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SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a ruling — and a $135,000 fine — that two Gresham bakery owners discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to make them a wedding cake, violating Oregon law.
The courts did reverse a portion of the Bureau of Labor and Industries decision that said Melissa and Aaron Klein violated Oregon law by communicating their intent to discriminate against same-sex couples in the future.
The appeals court decision, released Thursday, came almost nine months after attorneys representing the Kleins and the attorneys for the Bureau of Labor and Industries argued before the three-judge panel.
- Bakers who refused to make same-sex wedding cake face Oregon Court of Appeals
- Sweet Cakes by Melissa announces closure
- Same-sex couple behind 'Sweet Cakes' suit speaks out
- Sweet Cakes by Melissa pays $135,000 fine
- Sweet Cakes by Melissa breaks record on crowdfunding site
It came years after Rachel Bowman-Cryer and Laurel Bowman-Cryer first stopped at the Klein's custom-cake bakery.
The couple had no idea a simple item on their pre-wedding to-do list would end in such controversy.
They decided to order a cake from Sweet Cakes by Melissa, a Gresham bakery recommended by a relative, for their upcoming commitment ceremony. Rachel Bowman-Cryer and her mother stopped by the shop for a tasting and to order the cake.
When Aaron Klein found out the cake was for two brides, he told Bowman-Cryer he and his wife did not make cakes for same-sex weddings because of their religious beliefs.
According to a brief filed by the civil rights organization Lambda Legal, when Bowman-Cryer's mother returned to the bakery to reason with Aaron Klein, he called her daughter and her soon-to-be daughter-in-law "abominations."
The Bowman-Cryers filed a complaint with the state Bureau of Labor and Industries, alleging they were denied public accommodation of the Klein's business services because of their sexual orientation.
BOLI investigators determined the refusal constituted unlawful discrimination and ordered the Kleins to pay $135,000 in damages to the Bowman-Cryers.
The Kleins balked at first, then paid the $135,000 and vowed to appeal the case. The money was placed in a government account until the appeals process ends.
The Kleins' attorney could not be immediately reached for comment following the ruling. The case could continue to the Oregon Supreme Court if needed.
A similar case, involving a Colorado bakery, went before the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month.
Paul Thompson, attorney for the Bowman-Cryers, said he will be watching that case closely.
When Thompson contacted the couple Thursday morning, he said they were elated but still processing the news.
"We're really happy with the outcome," he said. "It's a great day for equality in Oregon."
The Bowman-Cryers held a commitment ceremony in June 2013 and were married in May 2014, four days after same-sex marriage became legal in Oregon.
They released a statement Thursday that read, in part, "It does not matter how you were born or who you love. All of us are equal under the law and should be treated equally. Oregon will not allow a 'Straight Couples Only' sign to be hung in bakeries or other stores."
READ: Full statement from Rachel Bowman-Cryer and Laurel Bowman-Cryer
The legal battle made national and international headlines.
Donations poured in for the Kleins, who campaigned in Iowa with Ted Cruz at "Rally for Religous Liberty," and C. Boyden Gray, the former White House Counsel for George H.W. Bush, offered to represent the couple for free.
Since their complaint became public, the Bowman-Cryers have received "countless" harassing messages calling them evil and "the dumb lesbians who ruined those Christian bakers' lives," according to Lambda Legal's brief.
The Bowman-Cryers said the case was not simply about a wedding cake, their marriage or their wedding. It is about whether is okay for a business to refuse to serve people cause of the owner's religious beliefs.
The couple said they moved to Oregon because the state stands strong for equality and they are proud to raise their daughters where people believe in dignity and respect.
"The stakes have never been higher, and the outcomes of this case could change the lives of every Oregonian," they said in a statement issued in March. "We support religious freedom as a fundamental value in America — but religious beliefs should not entitle anyone to discriminate, target or hurt others."
The shop front for Sweet Cakes by Melissa closed in 2013, but the couple continued to run the business out of their home until 2016, when it closed permanently.
"We lost everything we loved and worked so hard to build," Melissa Klein said following oral arguments before the Oregon Court of Appeals in March.
Through tears, Klein said she poured her heart and passion into each cake and designed each one to fit each couple perfectly. As a devout Christian, she incorporated her faith into every aspect of her life, especially her work.
"I was happy to serve this couple in the past for another event and would be happy to serve them again, but I couldn't participate in the ceremony that goes against what I believe," she said.
Klein said she feels like the government violated her family's religious beliefs and told her what to believe.
During oral arguments before the Oregon Court of Appeals in March, the Kleins' attorney Adam Gustafson said forcing someone to participate in a same-sex wedding violated their free speech and religious freedom.
The law cannot compel art, he said. Simply put, Melissa's custom cake-baking was her art and should be fully protected by the First Amendment.
The cakes the Kleins made had a sense of form, intent and expression, Gustafson said.
Judge Rebecca Duncan asked whether a person making a sandwich in a cafeteria could make the same argument.
Gustafson said it depended on the intent and effort behind the sandwich making.
The Kleins did not discriminate based on sexual orientation; rather, they chose not to participate in a same-sex wedding ceremony because they believe marriage should only exist between a man and a woman, Gustafson said.
Judge Joel DeVore asked whether it would be discrimination if a baker refused to make a cake for an interracial couple based on religious belief.
"Race is different from sexual orientation," Gustafson said, adding that laws barring interracial marriages were proxies for racial bias and white supremacy.
The First Amendment also protects the right to be free from compelled speech. The state is required to extend an exemption for religious hardship to protect "decent and honorable" people like the Kleins, he said.
Carson Whitehead, Assistant Attorney General with the Oregon Department of Justice, represented BOLI. He argued the case turns on two simple facts: The Kleins refused to provide the exact same service for a same-sex couple that they would with a heterosexual couple, and the denial of services was based on sexual orientation.
Sexual orientation, intimacy, marriage and weddings are so deeply connected, it is impossible to separate them.
"It's hard for me to imagine that they could be teased apart," Whitehead said.
Klein denied the couple service before there was even a discussion of an inscription. Whitehead said this constituted a refusal of services, not compelled speech.
"Cake baking isn't pure speech," Whitehead said, adding that cakes serve all kinds of functions for all kinds of reasons.
He also argued that the damages awarded to the couple were reasonable considering the emotional distress they experienced. The nature of the discrimination and its impact on the couple's sense of self were harmful, he said.
The appeals court ruled that the Oregon law barring discrimination was clear, and the Kleins violated it by refusing service based on the couple's sexual orientation.
The judges also stated the Kleins' attorney failed to show that wedding cake constituted "fully protected speech or art." At the most, the business was a combination of expressive and non-expressive elements. Therefore, the Kleins' First Amendment rights were not violated.
After the case, the Bowman-Cryers left the courthouse in tears. The Kleins gathered with their attorneys outside.
"I'm thankful we actually got to have our day in court," Aaron Klein said. "Man's court is going to do what man's court is going to do. The honest truth is we just seek to serve the Lord."
For questions, comments and news tips, email reporter Whitney Woodworth at firstname.lastname@example.com, call 503-399-6884 or follow on Twitter @wmwoodworth


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text: Kanny & Ronal are a super couple who had no trouble making sparks fly during our time together. Their intense connection clearly showed in every shot I took of them together. Kanny being from Cambodian descent made her grand entrance into her reception wearing a traditional cambodian wedding dress. their grand entrance was followed by a group of Cambodian weddding ceremony dancers whose dance routine made for awesome images. The bride & groom held their wedding ceremony and reception at The Reef in Long Beach.


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Since assuming office Gov. McCrory has throttled the theme that Medicaid is broken and must be reformed. He began by offering a radical proposal of dismantling our current system and selling it off to private insurance plans. He has since backed away from that idea and now wants a more modest expansion of what currently works in Medicaid.
The House, in a bipartisan bill filed this session, clearly agrees with the Governor's new approach. The legislation, spearheaded by Rep. Nelson Dollar, would build Accountable Care Organizations (or ACOs) in Medicaid. These provider led ACOs would move us toward greater integration of care and away from fee-for-service medicine. Medicare is using the ACO model as are many private insurers. In fact, Medicaid is one of the only payers in the state not moving to this method of organizing care.
In its budget, the Senate flatly rejects this approach. That chamber wants Medicaid to move to full capitation. In other words, legislators want to provide a set budget to Medicaid. The insinuation is that the Senate prefers the Governor's original plan to pay private insurers to care (or not care, as the case may be) for our most vulnerable citizens.
The Senate also engages in some fantasy by pulling Medicaid into a freestanding department that will engage the nation's best health care minds in this ambitious reform effort. At least that's how Sen. Louis Pate described the proposed process. The trouble, of course, is that the nation's best health care minds consider North Carolina's Medicaid program to be an important model and they aren't interested in helping to dismember it. The nation's best health care minds also aren't interested in coming to our state and spending time tearing apart care for low-income people as the legislature reduces services, limits eligibility, and slashes the budget. We are, in short, engaged in the opposite of innovation.
Rep. Dollar is a smart chap and likely realizes that his ACO bill isn't going anywhere as a piece of legislation. That means he will need to stick the proposal into the House budget to give it a fighting chance. Hence, the showdown mentioned in the title of this post.
Certainly the House is moving in a better direction. But it's a good time to reflect that Virginia is having its own budget battle over Medicaid right now. Except instead of fighting over how to fiddle with (or blow up) a program that is working, Virginia's leaders are having a serious discussion about using federal funds to expand Medicaid coverage to 400,000 people. If that happens it means that our tax dollars will help boost Virginia's economy, bolster its rural hospitals, and support its citizens.
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Firstly, thanks to April for hosting me on her blog today and giving me a chance to talk about The Vampire's Concubine serial. This blog tour is to celebrate the release of the second book in this serial, Rage, and there is a chance to win this, and the first book in the serial, An Amusement, at the link below. But, before we get to that, I hope I'm going to be able to give you some insights into the books in the serial, where I'm planning on taking my readers and why I started out on this short-story journey.
I've been writing since I was very young. My primary school (4-11yr olds) teachers, when giving out creative writing assignments, used to have to brace themselves for not the hundred to two hundred words that they were used to from most pupils, but pages and pages of (rambling) fiction – I must have been a royal pain to grade. I wrote my first 'novel' at 11, and please note, I have placed the word in quotes due to my wish that that little piece of 'art' never ever see the light of day again. 🙂 As well as original fiction, I also used to dabble in the odd piece of fanfiction before I actually knew what fanfiction was. It wasn't until I discovered the internet in the early 90's that I realised other people did the same thing and then there was no stopping me – so I cut my writing teeth first in the Highlander fandom, and then Harry Potter, shifting my way from gen to het and finally to slash/femslash fanfiction.
I have also kept going with my own original fiction, but until three years ago, I had not made the move to publishing it. I'd thought about it, ever since that first 'novel', but until the possibilities of eBooks came along, it had been an elusive dream. Now, thanks to the opportunities offered by the likes of Amazon and Smashwords, I run my own publishing company, Wittegen Press, with my twin sister, Tasha.
I write and publish a number of different genres: fantasy, science fiction, paranormal, horror, young adult, and, of course, erotic romance. The Vampire's Concubine is a combination of two of those genres, a paranormal erotic romance. This short story serial is set, unsurprisingly by the title, in a paranormal world where demons and vampires are real and my two leads are, by the end of the first story, both vampires. Hieron, Vampire Lord of Harkham, is ruthless, powerful and master of all he surveys. A stranger arrives and offers him 99 years of absolute service in exchange for becoming a vampire. Bargain agreed, that stranger, unnamed and without a past, becomes Umi, Hieron's slave and one of his concubines. Thus, must master and slave become bound in a relationship based on obedience and secrets.
I've always loved stories with magic, or supernatural aspects, since I grew up reading fairy tales and ghost stories and so it was just a natural progression for me to weave that into my erotic romances. I tend to call them erotic romances, because, for me, the relationship should always come first, however hot the sex is intended to be :). Anyone who's read An Amusement, or Rage, may wonder how I can make that statement, because these two books are set very close together at the beginning of the relationship between Hieron and Umi, and that relationship is antagonistic, to say the least. At the moment, all is very black and white; Hieron is the master, Umi is his slave. I can promise, though, as the overall story develops, not all will remain so clearcut.
I have had the idea for the arc behind The Vampire's Concubine for sometime, but each time I thought about it, it didn't feel like a single story, and nor could I mentally break it down into two, or three books. Mainly, this I think, is because the arc traverses a century and the continuity breaks in the overall story meant I couldn't convince myself of the unbroken unity of the individual pieces. So, as I developed it, I began to consider that maybe it wasn't a few longer books, but a collection of shorter stories, beginning with a cluster at the beginning of the arc. The time between the interludes then widens until reaching the end of the arc where they will cluster again in a nail-biting conclusion.
Some people might ask, 'Why erotica, why not just make it a paranormal fantasy adventure?' And there are many answers to that, but I'll be brief. 🙂 I like writing erotica, I like exploring stories where the relationship is central to the plot, and, being frank, I also enjoy writing the sex. I have a penchant for adding a power differential to the erotic stories I write too, but that's another post for later on this blog tour. ;P
So, I have much planned for Hieron and Umi: Umi must learn to live in Hieron's world of court and politics, while Hieron has to deal with the fact that he doesn't know, and may never know everything about his mysteriously fascinating slave. And then there is the question of what will happen at the end of those 99 years – who was Umi before he appeared in Hieron's rooms and why has he made this bargain of servitude? All will be answered at the conclusion to The Vampire's Concubine serial.
Rage picks up the story immediately after An Amusement, where Umi has become a vampire and Hieron's slave. The story is seen through the eyes of Yan, Hieron's favourite concubine and therefore Umi's rival. Still, Yan finds that survival is more important than rivalry when Umi, apparently by merely existing, draws down Hieron's wrath on the lord's entire household. A solution must be found before someone dies.
Thus the saga continues as Hieron discovers more about Umi and Umi learns what it means to be at the mercy of his unpredictable master. The third story, Dark of Mind, is in development and I hope readers will find it and all the short stories in The Vampire's Concubine engaging, exciting and sexy.
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Sophie Duncan is a UK author of genre fiction with Wittegen Press. She has been writing since she was a child and has been sharing her work with others since she discovered the internet in the 1990's. She has published original works in many genres, from contemporary fantasy, through crime and mystery drama, to erotic romance. All of her published books can be found listed at her author page on the Wittegen Press website.
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When, Hieron, vampire lord of Harkham, is approached by a mysterious young stranger, he finds himself tempted by the bargain his bold visitor makes: ninety nine years of absolute service in return for vampire power. With no name and no explanation of the reasons behind the offer, the attractive enigma becomes Umi, Hieron's slave, concubine and vampire childe.
Yet, from the very first moments the bargain is sealed, Hieron discovers his concubine to be an erotic and obsessively maddening challenge.
The Vampire's Concubine is an erotic romance told in short-story episodes.
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The bargain has been sealed, Umi is now a vampire and belongs to Hieron as his concubine. Yet, Hieron cannot reconcile himself to the secrecy behind his new slave, it makes him dangerously angry and the vampire lord lives up to his warning to Umi that he will be cruel.
Hieron's demands weigh heavily on Umi, who, it seems, cannot please his master. As Hieron's rage grows, Umi's time is running out. Desperately, he searches to find the key to salving Hieron's fury before the beast within his sire rises to destroy him.
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Hieron, vampire lord of Harkham, is unaccustomed to visitors in his private bedchamber unless he has expressly invited them. Such an unsolicited intrusion should mean the interloper's death, but Hieron finds himself unusually fascinated by the stranger who appears before him unbidden. Offering no name and no explanation of his reasons, the young man offers ninety nine years of absolute service in exchange for the gift of vampire power.
Amused and aroused, Hieron agrees to the bargain, names his enigma, Umi and decides he will become his newest concubine. The only thing left is to seal the deal in a bond of sex and supernatural power.
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COMING SOON – Dark of Mind – The Vampire's Concubine #3
Umi is no normal concubine. His master's gift of vampirism notwithstanding, there is much more to him than the Lord of Harkham has yet discovered. Hieron is no longer angry with Umi's secrets, but he remains intrigued and, demon-owned twice over Umi maybe, but it is his mind that interests Hieron the most.
Under Yan's tutelage, Umi is discovering the rites and skills to being a concubine, and Hieron is master when it comes to the night in his newest concubine's veins, mostly. That bond holds a limit that Hieron has never experienced before: his childe has resisted the most intimate of contacts, that of the mind to mind control that normally lies within a sire's remit.
There is power in his childe, power not of the vampire's giving and, before Heiron is ready to deliver Umi to the harem, he means to discover it.


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I love Hanser Alberto. He is a the type of glue guy the Giants have used and won championships with. For some reason the SF Giants keep finding guys to play in their infield who come up clutch. I will be interested to see how Banny uses him. He showed me in the playoffs last year he has the stuff to play in high pressure situations.
Jason, this summer teams will have a ton of cash floating around and if Parsons can finish the year healthy I would be surprised if he didn't opt out and try to get as much as he can. NBA players have a short window and I don't blame any player for trying to secure his future with more guaranteed dollars.
I hope the Mavericks keep Justin Anderson around. I hated to see Jae Crowder leave in that Rajon Rondo trade. Boston made out like bandits. Anderson just needs minutes. The NBA game is an adjustment from ACC hoops but he is a smart kid and they seem to like him. Cunningham from OSU was a player I thought they overvalued from Day 1.
The ALCS championship clincher over NY was my favorite memory of the Rangers. I was so happy for Wash, Michael Young and a lot of the people who were apart that incredible run. I knew Jon Daniels since he was the asst. GM to John Hart and I also believed he could put together a great team.
The Rangers don't have a lot of money so they couldn't do too much in terms of making moves. Sometimes the best moves can come at the trade deadline. Here is what you should hope for, not a trade or a big signing, hope the pitching staff comes out of Spring Training healthy.
That last thing Jerry Jones needs to do is trade that #4 pick for "value". Stay at 4 and take a QB. Tony Romo won't play forever. Take a guy and develop him. They had no plan for life after Troy Aikman so Jerry Jones hit the panic button and over-drafted Quincy Carter. This time, the Cowboys can do this right like the Packers did with Aaron Rodgers and the Oilers/Titans did with Steve McNair.
Amanda, I will disagree with you on Gavin Escobar. The guy has not been given enough opportunities. The club did the same thing with Martellus Bennett. Marty B went to the Giants and Bears and showed how the Cowboys were wrong in how they used him. I bet Bill Belichick and Tom Brady could get some serious production from Escobar.
I thought Byron Jones did an excellent job trying to master safety and corner as a rookie. The Cowboys draft will tell us where they ultimately do with Jones in 2016. Orlando Scandrick will be back at corner, draft a rookie to go to the other corner and put Jones at safety. That is what I'd do if I were the GM. You must have good safety play in this passing league


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Vocabulary Word
Word: prehensile
Definition: capable of grasping or holding (esp. by wrapping around); Ex. prehensile tails
Definition: capable of grasping or holding (esp. by wrapping around); Ex. prehensile tails
Sentences Containing 'prehensile'
This is the case with the male Ibla, and in a truly extraordinary manner with the Proteolepas: for the carapace in all other cirripedes consists of the three highly important anterior segments of the head enormously developed, and furnished with great nerves and muscles; but in the parasitic and protected Proteolepas, the whole anterior part of the head is reduced to the merest rudiment attached to the bases of the prehensile antennae.
We shall, also, presently see that the tail is a highly useful prehensile organ to some of the species; and its use would be much influence by its length.
The extremity of the tail in some American monkeys has been converted into a wonderfully perfect prehensile organ, and serves as a fifth hand.
If the harvest mouse had been more strictly arboreal, it would perhaps have had its tail rendered structurally prehensile, as is the case with some members of the same order.
It is, however, possible that the long tail of this monkey may be of more service to it as a balancing organ in making its prodigious leaps, than as a prehensile organ.
It is generally admitted that the ordinary spines serve as a protection; and if so, there can be no reason to doubt that those furnished with serrated and movable branches likewise serve for the same purpose; and they would thus serve still more effectively as soon as by meeting together they acted as a prehensile or snapping apparatus.
On the other hand, the transportal of the lower eye of a flat-fish to the upper side of the head, and the formation of a prehensile tail, may be attributed almost wholly to continued use, together with inheritance.
When this is completed they are fixed for life: their legs are now converted into prehensile organs; they again obtain a well-constructed mouth; but they have no antennae, and their two eyes are now reconverted into a minute, single, simple eye-spot.
Had this tail any prehensile power, I should straightway bethink me of Darmonodes' elephant that so frequented the flower-market, and with low salutations presented nosegays to damsels, and then caressed their zones.
On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not possess this prehensile virtue in his tail; for I have heard of yet another elephant, that when wounded in the fight, curved round his trunk and extracted the dart.
Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene.They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat, with a long snout and prehensile tail.
It is found in Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, Grenada, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Robinson's mouse opossums move along tree branches and vines with the help of a prehensile tail and may leap between gaps as they search for fruit and insects.
The black facial mask is always present but varies in size according to the region of that individual. It possesses a prehensile tail about 1.3 times its body length, which is covered in fine white hairs.
The tail is prehensile, and thickly furred at the base, which may be widened by fat stores beneath the skin.
However, many more animals in South America have prehensile tails than in Africa and Southeast Asia.
In dense forest there is not room to glide, but a prehensile tail is very useful for moving from tree to tree.
Curiously, Australia contains many mammals with prehensile tails and also many mammals which can glide; in fact, all Australian mammalian gliders have tails that are prehensile to an extent.
Gracile mouse opossums, excluding the fat-tailed mouse opposum, in general, have a prehensile tail that is thin and really long.
Legion is shown to be inhabited by thousands of personalities, each with its own superhuman power, some of which have manifest physically in such manners as lycanthropy and a prehensile tongue.
They are skillful climbers and can cross large distances in trees by jumping, using their non-prehensile tails to aid in balancing.
The Wonder Twins have a pet Space Monkey called Gleek who had a useful prehensile tail and who could act as a conduit for the twins to activate their powers should they be out of reach.
Each foot has five digits and the big toe on the hindfoot is opposable, which, along with its prehensile tail, makes Anderson's mouse opossums well adapted for a life in the trees.
Graboids have a trio of long, powerful, serpent-like tentacles, which are prehensile and have a reach of at least . Each of these tentacles (which have been loosely compared to functioning like the creature's tongue) terminates in a toothed mouth of its own.
The graboid's common name is derived from these prehensile tentacles, which "grab" prey and suck it back down the graboid's hungry gullet.
Graboids have a trio of long, powerful, snake-like tentacles, which are prehensile and have a reach of at least ten feet.


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Golf Driving Tips: Teeing off with the Driver
Finally, a word on how to devote a few minutes on the practice tee to developing a preshot routine that will equip you to play your best golf out on the course for real (where the last thing you want to be thinking about is swing technique).
The secret is to first stand back and visualise the shot you want to hit and then follow a disciplined routine that gets you all set to repeat the swing you have honed on the range. A trick that has worked very well with many of the players I coach with is to imagine a white line painted on the tee behind the ball, the idea being that you use this line as an interface, a way of triggering and balancing out the left and right side of your brain as you go through the process of hitting the shot.
Essentially, the analysis is a left brain activity, and that's the bit that takes place behind the line as you weigh up the shot in hand. As you step over the line, you engage the right side of the brain, the instinctive, creative part, to play your best golf.
Standing behind that line you take a good look at the shot you are about to play and get a `visual' in your mind. Jack Nicklaus used to describe this as `going to the movies' on the shot, and that's a nice way to think about it. Get the video in your head, make a full rehearsal swing, engage your target and then, once you are ready, move in to the ball. As you cross that line you are in automatic play mode, and you should execute the shot without further delay. See it, and hit it!
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Refer to your `upclose' target line marker in the final seconds before you pull the trigger. `See' the shot you want to hit and fix your sights on a close target to help with your alignment. Draw your right foot back to create a severely closed stance; i.e. a line across your feet aims well to the right of your target.
As left side clears you can enjoy returning the club along the desired inside path back to the ball. Commit to releasing the right side through the ball to impart right to left drawspin on the ball. Encourage your swing to follow your toe line as you work the clubhead away from the ball. The club shaft should match your toeline at the top (i.e. it is `across' the ball to target line).
If you make a practice swing, make it a real practice swing, and hold your finish. Stand back to get a feel for the shot you intend to play. Cross the imaginary line into `play mode', and let your instincts take over Switch to auto pilot and play the shot for real, 100 % focused on your target.
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Can you believe it's almost December already? Get ready to count down to Christmas with a Personalized Nativity Advent Calendar!
My sister made this for my little brother who is on a 2 year mission in Brazil and I loved it so much that she's letting me share the idea with all of you 🙂
If you already have pictures of your family acting out the nativity that you could use those or you could get creative with photoshop like my sister did. Put up one piece each day until Christmas!
For the manger she used a photo of our family's cabin and the family dog filled in for a few of the animals
My parents got to be Mary and Joseph. Do you recognize the angel and baby Jesus?
The 3 sisters got to be shepherds. I'm on the left 🙂
The boys got to be wisemen
And just to make my little brother's day he gets to be a man carrying eggs. When he was little he always swapped out the "egg lady" in our nativity set with Mary and insisted that's how it should be set up 🙂
Merry Christmas!
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Flint Hill suspect arrested seven times since 2008
Randy Lynn Smoot, charged in the death of Jonas "Jay" Alther, was arraigned in Rappahannock County District Court last Thursday, October 26. The arraignment was held by video conference from the Rappahannock Shenandoah Warren Regional Jail in Front Royal, where Smoot is being held without bond.
Rappahannock County Sheriff's investigator James Jones charged the 47-year-old Flint Hill resident with aggravated malicious wounding after Smoot allegedly assaulted Alther with a heavy object, believed to be an industrial flashlight.
According to Sheriff Connie Compton, when the RCSO responded on October 19 to a call for a welfare check at Alther's house a few minutes' drive from the town of Washington, "Mr. Alther was unconscious, unresponsive and appeared to have sustained an injury to the head. Mr. Alther was treated by EMS and transported to Inova Fairfax hospital, where [he] remained hospitalized through the weekend."
He later succumbed to his injuries.
That same day, Smoot was also charged with first-degree murder. He has retained Warrenton attorney Mark Williams and will appear in court for a preliminary hearing on December 19.
A check of court records shows that Smoot has been charged seven other times on various misdemeanors and felonies since 2008. Several charges were dismissed or dropped. Others resulted in convictions after plea bargaining.
Two charges were amended down, including a 2012 charge of a third incidence of DWI in five to 10 years. That felony charge was certified to the grand jury. In March of 2013, he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of a second incidence of DWI in five years, also a felony.
He was sentenced to 12 months in jail, with seven months suspended, and one year of unsupervised probation. His driver's license was suspended for three years and he was ordered to attend Virginia's alcohol awareness program.


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Compass is preparing its Startup Ecosystem Report for 2015 and has asked us to help them spread the word!
It will succeed the Startup Ecosystem Report 2012 and again provide a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the world's 20 most important startup ecosystems. As part of the startup community it's essential that you help answer the 15 minute survey so that your Ecosystem is properly represented. We have done a lot to help entrepreneurs in our community and build up the startup ecosystems and connect them with each other.
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Hello Kitty Cat friends! Today we usher in a new TCPTUES Challenge, and this week its a colour challenge issued to us by Nancy with these great colours.
When I saw the little sunburst in the new Country Fair CutUps dies I had a burst of inspiration to pair the sun with our Stitched Cloud CutUps dies and a beautiful heartfelt sentiment from the new Simply Stacked Sentiments set. I really wanted it to have the feeling of a watercoloured sky so I used some deep blue reinker in the background on watercolor paper and let it smear around, adding a little salt to the pooling color to give it this abstract effect.
I really like this sentiment set because it also includes pretty flourishes so you can really anchor or highlight your sentiment. I embossed it over the watercoloring once it was completely dry.
Now for some more fun....I have a design I made as a sample for another Dare to Get Dirty Challenge today, this one is for Stamper Robin...not our colours for this challenge, but new for the SCS DTGD Challenges today.
It's a pop up design made with TCP's new Pop Up Cutable, and it has a squishy fishy surprise inside...
Here's the simple PopUp design from the outside, I used the Simply Stacked Sentiments set on the outside of the design as well for this one and coloured in the letters with Copics, accenting with a couple of enamel dots and some wild wavy dp to really give it that waves theme.
Then once you open the design by pulling the ribbon tab....
Up pops this fun under the sea design using our new Seas the Birthday Set. So cute! I coloured these fun party seahorses and the octopus with Copics in some cool colours with a soft oceany background.
Here's a view from the top of the pop up design.
And here's a closeup of Mr. Octopus and the birthday sentiment. I love how it turned out. :)
Here's the Copics I used for this design as well.
Now I hope you can pop on over to see the rest of the Cat Pack showing off their colour inspired designs....
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A welcome alternative from Bayang Barrios
In a world reeling from the vocal histrionics of singing contests winners and their equally soaring idols, the music of Bayang Barrios is a welcome alternative. Intense and full-bodied, her singing never fails to mesmerize and she uses that remarkable voice to provide advice to the youth facing a darkening future and to give vent to her concern for nature, the welfare of indigenous peoples and other worthy causes.
Such themes are what we usually find in the modern folk recordings by Filipino talents. There was a time many years ago when folk was the hot music of the moment and Freddie Aguilar, Asin and Joey Ayala's Bagong Lumad of which Bayang was a member, were the leading artists. Unfortunately, the genre has since gone out of favor. This past decade has seen folk relegated to the backseat in favor of trendier and whatever is now considered more commercial stuff.
Thankfully, Bayang Barrios refuses to be cowed by this development. She bravely plods on, undaunted by the competition and the supposed demands of the market.
Alon, her latest album and second indie release, showcases the unique blend of folk and rock that has always been associated with her. Indie is showbiz slang for independent and it means that promo-wise Bayang this time around does not have the backing of a major record label.
I am glad to say though that this situation has not in any way affected the integrity of her music and her determination to come up with a high-quality recording. Alon is well-produced with meaningful songs straddling that interesting line between folk and jazz. Each of these is presented with well-thought out and mostly innovative arrangements that surprise, gladden and in some cases, also agitate.
Most familiar among these is Malayo Man, Malapit Din, the song composed by Bayang herself that won the Grand Prize at the Metropop songwriting competition two years ago. Most prominent is Alon, a breezy tune about hurrying through the day and winding down in the evening. Written and arranged by Bayang's husband, Mike Villegas, it anchors the package as the first and last cuts.
The most beautiful among them is Halik sa Hangin, a bittersweet lament about a lost love sang to the moon and the wind. Most haunting is Buhi Sa Kanunay, a traditional Visayan love song that has Bayang's vocals at its best. But the most interesting of them all is Asa Ka ng Asa, another Bayang composition arranged here as a multi-layered reggae tune. This is the kind that makes you wonder why nobody has taken any notice of Filipino talents as potential World Music stars.
Other songs are Asya, Sa Piling Mo, Matagal Mo Nang Mundo, Isipin Mo Nalang, Nag-iisang Mundo and Naglalakbay.


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If you live in Cameroon, here is how you should proceed
To install the game, please follow the game activation procedure described in the installation guide below installation guide below
If you want to buy the DVD of the first Cameroonian video game "Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan", they are available in Douala at the points of sale listed below:
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Cameroon's first ever video games, Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan, features an African hero, and is part of a growing video games industry across Africa.
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Kiro'o, and the ascendent African game industry as a whole, is an important part of a blooming tech startup culture, driven by young people.
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Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan, A Video Game that transports players to a different kind of Africa.
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Aurion design and feel are unmistakably fresh, offering a bold color palette and interesting unit designs.
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Aurion is a fast-paced brawler that gives you access to loads of fantastical combos with which you defeat your enemies.
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Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan has deep, intricate combat for a game whose story focuses on togetherness and community.
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Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan is an incredibly interesting game...The closest comparisons I can make are the very different games Dust: An Elysian Tail and Dusty Revenge, who all have a similar flow to their combat.
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As with Never Alone, it's great to have more games teaching about unfamiliar cultures.
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Not sure too many guys are regulars on SML, but hopefully someone will chime in
Heading to SML next week for some fun Bass fishing. What's the water Temperature, What are Bass biting on....Have they moved onto their beds. Where is the most productive spawning areas? Catch and release for me.....Thanks
Not sure too many guys are regulars on SML, but hopefully someone will chime in
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Seems to be pretty active and some good info regarding SML
You'll find fish heavily in the spawn phase. May even find a few that are already done. The link to the SML site given above by Sylvan has a ton of info on it. Everything you need/want to know is there.


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The Rush: Did This Really Need to Be Said About Kate Upton?
Justin Verlander has a lot going for him these days. In 2017 he took in $28 million dollars for his services, and this year, at age 35, he's still pitching like a beast. In fact, his 2.19 ERA is the lowest of his career. He's also married to Kate Upton, which is probably the accomplishment he most proud of on his Wikipedia.
Life hasn't always been so sunny for the Astros ace though. In an interview with Bleacher Report published Thursday, the Astros ace opened up about a deep depression that overwhelmed him in 2014 when he thought he was facing a career-ending injury.
Eventually, he got healthy again and shook the depression. How, you ask? Simply by being with Upton. "She was instrumental in me not …like, jumping off a bridge," he revealed to Bleacher Report.
Any way you try to phrase this 'revelation' – 'Millionaire Adored by Kate Upton is No Longer Depressed' – just seems like an insult to the rest of us, doesn't it?


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A woman fell and broke her leg at Pirates Cove in Corona del Mar, police said Tuesday.
Police received an emergency call at 10:05 p.m. Monday about a woman who had fallen on the rocks at the beach, Newport Beach Police Sgt. Steve Burdette said. The woman, who was accompanied by a man, was taken to Hoag Hospital.
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I tend to throw mine at the wall at the back of the garden...ReplyDelete
I find the slugs are far worse though and living with a garden full of stone it's like a slug hotel out there!
I probably should not laugh but the idea that you chuck snails over to the neighbors is hilarious.ReplyDelete
For some reason they seem less disgusting than slugs, maybe it's the shell...so handy for picking them up.ReplyDelete
We do not have damaging snails here, but we do have slugs, which I hate. Tossing them into the pond for the koi to eat gives me thrill I never tire of.ReplyDelete
I am quite fond of them although my garden is inundated by molluscs ~ fascinated by the idea of being able to carry your home on your back :)ReplyDelete
We have tightrope walking snails. You find them trampolining on the nets over the brassicas. I guess you are not the only gastropod chucker.


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When it comes to speed, few names resonate like Hennessey Performance. From tuned Corvettes to the 270-mph Venom GT, this Texas firm has done it all.
Yet it's easy to build a fast car, or make a fast car faster. Making a slow car go fast? Now that's a challenge.
The 2015 Cadillac Escalade is definitely not a fast car, but Hennessey decided to change that. Its HPE550 Supercharged upgrade gives this full-size SUV a bit more muscle.
As the name advertises, the HPE550 package applies a supercharger to the Escalade's 6.2-liter V8, along with an intercooler and tweaked engine-management software. The result is 557 horsepower and 542 pound-feet of torque, up from 420 hp and 460 lb-ft in the stock Escalade.
An Escalade already stands out from the crowd in stock form, but Hennessey will also add its own H10 20-inch wheels for some added visual punch. There's also plenty of Hennessey badging, to show Mercedes-Benz GL63 AMG and Range Rover drivers why they lost that stoplight drag race.
The HPE550 Supercharged upgrade costs $15,950 – including installation – on top of the price of a new 2015 Escalade. The wheels are an extra $6,950.
While the HPE550 Escalade will probably be the most blinged-out performance vehicle on any block, Hennessey will also install the package on other GM trucks equipped with the 6.2-liter V8.
Those looking for a more subtle ride can choose a 2015 GMC Yukon Denali, or 2014-2015 Chevrolet Silverado or GMC Sierra pickup.


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Cloud Security Alliance Releases Guidance Version 3
Third Version of Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus In Cloud Computing Seeks to Establish a Stable, Secure Baseline for Cloud Operations
Orlando, FL – Nov 16, 2011 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) today unveiled the third version of its Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing. This effort provides a practical, actionable road map to managers wanting to adopt the cloud paradigm safely and securely. Key updates in Version Three include: * The domains have been rewritten to emphasize security, stability and privacy, ensuring corporate privacy in a multi-tenant environment. * The guidance assumes a structural maturity in parallel with multinational cloud standards development in both structure and content. * The extension of content included in previous versions, with practical recommendations and requirements that can be measured and audited. * The addition of Domain 14 – Security as a Service "Cloud technologies and the adoption of cloud-based computing and standards has grown tremendously in the two years since the publication of our previous version of the Guidance," said Archie Reed, one of the three editors of the Guidance. "The thinking on cloud, the tools, and the techniques has evolved significantly, and Version 3 provides the latest best practices to meet today's challenges while demystifying the concept of cloud services." "Version 3 of the Guidance aims to provide a single, comprehensive, C-level, set of best practices that deliver a stable, secure baseline for cloud operations," said Paul Simmonds, another of the editors. "It serves as a practical, actionable road map for managers, and aims to be the most technologically comprehensive document for those in the trenches of cloud adoption." "This version of the Guidance builds upon the great work of contributors to our numerous other projects," said Chris Rezek, the third editor. "It incorporates lessons learned from the CSA GRC Stack and Trusted Cloud Initiative, and the various CSA activities, to emphasize the needs for security, stability and privacy in the cloud." "I want to thank each and every one of our contributors, as well as our amazing editors, for their transformational work on this version of the Guidance," said Jim Reavis, co-founder and executive director of the CSA. "This is a significant overhaul of a huge body of work, needed to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of cloud technologies and challenges. We are proud to continue to provide the industry's definitive body of work for practitioners looking to leverage cloud computing as part of a secure, stable environment." The original version of the guidance was released in April 2009, and Version 2.1 was released in January 2010.
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What is Retail Property?
Retail property is similar to office property. Retail property can also be rented out to a business for the services which they provide. An example of this would be Retail space in a shopping centre. You would then offer this space for rent. Businesses would sign a lease to rent your space for an agreed amount of time. Allot of agreements see rent costs waved for the first three months to entice businesses to rent the space. Although businesses will usually take long term leases due to the cost of setting up a shop front, and the location would be known to all their regular clientele.
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AJ Crimson served as the makeup sponsor to several shows this season and I was able to get a sneak peek of his new dual foundation which debuted during fashion week.
The foundation is buildable and offers sheer to full coverage. Crimson indicted that he created the colors for the dual foundation from dark to light so there is definitely something in the wide range of hues for brown girls. I had a chance to catch up with the makeup guru backstage at Harbison where I swatched his new banana cream which is perfect for creating highlight and contour. The biggest plus of the banana cream is that it goes on wet versus the powdery finish of other brands that can sometimes leave you looking ghostly.
The other exciting update from Crimson is that his foundation will be offered in a pro-palette which is a perfect addition to makeup artists kits.
The look backstage for Harbison was clean, natural lines with a pop of color on the lid. The goal essentially was to enhance the natural beauty versus an overly dramatic look.
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We were asked to provide a more colourful, modern, warm feel without losing the professional 'weight' that Castlegate has established over the years.
Our answer was to create a portcullis [a castle gate] of woven colour strips to represent the different services on offer. A literal interpretation of the name realised in a fairly abstract way.
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Defra has previously told us that the UK will continue to participate in the existing EU school milk scheme, which will continue to run until 31 July 2017, but that it is too early to provide answers on the revised EU School Milk Scheme which is due to be implemented in September 2017. Now that some time has passed since the outcome of the EU referendum, we are in the process of setting up a meeting with Defra to find out more about their plans for the future of the European School Milk Scheme, as well as pushing them on a UK funded replacement.
We submitted a comment piece to EDUcatering magazine, which will hopefully be published in the back-to- school issue in September. This covers a number of topics around school food, including the European School Milk Scheme, and argues that the UK Government must set up a replacement scheme. Other topics covered include the Eatwell Guide and the School Food Standards.
We also sent information to the National Farmers Union with a view to them including an article in a future edition of their consumer magazine Countryside.
We have also continued to keep in touch with the European Commission to find out when a formal consultation will be launched the on the implementing acts which will set out further details on the revised EU School Milk Scheme, including the accompanying educational measures.
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Advantages Of Team Building Activities in Delhi
When you hear the term team building, the only thing that comes in your mind is, it might be something which is done to build a good bonding between team mates. You are right, it involves some activities which helps improving the same. It serves as a way to improve your bonding and enhances the growth of the company. It is all about appreciating, understanding, maximizing, and developing in every way. The more often it is conducted the more positivity you get from it. It helps bringing about lots of positivity in the team, and thus the team remains motivated and happy. Attend the Team Building Training in Delhi and brush up your working capabilities.
For any business or profession team building is very important and it helps boosting up the performance of the team members. As we have already reached mid of this year, it is high time that we should boost up the work culture in our organization. For this you need to undertake a corporate team building activities.
Listed Below Are Some Advantages Of Team Building Activities in Delhi:
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- Leadership- Every team needs to have one team leader to manage the entire team. During the team building activity each of the team member gets a chance to bring out the leadership quality in them. This is one such quality which is a must to lead all the team members.
- Fun- This particular benefit of team building activity is often overlooked. At times having fun activity at work place is a must, without it a person completely becomes dull and lazy. It helps refreshing your mind. Great results could be achieved when somebody is working with a fresh mind.
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Last week, I mentioned in passing that new Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) had appointed Ohio's first all-white cabinet since 1962.
I let it go at that because it's simply absurd and I presumed that Gov. Kasich (R) would correct his mistake if not because it's right, then because it's good politics. Unfortunately for all Ohioans, I gave the governor too much credit.
What Mr. Kasich (R) should have done when the lack of minority leadership was brought to his attention is recognize that diversity in leadership is just plain good business and then promptly correct himself. Instead, Ohio State Senator Nina Turner (D) of the Cleveland area reports that when she offered to assist him in finding good candidates of color, he replied with an astonishing "I don't need your people." (Via Plunderbund, via Ohio Capitol Blog)
Gov. Kasich's office has confirmed this quote, by the way, but claim that he was referring to political party rather than race.
I want to believe that Gov. Kasich (R) meant that he didn't need Democrats and not African Americans. I really do. But after his press secretary told me less than a week before that discriminating against trans people is "appropriate," I'm not sure I can. If he finds discrimination against one group "appropriate," why should I believe that he finds discrimination against another group inappropriate?
And even if he meant Democrats, saying "I don't need [Democrats]" is a bizarre statement to make at the beginning of his term. More importantly, it doesn't match his public rhetoric of bringing all Ohioans together. Does he really mean to suggest that Democrats aren't welcome in the Ohio government? In some ways, this explanation is just as bad as the most obvious one!
So either Gov. Kasich (R) is racist or he wants to nullify the votes of many Ohioans who are more progressive and sent Democrats to Columbus.
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Here we go again. This is the 8th year for the Bead Soup Blog Party and my second year. I hesitated before I filled in my info as I wasn't sure I wanted to take on the commitment. But for goodness sakes, why not? It stretches me, gives me design ideas, makes me work to a deadline, use colours out of my comfort zone. All good stuff. And on top of all this I get to meet a whole range of seed bead weavers and learn stuff.
Am now looking forward to finding out who my partner is, and sorting through my boxes (and boxes, and boxes……!) of goodies to put together a soup mix to send.


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Is Facebook Really Over?
According to some reports in the media, teens are deserting Facebook to engage with their friends elsewhere, such as in Snapchat or Whatsapp. Does this signal the beginning of the end for Facebook or is this just a grievous misunderstanding?
Facebook's Phone
Henry Blodget at Business Insider has written a post about how Facebook's forey into a mobile phone would be a disaster. If Facebook is serious about jumping into making smartphones with both feet this time, Facebook investors should be very afraid. I tend to agree with Henry. There are so many elements that make a mobile phone platform attractive, that it's so ...
The Change of Titans: Facebook's 'Microsoft Patent Purchase
Five years ago, if you said that Facebook would pay Microsoft over half a billion dollars for patents, no one would have believed you. It shows how the power in the tech world is moving from web 1.0 to web 2.0 companies. That Microsoft decided that the monetary value today of their patents was worth more than future potential revenues shows where they think their ...
What Facebook will do with Instagram
Facebook's purchase of Instagram is certainly a great accomplishment for the guys behind this application. Their business model of building audience rather than profits has certainly paid off for them. The big question now, is what is Facebook going to do with Instagram? Here are 5 outcomes that we believe may happen:- 1.Do nothing - they can continue to let ...


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Gearing up for our official, real, final, whatever you want to call it, LAUNCH on Friday, September 24th from Sodbusters RC Airfield in Lake Elmo, MN.
Again, the details are as follows:
Launch Date: Friday, September 24th
Launch Time: 11:30am CST for Balloon/Payload Prep, 12:00pm CST for Let Go
Launch Location: Sodbusters RC Airfield, Lake Elmo, MN
Estimated Recovery Time: 3:00-4:00pm CST
Estimated Recovery Location: Southeast of Eau Claire, WI
Anyone and Everyone is invited to come watch the launch. We're excited as all get out!
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Jim Larkin and Michale Lacey Bring Attention to Civil Rights
Civil rights are important in the United States. People who don't have civil rights won't be able to have positive lives and they may not even be able to get the experiences that others are based on factors that shouldn't even be a part of the things that they are doing in different situations.
While these are major issues in the way that things are done, there are some groups that can come together and help people out with the issues. Read more: Village Voice Media | Wikipedia and Phoenix New Time
The civil rights support groups are able to make things better for people and can provide them with all of the help that they need to improve the way that things are done and give people exactly what they are looking for no matter what is going on in the world around them.
It has made a huge difference for people who are in different situations and for people who want to make sure that they are getting the best experience possible even if they don't have the same type of civil rights.
Jim Larkin and Michale Lacey knew a lot about civil rights and they made sure that they were going to be able to help other people out with the same issues. They decided to create the Frontera Fund after they found out that things were not going to continue to be the same for people who were in different situations.
They tried to always do what they could to provide for civil rights and to give people the options that they needed to be successful. It was something that the men were confident in and something that they knew a lot about.
The Frontera Fund has been instrumental in bringing about civil rights and Jim Larkin and Michale Lacey know that they are going to be able to continue doing more for the people who are in bad situations.
They know that they want to be able to help and make a difference but they also know that they will need to make changes based on the areas that they are in. For that reason, they want to provide people with all of the chances that they have.
Since the Frontera Fund first started, it has grown a lot. The fund is able to help a lot of people and it is able to provide people with the options that they need to make things better. The Frontera Fund has grown and people are growing with it because of the way that things work.
Jim and Mike want to make sure that they can help each other and that they can get more from the fund so that they can try to bring change to the world they are a part of.


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The Detailed Qur'an
main aim of this site is to demonstrate that the Qur'an alone is all we need
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شَرَّ الدَّوَابَّ عِندَ اللّهِ الصُّمُّ الْبُكْمُ الَّذِينَ لاَ يَعْقِلُونَ
وَمَا يُؤْمِنُ أَكْثَرُهُم بِاللَّـهِ إِلَّا وَهُم مُّشْرِكُونَ
And most of them believe not in Allah except while they associate others with Him.
Qur'an 12:106
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IF My servants ask you about Me - behold, I am near; I respond to the call of him who calls, whenever he calls unto Me: let them, then, respond unto Me, and believe in Me, so that they might follow the right way
Our Lord! Grant us good in this world and good in the life to come and keep us safe from the torment of the Fire
Our Lord! Bestow on us endurance and make our foothold sure and give us help against those who reject faith.
Our Lord! Take us not to task if we forget or fall into error.
Our Lord! Lay not upon us such a burden as You did lay upon those before us.
Our Lord! Impose not on us that which we have not the strength to bear, grant us forgiveness and have mercy on us. You are our Protector. Help us against those who deny the truth.
Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate from the truth after You have guided us, and bestow upon us mercy from Your grace. Verily You are the Giver of bounties without measure.
Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and the lack of moderation in our doings, and make firm our steps and succour us against those who deny the truth.
Our Lord! Whomsoever You shall commit to the Fire, truly You have brought [him] to disgrace, and never will wrongdoers find any helpers
Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and efface our bad deeds and take our souls in the company of the righteous.
Our Lord! And grant us that which you have promised to us by Your messengers and save us from shame on the Day of Judgement. Verily You never fail to fulfil Your promise.
Our Lord! We have sinned against ourselves, and unless You grant us forgiveness and bestow Your mercy upon us, we shall most certainly be lost!
Our Lord! Place us not among the people who have been guilty of evildoing.
Our Lord! Lay open the truth between us and our people, for You are the best of all to lay open the truth.
Our Lord! Pour out on us patience and constancy, and make us die as those who have surrendered themselves unto You.
Our Lord! Make us not a trial for the evildoing folk, and save as by Your mercy from people who deny the truth
Our Lord! You truly know all that we may hide [in our hearts] as well as all that we bring into the open, for nothing whatever, be it on earth or in heaven, remains hidden from Allah
Our Lord! Bestow on us mercy from Your presence and dispose of our affairs for us in the right way.
Our Lord! Grant that our spouses and our offspring be a comfort to our eyes, and give us the grace to lead those who are conscious of You.
Our Lord! You embrace all things within Your Grace and Knowledge, forgive those who repent and follow Your path, and ward off from them the punishment of Hell.
Our Lord! Make them enter the Garden of Eden which You have promised to them, and to the righteous from among their fathers, their wives and their offspring, for verily You are alone the Almighty and the truly Wise.
Our Lord! Relieve us of the torment, for we do really believe.
Our Lord! Forgive us our sins as well as those of our brethren who proceeded us in faith and let not our hearts entertain any unworthy thoughts or feelings against [any of] those who have believed. Our Lord! You are indeed full of kindness and Most Merciful
Our Lord! In You we have placed our trust, and to You do we turn in repentance, for unto You is the end of all journeys.
Our Lord! Perfect our light for us and forgive us our sins, for verily You have power over all things.
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Bluetooth wi-fi networking is often a technologies www.networkselectronic.com which is sweeping the world and currently being integrated right into a wide selection of digital gadgets nowadays. The fundamental Bluetooth know-how was made within the mid 1990s and began for being observed in additional and a lot more pieces of apparatus toward the top with the 10 years.
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