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|Bolshevik (Kustodiev B. M.)
The topic "Lenin and Religion" has got various treatments, but each time its analysis was too narrow. Partially because of activities of Lenin himself, who called for fighting with religion as an ideology of the ruling classes that fuddled and enslaved common people; he believed it was necessary to change social conditions, publish antireligious literature and conduct antireligious propaganda. But real Lenin's attitude to religion was not fully revealed in his criticism of religious ideology. Lenin's fanatic atheism, his fierce struggle with religion cannot be brought down to struggle with social harm caused (according to Marxism) by erroneous, but historically conditioned form of ideology – religion. We should put it clearly: Lenin fought not against religion, but against God, whose existence he fiercely denied.
To touch the secret of Lenin's attitude to religion it is necessary to remember a writer of genius Dostoevsky, who managed to reveal the teomachist intention in the European culture. As an artist Dostoevsky did not formulate his ideas in completed concepts, but in the "philosophy of images" he is extremely accurate. Dostoevsky fought against materialistic views of his opponents, though not regarding them proper materialists. Consciousness of atheists – the characters of his novels – is dual: they need God to deny Him.
This is exactly what we notice in Lenin's behavior. He could not mention religion without damnation, for he was possessed by the need of pathological reviling of the Divine: religion for him is nothing but "sacerdotalism", "coquetting with God", "the foulest of things", "necrophilia", for "every religious idea about a certain god, every coquetting with god is inexpressible abomination… the most dangerous abomination, the foulest pest". In his approach to different historical phenomena Lenin made a show of finding relativity in everything and fighting with any idea of something being absolute. This was the core of his struggle with spirituality. But as soon as it came to religion, Lenin retreated even from "impartial" Marxist methodology and fell into frenzy and madness. It is evident that at the bottom of it there was his perception of the religious reality as the absolute enemy. Here Lenin lacked patience even for presenting religion as something historically conditioned and temporal.
In his work "Childhood disease of leftism in Communism" Lenin taught that one should compromise in every issue, but not in the goals of Communism. He always jeered at those who were unable of this. But Lenin himself never allowed compromise with religion. It never occurred to him to dodge God, the Church or religion. Stalin being a true Leninist in all other things still allowed employment of religion to retain power on the first communist base. Marx, who would not miss to say a meanness about religion, still made attempts to use historical approach. Lenin fell even below the level of Marxism and was ecstatic about the most vulgar antireligious brochures and critics of religion like the malicious Helvetius.
Lenin feared not only religious reality, but also of religious symbols. He could not stand even mentioning God. For example, he was irreconcilable with "God-seeking" and "God-construction", though in these doctrins the concepts about real God were missing, and he could derive revolutionary benefit from them in atheistic propaganda. The fact that Lenin could not play or joke with religion and treated everything pertaining to it most seriously, testifies that in Lenin's opinion destroying religion was the most important purpose of the communist regime. Lenin launched the bloodiest and most massive religion persecution in history.
As early as on May 1, 1919, in a document addressed to Dzerzhinsky Lenin demanded: "It is necessary to do away with the cassocks and religion as soon as possible. The cassocks should be arrested as counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs and shot away hip and thigh in all places. As many as possible. Churches should be closed down. Their buildings should be sealed up and turned into storehouses." On December 25, 1919, on account of the feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, when the Orthodox could not work Lenin issued an order: "It is silly to put up with "Nicholas". We should rouse everyone in Cheka to shoot away those missing at work because of "Nicholas". In his letter to Molotov for the members of Politburo of March 19, 1922, Lenin insisted on the necessity to make use of mass famine in the country and appealed to the communist leaders to archly blitz the Church within the framework of the campaign "seizure of valuables", to deal religion a deadly blow in order to deprive the future generations of believers of any will to resist: "Just now and only now, when in the countryside they eat people and there are hundreds or even thousands corpses lying on the roads we can (and so we must) conduct seizure of church valuables with most frenzied and merciless energy, never minding suppression of any kind of resistance… At all costs we have to bring about seizure of church valuables in the most determined and fastest way, which will provide us with funds of several hundred millions gold rubles." Lenin agreed, "if it is necessary to go the length of some cruelties to achieve a certain political goal, it should be carried out most drastically and quickly, for the mass cannot stand long-lasting cruelties". Lenin called for "fighting the most determined and merciless battle to the Black-Hundred clergy and suppress their resistance with the cruelty, which they will not forget for many decades". Lenin persuades his associates that "the campaign of seizure of Church valuables" should be conducted "with merciless determination, not stopping short of anything and as soon as possible. The more representatives of reactionary bourgeoisie and clergy will be shot away under this pretext, the better. We should give the public such a lesson that they will not dare think of any resistance for quite a few decades."
The reason for such a cannibalistic pathos is that Lenin hated the Church even more than religious ideology, because the Church is life in God. Personal satanic malice is felt in Lenin's attitude to the Church, infernal hate, which he was unable to hold back. As soon as he got the chance to destroy the Church, Lenin forgot all his theories about strict laws of history, asserting which he as Marksist set himself against the narodnik movement. In his practical attitude to religion Lenin lapses into voluntarism. It is not a fruit of hypocrisy, but rather the result of doublethink, which reflects the dual nature of Marxism-Leninism. Lenin always declared himself complete materialist and atheist, but was he really such?
No doubt, the Leninism ideology is materialistic: primacy of matter, concept of the world as a mechanism, and of the man as of a social-biological machine – a part of the world's self-developing machine. But according to its objectives and deep orientedness Leninism could not be materialism. The logic of complete materialism does not offer any standards of conduct, has no ideas about proper and improper, for man being a socially biological mechanism cannot have any obligations before the world machine. Such materialism should regard the idea of God as a harmful mistake, but it cannot cause the pathos of maniacal denial or unrestrained passion for reviling. It is only the duty of theomachy that makes Lenin behave toward the world as if its basis is non-material. Denying existence of God Lenin fought against God and the Divine as against the most real essence. Fanatic atheism of Lenin's type is possible only when they deny religion as a harmful superstition, but they fight against God as an absolutely hostile reality.
At the same time it is absolutely logical that exactly materialism is the ideology of Leninism. Leninism is not materialistic according to its motives and goals, but only materialism may be the ideology of Leninism. Thought materialism with its logics cannot substantiate militancy of atheism, and all the more the pathos of theomachy, it is necessary as an instrument and the ultimate aim of theomachy. Such position cannot be consistent, for it is based on self-deception, playing with oneself, which allows to avoid direct denying of principles, and it is logically inevitable within the materialistic ideology. Leninism is unable of critical introspection, because it is philosophical and psychological doublethink described by George Orwell. The foundation of any kind of doublethink is doublethink toward God.
аНКЭЬЕБХЙХ МЮ дНМС. йНЫСМЯРБЮ Б ЖЕПЙБХ. оКЮЙЮР аЕКНЦН ДБХФЕМХЪ. 1918 Ц.
|Bolsheviks in Don region. Blashphemy in church. Poster by White movement. 1918
It is wrong to regard atheistic materialism as the ultimate antithesis of religion. It is impossible to consider devil – the personified non-existence – a materialist. Only such an atheism can be the ultimate antithesis of religion that at the same time acts as an anti-Christian "religiosity" having its own scriptures and cult, its own idols. Leninism is an anti-Christian doctrine that thrusts its way of existence. A typical Leninist-atheist is not a dispassionate armchair scientist, but an obsessed fanatic, burning with hatred to the Divine foundations of the world. Leninism with its will for global rearrangement of the universe recognizes that the world is not deterministic; in the world both religion and atheism have chances to win. The world is not material, but in case Communism wins it may become materialistic. God for Lenin is not something, which either exists or not, but something that can exist but should not, something that should be eliminated. Victory over God is brought about through man. That is why the orientation of Marxism-Leninism is revealed through the concept of what man is and what he should become.
While man in Christianity is a participant of world's deification and attainment of Divine existence, the concealed goal of Lenin's atheism is to turn man into an agent of excarnation, into the source of non-existence. However this is not merely the will "not to be", but a desire to fall into state opposite to the existence created by God, and to lug away the whole world. For man to be God's co-creater, he has to possess freedom and ability to create, because only through creation in God it is possible to deify the world. To be a carrier of non-existence man has to refuse freedom and ability to create and to determine himself to the external circumstances. Contrary to the desire of a Christian to live in God as the source of freedom ("where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty") a Marxist-Leninist tries to live in the impersonal necessity releasing from responsibility for apostasy.
The concept of Marxist-Leninist ideology is revealed in its attitude to history, to formulation of human role in it. Lenin regarded man as a derivative of production relations. It means that all people of a certain epoch had common essence irrespective of individual diversity, that man is rigidly determined by the ambience. But the party stands over this ambience, it controls it ("there is nothing impossible for the Party"), so it controls also man. The ultimate obsession with theomachy makes free of all materialistic and atheistic "laws" and confers satanic freedom in non-existence. Thus, atheistic materialism claims that society is determined by the laws of material history, which in fact allows the party leaders to have freedom to direct these "laws" on behalf of the theomachist atheism. This logic was exposed already by Dostoevsky, who in his analysis of phenomenon of Nechaev's movement anticipated in the figure of Shigalev the future incorporation of Communism. Shigalev "offered for the ultimate solution of this issue to divide the mankind into two unequal parts. One tenth is given personal liberty and unlimited rights over the rest nine tenths. The latter have to lose there identity and turn into a sort of herd and under unlimited obedience through a number of metamorphoses reach primeval innocence, a kind of the primeval paradise, however they will have to work. The measures suggested by the author to strip nine tenth of their will and altering them into a herd by means of reeducation of whole generations are quite remarkable, based on natural data and are very logical". And Russia has firsthand knowledge of this iron logic of all kinds of apostasy.
Dostoyevsky was an active opponent of materialistic theories that claimed that man is "spoilt by ambience", but he did not consider his revolutionary characters to be materialists. It is not by chance that he called his novel "Demons". Demonic theomachy parasitizes on materialism devoid of any ethics. It cannot act openly, because through theomachy itself it will recognize the One, against Whom it is fighting – God.
Thus, Leninism is a dialectical combination of the ultimate atheism with a special kind of religious pathos. This is obsession with Satanism as with total theomachy. Leninism is materialistic by its ideology, but not by ontology. Materialism and atheism is an instrument for fighting against something that can exist only beyond the framework of this ideology. The aim and the basic idea of Leninism is construction of extremely anti-Christian society, and the concealed ultimate aim is non-existence. Theomachy is the core and dominant of Leninism. But theomachy demands destruction of the universe as God's creation and destruction of God's image and likeness in man. This is the reason for destructions and genocide under the regime of Marxism-Leninism unprecedented in the history of humankind. Thus all the parts of Marxism-Leninism doctrine are subject to its primary target – achievement of infernal kingdom on earth, they describe different stages on the way to it and the methodology of struggle for it.


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Meet "bonkers" shoe designer Emily Jupp
PUBLISHED: 16:31 16 January 2017 | UPDATED: 16:31 16 January 2017
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Affectionately described as "bonkers" by her fans, the incredible shoes created by Norwich designer Emily Jupp are like works of art
towering heels in the style of teapots, shoes made of chocolate, personalised leather lace-up boots, cool baseball boots for a bride - her footwear brand Milly J has gathered quite a following, with the likes of Kylie Minogue among her admirers.
Now, Emily is bringing her fabulous footwear to Norwich with the opening of her first shop – All About Shoes - and as well as continuing with her wonderful one-off commissions, she is also creating a range of shoes which combines her unique designs with everyday wear.
Emily Jupp's new shop nestles next to the Norwich Arts Centre, and is the perfect creative setting to inspire her eye-catching shoe designs.
"My mum had just moved back here and I love the Norwich Lanes area, as it is so creative, so as soon as this shop came up I decided to go for it."
Emily's story is an incredible one, and her background has very much shaped her drive and determination today.
"I was abandoned on a bus in Kingston, Jamaica, as a baby and taken to an orphanage. Luckily for me, I was adopted by the most wonderful white British couple who happened to be working in Jamaica at the time," she says. "When I was four, we moved to Bangladesh and I had an incredibly interesting childhood. I was always a very creative child and went on to study drama and opera."
It was a family tragedy five years ago, however, which proved the catalyst for Emily to launch her own business.
"Sadly I lost my brother Dan to suicide. He was an incredible, extraordinarily talented artist and his death really made me think about what I wanted to do with my life. It taught me that life was too short to waste a moment. Inspired by his art I decided to try my hand at doing something completely different. I wasn't planning a business. I had a pair of plain shoes and one day set about painting them and creating my own design.
"I love shoes, but had no experience whatsoever in fashion or art. I created this mad design and somehow it felt instinctive. I posted a picture on Twitter and the response was incredible. Former model Jodie Marsh got in touch and asked if she could have a pair. She wore them on ITV's This Morning show and it just went from there."
Emily started to get requests for one-off commissions and her reputation and business began to grow.
"I buy plain, unbranded shoes – from high heels to flats and boots. Then I take bits away, add bits and create my own shoe from there. I do all the painting, clay work, sculpting and decorating myself. My studio is like an elves' workshop. A pair of shoes can take anything from a few days to a couple of months, depending on drying times and the intricacy of the design."
In 2014, she appeared on the BBC singing competition The Voice and her designs reached a new audience.
"While it is fantastic that some of my high profile customers have highlighted my work, I want my shoes to be something that absolutely everyone can buy and wear. So as well as working on specialist commissions, I am creating a range of limited edition themed shoes ready to buy – we just did some for Christmas, starting at around £30, and I am doing some party shoes. The shop also sells lots of shoe-related gifts and accessories as I wanted it to be a real shoe lovers' haven."
Since starting her company, Emily has won a host of prestigious awards – including Footwear Designer of the Year in The Footwear Industry Awards 2015. She is also a speaker for different organisations, working with young people.
"It has been amazing to win such recognition, but I want people to understand that I didn't have a business background. Some people have a fantastic idea but feel they don't have the knowledge to know where to go with it. I was no different. It has been a real learning curve for me, but every step of the way I have asked people questions and persuaded people to get on board.
"My mum and dad were very supportive, creative and open to ideas which really spurred me on, but it was very daunting to open my shop. Sometimes though, you just have to run with it."
All About Shoes, St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4PG; www.millyjshoes.co.uk

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Day 5 – Umm Breekie
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This piccy may seem odd to you all as my choice, but this cup of tea means a lot to me.
You see this is my first cup of the day, were I work we have a truly lovely and kind caretaker who would do anything for anyone including every morning at 7.30 am (cause I am super busy) a warm cup of tea just the way I like it to make my cold hands warm up.
She always goes to the shop to get me tissues when I have a cold and brings me a biccy once a week too.
So my simple cup of tea is to show the kindness of someone who is of no importance in your life, who does it for just the hell of it.


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For more than a generation, the suburb of New Rochelle, N.Y., has been struggling with a stagnant economy, closed storefronts and tax revenue that has fallen even as New York City has boomed just 15 miles to the south.
Now this bedroom community is forging ahead with a plan to remake its low-slung downtown into a landscape checkered with office towers, high-rise apartments and new retail. Over the past year and a half, it has changed its zoning and signed on a team of developers to start building some of the planned towers — all in a bid to attract new employers and residents and breathe life into the local economy.
In short, this suburb is trying to look urban. And it isn't the only one. Urbanization efforts in New Rochelle, a city of 79,000, offer a glimpse of changes taking shape in suburbs around the country. While the approaches vary, what they share is a general desire for urban-style development meant to appeal to youth and attract employers who might otherwise gravitate to cities.
Coast to coast
Tysons Corner, a giant collection of suburban-style office parks in Virginia near Washington, D.C., is pushing developers to build apartments, tall office towers and street grids. North Carolina's Research Triangle Park — a bastion of isolated corporate campuses built in the second half of last century — is now trying to develop about 1,500 apartments mixed with offices for multiple companies, a first for the park. Officials there hope more will follow.
Similar campaigns are under way from Plano, Texas, to San Ramon, Calif. These efforts mark a major shift, planners say, particularly given that cities were trying to compete with suburbs just a few decades ago, plowing highways through downtowns and building enclosed urban malls.
"The suburbs are mimicking cities like just cities were mimicking suburbs," says Bruce Katz, who focuses on urbanization at the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington. "This is really an upending."
Of course, these changes are still nascent. It's too early to say how the broader market will react to these still largely isolated visions. In the 1990s and early 2000s, many developers bet on "new urbanism," a concept that generally sought to build mixed-use communities on empty swaths of land. The efforts never took off on a large scale, stymied in part by the 2008-2009 housing bust.
Youth migration
But part of what is driving suburban redevelopment now is the migration by young Americans, particularly the college-educated, out of the suburbs to city centers. From 2000 to 2010, for instance, the population of college-educated 25- to 34-year-old residents in downtowns grew 44%, three times as fast as the rest of the metro areas for the 50 largest cities, according to a pair of researchers from University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania.
The researchers, Victor Couture and Jessie Handbury, say in a working paper that "urban revival" in the 50 largest U.S. cities "is accounted for almost entirely by the rising share of college-educated individuals."
Trends like these have made it harder for suburbs to attract new employers, who often want to be nearer to the young, talented workforce. Hence the widespread drive to bring more aspects of urban living to suburbia.
A dense downtown "can enhance our civic image and provide a sort of heart to the community," says New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson. "If we want our children and grandchildren to be able to live in places like New Rochelle, then we've got to position our community to be attractive to those communities."
Far older than many U.S. suburbs that sprouted after World War II — New Rochelle's population grew fastest in the early 20th century — the town has been struggling economically for the past few decades, with almost no new office development and relatively little apartment construction.
Now a pair of developers — the city hopes others will follow — are forging ahead on a set of development sites downtown. Ultimately, over the next 10 years, city officials are anticipating construction of 5,500 apartments and more than 3 million square feet of retail and office space, enough to fill the Empire State Building.
Tomorrow's town
In part, the suburb's old age adds to its allure for this type of development. Built up before cars were widespread, it has a train stop on the commuter rail just half an hour from Midtown Manhattan, and its own downtown where residents can tolerate dense construction.
"The beauty of New York suburbs is they have real downtowns," says Seth Pinsky, an executive vice president at RXR Realty. Pinsky's firm and developer Renaissance Downtowns completed a deal late last year with New Rochelle to take the lead in the redevelopment of the downtown — and they're working on similar efforts in other New York area suburbs.
In New Rochelle, the two developers are planning to start on their first large building this year or early next, an apartment building nearly 30 stories high.
Should high-rise building in places like New Rochelle indeed take off, that could help relieve pressure on New York City housing, says Pinsky, who was a top economic-development official for former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
"New York City continues to become more expensive, which makes it more and more difficult for people looking for an urban environment to find it affordably in the five boroughs," Pinsky says. If those people can indeed be attracted to urban-style living in the suburbs, employers should follow, he says.
The young and educated "are increasingly looking for a different lifestyle, and when the suburbs don't offer that lifestyle, they lose that population," he says. "That population is a significant part of the workforce for which businesses are looking."
Eliot Brown is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The article "Why some suburbs are trying to be more like cities" first appeared on WSJ.com.


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The experts' committee recommendations with regard to kidney disease have been approved at the Agriculture Ministry Consultative Committee yesterday.
The Agriculture Ministry had recently appointed a 10 member committee for recommending solutions for eradicating the kidney disease.
The expert committee yesterday handed over to the Agriculture Ministry Consultative Committee 15 recommendations including the levying of a10 per cent cess tax for pesticides considered to be causing the kidney disease and providing pure potable water to the Rajarata people.


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Rabbits can be prone to the disease Calicivirus. It is a virus that affects the rabbit's internal organs and can cause internal bleeding. It is spread by mosquitoes and other infected rabbits. Signs of Calicivirus are similar to other illnesses and so are sometimes hard to diagnose. These signs include lack of appetite, lethargy and sometimes you may notice bleeding. Signs of the disease are normally seen within 12-18 hours of infection and death usually occurs within 30 hours of first contracting the disease.
A vaccine against Calicivirus is available. A full health check will also be perfomed at the time of vaccination which is important for the health and wellbeing of your rabbit.
Important Notice to ALL Rabbit Owners
A national release is scheduled for a new type of rabbit Calicivirus ("Korean Type 5") - March 2017.
Rabbits are prone to this disease and infection can result in sudden death, although some rabbits may only suffer mild illness and then recover.
At this stage, there is only one Calicivirus vaccine available in Australia, Cylap RCD, which provides protection against Calicivirus ("Type 1"). The vaccine has not yet been proven to protect rabbits from the new type of Calicivirus ("Type 5") however the current recommendation is to increase the frequency of vaccination.
We strongly recommend that all rabbits in the Sunbury area be vaccinated, using the following schedule:
Kittens (Baby Rabbits): 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks, then every 6 months ongoing
Vaccinated adults: every 6 months ongoing
Unvaccinated adults: 2 injections, each a month apart, and then every 6 months ongoing
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How much does the man's biggest moral failure--he was convicted of child sexual abuse about 12 years ago--diminish what he did behind the microphone at legendary stations WBCN/Boston for 20 years and WABX/Detroit, where I followed his afternoon show from 1970 to 1974?
Should his radio work even matter in light of such a sordid, unspeakable act? It's something I've been weighing, as MP was my favorite rock'n'roll DJ of all-time.
This column will be updated over the course of June, as I'm thinking that it's time to list my top ten broadcasters in radio and television.
So now you know who is #1 on my list, or perhaps I should refer to him as Public Enemy #1. As far as I know, the other nine characters can't be called guilty pleasures.


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The Addition is a magnificent Building project at Potong Pasir, Singapore. The project is located on a freehold piece land, accommodating 8 units' apartment. The site is located on a very prime place, neighbouring established eateries, a park and shopping centres. For instance; The Venue Shoppies, and Poiz Centre. Bidadari Park is also in the vicinity of The Addition. In the Park, residents can engage in various outdoor activities and the bond with their family members.
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Neighbouring The Addition Condo are several schools and education institutions. For instance; Cedar Girls Primary and Secondary School, Saint Andrew Junior College and Secondary School. This makes The Addition a place to be without worrying of where to take your children to school. It's a fact that parents prefer residing at a place convenient for their children's schooling- and The Addition is the place.
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Oxley Holdings, the buyer, is intending to redevelop the facility. Oxley Holdings is a very established multinational development company with a good track- record of making sound investments in the area of property development. For your information- Oxley Holdings boasts of handling commercial, residential and industrial developments. The addition is going to be a residential development facility to look out for.
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To have an overview of the project, Oxley Holdings intends to develop the facility from the existing 8 units to 20 units with a gross floor area of 15,461 sqft. The facility has been acquired at S$21.53 million. The developer, Oxley Holdings says that the funding of the project will not affect company's financials since the funding is through bank borrowings and some funds obtained from internal resources.


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New Life Fellowship of Churches is a family of churches that traces its history back to the mid and late 1980s. Eric and Jenny Dooley were sent to Jakarta, Indonesia in 1986 and started a church with seven Indonesians who had graduated from American universities and returned to Indonesia wanting to see their country won for Jesus. During the next four years five churches were started in Indonesia. Today approximately forty churches in Indonesia could trace their roots back to that first church in Jakarta.
In 1988 Eric met a group of young people in Singapore who had also graduated from American universities and returned home wanting to win their friends to Christ. Eric helped give direction to this group of people, and in 1990 moved to Singapore to pastor what became New Life Christian Church. Eric pastored in Singapore until 1994 when God called the Dooleys to move to Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
In Cambodia the Dooleys planted a church called New Life Fellowship and brought in short and long-term missionaries to work with New Life Foundation, the mercy ministry arm of the church.
In 1994 Eric recognized the need to give a name to this emerging family of churches, and "New Life Fellowship of Churches" seemed to fit. Eric's desire was to provide lifetime relationship to the pastors and churches that had been and would be planted in Southeast Asia and to provide ongoing mentoring and training for pastors.
In 1997 the Dooleys moved to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where they currently live. Eric is pastor of New Life Fellowship, the first English-speaking international church in the city since 1975. In 2003 he started a Vietnamese church.
Most recently, in June 2004 a Singaporean family was sent out from New Life Christian Church in Singapore to Yangon, Myanmar to plant an NLF church in that city.
Today New Life Fellowship of Churches comprises scores of congregations in Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Myanmar.
In New Life Fellowship of Churches we believe in the God-given autonomy of local churches led by a pastor supported by elders. We believe these churches must be self-supporting, have pastors and leaders who come from within the congregation, and that most churches will in time plant daughter churches. At the same time, we believe that autonomous churches means interrelated rather than independent. Relationships are God-given gifts meant to last a lifetime, and God has provided extra-local ministry (apostles, prophets, and evangelists) as a gift to pastors and churches who want to receive them.
Besides ongoing relationships among the pastors and churches, New Life Fellowship of Churches hosts an annual conference for pastors and leaders. This conference is held in January each year and moves between Indonesia, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Myanmar. With the common vision of world evangelism and church planting, we believe that through our relationships God will collectively use us in the coming years to plant churches in Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, China, India, and beyond.


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Little Light Dance and Digital Theatre
The Flying Bedroom
Thursday 12 April
Based on the children's book by Heather Dyer
"Elinor's bedroom looks ordinary but it isn't.
When Elinor is asleep, her bedroom can fly."
Join Elinor and her bedroom on an adventure to far off lands, under the sea and outer space. Discover new friends, battling pirates and hapless astronauts.
A creative and inspiring journey where Elinor discovers her own self-confidence and creativity.
Little Light and award-winning author Heather Dyer join forces to present this bilingual classic adventure tale through dance, music, and digital projections.
Post Show Dance & Digital Workshop available. Please reserve your space with the Box Office 01873 850805.
Family £28
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How to Make Pizza at Home That's Better Than Takeout
Here's how to make and bake an epic pizza at home.
Pizza is a crowd-pleasing choice for busy weeknights and fun weekend dinners alike. But you don't have to rely on restaurants or takeout for top-notch pizza. Read on for tips on how to make your own pizza at home. We'll walk you through how to make pizza crust, how to top a pizza, pizza baking temperature, and how long to bake pizza. Plus, we'll share some of our favorite homemade pizza recipes to try.
How to Make Pizza
Pizza Crust
Let's start with the base, the crispy crust that holds it all together. With the crust, you can go a few ways: You can make homemade pizza with store-bought dough; Use pre-baked crusts (such as Boboli) or even English muffins and pita bread for personal pizzas; or Make your own pizza dough.
Here's how Chef John makes simple no-knead pizza dough. (He also makes a pretty mean Cauliflower Pizza Crust.) Watch the video to see exactly how the pizza dough should look before setting it aside to rise. You'll also see Chef John's patented "rotate, stretch, and tuck" move for forming the dough.
Pizza Sauces
Now for the sauce. There are loads of delicious pre-made marinara sauces for pizza sauce. We have oodles of homemade pizza sauce recipes. Beyond red pizza sauces, don't forget pesto sauces, white sauces, or even a simple olive oil and garlic sauce. They will expand your pizza potential by almost infinite proportions. For more on mixing and matching pizza sauces and toppings, check out 20 Ways to Make Homemade Pizza.
Pizza Toppings
There's almost no limit to the toppings you can pile on a pizza. Tomato sauce and pepperoni you know. But apples and walnuts? For sure. Fresh figs and prosciutto? Of course! Sweet corn and peas? Well, in Europe and Japan, corn and peas are common pizza toppings. Bottom line, pizza is open to an infinite amount of creativity where toppings are concerned.
We asked Matt Robinson of Real Food by Dad for some of his favorite pizza-topping combos:
Breakfast Pizza topped with crumbled bacon, diced red and green peppers, and fried eggs.
Chicken and Broccoli layered with pesto or with an alfredo sauce instead of the traditional red sauce.
Veggie Lovers is great as anything can go on it. Throw any odds and ends of veggies onto a bakesheet and roast them in the oven, then use Harissa for the base sauce. And to keep it simple, use a mix of mozzarella and Parmesan for the cheese.
Taco Pizza works great. It's such an economical choice, and the ingredients are always stocked in the pantry. For the sauce, it's usually a puree of black beans or refried beans, and then layers of traditional taco fixings.
Almost BLT Pizza. A variation on the classic sandwich using bacon, spinach and sundried tomatoes.
Here are a few additional ideas for varying pizza sauces, toppings, and cheeses:
Once you have your toppings lined up, think about the order you'll lay them down on the crust. It matters!
Layering the Pizza
Layer the ingredients one way, and you have pizza perfection. Arrange the same ingredients in a different order...and it's curtains. For example, if you put the cheese down first, then layer tomatoes and basil on top, the basil burns and shrivels and the cheese doesn't brown. Possible pizza fail.
Of course, you can put tomato slices on top of the cheese. Tomatoes have a high moisture content, so they won't caramelize; instead, they'll dehydrate slightly for a more concentrated tomato flavor.
Choosing Cheeses
Mozzarella, Fontina, and Parmesan cheeses all work great. These cheeses are all very low in moisture, so they'll brown fairly quickly.
Now let's get this thing in the oven!
1. Heat the oven. Generally, the hotter the oven, the better the pizza will be. The best oven temperature for pizza is between 450 and 500 degrees F (250 to 260 degrees C).
How to cook pizza on a stone: Place a pizza stone on a lower oven rack. Preheat the oven between 450 and 500 degrees F (250 to 260 degrees C) — the stone needs heat up while the oven heats. Large, thick-crusted pizzas might need an oven temperature closer to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C) so the crust can cook completely before the toppings burn.
Tip: For a crunchy crust, preheat a baking sheet or cast iron skillet in the bottom of the oven. Once you load the pizza, toss ice cubes into the hot pan to create a burst of steam.
You know another way to get a terrific crust? Put your pizza on the grill.
2. Form the pizza dough and place it on a peel dusted with a little flour or cornmeal. If you like, lightly brush the crust with olive oil. This helps create a golden brown, crispy crust rather than a dry, dusty outer crust. See how to make and form your pizza dough.
Okay, the oven is hot and the pizza's all topped and ready to roll.
3. Slip the pizza onto the hot pizza stone.
Tip: Jjiggle the peel to make sure the pizza isn't sticking. You want it to slide off the peel easily. If it's stuck, gently lift the sticky dough and dust with a wee bit more flour or cornmeal.
Place the tip of the peel on the edge of the stone at the back of the oven. With one swift motion, jerk the peel back out from under the pizza. If the pizza slides freely on the peel, it should land perfectly in the middle of the pizza stone. If the pizza sticks to the peel, your toppings will slide off the pizza onto the stone, and the kids will hear you say those words you're not really supposed to use in front of them.
Close the oven door and let the pizza bake.
4. After 5 minutes of baking, check the pizza. If some spots are browning faster than others, turn the pizza; slip the peel underneath it like a giant spatula. Rotate the pizza on the peel and return it to the baking stone using the same swift motion described above.
If you like, remove the pizza from the oven halfway during baking to brush more oil on the crust. This added oil will help darken the crust and make it even tastier. For a little garlic flavor, infuse the oil with minced garlic.
5. The pizza is done when the cheese is melted to a medium-to-dark brown. Color means flavor. Carefully remove the pizza with the peel and let it cool slightly. If you want, top it with additional fresh toppings. Slice with a pizza wheel or chef's knife, and serve to your adoring crowd.
Feel the Burn: When pizza scalds the roof of your mouth, don't blame the cheese. Most likely, it's the sauce. That's because heat is conserved in the wet sauce; and an insulating layer of cheese is very likely adding insult to injury. Next time you get a slice fresh from the oven, lift the heat-trapping lid of cheese with a fork, and you'll see how the steam pours off the hot, hot sauce. It's like the molten core of the earth in there.
Check out our complete collection of Pizza Recipes.


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Bergamot Benefits? This Citrus Fruit's Oils Can Relieve Anxiety and Raise HDL ("Good") Cholesterol
Bergamot benefits can help to relieve your anxiety and keep your cholesterol levels in check.
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Bergamot is a small, pear-shaped citrus fruit that grows on small trees that are cultivated almost exclusively in coastal regions of southern Italy. It's sometimes referred to as the bergamot orange, although its resemblance is closer to that of a lime. Bergamot essential oil, made mainly from the peels, is very aromatic and commonly used in aromatherapy and perfumery. Its scent is distinctly different from other citrus essential oils and has been found to contain compounds that effect the functioning of neurotransmitters in a way that decreases anxiety.[1-3] Research on aromatherapy indicates that various essential oils, including bergamot, can help to relieve stress, anxiety, depression and other mood disorders. Bergamot benefits include communicating signals to the olfactory system, stimulating the brain to exert neurotransmitters (e.g. serotonin and dopamine) to regulate mood.[1] Human studies have shown that aromatherapy treatment with bergamot essential oil reduces anxiety and other symptoms of physical and psychological stress.[2,3]
Bergamot Benefits: Essential Oil
One study published in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine looked at how bergamot benefits aromatherapy reduced anxiety in patients scheduled for day surgery.[2]
A total of 109 patients were randomly assigned to 30 minutes of bergamot essential oil aromatherapy using an ultrasonic aroma diffuser or placebo therapy (water vapor). All those exposed to bergamot essential oil aromatherapy showed a greater reduction in pre-operative anxiety than those in the control group. Compared to baseline, those undergoing the bergamot essential oil aromatherapy exhibited significant decreases in anxiety scores, heart rate, and blood pressure, whereas no changes were observed in those in the placebo group.
Bergamot Benefits: Standardized Fruit Extract
Bradenton, Fla.-based HP Ingredients, makers of the product Bergamonte®, made from BPF produced by H&AD SRL (Italy), offers this background on the citrus fruit:
"Bergamot (Citrus Bergamia Risso) is a citrus plant that grows almost exclusively in the narrow coastal Calabria region in Southern Italy, due to sensitivity to the weather and soil conditions. Bergamot juice was traditionally recognized by the local population as a remedy for supporting healthy cholesterol level and cardiovascular health. The medicinal use of bergamot, forgotten for decades, is now being rediscovered.
"The juice and albedo of bergamot has a unique profile of flavonoid and glycosides, such as neoeriocitrin, neohesperidin, naringin, rutin, neodesmin, rhoifolin, and poncirin. Naringin have been shown to be beneficial in animal models of atherosclerosis, while neoeriocitrin and rutin have been found to exhibit a strong capacity to prevent LDL from oxidation. Importantly, bergamot juice is rich in brutieridine and melitidine with an ability to inhibit HMG-CoA reductase."
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Bergamot fruit, meanwhile, is practically inedible but is also packed with a remarkable spectrum of healing phytochemicals that are finally starting to be researched and documented.
The fruit is unique in both the types of phytochemicals it contains (mostly different types of flavonoids) as well as their large concentration. The fruit juice and its extract have been shown to improve many aspects of cardiovascular heath, including cholesterol and triglycerides, blood pressure, and blood vessel function.[4]
Some of bergomot's flavonoid compounds are similar in structure and action to statin drugs and have been found to lower cholesterol.[4] Other bergamot compounds are powerful antioxidants that have an affinity for the blood vessels and have been shown to improve blood vessel health and function.[4]
Bergamonte® bergamot polypenolic extract is a standardized extract of bergamot fruit containing a minimum of 25 percent flavanones, including 1 percent Melitidine and 2 percent Bruteridine. These compounds have been proposed to lower cholesterol by working like statin drugs in that they inhibit the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase. Bergamonte® bergamot polypenolic extract is sold by a number of supplement companies in the United States and has been the subject of a number of animal and human clinical studies showing impressive results.
Bergamot Benefits for Cholesterol, Triglycerides, and Blood Sugar
Italian researchers studied bergamot polyphenolic fraction (BPF) in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial involving 237 patients with high cholesterol.[4] Some of them also had features of the metabolic syndrome (high blood sugar, high triglycerides, and low HDL cholesterol). The subjects took either 500 mg or 1000 mg of bergamot polyphenolic fraction per day, or placebo, for 30 days.
The study's results?
- Those in the bergamot polyphenolic fraction groups experienced significant average reductions in total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol, and a significant increase in HDL cholesterol compared to those in the placebo group.
- The 59 subjects with metabolic syndrome also experienced a significant decrease in their triglycerides. In that group, total cholesterol dropped from 278 to 199mg/ml, LDL dropped from 188 to 126mg/ml, and triglycerides dropped from 267 to 158 mg/ml.
- Not only that, but HDL ("good" cholesterol) increased in all patients, up to a striking 64.6 percent. Wow!
Bergamot polyphenolic fraction also reduced blood sugar levels by an average of 15 to 25 percent and is therefore of potential benefit in those with prediabetes and metabolic syndrome. Overall, there was not much difference in the 500 mg dose compared to the 1000 mg dose for any of the measured parameters except HDL, which increased significantly more in the group taking the higher, 1000 mg per day dose.
Is Bergamot Becoming an Alternative to Statin Drugs?
The same group of researchers also conducted a study using a higher dose of bergamot extract as a substitute for statins in 32 patients who could not tolerate statins due to the side effects of these drugs.[4]
After stopping statins for two months, they took 500 mg of bergamot extract in capsule form three times a day for a total of 1500 mg per day. After 30 days, the average reduction in total cholesterol was 25 percent, with an average 27.6 percent reduction in LDL cholesterol. There was no reappearance of side effects.
How to Obtain Bergamot Benefits Yourself
For stress and anxiety: To get the anti-anxiety benefits of bergamot essential oil, you have many aromatherapy options. But first, you must make sure you purchase a 100 percent pure essential oil and not a synthetic "fragrance." You then need a way to get the aroma chemicals into the air so you can breathe them in.
As in the aromatherapy study discussed above, you can use a specialized aromatherapy diffuser. Inhalation by diffusion is one of the most common applications of essential oils utilized in studies. Ultrasonic aroma diffusers, like the one used in the study described above, use water and ultrasonic technology to break aroma oils into microscopic particles that are suspended in the air. This method is ideal because it provides a long-lasting and easily-absorbed method of diffusion without damaging the aroma chemicals with heat.
Another simple option is to put a couple of drops of the essential oil in a large bowl of hot water and then lean over the bowl to inhale the steam.
For cholesterol and blood sugar: To get the benefits of bergamot extract for high cholesterol, triglycerides, or blood sugar, look for capsules or tablets at your local health food store that contain a standardized bergamot extract such as Bergamonte® Bergamot Polyphenolic Extract. Now Foods, for example, and Jarrow Formulas both manufacture supplements using this extract. Take 500 mg twice a day. Like all therapies for cardiovascular and metabolic health, you'll get the best results with bergamot if you utilize it along with other natural and lifestyle therapies.
Since bergamot works like statin drugs by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, it also—like statins—may deplete Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), an important compound essential for energy production. Therefore, be sure to supplement with 50 to 100 mg of hydrosoluble Ubiquinol CoQ10. For more ideas on how to treat you cholesterol and/or triglycerides naturally, see our comprehensive guide here. And don't miss our blog on how black tea (not only green tea) can lower cholesterol naturally.
Share Your Experience
What about you? Have you experienced these amazing bergamot benefits? If so, did you use the citrus bergamot essential oils or the bergamot extracts in capsules or tablets? Tell us about your experience with bergamot benefits in the Comments section below. By doing so, you can encourage others who are seeking natural remedies to treat their health conditions.
[1] Curr Drug Targets. 2013 Jul;14(8):872-9.
[2] Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013:927419.
[3] Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013:853809.
[4] Fitoterapia. 2011 Apr;82(3):309–316.
Originally published in 2014, this post is regularly updated by the editors of University Health News.


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Today we have one of the more iconic scenes from the Silmarillion, in chibi form. We're picking up the story now of those Elves left behind in Middle-earth, from # 83.
For reference as to what Melian's doing there, see # 59 and # 60.
Part 94: Freezeframe
Next time: Part 95: Forsaken.
Chibis by tektek.org
Original story by and copyright to J R R Tolkien, ed. C Tolkien: Primarily based on the Silmarillion, but incorporating ideas from the 12-volume History of Middle Earth series.
Questions and comments welcome!


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Burning oil tanker sinks off China
An oil tanker burning in the East China Sea for more than a week has finally sunk, Chinese media say.
The Sanchi and a cargo ship collided 260km (160 miles) off Shanghai on 6 January, with the tanker then drifting south-east towards Japan.
Iranian officials now say all 32 crew members – 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis – on the tanker are dead.
The tanker was carrying 136,000 tonnes of ultra-light crude but Chinese officials say there is no major slick.
China Central Television said that the Sanchi had gone down after "suddenly igniting" around noon (04:00 GMT).
Some 13 vessels and an Iranian commando unit had been taking part in the salvage operation, amid bad weather.
A spokesman for the Iranian team, Mohammad Rastad, said there was no hope of finding any survivors.
On Saturday, salvage workers had boarded the vessel and found the bodies of two crew members in a lifeboat.
Only one other body had been found during the week of salvage operations.
The rescue workers retrieved the ship's black box but had to leave quickly because of the toxic smoke and high temperatures.


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The TAPE Animation Club's entry into the PICS Film Festival was shortlisted for an award at the PICS Film Festival back in February, and it is with great pleasure to announce that our animated short claimed SECOND PLACE in its category.
Festival is an annual festival organised by Galeri Caernarfon that is specifically targeted for Children and Young People. The festival is a mixture of:
- Film screenings (mainstream, specialist and international titles)
- Workshops
- Special events (e.g Q+As with film-makers)
- Short Film competition
- Awards Night
The festival takes place every year, and is made possible with the support of Film Agency Wales and the Arts Council of Wales.
The children got a taste of Red Carpet glamour at the glitzy event, collecting the prize on stage in front of a room full of people.
Da Iawn/Well done to all of the AWARD WINNING TAPE Animation Club – we are incredibly proud of you, and you should be proud of yourselves for all of your hard work and enthusiasm.
Click here to view the award winning entry:
For more information about PICS and how to get involved, visit the Galeri Caernarfon website.


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The green city in the sun as Nairobi is popularly referred was reignited green with the latest Nairobi City inspired campaign by global Dutch brewer Heineken®, dubbed 'Open Nairobi'.
Open Nairobi, aims to inspire Nairobi natives to view the city in new light , and experience all the positive energy Nairobi has to offer ; opportunities, adventure and fun. The fully integrated campaign includes a first of a kind, limited-edition Nairobi Heineken bottles.
The bottle was a welcomed surprise following last year's Heineken cities of the world campaign that had 6 different labels of 6 cities; Amsterdam, London, New York, Rio de Janerio, Singapore and Shanghai.
Heineken Country Manager, Nina Ndabaneze noted that, ''Every great city offers an endless adventure within its sky-scraping towers and neon lit streets. The Open Nairobi campaign reinforces the notion that we should never stop exploring our own urban backyard.''
Priced at the same as the regular bottle, Heineken® aims to keep consumers engaged with their latest innovation through re-igniting the party scene in Nairobi with different on-trade activations and during the ongoing 2015 Rugby World Cup match screenings in Kenya.
''Nairobi is an iconic global destination associated with its worldly culture, unique experiences and vibrant social scene. The concluded Global Entrepreneurship Summit co-hosted by the President of the United States in the month of July within Nairobi, is one of the examples that denote Nairobi a city to watch out for.'' Nina further stated.


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Ribble bikes and water bottles get lighter
Ribble has been releasing a few new models recently, with the latest being the Ultimate SL. It's the brand's lightest ever model with a size Medium weighing 840 grams and it boasts aero features too. Prices start at £1500 but Ribble recommends you spend double that for the Ultegra Di2 build with Mavic Ksyrium wheels and Deda finishing kit.
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A slightly cheaper way to shed a bit of weight might be to upgrade your water bottles. Elite says that its new Fly bottle is half the weight of a conventional version, saving you around 80g a pair for just over a tenner.
New tools and less waste
Everyone wants shiny new tools to keep their bike in tip-top condition and Park Tool has released a host of additions to its range. But we secretly like the older frame and fork straightener best – it looks like a mediaeval weapon of torture, but chromed and with a blue handle.
If like us you deplore the gel wrappers which litter our roads and off-road routes, you'll be pleased to hear that Mule Bar is taking steps to reduce the temptation for people to discard their wrappers after a feed. It's packaging its gels in reusable containers and selling bulk refill packs.
Updates from Strava and Endura
Strava fans with an Apple Watch Series 2 will be pleased to hear that they can now leave their smartphones at home. A new release means that workouts and heart rate data can be recorded directly to the watch. The watch update will occur automatically if you've got Strava installed, once you update Strava on your linked iOS device.
Endura's Pro SL bibshorts have won a number of our group tests, scoring a perfect 10. Not satisfied with that, Endura has now released the Pro SL II. It has the same pad, available in three different widths for different saddles and anatomies, but you now get two leg lengths too as well as a new, understated design.
This week we've also hunted down eight bargains on cycling shoes, including options from Giro, Fizik and Bont, ready for your summer rides.
And with this season's races over the Belgian cobbles having kicked off over the weekend, we've looked at ten ways the pros modify their bikes for the cobbles. Some could be very handy for UK roads too.


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Boi Bumbá: it's the biggest party you've never heard of, smack dab in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon. If you're making the trek, here's what to expect
"Cinema weather" takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to these al fresco movie venues across the globe
Whether you're hitting the waves or strutting your stuff on the boardwalk, we've got the top tips and trends
Running through the sprinkler gets boring after a while – allow us to suggest some alternative summertime activities
Barbecues are always a blast, but there's something to be said for a well-planned summer soirée – we've got just the tips to take your al fresco party from meh to amazing
Love photography, but never made it past page 5 of your DSLR's handbook? We've got you covered with quick tips to immediately improve your shots
Tokyo-based street style blogger and fashion photographer Rei Shito shares her top fashion-forward look for June
Renowned food and wellness expert Rujuta Diwekar gives us the lowdown on what makes Mumbai's cuisine scene one of the most fascinating in the world
Lima's star chef Virgilio Martínez shares his top tips for (and fondest memories of) the British capital
Tree house? Check. Castle? Check. Train? Check. Discover all these and more with our list of the most unusual Airbnb rentals
Add something extra to your summer celebrations with these simple but surprising backyard solutions
From iPhone cases to power banks and portable amplifiers, these bells and whistles will make your fellow iFriends just a little bit jealous
The portions are large, the waitress might call you 'honey' and the coffee never stops brewing – these are America's best diners in every state
Discover the next stars of stage and screen with our selection of four names to watch in 2016
Feel like dancing the night away on a beach holiday? Head to Salento and try your foot at the pizzica dance in the country's biggest folk music festival
What to do when it's hot out, but your sweet tooth is hankering for something good? Clear some space in the freezer for these delectable desserts
No socks and sandals in sight – these are the accessories you'll need to look good and have fun by the seashore this summer
From serious tools to playful toys, these photography accessories for the home, studio and on the go will make any shutterbug smile
We reveal the photographers ignored in their own lifetimes, but whose genius was finally discovered after their death
A selection of the best foreign language films of the new millennium, proving there are great movies offering an alternative to the Hollywood mainstream
For cities, bike-friendliness means less congestion and more eco-credibility – for cyclists, it means more eye-catching bike paths that are destinations in their own right


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WEBSITE: www.domusacademy.com
Domus Academy
Year founded: 1982, by Mariagrazia Mazzocchi, Pierre Restany, Alessandro Mendini, Valerio Castelli, Alessandro Guerriero and Andrea Branzi.
Number of students: 420
Areas of teaching: Product Design, Interior & Living Design, Urban Vision & Architectural Design, Business Design, Luxury Brand Management, Fashion Design, Fashion Styling & Visual Merchandising, Fashion Management, Interaction Design, Service Design, Visual Brand Design.
Locations: Milan
Career assistance services: Domus Academy Career Service is designed as a tailor-made experience offering personal branding courses, individual meetings, job Interviews with companies, curriculum vitae and portfolio reviews, dedicated events.
Founded in Milan in 1982, Domus Academy is one of the first post-graduate Design Schools in Italy. With 12 Master's programs, its international perspective and unique "learning by designing" approach, Domus Academy stands out as a benchmark in education, while investigating innovation and shaping the future of Design transformation. It is a place where students can discover new realities, boost their careers, and invent professional trajectories aligned with tomorrow's market demands.
In 1994 Domus Academy was awarded the Compasso d'Oro for the quality of its teaching programs and its attention to advanced topics which position it as a crucial actor in the development of Italian design. In 2009, for the third consecutive year, Business Week included Domus Academy within the 60 Best Design schools in the world. From 2012 to 2015, Domus Academy was selected by Frame and included in the Masterclass Frame Guide to the 30 World's Leading Graduate Design, Architecture, Interior Design and Fashion Schools; from 2012 to 2017 the school was selected by Domus Magazine as one of Europe's Top 100 Schools of Architecture and Design; in 2016 and 2017 Domus Academy was selected by Azure Magazine among the 8 Top Interior Design and Interaction Design Schools in the world and selected by Business of Fashion as one of the Top Global Fashion Schools.
Domus Academy relies on innovative teaching methodologies and tools to offer students an immersive and engaging experience. Academic modules are introduced by an inspiring series of Design Talks with internationally acknowledged thought leaders. Courses and Workshops, through a combination of lectures, exercises and tutorials, offer each student the opportunity to customize the content of their Master to transform their career in the desired direction. The academic offering spans from iconic courses such as product, interior and fashion design, to advanced business and marketing courses, to cutting-edge courses in the most transformative areas of experience, service and information design.
Each student is helped to identify their best employment opportunities through dedicated career coaching, including specific courses on Personal Branding. Students have the opportunity to practice the skills obtained in Domus Academy by choosing the most suitable career path among a range of very specific professional experiences: an Internship within a relevant national or international company: a Field Learning Experience as a consultant for a company or an Entrepreneur Experience to gain business and managerial skills useful to create their own start-up.
Upon graduation, students earn an Academic Master Degree (60 ECTS credits) accredited by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) – in addition to the Domus Academy Master Diploma.
Due to its proximity to the professional design world, Domus Academy has developed an extensive network of connections and relationships with many of the most prestigious companies and studios such as BVLGARI, CISCO, Elica, Flos, GROM, Italia Independent, KARTELL, Kickstarter, KRIZIA, MAGIS, Moncler, Natuzzi, Pininfarina, Pomellato, Procter&Gamble, Salvatore Ferragamo, Stone Island, Technogym, The Coca-Cola Company, Timberland, Versace, Vogue, Wired, YOOX.


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Aerators Flush Out Bad Smells In Water
Yuck! Just what is that awful smell!? It is not coming from the bathroom. Not anywhere else in the house, not in the kitchen sink either, although there is that usual whiff which should not even be there. And so you step out into the garden. You look around you, you nip to the backyard, and there it is! That awful smell is coming from your pool. That is bad. When last was this pool cleaned? Of course, for most readers consuming this material, this would not be the case. But so it has happened to the point where both health inspectors and environmental protection agents have been called in and the guilty parties have been summarily roasted over the coals.
But you may well have a lovely fountain or pond in your garden somewhere as well. This, however, does present more of a challenge in terms of responsible maintenance and cleaning. Some of you may well attest to this. Perhaps, however, you were not yet aware of how much of a positive impact the use of pond aerators and fountains aerators can make to reverse the difficulties of removing stubborn bacteria and other contaminants from the water features. The acrid smell is caused by anaerobic bacteria churning through the water without any oxygen to break down organic material that has gathered at the bottom of the pond or fountain.
The bacteria develop waste gas that bubbles through rotten leaves and even dead fish. And then of course it hits you! Right smack bang in the nose, like a wet fish across your surprised and flustered cheeks. More than enough to want to make you go green behind the gills. But no, because you will be doing what many others are doing these days; taking climate action.


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Historic NASA/SpaceX Mission Could Pave the Way for Space Tourism by 2021
After a minor setback, a new era in space travel and tourism is set to launch this weekend.
When the SpaceX shuttle launches its private spacecraft, the Crew Dragon, with NASA astronauts in tow, it will mark the beginning of commercialized space exploration. SpaceX
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will man the SpaceX Crew Dragon to the International Space Station. NASA
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Can Elon Musk Fix Flint's Water?
By Fiona E. McNeill
The Michigan community of Flint has become a byword for lead poisoning. Elon Musk recently entered the fray. He tweeted a promise to pay to fix the water in any house in Flint that had water contamination above acceptable levels set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Tesla's Massive Virtual Power Plant in South Australia Roars Back to Life
Tesla's plans to build the world's largest virtual power plant in South Australia will proceed after all.
The $800 million (US $634 million) project—struck in February by Tesla CEO Elon Musk and former South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill—involves installing solar panels and batteries on 50,000 homes to function as an interconnected power plant.
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Driving on Sunshine: Nissan Rolls Out Solar + Storage System
Nissan, the maker of the world's top-selling electric vehicle, officially rolled out on Thursday a seamless solar energy and battery storage system for homes in the UK.
The venture, called Nissan Energy Solar, allows homeowners to generate, store and charge EVs with their own renewable energy, which can reduce household energy bills by an estimated 66 percent, the company touts.
Tesla's Giant Australian Battery Saved Consumers $35 Million in Four Months
Since switching on in December, Tesla's massive battery in South Australia has already drastically lowered prices in the region's frequency and ancillary services market (FCAS) and has taken a major share of that market, Renew Economy reported.
During Australian Energy Week, McKinsey and Co. partner Godart van Gendt boasted about the stunning efficiency of the 100-megawatt Powerpack system, which is connected to Neoen's Hornsdale wind farm.
When Angad Daryani was a child in Mumbai, he used to suffer from the air pollution there. "Growing up, I had asthma," he told CNN in a profile Wednesday. "I used to have a lot of breathing problems growing up in India."
Now, at the ripe old age of 19, he is working on an invention that could filter pollutants from the air of city skies and help other children breathe easier.
Elon Musk: We Must Colonize Mars for Humanity to Survive the 'Dark Ages'
In the event of World War III, the only way for humanity to survive is to colonize Mars or the moon, according to Elon Musk.
"I'm not predicting that we're about to enter the dark ages, but there's some probability that we will, particularly if there's a third world war," the SpaceX and Tesla founder said during a question and answer session at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference in Austin on Sunday ahead of President Donald Trump's possible nuclear talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Tesla Installing World's Largest Solar Rooftop on Nevada Gigafactory
Tesla has started building a massive rooftop solar array on top of its Gigafactory 1 (GF1) outside Sparks, Nevada.
Once finished, the 70-megawatt system will be the largest in the world by far; the current record-holder is the comparatively shrimpy 11.5-megawatt array in India that can power 8,000 homes.
Elon Musk's Brother Wants to Bring #RealFood to 100,000 Schools Across America
Kimbal Musk's nonprofit organization, The Kitchen Community, is expanding into a new, national nonprofit called Big Green, to build hundreds of outdoor Learning Garden classrooms across America.
Learning Gardens teach children an understanding of food, healthy eating and garden skills through experiential learning and garden-based education that tie into existing school curriculum, such as math, science and literacy.
Tesla's Massive Australian Battery Responds to Coal Power Outages in Milliseconds
Tesla's massive lithium-ion battery storage facility, which was designed to feed South Australia's unstable power grid, is already proving itself by responding to power outages within milliseconds.
The system—the largest of its kind on planet Earth—was tested twice just this month. According to CleanTechnica, on Dec. 14, the Loy Yang coal power plant in the neighboring state of Victoria suddenly went offline. Remarkably, the Hornsdale Power Reserve battery system (the Tesla system's official name) kicked in within 140 milliseconds and injected 100 megawatts of power into the grid.
14 Notable Climate Influencers of 2017
This was a year of tug-of-war for the environment. With Donald Trump becoming president of the U.S. at a time when wildfires, hurricanes, and floods were devastating the country, it was challenging for scientists, activists and concerned citizens to get their voices heard. But several stood out as global leaders on climate and helped give rise to those who were silenced. Below are 14 of the most notable influencers of 2017 and how they fought for a cleaner, safer environment for all.
Tesla Installs Six More Battery Systems in Puerto Rico in 'Humanitarian Effort'
After deploying a solar and battery system to a children's hospital in San Juan this October, Tesla has installed six more similar systems to help power the hurricane-wrecked islands of Vieques and Culebra in Puerto Rico.
In a statement to Bloomberg, Governor Ricardo Rossello's office said that Tesla installed the new units as "a humanitarian effort."
'History in the Making': Tesla Switches on World's Largest Battery
South Australia officially activated the world's biggest battery on Friday. The feat was achieved much to the credit of Elon Musk, who made a daring bet to "get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature or it is free."
Musk was responding to a challenge from Australian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes to help fix the Australian state's electricity woes. Losing the bet would have cost the Tesla CEO "probably $50 million or more."


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Personal Healthcare Budgets
Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) have been put forward as a means of significantly increasing the number of people who benefit from choice and control over their care, with a Government target of 50,000-100,000 PHBs by 2020. In this short article, we consider how these are being used, and the benefits and challenges that PHBs provide.
Since the Care Act 2014 was introduced, all users of Local Authority (LA) adult social care were entitled to receive a PHB, excluding emergency care, end-of-life care and one-off pieces of equipment. The Care Act states that users should be:
- Given an indicative budget for their care.
- Able to choose from direct payments, authority-managed budgets, thirdparty-managed budgets, individual service funds, or a combination.
- Receive support to enable them to make informed choices.
- Have choice and control over what services are purchased, and from whom.
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Will we see a new iPad Pro announced in April?
It's not like Apple is a totally mysterious company when it comes to launching new products, right?
Uh…. not right. So here's what we're looking at, rumor-wise for the possibly upcoming announcement of a new iPad:
First week of April, Apple will announce two new iPads at an event that will be marking the inauguration of its Apple Park campus. When we say first week of April, we mean from approximately March 20th to mid April.
Apple plans to target the education and business sectors with a new 10.5-inch iPad Pro and a refreshed 12.9-inch model.
The 12.9-inch iPad will probably only feature small upgrades, but the 10.5-inch model might feature a nearly bezel-free edge-to-edge display.
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Asheville Museum of Science, Asheville City Schools, Buncombe County Schools, UNC Asheville, Mix 96.5, and the828.com co-host Asheville's Solar Eclipse Festival in Pack Square on August 21st from 12pm-3pm.
The Asheville Museum of Science (AMOS), Asheville City Schools, Buncombe County Schools, UNC Asheville, Mix 96.5, and the828.com are pleased to announce they will be co-hosting Asheville's Solar Eclipse Festival on August 21st. From 12pm-3pm the community is invited to join in the festivities at Pack Square Park with music, food, and fun hands-on eclipse related activities led by local organizations. Be sure to visit ashevillescience.org/solar-eclipse for more detail!
On August 21st, residents and visitors to the United States will have an opportunity to witness a solar eclipse as the moon traverses across the sun casting a shadow on the earth's surface and obscuring portions of the sun. Many will have the incredible opportunity to see a full solar eclipse as the moon obscures 100% of the sun for a few minutes. Asheville lies in a unique location as 99% of the sun will be obscured.
Asheville Solar Eclipse Festival goers will be able to witness this incredible celestial event while cooling off in the Splashville fountain, enjoying great food, listening to fun music, and participating in hands-on activities. Eyewear for safe eclipse viewing will be available and distributed until supplies run out. For those living outside of downtown, Buncombe County Schools will be hosting three satellite viewing locations- Owen High School, North Buncombe High School, and TC Roberson High School.
Beginning at 1pm Asheville will darken as the first sliver of the moon begins its traverse across the sun. At 2:37pm the moon will cover 99% of the sun making Asheville significantly darker. Finally, by 4pm the last sliver of the moon will pass across the sun, bathing Asheville in full sunlight once again.
Leading up to this event, AMOS will be hosting educational eclipse programming throughout the summer in their STEM lab. These programs will explain why solar eclipses occur and what to expect on August 21st.
We invite all to attend as we celebrate the end of summer and the solar eclipse. Join the festivities in Pack Square Park and witness this once in a lifetime celestial event. For more information contact Cory Van Auken, email@example.com or 828-254-7162×3.


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Scotty Cam reveals what he really thinks about Jason
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With the Blockheads just days away from revealing their garage studio spaces, Block co-host Scotty Cam has caught up with Karl Stefanovic and Sylvia Jeffreys on the Today Show to chat on the upcoming open for inspections and his ongoing tiff with Jason.
"It's gone really quickly, but we're coming to the fun stuff now," said Scotty. "We've got open for inspections this weekend and all the public can come down and take a look at the homes. [But it's the] auction which we're all pretty nervous about."
Karl was quick to bring attention to the ongoing issues Scotty's been tackling with controversial contestant Jason from House 1 all season.
"You and I have a problem, and we have a problem with this Jason fella," said Karl. "On a scale of one to 10 how would you rate him in terms of your mates?"
Scotty had a chuckle before replying: "He's right up there with one of my mates. He's a good bloke Jason, he just takes Mondays off which annoys me a little bit, and he falls behind all the time, which also annoys me.
But their houses are starting to come together. He's starting to do a good job."
Karl didn't buy Scotty's diplomatic answer, poking him to tell the truth about his feelings towards Jason.
In reply Scotty admitted he'd been hard on House 1 all season and had also given them a lot of help along the way (including budget and planning advice).
"He's alright, he's tried hard — well maybe some of the time," he added truthful.
"Tough but fair Scotty, that's how you roll," said Sylvia.
As to his pick for this season's win, Scotty said it's almost impossible to know as previous seasons have shown the best house doesn't always take out the prize. "If a buyer has an emotional connection with a home they'll buy it," he said.
The five finished Block houses will be open to the public this Sunday October 15.
Address: 46 Regent Street Elsternwick VIC
Time: 10am - 2pm
The Block is on Channel 9 Sunday 7.00pm and Monday to Wednesday at 7.30pm. Follow The Block on Facebook, catch-up on this season's episodes on 9Now and read 9Homes.


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Ghana coach Avram Grant has named Black Stars' final 23-man squad to take part in AFCON 2015 at Equatorial Guinea.
Grant dropped Dynamo Houston defender Samuel Inkoom, Ibrahim Moro and Kwabena Adusei in his squad.
Leicester City's Jeffrey Schlupp was also dropped from the squad because of injury that will rule him out of action for three week.
The Black Stars have been drawn against Senegal, Algeria and South Africa in Group C.
Ghana squad
Goalkeepers: Razak Braimah (Mirandes, Spain), Fatau Dauda (AshGold) and Ernest Sowah (Don Bosco, DR Congo)
Defenders: Harrison Afful (Esperance, Tunisia), John Boye (Erciyesspor, Turkey), Jonathan Mensah (Evian, France), Awal Mohammed (Maritzburg, South Africa), Baba Rahman (Augsburg, Germany), Gyimah Edwin (Mpumalanga Black Aces, South Africa), Daniel Amartey, (FC Copenhagen, Denmark)
Midfielders: Rabiu Mohammed (Krasnodar, Russia), Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu (Udinese, Italy), Afriyie Acquah (Parma, Italy), Solomon Asante (T.P. Mazembe, DR Congo), Christian Atsu (Everton, England), Mubarak Wakaso (Celtic, Scotland), Andre Ayew (Olympique Marseille, France), Frank Acheampong (Anderlecht, Belgium), David Accam (Chicago Fire, USA)
Strikers: Jordan Ayew (Lorient, France), Mahatma Otoo (Songdal, Norway) Asamoah Gyan (Al Ain, UAE), Kwesi Appiah (Cambridge United, England).


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This post by Toni Brayer, FACP, appeared at Everything Health.
I must say I think Dr. Kimberly Henry, cosmetic surgeon, has made a big professional mistake. She has filed a lawsuit to stop online reviewers from badmouthing her on the Internet. She is seeking injunctions against at least 12 reviewers from sites such as Yelp.com and DoctorScorecard.com. Dr. Henry claims libel and defamation, invasion of privacy and interference with prospective economic advantage and is seeking $1 million in general damages and $1 million in special damages, etc., etc., etc.
Now I don't know Dr. Henry, nor do I know of her plastic surgery technique. I don't know who the disgruntled patients are or if they are unfairly targeting her. What I do know is that the Internet is here to stay and there is no place to hide if you do not provide excellent customer service. I was curious and checked DoctorScorecard.com and there is a brand new complaint placed today, so I don't think this publicity is helping her. It will bring more angry patients out to comment, I'm afraid.
A similar case was filed last year by a dentist in San Francisco, Gelareh Rahbar, who filed a case against a patient who wrote a negative review on Yelp.com. The case was thrown out by the judge and Rahbar was ordered to pay $43,000 for the patient's legal fees. Anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuits against public participation) laws provide some protection for online commentators as a preservation of free speech.
I wrote about medical rating sites back in 2007 and in 2008 and those posts have proven to be correct. (Reading my old posts is rather interesting and I agree with myself all over again!)
I know some physicians feel it is unfair that angry patients can say whatever they want and there is no rebuttal. But if a surgeon has that many disgruntled patients who would take the time to comment, there might just be a problem. And let's face it, those sites are anonymous and I know of doctors who post their own "good" ratings. It swings both ways.
I feel sorry for Dr. Kimberly Henry because no one likes criticism and public critique is especially hard to swallow. But bringing it even more public with a lawsuit (that may be hard to win!) is just throwing oil on the fire. Better to spend that time and effort satisfying patients and asking them to post great comments to counteract the bad.
Toni Brayer, FACP
Toni Brayer, FACP, is an ACP Internist editorial board member who blogs at EverythingHealth, designed to address the rapid changes in science, medicine, health and healing in the 21st Century.
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Doctor sues patients for lousy online ratings
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Creating Custom Install Images
Applies To: Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2
You can use Windows Deployment Services to create custom install images. To do this, use the instructions in this section to create a capture image, prepare a reference computer using Sysprep, and then capture the operating system using the Image Capture Wizard. These images provide an alternative to the command-line utility, ImageX.exe, which is included in the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK). For more information including a comparison of capture images and ImageX.exe, see Creating Images (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115311).
Note that images that are older than Windows Vista are hardware abstraction layer (HAL)–specific, so you cannot deploy an image of one HAL type to a computer with a different HAL.
Prerequisites for creating custom install images
Ensure that there is enough disk space to create and store the new images.
Be a member of the Local Administrators group on the Windows Deployment Services server.
Have a Boot.wim file on the server. In most cases this should be the Boot.wim file from the product DVD, although you can create a capture image using a custom boot image. For more information, see Creating Images (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115311).
Steps for creating a capture image
To create an install image, you must first create a capture image. Capture images are boot images that you boot a client computer into to capture the operating system into a .wim file. You can also create media (a CD, DVD, USB drive, or other type of media) that contain a capture image, and then boot a computer from the media.
To create a capture image
In the Windows Deployment Services MMC snap-in, expand the Boot Images node.
Right-click the image to use as a capture image. In most cases, this should be the Boot.wim file from the Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 product DVD. For instructions about creating custom boot images, see Creating Images (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115311).
Click Create Capture Boot Image. Note that this will create a new image using the image you select (it will not overwrite your existing image).
Type a name, a description, and the location where you want to save a local copy of the file.
Continue to follow the instructions in the wizard, and when it is complete, click Finish.
If you have Windows Server 2008 R2, you can select the check box on the last page of the wizard to add the image to the server (instead of following steps 6-8).
To add the image to the server, right-click the boot image folder and click Add Boot Image.
Browse and select the new capture image, and then click Next.
Follow the instructions in the wizard.
After you have created the image and added it to the server, follow the instructions in the next section to boot a computer into the capture image and capture the operating system.
Steps for creating an install image
Now that you have a capture image, you need to prepare a reference computer and then create the install image. The reference computer can be a computer with a standard Windows installation or a Windows installation that has been configured for your environment. First, you boot a computer (which has been prepared with Sysprep) into the capture image. Then a wizard creates an install image of the reference computer and saves it as a .wim file. After that, you can deploy the .wim file to a computer.
To create a custom install image
Create a reference computer (install the operating system, applications, and make any other changes that you want).
On computers running operating systems earlier than Windows Vista, ensure that you have the correct version of Sysprep.exe on the computer.
At a command prompt on the reference computer, change folders to \Windows\System32\Sysprep or the folder that contains Sysprep.exe and Setupcl.exe.
Run the command sysprep /oobe /generalize /reboot. If you prefer, you can also use the Sysprep graphical user interface by double-clicking Sysprep.exe.
On computers running operating systems earlier than Windows Vista, run sysprep -mini –reseal -reboot.
When the computer restarts, perform a network boot on the computer by pressing F12.
In the boot menu, select the capture image that you created in the preceding procedure, and then click Next.
Choose the appropriate drive, and then provide a name and description for the image. Click Next to continue.
You will see only drives that contain operating systems prepared with Sysprep. If you do not run the command in step 4, you will not see any drives to capture.
Click Browse and then browse to a local folder where you want to store the captured install image. We recommend that you use a local location to avoid image corruption in the event of a network malfunction, but you can specify a mapped network drive.
Type a name for the image, using the .wim file name extension, and then click Save.
Select Upload image to WDS server.
Type the name of the Windows Deployment Services server, and then click Connect.
If prompted for credentials, provide a user name and password for an account with sufficient permissions to connect to the Windows Deployment Services server.
In the Image Group list, select the image group in which you want to store the image.
Click Finish.
Now you can PXE boot a client computer to install this image.


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September 18, 2018
Hola Bitcholas,
Butts were making headlines for various reasons; a woman pooped on a cop, a guy was busted smuggling gold in his rectum, another guy rubbed fruit on his naked ass at a grocery store and then put the fruit back on the shelf, etc.
Inspired by the glutes we asked WHY WAS A BUTT PART OF THE STORY?
We heard plenty of the 'expected' stories, but, honestly, it seems that the ass is more versatile than we anticipated.
I'm outta here.
Until tomorrow, do what you do best and STAY BEAUTIFUL!


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Post your data on how do-not-call complaints have been handled by the FCC.
We the consumers need to know what the FCC is actually doing about all the Do Not Call complaints that have been filed. The fact that huge volumes of unwanted calls still occur suggests that your complaint box is nothing but a black hole. To prove that the government is actually taking useful action, publish the statistics on what happens to all of these cases!
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In the field of Higher Education for quality accretion and to develop higher educational institutions as the best center, the Center of Excellence Scheme is being run by the Higher Education Department. This scheme is running in all State Universities. The main objective of this scheme is to develop the selected department/ departments of the universities in the form of Center of Excellence so that the department can develop and function in its best form. Under this, educational quality has to be established in the marked thrust areas so that the research findings / products can be used / consumed for the development of society and nation. To contact the discovery of new Generic areas, promotion and funding, research institutes in Universities etc. and to use the assistance received from it in research work of universities. After receiving excellence in the concerned department of the universities through the Center of Excellence Scheme, equipment / labs and ideas etc. in the field of research work, division will be utilized by the students / teachers of other universities. As well as guidance in the field of university excellence will also be received. This scheme will develop higher education institutions as a center of excellence.
Under the aforesaid scheme, the proposals received from the State Government and Universities are being examined by the Expert Panel constituted at the Council level. After that, the proposals are referred to the government for financial sanction.


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Writing and Study Skills Counselor/Instructor
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Becky Graham received a B.S. in English and French and an M.S. in English Education, Writing Emphasis, from St. Cloud State University; in addition, she completed course work for a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from Miami University. She has thirty years of experience in higher education, including teaching, tutoring and academic advising.
Becky provides individual and group assistance in writing for all disciplines and works with individual students to help them strengthen their study skills. In addition, Becky teaches College Writing (English 101) at Macalester.


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Gang member convicted in killing of football star Jamiel Shaw Jr.
A gang member has been convicted in the 2008 shooting death of a high school football star who was mistaken for a rival gang member because of a red Spider-Man backpack.
Pedro Espinoza, 23, was charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of 17-year-old Jamiel Shaw Jr., who was shot on the street three doors from his Arlington Heights home. Espinoza allegedly asked Shaw for his gang affiliation -- "Where are you from?" -- then shot him before he could respond, in what a prosecutor said was an "execution"-manner.
Jurors found true additional allegations that Espinoza acted in association with a criminal gang -- the 18th Street gang -- and that he used a firearm. He was not charged with a hate crime.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty; jurors will decide at the end of a separate phase of the trial whether he should receive capital punishment.
Espinoza, who had a shaved head at the time of the shooting, sat in the trial with his hair slicked back and wearing dark-rimmed glasses and a suit. Prosecutors noted that he had tattooed on the side of his neck the letters "BK" -- which they contended stood for "Blood Killer."
When he spotted the teenager walking home, Espinoza believed Shaw to be a Bloods gang member because he was black and carrying the red bag, prosecutors argued at trial. Driving away from the scene, he boasted "I'm a killer," they said.
An attorney for Espinoza called the prosecution's case "weak," citing inconsistent descriptions between witnesses about what the shooter wore, and an eyewitness' failure to identify his client.
A youth 'on track' until fatal gunfire
D.A. says skin color, backpack led to Jamiel Shaw's slaying
Slain LA athlete mistaken for a gang member, prosecutor says
-- Victoria Kim at Los Angeles County Superior Court


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