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Hello, my beautiful people! a cold color like violet can highlight your style, it is the color of the season according to pantone. This violet dress by Amiclubwear that I show you in my look today really makes a difference, has a crossed back and is similar, and I love the fall and the movement it has.
Many of you love the color purple or lilac, but sometimes you find it complicated because you do not know how to combine it. In my proposal today I chose stilettos in nude color, something more neutral, but I also think it would be ideal with metallized accessories, pink or yellow. The combination purple and yellow is one of my favorites. I hope you liked this post and it is useful or inspiring for your outfits, as always the video look to see the garments in more detail. Say goodbye to this galician eternally grateful for all your love day after day, thanks for being there. A chic kiss;) by Amanda chic
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Development of the general motility.
Suggest the child to imitate the movements gait of heroes of the fairy tale to jump, as the hare; to resemble, as a bear; to run about, as a fox; to show how Kolobok slides.
That at first that then.
Put on a table of characters of the fairy tale from desktop puppet theater.
Ask the child to look at them and to tell or to show who was met at first by Kolobok.
Ask: Whom did Kolobok meet then?
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But if you want
You do not need to think out anything.
But if you want to treat them differently, than your parents treated you for example, not so strictly or more in a friendly way, you are deprived of a sample and sometimes will be in difficulty, without knowing how to arrive.
For example, if the child starts using your softness, it will revolt you, but it will be difficult for you to cope with him as than more you become angry about the child, especially the guilty feel, considering that become similar to the parents that was resolved to be avoided.. . . . . . Читать полностью -->
An arena
And when and there will bother it, lower it on a floor.
It is also useful for it, and it is pleasant.
It is not obligatory to have an arena at all.
Some psychologists and doctors do not approve this idea, considering that the arena does not give to the child the chance to investigate world around and to develop independence.
It is, of course, not proved.
An arena very practical and useful thing, especially for busy mother.
Placed in kitchen or in the room where mother works, the arena gives to the child the chance to be with people and to see everything that occurs around.. . . . . . Читать полностью -->
We so are proud
I see, you have one more child, the son, I noticed, having looked through their card.
How its health?
Oh, at it everything is fine.
Linda's mother answered.
We so are proud of Jef.
He is the great athlete, with honors graduated from music school.
Linda has a hobby or hobby?
No, the father answered, we were always so occupied with its health that on any other occupations with it did not remain to time any more.
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But if you do not clear
After that we talked to David about how the people participating in this transfer express selfish views, learning to indulge only own interests, without caring of respect for another and of their wellbeing at all.
To teach the teenager to think clearly a difficult, laborious and laborious work.
But if you do not clear the positions before the child, others views will imperceptibly force out your influence.
BE CONSECUTIVE One of the reasons why teenagers have no fair ideas of morals and moral, that one parents do not consider obligatory to transfer to children own belief is, others, professing in words the supreme values, do not live according to them.. . . . . . Читать полностью -->
I mean gradual removal of all restrictions to give to the teenager who is going to leave the house, opportunity to live some weeks or months quite independently.
But in it we have to be very careful.
Only in case we well prepare the teenagers, they will correctly behave.
However there are also some inconveniences during such preparation for life.
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There are a few shops in the Owendale region, Stone Misery being the one you are probably familiar with by now (it has a Midnight Mania and four Lucky Chairs plus some freebies around the tree). One shop is Innycognito (pictured above), and it has a Midnight Mania, Lucky Board, Camping, and a couple Dollarbies. Another is The Rage (pictured below), with two Lucky Chairs, a MobVend, and a MiniMania.
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Club na nÓg Luxembourg
The Gaelic Sports Club Luxembourg are very pleased to announce that we will be setting up 'Club na nÓg Luxembourg' (Gaelic Games for Children) with the aim of bringing Gaelic Games to kids in Luxembourg again in a fun and friendly way.
Our first mission as Club na nÓg Lux will be to provide 10 weeks of fun training for 4-14 year olds for one hour on Sunday afternoons starting the week following the Luxembourg Hurling and Camogie Tournament.
Dates: April 24– July 3, 2016
Time: 14.00– 15.00
Location: Stade Michel Wagner, Weimerskirch (Directions)
The pitch can be reached by Bus Ligne 8 (Stop: St. Vith)
Age Group: 4-14 years old (split into age appropriate groupings)
Please let any parents who might be interested in having their children learn basic Gaelic Football and Hurling/Camogie skills know about this.
We would ask that parents remain at the pitch for the duration of the training session. There will be teas/coffees available for parents in the clubhouse while they wait for the children.
If you are interested in having your child or your children attend all or some of the sessions please register here.
In addition, the training team would appreciate hearing from any parents who are willing to assist with helping out at each training session. Obviously the more volunteers the more enjoyable the training for the children. You can also register your willingness to give a hand at the same link as above or by emailing us.
It would be great if you can please dress the children in comfortable sports clothing and apply sun cream when required.
Don't hesitate to contact us with any questions in the meantime. Email us at email@example.com.
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With Mother's Day quickly approaching it's the perfect time to show your mom just how much you care, and what better way to show some appreciation than to throw her a party celebrating all she does for you. To make your life a little bit easier, we have selected some of our favorite ideas to make her day that much more special.
Pop, Fizz, Clink, Grab A Glass & Mix Your Drink
Mimosa Bar
But First Mimosas. No, Seriously. What's a Mother's Day Brunch without some bubbly?
What you'll need:
Bubbly: Champagne
Juice: Orange, Cranberry, Grapefruit
Top it off: Raspberries, Blueberries, Strawberries, Blackberries, etc. (fruit of your choice)
Floral Decor
We can never turn down a good excuse for a floral inspired brunch party! Take a look at these beautiful DIY centerpieces that really bring the tablescape together.
Statement Centerpieces
Let's make a statement this Mother's Day with these fun and festive pineapple centerpieces.
Sweet Indulgences
Signature Cocktails
Up your cocktail game with these two delicious & refreshing cocktails. As pretty as they are delicious, these are just the drinks you need for your next party.
Small Bites
These Mango Chicken Canapes from Cocktails Catering are perfect for your Mother's Day Brunch because they require minimal effort. Why burden yourselves with making a mess in the kitchen when you can just call the experts to cater to you, literally.
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VCAP6-DCV Design exam is a very in depth advance certification exams that requires your understanding of business requirements and translating them from conceptual, logical and physical design through a project life-cycle taking into consideration associated risks, constraints and assumptions to project realization.
In my preparation for this advance level certification, I have gathered some in depth material that will help you as you prepare towards the same certification VCAP6-DCV Design (3C0-622) exams.
VMware resources
- 3C0-622 Blueprint / Exam Preparation Guide v1.2 – this is the first step.
- vSphere 6 Docu – All vSphere 6 documentation covering features and release notes, compatibility and configuration limits, and many more
- Technical Papers – This site provides Technical papers that are very useful and relevant towards the exams from NSX, VSAN 6.2, vCenter Upgrades and many more.
- VMware Feature Walkthrough: Step-by-Step VMware How-to's – (blog) – This gives a quick high level overview on VMware solutions.
- VMware Hands On Labs (HOL) – This is where you get to test drive VMware products in a virtual lab environment – play with features.
- List of recommended topologies for VMware vSphere 6.0.x (2108548)
- VMware Platform Services Controller 6.0 FAQs (2113115)
- Virtual SAN TCO Calculator
- Storage Protocol Comparison White Paper
- vSphere Networking Configuration – Advanced/Troubleshooting Notes & Tips
- Multipathing policies in ESXi 5.x and ESXi/ESX 4.x (1011340)
- VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 Design and Sizing Guide, 81 pages
- Reference Design: VMware® NSX for vSphere (NSX) Network Virtualization Design Guide, 197 pages.
I bought the following books and studied them:
- VCAP5-DCD Official Cert Guide by Paul McSharry, VMware Press, 208 pages
- Mastering VMware vSphere 6 by Nick Marshall, Sybex, 840 pages
- vSphere HA deepdive 6.x – new book from Duncan Epping, available on Gitbook, for free.
Other links
- Exam simulator, excellent job by Jason Grierson (@JasonTweet7889) – forum is here
- vSphere Best Practices, Pre-requisites and requirements (231 pages, pdf) by Paul Meehan
- Study pack by Jason Grierson
- Exam Preparation Workbook by Russ O'Connor
Study groups
Hands On Lab
- In order to test drive the features within the blueprint, I built up my own Lab environment on dedicated hardware and I also used VMware Workstation Pro as my nested home lab. I also use the VMware Hands On Labs (VMware HOL), when am away from home.
Other Blogs with Study Material and Exam Experiences
- And here you can find some of the exam experiences from others that I find very useful. Of course there are many sources and i will update this post with new ones when available.
- from vcdx133.com – VCAP6-DCV Design Beta Exam Recap
- from virtual-kim.com – exam experience and resources for v6
- from vroomblog.com – VCAP6 DCV (3V0-622) Design -Beta exam feedback


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Stages of Dying in the Terminally Ill
WHEN DEATH APPROACHES, Part 1
Many of us caring for our ailing parents or family members wonder how to perceive when Death begins His approach. Predictions from physicians are reluctantly given, and are at best, an estimate. Statistics cannot provide specific dates. However, knowledge painfully accumulated over time by many, many caregivers supports the following framework for impending death.
There are two phases of death[i], the first being the "preactive phase of dying." This stage may last weeks or months as with my father who has slipped in and out of the preactive phase for the past two months. In this phase the body begins the final process of shutting down: a gradual series of physical changes occur as the body prepares to stop. These are not medical emergencies requiring invasive procedures and your best response is to promote comfort. [ii]
The preactive phase includes a number of signals. Your loved one may withdraw from social activities and desire time to think about what lies ahead. Often this is a period for self-analysis, a review of one's life, that leads to an effort to both 'settle up' and impart advice.
Another sign is edema, a swelling caused by fluid retention - excess fluid trapped in the body's tissues as the circulatory system declines. It usually occurs in the feet, ankles and legs, but it can involve the entire body.[iii] Other indicators might include a noticeable lack of hunger or thirst, an inability to heal from wounds or infections and increased restlessness.
He or she will experience an increase in sleeping times. Frequently, lethargy develops. Possibly the patient will inform you that he or she is dying. Do not be surprised if your loved one sees people who have already passed away.
The second phase is called the "active phase of dying" and usually occurs over a three day period but can last for a number of weeks. During this stage the patient is unresponsive to outside stimuli somewhat similar to a semi-coma. He or she may develop abnormal breathing patterns such as apneas, or cyclic changes in breathing [slow to rapid inhalations that recur], or shallow breaths followed by deep breathing in a repeat pattern. Often there is an inability to swallow liquids or a refusal to eat.
Another indicator in the active phase of dying occurs when the patient breathes through a wide open mouth continuously and at times lacks the ability to speak even when awake. As the heart weakens, circulation declines and the extremities become quite cool to your touch, or appear bluish or splotchy. Blood pressure drops 20 – 30 points below normal range and/or
their systolic blood pressure drops below 70 and diastolic pressure below 50. Fluid builds up in the lungs causing respiratory congestion. The saliva catches in the throat as the swallowing ability declines causing the "death rattle". Although this sound is distressing and unforgettable, medical personnel assure us that it is not painful to the patient.
While the patient comes to terms with their approaching death, you too need time to reflect on the manner in which you will cope. Some wonderful resources exist for further research. Below are just a few of the many web sites that address the topic of death and dying.
- 1. Hospice Patients Alliance
- 2. Hospice, http://www.hospicenet.org/index.html
- 3. On Death and dying. By Kubler-Ross E. New York:Macmillan; 1969.
- 4. "A Dying Person's Guide to Dying". By Roger C. Bone.
[i] Hospice Patients Alliance, http://www.hospicepatients.org/index.html
[ii] North Central Florida, Inc. 1996 and Answers.com http://wiki.answers.com
[iii] Medline Plus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/edema.html


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Why The Education System Has Failed To Succeed
The History of Education Society seeks to further the study of the history of education by offering alternatives for dialogue amongst those engaged in its study and teaching. I had a Border Collie with huge brown eyes like the canine on the first picture and he would have loved these toys. In case your new principal or boss (i.e. special education coordinator) is part of your interview staff, hopefully he or she will be able to help advocate for you and decrease such issues in your new position. City Department of Education executives tasked with bettering the poorest-performing faculties are grossly incompetent. The state's new report card system for its colleges, known as The Future Ready PA Index, is intended to provide a extra complete gauge of faculty success, said Matt Stem, deputy secretary for elementary and secondary education.
Help Elevated Investments in Education All students deserve the tools and sources to assist them be taught, including a rise to Title I and CONCEPT funding. City and regional universities cater to different students, with totally different needs, resulting in totally different completion rates. There is no such thing as a particular authority delegated to the federal authorities, to have any involvement in education in any respect. Touré has also been intensely active in education fairness, notably round monitoring in Alabama and in visioning how colleges can present a holistic and humane atmosphere for youngsters. Subsequently, we must help the Ok-12 educational plan to assist enhance our educational system and our financial system. However her statements on special education could make her vulnerable; families of kids with particular wants are a vocal foyer, one which Republicans do not wish to alienate. This concept comes from a preferred education book Understanding By Design (or UBD).
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Hire one of our Range Rover in the Czech Republic and take a drive through a fascinating country. Landlocked in central Europe and bordered by Slovakia, Poland, Austria and Germany, the Czech state, once known as Bohemia, has had a long and eventful history. As you drive through the Czech Republic in your Range Rover rental you will find literally hundreds of ancient castles, monasteries and stately mansions, as well as beautiful forests and mountains. Visit Prague, one of Europe's most beautiful cities and the fashionable and historic Czech capital, or travel east to Brno, the Czech Republic's second city and home to the annual Brno Moto Grand Prix. Ostrava is also worth driving to, a cosmopolitan city close to the Polish and Slovak borders, with beautiful views of the Beskydy Mountains. Our Czech Republic Range Rover hire services are available from any location, including Václav Havel Airport (PRG) in Prague, Leoš Janáček Airport Ostrava (OSR) and Brno-Tuřany Airport (BRQ), so whichever way you come, make sure you pick up one of our Range Rover on arrival in the Czech Republic.
Range Rover Rental
Dresden, a beautiful city, was almost totally destroyed by bombing on two fatal nights of February 13 and 14, 1945. Today it has miraculously been restored to its former glory.
Rent a Range Rover in Czech Republic and drive to Dresden in the luxurious space, style and comfort you expect for a day trip.
Let the whole family travel in style. The panoramic roof and massage seats of our Range Rover Autobiography will delight them while you enjoy the supreme power of the drive. Alternatively enjoy the Range Rover Evoque Dynamic Lux. Power packed with features and an Oxford leather interior, this is the ultimate SUV driving experience.
Dresden was known as the 'Florence on the Elbe' before its destruction. Marvel at how this city has risen from the ashes like the mythical phoenix. Visit the world-renowned Zwinger gallery where you can view the famous Sistine Madonna by Raphael. See stunning treasures in the Green Vault of the Dresden Palace. Then see the magnificent Church of the Virgin Mary. Spend the night at the Swissotel Dresden before heading back to Prague.
A stunning three hour drive in your luxury vehicle gets you to Dresden. Range Rover rental in Czech Republic is the refined way to travel.


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IT Strategy and Engineering
"Optus has more than 75 years of engineering design experience." — Shane Lerma, Sales Engineering Team Lead · Optus
Step 1: Initial Consultation & Assessment
Our free strategic assessment and planning process begins with an assessment of your current technology investment, and your company's goals for new technology.
During the assessment, we will also determine if there are ways to extend the life of your current phone system.
Step 2: Short & Long Term Planning
Next, we will create a detailed plan to maximize your current investment, and components that will accommodate the immediate and future needs of your organization.
Step 3: ROI Analysis
As the technical design process starts, Optus Engineers carefully consider the financial impact of the investment, staying within the guard rails you have defined.
Our engineers will evaluate all options to maximize ROI; focusing on improving your technology while lowering expenses.
Step 4: Solution Design
Finally, our engineers produce a complete solution design that supports your organization's growth plans.
The solution design includes a roadmap with a detailed scope of work encompassing our core services: rollout, support and maintenance, and technology lifecycle extension options.
Our plans can save 25%-50% on telecom spend for our customers.Let us see how much we can save you.
Carrier Solutions
Our extensive experience in telecommunications provides a unique ability to analyze, advise and design solutions to help with your organization's carrier issues. Large, multi-site organizations manage multiple carrier vendors which can mean juggling a number of challenges day to day.
Optus can help by providing centralized management, consulting and agency services.
Carrier Agency
Carrier contracts make up 70% of total telecom expenses for today's organizations. We help you identify the right carriers for your needs and secure the best possible prices.
Carrier Consulting & Design
At no cost to you, our engineers will incorporate options focused around improving your service while lowering your expenses into the complete solution design.


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After months of engineering and development, Modulare Wheels is proud to bring its newest wheel line to market, the all-new S-Series. Available in 19-22″ diameters and virtually any width, the S-Series utilizes a 3-piece Step Lip configuration, with a deep concave profile that is custom tailored to each application. The wheel centers feature a "floating" spoke where the edge of the face "floats" over the stepped portion of the outer lip, thereby creating maximum visual effect. The end user also gets to choose the layout of the assembly hardware, with either fully exposed hardware, full hidden, or something in the middle…titanium hardware can also be specified at an extra cost.
Although we launched the S-Series with just 5 styles, any of the other Modulare styles from any of the other series are also available in this configuration by special request, and custom styles are also available on a case-by-case basis. The Modulare S-Series is now available for immediate ordering, so please contact us with any questions or for more information.


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Tired of searching for loose change? Get the Transport for Edinburgh m-tickets app now and make your Android device your ticket across the Transport for Edinburgh bus and tram network.
Just download, signup, and buy tickets to use directly on your Android device, right in the app, with a registered debit or credit card. A minimum of spend of 4 applies to ticket purchases, however you can mix and match any combination of tickets to reach this.
M-tickets also links to Transport for Edinburgh's bus service information app for a simple customer experience across the bus and tram network. For more information visit www.tfeapp.com.


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The Black Panther soundtrack has officially arrived, and it is better than what anyone could've predicted. But with it being curated by TDE, Kendrick Lamar and the film's director Ryan Coogler, the formula was just too perfect to mess up. The album is full of energy and packed with artists from all walks of life who embrace their black excellence.
From start to finish, the 14-track album doesn't hesitate to dig deeply into various parts of Black-centric music, ranging from hip-hop, R&B, pop, soul and afrobeat. Lamar and the rest of the team did a remarkable job tapping into our culture (which is rooted in African heritage) and bringing our talents as a people to the forefront. Along with what critics have been saying about Black Panther itself, the accompanying soundtrack uplifts Black people in a crucial time in society where many are anticipating our downfall. But instead, we take control of our voice and especially our art.
What makes this soundtrack brilliant is the balance of big-name artists and rising stars, many of whom are actually from South Africa. There are the stunning voices of SZA, Khalid and Jorja Smith and the commanding rap flows of Lamar, Schoolboy Q and Jay Rock. "All The Stars" is total euphoria, "Pray For Me" is a synth-filled joyride, "I Am" pulls at your heartstrings, "Paramdeic!" honors the innovative sound of San Francisco's Bay Area and "Redemption" will make you want to dance while making your ancestors proud. In the midst of that, there are the soaring melodies of Sjava, Yugen Blakrok, Saudi and Babes Wodumo that add a much-needed authenticity to remind listeners of this movie's Wakandan culture. Get to streaming below:
Black Panther arrives in theaters on Feb. 16. Below, continue the celebration of Blackness with this Ty Dolla $ign interview where he predicts his legacy as part of Fuse's Future Black History Month:


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Cornell College Events
Thursday, February 1st (link)
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|9:30 am-10:00 am
|Story Time Cole Library
Story Time continues each Thursday morning at 9:30 a.m.
|11:10 am-12:00 pm
|SIG (Science Interest Group) Lecture: X-Rays and Archaeology: Tracing the Origin of Mill Creek Pott West Science
Title: X-Rays and Archaeology: Tracing the Origin of Mill Creek Pottery Using Chemistry Description: The chemical composition of fragments of pottery can help determine whether or not the fragments were produced from a common clay source. Using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, we studied a set of pottery fragments from the Mill Creek culture in western Iowa that date to 1100-1250 AD. Working with archaeologists at the Office of the State Archaeologist of the University of Iowa, we can combine chemical and archaeological information to better understand the origin of the pottery fragments and the extent of trade between the Mill Creek people and other cultures.
|11:15 am
|Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Allee Chapel
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (AA), Thursdays 11:15 to Noon in Allee Chapel (except during breaks). Offering support. Living the 12 Steps. Open to students, faculty, staff, and townspeople. For more info. email scoleman. ~Sponsored by Chaplain & Spiritual Life
|11:15 am-12:45 pm
|Stress Free Zone Orange Carpet
De-stress with crafts and games on the OC. Sponsored by the Counseling Center and Artbox LLC. ? email Counseling.
|3:15 pm
|World Hijab Day Observance & Discussion Allee Chapel
Calling all self-identifying females: Join the global event to show support for our Muslim sisters around the world who choose to wear head cover by wearing modest clothing and a head scarf (hijab) for the day. World Hijab Day gives an opportunity to citizens unfamiliar with the Islamic faith to open up dialogues with their Muslim neighbors, co-workers, and friends. WHD focuses on fighting bigotry, discrimination, and prejudice against Muslim women. This is most crucial in these times when too many Muslim women are being targeted and harassed verbally and physically. There will be an educational booth in the Thomas Commons during lunch. All are also invited to join the discussion in Allee chapel at 3:15 p.m. For more information and to RSVP search for the Facebook event "WORLD HIJAB DAY AT CORNELL COLLEGE." ~Sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative (Offices of Chaplain & Spiritual Life, Intercultural Life, and Civic Engagement)
|7:00 pm
|Wrestling vs. Coe College Mount Vernon
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Giving Towns Flexibility with Their Budgets
Connecticut's cities and towns have reached out to us in the legislature to ask for some additional flexibility in putting together local budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.
The Appropriations and Finance Committee members are busy going through the Governor's proposal line by line, soliciting input from constituents, to make sure we produce a budget that supports working families, makes long-term investments in our economy, and brings greater predictability to our states' finances.
At the same time, we are working on a measure with municipal leaders to give towns the option to take additional time to put together their budget for this fiscal year. This will help local leaders make sure they are crafting a budget with the most up-to-date information possible.
When towns have concrete information on what they can expect in state funding, they can make local budget decisions without worrying about funding changes. Many of them adopt their budgets according to their charters before the state adopts its budget and this has caused problems.
Our plan is supported by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities. Even though the Republicans in the Senate blocked the legislation, we will continue to work to give municipalities time and flexibility when drafting local budgets.


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Reconnected across the miles, Lani and Alastair reflect on the importance of adventures and physical experiences. Just don't drive a truck through New Jersey.
Today's Fat Orange Cat: the past, revisited.
Download the .mp3 here, or subscribe via RSS, find us on iTunes, YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook or Stitcher — or, of course, right here on StoryWonk.com!
Our theme music is by the fantastic Josh Woodward. StoryWonk NaNo is a StoryWonk production by Lani Diane Rich and Alastair Stephens, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.
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Bobbi Kristina's ex-boyfriend Nick Gordon is back in the headlines. He was arrested last night for reckless driving.
The reality TV star was going 82 mph in a 35 zone on the Northpoint Parkway in Alpharetta, Georgia. According to TMZ, that area is a retail location with lots of foot traffic.
Law enforcement says, "We are fortunate because that's such a busy corridor with high end retail shopping restaurants and pedestrians at crosswalks."
The news comes on the heels of Bobbi Kristina's car crash yesterday also in Alpharetta, Georgia. The young starlet smashed her Black Camaro into trees after going down an embankment.
Bobbi Kristina also tweeted several messages yesterday indicating that she and Gordon were no longer an item.


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"Α Democracy is excellent when everyone fears the law as one does a tyrant". This principle was first expressed by Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Greek Sages, around 600 BCE. This was the principle the Athenian Democracy was built upon and this perception empowered the brave soldiers who stopped the "invincible" Persians at the battles of Marathon and Salamis. Those brave Athenian soldiers, who, as Demaratos said to Xerxes, "when they fight one-to-one they're as brave as anyone else, but when they fight all together, they are the best fighters in the world. They are free, but not completely; their Master is the Law, whom they fear more than your men fear you."
It sounds good, but how many of us would defend this principle at any cost?
The philosopher of Justice
Socrates paid the highest price in order to stay true to his lifelong teaching, that one ought not to do wrong at all, not even when he is treated unfairly. Because no virtue has any value if it is not lightened by justice. Bravery, for example, is a great virtue, but imagine a brave man who uses his bravery to hurt others. What kind of person would he be?
So, it is justice above all, but what is just? That's the question sophist Hippias posed to Socrates one day, and he replied "what is legal is also fair". The citizens have come to an agreement to abide by certain rules, to do things and to don't do other things. A person who keeps the agreements is honorable and a person who honors the social contract he voluntarily accepted, he is lawful and just. A person who doesn't keep the agreement is unlawful and unjust. That is what Socrates said, and Hippias took the chance to present an argument that was very popular among the sophists: "Why should we think so highly of the laws and the obedience to them, when even those who make the laws amend them all the time and overwrite them later on?"
"Don't we do the same when we go to war and serve a situation that is about to change when peace comes?" Socrates replies, explaining that the temporariness of an agreement does not justify its disdain, nor does the fact that peace comes after war mean that we can put blame on the soldier who is fighting for his homeland. Laws, Socrates claims, are the foundation for a harmonious coexistence of the citizens. And this harmony and concord among citizens is the necessary condition for their happiness and prosperity.
Without a doubt, Socrates was not just talk; he reverently abided by the laws under any circumstances all his life. In his private life he followed the rules and in his public life he was obedient to the authorities and laws, both when being in the city or on campaign fighting. In fact on one occasion, while he was the custodian of the Ecclesia (People's Assembly), he stopped his fellow citizens from making a decision that was against the law. Even at the time when the Thirty Tyrants were in power, he disobeyed an order, because it was against the law. It's really unbelievable that the most law-abiding Athenian citizen ended up in prison and was given the death penalty!
When the law does wrong
The charge was that Socrates disrespected the gods by introducing new deities to the city and that he corrupted the youth. This awkward charge had deep political motives, but it's not for now to analyze them. The interesting aspect is how Socrates handled a legal court decision, which of course proved to be completely unjust (watch Socrates' new trial). Sitting there in his cell, waiting for the moment they'd bring him conium to drink, did he still believe that one should always abide by the law, even if the law was so unfair to him, even if he were about to be killed although he had not done anything illegal?
Socrates did have the chance to escape what the unfair fate had in store, a fate his fellow citizens had created for him. He could have been more conciliatory in court or he could have tried to flatter and move the judges, as the defendants used to do (and still do). It was even easier back then because the judges were not professionals and the trials were held in peoples' courts where anyone could be a judge. He could also have suggested what his penalty should be (this would be legal, too), like a high fine his friends could have paid on his behalf. But he did none of the above, for that would mean pleading guilty despite being innocent, and this would mean cheating his fellow citizens and cheating would be unjust. After his conviction, his friends intensely tried to convince him to break out of prison as they already had made arrangements for his escape and relocation out of Athens, near to people who admired and loved him. But Socrates chose to die, to abide by the law. Why?
Why would Socrates tolerate injustice?
His devastated friend Crito is begging him to follow the plan and escape. "People will say that I cherished my money more than my friend's life and that, even though I had the chance to save you, I let you die. Because no one will believe that you decided to stay and die", he says in pain. "What do we care, blessed Crito, what the many care about? The worthy, the ones we should care about, will think that everything happened exactly as it should have", Socrates replied.
Crito insists and tries to put pressure on him. "All your friends are determined to risk everything to save you", he says. He tells him that his children will be orphans, that his friends will be accused of being cowards for having let him die. But Socrates insists: "I can't just renounce all I've been saying just because things happened to turned bad now… and I won't allow you or anyone else be terrified by the power of the crowd like if we were little children…" . Socrates won't break away because it's not simply staying alive that he cares most about; he wants a life of worthiness. And now as the end of his worthy life is approaching, he gives his dear friend one last lesson:
Let's assume that as we're ready to escape, the laws and Authorities of the city come and ask us: "Tell us Socrates, what are you trying to achieve? Won't your action destroy us the laws and the whole city? Or do you believe that the polity won't be overthrown if the court decisions aren't executed as the citizens negate them?" What will we say to that? That the city treated us unjustly and that the decision in our case was not right? If we say this, then the laws will ask "Is that the agreement we've made, Socrates?
Or what kind of wise are you that it has skipped your mind that your homeland is more precious and more honorable and holier and in higher esteem among the gods and among men of understanding than your mother and your father and all your ancestors? And you should do whatever your homeland orders you to, no matter if in court or at war, unless you can debate the order according to the law.
Because we gave birth to you, we nurtured you, we educated you and taught you, like everybody else, the best we would; but we also gave a priori each Athenian the right, after the dokimasia (the process to obtain citizenship) and having been informed about the administration and us, the laws, if he does not like us, to take his things and go wherever he prefers, and none of us, the laws, disallows him to move to one of the colonies, or anywhere else.
But if someone decides to stay, it means that he agrees with our way of governance and court ruling and he is obligated to obey our orders. He, who does not obey, commits three violations:
First, he is unjust to those who gave birth to him and nurtured him.
Second, although he agreed to obey our orders, he breaks the agreement.
Third, not only does he not obey, but he does nothing to convince us that we're wrong, although we have given him the right to do so.
These charges will fall on you, Socrates, if you carry out your plan, you, most of all Athenians. Because you've loved your city so much that you've never left, except once when you went to Isthmia for the ceremonies, and whenever you had to go to war. You've loved your city so much that you decided to raise your children here. Then, you could have chosen the penalty of exile, but you didn't do that either. You, who have never doubted our rightness or broken our agreement in 70 years; you, who have travelled out of our city less than lame, blind or otherwise disabled people, and now you won't honor our agreement? You will surely agree with us, Socrates, that you won't leave the city and make a fool of yourself."
Crito hushed, Socrates honored the agreement with Athens, the city he worshipped, and died quietly drinking the conium. The way he chose to leave this life, proved that when he said "we ought not to do wrong at all" and when he stated that his concern is not "living" but "good living", he meant every word. For Socrates, life is meaningful only if it serves justice, which, as all members of any democratic society agree upon, is the law.
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Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Jordan's King Abdullah II urged U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to "rebuild the trust and confidence" between the United States and the Middle East.
Abdullah told Pence their discussions would be "candid and frank" as they met at his palace in the Jordanian capital, Amman, during the second stop of the vice president's peace mission to the Middle East.
"I had continuously voiced over the past year, in my meetings with Washington, my concerns regarding the U.S. decision on Jerusalem that does not come as a result of a comprehensive settlement to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict," Abdullah said. "Today, we have a major challenge to overcome, especially with some of the rising frustrations."
He added it is "very important" to find a way to move forward with a two-state solution in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian state in what he described as "a very critical point" for the region.
Pence reaffirmed President Donald Trump's decision to name Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, while adding the United States is committed to achieving peace between the two sides.
"President Trump made a historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But as he also made clear in that decision, the United States of America remains committed, if the parties agree, to a two-state solution. We are committed to restarting the peace process," said Pence.
Before arriving in Jordan, Pence visited Cairo where he promised the United States will continue to support Egypt's battle against terrorism.
The vice president will fly to Israel Sunday evening where he will address the Knesset -- Israel's parliament -- and meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Some Knesset members have planned to disrupt Pence's visit, an act Netanyahu called a "disgrace."
"We will all be there and share the great honor that he deserves," he said.
Netanyahu referred to Pence as a "great and true friend of Israel" and said they planned to discuss "Trump's efforts to curb Iranian aggression and the Iranian nuclear program," as well as peace and security.
"Those who truly aspire to these goals know that there is no substitute for the leadership of the United States," said Netanyahu.


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Ugh. I feel like the only updates on my hip are not great ones. I'm still suffering quite a bit. Some days are better than others.
The other day I walked most of the way home then suddenly was is a lot of pain. I could see the end of my street, I was that close. A taxi went past and I seriously considered hailing it but I knew if I sat down I wouldn't be able to get back up easily. God this is dull and I'm over being in pain.
I've been referred to the surgeon and although I initially was of the opinion that surgery was never going to be an option if it is 18 weeks of recovery and better it's better than the continued pain that I'm living with currently.


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Sony Ericsson Spiro is the second Walkman phone out of two announced by Sony Ericsson recently. It is expected to be released by Q3 this year. Here is the specification of Spiro.
Size: Dimensions– 92 x 48 x 16.8 mm
Weight– 90 g
Display: Type– TFT, 256K colors
Size- 240 x 320 pixels, 2.2 inches
Memory: Internal– 5 MB
Card Slot– microSD, up to 16GB
Data: GPRS– Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE– Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G– No
WLAN– No
Bluetooth– Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
Camera: Primary– 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels
Video– Yes, QVGA
Secondary– No
Features: Messaging– SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
Browser- WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (Obigo Q7)
Radio- Stereo FM radio with RDS
GPS- No
Java- Yes, MIDP 2.0
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– MP3/eAAC+/WAV player
– Track ID
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"Well, we have thoroughly ruined our chance to scout secretly," said Itharieth that evening. "Everywhere in Mo-Srad — everywhere in the whole country of Srad, if not further — strangers are being celebrated and honored and called forth, on the hope that they, too, will be benevolent dragons."
"Also we have heard seven dozen variations on the word 'dragon', each worse than the last," said Psajathrion. "It will surely be unrecognizable by the time any conquerors come. Let us take the part of sometwo very different from our previous shapes: perhaps a newly married couple en route to visiting distant relatives."
Itharieth grinned. "A deception I should be more than willing to carry out with you, by the Thing-wearer's ring bearers! If we were a certain sort of drake, we should carry out a mount-duel to discover which of us is to be male and which to be female."
Psajathrion said, "If I had a tailtip at the moment I would be flicking it. I am not that sort of drake, to fight instead of think, and I do not believe you are either. And the mount-duel is not simply about who shall wear which sex; it is about who shall use it too."
"By the Ghoralghentergeese's floral centerpieces! The idea is yours, good Psajathrion. You shall decide which role you shall play, and I shall take the other one!"
"As a punishment for that particularly awkward rhyming oath, you shall play the female," said the doctor.
Itharieth did so with gusto. Not only did he become a female girg, she became a thoroughly gravid-appearing one, and obligated Psajathrion to tend her in all the traditional ways.
In any case, the next days were an impromptu festival in Srad, and strangers of all sorts were remarkably welcome. Eyeworms were all but eliminated, at least to the extent that the girgs could refrain from saying 'we will'.Support this project! Show that you're reading it by exchanging notes with the characters, other readers, the writer, and occasional other entities at sythyry.livejournal.com. And/or buy Bard Bloom's books on Amazon, especially Mating Flight and World in My Claws, the prequel to this story. Also: Glossary and Dramatis Personae.


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Copa Airlines is recognized as the best airline in Central America and the Caribbean for the third year in a row
Copa Airlines has been recognized by Skytrax as the "Best Airline in Central America and the Caribbean" for the third year in a row, and as having the "Best Airline Staff in Central America and the Caribbean" for the second year in a row
With these awards, Copa Airlines continues to be the region's leading airline, firmly committed to maintaining its operational excellence and providing passengers with its renowned world-class service
Copa Airlines is also proud to belong to the Star Alliance, which was recognized by Skytrax as the "World's Best Airline Alliance" for the second year in a row
Panama City, June 20, 2017.
Copa Airlines, a subsidiary of Copa Holdings, S.A. {NYSE: CPA} and a member of the Star Alliance global network, has been recognized as the "Best Airline in Central America and the Caribbean" by Skytrax, the international air transport rating organization regarded as "the Oscars of the aviation industry." Copa Airlines was also recognized by Skytrax for having the "Best Airline Staff in Central America and the Caribbean." According to Copa Airlines representatives, these awards symbolize and reinforce the company's commitment to its passengers. Together with on-time performance, these are among the key factors that set Copa Airlines apart in the global aviation industry.
In acknowledging this outstanding result, Copa Airlines' CEO Pedro Heilbron said, "It is thanks to the dedication and hard work of every Copa Airlines employee that we are receiving this honor again. By striving to meet the needs of our passengers as their primary goal, our employees have made world-class service their focus and their personal commitment. This approach strengthens us as a company and further enhances the connectivity that we offer all our passengers via the Hub of the Americas in Panama."
Skytrax, based in the United Kingdom, is a rating organization focused on analyzing and comparing the quality of the various airlines and airports in 14 regions of the world. In determining the World Airline Awards ranking, Skytrax considers the results of the largest customer satisfaction survey of various airlines around the world. The survey assesses the entire travel experience and measures 41 key aspects of passenger satisfaction. These awards offer unique insight, experience, and innovative ideas for enhancing service at airports and during air travel.
Copa Airlines is proud to belong to the Star Alliance, which was recognized by Skytrax as the "World's Best Airline Alliance" for the second year in a row. As a member of the Star Alliance, Copa is able to offer travelers more benefits, including the ability to reach 1,330 airports in 192 countries around the world, with more than 18,500 daily flights.
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The World Airline Awards were handed out on June 20, during an awards ceremony at the 2017 Paris Airshow.


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Massage therapy is an ancient practice that has remained popular because of the presumed increase in circulation to diseased tissues. The discovery of electricity allowed healers to better provide "healing oxygen" through vibration.
vibration of the "internal organs" with the Macaura's Pulsocon (ca. 1920)
Small hand operated home devices were fashionable in the early twentieth century, and they were touted to cure almost any disease. One of the more popular was the Macaura Pulsocon, invented by the "vibrotherapist" Gerald Macaura, who established his therapeutic institute in Manchester, England in 1908.
early twentieth century eyeball massagers
Exercising increases strength, so certainly the logical treatment for "weak eyes" would be to exercise those muscles, and thus strengthen eyesight. Physicians jumped to that conclusion and came up with a variety of eyeball massagers, their production and sale perfectly legal since there was no requirement at the time to prove their safety or efficacy. (left to right): the Ideal Company and the Neu Vita massager
Dr. Swift's massage treatments
From the time of Hippocrates, the term "hysteria," or literally "womb disease," has been considered a female disorder, and the symptoms were many, including anxiety, insomnia, swooning (or perhaps petit mal seizures), and almost any abdominal discomfort. Some physicians treated this "disease" of female patients their office.
early twentieth century home hand electric vibrators
In the early twentieth century, vaginal stimulation with vibratory devices for the treatment of female hysteria was a common and lucrative part of many physicians' office practices, and small electric vibrators were frequently found in homes throughout America for personal use. (left): Calvete vibrator #2; (right): the White Cross vibrator
Battle Creek Vibratory Chair by the Sanitarium and Hospital Equipment Co., Massage Vibrator by the Battle Creek Equipment Co.
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Excel Is Our Friend – Part III
As I child I remember my Dad doing most of the auto repair himself. And if anyone was outside doing anything, I was there (a simpler time, before Xbox, even before cable TV). So, when I use the word toolbox, I remember asking Dad… What is this one called? And What is this one for? And I remember him asking, hand me the so and so… my standard clueless response was "this one?"
While escaping the island has the appearance of being our main objective, the true focus is on learning the tools.
- How to: VLOOKUP – built-in function
This built-in Excel function is something you definitely want in your "toolbox".
The VLOOKUP function, which stands for vertical lookup, can help you find specific information in large data tables. In addition, and equally useful, it can determine what is not in the table. In the example below, I use VLOOKUP to gather external information into a list formatted to my preferences. After creating so many PI Interfaces here, I was having trouble remembering the specifics without having to look for them. So, I built a spreadsheet for a quick reference. But I did not want to manually populate this listing. So with a few items from the toolbox, I was able to semi-automate the gathering of the data, as you will see below:
First, I imported the Module Database from my PI Server, into a separate sheet in my workbook (renamed that sheet "R2-Int1MDB"). I used the PI-SMT > Module Database Builder Add-in > Import Items. I just imported the tree where the interfaces reside ("\\R2-PI\%OSI\Interfaces"), including all subitems, values, etc., everything.
After determining which values were of use, I created column headings for my list, some of my columns are visible in the example below.
The next step was to get a listing of the interfaces, for column A. To get this, I went to the sheet "R2-Int1MDB". After selecting any cell in the column headings of the "list", I clicked Excel's Data Menu, and clicked the "Filter" button. (Excel has a help topic on "Quick start: Filter data by using an AutoFilter", You can point at the icon in the ribbon and press F1).
Using "AutoFilter", for my "Type" column, I selected "Module", for the "Name" filter, I used the Text Filter > "contains", and entered a filter value of "\\*\*\*\*\*" (without the quotes). This filtered my list to machine\interface instance. Placing my activecell on the first item in the filtered list (clicking on that cell), I used the shortcuts mentioned above (Ctrl+Shift+DownArrow) to select the entire list. Then, Ctrl+G, followed by Alt+S (or click "Special"), Alt+Y (or click the "Visible cells only" radio button, then . Next, I navigated back to the list I was building. Pasting the values that you see in column labeled "ModulePath".
So at this point, I have a complete listing in column A of all of the Interfaces used for this PI Server Collective, "R2-PI". Not very useful, by itself, but this provides the basis for gathering data for our list.
So, let's utilize the various tools available to us to populate our columns. Our first victim is InterfaceNode, in column B. There are actually several ways to get that tidbit, since it is present in the ModulePath in column A, the last segment, when parsed with "\".
Continuing on, while skipping the "UFOTags" column for now, we move to the "Binary" column. Here we will use a combination of Concatenation and VLOOKUP.
- How to: Using Nested Functions and User Defined Functions t
- Since the root path is always the same length (24), we could use this formula in B28: =MID(A28,25,FIND("\",MID(A28,25,99),1)-1). <– the Find function here is a "Nested Function" within the third argument of the Mid function
- Explanation of arguments: Explanation of arguments: Since we know the values of interest all begin with the string and fixed length, LEN("\\R2-PI\%OSI\Interfaces\")=24, we can begin our search at character 25, seeking the position of the next "\", subtracting 1 from the length to exclude the "\". If the string was not of fixed length, we would have to nest additional "LEN" functions where we presently use "25".
- Alternatively, we could create a User Defined Function, outlined in this post
- By creating a module for our workbook, in VBE, creating "Module1", and pasting the UDF's custom code from the linked post, we can use the following in cell B28: "=mySplitter(A28,"\",5)"
So, looking at E1, you see that I have typed "||InterfaceBinary". This is the attribute that we want to extract from the MDB Import, for each of the interfaces in column A.
So, we need the contents of A28 appended with the contents of E1, using the & operator, like so: $A28&E$1. Note the position of the $ signs in the concatenation. $ indicates absolute references, as in "absolutely column A", and the row is relative to the formula location. Meaning that we can fill right and the formulae with always use column A. Likewise, we can fill down, and the formulae with always reference $1, row 1.
We will nest this function inside an argument of the VLOOKUP function.
So, selecting E28 with our mouse, and typing =VLOOKUP( and then clicking "fx" on Excel's formula bar will present the dialog below (fx is circled red in Screenshot).
Lookup_value = what to "find" in the Table Array (it searches only in the 1st column of the Table_Array, returning only the first matching entry) You can see the use of &, in the first argument in the screenshot's dialog box.
So, in the screenshot, our Lookup_value = \\R2-PI\%OSI\Interfaces\R2-INT1\RDBMSPI1||InterfaceBinary
Table_Array = where to look for the value. Note the format of this argument, it can be drag-selected, if you click the icon at the right edge of the field. Note that you will have to manually add the $, so that you can filldown and fillright. The rows from the mdb import have an absolute address. Filling down, without absolute cell references would omit rows from the top of the list… You can also toggle between absolute and relative references, by selecting them, in the formula bar or a dialog, and using the key, repeatedly.
Note that the first column is B, where we would our Lookup_value = \\R2-PI\%OSI\Interfaces\R2-INT1\RDBMSPI1||InterfaceBinary
Col_index_num = which column of the Table_array do you wish to return if Lookup_Value is found in column 1 of Table_array
This is the column in the array, not the sheet. In my array, column 19 is the "PropertyValue" column.
Range_lookup = False means find an exact match. I almost never use True for this argument, but it can be useful on occasion.
After completing the dialog with , the formula is usable in the other columns/ rows with the use of filldown and fillright, with exceptions for columns C, D, G. and I. Note that row 1 of these columns are blank. Other methods are used for these.
In the interest of brevity, I won't go as deeply into the details of columns C, D, and I, other than providing my formulae here:
C28 is =IF(ISNA(O28),"none",E28&K28&"_UFO2_State_"&O28)
O28 is out of view in the screenshot, but it is a lookup for "||Arguments|/UFO_ID"
D28 is =IF(C28="none","none",PICurrVal(InterfaceList!$C28,0,InterfaceList!$H28))
So, if the UFO tags are specified in the MDB, I use DataLink to show me the current values… if the interface running?
I28 is =HYPERLINK("\\"&B28&"\"&SUBSTITUTE(R28,":","$",1),"Explore Folder")
R28 contains the "||CurrentInstallationPath", and since I am an admin on the remote machine, I can access this through the administrative share, replacing the ":" with a "$"
· Tip: System overload
Sometimes I find a spreadsheet behaving sluggishly, due to the calculation burden that I have created. With larger lists, and more and more functions, the spreadsheet will tax the CPU as it recalculates. As a lot of the functions above have already served their purpose, they can be replaced with the values which have already been calculated or retrieved. So, in these cases, copy those cells containing functions and replace, using Copy > Paste Special > Values. This will replace the functions with their static values unburdening your CPU from the unnecessary.
For those of you that have been eyeballing the Version column and the CommandButton… I saved it for Part IV.


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Breaking news! I got a bicycle! If you read my recent post about Settling In, you already know I was on mission to get my hands (and feet) on one. Hubby made it easy. He just showed up with one the other night. Now I just need to practice not bumping the bell when I use my brakes. I already draw enough attention around here, I definitely don't need to be ringing my bell too.
The town we are living in here in Italy is, well…small. The variety of food and grocery items within bicycling distance to our apartment is very limited, which means I have to try to be extra creative on days when it is storming and there is no way I'm dragging Bluebell (my Italian biccicleta with a basket) outside to pedal around town in search of an elusive pantry item (baking powder, I'm talking to you). Yesterday I was desperate to bake, but wasn't about to leave the apartment in the storm, so I set out to make good use of the 4 peaches, or "pesche", that were laying on my counter. I'm not going to lie, I was pretty sure that it was going to be a disaster since it was also my first time trying out the tiny Celcius convection oven in our apartment. I am pleased to report that the oven and I got along just fine and Hubby and I were munching happily in no time.
The good news is, these Peach Hand Pies are so easy to make. If I already have all the ingredients in this apartment, then you definitely have them at your house–well, you might need to go pick up peaches, but the rest are pantry staples. No fancy equipment needed either, since I don't have a mixer or anything here. Just a bowl and a fork work great. I also couldn't resist making some mini pies as well, using my little tart pans I got on our first day in Italy. This pastry recipe is similar to my Homemade Pop Tarts recipe, but the pastry is a little bit more delicate and flaky.
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (or "00" in Europe)
1 tablespoon sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 egg
1 1/2 tablespoons milk
1 additional egg, beaten, for brushing pastry
4 large ripe peaches, peeled and diced, about 3 cups (white peaches are my preference)
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons sugar
pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
pinch of ground cinnamon
- In a medium bowl, gently combine the diced peaches, flour, sugar, salt, vanilla,and cinnamon. If mixture seems very runny, add up to another tablespoon of flour. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, and salt. Cut in the butter with a pastry blender, food processor, fork, or your fingers until the butter is incorporated and is the size of small peas.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the whole egg and the milk. Stir the milk mixture into the flour mixture with a wooden spoon, then bring the dough together and knead a few times by hand.
- Divide dough in half. Wrap one half in plastic wrap and set aside while you roll out the other half.
- On a well-floured surface, roll out the dough into a large rectangle. Try to roll it quite thin, but not so thin that it will fall apart when forming the hand pies.
- Cut twelve rounds of dough (about 4-inches in diameter) and arrange them on a parchment or Silpat-lined baking sheet.
- Brush the rounds of dough with the beaten egg. (This will be the inside of the pop tart. The egg wash helps the filling not to get the bottom crust soggy, and also helps to seal the top and bottom pieces of pastry together.) Do not discard the rest of the egg wash yet.
- Spread about 1-2 tablespoons of the prepared peach filling in the center of each egg-brushed round of dough, leaving about 1/2-inch border.
- Roll out remaining dough and cut 12 more 4-inch diameter rounds. Gently lay a dough round on top of each of the filled rounds, pressing around the edges with your fingers to seal in the filling.
- Crimp the edges of each pastry with a fork.
- Brush the tops of each pastry with the rest of the beaten egg.
- Using a toothpick or a paring knife, poke a few holes in the top of each pie to allow steam to escape during baking.
- Refrigerate assembled hand pies for 30 minutes (or place in freezer for 10-15 minutes if you're in a rush).
- While the hand pies are chilling, preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
- Bake 20-25 minutes until golden. Allow to cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes before removing to a rack to cool.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.
Variation: You could also make mini lattice-top pies. Simply line 8 mini pie tins with dough, fill with 3 tablespoons of peach filling, and top with thin strips of dough layered in a basket-weave pattern. Chill and bake as directed above, adding about 5 extra minutes to baking time.


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Washington [US], September 16 (ANI/Sputnik): US President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency in the State of Florida due to approaching Hurricane Sally that has been raging off the US coast for several days, White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere said on Wednesday.The National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned on Tuesday that the hurricane, the second storm bearing down on the US coast of the Gulf of Mexico in a span of three weeks, could bring "extreme, life-threatening" and historic floods to the region."President @realDonaldTrump has declared that a State of Emergency exists in the State of Florida and ordered Federal assistance to supplement State, tribal, and local response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from #HurricaneSally," Deere wrote on Twitter.Hurricane Sally is the 18th named storm in the Atlantic this year, according to NHC records.It comes less than three weeks after Hurricane Laura, one of the strongest US hurricanes in more than a century, made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, in late August as a Category 4 storm. That hurricane, which killed at least 25 people and damaged countless property, also scored a near-direct hit on one refinery in Louisiana processing 769,000 barrels per day of crude oil. (ANI/Sputnik)


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Judge Deals Setback to DeVos' Handling of Student Fraud Claims | POLITICO
The Trump administration's sweeping efforts to overhaul Obama-era higher education policies drew their first judicial rebuke on Friday evening when a federal judge in California temporarily blocked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' new approach to processing student loan fraud claims.
Courts Halt DeVos's Partial Student Debt Relief Plan | The Washington Post
A federal judge has banned the U.S. Department of Education from using earnings data to grant only partial student loan forgiveness to defrauded borrowers who attended defunct for-profit chain Corinthian Colleges.
Court: Education Department Must Resume Debt Relief | Inside Higher Ed
A federal district court on Friday ordered the Education Department to resume full debt relief for those previously found to have been defrauded by the defunct for-profit Corinthian Colleges, the Associated Press reported.
Feds Must Stop Collecting Debt From Defrauded Students | Courthouse News Service
A federal judge has blocked Education Secretary Besty DeVos' plan to force more than 60,000 defrauded students to repay loans for education programs that some borrowers describe as "worthless."
Student Loans: Former Corinthian Colleges Students Win a Reprieve in Fight with Feds | USA Today
Thousands of former Corinthian Colleges students have won a preliminary victory in their court battle to cancel millions of dollars in federal loan debt for their studies at the scandal-scarred, for-profit schools. A judge late Friday temporarily barred the U.S. Department of Education from continuing to collect loan debts from the students based on allegations the agency violated the federal Privacy Act.
Court: Gov't violated law for defrauded students | Associated Press
A federal court has ruled that the Education Department violated privacy laws with regard to students defrauded by the Corinthian for-profit college chain. In a break with Obama administration policy, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced in December that some students cheated by the now-defunct schools would only get a part of their federal student loan forgiven.
Federal Court Rules Trump's Education Dept Violated Privacy Laws | The Hill
A federal court in California ruled Friday that the Education Department violated privacy laws when it used the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help it analyze loan forgiveness for students defrauded by the for-profit Corinthian Colleges.
In Groundbreaking Decision, Judge Halts Collection of For-Profit College Student Debts | Press Release
In a landmark decision for defrauded students of Corinthian Colleges, a U.S. District judge late Friday stopped the Department of Education from applying its "average earnings rule" to cheated former students of Corinthian Colleges, and prevented the Department from collecting on the plaintiffs' loans. The ruling enjoins the Department of Education from using its partial relief scheme, which it has been applying to partially deny thousands of borrowers' applications for loan relief, because that scheme clearly violates the Privacy Act and causes severe and irreparable injury to borrowers.
Ex-Corinthian Students Look To Bar Fed Loan Collections | Law360
The U.S. Department of Education flouted federal law on agency rulemaking and violated the Privacy Act when it suddenly changed its student loan forgiveness policy, a putative class of former students of the now-defunct Corinthian College told a California federal judge Monday, arguing that without a temporary bar on the new policy, they'd be forced to choose between life necessities and loan defaults.
Hearing Could Determine Fate of Corinthian College Student Loan Debt | CBS Los Angeles
Thousands of ex-Corinthian Colleges students are anxiously awaiting the outcome of a Monday court hearing that could determine whether they still have to pay the loans they took out to attend the now-closed, for-profit colleges.


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The Club is a conservation-minded organization dedicated to the preservation of our natural environment and the promotional of outdoor recreation activities. Together with the BCWF, we have been influential in many conservation efforts and in the protection of outdoor recreation for the average British Columbian.
We offer an amazing variety of programs and facilities for adults and children, including archery, trap shooting as well as clay target and handgun shooting.
We have something for everyone. Check out our Events page.
At the Radium Hot Springs 4 way stop, proceed west. Just prior to the sawmill, turn left onto Forster's Landing Rd. Cross the railway tracks and the river. After crossing the second bridge, remain on the main road, do not take the left turn onto a private drive at KM 1.9. Proceed up the hill on the main road, at the 2.8km point take the left fork. The Range is located at 5.5 km on the left hand side. There is a large sign at the entrance.


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The entire WMF coffee machines product range covers a unique spectrum that offers everyone a customised machine. Whether the focus is on the latest specialities or on high cup capacities, whether hot or cold milk foam or milk toppings are asked for - at WMF, the coffee machine fittings are centred on you and never the other way around.
At CBS, we knew that the WMF range was more expensive than its nearest competitor; therefore, we based our decision on several criteria which included
- The Company having been established for over 80 years
- The UK base of WMF has its own maintenance & sales divisions
- Full support is offered to businesses by the UK sales team
- The range of machines available covers a wide range of drink options and all are based around fresh milk production
- The machines are manufactured in Geislingen, Germany within their own factory which ensures professional competence
The Company has recently introduced the compact 1100s which offers a full range of drinks from your espresso through to indulgent hot chocolate all within a much smaller space than their existing portfolio. There are five reasons that you will love having the 1100s in your office.
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Last week, the boys and I returned back to New Hampshire from a month-long road trip in the Southeastern US. The Junior ThreeYears and I had taken our trusty Prius down to North and South Carolina to visit family, go to the beach, and soak up the sun and humidity. I find that when I get Southern heat and humidity a bit in the summer, winters in New England are easier to get through. To me, it never gets hot enough for long enough here. I need the "walk out into a sauna" experience to feel like I've truly had a summer.
We were on our way from the coast of South Carolina to Charlotte, North Carolina, to visit my sister, on a busy stretch of interstate near Columbia, the state capital. It was around ten in the morning on a Monday, and traffic was heavy.
Up until then, we'd had almost two full summers of uneventful road travel. Everything had gone just swimmingly. But luck was against us that morning. I was in the left hand lane, and was completely surrounded by fast-moving eighteen-wheelers and cars. Suddenly, right in front of me, I saw a piece of tire that had come off of a semi–they're called road gators in trucker parlance–and I realized there was nothing I could do to avoid it. I thought about veering left, but there was no shoulder on the road. I couldn't get over to the right, because I was hemmed in. I slowed down as much as I could so that the huge truck beside me wouldn't plow into me, and ran over the piece of tire.
"Thump thump thump thump." The boys and I heard a huge noise of something hitting the underside of the car. I got over in the middle lane of the interstate as fast as I could. The truck behind me passed me, and the woman in the passenger seat leaned out of her car and mouthed, "You okay?" I nodded that I was, although I had no idea if our car was.
We got off at the next exit, which was two miles away, to check out the damage. I pulled into a gas station, and grabbed a flashlight from the glove compartment to look underneath the car. I walked around the car and saw that the underneath bumper, just out of sight under the front of the car, had broken in two by the impact of the alligator ripping into it. As I assessed the damage, thoughts started to fly through my head, "We needed to get the broken bumper removed. Should I find a mechanic? If so, where would we stay? What should I do?"
As I finished up the inspection, before I'd even had time to get back in the car and full-on panic, I saw that a little boy had walked up to me. "Do you need help?" he asked. He pointed over to a beat-up champagne-colored car, where his dad stood at the trunk holding up a battered tool kit. "Yes, I do!" I walked over to his dad, who said something in Spanish to his son. I explained to the man, in Spanish, what had happened to the car.
I drove the Prius next to his car, and he proceeded to get underneath the car and mess with tools, until he found the wrench he needed to take off the nuts that held the broken bumper on. As he worked, another man came over, and the mechanic explained what he was doing. I could tell that there were two families traveling together, probably, judging from their accents, originally from Mexico. In the man's car were his wife and kids, and the second man also had his family with him. All of them waited patiently while he worked under my bumper.
My boys got out of the car. The little boy who came up and talked to me struck up a conversation with my boys. "You guys speak English? Me too! I'm Daniel," he told them. "Our family's on our way to the beach. You're ten, too?"
His father continued to work. He carefully removed each bolt and put it back into the broken bumper. "I'm saving these so your husband can use them to put a new bumper back in," he told me in Spanish. It took this wonderful man at least thirty minutes to finish taking off the old bumper on the car. All the while, two carloads of strangers waited patiently for him to help me.
"How can I ever thank you?" I asked him as he was finishing up. "Can I fill your car up with gas as a thank you? Do you need any supplies?"
I felt such a profound gratitude in that moment, I wanted to do something, anything, to give him something back. A perfect stranger and by extension, two families, had given us such a gift, and I wanted to do something to even the huge gap. He wouldn't accept anything.
"Por eso estoy," he told me. "That's why I'm here."
I told him thank you as much as I could, and wished him a safe and fun trip to the beach. "Que Dios les bendiga," he told me, "God bless your family." "Igualmente," I told him, "Yours too."
They loaded up their car and both carloads of people drove away. I put the broken bumper pieces in the passenger seat and drove over to fill my car up with gas.
The gratitude I felt to that perfect stranger and his family engulfed me. He had done me an incredible service. This perfect stranger, whose name I still don't know, helped me out when I didn't know what to do. He refused anything in return.
Even though he didn't speak English very well (and had no idea that I spoke Spanish before he talked to me), he sent his son over to ask if I needed help. He probably didn't know if he had the right tools to help me or even what was wrong with my car. But he jumped in to help anyway.
There are lots of things money can buy, and in our society, we've monetized most of our transactions. If something of ours breaks, we take it to someone who can fix it, and pay them to do it. If we need a tool, we go buy one, new or secondhand.
But there's something that holds our society together that's more precious than anything you can purchase, and that's what I experienced on that Monday morning at a gas station somewhere outside of Columbia, South Carolina. A perfect stranger offered to do me a huge favor that I couldn't repay. I trusted a perfect stranger enough to take him up on that offer. Not only did he solve my car problem, he strengthened my faith in humanity.
Maybe that sounds like a grandiose conclusion, but I was floored by the man's kindness. I was amazed that his family took it all in nonchalantly, "Oh yes, our dad/husband's helping out somebody else today. We'll just wait patiently while he takes out her bumper." I'll probably never see that family again. They'll never see us. They'll probably never get any recognition or reward for anything they did for us. But he helped anyway, because, "por eso estoy."
When the Junior ThreeYears and I got back into our car, I told the boys that we had a responsibility to pay that man's kindness forward. Mr. ThreeYear and I have worked hard over the years to teach them financial responsibility and how to make good money decisions. But this was another kind of lesson they got today: how the kindness and generosity of a stranger, who expected and got nothing in return had impacted our lives. How being a citizen of humanity, and helping others, gives gifts that are far greater than anything our paltry financial system could come up with.
There are a lot of things money can buy. But I'm realizing that there are a few precious gifts that money can never purchase. I hope we're able to pass on such a gift of time, and selflessness, to someone in need very soon.


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How Lumina Uses Fundbox to Build Amazing Websites and Applications
Having run a web design firm in New York City for the last 11 years, Yaniv Liron knows a thing or two about how tough it can be for small business owners to get their hands on the cash they need to grow.
Founded as a software development company, Lumina has evolved over the last decade. In addition to its flagship offering, the company now provides web design, website development and marketing services, too. Through Lumina, Liron and his team of six solve their clients' web design and user experience problems.
"We build our customers beautiful, smart websites that seamlessly communicate with other systems, third-party applications and internal programs," Liron says, describing one of his firm's services.
Most folks who run small website design firms will tell you the same thing: Invoicing doesn't always go as planned. It's not uncommon for projects to fall behind schedule as clients change their minds or get caught up with other priorities. It's also not uncommon for clients to take longer than expected to pay their invoices.
The experience at Lumina has been no different. While some customers might pay their bills in a week or 30 days, others can take as long as six months to cut a check, Liron explains.
In search of a way to get quicker access to the cash sitting in Lumina's accounts receivable, Liron came across Fundbox. Liron decided to give Fundbox a shot because there wasn't any downside to simply trying it out. Unlike comparable services, Liron enjoyed the fact that Fundbox didn't run credit checks or put a lien on his business.
Once he made the decision to use Fundbox it was off to the races. After easily connecting Fundbox to QuickBooks, Lumina was able to begin advancing his invoices right away. And Liron hasn't looked back.
"When we get an advance from Fundbox, we use it to keep our business running—processing payroll or paying bills," Liron says.
"In my opinion, regular credit lines and bank loans have been replaced by Fundbox. The service means you don't have to wait for your customers to pay their bills to continue to run your business."
When you're waiting on a customer to pay their bill, you're unable to reap the benefits of all your hard work—even if you wrapped up a project weeks or even months ago, Liron explains. On the other hand, with access to the money you're owed, you're able to respond to new opportunities decisively instead of stalling until payments come in.
"That time is critical—it's time you could use to do something else like a new marketing campaign," he continues.
"With Fundbox, it takes two seconds to clear an invoice and another two seconds to pay it back. It's easy to work with on a continual basis."
Liron likes Fundbox because it has an intuitive interface and appealing design. It's easy to use, and there aren't too many opportunities for users to make mistakes. He's used other comparable services before but prefers Fundbox because it's transparent, simple and straightforward.
Any parting thoughts? Though the company provides a service that costs money, Fundbox still feels like a partner, Liron says.
"If the banks are the big sharks, Fundbox is the dolphin."


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Bombings in India Claim 18 Lives
Terrorist group reportedly took credit minutes before explosions took lives.
NEW DELHI, Sept. 13, 2008 -- Five blasts in the nation's capital killed at least 18 and injured more than 100 people in a span of 22 minutes earlier this evening.
The blasts began at 6:15 p.m., with the city center and markets crowded with people strolling as the day began to cool and the sun set.
"I was crossing the street when suddenly I was covered in a cloud of black smoke," said Rajiv Aarya, 32.
Aarya quickly realized what had occurred and began to help the injured, including a Hindu priest he had spoken with moments earlier. He said he pulled passengers out of a passing auto-rickshaw and loaded the injured into the vehicle to be taken to the hospital.
Aarya said that many of the injured he helped were seriously hurt, echoing what many witnesses reported which suggests the death toll could rise considerably.
The blasts are believed to have been caused by bombs packed with ball bearings, meant to incur maximum carnage. They exploded in and around the city centers of Connaught Place, Gaffer Market area of Karol Bagh and Greater Kailash.
Several bombs were reportedly defused, including one at India Gate, which is among the capital's most famous landmarks. Other markets throughout the city were closed and evacuated by police to protect the public.
A number of Indian media outlets received an e-mail sent just before the blasts warning that India was about to receive "the Message of Death," the Associated Press reported.
"In the name of Allah, Indian Mujahideen strikes back once more. ... Do whatever you can. Stop us if you can," said the message.
India has suffered a series of bomb attacks in the past year, most recently in Ahmedabad, Gujaret, where 22 small bombs killed 42 people on July 25. And tensions in the northernmost Indian state of Kashmir are the highest they have been in nearly a decade. Last month, a separatist leader was shot by police as about 100,000 Muslim Kashmiris tried to cross the hotly contested border between India and Pakistan.
The last major attack in Delhi was a coordinated bombing on October 29, 2005, that killed 59 people.