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Hey Mom,
I'm not sure what to do with the bike situation too. I'm sure it'll be alright to call them. Thanks for the information. If you can, describe the bike. That's all that I can think of.
The work's been great. We haven't been teaching a whole bunch, but we've been teaching. We've been picking up where the other elders left off on this one kid named K*. His little brother was baptized about a year ago, but due to complications with parents, K* wasn't. However, K* talked to his godfather (they have different godfathers) and he said yes. He's on date for the 30th. Can you believe it? Two weeks in and already someone I've taught is making the commitment.
I'm getting the hang of things. Elder Higgins has definitely been a help. I just need to be patient with myself. I won't be perfect over night.
Thanks for the package. I got it on Tuesday. I enjoyed the thin mints. Thank you for the last minute addition. I've really enjoy having it with me. The youth in the ward think it's cool too. Elder Higgins actually knows how to do it too. Not to brag, but I'm faster ;).
The food so far has been pretty good. I found it funny that you sent me PB&J makings. Because I had just bought my own the day before. The elders before us left a can of Sloppy-Joe makings and some hamburger patties. So I made Sloppy-Joes. Also, they left some instant grits. I think I'm getting used to grits. Turns out plain grits aren't very tasty, that is unless you put something in it. For example, something like Sloppy-Joes :). It was surprisingly good. While I'm on the subject, could you email me the recipes for your chili and corn bread, as well as muddy buddies?
I feel bad saying this but, no photos again :(. The computers at the library don't like talking to my camera. Also, it would be great if you could leave the last photo I sent you so I know where I'm at with the photos.
Elder Matthew Blanding
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The Urbana Lions Club is holding their third annual Golf Scramble on Sept. 21 at Waldo's Golf Course in memory of three Lions Club members who died this past year, Dallas Baer who loved playing golf, Jim Wilson, who supported Lions activities whenever possible, and life member Bob Frieden.
The first 48 players to sign up will receive a sleeve of golf balls from the Urbana Lions Club and a Colts golf towel and Colts visor from Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance - Ron Baer. Proceeds this year will help fund the Vanessa Baer and the Wilbur Dawes Scholarships for Northfield students. Proceeds will also help with other Lions projects, such as dictionaries for 3rd grade Metro North students, free eye screening for preschool children in Wabash County, help with upkeep and improvements to the Urbana ball field and the Urbana Community Building for use by individuals and groups in the Urbana community and in Wabash County, ECHO car racing for youth, help for blind and visually impaired, help in providing eyeglasses and hearing aids, supporting the Cancer control facility at the IU Medical Center, and diabetes and law camp for students.
by Gary Andrews
The Wabash football team opened their 2014 season Friday, hosting Peru in the blistering heat. As is the case on some opening nights, things didn't go as planned for either team, but anyone who didn't attend the game missed an old fashion, hard hitting, play it to the end thriller.
The Tigers would pull out a 12-9 win over the Apaches, but the intensity to the last play gave the Wabash fans something to look forward to in watching the much-improved Apaches.
Both defenses were probably ahead of the offense in game one, and they dominated in the first quarter. Peru was driving on their first possession when Julian Hobson recovered a fumble to stop the Tigers. Wabash would give the Tigers the ball right back when Bryce Boggs picked off Chase Dirig. The Tigers were moving the ball a second time when Reece McDonald sacked the Peru quarterback, forcing a fumble that was recovered by Wabash. The first quarter would end scoreless.
Both teams were plagued with penalties and turnovers to start the second quarter when the Tigers finally broke the ice. Brady Miller would take the ball in from four yards out with 5:12 on the clock to give Peru a 6-0 lead. It didn't take long for the Apaches to answer when, on the first play from scrimmage after the Peru touchdown, Chase Dirig hit his brother Grant for a 64-yard scoring strike. With the extra point, the Apaches led 7-6, which was the score at the half.
The Moose Lodge, located at 169 E Market Street, will be hosting a tenderloin dinner on Saturday, Aug. 30, from 12-8 p.m.
All proceeds go to help the Wabash High School Football Boosters.
The Northfield Athletic Booster Club Golf Tournament will be Sunday, Sept. 21 the Honeywell Golf Course. Proceeds from the tournament go towards athletic programs at Northfield.
There will be a 1 p.m. shotgun start. It will be a four-person scramble and individuals can sign up as an individual or as a team.
Prizes will be for first, second and third place. There will also be prizes for the longest drive and closest pin, and many raffle prizes. Cost is $60 and includes lunch and a cart.
Registration will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. with a lunch from 12-1 p.m.; and tee-off at 1 p.m. Awards to follow.
To sign up, contact Honeywell Golf Course at 260-563-8663 or Brian Poole at 260-571-0972. Deadline is Friday, Sept. 19.
The Manchester High School Athletic Booster Club will be holding its 14th annual golf outing on Sunday, Sept. 14 with a lunch beginning at 12 p.m. followed by a shotgun start at 1 p.m.
The outing is a 4-man Florida Scramble. There are still opportunities to sponsor golf holes as well. For more information on being a sponsor or to sign up your golf team, contact Kevin Watson, 982-306-3396, Jeremy Markham, 982-306-3370 or Amanda Shambarger, 982-578-7891.
The Cole Family along with Northfield High School would like to invite all golfers to participate in the Jeremy Cole Memorial Golf Tournament. This tournament is a scramble tournament that will be held on Aug. 10 at the Honeywell Golf Course. The proceeds from the tournament assist the Northfield golf programs.
The tournament begins with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. It is a four-player scramble. Participants can sign up as a team or as an individual.
Northfield Jr/Sr High School would like to welcome Carly Mast as the new head coach of their volleyball team.
Coach Mast had a very successful career as a player at Northfield, where she earned various honors as a four-year starter. Coach Mast, a 2010 Northfield graduate, was slated to be the head JV coach heading into this season, and has developed a great relationship with the student-athletes, which Northfield felt was very important due to the timing of the position opening.
Coach Mast has also been a part of the girls' varsity coaching staff at Northfield. Northfield is excited to have Coach Mast running the volleyball program, as she will be an excellent role model for the kids with her commitment and work ethic.
"Carly has great pride and passion for the program and school and we look forward to her building on the foundation that has been set by Coach Dale," said Athletic Director Geoff Salmon,
by Gary Andrews
The Southwood baseball team used a 5 run third inning to grab a 5-2 lead over Elwood Saturday in their first game of the regional, only to give up 5 runs the last two innings in a 7-5 loss at Wabash.
Southwood starter Clay Hinrichsen was dominate the first two innings, striking out 5 of the 6 hitters he faced, with the Knights putting three runners on base with Jackson Blair being hit by a pitch, Robbie Cole reaching on a fielders choice and Brandin Frazier drawing a walk. The Knights couldn't plate a run and the game was scoreless heading to the third.
Elwood would get to Hinrichsen in the third. With a runner on first and two outs the Panthers hit three straight singles to grab a 2-0 lead. The Knights would respond in the bottom of the inning with 5 runs, which would end up being the only inning they scored in. With one out Jackson Blair drew a walk. After a pop out Robbie Cole roped a triple down the right field line to score Blair and make it 2-1. Christian Deeter followed with a single to tie the game, but the Knights were not done. Jacob Lloyd then singled to put runners on first and second when Brandin Frazier hit a 2rbi double to grab a 4-2 lead. John Collins then scored on an Elwood error and the Knights led 5-2.
The Knights looked like they were going to add to their lead in the fourth when Zach Ball dropped a bunt for a single and advanced to second on the bad throw. Jackson Blair then singled to put runners on the corners when Nathan Hollars was hit by a pitch to load the bases with no outs. The Knights would then hit a short fly out that couldn't advance a runner, then had a strike out and a ground out to go score less in the inning.
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Location: San Francisco
The Canto Technical Support Engineer will provide first level support and collaborate with second level support teams to reproduce and fix technical issues found in Cumulus, our leading Digital Asset Management System.
Job Description
Provide support to customers on Canto's software products.
- Provide first level support to end users. Provide such support over the helpdesk system, phone or email.
- The candidate will be responsible to work with second level support as well as Professional Services to reproduce and fix customer issues.
- Help our Professional Services team to troubleshoot technical product issues in current ongoing customer projects.
- Creates workaround procedures when standard procedures have failed and ensures issues are resolved in a timely fashion.
- Identify opportunities for professional services engagements to maximize customer success.
- Installation, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting of customer systems.
- Working hours 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific.
Identify, research and resolve technical problems encountered by customers
Reproduce reported errors on Canto's test systems
- Act as a liaison between Customers and Product Management to drive product development as well as issue escalation
- Contribute to and use knowledge repository of deployment best practices and other customer ideas which can continually enhance Canto's products and repeatability of service delivery
Minimum Education, Skills, and Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree in information technology and/or 3-5 years of software support or a related field.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving qualities
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of issues
- Customer-focused attitude, with strong relationship building skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
- Deep knowledge of…
- Operating System Administration (primarily Win, Linux)
- Web Applications, Protocols
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- Monitoring/Performance Profiling
- Familiarity with Java based technologies
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Gay marriages 15 years on
On the 1st of April we will celebrate 15 years of gay marriages, or more properly equal marriage rights, in Amsterdam. On April 1st 2001 it was in Amsterdam that the first same sex couples anywhere in the world could get married. The city celebrates this with a special edition of it's marketing logo in the rainbow colors and a day long projection of pictures of gay marriage on the city hall.
Gay and lesbian marriages so far
The number crunchers of the national statistics bureau (CBS) made their own contribution to the festivities. They offered an insight in the how the marriages have fared. Every year about 600 gay couples and about 700 lesbian couples get married in The Netherlands. Looking at those couples who got married in 2005, they concluded that 30% of the lesbian marriages have ended in divorce. This compares to a 18% divorce rate at the straight marriages and 15% at gay marriages.
These statistics caused a minor debate in the social media, when the president of the Dutch LGBTQ organization COC tried to give a first hand explanation for this higher divorce rate among lesbian couples. She connected that with the still unequal position of (lesbian) women in The Netherlands. Many people disagreed with here, pointing out that gay men were just as vulnerable to abuse. At the end of the day most agreed though, that these results might be the start of an interesting study.
Gay marriages have bigger age gap
Further statistic tidbits show that gay men get married at an on average higher age the straight men: 43 years compared to 37. Lesbian women are on average 39 years when they get married, straight women 34 years.. Of all the gay men who got married, almost 20 percent was 55 years of older.
In a marriage between two men the average age gap is 7,5 years, with in a quarter of the marriages this gap being bigger than 10 years. In lesbian marriages the average age gap was 4,6 years and with straight marriages 4,3 years.
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Post-jam version: Sounds, tutorial, new enemies
By now, the rating period of LÖVE jam 2018 has ended, and I am very happy with the results, especially since there were so many other strong contestants :) Big thanks to everyone who left a rating or feedback!
The two biggest complaints about Paddlegrounds were the lack of sounds, and the difficulty curve. The post-jam version that I released earlier today addresses both of these things.
I had never done any audio work before, so creating sound effects was completely new ground for me. But now that they're in the game, I feel like they provide a lot of valuable feedback about what's happening in the game.
My original plan for the difficulty curve was to have infinitely many levels that would increase in difficulty gradually, by slowly adjusting things like bullet speed, the frequency at which enemies fire bullets, and by having multiple enemies at once in later levels. That turned out to be very tricky to get right, and I was never really happy with this approach.
I abandoned the idea of infinitely many levels in favour of a small set of well-designed levels. Now the game has only five levels, but each level has a different enemy type. Each enemy type has its own attack pattern, and you will need to combat each pattern differently.
There is still some randomness in the enemy AI and the power-ups that you can find, so each run will be slightly different.
Finally, the game has now an interactive tutorial. This was much more involved and took way longer than I had expected, so I thought I'd write up a little guide to share my experience:
How to make a small interactive tutorial:
- Don't.
This will be the final update to Paddlegrounds, unless there are any major bugs. Now I am mostly looking forward to going back to "simple" pixel art. Everything in Paddlegrounds was based around circular shapes. The game doesn't include a single sprite; everything is rendered on the fly from lines, circles and circle arcs. This was a nice experiment, and a quick solution to unique challenges of the game (all elements had to look good when scaled, rotated, and bent along a curve), but it was quite cumbersome. It also requires a ton of draw calls, which makes it pretty slow...
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ADDONS > the black mamba wizard
The Black Mamba Wizard
the black mamba wizard is here for an easy and trouble free installation of our build.
Additional Information
Repositories: SuperRepo All [Krypton][v7]
License: not specified
Platform: all
Depends On:
xbmc.python (>= 2.1.0)
How To Install
In order to install the black mamba wizard you may use one of the repositories mentioned under Additional Information > Repositories section above. Or, simply download the addon directly (if such option is present).
To install from a repository (first make sure you have the repository installed)
- Open up Kodi and navigate into Add-ons.
- Click the open box icon (above the side-menu).
- Select Install from repository.
- Select the repository you wish to install from.
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Obama the younger, from Newsweek
I'm looking forward to this all getting started and seeing where it leads despite the Rick Warren controversy, which has upset many of us in the SF/BayArea but then I'm just as annoyed that Spike Lee who has displayed such unwarranted nastiness towards bi-racial and white people/couples was invited to the inauguration. Perhaps Obama is really sticking to his word about letting everyone "in." I just think someone as hateful as Spike Lee should be causing controversy as well. Maybe he'll be a nicer person now.
Great photo, President Obama certainly is the new definitive American.
These pictures are just amazing - he looks so natural, and he looks like us!! I think of them sometimes when it all gets too much and I think there is no going back - some kind of cresting has occurred :-)
is it wrong that I had a sex dream about him after seeing this?


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Sustainable Living, Education, Aquaponics and Small Living
Promoting sustainable agriculture through advocacy, research, education and service. Jon Parr and Sundown Hazen starting up a grand project to put Aquaponics in schools! They also teach course for folks wanting start up their own setup.
Ouroborus Farms - Commercial Aquaponics and Permaculture Farm in Halfmoon Bay. Offers tours and sells produce and equipment to get your Aquaponics setup started.
Liquid Gardens - Everything you could need to start up a pond... fish included. Marco has been a great resource for getting our water environment on the right track.
Johnny's Seeds - Seeds
Amazon - can pretty much get anything delivered
The Mission
The mission of the Aquaponics Association is to promote the benefits of aquaponics through education and outreach.
The Vision
This primary goals and/or vision of this association are as follows
To promote the benefits of aquaponic growing
To educate the general consumer and food safety officials about the inherent safety of aquaponically grown food
To dispel myths and rumors about aquaponically grown food
The vision for this organization is that it will also create educational materials, facilitate an aquaponic speaker's bureau and act as a resource or liaison to the press. Eventually it could also possibly offer legal and insurance assistance and standards and certification for our rapidly growing commercial aquaponic industry. However, in light of very recent and very real scares regarding e-coli and food safety, we recognize that the first and foremost agenda for this young association is educating others about the safety of aquaponically grown food.
Fishnet Aquaponics
It is simple -- Help people grow closer to the food they eat, and grow the food closer to the people who eat it.
We believe in a higher standard of produce. Our growing methods are cleaner, faster, and more water efficient than conventional agriculture. Soil-borne pests and diseases are non-existent. Warm-blooded pathogens such as E. coli and Salmonella are not found in fish or fish waste, and thus their threat is minimized. Aquaponic growing generates more food per square foot, and does NOT use synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
We want to feed, educate, and most importantly motivate.
Hess Ponics - Trevor is a great resource for growing with pumice.
Created from the world's purest commercial deposit of white pumice, Hess 'Ponics grow media is effective, economical, sustainable, and planting-ready—pour directly from the bag into your aquaponic or hydroponic grow beds.
Bright Agrotech LLC
Status quo disruptors.
We research, design, test, redesign and retest our high quality, American-made vertical growing products. Dr. Nate Storey and the Bright Agrotech team are committed to helping large commercial and small hobbyist growers alike grow more with less.
Aquaponics Source - Education, Supplies and Forums
Uncle Jim's Worm Farm - one stop shop for worms
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SuperGreen Solutions leads the market as one of Florida's new premier advisors, suppliers and installers of domestic and commercial energy efficient solutions, making us truly a 'one stop energy efficient solution shop'. Having been in the Energy Efficiency industry for over 18 years the founders have established a solid reputation spanning 3 continents. We are different because we look at energy creation and energy saving from a holistic point of view, to provide our clients with total solutions.
Southbay Hydroponics and Organics - Need gear?
Even though they specialize in Hydroponics, much of that they supply can work with Aquaponics. A truely knowledgable group to get you started.


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Charlotte-based Duke Endowment awards $25 million to Furman University
Thanks to a $25 million boost from the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment, Furman University in Greenville, S.C., is guaranteeing internships, teams of faculty mentors and professional connections to every one of it 2,700 undergraduates.
In early October, the university launched "The Furman Advantage" with its latest gift from the endowment.
The money also will significantly increase the number and quality of student study-abroad and research opportunities and student-involved community projects, university officials said.
"We will guarantee every student the opportunity to engage in real-world experiences that connect back to classroom learning," Furman president Elizabeth Davis said in announcing the effort. That guarantee "not only will help students discover their passions, but also create a superhighway to their future careers, graduate study and contributions to the well-being of their communities."
"We're not guaranteeing jobs," Davis told the Observer in a recent interview. "But we can guarantee experiences and connectivity."
When he established his endowment in 1924, industrialist and philanthropist James B. Duke targeted its money to strengthening higher education, child care, health care and rural churches. He picked Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, Davidson College, Duke University and Furman to receive the higher education dollars.
In 2012, The Duke Endowment awarded $45 million to Davidson, the largest single grant ever given to the college, to support the college's 10-year plan to build, expand or renovate six buildings to create an "academic neighborhood" with flexible spaces and common areas.
In the following two years, The Duke Endowment approved a $3.4 million grant to help Davidson, Duke University, Johnson C. Smith University and Furman University collaborate on increasing student "resilience," meaning their ability to thrive despite difficult circumstances.
Last November, a $22 million gift from the endowment fully funded Furman's full-tuition James B. Duke Scholarships.
Furman's undergraduates include 132 from the Charlotte area and 55 from Rock Hill/York, S.C. The university has 1,200 alumni in the Charlotte region.
The school has, on average, six students interning in Charlotte each summer with such companies and organizations as Bank of America, Carolinas HealthCare System, Catholic Charities, YMCA of Greater Charlotte, Habitat for Humanity and the city of Charlotte, said Susan Zeiger, Furman's internship program director.
The latest round of endowment money also will create software to track the students through their four years at Furman and how the internships and related efforts benefit them after they graduate.
Given the latest endowment award, Davis said, Furman will need its parents, alumni and friends to host internships and research projects, hire students and give financially to the school "like never before."
Sarah Saba, a 21-year-old senior from Charlotte, interned over the summer at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in New York City. She was one of two inaugural recipients of a fellowship through the Furman Metropolitan Fellowship grant program established by Furman alumni.
Saba majors in piano performance and pre-medicine and hasn't decided on which she'll pursue as a career. If it's medicine, she'd want to specialize in a pediatrics field, and said working with senior scientists at the foundation this summer was invaluable.
Guaranteeing such an experience to every Furman student?
"It's a huge step forward for Furman," she said, one that doesn't just benefit the school, but the community of Greenville and the world at large.
Joe Marusak: 704-358-5067, @jmarusak


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Today the V-shaped or rectangular tabletop varieties seem to be most popular. On the desktops is plenty of space for a computer or laptop as well as elbow room and space for key task reports.
Since more and more tasks are now computer generated there is scarcely the need for a desk with quite a few drawers, shelves, or cabinets. Thus, many of the newest desk designs are most sufficient. This is one very important change you should be aware of right now.
Popular Desk Chairs
The desk chair is probably way more important than the desk itself. This is for one main reason: the fact that you spend so much time every single day at your desk.
The right chair can encourage you to use correct posture which can help prevent a host of health problems. Suggested desk chair models include the ribbed and smooth leather or faux leather styles.
These are similar to the standard black swivel ones you see people sitting in at virtually all offices today. The above-mentioned models are very popular, or you can select one produced from a mesh material. This is a variety that really conforms to a person's body shape.
Occasionally, people for some reason prefer a tougher shell, though. That is why maybe they may sit in an Organic Chair all day. However, this one is typically utilised as a reading chair and not for working behind a desk all day, as it is more constructed for break time than working.
No matter which chair you choose, make sure it helps you maintain the proper upright position. This may help you slow the onslaught of backaches, spin injury, arthritis, carpal tunnel and many other complications.
About the Accessories
This may be the toughest part of all. It can also be the most fun part of decorating as it helps you identify your workspace as yours. Your individuality will usually be demonstrated as you choose items such as abstract paintings, contemporary lamps, or framed photos to place throughout the room.
Make it a point that you pick out the most appropriate combination of accessories to emphasize your workspace. However, make sure you do not clutter up your desk, book shelves, and walking space with too many unnecessary trinkets.
Choosing the appropriate office furniture can help you immensely. To being with, it will aid you as you attempt to depict a more professional atmosphere in your place of business.


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Active Glass has been in the business since 1996 and has detects of experience in the Glass & Mirror industry here in the GTA.
Active Glass offers a wide range of Residential and Commercial services. Our vast customer base includes high-end Custom Home builders, contractors and thousands of satisfied residential home owners. Our dedication to Quality, Service, Professionalism and Customer Satisfaction is exceptional.
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Typically Monday barks through one mishap into another.
The proverbial first day of the week is often fraught with schedule fails and grumpiness from the well-fed, freshly-showered professionals.
Yesterday wasn't typical in my little niche. I did not have to go out on yard duty. I set my room up for CELDT testing. When the fifth graders came in for it, I realized they were all, except one new girl, my old friends from various intervention classes. So all I needed to do was take a friendly, relaxed tone and play hostess.
Then, the teacher I was supposed to support by finishing her benchmark reading assessments let me know she was almost finished, so I headed into the conference room where I parked the guided reading library project when my groups began.
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And others, whom have come to reside in a little house in my mind called The Whiners, were cheerful and cooperative.
Suddenly it seems the campus was not angry and here we were back at work just like we'd been doing since late August. The tone was the way it should be for normal, healthy, well-fed and exercised people who collect decent pay checks.
I can surmise that they are happy about the district giving them a day of collaboration this week while their students have art, music and PE classes all day? And they don't have to manage schedule nuttiness?
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Florida, Arkansas, North Dakota Vote to Legalize Medical Marijuana
Florida, North Dakota, and Arkansas all voted Tuesday evening to legalize medicinal marijuana. Florida previously allowed medical marijuana for a narrow group of patients with cancer and severe spasms, but under their new law, the list of covered medical ailments will substantially expand. "With Arkansas, Florida and North Dakota voters all choosing to allow medical marijuana tonight, the federal government will feel greatly increased pressure to reschedule cannabis and finally acknowledge that this plant has medicinal value," said Tom Angell, chairman of Marijuana Majority, an organization working to change marijuana-related laws nationwide.


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The New Orleans Museum of Art is featuring a new exhibit called The Elegant Image, Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent. Many pieces in the exhibit come from the collection of Dr. Siddharth Bhansali, who lives here in New Orleans. This is truly a unique exhibit. These bronze sculptures from the Jain, Hindu, and Buddhist spiritual traditions span centuries and never before has such a collection been gathered in one place.
Dr. Pratapaditya is the curator of the exhibit; he describes what a curator's responsibilities are and explains the significance of some of the exhibit imagery.
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Budget consultation
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The Tallgrass Artist Residency program seeks to create connection and conversation across the Great Plains by inviting regional artists to spend time engaging with and creating in the preserve and surrounding prairie.
The show begins with an Artist Symposium at the Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan, Kansas on Saturday, September 23 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.
Throughout the spring and summer, each artist has completed a two week residency in the Flint Hills engaging with the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve while staying at either Matfield Station or Prairieside Cottage in Matfield Green, Kansas, or The Volland Store in Volland, Kansas.
2017 Artists
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First Environment's litigation team finished out another strong year of providing expert witness services and litigation support to law firms and clients across the country.
"We successfully worked with counsel and their clients to provide strategic, innovative litigation support on matters going to trial that hinged on number of key technical issues relating to the environment and environmental contamination," Tod Delaney, PhD, PE, BCEE, First Environment's president and primary expert stated in a recent interview at his office in New Jersey. "Our clients recognize that we're adept at using our diverse real-world engineering experience and in-depth knowledge of historic industrial practices to provide our side with technical leverage they needed. The client knows and this industry knows that if they hire us, we will analyze the facts and data more thoroughly than most and develop the best possible legal strategy."
He added, "My greatest sense of accomplishment is when I sense a light bulb going off in a judge's or juror's head during my testimony – it's an 'aha' moment that I'm sure science teachers all over the world feel when a student finally 'gets it'."
Delaney also noted, "Clients know that we are unbending in applying our scientific know-how to solve complex problems."
With diverse capabilities across many specialized and highly technical subject matters, First Environment has gained a reputation as the "go-to" firm for expert witness services in several key areas. The use, storage, handling, and disposal of chlorinated solvent contamination – including perchloroethylene (or PERC) and trichloroethylene (TCE) – has been one of our most successful areas of expertise. According to Delaney, "our understanding of how these solvents have been used and disposed of since they first came into use puts us in a unique class of experts. In particular, our deep understanding of historic vapor degreasing, dry cleaning, and cold degreasing operations, including the disposal end of the operation, sets us apart from other experts."
Arthur Clarke is head of First Environment's litigation group and an environmental lawyer and scientist by training and experience. "I've worked in the environmental industry for 33 years, and I never saw an engineering and consulting firm with the breadth of technical expertise as First Environment. It's an absolute boost to a litigator to find so much technical expertise in one place."
Clarke also commented on the source of First Environment's clientele. "Our clients are organized by technical subject matter, not necessarily by location or industry type. We get them by word of mouth when lawyers ask their colleagues 'who's good at this?' In a number of cases, we were so successful at explaining a complex technical situation that the opposition ended up retaining us for their next litigation involving the same subject matter."
At the end of the day, our litigation team knows that it's their job is to help explain complex environmental issues – such as historic contamination, comingled plumes, environmental fate and transport, and contaminant source identification – to the trier of fact. "We understand our role as an expert under the court rules to provide an objective, deconstructed, and understandable explanation of these complex issues to the court," Delaney said. "So we use demonstratives, groundwater migration and degradation models, computerized graphics, and other tools to clarify often confusing technical issues. Our role is not only to present the technical issues but to simplify and explain them to non-technical people who may be sitting in the jury box, on the bench, or in a conference room."
2017 looks to be another promising year for the team. Sites with emerging contaminants such as PFOA and PFOS will likely grow in number; cases involving contaminated sediments in waterways, ports, harbors, and bays and the attendant Natural Resource Damages claims will continue to make up the multi-party CERCLA litigation work; and groundwater fate and transport modeling will continue to be an important tool for locating and dating environmental contamination. "We are looking forward to 2017 and, although there will be many changes and challenges, we expect the laws that compensate parties for the cleanup of environmental contamination and protect them from human health and environmental damage will be as strong as ever," Delaney said.
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text: Gabriel (Gabe yoga) found yoga randomly when looking through the library about meditation and India. Inspired by a Tom Robbins book, he came home at the age of 19 with a book called 'Patanjali's Sutras.' Twenty years later, Gabe has continued to practice what he has discovered then, that Yoga is to find that place that we all know exists. Gabe continues to travel internationally, and has been on the judging panel of the first Hong Kong Gala Yoga Championship in 2013. He has developed the acclaimed Hot Flow Sequence, BikYasa, which has transformed studios and students all around the world. He leads the 200 and 300 Yoga Alliance Teacher Training program for multiple studios, and consults both teachers and studio owners in establishing a yoga career. Ever joyful, with Osho style humor infused at inappropriate times, Gabe firmly holds to Tom Robbins quote: 'it's never too late to have a perfect childhood.'


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"Decide who will be the supreme ruler of crawfish in New Orleans! Join us for LRA Greater New Orleans Chapter's annual event, King of Crawfish. " - lra.org
- Thursday, March 22, 2018
- 6:00pm - 9:00pm
- Generations Hall
- 310 Andrew Higgins Dr.
- New Orleans, LA 70130
- Tickets
- $35 when purchased online
- $40 at the door
- Ticket includes food tastings, specialty drinks and two voting tickets
- Participating restaurants
Click here for more information about King of Crawfish.
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Crawfish Biscuits & Gravy
For the Biscuits:
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour, plus as needed
- 2/3 cup polenta-style yellow cornmeal
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon fine salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, diced
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
Set a rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with two layers of parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt. Rub 2 tablespoons of the butter into the flour mixture with your fingertips, until it is completely incorporated. Work the remaining butter into the flour until it's in even, pea-sizes pieces. Gently stir in the buttermilk to make a loose dough. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Pat the dough into a 1/2-inch thick rectangle. Fold the dough in thirds like a business letter. Pat the dough into a 5 by 8-inch rectangle about 3/4 inch thick. Use a 2- to 3-inch square cutter to make 6 biscuits, and put biscuits on the prepared baking sheet. Press together the scraps of dough, cut 2 more biscuits, and place them on the baking sheet. Bake until the tops are lightly browned, about 15 minutes. Cool slightly on a rack before serving.
For the Crawfish "gravy:"
- 1 (1lb) pack of Louisiana crawfish tails
- 1 lb yellow onion, chopped
- ¼ lb green bell pepper, chopped
- ¼ lb celery, chopped
- ½ TBSP garlic, chopped
- ½ TBSP tomato paste
- ½ cup AP flour
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 1 mirliton boiled whole and pureed
- Salt, pepper and cayenne to taste
- 2 ½ oz butte
Melt butter in a medium skillet. Add onions, celery & bell pepper and cook until translucent. Add garlic & tomato paste and cook for another 2-3 minutes browning the tomato paste. Add flour and incorporate well. Add chicken stock, pureed mirliton, seasonings & crawfish tails and allow to simmer and thicken.
To serve, spoon crawfish & mirliton gravy over biscuits and enjoy!


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text: Good Cricket is a Choice One thing we can't argue about is this; trying your best always works.If you put in full effort you will learn something, no matter what the practice. It's all about your attitude. Go into practice with a focus on something you want to develop then try to develop it. Your efforts might fail, but as we know, failure is an essential part of the learning process. You can't progress unless you have learned through failure. So get learning and get stuck in.Ask yourself what the alternative is: To complain will get no nowhere. To put in low effort or leave the session is no help to you. Even your favourite pet practice needs a rest now and again.So, why not get stuck into the practice that is on instead? At least you give yourself a chance for success. I agree with myself Newer:Season Notes: Review of Bowling 2017Older:Champions 🏆 PostedAugust 21, 2017 AuthorDavid Hinchliffe


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Good afternoon! Today is the last day of August, and for the last couple of weeks, autumn has been on my mind. I've wanted to make soups, hot chocolate and wear long sleeved shirts! I love the relief of cooler weather after a hot, hot, hot Texas summer. Along with the typical longings for all things autumn, I think about the Springs Women's Retreat. I love the women of our church, and I love spending an autumn weekend with you ladies! The food! The laughter! The relaxing! The worship! The fellowship! The sharing! The food! (Let's face it, part of my reason for attending is the delicious desserts and snacks everyone brings! And the cinnamon rolls. Yum. Yum. Yum.)
This year, the theme for the retreat is "Seasoned with Grace: Breathing In, Breathing Out & Standing in Grace". Over the last year (or maybe more), I know many women in our church have experienced heartache, publicly for some and privately for others, and it is only through God's grace that we can put one step in front of the other because we just can't do it on our own. We're not strong enough, and that is (contrary to societal or our own expectations) exactly as it should be.
"But [God] said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I wil boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)
So by God's grace, even when we're broken, we're ok. Even when we're flawed and lacking, we're ok. Even when we're failing, we're ok. Even when our lives are no where near "pinterestable", we're ok. Whether we're functioning at 98%, 46% or 0%, God's grace is sufficient for where we are right now, how we are right now, and what we face right now.
So here's what I desperately need to know:
What is grace to you? How have you experienced or witnessed God's grace (received it, given it, or lived in it)? What do you think of when you think of God's grace? (You don't have to answer all these questions. Just take a minute to let us hear your voice about God's grace.)
My experiences are limited, and we all benefit so much from hearing the voices of our peers. So please take some time, share with us how you (or you've witnessed someone else) breathing in, breathing out and standing in grace.
Have a lovely weekend and beginning of September!
Cathryn Wright


text: Stephen McIndoe is an award winning serialisation specialist and has worked with many companies to develop serialisation strategy, design solutions and manage implementation programs. He heads the serialisation team at Be4ward. Stephen began his serialisation career working with GlaxoSmithKline as a management consultant over a period of many years and led the development of their serialisation strategy, established their global serialisation program and initial implementations. Stephen is a professional engineer with over 25 years of experience working for the world's largest global life sciences companies as an employee and management consultant.


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The Anti-Feminist Brigade: Women Who Hire Domestic Workers
by Sushila Patil and Moses Seenarine
(Published by Saxakali.com on July 1, 1996)
(Published by Saxakali.com on July 1, 1996)
Historical Development of Domestic Work
The job of a domestic worker is an old one.
All "civilizations" were built on the backs of domestic laborers, who more often than not, were enslaved or indentured, for example, the female Dasi, or slave, in South Asia. Radical feminists like Gerda Lerner have argued that the capture, enslavement and domestication of women preceded the domestication of animals, and were the first commodity exchanged by men. Over time, the exploitation of domestic workers contributed to class formation and class stratification which continues into the modern era. As societies became more hierarchical, there even developed a hierarchy of domestic workers, from housewife, butler, and nanny, to maid, cook, baby-sitter, cleaning 'lady' and servant.
There is also a historical link between the development of patriarchy and domestic work, related to the social construction of gender roles. The sexual division of labor grew out of an essentialist view of both women and men, based on physical characteristics and reproductive roles. As domestic labor came to be solely defined as "women's work," the unequal division of labor led to freeing men from household production and reproduction of family labor, and by the same token, to reinforcement of male control, for example over female sexuality and mobility by confining women to the home.
The subordination of women and their labor then became institutionalized through marriage and domestic work. Ironically, women with class privileges have always used domestic workers to empower and free themselves from their social burden.
Empowerment on the Backs of Other Women
The 90s woman is celebrated by the modern feminist movement as having finally "arrived" as they go off to compete with "the boys" and support upwardly mobile lifestyles. However, beneath their success stories are multiple levels of oppression of poor women, primarily minority and women of color.
Their unbridled accumulation of wealth are concealed behind sanctified goals of having a career, family and raising children, which are all used to justify the internal colonization of poor women.
Behind these middle class women's perpetual "problem" of finding "good help" lies their complicity in perpetuating the unequal gender division of labor, the feminization of household work, and the reproduction of unegalitarian societies based on patriarchal norms and values. These issues go for the most part unexamined, even by many so-called "feminists" who employ domestic workers themselves.
Unquestioned also are the many benefits career track women have gained which they then deny to domestic workers. Middle class women who are engaged in non-traditional forms of employment can take for granted paid vacations, holidays, sick leave, maternity leave, healthcare, and additional benefits. While these gains came as the result of important struggles, and are to be applauded, it is seldom acknowledged that they accrue only to a minority of women, mainly those with existing class privileges.
Exploiting Immigrant Workers
Many middle class women chose to bring overseas workers to countries such as the US, on tourist visas with the false promise of sponsoring them and allowing them to become legal residents. When the visa expires, the worker becomes more vulnerable to their control and exploitation and are unable to freely leave and return. Sometimes, not seeing their families ever again, only in pictures. These women in essence become indentured workers who are forced to provide free labor until the alleged cost of travel or other expenses are remunerated. Immigrant and non-immigrant women alike, often find themselves working in isolation and their safety is constantly threatened due to lack of privacy and possession of their own space. Many scarcely know what is outside the lair of the employer's home and are controlled completely by being forbidden to make and receive phone calls or letters.
Corrupting Children
By treating poor women as expendable or becoming increasingly controlling and exploitative, employers create unhealthy conditions for the growth of their children. Girls are especially vulnerable to this form of negative socialization, learning at an early stage that being female implies being subservient. Further, as a consequence of regulating childcare to other women, employers often grow resentful over the attachment that develops between worker and child, and punish them both for their own shortcomings.
For example, one domestic worker relates that her employer actually encourage his four-year old son to beat and kick her, which the child refused to do. Often, the children are the first to protest because they are the ones who suffer the most, as their parents seldom have any time for them and they are treated with care and affection by domestic workers. Also, parents put their children at risk in order to have additional household tasks done, even when they are informed by domestic workers that it may not be in the best interests of the child to leave them unattended.
Perpetuating Sexual Abuse
Ironically, privileged women create widespread opportunities for the sexual exploitation of poor women by husbands, sons and male relatives, and then stigmatize them as being promiscuous home-breakers. In an attempt to save their marriage and relationship, these women typically demonize sexually abused workers for betraying "their trust," thereby allowing men to escape blame despite the fact that they are the ones engaging in forms of sexual harassment, assault, abuse, or rape, with women who are forced to negotiate their own survival given the circumstances. This issue presents a major dilemma for middle class women seeking "good" female help, when instead they should be seeking "good" male help, or husbands willing to share domestic production.
To illustrate, domestic workers often say, "we're either too young (for the female boss) or too old (for the male boss)." While a young woman or child may be more easily exploited, they are not preferred by the women who hire them as they pose a risk to their own sexuality, the security of their marriage and their husbands' fidelity. Alternatively, a domestic worker who is older and more experienced may be preferred by female employers, but is undesirable to husbands who will constantly find fault with them as part of a strategy to force their wives to hire more sexually attractive workers.
Finding Good Solutions
The main goal of feminism ought to be the liberation of all women. As long as women's empowerment is individualized and limited to the middle and upper classes, patriarchy will prevail and the vast majority of women will continue to remain oppressed. Women, and men, need to critically examine the social construction of gender roles in their families to ensure fairness and equality for themselves and daughters. Domestic production have to be shared by men and boys, for as long as domestic work is feminized, women will always be devalued.
There must also be a critique of the dominant feminist paradigm which revolves around individualism and self-empowerment, since these are the very foundations of patriarchal capitalism and conservatism. Rather than aiming to become "honorable men," women need to create new models which are community-based, non-hierarchical and non-patriarchal. The care of children, the elderly and infirm, is a societal problem which demands social solutions, and as long as women are obsessed with individualized solutions by seeking out "good help," they will continue to fuel the oppression of all women.
Although they may have the lowest status, female domestic workers are arguably the most powerful group of women on earth. Consider what would happen to our class-based societies if there were no domestic workers. The rich would have to wash, cook, serve, and clean themselves, and take care of their own children, leaving them less time for accumulation of wealth. The world's economy would come to a screeching halt as the main movers and shakers scramble to take care of daily survival tasks. No doubt, upper and middle class women would once again be regulated to domestic production, however their resistance to patriarchy may then be so powerful as to dismantle it. The world as we know it would be drastically changed, becoming more egalitarian and less oppressive.