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Black Panther (2016) #2 Review
The darkest chapter of the Black Panther mythos continues as Wakanda crumbles from within.
Enter: The Midnight Angels! Two mysterious women leading the citizen revolt against the current regime of Wakanda, challenging not only T'Challa's politics but also his resolve. But will their rage provide more for the people than the royal family has thus far?
The Good
Art– How much do I love the art of Brian Stelfreeze? Oh let me count the ways! I love his stylized depiction of how T'challa's mask forms over his head. Each piece of T'challa's tech also has these jack Kirby inspired lines that scream sexyness. Another stand out for me is the illustration of when T'challa is affected by the powers of Zenzi. It is a gorgeous scene of Greens and blues. The work of Laura Martin must be singled out as adding depth and power to this scene. The color artist must also be commended with depicting the characters as not your atypical comic book "blacks" where everyone is the same hue and tone. The action scenes also have a decent ebb and flow to it and man if those alternate covers are not to die for!
Story–T'challa has a meeting about the Nigandan rebels with his council. The Midnight Angels continue their vigilantism. T'challa finds and defeats some of the rebels but finds his would be rescue's ungrateful. In the plane of Wakandan memory Shuri rouses.
Philosophy-The conversation between Tetu and his teacher was fascinating from a number of standpoints. The teacher posits that questions and their asking are of utmost importance while the student has found an answer, or he thinks he has found an answer. The answer however has found him in conflict with the rulers of his state. How similar is this to many a University student introduced to abstract thought and new ideas and in trying to find the answers end up being radically different than they were originally.
As I read those words I was brought back to a meeting my class had with Dr. Frank Tuitt thanks by one Dr. Saran Stewart. I had truly deeply been changed by reading Tuitt's Inclusive pedagogy. In fact I still use many of its tenets combined with those of bell hook's Critical pedagogy to engage my students. The meeting however found me like Tetu rather disenfranchised by the lack of revolution in the man himself. Like Tetu I found him not what I expected and more of a caught up in thought and abstraction than actually changing the world kind of man.
This exchange points out the power of the question, the essence of any form of Epistemology, Metaphysics, ethics or Aesthetics. But as much fun as it to propose these thought provoking questions the younger more vibrant among us are not content with a change in consciousness so much as a change in the world around them. In this case it's a rebellion against the crown for their inability to protect citizens. Among the young there is more militancy and it can be argued that is often why they are so prominent in organizations like Isis.
Peace, equality or change must be preceded by a revolution whether through military force or a change in thought. In my own Jamaica the Maroons fought a long bloody war to achieve their independence. In Africa Nelson Mandella originally fought violently against apartheid. It's a part of human history to have conflict over ideologies and different solution to perceive problems brought on by questions.
I have often wondered are teacher proud of students who change the world in ways they don't approve of? It is a truly thought provoking piece and I would kill to analyze it in a class of college students.
Villain– Niganda and Zenzi are your typical villains serving as an offshoot of the still dead Erik Killmonger.
The Midnight Angels are a more interesting set because they are unsanctioned vigilante's operating illegally in Wakanda. They are saving Wakandans from all kinds of crimes that are in all honesty beyond the abilities of a lone warrior king to deal with. Why are neither the Dora Milaje or the Hatut Zeraze dealing with these crimes? It points out an issue that some of us had years ago during Reginald Hudlin's run of Black Panther…back when Comicvine was the spot, does Wakanda have crime? There are about six million Wakandans with many marsh tribes, urban and rural areas etc. There must be crime! Who deals with it? A single King?
Love- We have the two midnight angels in love, does it get better than that?
Power- "Power lies not in what a king does, but in what his subjects believe he might do" I could not help but laugh out loud when reading that statement because it echoed the thoughts of Game of Thrones Author George Martin. Power as a concept is a fabrication of the mind. It is just like belief; it is as powerful as you think it is. Most people don't realize it and it's the same thing happening on Game of Thrones right now. Ta Nehesi uses it as the backdrop to T'challa's fight with the Nigandan rebels. T'challa's mystique allot like Batman lies in the mystery of the man and what he can or can do. That is where his "power" comes from, how he is perceived.
Continuity– As a huge fanboy of continuity I love how Ta Nehesi Coates has acknowledged T'shan' death at the hands of Dr. Doom during the events of Doomwar. This has been straight up ignored by everyone who tackled the character since. I loved and was intrigued by T'shan the Swift and it was good to have him at least mentioned with dignity.
Humanity- This book continues the trend started by Hudlin in Humanizing the African King and I dig it!
The Bad
Focus– Hudlin's opening issue found T'challa less central as the writer set things up and around the country. Ta Nehesi is doing the same thing. The problem is some may find T'challa's presence more like a guest star than the titular character.
The Ugly
There is so much going on from thought provoking Philosophy, conversation starting debates and heart wrenching moments that I can't give Black Panther anything less than a 4/5 stars. If you read one comic book this month it MUST be Black Panther!


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Recipe: Huevos Rancheros
Huevos rancheros is an all-time favorite brunch order for many, but because of the dish's many components, it can be fussy to serve. This streamlined version contains the flavorful chaos on a baking sheet.
2 (28-ounce) cans diced tomatoes
1 tablespoon packed brown sugar (optional)
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 onion, chopped
1/2 cup canned chopped green chiles
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
3 tablespoons chili powder
4 garlic cloves, sliced thin
Salt and pepper
8 (6-inch) corn tortillas
4 ounces pepper Jack cheese, shredded (1 cup)
8 large eggs
1 avocado, halved, pitted, and diced
2 scallions, sliced thin
1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro
Instructions: Adjust oven racks to lowest and middle positions and heat oven to 500 degrees.
Drain tomatoes in a fine-mesh strainer set over a bowl, pressing with a rubber spatula to extract as much juice as possible. Combine 13/4 cups drained tomato juice, sugar and lime juice in a bowl and set aside; discard the extra drained juice.
Combine tomatoes, onion, chiles, oil, chili powder, garlic and 1/2 teaspoon salt in bowl, then spread out the mixture evenly on a rimmed baking sheet.
Wrap the tortillas together in aluminum foil and place on the lower rack. Place the baking sheet with the tomato mixture on the upper rack and roast until charred in spots, 35-40 minutes, stirring and redistributing into an even layer halfway through roasting.
Remove the tortillas and the baking sheet from the oven, and place the sheet on top of a second rimmed baking sheet. Stacking a second pan underneath offers just enough insulation to avoid overcooking the eggs. Carefully stir in the reserved tomato juice mixture, season with salt and pepper to taste, and spread it into an even layer. Sprinkle pepper Jack over the top and, using the back of a spoon, hollow out 8 (3-inch-wide) holes in the mixture. Crack 1 egg into each hole and season with salt and pepper.
Put the pans back into the oven and bake until the whites are just beginning to set but still have some movement when the sheet is shaken, 7-8 minutes for slightly runny yolks or 9-10 minutes for soft-cooked yolks, rotating sheet halfway through baking.
Remove the baking sheets from the oven and top the eggs with avocado, scallions and cilantro. To serve, slide a spatula underneath each egg and its sauce and gently transfer that onto a warm tortilla.
Makes 4 servings
Per serving: 662 calories, 41 g fat (12 g saturated fat), 397 mg cholesterol, 575 mg sodium, 55 g carbohydrates, 13 g dietary fiber, 16 g sugar, 27 g protein
From "Cook's Illustrated All-Time Best Brunch" by America's Test Kitchen

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Kirsten nodded, not taking her eyes off the other corridor.
A wall? What could they mean by that? Surely not an actual defensive wall. Down here?
"You lads are in over your heads, that's the Gods' own truth of it." She made a dismissive gesture with her loaded crossbow, careful not to let it waver too far away from the mid-point between the thugs and the source of the ghastly noises. " If you rats want to abandon ship, we won't stop you. But you take what you're carryin' and that's it. Now turn out your pockets before you go. We've no interest in any pretty baubles or hard shinnies you might be carrying, but we're not letting you out of here with what we've come for either."
She shrugged again,
"Soon as that's done, you can go. You're in your own escaping time now boys."


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St. Clair County Circuit Judge Andrew Gleeson granted a joint third party motion to quash subpoenas of Internet service providers at a hearing Thursday morning in LW Systems v. Christopher Hubbard.
Gleeson said he would allow the plaintiff 14 days to amend a complaint which alleges Hubbard and alleged co-conspirators, identified at this stage of the litigation as John Does, hacked into its computer system that supplies content for adult Web site operators.
Plaintiff's attorney Kevin Hoerner of Belleville urged Gleeson to hold the subpoenas in abeyance rather than granting the ISPs' motion to quash, saying the providers, as third parties, did not have standing to "drive the litigation."
He said that if his client was not allowed to advance discovery by ascertaining customer information, the alleged wrong doers would have time to "cover their tracks."
"Any additional delays is all to the benefit of the ISPs and clearly to the Does," Hoerner said.
Attorneys for ISPs and John Does argued, among other things, that the complaint has not been properly pled and should be viewed by the judge with a higher level of scrutiny.
An attorney for Charter Communications said the purpose of the lawsuit is to extract settlement through a threat of public humiliation. He said John Doe targets receive letters from the plaintiff attorneys stating they would contact friends and neighbors to discuss their downloading of material from the Internet.
Gleeson said he had questions about the complaint and ownership of plaintiff – LW Systems.
"I think I need to be careful…," Gleeson said. "This is major litigation that will take years to go through."
Shortly after the case was filed, Chief Judge John Baricevic signed an agreed discovery order that let LW Systems subpoena personal information associated with certain IP addresses from 325 ISPs.
The LW Systems case is one of several similar suits filed across the nation in which Paul Duffy and other attorneys at Prenda Law in Chicago represent the plaintiffs.
Adam Urbanczyk of Chicago represents Hubbard. He was present at the hearing and identified himself, but did not make any remarks.
Hoerner acts as local counsel.
In recent action, more than two dozen John Does had asked Gleeson to force appearance of defendant Hubbard.
Gleeson declined to take up the motion at Thursday's hearing.
He also said he would not take notice of a declaration filed in a Florida suit, as well as an order for sanctions in a California case.
"I am aware of the content," Gleeson said. "I don't think it is appropriate to take judicial notice."
The declaration that the John Does wanted Gleeson to take notice of comes from Delvan Nelville in the Florida case of First Time Videos LLC v. Paul Oppold.
In addition to Nelville's declaration, the John Does asked Gleeson to take notice of a sanctions order in a California case.
U.S. District Court Judge Otis Wright II in May ordered Duffy and other lawyers to pay $81,000, finding that they engaged in "brazen misconduct and relentless fraud" in a copyright infringement case in California.


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Medical experts in Australia have concluded that an alternate form of medication known as homeopathy does not have enough evidence to support its effectiveness. Hypericum: first selection for nerve injuries/accidents in nerve-rich areas (like arms and pores and skin); sharp pains radiating centrally from wound, especially from fingertips, tailbone, nailbeds, toes, soles of feet; useful for prevention of an infection, including tetanus; ache seems out of proportion to damage severity; severe bites or any laceration to the tongue.
Phosphorus: laryngitis and hoarseness, violent tickling in throat while speaking, worse in the morning or evening; cough dry or loose, croupy or deep, will increase when speaking, eating, laughing, or breathing cold air; cough worse lying down, particularly on left side; cough aggravated by liquids, particularly chilly drinks; phlegm of any color or consistency, could also be streaked with blood; chest pain, worse from movement, higher from pressure; sensation of tightness or constriction, or of a weight in the chest; chilly and craves ice chilly drinks; nervous when alone or at the hours of darkness.
Allium cepa (onion): As a result of it is identified to trigger tearing of the eyes and dripping of the nose, it's a frequent treatment for the widespread cold and hay fever, especially when there is a skinny, watery, and burning nasal discharge that irritates the nostrils.
Bryonia: when chilly has moved into chest; dry, painful, spasmodic cough, worse with deep respiratory, consuming, drinking, in heat rooms and during the day; better from the open air or a swallow of heat water; ache worse with any motion, so particular person may maintain painful space to stop motion, lie on painful aspect, put stress on painful area, lie completely nonetheless with shallow, painting respirations; thirsty, irritable, watnts to be left alone; appears to be like sick, drained and heavy; dusky, darkish pores and skin shade.
Outdoors of the choice medicine neighborhood, scientists have lengthy considered homeopathy a sham 24 or a pseudoscience , 2 3 four 5 and the mainstream medical community regards it as quackery 4 There's an total absence of sound statistical proof of therapeutic efficacy, which is in keeping with the lack of any biologically believable pharmacological agent or mechanism.


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The news that the new National Children's Hospital will most likely not be built on the Mater Hospital site in Dublin's city centre is a welcome turn of events. It is widely believed that this major project was to be shoe-horned onto the very restricted Mater site because it was located in former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's constituency, coupled with the fact that Ahern was formerly employed by the Mater Hospital.
That the site was unsuitable goes without saying. To fit the children's hospital on the site meant that it had to be a 16 storey building, with a multi-storey car-park underground. Traffic congestion is frequently at critical level in the streets approaching the site from all directions. Air quality in the city centre would hardly be considered to be a positive factor in the treatment of sick children.
It is likely that the new hospital will either be built on the site of the existing Crumlin Children's Hospital or a green-field site even closer to the M50 ring-road, making access from all parts of Ireland much easier and quicker. Either of the new site-options would also allow for a lower-rise building, and one which would allow sick children to see the sky and the Dublin Mountains, and to breathe fresher air than in the city centre – altogether a far more sensible and pleasant prospect for sick children and their families.
Building this much needed National Children's Hospital also allows for another significant act – the naming of the hospital. No doubt there will be many and varied suggestions on this subject, but none more suitable than to name it in memory of Dr Kathleen Lynn, one of the true heroes of the 1916 revolution, a revolution that she carried on to her life's end in a very practical way in her work as a doctor and founder of St. Ultan's Hospital.
Kathleen Lynn was born into a wealthy protestant family, her father being the Church of Ireland Rector of Killala in County Mayo. After her secondary education in Alexandra College in Dublin she studied medicine, graduating in 1899 – one of the first women in Ireland to achieve this. Life in Killala had made her aware of widespread deprivation still evident in Mayo after the famine of 1847-48 and this would influence her work as a doctor, putting her firmly on the side of the poorest of the poor.
When she was elected to be House Surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital her appointment was resisted by her male colleagues on the grounds that she was a woman. She became active in the Women's Suffrage Movement and was drawn towards republicanism through her feminism. Like Countess Markievicz, another Protestant from a wealthy family, Kathleen Lynn went against type with this support for republicanism, and like Markievicz was met with the displeasure of family members for doing so.
She supported the cause of the workers during the 1913 Lockout and worked with Countess Markievicz and others in the soup kitchens in Liberty Hall and became close to Markievicz and James Connolly. Connolly appointed her Chief Medical Officer to the Irish Citizen Army and she gave the Citizen Army ambulance and first aid training, and was involved in weapons smuggling. On Easter weekend, 1916, Kathleen was appointed Captain in the Irish Citizen Army and second-in-command of the City Hall Garrison in the revolution. When Sean Connolly was killed early on in the revolution, Kathleen took command of the Garrison before it was forced to surrender.
Released from British custody in 1917 she, together with her life-long companion, republican activist and feminist Madeleine ffrench-Mullen, nursed the ill during the deadly influenza epidemic of 1918. The following year, while Kathleen was practicing as a GP in Rathmines, the two spearheaded the opening of a children's hospital in Charlemont Street, Dublin, named St. Ultan's. The first hospital of its kind and staffed entirely by women, St. Ultan's catered for children of the tenements who suffered terrifyingly high mortality rates, and concentrated on infectious diseases. This led to pioneering work in the treatment of TB including the use of the BCG vaccination, and later the experimental use of Streptomycin, which later facilitated the work of Dr Noel Browne and the TB eradication programme.
Kathleen Lynn was elected a Sinn Fein TD between 1921 and 1926 but, opposed to the Treaty of 1921, did not take her seat.
Kathleen and Madeleine, and the group of prominent republican women who supported them, managed to keep the hospital open despite opposition from the Catholic Church, and the State. Operating in a period that was expressly counter-revolutionary, hallmarked by official meanness, rigidity and cruelty, when women were being marginalised, censorship was rife, and politics and the Catholic Hierarchy worked hand-in-hand against the interest of women and of the poor, Kathleen Lynn kept her eyes firmly on the prize of saving and enhancing the lives of Ireland's most vulnerable children who had been discarded by both Church and State.
Kathleen Lynn may have left active participation in politics in 1926 but never gave up on the Republic or its citizens. She personifies the finest ideals of republicanism and of patriotism. There can be no doubt about her bravery, not just in battle, but in the war against disease and deprivation in the tenements of Dublin and in the struggle to keep her great little hospital open and in pushing the boundaries of medicine without asking for permission that would have been denied.
Kathleen Lynn was effectively written out of history by not being spoken about in the 'official' version of history. Those who knew her knew she was remarkable, and lovely and kind and generous. Perhaps, apart from her unyielding republicanism, it was the question of the nature of her relationship with Madeleine that powerful men in the Church and State could not cope with. When Madeleine died in 1944 Kathleen wrote in her diary on her return from the burial to the house they had shared –"..the loneliness of coming back, with no Madeline to greet me and say what a barren wilderness it had been while I was away."
Kathleen Lynn died in 1955 and is buried in Deansgrange Cemetery. To the very end of her life she dreamed of and worked for the establishment of a National Children's Hospital. Almost 100 years after she fought to create the Irish Republic that dream looks set to be realised in time for the centenary of the 1916 revolution. It would be right and fitting that the hospital should be named 'The Kathleen Lynn National Children's Hospital'.


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DSWD-Bicol Regional Dir. Arnel Garcia said that the family food packs is good for two-days consumption of a family with 6 kilos of rice, 4 cans of sardines, 4 cans of corned beef, and 6 sachets of coffe/energy drink.
The caravan was spearheaded by the DSWD to sustain the food and non-food items needed by the displaced residents due to the restive Mayon Volcano while Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) transported the items. Garcia said that they are ready to feed evacuees in their stay in the different evacuation centers. Earlier, DSWD assured the chief executives of affected municipalities that they have buffer stocks of food packs for up to 100 days. (Mar de la Cruz with reports from Jimmy Nasalita)


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Wallace State's 2016 Chancellor's Award recipients recognized at ACCA Conference banquet
in Academic, Adult Education, Alumni, Community, Dual Enrollment, Headlines, Health, Technical
HANCEVILLE, ALA. – Four Wallace State Community College employees were recognized Tuesday as Chancellor Award recipients at the 2016 Alabama Community College Association (ACCA) Conference luncheon in Montgomery.
Wallace State's recipients were Dr. Kelley Jones, Christine Wiggins, Dr. Thea Hall and Allen Keener.
Jones is the director of the Wallace State-Oneonta campus and the Director/Administrative Staff nominee this year. Jones was named the director of the Wallace State-Oneonta campus in March, where she oversees the day-to-day operations of the site and provides coordination for student services, instructional programs and support services. Wallace State-Oneonta began offering classes during the 2016 summer semester. Prior to her appointment in Oneonta, Jones served as Wallace State's Adult Education Director. In that position, Jones led 23 instructors, five staff members and multiple volunteers, operating 19 class sites in four counties. She also managed all grants involved with the locations. She began her post as Adult Education Director in 2006 after serving for nearly four years as a Wallace State Electronics Technology Instructor. Jones was also the Interim Director and Co-Principal Investigator for the Consortium for the Alabama Regional Center for Automotive Manufacturing and began her professional career as a teacher at Arab High School.
Wiggins is Wallace State's Success Coaching Coordinator and the Staff Member nominee. As part of the Wallace State Success Coach Program, Wiggins and her colleagues meet regularly with students and provide them with the structure, tools and motivation they need to persist through challenges and get the most of their education. Wiggins and her staff help define academic, personal and career goals for each student and what it takes to achieve them. Wiggins has been employed at Wallace State for six years, also serving as an administrative assistant for eLearning and as the PAVES Project Coordinator prior to her appointment as the Success Coaching Coordinator. While at Wallace State, Wiggins has served on the Professional Development Committee, the Lion Central Task Force, the Achieving the Dream and Pathways Committee as well as on the Cullman County Schools Guidance Advisory Committee.
Hall is Wallace State's Forensic Investigation Instructor and the Academic Faculty nominee this year. Hall has been a part of Wallace State dating back to her days as a student in the mid-1990s. Hall, who has earned degrees in criminal justice, criminalistics, law enforcement and science, began working as a Wallace State work study in 1998 and became a lab assistant in 2001. She transitioned into a part-time teaching role at Wallace State in 2004 and became full-time in 2005. As an instructor within Wallace State's Criminal Justice Department, Hall's students are qualified for a variety of law enforcement and criminalistics careers upon completion. Earlier this year, Hall mentored four Wallace State students as they earned a silver national medal at the annual SkillsUSA competition. Hall and her students competed in SkillsUSA for the first time ever in 2015 and have won two state gold medals and one silver national medal in two years.
Keener is Wallace State's Occupational Therapy Assistant Program Director and Career Faculty nominee, which includes health and technical instructors. Keener has been employed at Wallace State since 2013 and continues to make the program one of the best in the state. Under Keener's watch, the OTA program recently boasted 100 percent pass rates on certification exams, 100 percent retention rate for the most recent graduating class, and outstanding job placement. He is a graduate of the college's Leadership Wallace State and Master Teacher program and a was a participant in the Alabama Master Teacher Experience. Keener is one of two Wallace State representatives currently participating in the Alabama Community College System Instructional Administrators Association and serves on committees at Wallace State, including the Pathways, Diversity and College Assessment Council. Keener, who less than a month away from earning his doctorate degree, is also in his final year as the Alabama Occupational Therapy Association president, a position he has held for two terms. He has also served as secretary, website chair and vice president for the state association. Keener practiced as an occupational therapist for six years before his employment at Wallace State.
The Chancellor's Awards began 29 years ago as a way to reward and encourage those who have exemplified outstanding performance, creativity and dedicated service to their college.
For more information about Wallace State, visit wallacestate.edu.
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Yet another good friend less
Yesterday evening I accompanied my father to attend the funeral of one of his best friends. I knew the deceased too. When I was young my father often brought me along to their weekly hiking party. They my father, the deceased and a few men and occasionally their wives had set up a hideout somewhere up the hill, where they had pots and stoves to make tea everyday and food every Sunday. The tea was made of spring water. I cannot recall how it tasted, but I have always thought it was the best tea I have tasted. It will be the best in my whole life, I believe. It is not so much remembered by its flavour as by its scalding hotness (straight from the boiling pot into an handleless ceramic cup), the smell of kerosene and sometimes faggots, and its soothing effect (as it was the first quench of my thirst after the hour-long sweaty hike). When I write this, I can almost feel the heat on my fingers, see the vapour rising from the cup and my lips sipping from the brim. I can almost remember the tea's flavours. About a year ago one of the other men passed away, after lying many months in bed in hospital. I did not went to his funeral service.
In the funeral parlour yesterday my father and I were probably the first to arrive. I heard he said he had known the deceased since 1962. In the friend's final months he had wanted to pay a last visit to the friend in hospital, if not for the friend's daughter telling him not to because her father could not communicate or recognise people at all.
My father sat beside the surviving spouse talking to her while I sat at the opposite side of the hall. Tears welled up my eyes. When the eldest son of the deceased came to thank me for showing up, I verged on crying but managed to utter: 'My duty, for I know him too.' For the half hour I was sitting by myself, I thought how long my father could live on, who would turn up at his funeral, and who would turn up at my funeral. I also realised that in recent years I had attended more funerals than weddings. A good indication that I am past the happy time of my life.
On the homeward taxi ride I did not speak a word, not daring to ask my father whether the deceased was his best friend or who among his hiking mates had passed away. I feared my father is the last survivor. When we had got off the taxi, he said to himself 'Another thing done. Yet another good friend less.'


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Monday, August 31, 2015 by Trayce Stewart
Let It Go
So, I'm going to first let you all in on a little secret. Ready? Pastors are real people with real world problems. Some of us can act super saved and pretend we have it all together. I'm not one of them. I struggle with the same things you do, I cuss when people cut me off in traffic, I love doing things outside of the church. I'm just a real person who happens to be called to ministry.
Well one of the things I've been thinking about lately is holding on to grudges. Not too long ago I encountered someone I feel was dead wrong for the way she acted and treated me, not to mention an entire church. For the past two years I have dreamed about being alone with her and the things I would say. Then the opportunity presented itself and my worship leader said something to the effect of let it go.
Now, I realize these words have been said and sung for over the past year since the release of Frozen. I've never seen the movie but from what I gather the main character is coming to terms with who she is and instead of hiding it, decides to just let it go. Not my particular story, but she says something in the song which brings me back to my situation. THE PAST IS IN THE PAST. LET IT GO.
The truth is as much as I feel wronged by a person's actions I can't change the past or force them to feel any remorse. All I can do is live my life. In that moment I decided she had too much power to raise my blood pressure and disturb my sense of peace. As long as I held on to these feelings I couldn't be free or even happy. Who have you allowed to hold the keys to your happiness and what are you going to do about it? In October we will explore the topic of forgiveness at one of our Questions of the Soul, but you don't have to wait until then to let it go. Whoever-or whatever-has held you hostage let it go. You'll be much happier when you do.
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Janus was the Roman God of beginnings and endings, and hence over war and peace. He represented time, because he could see into the past with one face and into the future with the other. This may be why, in modern times he has often been associated with conflicting faces of the same entity.
The last week of August, 2018, marked a uniquely Janusian moment for Americans: the funerals of a celebrated white, Anglo-Saxon war hero, John McCain, and a gospel singer revered the world over, Aretha Franklin. The unique achievement of the former in occupying the news cycle for a full ten days blinded the media to the significance of the fact that a man known worldwide as a war monger shared his last spotlight with a black woman dressed in gold, lying in a gold coffin. While John McCain's daughter Cindy, cried profusely while evoking his love, at Franklin's funeral, former President Bill Clinton said in the light-hearted way that endeared him to so many, that he had been curious to see how she would be dressed. Even in death, the daughter of a Black minister was seen as frivolous while the white, Anglo-Saxon soldier whose wife wore a quadruple strand of pearls was given a presidential level funeral.
Confirming the opinion many Black Americans have of his presidency, Barack Obama chose to speak at his former rival's funeral rather than mark his solidarity with the singer who graced his inauguration.
Lost on the media, however, was the profound difference between what each of them represented to the outside world: America's "greatness" (one of McCain's last statements was that America didn't need to become 'great again', in Donald Trump's words, because it had always been great), and Franklin's artistic achievement, at a time when his acolytes, under Biblical cover (as when Senator Lindsey Graham read from St John) openly discuss next steps in the policy intended to ensure that seventy years of US hegemony continues into the future as far as Janus can see, while ignoring the sins of his past.
Deena Stryker is an international expert, author and journalist that has been at the forefront of international politics for over thirty years, exlusively for the online journal "New Eastern Outlook".


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Agree, Tim, another great article. Mind you, I don't think I can remember being so nervous before a game for a long time, by half time I was stunned, by full time amazed.
I had a real problem with MoM this week, could really have been anyone, probably the best total game I've seen from us in many a year, I don't think any of the 22 had anything less than a really good performance. Team might be slightly different this coming weekend, but such is our strength in depth this season, I think we will still be fielding a very strong side, I think all our bench, plus reserves would be automatic 1st choice at most other teams in our league.
'A long cold lonely Winter', the MOM poll results and 'This is the BBC calling'
And I say it's all right
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sunAnd I say it's all right
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun,…
Many thanks, as always, to everyone who took part in the recent poll to determine the readers' 'Man of the Match' for the game against Moseley.
Agree, Tim, another great article. Mind you, I don't think I can remember being so nervous before a game for a long time, by half time I was stunned, by full time amazed.
Hi Roger, I was joking to Sam before the game about getting the bonus point half time, never for a moment believing we'd do it!
The team will definitely be different this weekend, RW mentioned that at training last week, but the calibre of players coming in are the same ones who went on an 8 match unbeaten run at the end of last season, so no worries there. It's certainly starting to look really promising…I'm saying no more!
Hi Tim
A couple of points, yes of course we should be wary of a "banana skin" but we must also focus on the fact that this is now a run of 10 league games unbeaten, which may have slipped under the radar for some. Secondly I think i am correct in saying that before Saturdays result OA's had conceded over 200 pts in their previous 4 games, don't want to tempt fate but i believe another big win is on the cards.
Regarding Saturday, i am really still trying to weigh it up, it was such a strange game, was it that Mose had a bad day at the office or were they just blown away by Cov, it was just so comfortable for us in all areas of the park and yet i still do not think we played to our full potential strange as it may seem.
Finally thank you for the photo, if there is ever a requirement for Cov to have a "Bad Santa" come Xmas, there is certainly a contender in that photo.
I'm with you Phil…just can't make up my as to how good this current squad is. It's done all that's been asked of it, and more probably, yet part of my is happy to say it's just the opposition who are weak…I guess that's because we've had our fingers burned too many times in the past.
Bad Santa…yes, definitely an element of that, although I fully expect to hear the two of you doing a Slade/Wizard rendition over at Billesley in December – it should become an annual event!
Hi Tim – good article as always. Pass my details on to Alec B for an unusual perspective…
Have done so…Alec says he'll be in touch. Many thanks for volunteering. Hopefully there will be others as well!


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Oh, Berlin. You're honestly such a beautiful city!
From 27th of July till 2nd of August I stayed in the shabby-chic-place-to-be Berlin. I got an invitation from Neon Wood, a new opened student apartment house. It is located in Friedrichshain, the cool hipster area, close to Berghain and good vegan food options. I love this area, a friend of mine is also living there, so I have been there a couple of times. It is very close to Frankfurter Tor, from where you can reach the whole city. The interior is very new and super chic. Every apartment has its own small kitchen and bathroom.


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Following the failure of several top nations to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the Americans have come up with a cunning plan. The USA, who also didn't make the World Cup, are planning to host a tournament for countries which missed out on Russia. Greece are among the teams which could participate.
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Countries such as Greece, USA, Chile, Italy, Holland, Ecuador, Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Wales all missed out on the 2018 World Cup, something which has sparked talk of a replacement tournament. However, there is doubt surrounding the possibility of holding a parallel World Cup. Would FIFA allow the competition to take place? Will players be prepared to sacrifice their summer holidays to play in an unofficial tournament in the USA? Getting a positive answer to both questions won't be an easy task.
The Americans seem pretty serious about the idea, but it's not all down to football. The FOX television network invested 200 million dollars in the broadcasts of World Cup matches, however the USA contrived to not qualify for the tournament. As a result, FOX needs to somehow redeem their money. Stadiums of clubs competing in the MLS would be used for the supposed parallel World Cup.
It seems that the competition would take place during the same period as the World Cup, but given the large time difference between Russia and the USA, it wouldn't be a huge problem. If the idea comes to fruition, it would certainly be a decent opportunity for the Ethniki's players to test themselves against some of the world's best, albeit not at the real thing.


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About this Course
This course is also available as self-paced virtual (e-learning) course, IBM Integration Bus V9 Application Development I (ZM665). This option does not require any travel.
This course is also available as instructor-led online course IBM Integration Bus V9 Application Development I (Remote Classroom) (VM665). Please note that this option does not require any travel.
In this 5-day instructor-led course, you learn how to use IBM Integration Bus to develop, deploy, and support platform-independent message flow applications. These applications use various messaging topologies to transport messages between service requesters and service providers, and also allow the messages to be routed, transformed, and enriched during processing.
The course explores message flow problem determination, with an emphasis on identifying and recovering from errors in message flows. You learn how to construct message flows that use extended Structured Query Language (ESQL), Java, and the IBM Graphical Data Mapping editor to transform messages. The course also explores how to control the flow of messages by using various message processing nodes, and how to use databases and maps to transform and enrich messages during processing. You review various messaging transports at a high level and gain a basic understanding of how message flows can use web services, Java Message Service (JMS), and other transport mechanisms. Finally, you explore how to extend IBM Integration Bus by using adapters and other IBM products.
Throughout the course, hands-on lab exercises allow you to practice the skills and concepts that are presented in the lectures. The hands-on labs cover topics such as creating and testing message flows, message modeling, problem determination, and error handling.


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WHEN I set out to sample more than a dozen of the most promising new restaurants around the country, I knew that I'd have some special meals, and I suspected that I'd want to pack up a few of the restaurants and bring them back to New York.
But I didn't expect to find myself as blissed-out as I was while dining at the two places that have made it to this final installment of "Restaurant Survivor."
I loved them both. Midway through dinner at each, I realized that I couldn't stop smiling, because I was so excited to be introduced to this restaurant and so eager to introduce it to others.
Neither is quite like any other restaurant I know. Choosing a favorite is nearly impossible, and for many weeks I delayed or I dithered, deciding that one had a rightful edge over the other, only to reverse the decision seconds later.
The dithering stops here.
1140 Main Street, Napa, Calif.; (707) 251-5656. www.ubuntunapa.com
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And if you eat during the day or early at night, women in tights and men in sweats may swan past your table on their way to an attached yoga studio at the top of a staircase from the dining room.
Do I even have to write the next sentence? The food is vegetarian.
It's also proof that you can do away with all flesh and hold onto hedonism, at least if you keep enough butter, cream, cheese and wine at hand. Ubuntu is where virtue meets naughty sensuality. It's the Angelina Jolie of restaurants.
"Where's the brown rice?" asked my friend Jennifer as we studied the menu.
We didn't spot a grain of it.
"And the tofu?" she wondered.
None of that, either.
What we saw instead were marcona almonds dusted with sea salt (no shock) and lavender sugar (big surprise). We ordered some to take the edge off our hunger as we sipped pinot noir and chardonnay from a list that emphasizes biodynamic vineyards and does justice to the restaurant's location in the heart of American wine country.
The nuts set the tone for the rest of the meal, establishing Ubuntu's talent for presenting the familiar, be it almonds or avocado, in a form more rarefied, and with seasonings more nuanced, than you expect.
Jeremy Fox, the chef, isn't vegetarian and doesn't do yoga. He was hired by Ubuntu's owner, Sandy Lawrence, not for his tantric bona fides but for his kitchen know-how, honed at such acclaimed restaurants as Manresa in Los Gatos, Calif.
And he has access to both the principled farmers in Northern California and to Ubuntu's own gardens and orchard, a short drive away, where he gets the restaurant's sublime greens — red Russian kale, Winterbor kale, Bordeaux spinach, tatsoi.
Our seven-course tasting menu ($70) was an undeniably leafy affair, but Mr. Fox seldom asked lettuce to carry the load. He's wiser and more decadent than that.
So the greens in the salad at the start of our meal came with Comice pear and, more crucially, creamy, dreamy burrata. The greens and baby carrots in a subsequent dish had magical spicing: the restaurant's own vadouvan, a mild French curry mix that Mr. Fox said had become popular in San Francisco restaurants in recent years.
Ubuntu makes its own vadouvan, amplifying the citrus notes among the coriander, shallots, garlic, fenugreek, cardamom, turmeric and chilies. And the results — at once sharp and round, with a blooming start and a lingering finish — are best showcased in a cast-iron dish of cauliflower three ways ($13) that we added to our tasting menu. The cauliflower was alternately roasted in thin slices, puréed with cream, and chopped raw into a crunchy sort of couscous. The sauce over it was vadouvan mixed with a significant measure of browned butter.
To read the menu, roasted local frisée was the star of a subsequent dish. To get the dish was to discover otherwise. A poached egg, its yolk as bright as a sunflower, cozied up to a hunk of crisp brioche rich enough to be pound cake. It was eggs and toast as they might be on Olympus, ambrosial and out of this world.
Then came polenta, rendered silky and white by the addition of goat's milk whey. It was stippled with bits of black truffle that looked like slender twigs on fresh snow.
And then the meal got even better, because the first of several desserts by Mr. Fox's wife, Deanie, arrived.
At its bottom were slices of Cara Cara orange, blood orange, ruby grapefruit and candied kumquats. Above them: a pastry cream blended with avocado and lime juice. And above that: an orange granita and condensed milk foam, which I guess is uncondensed condensed milk. The whole of this colorful, carefully layered masterwork had subtle temperature contrasts in addition to its textural contrasts, and tart notes to balance its sweetness.
"Promise me," Jennifer said, "that if you're around for my very last meal, you'll get me this for dessert."
I can't, but I can guarantee that the next time I'm in Napa, I'm back at Ubuntu. It calls to mind a ski lodge, spacious and gorgeous, its ceiling over two stories high, its walls made of stone.
The servers are as knowledgeable as they are good-looking (do they get complimentary yoga?), and they're patient, too. They never panicked as the hour grew late and the restaurant emptied but we didn't budge.
You don't just walk out on Angelina. You stay until she makes you go.
9 East Street, Boston; (617) 654-9900. www.oyarestaurantboston.com
With the possible exception of a certain turbulent campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, there may be something to these husband-and-wife tag teams.
At Ubuntu the Foxes successfully divvy up the courses. At O Ya Tim and Nancy Cushman successfully divvy up the emotional impact they want their restaurant to have on you.
Running the kitchen, he takes charge of dazzling, and does so with intricate, stunningly creative dishes grounded in, but not restrained by, Japanese tradition.
Running the front of the house, she takes charge of soothing, and I saw an example of that the moment I arrived.
Two women ahead of me approached the hostess stand and asked her if she had any unreserved tables. She didn't.
So she gave them a detailed rundown of the restaurants nearby. Then she called the ones that interested the two women. She made them a reservation, gave them walking directions. And off they went — to dine at one of her competitors.
The Cushmans don't have any children other than O Ya, a fussed-over, tightly clutched baby that Tim Cushman, 55, dreamed about over the decades that he worked as a restaurant consultant, helping other chefs realize their ambitions.
In Los Angeles in the 1980's, he dined in Nobu Matsuhisa's restaurant and even, for a few days, worked beside him. Later he traveled to Japan, gathering new ideas.
Nancy, 34, has been there with him and on her own, and is the architect of the impressive sake list at O Ya, whose name is a Japanese expression of curiosity.
The restaurant, plotted with excellence more than profit in mind, reflects extraordinary pride. Although it has just 37 seats, 17 of them at an L-shaped sushi counter, there are as many as five chefs in addition to Mr. Cushman working on a given night. They execute a menu with about 80 savory dishes, few of them simple, and just as many sauces and dressings a night.
The front side of the menu is devoted to sushi and sashimi ($8 to $28 for two or three pieces), almost all of it given embellishments much more elaborate and unexpected than wasabi and shiso.
A raw oyster was crowned with minuscule scoops of ponzu-marinated watermelon and diced cucumbers. It was an ideal palate primer at the start of the meal.
A fried oyster shared its rice bed with a house-made yuzu aioli, a julienne of Japanese leek and "squid bubbles," a froth of oyster juice, squid ink, olive oil and milk. It was a one-bite affair, but what a bite — briny, creamy, alive with different textures and flavors.
Mr. Cushman's idea of what belongs on a pedestal of rice isn't limited to salmon, tuna, eel and uni, though O Ya has all of that. It extends to seared foie gras, which he bathes in balsamic vinegar, chocolate and raisins. I ordered a second piece as soon as I finished the first. There was no way I was leaving O Ya with the memory of just one.
The flip side of the menu has such categories as pork (kurobuta), beef (wagyu) and chicken (poulet rouge), the last of which yielded a "ballotine of chicken wing" ($12) that exemplified the kitchen's painstaking efforts.
The boned wing had been brined overnight in a mixture including tea and yuzu juice; stuffed with a pâte of ground chicken, shiitake mushrooms and Napa cabbage; and deep-fried. Then it was placed over tangy house-made kimchi and drizzled with scallion ginger oil, fresh yuzu zest and toasted sesame seeds.
My companion marveled, "It's like a chicken bone just melted in my mouth."
At the risk of putting my credentials as a carnivore in doubt, I must say that the best dish on the menu — maybe the best dish of my entire journey — came from the menu's vegetable category.
Called "grilled sashimi of chanterelle and shiitake," ($18) it seemed to me to settle any and all debate over umami, which has to exist if only to explain why these thinly sliced mushrooms, brushed with soy sauce and a rosemary garlic oil, have such a full, magnificent taste. Sesame gets some credit. In fact sesame gets a lot of credit, contributing to both a froth of porcini and milk that covers the so-called sashimi and to a brittle that's sprinkled on the froth.
The desserts at O Ya don't live up to what precedes them. It doesn't matter.
You might end up spending $125 a person on the restaurant's modestly portioned dishes. It's worth it.
The quality of the ingredients, the warmth of the service and the coziness of the setting — a dark, weathered, brick-walled room that was built as a firehouse a century ago and rejects clichéd sushi-bar sleekness — will convince you of that.
And you'll walk out the restaurant's inconspicuous front door, off a cobblestone alley in an oddly somnolent neighborhood near the main train station, wondering whether you should keep this little secret or shout it out loud.
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What's keeping the payments industry busy right now and what's next? On this note, every year we observe the market and start looking at the next disruption. However, looking closely at the big picture, we realize that there hasn't been a real disruption within the payments market for quite some time. Instead, we're all making the industry more efficient and handling its assets in a better way. We're heading in the direction of open platforms, APIs, a trend that's becoming stronger and stronger.
Our focus within the consumer-dominated landscape revolves around the open platforms trend. The only way to create added value through your services is by making use of consumer journey data to create new predictive modeling that will be the base of effective and modern solutions for the fast ecommerce space.
What's our take on this approach? A couple of months ago we decided to enter into a strategic partnership with ING Group. One of our goals was to gain access to the banking data, which together with our payment insights and our in-house data analytics experts, gives us a deeper understanding of the consumer journey and transaction cycle. This way, we can constantly improve our payment solutions and keep up with the ever-changing consumers.
What do we need to keep an eye on? Fraud and security are for sure top of mind for all payments operators. As fraudsters become more and more skilled in their techniques, we have to make sure that we keep up with them and further develop our fraud prevention strategies.
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies
These two trends are definitely here to stay. Bitcoin has been around for already 10 years, with many of us thinking that it would disappear at some point. Its use ranges from payment solution to an item storing a certain value and we could expect it to move in different directions.
What's missing at this point for cryptocurrencies? A crash like the 2002 Internet bubble that would bring good, solid solutions. Looking at the amount of attention that cryptocurrencies usually get from the younger generations, we could expect them to remain on the market, developing in a more concrete, professional form. For further insights on the influence of cryptocurrencies on the future of payments, be sure to have a look at this blog article.
It's almost too difficult to think about payments nowadays without mentioning AI. It's the technology that helps us speed up operations and perform analyses and processes faster than ever before.
So, what's the promise of AI for payments? Essentially, we'll have better insights into what will happen in the future, being able to take timely action and adapt our approach to expected developments. However, looking at the current state, 90 percent of the industry doesn't know the data in which to build the predictive modeling yet.
The proper steps are: make a good analysis of the data, then get all the valuable insights from it, followed by an accurate predictive modeling, which operators can automate at a later stage. It's a complex process that involves great strategic work eventually resulting in the added value that payments operators are able to offer merchants with the help of modern solutions. For instance, working together with ING, enables us to analyze and make use of a greater amount of consumer journey data that in turn, allows us to optimize our modeling and integrate all the valuable insights into optimized payments solutions.
Trending Tech: VR
It's definitely one of the most exciting technologies from a consumer point of view and we all know how involved we get when we're dealing with a fascinating piece of technology that enhances our experience. VR is definitely very compatible with video gaming, creating incomparable experiences for gaming consumers. However, it remains a niche-focused trending technology, not posing a major impact on payments in the next couple of years due to the complexity of integrating it into the different channels consumers are using, as well as the slow adoption rate.
Open APIs facilitate the development of a more sophisticated form of IoT, which also needs standards and certain communication amongst the different devices. From a payment perspective, it will take a couple of years to come up with great solutions, giving us precious time to keep building an optimized experience to match modern consumer preferences.
Curious to know how the other peers see the industry right now. What is your current focus and what are you closely watching this year?


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July 11th brought both a break in the triple-digit temps we've had here in Louisville lately, and a fabulous child-centered event on our Stoddard Johnston Scholar House campus sponsored by our good friends at Texas Roadhouse.
The Family Scholar House/Texas Roadhouse Pet Show gave cause for FSH kiddos to come together for an afternoon of games, snacks, crafts and activities. Participants were invited to choose a stuffed animal from home or "adopt" one from donations provided to FSH, and then name their "pet," write a story about their pet if they so desired, and bring it to the Pet Show to show-and-tell about. There were stuffed orangutans, leopards, exotic birds, dogs, wolves, kittens, bears and fish galore!
Andy the Armadillo, TR's friendly mascot, was on hand as well to take pictures with the kids and hear all about their pets. There's nothing quite like giant Andy hugging a little stuffed fish to his chest while the fish's three year-old caretaker squeals with glee!
Even those who couldn't be physically present found a way to be part of things. Zanee' Ja couldn't be at the event, but she wanted her stuffed animal, Pinky the Pig, to be part of things, so she wrote a story, and sent it along to the Pet Show with an FSH staffer. Here's what she wrote:
"My pig's name is Pinky. When I first adopted Pinky, I knew it was love at first sight. And I knew I would never let anything happen to her. Pinky has been a good friend to me, and I will always be a good friend to her. Pinky has comforted me when I go to sleep. When I wake up, she is smiling in my face. Pinky makes me feel safe and warm. She loves the color pink. I love you, Pinky!"
We were also privileged to have on hand the youth group from Buechel Park Baptist Church–these amazing volunteers sang songs, played games and provided supervised playground time for FSH kids as they came and went from the Pet Show. It's safe to say both the youth group and our kids had a great time together!
For strong community partners like Texas Roadhouse, we're grateful (it was legendary, ya'll!). For mission-minded groups like Buechel Park, we are also thankful. Way to go, everyone! FSH children were ALL winners–celebrated, empowered, and entertained, every one of them!


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Q. I purchased a Threadleaf cypress which is outside plants in my 6 zone area but the vendor told me it was an indoor plant
"thread",... cypress usually refer to cultivars of Chamaecyparus pisifera with threadfeaf foliage. There are many cultivars and they are usually hardy here in the Northeast and are rated for zones 4 to 8. Hopefully, your plant is tagged and you can look up the hardy information. Again, you need to gradually introduce the plant to the outside this time of year and that may be why the vendor indicated that it is a houseplant.. If there is a tag and it says hardy, I would be inclined to believe the tag rather than the vendor.
Around the Holiday season there a number of thread type cypress plants sold as holiday plants. They are seldom tagged. These are usually European cultivars that are not hardy here.
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Boho Chic
A country inspired theme set the tone for Danielle Horwood and Jack Weeden's Humanist wedding day on the 25th May 2013
As Jack and Danielle grew up in the same town, and had mutual friends, it wasn't surprising that from time to time they would bump into each other on nights out.
However, it still took Jack several attempts of asking before he could persuade Danielle to give him her number.
As a surprise for Jack's 30th birthday Danielle booked a trip to Vegas with a few of his close friends.
She organised a fantastic helicopter ride to the Gran Canyon during which they landed for a Champagne breakfast but Jack turned the tables on her and took the chance to pop the question!
As Danielle works in fashion she knew exactly what she wanted for her dress which she designed with the help of Melanie from The Wedding Workshop.
'It was slim fitting with a small puddle train and a sweetheart neckline with a lace cape that fixed into the deep V back', explained Danielle. 'I just wish I could wearit every day!'
Jack and his grooms men all wore navy suits, pale blue shirts with bespoke ties and hankies made from yellow floral Liberty fabric.
Danielle had the bridesmaid's broderie anglaise tea dresses dyed pale yellow and, as a touch of personal style, each bridesmaid wore different coloured wedges.
The two page boys wore beige chinos, pale blue shirts with Liberty bow ties whilst the two flower girls wore pale grey frilly tutus, white t-shirts and pink converses.
Danielle wanted their outfits to be as relaxed and informal as the rest of the wedding.
The couple planned a Humanist non-religious service held at Danielle's mum's farm as they wanted a relaxed day with a country inspired Boho feel.
The two hired yurts needed very little decor so Danielle enhanced them with her own personal touches. 'I purchased paper Pom Poms in white, yellow and grey which I hung in groups of three around the top of the yurts', recalled Danielle. 'I also draped bunting around the edge of each yurt.'
'The menu was a chalk board lent up against the door and each table had a floral mismatched cloth for that extra shabby chic feel which I made from various table cloths I purchased,' recalls Danielle.
'The centre pieces were three jam jars filled with wild flowers and decorated with hessian, ribbons and lace.'
Danielle made six anniversary bottles from wine bottles numbered 1 to 6. Guests were invited to write notes and post them into a bottle of their choice.
The couple plan that each anniversary for the next 6 years they will smash a bottle and read the advice given!
The couple walked down the aisle to a guitarist who is one of Jack's best friends and for the day Danielle's brother-in-law made them iPod play lists.
In the evening London DJ's 'The Wedding Smashers' kept the dance floor filled all night.
'The party continued until 4am and Jack and I were last to leave,' said Danielle, 'We definitely wanted to get the most out of our day!'
At night fire pits were lit and blankets were provided at the exit of the yurts so guests could keep warm outside.
'My photographer was Binky Nixon', Danielle told us. 'I have known Binky since I was very young so I knew she would capture our wedding perfectly. She made everyone feel relaxed and at ease; she even helped with last minute decorations the morning of the wedding. She did an amazing job!'
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From John Adams to Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol, 20 November 1780
To Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol
Amsterdam Nov. 20. 1780
I have the honour to inclose, a Smal Pamphlet1 lately published, which in this critical Moment may do Some good.
The Hour draws nigh, when this Republick is to determine, whether it will acceed to the armed Neutrality: but let their determination of that question be as it will, if they do not disavow the Conduct of Amsterdam, and punish Mr. Van berkel and the Burgomasters, the King of Great Britain has threatened, and if I am not deceived by his past Conduct, he will attempt to carry his Threats into Execution. If he declares War, or which is more probable, commences hostilities without a declaration it will be on pretence of an Insult and an Injury, committed by beginning a Correspondence and a Treaty with his Subjects in Rebellion, altho they were at that Time as compleatly in Possession of an Independance and a Sovereignty de Facto as England or Holland were.
I hope for the Honour of your Answer to the Proposal I made you,2 by the Time limited and am with the Utmost Respect, Sir your most obt. sert.
LbC (Adams Papers).


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Light painting has been around for years and it takes a special artist to be able to put a new spin on the technique. Which is exactly what Patrick Rochon has done.
These images were created based on invisible realities. As Rochon explains, "I've been fascinated by what we can't see. Like the shape of sounds, energy, vibrations, feelings, the photons our bodies emits. Light is invisible until it touches something. Vibrations made by our voices have the most intricate shapes as we can see with cymatics."
So he took this fascination and worked on this series to depict these realities. He says he works in complete darkness to create the images, and uses music to let his body and the sound move him (internally and externally).
This series is currently on display in Calgary, Canada but can be seen on his website as well.
Art created within our personal realities is our specialty. Check out DNA, Fingerprint and Kiss portraits here.
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7 August 2014 – ZEISS India inaugurated its fourth Tech Centre in New Delhi. The new Tech Centre is a one-shop-solution for all the Industrial Metrology customers.
The centre will showcase our latest and most sophisticated technology to all our customers. Products like high precision Bridge type CMM's like CONTURA G2, SPECTRUM and SF & G products like RONDCOM and SURFCOM measuring machines are on display and available to our customers.
The organization hopes that the new Tech Centre will forge even closer relationships with existing customers and pave roads for new ones.
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I often joke with our customers and ask, "How many of you woke up this morning saying, 'If I could only buy software defined networking (SDN) today, then my day would be complete.'" My point in asking this is to underscore that it's not about the technology itself, but it's about the benefits – or the outcomes – that this solution achieves which is what our customers want.
There's no question that there's a massive amount of market disruption occurring. Whether it's economic shifts around the world, technology transitions we see with mobile, cloud, big data, analytics, security, SDN and the Internet of Everything (IoE), or the disruption of business models across every industry, our customers are facing a great deal of complexity coming at them fast – and all at the same time.
Whereas IT was once thought of as a necessary evil, customers I speak with today understand that technology will differentiate and transform their businesses amidst all of this complexity. CEOs understand that technology, at a minimum, must be a strategic enabler for their business, and ideally a strategic differentiator. They realize if they do not stay ahead, a competitor can – and will – disrupt them.
This leads to an incredible amount of pressure on CIOs, who are being asked to make IT decisions faster than ever. More than 70 percent of IT budget is spent keeping existing systems running, with 50 percent of IT budgets spent on labor alone. So how can they create more time to be both strategic partners and simultaneously play Chief Innovation Officer for their CEO and organization?
Imagine an IT system built around open systems delivering the customer's choice of operating model and a service-oriented delivery with speed and agility, while retaining security, compliance and scalability. This new model transforms and simplifies operations and evolves and unifies infrastructure, platforms and applications in order to capture the $19 trillion opportunity that IoE presents. This is new model is Fast IT.
Fast IT is about enabling CIOs to take advantage of the value presented by an increasingly smart, mobile and connected world. With all of our customers, we're talking about simplified, intelligent and secure IT. Increased automation, a programmable and agile infrastructure, a cloud-based fabric of connections, analytics tools capable of addressing valuable data in motion, and security capable of addressing an ever-expanding perimeter are the key components of a Fast IT model
Cisco estimates a 20 to 25 percent improvement in IT costs as a result of Fast IT. This "IoE dividend" can be redeployed to address new business capabilities now possible as a result of the fast, automated and secure systems deployed within a business. And, while an improvement in IT costs presents value for CIOs, the Fast IT model enables businesses to take advantage of previously missed business value. For instance, taking advantage of the massive amount of data created by the 21 billion networked devices and connections anticipated by 2018 (source: Cisco VNI) in real-time utilizing analytics tools produces a very tangible outcome from the increased connections with the Internet of Things (IoT).
We are addressing our customers' concerns around flat budgets and missed opportunities by enabling Fast IT through a series of solutions from the data center to the network edge. "A significant portion of our operational staff time is spent provisioning and troubleshooting network end points. With ACI much of this becomes automated," said Jaz Rahul, Network Architect, E*Trade.
The programmability offered by Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) delivers application performance and agility that goes beyond SDN. As Eduardo Maldonado, CTO of UOL stated: "We looked at many SDN solutions and chose ACI because of simplicity, automation, cost reduction, and multi-tenancy capabilities. We needed the automation capabilities to be simple, straight-forward and robust in order to connect our customers to the cloud. The key benefit is we can now offer one single solution to automate and simplify the network not only for our cloud but for our customers' networks. "
IoE is pushing nearly every company, country and individual to become digital. We are working with customers to think about Fast IT as a means to take full advantage of the $19 trillion at stake. Every CIO knows Fast IT is necessary – there is simply no other way to take advantage of the positive benefits of technology transitions underway.
Our customers are already taking advantage of these benefits and together we can – and will – continue to change the IT landscape.
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Howard Lee
Nice article Chuck.
Change is accelerating. IT is the lever in today's businesses. You can do your heavy lifting with bare hands… or grab the biggest crowbar in site and get to work.
HD Bilişim
Thank you for the information…
Manju Devadas
Great article Chuck.
I always try to correlate everything happening today from an IoE/IoT and Cisco perspective to various other industries transformed in the past century or how our industry has transformed in the past decades.
Automobile – US went from the end to end leader in automobile producer ( Ford Model T) to be one of the playes by 1990. There are shifts in economics that led to the change.
IT organizations in the current shape and form while change so much that companies will look back in 2025 and say "What were we thinking and why did it take us so long to realize"


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Efficiency over Productivity
Or how we should get SAD about our workload
Once the joy of discovering we are multi passionate creatives wears off, we are faced with the harsh reality of what this actually means. We have to work out how to juggle all our passions, tasks, activities and new lines of inquiry. Which means we have to be twice as efficient as everyone else.
Before I embraced passion weaving, I used to focus on productivity as a solution to my busyness. This is a mistake.
Productive people work really hard on improving their productivity. They spend their lives organising multiple to-do lists and focus on getting as much done as possible. Are used to have a work rate that would make your mind boggle. I was the most productive person I knew and I wore this as a badge of honour.
The only trouble is, by focusing on what we are doing, we lose sight of why we are doing it.
There is an expression that goes something like "stop succeeding at the wrong things". Instead of working hard on being productive, I have shifted my focus to being efficient. I now spend a large part of my week developing systems and processes to streamline and automate as much of my busyness as possible to clear space for the important work.
It might seem obvious to some, but it is so easy to get snowed under my emails, bills, and the daily grind. I sometimes feel like information, problems and requests come at me like a firehose.
So where ever possible I try to be SAD — which is an acronym for Systemise, Automate and Delegate.
I pay attention to the tasks I do on a daily and weekly basis. If I have to do a task more than two times, I sit down and try to systemise the process. It's not just about organising folders on your desktop, it's having a flowchart of steps as to how to handle a particular task, and work out ways to get from point A to point B as painlessly as possible. I have a system for handling emails, a system for filling out enrolment planners, a system for posting to social media regularly and so on. I even have a system for writing Medium articles.
The biggest vortex of chaos in my life is always email. I have multiple email accounts and check some more regularly than others. To add to my worries, my pop emails stop sending and I also had mailing list coming at me from all directions.
I spent some time trying out email management apps and I have discovered Polymail handles everything I need. Unbelievably, this app is also free. I now have all my Gmail accounts feeding into there, as well as my work email. I have a series of folders which is where the action items get sent.
The great thing about Polymail is you can set up an action to archive after you reply to it. It also has a one-click unsubscribe, a snooze feature and you can see who has read your emails and set reminders to follow up if they don't.
I have also set up an iCloud.com account for all my family correspondence and mailing lists. All my work and business emails go to Polymail and I sort through them on my phone.
Whenever I get a notification, I unsubscribe if it's a mailing list, if I can reply quickly I do so on my phone and then it automatically archives. If the email requires a more detailed response, I funnel it into a folder to deal with later. If it is an FYI email, I simply swipe and archive or swipe the other way to snooze.
My goal with the phones to be at inbox zero all the time, safe and I was that everything I need to deal with is in an appropriate folder. The part I really love, is that the folders are only visible on the Mac version of Polymail if there is something in it. So when I open my computer, my goal is to get to folder zero.
I recently automated my bill paying and it was literally one of the best things I have ever done. Every month, my utility bills used to arrive by mail, so I would open them and stick them to the fridge. Then I would completely forget about them until the angry bill arrived. My Internet and mobile phone use to get disconnected more than I care to admit. Eventually, I set down with my online bank and set up automated payments to coinside with my fortnightly pay. If my rates are due every three months, I divided the amount by six and repeat that amount into that the biller account using BPay.
My mortgage is already set up this way, but after 45 minutes, I had rates, water, power, phone, Internet, my car and computer repayments all automated. Holy crap that felt good.
The next stage was to switch all my paper bills and statements over to digital. I resisted this at first, because I thought I would definitely miss a payment if I didn't have the bill staring at me from the fridge, but now that the payments are automated, it's a no-brainer.
All up, automating my bills to 45 to 60 minutes. Setting up Polymail took four to five hours. A small price to pay for never feeling overwhelmed by those two areas of my life ever again. Obviously dealing with the action items still takes time, but the stress are used to feeling a daily basis that everything was scattered, and attended and all over the place has completely lifted.
In this day and age of Internet services, it blows my mind when I hear of highly paid academics transcribing their own interview tapes. There are many online services such as Rev who will transcribe audios for a dollar a minute. If I have any menial tasks such as filling in spreadsheets, transcription and data mining I tend to use online services now. I've had moderate success with fiverr.com and elance for really basic tasks.
For more complex tasks, it is worth paying professionals to do things for you such as bookkeeping, social media, web publishing and so on. For many years I battled through doing all those things myself, and I have since come to realise it is false economy.
Spend some time this week auditing your activities.
Which of those can you get SAD about? Which repetitive tasks can you Systemise? Emails are a great one to sort out. Is there anything you can Automate, such as paying recurring bills? Are there basic tasks you can outsource or delegate to somebody else, such as bookkeeping or audio transcription?
The goal, as a passion Weaver, is to allow yourself as much time and mental bandwidth to handle all of your jobs, hobbies, businesses and creative activities.
Try to stop focusing on productivity and focus on efficiency instead.
Dominique Falla www.dominiquefalla.com


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Proving time and again to have an aptitude for unearthing the best in underground talent, Dekmantel introduces new Dutch talent Self Egg to the music continuum. The new, and yet reclusive, electro-styled wunderkind from Rotterdam, delivers an EP that touches upon the styles of such classic music as Drexciya, whilst bringing the music to a yet, modern styling. Featuring Jameszoo, who brought that talent of Self Egg to Dekmantel's awareness, the EP is a hybrid collection of avant-gardist electro, and retro-futurism, that sits neatly within the label's ever-expanding aesthetic.
Rotterdam's Self Egg is the latest in Dekmantel's musical fortitude. From his humble background, the reclusive 20 something year-old self-made- producer brings very little in regards to identity, but more than enough in musical propensity. Having a modest background working in repairs, with parents obsessed with radio technology, the withdrawn producer states the record was made solely with a 'computer and microphone'. With an EP of exquisite, offbeat electro, and hard-boiled jams, the young Dutchman touches upon the fortitudes of early electro greats, while bringing an exquisite knack of production know-how to this excellently informed EP.
Having met with Dutch, electronic-jazz, wonderstar producer Jameszoo – with whom he collaborated on the track 'Blind' – Self Egg was then referred to the Dekmantel team, who subsequently went on to sign the debut EP. "I met Mitchel (Jameszoo) in Croatia at Selectors," states Self Egg. "We stayed in contact afterwards. I sent him some stuff over that I was making, then after a few emails he sent me back some stuff he recorded on what now is 'Blind'."
Title track 'Cold', is a mild, lo-pass filter driver, while 'Blind' evokes sonic imagery of classic 'The Other People Place'. 'Pace', is an analogue machine, progressive club track. Meanwhile 'Dose' touches upon that wonderful, vocal, popcorn-like, electro jazz that Self Egg has begun to characterise his style with. Such clear musical talent shows that Self Egg is yet another cracking talent to get egg-cited about. Whoever he may be.
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Dandruff on your scalp is nothing but a fungal infection called malassezia yeasts. Dandruff can cause itchiness on the scalp, hair fall and visible white flakes on the head.
It is embarrassing when the flakes are visible all over your shoulders. There are many shampoos available in the market, but treating it naturally will be the better choice since this would not cause any damage to your hair.
- It is anti-fungal by nature.
- Removes dirt and dead skin cells.
- Balances the PH levels on the scalp.
- Reduces itchiness and dryness.
Follow the simple instructions in this recipe to prepare the mix using lemon and coconut oil to treat dandruff. Regular usage of this mix on the scalp not only cures and also prevents recurrence.
Research evidence(s)
Evidence 1
The juice of the lemon is about 5% to 6% citric acid. It is considered also as an anti microbial spectrum against bacterial infections and fungi. The acidic effect of the juice has high potential to inhibit fungal growth (Glinksy, 2009; Guess, et al., 2003)
Glinksy Vladislav and Avraham Raz, 2009. Modified citrus pectin antimetastatic properties: one bullet, multiple targets. Carbohydrates Research. 28; 344(14):1788-91.
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70-75% effective : The citric acid present within the Lemon juice is most effective in inhibiting Malassezia growth over a short period of time and has the medium stability. (Kumar, 2013)
Kumar, S., 2013. Analysis on the Natural Remedies to Cure Dandruff/Skin Disease-causing Fungus – Malassezia furfur., s.l.: Samanthi Publications.
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Citrus, especially lemon, may be effective against dandruff and other skin problems. It is high in vitamin C, and help to restore the pH balance of the skin. Drops of lemon can be added to an herbal shampoo which also leaves the hair silky and shiny. (Potluri, et al., 2013)
Potluri, A. et al., 2013. A Review On Herbs Used In Anti-Dandruff Shampoo And Its Evaluation Parameters. Indo American Journal of Pharmaceutical Research.
Use a mild shampoo or herbal shampoo to wash it off your scalp. Do not use hot water to rinse your hair as it might cause dryness. This remedy can be followed twice a week.


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Dear Mr. McGrath,This reading of the law by SPS is flawed, in that it only applies to access to the physical plant before or after standard instructional hours (see http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/boyscouts.html). The details in the ECFR don't change that (http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&rgn=div5&view=text&node=34:184.108.40.206.6&idno=34), making the claims by SPS regarding their during-school-hours BSA and/or LFL programs fully problematic. Additional suspect areas include any non-rented associated equipment storage, as well as approved during-school extra-curricular activities associated with such programs.
Thank you for your inquiry regarding the use of Seattle Public School facilities by programs associated with the Boy Scouts of America and the Chief Seattle Council. We are aware of the concerns of discriminatory practices by programs associated with the Boy Scouts of America and appreciate your concern. As a school district, a large part of our funding for education comes from the federal government. Also, as I am sure you are aware, federal law trumps state and local laws. With that understanding, in 2002 the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act, Section 9525 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of A965, as amended by Section 901 of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 became Federal law. The law applies to public elementary and secondary schools, local educational agencies, and State educational agencies that receive Federal funds made available through the Department of Education. Under the Boy Scouts Act, which became effective on January 8, 2002, no such public school, LEA, or SEA that provides an opportunity for one or more outside youth or community groups to meet on school premises or in school facilities shall deny access or a fair opportunity to, or discriminate against, any group officially affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America, or any other group listed in Title 36 of the United States Code as a patriotic society, that wishes to meet at the school.
Received via e-mail 2:01 pm June 13/2014
Seattle Public Schools must follow the law. Because we provide many youth and community groups the opportunity to use our District buildings, we must allow programs associated with the Boy Scouts as well. By denying the Boy Scouts, we would also be forced to deny all associations. In the end, this would prevent our students and families from accessing many very beneficial programs and would in the end harm our students.
Again, thank you for your concern and inquiry into our practices. I hope this information has answered your questions and I thank you for the work you do for our students.
Larry Dorsey Civil Rights Compliance Officer
BSA/LFL are involved in SPS schools during school hours. For starters, there is the Garfield High School POST program (http://www.ghspost.org). I could imagine a series of interrogatories that would establish certain facts:
- When are meetings?
- How many kids?
- What adults are involved (SPS/BSA?)
- Who is the BSA/LFL liaison (scouting professional)?
- When are activities?
- Where is equipment stored?
- Who owns the equipment?
- Is there a document for review?
- What about employment discrimination?
- Are kids registered with BSA?
- If BSA forms are used...they were developed by discriminating org...
- Produce a copy of the contract...
Federal law only applies to the situation where an Explorer Post that is organized by the community--not the school--wanted to use school facilities. Their response addresses that particular case--which is not what I asserted--I agree that under federal law, the district may have to treat them like any other community organization. If they do not charge a facility fee to such organizations, they cannot charge the Post, they also must charge the Post if they charge a facility fee to other community organizations.
In the case of the POST program at Garfield (for example), as long as there is no special access during school hours, nor any special accommodation that is not equally available to all comers at the same cost (such as storage of equipment, use of district vehicles, computers, etc.), then the district may rely on federal law, in-as-much as that law is constitutional (it isn't, but that would likely have to be proved).
Beyond the facts established by answers to these question there is this: Can Federal law provide special access to employment discriminators overriding the constitutionally provided equal protection of all citizens? Imagine the worst case where all employment (except perhaps governmental) were associated with private organizations such as the BSA--and all of those employers refused to employ LGBT people--without the means to secure a livelihood all such people would be unprotected in our society.
Naturally, this correspondence will be forwarded on to the appropriate parties for their consideration, and to prepare to work through the appeal to the Seattle Public School board.