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Creating New Birthday Traditions
5 Tips to Creating Treasured Birthday Traditions
Creating an annual birthday tradition is a great way to make your child's special day even more memorable. As Circle of Moms member Ashley B. shares, "I'm wanting something that me and my son can go and do every year for his birthday — something that we can have a tradition of doing every year on his birthday that he gets excited about — something special just for him." If you, too, want to start a special birthday tradition with your child, here are five great suggestions from Circle of Moms members.
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1. Birthday Traditions Involving Keepsake Collections
Circle of Moms member Miranda K. shares that one way to make birthdays even more memorable is to do an activity that involves creating a keepsake commemorating the day. "If he likes arts and crafts, maybe a ceramic place where you paint something and then they glaze and fire it for you," she suggests. Elizabeth M. takes her children to make a brand-new teddy bear at the Build-A-Bear Workshop every year. "It's their birthday bear," she says.
Other moms like Shannon and Erin J. suggest creating memorabilia that will be appreciated as your child matures into an adult. Both suggest buying daughters a charm bracelet, and then getting a charm for each year depending on what your child is interested in. Shannon suggests a tiny foot for baby's first year, an apple when your child enters preschool, and a cheerleading charm, for instance, if your daughter later is involved in that activity.
Jocelyn S. and Carolyn S. also like the idea of giving jewelry: "If I have a daughter, I want to get her one pearl every birthday, so eventually she can make a necklace," Jocelyn says. Carolyn says her friend bought a small gem each birthday for her daughter, and when she turned 21, she got a ring set with the 21 gems.
If jewelry is not your thing, then Kelly M. suggests purchasing a set of coins for each year (a penny, nickel, quarter, etc.), which is what she received from her grandfather. "I have all of these from when I was born, and they came sealed in a see-through pack," she says. She suggests stamps could be fun for families that move or travel a lot.
Or, scrapbooking enthusiasts suggest collecting papers and photos. Jennifer A. purchases a newspaper on her daughter's birthday so that she can see what happened on her birthday every year.
2. Birthday Traditions Charting Kids' Growth
As you make memorabilia, some Circle of Moms members suggest capturing images of each birthday so children literally can see how they've grown. For instance, Jennifer M. says she planted a tree when her daughter was born. "Every year on her birthday we stand her beside her tree and take a picture." Pauline I. takes handprints of her daughter each year and places them on her wall along with a photo so she can see how much she's grown. Stacy C. bought a special birthday hat and takes a picture every year of her child with the hat on.
And every year, Wendy C. says, she takes a picture of her daughter wearing her wedding dress. "We started out just laying her on the dress as an infant, then she toddled around with it hanging from her shoulders, and now she is 6 and can actually 'put it on.' We also do a picture every year of my son sitting on his dad's fire engine. Same idea: he started out as an infant just swaddled up on the bright red background. He's 10 now, and he looks forward to his special picture every year!"
3. Birthday Meal Traditions
If you're a whiz in the kitchen, then by all means use that to your advantage, Circle of Moms members say. Becki O., for instance, says she and her husband wake up their daughter at the time of her birth (8:19 a.m.) and always make her favorite breakfast of German puff pancakes.
Stina B. also makes her birthday child's favorite meal. "For my son's first birthday, it was homemade mac and cheese with peas. His cake was strawberry shortcake. . . . He's turning 5 this year and we'll be having pizza, chocolate cake, and chocolate ice cream. He loves chocolate, I get cheesecake, dad gets German chocolate." Last year, Stina says, she also started making chocolate chip pancakes for birthdays: "A stack of pancakes, one for each year, with the rare presence of chocolate chips."
4. Birthday Balloon Traditions
To add to the festivities, Stina hangs balloons around her house and puts one dime for each year of age inside one balloon. "This obviously isn't for a first birthday unless there are older siblings, but as they get older, it's pretty special to find the money-filled balloon and get six, seven, eight, etc., dimes. Since they all get popped at once and then the bits cleaned up in one fell swoop, you don't have balloons all over for the next week."
Camille N. also celebrates birthdays with balloons. She explains: "The night before the birthday, blow up heaps of balloons (I do about 50 to 100), and while they're sleeping, throw them all into their bedroom. When they wake up on their birthday, they will wake up to a sea of balloons. I do this every year for my boys (who are now 12 and 13 years old) and they still love it."
5. Birthday Dessert Traditions
Many Circle of Moms members carry on special birthday dessert traditions. Deanna, for example, says her husband's family always made him big chocolate chip cookie vanilla ice cream sandwiches. "It influenced him growing up to the point where he wants me to make them still on his birthday," she says.
Marlene M. recalls her mom always made a themed, homemade cake for her birthday. "She wasn't a professional by any means, but we all looked forward to our cake with great anticipation. She got better over the years and certainly more creative. It's a gift of love that she'll know came from your heart."
Misty P. also makes a special cake but gets her son involved before the actual birthday by letting him choose what the theme will be. "My husband and I make the cake ourselves, and it's never just a normal cake. One year we made a 3D train, then another year we made really cool dinosaur cake. And last year I made the Pokemon ball that was hard. My son really enjoys all aspects of his party, but his favorite part is the cake — he doesn't get to see it until his party. It's something inexpensive and I always have fun making it, and it makes him happy."
Caitelyn S., meanwhile, incorporates a family tradition in which after the birthday child has blown out the candles, the candles are relit and other members of the party, from the youngest through the oldest, blow the candles out in order to send good wishes and love to the birthday person. "It's lots of fun, and means that the person gets shown how much they are loved!"


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Steve, I run a job shop that performs metal cleaning, phosphating and painting of metal. Since we did not generate very much wastewater for a number of years, we would collect and thicken our wastewater pretreatment sludge and then have it disposed off-site. However, due to our growth in business recently, our wastewater volume significantly increased, and we decided to buy and install a small, used filter press to dewater the sludge in order to reduce handling and disposal costs. However, from day one, when we opened the press thinking that it is full, we find only the bottom third of the chamber is full and the rest of the filter cloth covered with only a thin layer of sludge. Our feed pressure on the feed diaphragm pump is 90 psig, and we air blowdown the press for at least 30 min. We have cleaned the press with a pressure washer, and it did not help. Any suggestions? J.T.
Since I cannot actually see your filter press in operation or the filter press cake (sludge is such a "dirty" word) that you generate, I cannot pinpoint a solution, but let me offer several ideas for you to try.
First, you state that your filter press feed pump's pressure is 90 psig. While this is a good final pressure, I do not recommend that this is the pressure you start. I recommend that you incrementally increase the air pressure to your diaphragm pump in four stages: 25-35 psig; 45-55 psig; 70-80 psig and 90-95 psig. By starting out at a low pressure, you minimize the likelihood of "smashing" the floc particles against the filter cloth and causing premature clogging or blinding of the filter cloth. My rule of thumb is, if the time period between pulses of the air diaphragm pump is greater than 30 sec, it's time to increase pressure to next stage, and if you are already at 90-95 psig, it is time to stop the feed pump and turn on your air blowdown.
Second, you did not mention if you turn off the filter press feed pump before the filter press is "full." Sometimes when you stop the filter press feed pump in mid-cycle, the filter cake will drop to the bottom of the chamber as the feed pressure subsides.
Third, you may want to examine your pump. Since you purchased the filter press used, the pump may be too small for the press, or it needs to be rebuilt. I would contact the filter press manufacturer, get its recommendation for the size of the air diaphragm pump, and see if your pump is the same or a larger size as recommended.
We had a similar problem at one of our client's; and it was solved after the pump's air handling mechanisms were totally rebuilt with new parts. Apparently the pump, due to wear, was not efficiently transferring the air line pressure to the pumped sludge. To check this out, you can install a pressure gauge into the center feed pipe of the filter press and compare it to your air line pressure when the pump is stalling.
Fourth, since you purchased a used filter press, the filter press cloths may be the wrong type or its weave may be too tight. Most filter press owners do not realize that filter press cloths not only come in a number of types and finishes, but also come in various degrees of tightness. For the vast majority of metal hydroxide sludges, a polypropylene felt cloth with no special finish is usually okay. Regarding tightness, filter cloths for the dewatering of metal hydroxide sludges typically have a rating of 5-10 cfm Frazier. Again, contact the filter press manufacturer or filter cloth suppliers for their recommendation (see Products Finishing's 2003 Directory and Technology Guide, filter presses or visit the Suppliers page at www.pfonline.com/suppliers). For a small fee, some suppliers offer bench scale testing to determine the best filter cloth.
Lastly, you may just have a waste stream that easily binds up the filter cloth. You mentioned that you perform metal cleaning and painting. If you have a burn-off oven for the removal of paint, this could be the source of your problem. Paints contain a very fine powder, titanium dioxide. Since the paint resins are burned off in this oven to remove the paint, what remains is a fine ash. If you find that this is your problem, you will, at a minimum, need to precoat your filter press with diatomaceous earth (DE) and, possibly, body feed a DE slurry into the filter press while you are feeding your sludge. The filter press manufacturer can help you design a simple DE slurry feed system and give you its recommended DE dosage for precoat or body feed. Try the precoat first, since in the vast majority of cases this solves the problem. Most chemical suppliers should have access to DE, but if all else fails, you can purchase DE at your local pool supply store.
One needs to keep in mind that the filter press cloth does not really perform any filtering; it provides a base upon with the incoming feed material can build upon, and as the filter press cake forms, it filters itself. Hope the above ideas help you solve your problem.


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Poor literacy 'increases early death risk for elderly'
One in three adults aged over 65 in England have difficulty understanding basic health-related information, suggests a study in the BMJ.
They are more than twice as likely to die within five years as adults with no literacy problems, it was found.
The University College London study tested nearly 8,000 adults on their understanding of aspirin instructions.
The Patients Association said patients should help draft information leaflets so they are "relevant and clear".
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kickysnana (3,908 posts)
1. I filled 23 prescriptions this month. Several pills look identical in shape, size and color.
They do however have script and numbers on them I can read with glasses and a magnifying glass.
If I could not read the bottles could I remember by the end of the month that I take one oval small white pill once a day and one medium oval large pill twice a day and one large oval white pill three times a day?
How long before I made that fatal error and took too much or too little of something?
My Aunts pre-appointment Specialist's mailed instructions told her to hand carry her medical records into this particular specialist's office at the time of the appointment and if you did not have them then your appointment would be canceled. This one is booking out in April.
Many of my pills cannot be taken together. Many cannot be taken with food. Many have to be taken with food.
They send people home from lung lobe removal in 4 days or to a nursing home if you can afford it or can get in on short notice. When you are that debilitated and on pain meds even if you can read it is very possible to make medication errors. Did I take that already or not?
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Sat Mar 17, 2012, 10:15 AM
xchrom (108,903 posts)
2. i'm grateful for medications on the 1 hand --
and worry that i'm taking them correctly on the other.
every time i take pills i read the bottles -- as if i haven't read them a thousand times already.
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Sat Mar 17, 2012, 10:40 AM
kestrel91316 (51,666 posts)
3. At least half my age 25-60 American clients have obvious trouble
comprehending the medical instructions I give them for their pets (like how many pills of this or that type to give, and how many times a day). There is great confusion over exactly what "Give two pills twice a day" means. Clue: It does NOT mean one pill in the AM and one pill in the PM.
I don't know how to dumb it down. Is it ME??
And if I say "twice a day", why on earth is there confusion about WHEN that should be? Morning and evening should suffice, but if I say that, they get all flummoxed and upset because they have a job and personal obligations and such.
I NEVER say "every 12 hours" because that unleashes a whole shitstorm of confusion and frustration to the point where I get a panicked phone call if it's been 13 hours and the client wants to know "What do I DO???!!!???"
"Once a day" is even worse. In veterinary medicine we virtually never coordinate meds with eating because it's impossible. So give the damned pill at about the same time every day and stop calling me about it in a panic already.
Jesus wept.
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Sun Mar 18, 2012, 03:15 PM
Odin2005 (53,521 posts)
4. The majority of Americans are functionally illiterate.
They simply cannot comprehend anything more advanced than a 4th or 5th grade level.


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Italian law professor Fausto Pocar was the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia's President until 16 November 2008. He was elected to that position by his fellow judges on 17 November 2005. He had previously served as the Vice-President between March 2003 and November 2005. Judge Pocar has been a Tribunal judge since 1 February 2000, re-elected twice by the UN General Assembly in 2001 and 2005.
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Lipoxen PLC
03 August 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3 August 2006
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Lipoxen raises £2.6 million through Strategic Placing and Warrant Agreement with
Serum Institute of India Limited
London, UK, 3rd August 2006 - Lipoxen PLC (AIM: LPX), a biopharmaceutical
company specialising in the development of differentiated biologicals, vaccines
and oncology drugs, today announced that it had raised £2.6 million in new funds
from the Serum Institute of India Limited ('SIIL') through a subscription
agreement and associated warrant agreement.
Pursuant to the subscription agreement, the Company has agreed to issue to SIIL
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per share ('Subscription Shares'). The completion of the subscription is
conditional upon, inter alia, the admission of the Subscription Shares to
trading on AIM. The Subscription Shares, once issued, will rank pari passu in
all respects with the existing issued ordinary share capital of the Company.
Application will be made to the London Stock Exchange plc for these shares to be
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SIIL is a beneficial holder of 4.10% in the current issued share capital of the
Company. Following the issue of the Subscription Shares, SIIL will hold
approximately 12% of the enlarged issued share capital in the Company.
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which the Company has granted SIIL the right to subscribe for up to 2.7 million
ordinary shares in the Company for a period of two years from 3 August 2006 at a
subscription price of 35 pence per share.
Following the issue of the Subscription Shares to SIIL and assuming the exercise
of SIIL's rights under the warrant agreement, SIIL will hold approximately 14%
of the enlarged issued share capital of the Company.
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The funds raised through the subscription will allow the Company to drive
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into clinical trials and appoint a leading biologic Contract Research
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in order to capitalize on the potential to broaden the Company's revenue
generating collaborations.
M. Scott Maguire, Chief Executive Officer of Lipoxen stated, 'Serum Institute of
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Serum an ideal fit for Lipoxen's twin novel technologies in the field of
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that positions our companies as potential key players in the world of vaccines
and protein drugs.'
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added, 'We are excited about our strategic investment in Lipoxen and feel their
technology is a key component to our strategy to create high value
differentiated biologics and vaccines. Our investment and increased strategic
collaboration was prompted by Serum's desire to become a large contributor in
the biopharmaceutical world and by the very positive preliminary scientific
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The Greek Myths
William Harris, Prof. Em. Middlebury College
Chapter 11:Psychology and the Mind
Most ancient myths have a clear psychological content, which is probably one of the reasons why they have been found so interesting by Western readers over such a long time. But some stories are more than incidentally "psychological", they display insight into some of the deeper problems with which we are concerned, and some which we have only lightly grazed. A summary description of myths which have to do with the human mind does not do justice to the latent potential of the stories, which must be seen housed in their story cycles and beyond that in their total culture to be fully understood. Yet even a brief survey can be useful.
Ajax has been previously discussed in Chapter 1 as a hero who cannot adjust to the constraints and group decisions of his society, and it was suggested there that his confusion of mind and subsequent dislocation of action was connected with the way society treated him. This may have been in part true, but not all heroes who are denied rewards fly into insane rage, murder animals and commit suicide. There is something special in Ajax' case which we probably should consider as a case of schizophrenia, remembering of course that this is our term for use on people living in our society, and the terms when used of another culture merely denotes something which seems generally similar. If in the future we have a clear diagnostic technique which unquestionable identifies schizoid behavior, since we will not be able to use it on persons long dead, we will have to qualify our similarities and likelihood-nesses even more cautiously. For the present it seems fair to draw rough parallels, remembering that they are parallels, not diagnoses.
Ajax is denied something (the arms of Achilles) which has assumed a disproportionate value in his mind. These are no longer arms, but things of incredible value, in fact of a value which approaches the value of life itself to him. Denied these, he is denied the appreciation of what he has been appreciating for years, his holy symbol of maniliness, his pagan Grail, the very reason for existing. All of life has been rolled up in this one symbol, and when it is removed, he collapses into emptiness. In this state other thoughts press forward, hatred not only for Odysseus who got the arms, but hatred of all the Greeks who he hold responsible as a group for the one thing which he could not have. If his love of the arms is single and highly focused, his hatred of those who took it away is diffused and general, so it doesn't matter who really did the evil deed, they must ALL suffer for it. For the Greek "all of them" his mind now can even substitute a herd of sheep, "they" is seen only as a plural and one plural is as good as another. Kill them all!
One of the marks of a troubled mind is the way it misassociates common words and ideas. The Greek word for sheep is ''ois', which has the same first and last sound as the most hated name of Odysseus. This is not more fanciful than the covert association of a disturbed boy of the word "snail" with S. Nail. the headmaster of his school, Summerhill (). The unconscious mind is a great phonetician and words day and night in subtle innuendoes. Now what sound do sheep make? The Greek verb 'mekazo' is fashioned after the bleating sound of sheep and also goats, the root sound would have been 'me-' or 'me-k-' (with a long -e-) equivalent to an English "ma-a-a-". But there is another word in Greek which has the same sound, 'me' meaning "no, not, don't... ", which is what Ajax hears when the herd of sheep bleat around him: "No! No.. !" on and on. When he asked for the arms of Achilles, the leader had said to him "No!", now the sheep were all saying "No!", just like the damned Greeks. The Greeks are all saying 'No!", try to stop it, shut them up, but they won't so... .kill them, those Greeks. But when Ajax finds it was not Greeks but sheep he had killed, he realizes something inside his mind had snapped, a thing which no hero trained within an inch of his life in military valor can face. Suicide is not only a way of stopping all this, for a man of honor it is necessary.
The word "no" has powerful associations. In a somewhat different direction, it sparked confusion, introspection and later enlightenment when the Far Eastern Buddhist roared out 'mu', which means both "No" and "nothing". This famous catchword of Buddhist training has a long history and a philosophical history, but the core notion is the absoluteness of "no" which cuts the thread of old thought clean. For Ajax, bordering on the edge of a mental precipice, it works in a stronger mode, it cuts the reason for living.
In the ancient tradition Heracles became insane, as the play of Euripedes shows.. The fit of insanity is sent upon him by Hera, he kills his own children under the illusion that they are the children of Eurystheus,, and then his wife. The parallels with the madness of Ajax are obvious: Ajax killed sheep thinking that they were Greeks, Heracles killed his children thinking they were the "children" of Eurystheus, who controlled the wild horses of Diomedes which Heracles had previously tamed. The confusion of a present person with a past agent who is totally unrelated defines this kind of illusion as a true schizophrenia. There was an ancient tradition that Heracles suffered from intermittent fits of insanity, from which he recovered completely enough to go on with his Labors.
The intermittent character of Heracles mental illness may be connected with.. .... There is also the possibility that we are dealing here with social dislocation: If a group of Greeks did, according to Rhys Carpenter's theory about desiccation of Greece after l200 B.C. and retreat of the Greeks to the north, migrate northwards to Hungary or southern Germany, and their descendant Heracles, clad in a skin and sporting a club as weapon, did return several hundred years later, he would find Greece much changed and surely inhospitable. Eastern immigrants, whether Tyrians, Philistines or Lydians, would have infiltrated the Greek islands, and been none to friendly to a rough, Neolithic type, even if he spoke archaic Greek. We would certainly register dislocated social and national background as important information the file of a modern psychiatric patient; we should not ignore it in the possible case of an ancient man.
Endymion, a beautiful young man, and beloved of the moon-goddess Selene, was thrown into a permanent deep sleep, in which at night Selene came to make love with him. This would seem to be an early case in the history of catatonic schizophrenia, with incorporation of the specific illusion which either he maintained, or others felt he believed. The connection of mental illness with the moon is reflected in the word "lunacy", but this probably comes from cases such as this rather than from any notion of diagnosis.. The moon and moon lore is not liable to be a key to schizophrenia, but the light it sheds on how other peoples have interpreted insanity may give some perspective to oddities in our own methods of interpretation. But doctors in emergency rooms in large city hospitals know that at full moon time it will be necessary to have extra staff on hand, although they can't professionally make a great point of this knowledge. Still we should be open to the possibility that gravitational changes under the moon's influence may have an effect on living organisms, either as a time clock or in other ways which we are not aware of. The experience of astronauts in space, where the earth stronger gravitational effect will not be present to mask lesser gravitational pulls, may eventually offer us positive new information, or prove that gravitational effects not affect us at all.
The fact that it is under the guise of love and sexual contact that Endymion's immobilization occurs is especially interesting, since severe sexual shock does disorient and immobilize, although more generally in the area of sight and speech. Was Endymion made sick by consideration of his physical beauty, which he felt was undeserved? Selene is often associated and confused in her roles with Artemis, the severe virgin huntress, which would drastically change the nature of this "divine loving". The famous case of catatonia in the New Testament, the man lying immobile on his bed whom Christ "cured" (instantly) by telling him in his ear that his sins were forgiven, points to connections of body immobilization with guilt.
The story of Narcissus may point to a similar kind of problem. The beautiful youth Narcissus, so vain and proud that he continually rejected the advances of the nymphette Echo, was finally punished by Aphrodite, who made him fall in love with his own image, which he discovered one day reflected in a pool of clear water. Trapped by his own reflection, he gave himself over to the useless pursuit of himself, with which he finally died, at which point he was converted into the flower "Narcissus". The symbolism is obvious. Starting from a story about a doomed young man of great physical handsomeness, a type which we have noted before as scheduled for an early death, the tale veers into something like modern psychology under the title of Narcissism, without violence either to the story line or to our theories. Many psychological interpretations of ancient stories are forced and end up as weak explanations, but this one is true to life from beginning to end. Turning the person into a symbolically related nature-form, fits in well with the spirit of ancient animism, which sees person-like forces in all growing life forms., but here we study in reverse the etiology of such a situation.
This story shows such sensitivity to matters of the personality and mind, that we might suspect that we should find other tales fashioned on a similar last. There are very few others that ring right in the same way. The ancients had very different view of the mind from ours, even the redoubtable Aristotle maintained that the heart and not the brain was the seat of the mind and emotions, and only Socrates with his mention of the demon that said "no" (like the superego), points in our direction. This may not be an indications that the Greeks were primitive or psychologically inept, it may suggest that our commonly accepted psychological lore is only a function of our society's way of thinking about itself, and that it may have no more universal applicability than a national diet or a way of dressing. The fast changes in the theory of psychological science in the last hundred years points to something like this, perhaps when more durable theories begin to appear, we will have a clue that we are looking in the right direction.
The story of Protesilaos, the first man to leap ashore at Troy at the "beachhead" to be immediately killed, has an interesting development. His youthful wife Laodamia who stayed at home was so distressed at the news of his death that, by special deic permission, her husband was allowed to come back and spend three hours with her, after which he left and she killed herself. We are apparently dealing in this story with a crossing of the lines of reality and psychic sensation, by which the appearance of a dead person is taken as a real visit arranged by some sort of special dispensation. Nobody in the ancient world questions the apparitions that appear in trances and dream, they are taken as absolute reality, as evidence of the lines of communication that exist between us and the denizens of the other world.. Our explanation, that there remain in the memory-bank imprinted patterns of familiar persons which automatically rerun themselves in the mind, creating the "illusion" of persons, is much more complicated than the ancient assumption of absolute reality, and even in our sophisticated and highly educated world, they constitute something of a strain on credibility to persons unread in modern psychology. Our views seem to us better than those of the ancient peoples, yet the fact that we would not easily accept their premises should be balanced by the fact that they would be amazed by our unbelievable assumptions.
The story of Laodamia parallels the rescue of Orpheus' wife Eurydice. Assuming what one "sees" to be reality may be a perfectly natural reaction, but most of us would feel that believing it to be absolutely true is surely being credulous. And yet that kind of credulousness is at the core of our esthetic predisposition to the worlds of art, poetry and religion, where the men and women of today seem to have more trouble with the price of admission than the ancients did. Insight into the ways other peoples have reacted to suggested images may help us to understand more about ourselves, since we too continue to have these imaged apparitions, even if we interpret them as dreams in a world of fact.
A previous section (Chapter) has dealt with Orpheus as patron saint of poetry and song, we can limit ourselves here to the parts of the Orphic experience which have a psychological content. The poet is the one person in a primitive society who has direct access to the mesmerizing pulses of rhythmic wording, song and dance, with which aids he can seem to accomplish almost anything. Such a man can record feats long past and the deeds of famous men many years dead, this is his basic bardic function. When he calls up persons long dead, transfers the hearer to a far distant place, even perhaps to a place which has never been seen, he raises people to a level of intensity and vivification which they later will refer to as "stepping out of one's body", which is the meaning of the Greek word "ecstasy". Since the Orphic poet collapses time and space, he can symbolically overcome Death. Transferring the symbolic to the real, Orpheus can (almost) bring back the dead from Hades, but in his quest for Euridice, the fatal flaw emerges. As long as he thinks of her, he can bring her back in his own mind, but when he actually turns around and looks, she disappears. As a striking parallel the Pythagorean Symbola state that looking back (as the core of neurotic distraction) must be strictly avoided.
The stories about Protosilaus and Orpheus share what apparently was a common Greek belief in the reality of what we call a memory-recalled illusion. If Laodamia sees her dead husband, God sent him there for a last good-bye, but the terminus of the visit is preordained and it will be no surprise when he leaves. (She kills herself, but that is out of desperation, not disappointment.) But in the story of Eurydice, the termination of the vision was not anticipated by Orpheus, who thought he was really bringing back his wife from the dead by the power of his gift of song. The catch was hidden in the order not to look back. Orpheus ruins his own achievement by not performing the ritual just as he was instructed, he does look back, and so terminates the operation. There are some things which we all do even though we shouldn't, we feel an uncontrollable desire to scratch our nose while the dentist is drilling, our eye drifts uncontrollably and looks at the one person we didn't want to be caught staring at, and Orpheus could be counted on to have just such a flaw. Eurydice disappeared in fact, because she was only in her husband's eye; but the Greek says she was really there in the flesh, and when Orpheus did the forbidden thing and looked at her, he terminated her retrieval by his own error. This is quite different from saying that she was not really there, or that he only thought she was there. This approach to the story preserves the illusion as reality.
Another way of looking at this myth, thinking not of role and orders and responsibility, is to remember that Eurydice's existence as they returned from Hades was only in Orpheus' mind, and he could have kept her that way, in his mind, forever. The mind is one organ of vision, but he turned his other organ of vision, his actual eye, on the space where he thought she was,...... of course there was nothing there. Had he not looked she would have stayed forever with him, safe in his mind.
Of course this is all dependent on one's sense of what is the final reality. If the eye is the ultimate test of reality, the heaven which many religions speak of is a pitiful illusion, but on the other hand if heaven is reality, as classical Lutheran theology taught, this life is something like a photographic negative, a very partial view and quite illusory. Science would have seemed earlier in this century to have opted for a factual and observable world-view, but the developments in physics in the last generation have pointed to a mythic world where abstract values which are hardly graspable by most of us constitute the final truth behind everything. Perhaps it is the mind and not the eye which decides the final assessment of what is true and real.
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Victor Zsasz, Morgan Edge, David Cain, and a female antagonist will allegedly appear in the 'Man of Steel' sequel.
"Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" will have more than one villain if Latino-Review could be trusted. Aside from Lex Luthor who will be played by Jesse Eisenberg, at least three other villains will be included in the upcoming "Man of Steel" sequel.
According to the site, the possible secondary bad guys include serial killer Victor Zsasz, Lexcorp's PR executive Morgan Edge, and deadly assassin David Cain. Amanda Waller, a stern senator who doesn't trust Superman, is rumored making appearance as well.
While naming the possible additional enemies, the site shoots down previous rumors which suggested Metallo and The Joker would be in the upcoming superhero film.
"Dawn of Justice" will open on May 6, 2016 in the States. Zack Snyder is back serving behind the lens, Henry Cavill reprises his role as Man of Steel and Amy Adams returns as Lois Lane. Ben Affleck is tapped as the Caped Crusader, while Gal Gadot is cast as Wonder Woman.


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Drum band returns to give annual Sewickley United Methodist carnival a beat
Drums can "soothe the soul," said Keith Murphy, executive director of Bethany House Academy, who uses the instruments to help students.
He said he has seen it happen for students in the The Bethany House Enyimnyam drumming group, which will perform at about 2 p.m. on Aug. 10 at the Sewickley United Methodist's street carnival.
The carnival is scheduled from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thorn Street between Walnut and Broad streets.
About 30 students, including the drummers, have been attending the carnival since its inception about five years ago, Murphy said.
"Most of what we play comes from our soul. We know a few traditional rhythms, but we constantly challenge ourselves to reach for unique beats that come with complimentary sounds," Murphy said.
Bethany House Academy is a nonprofit group, founded in 1962 and which provides educational programs for children in the Northview Heights apartment complex, located in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhood.
Murphy started the drumming group after he and some students went to Ghana, West Africa, in 1997.
"While they were there, they liked how the djembe drum sounded, however, they were also listening to seasoned drummers. So I decided to buy a few drums with the intent of the youth explaining to their peers in school and at Bethany House the history of the drum," he said.
In the process of trying to reproduce the sound, the students' hands began to hurt.
"It was through this revelation that I decided the drum would assume a different purpose," Murphy said.
The drums became a tool to address poor behavior, poor attitude, anger management, and conflict resolution.
"All participants who exhibited any issues were instructed to go get a drum, and we let them beat on it and encouraged them to play it as loudly as possible, to their favorite tune or song of course, until the pain in their hands built up and as a result of this the problems or issues got lost or reduced," Murphy said.
Some spent so much time beating the drum to relieve stress that they started to sound good, and that is how the Bethany House Enyimnyam drummers got started," Murphy said.
At one time or another most of the 50 children, ages 3 to 14, find their way to the drums.
The ones who spend more time in developing technique and learning the different rhythms are the ones who are chosen for travel to places such as the SUMC carnival, weddings, church events, and community days. Sometimes, eight members play, and sometimes as little as three perform.
"We encourage creativity and exploring as many options as possible to develop music that will elevate themselves and elevate the listener. Practice and perfect is our motto."
For Kadera Lawrence-Murphy, 16, of Duquesne, drumming is a way for her to relax. She has been part of the drumming group for seven years.
"The obligation of being an honor-roll student and an honor-roll person to remain a part of the group is always being emphasized, and as a result I've seen great progress in both," she said.
Kadera, Murphy's niece, now works at Bethany House as a summer youth counselor and drum instructor.
Murphy said the next step is to begin a drumming group in Bethany's newest facility, The Healthy Village Learning Institute, in McKeesport this fall.
"Eventually we will have the largest youth drumming group in Western Pa. by bringing both groups together."
Joanne Barron is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-324-1406 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Netflix Nabs Better Call Saul
It'll air the Breaking Bad spin-off outside the US
Given the enormous impact that Netflix had on the survival and success of Breaking Bad – with binge-watching viewers primed and ready to send particularly the final season into the stratosphere in terms of the show's ratings – it's perhaps not entirely surprising that the streaming service would look to continue the relationship. So it will prove with the spin-off series, Better Call Saul.
The show, which will act as primarily a prequel (with potentially some sequel action) charting the earlier legal wheeler dealings of Bob Odenkirk's slimy lawyer, is being produced once again by Bad creator Vince Gilligan and co-writer / Goodman-father Peter Gould and will first air on US cable channel AMC. Netflix has the rights to air the show "within days" here, in Europe and Latin America, and will have the entire first season ready to watch once it's complete.
Better Call Saul will retain the one-hour drama format of its predecessor, although the tone will skew more towards the black comedy the series did so well. It's all part of Gilligan's plan to keep things as they were with Breaking Bad. "We're both one-hour drama guys. So we figured, 'Why not shoot Saul in the same way?'" he told The Hollywood Reporter in October. "Let's shoot it in Albuquerque, let's get as much of the crew back together as possible, and let's do it the way we did it before so that it will be of a piece with that pre-existing fictional universe that we had so much fun creating." And though they will no longer be the focus, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul may well pop up for cameos... With luck, Better Call Saul will be on our screens next year.


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by looking at the sky you can tell if it's night or day, but how do I know what time it is?
If I need to do a quest at night and it's still day, how do I know how many hours I gotta sleep before it's night? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andrea88GOD (talk • contribs)
By looking at the sky you can roughly tell if its: Dawn, Day, Dusk, Night. AFAIK there's no way of telling the time exactly. Sometimes it's better to sleep in 1-hour steps (if you have a bed nearby) until the quest trigger fires, or to do that until the night starts (dark sky) and then wait. IIRC time passes faster when entering and leaving locations. What quest are you doing? -- Gyumaou (Talk) 14:02, May 8, 2012 (UTC)
I was doing that quest (in rathir maybe?) where someone is stealin the church offers at night and I had to wait in there for like one hour (real life time) until he showed up to steal -_-
so I asked here to know if there was a better way to tell what time it is, I guess the "1-hour sleep steps" will work fine enough, I don't even know if there's other quests that needs to be done at night yet. Andrea88GOD
You can find the time in the Menu. ESC key on PC. It will be below your health/fate/mana bars


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SMX Israel is the country's most well-known SEO conference. This year it took place at the Inbal Hotel on January 6. There were many dynamic and exciting speakers and some important information imparted.
Kahena Digital has already written about the more technical SEO lessons learned at this year's SMX Israel, so I would like to share some of the social media lessons:
- Gil Reich talked about the dangers of looking like a content scraping site even if you aren't one. He advised web designers and developers to invest in making sure the site design reflects its quality content.
- Jon Burg suggested that if you are tweeting for a company and customer complaints come through Twitter, don't present it as a problem. This will cause your employers to rethink their investment in Twitter. Instead, come up with a solution and present it to the company as an opportunity.
- Tzafrir Rehan presented a Chrome extension he created which does all the things you wish Google + did – including, most importantly, scheduling. The extension is called Do Share.
- Shira Abel pointed out that fans brought in to your Facebook page because they were offered a free product are as bad for business as bought likes. Lack of engagement on your page will cause Facebook to make it less visible to fans.
- Shira also reminded us that it takes about ten times of hearing about a brand until a potential customer learns to trust it. This is why social works but also why it is so hard to track.
- Kelli Brown says pages can be merged on Facebook but it usually requires a personal relationship with a Facebook employee. If you don't know one, hire one of the larger social media agencies who does.
Thanks to all these wonderful presenters for their great tips. If I've left out anything vital, feel free to add more lessons in the comments.
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TUESDAY, FEB. 21: A couple facing fraud allegations had their Supreme Court trial adjourned again today as a jury has yet to be selected.
Kyril Burrows and Delcina Bean-Burrows are on trial for fraud against Government for more than $553,000.
There are 35 counts on the indictment with Mr Burrows, 48, charged with 15 allegations, Mrs Bean-Burrows, 49, charged with two and the couple charged jointly with 18.
Charges are between 2005 and 2008 and are allegations of cheating, money laundering, false accounting, obtaining money transfers by deception and obtaining property by deception.
Mr Burrows, a former government architect, and his wife deny all the charges.
The trial was due to begin yesterday morning but by lunchtime, a jury had not been chosen due to potential jurors explaining why they couldn't serve.
Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons told the pool the trial is expected to last between six and ten weeks.
This morning, more potential jurors came to court but by 11am, a jury had not yet been selected.
Mrs Justice Simmons adjourned the trial until noon.
There are dozens of prosecution witnesses expected to testify.
Mr Burrows and Mrs Bean-Burrows do not have legal representation.
Crown counsels Susan Mulligan, Kirsty-Ann Kiellor and Larissa Burgess represent the DPP.


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This movie didn't make me believe in ghosts but it did make me believe in movie reviews (unless they're negative towards me.) The NYT said: "An American Haunting" is scary all right, but not for anyone in the audience. That's not what you wanna hear about a horror film. Because of the period aspect of it and the cast it seemed like it could be a good movie, maybe sort of a "Wisconsin Death Trip" kind of thing. But no. It's bad right from the start. Donald Sutherland has a cheesy haircut that brings to mind Eric Clapton's "Forever Man" phase. The hilarity begins in earnest when the teenage daughter is literally bitch slapped repeatedly by the invisible poltergeist, she screams blood murder, is totally, understandably freaked out, Sissy Spacek runs in to her bedroom, hugs, touches her hair and immediately offers this nugget of wisdom, "Ssh. It's okay. Go back to sleep." The daughters response should have been, "What the fuck are you talking about woman!? Go back to sleep?!?! I just got bitch slapped by a ghost!" But instead, she…goes back to sleep. It only gets worse…or better…depending on your mood. The next amazing moment of stupidity comes a few scenes after the ghost has attacked again. This time, the ghost lifts the girl off the floor by her hair, bitch slaps her some more, all of this in front of Sissy Spacek, Donald Sutherland, the brother, and their family friend. I repeat: They all watch her getting beaten up by the ghost. Next day, the go to the "level headed" school teacher. He's disbelieving. He says, "Ghosts don't exist." They're like, "But we saw it!" He's like, "But did you really see? Maybe there was someone hiding in the rafters holding her up!" They're like, "Hm. Maybe." He's like, "And the slapping…that's an old school boy trick…pea shooter!" What??????? They're like, "Hm. Yeah." They're like, "What about the fact that it took three of us to get the door open?" He's like, "You said it was raining. Maybe the wood got bloated." They're like, "He's got a point." Bloated? Their daughter was getting her butt kicked by a ghost. It's all down hill from there. Bad acting, Clapton hair, excessive bitch slapping poltergeist. Overall grade: A + (for extreme shittiness)
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May 06
My Life on the Road with the LA Lakers
(An excerpt from a journalistic article of my life on the road with the world championship Los Angeles Lakers in the 1999-2000 season.)
Day 1. Meeting the team. The guys seem cool about having me around. I can already tell that they've accepted me into the fold. Shaq in particular seems to have taken quite a liking to me. I can tell that he and I will be good friends when this whole experience is over.
Day 2. The team had its first practice today. During a water break, I told Shaq that I thought he was dragging it a bit on the court and he seemed to take my note to heart. I told him that he looked like "a cow out there" and that if he wanted to make the all-star team he'd better "pick his fat butt up off the court and snap it back on or else he'd be lucky to get a job handing out towels to the other players" He took my criticism in stride and laughed it off. But I told him that I wasn't kidding and then re-iterated to him about how I thought he looked like a "cow" and then I said "fuck you for not taking me seriously". Shaq was cool about it and apologized for not taking me seriously. It was a bullshit apology but I accepted it anyway because I didn't want to get into it with him. He has a way of arguing in circles which really gets on my last nerve.
Day 12. With five games under our belt it looks like this is going to be a great season for the Lakers. Shaq Fu and I have taken to staying up late at a cute little bistro in Beachwood Canynon called La Poubelle and talking about the teams potential in the weeks to come. Shaq has turned me on to red wine and good food. In return I got him the new PJ Harvey cd and Shaq says he listens to it non-stop. Unfortunately, I'm finding Shaq to be a bit clingy. He's a cool guy and fun to hangout with but he's kind of eager and not very mellow. Like, the other day we were yard saling and Shaq goes absolutely berserk over this Fonzi pillow. I could tell that he was really just trying to impress me with his knowledge of 70's sitcoms because I told him that he was too young to be Gen X and he's deadset on proving me wrong.
Day 27. The good news is that the team is in first place. The bad news is that I'm giving Shaq Fu the cold shoulder this week because I heard him bragging to a friend on the team about how he wasn't taking my notes anymore. That's such bullshit. If Shaq doesn't like what I have to say about the way he's playing the game of basketball then he should be man enough to talk to me about it. I thought we were supposed to be friends or something. And furthermore, he is taking my notes and is obviously trying to take credit for it himself which I find really lame and frankly, immature. So, fuck it, I don't want to be his friend right now. Yesterday i proved it, he asked if I wanted to see "Kundun" with him again at the three dollar theater and I told him that I was going to Malibu for a hike with Kobe and that he wasn't invited which I could tell really ticked him off. He acted like he didn't care and said something about how he "loved seeing films alone anyway" but he was obviously bumming. Shaq always puts on this fake smile bit when he's mad at me. I'll start being nice to him again next week.
Day 40. We've fallen back to fourth place, fired the coach, and brought in Dennis (Rodman). Dennis and I have an adversarial relationship, to say the least. There's a mutual respect between us and in many ways were alike but I think he had a grudge with me from the begining because I spread a rumor about him before he joined the team that he was a ball hog and a know-it-all.
Shaq and I are back on, our giggling fits during halftime have become somewhat legendary. Like at the Dallas game last week, I farted during Del's halftime speech and everybody cracked up. It was really funny. Shaq said it sounded like someone droopped a dictionary on the floor. That really broke people up. Even Del laughed. And just when it seemed like we'd stopped giggling someone would break and we'd all start to crack up again. It was so funny. Shaq told me he laughed so hard his tummy hurt.
Day 48. We've won 6 games in a row and are on a roll. Things are really great. Last night a bunch of us went out and partied hearty. A friend of Rick Fox's was having an invite only thing in Hollywood and we all crashed it. Kobe was so comical. He was like, "Heeeres Johnny". It turns out Dennis is an awesome DJ and was putting on one classic song after another. Everyone was into it. We made him play "Faith" by George (Michael): like five time in a row. Before anyone knew it is was a total dance party. I couldn't believe it. People were totally doing the cabbage patch and geting into it.. Shaq and I were like, "wow, this is getting out of hand". And then one of the speakers blew which sucked but we were like "fuck it" and we just kept going. Everyone was like, "we'll call it 'The One Speaker Party!' It'll be classic". At one point we all got in a circle and everybody took turns going into the middle and doing a little solo. We were all doing silly dances for eachother, Kobe's was kind of corny and awkward but Shaq Fu was so comical because he does the Pee Wee Herman so well. It's totally classic. Everyone said so. Even Del got into it with his crazy bad Molly Ringwald dance that she did in "Breakfast Club". Then there's this lull and Kobe got this devilish grin on his face and suggested we play "I Never", and it was this total nervous energy in the room. And everybody's like "ugh, uh…uh…" and I could tell that this girl I'd been talking to wanted to play, and I'm like, "I'll play if you'll play" and she's like "I'll play if you play" and Kobe's like completely running the show, getting everyone psyched and the next thing I know, it's like this crazy make out scene. Long story short, it's basically like this total orgy, where like, everyone's making out and kissing and like, it was nuts.
Day 65. The season is almost over. Dennis is gone. I'm kind of bummed but it's probably the right thing. Shaq Fu seemed really upset and I could tell that he was wanting to talk about it. We waited after practice for everyone to leave and went into the middle of the court and just talked. We must have talked for hours that night. About everything. We talked about God and war and Shaq told me all about what it was like being so tall. At one point we just stopped talking. There really wasn't anything to say. We jsut sat there. Shaq told me there were a couple of old sleeping bags n the locker room and did I want to camp out on the court that night. I knew I had a long day coming up but I hadn't gone camping in awhile and this seemed like a perfect oppurtuninty. We talked more, and eventually got into one of our giggling fits again. Then we fell asleep. It seemed like we were up all night but it turns out we fell asleep at about 10 oclock. You lose track of time when you go camping.
Day 87. Last entry. The playoffs are right around the corner and everybodys getting psyched. Shaq and I didn't really tell anyone about our camping trip. It was our little secret. Now when I see Shaq at practice or on the street we say "Hello". Maybe "How are you?" Things have definitely changed. BUt we'll always remember that year and what it was like to be good friends even though it couldn't last forever.
May 06
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn!
About Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn an excerpt from their website.
"DEVELOP DON'T DESTROY BROOKLYN leads a broad-based community coalition fighting for development that will unite our communities instead of dividing and destroying them. DDDB is opposed to Forest City Ratner's 9.1 million square foot development proposal for an arena and 16 high-rises in Prospect Heights and Park Slope, Brooklyn. The $3.5 billion project would use at least $1.6 billion in public money and would abuse the state's power of eminent domain taking private property from one owner to give to a private entity for a private use, instead of a public use.
Our coalition consists of 20 community organizations and there are 53 community organizations formally aligned in opposition to the Ratner plan.
DDDB believes that New York City is always about change, but we ask the question: How do we, the people, want that change to occur? We want smart collaboration that creates decentralized, diverse, exciting urbanscapes that New York and Brooklyn can point to with pride. We do not accept the abuse of eminent domain. And we do not want top down, sweetheart mega-deals that give one real estate developer carte blanche.
DDDB supports growth at the MTA's Vanderbilt Rail Yards, with truly affordable housing and career creation; that development must respect the quality of life in surrounding neighborhoods, the well-being of existing businesses, the scale of local architecture and the health of nearby residents. Zoning changes MUST benefit residents, while allowing for new uses. There must be oversight by local officials from community boards to the City Council. And most importantly there must be genuine input from affected communities.
DDDB is fighting the Forest City Ratner plan so that we can have responsible development in our community. We are fighting and will continue to fight in the court of public opinion, political opinion and eventually in the courts of law.
DDDB is a volunteer-run organization. We have over 5,000 subscribers to our email newsletter, 6,000 petition signers, and a nine-person steering committee. Over 400 volunteers have registered with DDDb to form our various teams, task-forces and committees. We are proud of our accomplishments."
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May 06
Final 10 Thoughts on American Idol
1) Clay's hair.
2) Where's Fantasia?
3) Elliot can sing.
4) The cowboy act is wierd.
5) Mcphee is a phony.
6) Prince is the closest thing we have to a God.
7) The basketball player girl was my favorite.
8) Paula's not on drugs.
9) Meatloaf?
May 06
Robots on Atlantic Avenue!
There's robots in the window of City Foundry at 365 Atlantic Avenue.
May 06
Go see the movie "Stagedoor"
This is a great documentary directed by Alexandra Shiva (Bombay Eunuch) that tells the story of five campers in one session at Stagedoor Manor the theater camp in the Catskill mountains. The film really captures the love that these kids have for musical theater and performing. It's funny and endearing and really entertaining. Highlights are the scene in which an incensed camper complains that the costume designer for Fiddler On The Roof has made them wear Amish looking hats; also, a British Master Class Acting teacher that is so absurd and over the top he seems like a Ricky Gervais character. Go read about the film at www.stagedoor-movie.com Go see it and tell all your friends!
May 06
Tip Delivery People
These men and women work so hard to deliver food to our doors yet somehow it's not common to tip more than a dollar or two per order. It's customary to tip waiters and waitresses 20%. I think that the same should be true for delivery persons. They deserve it. Here's a good little article on a lady who delivers pizzas.


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