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As part of the Dunkeswell War Stories project, the team worked with the children of Broadhembury Primary School to introduce the important role played by Dunkeswell during the second world war and to give children a first-hand look at documentary film-making.
Lesson plans relating to this project, along with printable resources and a memory bank for schools, are available on the Dunkeswell War Stories website.
Lesson plans and printable resources are suitable for children of Key Stage 2 (KS2) and beyond. Also available is the schools video bank suitable for classroom use for Key Stages 2 & 3.
Looking at the local iron-working industry through the Iron Age, Romano-British, Saxon and Medieval periods and modern archaeology, these resources supporting the Key Stage 2 (KS2) history curriculum. The topic connects local heritage with wider developments in history and technology. The resources were developed as part of our Metal Makers project in collaboration with All Saints Primary School near Axminster.
Hembury Hillfort, near Payhembury in the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), is an excellent site to use to introduce Key Stage 1 (KS1) children to life in the Iron Age. For Key Stage 2 (KS2) pupils, Hembury can be used as a basis to demonstrate how archaeological enquiry can be used to investigate local prehistoric sites.
These lesson plans and resources provide inspiration for both KS1 and KS2 lessons.
These resources introduce preschool and Key Stage 1 (KS1) children to ancient iron-working in the Blackdown Hills. The theme is presented through a story set in the Iron Age, Noni the Blacksmith[CG1] . The downloadable lesson ideas contain suggestions on art, craft, movement and play activities to accompany the story. The resources were developed as part of our Metal Makers[CG2] project in collaboration with Hemyock preschool and primary School.
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Annual Holiday Sale - 2016
Dec 3rd & 4th
Saturday: 10am to 5pm
Sunday: 12:30am to 5pm
My annual holiday sale is held the first weekend in December at my home. I sell mostly seconds (pieces with minor flaws not suitable for retail) at a deep discount.
For directions, click here, or contact me.
I host two major sales events each year; a booth at the Fremont Fair, a summer craft fair, and a holiday sale every December at my home. Below is the general information for both. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.


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Saturday, July 2, 2011
Strawberry Love Parfait
Today I took some of my yogurt, sweetened it with some local maple syrup and added a dash of my vanilla extract for some added flavor. I took the last of the garden strawberries, sliced a few and pureed the rest. I layered the yogurt and puree in parfait glasses, topped them with the slices and The Boy and I enjoyed a simple, beautiful, delicious and nutritious dessert.
That's what I made today. Peace.
7 comments:
- cheeky curves said...
Ooh I so wish I was with you, that looks so lovely
- July 2, 2011 at 8:24 PM
- Pan's daughter said...
Mmmm...sometimes those simple desserts are the very best!
- July 2, 2011 at 8:38 PM
- Tammie Lee said...
you sure know how to enjoy life~
- July 3, 2011 at 2:01 AM
- Healing Woman said...
Yum. I'm going to make some this week. Your's looks sooooo good.
- July 3, 2011 at 10:48 AM
- Sharkbytes (TM) said...
yum yum! i just put on cut up fruit- less pretty, but less work
- July 3, 2011 at 7:47 PM
- Faerie Moon Creations said...
Oh how delicious!!!! Strawberries are my favorite fruit. This looks amazing!!!
- July 3, 2011 at 8:21 PM
- Walk in the Woods said...
I'm not much of a dessert person, but I admit, this was very good. Thank you all for your sweet comments!
- July 4, 2011 at 5:56 AM
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Vol. 28, No. 1: Global Journal
American paper, global face
How do we make sure our articles read well anywhere in the world, while keeping our identity as an American paper?
Rulings & reminders
● Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. is the name for the company formed by the merger of Walgreen Co. and Boots Alliance.
● Nielsen is known as Nielsen NV now.
● For municipal subdivisions in Paris known as arrondissements, we now use numerals: 1st arrondissement.
● Something is a historic event, not an.
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This sentence appeared briefly in the online version of an article in the Journal, making us all cringe: But don't child yourself that you're making an investment.


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I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals. (Paulo Coelho)
Life is seldom simple and I have often had to make difficult choices. As much as I have always loved to write and done my best to carve out the time to do so, the daily obligations I have to myself and others have taken priority over regular posts.
This time away has its drawbacks. Every day away from my writer's notebook or the keyboard feels like a day that I have recklessly squandered. Not only that but, in the words of Michelangelo, "It is only well with me when I have a chisel in my hands."
Like so many in the people professions (including and especially parents who devote themselves tirelessly to raising children), I have an over-developed responsibility gland. I must honor my commitments to those who depend upon me. No matter how much I need to write for much more than my early morning half-hour minimum (squeezed between buses on my morning commute), I must ensure that I am following my conscience which dictates people and professionalism first.
As a self-supporting family of one, I have many rights and freedoms that those who are partnered or parents may not have, but it is equally true that I do not enjoy any "divisions of labour" in my household. I don't have anyone officially designated to pick up the slack or back me up when the chips are down. If it wasn't for my incredible "family of friends," (family who are friends and friends who are family), life would seem pretty precarious at times.
Taking care of my responsibilities to me (an accomplishment for a reforming people pleaser!) and still looking after significant others is paramount. It is equally true that, when it comes to my writing projects, I must confess that I am often daunted by perfectionism.
Not only do I want my writing to be its best–reaching the highest levels of awareness and greatest depths of understanding–but I also struggle with how and when to reveal "painful times" as mentioned in the quotation above. As much as I write for myself and idealized readers with the wise minds, tender hearts, and balanced temperaments, I am not naïve about the challenges of human nature and nurture. What I say or write can be taken out of context and used against me.
It is for this reason that I also want to ensure that I am walking my talk–holding myself to high, discerning standards while still giving myself and others permission to be fully human. We are all, to some degree, "people of paradox" and murky, quirky ironies abound.
In every day and in every life, there are those painful times that are at the heart, mind, and soul of what makes us human. As much or more than our victories and triumphs, they are what bibliotherapy is all about. While I have gone a long way towards ceremonially smashing my idyllic "perfection pictures" of the life I once thought I was supposed to live, it takes continuing courage to "bare my scars as medals" as I live the most authentic and genuine writing and reading life I possibly can.
While there is great strength and possible evolution in living and writing one's truth (whether privately in a journal or on the worldwide web for all to see), I acknowledge that it is the pointy and piercing shards of those deliberately smashed perfection pictures as much as the daily distractions and drudgery that keep me posting here in fits and starts. As a perfectly imperfect human being, I resolve to keep putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard with the same spirit (if not the same skill!) that Michelangelo put chisel to precious stone.
While still striving to do my best for the people I'm honoured to know, love, and serve, I will also aspire to write with the kind of honesty and authenticity that bares scars like medals.
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Show your love for the outdoors on your truck or SUV with the 16″ Rocker Panel Kit in your favorite Camo. This easy-to-use kit is designed to fit under the moulding or over the moulding on the door from bumper to bumper, on most full-size and compact trucks and SUVs. Kit includes: (2) 16″ x 14 Ft sheets. Matte finish.
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Back in the days of scripted television, The Love Boat was the place to see Hollywood bygones, one-trick ponies and "where-are-they-nows." Enter un-scripted shows (which are anything but real, though dubbed "reality TV") and we find a second verse, same as the first. This time we swap a cruise ship for the dance floor and voilà, Dancing With the Stars.
Though dancing is one of the things mentioned when I once asked what we would do on the day after a cure for MS, we don't talk much about high heels, spangles and dips (other than the old MS two-step). Social media lit up this week, however, when it ABC announced that our fellow on the MS trail, Jack Osbourne, was to be on the upcoming season of the ballroom program.
In my reading – and there was a lot to read – most people in our community are excited and hopeful that Mr. Osbourne, who announced to People Magazine last year that he was living with MS, will be a good advocate for people like us.
That's what seemed to be the raspberry seed in a lot of wisdom teeth: "Like us."
Even if I take out the most bitter of the comments I read, still there is concern that someone turning, spinning, lifting and shaking – all under the very hot lights of a television set – will make people think we could all do that. Many feel that MS is misunderstood enough to have such mixed signals out there week after week.
Genuine – and not unfounded – concern for Osbourne's health was also voiced. The stress of a weekly show, strain of the long hours of physical practice required and, again with the heat…
I argue that there will also be a lot of pressure from the MS community that every word that he or his family (or heaven forbid, those commentators!) say about multiple sclerosis be spot on. If it goes well, millions will learn about our disease. Conversely, one misplaced sentence and those same millions will be forever misinformed.
We all know that MS is a personal journey. Every case is different, everyone's coping is different, and we all count on the kindness of others in the search for a cure. Will this kind of exposure be good or bad for us on the micro and the macro levels?
That, I believe, is yet to be played out.
The one thing of which I am certain, however, is that I for one will not stand for voices in our community lashing out because Jack isn't being "good enough" as a spokesman for MS. Especially the voices who blurt out, loud and strong, that he is bound to do one damned thing for the cause… yet fail to do anything for the cause itself.
No, we do not all have television shows or famous families or access to millions, thousands or even hundreds. We can, however, all do something. In fact, let it be known that I'm not even saying that any of us is obligated to do anything. I will say that anyone casting stones at the way in which Jack Osbourne and his family are attending to their advocacy had better have a list of how they advance our cause. If not, I call bullshit.
What are your thoughts on the way that celebrities with MS (or any other condition) handle their fight – publicly or otherwise?
[Editor's note: Trevis mentions this in the comments below, but I wanted to make sure you all see it. News is just out that Jack Osbourne's wife, Lisa, has had a late-term miscarriage. Our thoughts are with them as they deal with their loss.]
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
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What is the best way to spend an afternoon in Cambridge, UK?
I recommend going to Cambridge on a weekday, that way you can avoid the huge crowds of tourists that flood the city every weekend. Cambridge is a small town, the centre of which is dominated by university and college buildings, and their beautiful old inner courtyards. "Colleges" are part of the university, but each is like its own mini castle with its own gardens and distinct architecture. There is a lot to see, and you won't even be able to see all of it in one afternoon.
Don't be afraid to wander into any and all of the colleges. While the town may seem closed off at first, the only places you need to buy tickets for are King's College, King's College Chapel, and Trinity College. And for those, you can go in for free if someone affiliated with Cambridge takes you along with them. The rest of the colleges are open to visitors.Â
I highly recommend going inside King's College Chapel, it's grandeur is completely disproportionate to the size of Cambridge itself. It's worth coming to the town just to go inside the chapel.
King's College Chapel. Photo: Olga Zeveleva
When it comes to colleges, King's College and Trinity are two of the most popular tourist destinations, but don't miss St. John's College, which is close by and open to visitors most of the time. Go to the back of St. John's and cross the Bridge of Sighs, you'll never forget the shapes of the shadows it casts or the tranquility of the River Cam beneath it.
Bridge of Sighs, St. John's College Cambridge. Photo: Olga Zeveleva
Even if you don't make it into the courtyard of Trinity College, go to their famous library - the Wren Library. It's open for tourists Monday to Friday between 12 and 2.00 PM, and during full term you can come by on Saturdays between 10.30 AM and 12.30 PM. It's around the back of Trinity College near the river - don't go in through the main entrance, instead go to the side gate on Garret Hostel Lane. Inside you'll see oddities like a lock of Isaac Newton's hair and some of the first Winnie the Pooh books.
For breathtaking gardens that change every season, visit Newnham College. Newnham is open to visitors, and, unlike most of the colleges, you can walk, lie around, and picnic on the grass. Enjoy the flowers, the beautiful and somehow delicate red brick buildings, and look out across the football pitch to the white house where Sylvia Plath lived when she was at Newnham. The intricate gate leading into Newnham casts lovely shadows too - do make sure you watch the shadows when in Cambridge.
For feeling like you're in an Italian fortress, go to Jesus College and just keep going through the mazes of their courtyards until you get lost.Murray Edwards College offers some insane brutalist architecture, so don't miss it if you really like concrete. For the most manicured grass you'll ever see, go to Pembroke College, which is a lovely small college right in the centre of town that you won't want to miss.
Pembroke College. Photo: Olga Zeveleva
The Orchard Tea Room is a 25-30 minute walk into the fields along the river, where Virginia Woolf and Russel and Keynes used to go for long strolls. In the opposite direction along the river if you're up for a 45 minute walk outside the city centre, you'll find a pub called The Plough in a tiny village called Fen Ditton (just outside Cambridge), lovely for sitting outside overlooking the water on a sunny day, and it's a beautiful walk. You'll see lots of house boats and lively river/riverside activities.
Go to the Cambridge Brew House for the widest variety of local ales (they brew them there). The Mill pub on the river is the most famous pub in town, and The Anchor is where Pink Floyd used to hang out. For wine, go to the Cambridge Merchants wine bar on Bridge Street.
Walk to Fen Ditton. Photo: Olga Zeveleva
A more conventional answer than that of Olga would note that visitors should respect signs which state whether a college is open or closed (or ask if it is not clear)!
Off the beaten track, one might have a coffee at Indigo's hanging out with the students, admire the Mathematical bridge from Silver Street (or walk across if Queens' is open), visit Charles Darwin's room at Christs', Pepys Library at Magdalene and Clare gardens if the weather is good


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Rami Hamdallah Is a Good Man on a Suicide Mission
The new Palestinian prime minister, who is receiving a Palestinian Authority in the midst of a severe economic crisis, will quickly discover that he is more or less alone in his mission.
No one envies Rami Hamdallah. The 54-year-old linguistics professor and president of An-Najah National University was appointed on Sunday as the new Palestinian prime minister, and in doing so assumed overnight the most ungrateful job in the West Bank. His chances of success are so low that some would say agreeing to take the post is akin to taking a suicide mission.
The headaches and troubles will start haunting Hamdallah immediately. He will quickly discover that he is more or less alone in his mission; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas isn't interested in the daily business of running the Palestinian Authority. While Hamdallah will be forced to handle a new crisis every morning, the Palestinian president will continue flying to all corners of the earth, walking on red carpets and shaking hands with world leaders.
Hamdallah is receiving a Palestinian Authority in the midst of a severe economic crisis. It will be impossibly hard for him to follow Salam Fayyad's act. His first mission will be to safeguard the fragile budget of the Palestinian Authority and to ensure that thousands of clerks and security personnel receive their salaries.
In order to do so, Hamdallah wil have to persuade the United States and the other donor states that he is a serious, honest, corruption-free partner, at least as much as Fayyad was. Hamdallah does not enjoy the international status of his predecessor, and is relatively unknown in Washington and in European capitals. If the West senses that there is no responsible adult safeguarding the Palestinian coffer, the donations that keep the Palestinian Authority alive will soon be halted.
Hamdallah's only advantage over Fayyad is that Abbas trusts him. At least his first days in office will be free from the tension that colored relations between the Palestinian president and the prime minster in recent years. Furthermore, despite terming himself a political independent, many Fatah leaders consider him "one of their own," unlike Fayyad, who was despised and continually subjected to attempts of sabotage. Hamdallah will probably receive the support of Fatah members.
Hamdallah will also have to deal with a deep inner crisis as a result of the lack of progress in the reconciliation talks with Hamas. Formally, he is supposed to head a transition government that will serve until the elections, but even the most optimistic scenarios do not envision these elections happening in the foreseeable future.
The new prime minister enters office two weeks before Abbas is due to decide whether he is headed toward resuming peace talks and warming relations with Israel, or opting for the continuation of one-sided moves at the United Nations, together with a face-off with the U.S. and Israeli administrations. At present, it seems that Abbas will choose the latter.
Hamdallah is considered moderate and pragmatic as far as Israel and the peace process goes, but it is doubtful that he will have any influence in the foreseeable future. A political crisis that will follow a failure of Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to renew negotiations could easily erupt and become a security crisis in the form of a new Intifada in the West Bank.
Hamdallah is familiar with crises. A decade ago, he experienced a personal tragedy when his wife and three daughters were killed in a car accident. He managed to overcome the blow and continue his work at An-Najah and the central elections committee. Now he will need to leave the comforts of the academic world and dirty his hands with Palestinian politics. We wish him success.
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Rogers Communication Inc. ( RCI ), one of the leading telecom carriers of Canada, has acquired BLACKIRON Data from Primus Telecommunications Group for a cash consideration of $200 million. The acquisition will allow Rogers to expand its reach within the enterprise segment spread across Canada.
BLACKIRON Data is an innovator in data centre and cloud computing services and has approximately 4,000 customers. BLACKIRON offers a wide range of IT infrastructure solutions including Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and works closely with clients to deliver value to their business.
Acquisition of BLACKIRON will allow Rogers Business Solutions (RBS) to strengthen its capacity and coverage across Canada as almost 80% of all Canadian businesses are located within 200 km of a BLACKIRON Data centre.
Notably, BLACKIRON owns and operates 8 data centres across five important cities of Canada and has recently opened a contemporary data centre in Markham, Ontario. The data centre has expanded its current operations by 45%. This strengthens RBS's position in Ontario, where it already owns two data centres and has partnerships with multiple cloud vendors.
Combining Rogers' fibre-based network with BLACKIRON's advanced range of data centres will allow the Canadian telecom company to become a turnkey IT infrastructure solution provider for enterprise clients. BLACKIRON, which has 132 skilled professionals, reported an EBITDA margin of 38.6% on annual revenue of $33.7 million at the end of 2012.
Companies providing cloud computing service continue to flourish as virtualization has become essential for business enterprises to reduce costs and for exploring the markets worldwide. Instead of installing their own virtualization and data centre set up, the corporate bodies are now sharing the cloud computing platform of dedicated providers like Citrix Systems Inc. ( CTXS ), Equinix Inc. ( EQIX ) and VMware Inc. ( VMW ) that allows them to fulfil their data storage needs.
According to research firm Gartner, the cloud computing service market is expected to reach $131 billion by 2013 representing an 18.5% annualized growth. Acquiring BLACKIRON will allow Rogers to capture a share of this growth momentum in cloud service business.
We believe that integrating BLACKIRON with RBS's network will facilitate the latter to serve a wider customer base and strengthen its position in the Canadian B2B (business to business) market.
Rogers currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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Select shops in Antique Village are open 12-4 PM on Thursdays from May 23 through August 29.
There is no admission for Summer in the Village. For your convenience, the Village can be easily accessed through Gate 3 located on 9th Avenue North.
Shops and exhibits in Antique Village may also open by request. Click here to request more information or to book a visit.
Antique Village is also open during all Association events.
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Smart Ticketing Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2017 - 2025
Smart ticketing is emerging as an innovation in the ticketing system in the travel and transportation industries. Smart ticketing system encompasses the electronic storage of travel tickets on microchips instead of traditional system of paper tickets. The microchips are then usually embedded in smart cards, hence smart ticketing schemes also sometimes called smart card schemes. Considered as a significant improvement over traditional payments systems, smart tickets offer cost-effective and efficient way to passengers to manage their travels in trains, busses, and trams. Smart ticketing schemes are gaining traction among public transportation to hassle-free and enhanced experience to passengers in several cities of developed nations. The Octopus smart card in Hong Kong, the MOBIB card in Brussels, the Smart Rider card in Perth, and the Clipper smart cards in San Francisco are some of the well-known smart ticketing technologies employed in public transportation.
Smart ticketing system are less prone to any fraudulent activity, ensure cashless payment by commuters, reduce queuing delays, and speed up their boarding times which also drive the growth of smart ticketing market. In addition, they can always load credit amount in their tickets in advance of their travel. In case of the theft or loss of the smart tickets, the balance amount can be easily recovered or can be easily transferred to some other smart card, and hence smart ticketing system offers greater security and convenience to travelers. Apart from offering superior experience to passengers, they are also proving helpful for policy makers in several emerging and advanced countries for the development of public transportation system. In addition, numerous operators seeking to start any loyalty schemes by offer ticket types to meet customized needs of individual customers find smart ticketing a promising system.
The global smart ticketing market is anticipated to witness healthy growth in the next few years. The easy and affordable access to smart ticketing system for consumers is encouraging its adoption across diverse applications across the globe. Some of the primary applications of smart ticketing technology are buses, airlines, railways and metros, and sports and entertainment. With the rising convenience, it offers to consumers, this market is expected to register a progressive growth rate. The research study further offers a detailed analysis of the global market and throws light on the key factors that are likely to impact the growth of the market across the forecast period.
The emergence of smart ticketing in travel and tourism industry and the affordable access to smart transit systems are predicted to fuel the growth of the global smart ticketing market in the next few years. Additionally, the rising inclination of consumers towards smart technologies is likely to boost the demand for smart ticketing in the near future. The rising adoption of smart ticketing and other smart technologies in developing economies in order to promote smart living is expected to encourage the growth of the overall smart ticketing market.
On the flip side, the need for a large amount of funds and the centralized framework of the smart ticketing systems are projected to restrict the growth smart ticketing market in the forecast period. Moreover, the designing of an open architecture for smart ticketing technology is estimated to act as a major challenge for the leading players operating in the global smart ticketing market in the coming years. Nevertheless, the emphasis of governments around the world to promote cashless transactions and the user-friendly platform of smart ticketing are predicted to offer promising opportunities in the next few years.
The global smart ticketing market across the globe has been categorized on the basis of geography into Asia Pacific, North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East and Africa. According to the research study, Europe is anticipated to witness progressive growth throughout the forecast period. The rising focus of key players on the expansion of application base is considered as one of the key factors projected to encourage the growth of the smart ticketing market throughout the forecast period.
On the other hand, the Asia Pacific smart ticketing market is projected to register a robust growth in the next few years. A substantial contribution from India, China, Japan, and Singapore is expected to accelerate the growth of the smart ticketing market in the coming years. In addition, the favorable regulations and the rising funds by governments are some of the other factors likely to propel the smart ticketing in Asia Pacific. The emergence of exclusive smart ticketing solutions in order to encourage the use of public transportation among public is estimated to offer promising opportunities for growth in the near future.
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Facebook recently revealed a new feature called Facebook Places which allowed you to check-in to places you visit, but trust Facebook to make a Privacy mess out of everything, irony huh? The Facebook Places feature is already annoying users because Facebook allows your friends to check you into places by default.
This is definitely a huge privacy issue for people who do not want to get themselves checked in maybe a bar or uhm a strip club by their friends. Thankfully, Facebook does provide users with an option to disable people from checking you into places.
To do that, head over to Facebook and from the "Account" dropdown in the top right corner, click on Privacy Settings and then click on the "Customize Settings" link. Now follow the instructions below to disable the Facebook places tagging from appearing in your timeline or stopping your friends from checking you into places.
Disable Facebook Places Check-ins from Appearing in Your Timeline
To do this, select the drop down next to "Places I check in to" and click on the "Customize" option. Select "Only Me" in the "Make this visible to" drop down list, this will ensure that your check-ins are not visible to anyone else.
You might also want to uncheck the checkbox next to "Include me in "People Here Now" after I check in" so that you are not clubbed along with other people for check-ins.
Disable Friends from Checking You into Facebook Places
Facebook Places allows friends to check you into places by default, now this could be very annoying since you have no control over it unless you explicitly change your privacy settings.
To disable friends from checking you into Facebook Places, Disable the option from under "Things others share => Friends can check me into to Places". This will ensure that no one except for you can check you in to Facebook Places.
There you go, you can now have your peace of mind back knowing that no one is going to check you into a place you did not want to .


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The fact that it did not include 'total' genocide in its remit, or that it failed to put into practice the vast majority of its proposed expulsions, ultimately, however, says less about the lethal determination of its makers and more about the political, structural and financial weakness of the early modern English state.The aftermath of the Cromwellian campaign and settlement saw extensive dispossession of landowners who were Catholic, and a huge drop in population. In the event, the much larger number of surviving poorer Catholics were not moved westwards; most of them had to fend for themselves by working for the new landowners.
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It was a hot Sunday afternoon; we had just left the church. Surprisingly, the weeklong almost-daily rain and the dreaded Lagos traffic decided to take a break. So it was a really short ride and in less than an hour I was at the great outdoors for the Chef Dish Food Fest. When you love food as much as I do, you do not let an opportunity like this pass you by. My face lit up thinking about my favorite food vendors I would get to meet again. Additionally, the thought of trying out new dishes would surely bring a smile to the face of any adventurer. I set out a bit early and ended up getting there before the event started. It did not bother me, as I had the chance to watch vendors set up. If you were stuck at home once again, here is what you missed.
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Why lease a Honda HR-V in 2019?
The Honda HR-V is one of the most popular small SUV's on the market with over 1.5 million cars sold worldwide between January 2015 and December 2016.
The HR-V is a coupe-styled SUV with a smooth curved exterior designed to ensure the car's aerodynamics improve both performance and fuel efficiency. You can personalise the exterior of your new Honda HR-V by choosing from 8 different paint finishes.
The interior of the HR-V has been designed with ease of use in mind as the dash and cockpit area has everything to hand including the Honda CONNECT touchscreen. This feature allows you to connect to your mobile device via Bluetooth in order to play music and make phone calls. You can also tune into the DAB radio and you can connect to the internet using WIFI, USB and HDMI ports. The touchscreen also features a satellite navigation system that allows for navigation without data reception due to the pre-loaded maps.
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By Phil Pfuehler, River Falls Journal, Mar 26, 2014
The school board has a big decision to make about the historic River Falls Academy building. But after its March 24 regular meeting, it's clear the bigger decision is what to do about 200-some students housed in the Academy for the Montessori and Renaissance programs.
Gorman's Ted Matkom said his company has renovated and converted other old buildings, including those on the National Register of Historic Places, into low-income apartments, offices, condos and senior living complexes.
In River Falls, Matkom said Gorman's $10,000 bid for the Academy would convert the 1927 and 1950 portions into 24 low-income apartments. The building's notable historic features would be preserved.
The Academy's 1991 addition that now houses the elementary Montessori program would be leased back to the school district for $1 a year.
The bid's deal hinges on several tax credit options that Gorman would apply for to subsidize its costs.
One is called "Market Rate" and involves seeking "historic tax credits" at the state and federal levels to cover 40% of the project's costs.
Two other options are to seek more tax credits through the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Authority (WHEDA).
The second of these two WHEDA options provides the largest percentage of tax credits (9%) but is very competitive and time consuming.
Matkom estimated the Academy conversion project would cost $6 million to $7 million.
He said Gorman was in no hurry to start, which was good because obtaining one or more of the tax credit options will take time.
Asked about Gorman's interest in the River Falls Academy, Matkom said: "I love the neighborhood, I think it's phenomenal."
He added the building has great visual appeal because of its "ornate nature" and "1920s architecture."
A large school board audience came primed with questions.
Bob Ebert lives in an old house near to the Academy on Pearl Street. Ebert wondered how 24 new apartment units would affect street parking in the neighborhood.
(Earlier it was reported that Gorman would use an old gym at the Academy to build underground parking, but that turned out to be not true.)
"Parking can be a real issue, especially in the winter," Ebert said. "We need two off-street parking spots for each of those units."
Several mothers of current or future Montessori students posed questions, including:
–Would there be background checks of apartment tenants to ensure the safety of students still using the newer part of the Academy?
–How would the school and apartment portions be kept separate and secure, and how would problems such as tenants smoking and having parties be handled to protect the school's integrity?
–Would increase tenant traffic increase the chances of accidents for the students?
–How would the apartment complex affect neighboring property values?
–How would school safety be ensured while construction was occurring to convert part of the building into apartments?
–If there was a fire in an apartment, would there be adequate notification for the school to be evacuated?
School board member Manny Kenny assured the crowd that nothing would be done at the Academy that "would put our children at risk."
Kenny said that no one had all the answers, but asked for the public's trust. He guaranteed the school board will craft and present a plan that emphasizes student safety.
For the complete story and more school board coverage, including calendar makeup days, see the March 27 print edition of the River Falls Journal.


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December 9th / 10th / 11th 2016
This weekend event was run for the first time last year at the request of people who had been on the Credit Crunch in April and it turned out to be a great success, with a party atmosphere prevailing throughout.
By popular demand the event is running again in the same format as previously but I've been informed the decorations at Abbey Cwm Hir will be different from last time. That said, it's difficult to take everything in on just one visit!
So…! I've negotiated again with the four-star Metropole Hotel in Llandrindod Wells for a three-night dinner, bed & breakfast break, with traditional Christmas dinner on the Saturday evening, and to include use of the spa and heated swimming pool, at the incredibly low price of just £245 per person based on two people sharing. The guided tour of Abbey Cwm Hir Hall on the Saturday morning is also included in the package!
The offer is only available to people who are on the mailing list and priority is being given to those who have been on tours, but places are limited so if you wish to attend please act quickly as the closing date is November 15th.
Complete the form below to indicate your interest:
If you attended last year's Credit Crunch or the Welsh Weekend this June you need no introduction to the eccentricity of the owners and the incredible displays in each of the fifty-two rooms. Each room will be decorated for the Christmas period so I guarantee even those who visited before will once more emerge with heads shaking in disbelief!
I've included some photographs of displays to give a flavour of what you will see, but in addition to a relaxing break, Llandrindod Wells and its surroundings have a great deal to offer, such as the picturesque reservoirs of the Elan Valley, the Red Kite Centre, and the National Cycle Museum.
The itinerary is as follows:
Friday, December 9th. Arrivals at the 4-star Metropole Hotel & Spa during the day, followed by dinner at 7.30pm.
Saturday, December 10th. After a leisurely breakfast we depart to arrive at Abbey Cwm Hir Hall for 10.30am. Nestling in a picturesque valley this amazing building, built in 1834, was purchased in 1997 in a semi-derelict state by Paul & Victoria Humpherston and restored over a nine year period. Virtually every room has a different theme and you will emerge from the guided tour shaking your head – you definitely will not have seen anything like it before!
A short walk away is the tiny hamlet of Abbey Cwm Hir itself, along with the ruins of the 12th century abbey, once the biggest in Wales and dwarfing that at St. Davids in Pembrokeshire. If the weather is fine it's worth investigating.
The afternoon is free to explore the region and perhaps view the Red Kite feeding at Rhyader.
Traditional Christmas dinner will be at 7.30pm.
Sunday, December 11th. A day to chill out but if you feel like a little run out then perhaps the Elan Valley, even for those who did it in April 2015 or June this year, might be a possibility.
Dinner will be again at 7.30pm.
Monday, December 12th. Departure for home, but if you wish to stay an extra night a special rate of just £45 per person, dinner, bed, and breakfast applies.
WINTER SPECIAL. To reiterate, the cost for the event, after serious bartering, is just £245 per person, based on two people sharing. Single supplement £21 per night.
Included in the price are the following:
- Three nights' accommodation on a dinner, bed & breakfast basis at the 4-star Metropole Hotel, Llandrindod Wells with traditional Christmas dinner on the Saturday evening.
Use of hotel swimming pool & facilities
- Entrance and guided tour of Abbey Cwm Hir HallDetailed route instructions for Abbey Cwm Hir, Elan Valley and Red Kite Centre
- Information pack on arrival with leaflets on local attraction
If you have any queries please don't hesitate to call me on 01824 790280, or email email@example.com.
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Since university back to Cameroon, I have been hearing about a famous american female tennis champion.
She has been beating records and became the greatest in her area for decades. I never knew in my university years that I will find myself in the same country of such a legend.
Last month, as I was watching the news and a lot was said about her, I became curious to know what was the secrets of her success.
I found six things that made her successful. I found them so so simple that I wish I knew them since my twenties and started applying them on a concentrated way.
Thanks to God, I was exposed to other successful tips and, learning from her example is adding a great value in my life.
I would like you to learn and apply these simple life principles that will better your entire life.
1. Build a Winning habit: Daily practices for outcomes
-Make sure everyday is a day to practice the good habits that prepares you to succeed: Be consistent.
-Plan every day, week, month, year in advance and start today with the first excellent behavior that guaranty your success.
2. Learn How to adapt to today's reality and forget about the past
-Anticipate changes in culture.
-See ahead of time changes in your team's life.
-Envision new ways of taking advantage of Technology to be unbeatable.
3. Value what makes you and others successful
-Celebrate the success of others.
-Use your success to trigger your future success in your business and all other areas of your life.
4. Encourage Diversity
-Invest your money in different sectors of business so that your money works for you.
-Step out of your comfort zone and look for new investments opportunities.
5.Invest in what is greater than winning all the time: Family, friends and giving
-Being rich should not be the goal of life but a mean to create more opportunity to spend more time with your family, friends and those in needs.
-Being successful is a mindset not the amount of money in the bank account.
-Cultivate the good habit to be grateful to God for everything and for everybody.
6. Parental Coaching Power
-In every child lies a champion. It only requires a parent to invest his best to make the champion manifested.
-Serena Dad's quit his job to focus on his daughters training to make them become tennis champions.
Among the above tips that made Serena William the greatest in her field, which one challenges you to work towards becoming the best version of who God wants you to be?
For me, I am dedicated to invest to best to help those I lead to know themselves and become champions for God.
Hervé Ngaté. Author/Writer/ Cross-Cultural Psychologist and Communications Trainer.


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Debo's Sour IPA Tapping
Date: Thursday, Feb 7, 2019
All Day
Location: Uncle Bears Mesa
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Uncle Bear's kicks off Arizona Beer Week with an exclusive tapping of one of Uncle Bear's guest favorites: Debo's Sour Imperial IPA. Brewed in collaboration with 1912 Brewery in Tucson (one of our best buddies and biggest fans!) this sour IPA will change the way you look at beer…for the better as you are sure to want more! This beer will be available at Uncle Bear's Grill and Taps, and at our Gilbert Brewery and Taproom. We will also be pouring it at Strong Beer Fest on Saturday, Jan. 9, so make sure and check us out at the big party as well!
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Happy Valentine's Day!
I hope your day is filled with lots of family fun!
By popular demand, we are going to have Cupid's Crazy Cafe tonight at dinner with our family. I found this last year on The Dating Divas and the kids absolutely loved it.
Here are some of our dinners from Valentine's past. How do you celebrate Valentine's Day with your family?


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Kristi Rhule, our PR Director for StateNewslines and StateNewsWire is attending this year's PRSA International Conference in DC – and highlighting some great content and message points that are being shared – here is an excellent writeup of Politico's Jim VandeHei advice to marketers.
Jim VandeHei, executive editor and co-founder of POLITICO, swayed a crowd of more than 3,000 public relations professionals during his keynote at the annual PRSA International Conference. Based on his experience (working at both The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post ) and nationally-known success withPOLITICO, VandeHei offers some advice to marketers across all categories, politically affiliated or not
His 4 key points are:
- Create premium content — If you want to develop a loyal following, you must produce compelling (timely and relevant) content and make it easy to obtain. Always put your content first and then find a platform to share it.
- Move quicker! — People are fickle, changing their reading habits and cell phone devices frequently (average cell phone is upgraded every six months), so if you're not staying ahead of technology trends, by the time you get into market, you're already too late.
- Make it clean and play to your strengths — It's the responsibility of the marketer to cut through the clutter so your consumers don't have to. The entire brand experience should be relevant. It's easy to get someone to consider your brand once, but we are in the loyalty business. If your consumers have to sift through the crap, they likely won't come back.
- Experiment! — If you're scared to experiment, it's likely you will be late to the game. So get out there and try something new.
See a behind the scene interview clip with Jim that Ashley Walters did at comprehension.prsa.org


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Vadodara: An old lady was conned by two persons in Godhra taluka of Panchmahals district on Sunday. The incident occurred when the lady identified as Khadija Hajiani was alone at her home located in the posh Mohamedi area.
The accused duo approached her and offered to repair lock and make keys as well. The duo engaged the victim in talks and asked her if she has some other key for repairing the lock. Khadija gave them key of the safe following which they diverted her attention and opened it.
The accused, both in turban, took away about 22 grams of gold jewellery. She learnt about the missing jewellery after a while and informed her family about it. The police have registered an offence and begun hunt for the accused.
The cops examined the CCTV footage of the main road near Khadija's colony and found images of two persons. When Khadija was shown the images, she recognized them.
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- Previous Cops crack robberies at NIT, Baroda Dairy | Vadodara News
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So, I didn't write much about using the faculty of sight in learning Chinese herbs. That's mostly because I'm doing other research about it, particularly around the doctrine of signatures and I'd prefer to write more when I have more to say. I'm already retooling my NCNM class for next year based on what I've learned. Let it suffice to say for now that, in class, we enjoyed ourselves working with our eyes. Overall, one of the most interesting things I learned is that many have resistance many people have to just sitting with something and looking at it. Maybe it's because so many cultures find it rude to stare? I don't think the plants care. Anyway…
Many people seem to believe that what they see at first glance is as much as there is to see. Nothing could be further from the truth. My hope is to encourage students, and consistently re-encourage myself, to really SEE things in their fullness. The subtle changes in color, the textures, the shadows cast, the subtle suggestions of where they were on the plant, how they were treated during growth and in processing. It isn't as if this information is recorded as data and filed away for use in therapy – but just like getting to know a person, all of these tiny pieces of information fill in the skeletal lines of first impressions with color, depth, beauty.
Sight aside, I've had a lot of fun with the students at NCNM working with our underused faculty of touch. We have been working with two types of touch, though I haven't had time to go into depth with either. One of the hardest things about this class is the fact that it's only an hour. That's why an online version will be so great – more time, more space! However, this limitation does force me to try to get the teaching down to essentials.
The two ways we are using touch:
- The most basic – "just touching." There is a ton of information a person can get from touching an herb, even at the most superficial level. You can get a sense for its density, its heft – particularly in relation to other herbs. You get a greater sense for the texture of the herb. With some herbs, like Mutong, you can start to understand what the herb does – it feels like a filter! Or think about something like Ganjiang that feels like it is, drying and warm. Aside from looking to get a sense for what part of the plant is, simple touching can also give you some good information for the doctrine of signatures. Light things may tend to rise, heavier things to sink – and so on.
- A little deeper. At NCNM, we are taught a variety of ways to use our hands to perceive more subtle sensations. But, anyone can get good information by just sitting with an herb in their hands. I usually take some time to do some Qigong or prayer, just connecting with subtle reality. Then I close my eyes and touch the herb, allowing my mind to rest and eventually to wander. I may just hold the herb in place, or may manipulate it. Usually, going deeper in this way allows one to get information that is a little outside of what one would expect. Actions, temperatures, even colors start to flood the mind.
This week, with the class, we used blindfolds to isolate the feeling faculty. While in practice I encourage everyone to use all of their senses, it can sometimes be extraordinarily helpful to just focus on one at a time. Exhaust it! See what you can find.
Just using touch, the class interacted with Baihe – lily bulb. Now, note, these are second year students – just learning herbs. Here is the list of qualities they got, blindfolded, without knowing the name of the herb or anything about it beforehand.
- Lung
- Treats diabetes
- Treats arthritis
- Neutral to cooling
- Expels phlegm
- Whitish yellow (I kid you not)
- Slightly transparent (seriously)
- Taiyin
- Claws
- Relieves dampness
- Clears heat
- Pungent – bitter
- Cold
- Replenishing
- Moves, but not through Yang force
There are a lot of interesting observations here, I think you will agree!
Baihe is sweet, according to the Shennong Bencao Jing (SNBCJ) – though later commentators say it is sweet and slightly bitter. In the SNBCJ it is listed as neutral, though later commentators say it is slightly cooling. Of these basic affinities, only the bitter is out of place in what the students found. It does clear heat, and while the dampness and phlegm properties are contrary to basic understanding of the herb, it's not so far out of the realm of possibility. It is indeed replenishing, related to Taiyin and interestingly, is known to treat diabetes!
Most interesting to me is the symbolic association of the Lung organ system. Lily, in channel affinity language, does enter the Lung (as well as the Heart). Again, we do have the relationship with Taiyin. But what about the claws?! Now Baihe in its dried form does feel a little like toenails, as many students jokingly remarked. The claw association could have something to do with that, but more than one student did get a sense of actual claws or talons. This, to me, is related to the Tiger – the animal associated with the earthly branch Tai and the Lung organ system. I just thought it was interesting that these associations came up so consistently.
We did several other herbs in class, and I was just astonished at how much information we could get with just an hour of holding the herbs. If you haven't tried this before, I recommend it. Yes, just the dried herb. While fresh herbs are great, while plants are great, I do believe that the dried herb holds a lot of information in a holographic way. Students in class were getting senses of the way the plant grows, what kinds of conditions it likes, all without having any contact with the living plant at all. Give it a try!
I want to make clear that I'm not suggesting people just sit with herbs and use that information exclusively. It's a matter of using our sensory experience to enhance and ground the head knowledge of which we get so much. Also, I wonder how long it will take for these students to forget that Baihe is related to the Lung? Won't they have a slightly better understanding of the herb, having spent a little time with it? What if they were to use all their senses, and consistently reengage with it over a period of months, years? It gives me high hopes for their future as herbalists! Give it a try, and come back here to tell us how it went – add your thoughts in the comments!


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How do you manage orders from multiple eMarketplaces, ship them internationally as well as domestically, while still providing unrivalled customer service? This was the challenge faced by Top Jeans Co., an online business with shopfronts across a number of mainstream market places such as eBay, Amazon and TradeMe (their own direct website is currently under construction).
Established in Australia in 2013, Top Jeans Co. has fast become the 'go to' source of hard to find styles at a fraction of the retail price. After obtaining a shipping contract with Australia Post, Paul from Top Jeans Co. says, "we were very surprised to find that Aust Post didn't have their own e-shipping solution so had to go into research mode. To be honest, we found the process quite frustrating. Firstly, there were very few options available to us that actually met our needs being a multi-channel retailer, and secondly, the solutions we did trial weren't user-friendly at all. They lacked intuition and were generally very 'clunky'. Finally, we found ShipIT – a shipping solution that met all of our needs. It's certainly a bonus working with software that is extremely intuitive, modern user friendly look and feel … but beyond that, the personalised care and attention we have received from their entire team has made us feel very comfortable with a process that can be very daunting for many small online retailers."
ShipIT has fundamentally improved the efficiency of Top Jeans Co.'s operations. Paul explains, "Prior to ShipIT, all the other solutions that we trailed for our needs, would take us 4 times longer than ShipIT does for the same amount of postage, simply due to how 'clunky' and unreliable their products were and the lack of support available if issues did arise."


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The Pentagon, never an institution to be short-sighted about its own reason for being, is laying the groundwork for existence justification on a massive scale. We've had the Cold War; now ... get ready for the Long War. As the agency makes the case in the 2007 U.S. budget, and in a soon-to-be-released defense posture review document, the Pentagon envisions a more or less endless state of war for the United States. War, they seem to say, will largely be a permanent state of affairs, with few pauses in the disaster; global conflict will soon become a fact of American life from beginning to end.
"The United States is a nation engaged in what will be a long war," the defense review document says. "Currently the struggle is centered in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we will need to be prepared and arranged to successfully defend our nation and its interests around the globe for years to come."
Two inevitable issues arise, though, matters that undercut the Pentagon's faith in prevailing in such a conflict.
First, if the United States needs to be on a permanent war footing, how is it possible to maintain a military to defend against enemies that cannot be conventionally defined – enemies with no uniform, no flag, no unifying geographic nexus – on an indefinite basis?
Fighting a war like that is fundamentally more expensive in terms of human and financial cost, and complicates the process of finding ready allies by the conflict's basically ephemeral nature. If the enemy is said to be literally everywhere, who can be counted on -- from now until the end of time, apparently -- to be an ally? And how might that alliance be altered or corrupted by the unpredictability of a country's own internal politics? (Don't think it can happen? Look at the change in leadership in Spain less than two years ago, or the seismic shift in Iran about two months ago.)
The second factor is even more basic: When your nation is fighting a war whose progress is based not on the capture of tangible territory but the sway of ephemeral religious ideologies ... how do you know if you've won? The willingness of America's military leadership to even entertain the possibility of winning a nearly-interminable conflict -- something like an American Thirty Years War – suggests that they believe "Victory" is something that can be achieved with no literal objective. As such, the very notion of "Victory" becomes a modern chimera, an anachronism impossible to articulate in militarily definable terms.
In his State of the Union address last week, George Bush laid out the stakes for the nation, calling for nothing less than "the end of tyranny in this world."
Such a lofty mission statement coming from FDR or Churchill three generations ago would have made perfect sense, given the clear, definable nature and mission of the global enemy at that time. In today's world, however, the enemy of terrorism is more diffuse, and nearly impossible to confine to distant national borders – as this nation experienced firsthand on Sept. 11, 2001.
For that reason, the whole notion of "Victory" becomes more a matter of perception than fact. With no concrete metric by which to determine winning and losing, the door is open to an open-ended conflict stretching for generations. Bush's call to end "tyranny in this world" requires a deep-pocketed, conscripted, rapid-response army capable of quelling tyranny anywhere on the planet. That is not the military of the United States, as critics of the defense plan are saying, and it's not likely to be the U.S. military of the future.
"They're not asking for a bigger military and a lot of us are surprised by that," said Michele Flournoy, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "We see the strains on the current forces — we need to grow the force to reduce the strain," Flournoy told The Associated Press.
The cost of such a conflict goes way beyond the dollars and lives expended, bad as they're likely to be. At this point the Iraq war costs the country more than $4 billion a month and has left more than 2,245 service members dead and another 16,000 wounded. That cost is horrific enough. But there's the additional cost to American peace of mind at home.
We're witnessing a growing concern over the domestic surveillance program President Bush authorized to be undertaken by the National Security Agency – a practice articulated and defended by Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. If such a war lasts two, three, five, ten more years, what new intrusions on civil liberties will surface? How many other new ways to monitor the movements and associations of Americans will take place?
What's the potential for a pyrrhic win, for America's life and culture to undergo such radical change in the name of liberty that liberty as a practical matter ceases to exist? From the standpoint of the impact on personal freedoms and on the credos of self-discovery and self-actualization that are the existential trademarks of this nation, would America even be America anymore?
Some scholars have come to see this trend toward the imperialization of the American presidency for what it is: the most dangerous and democratically problematic drive-by on our collective culture and the rule of law since Watergate -- and maybe worse, as a corruption of our values, than Watergate ever was.
Bush's developing propensity to tinker with Article 2 of the United States Constitution, hasn't, for example, caught Ellen Fitzpatrick of the University of New Hampshire unawares.
In a Jan. 2 segment of "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," Fitzpatrick, Carpenter Professor of History at the university, notes how current events have, like always, a definable precedent.
"Originally the notion of being commander-in-chief was explicitly divided from the notion that the president would decide when it was appropriate to wage war. That power very explicitly went to the Congress. So the Constitution is very clear on this point," she said.
She continues: "What has happened historically, however, in times of war, is that the Congress has ceded authority – enormous authority in many cases – to the president to take on powers during times of war because of this unusual situation and the importance of protecting the security of the nation."
"I think the historical context for what's going on now is the expansion in the post-World War II period of the national security state. It is the idea of national security, the doctrine of national security, that is being invoked now to justify a range of actions on the part of the Bush administration in the context of a proclaimed 'war on terror' that has no endpoint. ... [italics are entirely mine]
And the way it's being done? By manipulation of the language, seizure of the attention span, amplification of threat and action – and a willingness to tweak and morph the very meaning of national security to whatever suits the exigencies of the moment.
Fitzpatrick puts it best: "Increasingly in the post-World War II period, what the idea of national security does is to put the United States in a state of permanent military readiness. It redefines foreign policy problems as threats to the security of the nation, and it turns foreign policy goals or aspirations into necessities for the nation's survival. And once that happens, what we've seen in the last fifty-plus years is that repeatedly, the president invokes that idea, that doctrine, to take unilateral action – and to consult the Congress belatedly, if at all."
The prospect of war without end deserves to be an unsettling one, for everybody. Regardless of your party persuasion, liberal or conservative, it raises a chilling prospect for all of us: a world bristling with weapons, a place of relentless animosities exacerbated by increasingly dire Chicken Little scenarios, a world inhabited by children with no childhood, forced to contend with a life during wartime from cradle to grave.
Friday, February 3, 2006
War without end, amen
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How Much Do the Chinese Know About Tibet?
AP/ABC News
[Saturday, March 22, 2008 01:25]
Chinese Government Censors Clamping Down on News of Protests
By JO LING KENT
TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 20, 2008 - With all eyes on Tibet and its violent anti-China protests this week, Beijing has been trying its hardest to control the world's view of the crisis, affecting journalists and citizens alike.
Chinese authorities report that 19 people have been killed. Tibetan exile groups have claimed over a hundred deaths.
Since the violence began in Tibet, officials in Beijing imposed strict Internet controls in an effort to regulate the news emerging from Tibet and neighboring provinces. Google News and YouTube, along with Taiwan news sites, were blocked last weekend.
Highly trafficked Chinese blogs such as Tian Ya were highly censored as well. Chinese versions of Yahoo and the wildly popular Microsoft MSN ran identical reports from the government run news agency Xinhua.
"CCTV has reported [on Tibet]. Xinhua News Agency has also reported it. But Tianya cannot," one user posted on a tourism-themed thread on Tian Ya's public bulletin boards.
Liu Yong, 30, an editor who lives in Beijing said he immediately felt the online impact as the Tibet conflict escalated earlier this week. On Sunday and Monday, he noticed that there was markedly less Chinese language coverage on the issue.
"I couldn't get onto Yahoo.cn's coverage of the situation in Tibet at first. So I tried to check foreign news outlets such as the [Associated Press]," Liu said. "I had trouble accessing."
Peter Wing, a 24-year-old American working in Beijing, also encountered the censorship this week.
"I first heard about the riots on CNN while watching TV at home [in Beijing]. They went to a 'Breaking News' segment to cover the story, and the screen went black for about five minutes," Wing said.
Wing was also prevented from accessing Reuters articles on the topic.
"I have never come across a specific article that has been blocked by China's firewall. Usually, if something is blocked, it's an entire site."
Journalists Affected
For journalists in China, getting reliable information on Tibet has at times been at the mercy of the Chinese government. Journalists and tourists have been banned from entering the region.
"It [has become] evident that there was some correlation between concern about unrest spreading and the degree of confidence that the official felt that the situation was under control," explained Francis Moriarty, a Beijing-based journalist from Radio Television Hong Kong.
"The more it looked like [the news of the protests] might spread, the more the news would get eliminated."
In China, censorship of popular sites is routine. Directly accessing Wikipedia, BBC News and various blog platforms is rare if not impossible. Google "Tiananmen Square" from a Beijing computer and search results will detail travel itineraries and images of the square dotted with tourists and trinket vendors with no mention of the famous democracy protests.
How Internet Censorship Works
The Central Propaganda Department is responsible for overseeing censorship in China. Several separate state agencies censor online content by blocking websites, blogs, bulletin boards and e-mail.
There is a variety of ways that online information is censored. When using a search engine, certain keywords have been limited to provide filtered search results. At times, an error page will appear. At the highest level, selected IP addresses are blocked.
Individuals working or volunteering with state agencies patrol emails and blog posts. Search engines such as Google and Yahoo have agreed with the government to calibrate their search engines to comply with the country's filtering. Chinese search engines such as Baidu, China's most popular search engine, also comply.
Of China's estimated 210 million internet users, most log online at public computers or Internet cafes, known as "wang ba." These wang ba are required to record individuals' official identification and file their customers' online activities for 60 days.
If a user tries to access inappropriate Web sites, the wang ba is supposed to disconnect the user and file a report with a state agency. If a violator is found, punishment can include fines and, reportedly, imprisonment. Given the huge number of users, however, this practice is not always enforced.
Circumventing Censorship
Savvy Internet users can circumvent Beijing's blockage with proxy servers such as the German proxy Anonymouse to access the unreachable Web sites.
However, as the tension in Tibet has escalated, the proxies have also become unavailable.
Moriarty explained, "It appeared that all of the usual proxies were also shut down, even in the case of people who are very Internet savvy. In the worst of it, I was unable to access my emails."
Some foreign Web sites are finding their way around the blockage. Wired's Threat Level blog has posted videos of the violence in Tibet as a way to circumvent the government blocks.
China Digital Times, based out of Berkeley, Calif., posted a rotating slideshow of events in Tibet as they have unfolded over the past week.
Individuals have attempted to skip the censors by emailing links and text. Few have been successful.
"My friend in Chengdu [Sichuan Province] sent me a link with news and photos from a Tibet-related event there. The link was blocked," Liu explained.
As the situation in Tibet continues, censorship seems to be lifting. On Chinese language sites, the situation is returning to normal.
"Today on Yahoo, it seems that things are back to normal. It can be seen that there has been a change in the policy," said Liu.
As the censors have been lifted, the censorship problem does not go away. With the Olympics quickly approaching, many wonder if controls will continue to tighten, despite the public nature of the Games.
"The timing of this — before the Olympics, on the anniversary of 1959 uprisings in Tibet, and during [Central Communist Party] legislative meetings in Beijing – has probably also influenced the intensity," Liu told ABC News.
"I personally think this is not a simple problem," Liu said.
Wing, who has been living in Beijing for over two years, is troubled by how information is so easily influenced by government censors.
"It's frustrating that no one throughout the world knows what is going on. But it's more frustrating that, since I live in China, I know even less."


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First Attempt at a Lyrical Essay
Here is my first attempt at a lyrical essay (assignment for one of my classes):
The River
My home town is nestled on the outskirts of the Tri-Cities, located right where the Snake runs into the Columbia. I used to think this was cool. In 8th grade they made a point to teach us this. Teachers made it seem really cool and important. In many ways it is. The Columbia is a vast river and important piece in the history of the Northwest. The Snake is 1078 miles long. And we sit at its end. I was always astonished at this thought. I still am. Whenever we drove over the bridge into town, I could see clearly where these two rivers joined. It is something much greater than us. Yet so simple. And something that can easily be overlooked as important.
I remember when I was little how much I loved looking out the window at the Columbia. Nothing blocked our view of it, save for the fields of sagebrush on the other side of the road that grow downhill, over the railroad tracks, and push up against the swamps, surrounded by cattails and a variety of trees. Because my house faces the west, I often enjoy watching the sunset. Even now, when I go home, I look forward to this. The beauty of nature. The calmness of a family watching the river, year after year.
In many ways, aren't we (people) just like rivers? Throughout our lives we flow, we learn, we give ourselves to other people. We are used for fun, transportation, food. We also intertwine. New rivers and tributaries spring from us through our relationships and networks with others. We can form lakes. A place where recreation happens and people typically come together as families. And at some point, we join forces. We flow into another river, adding our water to it. And carrying on in that manner until we eventually flow into the ocean. When we combine forces, we become a part of something bigger. Something better.
I'd like to pause for a moment on lakes. Several great memories from my childhood happened at a lake. When I was little, my family would go camping with grandparents. There is a portion of the Blue Mountains in South Eastern Washington referred to as the Tucannon. The Tucannon River flows through this valley. It empties into several lakes, both man made and natural. I loved our family camping trips. My grandpa used to let me tend the fire, which I thought was awesome because I was around eight at the time. Each day we were there, we would fish in the morning and the evening. It was a great experience and I learned a lot from them. Not only about fishing, but also about life. These are memories that I will never forget.
The river, as you can see, is still important to me. Anyone who looks at my phone will see several images I have taken from the end of my driveway of the sunset. Sometimes it disappears quickly; in a split second, even taking two pictures in a row, the sun can go from being over halfway visible to just a glow emitting from the top of the hills on the horizon. To me, there is nothing better to look at. It's home. This summer I went fishing with my cousin on his boat. Although I had been on the Snake before, and even other parts of the Columbia, this was the first time I had been on the portion of the Columbia directly in front of my house. It was a surreal moment. It was as if I was the river looking at a vast amount of land that ran along my edges. I could see my house, the trees in our front yard, the town's water tower. And that's when I realized how small we all are. Rivers are not the largest bodies of water. Their width and depth can vary. Where they end can vary. Just like we can. But the world around them is so vast, so large. We, as people, have the capabilities to do whatever we want.


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It's time for another trailer roundup! There won't be one next week, unfortunately, so this one is a bit larger than usual with 13 trailers. Today's picks include savory dishes, shooting, stories, silliness, scares, and singing.
Assault Android Cactus
Windows, OS X, Linux, PS4, Vita Wii U | $15 | Available now
In case you missed it, Assault Android Cactus is a great twin-stick shooter. Now you can get it on PS4.
Windows, OS X, Linux, Mobile | $TBA | Mid 2016 | Greenlight
From developer Fernando Córdoba: "BalanCity is a mixture between a city building game like SimCity and a
casual physics stacker game like Jenga on a 2d side view."
Before You Sleep
Windows, OS X, Linux | $20+ | June 2017 | Kickstarter | Demo (Windows)
This game is to be a "survival social" game. The devolpers don't mean social as in Facebook. Rather, the game is about lasting 30 days in a social setting based on how the player interacts with others.
Windows | reg. $10 | Available now
Story-driven twin-stick shooter Bezier is now available on Steam. If you like games that'll mess with you, you should grab it.
Blueprint Tycoon
Windows, OS X, Linux | $TBA | Spring 2016 | Greenlight
A basebuilder with a focus on manufacturing and making a profit.
iOS, Android | Free (IAP) | Available now
From developer Imperial Unit: "Eat to survive through hundreds of challenging puzzles that will get your tail wagging and brain bursting. With a buffet of adorable animals, exotic locations, gorgeous graphics and unique puzzle mechanics – mass extinction has never been so much fun!"
March of the Living
Windows, Mac | $TBA | Q2 2016 | Greenlight
A sidescrolling roguelite about surviving amongst zombies on foot.
Windows | $5 | Available now
A horror game in which the player is a novelist looking for material for a novel. The game writes your story out as you play, depending on how you play.
Midnight at the Celestial Palace
Windows | $TBA, episodic | Late 2016 | Greenlight
Developer Orrery Games is calling this a point and click musical.
Windows, Mac | $TBA | June 2016
This is the teaser trailer for Cyan's spiritual successor to Myst. If The Witness wasn't Mysty enough for you, look here. Although no price has been announced, Kickstarter backers could secure a digital copy starting at $25.
Windows, PS4, XB1 | $TBA | Release TBA
Crazy co-op cooking.
Windows, OS X, Linux | $TBA | March 2016 | Greenlight | Demo (Win, OS X)
An interesting dungeon crawler with real-time combat which appears to require the player to shift party members back and forth along columns in corridor-like dungeons.
Windows, OS X | £9+ | March 2017 | Kickstarter | Demo (Windows)
When I first opened the email about this game, I thought I was looking at a board game, but it's not. Strategy board games are obviously an inspiration here, though.


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Sometimes reality can be painful but it is not a medical diagnosis. However, using drugs as a solution is a behavioral response that can lead to mental disorder diagnosis. If we do not produce or are unhappy with our lives, we can develop mental illnesses or mental disorders. Behavior dictates a mental disorder analysis' diagnosis. Some mental illness diagnosis are Depression, Anxiety, and ADHD. Instead of using drugs to solve problems, you should have good mental attitudes and good behavior to cope with life's realities. http://youtu.be/nRmoEod5YM4
You should also use awareness as a coping mechanism for your unhappiness. "Thus, the knowledge about groups inciting fear into society or driving fear into others, is based on using knowledge about things that they (themselves) know about and others do not know about." http://human-brain-id.blogspot.com/
2 Words That Could Mean You Have a Drug Problem | Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/where-science-meets-the-steps/201507/2-words-could-mean-you-have-drug-problem
Everyone should be apart of a functioning society. However, you can learn from enemy behavior as well. I'm usually a bottom-up programmer which means that I start working from what is given to me and make sense of it without previous planning, unlike top-down programming. Therefore I'm a Supervised and Unsupervised worker. Ignorance does not require you to change anything to be happy. However, survival requires a dynamic and intelligent personality in a modern society. For example, as a Computer and Information Scientist and an Information Technology Master, I specialize in examining Organizational Charts of many different systems to determine the functionality of the hierarchy system. It would be a nice and efficient system if all components or participants were accepted not only for their expectations but for their limitations as well.
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Wondering about job prospects for history majors/minors? Worried about how to translate your skills to the job market?
The History and Social Studies Education Department and the Career Development Center (CDC) are hosting a workshop on career options for history majors and minors. Faculty and CDC staff will discuss careers outside of the classroom, how to market skills learned as a history major/minor, where to look for job ads, and an introduction to the services offered by the CDC.
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