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It's about to happen---very soon, one nation, and I'm speaking prophetically--if I've ever heard anything from God in my life, I heard it-the nations,...Very soon a European or North African or Eastern nation is going to default on it's international loan and when that happens, within two weeks, Mexico is going to default. Mexico owes $100 billion ---80% of it to American banks---and here's what is going to happen: about two weeks after the first country goes bankrupt, (we're going to survive that, because most of that (money of the first country) is owed to European banks---German, Swiss and French banks---) but a second country is going to go down, probably Argentina or Brazil, and we'll kind of live that down and say: "Well, maybe it's not going to hurt," but two weeks after the first country goes down, Mexico's going to default on $100 billion.
And when the banks open the next day at 9 in the morning, $15 billion an hour is going to be withdrawn from our American banks---they're going to be running our banks---the Arabs---All the Latin American countries, they're going to be running our banks--and before the day is over, the U.S.A is going to have to declare a "bank holiday."
And we're going into six monthes of the worst hell America has ever seen---there's going to be chaos---not even the National Guard's going to be able to quiet it down---we're going to have to call out the whole U.S. Army.
Now I've had visions recently, for I've been in New York City and I was in Macy's in a vision, and I saw people walking around stunned because they couldn't get their money out of the bank.
Now I'm going to give you a word of advice, the first country goes bankrupt---I've documented this and I've got it sealed in an envelope, and I'm going to call all my friends and I'm telling you---this is the first time I've said it in a public meeting like this---but the first country that bellies up, you go get every dime you have---church get your money out of the bank--because there's going to be a bank holiday and you won't be able to get a dime for six monthes. Now, of course, there's going to be -restored, but the nation will never be like it is again.
There's going to be fearlike we've never known---judgment at the door. When I was at Macy's Dept. store in a vision and I watched people walking around stunned, they didn't know what to do, they didn't know what was happening; then a bunch of people walked into Macy's and suddenly went wild and began to steal and within an hour everybody---I saw the spirit of everybody in the store---they were robbing and stealing---they raped Macy's and destroyed five floors---Macy's was raped and ruined in a period of an hour or two.
That's just the beginning. Folks it's all in this book ( the bible) ---we've been warned and warned and warned---you can't tell me God hasn't warned us. You can't tell me God isn't saying something awesome here tonight in this church...we better get our prayer life straightened up, our lives straightened up, get rid of the idols, as Paul writes, and seeking the face of God in holiness or you're not going to be ready for what's coming. God's warning get ready and you'll not fear these things that come onto you and you'll start rejoicing, you'll not be afraid because your hands will be clean. You've been praying and God's building a wall of fire around you to keep you."
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Asia's developing economies will pick up speed in 2013 but its recovery will remain fragile said the Asian Development Bank on Tuesday, citing vulnerability to external shocks and increasing geopolitical disputes as threats to growth.
The economies of developing Asia appear to have settled into a new growth path that will allow the region to expand by between 6 percent and 7 percent a year — a pace that is significantly slower than that seen before the global financial crisis, but represents a stable pattern that could last over the next decade.
"It looks like we're in a new trend," said Changyong Rhee, the chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, which on Tuesday released its new forecasts for emerging Asia.
The group of developing Asian nations covers 45 nations, which includes major emerging economies such as China, India and Indonesia.
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After relatively muted growth last year, when the region expanded by 6.1 percent, developing Asia is expected to pick up speed again with growth of 6.6 percent this year and 6.7 percent next year, according to the bank's projections.
But the bank warned that Asia remains vulnerable to shocks from around the world. Among them, it said, are the wrangling over the U.S. debt ceiling and the struggles to implement austerity measures in Europe.
Simmering border disputes, potential asset bubbles inflated by the monetary stimulus efforts of the world's developed economies, and the possible reversal of capital inflows once that monetary stimulus ends also represent risks to Asia.
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The ADB also issued a stark warning on Asia's rapidly growing energy demand. The region, according to the bank, is moving along a "dangerous unsustainable energy path" that "could result in environmental disaster" and increase Asia's dependence on oil from the Middle East.
It projects that Asia will account for over 50 percent of world energy consumption by 2035, up from 34 percent in 2010.
"With insufficient energy, developing Asia would need to scale back its growth ambitions," said the report, which recommended curbing general energy subsidies in favour of targeted ones, tapping cleaner energy sources such as wind, solar and biofuels, and integrating gas and electricity networks to create a regional market.
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The right to information is at the heart of CPJ's advocacy for press freedom, so we naturally support legislation granting that right, whether it is to journalists or ordinary citizens (or those in the expanding area between). But laws purporting to uphold the people's right to information are only as good as their implementation. Today, The Associated Press published an in-depth look at freedom-of-information laws around the world and the extent to which they are followed. During one week in January, the AP submitted requests to 105 countries with right-to-know laws and the European Union, the agency reported. Among its findings:
- Only 14 countries gave complete answers within their own deadlines. Another 38 countries eventually came up with data or answers to most of the AP's questions.
- Younger democracies were on average more responsive than older ones. "Guatemala confirmed the AP request in 72 hours, and sent all documents in 10 days. Turkey sent spreadsheets and data within seven days. Mexico posted responses on the Web. By comparison, Canada asked for a 200-day extension. The FBI in the United States responded six months late with a single sheet with four dates, two words and a large section blanked," the AP reported.
- More than half of the countries did not disclose any information, and three out of 10 did not even acknowledge the AP's request.
- Some countries adopted freedom-of-information laws as a condition for financing or membership in international groups, and the AP indicated this was little more than lip service. Noting that China changed its rules as a condition for joining the World Trade Organization in 2001 and Pakistan for $1.4 billion in aid from the International Monetary Fund in 2002, the AP said neither country responded to its request.
Many of these findings weren't surprising to CPJ, such as that China (one of the world's worst jailers of journalists) and Pakistan (where reporting the truth can risk a journalist's life) weren't forthcoming. Nor were we surprised that African governments were among the worst offenders or that the U.S. response came with the speed of a snail and was incomplete.
More interesting, perhaps, was the AP's description of Mexico: "Mexico's freedom of information law is often cited as a model. Requests can be anonymous. All responses are made public. The system acknowledges the request immediately, and full answers typically arrive within a month." At CPJ, we don't frequently write about Mexico with approval; 27 journalists have been killed there since 1992, most with impunity, and attacks on the press are a regular occurrence. Then again, the vast majority of journalists killed in Mexico were reporting not directly on government malfeasance but on drug trafficking and related crime; the cartels, alas, don't support the people's right to information.
So information, while usually liberating, can also be deadly. In its report, the AP highlighted the plight of an Indian man who said his successful right-to-know request into suspected corruption led to an attack by the local mayor, who allegedly killed the man's wife and permanently injured his father. "India was one of just 14 countries that replied to the AP's request in full and on time," the AP reported, but added that dozens of people in India had been attacked for using the law and at least 12 killed. It seems as if one not need be a journalist of any stripe to be endangered by knowledge.


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1 loaf French Bread (12-14 slices)
Drain peaches and reserve syrup. Heat sugar and butter on medium-low heat until melted. Add water and continue cooking until sauce becomes thick and foamy. Pour into 9 x 13″ baking dish and cool 10 minutes.
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Blueberry and Apple Loaf Cake
Blueberry and Apple Loaf Cake
125g chilled butter, diced, plus extra for greasing
225g self-raising flour
175g golden caster sugar
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
2-3tbsp milk
2 large eating apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
125g blueberries
2 tbsp apricot jam (I used marmalade)
Preheat the oven to 190oC/fan 170oC/gas 5. Grease a 900g loaf tin and line with baking paper or a paper loaf tin liner. Sieve the flour into a food processor with a pinch of salt and add the butter. Whizz until it resembles breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, eggs and milk and whiz again to make a smooth mixture. Pour half the cake mixture into the loaf tin, then scatter with half the apples and half the blueberries. Pour over the remaining cake mixture, then scatter with the remaining fruit. Bake for 1 hour, or until risen and firm. To test it, insert a skewer into the centre- it should come out clean. Put the apricot jam into a small bowl and microwave the jam on high for 20 seconds to melt. Brush the glaze over the cake as soon as it comes out of the oven. Cool for 10 minutes in the tin, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
13 comments:
- Ivy said...
Maria, this looks wonderful and so moist inside.
- 18 September 2008 at 16:18
- Oh my! Apple pie! said...
This looks so good, I love the fruit adorning the top of the cake, it looks so moist too.
- 18 September 2008 at 16:22
- Finla said...
Your hubby is a lucky man to come home to such a delicious home made cake.
I have bookmarked this to make it.
Have a lovely weekend
- 18 September 2008 at 16:33
- Rosie said...
This has stayed one of my favourite recipes since you introduced me to it Maria.
It looks so scrummy, please any chance of a slice ;)
Rosie x
- 18 September 2008 at 16:48
- Anna's kitchen table said...
What a beautiful cake! I'd love a slice too please! :-)
- 18 September 2008 at 20:09
- Beth Sachs (Jam & Clotted Cream) said...
The topping looks great. Must try this one
- 18 September 2008 at 20:38
- Rosie said...
Hi Maria, I have an award waiting on my blog for you :)
Rosie x
- 19 September 2008 at 14:49
- Maria said...
thanks for sharing a favorite! Looks so delicious!
- 19 September 2008 at 14:57
- Reeni said...
This looks so tasty! I don't think I've ever combined apples and blueberries in my baking before. It's apple harvest time here and this is going on my 'to make' list!
- 20 September 2008 at 02:04
- Sweet Treats by Dani said...
i bet this is perfect with the apple :)
- 21 September 2008 at 21:19
- Maria♥ said...
Thanks everyone for the lovely comments, you make my day!
- 21 September 2008 at 21:23
Oh the joy of finding a passionate baker! I love both blueberries and apples, so the loaf cake looks devine. As for the butter vs margarine- i trust cows :)
- 14 February 2011 at 05:14
- Maria said...
I made this for my friend's birthday in a round tin, didn't have apricot jam so used blueberry jam, served it straight from the oven and 'OH MY'! Definitely a goddess' recipe. Thank you thank you!!
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The Zabbaleen occupy Cairo's lowest caste — the garbage collectors. They live in a slum that is at once nightmare and refuge, a place that constantly reeks of society's refuse, but also offers a tight social network that embraces the residents shunned by the rest of Cairo.
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This is the third article in a series relaying information obtained during a White House briefing on issues relating to Latinos in the U.S.
The History
Nutritionist Marissa Duswalt is the Associate Director for Policy and Events with the Let's Move! Initiative. At the briefing, she shared with us a brief history of the initiative which was launched two years ago by the First Lady, Michelle Obama, after a routine visit to the pediatrician with her own daughters. Ms. Duswalt said that the pediatrician's advice started the First Lady to thinking about the importance of making healthy meal choices and getting children active everyday.
Ms. Duswalt said that America is facing the most sedentary generation in history. On average, children spend 7 1/2 hours a day in front of a screen. And as I mentioned yesterday, Latino children are at highest risk of being overweight and developing diabetes.
The goals of the Let's Move! initiative are to improve the health of children through physical exercise and proper nutrition. They are working closely with the Department of Health to make nutrition information friendly and accessible.
In addition, there is a strong emphasis being placed on culture and sharing time as a family. On their site, parents can find ideas for family meals and even new guidelines for gardening. Families are being encouraged to start their own gardens and grow their own fruits and vegetables for their family meals. And another goal of the initiative is to see more salad bars available in schools.
In terms of getting kids more active, Ms. Obama understands that kids - especially those in inner cities - need more opportunities for sports.
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Ms. Duswalt alluded several times to more exciting announcements coming this summer by the Let's Move program. This may possibly be in refrence to the U.S. Olympic Committee's commitment to bring 1.7 million new opportunities to get kids into athletics through local programs. And most of them will be free.
She encouraged us to sign up for the LM newsletter for information about upcoming events and projects. (You know I did.)
I did a little digging on the Let's Move! website and discovered that the initiative has also partnered with hundreds of community organizations to create more opportunities for kids to get moving. A couple of examples include...
Let's Move Outside Junior Ranger - A program that promotes outdoor physical activity in 50 national parks across the nation.
Let's Move Museum & Gardens - A collaboration between more than 17,500 museums, gardens, public gardens, and other learning centers to teach kids about healthy food choices and the importance of physical activity through interactive exhibits. Ask your local museum for more information.
You might be especially interested in the section on the Let's Move website that shares 42 Healthy and Kid-Friendly Recipes to Try at Home.
**And finally, I discovered The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge. Between now and June 17th, parents of children ages 8 - 12 are invited to submit their favorite recipe for a healthy lunch. The recipes must meet the following criteria: healthy, creative, tasty and affordable. One parent/child will be chosen from each of the 50 states to attend a Kids' "State Dinner" hosted by the White House. I would really love to see some Latino families win with some of their own healthy, cultural dishes!
Disclosure: This information was obtained during a special White House policy briefing for Latina bloggers organized by LATISM. I was awarded a full scholarship to attend the retreat of which the briefing was one aspect, and appreciate the sponsors that made it possible.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Latina Bloggers Policy Briefing: Let's Move! Initiative
by Monica
Labels: health, Nutrition, White House briefing
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Monica, I read all your posts about the event and I love how you synthesized the information, amazing job! I discovered more info through your posts too!! Love seeing you in DC and hopefully next time we can talk more, never enough time!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 1, 2012 at 6:08 PM
It would be nice if they required schools to teach physical education like they did a generation ago. That alone would get kids moving at least 30 minutes a day.ReplyDelete
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DRACUT LIONS CLUB: Meets second and fourth Wednesday of the month; 6:30 p.m., Dracut House of Pizza, 1067 Lakeview Ave.; new members are always welcome; for more information, contact the Dracut Lions Club, P.O. Box 310, Dracut MA 01826.
DRACUT VFW POST 9307: Meets the third Saturday of the month,11:30 a.m., Dracut American Legion Post 315, Broadway Road; new members welcome.
DRACUT SENIOR CITIZENS CLUB: This social club meets the second and fourth Wednesday of the month, 1-3 p.m., 951 Mammoth Road; a bingo game follows the meeting, plus various other social functions; anyone 60 or older is invited to join; you need not be a Dracut resident; annual dues are $2, payable on meeting days; for further information, call 978-453-0969.
MARINE CORPS LEAGUE: Meets the third Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m., Dracut American Legion Post 315, Broadway Road, Dracut; new members welcome.
MOMS TO MOM: Meets every other Thursday, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Crossroads Baptist Church, Pelham; for more information, contact Cindy at firstname.lastname@example.com or ask for Cindy at the church phone, 603-635-1556.
PATCHWORK PALS OF GREATER LOWELL QUILT GUILD: Meets on the first Sunday of the month — except for holiday weekends or Super Bowl Sunday; then meets on the second Sunday; Polish American Veterans, 201 Coburn St., Lowell; new members and visitors are always welcome; for more information, visit www.patchworkpals.org.
PELHAM COUNCIL ON AGING: Meets the first Thursday of the month (except July and August), 1 p.m., Pelham Senior Center, 8 Nashua Road, Pelham; meetings open to the public and begin with an open forum.
PERINATAL LOSS SUPPORT: First Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Holy Family Hospital chapel, Cremin Suite, 70 East St., Methuen; free; offered to parents who have lost a baby during pregnancy or shortly after birth; welcome any and all parents; group aims to provide comfort and mutual support; additional information available; before attending your first meeting, call 978-687-0156, ext. 2240.
RED HAT SOCIETY: Meets second Tuesday of each month, 1:30 p.m., Pelham Senior Center, 8 Nashua Road.
PELHAM VFW: John H. Hargreaves Memorial Post 10722, 6 Main St., Pelham; meets first Thursday of the month, 7 p.m.
RICHELIEU CLUB: Meets first Wednesday of the month, 6 p.m., Cobblestones restaurant, Lowell; focus on preserving French traditions, culture and language; new members welcome; for more information, call 978-957-4010.
SHEILA BRODIE-ZETLAN: Mondays, 7-8:30 p.m., Holy Family Hospital chapel, Cremin Suite, 70 East St., Methuen; free; welcomes women dealing with breast cancer; schedule is subject to change; before attending your first meeting,call Joanne Voigt at 978-687-0156, ext. 4179.
SPINDLE CITY SINGERS OF LOWELL: Accepting new members; no auditions required; for more information, call Heidi at 978-957-0802.
WALKER-ROGERS POST LADIES AUXILIARY: 190 Plain St., Lowell; meets 7 p.m., second Tuesday of the month; new members welcome; for more information, call 978-934-0120.
BLOOD DONOR: Saints Medical Center; helps support the transfusion needs of its patients. To donate blood, call 978-934-8584.
TRANSPLANT SUPPORT: Group meets first Wednesday of the month; 7-8:30 p.m., Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, Nashua; contact Ron Rioux at 603-889-1775 for location.
AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICES: Seeking volunteers to assist from three to six hours at area blood drives in the registration or canteen. Transportation necessary; call Doreen at 617-699-3806.
DRACUT FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: Need volunteers to help with fundraising, planning events, promoting speakers, general help with the annual book and bake sale; if you would like to participate in this community-centered activity, please call John at 978-957-3988.
ELDER SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: Seeking Volunteers for a number of activities related to helping elders; volunteer drivers are needed to drive elders to medical appointments and to work as companions for elders living alone who may need help with day-to-day tasks; mileage reimbursement is available; orientation, training and ongoing support provided; more than 20,000 elders throughout the 23 cities and towns of the Merrimack Valley annually receive assistance from the programs offered by Elder Services; for further information, call 1-800-892-0890 and ask for Eileen at extension 463 or Jerry at extension 445 and mention Interfaith Caregivers.
LOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: Serving the needs of the blind and visually impaired of the Merrimack Valley and Southern New Hampshire, seeks volunteers to read local newspapers on the radio for the LAB/Talking Information Center, 174 Central St., Lowell; other volunteer opportunities available Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Call 978-454-5704.
TEACHERS NEEDED: Lawrence branch of the Merrimack Valley YMCA's Resident Education Center offers programs focusing on supportive services for low income residents of the YMCA and the Greater Lawrence community; classes are free to qualified participants, but preference is given to the homeless and formerly homeless; for more information, call 978-686-6191.


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Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 31st January 2018 – Segway-Ninebot is a winner of this year's iF DESIGN AWARD, a world-renowned design prize. The winning product, the Ninebot KickScooter, won in the discipline Product, in the Sports / Outdoors / Bicycles category. Each year, the world's oldest independent design organization, Hannover-based iF International Forum Design GmbH, organizes the iF DESIGN AWARD.
The Ninebot KickScooter won over the 63-member jury, made up of independent experts from all over the world. The jury praised the KickScooter because of its sleek premium aluminum design combined with the smart connection with the Segway-Ninebot app and the ability to customize your KickScooter with various riding modes and expanding range and speed with optional battery. The competition was intense: over 6,400 entries were submitted from 54 countries in hopes of receiving the seal of quality.
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Talent and Bandwidth
When people ask me what the city and state government can do to help the technology driven startup community in NYC, I tell them two things.
First, there is not one tech ecosystem. There is the software, internet, digital media sector which is thriving and on a tremendous growth spurt. And then there are the biotech, bioengineering, materials science, and energy sectors. These sectors are languishing in NYC with very little commercial activity given how much research and science goes on in the city.
I don't work every day in the latter category and I don't have much advice for how to stimulate these sectors commercially, but I do know that much must be done.
I do work every day in the former category and I have some advice for how to continue to stimulate the sectors that are working. I would focus on two areas; talent and bandwidth.
NYC has a tremendous workforce advantage over most any other city in the world. With one exception. There is a dearth of well educated engineers coming into the workforce every year in NYC. We have a large exisiting workforce of engineers, but they are in high demand and there are scarcities in NYC like those that exist in the bay area. Talented engineers are expensive and are always being recruited away from companies.
So the obvious answer is to develop ways to bring engineers right out of school into the local workforce. One way to do that is to develop strong engineering programs here in the city. The Bloomberg administration has announced an initiative to do that. I am very supportive of that effort. But that will not be enough. We also need to support our existing educational institutions, like NYU, Columbia, Fordham, CUNY, etc, etc.
And we need to start recruiting newly minted engineering grads to come to NYC to start their career. If you are a 22 year old man or woman just starting out in life, would you rather live in suburbia and work on a campus or would you rather live in Williamsburg and work in Flatiron? I think the answer to that is obvious. We just aren't making that case to the best and brightest engineering grads. There are emerging programs, like HackNY, that need our support, both financial and emotional, to do this work. It is critical. Charlie O'Donnell has put forth a challenge to bring 250 new software developers this year to NYC. I think that's a good start but I'd like to see a bolder number, like 1000 a year, or even more.
The other area is bandwidth. I mean data bandwidth. I mean fiber to every school, institution, business and home in the five boroughs. Other localities have built community owned fiber networks. A good example is Lafayette Louisiana. NYC needs to do this and it needs to do this now. The fiber plant should be owned by us, the citizens of NYC, not some company that will charge us a fortune for using the network and potentially restrict what we can do on the network.
There is a company I know of that is one of the most exciting new startups in NYC. They are locating their new office in the emerging area in Brooklyn between DUMBO, Fort Greene, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This is a cool new neighborhood that could be home to a lot of startups looking for great workspaces at low rents. But there is no commercial grade Internet service in this neighborhood. TIme Warner Cable wants this young startup to guarantee them $80,000 in revenues so they can afford to dig up the street and lay the cables.
That is nuts. We need to wire up this city from Staten Island to the Bronx, from Harlem to Rockaway Beach. And we need to own this fiber plant and we need it to be the best in the world.
These two moves will do it. We have everything else we need. We have the capital to fund startups. We have the real estate to house them. We have the legal, accounting, marketing, and other service providers. We've got it all. We just need talent and bandwidth to keep it going. Bring it on.


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Senate passes bill on commercial parasailing
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The Florida Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to regulate the state's commercial parasailing industry, plagued in recent years by horrific accidents and injuries.
The measure (SB 320) requires operators of the thrill rides to carry at least $1 million in liability insurance and to shut down when the weather gets dangerous, among other things.
Last year, two teenaged tourists were dragged against buildings and power lines when their tow line snapped during an approaching storm near Panama City.
A House companion (HB 347) is now in the Regulatory Affairs committee.
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A version of this article appears in the July/August 2005 issue of Home Energy Magazine.
July 01, 2005
CBPCA's hands-on training opens the eyes of would-be home performance contractors.
Contractors in Northern and Central California who are interested in learning about home performance contracting have a great resource in their backyard. The California Building Performance Contractors Association (CBPCA) is a nonprofit organization that is charged with introducing remodeling contractors— and the general public—to home performance services. Funding comes from California energy ratepayers under the auspices of the California Public Utilities Commission. Since it started training activities in late 2002, CBPCA has trained more than 100 individuals from nearly 65 different firms. As part of its ongoing series of trainings, the CBPCA recently held a field class at Carol Markell's home in the Kensington neighborhood, near Berkeley. Markell, who is the advertising and marketing manager at Home Energy, had run into Steve Sokolsky from CBPCA at a building performance conference. When she found out that her home could be used as a test house for one of CBPCA's trainings, she jumped at the chance to get her home evaluated. The CBPCA's overall training regimen consists of three parts: business and marketing; diagnosis and remediation; and one-on-one ...
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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
There is now an updated version of cgminer based on 3.7.2 (kalroth cgminer 3.7.3) with support for MaxCoin's keccak (SHA-3) algorithm that is more stable and optimized than the previously available cgminer 3.6.6 with keccak support. So if you are still using the old version 3.6.6 of cgminer with keccak support, then you better update to the new cgminer 3.7.3 kalroth release for mining MaxCoins (MAX). You can also build the miner yourself from source if you wish.
– You can download cgminer 3.7.3 karloth with GPU mining support for Windows OS here…
The MaxCoin time with CPU mining was very short and now everyone is mining with GPU as soon as it became available, so the MAX crypto continues will full throttle. If you are looking into mining MaxCoin with GPU, then you might find this helpful – download CUDAminer for Nvidia with keccak support or download cgminer 3.6.6 with keccak support from the link below if you are mining with AMD graphics cards using OpenCL. The keccak version of cgminer miner may not be 100% stable, but it will restart again if there is a problem and it crashes. And as a suggestion for a pool to mine MaxCoin in – try 1GH. Ypool has already closed their MAX pool due to the serious DDoS attacks that MaxCoin pools were getting since the crypto has been announced a few days ago and 1GH seems to have resolved their problems with the attacks they were getting as well and are probably one of the largest if not the largest MaxCoin pool at the moment. There is now a newer version 3.7.2(3) available that is much more stable and reliable than the version 3.6.6.
If you are mining Scrypt crypto currencies such as Litecoin or maybe DOGE, then you are most likely using cgminer as a mining software or something that relies on cgminer as a backend. The author of cgminer (Con Kolivas) however seems to have decided to continue support of cgminer only for ASIC mining for SHA-256 cryptos such as Bitcoin and version 3.7.2 is the last one for cgminer to support GPU mining for scrypt crypto coins. Furthermore the windows version of the last cgminer to support GPU mining has been removed from the official download location, you can however download cgminer 3.7.2 with GPU support for windows here.
More importantly, there are already some alternatives that are based around the original source code of cgminer 3.7.2, but add extra features and offer improvements that are not found in the original software. One such version based on cgminer 3.7.2 is Martin "Kalroth" Danielsen's cgminer 3.7.2 that he calls cgminer 3.7.3 in order for the users to be able to differentiate between the original and his version. In cgminer 3.7.2 kalroth (cgminer 3.7.3) he has made changes to the visual interface to make it more user friendly and functionality that can help you squeeze a bit more performance out of your GPU mining hardware. Some of the notable differences include support for multiple pool load balancing, implementation for idle state for GPUs when there's no work, two additional modes for controlling intensity – xintensity and rawintensity for additional performance, faster failover pool switching back delay and interface improvements such as uptime status or percentage of rejected shares and so on. Definitely something to try and see if you like this version of cgminer better than the original 3.7.2.
– You can download cgminer 3.7.3 karloth with GPU mining support for Windows OS here…


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Big bad Vlad: the demonisation of Russia
The barrage of scaremongering by the British press before the football World Cup, painted the hosts Russia as a tyrannical country unsafe for tourists and football fans alike. But the reality has been very different. Visitors have taken to social media to explain that they've found Russia and her people hospitable and friendly. This wasn't what they were told to expect. So was this media onslaught just a mistake? Or was this the latest instalment of post Cold War rhetoric designed to malign Russia? With relations between the West and Russia at an all time low, where next for this relationship? Joining us to discuss why both sides are locked in this frozen conflict is the writer and broadcaster, John White.


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Robby Mireno welcomed everyone to the show. The crowd was razzing him for not being Joey Styles, so Mireno crapped on them back. Joel Gertner came out and said that there are a lot of other things the fans could have spent their money on any other type of entertainment but they were here and he thanked them on behalf of everyone in the back. Gertner said he was trying to get write-in votes for President in recent months and said that had he been elected, he would have changed the national anthem, singing an X-rated version of "My Country Tis of Thee."
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Jay Bradley vs. Christian York
Bradley missed a shot in the corner, allowing York to hit a series of offensive maneuvers, including a hiptoss ans a dropkick. Bradley drilled him with a shoulderblock in the corner. York flipped over and nailed a series of chops. Bradley cut him off with a running boot for a two count.
Bradley slammed York and drilled him with a big kneedrop. York fired back with several kicks and rights hands. He whipped Bradley into the corner but was caught with a big knee. Bradley drilled him down with a knee to the back for a near fall. Bradley nailed a series of right hands and choked York in the corner. He nailed another slam for a two count.
Bradley continued working over York in the corner and nailed a series of shots across the back. He used his boot to smother York, then nailed a belly to back suplex for another two count. He then grabbed York in a side chinlock, wearing him down on the mat.
York ducked a clothesline and nailed a springboard back elbow. Bradley and York battled back and forth. Bradley went for a sleeper but York dropped down in a jawbreaker. York went for a sunset flip but Bradley escaped and went for a knee. He missed. York nailed a bulldog and a basement dropkick for another near fall.
York nailed a rolling kick. Bradley used a throw to toss York off but was nailed into the turnbuckle. York nailed a cannonball in the corner and went to the top. He came off with a double stomp to the back of the head for another near fall. Good match thus far.
York chopped him hard in the corner and whipped him into the opposite side. Bradley tossed him off when York went for a tornado DDT and drilled him with a lariat for the pin.
Your winner, Jay Bradley!
Good opener. Both looked good.
York got a nice round of applause as he headed to the back.
Extreme Rising Championship Round One: Papadon vs. Stevie Richards
Papadon demanded the audience get down on their knee showing him respect. Big pop for Richards.
Papadon retreated to the outside early as Richards got the early offense. They battled to the outside, where Richards was worked over. Back in the ring, Papadon mounted Richards and used a series of elbow and closed fists. Papadon whipped him hard into the corner. The crowd chanted for Richards.
Richards tried to mount a comeback but was cut off. Richards was trapped in a rear chinlock. He fired back with a series of elbows but Papadon grabbed the tights to pull him into a belly to back suplex. Papadon placed him on the top rope and attempted a superplex. Richards was nailed and then hit with a running Facewash in the corner. Papadon covered him for a two count.
Papadon locked him back in a side chinlock. Papadon drilled him with another back suplex and ascended to the top for a flying headbutt. Papadon missed, allowing Richards to nail a series of clotheslines and a side slam. Richards nailed a running knee in the corner and snapmared Papadon into the center of the ring.
Richards went for a Steviebomb but Papadon reversed it and nailed an Alabama Slam. He began "tuning up the band", mocking the Steviekick. He went for the kick but Richards blocked it and went for one of his own. Papadon slipped out and went for a Dragon suplex. Richards blocked it and nailed a Flatliner, then locked on a triangle choke. Papadon tapped.
Your winner, Stevie Richards!
Another good match. I wish they could have had another ten minutes as they were really just starting to click but this was enjoyable.
The crowd chanted "You tapped out" at Papadon as he and Richards faced off. Papadon offered his hand. Stevie took it and Papadon tried to clothesline him. Richards ducked and nailed the Steviekick.
Extreme Rising Championship Tournament: Luke Hawx vs. Perry Saturn
Saturn went through the crowd so Hawx took the mic and asked whether he came to wrestle or not. He ripped on the fans and Saturn. Hawx said that at one time, Saturn was half of one of the best tag teams in the world, but it's a shame the one with all the talent died. Ouch.
Saturn attacked him and began drilling Hawx with knee and slams. Saturn was whipped into the ropes but ducked a clothesline and nailed Hawx with a neckbreaker. He stomped Hawx and dropped a knee really low.
Hawx cut off Saturn and nailed a series of knees across his back. He cinched in a rear chinlock. Saturn fought him off but was caught with a dropkick. Hawx continued battling back and forth with Saturn.
Saturn tried to pick up and slam Hawx, who used an armbar submission to take Saturn down to the mat. Hawx worked over his arm and slammed Saturn. Hawx went for a springboard moonsault off the ropes but it didn't connect perfectly, which the crowd picked up on. Saturn made a comeback with a sitdown powerbomb for a two count.
Hawx cut off Saturn with a necktie neckbreaker for a two count but was caught out of nowhere with a Death Valley Driver. Saturn covered him but Hawx turned it into a submission attempt and forced Saturn to tap. The submission didn't get over with the crowd.
Your winner, Luke Hawx!
Hawx mocked the crowd, asking where their "You tapped out" chant was.
Match was OK. They worked as hard as they could but Saturn is pretty limited in what he can do these days.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
I've been immersed in school. I think I mentioned it before, but I'm working on finishing a degree majoring in Political Science with a minor in American History. It's kept me submerged in books, papers, highlighters and post it notes.
In the middle of all of this, and since this is finals week, I've had little time to do anything. But you see, I had to do something. It seemed simple enough. All I had to do was make two phone calls. One to cancel my MSN service, that I haven't used in a year, and one to clarify a clause in a new life insurance policy for accidental death.
All in all it took me a FULL FREAKING DAY to accomplish these two seemingly simple tasks.
I tried to tackle canceling MSN first. One phone call at most right? It seems canceling MSN is about as easy as finding the interest rate on your credit card statement. It took me nearly an hour and a half and SEVEN different people to have them click a damn button to cancel my service.
My last words to them, actually I think I used these exact words four times with four different people, "Just CANCEL MY BLEEP BLEEPING SERVICE!"
Finally when that was done I called the life insurance company to clarify this clause under exclusions:
"Will not pay if the insured person is under the influence of any excitant, depressant, hallucinogen, narcotic; or any other drug or intoxicant."
Alrighty then. The simple question was if this policy is nullified by my medicinal regimen. Easy enough, right? Apparently NOT! I take excitants for ADD, I take depressants for anxiety, I take hallucinogens (technically a hypnotic) to sleep, and see that little clause "ANY OTHER DRUG?" Yeah, see what I mean?
Six and three-quarters of an hour later I had an answer. I went through EIGHT departments and finally ended up with the head underwriter.
It appears that they left out a pretty important clause in my contract that states if I'm under the influence of any of these medications and they are the determined CAUSE of the accident, the policy won't pay. Since I'm taking all of my meds as prescribed I am indeed covered.
Yeah, I'm canceling the policy. If they can't even answer a simple question in less than 15 minutes with the help of one person I've kinda lost faith that they'll pay in the event of an accidental death. Bastards!
And MSN....suck it!
As for finals I have three essays to revise, three more to write and four exams. Again, I'm not sure what I was thinking.
Oh yeah. Thanksgiving, how could I forget? Here's a few of my favorite pics from the holiday! Who am I kidding? I have a HUGE family and being kind of a camera whore...I have a little more than a "few" pics.
|Madeleine and CoCo
|Tyson and Michelle
|Me and Sara
|Pouty Pants
|Me and Nikki
|Me and Jake
|Michael and Baby Jax
|Josiah, Anna-Grace, Aiden, CoCo and Madeleine
|Karli, Jax and Jakob
|Karli and Michelle
|Me and Jeremiah
|Mad Maddy
|CoCo and Nikki
|Stealing Josiah
|Jakob and Maddy
|Anna-Grace, even the little ones have to help
|CoCo and Nana
|Justin and Karli
|Jake is the turkey neck gobbler
|And I made it through the day without Valium!


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Matt Lowell is in hell-and there's no place he'd rather be. At a training camp on the backwater planet of Earth, he and his fellow cadets are learning to ride Mechas: biomechanicals sporting both incredible grace and devastating firepower. Their ultimate aim is to combat the pirates of the Corsair Confederacy, but before they survive a battle, they have to survive their training.
Because every time Lowell and his comrades "plug in" to their Mechas, their minds are slowly being twisted and broken by an unseen power that is neither man…nor machine.
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Some people want diamonds,
while others want cars.
I want a galaxy named after me,
and my footprint on Mars.
About Me
Some people want diamonds,
Words are the only thing left holding me together.
Some people want diamonds,
while others want cars.
I want a galaxy named after me,
and my footprint on Mars.
Not a problem! And thanks for dropping by! =)
You're welcome 🙂
Thank you 🙂
Thank you so very much for your kind words! I really appreciate the input. 🙂
Dear friend, Thank you very much, I was really happy to have been following your blog. I'm still a lot to figure out, and here I can only say that you are an awesome blogger, full Inspiring and hope you can inspire more readers. Thanks and greetings compassion from Gede Prama 🙂
I nominated you for the Liebster award 🙂
Thank you for the nomination!!
That is very kind of you Gede. Thank you very much. =)
I'm glad you enjoyed my About Me section and my posts. Thank you for stopping by my blog!
My heart speaks my my intimate thoughts, even if unheard
Love exist of this I'm sure, we just have to wait for love to find our hearts,
I've been walked on far too many times to know who's prints are who's, and I've endure distant silence for so long people often mistake me for Mars, but I'd welcome you leaving your fresh fingerprints and scent all over my skin instead, thereby making me feel as if… you were the only galaxy that existed.
Keep the faith my friend…
Thank you Sheryl! You're welcome and I'm glad you are here. 🙂
No it's just removable eye tattoo makeup… no tats on my face.
That is very kind of you to say, thank you! ❤
You didn't look good enough. I dropped out in Round 2. Passed all my medical exams and everything. They still have a profile of me. There should be a little hyperlink in the poem.
I'm not still in the running but the hyperlink works and that's my official Mars One profile, I have the official candidate badge and everything.
If you click on the last word MARS in the poem it will take you to my official CANDIDACY profile. The link still works as I just checked. Lying, right. GTG
I backed out of the competition for personal reasons, the person I had a kid with died. Mars One intends to send a total of 16 people to live on Mars. Your sarcasm is toxic.
Haha I dream really big I guess! I was in the candidacy for Mars One (if you click on Mars on the poem it will take you to my official candidacy profile! As a nerd, it feels really good to say I applied to go live on Mars and actually made it into round two until I had to drop out for personal reasons BUT this is to just send the first 4 out of 16, so my dreams haven't ended! Nice to meet you!! 😊


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Riga is an important Baltic city that has always played a significant role in the region – it exudes the perfect big-city feeling. Riga is located on a flat plain divided by the Daugava River. The charming, old-fashioned qualities of Tallinn and Vilnius are complemented by Riga's grand parks, historical Old Town and magnificent Art-Nouveau architecture.
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Frame Denim Jackets
Compelled by a mutual desire to create the perfect pair of jeans, Erik Torstensson and Jens Grede, branding masterminds behind Industrie Magazine and The Saturday Group, founded Frame in 2012. After amassing a near cult-like following for its women's skinny jeans, the duo launched their first menswear offering in 2014. Drawing upon the best of American and European style, Frame's selection of Los Angeles-crafted men's ready-to-wear exudes the effortlessness of French dress. The brand's curated line of men's jeans, available in two classic fits—'L'homme skinny' and 'L'homme slim'—is rounded out by a selection of understated denim jackets and cut-off shorts. Premium cotton jersey t-shirts, sweatshirts, and hoodies, alongside tailored oxford and flannel shirts, jackets, and a range of cashmere sweaters serve as elevated iterations of timeless basics.


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The following code is a sample of how you can automate the command prompt window. It creates a new process in a thread with "cmd" as the filename (which starts a new command prompt window). A thread was used (although not required) as a preventative measure just in case the CMD window would hang for some reason. If it hangs and it is not started on a thread, then your application would hang as well until the cmd window was closed or killed.
The Process.StartInfo property contains a .RedirectStandardInput and .RedirectStandardOutput property that allows you to redirect the input and output associated with the process. The StandardOutput and StandardInput properties of the Process class are streamreaders and streamwriters, respectively, which you can set in order to send and receive the data.
The code below simply runs a command that is listed in a textbox, and outputs the results into a textbox. The entire project file is included below in the attachments.
EDIT - The original example below has a problem in the threading. See the 2005 example code in post 10 that corrects this issue
VB Code:
- Private Sub btnSend_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSend.Click
- Dim CMDThread As New Threading.Thread(AddressOf CMDAutomate)
- CMDThread.Start()
- End Sub
- Private Sub CMDAutomate()
- Dim myprocess As New Process
- Dim StartInfo As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
- StartInfo.FileName = "cmd" 'starts cmd window
- StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = True
- StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = True
- StartInfo.UseShellExecute = False 'required to redirect
- myprocess.StartInfo = StartInfo
- myprocess.Start()
- Dim SR As System.IO.StreamReader = myprocess.StandardOutput
- Dim SW As System.IO.StreamWriter = myprocess.StandardInput
- SW.WriteLine(txtCommand.Text) 'the command you wish to run.....
- SW.WriteLine("exit") 'exits command prompt window
- txtResults.Text = SR.ReadToEnd 'returns results of the command window
- SW.Close()
- SR.Close()
- End Sub


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A free email newsletter designed for families, Macaroni Kid provides weekly updates on the activities happening in your neighborhood. Find out where the upcoming back to school fair is being held. Check out what's playing at the local family film festival. Get the 411 on when the annual county fair will be in town. Like kajeet, it's all about kids.
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"HOOT" Play & Nap Mat with Toy
Whoooo will love these super-soft owls? Your best little girl, that's who! The 35" cuddly portable mat is ideal for her afternoon naps or as a forest-inspired fashion statement in baby's room. And the adorable matching owl toy, complete with hanging plush star, moon and circle shapes, can be used as a unique mobile or a fuzzy friend to keep her busy. Perfect for baby showers, birthdays, or just to say "congrats on the new baby".


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U.N. reaches site of Syrian massacre to investigate killings.
Police say 14-year-olds in Rio Rancho robbed the same Walgreens twice armed with a bat and a pellet gun.
Supreme Court's approval rating is below 50 percent.
Possibly the greatest blog post ever on '80s celebrity fashion.
Fourteen dismembered corpses found in a truck in northern Mexico.
Cops say ICE agent pulled over on San Mateo was driving erratically and had been drinking.
The 34-year streak of horse racing not having a Triple Crown winner will continue as I'll Have Another is scratched from the Belmont.
Norway is setting up a psych ward in one of its prisons in case mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik is labeled insane.
California man tries to sell bear cubs at a gas station, says he shot their mom in self defense on his property.
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I've had long hair for several years now, and I'm only 21--but yeah, I see about the long hair thing. I think it's because long hair is a symbol of youth in our culture, and you know, you're not "allowed" to use a symbol of youth if you're an older person. Definitely not.
I remember Cosmopolitian once having a short blurb--"If you're over 17, your hair should not go past your shoulders." and I thought, "Who are they to decide what looks good on everyone?" I haven't read the magazine in years but I'm sure it's still spouting out archaic and vestigial beauty advice. Beauty is not something in makeup and hairstyle for me. Beauty is in the personality of a person, and if they like their hair best when it is long rather than short--I support them.
For me, I never looked good with short hair, and I love braiding it into uber-long pigtails and wrapping them up into elflike buns.
I've never thought this deeply about hair. I have always just assumed I'd do what I wanted with it whatever age I am. I also assume that elderly women all have the same hair (short and permed) because it's easier to deal with when one has arthritic, grumpy old hands. I particularly love the older ladies who then dye it that noticeable shade of lavendar.
Anyway, I was unaware that I had an age limit for certain styles. What a drag. I will probably choose to ignore it. :o)
I recently turned 30 and cut my long hair off to above shoulder-length. It was hard to do since I love the look of long hair. I'd always thought I'd be that old lady with the beautiful, long grey-silver hair. Then I just got sick of it -- it was way too high maintenance. I didn't go to the salon nearly enough, so it was never as shiny as I wanted, and since it was really thick, I had to let it air dry for an hour or so before blow drying it -- my roots would get flat and greasy if I didn't dry it at least every other day. If I slept on wet hair, it would still be wet in the morning. So, I cut it almost exclusively for convenience. Once I got used to the short hair, I fell in love with it. I still kind of miss the "idea" of being some kind of busty (I am busty, lol) sex kitten with long beautiful hair, but my boyfriend runs his fingers through my short hair all the time, making me feel even sexier. I can also be more creative with the style. My hair is really fine (it's thick in terms of how much hair I have), so it didn't hold any sort of style when it was long. Anyway, that's it. Kudos to you though for keeping it long!! I hate tradition, but I am lazy :)


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RightHereInteractive necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 116 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
My client is a new start up mobile/web software company called iForHire. Basically, they are going to leverage both web and mobile to provide how to information for individuals in areas around home improvement, electronics, computers, languages, etc. Our initial concept is iforhire.com (hire yourself or hire a pro).
Our target audience will consist of 25-50 year old "do it yourself" types who want to learn how to do things on their own. We see a spread between males and females. These people will be internet connected with a web browser and we will be heavily targeting iPhone/ipod and Android users.
1. We want a BOLD, clean design. Too much detail is not what we want. Think "Overstated Simplicity." Legible from the smallest size to the largest billboard. Can be embroidered (no fine detail).
2. We need symbolism, an icon if you will. the "i" in iforhire has been suggested to be a person or people of some kind. I don't care, but we need that metaphoric image that can stand on its own as our symbol.
3. It should be "iforhire" as the Name along with the tag line "hire yourself or hire a pro."
4. I'm wide open to colors, fonts, etc. Impress me.
5. here is a list of what we consider GREAT logos (purely for design, not necessarily for colors).
-Yowza - http://www.getyowza.com. This is truly our favorite.
-Mint - http://www.mint.com
-Zuora - http://www.zuora.com
-Knotice - http://www.knotice.com
-Yazzem - http://www.yazzem.com
-BrightScope - http://www.brightscope.com
6. If you are selected, you will provide the layered file in Illustrator format (CS3 or higher). Do not rasterize the font(s) in the file. Send me the entire font collection you use along with the .ai file. I will NOT pay for an extra font.
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Dr. Markway is an anthropologist with a special interest in psychic phenomena who wants to try a true exercise in terror. Intrigued by the legend of Hill House, he invites two women, psychic researchers, to join him in his adventure. Mrs. Sannerson, who has inherited the old mansion, is suspicious of Dr. Markway's intentions and insists that her young nephew Luke go along with the group. Luke is a skeptic about the supernatural, until he enters Dr. Markway's eerie world. (1963, b&w)
Mark says:
The major flaw with the description posted above is that it neglects to mention the character this film is centered around, the nervous Eleanor Lance, played exquisitely by Julie Harris. It also features the talents of Claire Bloom (The Illustrated Man) as Theo (the psychic with lesbian undertones), Russ Tamblyn as Luke Sanderson (the young skeptic), and Richard Johnson as Dr. Markway. This film is based on Shirley Jackson's novel, The Haunting of Hill House.
As a testament to The Haunting, I will state up front that I've only watched it twice. Once when I first purchased it on video cassette years ago, and then again tonight. How is this a testament, you ask? It's a testament in the sense that this movie freaked me out so much during my first viewing that I have only tonight gone back for seconds.
The Haunting competently combines the supernatural with psychological terror. We are allowed (or, more accurately, trapped) inside Eleanor's head and feel her sense of isolation, loneliness, fear, and unreality. This is accomplished not only with her voice overs, but with Robert Wise's (The Day the Earth Stood Still) fine direction. It would be hard to overestimate the effectiveness of the camera work in this picture.
An amazing aspect of The Haunting is that it is frightening without ever showing us a ghost,a severed hand, or even a drop of blood. In fact, sometimes we are left wondering if the spirits are only in Eleanor's mind. You can't deny a certain existential feel to the movie.
If I had to find fault with this film, it would be in the hot/cold relationship between the two female leads. Theo and Eleanor are practically in love with one another one moment, and then verbally abusing each other the next. This cycle runs throughout the movie's entirety. I suppose it helps add to the sense of uncertainty, but it can get annoying.
Though I wasn't as unsettled during my second viewing of The Haunting as I was the first, I still declare it to be one of the scariest ghost movies around. All points given are for true artistic merit and genuine chills. I recommend watching it alone and in the dark.
Scene to watch for: Eleanor, already at the point of nervous breakdown, realizes the hand that has been clutching hers so tightly isn't the hand of her roommate.
Line to listen for: "The dead are not quiet in Hill House."
Mark's Rating: ! ! ! ! ½ out of 5.


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Word Routes
Exploring the pathways of our lexicon
How "Kung Fu" Entered the Popular Lexicon
When Run Run Shaw, a giant of the Hong Kong entertainment industry, died earlier this month at the ripe old age of 106, I took the opportunity to look at a term with which he was intimately connected: kung fu. In the 1970s, martial-arts movies from the Shaw Brothers studio (and its Hong Kong rival, Golden Harvest) firmly planted kung fu in the global consciousness. But I was surprised to learn that kung fu as we know it was actually born on American soil.
As I explained in my Wall Street Journal column last weekend, kung fu is a transcription of a Chinese term (功夫) that has historically meant "workmanship" or "skill achieved through great effort." In the system known as pinyin, the standard method of transcribing Chinese characters, the term would be rendered as gōngfu. But in the earlier transcription system known as Wade-Giles (named after two 19th-century British Sinologists), it was spelled kung-fu. In English-language literature, one can see the term first appearing in works like John Dudgeon's 1895 essay, "Kung-Fu, or Tauist Medical Gymnastics." As the title implies, kung-fu was then understood to be connected to certain Taoist exercises practiced to regulate one's vital energy, or qì. The term was also related to a particular method for preparing and serving tea.
It was likely only in the twentieth century that this Taoist term became connected to martial arts, which more typically has been known in Mandarin Chinese as wǔshù (武術). On Language Log, Victor Mair, professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylania, speculates about how the term passed into the martial-arts realm:
So how did gōngfu 功夫 come to acquire the sense of "martial arts," especially one in which sharp blows and kicks are directed at vulnerable points on the body of an opponent? It is actually not such a great leap from pneuma / breath control and other types of Buddho-Taoist psychophysical exercises and discipline to "martial art." One can well imagine a disciple watching his master mow down a dozen menacing opponents with his extraordinary skill acquired through rigorous control of the qì (ch'i; Gk. pneuma, Skt. prāṇa, Heb. rouah; vital energy / air / breath / spirit), i.e., qìgōng 氣功). After the dust settles on this eye-popping display of sang-froid and combative prowess, and as the master composes himself to sup a cuppa, the awestruck disciple exclaims, "Master, you possess supreme, unparalleled gōngfu 功 夫!!!" After a few centuries of such adulatory ejaculations, it would be natural for gōngfu 功夫 to take on the latest sense that it has acquired, viz., "martial art."
But to truly understand how kung fu came to be, we need to look not to China or Hong Kong but to northern California in the late 1950s. At the Kin Mon Chinese Institute in San Francisco's Chinatown, recent immigrants from southern China shared in martial-arts instruction. They used the term gung fu, following the pronunciation of the term used in their Cantonese-speaking homeland. More fully, they called it sil lum gung fu (where sil lum is the Cantonese equivalent of Mandarin shaolin, the name of the famous Buddhist monastery associated with martial arts).
The Kin Mon club was established by Tim Yuen Wong, who had emigrated to the United States with his family on the eve of World War II. One of his students was James Yimm Lee, who was born across the San Francisco Bay in Oakland before serving in the U.S. Army and becoming a welder. Lee became the most widely known proponent of sil lum gung fu, introducing it to the American martial-arts community through a series of self-published and self-distributed books.
For his manuals, Lee chose to use the old Wade-Giles spelling of kung fu rather than gung fu or gong fu. The first book was published in 1958 under his birth name of Kein H. Lee, entitled Fighting Arts of the Orient: Elemental Karate and Kung Fu. That was followed by Chinese Karate Kung Fu: Original Sil Lum System in 1961 (co-authored with his teacher T.Y. Wong) and Modern Kung Fu Karate: Iron Poison Hand Training in 1962. The books linked kung fu to the Japanese art of karate, which was then very popular in the United States, though the two shared only a family resemblance.
It was in 1962 that James Yimm Lee, then 42, first received a visit at his Oakland home from the 22-year-old martial-arts enthusiast Bruce Lee (no relation). The younger Lee was also born in the Bay area to a Cantonese-speaking family. He was impressed by the elder Lee's self-made training equipment, as well as the books he had published. The meeting is described in The Dragon and the Tiger by Sid Campbell and Greglon Yimm Lee (son of James Yimm Lee):
After leaving the garage area, James offered to show Bruce some of the books that he had written on the subject of martial arts. Bruce was particularly impressed with James's first book, Fighting Arts of the Orient, Elemental Karate, and Kung Fu, and he tried to glean every bit of knowledge that he could in the short time. One of the first things that he noticed was the way in which James had spelled the words kung fu, and he asked why James had chosen to spell it that way, rather than the more traditional gung fu. James casually replied that, since most Americans were not familiar with the Chinese pronunciation, he had felt the alternate spelling would have more market value in the United States.
Bruce Lee preferred the gung fu spelling, and a year later he published his own book under the title Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense. But the kung fu spelling was the one that caught on in American martial-arts circles, showing up in the magazine Black Belt as early as 1963. Two years later, the magazine ran a feature on "the ancient Chinese fighting art of kung-fu."
When Bruce Lee achieved fame in the role of Kato on the television show "The Green Hornet," the gung fu spelling still lingered: a Black Belt article from 1967 was called, "Is 'The Green Hornet's' Version of Gung-Fu Genuine?" But on the cover, the spelling kung-fu was used, as the magazine's audience was already familiar with that version of the term.
A few years later, Bruce Lee was almost cast in another American TV show, about a martial-arts master in the Wild West, but he was passed over for David Carradine. That show was called Kung Fu, of course. Lee headed to Hong Kong, signing a film contract with the Golden Harvest studio. The Shaw Brothers studio missed a golden opportunity to sign him, but in the 1970s Run Run Shaw produced a huge number of kung fu movies with other stars, such as Five Fingers of Death and The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. While those films cemented the popular perception of kung fu, let's not forget James Yimm Lee, working out of his Oakland garage, as a key progenitor of kung fu as it came to be appreciated around the globe.


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Game Type(s):
Map building
Players: 2 - 4
Age: 10 +
Available Languages
Status: Out of Print
Stock Number: 413
Albion is what the Celts used to call England. This fascinating game recreates the conquest and defence of ancient Albion.
The game focuses on clever decisions on the order of development:
More movement, more resources, better defences, or more patricians and legionaries?
You will need all of these, but what to choose at any one point?
The first player to own 3 fully developed settlements wins the game.
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The students in this department come from both urban and rural areas with moderate socioeconomic status. The syllabus in PSychology has been restructured to fit the semester system. The faculty was involved in restructuring papers such as child psychology and psychology of adolescence.
The Department has been making use of modern teaching methods like the use of LCD, OHP, field trips and educational trips for the betterment of the students.
A community envisioned with tolerance and integrity.
Educate and transform students through psychology to be agents of change in the community they live in.
To be responsive citizens who will combine career and competence and build our nation.
To address important issues of life , be proactive and deal effectively with challenges of life.
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You Can Homeschool thru the Early Years!
You have researched your options, set some goals, charted a course—now you're off! In this portion of our "itinerary," you will find some helpful suggestions for actually "getting in gear" and moving toward that destination!
Here are some tips for success adapted from the words of wisdom that Yvonne Bunn of HEAV shares with new and prospective homeschoolers in her how-to-begin seminars:
(Adapted from "Beginning the Homeschool Journey," The Virginia Homeschool Manual, ©2003/2008, Home Educators Association of Virginia. www.heav.org. Used with permission.)


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The talk I gave at the USGS Western Region Colloquium is now available streaming online! To view:
A Grand Life: The Story Eddie McKee, Grand Canyon Chief Naturalist 1929-1940 and Legendary Geologist
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The latest Em Hansen mystery is Rock Bottom.
Rock Bottom takes Em Hansen on a raft trip down the Grand Canyon, where murder intrudes upon that spectacular landscape.
New contact for public appearances
I am represented by Macmillan Speakers. To schedule an appearance, please contact Dana Trocker at (646) 307-5544 or go to www.macmillanspeakers.com
See News Archives for older news items.
This site is for all my friends, readers, and geo-colleagues who enjoy the Em Hansen forensic geology mysteries, and for those who simply love geology and want to know more about it without having to read a textbook.
I write the books to make geology easier to access (and of course to spin a good yarn), but this site will also give you links to all sorts of interesting websites used by professional geologists.
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