, then it's logical to assume that Leo's journey is supposed to mold him into something new by the end of the film, but it's difficult to know if that happens since we learn very little about him. Leo is mostly a reactionary character who expresses very little of what's going on inside his mind or his heart -- all the viewer has to go on are a few words he scribbles on paper and Skarsgard's limited facial expressions. If Leo did go through a spiritual transformation, it wasn't evident by the time the credits roll.
The Verdict
Mute tries to tell a transformative sci-fi story but struggles to find its footing with a less than stellar hero. Leo's lack of character development makes it difficult to root for him on his quest to find Naadirah. Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux's colorful performances are Mute's best offerings but aren't enough to save it from mediocrity.


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Features: 1 – A lot of funny levels 2 – cute cartoon style3 – Challenge your brain4 – Great music and sound
Game mission:Control Ultraman reach the portal,you can go to next stage.
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Download and Install Nox App Player Android Emulator. Click here to download: Download(FREE)
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Newly minted teen drivers can scare other drivers and their parents. And while finding the right insurance is essential, so is finding the right vehicle.
So the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety put together a list of the safest cars for teen drivers that are still affordable for the Bank of Mom and Dad (or the Bank of Summer Jobs).
Teens should skip sleek two-seaters for the protection of bigger and heavier vehicles, says Anne McCartt, the Institute's vice president for research.
They should also avoid high horsepower and opt for cars with electronic stability control, which helps drivers navigate curves and slippery roads.
This article originally appeared on Canadian Insurance Top Broker.


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Sudan's warm hospitality is a trait the country is widely known for. Blending Arab and African culture, the country is also where the Blue Nile and White Nile meet. Explore Sudan's ancient history by taking a trip to Meroe, where you can marvel at the Meroe pyramids that once lay at the centre of the ancient Kingdom of Kush. For a taste of wildlife safari in Sudan, head South East of Khartoum to the Dinder National Park where you may be able to spot the Masai Lion, African leopard and Sudan cheetah.
You can take part in shaping flydubai's booking process by testing a pre-release version and letting us know what you think.
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All English MA students at Virginia Commonwealth University conduct original research under the direction of faculty. Some present the results of their directed studies before the department. The others defend theses before their faculty committees. Our graduate faculty offer students both expertise and flexibility.
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Tucker and Wisconsin down Minnesota
Madison, WI (Sports Network) – Alando Tucker had 14 points and six rebounds,
as fourth-ranked Wisconsin defeated Minnesota, 68-45, in the Badgers' Big Ten
Kammron Taylor had 13 points, while Michael Flowers netted 11 points and
recorded three steals for the Badgers (15-1, 1-0 Big Ten), who have won 11
straight since suffering their only loss of the season.
Wisconsin defeated Minnesota for the ninth time in the last 10 meetings.
Dan Coleman had a game-high 15 points to go along with five rebounds for the
Golden Gophers (7-9, 1-1), who had a modest two-game winning streak ended.
Spencer Tollackson added 11 points and six boards in the loss.
The Gophers lost to Wisconsin at home for the 11th straight time.
Minnesota was in control early, as back-to-back baskets by Tollackson,
followed with a free throw by Jonathan Williams put the Golden Gophers ahead
13-6 with 11:40 left in the first half.
Wisconsin then rattled off six straight to get within one, and later used an
8-0 run to take a 20-15 edge. Marcus Landry netted the last four points of the
An 11-0 burst by the Badgers increased their lead, as Trevon Hughes three-
pointer made it 31-16 with 2:54 remaining until the break. Wisconsin then
carried a 37-20 advantage into the break.
Wisconsin then opened up the second half on an 11-4 burst, as Taylor's three-
pointer put the Badgers up 48-24 midway through the second half.
Game Notes
Wisconsin shot 42.9 percent from the floor to Minnesota's 34.7 percent…
Minnesota defeated Purdue in its conference opener on Wednesday…The Gophers
still hold a 97-85 lead in the all-time series.


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For Anyone Who Has Ever Loved A Dog
There was Skeeter, and Beamer and Morgen. Every one took a piece of me, but left a piece of themselves in return. Morgen was the last dog to call me her girl and it is for that reason that I use her name on the air. I'm keeping a space free for another dog one day, one that will be totally mine, but its hard to go through a day and not remember what each of them gave me. The relationship a dog forms with it's human is pretty close to perfect.


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Thursday, October 17, 2013
Flood mitigation measures draw closer.
The work crews are getting closer to our house as they excavate the street as a flood mitigation measure. Last year the road outside our house was raised so that flood water would by-pass our street and flow south. That work ended where the concrete sidewalk ends. The new work aims at lowering the section beyond that raised section so that flood waters could pond there and slowly drain away.
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A great way to get involved and connect with others around the church is through volunteering. Chestnut Ridge Church functions thanks to the diligent efforts of a dedicated group of people willing to invest their time. Whether they are on stage, in the production booth, behind the coffee bar, or in the nursery, each and every volunteer at The Ridge plays a huge part in weekend services and events.
Get Involved at The Ridge
Taking the steps to become a volunteer may be intimidating, especially in a church. What if you don't like your new volunteer position? What if you're not sure where to start or what area you'd enjoy? What if you change your mind?
That's why you can try out any volunteer experience first. You have the opportunity to serve in an area of the church with no commitment. You can shadow someone and stay in the background, or jump in and get involved right away. Your first experience will give you a sneak peek at what's ahead.
Interested in volunteering? Check out where volunteers are needed, and sign up to start making a difference at The Ridge. You'll be contacted by a staff member to try out your area of interest!
If you'd like to take the Spiritual Gifts Assessment survey, click here.
Where can you get involved?
Special Needs Volunteer
Special Needs Volunteer — Help to provide a safe and loving place in the Incredibles room so parents can feel confident leaving their child for an hour with volunteers who have the heart and patience to assist kids with special needs. Typically serves one to two Sundays a month during the 9 am service.
Traffic Volunteer
Traffic Volunteer — If you'd like to make a positive difference for attendees and guests by helping with the flow out of the parking lot on Sunday mornings. Typically serves one or two Sundays a month.
Stage Manager - Weekend Programming
Stage Manager – Weekend Programming – If you like being behind the scenes and not in the limelight, then being a stage manager is perfect for you. You will assist the Event Director before and during the weekend services, as well as provide hospitality to help take care of the team. Typically serves one Sunday a month for the three services.
Guest Services Greeter
Guest Services Greeter – Help to create an incredible experience for every person attending The Ridge by welcoming guests with an inviting smile and a friendly greeting as they enter the building and the auditorium for the weekend services. Typically serves two Sundays per month during one of the services.
Welcome Center—Kids
Welcome Center – Kids – Make a great first impression by greeting each family and guiding them through the registration, check-in, and security processes so they feel welcome and informed. Typically serves one Sunday a month for one service.
Nursery Volunteer
Nursery Volunteer — Babies know when they are being genuinely comforted. If you like to cuddle babies and laugh with toddlers, this area is perfect for you. Typically serves one or two Sundays a month.
Preschool Volunteer
Preschool Volunteer – Make a difference with a small group of children by creating memorable experiences which reinforce the large-group story, and connect the bottom line with their everyday life. Typically serves two Sundays a month.
Elementary Volunteer
Elementary Volunteer — Volunteers connect with K–4th-grade kids through worship, character development, helping them learn God's Word, and by building quality friendships with one another. Typically serves two Sundays a month.


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If you have not planned for care home costs and end up needing to go into care, there is a very strong chance that you will have to sell your home to fund such care, unless you have made careful plans to protect your home.
Currently, anyone with assets in excess of £23,250 (this includes the family home) may not be eligible for any state help with their residential care fees. This means if you own your home you are unlikely to receive any financial help. In fact, your home may have to be sold to fund your care.
One way around this is a Property Will Protection Trust.
"Most people assume that their home and other assets will pass on to their children or other relatives when they die. This may not always be the case if careful arrangements have not been made to protect these assets from being taken to pay care home fees ..."
Did you know?
You may be forced to sell your home to pay for care fees if your estate is worth more than £23. 250.


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Today I want to draw your attention to a topic that is a bit more important than my thoughts on the weather we will have this week or the basketball games we had last week.
I would like to add my voice to several others that appear in a story elsewhere in this issue about people who seem to be lurking about the community between sundown and sunrise. Some of them do not seem bent on theft or destruction, but some do. It is time for all of us to be aware of what is going on around us and take precautions.
I even had my own experience with this behavior one miserably cold night between Christmas and New Year's Eve when I glanced out the window and noticed the dome light was on in my car. As I stared at the car and pondered how that might have happened, the passenger side door opened and a male got out of my car, shut the door, and walked toward the street. I had taken my keys out of the car, but not locked it. There was nothing missing when I checked it out the next day, but there certainly could have been. Just seeing someone getting out of the car at 4 a.m. was a huge shock.
In the past few weeks, several unlocked cars in the downtown area have been entered and an attempt has been made to hot-wire them. Some contained tools and other items that could have been stolen and exchanged for cash, but apparently those things were of little interest to the thief. Local law enforcement and the victims all feel the vehicles themselves were the objects of interest. Had a key been in the ignition of any of the vehicles, the general consensus is that vehicle would have been gone in the morning.
There also have been reports of people possibly "squatting" in vacant buildings. No damage seems to be done, but owners have found evidence of someone being in an empty house or outbuilding.
So here is a wakeup call for all of us. Lock your vehicles and take your keys. Do the same for your house, motor home, garage, and small buildings on your property. If it belongs to you and has value, make sure it is secure. Communicate with your neighbors and agree to keep an eye on one another's homes. Call 911 if something seems amiss. Be sure to report suspicious activity to local police when it occurs. Be careful and be safe.


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Swami Agnivesh tells Maoists not to harm Malkangiri District CollectorBy ANI
Thursday, February 17, 2011
RAIPUR - Social activist Swami Agnivesh has made an appeal to the Maoist not to cause any bodily harm to R Vineel Krishna, the abducted District Collector of Odisha's Malkangiri District.
He has appealed the rebels to keep their deadline of 48 hours flexible.
"I am yet to get more details about the incident. Orissa's officials have contacted me and I am expecting a call from Director General of Police Manmohan Praharaj. Maoists always say that they treat their hostages like Prisoners of War (POW) so I appeal to them not to cause any bodily harm to him", Swami Agnivesh told The Indian Express.
Krishna, who was on his way back after attending a health camp in Chitrakonda, has been missing since last evening.
The Maoists have sent a note through a junior engineer accompanying Krishna demanding immediate halt to Operation Green Hunt and release of jailed Maoists. (ANI)


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in the business? "Randy tried to get them interested. I did too," Siegall says.
But skepticism ran deep. Alder was trying to develop a platform technology that could give rise to many new drug opportunities, and platforms were out of fashion with investors in those days, says Thong Le, a managing director with WRF Capital in Seattle. Alder's plan was to develop products, but they were still in their infancy, when the prevailing investment winds favored late-stage product candidates that appeared less risky. "Other people had played with yeast-derived antibodies for years but had never been able to make them work. Investors were very skeptical," Le says.
Alder knocked on the doors of all the big players in Seattle venture capital who supported life sciences in those days—Arch Venture Partners, Frazier Healthcare Ventures, and Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital. None of them invested in Alder.
Siegall knew all that, but he says he kept supporting Alder for three reasons. The guys knew their science, they had determination to do what it takes on the long road of drug development, and they were a cohesive group of people with complementary skills.
"What impressed me most was that these guys were top scientists," Siegall says. "The best companies in this business, like Genentech, are built on a base of great science. Their development team is fabulous, but it has to start with great science."
By August 2004, Alder caught a break. The early experimental results came in from Cregg's lab at the Keck Institute. They suggested that the yeast-based process could produce functioning antibodies. That was when Seattle-based WRF Capital decided to take the leap, and lead an angel investment group that pumped in $500,000 of seed capital.
That round of financing took some of the pressure off, but there was still a huge amount of work to do. The founders offered up their next year's budget without any line item for their own salaries.
"That was when we could start paying our RAs (research associates), and could start buying our own reagents," Schatzman says.
Watching its pennies carefully, Alder continued to operate "lean and mean," Schatzman says. The business office stayed inside Seattle Genetics.
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NYFF: Film the First!
An inauspicious start: a rainy day and a delayed train meant I was late to my first movie at the 2010 New York Film Festival. Fortunately the short, All Flowers in Time, was still playing; unfortunately, missing the first few minutes was like missing the first few minutes of The Last of Sheila - when, well, Sheila shows up, is murdered, and never appears again. It looked good but I had *no* idea what was going on, except it was really, really trippy. Really trippy. A-woman-and-a-boy-shapeshifting-for-fun trippy. And it went on and on, until I really started wondering if I'd wandered into the wrong place... but I'm getting off track. Soon enough the short ended, the feature began, and I knew I was definitely in the right place.
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Oki's Movie (옥희의 영화), Hong Sang-soo, 2010.
from Cineanon
Oki's Movie is the sixth Hong Sang-soo film to play the film festival, and the fourth I've seen, period: I mentioned Woman on the Beach in 2006, I wanted to mention Night and Day at Pusan in 2008 but I still haven't seen the last half hour (and THERE IS NO DVD, DAMMIT), and I just saw The Day A Pig Fell Into the Well (thanks, Yuni) a few weeks back so haven't had a chance to mention it. By now Hong has an established a track record so that the "but isn't he being misogynistic" conversation should be over; if it was ever an issue – and I don't know either way – it's stayed in his earlier films. As Hong said during the Q&A: he can't make movies about everything, so he writes about specific characters in the world he knows: a professional-class Korea peopled by self-centered men who think the universe revolves around them and quirky atypical women who make an effort to navigate that morass. Although "make an effort" isn't exactly what's going on: they find something interesting in the middle of it all, and weigh the good against the bad. If (more like when) it doesn't work for them, then – they're gone.
Fortunately, Hong has avoided making one-note movies, primarily by expanding his gaze and his story with each successive film. Oki's Movie is another step in that progression. The film itself is divided into four "mini-films," reflecting student film projects which could have been made by the inhabitants of a university film program. First, there's Jin-gu (Lee Sun-kyun), a student director of some talent. He chases any available women he meets (although they have to be single), wonders why his wife has grown distant, drinks too much, and feels frustrated that he can't get funding for his projects. He pursues Oki, one of his fellow students, but can't understand why she doesn't succumb to his declarations. When you come down to it, he's a typical Hong male protagonist, in his full glory.
Then there's Professor Song (Moon Sung-keun). More an active director than an academic, his presence at the school reflects the funding he brings to the program rather than any knowledge he's likely to impart. As a result, most people kiss his ass, although a drunk Jin-gu fumbles his chance to get on the man's good side. The professor is a little more refined than Jin-gu, but that could be because life has added a veneer to him that Jin-gu hasn't had a chance to develop yet: he's just as self-centered, narrowly concentrating on his work; he's also married but in a serious relationship with Oki; and he's jealous of Jin-gu's interest in Oki and possessive enough to demand she completely cut off the other man. But there's no real effort to consider what he might owe to the school as a member of the faculty, to Jin-gu as his instructor, or to Oki as his lover.
And then there's Oki (Jung Yumi). She appears as the demurely-dressed "nice girl" who's a bit lost, in danger of not completing her student film, and not quite clear what she's doing in the program anyway. But looks can be deceiving: she's aware enough to not fall for Jin-gu's speeches (it's his *actions* that make her rethink things), asks a friend why everyone seems to almost randomly fall in love with her, and over time shows herself to reflect a lot more on life than her demeanor would indicate. Maybe in the end this is truly Oki's film; she's not as blind as she seems. Maybe it's that there's not much difference between the two men to be seen.
I'm a little late to them, but I'm really growing to appreciate Hong Sang-soo's films. They have some stumbles: there's a bit of the "let's film two people looking at each other," in scenes (although he filmed this during winter break at the school where he teaches, not sure where he was taking it, and the story expanded as he shot it - so there was little preproduction), but his films are growing fuller and more reflective in the story they tell. He also has a deft hand at telling this story; there are some genuinely laugh-inducing sections with a certain sense of spontaneity (the Q&A session for Jin-gu's student film is hilarious – and telling at the same time). And all of this effort is in direct service to the characterization.
And characterization is everything here. He evokes an everyday existence with recognizable, if not completely likable, characters. While his men are basically jerks and his women nebulous about their connections to them, he continually refines how that plays out on the screen – and over time he's added a transition point, where the story moves away from the male to the female, which becomes clearer and clearer in each film. From what I've seen: The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (1996) gives an almost 100% male perspective, and in fact the relationships end up destroying one of the women. By 2006's Woman on the Beach, things are better: Moon-sook leaves a clear imprint that haunts Director Kim although he isn't completely able to recognize that. But this seems to be the first time (drat that Night and Day) that Hong completely switches to his female character's gaze – and scorchingly turns it on the males.
It's time for me to review some more of Hong Sang-soo's work (and I have a gift from the Korean Film Council to read).
Now if we could just get Night and Day on DVD...


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Disclaimer: Osteopaths are not allowed to say they can "treat" specific baby conditions, such as colic because basically no paid for research has been done showing it can help. What we actually have is 1000's of parents spreading the word that their baby has benefitted in some way. I want to make it clear that a cranial osteopathy treatment looks at the baby as a whole, not as treating a "colic baby" or "reflux baby" anyway. Having said this probiotics have scientifically been studied to ease colic, so in this instance it would formally allowed for me to say that probiotics help colic. I use probiotics very often within my holistic approach to helping babies.


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which is appropriately called
"Window on the World"...
these are the latest to join the party!
Carla in Western Australia,
Spring is such an invigorating time of the year. I love the Window on the World and your cushion is so sweet too. Your blocks are just "blooming" beautifully.....as beautifully as the real ones.ReplyDelete
Love you 'window on the world', a very pretty view! I've had the 'wild ride' pattern for some time now, must get started on it! It's a shame about the present decline in blogging, and while sometimes a 'quick pic does the trick' I do still really enjoy reading blogs.I appreciate the time & effort that goes into writing the posts, and I feel it's a great way for sharing & learning.ReplyDelete
Always so much pretty stuff happening in your world! I can't wait to see your version of the Jen Kingwell pattern!ReplyDelete
I just love that window on the world with connections to other friends. I, too, have found a group of very special blogging friends. The ones I have managed to meet in person have been just as wonderful as I imagined. It reminds me I have to get back to work on my followers blocks.ReplyDelete
I love the window into your sewing room! So many pretty things happening. I does feel as though less people are blogging doesn't it. Yay for those still taking a bit more time to tell stories and write comments.ReplyDelete
All gorgeous! SuzReplyDelete
Hi Suz. I'm new here. The blocks in the first pic caught my eye. I am learning how to build blocks so I think I'll look around and come back too. I'm from Northern Indiana USa. Nice to meed you.
Look, you finished the pips quilt and it is fantastic!ReplyDelete
Oooh . . . I love the vintage like feel of all these projects. You have a lovely bunch of fabrics. The Chuck blocks are especially sweet. Wish it was coming into spring here too but alas Colorado is heading toward fall. Still very hot right now though.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the picture of the blooms!! I live in Sequim, WA and it's fun to see Spring again. Your blog is good for me to read since your projects give me ideas for my projects. Thank you.ReplyDelete
Love the blogs! thanks for keeping up for all of us who are instagram challengedReplyDelete
I just love all your finishes and new projects and once again you've nailed the CN's. So happy Spring is around the corner for you 'cause that means Fall is next up here🙏😀ReplyDelete
I love following your blog. Your quilts are always beautiful and inspiring. Would love to see more baby pics!ReplyDelete
I love your blog and your quilts are inspiring
I love reading your blog (even though I don't comment much) and I prefer it to I.G. Loved todays blocks :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful projects!ReplyDelete
Pink blossoms, thankyou.
Short sweet and inspiring, please keep your blogs coming.
A blog post is much nicer than a pic and one liner any day. Please keep your blog alive. I don't comment much but I love to keep connected. XxReplyDelete
I'm happy to be your faithful follower--how can I not be delighted with such fun quilts and projects to see, such as the ones found in this post. Thank you for the flowers, and the other beautiful things to see. Bravo to you on your finishes!ReplyDelete
Love the colours in that top cushion. I thought for a moment it was a Tula City Sampler block. Our blossoms aren't quite out yet, so thanks for sharing yours.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous blossoms. Sorry to say my excitement over the warm weather heralding the end of Winter was short lived. Looks like another 2 weeks at least with the Winter clothes.
Looks like you several plans for stitching and it is lovely to see your finishes. I do like your Window on the World. Lovely that it has travelled so far.
Keep blogging. I much prefer it to IG.
Spring sounds nice and those blossoms on the tree are making me ache for cooler weather.ReplyDelete
You inspire me to keep blogging. Somehow I have to sort out my blog feed so that I get to read the ones I really want to and don't get swamped by all the others! And I am pretty much over instagram now that it is not chronological - I miss so many posts that I would really love to see! You did an amazing job putting 'Window on the World' together - it is so pretty :-)ReplyDelete
Love your cushion and the spring blooms. No spring where I live (tropical weather year round) so I love seeing them on your blog.ReplyDelete
Definitely won't be leaving blogland....it's my only social media......it's the interesting stories and comments that go with blogging that makes it special.......
Always enjoy visiting.....
I have to admit to not blogging since March but it's mostly because our computer died and it's just to annoying to do it on my phone!!
Great finishing on the PIPs!!👍🙂
Hi Suz! Love your projects, looks like the making of a great spring. And, your finish is great, all the cacti look like my new view in New Mexico! Thank you for participating in the FAL, on behalf of the 2016 global FAL hosts.ReplyDelete


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Presented at the 21st Annual Research Conference
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Session Number: 2000 Room: Salon E & F
Presenting: Katherine Grimes; Kay Hodges; Brian Mullin
All Authors for this paper: Katherine Grimes; Kay Hodges; Brian Mullin
Presentation Type: poster presentation
Synopsis: Introduction: Performance measurement strategies in two system-of-care settings are based on quality management. Methodology: MHSPY uses periodic functional measures for ongoing quality management. Michigan uses CAFAS measurement to foster quality improvement. Findings: MHSPY youth show improvement on CAFAS consistent with clinical change (27%). MHSPY trends will be compared to those from Michigan and linked to similarities and differences in performance management approach. Conclusion: Overall effectiveness of systems-of-care can be enhanced using sharing of "real-time" data.
Date: Monday, February 25, 2008
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Coimbatore, Mar 14 (PTI) Income Tax department officials today carried out raids in four branches of a Kerala-based finance company involved in gold loan business and a gold dealer here. The raids were conducted based on information that the dealer had transacted huge money reportedly through the Kottayam-headquartered finance firm having branches across the city during the demonetisation period, police said. A seven-member team of I-T officials raided the office and house of the owner of the gold dealing company. They reportedly found a large number of transactions had taken place through his account during the period when the high value currency notes were scrapped in 2016 November, they said. PTI NVM VS RBS
I-T raids finance firm, gold dealer in Coimbatore
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