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|ATFP NEWS September 2014: At UN, Obama talks conflict and peace in the Middle East, reaffirms 2-state commitment
RE: An Israel equal for all, Jewish or not
Dear Editor,
I totally agree that Israel should be fully secular and equal for all, and kudos to
Jobless Palestinians brave death to migrate
President Barack Obama's address to the United Nations General Assembly (transcript)
The Day After #PeaceDay 2014
Change the World ... #PeaceDay
PEACE DAY is GLOBAL #PeaceDay ... We all have a right to peace
Trust... A poem for peace in Growing Gardens for Palestine by Anne Selden Annab
STAY CONNECTED... Given the U.S. commitment to religious freedom, and to the international covenants that guarantee it as the inalienable right of every human being, the United States seeks to: Promote freedom of religion and conscience throughout the world as a fundamental human right and as a source of stability for all countries
Arab states can't afford to be tepid in response to ISIL: "While there are many other American perceptions, the New York Times' immediate response to the Jeddah Communique was a story with the headline: Arabs Give Tepid Support to US Fight Against ISIS." Hussein Ibish
Jordan stands firm against radicalism, terrorism: "The unequivocal support for the coalition of regional and international countries willing to fight IS did not obliterate, however, an issue that is often said to be the reason for many Middle Eastern problems: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
To honor a tragic history, we must work for peace : "The only way to honor our tragic histories is to create a future for our children free of man-made tragedy. This means making peace fully, completely and without reservation, between Israel and Palestine." Ziad Asali
Because We Know How to Make Dreams Come True! This Week in Palestine
For My Identity, I Sing! Al Mada
"The chaplets of coins are thought by some to have inspired the halo in sacred art."... Color photos of Palestine from the December 1926 issue of National Geographic magazine (Vol L, VI), "In the Birthplace of Christianity,"
RECRUIT ... a poem
For all its empty boasting, Hamas's strategy of armed struggle has once again been exposed as not merely a dead-end for securing Palestinian rights, but a disaster.
US urges Israel to reverse appropriation of land for West Bank settlement: Israel has claimed almost 1,000 acres near Bethlehem, in a move Palestinians say will only increase tension
The Real Middle East Crisis Is Economic "While Western observers focus on political issues in the Middle East, people in the region are themselves preoccupied with economic matters"
Vatican Urges Muslim Leaders To Condemn The Islamic State Formerly Known As ISIS
NYTimes: Resisting Nazis, He Saw Need for Israel. Now He Is Its Critic.
Dean Obeidallah in The Daily Beast: Searching for a Palestinian Dr. King
There Are Clues
Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?
Zogby: What we found was that there has been a continued erosion in the favorable ratings Americans have of both Arabs and Muslims, posing a threat to the civil rights and political inclusion of both Arab Americans and American Muslims.
"This is a time of national crisis, I will be honest with you, that does require commitment to non-violence of the kind that would give everyone the time needed to rebuild, to unify, but at the same time to agree with Israel and the world on a date certain for ending the occupation." Palestine's Salam Fayyad
ATFP Calls for De-Escalation between Israel and the Palestinians - See more at: http://www.americantaskforce.org/in_media/pr/2014/07/08/1404792000#sthash.591SYEYV.dpuf
ATFP Calls for De-Escalation between Israel and the Palestinians - See more at: http://www.americantaskforce.org/in_media/pr/2014/07/08/1404792000#sthash.591SYEYV.dpuf
ATFP Calls for De-Escalation between Israel and the Palestinians - See more at: http://www.americantaskforce.org/in_media/pr/2014/07/08/1404792000#sthash.591SYEYV.dpuf
ATFP Calls for De-Escalation between Israel and the Palestinians - See more at: http://www.americantaskforce.org/in_media/pr/2014/07/08/1404792000#sthash.591SYEYV.dpufATFP Calls for De-Escalation between Israel and the Palestinians
UPDATE: American Task Force on Palestine Advocacy Efforts During the Ongoing Tragic Hostilities : As tragic and appalling hostilities erupted again between Israelis and Palestinians, the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) engaged in intensive advocacy efforts to call for an immediate cease-fire to save lives and spare the innocent. On July 8th, ATFP issued a formal press release calling for de-escalation between Israel and the Palestinians...READ MORE
Normalizing Intelligent Conversations, Diplomatic Support, and Hope for Palestine: American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) Panel on Israeli-Palestinian War in a New Regional Landscape... & a firm call for an immediate ceasefire
1. Requests Israel to reconsider its policies and declare that a just peace is its strategic option as well.
2. Further calls upon Israel to affirm:
I- Full Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied since 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights, to the June 4, 1967 lines as well as the remaining occupied Lebanese territories in the south of Lebanon.
II- Achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem to be agreed upon in accordance with U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194.
III- The acceptance of the establishment of a sovereign independent Palestinian state on the Palestinian territories occupied since June 4, 1967 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital.3. Consequently, the Arab countries affirm the following:
I- Consider the Arab-Israeli conflict ended, and enter into a peace agreement with Israel, and provide security for all the states of the region.
II- Establish normal relations with Israel in the context of this comprehensive peace.
Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine... "An eye-opening—and inspiring—new approach to thinking about one of the world's most deeply entrenched conflicts"
"I have yet to meet a refugee who wanted to be a refugee and even less so, who wished to remain a refugee. Palestine refugees are no different. Their call for a just and lasting solution to their plight must be heard." UNWRA's Pierre Krähenbühl on World Refugee Day
America/Israel/Palestine 1776
America/Israel/Palestine 1948: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
The Golden Rule... Do unto others as you would have them do unto you


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The main difference is the way I have decided to colour the pages. I wasn't happy with the style of the first one. I didn't have the time to actually spend to make the colours the way I wanted in terms of shading. It was just too time consuming. So now I'm moving onto this style of colouring to speed up the process and be able to meet my personal deadlines.
Things are about to heat up so stay tuned!


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Hey everybody!
The heat and high humidity have a good side and bad. The bad, of course, is that those of us who spend most the regular day outdoors have concerns about sunburn, breathing and general lack of energy. The good side is that because of all the above, we can justify not going out, relaxing with a cold drink and listening to music.
So, here it is, the playlist a whole day early. As promised, there are a number of bands who will be on stage at Hillside on the last weekend of the month, with a few non festival goers thrown in for good measure (who frankly should be at Hillside). Not quite as much rock as usual, but it's that kind of day.
Sirens...The Pack a.d. *
Stairway...Yukon Blonde * (not "To Heaven")
I Love You...Said the Whale *
Robotic...Hannah Georgas
Back To You...Twin Falls
To Stay Here...The Young Benjamins *
Sea Song...The Wilderness of Manitoba * (this is so very beautiful)
Shoulderblade...Reuben and the Dark *
Heroes of the Sidewalk...Two Hours Traffic * (off the first album Little Jabs)
(Keep Eye On) Other's Gain...Bonnie "Prince" Billy *
Rut and Nuzzle...Snowblink *
Creatures Great and Small...Aidan Knight *
Just Joking (Basement Love Remix)...The Bloody Five
#2...AroarA *
Paper Girl...July Talk *
Wow, that's a lot of Canadian content. And there's lots more where that came from.
Stay cool and safe, people.
And as always, thanks for listening.
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György Sándor – Bartók and Kodály
First time on CD: the legendary Hungarian pianist plays music by his two most famous teachers
György Sándor is best known to music lovers and record collectors as a gifted pianist and champion of the music of his fellow Hungarian Béla Bartók, but he was also one of the most important piano pedagogues of the later twentieth century. As a piano teacher at the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School, his students included Malcolm Bilson, Barbara Nissman, and Hélène Grimaud. Sándor carried on the practician-pedagogue tradition passed down from Bartók, who was his most important piano teacher, and Zoltán Kodály, with whom he studied composition at the Liszt Royal Conservatory in Budapest. Sándor had played throughout Europe, Asia and America by the time he made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1939, and he settled in the United States shortly after that triumphant appearance. He had an enormous repertoire, but he is best known as a champion of Bartók's piano music, swimming against the artistic tide at a time when the music was considered too modern, too difficult to play and listen to, too risky for concert presenters — and doing a great deal to reverse the public perception of Bartók's music in America in tandem with the efforts of fellow Hungarian expatriates Frigyes (Fritz) Reiner and Antal Doráti. Sándor's career as a performer exceeded an astonishing seven decades in duration.
The present release returns to circulation two of Séndor's great recordings: the complete piano music of Zoltán Kódaly, originally released on Candide in the mid-1970s, and "Bartók and the Baroque," a collection of Bartók's baroque transcriptions issued on Vox Cum Laude in the late 1970s. Remastering: Gene Gaudette
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If you were in a fix and looking for a lawyer, would you think of bringing in haulage contractor, Eddie Stobart, to argue your case? Or Tesco, for that matter? And while G4S may be experienced at running prisons, you are more likely to be looking for someone to keep you out of jail.
But these three companies are merely the more unusual names among those expected to bid for legal aid contracts once the government's proposed changes come into force.
As it stands, the criminal legal aid system, in particular, is cost-effective and efficient; if you're arrested you get free legal advice. You can ask for your own lawyer; or if you have none, or if he or she is unavailable, you can have a duty solicitor. If you are charged with an offence you can choose whether to be represented by whoever initially advised you, or by someone else.
The people who have most cause to access free legal aid are what I will call "the precariat" - people in the bottom 30-40% of the socio-economic scale who struggle to get by and have less ability to choose. When hardship strikes they have no choice whether to borrow, as their household budgets have no slack and they often have no choice over from whom to borrow (which is why we have seen the rise of payday lenders).
These are the people who will be affected most by the changes proposed by the justice secretary, Chris Grayling (his proposals also include vicious cuts to civil legal aid and legal aid for prisoners but there is no space here to detail them).
May the cheapest firm win
In a consultation that ends today the government proposes a new bidding system for firms wanting to do criminal legal aid. Its main features will be:
Prices that have to be at least 17.5% lower than now - and fees for not guilty pleas will be cut disproportionately.
A cut in the number of firms contracted for criminal legal aid from about 1,600 to 400.
Competition almost entirely on price alone and no attempt will be made to ensure quality of service once contracts are awarded.
The elimination of choice for suspects and defendants.
The only way firms will be able to make criminal legal aid profitable will be to pay low wages to lawyers, to employ even worse-paid paralegals with no legal qualifications to do much of the work and to demand employees get through the work more quickly and with even less investigation and preparation than now.
The pressure on defendants to plead guilty will increase. The lawyer-client relationship will be destroyed, as clients will not be able to change their lawyer if they are not satisfied with their work, and every time they appear in court they will be represented by a different firm.
This free-market government knows that a free market in legal services will keep salary costs at present or higher levels. So it is rigging the it. Middle-income lawyers, mostly serving the precariat, will have to choose: preserve their standard of living by serving the rich or slide towards the precariat because they think that they, too, deserve the benefit of the rule of law.
The end of choice
We may increasingly see idealistic lawyers in their twenties working for the poor and then moving towards serving the rich as they get older. Maybe this is OK. Or maybe we don't care what lawyers earn at any stage of their lives. What does matter is the quality of service these lawyers will be giving poor people who will not be allowed to drop a rubbish lawyer and choose a different one.
At present the precariat at least have nominal choice as to legal, financial, health and education services, it's not all a mirage. But as far as this government is concerned, they don't even deserve this minimal amount of respect. The poor will be defended by people who, whether they care about civil liberties or not, will not be allowed by their firms to give their cases the time they need.
The government would doubtless abolish even this minimal legal aid system if the European Convention on Human Rights did not prevent it. Imagine what will happen when the government, if it is re-elected, withdraws from the Convention, as it says it wants to do.
Meanwhile, the "choice" that is regarded as an essential feature of citizenship is deemed to be undeserved by the precariat. The umbrella of the law will no longer provide them with even the inadequate shelter it does at present. The undeserving poor are becoming sub-citizens. How much more humiliation will be heaped on them while this coalition continues? And how much does the comfortably-off majority in our society care?


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A story in three voices
by Geri Lipschultz
Back when the land was country, my husband left me for another woman. We saw but did nothing to stop it. We watched her come, and we watched them go. If there were words, I did not hear them. Nor did we speak, the boy and I. Later I would recall a day striking for its purple light, drawn from the sky like milk. Winds encircled the oaks, enough to offset gravity, but nothing more. Barely a shiver in the jagged leaves. As for the light, it caught her eyes. They were beams in the threads of the water, blinding. I might have followed her myself if I didn't have the boy by my side. At first, she was a distant shadow that gradually began to crystallize into something of substance. I took her to be a shark. For that is the way the mind fools the eyes. A fish is what I supposed he saw, when he walked away from me toward the shoreline. Then she raised her head out of the water and her eyes found him, cast him into their light, more by net than by menacing hook. He was standing at the edge nibbling, and then she reeled him in. Who would believe it? As if paralyzed we stood next to the house, and we both watched him wade into the water and meet up with her, and then we watched him disappear with her.
Like Lyda, she came to me before I saw her. In a dream, a mermaid appeared. "Look for me," she had said. "You will hear my voice before you see my face."
And so I did. We were building castles, Roge and I. "What's that you said," I asked my son. I called him my son, but he was not.
"I said nothing, Papa," he said.
Moments later I looked up, as if stung, and I scanned the water—looking for what? I could not have told you, but then I saw the form. It was like a flame approaching, and I was mesmerized.
"Papa? Where are you going? What are you doing?" I heard these words from the back of my head. I was running away from him, from our small home, from my wife of three years, from my life, perhaps. My running took me deep into the water. I was following the woman. The woman swimming away was the mermaid of my dream.
The numbness in my veins condemned me to silence. I stood outside the house for a long time after that, glancing dumbly at my child who took to skipping in the clearing, singing and dancing, as if for the multitudes. Then he settled down and began to place the mud and rocks into some kind of formation. I returned inside our drab hut and wondered how long it would take for pity to come to my door.
I prepared dinner for the two of us, washed and cut up the berries, my fingers drenched in the purple light. I looked up at the sight of a child's body covered in mud but dared not ask him to bathe in very same water that had swallowed up the one he called father but was not. We fell asleep in each other's arms, and then the days piled up, and I went on carving out the time with chores, occasionally drifting back to the door or a window to catch sight of the sea. The boy's mirth was inexplicable. I would come to learn that it was a kind of madness, not unlike the man he called Papa. He was the only man the boy knew.
I am not what you call an honorable man. I come from three generations of drifters. Ours is an oral history, the stuff of which nightmares are made. Where lies redemption, I couldn't begin to say. I know no other way of life than that of a child set adrift to fend for himself. No seed of stability ever took root in my soil. I was always grabbing for the glistening fruit, which is a ticking clock. As soon as you snatch it off the tree it begins to rot. This that I offer is a bone. There is no excuse. If I believed in the god of recorded history, I would beg him to change me. If I knew how, I would command that muscle to grow, the one that makes a man cleave to a woman and her children. It is my lack of such a muscle that I believe draws them to me. They come to me like a teacher to an ignorant child, and I cannot resist them. The pull of the longing is the only god I know.
He did not want me to know his name. "Why do we need names," he said. "I am your man. You are my woman. He is our boy."
When I pressed him for the name, he gave it to me, forbidding me to speak the words. I wrote them down. Still, it is not Paul de Vox that comes to my mind when I conjure up his image, his gait, and his voice, but something else. Something like "husband." Something like "man." I grew out of the custom of referring to people by such a thing as a name. It changed me, and first it was subtle, but after the first season I suppose it lost its subtlety.
I, who was once the beautiful Lyda of pride and shame, embraced the anonymity of woman. Being no one and everyone gave me the courage to go where the one called Lyda would not.
Lyda was just a child herself, when we met, as wild and elusive as a feral cat. I'd met no one on earth so beautiful, whose form nature had designed to bring out the cruelty of men and women alike. The baby was born of the same circumstances as my own, with sister and mother one and the same. I knew that one day I would have to come back for the boy, if not his mother. Her pull was that strong, to lift me out of my tradition, at least in my mind.
It wasn't my intention to abandon them.
My "mermaid," like Lyda, had no home. She lived on her wits, at the mercy of those around her, and like me—at her whims. She had come a long way by water. She looked for no attachments. She wanted to return to a place she had known as a child, a place where she would be welcomed. When we were not swimming, we spoke at length about what we'd left behind. For her there were no children. She said I was her only man, but I did not believe her, and there was no evidence that this was so. Our first night we embraced but made no promises. Still I knew I would stay with her for a time. After we had gone well past my village we knew it would be easier to find people who would give us a bed, some food, and some work to pay it off.
It did not take long to see that word of his leaving had got around. People came to get what they could out of me, but I had nothing to offer them. I didn't know the woman, nor why he had gone. Like them, I had my suspicions. I also knew that he'd left me pregnant, and soon they'd know that, too.
Nevertheless, I did not formulate an exit, as they expected me to do. Little did they know, but I had no family. There was nowhere else for me, other than the streets. I would take to them but for the boy and for the life inside me. My friends all but deserted me when I took up with my husband. He sold his car to buy this shack on the beach. That is what I knew. I had come to depend upon his love and lost my sense of the smell of betrayal. Otherwise, I would have avoided him. Nor did I suspect his deceit.
Anything that I have called my own was someone else's before. I have called things mine; I have used that expression. I have no belongings. I have no home, no attachments. I've surrendered my body to the force of desire. I have no claims on anything the eye can see. But there are sounds I have called my own. I will not give them up, the voice of the land, the voice of the unborn, the voice of parallel wonders, the voice of the dead. There are so many. These voices leave their shrouds, their smells, their laughter, their breath. You might hear such a sound, but it's not really for the ear. You see this sound on the plaintive looks visible on another's face, or in the words provided by another's lips. And in anything that masks itself as light. It's only in the world of your own mind that they exist, and once you accept that, all is well. A cry of the red fox is just that. My mind is the keeper of my book, the collected works of Paul de Vox.
I call it his deceit, but it is I who lie. He gave me everything and promised me nothing. Before he arrived, I was as good as dead, so you could say that he saved my life, but he did not see it that way at all.
"I do not have this power that you speak of. It is you who must take responsibility for that which happens to you. I have tried to teach this to the boy, and he is a better learner than you, who have taught me so much."
And what had I taught him, this man who had brought light and water to the dull horror of my sad life. I would have begged for such an answer, but I had no need for begging. As in everything else, he gave me what he had. "Beauty," he said. And then he turned his face into the darkness because he had nothing more to say.
All my life I've lived with the beast of my beauty. Had I not been born with this stain men call beauty, my life would have been my own. I would not have been a slave to those who wanted to possess what the eyes cannot have. All but this man I could not help but call husband. I asked him this question in the middle of our love, with the darkness of mere starlight and only the roar of waves to keep us company. "Tell me what I have taught you about beauty."
"It is the way the molecules bounce off you into eternity."
"Then everything is beauty," I said. "I'm like everything."
"You are like nothing else," he said.
I forced myself to be content with that, because I couldn't bear to give it up, that moment. Our souls were all breath, and our bodies awash with fire.
The next day he was gone.
I have lived under bridges, in libraries and in boats, in bus stations and train stations and in ports that the great winged birds designed by men call home. But it is the abandoned car that became my specialty. I'd collect them, fix them up and sell them. Often they provided the means for significant bartering. I obtained houses and beds and wives, on occasion, in exchange for a running automobile. Still, I've slept alone more than in company. I've awakened stupidly in the darkest of nights with animals as my closest neighbors, and there were many nights that I could not sleep for fear, when I held my breath lest an enemy notice. Those nights were fewer than anyone would guess. In my youth, I would say I was lucky to be alive, but now that I am a man, possessed of a complex and weathered mind, who may therefore take up the reins of this life, I do not complain.
I think the villagers looked upon us as stragglers left by some oddball wave. We kept to ourselves, except in the stormy season, when the winds required us to evacuate, walk up the steps to the hotel that jutted out of the ground like the stump of a giant. When you live apart from people, the atmosphere around you has a life of its own. You not only see or hear the changes. They register in your body, like a smell or a sudden blow. And later you catch wind of the evidence.
And so it was that I knew another man was coming.
What I do know is that I've never walked away clean. It has always been in the middle of things—and for that I know that I've inflicted a pain of the worst kind. I know it dearly. How ironic that the force that beckoned me, the woman I was swimming toward, seemed without requirements. Childless she had roamed. Not wounded like the others.
Or, shall I say, wounded but healed. No scar to be found. Or so I thought. But we talked. More than anything else, we talked, and the discourse had the effect of glue.
I felt the intrusion before I saw any sign. My stomach pulled closer in to the life that had settled itself inside. For a number of days this occurred, and the sensation grew, no matter how many people came with food for us. Their food was good, but their eyes gored us, told us we were not wanted, warned us of trouble should we stay. Their eyes said it was the will of the land. But I knew what the land wanted and what it would cast out. And it was not yet my time. I'd learned that much from my husband. The nights were lengthening when he came, this new man. What brought him, I didn't know. I only knew that he was coming. I didn't know what he had inside him that was pulling him to me. I stood at the door and watched the shadow of the approaching visitor, and I backed off, shivering, when the knocking began. That first night was as though I was drunk. The emotion that had been stored in me erupted in the face of this unknown man. Of course we'd spoken, but our words were few. It happened that the tide turned with him. All the horridness within me subsided, and I was sane again, accepting of my fate again. A kind man he was. He needed a place to stay, and the villagers had directed him here. He would come with me to the hotel built into a rock when the time came, when the winds grew strong, and maybe he would be here to help me rebuild the shack when it was time to return. Or maybe he, like the ones before him, including the man I accepted as my husband, would leave.
They grow men beautiful by the water. He was a fisherman, a loner, with a family from another village. He would not stay long. This is about all he said of himself. I had no expectations. Beside land, my attachments were to children, my trust in the angels who attended me. A stupid woman I had been called all my life. Nobody knew how in love I was, with my own body, with the water, with the air that so sensuously entered my being. For all I cared, the water was polluted, the fish tainted, the air poison. I didn't count days. He stayed for the birth of the girl, and I never doubted that he would leave me with yet another. In the duration, he fished, taught the boy, comforted me. Maybe another would come, I thought, but I will never again take on a husband.
"How many women have you traveled with," she asked me. We had gathered materials for journeying north. The terrain she had come from was mountainous, and we were quite high. We would light upon her village in the morning. Light from our fire and from the sparks above us bled into the darkness.
"Your desire to go home," I said. "It's something deep in your body. What is deep in me—are stars."
"Which you cannot have," she said, touching me. The pleasure was painful, because the parting hovered around us.
"In your hands is what you've got," I said. "While you have it in your hands."
And then for a while there were no words. After a time, when she had gathered herself for deep sleep and dreaming, I stood up, listening to a voice I have heard many times. "Come with me. Do what I have done, and die with me as well. I pulled you into this world, and I will pull you out of it. You will go down fighting, and in the end accept it. You will take in all of me until your whole being pulses with the beauty and the terror."
I wanted to leave, desperately. It was my moment.
I watched him leave, the man who called me mermaid and gave me my sea legs. I let him go, as my life came rushing back at me, like the inner muscle of a wave, the part of the motion they call the undertow, the part that will turn you into a fish, and then stone.
My eyes were on him, but my memory went swimming back in a fury to recapture that time before him, to frame it once again in a sequence, as if it were composable. I remember that it took a long time, miles and miles of it. It had been over a year. I had a year to figure it out, a year since it happened, but I did not yet have the words. Still, I'd thought I was healed of it because no longer was I dreaming about the face, the hands, the shock, again and again, of being punched and raped, then blindfolded and thrown out of a car, left for dead, but I did not die. I just lay there sleeping and crying. And when I could get up and walk, I found water and just lay there in the water. Convulsing at first, letting the blood and the sickness come out. And then I thought to swim. And I kept swimming, grateful they had left me by water. I tried to find my way back home but I was too far away. All I knew was that it was inland. And later I was grateful for the distance, that I did not have to go back just yet. I let the water heal me, and the sunlight, and the air. And then I was a long time by myself. A long time without any words, without any people. It's because I could not bear people. And still I did not die. The dreams of torture ceased. For some reason I did not know. And I was at peace with my life. I was content to swim, to fend for myself, to wait until whatever it was I needed presented itself to me. And I discovered that for true happiness you do not need very much at all.
Then one day there was a person who swam out to me, and naturally, I did not trust him. And he stayed with me, and finally I trusted him.
You tell a man your story. In the retelling, you are reliving. You are sobbing, even punching this innocent man. He allows you this indignity until you yourself stop. Inevitably you fall for him, this man who has given you back the gift of trust. He gives you words where you had none, and they are your words.
And then–he leaves you, and you are alone. And you see for the first time your village bathed in morning light.
Story Copyright © 2010 Geri Lipschultz
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Second Image © Stephen Kirklys, Dreamstime.com
Geri writes:
"The story came from a dream wherein I saw a woman swimming in the ocean, and in my dream, a man left his woman (that woman might have been me) to join the swimmer. The terrain described in the story is similar to that of my dream. I was experimenting with voice and with unconventional love, as well as unconventional ways of overcoming trauma. My process amounts to following, as William Stafford writes, 'what occurs to me' with a mixture of gratefulness and forgiveness. The story appeared in a much shorter version, entitled 'Back When the Land Was Country,' in Dunes Review (2004). Also, in another version but with the same title as it has now, the story was selected as a semi-finalist for the Third Glass Woman Prize in March of 2008. I read yet another version of this story at the AWP in Chicago last year, at an off-site reading. This is the first publication of the completed story."
Geri Lipschultz has published work in the New York Times, College English, Kalliope, Black Warrior Review, and other magazines, including most recently Kartika Review and Umbrella Journal, both online journals. Her one-woman show was produced in NYC by Woodie King, Jr. She was awarded a New York state CAPS grant for her fiction. She received her MFA from Iowa, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at Ohio University.


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Seriously guys, lately my hair has been giving me grief. I think it's a sign that I need to make a change soon. So while I mull over what the future of my hair is going to look like, I have been covering up my bad hair days with my favorite new accessory; the turband.
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How to Change a Flat TireSelect Vehicle
- Tire Repair Kit
- Floor Jack
Safety Tip: Always wear safety glasses when working on your vehicle. Wear other personal protective equipment (PPE) when necessary, for example latex gloves or closed toe shoes.
Note: If you are driving when a flat tire occurs, pull off to the side of the road and turn on the hazard lights. Place a reflective triangle on the road if you have one. Do not attempt to replace a flat tire on the road if it is not safe. Source:http://www.driverrehabproducts.com/wp-content/uploads/flares02.jpg [/step]
Park the vehicle on a solid, level surface and set the parking brake.
Locate and remove your spare tire, jack, and tire iron. For cars, the spare tire is usually found in the trunk under the floor board. For SUVs and Trucks, it's underneath the rear end or behind the rear door. Source: http://www.roadfly.com/new-cars/wp-content/uploads/gallery/2008-nissan-titan/nissan-titan-spare-tire.jpg Source: http://0.tqn.com/d/cars/1/0/9/s/1/SpareTire.jpg Source: http://www.handa-accessories.com/crv/05sparetire.jpg
If necessary, use the tire iron or a flat head screw driver to pry the hub cap from the wheel. Loosen the wheel lug nuts buy turning them counter clockwise with a tire iron. Do not remove the lug nuts until the vehicle is raised.
Using the jack, lift the vehicle where the flat tire is located. Check your vehicle owner's manual for proper jacking locations. Source:http://www.bimmerdiy.com/diy/e36oilchange/Jack1.jpg
Remove the lug nuts. Remove the flat tire and set it aside. Source:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/257585355_ade90174e8.jpg
6.Install the spare tire on the wheel hub by aligning the lug nut holes with the studs. Install the lug nuts and snug them down with the tire iron or cross wrench. (See illustration below) Source: http://www.tirerack.com/images/wheels/tech/torque_diagram.jpg
Lower the vehicle to the ground and remove the jack. Tighten the lug nuts evenly in a crisscross pattern. Make sure all nuts are tight.
If applicable, re-install the hub cap. Place the flat tire in the trunk, and return the car jack and the tire iron to their proper locations. Check the lug nuts with a torque wrench when you reach your destination.


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Promoting the philosophy of quality cement, supporting the harmonization of quality standards in the national construction industry with the European construction standards and best practices
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For the cake:
225 g/8 oz/1 cup butter or margarine, softened
225 g/8 oz/1 cup caster (superfine) sugar
225 g/8 oz/2 cups self-raising (self-rising) flour
5 eggs
45 ml/3 tbsp coffee essence (extract)
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30 ml/2 tbsp coffee essence (extract)
175 g/6 oz butter or margarine
Icing (confectioners') sugar, sifted
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Monday, 2 November 2015
Thought Of The Week - Week 1
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I like the change! And I adore the quote! It's good to face our fears because if we don't, we'll never know what we could be missing in life! #candidcuddles xxReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Katie :) I agree, sometimes the things that we are afraid of are the things that could be brilliant for us if we only dared try them! xDelete
I like the change too. I think it'll also help you focus on the one amazing quote that really calls out to you each week.ReplyDelete
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I think it will help focus, every week there is that one I know I would choose and it will be nice to be able to talk a little about why :)Delete
It is good to mix things up occasionally. I love the quote about fear - we all need to conquer this! Thanks for sharing with us at #AnythingGoes.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Yes, I think it sounds like a good idea. & a great classic this week! #MMWBHReplyDeleteReplies
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I have been impressed that you manage 7 quotes every week - I think this is a great idea hun. This is a powerful quote & graphic this week! Thanks so much for sharing your quote with #candidcuddles xReplyDeleteReplies
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I love the quote. In fact I love almost all quotes lol Good or bad. The change you suggest sounds a good one. #MMWBHReplyDeleteReplies
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5S Industrial Floor Marking Guide in Houston
Here at Prepco Flooring LLC., the general rule is that anyone should be able to walk into a certain workplace and identify the workflow swiftly. The fastest and effective way to achieve this goal is by implementing the 5S floor marking guide and 5s industrial floor marking guide for industries. This lays the building blocks for the organized stage of 5S, when you start from the floor and work your way up organizing the area. Proper utilization of floor marking tape helps create order and pattern of work in your facility, eliminating confusion inside a work area. Utilizing 5s guidelines help in clearly defining processes and cells inside the value stream. Strategic, color-coded 5S floor markings aid your facility faster and more effectively. Consumers today rely on service providers that are 5s compliant.
There are presently no government-mandated or widely accepted industry standards for regulating what to be used when marking floors. In the past, some suppliers looked for the ANSI Z535. 1 Safety Color Code as being a guide in selecting colors for floor striping tape. Earlier versions include color specifications for specific kinds of safety hazards and equipment. Section 4.2 clearly states that these regulations apply simply for safety signage. Furthermore, these specifications were taken off of the 2002 edition standard and no longer represent ANSI-based guidelines.
Some companies refer to OSHA standard CFR 1910. 144, Safety Color Code used for marking human Hazards. It states that red must be used to identify fire protection devices, emergency stop systems and containers holding dangerous materials. Yellow is used for marking physical hazards, including, stumbling, falling, tripping and the like. Though these standards provide useful information for safety marking, it does not provide a clear guideline of colors that companies can base when marking floors inside their facility. As a result, many organizations simply use whatever colors are available at their disposal and overlook an opportunity to develop a more effective and visually instructive workplace.
To standardize floor markings and enhance 5S compliance, the 5S floor marking color guidelines are outlined below. This 5s compliant color scheme utilizes the OSHA 1910.144 standard stated earlier and can be utilized to visually separate processes, work areas and pathways. It also offers techniques for identifying facility storage locations for materials, product, tools and equipments. The color scheme purposefully limits the colors included to encourage easy learning and ready recognition of specific areas inside the workplace among employees. However, it can be easily modified to fit the specific operational priorities, processes and characteristics of facility.
5S Floor Marking/5s Industrial Floor Marking Color Scheme:
Yellow – Aisle ways, traffic lanes and work cells
White – Equipment and fixtures (carts, floor stand displays, racks, work stations and the like) not otherwise color coded
Blue, green and/or black – Materials and items, including raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods
Orange – Materials or product held for inspection
Red – Defects, scrap, rework and red tag areas
Red and white – Areas being kept clear for safety/compliance reasons (e.g. areas facing electrical panels, firefighting apparatuses and safety equipment like eyewash stations, safety showers and medical cabinets)
Black and white – Areas being kept clear for operational purposes (not associated to safety and compliance)
Black and yellow – Areas which could expose employees to special physical or health risks (e.g. flammable or combustive material containers); Indicates that extra caution must be exercised when entering and working within the area
Additional 5S floor marking color guidelines and recommended practices use limited colors as much as possible: This makes it easier for employees to consider the intended specification of each color reducing the number of vinyl tape products held in inventory.
Identify specific colors with specific purposes: Some companies prefer to choose mark equipment locations employing the same color for aisle ways and work cell borders. This choice adheres to the principle of keeping the color code system as numbered as possible, but for some, it might be more efficient to use two different colors for two different work locations. When a plant differentiates between colors when marking specific work areas, it generates a visually clear environment which enables employees to quickly correlate colors with purposes.
Raw Materials, WIP and finished goods: Try and make use of the same color for all material storage areas, unless it comes with an important basis for differentiating between them. As an alternate solution, use different colored labels to visually distinguish between different material types.
Do more with less: Many companies use different colored stripes to border areas facing firefighting equipment, safety equipment and electrical panels. Having three different floor tape products, pick one color for all applications in which the intent is usually to keep the area clear for safety or compliance reasons instead.


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The MaxiSys® Diagnostic Platform is an evolutionary smart solution for specialized automotive diagnosis and ECU programming. Designed with the DNA of Autel's diagnostics family, the MaxiSys is built to offer many of the prestigious qualities of the MaxiDAS DS708 with extreme ease of use and powerful diagnostic performance.the MaxiSys is the perfect diagnostic solution for shops and technicians who demand unrivalled smart technology and smart repairs.
100% Original Autel MaxiSys Pro MS908P with J2534 ECU PreprogrammingSP187-2=( SP187-F:Autel MS908P+SC193: Autel TS501)
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Five Reasons To Get Maxisys Pro MS908P:
1. Software version: Every Car Model Software Has A Different Version.
2. Wi-Fi technology: The VCI connects wirelessly to the main unit with Long-Range Class 1 Bluetooth
3. Update:One Year Free Update Online
4. Support Multiple Language: English and Spanish.
5. Promotion 3: MS908P Update: Update online, one year for free, After one year, the update fee is: 1295USD
Comparison between MS908P and other Autel Diagnose Systems
MaxiSys Pro MS908P Specification:
Operating System: AndroidTM 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich
Processor: Samsung Exynos Quad-Core Processor 1.4GHz
Memory: 2GB RAM & 32GB On-board Memory
Display: 9.7 inch LED capacitive touch screen with 1024x768P resolution
Connectivity: Ethernet: RJ45 Ethernet Connection,Cellular: 3G/4G module: WCDMA
Camera (rear): Rear-facing, 5.0 Mexgapixel, AF with Flashlight
Sensors: Gravity Accelerometer, Ambient Light Sensor (ALS)
Audio Input/Output: Microphone, Dual Speakers, 4-Band 3.5 mm stereotype/standard headset jack
Power and Battery: 11000 mAh 3.7 V lithium-polymer battery, Charging via 12 V vehicle power
Input Voltage: 12 V (9-24 V)
Power Consumption: 6.5 W
Operating Temperature: -10 to 55°C(14 to 131°F)
Storage Temperature: -20 to 70°C(-4 to 158°F)
Housing: Strong plastic housing with protective rubber boot
Dimensions (W x H x D): 300 mm (11.81") x 220 mm (8.66") x 50 mm (1.97")
Weight: NW: 1.42 kg (3.13 lb), MaxiSys GW: 8.655 kg (19.08 lb) / MaxiSys Pro GW: 8.052 kg (17.75 lb)
MaxiSys Pro MS908P Software Advantage:
1. Extensive vehicle coverage for more than 80 US, Asian and European vehicle makes
2. Easy and intuitive navigation makes finding what you need simple and fast
3. Open source Android Operating System for fast boot-up and multitasking
4. Displays live data in text, graph, analog and digital gauge for easy data review and analysis
5. Configures display options, sets triggers, records and playbacks results with one touch
6. Cloud-based Data Manager saves customer and vehicle records, scanner data and technician notes
MaxiSys Pro 908P Vehicle List:
AUDI, BENZ, BMW, DACIA, EU FORD, AU Ford, Ford, LANDROVER, MINI, OPEL, PEUGEOT, RENAULT, SEAT, SKODA, VW, VOLVO, SMART, JAGUAR, BENZ SPRINTER, SAAB, FIAT, ABARTH, LACIA, ALFA ROMEO, VAUXHALL, MAYBACH, BENTLEY, BUGATTI, PORSCHE,GM, CHRYSLER, FORD,SUZUKI, KIA, DAWEOO, ISUZU, TOYOTA, SUBARU, SCION, NISSAN, MITSUBISHI, LEXUS, INFINITI, HYUNDAI, HONDA, ACCURA, MAZDA.
MaxiSys Pro MS908P Feature:
1. 9.7 inch 1,024x768 LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi Touch display with IPS technology
2. Extraordinarily powerful Cortex-A9 quad-core processor
3. Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery for up to 8 hours of continuous operation
4. Dual-band (2.4 GHz & 5.0 GHz) 802.11n Wi-Fi to access your favorite web resources
5. Built-in 5-megapixel rear camera with autofocus and flashlight
6. Unique shop tough ergonomic design features strong rubber protection and housing;
7. USB, audio and auxiliary ports make it easy to connect accessories
8. Complete capabilities for codes, live data, actuation tests, adaptations, coding and ECU programming
9. Internal reliable and fast 32GB Solid State Drive for better performance.
Autel MaxiSys Pro MS908P Features
Unrivalled Speed
MaxiSys is the fastest scanner ever in the market. It features an extraordinarily fast A9 quad-core processor, a 32G solid state hard drive and a highly sensitive 9.7''LED capacitive touch screen. The revolutionary open source Android Opearting System allows you perform multiple tasks easily and intuitively. The system boots up in only 20 seconds, which is 5 times faster than competion products, and the diagnostic time for some vehicles is greatly reduced, allowing you to perform your job much quicker.
Smart Technology
Featuring the latest AutoVIN technology to identify CAN vehicles in one touch, and combined with the exclusive AutoScan function, the MaxiSys is the most intelligent system in the industry. These functions allow the technicians to easily detect vehicles, scan all the diagnosable ECUs on every vehicle and run diagnostics on selected systems. Another advanced feature, the industry first colud-based online community, puts you in touch with the latest tips and expertise from technicians around the world.
Ultrafast Wireless
The MaxiSys features advanced dual-band(2.4GHz and 5GHz)802.11n Wi-Fi that's up to twice as fast as any previous-generation diagnostic systems. The MaxiSys Vehicle Communication Interface(VCI) connects via dependable Long-Range Class 1 Buletooth to the host tablet. Once the wireless VCI is connected to the car, the technician is completely free to move around anywhere in the shop. Its wireless connectivity also means you can field updates to the latest software releases, allowing for update anywhere and anytime.
Exceptional OE-Level Coverage
As the fastest growing diagnostic company in the world,Autel has been committed to providing the best and easiest-to-use diagnostic solution with the most extensive coverage of all systems for all the major vehicle manufacturers. This enables independent garages to confidently provide comprehensive servicing in their own workshops without relying on dealer availability. Continual software enhancement will provide additional vehicle coverage.
ECU Coding and Programming
The Coding function is used to configure the vehicle control modules(ECUs) with extra parameters, while Programming is used to reflash the vehicle ECUs. These functions allow you to update the computer software on the vehicle to the latest version, as well as to reprogram adaptive data for certain components after making repairs or replacements. MaxiSys is one of the very few diagnostic systems in the world with the capability of preforming safe and reliable coding and flash programming with affordable costs.
J2534 Reprogramming Capability
The VCI for MaxiSys PRO is a SAE J2534-1 &-2 Compliant Programming Interface. Using the updated OEM software, It is capable of replacing the existing software/firmware in electronic control units(ECUs), programming new ECUs and fixing software-controlled driveability issues and emission issues.
Fully compatible with both SAE J2534-1 and J2534-2 reprogramming standards
Performs the standard Passthru J2534 functionality
Fast performance ensures quick reprogramming of even the newest controllers
*Requirements: Both a pc and OEM Data subscription are required. Neither is included in this kit.
Instant Software Updates
To keep up with the continuing development of vehicle manufacturers, continuous software improvement is essential for any diagnostic system. MaxiSys was designed with this in mind. Whenever any unknown new vehicle model or a diagnostic error is reported, usually within 48 hours, custom software updates will be made available for the user to download.
Remote Technical Support
The remote technical support function enables Autel technical support personel to access the tool from a remote location. The method significantly reduces the call time, leading to faster problem resolution and increased customer satisfaction.
Autel MaxiSys Pro MS908P Package List
1. Main part
Quick reference guide
Lighter Fuse
Main cable
Protective carrying case
USB Cable
User's Manual
Cigarette Lighter
Compact Disc (CD)
AC/DC External Power Adapter
Clipper Cable
Capacitive Stylus Pen
Soft Cloth
Packing List
Mini USB Cable
Ethernet Serial Cable
MaxiFlash Pro
2. Adaptor
GM/Daewoo-12 adaptor
PSA-2 adaptor
Fiat-3 adaptor
Audi-2+2 adaptor
BMW-20 adaptor
Benz-38 adaptor
Kia-20 adaptor
Mitsubishi/Hyundai-12+16 adaptor
Nissan-14 adaptor
Honda-3 adaptor
Chrysler-16 adaptor
Benz-14 adaptor
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BMW Ethernet Cable 39.99USD With Free Shipping
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(ATLANTA) — The Deep South was in deep trouble after a winter storm paralyzed much of the region Tuesday.
Thousands of flights were cancelled, cars spun off roads and kids were stranded in schools in the hardest hit states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
The southeast, which has already gotten hit with arctic blasts during this colder than usual winter, was pounded with ice and snow that seemed to catch everyone off guard, particularly communities that don't have access to sand and salt trucks that keep roads from becoming slick and dangerous.
Georgia reported close to a thousand wrecks alone in the Atlanta-metro area with more than 100 injuries. Governor Nathan Deal urged motorists in affected areas to stay off the roads Wednesday.
In fact, that same advisory was delivered in Virginia all the way down to Texas. Up to a foot of snow was predicted for the Carolina Coast and Virginia before it all moves up the Eastern Seaboard and out to sea.
Meanwhile, anxious parents in areas of Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia, as well as Birmingham, Alabama, sweated out the night as their kids were having unscheduled sleepovers at schools. Many parents expressed their dismay about the situation on social media.
At least 30 Home Depot stores throughout the southeast volunteered to act as shelters by staying open overnight for people unable to get wherever they needed to go.
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So with the arrival of the RPG-titlepack I felt it was time to try and start building rpg again. The last 'big one' i finally released was prison in wich the outside scenery was my new goal. This time however I'm wanting to do it better, Always wanted to build a castle-like track and with the new titlepack i think it's finally very possible. So I started building and i hope it will be hard but not too much. Pathfinding will be a part of it but not all the time.
I'm doing this one the right way with a one-off mod being build by shady, MT-work wich will include a lot of puns and a track that's nice to look at and even better to drive. (I hope )
This project will take some time, this isn't build in a week, especially not with all the work I have to do for school at the moment (studying for teacher) but if you're looking for some fun and want to help by beta/alpha-testing please feel free to download it and give comments.
Storyline: You're trying to get into the castle to kill the king and get out afterwards. You manage to get in trought the water-waste/supply lines wich brings you inside the outer walls.The outer walls are filled with block wich have come down from a previous siege. After a round trough the walls you'll be able to get into the main castle. Kill the king and get back out trough the front gate.
This is the short version of the story
I've been building for 2 months now
I've not being doing nothing. It's just going very slow ^^ but I finally managed to get the first big room finished, this is a storage room. The pipes on top from where you'll find the temporary finish are supposed to be sort of refrigerating system. I'm hoping to change the mt to a freezing, cold, blue screen so you'll get the feeling being close to a cold line ^^Shady is also still busy with the mod so for now i suggest dwl another mod if you want to test it or ask shady for a sneak-preview
What you should look at while testing.
- Scenery, no dead spots in wich there is nothing going on. Some trees need still to get branches but this is such a frustrating job I'll do one when I feel like doing so
- Track is respawnable and do-able (this doesn't mean that if you take 30 mins to nail an obstacle that it's shit, it's when you've found the way to do it and it still takes 30 minutes because it's a lucky shot then you can call it shit )
- MT works ( for now there is no MT but once it's installed make sure it works)
- Mod (same as with the MT, there isn't a mod at this moment but i'm i suggest you download another castle-like mod (I've seen some of them on the mod-part of the titlepack) from the titepack and test it with that.
- Your overall feel of the track
You will be rewarded for your testing, certainly you'll be named in the outro and on mx. maybe some planets, not sure
You can find the map on mx:
Enough talking go and have fun. btw, i've seen that some of the pipes have gone very dark and hard to see inside, can't really put any lights in them but as they are mostly straight I'm not expecting much trouble
some questions:
I want to use MT do you guys suggest also building it in already or wait till I've finished the track? (I was planning to wait because I' not a master with MT)
Should i make a story mode and a hunt mode?


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5 months old.
21 weeks. At the family cabin. He didn't like his hat.
5 months old.
- * He's still in size 3 diapers, but I'm going to start putting him in a size 4 overnight - he'll leak right through his diaper and wake up early.
- * He wears 6-9 month clothing.
- * As you can see from the photos, he's sitting up independently! He started doing it about a week and a half before his 5-month birthday, so he was 4 months old. :) I was really surprised by how quickly he learned - he went from completely wobbly and couldn't stay up at all to fairly stable in a couple of days!
- * He's starting to make new noises - I know he has no clue what he's saying, but he did make a "mama" sound. :D
- * He's into shaking anything that rattles. He can get pretty crazy sometimes!
- * He HATES his carseat.
- * He takes 3 naps now, but they aren't very predictable. Sometimes he'll take one 2-hour nap and two 45-minute-1-hour naps, but sometimes he'll nap longer. He's sleeping about 10-11 hours at night. I wish he would sleep more!
- * He pushes his chest up pretty high when he's on his tummy. I think it won't be long before he tries crawling. He's definitely mobile - when I leave him on his tummy he'll skooch around to get at stuff.
- * He weighs 17.5 pounds.
So there's James' 5 month update!


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The University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning hosts "Student-Faculty Talent Show" on Friday, April 25, from 6 - 7:30 p.m. in the Garcia Auditorium in George Pearl Hall, where the school resides. Admission is $5, cash only at the door. The event is sponsored by the Student American Society of Landscape Architects, SASLA, but includes students and faculty across the school's disciplines.
Jennifer Sandoval, president, SASLA, said, "The purpose of the event is to provide comic relief and fun at the end of the semester. Our disciplines are especially stressful this time of the semester when students are working hard to finish projects and theses." She added that the money raised will be used to send students to the national ASLA conference in Denver.
Sandoval said that many of the acts are acoustic performances - guitar and drums and such. "We also have rap, other musical performances and storytelling," she said.
Graduate student and research assistant Michaela Shirley is performing a monologue, while Assistant Professor Katya Crawford is presenting a tae kwon do demonstration. Crawford is also the SASLA adviser.
"Also featured is a skit mocking our faculty. We have some real characters in the faculty and we wanted to poke a little fun at them," Sandoval said.


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Love Collides
by L.A. Cotton
Series: Fate's Love, #3
Genre: New Adult
Release Date: June 2015
Staci Jameson is independent to a fault. But after growing up in the shadow of an overprotective family, and being let down by the only person that promised to always be there for her, Staci locked away her heart and vowed only to rely on herself.
Until a tall dark and sexy-as-sin player reawakens something inside of her.
Kade Ford knows what some people will do in the name of love, and it isn't all hearts and flowers. It's the reason he isn't looking to settle down. Ever. Instead, he plays the field and never gets too close.
Until a tiny blonde firecracker barrels her way into his life and leaves him wanting more.
What starts as a one-night stand turned friends-with-benefits arrangement begins to blur into something neither of them saw coming?or wanted. And when secrets from their pasts catch up with them, the very thing that they are both running from might just be the thing that they need the most. Will Staci and Kade turn to each other or will they let their pasts define their future?
Sometimes two people don't just come together...they collide.
Start the Series
Book 1: Loyalty and Lies
Book 2: Salvation and Secrets
A wearer-of-many-hats, L.A juggles being a full-time mum to two little people with two part-time jobs and college. In her spare time (and when she's not camped out in front of the laptop) you'll most likely find her immersed in a book, escaping the chaos that is life.


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House report notes that TSA is an epic fail waiting to happen
(NationalSentinel) Most Americans agree that we want to be safe when we fly, but many also agree that the Transportation Security Administration is much more of an impediment to travel than a help.
Inefficiency coupled with inappropriate behavior and sexually assaulting pat downs have given the TSA a well-deserved lousy reputation. And now a just-released report from Capitol Hill gives Congress and the Trump administration new ammunition to do away with the TSA and hand airport security back to private contractors with a real incentive to do a better job.
The House Homeland Security Committee released a report Monday finding a lack of employee screening and vetting for those working in the TSA – uncovering examples of "insider threats" within America's airports.
The committee's Subcommittee on Transportation and Protective Security, which authored the report titled "America's Airports: The Threat from Within," said it had launched an extensive, bipartisan investigation.
That found many airport staff are able to bypass the traditional screening requirements that travelers visiting the airports undergo.
"This report is the result of two years of intense oversight efforts –at a time when we face increased threats from homegrown radicalization and lone-wolf terrorism, we must ensure that our airport access controls are strong and that we are doing all we can to mitigate the insider threat to aviation security," Chairman of the subcommittee Rep. John Katko, R-NY, said in a statement.
The investigation said we should worry about insiders detonating bombs at airports as well as smuggling drugs, guns and explosives.
Fox News noted further:
The report concluded that without a comprehensive background check for employees, TSA does not have the ability to screen for individuals who may "harbor ill-will" toward the United States, or have connections to individuals who do.
"America's aviation sector remains a crown jewel of ISIS and other terrorist groups targeting our homeland," House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said in a statement.
Fact is, if the agency is not living up to the standards Americans expect, it needs to go away and be replaced by free-market competitors for airport security.


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OLIVIA — A Hector man accused of causing serious injuries to a woman and to himself after causing their vehicle to crash has pleaded guilty.
Damon Dwight Wiederhoft, 29, of Hector, formerly of Cosmos, pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon in Renville County District Court to one felony charge of criminal vehicular operation with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 percent or more. The crash occurred July 30, 2017, on a rural road north of Stewart and southeast of Cosmos.
He is to be sentenced Oct. 25. A jury trial had been scheduled to begin Wednesday.
Wiederhoft had faced three felony charges for first-degree assault and criminal vehicular operation. He had been charged with five gross misdemeanor charges of child endangerment.
The woman driving and Wiederhoft were ejected from the vehicle and injured. Her five children were in the car when it crash and suffered minor injuries.
The driver was airlifted to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and was in a coma and on a ventilator for several days, She suffered a left orbital blowout fracture to the eye socket, a shattered spleen, collapsed lung, six spinal fractures and blockage of her left renal artery, according to court documents.
The children were in safety restraints and suffered only minor injuries. Investigators determined the vehicle was traveling at 62 miles per hour approximately five seconds before the airbags deployed.
The criminal complaint states Wiederhoft was arguing with the woman driving the car when he grabbed the steering wheel and turned the vehicle, causing it to crash.
According to the complaint, the woman was upset with Wiederhoft for consuming alcohol when his probation prohibited it. He had a blood alcohol content of 0.143 percent when collected four hours after the crash, according to the complaint.
A test of the driver's blood found no trace of alcohol, according to the complaint.


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Cell Phone Scams!
By Will from Holland
We're cruising along in the car listening to music. My buddy gets a phone call:
"Last warning: your car insurance warranty is about to expire! Press "1" to talk to a representative," the voice says. Without thinking, my buddy presses "1" and looks lost while listening to what the person on the phone has got to say.
Wait a minute; he suddenly remembers he doesn't even have a car!
What's happening here? This particular call was just a stupid telemarketing scam. This company is trying to get you to buy their insurance. Not only is the insurance often a poor value or worthless, the call is pretty annoying.
The solution? Wait for the second menu option before pressing "1…" Press "2" and you will be removed from the call list. Bingo!
So what about cell phone scams that can be more painful?
How about ringtone scams?
Are you one of the millions of people that download ringtones? Yeah, me too. But if you download a ringtone from a service other than your cell phone provider, you have to watch out. Many people don't realize accepting some "free" ringtone offers automatically subscribes you to some worthless monthly service that can cost you $29.95 a month! And it can take hours or days to cancel these services.
The solution? Don't download ringtones from random sites… Stay with your cell phone provider or a reputable service. Also… read the terms and agreements before ordering anything!
Next Up: Text Message Scams.
Ever gotten a text message from a phone number that you don't recognize, but it sounds like the text is from a buddy? Something like: "Hey, it's Joe! Wanna catch up soon?"
Let's say you reply… just out of curiosity. You may actually be sending a text message to a premium service, charging you anywhere between $1 and $6!
The solution? Duh. Don't send a text back to unknown numbers. The same thing happens with phone calls from random numbers. Be careful who you call back. It might cost you dearly.
Alright, these scams are not going to cost you thousands. But here's one that might.
Snap a Shot and Steal. Did you know that scammers are actually using their cell phones to take pictures and/or video images of your credit and/or debit cards?
If you're not careful with how you hold your cards in shops and restaurants, and a scammer manages to take a picture of your card with his phone, this crook might actually be able to rip you off for thousands.
The solution? Be careful where you put your cards, or how you hold them. Don't let your cards lay around on your table while having dinner, for instance. And cover your hand when you punch your PIN into an ATM.
Sounds good? We have more helpful tips on scams and rip-offs like these on our website.
Cheers, Will.


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OK, strap yourselves in; this is going to be an uncomfortable one. When a filmmaker (with no sense of subtlety) wants to indicate to the audience in no uncertain terms that a character is a baddie, they'll have the character kick a dog. This communicates to us that the character is pure evil and not to be sympathized with. But they could just as easily kick a kid. Most films aren't brave enough to try to depict child abuse, but sadly, it happens in the real world. Far more often than we'd ever care to think about.
Don't get me wrong. This article is not meant to scare all parents out there into hovering over their kids 24/7 for fear of abduction. Most people are good people. The vast majority of adults would help a lost kid get home, not abduct them from home. But sadly, with over seven billion people on Earth, even a small minority is a large group in actual numbers. There are a lot of hateful freaks out there. When a child is harmed, or worse still, murdered, the best we can hope for is that the perpetrators are caught and brought to justice. However, sometimes, we don't even get that. This list depicts photos of children who were abducted and never seen again, alive or dead.
Note: It should go without saying, but these stories, and some of these photos, are very disturbing and upsetting.
15 Madeleine McCann
Madeleine McCann is one of Britain's most famous missing children. She went missing in 2007 while on holiday with her family in the Algarve in Portugal. Her parents came to their room to find their twin children safe in bed but their daughter Madeleine was gone. Suspicion first fell on a British-Portuguese property consultant Robert Murat who had been seen outside the McCann's apartment. Murat became the first official 'arguido' (suspect), but a thorough search of his apartment, pool, and cars turned up nothing and his arguido status was eventually lifted. The next arguidos were the McCanns themselves, who the Portuguese police believed may have hidden Madeleine's body in a panic after she died in an accident while unsupervised. This lead to many UK tabloids throwing dirt upon the McCanns, which has resulted in lawsuits. The Portuguese police only ever considered the McCanns because they misinterpreted DNA evidence compiled by Scotland Yard. The Portuguese police's main theory is that McCann was abducted for the purposes of a pedophile ring. Whatever the case, Madeleine's whereabouts are still unknown and hers is, according to at least one newspaper, the "most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
14 Eloise Worledge
January 12, 1976, was the last day eight-year old Eloise Worledge was ever seen. She disappeared from her own bedroom in Beaumaris, Victoria, Australia. The last person to see her was her mother, Patsy, when she checked in on Eloise and her two siblings before going to bed at 11 PM. Her father went to bed at 11:40 PM, presumably not realizing that the front door was open. Patsy awoke at 7:30 AM to discover Eloise was missing and the wire screen outside her window was cut. Upon further investigation, police determined that the hole cut in the window screen was unlikely big enough for Eloise to fit and certainly not large enough for an adult abductor. The screen cutting seems like a deliberate red herring. It should be noted that Patsy and Lindsay were going through a separation at the time and that Lindsay had been drinking. It has been reported that Lindsay's police call was "strangely unemotional". Lindsay agreed to take a polygraph (lie detector) test that day, but never took one until 25 years later. The results were, as they often are with polygraphs, inconclusive.
13 Kyron Horman
10-year old Kyron Horman disappeared in June 2010. The seven-year old was last seen after delivering his science fair presentation about frogs at his Oregon school. On his way to his next class, he vanished. What happened? Well, like with every other entry on this list, we don't know. But many suspect Kyron's stepmother, Terri. First, she made inconsistent statements to the police about her whereabouts on the day of Kyron's disappearance. Furthermore, six months prior to Kyron's disappearance, his father filed a restraining order against Terri, reportedly alleging that Terri had offered a hit-man money to murder him. It's possible that, with that plan scuppered, Terri turned her nefarious attention to Kyron, but no compelling evidence has ever been found to support this theory.
12 Nicholas Barclay
This is a bizarre one. Not so much for young Nicholas' disappearance, that was, sadly, all too normal. 13-year old Nicholas Barclay was last seen playing basketball in San Antonio on June 13, 1994. He never came home and his parents were, understandably, grief stricken. That was until three years later when they received communication from their son in Spain. He said he had been abducted into a child pedophile ring that brought him to Europe. He was flown from Spain to Texas only for his parents to realize...he wasn't Nicholas. His name was Pierre Bourdin. He was a French conman with a sick penchant for impersonating missing children. Bourdin was an orphan with a possible mental disorder who said he felt compelled to impersonate missing children so he could feel parents' love. He was imprisoned in Texas before being sent back to Europe where he perpetrated his rouse again.
11 Sabrina Aisenberg
Imagine going up to the crib in which your newborn baby should be sleeping only to find she's not there. That's what happened to the parents of Sabrina Aisenberg in the autumn of 1997. The five-month old Sabrina vanished, seemingly without a trace. There was no sign of forced entry. While no charges have ever been laid in this case, a missing child coupled with no signs of forced entry generally points toward people who were already in the house as being the culprits; namely, Sabrina's parents. People's suspicions were further heightened when they made a video pleading for the return of their daughter, but they seemed to be smiling incongruously. This doesn't prove anything of course, and the parents might be innocent victims whose lives are further destroyed by people's accusing words and glances. But somebody took that baby and they had the best opportunity.
10 Etan Patz
Etan Patz is famous for being one of the first (if not the first) missing child to have his photo appear on milk cartons. Even so, I'm sure Etan would have preferred to have just lived an anonymous but happy and healthy life. Six-year-old Etan Patz was abducted in 1979 walking towards the bus stop on the way to his Manhattan school. Apparently, his parents had only recently decided Etan could walk to the bus stop alone. This case, unlike most of the others here, does offer some closure, however. In 2012, Pedro Hernandez confessed to luring Etan into the basement of his bodega with the promise of free soda, only to strangle the boy to death and dispose of his body in the trash. His first trial ended in a hung jury in 2015 but he was eventually convicted in a second trial in 2017. Etan was declared dead in absentia in 2001.
9 The Lyon Sisters
Shelia (12) and Katherine (10) Lyon were last seen eating at a mall in the Washington D.C. suburb in which they lived on March 25, 1975. A local boy told police he saw them talking into a tape recorder held by an unidentified man. The girls were never seen again. A local TV reporter mused that the girls' disappearance was the end of innocence for the suburban D.C. area. You hear that again and again. Murder and violence among adults is horrible enough, but when children are harmed, people really do see it as an end of innocence. A shattering of what is meant to be childlike purity. When confronted with the evidence that people can abduct, abuse, and kill children, one can scarcely look at the world in the same way as before.
8 Marjorie West
Marjorie West is the State of Pennsylvania's oldest unsolved missing persons case. The last time anybody, for certain, saw four-year old Marjorie West was in 1938 and she was picking flowers in a field. An act and image so classically serene and peaceful it is physically painful to imagine what horrible fate may have befallen the beautiful, red-haired child. The only lead that police had to go on was that a girl matching Marjorie's description was reportedly seen riding in an automobile, a dark sedan, with an unidentified man in West Virginia later that night. Neither the sedan nor the man were ever reported as seen ever again. Seeing as how this case is nigh on eighty years old, we can safely assume they're probably never going to crack it.
7 Trenton Duckett
This one's sad even for this list. Trenton Duckett was two years old when he disappeared from his Florida home in 2006. He vanished "without a trace or without signs of struggle". Duckett's parents were going through an acrimonious divorce at the time. His mother, Melinda, was a student of criminal psychology and was actually being investigated for bank embezzlement. Police uncovered evidence that Melinda had hacked into her husband's email account in an attempt to frame him for Trenton's disappearance. She was clearly a suspect but before police could move forward with an arrest, she put a halt to all proceedings. She committed suicide by shooting herself in the head with a shotgun just a day after a combative interview with Nancy Grace. With Melinda's death, Trenton's father lost any hope of seeing Trenton again, who has never been found, dead or alive.
6 The Beaumont Children
Australia Day is held every January 26 and is meant to celebrate the nation. But there was no celebrating for the Beaumont family on Australia Day, 1966. Jane (nine), Arnna (seven), and Grant (4) disappeared from Glenelg Beach near the Adelaide suburb of Somerton Park where they lived. The three kids had taken the five minute bus ride from their home to the beach, unsupervised, as they had the day earlier and as was common in Australia at the time. Their disappearance would fundamentally change how Australians looked after their kids and how they looked at each other. It truly was a case of innocence lost. The case resulted in one of the largest police investigations in Australian history and coverage of the story was ubiquitous. Even to this day, the case is famous, but sadly, the Beaumont Children have never been found.
5 Edward and Austin Bryant
One thing you don't expect from a missing child case is for nobody to notice. Or at least, for nobody to mention the missing children. But this is what happened in the cases of Edward and Austin Bryant. Edward and Austin were biological brothers but they lived with their foster parents, Edward and Linda Bryant, in Monument, Colorado. In 2011, one of the other foster kids notified police that Austin was missing. But he hadn't been missing a day or two, but rather, he went missing somewhere between 2003 and 2005. Worse still, older brother Edward had been missing since 2001. Both would have been about nine at the time of their disappearances. The Bryants didn't tell anybody because they wanted to continue collecting government money for caring for the kids. In 2012, Linda Bryant was sentenced to 42 years in prison for welfare fraud and her husband faced similar charges. However, neither have been charged in the disappearance of the boys, which itself remains a mystery.
4 Timmothy James Pitzen
One day in May 2011, Jim Pitzen dropped his six year old son, Timmothy (correct spelling) off at his school in Aurora, Illinois. That was the last time Jim ever saw his son. His wife, Amy, would take Timmothy out of school later that day. She took him to a water park in the Wisconsin Dells. They were gone for about three days, during which time both Amy and Timmothy talked to family via phone. It was in a hotel room in Rockford that Amy's body was discovered. She had killed herself via cutting and an overdose of antihistamines. Amy was mentally unwell and suffered from depression. Her marriage to Jim was not great and many suspect that she only stayed with him for fear of losing custody of Timmothy were they to be divorced. Most chilling of all was the suicide note she left. It ended ominously by saying that Timmothy was safe and "will never be found". No idea if he's safe, but the second part has certainly proven to be true thus far.
3 Megumi Yokota
Megumi Yokota's story is tragic, as is everybody's on this list, but it is different in a significant way: her abductors. Not only have her kidnappers identified themselves, but also...they're the North Korean government. Megumi was 13 when she was abducted from her hometown in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Megumi was one of at least 17 Japanese citizens abducted by the North Koreans in the late 1970's and early 1980's. The program was, ostensibly, to get Megumi to train North Korean spies how to fit in in Japan. The North Korean government confessed to her kidnapping in 2002 but said that she killed herself in 1993 or 1994. They sent her ashes to Megumi's family. However, DNA analysis of the ashes were not a match with Megumi, though it has been alleged that the DNA test was done improperly. The North Koreans also stated that Megumi had married a South Korean man who had also been kidnapped and they had a daughter. The Yokotas got to briefly meet their supposed granddaughter --and her daughter-- in March 2014 in Mongolia. However, the Yokotas continue to believe that Megumi is still alive and that the North Koreans are lying.
2 Johnny Gosch
This disturbing photo is allegedly of Johnny Gosch. It was one of three photos delivered to the doorstep of Johnny's mother, Noreen, in 2006. Another photo depicted three boys tied up, but likely only as part of an escape contest they had in Florida 1979. The third was of an unidentified dead man. But let's go back to the beginning. Johnny Gosch was a 12-year-old paperboy in West Des Moines, Iowa who was abducted on his paper route on September 5, 1982. Johnny was never seen again...except, maybe he was. Noreen claims that one night at around 2:30 AM in March of 1997, her then 27-year-old son knocked on her door with another unidentified man. They talked for about 90 minutes. Noreen said Johnny fears for his life and lives under an assumed identity. However, Noreen's story cannot be corroborated and her ex-husband, Johnny's father John, has cast some doubt over whether or not he thinks this really happened. Back to the photos. They could be a cruel prank or they could be, as Noreen believes, clues. If this one photo is of Johnny, it is positively chilling. There even appears to be a brand on his skin. Noreen believes Johnny was abducted by child molesters.
1 The Sodder Children
On Christmas Eve, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. George and Jennie Sodder escaped with four of their nine kids living there. However, none of their remains were ever found, which is very odd for a house fire. Second, the supposed cause was faulty wiring, but George Sodder had just had his electrical circuit examined. Third, the ladder George usually kept leaning against the house wasn't there; they later found it 75 feet away at the bottom of an embankment. Fourth, neither of George's trucks would start that night. Fifth, the Sodder's phone line was cut. There are so many incongruities to this case that make it fascinating, including the fire chief later admitting to having found a human heart in the ashes and then when George demanded to see it, he showed him a beef liver. Huh? Despite putting up a billboard ad for about thirty years and hiring private detectives, they never found the missing children. Jennie did receive a photo in the mail in 1967 of a man who looked to her like her son Louie, grown up, but this could not be proven. One last thing: if you're wondering about a motive for arson, George Sodder, an Italian immigrant, had made some enemies with the large Italian population in town by disparaging Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. About two months before the fire, after rebuffing a life insurance salesman at his door, the salesman said George's house:
"[would go] up in smoke ... and your children are going to be destroyed", because of, "the dirty remarks you have been making about Mussolini." Oh yeah, and that guy was also on the coroner's inquest jury that concluded the fire was started by faulty wiring. What a coincidence.
Sources: Thought Catalog, Crime Online, the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Chicago Tribune


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