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A Greeley man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after he was convicted of a 2016 gang-related murder.
Marcello Rodriguez, 21, was found guilty of first-degree murder in December for killing 26-year-old Paul Ortiz in the front yard of Rodriguez's house in the early morning hours of July 16, 2016, according to a news release from the Weld District Attorney's Office.
Rodriguez originally pleaded guilty to the murder but withdrew his plea in June. This past month he told the jury fellow gang member and cousin Refugio Ramos was the gunman.
Rodriguez testified during his trial and told the jury Ramos ordered him to take the blame because he'd get only 10 years in prison. He changed his story when he learned he'd get life in prison, according to the release.
"This case and the toll that it has taken on this victim's family the past two-and-a-half years has been immense," said Weld Chief Deputy District Attorney Anthea Carrasco during the sentencing hearing, according to the release. "We've reached the best possible resolution in this case, yet the victim's family still feels empty because they'll never get Paul back."
During her closing arguments in December, Carrasco told the jury the entire case begins and ends at 909 C St., Rodriguez's home at the time of the shooting.
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About 5:20 a.m. July 16, 2016, Ortiz drove to Rodriguez's home looking for a fight. After pounding on the door, police say Rodriguez appeared with a black .38 special snub-nosed revolver.
According to information he provided to police shortly after the shooting, Rodriguez fired a warning shot into the air. When Ortiz, a fellow gang member, didn't back down, Rodriguez said he unloaded the revolver into Ortiz's body.
Rodriguez's lawyer, former Weld Assistant District Attorney Phil Clark, made several counterpoints during his closing argument. Clark said witness Azenete Perez fingered Ramos, not Rodriguez, for the murder, according to previous Tribune reporting.
Perez is Ortiz's girlfriend. She was sitting in their car, which was parked in front of Rodriguez's house at the time of the shooting. Greeley police twice presented Perez with photo lineups containing possible suspects in the shooting. One contained Rodriguez's picture and the second featured Ramos. She pointed out Ramos as the shooter.
But Weld Deputy District Attorney Michael Pirraglia reminded the jury Perez is the person who called 911 after the shooting. He played the recording during his rebuttal closing argument. When asked by dispatchers to describe the shooter, Perez says multiple times, "I didn't see him."
"She just watched the person she loves most get murdered before her eyes," Pirraglia said. "It was out of a desire to catch his killer. She was trying to be helpful, but she was just wrong."


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When I did my first presentation on what is philosophy a few months ago I said philosophy was like trees. Reasons were because our philosophy branches out as we grow like trees do and since people develop different philosophy depending on their culture or their environment as different kind of trees grow only at a certain climate.
Metaphysics was an interesting unit although I had tough time trying to research database and Google to find an answer that can never be found. My metaphysics question was Are we born with purpose? which is a rather vague question that involves many different topics like destiny, presence of God, and others that are actually impossible for any person to answer. Through this unit I had a lot of challenges like utilizing the database and preparing for the presentation. However at the same time, I think this was the unit that helped me shape and think about my life.
Epistemology was the unit that I was really confused about. The whole belief, true belief, justified true belief thing made me completely lose it. But it was also a unit that I had the most intersting and engaged discussions about. Some of the major discussions were with Dom, Lake, Sam, Alejandro and Brian. For most of the topics we discussed about, we generally agreed to each other's opinion but there were some that we had completely opposite thoughts which I thought was really intersting. For the epistemology active learning, I wanted to do something clever which did not go as well as I planned. Overall I think this was the hardest unit.
Aesthetics was the most enjoyable unit as it was about art and beauty. Even the active learning was to go out and experience something beautiful. It was a short unit compared to metaphysics and epistemology but I certainly had one of the best experience during the Phil's day off thanks to active learning project.
What is philosophy to me now?
My view on philosophy is not so much different from months ago, but now I think philosophy is like a forest which includes hundreds and thousands of trees. I think philosophy is like millions of different trees gathered together with other trees to form a one big green forest. There may be trees that has red leaves, brown leaves or no leaves at all but when all gathered together, it still forms green forest ad majority of the trees are green just as each person has different philosophy but still agrees to general moral or philosophical codes


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Warwickshire 65 North Durham 50
WARWICKSHIRE made an electrifying start to their English Counties League netball match at home to North Durham on Saturday and never looked back.
The team that finished so well against Hertfordshire last weekend began at full pelt and effectively wrapped up the game inside 15 minutes, leading 23-7 at the first break.
?We said we would go out strong and that's just what we did,? said delighted Warwickshire coach Sue Fletcher.
?I'd given each of the players a video of the last game to take home and I asked them to watch it. It was really interesting and I think they started this match knowing which areas of their game they could improve upon.?
North Durham, who had England shooter Lisa Stanley at goal attack, made some hasty changes after their early battering. They slowed down the pace of their game and switched from long to short ball tactics in a bid to find their way into the attacking third.
It worked extremely well since they drew the second quarter 16-16, lost the third 15-12 and won the fourth 15-11. But as the damage had already been done their efforts were in vain.
Despite the late lapse, Warwickshire's statistics for this match make impressive reading. Shooter Kelly New had 55 attempts on goal and scored 53 for a 96.4 per cent conversion rate. The combined shooting average for New and Sarah Whitmore was 88 per cent, eight per cent better than the standard set by All England.
And they had their best conversion rate, for goals that came from interceptions, with 70 per cent.
?This is the hardest one to achieve,? said Fletcher.
?Our 70 per cent on Saturday is the best score by any team I've coached and North Durham only had 22 per cent which just goes to show how well we did.?
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Harder Than It Looks
Oct 30, 2013 Issue #46 - June/July 2013 - Charli XCX
James Blake made it sound so easy. In 2011, at the age of 22, he had already been anointed as an electronic music prodigy, with three boldly idiosyncratic EPs released in the span of a year, culminating in his widely acclaimed debut full-length release, which reimagined how dance music and dubstep could be blended with shades of R&B and gospel. Given his stunningly rapid evolution and the sheer volume of material he was producing, it was easy to assume that he was the rare artist for whom the collision of his innate talents and musical influences naturally combined to produce something we hadn't heard before, something that was effortlessly and unmistakably him. But Blake wants you to know it was never that easy. By the time he got down to the work of making his second full-length release, Overgrown, he found that songwriting was nothing less than a struggle.
"It comes naturally to a lot of people, but it didn't really [to me]," Blake reveals at a tour stop in Chicago. "Not just having your own material, but formulating your own way of writing a song. The poetry side of things does come naturally to me, but the actual structuring of a song and how to do that without it sounding like everyone else's was my challenge.... The burden of when people have said that you've innovated in some way is that you better do it again or you'll just flatline after your first album."
Fears aside, Overgrown certainly has a strong, if at times intentionally irregular, pulse. The same meticulous ear for detail and the same remarkable subtlety with which Blake makes his beats and arrangements persists, but his performances are more confident and nuanced, his soulfully mellifluous vocals becoming his most expressive instrument. Add in the fact that he had fallen in love for the first time (with musician Theresa Wayman, guitarist for Warpaint), and he had no shortage of material to draw upon as a lyricist. He just had to write the songs.
"I wanted it to be more piercing," he says. "From a songwriter's perspective, I wanted it to hit home harder than the first record. I think the first record contains a lot of music that could be described as a very left-field album, even people from the dance music world would go, 'Oh, he's singing. Therefore, it's pop music.' But, in fact, it wasn't! It has elements of that, but it was really fractured and collage-y and slightly difficult in some ways, apart from a couple of tunes. This album, I think, gets the songwriting across in a way that I feel is more representative of me now."
Asked what he perceives as the core of his music, Blake pauses to think before admitting that he doesn't know. "Chords," he eventually concedes. "It all starts with chords on the piano." Read between the lines, and it appears that Blake increasingly sees himself as a traditionalist of sorts, more of a singer/songwriter than an experimental producer, someone for whom the song starts with the piano and not the studio. That philosophy explains much of the difference between Overgrown and Blake's previous releases, positioning him as an artist who is refining and refocusing his work to emphasize its universal appeal, making him perhaps the only songwriter in the world who has been publicly praised by both Joni Mitchell and Kanye West. Even if creating his work has been hard, earning the respect of his peers has been easy.
"I appreciate the support," he laughs. "It is fairly surreal to say the least."
[This article first appeared in Under the Radar's August/September 2013 issue.]
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The Arnold Maersk, no doubt named after Arnold Schwarzenegger because it's so friggen HUGE, passes underneath the Bayonne Bridge.
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To put this vessel in perspective however, the Arnold Maersk is relatively small when compared to the giant containership Emma Maersk which can carry over 15,000 containers, and she'll be smaller still when lined up next to the new class of Triple-E ships which are due to be launched in 2013.
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by Stoyin Zaimov, The Christian Post
A highly successful businesswoman who's held top positions in Fortune 500 companies worldwide says she's leaving all of her financial success and security behind in order to help the unreached hear the Good News.
"Many come to the saving knowledge of Christ through His Word, through getting their hands on His Word," Ana Mims told The Christian Post in a Skype interview on Wednesday.
Mims, who lives with her 11 year-old daughter in Singapore, told CP that she's following God's call despite initial fears and reservations in taking up a role with Wycliffe Bible Translators in the United States.
"It's one of those things in life where they pick you, and you don't pick them. I didn't actually pick Wycliffe; I think the Lord sort of did that for me," she added.
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Asheville Lawyers Seeking Justice for Parents of Children Suffering Birth Injuries
The choice for recovery if you suspect medical negligence
If doctors, hospitals or midwives make a mistake during the birth of a child, we know parents look for — and deserve — answers. At Hensley Cloninger, P.C., we've been helping parents across North Carolina navigate the enormous amounts of evidence — and offering the necessary compassion and patience — to unravel and understand the complexities of birth injury cases.
What does a birth injury include?
Although birth injuries are relatively rare, when a medical error occurs or the doctor and hospital delivery team that delivered the child deviate from normal standards of care, they may be responsible for lifelong consequences caused by:
Managing attorney John C. Hensley, Jr. has devoted years to protecting the legal rights and interests of children who have suffered birth injury and their families. When obstetrical negligence — medical malpractice during birth or in the prenatal period — and birth injuries plague parents and their children, the conditions are often lifelong and debilitating. These injuries, especially when caused by negligence or inattention, often cause rippling effects that can put excessive and unbearable strain on a family.
Why is an experienced North Carolina birth injury lawyer so important?
At Hensley Cloninger, P.C., our lawyers can review your case and work with our in-house and external experts, including doctors, midwives, nurses and others who understand the process. Choosing an attorney who focuses on cerebral palsy, Erb's palsy and other birth injuries can be the most important decision you make. You deserve an experienced attorney who has a thorough understanding of the complex medical and legal issues involved. Our attorneys work with medical, financial and other experts to assemble a strong case to prove that your child did not receive the care required, resulting in injuries that could have been avoided if proper protocols had been followed. Further, we compute the past expenses and future costs of your child's medical treatment, specialized equipment and attendant care to make sure that when you obtain a recovery you can comfortably take care of your child's needs.
If you believe your child suffered a birth injury, contact us today
Hensley Cloninger, P.C. has successfully resolved numerous birth injury lawsuits in North Carolina and throughout the country. Based in Ashville, N.C, we represent clients throughout the state of North Carolina. Contact us at 828-348-0092 or via our contact form. We meet with you for a free, no-obligation initial consultation to evaluate your case and advise you on how to proceed.
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Creative Interview with Blue Lotus Ethnobotanicals
I believe everyone is creative. That's why I started the creative interviews series–to showcase the many facets of art, life, and creativity. Want to take part? Drop me a line.
Meet my sister, Amelia, and her partner, Patrick! I'm so inspired by their whimsy ways and deep connection to the earth. Read their story below and learn about how they craft herbal tinctures, salves, and tea blends by sourcing right from nature.
Tell us about yourselves. How did you meet?
We both own the company Blue Lotus Ethnobotanicals. We spend our time formulating and making tinctures, salves, and tea blends. Wildcrafting, camping, and learning new ways to perserve wild foods and medicines is our passion! We love each other and being in the forest! Of course our families and community also! We met when I had just come back from Vipassana, a meditation camp in Alberta, and was headed to "The Potluck House" (where Patrick lived in) to meet my friend Sara, although, she was not there yet, Patrick and my friend being the only ones there! It was love at forest site ahaha I suppose!
What is Blue Lotus Ethnobotanicals?
Blue Lotus Ethnobotanicals is a company based on bringing the best medicinals from around the world, as well as working with what grows in our local environment. We focus a lot on wildcrafting medicinal plants and fungi here in Alberta and British Columbia. By using sustainable harvesting practices, and preparing medicines from these wild plants, we hope to raise people's awareness of local herbal medicines, and to foster an appreciation and love of the wild lands and forests, to see them not just as empty or wasted space but as a valuable resource worthy of protection.
What got you started on this venture? How did you get into creating tinctures?
When we first met, Patrick made a tincture of Sexual Tonic and Aphrodisiac. Not that WE needed it at the time, but we tested it out on our friends, and it was such a huge hit with our friends we decided to continue to create more and more! As we got more into wild plants and foods it came naturally to tincture the medicines as it's a great way to preserve and extract them!
What sort of tinctures do you offer? What do they do? Do you have a favourite?
We offer a variety of tinctures ranging from our more playful ones such as Sexual Tonic and Aphrodisiac and Herbal Ecstacy to more medicinal ones such as Adaptogen and Immunostimulant, Medicinal Mushroom blend, and then to a whole line in which we wildcrafted ourselves such as Wild Adaptogen, Wild Ginger, Wild Sarsaparilla… etc.
If you'd like to order some tinctures, salves, and tea blends or just learn more about their products, send them an email.
What has been the biggest challenge?
The Biggest challenge has been to be organized on a business point of view. The making of everything has come naturally and with joy. As for the business aspect, we fly by the seat of our pants and sometimes it feels more forced than natural. Marketing and selling our product on a level other than one-on-one basis is challenging.
What advice can you give to crafters & artisans starting on a similar journey?
Do what you love! It's worth it no matter what if it's something that you enjoy doing and will do no matter what!
What's in the works for Blue Lotus Ethnobotanicals in the near future?
Our goals are to expand and get into more stores and continue on with new formulas as they come!
How do you keep your life playful & brilliant?
Well, we love what we do and spend so much of the time wildcrafting for the tinctures that life couldn't be better! We have allowed ourselves to go at our rate and grow our business slowly, so we haven't had much stress about the need for expansion or over commitment! We love it to say the least.
Much love to Amelia & Patrick. I'm so happy to share their story. Again, if you want to order tinctures, learn more or just say hi, simply email Amelia & Patrick!
If you like this interview, you may also enjoy my interviews with Living Lotus and Good Girl Bad Girl Preserves.


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This is my 2014 Beer Lover's Gift Wish List which consists of things I am recommending for assorted reasons. Some I own and/or have used and some I have not. I will make it clear which is the case.
[Note: Having ordered something from this list as I constructed it over the last couple days has reminded me why I need to post this earlier if I am going to. Some of these cannot arrive before Christmas at this point but some can. There are also many other, and more appropriate, gift giving opportunities than Christmas.]
1. First up is something we bought personally from the creator at Fall Fest in Bend. We had been looking for a bottle opener that fully respects bottle caps and was ergonomic to use. Beautiful is also a definite plus.
Bottle opener by Steve J. Bonora of SJ WoodWorks $18
It works beautifully. Here's hoping it lasts a long time.
2. BottleTrade has several things but tshirts mostly. My favorite tshirt is the Hop Medley one. But my favorite item is the His & Her Stout Glasses. Check out that while you can get one or the other, you can also get a pair in all four possible combinations of His & Hers. That's sweet and should be supported for that reason alone. I have a pair on order and maybe some as gifts too. They will arrive late for Christmas at this point but it is "the thought …."
3. Educational and reference tools abound. The Cicerone Certification Program has several useful items that any serious beer geek who is trying to improve their knowledge base should appreciate.
I have a set of the Beer Styles Profiles Card Sets and I am also in the process of completing the Road to Cicerone German Course. Either that or the new British and Irish course would help anyone wanting to know more about the styles of those countries and certainly help anyone studying to become a Certified Cicerone.
4. Sadly I cannot afford to be a member of the Master Brewers Association of the Americas but I am certified by them as a Beer Steward. Their web store has loads of useful times from educational to entertaining and many items are on sale now until the end of the year. We have both the Flavor Wheel and the Defects Beer Wheel. We haven't had a chance to put them through their paces yet but look forward to it.
The Flavor Wheel is the official flavor wheel as developed by M.C. Meilgaard, et al. for the American Society of Brewing Chemists, the European Brewing Convention and the Master Brewers Association of the Americas.
Beer drinker, homebrewer, professional brewer, brewery worker, bartenders, etc.: all should be familiar with this tool and, more importantly, its terminology and organizational structure.
5. I have been meaning to write about Michael Kiser and his Good Beer Hunting blog/website for a good while now and just haven't managed it. Check him out. Seriously. Just leave here now and check him out. His shop is full of quality as is his writing and photography. No doubt his podcasting and events are too. I have the issues of Mash Tun and a print of the Hunter Gatherer by Andrew Wright.
I do not have a Beer Peen Hammer but "Good God!" if you'd like to get me one. Check out that post.
6. Perhaps stocking stuffers for next year: Hop-infused lollipops made from locally grown hops – cooked in small batches and hand poured LolliHOPS™ from Yakima Hop Candy.
7. Our friend Bend Brew Daddy takes excellent, collection worthy, photos and he has a calendar out for next year. Photos of Central Oregon beers and breweries here and the Rest of the World here.
8. Beer Hunter: The Movie Michael Jackson on DVD. Is there anything else to be said? I do own and have watched this and the "special features." Worth seeing for all beer geeks; worth owning for many of us.
9. Home Brew Club Membership. A homebrew club membership could be just the thing for the budding homebrewer or someone considering it. Sara and I are members of our local club, COHO.
According to the All About Beer 2014 Beer Lover's Gift guide there is currently a promotion on AHA membership. Join or buy a gift membership (reg. $43) for $43 and get a free book.
10. Beer books.
Bend beer: a history of brewing in Central OregonWorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder
Our friend Jon Abernathy's Bend Beer was recently released. This is what I have had to say about it here so far.
"It is currently "the definitive" book on brewing in Central Oregon, but I know even Jon wants more answers to some things. There is more he could not fit due to space constraints. Such is book authorship."
Vintage beer: a taster's guide to brews that improve over timeWorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder
My review of Dawson's Vintage Beer.
"Vintage Beer by Dawson is an excellent introduction to cellaring beer. It is a quick read that will also bear close studying and better note-taking. Production values are high and it is well-edited."
Cheese & BeerWorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder
Any fan of good cheese and beer should own, and make use of, this book. We picked up our copy from the author at a signing and tasting at the Deschutes Brewery Bend Public House.
Tasting beerWorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder
My review of Mosher, which I consider the core book in the Beginner's Beer Library.
"Synopsis: This is an excellent introduction to beer, beer culture and history, and the tasting (not simply drinking) of beer. Highly recommended!"
11. Magazine subscription. All About Beer and Beer Advocate are probably the two leading beer magazines in the US. Both are worth reading regularly if you like to keep up on what's happening in the wider world than your own backyard. I subscribe to both.
12. Spiegelau glasses. We have one of the IPA glasses which we got as swag at a Sierra Nevada tasting at Broken Top Bottle Shop and Ale Cafe. It does lovely things for the aromas of hop forward beers. That is enough to affect, and improve, the overall taste of these beers. It is not a massive contribution but it works. The glass itself is fragile and hard-to-clean (I handwash my glasses) but I haven't broken it yet.
I would definitely like to try the new stout glass. [Link found via 2014 All About Beer guide but was well aware of the glass' existence.]
13. $300 Yeti Hopper 30 cooler. OK. Honestly. I have no experience of this or any other Yeti coolers but having looked at their website I definitely want one! This could be most useful when buying beers on road trips to get them home at reasonably stable temps. It certainly could have many uses but that would be our most likely use case.
14. For other ideas see the following (some items on my list came from these):
- All About Beer 2014 Beer Lover's Gift Guide. As I said, got a few ideas and a few links from here.
- 10 Gifts for the Serious Homebrewer from The New School. There are some seriously useful items on this list. I won't waste your time and point you at the 1st part as it was mostly (80-ish%) stupid products. I'm hoping their upcoming 3rd list is better.
There you have it: my most recent list of ideas for gifts for beer lovers. There is always my Beginner's Beer Library page for ideas as it evolves. No promises on how quickly that is, though.


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I see the benefit of this as being that I can then hold the original content in the ma, change it as necessary and then generate a large, final file from all the linked maps that will hold the content. I can establish the relationships, links, tags and all that other great stuff that will be a value-added part of the final 700+ page resulting document.
The problem I have run into, is that in doing an import of a Word document (which works just fine) I find that it: A.) Creates a new map with the document content in it and B.) Doesn't let me do more than one file at a time.
Since I have over 400 of these files to process, is there ANY method that will let me batch import these files? Better yet, batch import them into the active map, and not a new one?
I am a .NET developer, so am not afraid of custom coding, macros or any other more technical way of doing it.. as long as it cane save me some time.
Thanks ahead of time for your comments!
Well, in a sense, yes. I am creating what you might call a book.
It is a huge reference I am creating for someone else, who is going to write a book from it. It has lots of different kinds of content: dreams, journal entries, thoughts, insights, inspirations and what not. It is over 500+ documents, 650+ pages long, and 170,000 words at this point.
I have to say that MindManager is the only tool I have ever found that I can use to organize, and very importantly, show the relationships between all of the content. It is a very interesting conceptual problem to put a ton of material out like this, then find a way to cross-reference it on several kinds of levels simultaneously.
it is quite literally, mapping my mind and experience in MindManager. I put down the raw information, and then need to go back and find ways to cluster this information in multiple ways. For example, I may compose a dream entry that has the house I grew up in, within it. I also have lots of journal entries where (in waking life) that house is referenced. On top of that, I may have an insight about something that the house represents. in the map, it is one thing, referred to repeatedly, that I have to have a way to (in an overlapping way) tag the topic "house" as: "place of my childhood", "represents me", "a place located at 123 somewhere st.". You see the challenge?
It is a HUGE (conceptual) workout for MindManager - in planning this thing - beyond the phenomenal amount of effort it has taken for me to put it together so far.
Thanks for asking!
Mike, there is an easy solution to your problem A, the fact that importing a Word document creates a new map.
Instead of importing the document, just set up the main map and highlight the topic you want the document attached to (or just click on the central topic if you want the document attached to that).
Then switch back to Word and open the document you want to import. Select all or as much of the text you want to import and click on the Send to Mindjet. The selected material should be sent to the map with the topic hierarchy reflecting the document's headings, assuming you have used heading styles, and the non-heading paragraphs contained in topic notes under the relevant topics. You can import multiple documents into the same map.
I don't have a solution for your question B, importing more than one file at a time. However doing it manually in the way I've suggested should be fairly quick and allows you the option of selecting which topic you want each file attached to if it isn't the central topic. It also means you can check if the import worked out OK and stop if the map becomes overloaded. I'm not sure how big your Word files are but I would check the map is OK and save it after each import.
You could write a macro at the Word end but I don't know how much time it would save you over selecting the material and clicking on the Send to MindManager button.
The whole area of formatting when importing from and exporting to Word is quite complex and I'm not sure if there is any recent detailed documentation beyond the MM manual.
However the simplest thing to do is to construct your customised heading styles based on the default Word styles, as MM seems happiest with those. Generally speaking MM should match topic level to Word heading level but it will override the Word formatting with whatever default topic formatting has been applied to the map.
MM does a reasonable job of preserving Word's formatting for normal and other non-heading paragraphs which end up in the topic notes, though some adjustment will probably be needed.
Mike, I thought I'd mention one more thing to think about just in case you are contemplating "round-tripping" documents between MM and Word.
When exporting MM actually applies its own version of the default template or whatever template you apply. This means an exported document may look exactly as you would expect but if you look closely it will contain styles with names like "MM Topic 1" instead of Word's "Heading 1", etc.
Apart from the fact that you may end up with inconsistent heading numbering if you subsequently edit the document and create additional headings, you may also experience problems if you then try to export the document back to MindManager. Somewhat ironically MM's handling of its own styles can be unpredictable, especially if you have created additional headings using Word's styles.
There are two solutions:
- Use Word's style editor to find and replace all the MM styles with their Word counterparts; or
Use the Olympic add-in WordX to export from MindManager in the first place. WordX uses Word's templates and styles without modifying them.
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Well known is that leaky gut is tied to a range of health conditions. Beginning from the food sensitivities and irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory skin conditions like acne, to complex autoimmune diseases.
Doctor's recommendation is transitioning to a healing foods diet which will helps to transform your health from the inside out.
Drinking healthy smoothies prepared with fresh fruits and vegetable will help you to improve the gut health. This Gut-Healing Smoothie will make to soothe the gut. Also, you will find out just how easy and delicious healthy eating can be. All the wholesome ingredients work together to make a creamy drink that will satisfy your taste with benefit to soothing your gut and it couldn't be more simple to make.
- 1-2 cups full-fat coconut milk or almond milk
- 2 cups kale
- 1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
- 2 frozen bananas, cut into chunks
- 2 cups spinach
- 1-2 tablespoon hemp hearts
- 1/2 avocado
- 1/2 tablespoon chia or flax seeds
- 2 1/2 tablespoons collagen protein or whey protein
- 1/2 tablespoon bee pollen
- 1 1/2 tablespoon raw honey or manuka honey
Place all ingredients in a blender and blend on high until smooth (about 2–3 minutes). Serve over ice.
You may be worried that a mix of fruits and veggies won't keep you full. But chia seeds, which are rich with fiber will ensure you feel full for longer. In this will help also a scoop of protein powder, so this smoothie will tide you over for hours.
This is very helpful gut-healing smoothie. As it's brimming with more nutrients than your average meal. Each ingredient has his own benefit for your health! Avocado gives it a creamy texture while boosting your healthy fat intake. Bananas and honey make it's naturally sweet. As several cups of leafy greens, kale and spinach, add a lot of vitamins, especially vitamins K and A.
Even now, prepare this smoothie for your body.


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India's Judiciary creates scam over Kudankulam
There is no reason why the judiciary, the conscience of the nation, should willingly play pro-regime roles by opposing people's and humanity concerns.
Paranoia about nuclear energy isn't new. Most nations have shown a similar paranoia when it comes to nuclear energy following the disaster in Fukushima. Over 100 activists from these sites came together for the first time ever at a public hearing in Delhi on August 22 - just as national support for the five-year-long campaign against the Jaitapur plant snowballed. The National Committee in Solidarity with the Jaitapur Struggle - comprising leaders like Prakash Karat, AB Bardhan, Sitaram Yechury and Ram Vilas Paswan, independent experts and intellectuals - trenchantly criticised the project, based on French company Areva's troubled European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs).
The grounds of protest against the 9,800 MW plant in Maharashtra are somewhat similar to those being echoed in Tamil Nadu. The protestors argue that the plant will damage local ecology, their consent for the plant wasn't sought and also speak of the obvious fear of how a potential accident at the plant could affect them. While the issue is currently not in the headlines anymore, the agitators in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra are no doubt closely following the developments in Kudankulam.
After plant reopening gimmicks, Japan now talks of reducing its dependence on nuclear power altogether by the 2030s. Germany has also begun decommissioning old plants and also speaks of weaning itself off it altogether by the 2020s. The US despite promoting nuclear energy in India, is caught at a crossroads when it comes to developing its own nuclear power program. In Japan a major loss of confidence in nuclear energy came after it was discovered that the nuclear safety regulators had allowed the plant to function despite problems being evident earlier.
After the Fakushima disaster, almost every country that uses nuclear energy declared that it would change its policy. Every country, except India! The India government has colluded with Union Carbide (now Dow Chemicals) to ensure that the victims of the Bhopal Gas Leak will never get justice. But no amount of compensation can ever be a solution for nuclear disasters.
Regime-Judiciary Nexus
When the Madras High court refused to stay the deadly fuelling operation in the nuclear terror plant, the people of Kudankulam and the humanity at large, besieged by nuclear terror operations of state, still had hopes of getting justice from Supreme court but when apex court also sided with the state terror operators and delivered an interim judgment in favour of state nuclear terror intent against the people, humanity has become shaky, felt betrayed yet again, losing trust in the judicial ability in justice delivery. As suggested by the regime and nuclear mafias, the courts have protected the transnational nuclear mafias.
Declining to put on hold for now the loading of fuel rods in one of the two reactors of Kundankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court Thursday Sep 13 said it would hear Sep 20 the plea seeking to restrain the central government.
The apex court's decision came as hundreds of people from Tamilnadu's Idinthakarai village, the epicentre of the protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), stood in the sea water Thursday to protest moves to load uranium fuel in one of the two reactors.
Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Dipak Misra declined to pass any immediate order on a petition seeking to restrain the government from going ahead with the loading of nuclear fuel rods in the reactor of the plant. The court said it would hear Sep 20 the plea seeking to restrain the central government from doing so.
Judiciary mischief is perhaps the worst kind of menace and brute evil. Madras High court seems have created the basis for the Supreme court to promote state nuclear terror agenda. Supreme Court has just said the regime must ensure security and safety of the people and the regime knows it has to just file another affidavit stating that people are safe. In other words, the judiciary has clearly offered the regime and nuclear mafias to ensure safety of the people by killing them so that they need not to live until the nuclear plant blasts.
The nuclear terror project was cleared in haste in violation of the recommendations of an official Task Force, and without even the fig leaf of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report. The NPCIL has refused to furnish to the public the site evaluation and safety analysis reports, although so directed by the Central Information Commission.
In the name of nation and national interests they protect the rich and multinationals and want the common people also support that. Recent disclosures from a special official safety review on all Russian reactor designs reveal their several generic flaws, including inadequate emergency cooling, poor evacuation procedures, and non-factoring of earthquake hazards. The Kudankulam reactors lack an independent freshwater source, critical to cooling them in emergencies. They are probably the world's only nuclear reactors dependent on unreliable seawater desalination, which can fail and has no backup. The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) approved the fuel-loading despite all this and without the mandatory emergency evacuation drill in a 16-km radius. AERB approval is NPCIL's clinching justification for fuel-loading. The AERB "has no rule-making powers." It never fulfilled the mandate to prepare an overall nuclear and radiation safety policy.
It has failed to develop as many as 27 of the 168 Standards, Codes and Guides it itself termed essential. It has no role in radiological surveillance and monitoring workers' health. It doesn't directly oversee on-site emergency drills. The AERB doesn't even possess a full inventory of nuclear materials and radiation sources. It has no framework for decommissioning nuclear plants.
The major demands of protesters included release of those arrested for agitating against nuclear power, compensation for those injured and whose articles went missing during police action, stopping fuel loading in the plant and no action against 'peaceful' protesters.
When the Regime Targets People.......
The Indian regime, committed to the welfare of the people is interested only in promoting the nuclear and other arms merchants and is threatening the people with impending nuclear disasters.
One has no idea as to how many more nukes India wants and for what, because it has already plenty of weapons of mass destruction at various sites. Madras High court and Supreme court seem not worried about the deadly risks involved in the state nuke manufacturing agenda. Both High CA private company's employee moved the Supreme Court against a Madras High Court order giving the green signal to the commissioning of the Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu.
People of Kudankulam moved the Supreme Court. Indian regime seems to have exerted pressure to expedite the case so that uranium terror operations can continue. In fact it was not known when the petition would come up before the apex court. But the regime among other interested parties pushed for an early verdict so that the process of continued of fuelling of the nuclear reactor with deadly poisonous uranium quickly manufacturing nukes?
IT professional P. Sundarrajan moved the apex court contending that the government should not go ahead with the loading of the fuel rods till 17 safety steps recommended by the expert committee are implemented. Petitioner G. Sundarrajan, working with an IT company, claimed that the Madras high court paved the way for starting the plant without ensuring that critical safety features were in place. He challenged the Aug 31 verdict of the high court and sought an ex-parte interim order restraining the government from going ahead with the initial fuel loading of Unit I and 2 of the Kundankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) in Tirunelveli district.
The petition said the Government had also absolved the Russian supplier of the nuclear reactor from any liability in case of an accident. And Russia has already stated that it not responsible for any nuclear blasts.
Besides the central government, the petitioner made the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Nuclear Power Corporation of India, the power plant director and the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board as respondents.
Mentioning the matter before the bench, counsel for the petitioner Prashant Bhushan, a prominent member of Anna team, spearheading anti-corruption campaign, told the court that the expert committee was set up after Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan, to suggest safety steps to ward off any such incident. Bhushan told the court that out of 17 safety steps recommended by the expert committee only six have been put in place and to implement the remaining 11, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) will require six months to two years. The petitioner had said that the recommendations of the government's own expert task force on the critical safety features had not been implemented so far.
The petitioner said that the recommendations of the government's own expert task force on the critical safety features had not been implemented so far. "The recommendations are extremely critical to the safety of the plant and it could not be allowed to run even for a day without adequate safety and backup features in place," the petition said.
The task forces' recommendations, amongst several others, concerning alternative fresh water storage system and emergency pumping equipment, were yet to be implemented even. And state claims it is supreme to decide everything against people's safety.
People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), which is spearheading the stir, said the agitators have put forward four demands - stoppage of the process of fuel-loading in KNPP, giving up of the plan to arrest anti-nuclear movement leaders, adequate compensation for those who suffered losses and release of those already taken into custody. In other words, the people use the simple villager language to tell the terrocratic regime to quickly dismantle the nuclear assets from their soil so that they can live without nuclear terror fear.
If this govt can't handle garbage, how will it handle nuclear waste?
Popular Sufferings and Regime Frustration
If this govt can't handle garbage, how will it handle nuclear waste? The Manmohan-Jayalalitha terror combines seem to derive too much of sadistic pleasure at the pains and sufferings of common masses in and around Kudankulam, India Tamilnadu..
The Manmohan-Joyalalitha regime has not yet realized that it's pointless to try and silence the masses by state terror techniques. The state frustration in not being able to impose nuclearism on people has led to repression, including lethal firing, unleashed on peaceful protesters against the Kudankulam nuclear plant , on top of FIRs over many months charging thousands with sedition. People are terrorized by the state which makes two things clear. Nuclear projects in India can only be thrust on unwilling citizens at gunpoint.
Extreme arrogance of Indian state terrocracy is in full display in Kudankulam. Erection of human chains in the Sea by the Jalsatyagraha shows, people will resist them tenaciously, because they are aware of their hazards. That's true of every nuclear project, whether Jaitapur (Maharashtra), Gorakhpur (Haryana), Mithi-Virdi (Gujarat), Kovvada (Andhra Pradesh), Haripur (West Bengal), Chutka (Madhya Pradesh) or Banswada (Rajasthan). For instance, at Gorakhpur, there has been a daily dharna against four proposed reactors for two years, unbeknownst to Delhi, which lies in their potential radiation-fallout zone. Manmohan regime has decided that multiple reactors will be erected at Jaitapur, aggravating hazards, as in Fukushima.'
At the people's hearing, activists vented their apprehensions about the safety hazards of nuclear power, heightened by the catastrophe at Fukushima and the poor safety record of India's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL). They exchanged their experience of the nuclear establishment's non-transparent and authoritarian ways, its refusal to share information of vital importance to public safety, and police vindictiveness. They also discussed how to develop common strategies. The NPCIL has no plans for long-term storage of nuclear wastes.
People hate both nuclear terror plants and their supporters. Taking their protest against the Kudankulam power plant to the sea route, hundreds of people today stood in the waters forming a human chain to demand halting of preparations for fuel loading into the reactor.
With black flags fluttering in the backdrop, the protesters said they were prepared to sacrifice their lives to protect their livelihood and ecology through the 'jal satyagraha Taking their protest against the Kudankulam power plant to the sea route, hundreds of people today stood in the waters forming a human chain to demand halting of preparations for fuel loading into the reactor.
Over 100 activists from these sites came together for the first time ever at a public hearing in Delhi on August 22 - just as national support for the five-year-long campaign against the Jaitapur plant snowballed. The National Committee in Solidarity with the Jaitapur Struggle - comprising leaders like Prakash Karat, AB Bardhan, Sitaram Yechury and Ram Vilas Paswan, independent experts and intellectuals - trenchantly criticised the project, based on French company Areva's troubled European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs).
Indian police continue to terrorize the masses by their dirty terror techniques of searches for PMANE activists.
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For development of rich poor people must sacrifice their lives. So, the government has also brutally cracked down on the local community's peaceful protest against the plant and slapped sedition cases on them.
Anti-people Indo-Tamilnadu duo jointly killed already 2 innocent fishermen, Antony and Christ Sahayam. While Antory was murdered on land, Sahayam was forced to jump on to rock, killing himself. A 38-year-old man has been hospitalised with head injuries after he fell down in panic while a Coast Guard aircraft flew low along the coast near Idinthakarai in one of its sorties. Taking their protest against the Kudankulam power plant to the sea route, hundreds of people today stood in the waters forming a human chain to demand halting of preparations for fuel loading into the reactor.
The Coast Guard aircraft hovered over the sea and its ships kept a vigil off nearby Idinthakarai as the villagers, including women and children, from Kudankulam and nearby fishing hamlets walked into the sea for the show of strength.
Villagers are complaining that police are coming into their homes and conducting searches, pulling their belongings and smashing window panes. One villager said that the window panes in at least 25 houses have been destroyed and that two people were arrested in police efforts to terrorise them.
Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal met PMANE convenor SP Udaykumar who was whisked away by villagers in an effort to stop him from surrendering to police. Udayakumar had turned up at Idinthakarai and announced he would surrender at 9pm in the presence of a "prominent non-political national leader."
IAC activist Arvind Kejriwal who travelled to Kudankulam to express support for the people's agitation against the nuclear power plant has slammed what he has called 'terror tactics' by Jayalalithaa and the Tamil Nadu police. "Police came and broke idols in the church in Idinthakarai and also urinated on the stage. They destroyed motorcycles and boats: What law gives them the right to destroy property? These are terror tactics by Jayalalithaa – how can she do this to the people who voted for her?", he said, in a media address at the Idinthakarai village which has been the site of a sustained anti-nuclear protest.
The activists' testimonies and expert opinions clearly oppose deadly nuclearism efforts of an arrogant India regime.
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Clearly what is being done in Kudankulam in name of development is a state crime and the top criminals responsible for the ghastly murders should be brought to justice. On the one hand Indian regime does what USA, UK and Russia ask it do, and on the other, it makes all out efforts to help the domestic multinationals and other big business to thrive at the cost of others. On the one hand, India secures the profitable business of multinational corporations to use the huge profits they make in India to be shifted to their own countries by allowing FDI in all sectors, on the other, the poor, deprived, weaker sections are made to suffer more; the regime, claiming to be a great democratic setup, terrorizes the common people with price rises, state terrorism and nuclear terror threats.
The shameless attack on and murder of two fishermen by Indian paid police in deep conspiracy testifies Indian state terror intent. Entire humanity stands in complete solidarity with the villagers of Idinthakarai who are resisting the forceful fuel loading of the Kudankulam nuclear reactor. Among those who expressed complete solidarity with the people of Kudankulam village fighting against imposition of nuclear plant Tamil leader Vaiko, Kerala Communist leader and ex-CM Achu, Arunthathi Roy, and Anna Hazare team members like Prashanth and Kejriwal. A lot of humanist leaders and activists across the globe also support them.
Indian regime is eager to push a nuclear button like cowards with no nobility, wipe out entire peoples with nuclear bombs, just because their neighbouring rulers don't agree with their policies and do not promote their global interests.
Not only the mere safety measures are hoax but even the nuclear terror project itself is a serious, deadly threat to people. Judiciary must ask the regime to terminate the nuclear terror path and adopt alternative better ways of electricity generation. The agitation has ruined the lives of most of the local people. Police have driven out many from their villages. Immediate compensations for property loses and human loses must be paid and the people should be allowed to resume their daily life as before - fearlessly.
India has already amassed huge piles of deadly weapons of mass destructions. How many more nukes does India require and for what?
People and the nation have to saved from imminent nuclear disasters and nuclear wars. Judiciary has a positive role to play. It could ask the reigm eto shut down the Kudankulam nuclear terror project forth with.
Supreme court is expected to protect the masses, encourage the terrocratic regime to end the nuclear arms race in the name of electricity generation and ask it to seriously promote the cause of total disarmament and regional-global peace!. .
Dr. Abdul Kalam, former president of India whom the regime hired to dissuade the people from the anti-nuke movement has now declared that only non-nuclear world is safe.
The Congress led UPA government is stand discredited by its anti-people polices. Regional leaders like Tamil state CM Joyalalitha have shown that they care damn about people and they, emboldened by the mandate by the people, now want to protect the rich and multinational interests even by killing common people who elected them.
The UPA regime is discredited from all ankles. Popular anger, discontentment and frustration could dent its chances, drastically dent its vote bank when it goes to poll next. Coalition might become too tough too!
Regime has become the enemy of the people. Popular good will cannot be earned by state terror mechanism and machination.
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This reminds me a little of that bit Billy Crystal used to do about getting old, when his teenage daughter asks, "Dad, is it true Paul McCartney was in another band before Wings?"
Slash, who would prefer that I say is of Guns N' Roses fame and not Guitar Hero III fame, gave a Q&A to Rolling Stone this week, and had this to say about an upcoming solo album and his custom Les Paul guitar …
Which is also what you play in Guitar Hero.
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Has the huge success of Guitar Hero boosted your rep even further?
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Well, I guess since WOTC is not listed then it's hard to get their permission or what? They are probably trying to do something like this themselves or . . . idk anyone have any theories, conspiracies, etc?
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Well, I am currently running a pen and paper Birthright campaign setting adventure for anywhere between 5-10 players. I have been doing this for about a year with some success. I want to expand my DM skills/offerings and start to play Dragonlance campaign modules with some of my friends. I think that I will start using Fantasy Grounds for its 2e rule set features to help with organization, planning, and presentation. I'm toying with the idea of using a TV as board for interactive dungeons. Currently I used Campaign Cartographer to make some pretty cool maps and battle tiles. I also use Hobbyte's Dungeon Builder, which has some pretty cool isometric features and coincidentally uses Unity. I pretty much have been dabbling in a lot of digital D&D tools and I just want to see FG or someone even WoTC make modules of their old content so it will make it easier for me as a DM. As it stands I put in a lot of work, which I love doing actually, but I'm baffled that WoTC has not attempted to unify and organize their vast library in to easy to use formats. D&D 5e is already fracturing the same way 3.5e did with all the Unearthed Arcana supplements and those supplements aren't all that organized. D&D is D&D it doesn't matter the rule set, I have my favorite settings and I think I'm just going to try and convert everything to 5e rules in the future using guidelines published by WoTC for converting characters and other stuff to 5e, but I'd still like to use the older campaign settings as backdrops because they have much better narrative flow, deeper lore, and etc. I'm rambling, I know, thanks for listening.
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Hi. While they aren't hiring there are lots of community developers that write stuff for their own games. Many of the rulesets listed in the store started off as free projects for the community. Maybe play around with and make something small, get your feet wet with a theme or extension and go from there. There is also a trove of unconverted 2E supplements and modules that you might give a go at. To be honest I'd love to see some of the 2E modules with modern maps in place of the old ones, it sounds like your skills might do well for that.
While I'd love to see a full Birthright setting implemented in FG it is certainly not where I'd start. I'd start small and build up to that because it would probably be the most difficult setting to implement because of all the extra mechanics (domain actions, blood abilities, realm/war spells, holdings, etc...)
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Just for my 5 cents. Why not publish more rulesets from certain publishers. Just an example... You published Conan for 2D20, but thats all. There are several systems that are very close to Conan (like MC3).
Then came out Alien RPG (which is good), but nothing to Mutant Year Zero, Forbidden Lands or even Coriolis. All those are widely played...and pretty similar. Can we expect those?
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