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Accuser in Ohio sex assualt case allegedly insisted on accompanying defendants
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- A friend of the accuser in the rape trial of two Ohio high school football players testified Saturday that she argued with the 16-year-old girl about her behavior at a party before the alleged attack.
Gianna Anile, an 11th-grader from across the state line in West Virginia, said she was upset at her friend's drinking and also tried unsuccessfully to get her friend to stay at the party last summer rather than leave with others, including the two defendants.
"When I told her not to leave, I was trying to, like, pull her back into the party. She was trying to shrug me off," Anile said in court. "She kind of hit me."
Football players Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, are charged with digitally penetrating the accuser early Aug. 12, first in a car and then in the basement of a house. Mays also is charged with illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material. The two maintain their innocence.
The case has riveted the small city of Steubenville amid allegations that more students should have been charged and led to questions about the influence of the local football team, a source of a pride in a community that suffered massive job losses with the collapse of the steel industry.
Anile, whose lawyer was present during her testimony Saturday, appeared, like all of the trial's teen witnesses, reluctant to be there.
The day after the party, when Anile and another friend picked up the accuser from the house where she'd stayed, the accuser said she had no memory of the night before, Anile testified under questioning by defense attorney Walter Madison.
"'We didn't have sex, I swear,'" Anile said, describing the accuser's comment.
Anile said she'd seen the girl drink heavily in the past and that she no longer speaks to her.
The case has featured disturbing testimony from teens, both in person and in graphic text messages, and has cast an unwelcome light on what students in the community once considered private conversations. Some teenage witnesses winced at times as they were forced to read adult language from texts.
Anile repeatedly said she couldn't remember statements she made to police last September about the night of the party. Midway through her testimony, special judge Thomas Lipps agreed to let her listen to a 40-minute recording of her statement to refresh her memory.
On Friday, three teenage boys granted immunity for their testimony said the accuser was drunk and didn't seem to know what was happening to her that night.
Mark Cole, Evan Westlake and Anthony Craig spoke Friday of the West Virginia girl's behavior the night of a party and described her being digitally penetrated in a car and later on a basement floor.
Cole testified that he took a video of Mays and the girl in the car, then deleted it later that morning. Westlake testified he saw Richmond's encounter with the girl in the basement, as did Craig.
Testimony in the rape trial wrapped up late Friday as a judge, who's hearing the case without a jury, pushed to finish the case, which is continuing through the weekend. The accuser was expected to testify Saturday.
If convicted, Mays and Richmond could be held in a juvenile jail until they turn 21.
During Cole's testimony, a prosecutor asked him why he deleted the video.
"It was one of those moments when you realize you did something stupid and wrong that night, so I deleted it," Cole replied.
Cole testified he saw Mays unsuccessfully try to have the girl perform oral sex on him later in the basement of Cole's house. Cole also testified that the girl was intoxicated and slurring her words.
On cross-examination, defense attorney Walter Madison suggested that the girl was behaving no differently than anyone else the night of the party.
Westlake, the second witness granted immunity, confirmed that he filmed a 12-minute video, later passed around widely online, in which another student, Michael Nodianos, joked about the attack. Women's rights groups have demanded that Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine charge Nodianos with failure to report a crime. DeWine has so far refused to say what he'll do.
Westlake said he deeply regrets his actions that night.
Craig testified that he saw Richmond's hand in the "crotch region" of the girl, a less descriptive version than he gave last fall in another hearing.
Anile's testimony Saturday echoed that of another 16-year-old student, who testified Friday that she tried to persuade the girl to leave the party with her.
Farah Marcino said the girl brushed off her attempts. "She actually hit one of my friends and said she did not want to go," Marcino said.
The Associated Press normally doesn't identify minors charged in juvenile court, but Mays and Richmond have been widely identified in news coverage, and their names have been used in open court.


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The 2,000 copies are currently being distributed to ASPnet schools, ASP national coordinators, National Commissions, and UNESCO Field offices in all Spanish-speaking countries in the world.
The WHYH resource kit was prepared as part of the UNESCO Young People's World Heritage Education Project. The Kit uses a multidisciplinary approach and is a valuable tool for teachers for sensitizing young people to the importance of preserving their local, national and World Heritage, for providing them with the necessary skills to do so and for instilling life-long commitment to this worthy endeavour. Developed on the basis of inputs and experience of students and teachers in more than 130 countries, the Kit has currently 27 national language versions and other translations and adaptations are underway.
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UFO Catchera are Sega redemption games. Arcade punters operate a claw and attempt to pull out prizes that range from stuffed animals to instant noodle. Sega didn't make this particular UFO Catcher. Toyota did.
The 8-ton, 29-foot-tall and 39-foot-wide UFO Catcher appeared in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills over the weekend as part of a promotion for the Toyota's Ractis compact car.
Previously, the largest crane game in the world was created in San Diego in 2004. Toyota's UFO Catcher was nearly twice as large.
Check out the jumbo sized stuffed animals and then wonder how the hell you get something like that home. Not in a Ractis, that's how.
クレーンもぬいぐるみもデカイ!! とにかくデカイすぎる [RocketNews via Arcade Heroes]
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Ok so I'm safely back home and dead tired.
Driving blindly(since I don't know the road) on 120 speed. lol. Fastest speed I ever achieved.
My clothes has the terrible smell of smoke. I hate pubs. Ew.
Oh and I just got the news that Rosevelt got through!! YAYYY!!!
Cheers to the band that got me screaming like crazy. lol
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A Prime Time Comedy about a teenage boy, who has Cerebral Palsy? Hard to believe? Believe it!
On Wednesday, September 21, ABC will premiere a new situation comedy, Speechless, which focuses on a family with three children, one of whom, JJ, is a teenager with Cerebral Palsy. JJ is nonverbal and uses a computer to communicate. Micah Fowler, who portrays JJ, has CP. One of Micahs differences from JJ is that Micah communicates verbally. Minnie Driver is cast as the fearless and fierce matriarch.
Heres a review, written by a mom of a nonverbal child with special needs:
Here is the official trailer for Speechless:"
The pilot episode is available for FREE on ABC on line:
After watching the Speechless pilot, I am impressed. It is rare when a series establishes characters and relationships in the pilot. Typically that kind of development takes several episodes, if not a season to accomplish. This pilot delivered a clear picture of each cast member, the dynamics of the family, and the challenges theyve faced and will continue to encounter.
I related to Minnies performance as the loving and often controlling Mom. I guarantee that there were many times in the last 46 years, when , upon seeing me, professionals whispered to each other, Here she comes. Give her whatever she wants. And I wear that like a badge of honor, because we have to fight for our childrens rights. We have to be relentless and determined. And JJs Mom is all of that and more.
There arent non-stop laughs in Speechless. The humor is subtle in places and in your face in other places. Moments of brutal honesty, and moments of poignancy.
This is the first prime time show featuring a child with disabilities since Life Goes On, (1989-1993), and its astounding that it has taken nearly a quarter of a century to create another show with a similar theme.
Im going to keep my eye on Speechless hoping that it stays the course, and that viewers will respond positively to it. My concern is that there are many TV viewers, who would rather not see a person with a disability or his mom fighting for his needs and rights. Add humorous situations that those viewers might not understand, and it could be difficult for Speechless to reach them.
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LAKE MARY, Fla. – Lake Mary police continue to investigate whether George Zimmerman threatened his estranged wife, as she originally told authorities, and video on the couple's shattered iPad may determine if charges will be filed in the case.
[PICS: Zimmerman questioned | AUDIO: 911 call | RAW VIDEO: Zimmerman attorney]
At a news conference Tuesday, Lake Mary Police Officer Zach Hudson said Shellie Zimmerman was recording the incident with her iPad, but it is in several pieces and needed to be examined in a lab. The iPad video, along with other surveillance video will be released on Tuesday afternoon, police said.
"We live in a video world ... and the iPad was used to record the events of what happened before and during the confrontation," Hudson said.
As for the surveillance video, Hudson said, "most of the footage we got from that is the after effects of a confrontation. People pointing to each other. People yelling at each other. That kinda thing. Nothing conclusive."
Shellie Zimmerman said in the 911 call that George Zimmerman "took my iPad out of my hands. He then smashed it and cut it with a pocketknife, and there is a Lake Mary city worker across the street that I believe saw all of it."
Hudson also said on Tuesday that police searched George Zimmerman at gunpoint and found no gun him. He also said neither Shellie Zimmerman, nor her father, saw a gun, despite Shellie Zimmerman telling dispatchers that George had a gun.
George Zimmerman's attorney, former Local 6 legal analyst Mark O'Mara, also said George Zimmerman had a gun holstered to his body.
Shellie Zimmerman's father, David Dean, will not be charged, Hudson said, leaving either Shellie or George Zimmerman to face charges, if anyone is prosecuted.
Lake Mary police will hold another news conference at 5 p.m. You can watch it live on ClickOrlando.com.
Monday's uproar at a home in an Orlando suburb is the latest in a string of incidents in which Zimmerman has landed in the news since his acquittal in July of all charges for fatally shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
"Stay out of harm's way, man," Zimmerman's friend, Frank Taaffe, said of Zimmerman. "Everybody's looking at you. If you slip and you fall, people are going to be right there. Use your head, man. Use your head."
On the 911 call, Shellie Zimmerman is sobbing and repeating "Oh my God" as she talks to a police dispatcher. She yells at her father to get inside the house, saying Zimmerman may start shooting at them.
But as police pressed her for information, and after talking to her attorney, she declined to press charges.
O'Mara said on Tuesday he won't represent George Zimmerman in the domestic issue from Monday. He will continue to represent Zimmerman in the NBC lawsuit and sanctions and costs from his second-degree murder trial.
O'Mara also reportedly canceled his Viera appearance where he was expected to receive an award.
The incident came days after Shellie Zimmerman filed for divorce and discussed her relationship with George Zimmerman during a TV interview.
George Zimmerman is still legally allowed to carry a weapon.
Since being acquitted in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman has been pulled over twice for speeding.
Lake Mary is located about 20 miles north of Orlando and 5 miles southwest of Sanford, where Zimmerman fatally shot Martin.
Watch Local 6 and stay with ClickOrlando.com for more on this story.


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The State of Nebraska is issuing new license plates this year, and the City Recycling Office urges citizens to recycle their old ones. The aluminum plates can be recycled with aluminum cans at any City drop-off site; tossed into curbside recycling containers; or taken to a recycling buy-back center.
"If citizens don't want their old plates for memorabilia, we hope they'll recycle them instead of sending them to the landfill," said Gene Hanlon, City Recycling Coordinator. "It's also a good idea to cut them in half with tin snips to prevent theft."
A complete listing and map of all City and County recycling sites can be found at recycle.lincoln.ne.gov.
Recycling buy-back centers accepting old license plates and paying a small amount for them include A-Can Recycling at 3255 S. 10th St. and A & J Recycling at 3250 N. 20th St., Suite 8.


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Jeanne Safer was 57 years old when her mother died, reports the LA Times. Her father had died many years before and Safer is now an "adult orphan." But she soon discovered a "shocking — almost sacrilegious" truth: It can be awesome when a parent dies. "The death of a parent — any parent — can set us free. It offers us our last, best chance to become our truest, deepest selves," writes Safer in her book, Death Benefits. In fact, the first line of the autobiography slash guidebook is "The death of your parents can be the best thing that ever happens to you". By the by: Jeanne Safer is a psychotherapist.
But Safer is not alone in her belief that a parent's death can be liberating. Researcher Debra Umberson maintains that it's a catalyst. "A lot of people change very deliberately. And sometimes unconsciously, they change in ways that they think their parents would admire, or to become more like the person their parent would want them to be," Umberson says. "Sometimes people incorporate the good parts of their parents in ways that are very constructive for self-growth."
Of course, we're talking about adults here: When a child loses a parent, there's very often a "double whammy" effect on her mental and physical health, Reuters reports. Dr. David Brent of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine studied 140 families in which one parent died prematurely and suddenly from suicide, accidental death, or sudden natural death. He found that parents who die suddenly are likely to have higher-than-expected rates of psychiatric disorder. Plus: Mood, alcohol and substance abuse, and personality disorders mean increased mortality — not just from suicide; also from accidents and cardiovascular diseases. "It's not the same as blaming them for having died," Dr. Brent says. "We know the risk for cardiovascular disease is about eight times higher for people with depression or bipolar depression."
How do you digest this information when your father left for work one day when you were 17 and never came back, having had a heart attack on the subway while taking your little sister to school — as mine did? Very slowly. My mother is amazing, but my relationship with my father was (is) definitely incredibly strong. I find more and more that the things I'm passionate about — writing, music, photography, obscure films — are the things he really liked. It's safe to say that his death was the worst thing that ever happened to me. It's not surprising at all that Dr. Brent found many cases of post-traumatic stress disorder among children who had lost a parent (and none among the children with two living parents.) It's a damaging, life-changing, scarring, jarring experience. When is the right time to lose a parent, anyway? Jeanne Safer may feel liberated, but her mother died "peacefully" at the age of 92 (after declaring, "This is my day!") Not all of us are so lucky. Some adult orphans may feel ready for self-growth, but surely many just feel a dull, unyielding ache?
Adult Orphans: When Parents Die [LA Times]
When Parents Die, Some Children Suffer Doubly [Reuters]


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Whether you are returning home, or discovering Alagoas for the first time, get there with TAP Air Portugal. Take advantage of the best airfares on flights to Maceió.


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When I think of iOS time killers, I think of games exactly like PipeRoll. It's fun and easy, and it reminds me of games I've played before.
In PipeRoll, the goal is to turn series of pipes so that they connect, and water can flow into the house's plumbing. The pipe turning element is a mini-game favorite. You know the drill. That's...not a bad thing.
In fact, I'd argue that slightly unoriginal iOS games are the best time killers, because there's nothing to learn. Going in, you know what you need to do. The game just needs to be original (or enjoyable enough) to make players overlook the recycled mechanic. And PipeRoll does just that.
There are various versions of PipeRoll, including oil-based PipeRoll Oil, retro-flavored PipeRoll Retro, and the historical PipeRoll 2. I played the free PipeRoll, which seemed to scratch my itch.
PipeRoll [Free, iTunes]


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Thousands of Berliners have blocked a group of right-wing extremists from staging a march through the German capital.
Police say some 2,000 people stood in the way of the planned route of a demonstration organized on Saturday by the far-right National Democratic Party.
The party, known by its acronym NPD, had planned to march through Berlin's Kreuzberg district, which has a large immigrant population. Germany's security services say the party has a racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic agenda.
Police spokesman Thomas Neuendorf says the 100 far-right activists were able to proceed only for a couple of hundred meters (yards) before their path was blocked and "it's unlikely they'll get any further today."
Neuendorf says four NPD supporters and nine counter-demonstrators had been arrested by mid-afternoon.


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A former Kingston College student will be starring in the BBC's new swashbuckling drama series, which begins this weekend.
Howard Charles will be appearing as Porthos in The Musketeers, a 10-part adaptation of Alexander Dumas' classic novel by Adrian Hodges.
The primetime drama starts its run this Sunday, January 19, and also stars former Skins actor Luke Pasqualino as D'Artagnan, The Full Monty's Hugo Speer and Peter Capaldi, who made his bow as the 12th Doctor in last month's Doctor Who Christmas special.
It will certainly be the biggest television role to date for Charles, a seasoned theatre actor with credits including The Merchant of Venice and Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Blackta at the Young Vic last year.
Peter Mayhew-Smith, Principal of Kingston College, said: "We're enormously proud to see a talented and able young actor like Howard Charles progress from Kingston College and into a major role such as this.
"It's a tribute both to Howard's great skill as an actor and to the high quality drama training delivered by the performing arts team.
"I love the story of the Musketeers and I can't wait to see what Howard's done with the part."
The Musketeers starts on Sunday, January 19, at 9pm on BBC One.


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I've owned a few pairs of video game-themed sneakers over the years. But the ones I've actually worn out IRL? Only one pair — the Pumas tied into True Crime: New York — have won that honour. The colourway and city-street grid worked with an understated branding that was surprisingly subtle and with what I already had in my closet. I'm particular about this kind of thing. Ask Totilo; he'll tell you.
Now, these limited-edition Need for Speed The Run Adidas Originals. I'm not a high-top guy at all, but these seem to pass the test. All-black patent leather with grey accents. My size 12s approve. A limited run of 50 kicks will be debuting today at the Adidas Originals in Chicago, followed by another 50 that will be sold at the San Francisco store on the 22nd. Both venues will have fancy-schmancy events to celebrate the elite sneakers, with DJ Neil Armstrong and Kids These Days playing in Chicago and Mick Boogie in San Francisco.
There will doubtless be queuing up for these babies. Ironic, no? Standing in line for shoes tied into a racing game. But, here's an even bigger irony: the shoes weren't ready in time to be the upcoming Frostbite 2-powered racer and EA says that they won't be made available as a download later on. So, they'll only exist in real world. Whoa.


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Wealthy families sometimes struggle unsuccessfully to have their investment advisors work collaboratively with the family foundation so that investment strategies are aligned with the group's charitable purpose.
Threshold Group, a boutique family office headquartered in Philadelphia and Gig Harbor, Wash., last week introduced an investment advisory program for family foundations to facilitate a close working relationship with their advisors.
Threshold Foundation Services is designed to emphasize the following:
- Advice pertaining to a decision-making process specific to family-run organizations
- Investment strategy, planning and execution in concert with family goals and philanthropic mission
- Partnering on family dynamics and the interpersonal issues that can surface on family boards
- Dedicated mission-related investment capabilities for those families seeking to create broader social and programmatic impact
"Like families, many family foundations are visionary and creative—they aren't content to just color between the lines," Craig Muska, director of investment management for Threshold Foundation Services, said in a statement. "They want to do the responsible thing with their investments, but they also see themselves as vastly different from the broader universe of corporate or community foundations."
Muska said that the new service also helps foundations deal with family dynamics, which can sometimes be fraught and may negatively affect a portfolio's performance. "Most advisors steer clear of these dynamics," he said. "Our approach is to respect, understand and help families work through those interpersonal relationships."


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When a Redstone Missile Was on Display in Grand Central Terminal
To alleviate American fears in the early years of the cold war, the US Army stuck a Redstone rocket in Grand Central Terminal.
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Tim Lincecum has been on such a roll over the past three weeks that even a matchup against longtime nemesis Paul Goldschmidt wasn't enough to rattle the two-time NL Cy Young winner.
About the only thing to slow Lincecum down was a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand.
Lincecum extended his winning streak to four straight starts with another stellar outing, combining with two relievers on a five-hitter in San Francisco's 5-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.
"I just tried to make him as a batter, not too big," Lincecum said. "I know he's hurt me in the past … but if I stick to my game plan, things are going to turn out for the best. He's that guy that I just need to bear down in the zone."
Goldschmidt entered the game with a .577 career batting average against Lincecum and had already hit a pair of home runs off the Giants right-hander this season.
Lincecum got the better of Goldschmidt this time, holding the Arizona first baseman hitless in three plate appearances. Goldschmidt did get a hit, singling off reliever Juan Gutierrez in the ninth.
"His stuff the last few games has been really good," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "He just is in a good rhythm out there and he's throwing with a lot of confidence. He's been on a good roll."
Lincecum (9-5) allowed three hits over seven innings and fanned Gerardo Parra to end a two-on, two-out jam in the seventh. The owner of a no-hitter this season, Lincecum struck out six and walked two.
It is the first time Lincecum has won four consecutive starts since April 5-23, 2010. During his current streak, he has given up just one run over 30 1-3 innings – a remarkable 0.30 ERA.
Lincecum helped himself at the plate and recovered after stumbling over the bag while covering first base on Aaron Hill's infield grounder for the final out in the third.
"My stuff isn't as great as it used to be, but I still try to think that way and get guys out down in the zone," Lincecum said. "I'm not afraid to throw any of (my) pitches in any situation. That confidence has kind of carried me through these outings."
Gutierrez pitched 1 1-3 innings and Jeremy Affeldt got the final two outs to complete the shutout.
Pablo Sandoval homered and drove in three runs to break out of a slump that extended back to late June. The Giants third baseman, hitting just .222 over his previous 16 games, also had an RBI-double and an infield single.
San Francisco had lost 15 of its last 19 games at AT&T Park before jumping on Arizona starter Mike Bolsinger (1-6) for two runs in the first and two more in the second.
Sandoval got the Giants going with his 11th home run of the season, a two-run drive to right. San Francisco had hit just 14 home runs since June 8, the fewest in the majors, until Sandoval's shot.
"That was nice to see, I'm not going to lie," Bochy said. "To get some early run support, that makes life easier."
Brandon Crawford's RBI single in the second made it 3-0. Lincecum followed with a safety squeeze to drive in Joe Panik, who walked and took third on Crawford's hit.
Hunter Pence and Brandon Belt opened the fifth with consecutive singles before Sandoval doubled down the left field line to extend the Giants' lead to 5-0.
Bolsinger gave up five runs and eight hits over five innings. The Arizona rookie struck out five and walked two but is winless since April 24.
"He was leaving the ball up early and they hammered it," Diamondbacks catcher Miguel Montero said. "These guys like to swing early and you have to make quality pitches out of the gate. He wasn't able to do that."
Before the game the Giants activated second baseman Marco Scutaro from the disabled list. The 38-year-old infielder, who played a pivotal role in San Francisco's march toward the 2012 World Series championship, has not played this season because of a lower back strain.
The Diamondbacks welcomed back one of their key players but didn't get the same spark. Outfielder Mark Trumbo, sidelined with a stress fracture in his left foot since April 21, went 1 for 4 and grounded out to third to end the game.
NOTES: Lincecum has pitched 27 consecutive scoreless innings at AT&T Park. … Montero was picked for the NL All-Star team as a replacement for injured St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina. … Goldschmidt has reached base safely in 31 straight games, matching his career high. … To make room for Trumbo, the Diamondbacks optioned OF Roger Kieschnick to Triple-A Reno. … LHP Wade Miley (4-6), Arizona's starting pitcher on Saturday, has a 3.63 ERA in seven career games against San Francisco. … Giants RHP Ryan Vogelsong (5-6) has lost his previous three starts. … San Francisco signed first-round draft pick Tyler Beede to a contract that includes a signing bonus of more than $2.6 million. Beede was the 14th overall pick in last month's draft. … To make room for Scutaro, 2B Brandon Hicks was designated for assignment.
Updated July 12, 2014
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In this fashion my acquaintance Wesley Virgin's autobiography starts in this SHOCKING AND CONTROVERSIAL VIDEO.
You see, Wesley was in the military-and soon after leaving-he found hidden, "self mind control" secrets that the government and others used to get whatever they want.
THESE are the exact same tactics tons of famous people (especially those who "come out of nothing") and top business people used to become wealthy and famous.
You probably know that you only use 10% of your brain.
That's really because most of your brain's power is UNCONSCIOUS.
Maybe that thought has even taken place INSIDE your own mind... as it did in my good friend Wesley Virgin's mind about seven years back, while riding an unlicensed, beat-up bucket of a vehicle with a suspended driver's license and with $3.20 in his pocket.
"I'm absolutely frustrated with going through life paycheck to paycheck! Why can't I turn myself successful?"
You took part in those conversations, right?
Your very own success story is going to happen. You just need to take a leap of faith in YOURSELF.
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LONDON - Fashion company Burberry reported an 11 per cent increase in sales for the fourth quarter, as China and Hong Kong buyers continued to snap up the luxury retailer's wares.
The company said in a trading statement Wednesday that sales rose to 503 million pounds ($772 million) for the quarter. The company reported double-digit comparable store sales growth in China and Hong Kong, and single-digit growth in the Americas. Chief executive Angela Ahrendts says the company expects a "challenging" environment globally, but that it was focused on the potential of digital platforms.
Creative Director Christopher Bailey has made a point of introducing digital and mobile technology to Burberry in recent years, and his catwalk shows are now live-streamed to online channels like Twitter and Facebook to fans worldwide.


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EBC Exercise 04 Setup Scripts
Embedded Linux Class by Mark A. Yoder
This is a guide to the many script I've written that make getting the Bone running much easier. Do this after you have Updated the OS and used git to get the support materials.
Some of the things listed here have to be done only once, others are done every time you reboot, or more often.
Do only once per Linux host install
The first time you set up a new Linux install on your host computer, edit the file /etc/hosts and add this at the end:
host$ sudo vi /etc/hosts 192.168.7.2 bone
Now rather than typing ssh -X 192.168.7.2 you can just enter ssh -X bone. It saves lots of typing.
Do when the bone is running a new image
If you are running an SD card that's bigger than 4G, run:
host$ cd BeagleBoard/exercises/setup host$ ./grow_partition.sh
This will make the partition as large as possible, and then reboots.
There are a number of files I like to have on the Bone. Rather than remember what they all are, I just put them in a script and run it on the host. Take a look at my install.sh script.
host$ vi install.sh
You'll see things like
- Setting the Bone's date to the host's date
- Copying the exercises to the bone rather than using git clone (much faster on a slow link).
There is a line that starts with ssh root@$BONE " that runs all the following commands, up to the closing " on the bone. These commands
- Set up git
- Copy over .bashrc
- Set the timezone
and so on.
Edit install.sh to install what you want.
Every time you boot the host
Every time boot up I run:
host$ cd BeagleBoard/exercises/setup host$ ./ipMasquerade.sh eth0
Where eth0 is the network interface you are using. If you are wireless you may use wlan0 instead. This sets up you host to take internet requests from the Bone and send them to the internet. That is, your Bone is masquerading as your host.
Do this once after the Bone boots up
The install.sh script above does many things that only have to be done once after installing an image. Here is what has to be done every time the Bone is booted up.
host$ cd BeagleBoard/exercises/setup host$ cat firstssh.sh host$ ./firstssh.sh
When you look inside firstssh.sh you'll see it sets the Domain Name Server (DNS) on the Bone so it uses the host as a gateway and it sets the correct date. Once that's done it ssh's over.
If you always use firstssh.sh the Bone will always be on the network and have the correct date.
In summary
Normally the Bone is already set up, so all I do after booting the host is
host$ cd BeagleBoard/exercises/setup host$ ./ipMasquerade.sh eth0 host$ ./firstssh.sh
and I'm logged onto the Bone and it has access to the Internet through my host.
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A Tour of Ybor City, Florida
My childhood buddy from Kansas, Jim Norris, had always wanted to see Tampa. OK, that's not true. A cigar vampire, he really wanted to check out Ybor City, Florida, which neighbors Tampa. That, after all, was the city where millions of cigars were rolled at the turn of the last century—and many by hand. Our mutual friend Linda Wood went along for the ride. Two days earlier, she had competed in Tampa's Escape from Fort Desoto sprint triathlon while Jim minded her gear and took photographs of her crossing the finish line. Going to Ybor City was the least she could do.
Ybor City takes its name from Vicente Martinez Ybor, who started things rolling with a cigarmaking business in 1850s Cuba. In 1885, after one Cuban revolution too many erupted, he bought 40 sandy acres near Tampa and turned it into the cigar capital of the world. To lure Cuban cigamakers—who considered themselves artisans—Ybor converted the acreage into a turn-of-the-19th-century worker's utopia, with stores, parks and hundreds of little white houses called casitas, which the workers could purchase for cost. Oh, and the pay was great. Other factories followed, which was fine by Ybor: He knew it only increased the pool of skilled workers.
"The culture was unique—the cigar was an equalizer. Hispanics, blacks, Cubans, whites rolling cigars together," said Shanda Lee, director of marketing for J.C. Newman Cigar Co.—yes, the same people you can thank for the cellophane tube—and the last operating cigar company of any size in Ybor. Lee took us for a quick, personal tour of the old 1910 El Reloj Factory (2709 16th Street, 813-248-2124) museum, pointing out the millstone once used to grind filler tobacco, and the glass-encased movement of the huge tower-mounted clock that gave the factory its name. A 1993 painting of a rolling floor by Ferdie Pacheco showed rows of cigarmakers working at tables while a lectore sat above them reading. "The lectore read aloud newspapers, novels, plays, nonfiction works," she said. "Many rollers were illiterate, but they were proud of their knowledge of literature and politics."
Ybor City suffered a run of bad luck when the Depression struck and then the cigarette became the latest thing in tobacco; without cigar manufacturing, the factories closed and the makers were laid off, and the city devolved into a slum. Buildings were shuttered and torn down, including nearly all the little white casitas, which explained the grass-covered lots everywhere. But in the 70s and 80s, after urban renewal failed, an army of artists invaded and began gentrifying. More urban pioneers followed and made Ybor City into a National Historic Landmark District.
With its low, red-brick stores—many on the National Register of Historic Places—Ybor City feels more like the small town we grew up in, Paola, Kansas. Most of the good stuff runs along one brick-paved street, 7th Avenue, the cigar lover's French Quarter, only not as contrived and with loads more free parking. And it's not as loud, either, at least during the day. At night, with around 15 bars and nightclubs playing jazz and blues, Ybor City turns into party central. Now that's more like the French Quarter.
King Corona Cigars Café & Bar serves Cuban-style coffee and features a walk-in humidor, stocked with name brand cigars and it's own hand-rolled smokes.
We parked, sauntering past the King Corona Cigars Café & Bar (1523 East 7th; 813-241-9190, www.kingcoronacigars.com) where, outside, cigar smokers sipped on Cafe Solo (Cuban espresso), and Cafe con Leche (Cuban espresso with steamed milk). They're made from Kana Cuban Coffee, which is for sale inside the large, old-timey store, along with food, an array of imported beer and wine, a barbershop (we're talking a shave and a haircut in a real barber's chair) that's encased in glass so spectators can watch (how many people have seen someone getting a shave with a straight razor?), and a walk-in humidor packed with 60 brands of name cigars—and King Corona's own hand-rolled cigars.
We went into El Sol Cigars (www.elsolcigars.com, 813-248-5905) and checked out display case after display case filled with brand name cigars, and a humidor packed with more. Jim started drooling at the glass cases and a humidor filled with every cigar imaginable—both name-brand and El Sol's own line rolled off-premises—but he managed to hold out until we reached La Herencia De Cuba (www.ramirezcigars.com; 813-817-6653), a narrow, dark store, with a lounge in the back and a bar. We watched as a Hispanic gent, Roberto Ramirez (it's a family business), sat at a tobacco-worn table, like a factory cigarmaker in Pacheco's painting, his fingers nimbly laying down strips of wrapper tobacco and spreading a ridge of filler tobacco and rolling up a cigar, pretty much in one motion, then he pushed the almost-finished cigar into a mold half-filled with other nearly finished cigars. It would sit for a few hours before he rolled on the final leaf. While Linda and I watched Ramirez, Jim slipped inside the humidor—filled with nothing but hand-rolled cigars—for a La Herencia Cubana Torpedo. Handmade and only $4.50, he said.
"Fire that bad boy up," I said.
"When I get back to Kansas," he explained.
After three delicious Cuban sandwiches at Gaspar's Grotto ("Tampa's Only Pirate Bar & Restaurant") we returned to King Corona, where the same customers still sat smoking and sipping outside. Time moves slowly here. Jim said he was going in for a souvenir so Linda and I followed him in, ambling through the store (though no one was getting a shave or a haircut). Jim spent a few minutes inside the humidor, and I saw a clerk slip a box of Ybor Handmades into a paper bag, while Linda spotted a pile of empty wooden boxes for sale. She dropped to her knees and dug out a few fine examples, and pointed out a cardboard cigar box. It looked familiar even though I never checked out the brand.
"That was our kindergarten box," she said. "No one smoked them but everyone had a box." No one in kindergarten smoked them, I think she meant. Back in the day our school district required each of us to have one for supplies like crayons, erasers, a fat pencil and snub-nose scissors. For us late-boomers growing up in the 1960s, a small-town drug store never had a shortage of cigar boxes.


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Obama, Biden To Meet With Reid, McConnell On Debt Talks
There's apparently at least one congressional Republican leader willing to sit down with President Obama to talk about raising the debt ceiling. The White House on Friday issued the following statement:
Monday, the President and Vice President will hold meetings at the White House with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to discuss the status of the negotiations to find common ground on a balanced approach to deficit reduction. The meeting with the Majority Leader will take place in the morning and the meeting with the Minority Leader will take place in the early evening.
The announcement that the Kentucky Republican is headed to the White House for debt talks next week, follows Thursday's boycott of the debt-ceiling negotiations by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), the House majority leader.
Cantor didn't attend a scheduled Thursday meeting led by Biden because, the Republican said, his party's position was that there was nothing left to discuss if Democratic negotiators kept bringing up tax increases.
Cantor said he wanted Obama to "resolve" the tax impasse.
That "balanced approach" language in the White House statement means Obama intends to talk not just about spending cuts, the Republicans' preferred method to reduce deficits, but what are euphemistically called "revenue enhancers" in Washington — taxes, basically.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has said he understands why Cantor left the talks and agreed that tax increases can't pass in the House so that it's not worth even talking about them.
Meanwhile, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday that the talks are pretty much where the president and his aides expected them to be at this point. The most difficult issues that must be negotiated at the highest level, between Obama and Boehner, are the ones that remain, he said.
As John Dickerson astutely wrote in Slate, the debt-ceiling negotiations are following the usual Washington script.
Both sides talk, then negotiations break down, after which, a lot of angry words are said. Finally, the principals come together to get the best deal they can get in the end.
It allows leaders on each side to eventually make the case to their most ideological supporters that they really fought the good fight for their particular party's principles before compromising.
The drama in this instance is assisted by the good cop-bad cop routine on both sides. Boehner is the good cop to Cantor's bad. Obama is the good cop to the bad cop of House minority leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi's.
Few people in Washington who've seen a number of these negotiations by now expect that policymakers will let the nation default on its debt. Only a minority of policymakers seem to want to run that dangerous experiment.
But since Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner set an Aug 2 deadline for when the debt-ceiling must be raised to avoid default, there's relatively a lot of time left for the sides to play out their roles.
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Kraft has finally digitalised the macaroni art that every kid - especially in America - enjoys to get into at dinner time!
You can now make digital macaroni art on your iPad® or computer and save the real noodles for dinner. http://www.DinnerNotArt.com
I love the social element as well. Kraft is also using some of the submissions as cover photos on facebook to increase advocacy amongst fans.
With the increase of kids playing with iPads, this was meant to happen hey?


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Colleen's Book Reviews – The 2016 BOOK AWARDS
I have been reviewing books for a couple of years now but never had the time or opportunity to do an annual awards post. 2016 has been filled with so much to be thankful for that I decided to recognize some of the books and authors whose writing made an impact on me, with the hopes that someone else will read these same books. It is a way that I can pay forward some of the enjoyment that I have received and recognize some outstanding Indy authors.
First, I must share that at the drafting of this post, I have read and reviewed a total of 63 books in 2016. That in itself is quite a feat! If you are looking for last minute Christmas Gifts, this is the place to SHOP!
Here's how I chose the winners of my 2016 Annual Book Awards:
I selected the front-runners from my 5-star reviews. In my estimation, these are the books and authors who had the most impact on me. I do not say this lightly. Many of these authors have a way with words, and they have transported me to magical places. This is the true essence of why we write – not only to entertain but to be remembered in the hearts of our readers. Message received!
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I have created an award photo for each of the categories. If you would like a copy of the image to use as a widget on your blog, feel free to copy or contact me, and I will email you a copy. Also, I have included the link to Amazon (where the books can be purchased) and also to my review so you can get an idea what the book is about. Click the author's name to visit their blog.
Please check out the books and reviews. Your support means much to these authors.
Catching Feathers in the Wind, by Diane Hall
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Which Half David, by Mark W. Sasse
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The Iron Pendulum, by Eloise De Sousa
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Pearseus – Schism, by Nicholas Rossis
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Genteel Secrets, by S. R. Mallery
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Angel Messages: A Wing & a Prayer, by Annette Rochelle Aben
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Thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed the awards and the books!
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"CVSG"s in plain English
Last Wednesday, we posted a list of the CVSG cases for the Term here. For those of you not engaged in minute-by-minute SCOTUS watching, though, this might be one of many acronyms that makes you want to hang up your morning suit (yes, that reference means something in this discussion) and leave the building.
But CVSG cases may well be some of the most interesting cases of the Term! Why? Because these cases are sufficiently important that the Court has decided to Call for the Views of the Solicitor General.
First, let's start with the Solicitor General (or, to those in the know, the "SG"). No, as Greg Garre "" who preceded the current SG "" is wont to say, this is not the person whose name appears above the warning on cigarette packs: that is the Surgeon General. The Solicitor General is also appointed by the President, but he or she went to law school, not medical school. The SG represents the interests of the United States, or the federal government, before the Supreme Court. The current Solicitor General is Elena Kagan; she is the first woman to hold the post.
When the United States is a party to a case, the Solicitor General is responsible for deciding whether to appeal to the Supreme Court. (The SG also makes similar decisions for appeals in lower courts.) These might include cases involving federal prisoners (like United States v. Comstock this Term), unfair treatment by a federal agency, or other types of issues in which the federal government is directly involved. If the SG does decide to petition for cert., then obviously the SG will be involved at every stage of the Supreme Court litigation, including the filing of the cert. petition, the filing of a merits brief, and the oral argument.
However, there are also many instances in which the federal government is not a party but the Court will be interested in knowing the SG's opinion on the case anyway. These cases are most likely to arise when a lower court's interpretation of a federal law or regulation has been called into question and the Supreme Court must decide whether to step in. In that scenario, the Court may ask the SG to file an amicus curiae brief expressing the views of the United States; the brief that the SG files will then usually recommend whether cert. should be granted or denied and "" if cert. is granted "" who should win the case and why. That is a CVSG, and it is one reason why the Solicitor General is often called the "Tenth Justice," because the Court almost never asks for anyone else's opinion. (Exception: The Court has occasionally, albeit very rarely, asked state attorneys general to file similar briefs. And this Term the Court called for the views of the Solicitor General of Texas, who represents the State of Texas before the Court.).
Why does the Court ask the SG to weigh in? Well, the SG works with all three branches of the federal government. The SG's office can actually talk to the federal agencies involved, or Congress, or those who will be affected by the Court's ruling, and relay important information to the Court. This information might include what the agency or legislature intended when it passed the regulation or law, how government interests would be affected by a particular ruling, and so on. In other words, because the Solicitor General represents the interests of the United States before the Court, the Court is likely to want the SG's opinion in cases where questions of federal law arise, even if the United States is not a party to the litigation.
One example is Chase Bank USA v. McCoy, a pending case in which the question presented is "When a creditor increases the periodic rate on a credit card account in response to a cardholder default, pursuant to a default rate term that was disclosed in the contract governing the account, does Regulation Z, 12 C.F.R. § 226.9(c), require the creditor to provide the cardholder with a change-in-terms notice even though the contractual terms governing the account have not changed?" Who better to know than the federal government, one branch of which enacted the federal regulation? Same thing with Morrison v. National Australian Bank, in which the issue is: "Whether the judicially implied private right of action under Section 10(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 should, in the absence of any expression of congressional intent, be extended to permit fraud-on-the-market claims by a class of foreign investors who purchased, on a foreign securities exchange, foreign stock issued by a foreign company." That case involves the interpretation of a federal statute. And in Triple S. Management Corp. v. Municipal Review Collection Center (issue: "Is the executive branch, unlike the legislative branch, free of all due process constraints on retroactive government action, as long as it asserts that its earlier interpretation of law was "wrong'?"), the question is a federal constitutional one involving due process; it will, however, affect the executive branch's ability to change its mind about how it interprets laws.
A couple of other things to know: First, although the Court merely "invites" the SG to file a brief, the SG treats it as a command. And, as SCOTUSblog's Amy Howe has explained, there are no deadlines for the SG to file. Traditionally, however, the SG's office has filed most invitation briefs at three times of the year: late May, so that the cases can be considered before the summer recess; around August, so that the cases can go on the summer list; and December, so that the cases can be considered in time to be argued that Term if the Court grants cert.
Second, if the Court CVSGs a case, it listens closely to the view of the SG in response to its invitation. Many scholars have noted that when the SG makes a recommendation to the Court, the Court is more likely than not to follow that recommendation, sometimes substantially so.
Third, how about that morning coat reference in the first paragraph? Well, that refers to the fact that male attorneys in the Solicitor General's office wear morning coats when arguing before the Court. Most of the women in the office also don some approximation of this formal dress (which was once required by all attorneys appearing before the Court), although the Solicitor General herself has opted to wear a regular black pantsuit.
Sometime soon, I'll post more information in Plain English about the Solicitor General and what she does. Until then, enjoy the fascinating conversation here about Black History Month!


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With the dimensions of smartphones increasing with every passing day, it is becoming tough to use them single handedly or fit them in your pocket. So, instead of reducing the dimensions of their handsets, HTC has come up with a bizarre idea of bundling a second 'mini' phone. The company has started bundling the HTC Mini with its current high-end flagship, the HTC Butterfly that sports a 5-inch 1080p resolution screen.
The HTC Mini is a candybar phone with NFC and Bluetooth, and acts as a secondary phone to the Butterfly. The Mini connects to the Butterfly via NFC and then displays all the notifications, messages and other relevant information over Bluetooth. The Mini is also capable of making voice calls, and can act as a remote to the Butterfly when the latter is connected to a TV. Another bizarre feature of the Mini is its phone locator feature that will automatically sound an alarm on your Butterfly, in case you ever misplace it.
So yes, you now need a phone for your phone. Maybe, HTC should try to innovate and release a bezel-less phone, instead of coming up with such bizarre ideas.
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Myasthenia gravis is a chronic, complex, autoimmune disorder in which antibodies destroy neuromuscular connections. This causes problems with communication between nerves and muscle, resulting in weakness of the skeletal muscles. Myasthenia gravis affects the voluntary muscles of the body, especially the eyes, mouth, throat, and limbs.
Women affected by myasthenia gravis generally see onset of the condition by age 20 to 30. In men, it usually starts after the age of 50. However, this condition can occur at any age. Males are more often affected than females.
Myasthenia gravis is neither inherited, nor contagious. The disorder generally develops spontaneously later in life as a result of antibodies made in a person's body that attack normal receptors on muscle. This blocks the chemical released by the nerve endings (acetylcholine) from stimulating muscle contraction.
A temporary form of myasthenia gravis may develop in the fetus when a woman with myasthenia gravis passes the antibodies to the fetus. Generally, neonatal forms of myasthenia gravis resolve in 2 to 3 months.
The following are the most common symptoms of myasthenia gravis. However, each person may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
The symptoms of myasthenia gravis may resemble other conditions. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
Flare-ups and remissions (easing of symptoms) may occur periodically during the course of myasthenia gravis. Remissions, however, are only rarely permanent or complete.
The diagnosis of myasthenia gravis is made after the sudden or gradual onset of specific symptoms and after diagnostic testing. During the physical exam, the doctor will ask about your medical history and symptoms.
One common way to diagnose myasthenia gravis is to test how a person responds to certain medications. Muscle weakness often dramatically improves for a brief time when a person with myasthenia gravis is given an anticholinesterase medication. If a person responds to the medication, it confirms myasthenia gravis.
Other diagnostic tests that may be done to help confirm the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis include:
Specific treatment for myasthenia gravis will be determined by your health care provider based on:
There is no cure for myasthenia gravis, but the symptoms can generally be controlled. Myasthenia gravis is a lifelong medical condition and the key to medically managing it is early detection.
The goal of treatment is to increase muscle function and prevent swallowing and breathing problems. Most people with this condition can improve their muscle strength and lead normal or near normal lives. In more severe cases, respiratory or nutritional support may be needed.
Treatment may include:
Myasthenia crisis is a condition of extreme muscle weakness, particularly of the diaphragm and chest muscles that support breathing. Breathing may become shallow or ineffective. The airway may become obstructed because of weakened throat muscles and secretion accumulation. Myasthenia crisis may be caused by a lack of medication or by other factors, such as a respiratory infection, emotional stress, surgery, or some other type of stressor. In severe crisis, a person may have to be placed on a ventilator to assist breathing until muscle strength returns with treatment.
Precautions, which may help to prevent or minimize the occurrence of myasthenia crisis, include, but are not limited to, the following:
Notify any health care provider of your condition when any medications are being prescribed as certain medications may interfere either with the disease or the action of the medications you take for myasthenia gravis.
The goal of treatment is to increase general muscle function and prevent swallowing and breathing problems. Most people with myasthenia gravis can improve their muscle strength and lead normal or near normal lives. In more severe cases, respiratory or nutritional support may be required..
Call your doctor if any of the following occur:
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National Nest Box Week
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Wednesday, 15 February 2017 16:04
Now in its 20th year, National Nest Box Week (NNBW) takes place from 14-21 February and has become an established part of the ornithological calendar.
NNBW aims to encourage people to put up nest boxes in their local area to promote and enhance biodiversity and conservation of breeding birds and wildlife.
Government shifts cycling up a gear with £64 million funding incentive
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Monday, 06 February 2017 09:51
Funding available for extra secure cycle storage for local transport authorities
At the end of last month (26 January) Transport Minister Andrew Jones announced thousands more people across the country would be encouraged to cycle and walk to work thanks to a £64 million government investment.
All English transport authorities (outside London) were invited to bid for The Sustainable Access Travel Fund which will support 28 local projects over three years from 2017 to 2020.
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Findings from AIMC4 - WWHRS outperforms SAP calculations
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Thursday, 27 November 2014 11:26
AIMC4 has recently concluded and the findings can be read here.
One of the most highly regarded products from the report appears to be WWHRS which not only significantly outperformed the SAP calculated savings, but was praised for its ease of installation and cost effectiveness.
Read in more detail here
What does the future hold for the Code for Sustainable Homes?
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Monday, 22 April 2013 08:52
We are now just weeks away from finding out what the future could hold for the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) in England and Wales. There are rumours that the requirement for CSH could be reduced, or even phased out completely over the coming years.
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Housing Excellence Supplier of the Year 2012 - thecodestore.co.uk
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Monday, 14 May 2012 13:43
The 2012 Housing Excellence Awards were held last week and if you recall we had been shortlisted for the Supplier of the Year Award. The other short-listed companies included Travis Perkins PLC and Wolseley UK Integrated Services.
It was a fantastic evening, with a range of recognised industry leading companies including Savills, Orbit Group, Travis Perkins, Wolseley, Keepmoat, Eon, and many others. There were over 750 professionals in attendance to the charity event.
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thecodestore.co.uk makes the shortlist for Supplier of the Year 2012...
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Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:56
We are pleased to announce that thecodestore.co.uk have made the shortlist for the Housing Excellence Awards - Supplier of the Year 2012
Link to article: http://www.housingexcellence.co.uk/page/housing-excellence-awards-2012-shortlist
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[Today's Guest Post is by Dr. Steve Runge, who is a scholar-in-residence here at Logos Bible Software. Steve is working on projects to annotate discourse function in the Greek New Testament and Hebrew Bible. More importantly, he's a really smart guy with a passion for explaining the exegetical significance and importance of discourse functions in language that non-academics can understand — so that sermons and lessons can take such things into account, resulting in better preaching and teaching. Look for more posts from Steve in the future. — RB]
My name is Steve, and I wanted to give you some ideas about how you can use some technology you probably already have to enhance your Bible study. One of the great features of the Biblical Languages Addin is the Morphological Filter (click View | Visual Filters) that lets you markup Greek and Hebrew Bibles based on their morphological coding (Click for video demo; here's a blog post with similar information). And you are probably saying, "Steve, I don't know Greek. Why would I want such a tool?" I am glad you asked!
One of the basic tenets of Bible study is to identify the main idea of each verse, which in turn allows you to build toward understanding the big idea of a passage, and so on. Believe it or not, the New Testament writers wanted the same thing. Not every action is of equal importance, and so the writers made choices about which actions to make the main idea of a sentence. One of the ways they did this was by using different kinds of verbs for different kinds of actions in order to prioritize them.
If you were to picture a line of soldiers, there are two ways I could make some of them stand out. The first way is to have the important ones take a step forward. This is essentially what emphasis does, it brings something out front. The other way to make something stand out is to have the less-important ones take a step back. By pushing the less-important things into the background ('backgrounding' them), I can focus your attention on the ones that are left in their original position. This is exactly what the writers did through the use of participles. Wait, it's okay, don't be afraid! Grammar can be a great friend and ally! Let me show you how.
Every sentence in the New Testament required the writer to make decisions. We make them all the time without even thinking about it, whether writing or speaking. We choose wording that fits best with what we want to communicate. The same is true of the NT writers. If they wanted something to be viewed as a main action, they used a main verb form (technically 'finite' verbs like the indicative, subjunctive or imperative moods for fellow grammar geeks). If they wanted to describe some action to set that stage for the main action, the writers would use participles before the main action to push the less important action into the background. Here is a quick example from English.
- I was writing a blog post this morning. I spilled my coffee on my keyboard.
- While writing a blog post this morning, I spilled my coffee on my keyboard.
In the first line, both actions are described as though they were equally important, both use main verbs. The second line backgrounds the first action using a participle in order to set the stage for the main action that follows—spilling my coffee (Don't worry, Bob. I didn't really spill, just needed an example).
This same kind of backgrounding happens all the time in the New Testament. And even if you don't know Greek, you can use the tools available in Logos to find these backgrounded actions. Here's how.
If you have an ESV English-Greek Reverse Interlinear of the New Testament and the Morphological Filter from the Biblical Languages Addin, you have all that you need to start your study. Open up the ESV English-Greek Reverse Interlinear in Logos Bible Software, and then click View | Visual Filters. This opens up the Visual Filter dialogue. Then click on Morphological Filter in the left pane, then click Add.
Then click Details. This opens up another dialog box that lets you choose the grammatical characteristics that you want to visualize. We want to check Verbs, and then Participles under Verb types. Then click Add on the lower left, and finally pick a how you want to represent it in the text using the Palettes (I chose the Gray highlighter pen). This will identify all of the participles.
Now you need to identify the main verbs. All we have to do is repeat the steps. Click Verbs, and then under the 'Tense, Voice, Mood' menu click Finite under 'Verb types', then click Add.
Now pick a visualization from the Palettes (I chose green highlighter pen), and finally click Okay. You are ready to look for backgrounded actions!
In your ESV reverse interlinear, go to Matthew 28:19, we can take a look at how Matthew uses a participle to prioritize the actions of the Great Commission. English does not use participles like Greek does, so a lot of them get translated into English as though they were main verbs. This is not incorrect translation, it is just a consequence of Greek not being English. But you can pick out the backgrounded actions from the original Greek using this Visual Filter in the Reverse Interlinear.
In English, there are two main actions of the Great Commission: Go and Make disciples. But if you look at 'Go', you'll see that it is a participle. Does this mean it doesn't matter at all? No, it does matter. Matthew used a participle to make sure that we got the main idea of the verse: MAKING DISCIPLES. Both actions need to happen, but they are not of equal importance. Using a participle backgrounds the less-important action.
This idea of backgrounding only applies to participles when they precede the main action, not when they follow it. The participles that follow the main action tend to spell out more specifically what the main action looks like. Here, 'making disciples' is spelled out as 'baptizing' and 'teaching them to observe all that Jesus commanded'.
Another good example is found in Acts 9:1-2, where Saul is seeking to arrest the believers in order to keep 'The Way' from spreading.
In v. 1 there are two actions described: 'breathing' and 'went'. But we can tell from the Morphological Filter that both of these actions are backgrounded. That means that these actions are setting the stage for the main action, and are not the main action themselves. The main action doesn't come until v. 2; it is Saul ASKING for the letters. 'Going' to the high priest was just something that had to happen before he could 'ask' them for the letters. Luke's choice to use a participle reflects how he chose to prioritize the action. Understanding how he prioritized the action will help us better understand the main point of the passage. The other participles in v. 2 function as 'verbal adjectives', describing whom Saul is seeking (the ones 'belonging to the Way') and how he will bring them ('having been bound'). The principle of backgrounding only applies to the action participles that precede the main action.
The biggest, hairiest chain of backgrounded actions that I have yet found is in Mark 5:25-27, where SEVEN backgrounded actions before we finally get to the main action. Nearly all of these are translated in the ESV as though they are main verbs. Remember, this is not bad translation, it just reflects that Greek is not English. Take a look!
Look at all of the actions that are backgrounded! The one main action that is left standing is 'touched', all of the rest are simply setting the stage for this action. Mark clearly indicates this by using participles instead of main verbs. He could have just as easily chosen to make ALL of the actions main ones, but then 'touched' would not have stood out. They would have all been equal. By backgrounding the less-important actions before the main action, the writer lets us know which action we need to focus on. There is good reason to focus on 'touch' in this context, because it is the key action that sets off a whole series of events that follows. Touching Jesus is what heals this woman (v. 27). Look at how Jesus' response is described in v. 30.
Three participles are used to describe the actions that lead to Jesus' response ('said'), and what he says is the most important part of the verse: 'Who touched me?' Mark has carefully framed his message to make sure that we do not miss the main point of the story!
The gospels and Acts by far make the most use of backgrounding through the use of participles before the main action. Here are a few more examples from Matthew. In Matt 13:46 in the parable about the pearl of great price, look at which actions have been backgrounded.
There are only two main actions in this verse: 'selling all that he had' and 'buying'. The 'finding' and 'going' set the stage for the main actions. Do you see how the backgrounding fits with the main idea of the passage?
Another example is found in the description of Jesus preparing to feed the 5000 in Matt 14:19.
There are three backgrounded actions leading up to one main action in the first sentence. 'Ordering the crowds', 'taking' the loaves and fish, and 'looking up to heaven' are all backgrounded, keeping attention on the main action: he said a blessing. In the next sentence, 'breaking' is backgrounded, keeping attention focused on 'giving' it to the disciples who in turn give it to the crowds.
By the way, you do not need to use the visual filter to find out if an action is a participle in Greek or not. If you hover over 'ordered' in v. 19 of the reverse interlinear and look at the display in the lower left corner of the main window, you will see some information displayed.
The G2753 is the Strong's number; the rest is the grammatical information for the Greek word. You can get the same information as what we have visualized using the Visual Filter, but it is does not let you see the big picture, and it is not nearly as cool!
As you may have noticed, not every participle backgrounds an action. Some participles don't even describe action, but instead function as verbal adjectives to describe a person, place or thing. The participles that follow the main action usually spell out more specifically what the main action looks like (a topic I will take up in a future post). But there is hope!
I have been working for the last year in a super-secret department (next to Rick!) on a project that identifies all of the New Testament occurrences of cool devices like backgrounded actions. There are 15 other devices that are all explained and marked up using something like the visual filter right in the text to help you better understand what the writers were trying to draw your attention to. Stay tuned for more details.
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The Tampa area is fortunate to have a large number of Tampa gym program. These gyms can be a chain that is owned by a single company or smaller gyms that are run by individuals. The amount of gyms insures that a person is never far from a gym when they are either at their home or place of work. This fact takes away the excuse a person may give that "there isn't a gym close to me where I can work out".
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One comment often heard is "I'm not taking this flabby body to the gym instructor with all of the toned bodies there". The person who makes this kind of statement must remember that many of those toned bodies started out at the gym as flabby bodies. The people who are at the gym working out and looking good didn't start out that way. They have been where you are and understand what you are going through. Many gyms set aside specific hours for women only workout sessions. These workout sessions reduce the chances of embarrassment while working out and getting that toned body.
Personal trainers are available throughout the Tampa area. For the person who is just starting out in physical fitness, the concept of employing someone who knows how to get them physically fit in a relatively short time could be a good idea. Personal trainers know and understand how to get a person physically fit. Personal trainers understand the equipment, how to use it to maximize the workout and also understand the limits of their client. Personal trainers can either be employed by a gym or may simply make use of a particular gym that has the equipment that they need.
Just like any other enterprise, some Tampa gyms specialize in the type of workouts and equipment. Some Tampa gyms specialize in weight training and body building. Others specialize in aerobic workouts which build cardiovascular strength. While a gym may specialize, most gyms provide their clientele the ability to gain both cardiovascular fitness and muscle strength.
There are no age limits or gender barriers in Tampa gyms. The owners of the gyms and the trainers that work there are interested in and committed to helping their clients achieve their fitness goals. The Tampa area and the great number of gyms in the area provide the Tampa resident a multitude of opportunities to become physically fit. Physical fitness provides both the physical and mental aptitude to enjoy the outdoor lifestyle that the Florida climate provides for.


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