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Who is the author most identified with the concept of codependency and the codependent? I suspect it is Melody Beattie. She herself was a recovering alcoholic and drug addict when, while working in a treatment facility in Minnesota, she was asked to hold groups for spouses of their alcoholic and drug addicted patients. She admits she was none too happy about this. After all, from her days as an alcoholic and addict, she held some negative attitudes about these spouses referred to in the recovery field as codependents. But then later on, she herself became a codependent and suddenly, she saw the plight of these spouses differently.
When she was able to observe these codependent spouses with a more open heart and mind, what did she notice?
Beattie saw people who were still often hostile, controlling, manipulative, indirect, and all the other things she'd concluded about codependents while an active alcoholic and drug addict. Now, however, she also saw how the codependent spouses were typically behaving in these ways in response to their partners' alcoholism or drug addiction. These individuals, usually women, weren't necessarily this way at their core. Thus, many of them were not only in great pain because of the discouraging circumstances of their lives that the presence of alcoholism and addictions had imparted, but also because they knew they were behaving inconsistently with their core values. Indeed, they were not being true to themselves.
Beattie noticed that many of the women she most typically dealt with were controlling, but it was because everything about their lives was falling faster and faster out of control. If these codependent women didn't strive to keep things in order, all would soon fall apart. These codependent womenm then, felt they had little choice but to run themselves ragged cleaning up messes their alcoholic and addict husbands created time and time again.
Of course, therapists might tell these codependent women that was exactly what needed to happen. They might point out how their controlling behavior was keeping things going smoothly enough, that their alcoholic or drug addicted husbands never suffered the full consequences of their behaviors. Because of their codependency, they were enabling their spouses' addictions because these addicts were essentially never allowed to hit bottom. Yet, it is after hitting bottom that some alcoholics and drug addicts are finally willing to get help for their addictions.
By now, Beattie could understand that it is difficult to sit back, take no action, and allow your life to be destroyed along with that of your alcoholic or drug addict spouse, however. The substance abuser may be largely unaware of what is happening, but the codependent spouse is sober and quite aware as she struggles to keep the house from falling into foreclosure, for example.
Beattie also talks about how codependents are manipulative. Again, while as an addict she condemned this aspect of codependency, she came to realize that in many cases, this was the only way the codependent could get anything done. The codependent was often not allowed to be honest; the unhealthy system in which she now operated did not allow this.
When Beattie was an alcoholic and addict, she thought that the codependents around her were crazy. When she herself was suffering from codependency, she came to understand how living with an addict can make you feel like you are going insane. She realized, as so many of us have learned from living with alcoholics or addicts ourselves, that you doubt your perceptions or your take on reality. You have been lied to so often, or else told that you are crazy and misperceiving things, that you don't know what is real and what isn't. Living with an alcoholic or drug addict does make you doubt your sanity. This is a sane reaction to an insane world.
Would you like to know something else Beattie noticed when she slipped into codependency herself? She soon realized that the codependent becomes so absorbed in other people's problems that she doesn't realize she has some of her own, and these must be deal with, too. She said she realized that the codependent often cares deeply for the addict, though she might act angry and hostile at times. But of course, she has been put through so much, that Beattie admits the codependent often has tons to be angry and hostile about. For the most part, though, she found the codependent was trying so hard to be so responsible and so helpful that she was totally ignoring her own needs. Beattie talks about one woman who aged so rapidly from struugling to cope with an alcoholic spouse, that the woman died in her mid thirties.
I have heard of other cases where women who displayed codependency stayed with their abusive addicts to the point they suffered illnesses and died, too.
Yes, codependents often race about becoming increasingly unhealthy versions of their formers selves as they play roles such as martyr, stoic, or saint. But there is also a darker side to all of this besides potential illness for these people pleasers. See, rescuers can become persecutors, too.
When you are living with an alcoholic or a drug addict, it is easy to keep switching roles. Sometimes you play the role of victim, sometimes you play the role of rescuer, and sometimes you play the role of persecutor. However, the codependent more typically tries to play the rescuer role, while being continually victimized or persecuted by the alcoholic or addict.
As Beattie discovered, and perhaps you have as well, this is no way to live. You also don't have to, as amazing as this might sound to a codependent. However, just as the alcoholic has trouble giving up his addiction on his own, you might need support as well. An Al-Anon group might be a good place to start. This twelve-step program can provide you with the means to move beyond your codependency. Then, after you step out of your codependent role, you can start striving to become the powerful woman you were always intended to be.
Honestly, doesn't that sound better than codependency?
Dr. Diane England is a specialist in codependency and recovery as both a clinical social worker and a woman forced to make this transition herself. Read more articles about codependency or the codependent at www.NarcissismAddictionsAbuse.com
, plus discover reviews of Beattie's and others' books on codependency via the Other Resources link. Sign up for her newsletter while you are there, too.


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Sorry for being absent on this for so long………….new things, good things, God things. Enjoy this FB Live Video: The Silent Intruder of Time!
Sorry for being absent on this for so long………….new things, good things, God things. Enjoy this FB Live Video: The Silent Intruder of Time!
Settled in Raleigh for such a time as this. The journey to get here has been one wild ride, filled with excitement along with a bit of healthy fear mixed in. Change and transition, even when you know it is God's direction, is still a bit crazy when you move into an area that you don't really know.
Unfolding before me is a year filled with many exciting opportunities, writing, speaking and travel. So before I start blogging again let me give you a run down of these past 6 months. When I write it out, it gives me a perspective on God's story for my life and how He and I are writing it out together.
Awhile back, during those weeks prior to actually stepping out in faith to come to Raleigh, God whispered to me, "In this next season, I call you to be a Travel Scribe."
My response, "What is that?"
His reply, "Just follow me. I'll show you."
I stepped out in faith, allowing Him to reveal His plans for me. He directed me into several new venues, some of which took me by surprise.
This past May, Women In Ministry Network led by Patricia King ordained me and 16 other glorious women at the Women On The Frontlines Conference in Phoenix. This act of obedience catapulted me into a new realm of spiritual sight and active faith. Connections were made and it suddenly occurred to me that I found my tribe. This act of obedience connected me locally with other women, their churches and other God ordained apostolic-prophetic networks
Then through God's leading, I joined a Scribal Prophet group led by Apostle Theresa Harvard. (Now if you have an aversion to titles or that God calls women into this, get over it. No debating here. Women are rising up in this hour.) Along with several conferences and a mentoring group, I will branch out in writing prophetically with more boldness and courage. Connections are growing and flourishing. And it is all a confirmation of the call to be a Travel Scribe.
But, there's more. It's time to connect with writers who are serious about their craft so I joined Jeff Goins Tribe Writers. So far, so wonderful. It's 9 month of webinars, mentoring, writing, relationships……….
All these venues, along with a few others, came on the heels of a simple act of obedience to move to Raleigh when God said to move. We never really know what doors will open until we take that first step.
I want to expand my reach and extend my path in courage because I believe I have something to say to a prophetic generation that is rising throughout the earth. My life reveals that I carry God's message, unique to me, as I walk it out in creative adventurous ways. I find this to be very important because it encourages people to know Holy Spirit, leading us on a grand adventure in Christ. If you love religion, you won't like these posts. In fact, you will probably ignore them because you are satisfied with things being done in a predictable manner. That's not me. From the moment, I encountered Jesus, I realized He was looking for me all along. When He called me to be a Travel Scribe, it resonated in my spirit before I could really grasp the reality of that call.
Add it all up->
Travel + Speaking + Writing + Photography + Adventure + Passion for Jesus + Love Holy Spirit + Spontaneity + Creativity = Debra
Who could ask for anything more? Don't you want to be you? Ask God to lead you on His adventure to reveal His life through you.
Living with Passion and Purpose In Christ
Jesus threw Himself into the moment and sanctified time for us now by flowing in the Spirit. Our time on earth is holy, precious and filled with purpose. Do you see your time this way? I will admit that I didn't always see it this way.
In my life, I felt like time passed me by. I felt pulled back or paralyzed, often lost in my own life, without direction. Now, I wake up and do everything for the glory of the Lord – no matter how big or small. Time is on my side and infused with the glory of eternity. I access my time by faith and obediently walk it out. I throw myself into the moments and in doing that the rush of freedom in Christ overtakes me and eternity beckons me to open my eyes to see, to stretch out into today. I walk by faith, not by sight.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while WE DO NOT LOOK AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN. For the things, which are, seen are temporary, but the things, which are not seen, are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
There is no time like the present so stretch out into today. With each passing moment, Jesus attuned His ear to heaven to hear the Father and to see what He was doing. He seized the moments and moved in eternity's call – stopping for the woman at the well, healing the blind, raising the dead……… Each moment in time presented opportunities for Him when He captured them in faith.
He surrendered His life in time so that time would have no control over our lives. We live in time as eternal spiritual beings. Each moment I have is infused with eternity when I choose to believe and see with the eyes of faith.
A fear of time breeds anxiety and worry. Time tries to capture us in chaos and uncertainty unless we know, truly know that Jesus opened the door of heaven for us and invited us to live in time, within the boundless beauty of eternal glory. NOW.
So rather than wait, ponder, hesitate, procrastinate…stretch out into today. We have all we need in Christ to move in Holy Spirit to do what He's called us to do.
Time levels itself out as we stretch out in faith. As we walk forward in faith, time presents itself in various ways.
There is the immediate in which we grasp heaven's direction now. Moments in time overwhelm us with His beauty and glory. What was is gone and something new is here, breakthrough now.
There is that which is right ahead. We walk towards it as faith lays the path but we have to start now or we won't get there. We see in the Spirit and walk to the sounds of a different drummer.
There is the future on the horizon. We glance at it, look at it and believe it but always remember it is the now moments in time that take us there. So time presents itself NOW and asks us the question, "What are you going to do with TODAY?"
Time is on my side and God asks me what I am going to do with it – each and every day. (Ephesians. 2:6 and Colossians 3:1)
So go ahead – dream, imagine, live it out in Holy Spirit.
Wisdom draws the boundary lines of what to do, where to go, what to believe for. Without Wisdom, we can easily get distracted and be drawn into places that are outside our heaven ordained purpose.
Jesus hems us in on all sides as Wisdom teaches us how to navigate time within wide-open place of exploration and adventure in Christ.
Wisdom walks with us, sets the pace and directs our steps in a glorious adventure. Sometimes we run, sometimes we walk, and sometimes we just stroll along with Him. Time is on our side.
Stretch out into TODAY! Each day has meaning and value…don't lose track of the moments. In the moments there are people waiting to be healed, looking for a prophetic word from you. In the moments there are doors waiting for you to open in visions, revelation and eternal treasures in Christ. Stretch out into TODAY!
In Christ
Today, this day, is what we have. Jesus said not to worry about tomorrow but think on Him Today. He is sufficient, able, and fully complete Today.
Today does not ignore challenges and does not disregard present fears. But….Jesus has conquered death and the grave so LIVE as seated in heavenly places. Live with intention and passion!
Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. "Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes, Matthew 6:33-34
Too much worry, too much fear going around. I am not denying their reality in trying to rule our lives. And I say 'trying'. If fear tries to get in and worry forms our default position, our lives shift into a constant state of flux, without peace, without rest. Don't go there. I know it's hard when we face things that seem like mountains that just won't move but don't go there. Give God the chance to show Himself strong on your behalf.
Jesus said not to worry and He meant it. When we project ourselves, through our thought life into the future, we create a path that is hemmed in by fear and worry. Live today with your eyes on the future but walk in His reality today, resting in the moments. Can you really change anything through fear or worry? I don't believe you can.
It's great to have goals. It's wonderful to walk in our destiny one step at a time, believing for greater and greater things but don't try to work it out. There is beauty in rest. That seems to go contrary to the grain of what many feel today but in Christ there is rest, peace and hope AND He does use it all to work all things for His glory in your life.
What's something you can release today into His presence and live your life in Christ? For me, it's this whole move into North Carolina. I wake up in faith and in trust as He leads me out in my day. I spend time in His presence and seek His face and He directs my path. There's no 10 point plan or specific rules on how to do this. It's all about your creative life in Christ and it all starts with intimacy. Get alone for a bit. Get quiet. Worship and wait for Him to speak into your life. He will and your life will be filled with adventure.
It won't always be safe. It's a journey of faith.
Living with Passion and Purpose In Christ,
Please share this with those needing the challenge of journey in Christ, a grand adventure in Holy Spirit that leads us beyond the borders of mundane Christianity into an ocean of grace and glory.
Here we are in Raleigh, North Carolina. First impression – so beautiful!
It's our journey of faith and it's a journey that isn't always safe and comfortable!
This past year faith opened my eyes to see that change is my default position. Change guides my daily routine, how I organize my days in the Holy Spirit. Change led us this year, one step at a time to move to North Carolina from Texas. One year ago God simply said, "Head east!"
I believed Him and wanted to obey but still struggled inside with a bit of fear. In all my life, I never conceived of living on the East Coast.
Obedience requires sacrifice on many levels. As the struggle inside me died, the way became clear. As I submitted to His plan, the path opened up one step at a time.
This is our life! We are three hours ahead of you California. We still love you and always will. California will always be in my heart…always. Can you see that I still miss it? My life in the Spirit was formed there.
Is this our last move? I'm not sure. I'm not looking too far ahead. Right now, God calls us to settle into this area, giving our time and our anointing to build up God's people.
My life message is creativity and journey in Holy Spirit. In creativity, Holy Spirit led us in the journey to get here.
Divine connections landed on our path in the most random places as we were seeking God for confirmation. Meeting people while in Texas that were from North Carolina. There they were, right in front of us (in dog parks, while taking a walk) to encourage us and challenge us in our journey of faith.
Dreams played into my sleep indicating a new way. I woke up with a knowing but remained quiet before the Lord.
Signs in the natural dropped onto our path. We laughed at some of them as God has a sense of humor and speaks to us so individually and creatively that we know it is Him talking to us. I'll blog about the dimes in a few days.
It's been a quiet journey to get us to this point. I didn't talk about it much. I didn't blog about this journey to get to today. I wanted to write but God kept restraining my hand and my life to be still and trust Him. I felt out of the mix, on the move, wondering, asking but more in love with Him than anything that would stop me from following my Lord wherever He leads.
A new sound, a sure voice is rising up as I follow His path for my life.
It seems that there is a new migration of people shifting and moving in America. We are meeting so many New Yorkers here in Cary, North Carolina. Lots of Californians. Feels great to be here – God is moving! Are you where you are supposed to be? Location is very important in these days. Be perfectly positioned and placed in Christ and in the earth.
This is a journey of faith. It won't always be safe. Enjoy this journey with me. I want to impart faith to sons and daughters of God to step out, to risk it all and to follow Holy Spirit.
Living with Passion and Purpose In Christ,
Please share this with those needing to be challenged to journey in faith and obedience in Christ.
I'd love to speak at your gathering, conference or home group, please send me a message on the contact page or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com Please visit Rivers of Eden Ministry page to find out something About Us.

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What does the FARE nomination mean to this Allergic Traveler? Well to begin with, what is the FARE nomination? It is best described in their own words; FARE's mission statement is "to make the world safe for people with food allergies." To be nominated for an award you need to fall into the following category, "you are an individual or an


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The Prisma Veritux is the Prisma variant of the Veritux Arch-melee sword, sporting higher critical chance, critical multiplier, status chance, and attack speed but with a steep reduction to damage.
Acquisition[edit | edit source]
The Prisma Veritux is potentially sold by Baro Ki'Teer in the Concourse section of the Tenno Relay for 150,000 and 550. Note that Baro Ki'Teer's stock changes with each appearance, and this weapon may not be available on a succeeding appearance.
The weapon can be traded, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.
Characteristics[edit | edit source]
This weapon deals primarily Slash damage.
- High Slash damage – effective against health.
- Highest critical chance of all arch-melees.
- High status chance.
- Innate polarity.
- Third lowest base damage of all Arch-melees, after Kaszas and Centaur.
- Low Impact and Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.
- Possesses delay between combo looping, hindering attack speed.
- Prisma Veritux, compared to Veritux:
- Lower base damage (394.0 vs. 470.0)
- Higher critical chance (30% vs. 5%)
- Higher critical multiplier (2.0x vs. 1.5x)
- Higher status chance (20% vs. 10%)
- Higher attack speed (1 vs. 0.83)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (8 vs. 0)
Weapon Loadouts[edit source]
- See Category:Prisma Veritux Build to see how players mod this weapon.
- See Category:Prisma Veritux Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
- For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The Prisma Veritux was visible as an entry in a player's Profile under Equipment before it was released.
- As a Prisma weapon, the Prisma Veritux has a modified attack sound from the normal Veritux.
Media[edit | edit source]
Prisma Veritux Skins
Patch History[edit | edit source]
- Fixed Prisma Veritux being hidden within your Profile Equipment list until at least 1 XP is gained.
- MR increased from 0 to 8
- Damage increased from 300 to
- Critical chance increased from 15% to 30%
- Introduced.
See also[edit | edit source]
- Veritux, the standard version.
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Gaze is a non-traditional meetup for singles that combines the intimacy of eye gazing and the spontaneity of speed dating. We curate intimate and open-minded groups of people looking to meet their match IRL. Come be seen for who you are.
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I'm a pretty anxious guy and taking the time to just see and be seen really calmed me down. I was so surprised how relaxing it was to let people see me. At GAZE, even though nothing changed about the people looking, internally something shifted. Even a moment of that, for an anxious guy like me, is a gift. - John S.


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Today is the last day of 2019.
In Japan, the last day of the year is called "Omisoka". Preparing for the New Year's Day before Omisoka and waiting for the coming new year are the basic way to celebrate the such festival.
In the deep of Omisoka night, before the New Year comes, all the temples in Japan will toll the "Bell of New Year's Eve".
Why they must toll such bell? Now let me introduce to you such kind of culture only Japan has.
About 108, there are various explanations. One of the two main versions comes from yoji jukugo "Shikuhakku"(4×9+8×9=108);the other version is that the people's desire and chaotic state of mind are brought by 6 sensory organs. And these 36 kinds of troubles which can be perceived are multiplied by 3 time axes of past, present and next life, then we get 108.
Best wishes for a wonderful year.
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Contemporary Lynx Magazine 2(6)2016 | ABOUT
Posthumanism, technology, and a glimpse of the future.
We have been working very hard these past few months to put together an exciting and challenging issue of Contemporary Lynx, and this issue is our response to the presence of technology, the advent of technology, in all our lives. For the children born in this century — the internet, laptops, and mobiles are like air — they are ubiquitous and it would be hard to imagine a world without them; and not just for them, but for everyone who has ever used technology to make their lives easier.
What does this mean, though? What does this mean for art and for creativity? Are we heading towards a future where creative output is generated by artificial intelligence? Or a set of algorithms? How do practices like 3D printing impact and change our experience of art? What will define a work of art in the future, and what is there to look forward to?
This issue explores the intersection of some of the most complex themes of our times, and among other things, our writers and artists investigate the impact of technology on the portrayal and understanding of the female body in Demystifying the Female Body (p. 84), pin down the rapidly evolving culture of art collecting through the rise of new media in The Collectors on the Frontlines of the Extraordinary (p.126), and travel from 19th century London to the lonely expanses of the Ural mountains in Mapping the Future (p. 88).
From philosophical implications and considerations of what it means to be human, to the artists who practice their craft on the edge of new technology, and looming behind it all, the quest for the ultimate architectural dream — the smart city; we have collected for you a varied, astonishing palette that reveals a new frontier, and the future of art.
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Transgender Bi Political Nerd is just that the voice of one transgender male (FTM) who in his sexual orientation identifies as bisexual, while living his life thru his passion for politics mostly in New York City, New York State and the United States of America.
This blogs mission is showing you the people who support and encourage us to become that city I imagine, and until I decide its my time to do that by running for office. I will support and help all the candidates and causes I believe in
- The Dream Act
- GENDA (Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act)
- ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act)
- Transgender Military Service
- Inclusive Discussion on Reproductive Health
- Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence
That's what I want to do here. Educate and Share and encourage a conversation.
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Preliminary Dates Announced for 2016 J/111 Worlds
July 7, 2015 . . . Chris Jones ("Journeymaker") has been hard at work with local organizers in Cowes and has put together this tentative schedule of events for the 2016 World Championship. The schedule dove-tails perfectly with Cowes Week, perhaps the most famous and longest running of all race-weeks in the world. The plan is to have charter J/111s available for the Worlds as well as special shipping arrangements to entice teams to consider shipping their boats over for a fantastic month of sailing.
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Crab claws, especially those from the blue stone crab, are meaty and tender, making them the delicious parts of a crab leg dinner. When you know how to cook crab claws, you can present a flavorful seafood dinner that doesn't require much work or time. cooking crab claws is simple and provides you with an exquisite experience.
Fill the stockpot half-full with tap water. Place the metal steam basket into the stockpot, making sure the bottom doesn't touch the water.
Line the bottom and 1 inch up the inner wall of the steam basket with aluminum foil. Use a single sheet to do this, making sure it is large enough to do this task.
Add the crab claws to the lined steam basket. Drop a whole stick of butter, whole peeled garlic cloves and the 1/2 lemon onto the pile of claws.
Cover the pan and set it on a large burner on your stovetop. Bring the water in the covered pot to a rolling boil. Let it boil without removing the lid for 15 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and leave it covered, allowing it to sit for an additional 10 minutes. During this time, the crab claws are steamed until they are completely cooked, while being infused with the flavors of butter, garlic and lemon.
- "Crazy for Crab: Everything You Need to Know";Fred Thompson;2004
- Serve your crab claws on a platter with dipping sauces of your choice on the side.
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Over at Elzybells this week.
The winner(s) have been picked for the Elzy comp! Pop over to the blog to see who won!
And whilst your there take a look in the shop too! The fab stamps sets below are available at a reduiced price, the retail value of each set is over £23 - they both include a sheet of Kling on repositional cushion and you can buy the stamp sets for less than half price!! The price of each bundle is £12 and you get an extra 10% off at checkout making them an absolute bargain at £10.80 each!!!!! WOW!!
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The new Google Maps for iOS (free, App Store) just landed and it has native iPad support for the first time. In additional to supporting the iPad's larger screen, the new version of Google Maps includes live traffic and road incident reports. The new version of Maps also offers indoor directions and maps for malls, airports, transit stations, and more.
According to MacRumors Google Maps 2.0 for iOS does not include on-the-fly rerouting (like it does on Android), but Google has said that it plans to add the feature in the future.
Here's the full changelog of the new features in v2.0:
- New design for iPad
- Enhanced navigation including live traffic updates and incident reports
- Explore: A new way to browse and discover popular local places to eat, drink, shop, play and sleep
- Simple 5-star ratings and reviews from friends, plus expert Zagat content
- Great deals from your favorite brands with Google Offers
- Indoor maps with walking directions for malls, transit stations, airports and more
No word yet on whether the new traffic and incident report features are coming from Google's acquisition of Waze in June, but it's unlikley that Google could have integrated that functionality so quickly.
The update is being rolled out gradually over the next 24 hours, so if you don't see it in the App Store yet, check back soon. I was able to download it immediately on my iPad mini and iPhone 5.
UPDATE: gMaps iOS 2.0 also includes a hidden offline map mode. While the feature hasn't been fully implemented, a blog post by Google Maps Director Daniel Graf reveals how it works. Typing "ok maps" in the search box will save the visible map to your device. A definite nod to the new "ok" syntax in both Google Glass and the upcoming Moto X handset.
Our own Chris Duckett posted screenshots of offline maps in action.
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My Axis and Allies adventure 3/24/02
I decided to play with bidding today, and it went down as 21 and I'm axis. The axis were doing mighty weak, and by the start of turn 3 it looked like it was over. Russia captured sinkang and manchuria, GB had industrial tech and a huge fleet, Japan had only 3 aircraft left, 2 tanks and 6 infantry (their whole fleet was destroyed by a smaller american fleet!) and to make it even worse, germany was almost doubled in men by russia, and they were stuck in karelia. Turn 3 starts and russia DOESN'T counterattack karelia. GB only takes norway. then somehow, after seeing the certain destruction of an entire german force, and Russia over extending itself, it was japans turn. in one turn, some how, all of africa and asia was taken. I had an IPC victory of 88 without taking a capital! America couldn't take anything, and from almost certain failure I won. If we were playing total victory, i was certain to lose (my defenses were overstretched), but i did it somehow…
the end…?
I like russia restricted better! (me sniffles)
Yeah I like Russia restricted too. Bidding sometimes makes the game more complicating than it should.
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i havnt tried bidding yet, but its got to make the game more interesting.
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Sounds like you were too aggresive too early. Karelia on turn 3? Don't think that 21 extra IPCs means you can ignore the cardinal rule, No Karelia early.
Keep trying, you'll like it.
In a lot of games I see, the Axis will win the game even without taking Kerilia.
Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much
[ This Message was edited by: TG Moses VI on 2002-04-05 14:53 ]
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Aye, Russia is Japan's job. Germany has to keep the pressure up though.
Yeah, it sucks to be Germany. Out of all the powers, I think that Germany is stuck with the least amount of action or options near the mid-late portion of the war.
Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much
[ This Message was edited by: TG Moses VI on 2002-04-05 21:21 ]
i still like russia restricted… i don't care what you say
I don't know very experienced A&A players who are against RR.


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"The Essence of the Flesh Inhabited by God" (Excerpt 101)
Before Jesus performed the work, He merely lived in His normal humanity. No one could tell that He was God, … Read More "The Essence of the Flesh Inhabited by God" (Excerpt 101)
At that time when Jesus worked in Judea, He did so openly, but now, I work and speak among you in secret. The unbelievers are completely unaware of it. My work among you is isolated from others. These words, these chastisements and judgments, are known only to all of you and no other. All of this work is carried out among you and opened up only to you; none of those unbelievers knows this, for the time has not yet come. These men are near to being made complete after enduring chastisements, but those on the outside know nothing of this. This work is much too hidden! To them, God become flesh is secretive, but to those in this stream, He can be considered to be open. Although in God all is open, all is clear and all is released, this is only true with those who believe in Him, and nothing is made known to those unbelievers. The work being carried out here now is strictly isolated to keep them from knowing. Should they become aware, all that awaits is condemnation and persecution. They will not believe. To work in the nation of the great red dragon, the most backward of places, is no easy task. If this work was to be made known, then it would be impossible to continue. This stage of work simply cannot progress in this place. How could they tolerate it if such work were carried out openly? Would this not bring even greater risk? If this work were not concealed, and rather continued as in the time of Jesus when He spectacularly healed the sick and cast out demons, then would it not have long ago been "seized" by the devils? Could they tolerate the existence of God? If I were to now enter into the halls to preach and lecture man, then would I not have long ago been dashed to pieces? And if so, how then could My work continue to be carried out? The reason that signs and wonders are not manifested openly is for the sake of concealment. So My work can neither be seen, known or discovered by unbelievers. If this stage of work were to be done in the same manner as that of Jesus in the Age of Grace, it could not be so steady. So, the work to be concealed in this way is of benefit to you and to all work. When God's work on earth comes to an end, that is, when this work in secret concludes, this stage of work will blow wide open. All will know that there are a group of overcomers in China; all will know that God become flesh is in China and that His work has come to an end. Only then will it dawn on man: Why is it that China has yet to show decline or collapse? It turns out that God is personally carrying out His work in China and has perfected a group of people into overcomers.
God become flesh only manifests Himself to a part of those who follow Him as He personally carries out His work, and not to all creatures. He became flesh only to complete a stage of work, not to show man His image. However, His work must be carried out by His hand, thus it is necessary for Him to do so in the flesh. When this work concludes, He will depart from earth; He cannot remain for the long term among mankind for fear of standing in the way of work to come. What He manifests to the multitude is only His righteous disposition and all His deeds, and not the image of His body when He twice became flesh, for the image of God can only be shown through His disposition, and not replaced by the image of His flesh. The image of His flesh is only shown to a limited number of people, only to those who follow Him as He works in the flesh. This is why the work being carried out now is done so in secret. It is just as the work of Jesus was shown only to the Jews, and never publicly made known to other nations. Thus, once He completed His work, He promptly departed from man and did not stay; in the time that followed, He did not manifest the image of Himself to man, but rather the work was carried out directly by the Holy Spirit. Once the work of God become flesh completely finishes, He departs from the mortal world, and never again does work similar to that from the time when He was in flesh. The work that follows is all done by the Holy Spirit directly. During this time, man would hardly be able to see His image in flesh; He does not show Himself to man at all, and forever remains hidden. There is limited time for the work of God become flesh, which must be carried out in a specific age, time, nation and among specific people. Such work represents only the work during the time of God become flesh, and is particular to the age, representing the work of the Spirit of God in one particular age, and not the entirety of His work. Therefore, the image of God become flesh will not be shown to all peoples. What is shown to the multitude is the righteousness of God and His disposition in its entirety, rather than His image when He twice became flesh. It is neither the single image that is shown to man, nor the two images combined. Therefore, it is imperative that God's incarnate flesh depart the earth on completion of the work that He needs to do, for He comes only to do the work He ought to do, and not to show people His image. Though the significance of incarnation has already been fulfilled by God twice becoming flesh, still He will not openly make Himself known to any nation who has never before seen Him. Jesus will never again show Himself to the Jews as the sun of righteousness, nor will He ascend the Mount of Olives and appear to all peoples; all the Jews see is the picture of Him during His time in Judea. This is because the work of Jesus become flesh long ended two thousand years ago; He will not return to Judea in His previous image, much less show His image from that time in any Gentile nations, for the image of Jesus become flesh is merely the image of a Jew, and not the image of the "Son of man" that John had seen. Though Jesus promised His followers that "He would come again," He will not simply show Himself in the image of a Jew to all those in Gentile nations. You ought to know that the work of God become flesh is to open up an age. This work is limited to a few years, and He cannot accomplish all the work of the Spirit of God. This is identical to how the image of Jesus as a Jew can represent only the image of God as He worked in Judea, and He could only do the work of crucifixion. During the time Jesus was in flesh, He could not do the work of bringing an age to an end or destroying mankind. Therefore, after He had been crucified and concluded His work, He ascended on high and forever concealed Himself from man. From then on, those faithful believers in Gentile nations could see only the picture of Him that they pasted to the walls, and not the manifestation of the Lord Jesus. This picture is but one drawn by man, and not the image that God Himself showed to man. God will not openly show Himself to the multitude in the image from when He twice became flesh. The work He does among mankind is to allow them to understand His disposition; this is all shown to man through the work of the different ages, as well as accomplished through the disposition He has made known and the work that He has done, rather than through the manifestation of Jesus. That is to say, the image of God is not made known to man through the incarnate image, but rather through the work carried out by the incarnate flesh, a God of image and form; and through His (Her) work, His image is shown and His disposition is made known. This is the significance of the work He wishes to do in the flesh.
Once the work when He twice became flesh comes to an end, He begins to show His righteous disposition across the Gentile nations, allowing the multitude to see His image. He wishes to manifest His disposition, and through this make clear the end of the various kinds of man, thereby bringing the former age entirely to an end. His work in the flesh does not extend a great expanse (just as Jesus worked only in Judea, and today I work only among you) because His work in the flesh has boundaries and limits. He is merely carrying out a short period of work in the image of an ordinary and normal flesh, instead of doing the work of eternity through this incarnate flesh, or doing the work of appearing to all the peoples of Gentile nations. This work in the flesh must be limited in scope (such as working only in Judea or only among you), then expanded on through the work carried out within these boundaries. Of course, the work of such expansion is carried out by His Spirit directly and would not be the work of His incarnate flesh. For the work in the flesh has boundaries and does not extend to all corners of the universe. This, it cannot accomplish. Through the work in the flesh, His Spirit carries out the work that follows. So, the work done in the flesh is one of initiation carried out within boundaries; His Spirit subsequently carries on with this work, and expands on it.
God comes to this earth only to do the work of leading the age; to open up a new age and bring the old to an end. He has not come to live out the course of a man's life on earth, to experience for Himself the joys and sorrows of life as a man, or to perfect a certain person by His hand or personally watch someone as he grows. This is not His work; His work is merely to open up the new age and bring an end to the old. That is, He will open up an age, bring the other to an end, and defeat Satan by carrying out work in person. Each time He carries out work in person, it is as if He is putting a foot onto the "battleground." In the flesh, He first defeats the world and prevails over Satan; He gains all glory and raises the "curtains" on the work of all two thousand years, giving all man on earth the right path to follow, and a life of peace and joy. However, God cannot live with man on earth for long, for God is God, and unlike man after all. He cannot live the lifetime of a normal man, that is, He cannot reside on earth as a man that is nothing out of the ordinary, for He has only a minimal part of the normal humanity of ordinary men to sustain His life as such. In other words, how could God start a family and raise children on earth? Would this not be a disgrace? He possesses the normal humanity only for the purpose of carrying out work in a normal manner, not to enable Him to start a family as an ordinary man would. His normal sense, normal mind, and the normal feeding and attire of His flesh are sufficient to prove He has a normal humanity; there is no need for Him to start a family to prove that He is furnished of a normal humanity. This is completely unnecessary! God comes to earth, meaning the "Word" becomes flesh; He is simply allowing man to understand His word and to see His word, that is, allowing man to see the work carried out by the flesh. His intention is not for people to treat His flesh in a certain way, but only for man to be obedient to the end, that is, to obey all words that issue forth from His mouth, and to submit to all the work that He does. He is merely working in the flesh, not intentionally asking for man to exalt the greatness and holiness of His flesh. He is simply showing man the wisdom of His work and all the authority He wields. Therefore, even though He has an outstanding humanity, He makes no announcements, and focuses only on the work that He should do. You should know why it is that God became flesh yet does not boast of or testify to His normal humanity, and instead simply carries out the work that He wishes to do. This is why you see only the being of divinity in God become flesh, simply because He never proclaims His being of humanity for man to emulate. Only when man leads man does he speak of his being of humanity, so that he can achieve leadership of others through impressing and convincing them. In contrast, God conquers man through His work alone (that is, work unattainable to man). He does not impress man or make all mankind admire Him, but simply instills in man a feeling of reverence for Him or makes man aware of His inscrutability. There is no need for God to impress man. All He needs is for you to revere Him once you have witnessed His disposition. The work God does is His own; it cannot be done by man in His stead, nor can it be accomplished by man. Only God Himself can do His own work and usher in a new age to lead man into new lives. The work He does is to enable man to receive a new life and enter a new age. All the other work is handed over to those men of normal humanity and who are admired by others. Therefore, in the Age of Grace, He completed the work of two thousand years in just three and a half years during His thirty-three years in the flesh. When God come to earth carries out His work, He always completes the work of two thousand years or of an entire age in just a few brief years. He wastes no time, and He does not delay; He simply condenses the work of many years so that it is completed in just a few short years. This is because the work He does in person is simply to open up a new way out and to lead the new age.
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
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Well that title is a handful.
But really – shit gets harder as we age, people.
I'm sure those of you reading this who are nearing 40 or who have passed that milestone realize that in your forties:
- you are more likely to experience injuries
- you can't just up the cardio and eat fewer carbs to take off a few pounds
- you feel more aches and pains
- maybe you have more kids and that alone makes it harder to get moving
Bottom line, as we get older, staying strong and healthy can be more challenging and because of that, it is crucial that we commit to taking care of our bodies in our 30's, 40's, 50's and beyond.
So what's a young lovely thirty something year old to do? Here's my advice. I wish some 40-something year old had mentioned all this to me 10+ years ago. Learn from my mistakes, people!
1. Buy a foam roller and roll into the pain
My clients know that the one tool I encourage them to purchase is a good ol' foam roller. Basically, your muscles have something called fascia around them; kinda like saran wrap but not. If you consistently roll out the tight areas (and I'm sure you have them), you will lessen your chances of injury in the future. I like to think of the roller as "poor man's massage." And for those of you who've tried and don't like it or think it hurts too much, as Hilaria Baldwin once said – saying you're too tight for yoga is like saying you're too dirty for a bath. In other words, the more it hurts, the more you need to roll out. Not sure how to use one? Go ahead and ask me. I am happy to show you.
2. Mix It Up
You have to mix up your movement, people. Maybe in your 30's, you could just run to stay fit, but now, at 42, you're finding that all that running has led to a knee injury so you have stopped moving altogether? To avoid injuries later, it is best to cross train – if running is your thing, go ahead and keep doing it, but add yoga and strength training (more on that below). Do not just repeat the same activity day after day after day.
3. Strength Train, Folks
Aside from mixing it up, another oh SO important thing to do to stay fit and avoid injury is to incorporate strength training into your routine. This does not mean lifting heavy weights. In fact, this could mean using just your own body weight as resistance. Research shows that starting in our late 20's, we begin to slowly lose muscle mass and that rate of muscle loss increases every decade. Strength training now means maintaining muscle mass as we age. Also, if you strength train now, you better protect your joints which can become weak as you age so that you avoid injuries.
4. Stretch
Many injuries result from over-using one muscle group and under-using another. Leave 10 minutes to stretch at the end of your workouts and focus on those tight painful areas that need stretching. This goes hand in hand with #1 above – the foam rolling. Yes, make time for both.
So there you have it — my tips to help you feel better in your body as you get older. I really do believe that taking care of ourselves now is only going to make us feel better later. My hope for my future is to be able to hike at age 70-something with my husband and family — I want to be that active and healthy grandma one day. With that goal in mind, I am going to go now and roll out my tight IT band — practicing what I preach, people.


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This year, the Windham Theatre Guild is celebrating 30 years of providing quality community theatre to the Greater Windham community."To help ensure that we are around for another 30 years, we are asking for your support," reads a press release. The Guild has announced that donations in an amount that contains a three and a zero (i.e. $30, $130, $300, etc.) will give the donor a chance to be part of the 30-year campaign by sharing a favorite WTG memory."We will post your memories online and at the theatre so they can be shared with other WTG supporters," reads the release.A donation can be designated for the lighting and sound equipment fund, the WTG Building Fund or for general operating expenses.
WTG will present "Always…Patsy Cline" on March 27 and 28 and April 10 and 11 at 8 p.m.,and on March 29 and April 12 at 2 p.m. and April 9 at 7:30 p.m. "Don't miss your second chance to see Laura LaCour on the WTG stage portraying country music legend Patsy Cline, along with her 'number one fan' Louise, played by Robin Rice," reads a release.The show will include 27 unforgettable hits such as "I go to Pieces", "Sweet Dreams" and "Walking after Midnight." "This endearing true story combines humor with sincerity and gives fans a chance to remember the most acclaimed female vocalist of the 20thcentury," reads the release.
The WTG is also preparing for auditions for Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods," the hit Broadway show recently recreated by Disney as a movie featuring Meryl Streep, Tracy Ullman, Johnny Depp and others. Auditions will take place on April 15 at 7 p.m. at the Burton Leavitt Theatre. The story combines several classic Fairy Tales to follow a Baker and his wife who wish to have a child, Cinderella who wishes to attend the King's Festival, and Jack who wishes his cow would give milk. Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, the Giant and the Wolf make appearances, as well. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of the neighboring Witch, they set off on a journey to break her curse. Everyone's wish is granted, but nothing turns out quite the way they expected.
The WTG is looking for talented people ages 16 and up to bring this musical to life.There is no ensemble/chorus in the cast, only featured roles."All singing parts include very difficult music," reads a release."You must be able to sing well, read music well, and be able to practice/learn your part at home on your own." Auditioners must prepare 32 bars of a musical theatre piece, appropriate to the style of the show.An accompanist will be provided, "but please be prepared to sing the prepared piece a capella," reads the release. For those unable to attend the auditions, video submissions will be accepted.
Visitwww.windhamtheatreguild.orgfor detailed character descriptions, for more information about making a donation, or for more information about tickets.


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text: Science, Tech, Math › Social Sciences Public Transportation for Fewer Emissions, Energy Independence Keep costs low for your family for other necessities Share Flipboard Email Print Jordan Siemens/Digital Vision/Getty Images Social Sciences Environment Green Living Climate Change and Global Warming Environment Health Pollution Alternative Fuels Psychology Sociology Archaeology Economics Ergonomics Maritime By Larry West Updated July 03, 2019 If you want to help reduce global warming, air pollution, and your monthly living costs, one of the best things you can do is to get out of your car. By walking or riding a bicycle for short trips, or taking public transportation for longer ones, you will significantly reduce the amount of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions you generate each day. The Rising Environmental Cost of Driving Alone Transportation accounts for more than 30 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. According to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), public transportation in the United States saves approximately 1.4 billion gallons of gasoline and about 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually. Yet only 14 million Americans use public transportation daily while 88 percent of all trips in the United States are made by car—and many of those cars carry only one person. Added Benefits of Public Transportation Cutting back on carbon emissions and costs usage isn't the only added benefit of using public transportation. It also helps increase the energy independence of the country overall. Although an increasing amount of our oil is produced in North America, the majority of it still comes from across the pond. Public transportation is also safer, a lot safer, in fact. Riding a bus is 79 times safer than riding in an automobile, and riding a train or subway is even safer. It's also healthier, studies have shown that people who use public transportation regularly tend to be healthier than people who do not, because of the exercise they get walking to and from bus stops, subway stations and their homes and offices. And of course, there's the reduction of costs overall. According to an APTA study, families that use public transportation can reduce their household expenses by $6,200 annually, more than the average U.S. household spends on food every year. The Heart of the Debate Over Public Transportation So why don't more Americans use public transportation? Transportation experts and social scientists may argue about which came first, America's attachment to the automobile or the urban and suburban sprawl that makes long daily commutes in at least one and often two cars a requirement for many American families. Either way, the problem at the heart of the debate is that good public transportation systems are not available to enough people. While public transportation is readily available in many major cities, the majority of Americans in smaller cities, towns and rural areas simply do not have access to good public transportation options. So the problem is twofold: People with access to public transportation has to be persuaded to use it more often. Additionally, more affordable public transportation options in smaller communities need to be created for use. Trains, Buses, and Automobiles Train systems are the most efficient in many ways, typically emitting less carbon and using less fuel per passenger than buses, but they are often more expensive to implement. Also, the traditional advantages of trains can be mitigated to a large extent by using hybrids or buses that run on natural gas. Another promising alternative is bus rapid transit (BRT), which runs extra-long buses in dedicated lanes. A 2006 study by the Breakthrough Technologies Institute found that a BRT system in a medium-sized U.S. city could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 650,000 tons during a 20-year period. If you live in an area with good public transportation, do something good for the planet today. Park your car, and take the subway or the bus. If you don't, then talk to your local and federal elected officials about the benefits of public transportation and how it may help solve some of the problems they're wrestling with right now.


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29 Sep 2014 • by Natalie Aster
LONDON – Made from blue agave plant growing in the Mexican city of Tequila, tequila is a distilled beverage with an alcohol content of 38-40% by volume. This beverage holds a very small chunk of the world alcohol market. However, the global demand for tequila is increasing at a rapid pace. As of 2013, the US took lead in the tequila market in terms of revenue and volume. The major tequila market drivers include, expanding plantation of agave coupled with rapidly rising demand for premium tequila. Tequila is more popular amid the female population and also amid youngsters owing to a wide range of flavors. Meantime, the increasing raw material prices could pose a certain challenge for the further growth in world tequila market.
In terms of revenues, the world tequila industry is anticipated to post growth at a 2.51% CAGR in the next four years. As for volume, the overall market is predicted to see positive growth at a 2.34% CAGR during the same time period.
The top players in the global tequila market are Patron, Tequila Herradura, Sauza and Jose Cuervo. Other prominent tequila vendors include Sierra Tequila, Coralejo Tiple Distilato, Tequila Quiote, Hacienda La Capilla, Proximo Spirits, etc.
New research study "Global Tequila Market 2014-2018" prepared by Infiniti Research presents in-depth insights into the world tequila market landscape. The cutting-edge report covers the current market scenario as well as discusses the future growth prospects of the overall market.
The report gives updated data on the market size and revenues, touches upon the tequila consumption trends across the world and also sheds light on the retail sales trends. It contains a detailed market analysis, provides a comprehensive assessment of the key regional markets for tequila, describes the competitive environment and uncovers information on the leading market players. Moreover, the report offers extensive forecasts for the world tequila market performance through 2018.
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Model: eq5-pro-synscan-20981Part Number: 20981
Note: Photo shows earlier model, the model supplied has latest livery with green anodised components.
Compatible with EQMOD using a Lynx Astro EQDIR adapter :-)
"The first impressions of the assembly were of reassuring stability…The 3-star alignment is a great feature of the Go-To facility. Every time we set up, it accurately place the item we wanted in the field of view of our 25mm eyepiece. The more it was used, the easier is was to go straight to an object or star…The alignment process could not be simpler…In all, the alignment process works so well that you can be on a selected object and tracking it accurately within minutes…Overall the EQ5 SynScan gave a new lease of life to our smaller scope. It is easy to carry and it allowed us to give friends and neighbours a quick tour of the delights of the night skies." BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Using EQMod article by Steve Richards
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I bought this mount almost a year ago and to date I cannot fault it as to regards its mechinical operation, it had none of the sticky grease usually associated with these clones but saying that after a strip down and regreasing a very slight improvement was made .Packaging was more than as needed and very secure and the intsuctions seemed still to be in chinese are readable and you can follow them if need be.We now come to the softwarewhich is far behind the Celestron Software why? Ive no Idea but it is the same company you will get by on the software but in myopinion the Celestron version out performfs the SW software by a street eg . Celestron boast you can polar align using any two stars quite accurately (a boon to people who cannot gyrate anymore).However the mount in general is a gigantic leap forward and a solid foundation for those going from a alt/az to a Gem goto and want to dabble in Astrophotos
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On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Radim Kolar <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Its not about writing patches, its about to get them committed. I have > experience that getting something committed takes months even on simple > patch. I have about 10 patches floating around none of them was committed in > last 4 weeks. Could you share a list of Jiras you're concerned about? I've seen a few patches you provided that got committed just fine, and I've seen a few patches that I thought didn't have a strong justification that didn't get committed, and I think I've seen a few Jiras that I thought were a good idea that haven't been committed yet due to outstanding review feedback or lack of a committer who can volunteer to do the work. I'm not saying that the Hadoop process is perfect, far from it, but from where I sit (like you I'm a contributor but not yet a committer) it seems to be working OK so far for both you and I. Some things could be better, but the current fairly-conservative process has the benefit of keeping trunk in a really sane, safe state. > They are really simple stuff. I haven't tried to go with some > more elaborated patch because Bible says: if you fail easy thing, you will > fail hard thing too. > > I am thinking day by day that i really need to fork hadoop otherwise there > is no way to move it forward where i need it to be. Forking is tempting, but working with the community is really powerful. You've got plenty of successful jiras under your belt, let's just keep on truckin' and build a better Hadoop. -andy
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Robin Miriam Carlsson aka Robyn (born June 12, 1979) is a Swedish pop singer and songwriter, living in Stockholm.
She had a hit outside of Europe with a song called "Show Me Love" in 1997. This is not to be confused with a different song of the same title by Robin S.
The UK release of the hit single "With Every Heartbeat" is credited to Robyn With Kleerup.
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California Duck Days, Northern California's wetlands and wildlife festival!
This annual event, which takes place in the heart of the Pacific Flyway, features a wide variety of field trips, workshops, and activities for people of all ages.
California Duck Days Festival
Saturday, February 22, 2020
For a collection of Duck Days 2018 photos, courtesy of Beth Savidge, click here.
California Duck Days Festival
Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters
Saturday, February 22 – 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
$20/car entrance fee (entrance fee waived for field trip participants)
California Duck Days is a family oriented, community-based outdoor festival with activities for people of all ages. Field trips are led by some of the region's most experienced birders and naturalists. On-site activities for families include interactive exhibits, wetland themed arts and crafts, trout fishing in our ponds, and much more. (photos courtesy of Beth Savidge)
Duck Days Student Wildlife Art Exhibit – Opening Reception
Davis Arts Center
Friday, February 7, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
California Duck Days officially begins with a welcome reception featuring an exhibit of outstanding wildlife art created by high school students of Yolo County and a display of California Junior Duck Stamp contest. The reception is free and open to the public. California Duck Days tickets and T-shirts will be on sale. Drop by, see some beautiful art, try your luck in the raffle, and pick up information about the Festival.
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Tivoli Business Service Manager can calculate amazing things for you, if you only need them. This is thanks to the powerful rules engine being the key part of TBSM as well as the Netcool/Impact policies engine running just under the hood together with every TBSM edition. You can present your calculation results later on on a dashboard or in reports, depending if you think of a real time scorecard or historical KPI reports.
In this article, I'll show how to calculate a total event count throughout multi-level service tree. It is something that TBSM isn't doing right after a fresh install because it doesn't provide you with the right rules out of the box, however TBSM doesn't have also any predefined service tree available to you so in order to see this working you'd need to do both: add the rules to your service templates and import or create by hand your service tree structure to test this.
In this material, I'll create a simple, multi-level service tree consisting of 3 levels of instances and I'll use my own defined template T_Regions, but in order to repeat this exercise you can also simply reuse the template SCR_ServiceComponentRawStatusTemplate, which comes with every TBSM installation and is widely used in integrations with Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM). They key thing is that your template is to:
- Have at least 1 incoming status rule
- Be in use across the whole service tree, so all service instances on all levels in your service tree implement that template.
Figure 1. Template settings for this excercise
Figure 2. Incoming Status Rule body used in this excercise
Figure 3. Simple service tree used in this material
Make note. This document is trying to implement already existing functionality, means calculating the total number of events on every service tree level which result is stored in numRawEventsInt parameter. This parameter can be visible as the last value in the RAD_prototype widget being used typically on Custom Canvases on TBSM dashboards created in Tivoli Integrated Portal. But that parameter value isn't accessible for numerical rules or policies for further processing.
Figure 4. numRawEventsInt value used on RAD_prototype widget
The newest add-on to TBSM, the debug Spy tools, also offer a parameter per every service tree level, called Matching Events. However that value is correct too, it also isn't accessible from numerical rules or policies.
Make note. There is a BSM Accelerator template, called BSMAccelerator_EventCount which was designed to present the correct number of events for every service instance, however it was tailored to BSM Accelerator needs and service tree structure and isn't scalable for potentially endlessly high service trees. However, some of the concepts introduced in order to support the BSM Accelerator package, will be covered in this document. If you want to read more, see this document:
Make note. TBSM 6.1.1 FP3 is a prerequisite for all rules described in this material to work correctly. However it is highly recommended to install Fix Pack 4 or higher for ensuring the latest improvements.
What is the multi-level events count?
TBSM runs an Impact service called TBSMOMNIbusEventReader which comes with the product out of the box and is responsible for reading events in Netcool/OMNIbus on a regular basis (every 3000 miliseconds by default) and finding events to be processed by TBSM by using its special predefined filter.
Here's the default filter:
|(Class <> 12000) AND (Type <> 2) AND ((Severity <> RAD_RawInputLastValue) or (RAD_FunctionType = ")) AND (RAD_SeenByTBSM = 0) AND (BSM_Identity <> ")
All events which pass that filter get processed further by TBSM service template rules, actually their special kind called Incoming Status Rules. The most typical incoming status rule, predefined inside SCR_ServiceComponentRawStatusTemplate template, called ComponentRawEventStatusRule has a precondition, called a discriminator, which filters out all events filtered in previously by the event reader, which don't have one of the following classes:
- TPC Rules(89200),
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent(87723),
- Predictive Events(89300),
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring(87722),
- Default Class(0),
- TME10tecad(6601),
- Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager(87721),
- Precision [Start](8000),
- MTTrapd(300),
- Precision [End](8049)
Make note. In my example my Incoming Status rule will simply expect just Default Class (0) in all my test events.
This is not the end. There's one more filter. It is called event identification field and by default TBSM will look for its value in event's field called BSM_Identity. Value that is expected in that field comes from every service instance event identifier, which by default is the same as service instance name. So the event identifiers for my simple service tree will be the following:
|Service instance name
|Event identifier
I will not discuss in this material about how to maintain event identifiers, how many event identifiers you can have, how to set up event identifiers in XMLtoolkit configuration files (if you're interested in those topics, please see my private blog entry: http://www.marcinpaluch.pl/wordpress/?p=231). I will also not discuss here on how the event severity may affect service instance status, I go defaults here in my example, but I will not focus on that area in this material at this time.
To sum it up: there are 3 filters your event has to pass before it affects your service instance:
- The TBSMOMNIbusEventReader's filter
- The Incoming Status Rule discriminator / event class filter
- The event identifier
If your event made it through all the filters, you can call it a service instance affecting event.
It doesn't have to mean your event has to change your service instance status, it only means that your event was processed by the Incoming Status Rule implemented in your service instance's template. If you use TBSM 6.1.1 FP4, you can use Service Model Spy tool to see that your Incoming Status rule updated various attributes like Matching Events (number), Max Event Status (Event's severity) and a timestamp of time when the rule processed the event.
The Matching Events parameter is what I'll be calling in this material the EventCount.
Now, why Multilevel event count?
Every service instance can have its own individual EventCount. Every level of the service tree can contain more than one service instance and the best way to sum them up is to calculate their sum on their parent level. Then the parent service instance may also be used to implement a template with Incoming Status rule and therefore it can have its own individual EventCount. And then the parent service instance can be one of many parent service instances so the best way of summing them up would be calculating TotalEventCount on the grandparent service instance level. And so on. So the Multi-level event count is a feature to calculate the total number of events being processed by TBSM in the whole service tree.
Why would you need it? There are several use cases possible:
- Your service tree consistency check and verification – in a development phase, to see if all levels of your service tree get processed correctly
- Statistics – to see the current and true load on TBSM by source, class, alert type, any event field in order to perform some further analysis of event storms and their reasons
- To monitor the operations – for example to compare total events count to total acknowledged events count to total count of events escalated by opening an incident etc.
- To monitor service component qualities – especially important in case of service components are managed or provided by a 3rd party provider – you can assess how much trouble all of them give your company or your operations team
Once the use case is agreed, you may want to use this material to start collecting your Total event counts in order to present them on a dashboard or in a report. Let me now explain to you how to set it up.
As the first step let's make sure I'm collecting the event count for each of my service tree elements. Let me create my new rule: OwnEvents count.
Make note. This step has a prerequisite: I need to have my Incoming Status rule already created.
This is perhaps not well documented, but every Incoming Status Rule can be used in a Numerical Formula rule to get the number of events processed. It is documented in this technote:
So let me do exactly what the technote does, this is my numerical formula, my rule called OwnEvents, which will return only non-clear events count via the default (since TBSM 6.1.1 FP1) Incoming Status Rule's parameter NumEventsSevGE2. Whenever my Incoming Status Rule has processed another event with severity 1 or higher, the output of my numerical formula will refresh and increase by 1.
Figure 5. OwnEvents rule settings
And on my scorecard:
Figure 6. OwnEvents in a scorecard
Let's send a test event to the last level now:
Figure 9. OwnEvents after sending test event
As you could see the events severity was passed through the whole service tree up, that is why the icon in the Events column changed color to Purple from bottom level right to the top one.
After sending a critical event to the 2nd level the icons from the 2nd level to the top one changed their color to red.
Figure 10. OwnEvents after sending 2nd test event
Make note. In order to perform this exercise, I haven't created a status propagation rule. And I will not!
Take a look at the OwnEvents column. Even if status was propagated through the service tree from bottom to the top, the OwnEvents rule worked for every level individually. Europe shows bad Events noticed but OwnEvents column shows 0 events affected that level.
Now, let's try to make every level aware of events happening on the level below it.
Prepare such a policy:
|/* trigger_totalevents */
log("Triggered: "+ServiceInstance.STATEMODELNODE.trigger_totalevents.Value);Status = 0;
si = ServiceInstance.SERVICEINSTANCENAME+" ("+ServiceInstance.DISPLAYNAME+")";
if(ServiceInstance.STATEMODELNODE.count_ownevents.Value <> NULL) {
log("Service instance: "+si+" own events count: "+Status);
i = 0;
if(ServiceInstance.CHILDINSTANCEBEANS[i].NUMCHILDREN > 0) {
if(ServiceInstance.CHILDINSTANCEBEANS[i].STATEMODELNODE.count_totalevents.Value <> NULL) {
Status = Status + grandChildEvents;
childOwnEvents = 0;
Status = Status + childOwnEvents;
log("Service instance: "+si+", child: "+ci+" children events: "+childOwnEvents);
i = i + 1;
log("Service instance: "+si+" total events count: "+Status);
I called this policy count_totalevents_policy_1 and I saved it within numerical formula rule, called count_totalevents.
Figure 11. TotalEvents rule settings
Same time, create another, numerical aggregation rule, in which you will point to the just created rule within the same template. Make sure you name your rule exactly same way as indicated in the header of the policy in the numerical formula just created a moment ago.
Figure 12. TriggerTotalEvents rule settings
You should have by the end the following list of rules in your template:
Figure 13. T_Regions template complete rules set
Make note. After creating a template rule pointing to the same template as a child template, the template will disappear from the templates list in the service navigator portlet. In order to fix it, add that template to any other template by associating via any type of status propagation rule:
Figure 14. T_Regions template associated to templateFinder
And this is the result that should occur at the end in your scorecard:
Figure 15. TotalEvents column in a scorecard
It looks like the concept works fine. Let's try it further. Let's send another event from every level, starting from Malopolska to Poland and to Europe.
Figure 16. TotalEvents column after sending more test events
It looks correct, every level OwnEvent count increased by 1 and I have in total 5 events in the entire tree, just 2 on the leaf, another 2 in the middle and just 1 on the root level.
Let's add a new level below Malopolska and call it Krakow. This will simulate expanding the service tree i.e. in case of a fresh import from TADDM or CMDB.
Figure 17. OwnEvents and TotalEvents after adding a new child service
Let's now send a new event, Severity 3 to Krakow:
Figure 18. OwnEvents and TotalEvents after sending a test event to the new child service
The new event affected Krakow and was included in all level calculations of the TotalEvents count correctly. Let's now create one level above the all, called Earth:
Figure 19. OwnEvents and TotalEvents after adding a new root service
Adding Earth didn't change the TotalEvents count of course, but the current max was reflected on the new top/root level. Let's send another event to Poland:
Figure 20. OwnEvents and TotalEvents after sending test events to the new root service
The total event count increased by 1 again. Only Europe's OwnEvents column value increased by 1.
Let's now remove Krakow from the Leaf level to see if the TotalEvents count will decrease by 1 now:
Figure 21. OwnEvents and TotalEvents after removing the child service from the tree
So it is correct again, after removing Krakow with its 1 event the overall TotalEvents count dropped by 1 too and equals now 6.
This is is, if you like this post, let me know, also in case of questions.
Take care to the next one!
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by Keith DeVey, Social Media Manager, Milestone Internet Marketing
In the last couple of months, our social media team has noticed more and more clients asking about FourSquare. A lot of these requests are probably spurred by the recent Foursquare announcement in August allowing businesses to have their own branded pages to acquire followers, leave tips, and even check in places.
Below you can see a screenshot of Milestone's Foursquare business page:
A couple great features of this page include:
- Custom branded banner – drive brand awareness
- Rich description of business – help associate keywords with your brand
- Links to your brands websites and social channels – build incoming links to your site
- Tips left on other foursquare business pages – Foursquare users may socially discover your account when they read one of your public tips left about local restaurants, tourist attractions, etc.
- List of followers – Gain an audience
Switching gears from the custom business pages, let's look at some actual engagement numbers. A TechCrunch article published in January of this year gave us some insight into Foursquare numbers. The article mentioned that Foursquare has grown 3,400 percent in terms of check-ins and has over 6 million users. These are pretty powerful numbers…but are people actually checking in to our client's hotels?
Hotel check-ins in 2010 vs. 2011
- Nick Hotel average Foursquare check-ins per day from 1/1/2010 to 10/6/2010… 2.3
- Nick Hotel average Foursquare check-ins per day from 1/1/2011 to 10/6/2011… 5.1
- Liberty Hotel average Foursquare check-ins per day from 1/1/2010 to 10/6/2010… 5.5
- Liberty Hotel average Foursquare check-ins per day from 1/1/2011 to 10/6/2011… 11.7
In both these scenarios, we see that daily check-ins have more than doubled year over year at both properties.
When we looked at the overall trend for all our clients on Foursquare, we have seen the amount of daily check-ins has increased. With more and more users checking in on Foursquare, it is important to reward them with some sort of check-in special (like savings on a future booking, drink coupon, room upgrade, etc.). These users are already socially active, so if they obtain a great check-in deal, they are likely to share a link to your website through a tweet or Facebook post.


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Here's something you may never have known existed, a prestigious fashion award which showcases the beauty of Merino wool ~ The International Woolmark Prize.
Personally, I feel it's an unremarkable self-congratulatory event redeemed only by the production of this mockumentary which presents an interesting take on the art of creation in the modern world.
>More about The International Woolmark Prize<
Interestingly, on the website, Victoria Beckham is described as a designer. Think what you will.


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In the diabetes online community, the appearance of a blue candle suggests that someone has lost their life to diabetes. Its a time of sorrow. It's a time to hug our loved ones a little closer. It's a time to test a little more often and then we move on.
Last week I received a message that made my heart stop.
I headed over to a friend's Facebook page.
I saw the blue candle.
I couldn't breathe.
I read her post.
The tears began to flow.
Through the tears I sent a message to my friend. She confirmed my worst fears with her words "I just want him back."
"Oh, I wish I could bring him back for you!"
That's what I replied through the tears.
I was numb.
This time the loss to diabetes was close to home.
The blue candle was no longer for a stranger who had lost their life to diabetes. This candle was for a child that I had watched grow through our online communications.
This was happening to a friend who had been there for me through highs and lows of 16 years with diabetes. I wished I could bring her son back to her. The pain was too much for me, I couldn't begin to imagine how she was feeling. It hurt too much to try.
No mother should bury their child. We shouldn't have to mourn for those who have yet to have fully enjoyed their lives. There is something fundamentally wrong with that. It makes our hearts ache.
When we hear of a child's life lost to diabetes, no matter what their age, we hurt but we push it away. It happens to other people. It is horrible but it happens to other people. But what about when it doesn't? What about when it hits your family?
When diabetes takes someone in your family
Last week the life lost to diabetes was in my close diabetes family and the pain is still fresh.
15 +years ago, I became connected to the internet. I reached out to find "parents of children with diabetes". I found an information email list, or so I thought. What I really found was a family.
I found people, some that I would meet, some that I would talk to on the phone, and some that I would never know beyond the keystrokes on a keyboard.
All of them would become family. These were the people that would be by my side through the good times and the bad. They would understand diabetes –its peaks and valleys but they would also understand me. These friends would be there for me at all hours from around the globe. They were Friends for Life. They were family.
Over the years, some of those connections have been neglected. Our children have grown. Some of the children have become parents themselves. We watched each other's lives on Facebook and occasionally wished each other well.
Other connections remain strong. We reach out regularly. We still see each other. We have kept in contact and fondly look back at where we have been.
No matter whether we are close or drifted apart when tragedy strikes, we are all one big family again. One family united by pain. One family sobbing with each other. One family holding each other in virtual hugs with real tears.
Tragedy isn't supposed to hit us. Not a direct hit. Not taking a child that we "knew" and watched grow but it has. And it hurts like no other.
The pain will always be there
I know that the pain will fade for some of us. It will dull a little for my friend but that missing piece will never be replaced. I am lucky. In 16 years, my son has stayed quite healthy. In all of this time, I have only known of one person–whom I had met, spoken with, and been friends with, who had died because of diabetes. Now there are two.
I don't want there to be anymore. We need a cure. We need better access to treatments. We need more awareness. We need more…
We will continue to work harder. We will bike more. We will walk more. We will advocate louder.
Our hope will remain.
We came together because of diabetes. We stayed together because of an incredible friendship that knows no borders. I pray that one day we will celebrate life without diabetes. Until then, hug your loved one a little closer today. Send prayers and strength to the families who have lost someone during our fight. I am grateful to each of you who have become such an important part of my life.
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Inspector General of Police Stella Libongani has warned political parties participating in the Mpongwe and Livingstone by-election to obtain permits for them to comply with Public Order Act.
Libongani said all political parties should conduct peaceful campaigns and comply with the Public Order Act in order to promote peace during elections.
"I want to urge the political parties to ensure that they campaign peacefully and police will marshal the elections before, that is the campaign period, nominations, the election day itself and even up to the day we will be having the winners announced.
"But it is important that political parties themselves cooperate with us as police. I expect them to give notices to respective police offices in order for them to be allowed to hold peaceful campaigns," she said.


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