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Google has announced its mobile version of Google Voice for Android and Blackberry phones users. The Google Voice for mobile will brings voicemail transcriptions, the ability to call and text with the Google Voice number, and cheap international dialing to mobile phone.
The users can use the app to make outgoing SMS messages and calls from their Google Voice number. Besides, the app has been improved the mobile experience of Google Voice in number of ways.
The Google Voice app has been integrated with the phone native address book that making it easier to call or text with Google Voice number. The Voice mail transcriptions are now available and the app will highlight individual words during playback. In addition, the users can enjoy the Google Voice's low-priced international call rates which starting from $0.02 per minute.
The Google Voice for mobile is now available for download at m.google.com/voice or Android Market and is expected to be available soon for iPhone users. However, the desktop users still can use the Google Voice features through google.com/voice.


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Loconsolo Paints Featured in Sundry Scene Magazine
- November 04, 2014
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Loconsolo Paints is proud to have been featured in the Fall 2014 edition of the Sundry Scene Magazine. The article gives a great overview of our history and was written very well. A special thanks goes out to all of the volunteers that worked with us!
Loconsolo Paint Featured in Durability and Design
- February 26, 2014
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Check out our featured article in Durability and Design Magazine. The article highlights the hard work we put in helping with the recovery effort after Sandy! http://www.durabilityanddesign.com/news/?fuseaction=view&id=8759#.Uw4GmNocz3o.facebook
Loconsolo Paint Featured in June 2013 Edition of Paint and Decorating
- February 26, 2014
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Loconsolo Paint was featured in this month's edition of the online publication, Paint and Decorating. The article is a great read, providing a nice history of where we came from. http://digipubcloud.com/display_article.php?id=1424340


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Happy new year!
Hey guys so first of all I hope everyone is starting the new year off with a fresh head because I am definitely not I just wanted to say a big massive cringey THANK YOU to every single person who has supported my blog. I know everyone and their mother is blogging these days but as your basic 21 year old college student I was actually blown away by how supportive everyone was towards me.
Every single direct message and comment genuinely means the world to me because as much as I love doing this, it's very fucking scary (sorry mam for cursing) This has been one of the scariest things I've ever made myself do because behind it all I'm not that outgoing and all those likes and messages give me the drive to keep going and reassure me what I'm doing is not completely pointless.
To sum it all up really, thanks to every single person for their messages, (even the lads who don't care about fashion, thanks for liking everything all the same ) if it has taught me anything definitely just go for your goals. It's terrifying but you only have one life and who cares what other people think? As long as your family and besties support you and know when to tell you you're acting the eejit, that's all that matters in the grand scheme of things!
So now that I'm all done being emotional I'm gonna check myself into the gym for the next month like every other gobshite after December
To finish off with a great quote: "Don't be afraid to shine, the sun doesn't give a shit if it blinds you"
(Again, very sorry Mam for cursing)
Mini Mint x
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Final Canadian Citizenship Act Reforms Effective as of June 11, 2015
As I previously reported, On February 6, 2014, Citizenship and Immigration Minister (the "Minister") Chris Alexander first unveiled Bill C-24, the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, which proposed significant amendments to the Canadian Citizenship Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-29). I also previously reported that, on June 19, 2014, the Bill C-24 received Royal Assent and became law.
Some of the amendments described in Bill C-24 came into force last year. On June 5, 2015, Citizenship and Immigration Canada ("CIC") announced that the remaining amendments would become effective on June 11, 2015.
A summary of the most significant changes, which came into force on June 11, 2015, appears below:
- Adult applicants must now be physically present in Canada for at least 1,460 days (four years) during the six years preceding the date of their application, and they must be also be physically present in Canada for at least 183 days in each of the four calendar years during the qualifying period.
- Adult applicants must now meet any applicable requirement under the Income Tax Act [R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.)] to file an income tax return for each of the four taxation years during which they claim to have been resident in Canada.
- Applicants between the ages of 14-64 (changed from 18-54) must demonstrate, in one of Canada's official languages, knowledge of Canada and of the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship.
- Citizenship was automatically extended to additional "lost Canadians" who were born before 1947 and who did not become citizens on January 1, 1947, when the first Canadian Citizenship Act came into effect.
- Adult applicants must now declare their intent to reside in Canada once they become citizens and meet their personal income tax obligations in order to be eligible for citizenship.
- There are stronger penalties for fraud and misrepresentation (to a maximum fine of $100,000 and/or up to five years in prison).
- The Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council ("ICCRC") is now designated as the new regulatory body for citizenship consultants. As a result, only lawyers, notaries (including paralegals and students at law), and now ICCRC member may be paid to provide representation or advice in Canadian citizenship matters.
New citizenship application forms also became available on the CIC website on June 11, 2015. Any citizenship application received using the prior forms after June 10, 2015 will be returned to the applicant.


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November 25 2002
Sarah to star in Cabaret? The website Broadway.com reports on a rumour that Sarah Michelle Gellar may be taking on the role of Sally Bowles in the Broadway production of Cabaret (via the BBC's Buffy website) .
That would be interesting, but it seems unlikely since she doesn't sing professionally and really didn't seem to enjoy it at all when they did OMWF. Then again, stranger things have happened.
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The elegant terminal is able to harbour cruise vessel up to 295 meters, granting time saving access to the dynamic city of Amsterdam.
With close access to Schiphol Airport, Felison Terminal provides an ideal starting point for cruises to the Baltic, Norway's Fjords and North Cape, as well as, the British Isles and the Atlantic West Coast.
IJmuiden offers a beautiful beachfront, a protected dune landscape, a public golf club, horse stables and an indoor skiing slope. A fast hydrofoil will take you to Amsterdam in less than thirty minutes.
So visiting IJmuiden combines an easy, time and costs saving access to Holland's top marquee attractions, next to a broad pallet of local touristic gemstones, which are yet to be discovered by the wider audience.
- Enjoy the country's most popular tourist attraction. Experience Amsterdam's highlights from the cities best perspective. Gently cruising through the century old canals.
- A world famous park, offering an abundance of colours and fragrances unlike anywhere else. Enjoy the ultimate spring feeling, wonderful works of art and surprising gardens and flower shows.
- Offering an exciting mix of culture and culinary experience and nominated "Best shopping city of the Netherlands", this is the city were the Dutch prefer to live.
- This delightful village on the bank of the river Zaan, offers characteristic green wooden houses, charming stylized gardens, small hump-backed bridges, tradesmen's workshops and historic windmills.
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EcoStyle is an award-winning company specialising in the design and manufacture of interactive water demonstrations and educational models. Established in 2002, EcoStyle has supplied its products to many UK water companies. They offer an existing range of demonstration models, or can design and manufacture a new product to your exact specification, ensuring it fully meets your requirements. EcoStyle will be showcasing their latest product - a Shower Efficiency Display model which compares the water saved by a water-efficient showerhead in comparison to a standard showerhead.
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To Be or Not to Be a Priest or Nun
Encouragement Key to Vocational Discernment
As a college junior six years ago, Marisa Cirenza told her family she was discerning whether God wanted her to change her vocational plan from "doctor" to "religious sister."
Emanuel and Linda Cirenza of Charlottesville, Va., challenged their only daughter, realizing that if she became a religious sister with the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia (often known as the Nashville Dominicans), it would mean a big change for the family.
"We weren't going to have grandchildren [of hers]," Emanuel said. "We weren't going to have a wedding. It's not like you're going to be able to visit a lot. You're not going to be able to phone anytime. All the things that people take for granted you're not going to have. You'll have other things that are really nice, but it's different."
Marisa — now Dominican Sister Chiara — said she recognized their hesitation. "I saw their pain. I saw that they didn't understand yet. I knew I couldn't enter peacefully unless something changed. I couldn't be the one to change that. It had to be the Lord."
In time, her parents and two brothers have not only accepted but embraced the decision of Sister Chiara, who made her first profession with the Nashville Dominicans this summer. They learned about the Nashville-based order and got to know the sisters, some of whom were struggling because their families weren't at peace with their vocations.
"For parents, I think the most important thing is to respect their child's decision and to ultimately grant them your blessing," Emanuel said. "It means a lot to the young woman entering to know that her parents are behind her."
Support from parents — or lack of it — along with the encouragement young men and women receive from priests, sisters, relatives and other parishioners are important factors in discerning a call to the priesthood and religious life, according to recent reports from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University. At the same time, experiencing a relationship with Christ, often developed through a parish youth group, conference or event such as World Youth Day, helps young people to be open to a priestly or religious vocation.
Encouraging Environment
Vocation directors look at these factors and what clergy and laity can do to further support young people in discernment by building up a culture of vocations, as called for by the U.S. bishops.
"Across the board, our Church has to be more intentional about developing this positive, encouraging environment in which young people can hear the call and then respond to it," said Father Shawn McKnight, executive director of the Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
God, not the Church, generates vocations, he said. But "it is clear that he desires that the Church be so intimately involved in the discernment of a vocation. It's not just between God and an individual. The Church does have a role in there that's essential."
Recent reports from CARA at Georgetown University indicate that there is a greater openness to the priesthood and religious life in general.
Catholics should be ready to ask young people about a vocation, and if it's appropriate, point out characteristics that would make him or her a good priest or religious, said Father Roger Landry, pastor of St. Bernadette in Fall River, Mass. He added that young people respond when more than one person asks them.
"The first thing that's needed is for people to be asked the question: 'What do you think God wants you to do when you grow up?'" he said. "That question is asked in a vocational culture; it's not often asked in other cultures, where people just say, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'"
To encourage vocations, we need to be vocal, said Father Robert Barron, rector of the University of St. Mary of the Lake seminary near Chicago and the creator of the Catholicism film series. "If I see a young guy with gifts that would be useful in the priesthood, I'll tell him, 'You should be a priest,'" the priest said, to get a young man thinking about the possibility of God's call. "I think Catholics should be much more vocal and much more intentional as they approach young people about the priesthood."
Personal Example
Data indicates that contact with priests and religious also has an impact on young people's discernment. A CARA report of men ordained to the priesthood in 2014 indicates that 71% were encouraged by a parish priest, while a report of religious professed in 2013 shows 46% were encouraged by a religious sister or brother, and 39% received encouragement from a parish priest.
"It's indispensably important that priests approach young people," Father Barron said.
Many of the roughly 18 women entering the Nashville Dominicans each year receive encouragement from a priest, said Dominican Sister Peter Marie, vocation director for the community of 300 sisters. "Sometimes they point out something in the woman that she might not have seen herself."
Father James Peterson was an 11-year-old altar boy when he received his first encouragement about the priesthood, in the form of a letter from his then-associate pastor in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
"It was something I really did take to heart," said Father Peterson, who was ordained in 2013 for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and serves as parochial vicar at St. Odilia in Shoreview, Minn.
"Eventually, over time, the words really resonated, and the truth was right there in front of me. I felt a deep sense of peace and joy not only observing but helping the priests in sacramental celebrations and also seeing even beyond the liturgical worship the impact they had."
During his discernment, Father Peterson said he received encouragement from campus ministers and parishioners as well as at a youth conference.
He asked God for a sign regarding whether to continue for a second year at the seminary in St. Paul. While sitting in the seminary lounge, the priest who had given him the letter when he was 11 walked in. "My jaw hit the floor," he said. "It really was confirmation that that was where God was calling me to be."
In an effort to reach young men, Father Barron has produced a video using basketball to talk about the priesthood called Heroic Priesthood. He wants young men to share it on social media, as well as with their youth groups.
"My hope would be that they watch it and they send the link to some kid who'd be a good priest," he said. "I'd like people to be missionaries with this. So if parents see it, grandparents see it, pick it up and say, 'Here's a kid in the neighborhood who'd be a great priest. I want him to see it.' I want it to be sent like seed by means of these various missionaries."
Parents' Concerns
In CARA reports, 11% to 26% of mothers and fathers of the ordained or professed who were surveyed discouraged their children.
Most parents, grandparents, relatives and friends are more peaceful about the decision when they are given information and answers to their questions, said Father Brett Brannen, pastor of Most Blessed Sacrament in Savannah, Ga. A former vocation director and seminary vice rector, Father Brannen has written several books on discernment including, most recently, A Priest in the Family, a guide for parents and family members of men discerning priesthood (see review on page 11).
Parents' objections often reflect a limited understanding of religious life, agreed Sister Peter Marie.
An opportunity to teach them, as well as young people, about consecrated life comes as the Church enters the Year of Consecrated Life in October. The designated year coincides with the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of Lumen Gentium (the Second Vatican Council's dogmatic constitution on the Church), which has a specific chapter on consecrated life.
Families that regularly make sacrifices in the home will find it easier to sacrifice a child for the priesthood or religious life, Father Landry said.
It's God's Call
It's not possible to promote vocations without evangelization, Father McKnight said. "We want [young people] to be intentional about what they're going to do with their lives and to be open to what God may be calling them to do."
God is calling people all the time, said John Beaulieu, director of participation and engagement at the mission office of Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio, which organizes Steubenville Youth Conferences.
"I don't think there's a priest shortage," he said. "I think there's a listening shortage. People just aren't listening to hear if God has a call in their lives. God's calling many men and women to the priesthood and religious life, but they're not listening."
Only after young men and women experience Christ in the sacraments and prayer do conference leaders introduce the idea of a vocational call, he said. Priests who responded when they were teens are returning to the conferences as youth leaders, Beaulieu added.
Most of all, falling in love with Christ and his Church is essential to responding to his invitation of love — a vocation, Sister Peter Marie said. "I don't think you can underestimate how powerful it can be for another person to lead you to Christ first of all and then to encourage you to look into a vocation," she said. "The power of encounter is huge."
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We at CrunchGear seem to have opened some sort of strange Pandora's Box resulting in a number of offers to send us marital aids for review. First it was the Sqweel and now it's the Tenga Flip Hole. Mom and Dad: I'm sorry you wasted all that money on college for me.
The Tenga Flip Hole is a $70 Japanese sex jar ("onacup" in Japan) for men. It works thusly: You unpack it and open it up. Inside is a mass of strangely shaped and knurled silicone with an opening at the bottom. It is clad in hard plastic and those three knobs on the side allow for some sort of marionette-like method of pumping the plastic inside. It also has a fake hymen.
To repeat: It also has a fake hymen.
To use it you open it up, place a quantity of lubricant inside ("Mild, "Cool Ranch," and "Wild" are the styles included with this kit), and then close it. You then introduce your male member into the hole at the bottom (past the freaking fake hymen) and manipulate the device until issue. You then wash the thing out and go eat a candy bar from the box that your son's school is making you sell but since you work from home you can't sell them in an office so they lie around the house all day and all you do is eat them because your wife doesn't eat milk chocolate and you don't have the will power to resist them, let alone resist twirling it into a Japanese sex jar.
While your own methodology may vary, I'm here to tell you that this is what sex will be like when we are colonized by the machines. Males will be given these devices to produce genetic material which will then be processed and pre-screened for genetic defects like "free will" by the robot overlords. The resulting slurry will be sent to the female inseminating fields where the next generation of bio-battery will be grown. The Tenga Flip Hole is what a robot thinks sex feels like: efficient, well engineered, and decidedly unnatural.
Sweet, merciful Cher. I had sex with a jar.
I received two of these devices from JList.com, a disposable model $12 U.S. Tenga model and this Flip Hole [NSFW link] (FTC please note: You are free to pick these up from my place of business in lieu of the standard disclosure documentation you will soon force us bloggers to prepare.) The $12 disposable model contained lubricant and was a one-time use device, something I cannot condone considering carbon footprint of waxing the dolphin inside a plastic cup and then throwing it away. I would say, however, that when using the Flip Hole you'll want to use a lot of lubricant. It's a tight squeeze, even for men as poorly endowed as me, and… I have a Master's Degree in Business Journalism. Let's not forget that.
Bottom Line
The world is full of lots of kinds of people. There are people who sing, people who dance, people who make gourmet cookies at a little place outside of the Hyannis Airport. And there are people who make onacups and people who have sex with those onacups. Now that I know what kind of person I am, I'm better for it.
Is it an amazing experience? If you're alone and lonely and want to give Aunt Palm a rest, you know what? Yeah, it is a great time. I found I enjoyed it more in the company of my fine lady wife but that's just how I butter my toast. You do what you need to do to get by. Different strokes for different folks, pip pip, cheerio.
Incidentally, Danny Choo has lots of photos of his Tenga Flip Hole. Go look at his.


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* * *con·trac·til·i·ty .kän-.trak-'til-ət-ē n, pl -ties the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting esp the power of muscle fibers of shortening into a more compact form
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Our caring and compassionate orthopedic doctors will work with you to develop a treatment plan that's personalized to your needs. Less invasive treatments such as medication, physical therapy and cortisone injections are often prescribed before deciding surgery is necessary.
Hip replacement surgery (arthroplasty) is a procedure that can alleviate the pain and immobility that come with injury, deformity or diseases such as osteoarthritis. If you do require total or partial hip replacement surgery, in which the hip replacement surgeon replaces a worn out or damaged hip with a prosthesis (an artificial joint), you can rest assured we'll be with you every step of the way. Common reasons for hip replacement surgery include hip damage, such as a fracture, and osteoarthritis, a loss of joint cartilage that limits movement, causes pain and inhibits daily activity.
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Client: US Government Agency
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POWER completed the Pul-e-Khumri to Chimtala transmission upgrade study. The project is being accomplished for the US government and involves the necessary system studies to determine the electrical viability of importing 450 MW to the Afghanistan power system from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The present transmission line is double-circuit 220 kV and approximately 202 Km in length. Study results will include an assessment of the possibility of a re-conductor of the transmission line and employing the use of series/shunt capacitors and static VAr compensators (SVCs).
POWER also performed an engineering study of reactive power compensation (RPC) to optimize the 220-kV transmission line section from Pul-e-Khumri to Chimtala. This includes automation of existing RPC and description of improvements necessary to increase the Chimtala substation transformer capacity by 160 MVA. POWER developed a technical scope of work with supporting documents for engineering and procurement of RPC equipment. The client will receive a final report, including locations and sizes of RPC to be installed, as well as technical specifications, general arrangement drawings, scope-of-work packages, and recommended evaluation criteria for project execution.


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As a licensed clinical professional counselor I have helped hundreds of people understand themselves better, develop healthy coping skills and make positive life changes.
Yet too often 'talk therapy' by itself is not enough. For people living with anxiety and the effects of trauma, talking is just the tip of the iceberg. For true balance to be restored, their somatic symptoms must be addressed.
The Breathing Deeply Yoga Therapy teacher training has helped me as a mental health professional to take a broader look at my work with clients.
It has given me fresh eyes, no longer only looking through the mental health lens I was originally trained with. I now also incorporate the lens of yoga in the work I do with clients.
This gives me a deeper understanding of what clients are going through. And the movement they might need to advance towards more healthy, balanced lives.
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Though Luuwai was the center of some controversy when he was suspended with pay as a teacher at King Kekaulike (he was later reinstated, and the reasons for the suspension remain unclear), his story has mostly been one of success and accolades. (Many colleagues and students rushed to his defense after the suspension.) A respected and driven coach, Luuwai helmed King K's paddling team for its first five years, from 2002 to 2006, and helped usher in and popularize the sport. In 2004, the team won a state mixed division title, the first time in the school's history that it brought back a state trophy in a team sport. Luuwai's dedication to paddling continues; among other things, he serves as the Hawaiian Canoe Club keiki coach. [JS]
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Most rappers pride themselves on having a merciless past — poverty, street violence, jail, execrable living conditions, etc. Still, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone with a cred sheet quite like Oakland's Hagage "AJ" Masaed. Sure, there are the obligatory tribulations: an upbringing in the ghetto; a limb wounded in a drive-by shooting. But four years ago, when AJ decided to take his rap game to Yemen, he left the figurative battlefield of Oakland for what would soon become the new front in the War on Terror, and more recently, the latest revolution of the Arab Spring.
"I can't really run from death," AJ said, speaking by cell phone from his family's Sana'a home on a recent Saturday evening. "If your time is coming, it's coming wherever you're at. It could come from a store robbery, car accident, whatever. So I figure I might as well make a stand, be here with my family. And maybe, if a positive change happens, I can be a part of this positive change."
Rather than return to the relative calm of North Oakland, where he worked at A & Sons Market and developed his Anglo-Arabic rap career, the 48-year-old decided to stick it out in Yemen's capital of Sana'a, and see if hip-hop can somehow lead him, and his country, toward a promising future
After a popular revolt forced out Tunisian President Ben Ali in January, the unrest over aging autocrats quickly spread to Yemen, one of the poorest countries of the Arab world. There, college students have been joined by women, fundamentalists, and tribal militias in calling for the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has held power since 1978. In May, when fighting between opposition forces and government troops escalated, the US State Department urged Americans to leave the country, and Yemenis with the means to do so have fled Sana'a for the calmer villages.
But AJ, an American whose rap career was born out of the corner liquor stores where he grew up, is staying put. Partly because he believes he has something to offer. And partly because he has no other choice.
"I'm almost stuck between a rock and a hard place," said AJ, who lives with his Yemeni wife and four kids. "I can't really afford to take my family out, all of them, to the States." Even if he could, that would leave the three-story house he and his father built empty — an open invitation to looters. And so, as the city approaches, in his words, "Somalia times three," AJ is making the most of a grim situation. In fact, he's rendered hip-hop into a form of cultural diplomacy.
It may be an unlikely role for a guy who, just a few years ago, was selling Old English at a Market Street liquor store. His upbringing in his family's markets in Youngstown, Buffalo, and finally Oakland, and his rise to underground fame as the first Yemeni American rapper was chronicled in the Express nine years ago. But beginning in 2007, AJ's musical career took an unexpected turn. That year, he left for Yemen to care for his ill father. He was surprised to find that his music — a fusion of mid-Nineties West Coast rap with English and Arabic lyrics and Yemeni traditional instrumentation — was already well known, and had inspired a nascent hip-hop scene. He quickly became a part of it — promoting shows, collaborating with Arabian artists, and working to maintain a respectful vibe among the cohort of young rappers.
But it took a terrorist attack to give AJ the attention he needed. On Christmas Day two years ago, the so-called "underwear bomber" attempted to detonate explosives on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. The event shifted the spotlight of the War on Terror to the would-be-bomber's alleged training ground: Yemen.
As diplomats and counterterrorism officials searched for ways to keep the country's unemployed youth (an estimated 40 percent lack jobs) from the allure of extremists, AJ was suddenly something more than the underground pioneer of Yemeni hip-hop. He was the potential bridge between the Western society in which he grew up, and the frustrated Yemeni youth.
In the States, we hear of hip-hop projects to keep kids off the streets. In Sana'a, the stakes went up a notch. Hip-hop, the hope was, could keep youth out of al-Qaeda. And the charming and unassuming AJ easily endeared himself to embassy staff, government officials, and NGOs that wanted to support his efforts.
"A lot of these youngsters need a little direction," AJ told me last year as he began work on an album entitled No Terrorists Please. "So I'm hoping that if maybe I can just put something in someone's head, maybe it'll change their views ... before jumping on the bandwagon, you know."
Al Jazeera, CNN, and local newspapers chronicled the project, and a popular single about Yemeni pride became the official tune of last year's Gulf Cup soccer tournament, held in Yemen. "It was like I opened the door for something that Yemen hasn't seen. And I thought it was just the beginning.
"And then all this happened."
"This" would be the Arab Spring, and AJ has not yet found an upside to the revolt. His job at a joint US and Yemeni government-sponsored radio program, where he composes rap parables aimed at unemployed youth, went on hold for several weeks when the uprising began. Now, like the country itself, its future is uncertain.
When we spoke on the phone, the electricity was out. It's just one of the casualties of the violent revolt, which also led to a black market for gas, and civilians arming themselves with machine guns. When President Ali Abdullah Saleh was injured by an attack on the mosque where he was praying in early June, AJ heard the explosions, about a half-mile from his home. While things have calmed down since the president left for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, AJ worries about what the future holds.
"Each home has, like, three weapons on average," he said. "You just sit there and pray, like, oh my god. This is going to be a failed state. This is going to be chaos, this is going to be gang warfare."
But unlike many of the foreigners who have left the country, AJ has seen a lot in his lifetime, and he's dealing with the newest wrench in his plans with understated calm. For his three young daughters, he erected a tent on the roof so they can play under the cool night air. When the electricity is on, ESPN and Facebook help him connect with America and exchange music with producers in the States. If anything prepared him to carry on through a civil revolt, he said, it was life in the corner markets of America.
"I was in Buffalo, New York, when the crack scene hit and it was the war on drugs. Being in these areas and seeing how drugs have destroyed families and communities, coming to Oakland and Oakland is the same thing," he said. "Over here, they have their own problems. It's not really drugs, you know, but poverty, and neglect, and war, and prejudice. It's always something."
How long before AJ returns to Oakland is another uncertainty, but when that happens, don't be surprised to find him right back where he came from, at the corner of Market and Adeline, behind the counter of A & Sons Market.
"I made my marks in these little communities or these ghettos," he said. "You don't have to be a gangster. You just have to know how to talk to people." It worked in Oakland, he said. Hopfully it will translate halfway around the world.
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This is a small selection of free-use illustrations, photographs or images based on the readings and prayers/propers in the Roman Catholic lectionary for the thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B. It is part of the Lectionary Art Series.
hymn suggestions for this Sunday for more information about the readings and seasonal notes about this day, and links to other weeks.
Christ PicurtesDetail of Christ Pantocrator in Hagia Sophia
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_icon.jpg
Artist: Unknown
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Who do you say Jesus is?
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Biblical illustration of Gospel of Luke Chapter 9
Source: Wikimedia
Artist: Biblical illustrations by Jim Padgett, courtesy of Sweet Publishing, Ft. Worth, TX, and Gospel Light, Ventura, CA. Copyright 1984. Released under new license, CC-BY-SA 3.0
Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it ....
Source: Picture from https://www.flickr.com/photos/waitingfortheword/5546682604
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Carrying the Cross of Christ
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Saudi and U.S. officials say nine people, including four gunmen, have been killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in the port city of Jeddah.
A Consulate spokeswoman said five of its non-American employees died when militants stormed the U.S. compound Monday.
[Saudi officials say they include a Yemeni, a Sudanese, a Pakistani and a Sri Lankan, but the nationality of the fifth victim is still unclear.
Saudi police also shot and killed three gunmen and arrested two others. Later, officials said one of the gunmen in custody had died.]
According to a senior Saudi official in the capital Riyadh, no Americans were taken hostage in the attack against the U.S. consulate in Jeddah. But the official said third-country nationals were briefly taken hostage before the consulate was secured.
The attackers struck the consulate with explosive devices at two compound gates. Shortly afterward, the attackers opened fire with automatic weapons.
A senior Saudi government official said it appeared the attackers used hand grenades in, what he called, a diversionary tactic, while others entered the compound firing their weapons.
Several American personnel and Saudi civilians were injured or wounded during the attack.
There was no speculation on the motive of the attackers or their exact identities.
Saudi officials declined to say publicly whether the attackers were from the al-Qaida terrorist organization. But one senior Saudi official said the style of the attack did not seem to resemble past attacks for which al-Qaida claimed responsibility.
Interior Ministry officials said some of gunmen were wanted by Saudi security forces. Senior officials described the attackers as Islamic militants.
The siege at the consulate lasted about three hours before security forces brought the situation under control.
A senior Saudi official confirmed reports that some negotiations with the gunmen had begun, but that security forces decided to storm the attackers after threats were made.


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Whether it's because we're stuck sitting at a desk for hours on end, suffering from a bit of muscle strength imbalance, fatigue or tension, in a constant fight against gravity or simply carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders, many of us experience bad posture.
Often, our poor stance (which usually comes in the shape of a slumped spine or hunched, rounded shoulders) can be corrected simply by making a conscious effort to ditch bad habits and sit or stand a little 'straighter.'
But sometimes, improving our posture takes a little more work — like rolling out your mat and focusing on some sweet, mindful movement.
Yes — our beloved friend yoga has indeed been proven to help improve posture by helping to increase body awareness, strengthen the core and lengthen the spine.
Here are some effective yoga poses you should implement into your practice to create better alignment for your body and help prevent (and correct) bad posture:
Bridge Pose
Lie with your spine and feet on the floor, knees bent upwards and heels as close as possible to your sitting bone. Exhale, pressing your feet and arms into the floor and lifting your buttocks off the floor.
Keeping your thighs and feet parallel, clasp your hands below your pelvis and extend your arms so you remain on the tops of your shoulders.
Keep your knees directly over your heels and push them forward, away from your hips.
Exhale and release, slowly returning your spine to the mat.
Mountain Pose
This one may look like you're just standing there, but it's actually an incredibly active and powerful pose.
In a standing position, bring your feet together or hip-width apart. Feel your weight evenly balanced through the bottom of each foot. Lift your toes up, spread them apart, and return them to the mat.
Tuck your tailbone slightly under and keep your legs straight — without locking your knees back.
Inhale and lift out from your waist, elongate your torso and pull the crown of your head up to the ceiling. Feel your spine lengthen and straighten.
Keep your arms straight, fingers extended, and triceps firm. Allow your inner arms to rotate slightly outward.
Exhale and drop your shoulders down as your fingers reach toward the floor. With each exhalation, feel your spine lengthening.
Cobra Pose
Lie face down with your legs stretched out and the tops of your feet on the floor. Place your hands on the mat, under your shoulders and press the tops of your feet, your thighs and hips into the floor.
Inhale, straighten your arms and lift your chest off the mat. Press your shoulder blades together and lift through the top of your sternum.
Child Pose
Ah, this one feels oh so good.
Rest on your knees with your arms overhead and palms facing one another. Exhale, slowly bending your body forward and taking your tailbone to your heels.
Stretch your arms out on the mat in front of your and place your forehead on the floor. Inhale and enjoy the sensation of your spine stretching into its rightful position.
What are some of the ways you work on your posture? Share with us in the comments below!
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Music For Relief Raising Funds For Cyclone Survivors In Bangladesh
Under the banner of the org Music for Relief, Linkin Park is once again teaming with artists like Avril Lavigne, Smashing Pumpkins, Madonna, and the Deftones to help people in unfortunate circumstances. Last month, the organization raised money to assist those affected by the California wildfires. This time, they're focusing on the tragedy of the recent Cyclone in Bangladesh. From the release,
"On November 15th Cyclone Sidr brought winds of up to 150 miles an hour, creating a 15 foot sea surge, devastating coastal regions in Bangladesh. The storm killed approximately 3,500 people, left over 40,000 injured while over 800 people are still missing. 8.5 million people have been affected by the cyclone and tens of thousands of people are still in urgent need of food, shelter, medical supplies and clean drinking water."
Up for auction on the eBay site are signed posters, XBOX360s, guitars, and VIP tickets for 4 to various Linkin Park concerts around the world. Absolutely all funds raised will be distributed in the region to help provide food, shelter, medical supplies and clean drinking water to survivors.
Hit the auction to take a look and help out a great cause!


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Harbours in Cornwall - Fal, Helford and Roseland
Already popular as the first and last port of call for grain-trade sailing ships travelling from the Atlantic or the Bay of Biscay, in 1688 Falmouth became a vital link in the chain of communication between London and the rest of the world when it was designated a mail packet station. When sail gave way to steam much of Falmouth's former industry shifted to the more usefully located Southampton, but thanks to burgeoning tourism the town continued to prosper. Ellen Macarthur is the latest in a long line of adventurers who have attracted the world's press to this remote Cornish town, whose character continues to be well and truly shaped by her maritime landscape.
Falmouth's cobbled streets and narrow alleyways are dotted with figureheads from ships long-since wrecked, four marinas and several island pontoons serve visiting yachtsmen, and huge oil tankers from across the globe hang offshore like giant birds, waiting for the economic downturn to reverse itself so that their exiled crews can return home.
Within easy walking distance is the larger Port Pendennis, whose wider concrete pontoons can accommodate yachts more than seventy metres long and with a six metre depth on outer berths. As well welcoming superyachts, the marina at Port Pendennis, which sits adjacent to the National Maritime Museum, is well-served for regular boats, offering both sheltered winter mooring in the inner harbour (access three hours either side of high water, minimum depth three meters) and visitor berths in the outer section, with direct access to shops, restaurants and pubs.
Aside from the harbour in Falmouth itself, there are numerous other places to stop along the many arms of the Carrick Roads. Directly opposite Falmouth is Flushing, a small town famous for the regatta held there every summer at the end of July. A week of events (including bathtub racing) culminates in the unmissable sight of dozens of gaff-rigged Falmouth Working Boats racing across the harbour. These traditional boats are still used in the Carrick Roads today where the traditional practice of oyster dredging is only permitted from sail-powered boats. The gaff-rigged Falmouth Working Boat is the result of generations of traditional workmanship.
Across the channel to the east of Falmouth is the super-sheltered Percuil River, home to St Mawes, a picturesque town with a medieval castle. Visitor moorings are available by arrangement with Percuil River Moorings or St Mawes Sailing Club (excellent showers) which also operates ten green visitors buoys and further sheltered anchorages to the south of the town, although these can be uncomfortable in a strong southerly swell.
Entry to St Mawes harbour is free of obstacles apart from the permanently-covered Lugo Rock, marked with a buoy.
Heading north from Falmouth will bring you to Mylor Yacht Harbour, for many years the smallest Royal Navy dockyard in the country. Mylor is an attractive sailing village with an impressive range of facilities including a recently extended marina with all the usual provisions including a restaurant, bar and WiFi, a boatyard with a thirty-five ton travelift, a well-stocked chandlery, a fuelling berth and a visitors pontoon.
Running parallel to the Carrick Roads on the western side is the Helford River, which seperates Falmouth and the exposed Lizard Peninsula. The Helford Passage is a magical place of hidden inlets and crooked cottages to which entry is fairly straightforward, the only danger being a reef to the north marked with a green conical buoy. Private landing pontoons at the Old Helford Boatyard can be used in exchange for a voluntary contribution, while visitor moorings are available at the Ferry Boat Inn, Durgan Star Hire Boats and Gillan Creek. Upstream, the channel to Gweek, home to the Port Navas Yacht Club, is well marked.


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Predict according to the nearest training instances.
- Data: input dataset
- Preprocessor: preprocessing method(s)
- Learner: kNN learning algorithm
- Model: trained model
The kNN widget uses the kNN algorithm that searches for k closest training examples in feature space and uses their average as prediction.
- A name under which it will appear in other widgets. The default name is "kNN".
- Set the number of nearest neighbors, the distance parameter (metric) and weights as model criteria.
- Metric can be:
- Euclidean ("straight line", distance between two points)
- Manhattan (sum of absolute differences of all attributes)
- Maximal (greatest of absolute differences between attributes)
- Mahalanobis (distance between point and distribution).
- The Weights you can use are:
- Uniform: all points in each neighborhood are weighted equally.
- Distance: closer neighbors of a query point have a greater influence than the neighbors further away.
- Metric can be:
- Produce a report.
- When you change one or more settings, you need to click Apply, which will put a new learner on the output and, if the training examples are given, construct a new model and output it as well. Changes can also be applied automatically by clicking the box on the left side of the Apply button.
The first example is a classification task on iris dataset. We compare the results of k-Nearest neighbors with the default model Constant, which always predicts the majority class.
The second example is a regression task. This workflow shows how to use the Learner output. For the purpose of this example, we used the housing dataset. We input the kNN prediction model into Predictions and observe the predicted values.


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Awesome Goat Games!
Peakles and I love goats, they are just so funny, bouncy, clever and always seem to be pleased to see us! We love visiting at our local petting zoo and we secretly hope to look after a herd of our own one day! To celebrate International Goat Day this year we've decided to get some exercise, improve our gross motor skills and have some brilliant goat fun too!
Goat Tick Tack Toe
You will need:
Two people. Some material to make a # shape on the ground. (We used some scarves!) Some paper plates with an X or O written on them.
How to Play Goat Tick Tack Toe:
One person has plates with X and the other has plates with O on. Play just like ordinary Tick Tack Toe, however, who decides to go first has to jump onto the square in the grid and place their plate at their feet. The next person jumps into the grid to place their plate. Carry on playing the game by jumping about like jumpy goats until someone wins the tick tack toe game. We loved playing this and it combines jumping skills with game tactics too!
What Time is it, Mr Troll?
You will need:
2+ people
How to Play:
This game is based on 'What Time is It Mr Wolf?' One person is the troll and stands in front of a wall or fence with their back to everyone and they have their eyes covered. The rest of the players are the goats.
The object of the game is to get to the green grass on the other side of the bridge by touching the wall before the hungry troll jumps up and captures them. The goats have to ask 'What time is it Mr Troll?' to which Mr Troll says a time and turns around. The goats have to stand still until Mr Troll turns back around. If Mr Troll says 'dinner time' he gets to chase the goats back over the bridge to the other side. If Mr Troll catches a player, then they are out of the game.
The winner is the person who manages to touch the wall before Mr Troll says 'dinner time' and catches them.
Musical Goats
You will need:
Players and Music
How to Play:
Just like musical statues, when the music plays all the players jump and moves around like goats making 'baa' noises until the music stops and then they have to stand like goat statues. If they move they are out. The winner is the last person standing.
Peakles and her friends enjoy playing these games and we may even have a goat inspired party to go with them this year!
Join In With A Quirky Blog Hop
More yummy recipes, craft activities and some fun play ideas as well! Celebrate on June 20th this year. Joining in with this quirky blog hop are some wonderful bloggers from around the world. This blog hop is all about sharing interesting crafts and activities aimed at kids of all ages.
The Usual Mayhem shares a fantastic How to Milk a Goat and How to Make a DIY Milking Stand post!
Tuff Spot Play shared a brilliant 3 Billy Goats Gruff Tuff Spot idea
Kid Minds shares awesome Goat Activity Sensory Play ideas and Goat Books as well!
Peakle Pie has some Fun Playing These Goat Games
Witty Hoots shares some wonderful Goat Ideas in a Round Up
Something 2 Offer shares these cute FREE Goat Coloring Pages
Kelly's Classroom shared this brilliant book review all about Beatrice's Goat
We are thrilled to be part of another Quirky Blog Hop! Help us celebrate on June 20th by adding your own Goat Inspired Blog Posts.


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A wild new story claims that Mary-Kate Olsen is pregnant and that her twin sister Ashley is incredibly jealous. None of it, however, is true.
The article said Mary-Kate is expecting with husband Olivier Sarkozy, and that the baby news is causing tension with Ashley.
Gossip Cop busted the bogus report this week, when a rep for the twins shot down the entire story.
The sisters are reportedly very supportive of each other, and Ashley would be very happy for Mary-Kate if she decided to start a family.
For more rumor busts, visit GossipCop.com.


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iPhone Flip: what we want to see from Apple's foldable iPhone
It may be some time before we see an iPhone Flip foldable Apple phone, but here's all we've heard about what might come.
It may be some time before we see an iPhone Flip foldable Apple phone, but here's all we've heard about what might come.
Here's everything we've heard about a mid-range iPhone SE Plus to be released as a larger mid-range Apple phone.
Updated You've got yourself an Apple tablet and you're bewildered by the sheer volume of apps. Just download these and your life will be better.
Geekbench scores supposedly showing the iPad Air 4 give us a hint at what to expect with the iPhone 12.
The Google Pixel 5's affordability and lower specs mean the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max are the last top-tier flagships to come out in 2020.
Updated The best free games for every iPhone, from the iPhone 11 Pro to the iPhone SE.
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While a long way off from being practically implemented, these fuel cells could wean Apple devices off of electric power.
Microsoft's 'Candy' theme for Windows XP looks strikingly familiar.
TechRadar wants you to have the best apps going – so here's our regularly updated list of the top free iPhone apps around.


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It's not to late to join the hunt!
Ready to find new authors and win prizes? I'm one of the sponsors of the Night Owl Reviews Love is in the Air Scavenger Hunt. (Feb 4 – 27)
During this event I'm going to help you find some great new books and authors to read. Make sure to take a look at my featured title, Holiday Hearts Awakening, along the way.
The grand prize is a $100 Amazon Gift Card.


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Tools of the Trade
Tools of the Trade is an escapist novel that strokes and tantalizes imaginations while offering entertaining social and gender commentary.
Philip B. Persinger's Tools of the Trade is the absurd and comedic story of a rich man's battle against impotence and a business rival amid unusual circumstances.
The constantly pressing question of this comic novel is: how does the second richest man in the United States contend with impotence after recovering from prostate cancer? Moreover, how does he do this while being stuck with a name like Woody Steele? For those whose imaginations are impelled by such a predicament, this novel works toward answers.
Persinger is a playwright, and his talents there are apparent in this work. Its chapters are short, many running only a few pages, and they burst like bottle rockets, glowing quickly before they fizzle out.
The story opens quietly, in a well-appointed house in London staffed by a group of attractive maids. In but a few pages, it is revealed that the maids are actually men who pay to be there and to be disciplined. This is not the average British bed and breakfast.
Later, a similar house is opened in New York as the story continues to ricochet into its own strange world. The world of high-powered corporate finance is made to fit conveniently with BDSM, to say nothing of the old guy in the background harboring the explosive device.
The action is like a fast-moving mountain stream: cool, persistent, and, in places, suddenly treacherous. Nearly every character is dressed out of a high-fashion catalog, except apartment-building superintendent Tim. But even he is out of the ordinary, as when he appears at the bawdy house parlor decked out in an Indian headdress.
Often, it is hard to tell where the story picks up and the cartoon ends. Dialogue is snappy, biting, and unadorned, as when Mary Margaret, Woody's COO, confidante, and casual sex partner, responds to a compliment with "It's a company dress….You paid for it."
Persinger is adept at getting as much as possible out of terse sentences. He wastes little space on elaborate descriptions of rooms or people's emotions. Svetlana, the international movie star and granddaughter of a former Stalinist-era operative, is a complicated character who uses others as some people use a toothbrush. After a particularly tense chapter, Persinger describes Svetlana: "She does not wake up so much as come out of a coma." However, these entertaining characters are often hard to empathize with; they lead charmed lives that most can only dream about, and remain largely unknowable throughout.
Tools of the Trade is an escapist novel that strokes and tantalizes imaginations while offering entertaining social and gender commentary.
Reviewed by
John Senger
Disclosure: This article is not an endorsement, but a review. The author of this book provided free copies of the book and paid a small fee to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. Foreword Reviews and Clarion Reviews make no guarantee that the author will receive a positive review. Foreword Magazine, Inc. is disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255.


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This week I've been transported back to Rishikesh in northern India, while writing a story for Traveller about my Phool Chatti ashram experience.
It's been real, taking a flight of fancy back to the motherland.
But what I've been trying to figure out is: what did I actually learn there by the banks of the river Ganges? Apart from how to wash my nose out with salt water (more on that later), what my threshold for dal consumption was, and how to master the art of looking like Jesus while worshipping Shiva (see image 4)?
My main outtake was that silence, for me at least, really was golden.
You see a good chunk of every day at the ashram was held in silence. From when we woke up at 5.30am, through morning meditation and chanting, pranayama breathing, yoga, karma yoga (aka free labour), breakfast, meditative walking and lunch, we had our lips sealed. And I loved it.
This might sound harsh but I wasn't there to make friends. Well actually, I was there to make friends but with myself, to go deep and get some answers and blast away some of the shit after a particularly difficult time in my life.
I've stayed in a few ashrams before and found the social side pretty draining when so much inner work was being done at the same time.
So yeah, I revelled in the idea of the silence.
It helped me access those dark corners of my soul, and also made me reflect on my need to communicate. Did I really need to say to the person next to me at lunch, "wow, how spicy is this food?!" or, "God I'm tired!" at meditation in the morning or, "I'm so over this!" when we hit our ninth hour of yoga in three days?
No, not really. In fact, often speaking those kinds of annoyances out loud makes them worse, I realised. It solidifies them in some way and gives them more strength. Leaving them unsaid, they often just float away.
Unfortunately, not everyone shared my joyous feelings over the silence. When a lovely fellow ashramite asked me where I got my top from during karma yoga one morning, I found myself nodding at her and putting my finger to my lips, then flapping my arms forward to signal some portion of time in the future.
Arsehole? Yeah, sure, especially when the one-word answer would have been so easy to say. But those little interruptions into my cherished periods of silence were like a pin to my holy balloon. An iceberg to my spiritual cruise ship. A… You get the picture; they were disturbing, and I wanted to make a point.
But on a positive note, they made me realise that we all have different needs when it comes to verbal communication. Maybe because I write (and man did I write while I was in that ashram) I felt less of a need to communicate verbally. Or maybe it's just that I'm an introvert at heart.
Anyway I'll leave it at that for now. More to come when the story makes it out into the world.


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Fresh: Finish the fish under the broiler to caramelize the glaze into a tasty browned crust. Serve with roasted potato wedges and peas.
How to Make It
Preheat broiler.
Combine first 4 ingredients in a large zip-top plastic bag. Add fish to bag; seal. Refrigerate 10 minutes, turning bag once.
Remove fish from bag, reserving marinade. Place marinade in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave at HIGH 1 minute.
Heat a large ovenproof nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle fish evenly with salt and pepper. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add fish to pan; cook 3 minutes. Turn fish over. Brush marinade evenly over fish. Broil 3 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork or until desired degree of doneness.
Chef's Notes
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Publication Date
January 2006
[Excerpt] More and more, individuals with disabilities are recognizing that work fulfills the need to be productive and economically self-sufficient. Work promotes independence, enhances self-esteem, and contributes productively to the community. People with disabilities are valuable members of the workforce. In order to increase the pool of skilled workers that the business community needs, we need to increase the labor market participation rates of all our workforce customers — especially those with disabilities. To give you a sense of what an important part of the economy they are, individuals with disabilities represent $220 billion in buying power, according to the National Organization on Disability (2004).


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Vips wrote:Time for reality check.
Taiwanese must be smoking something really potent to even think of buying something as critical as a submarine from a country which has not built one for itself (of its own design) and which itself relies on foreign suppliers.
The Japanese will get the contract for sure.
I don't care who wins the contract but if someone from India is confident enough to enter a design for this competition then it is, as Trump and Pankajs would say, HUGE just HUGE!
I hope, I hope, I HOPE it is an original design. Maybe not just MDL either because there is no reason why the L&T design team can't come up with a conventional design. I'm really looking forward to hearing more. Best story this year!


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Author Archive
Soil by Karleigh Frisbie - Carrie Ivy
"...the way girls play war, with mysteries and clues and some magic."
The SFV Interviews: Kashmir, by Karen Hunt - Carrie Ivy
"...as I started to experience things like stalking…I learned to fear."
Poetry by Fiona Chamness - Carrie Ivy
"Belly, you roll-eyed saint, cloud of blood, coil of convulsing wire."
Promise Land by Lydia Panas - Carrie Ivy
"These are my feelings, learned within the home as well as public expectations."
A Bipolar Child by Pamela Carter - Carrie Ivy
"I was seen as an exceptionally bright but difficult child rather than one with a treatable mental illness..."
Day of the Dead by Michael Schwarz - Carrie Ivy
A journey through Dia de los Muertos in Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Poetry by Carrie Bennett - Carrie Ivy
"the director instructs: make your body into a tree"
In My Here, In My Now, In My Body by Christie Tate - Carrie Ivy
"This was goodbye to the tethers of repression and approval and virtue..."
Pride by Claire McCulley - Carrie Ivy
"you took the word 'lesbian' off the shelf and put it on."
Poetry Suite by Adrienne Novy - Carrie Ivy
"ring light as a moon! don't you dare declaw this bitch!"


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California's Sanctuary Cities – Protecting the Immigrant Community
Times of Uncertainty for Immigrants
From its very inception, the Trump campaign focused on immigrants and deportation. When Donald Trump won the election on November 8, uncertainty rocked the immigrant community of the United States. The incoming Trump Administration promised to tighten up immigration laws and to deport the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently residing in the United States.
Sanctuary Cities
While there certainly is cause to worry about change to immigration procedures under the Trump Administration, there is hope for immigrants. Several cities across the United States label themselves as 'sanctuary cities.' These safe havens protect immigrants by barring city officials and police from asking questions regarding immigration status. They also prohibit withholding benefits or services based on immigration status. California boasts of three major sanctuary cities – San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento. Following the election, these cities reaffirmed their statuses as sanctuary cities and allies to the immigrant community.
Legal Assistance for the Immigrant Community in California
In Los Angeles, city and county officials unveiled a plan to provide a $10-million fund to help immigrants access legal assistance in anticipation of the Trump Administration's crackdown on immigration. Some of the funds (approximately $5 million) would come from the city and county general fund while the rest of the funds would be donated by organizations like The California Endowment—which plans to provide $2 million towards the fund. Many immigrants do not fight their immigration cases because they cannot afford quality legal representation. Some immigrants fall victim to unscrupulous attorneys.
There are two similar bills pending in the California State Legislature. Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) is pushing a bill that would create state-funded centers to train attorneys on immigration law. Earlier this month, Sen. Ben Hueso (D-San Diego) introduced legislation aimed at creating a state program to assist those facing deportation pay for legal representation.
Hope in the Face of Uncertainty
Seeing what is happening in Los Angeles and throughout our state, will Sacramento become the next city to provide immigrants assistance in seeking legal representation? In the face of uncertainty, we remain hopeful that it will.
Contact Sacramento's Immigration Attorneys
If you are uncertain about your immigration status or would simply like to discuss your case, please contact us.
Call Us: (916) 241-3336
By: Jennifer Chavez
*The information provided in this post does not constitute legal advice or opinion. The information is for guidance purposes only. Individual situations vary and you should contact us for a consultation. Carson & Kyung, Sacramento's Immigration Attorneys on California's Sanctuary Cities – Protecting the Immigrant Community.


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Joe Delly
Myers Briggs
As The Thinker, Joe seeks to develop logical explanations for everything he interacts with. He loves the theoretical and abstract and he is generally interested more in ideas than in social interaction. He is quiet, contained, flexible, adaptable and has an unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems. Interestingly, however, Joe is also a teacher at heart, and welcomes opportunities to share his expertise with those who have a strong aptitude but lack of experience in programming.
As Kaulig Media's Programming Director, Joe serves as our head of all things programming. He is extremely talented and welcomes any technical challenges a client may present. He has been taming the wild world of computers since he could walk. Well, okay, since computers could fit inside your home.
Joe's Experience:
- Experienced in custom digital solutions for growth-oriented companies of all sizes
- Building UI: HTML // CSS // Ajax
- Script: PHP // Javascript // Typescript
- Compile: C# // Java
- Web : Apache // Nginx // Node.js // IIS
- Data: MySQL // MS SQL // Postgres // MongoDB
- Interoperate: SOAP // REST
- Programming open source platforms such as Wordpress, Drupal, & Umbraco as well as the eCommerce platform, Magento.
- Deep experience in programming of API integrations between websites and various databases.
Joe studied Art Education at Case Western University in Cleveland. When he was pursued to "fill in the gaps" at a friend's start-up, Joe stumbled upon his true calling: programming. "I learned how to make a cursor look like falling water, and I was like, 'Yep, this is pretty cool. I want to do this.'" He started by simply playing with 3D modeling and adding silly effects to websites, but was soon eager to learn more. And so, he taught himself how to code. "There was a lot of opportunity for me to find out what I'm capable of in that way." Though he's now been programming for nearly 20 years, Joe has never stopped wanting to learn more and more. And while he loves this infinite potential and creativity web development allows, he's come to enjoy the service it provides others more than anything else. "I love when I can spend only one hour doing a task that would take someone else 50."
Joe is a native of Northeast Ohio. He and his wife, Michelle, have two sons. When Joe isn't spending time with his family or knee-deep in code for work or fun, he can be found at his local Taekwondo Dojang where he has been training for a long, long time. He's also an amateur tuba player, sketch artist, comic book aficionado, stealth humorist, and both student and master of anything he tries. He claims he's an "agnostic" when it comes to bucket-lists, and instead focuses his energy on living mindfully in the present.
Q&A with Joe
What's the best part of your story so far?
I love that I married the woman of my dreams and enjoy getting to be a part of raising our two energetic little boys.
What organization or company inspires you and why?
I love what the Warriors of Destiny Rescue do. They are fierce lovers of justice and have great faith in what they believe. They will lay their lives down for their faith. Truly inspiring.
What is something no one would ever believe to be true about you?
I play the tuba.
What are you passionate about related to the work you do in serving others?
I am determined to figure out the neatest, most stream-lined solution to a technology challenge. I'm passionate about keeping things simple and realistic.
What are you doing when you feel most like you?
Catching up on the latest comic books, sketching, reconfiguring my Linux machines.
In an alternative life, what would you want to give a try?
Comic book illustrating.
What does flourishing mean to you?
To increase, and to be able to weather storms.
What aspect of ipso's culture resonates with you the most?
What we do defines who we are. The exact people that we have, the leadership that's provided… we're such an amalgam of these things, all of which define who we are and our "culture."