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Much has been written about teen suicide over the years; much less can be found regarding children and suicide. In the past it was unthinkable to even entertain the thought that young children could commit suicide. Developmentally young children scarcely have a full concept of death and dying as a permanent state; this doesn't normally develop until around the age of 10-12 years. It is recognized, however, children do voice their intent to kill themselves.
"I Want to Die" Statements can Indicate Serious Intent
Adults often ignore or minimize expressions of depressions and despair in children citing drama Credit: ; Photographer: Julien Bryan (1899-1974), Source: Wikimedia Commonsor attention-seeking as the reason. If a child has been sad for an extended period and makes "I want to die" statements this can be cause for concern. Risk factors for suicide in children rarely involve substance abuse; factors are more closely related to psychiatric indicators of depression. Those symptoms can manifest in the following:
- Sadness
- Irritability
- Lack of concentration
- Trouble sleeping or sleeping too much
- Aggressive behavior
- Preoccupation with death
- Withdrawal from friends
- Significant change in school performance
Children who have serious mood disorders remain at a high risk for suicide later in life. Generally, children who are suicidal have a history of severe and cumulative stressors in their lives. In children younger than five, the home environment is a huge factor in suicide risk. Violence, abuse, deaths in the family and divorce of caretakers can all be factors that will be reflected in the behavior of the children. For the younger children, this is especially true of severe discipline and abuse as these children often feel worthless, guilty and hopeless.
Children who display suicidal thoughts or acts without violent behavior are primarily depressed and acutely stressed. They may have adequate adaptive skills, but nevertheless they feel overwhelmed and hopeless. Most often these are the children who are brought to therapy. On the other hand, children who have violent behaviors and violent suicidal thoughts and/or attempts usually come from disorganized families.
Depression in Children
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Children going into therapy should be given a thorough assessment and this would include a risk assessment for suicide. Children who attempt suicide are like any other suicidal person in that they want their pain to end and so no way out. Therapy can help bring alternatives and a sense of direction and control. At times, medication may be necessary to reduce the depression, or in severe cases to control psychotic symptoms. It may even be necessary to hospitalize the individuals who are at the level of risk that their safety cannot be ensured.
Individual play therapy for children can be extremely beneficial as well as group therapy. It is important to help children establish a strong support network of family and friends. Schools often provide counseling for their students and this is another avenue of assistance for children.
Caretakers can provide listening, encouragement and guidance to children. Helping children put words to feelings and guiding them to express those feelings in appropriate ways can aid children in their mental health. Acknowledging their struggles and fears and teaching them how to resolve conflicts appropriately strengthens their abilities to cope with various situations that arise.
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Boca Raton developer James Batmasian was hit with a $10.5 million foreclosure suit on his Royal Palm Plaza shopping center in Boca Raton on Friday, just days after he lost a legal battle with a government agency to demolish one of his buildings.
Equitable Life Assurance of New York filed to foreclose on the shopping center on Federal Highway just south of Palmetto Park Road in Boca Raton.
The insurance company says it has not received monthly mortgage payments due March 1 and in subsequent months, according to documents filed in the Palm Beach County Circuit Court in West Palm Beach. The amount due is $221,131, which is continuing to accrue interest at the daily rate of $3,205.
Batmasian said Friday that he is not in economic distress and is holding the money in escrow. He said he is deliberately refusing to pay the mortgage to Equitable because of what he alleges are property defects that Equitable was aware of when they sold him the property in 1987.
"(They failed) to disclose material defects of which records show they had knowledge of prior to sale. They forced me to sign a sales contract without having a building inspection," said Batmasian, who declined to say what the property defects are.
"This is not a real foreclosure. I'd hate for this to be disruptive to the tenants," he added. "We're putting the payments into escrow until we get our claims resolved."
Batmasian is one of the biggest property owners in downtown Boca Raton.
On Wednesay, he lost a yearlong battle with the city's Community Redevelopment Agency to demolish an old furniture store on the site of Mizner Park, the city's new shopping, office and residential center. The former store is on land earmarked for cultural use.
The government agency won an eminent domain order from the Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach.

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"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings," the Greek philosopher Socrates wrote. Many years later, the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas offered a divergent view: "Do not go gentle into that good night."
Artists and thinkers may not agree on the meaning or possible benefits of our preordained journey to the great beyond, but many seem disposed to contemplate the trip. That includes visual artists, who are rarely as immediately quotable as writers but are just as inquisitive a breed.
More than 150 artists will share their drawn, painted, photographed or otherwise rendered meditations on death in "A Book About Death: The Ties That Bind," an exhibition set to open at the Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery in Bay Shore on July 31.
Why this fascination with death? "It taps into such a river of emotion," said LuAnn T. Palazzo, of Islip, an artist and the curator of the exhibition.
"The Ties That Bind" is the latest installment in a continuing, loosely structured series of exhibitions that invoke "A Book About Death" in their names, all of which are inspired by the artist Ray Johnson. Mr. Johnson — collagist, iconoclast, provocateur — died of an apparent suicide in Sag Harbor in 1995. The first exhibition, at the Emily Harvey Gallery in New York in 2009, was curated by the artist Matthew Rose.
Mr. Johnson "believed that art was not something to be kept and put in galleries," Ms. Palazzo said recently. "Art was something to be shared, so whatever he made he would mail out to his friends."
Mr. Johnson is generally considered the founder of "mail art," and he started what he called the New York Correspondance School, a network of artists who exchanged creations through the mail. Among the works he circulated were pages from his unofficial and unbound book about death.
In the 2009 show, Mr. Rose had almost 500 artists contribute 500 postcards each of whatever image they chose. Visitors could take away with them whatever combination of cards they desired.
Ms. Palazzo is going in a slightly different direction by soliciting larger pages from participants, more like what Mr. Johnson made, and binding them into two books of about 100 pages each. A second copy of each work will hang on the walls of the space.
A highlight at the Firehouse show will be a booklet titled "A Book About Ray Johnson and Hot Dogs," put together by Allen Bukoff, an artist from Michigan. It features correspondence he received from Mr. Johnson during a yearlong project Mr. Bukoff organized in 1993 called "The Year of the Hot Dog." The six items of correspondence from the booklet will also be displayed for the first time in public, Mr. Bukoff said in an e-mail.
Thematically, Ms. Palazzo's show also differs some from previous "Book About Death" events in that she asked artists to think not just about death but also about the ties that bind together the artists themselves, many of whom have done multiple "Book About Death" shows.
But the preoccupation with death, of course, is the main motif. "We don't ever abandon that theme," Ms. Palazzo said. "We just kind of riff on it."
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In the first scenario, the telemarketers were saying they wanted to make an appointment for a sales consultant to say "Hi and drop off some samples". Was that a compelling reason for anyone to feel they had to keep an appointment? If the prospect had something important to do at the time set, I am sure they would have felt it unnecessary to keep the appointment. After all, the sales consultant could just leave samples at reception.
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In the second scenario, the prospect was not turning up for the teleconference call,. I believe this was because the telemarketer, on the initial cold call,had not given enough compelling reasons for the prospect to make sure he kept the appointment; He had not created enough pain for them telling them what they were missing out on if they did not attend. In some cases, he had not reconfirmed the appointment the day before or even given the prospect a number they could call in case they had to reschedule. There is considerable cost in having salespeople scheduled to do presentations to prospects. It is beyond my comprehension why Managers are not watching what is going on with their telesales team. Perhaps the telesales team needs to be rewarded for making the appointment only when the appointment shows up?
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Today I had a call from someone wanting to make an appointment with me to help me with my IT. He told me he wanted an appointment so he could spend just 15 minutes telling me what his company could do for small business owners. What the heck would I waste 15 minutes of my time when I already have IT help? He never told me once what he could do for me which was all I was interested in . He just talked about him and his company without asking me a single question. Then at the end,to add insult to injury, he asked me what the name of my company was! Didn't he know whom he was calling? Why do Managers waste their time employing people like this without training them?


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The Hennepin County Library is getting into the music business, and the key words are "Minnesota artists."
On Wednesday, the library system for Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs launches a new online program called MnSpin, featuring a curated selection of music by 53 Minnesota acts whose albums can be streamed or downloaded from the website.
The first batch of MnSpin artists ranges from veteran acts Tina & the B-Sides, Michael Monroe and the Belfast Cowboys, to newcomers Tufawon, Strange Relations and the Lowland Lakers, with a worldly cross-section that also includes Mexican-rooted mariachi singer Emilio Gadea, part-Jamaican reggae band Dred I Dread and Chinese pipa player and composer Gao Hong.
Modeled after similar library programs in music-centric cities such as Nashville and Seattle, MnSpin cuts out all the hassle of checking out CDs to bring home to burn onto your computer. Instead, the music is offered instantaneously over the internet.
Also, the musicians are getting paid by MnSpin, an increasingly rare occurrence in the digitized music world. Each act received a flat licensing fee of $200 for use of one album, and all are featured on the library site alongside a short biography, photo, video and/or link to the artists' own websites.
"It's just another way to expose people in your hometown to what it is you do," said singer/songwriter Dan Israel, whose 2015 album "Dan" was picked for the collection.
"It may seem like just a drop in the bucket," Israel added, "but I think if more of our big organizations like [the Hennepin County Library] did this sort of thing for musicians here it would really be a positive thing for everyone."
Around 325 acts submitted applications over the summer and were considered by a panel of curators. The panel included some library staffers as well as gospel/R&B singer J.D. Steele, classical soprano singer Maria Jette and the Cedar Cultural Center's program and artistic director, Jessica Rau.
In addition to weighing the quality of the music, curators also looked at the artists' involvement in the local music scene.
"We wanted to make sure these are acts people can go see perform, too," said Johannah Genett, division manager for Hennepin County Library, who was quick to point out that CDs are still very popular items at library checkout counters.
"But more and more artists aren't actually releasing their music on CD, so we hope this will be a way for our patrons to discover them," Genett said.
Minneapolis rapper Tufawon, aka Rafael Gonzalez, said his involvement in MnSpin will likely offer as much in pride as it does in income or exposure.
"The libraries do a wonderful service educating the community," Gonzalez said. "I'm hoping this will help me become a part of that tradition."


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Dr. Hananel Rosenberg
Rabbis, communities, and social networks: traditional structures and new technologies
I study new media technologies, and am particularly interested and intrigued by all aspects of cellphone usage and its effect on our day-to-day lives: on social encounters, the romantic relationships we maintain; on our 'timeouts', such as watching a movie, attending theater productions, a 'disconnected' backpacking trip in the East; and on traditional social groups, for instance the Amish in the USA and the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) society here in Israel. Recently, I conducted an array experiment with Prof. Menahem Blondheim titled "the sans cellphone experience," which examines the dependence patterns teens and adolescents develop in relation to the cellphone medium, using strategies from the 'Deprivation Study'.
In the past year I partook in a research group, accompanied by researchers from the School of Education, in which we examined the interaction between teachers and student on social networks in times of routine (school year) and emergency situations (during Operation Protective Edge). We attempted to understand the usage practices, the motives, and the personal and ethical dilemmas of using online channels in these contexts.
As part of 'Da'at Hamakom', I study (under the guidance of Prof. Menahem Blondheim) the phenomenon of rabbis and religious community leaders using social networks for the sake of continuous interaction with their students and community. We wish to examine whether and how the hierarchal relationships carried out through social networks challenge traditional social structures. Furthermore, we wish to examine the manner in which the technological mediation shapes the nature of the relationship between the rabbi and his congregation, the structure of the community, and its boundaries.
Selected Publications
- Rosenbreg, H., & Rashi, T. (2015). Pashkevillim in Campaigns against New Media: What Can Pashkevillim Accomplish that Newspapers Cannot? In: H. Campbell (Ed.), Digital Judaism (pp. 161-182). London: Routledge.
- Rosenberg, H (2015). Cellular Phone in Israel. In: Lev-On, A. & Mann, R. (Eds.), Annual Report: The Israeli Media in 2014 Agendas, Uses and Trends (pp. 70-91). Ariel: New Media Research Institute, Ariel University. (Hebrew)
- Asterhan, C. S., & Rosenberg, H. (2015). The promise, reality and dilemmas of secondary school teacher–student interactions in Facebook: The teacher perspective. Computers & Education, 85, 134-148.
- Rosenberg, H. (2015). Home, Front and Mobile Phones: The case of the Second Lebanon War. Social issues in Israel, 20, 131-155. (Hebrew).
- Rosenberg, H. (2014). Backpacking Experience and the Mobile Phone. Media Frames, 13, 39-92. (Hebrew).
- Kohn, A., & Rosenberg, H. (2013). "Collapsing walls and the question of commemoration: Graffiti in the Israeli Withdrawal, August 2005". Social Semiotics, 23(2), 606-631.
- Rosenberg, H., & Maoz, I. (2012). "Meeting the Enemy: The Reception of a Television Interview with a Female Palestinian Terrorist among Jewish Youth in Israel". The Communication Review, 15(1), 45-71.
- Rosenberg, H., & Kohn, A. (2012). "'I feel comfortable speaking with you softly': New Media & Stutters". Media Frames, 9, 29-68. (Hebrew).


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This sensitive circuit is basically a comparator, detecting very slight temperature changes in respect to the ambient temperature. It was primarily intended to detect draughts around doors and windows that cause energy leaks but can... [more]
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This simple circuit can be used to activate whatever you like, for example, by connecting it to microcontroller, relays, secret alarms, robot applications or just turn on LED1 which lights up as long as you... [more]
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When the water-level is below the steel rods, no contact is occurring from the metal can and the rods, which are supported by a small insulated (wooden) board. The small circuit built around IC1 draws... [more]
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The purpose of this circuit is to animate shop-windows by means of a capacitive sensor placed behind a post-card-like banner. The card is placed against the glass inside the shop-window, and the visitor can activate... [more]
This device beeps intermittently for about two seconds when a person in a range of around 10 meters emits a whistle. The first two inverters contained in IC1 are used as audio amplifiers. IC1A amplifies... [more]
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This circuit has been very useful in filling a header tank for a reticulated water supply on a farm. Eight troughs are supplied in different paddocks where a lack of water would have serious consequences... [more]
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This circuit is intended to signal when a plant needs water. A LED flashes at a low rate when the ground in the flower-pot is too dry, turning off when the moisture level is increasing.... [more]
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Of the Heavyweight bouts the most peculiar takes placein China where former world title challenger Okello Peter (21-7, 19), a Ugandan based in Japan, faces the gigantic Evgeny Orlov (14-12-1, 10). Orlov, well known for his unique nickname of "The Molecule From Hell", will have to be favoured here and despite being 35 he is a relative spring chicken to the 41 year old Peter.
The Peter/Orlov bout will decide the WBC Asia Council Continental Heavyweight champion and would likely find themselves with a notable push up the WBC rankings, as worrying as that is.
The Chinese bout isn't the only title bout with an NABA USA title out taking place in the US between Jason Bergman (22-10-2, 15) and Devin Vargas (18-2, 7). Berman comes in to this fight as the champion, having won the title last year. For Vargas this is his first title fight and in fact his first fight since 2011, coming in he has lost 2 of his last 3. and really shouldn't be getting a title fight of any sort here.
Aside from the two title fights we also have a number of prospects in action. These include hard hitting American hopeful Donovan Dennis (8-0, 7) who will be taking on the experienced and heavy handed Travis Fulton (21-35-1, 20). On paper this looks like a great test but Fulton, dubbed "Iron Man" has already been stopped 27 times in his 57 fight career, it'd be surpising if he could withstand the power of Dennis.
Another heard hitting American prospect in action is Aaron Green (14-0, 12) who faces an equally as interesting test as he takes on the experienced Byron Polley (25-16-1, 11). As with Fulton, Polley does tend to lose by stoppage, with 13 stoppage defeats against his name, and with Green having very heavy hands we're expecting another stoppage victory for the unbeaten man.
One final Heavyweight bout in the US will see the once beaten Jesse Barboza (7-1-1, 5) fighting against novice Glenn Thomas (1-1). Hard to see Barboza losing here though we don't think he's as good as he was once touted as being.
Outside of the US we get fights in Germany and Canada.
In Germany the most interesting fighter is the unbeaten Tom Schwarz (4-0, 2) who will be facing a yet to be named opponent. The unbeaten man is tipped to be a contender somewhere down the line and it's hard not to be excited about his potential.
On the same German show as Schwarz there is a bout between the big hitting Steffen Kretschmann (16-2-0-1, 15) and Samir Kurtagic (12-5, 8). This will be Kretschmann's first fight since his rain affected no contest with Timo Hoffman back in 2012. We don't expect this one to finish early despite the punchers reputation of Kretschmann.
On a separate show in Germany fans can get to see the unbeaten Boban Filipovic (3-0, 3) in action against the win-less Dragan Pavlovic (0-6). Unfortunately it's hard to get excited about the unbeaten Croat despite his perfect record. He is in his late 30's and isn't likely to face anyone of not, as seen here.
In Canada the unbeaten Zachary Bunce (2-0, 1) will be hoping to extend the winning start to his career as he takes on Steven Harvey (4-1, 2). This should prove to be a good test for Bunce though a very winnable one for the unbeaten novice.


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Stephen Conmy sat down with Cal Henderson, co-founder and CTO of Slack, to discuss the future of work, the slow death of email and how good coders (engineers) can be made, not born (see video below).
Henderson describes email as 'the cockroach of the internet – we can't avoid it', but by 2025, he believes that Slack's new Channels service will replace email "as the primary way that people communicate and collaborate at work".
The company was founded in 2014, and is already worth over $8 billion. It is one of the fastest growing tech companies in history and has over 8 million daily active users. It has an office in Dublin, currently employing over 60 people and says Dublin is central to its ambitions to expand into European markets.
This interview was originally published on ThinkBusiness.


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Geeks are the new hipsters. You missed it. It's not your fault. This seismic cultural shift played out slowly and deliberately, a zeitgeist continental drift unfolding over centuries, eras, eons.
Specifically, it happened while you were watching Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The film, an 85-hour emporium of orc-infested dweebness, has ushered in a bold new era wherein the wedgie-ees have become the wedgie-ers. Return of the King's bombastic dominance of this year's Oscar fiesta cements nerd culture as mainstream culture. The trilogy, which in book form once enraptured and soothed society's outcasts, has now enraptured society itself.
The exact same thing might now happen with prog rock. So meet your new arbiters of cool: Avalon Rising, the Bay Area's finest Celtic-prog band.
Cofounder Margaret Davis calls it "fantasy rock."
Cofounder Kristoph Klover, Margaret's husband, simply calls it "rock."
And soon, so will you.
Avalon Rising spent Oscar Sunday in Los Angeles -- New Line Cinema's official Lord of the Rings Fan Club invited the band to perform at its official party. The ceremony was broadcast onto a big-screen TV, and after Return of the King pranced off with Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Excuse to Piss into a Sprite Cup, the quintet rocked out during the undoubtedly beer-soaked, orgiastic revelry that followed.
This wasn't a celebrity schmoozefest. "There were no big shots whatsoever," bassist Mark Ungar admits ruefully, "although Kristoph was mistaken for Peter Jackson, though he's a third of the size of Peter Jackson."
Do shows like this get, uh, rowdy?
"For extremely introverted, polite people, yes, they did get rowdy. There was some jerking on the dancefloor, even."
Mark, who at 49 is Avalon Rising's elder statesman, conservatively estimates he has read the Tolkien trilogy forty times; he recognizes the significance of the film version walking off with rafts of mainstream culture's most revered and respected awards. "One thing I noticed about our audience at the party -- it was a lot of older people, and I'm sure several had been reading the books as long as I had," he says. "And I did feel from them a sense of vindication: 'This is our moment of glory. '"
What really sealed it, though, was all the screaming. "There were a lot of women there," Mark recalls, "and any time Elijah Wood or anyone from the movie was onscreen, they just screamed. It was the third-loudest sound I ever heard in my life."
(Second-loudest: Mark's Sears-Craftsman hair-clipper, which he uses to trim his beard. First-loudest: a friend's African Grey parrot, which can imitate the sound of a smoke-alarm test.)
Chicks screaming for hobbits? "It kind of reminds me of the Beatles, that kind of reaction," Mark says.
Avalon Rising violinist Cat Taylor was not among this lusty throng. "No, I was the one with my hands involuntarily over my ears," she says. "I was very pleased to see them, but the guy next to me was standing up and yelling like he was at a football game."
So hobbits are the new Beatles, and Tolkien is the new NFL. So is prog the new rock? Avalon Rising plays bright, bouncy Celtic pop -- lotsa tunes about shires and maidens and chimney sweeps -- with a dark undercurrent of technically precise trickiness, as though the Jethro Tull dudes had been sneaking into rehearsals cloaked in the Ring's invisibility.
The chops and the songwriting on the band's latest, Storming Heaven, are stellar indeed, but acquired tastes don't get much sharper -- aural black licorice, either adored or loathed. Avalon Rising will either transport you magically back to Middle Earth or make you want to punch someone.
"In a lot of ways it's really silly music," Mark admits. "It can be sort of pompous and pretentious and airy-fairy, but the thing is, why not do it? We're just doin' this to have fun. That's what being in a rock band is all about. Who's to say what pretentiousness is better than what other pretentiousness?"
Verily, indie rock's pretentiousness is beyond compare, but even those snooty circles are slowly warming to the prog rock they once reviled -- mesh-trucker-hat dudes are snatching up Yes reissues by the crateful. Meanwhile, badass metalheads -- with Tool at the forefront, touring with King Crimson and whatnot -- have long admitted the debts owed to, say, the Alan Parsons Project. Avalon Rising is nowhere near as high- concept, specializing in the sort of feel-good, vaguely Irish party fare you'd expect to hear if you visited the Shire's own Stork Club. But even after a decade of plugging away, the band's tastes will never be more aligned with the mainstream's than they are right now.
That's not necessarily fantastic news. "I think some people become fans of Lord of the Rings because it's kind of a solitary thing, where they don't need other people's approval to do it," Mark says. "There's a certain attraction to it not being something that everyone knows about."
Now that every chump you see on BART is stumbling through The Two Towers, Tolkien fever has steamrolled into the sort of bandwagon pile-on that eventually destroys anything worthwhile.
It's highly unlikely Jethro Tull fans will befall the same fate. But if it's ever gonna happen, it's gonna happen now, in our brave new era of Hobbitmania. Avalon Rising will never headline the Fillmore, but if this Oscar business scores the band a few gigs, God bless it. The irony of folks using the Tolkien epic during childhood to avoid the cool kids and using it in adulthood to be the cool kids is too rich to not savor.
Ask Kristoph, another Tolkien-phile back in his youth. "Well, I'm sure I was an escapist at the time," he admits, laughing nervously. "I liked the fantasy. I wanted to be in the books. I wanted to be in the stories."
Mission accomplished.
"I never actually wanted to be Frodo, though," he adds. "I always liked Sam better. I just thought Sam was way more heroic. Frodo just kind of had his quest and dealt with things, whereas Sam didn't have to go along, and did anyway."
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Paul had opinions. Strong opinions. He didn't mince words. Although (so far as we now) he was an unmarried man, he doesn't hesitate to give advice to married men and married women as well.
Personally I believe that no one on the outside can ever understand what goes on inside a marriage. What is seen in public may be utterly different and even opposed to what goes on in private. We married folk, for many different and good reasons, tend to put a good face on even when the interior is scowling.
So Paul is personally ignorant of the daily realities of marriage. But he does understand the difference between someone who knows eternal hope, and someone who denies it. He sees it (properly I believe) as an impediment in a marriage--but not grounds for divorce. Marriage is always worthy of respect and worth keeping intact. However--if your unbelieving partner leaves you, Paul advises that you not grovel to make them stay.
This is not a theoretical discussion for me. My wife believes in God and lives a life that is answerable to God. She loves unconditionally and sacrificially. But we have vastly different views of how that belief translates its impact to the wider community. When I said last week that I would not vote for an avowed atheist, she was shocked and disappointed that I could engage in "anti-atheist bigotry." She polled her friends and associates as well as her clergy, and the overwhelming consensus was against me. I may need to re-think my position; after all, a profession of faith has never been a guarantee of competence in elected office (or any other job). But I still have a fundamental discomfort with the prospect of being led by someone who denies what to me is a self-evident characteristic of the universe.
So we, like many couples, must agree to disagree, and (try, with mixed success, to) avoid being disagreeable in the process. It's not up to me to try to change her (nor vice versa). The marriage is imperfect but God blesses its imperfection. As I look back on nearly thirty years, it is abundantly clear that God is not done with either of us--nor with the two of us together.


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- Interestingly the Archive feature, retelling the story, starts Episode One with "Doctor Who takes the Brigadier ..."
- The Matrix Data Bank answers a readers query regarding the disappearance of the Star Profiles features which were alternating with interviews. The explanation given is that the biographical information (basis of the Star Profiles) often came out at the start of interviews and was felt to be more reliable.
- The Photo-File is credited to Jeremy Bentham with thanks for research help to Trevor Wayne.
- Dave Gibbons returns to draw the Fourth Doctor's swansong.
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Mdr- I remember you telling me about the heart attack in a forum discussion like 2 weeks after it happened. I'm really glad you are alive! It's so great to be alive
By the way I meditated with some Buddhist monks yesterday.
At the end of the meditation we did a visualization where we imagine expanding feelings of love and peace throughout the world and cosmos. They told me that when the mind is silent, it has exponentially greater power. The body really is the mind... Mind over matter!
Okay enough talking, time to experience!!
Mdr I live in the Seattle, WA area. Here's a link to the Buddhist center I went to: http://meditationseattle.org/Scientific research on the benefits of this technique are listed in this Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammakaya_meditationI understand that Dhammakaya gets a bad rap but my intuition tells me these monks truly want to help. They are extremely nice and say you don't have to believe in anything to learn their technique (although they do talk a good bit about past lives, ending the cycle of rebirth and things like that). All their classes and teachings are free, they never ask anything in return. Although they do rely on food donations. I'm excited to learn as much as I can.
I like the science behind some of this stuff. People noticed that if someone had a broken leg, the leg would heal faster if the good one was exercised. Then they dug deeper into the whole thing and found that if someone visualized the broken leg being exercised, it again healed faster than otherwise, with less physiotherapy needed afterwards. In terms of what happens to you in life, I don't think you can manifest good stuff happening to you, but you can be receptive and open to change.
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It couldn't have been a more splendid day for a hike on the Bruce Trail. Here it is early November and we are enjoying temperatures in teens and sunny days.
The day started off misty and foggy and we drove north to our destination: the Kolapore Uplands of Grey County. At 70kmin size, this beautiful natural area is one of central Ontario's largest. We typically go up in winter for a day of nordic skiing but thought we should check it out in the autumn. Spectacular!
We parked on the 10th Line and hiked the short distance up the Main Trail of the Bruce Trail to the top of Metcalfe Rock (Map 25 – Kolapore Uplands). On the way up there were great views of the golden deciduous forest, moss-covered rocks and sheer cliffs. The moss was a rich green colour from the warm fall we've had. This contrasted with the golden yellow aspen and birch leaves covering the ground.
We carried on down the Chuck Grant Side Trail which took us down to Mill Creek, set in a wide valley typical of the glacial spillways formed thousands of years ago by the huge volumes of glacial meltwater. The water now flows as a placid , meandering brook with overhanging trees and grasses. A bridge took us across for the hike back up the valley side to Duncan Crevice Provincial Nature Reserve.
On the was up we passed through a beautiful sunlit forest of maple and beech. The beech leaves were backlit and stood out like panes of stained glass in a cathedral of trees. Further up the valley we entered a large field and looked back to see the scar of Metcalfe Rock; ahead of us were the deep and dark crevices – slit caves that give Duncan Crevice its name. They ran for many metres along the edge of the Niagara Escarpment as they do in other locations such as nearby Metcalfe Rock, but also Mount Nemo in Burlington and Rattlesnake Point in Milton.
Eventually, we came to Pinnacle Rock – a huge, house-sized piece of rock which appears to have been wrenched off the Escarpment and flipped on its side. From there we had a very pleasant hike through untouched deciduous forests carpeted with orange, yellow and ochre leaves, a few mushrooms and myriad ferns including Maidenhair and Hart's-Tongue – indicators of just how special these forests are.
A hot cup of tea from a Thermos back at the car ended what was a perfect Bruce Trail day!


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UNC grad breaks glass ceiling, ice as black Anna in 'Frozen' on Broadway
February 14, 2019
As a Broadway performer, Aisha Jackson is used to hearing about reviews.
But no other seal of approval could beat that of young boys and girls of color who are seeing themselves represented on stage through Jackson.
The University of Northern Colorado grad made history this past March by being the first black woman to play Anna in the Broadway version of the hit Disney film "Frozen." Jackson is the standby for actress Patti Murin, meaning Jackson will have to take her place — sometimes at the last moment — if Murin cannot perform so the show can go on. She's taken on the role several times since then.
Youngsters have caught on: Young black girls and black boys see someone who looks like them on stage, and it inspires them to pursue their own dreams, Jackson said.
"It makes me proud; I'm very honored and grateful," Jackson said. "I've always desired to be the change I wish to see in the world, and I wish to see more shows that represent our world."
Jackson is no stranger to Broadway. "Frozen" is her third role in New York City following "Waitress" and "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," as well as some Off-Broadway performances.
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Growing up in Georgia, Jackson's family would regularly expose her to productions that featured a diverse cast. It struck a chord with her, and she's hoping her glass-ceiling-shattering — and ice-breaking — role in "Frozen" has the same effect on young viewers in her audiences.
"That is impactful for a young kid," she said. "If they got through the day and don't see themselves succeeding … that sometimes limits the imagination of a young (person). It's important to know there are so many career opportunities and they're not limited. You don't have to be put in boxes."
"Frozen" has been a staple of pop culture and most family's home video collections since it was released in late 2013 and went on to gross $400 million at the box office. It has spawned not only the Broadway musical but also theme park attractions, television specials and a sequel coming to theaters this Thanksgiving (funny enough, The Tribune spoke with Jackson the same day Disney released the teaser trailer for "Frozen 2.")
Anna was voiced in the cartoon by Kristen Bell. For her interpretation, Jackson brought a little bit of herself to the stage role.
"I try to make sure Anna is comfortable in her awkwardness, loving, caring and just goofy," she said.
Jackson still remembers that first night she took the stage as Anna this past March. They did a run of the show when it was in Denver, but when it moved to NYC, the show moved dramatically, she said. Jackson, as an understudy, had been observing rehearsals, taking notes of blocking and memorizing her lines.
The day she was called to step in for Murin came one day before the first understudy rehearsal. She had two hours to prepare, but doing her homework paid off.
"At that moment I just cried tears of joy, but was also very nervous," Jackson said. "I took a moment to say a prayer and called my parents to say, 'This is about to happen.'"
Her performance was a hit. Jelani Alladin — who plays Kristoff in the production in another race-barrier-breaking role — complimented her in an Instagram post.
"Tonight we made #blackhistory with (Jackson) playing Princess Anna in Frozen," Alladin wrote. "I am so blown away by the professionalism and talent of this company!"
Jackson said her time at UNC, along with her time in high school and experiences in the working world, helped shape her success.
"UNC and my voice teachers helped to find the technique I needed to remain healthy with the gift God gave me," she said. "It's college, it prepares you, it gets your feet wet. You bring those tools with you to the city."
Shelly Gaza, assistant director of the School of Theatre Arts and Dance and associate professor of voice and speech, had Jackson in her Shakespeare acting class.
Gaza said she and the rest of UNC's theater department are delighted by Jackson's success, but she's "certainly not surprised" by it.
"Aisha was a strong leader her entire time at UNC, in the classroom and in productions," Gaza said. "She was a strong student, as well. We're so happy the world gets to see her talent, as we all did in Greeley."
— Adam Poulisse is the go and do reporter for the Greeley Tribune. Let him know of anything fun going on in the area by calling him at 970-392-4440 or emailing him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Author(s): Nicholas Gannon
Archer B. Helmsley has grown up in a house full of oddities and treasures collected by his grandparents, the famous explorers. He knows every nook and cranny. He knows them all too well. After all, ever since his grandparents went missing on an iceberg, his mother barely lets him leave the house.
Archer B. Helmsley longs for adventure. Grand adventures, with parachutes and exotic sunsets and interesting characters. But how can he have an adventure when he can't leave his house?
It helps that he has friends like Ad la de L. Belmont, who must have had many adventures since she ended up with a wooden leg. (Perhaps a crocodile ate it. Perhaps not.) And Oliver Glub. Oliver will worry about all the details (so that Archer doesn't have to).
And so Archer, Adelaide, and Oliver make a plan. A plan to get out of the house, out of their town entirely. It's a good plan.
Well, it's not bad, anyway. But nothing goes quite as they expect.
Kathleen's Review - This book has a lovely old-fashioned feel to it. Housebound Archer, his cautious friend Oliver, and the mysterious Adelaide are great characters, as are the wonderfully stereotyped adults (the mean, the fearful, the mysterious, the warm). And I love the illustrations peppered throughout.


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This bracelet has three beautiful golden sapphires enveloped in gold heptagons, the iconic figure of Roosik & Co.
It is a subtle and original piece of jewellery that can be worn every day but is also perfect for more special occasions.
Also available with 1, 3 and 5 heptagons and other precious stones: ruby, emerald, pink sapphire, aquamarine, blue sapphire and diamond.
Jordi Rosich has also designed matching pendants and rings for a truly wonderful gift.
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The designer jewelery from Roosik & Co is inspired by personal experiences that express the sensitivity and delicacy with which they were created. Jordi Rosich, gemologist, incruster and certified engraver, specialist in diamonds, signs the pieces of Roosik&Co, who designs and works by hand in his shop in Girona. The creations from Roosik&Co combine precious metals and gemstones in an evocative and nostalgic collection. They are elegant and beautiful jewelry while suggestive, jewelry to awaken the emotion of those who wear them.
Deep blue is the colour most often associated with sapphire although this precious stone can also be found with reddish and even yellow tones. This is the hardest mineral after the diamond and, together with diamonds, rubies and emeralds, is one of the four most important precious stones in the world. The intensity of the velvety blue colour of each stone is what determines the value of a sapphire. Some have become legendary, such as the Star of India, a sapphire discovered in Sri Lanka 300 years ago, stolen and then recovered from the American Natural History Museum. Due to the charisma of this gemstone, Jordi Rosich uses it for jewellery with a lot of symbolic content, such as the pieces from the Eternal collection.
Gold is very probably the most widely used metal in the history of jewellery making, although it's also used in electronics and industry as it's a metal that doesn't rust. Traditionally it's been used to mint coins and symbolically represents value and greatness. Present in ancient cultures, it's a soft metal that's easy to work because, in fact, it's the most adaptable and pliable metal known to man. Thanks to this metal's undeniable beauty and prestige, there are pieces made from yellow gold in all Roosik&Co. collections.


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When Fench president Nicolas Sarkozy dines with Barack Obama at the White House this week, expect the smiles to be strained. A pair of multibillion-dollar military-procurement disputes have marred relations in recent weeks. When Northrop Grumman, in partnership with European aerospace firm EADS, charged favoritism for Boeing and withdrew its bid for a $35 billion Pentagon contract, Sarkozy accused the U.S. of "protectionism." Meanwhile, Sarkozy's recent decision to sell Mistral assault ships to Russia has made Washington and NATO allies nervous.
Don't be surprised if it seems as though Paris is putting economics ahead of smooth relations with America. France is unusually reliant on big global contracts, thanks to an economy heavily dependent on a stable of world-class firms with tight historical links to the state. The president is expected to help these companies strike deals, meaning that setbacks aren't just economic--they're political. With France's trademark brands on a losing streak--French companies lost high-speed train deals in China and a nuclear-reactor contract in Abu Dhabi last year--and Sarkozy hurting at the polls, he can score more points protecting industry than friendships. Indeed, standing up to a U.S. president can't hurt at home. Even if it makes for awkward dinner conversation at the White House.


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Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources oversight hearing titled "Liquefied Natural Gas and U.S. Geopolitics"
Representative Doug Lamborn (CO-05) released the following statement regarding today's committee hearing:
"America's 'shale revolution' has transitioned the U.S. from a position of energy scarcity to one of energy abundance and security, with growing impacts in global energy markets. Less than two decades ago, the U.S. faced a growing dependence on imported natural gas supplies to meet domestic demand. Advancements in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing spurred the development of previously inaccessible shale gas reserves, transforming domestic gas production capabilities and unleashing sustained economic growth in regions across the country," said Rep. Lamborn. "The hearing will examine the emerging role of the U.S. in liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets and associated benefits including providing U.S. allies with reliable energy sources, strengthening geopolitical relationships to the detriment of hostile nations and securing a stable and affordable domestic supply. Colorado and other leading gas producing states will benefit from the continued growth of high paying jobs as the U.S. allows LNG exports."


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A carpenter by profession, William Ackerman, was also a pretty good guitarist. So much so, that he was in demand by his friends to bring his guitar and entertain at to their gatherings, which he did. Soon, Will's music, including his original songs, was in so much demand that he had to start recording his compositions on a cassette (yes, this was in the 1970s) and send them to his friends to play when he couldn't be there in person.
As his guitar/songwriting hobby started to get out of hand, it occurred to him that this demand could justify more of his attention, and thus, Wyndham Hill publishing was founded from Will Ackerman's hobby, to produce and sell Will's music as well as other artists, most notably, George Winston. At one point, Wyndham Hill was the only record label that customers bought because of the quality and genre of the product, regardless of the artist.
Will Ackerman's story is just one of a legion of other accidental small business owners that have recently become known as "hobbypreneurs." Steve King, a partner at Emergent Research, joined me recently on my radio program, The Small Business Advocate Show, to talk about what he learned about hobbypreneurs when he conducted Intuit's New Future of Small Business Report: Like Will Ackerman, many small businesses are started by people who turned their hobby, often accidentally, into a going business concern.
Take a few minutes to listen to what Steve and I talk about and leave your own experiences as a hobbypreneur. Listen Live! Download, Too!


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Some actors inhabit their roles by working hard on accents and facial expressions, learning to be their characters from within, and letting that play out across the muscles in their faces. And while I'm sure Benedict Cumberbatch does this too, one look at the still taken from his portrayal of the controversial WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate (previously called The Man Who Sold The World) it's tempting to conclude that he also enjoys a good wig.
In this photo, you can see Benedict alongside Daniel Bruhl, who plays Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former WikiLeaks spokesperson who wrote the book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website, on which the movie is partly based.
Laura Linney, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Peter Capaldi, Dan Stevens, Alicia Vikander and Carice van Houten also star, with Bill Condon directing.
In a DreamWorks statement about the film, Bill said: "It may be decades before we understand the full impact of WikiLeaks and how it's revolutionised the spread of information. So this film won't claim any long view authority on its subject, or attempt any final judgment. We want to explore the complexities and challenges of transparency in the information age and, we hope, enliven and enrich the conversations WikiLeaks has already provoked." (via Business Wire)
The Fifth Estate should reach US theaters on November 15.Read More


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The group of free-trade Liberals that included S.W.Alexander and Oliver Smedley had drive, financial resources, and a clear sense of Liberalism in a libertarian, minimum-state interpretation. The almost anarchic structure of party assemblies allowed for such groups to exert real influence.
RRG, as I recall, provided the most coherent alternative definition of Liberalism – much closer to the radical Liberal tradition, and to the nonconformist beliefs which a high proportion of its members held. It helped enormously that Jo Grimond as leader was naturally sympathetic to the RRG perspective; but the existence and activities of RRG, and the arguments of its members on the Party Executive, made Grimond's task in reorienting the party much easier.
Joining the party in 1960, I caught only echoes of the arguments that had convulsed the then-tiny part in the 1950s. My future father-in-law, Edward Rushworth, had for many years been both a member of RRG and of the party executive.
He made little distinction between being a Liberal and being a teetotal nonconformist; his instincts were anti authoritarian and socially egalitarian.
In the next posting I will attempt to answer the question : what can Radicals bring to the party that Social Democrats and Free Market minority cannot- other than the smell of printer's ink on the Riso


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- Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades K – 5 | Podcast Episode
Barnyard Antics
Move to the beat with musical barnyard animals who live it up when the sun goes down!
- Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades 2 – 6 | Activity & Project
Batter Up! Telling Sports Stories With Trading Cards
Summer is the time for baseball! Through the retelling of the 1941 baseball season, children will see two legendary players as characters and can create trading cards that highlight these players.
- Professional Development | Grades K – 12 | Professional Library | Book
Be Fabulous: The Reading Teacher's Guide to Reclaiming Your Happiness in the Classroom
Scoggin merges her straight-talking blogger persona, Mrs. Mimi, with her years of research to help you rediscover who you are and redefine the type of literacy teacher you want to become. At the heart of this book is teacher happiness and empowermentreconnect with your inner fabulous to give the best possible literacy instruction to your students.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Behind the Scenes With Cinderella
Cinderella without castles, coaches, or ball gowns? Students use versions of Cinderella to explore how the setting of a storytime, place, and cultureaffects the characters and plot.
- Professional Development | Grades K – 8 | Professional Library | Journal
Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
This study examines the writing practices taken on and negotiated by multilingual class members within two multiage elementary classrooms.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity |  March 15
Beware the Ides of March!
Students discuss and categorize superstitions, define a superstition, and compare the similarities and difference between proverbs and superstitions.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 4 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Beyond History Books: Researching With Twin Texts and Technology
Students in grades 48 activate prior knowledge and research information about a historic event through fiction and nonfiction literature and exploration of relevant websites.
- Professional Development | Grades K – 5 | Professional Library | Book
Beyond Reading and Writing: Inquiry, Curriculum, and Multiple Ways of Knowing
The authors offer theory-into-practice techniques, insight into how such a curriculum actually worked on a day-to-day basis, suggestions on how educators can better support and understand their students, and, insights the authors gained by undertaking this inquiry.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 12 | Calendar Activity |  December 15
Bill of Rights Day is observed.
Students identify a students' rights issue and explore the ways in which the Bill of Rights does protect and does not protect students.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
BioBags: Linking Literature and Life
Students create BioBags, a collection of texts that mark special times in their lives. BioBags provide a way for students to share a variety of events and texts.


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The Guide to Programs and Services for Seniors in Ontario highlights two important ways that Seniors can find volunteer work opportunities. But did you know that you can volunteer with West Toronto Support Services?
There are many reasons to volunteer with WTSS! You will work with a dedicated team alongside other staff and volunteers. Plus, light refreshments and a variety of coffee and teas are readily available each day when you come to our office.
If you are looking for a volunteer experience outside our office, check out:
- Volunteer Toronto
Volunteer Toronto is a charitable organization whose work strives to build a strong, inclusive, caring and committed community of people who willingly give of their time and energy toward building a healthy city. Check out their extension database.
- Ontario Volunteer Centre Network
This organization helps to bring volunteers and agencies together and acts as the provincial voice for Volunteer Centres in Ontario.
- Volunteer Canada
This bilingual, non-profit organization promotes volunteerism across Canada by encouraging community participation and recognizing volunteer efforts.
- If you would like to volunteer to help others complete their tax returns, consider the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program run by the Canada Revenue Agency. Please lend them a hand during this busy time of year.


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Every Monday morning we showcase a business that we think exemplifies outstanding customer service and business acumen. Today's spotlight is on Casa Novello! It's safe to say that the one thing we like as much a books around here is food. It's a close tie for sure.
When we eat out we try to eat local as often as possible. Supporting local economy is so important! Last week my husband Scott and I decided to treat ourselves to dinner out. Tuesday nights at Casa Novello are 2 for 1, an awesome promotion from a special menu and a great way to try something new. We have lived in Westbrook for nine years and Casa Novello has always been a favorite when we need a bit of Italian food in our lives. Some favorites include Surf and Turf and baked gnocchi. We have come to expect impeccable service from Casa Novello, and on Tuesday that is what we got. As always the atmosphere, the wait staff, and the food was amazing. One of the things I notice at the restaurant is that for such a small area to serve customers the wait staff works in sync. The vibe I get from the wait staff is that they are happy to be there. They work together and go out of their way to help each other out. This makes the dining experience so pleasurable, and this is why we keep going back.
Stop by 694 Main Street in Westbrook and give Casa Novello a try. You won't be disappointed!


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Use These Tips To Sell Your Home Fast In Cash
Residential real property holdings are further odd that majority of the home customers and dealers ignores the numerous possible of commercial ones, so while you enter the industrial actual property trade, you're going to have a lot fewer contenders and not more contenders manner more possibilities for you. It is important to be careful when selling your home since selling house has always been a good option.You should always look for the company's profile before approaching them to sell your house.
You always want to make a profit while selling your house and it seems that most of us end up losing money as we hardly spent any time to do any market survey about these companies.You can save a lot of money and time if you a hire a professional buyers and these professional buyers will help you to get a proper deal. Commercial homes aren't alike and own quite a lot of choices that may draw in extra consumers if absolute best you understand how to market them.Extra persons are excited about industrial properties. The possible of getting the higher source of revenue and returns rapidly is huge and evaluate to residential, the holdings in actual industrial property earn further and earn fast.
Finding contact information from your county assessor is just one way to locate small investors and since you are exploring other options to find investors who run ads in the newspaper and on billboards, just keep reading.One final idea for locating investors is by driving around and collecting phone numbers on for rent signs you see in the yard of homes in your area.Don't bother with the signs on apartment buildings, just single family homes since this technique can be surprisingly effective.Investors are your best possible buyers in that situation, and it's worth the extra effort required to find them.There are various service providers in the market who have proper agents to deal with such buying and selling of houses.
You can check their websites and get online quotes from them.Compare the quotes from various service providers and look for the best type of deals available in the market.Find a company will complete your deal within a short period and will give you the correct value.Never choose any service or any agent quickly as you might lose a good amount of money.For the owners, the most important thing is to sell their house and get a good price in return since it is the major objective.
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Hobbs Hill, Kent
For immersive countryside experiences and TGC's Brilliant Residential camping programme, Hobbs Hill is an ex-hop pickers farm in rural Kent, formally known as Smalls Farm.
Lined with blackberry bushes, heifers next door, oast houses in the distance and historic 1930's hop picker tin huts.
This site offers unparalleled living history experiences for London children.
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Patents are an important means for protecting ones intellectual property, and at least arguably promote scientific progress. Now and again, patent applications are filed, and sometimes issue for devices and methods that seem just a little, well, unbelievable…
United States Patent Application 20060014125 to John Quincy St. Clair entitled "Walking through walls training system" is such an application.
According to the abstract, this invention is a training system which enables a human being to acquire sufficient hyperspace energy in order to pull the body out of dimension so that the person can walk through solid objects such as wooden doors.
The idea is not new of course. Houdini walked through a wall on stage some 80 years ago. His system involved going under the wall, through a space created by lowering a trap under a carpet. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who was a great believer in spiritualism and was less than consistent in following his fictional character – Sherlock Holmes' famous maxim about eliminating the impossible, refused to believe that Houdini cheated.
Britain's leading magician of the 1980s, Paul Daniels, revived the effect on TV, where he used Houdini's method to walk through a wall made of baked bean tins (that's cans for US readers).
David Copperfield walked through the Great Wall of China in one of his TV Spectaculars. I cynically thought I could see where the film was cut, but perhaps he's perfected Mr. St. Clair's technique.
So how is it done?
This is the main claim:
A training method comprising the steps of: generating a banner having a plurality of footprints spaced at regular intervals wherein the banner is placed on the ground; generating a periodic audible signal, whereby the audible signal repeats at a regular interval of time equal to the period; and walking on the banner by tracing the footprints spaced at regular intervals, wherein one step is made with each audible signal.
Categories: Magic, Patent trivia, Patents, Uncategorized, US Patent Office


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|Person of the Year
Ghanaba's Story
|Abbreviation of the year
IT IS AMAZING how Ghanaians can turn
serious situations into funny forms just to enjoy themselves or ridicule
important issues. This attitude perhaps has some positive side. It makes
the Ghanaian always full of smiles when such jokes are being shared in
difficult times. The following appellations were concocted.
Highly Indebted "Positive Change"
HIPIM - Highly Indebted "Poor Man" by Civil Servants
HIPIW - Higly Indebted "Poor Woman"
HIPUS - Highly Indebted "Poor University Students"
|Einstein Award
WINNER: Parlamentarians
Ghanaian tax payers are yet to figure
out the answer to the equation below. Hopefully our "smart" parliamentarians
(AnnualSalaryx4) - [Tax+ (Rentx48)+(foodx48)+(utilitiesx48)+(otherExpensesx48)+carLoan] = ?
For the mathsPhobia: How do they expect to pay back the $20,000 car loan in 4 years on a $300/mth salary?
|"Konongo Kaya" Award
|WINNER: J. H. Mensah. Awarded to a person who does not belong to a place, or can't perform a particular task yet won't yield to someone who can.
|"What Have U Done for me lately" Award
|WINNER: NDC If you could not do it in 8 years, how do u expect it to be done in one?
|"Kokofu Football" Award
|WINNER: NPP "Kokofu football" is a game in which one passes the ball only to his brother/friend/relative.
|Joke of the Year
was going around 1.00am alone in his car and got to the Teshie-Nungua checkpoint
in Accra. The police man stopped him and asked for everything which
he gave out. The police had nothing to ask again, in order to charge him.
Guess what the police man said?
"I dey charge you for driving alone at this time of the day, if you get accident now who go tell your people ?"
The man replied: I'm not alone, Jesus Christ is with me here. Angel Gabriel, Angel Rapheal, Angel Micheal and five angels are also with me.
The police man said: "All these people inside this your small car ? I charge you for overloading".
The man replied: Massa, they are just here in spirit
"Spirit? Apeteshie or Pito? You're now charged with Driving Under the influence and overloading."
|Sportsman of the Year
|WINNER: Samuel Kuffour Move over Abedi, if this guy wins and African Nations cup, you'll be history.
|"Face-the-wall" Award
WINNER: Atlanta
Taxi Drivers who sued
This award is dedicated to folks who
should be ashamed of themselves.
THE STORY: A group of 14 cabbies sued a fellow driver who organized a collective lottery pool, claiming he unfairly left them out of a $90 million Big Game jackpot and kept the winnings for himself and about two dozen other drivers. Read the story
If this group had a ticket for flight 727 on 9/11, and missed it, they might have sued united airlines.
|"Papa Samo" Award
|WINNER: Kofi Annan Wofa, thanks for puting us on the world map, but "you don stay whiteman country too long".
|OJ Simpson Award
|WINNER: Ben Koufie & Co They did it, but we can't prove it. The $25,000, from the Nigerian governer, was a bribe, but we can't prove it.
|Year's Top stories


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I am so glad there is a Yoga place in Fruita. I love restorative yoga class. Denise is such an awesome instructor. There is so many great benefits to yoga. I only wish I could get there more often. - Farrin
Took my first class today. I enjoyed the intimate environment and class size. You are able to remain close to the instructor allowing better observations for students and instructors. Instructor is able to easily correct posture and form during poses and make suggestions so that the practice can be altered to fit everyones needs. - Amber
This place is great! Everything is clean and well kept. The instructors really care about their and are great at it. I highly recommend coming by here for a session. You feel amazing afterwards! - Lauren
A great little studio in Fruita, so far the gentle yoga classes have been my favorite! It has been nice to try them all out with the 10 day trial membership. - Karen
Thank you Fruita Yoga for the wide range of classes and an awesome variety of instructors! Love that you are here in Fruita! - JaNeva
I love Fruita Yoga. It's a great yoga studio with great instructors. And the all of the classes are great,no matter which one you go to. - Autumn
Beautiful studio with a very open and positive atmosphere! Ellen was a wonderful instructor that catered to my (low) level of ability. Everyone should try this place! - Monee
Nice to have a local option for hot yoga! And the membership is so affordable! $80/month?! Awesome! - Megan
Totally new to yoga, started at Thrive. Decided to do the 21 day Challenge, love it! Hopefully my old, beet up body will make it threw the last few days. 🙌🏻. I love this place, and all the instructors. - Tracy