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Life is lived in color. We associate colors with feelings, places, even things and times of the day. A website, though a functioning thing of business, is also a piece of art. A good website is informative and functional; a great website is all of those things and visually pleasing as well. Your logo may have… Read more »


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Hunter offers a comprehensive line of alignment lifts including scissor, 4-post, pit racks, and RKHD power racks. When you choose a Hunter Alignment Lift, you can be sure that you are choosing a lift backed by a company that stands by its products. And of course, you have Ray-Jurgen's knowledgeable team by your side too!
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Ladies and Gentlemen!! Introducing... "Flip".
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The Relationship Between Emotions and Beliefs
What are Beliefs?
A belief is an internally held or publicly espoused commitment to a premise that may be knowable or completely unsupported by evidence. Importantly, this gamut of uncertainty is what distinguishes beliefs from knowledge. For example, most of us know and believe that the sky is blue, but if you believe it will rain tomorrow, you do not necessarily know it will rain. Thus, beliefs are often formed when someone ventures beyond the scope of their knowledge, and takes a risk by committing to a premise that may not be entirely supported.
Given the inherent risk, beliefs that are publicly stated often have non-trivial content, i.e. they concern topics that are important for the well-being or social status of the speaker. As a result, beliefs may be imbued with an emotional investment, such that if the belief is proven wrong, there will be an emotional cost.
Many psychologists view belief as an unscientific term that deserves to be phased out. Contradictory and ambiguous definitions may be to blame for this attitude. However, knowledge is even less well defined. For example, a skeptic would claim that we can never know we know anything. If this is the case, then knowledge is merely a well-supported belief that we falsely ascribe the comforting notion of certainty to.
The Purpose of Beliefs
Beliefs may function to advertise your unique characteristics as a mate. The beliefs you hold will distinguish you from other potential partners. This allows like-minded members of the opposite sex to pick you from the crowd, which helps to guarantee a stable relationship in which a child can be brought up successfully. Natural selection should favor extensive belief formation, as this will improve the process of mate selection, and the quality of the child-rearing environment.
How Are Beliefs Learned?
Many of the beliefs we hold have been borrowed from individuals who demonstrate authority or prestige. This includes parents, celebrities, historical figures, politicians, and community leaders. For example, children will overwhelmingly adopt the religious beliefs of their parents. Another natural means of belief adoption is our propensity to conform with the majority.
Ignoring these sources of belief can negatively affect well-being. For example, one could be disowned by their parents, ostracized by society, or destined for failure as a result of choosing maladaptive beliefs. Natural selection has filtered those who are disposed to this behavior from the gene pool, leaving the human race with a disposition for conformity and prestige-based mimicry. An added benefit is the ease with which these types of beliefs are formed. If we assume that the popularity or success of a belief makes it reliable, our mental resources are spared the difficulty of testing it.
Nevertheless, niche beliefs can be attractive if the benefits outweigh the costs. Indeed, if beliefs demonstrate one's unique characteristics as a mate, then pandering to the majority isn't always an effective strategy. However, it's likely that most niche beliefs will be adopted from models of authority or prestige for the aforementioned reasons.
How Are Beliefs Formed?
Sometimes a belief will be formed using one's own cognitive faculties, with little or no influence from other people.
Perhaps the rarest mode of belief formation is that which relies on empirical observation and universal systems of logic to make `rational' deductions about one's environment. Not surprisingly, most people claim to exclusively use this method. Indeed, people wish to be seen as impartial because it gives their opinion extra weight. Even if someone has made a rational deduction, accusing them of being irrational will provoke an emotional defense. Thus, it may be impossible to form a belief without the influence of emotion, because even rational beliefs are a source of pride.
A more common form of belief formation is motivated reasoning (PDF). This is often used to reinforce prior beliefs or knowledge that one has an emotional stake in. For example, if a patriot extracts pride from the belief that her country is great, she will be more inclined to believe stories that show her country in a good light. In the same way, religious people are inclined to believe Intelligent Design because it supports prior beliefs that they are emotionally invested in. The purpose is to fool oneself rather than others. Indeed, if a new belief agrees with preexisting beliefs, it appears to be rational, and the motivation for forming it can be ignored.
As well as reinforcing positive emotions, motivated reasoning can be used to cope with negative emotions. For example, sitting in a hospital bed might intensify one's fear of death. This should create a motivation to believe in an afterlife, prompting a biased search for information that can be used to support the premise. Whether the individual reads holy books and theological articles, or listens to priests and religious groups; the goal is to convince themselves that, if they believed in an afterlife, their belief would be rational. If these mental gymnastics can be performed, the new belief serves to alleviate the negative emotion that triggered the process of motivated reasoning.
Intuitive and Reflective Beliefs
Cognitive scientists usually separate beliefs into intuitive and reflective states. For example, a man observing a lady smile at her companion's behavior may form the reflective belief that replicating this behavior would be useful during a romantic encounter. However, this relies on the intuitive belief that a smile is an expression of happiness. Intuitive beliefs are automatically treated as data. They include folk beliefs such as `solid objects cannot occupy the same space' and `other people have beliefs and desires that are separate from my own'.
Ineraction Between Emotions and Beliefs
Our beliefs influence how we perceive, interpret, and construct the world. As a result, beliefs are central to the production and transformation of emotional states. According to cognitive appraisal theory, emotions are elicited when we evaluate stimuli in our environment. This evaluation includes questions such as "does this stimulus help or inhibit my goals?" and "can i cope with it?". Negative answers should produce an unpleasant emotion, but if we are to answer these questions, beliefs are required about the nature of the stimulus. For example, feeling anxious during a romantic encounter requires beliefs about how one is expected to behave, and whether one's behavior matches that ideal. If these beliefs are wrong, one's emotional state may be unduly affected.
As we have seen, emotions also affect the beliefs we form, suggesting a recurrent interplay between the two cognitions. In fact, some emotions may be especially able to facilitate the formation of new beliefs. For example, anxiety is appraised whenever a non-trivial, uncertain threat to well-being is detected. This describes many of the conditions under which new beliefs form. As such, there should be no greater emotional influence on beliefs than anxiety.
Wishful Thinking?
David Hume described beliefs as perfectly inert states that cannot produce or prevent action. Conversely, pragmatist philosophers have described beliefs as that upon which we are prepared to act. If this is the case, what compels us to act on our beliefs? The deductions made thus far would suggest that if beliefs bias the direction of our behavior, emotions provide the impetus for it.
What we end up believing is invariably what we most want to believe. Though some desirable premises are plausible, many are merely a prelude to wishful thinking. Indeed, if you wish to measure someone's lack of delusion, just ask them how many unwelcome beliefs they have.
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Thanks Bobby ... I often thought, emotions should primarily serve us as an indicator of being alive, if not used for more intellectual reflection and examination to advance our minds past the dominant impact emotions can have upon our limited grasp of reality.
F Hruz, your insights ring true to me. I'm glad that I am following Thomas's posts. Blessings, Bobby
Selecting between gaining more insight into how to better cope with reality or to be happy living in an irrational world full of religious, nationalistic and politically motivated symbolism is exactly the kind of value judgment any truly independent thinking being has to make if they ever want to discover the process of personal intellectual development.
An understanding of how things are, has to ultimately create the desire for positive change if our insights into the state of reality have any value.
Hi Thomas, Thank you for your kind and comprehensive answer to my poorly worded comment. You brilliantly deciphered my comment and quickly got to the heart of the subject. I agree with you on both accounts, though I still find myself somewhere in the middle. Blessings, Bobby
Great hub, but I think its way over my head. I'm still scratching it, lol. As of late, I am compelled to believe most of my beliefs come from deep within my subconscious. Very few of them are grounded in the past teachings, actions or deductions that once seemed to make up the majority of my belief processes. So, it appears that I of course invariably believe what I most want to believe, and I think that's why I am pretty happy with myself and the world around me. Blessings, and I'm voting this up, and I will be back to reread it again :)
if you wish to measure someone's lack of delusion, just ask them how many unwelcome beliefs they have.
Well, if you consider our daily activities as us performing that which will place us in a position that will allow us to gain or avoid any given result that as been preconceived as a potential, the story line theory may begin to hold more weight. This is the root of Alfred Adler's understanding of the concept of "fictions": We proceed through life acting "As if" something will occur. But because the "something" may or may not really happen, it all remains in the state of being a fiction, or something not yet validated as fact.
It makes it all that much more important to expose the mind polluters as evil manipulators in our consumption driven society who are retarding any real intellectual development on a broader scale ...
The frailty of the human mind should not be permitted to be continuously exploited by a for-profit capitalist mind set and institutionally brainwashed to conform to such a low level of social and political awareness as to become impotent and dysfunctional in a radically self-correcting process of social and political change ... a movement which is hard to find in this debilitated social culture and political environment in the US of today.
You have very resolved thoughts, i likes it and lot to learn from you.
In the book, "Logics of the Kingdom", which will be published in the near future, I describe the cognitive and emotional domains as structured like the distinct fields in the electromagnetic force: The electric field and the magnetic field are perpendicular to one another, with a change in one effecting a change in the other. If our thoughts change in response to environmental stimuli, the magnetic response of repulsion or attraction occurs as a result; and if our emotional attraction or repulsion occurs in response to a person, place, or thing, the electric field, which governs our thoughts, is known to change as well.
In terms of beliefs, there is undeniable power in belief; all we need to do is gather the countless evidences of the placebo effect as having had a substantial effect on any given experiment. Beliefs also are tied to the story lines that people ascribe to their own lives, as well as to the lives of others. While these beliefs may not be verifiably "true", when you think about discoveries in general and the knowledge gained and dismissed because of "new and improved" discoveries, one may begin to see that the line between "knowledge" and "belief" is actually quite thin.
Great job well done! You are heading in the right direction by questioning the imposed value of conformity and traditional authority as a retarding factor in the evolution of our mind set.
Human conditioning in a perverse, consumption driven environment introduces highly irrational values and virtually eliminates, or at least, greatly reduces the sense of importance for greater objectivity and intellectual independence as an immensely desirable quality in ones perception of a more dynamic and progressive hierarchy of values in a socially productive, modern society.
Great hub and very interesting read. Values and beliefs are everything.


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I believe I speak not only for myself when I declare that Thursday night at 7 PM can't come too soon. At that time—prime time on ESPN—the NFL draft will finally begin and the sports pages of America will suspend their frolic through the enchanted forest of what if?
They're going out with a bang. In Thursday's Tribune I count eight features contemplating the draft, round one of which (the only round held tonight) will find the Bears (in all likelihood) drafting a single player, who will not take the field in a game that matters for another four months. By contrast, there are two stories about the Blackhawks, who are in the thick of the NHL playoffs and trying to defend the Stanley Cup.
Up to a point, it's been fun to read and talk about whom the Bears might draft, to imagine this gifted young athlete sending the team straight to the Super Bowl, or, conversely, falling on his keister, confirming beyond any dispute your conviction that the team is run by nincompoops. But there is only so much that can be written about any event that hasn't happened yet, that when it happens almost certainly won't unfold along the lines anyone has predicted, and that might not matter much anyway.
For instance, standard fare in the run-up to the draft is the "mock draft." The Thursday Tribune offered its "mock draft 2.0," which was its mock draft 1.0 upon further reflection. The Tribune offered a mock draft 2.0 last year too, the round-one draft picks for all 32 teams. It got 27 of them wrong.
Meanwhile, the Sun-Times, which on Thursday offered a mere five stories on the draft, dabbled in numerology. Fourteen has been a mystical number on Chicago sports pages in recent days, the Bears having the 14th pick in the draft's first round. The number's been examined every which way, and on Thursday the Sun-Times looked back at how the 14th picks over the past decade have worked out for their teams.
If you stop to think about it, this intriguing exercise reveals nothing whatsoever, except that 14th picks work out well when teams draft smartly and not so well when they don't. A better idea would be to go back through the last ten drafts and list all the all-pro NFLers drafted after the 14th pick. Bears GM Phil Emery won't lack for talent when he drafts, regardless of who's been drafted already. The problem is that if he's not sure who whose players are, neither are the scribes who would hold his feet to the fire if they did.
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Turning a New Leaf is a mix of multi-chrome flakes in orange-copper-gold, and blue-turquoise, plus a heavy helping of holographic gold micro-glitter, and aurora shimmer in purple-copper-green.
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This assortment of patches and plugs provides you with the tools & materials needed to repair and re-inflate your tire on the spot. Once again, dismounting tools are necessary to repair or replace your tube. But the enclosed Rasp and Split-Eye Tool allows you to plug your tubeless tire on the wheel. No bending or twisting is necessary. You simply push the plug straight into the puncture and pull the tool straight out. A twist of the Rasp tool inserted in the needle eye releases the plug.
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A great way to make the most out of your traffic, you want to do a variety of landing page testing. If people are already on your page, you want to make sure you increase your chances that those people convert.
Of course, it'd be pretty easy to get people to convert once they've made it to your page. At least, that's the idea, right? But, it seems that isn't the case, as six out of seven A/B tests fail to produce positive results according to VWO.
If you're bringing people to the correct page, you're obviously doing something right, but it isn't the testing strategy that's flawed, it's the fact you're bringing in the wrong traffic. If the target audience is wrong, then you can't produce the meaningful results you 're meaning to produce.
Jacob Baadsgaard has written up an article that explains to us why we need to take a close look at the traffic we bring in to our web pages and why we need to be selective on who we advertise to.
Check out Jacob's post on Marketing Land below and see why getting the right traffic matters and how to get the right traffic coming to your landing pages.
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JRock attended the ISSMA (Indiana State School Music Association) Solo and Ensemble event today and took Silver in the Solo Division. (He was one point from a gold.)
For those of you who wish to hear him sing, while the ticket prices are low (where's a smilie when you need one?), he sits in on a set the first and third Friday's of the month, at the Muddy Boots Cafe, in Nashville, Indiana.


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Sicilia Integra: The Context
Each year thousands of men, women and children attempt a dangerous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Many of them are trying to escape poverty, climate impact and war in their home countries. From January to December 2015, the total number of refugees and migrants arriving in Italy by sea was around 153,850 persons (Italy – Sea Arrivals, UNHCR UPDATE #4, December 2015). Key disembarkation points in 2015 were Sicilian ports which have been identified as hotspots with 83,017 migrants arrivals (UNHCR 2016). Despite efforts being made, existing approaches to protection have proven singularly unable to find solutions for long-term displaced populations. Humanitarian responses in refugee situations have been criticised for focusing too heavily on the 'care and maintenance' of refugee populations, leaving refugees essentially 'warehoused' for years on end, their lives in limbo, with little focus on long-term, sustainable solutions.
Sicily, in its central position in the Mediterranean, has always been a crossroads of cultures and agriculture. It has the largest surface area (280,448 hectares) of fertile organic land, the highest number of organic operators (9,888 producers/processors) in Italy (SINAB, 2014) and one of the richest concentrations of biodiversity in Europe. Despite the concentration of abandoned agricultural land, in recent years there has been a revival of traditional methods of agriculture with farmers saving over 40 varieties of wheat.
Sicily still bears the impact of the economic recession of 2008 and is the poorest region in Italy with 54.4% of Sicilians living below the poverty threshold (ISTAT), and youth unemployment over 40% (ISTAT). The fragile state of the economy has significantly reduced the capacity of Sicily's labour market to absorb the continuous flow of migrant job-seekers. Furthermore this flow obliges Sicilian institutions to deal with their integration while interacting with a range of social, religious and cultural complexities.
In Sicily there is an urgent need for integrated approaches that support the socio-economic integration of the growing flux of migrants while promoting new sustainable trends to enhance Sicilian local economy. Riace in Calabria has demonstrated how integration of migrants into an existing Italian society is possible. In 1998 when 200 Kurds fleeing the Turkish-Kurdish conflict landed on a beach near Riace, a small village with an ageing population, it was in danger of becoming extinct. Today a quarter of the population is comprised of immigrants who have been given new homes and a new start in life.
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More companies added to short-sale protection list
NEW YORK -- The number of companies temporarily protected from short selling soared from 799 to more than 900 on Monday as the two top stock exchanges added widely traded firms, including American Express axp, General Electric ge and General Motors gm, to a list that the SEC put out on Friday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission hopes to prevent a run on financial-services companies by temporarily limiting the ability of traders to bet that their shares will decline. Short sellers borrow and sell stock held by other people; they profit when they can repurchase the shares later at a lower price before returning them to the owner.
In a press release on Friday, the SEC said that "unbridled short selling is contributing to the recent, sudden price declines" in financial institutions' shares. It added that they are "particularly vulnerable to this crisis of confidence and panic selling."
The SEC halted short-selling in designated firms through Oct. 2. The restriction could be extended for a total of up to 30 days.
It also told the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market that they could include other companies. "We're not trying to maintain a master list," says SEC spokesman John Heine.
That led to a flurry of activity over the weekend.
For example, the NYSE sent a blast e-mail asking members to determine whether they met seven criteria set up by the SEC. The exchange now has added 71 names, including Credit Suisse Group cs, Discover Financial Services dfs, Legg Mason lm and Moody's mco.
Monday afternoon, the NYSE added 40 companies to the morning's list of 31, with late additions including Met Life met, McGraw-Hill mhp, Ford Motor f and student loan company SLM Corp. slm "It's kind of a fluid situation," says NYSE spokesman Scott Peterson.
Nasdaq added 66 companies, including Commerce Bancshares cbsh, Fifth Third Bancorp fitb, Insure.com nsur and State Bancorp stbc.
Short sellers say that the SEC acted too hastily, as evidenced by the changes on the protected list.
"There's no real discussion about who gets on the list, or why," says Richard Baker, CEO of the Managed Funds Association, which represents hedge funds. "It doesn't make market sense."
What's more, he says that the SEC hasn't shown that short sellers contributed to recent problems at financial institutions.
"What are we solving?" Baker says. "If you think somebody's manipulating (the market), then let's go get them."
David Tice, manager of the Prudent Bear Fund, says that the exchanges may have added companies that just want to keep their stock prices up. "There are probably some requests from managers who say, 'This sounds good. Put me on the list.' "
Meanwhile, sellers are being unfairly vilified: "Short sellers have been warning about the excesses caused by Wall Street for more than a decade," Tice says.
The additions to the ban list came the same day that financial-services companies led another big slide in the stock market in which the Dow Jones industrial average fell 373 points to 11,016.


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Bringing hope to the homeless one soccer ball at a time
By: MEGAN LANE
Walking into the Routhier Community Centre gym on a Wednesday afternoon in March, you wouldn't know that the five men playing soccer were homeless. Smiling, they pass the balls between partners or against the wall, waiting for their coach to start practice. Ryan Grenon sits on the bench at the side, discussing the plan for the day's practice with two other volunteers, then walks to the middle of the gym to get started.
It could have been any team in the Ottawa Footy Sevens soccer league, but the Ottawa Street Soccer team is made up of people who have lived or are living on the street or in shelters. Team volunteer Melissa Linkletter says the sport is a means for social change.
"When you play soccer, there is no real divide," Linkletter says. "I could be playing with people and I wouldn't even know they were homeless. It takes away the social aspects of life for a while."
The use of soccer as a rehabilitation tool for people currently on the streets or at risk of homelessness has grown significantly over the past years. Since the first annual Homeless World Cup in 2003, 56 countries have joined the movement, sending players from different street leagues to represent their countries in the international sporting event.
The Homeless World Cup is an annual soccer tournament held in a different country each year. It gives homeless players an opportunity that they would not normally have.
Last year the event was held in Mexico, and in 2013 it will be held in Poland.
Team Canada chooses four western players and four eastern players to make up their team. Often these players do not have the chance to practice with each other until they arrive at the Homeless World Cup.
Research suggests events such as the Homeless World Cup can transform the lives of those participating.
After the 2007 Homeless World Cup in Denmark, 93 per cent of players felt a new motivation for life and 83 per cent had improved their housing situation, according to research done by Stanford University.
"In sports everybody has bad days, everybody loses games, and everybody practises and improves," says Joel Leviton, manager of Ottawa Rec Sports. "Failure is not only not a big deal, it doesn't define you and you can always bounce back, get better, and win next time."
These are potentially life-changing lessons for a group of people that are often misjudged by society.
Virgil Goosehead started playing street soccer in Vancouver before getting the opportunity to play for Team Canada in the 2011 Homeless World Cup, which took place in France.
"The experience was amazing," Goosehead says. "It was my first time ever leaving Canada and to go to Paris was unbelievable."
Goosehead says street soccer is a great motivator.
"The change is tremendous," he says. "Before, I had an anger problem. I got in fights, like real fist-fighting. My coach made me learn that in the game when you get mad, you just use skills to make the other player look silly and it makes you feel better about yourself."
Since his Homeless World Cup experience, Goosehead says he has a better life, a home and a great relationship with his son.
"Unlike other prescriptive programs like AA, street soccer is about people's strengths," says Paul Gregory, founder of Street Soccer Canada. "It allows them to engage in a positive activity where they are not expected to do anything except play soccer."
The Homeless World Cup was founded by Mel Young of Scotland in 2003. Young is often asked: Why spend money on a sports program rather than a housing program?
"It is not taking money away from programs like shelters. This is new money," Young says via Skype. "The money comes from sponsors – sporting companies like Nike whose money wouldn't have been in this sector otherwise."
Each Homeless World Cup costs approximately $2 million, according to Young. Compared with the costs of other international sporting events, he says the overall costs are quite low.
A homeless person in New York City uses an average of $40,000 a year in public services, according to research done by the University of Pennsylvania. Young says that in the end, the Homeless World Cup actually saves taxpayers money, because 70 per cent of players change their lives significantly after becoming involved.
"It's not the total solution," Gregory says. "More housing is absolutely needed. However, I think long-term and affordable housing is needed rather than emergency shelters."
The Ottawa Street Soccer volunteers work hard to find partners to keep their costs low. The Ottawa Footy Sevens gives them a team space in their league, while, city-councillors and the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board provide gym space for winter practices.
Soccer is considered a summer sport by many players. Ottawa Street Soccer volunteer Shannon Malcolm says summer practices can draw up to 50 players.
"When we play outside in the summer, things are always upbeat and happening," says Alfred, a player for the Ottawa Street Soccer team. "The games are up-tempo and quite fun. I would like to be able to play as often as possible. In fact, I have near perfect attendance."
Young estimates that over 100,000 homeless people are involved in these types of soccer programs around the world. Though there is no exact count of how many people play in Canada, Gregory says around 13 Canadian cities have teams or leagues.
"It's about creating change by engaging the players and getting them off the streets," Young says.
Former Team Canada coach Alan Bates has seen these success stories personally.
"I see them after they have been playing for a while and they have gotten jobs or found homes," Bates says. "It is a great thing and as a psychologist by profession, it is amazing to see the benefits."
Players not only benefit from the experience personally, but often return to support the teams. Young says it is not uncommon to see former players come back to the cup as coaches.
After participating in the 2011 Homeless World Cup, Goosehead and former Team Canada captain Patrick Oleman returned to the Vancouver Street Soccer League to start two new teams of their own.
"I am not going to give it up," Goosehead says. "I don't want to stop helping people through street soccer."
Goosehead says that street soccer is never about winning, but about meeting people and getting involved.
Back at the Routhier Community Centre gym, Earl reminds his Ottawa Street Soccer teammate, "It's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball."
After running through a series of stretches and passing drills, the Ottawa Street Soccer team finishes off their practice with a three-on-three game – no goalies. Switching teams halfway through so everyone gets a chance to practise with each other, the game ends as many street sports do: the next goal wins.
As the practice comes to a close, players hang around the gym for another half an hour discussing their lives and their upcoming game on Friday night.
"I hope someone can see that I came from living in a shelter and on the streets," Goosehead says. "And if I can do it, they need to see that they can do it too."


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Topic: Fearful (08/23/07)
TITLE: The Intruder | Previous Challenge Entry
By Lynda Lee Schab
But she couldn't move.
If she did, she would be a goner, for sure. Either from a heart attack or from the intruder, lurking just outside the door. She shuddered, violently. Ouch! Shuddering certainly didn't help her back situation.
But as much as she craved to stretch out her aches and pains, Ruth stayed put, cramped inside her tiny apartment's laundry room - which was actually a closet - pressed up against the dryer. Oh, if only she had held out for an apartment with a full sized laundry room.
At least she had seen the intruder first and had time to escape before he caught sight of her. She didn't want to think about what could have happened if he'd caught her unaware...
Another shudder. Another shooting pain up her back. Ruth tried quietly shifting her weight to her other foot but it didn't provide much relief.
She put a hand to her chest and concentrated on taking deep breaths. Slow and steady...quietly. In...out...in...out.
Ruth didn't want to watch but couldn't help herself. She'd seen enough movies to know closing her eyes was not an option. Better to observe his every move so she would have the advantage. So she peered through the slit between the doors.
Oh-oh. He was on the move.
Ruth followed him with her widened eyes. Back and forth, back and forth. What is he doing? She wished he'd stand still long enough for her to get a good look. As scary as it was for her to look at him, she wanted to memorize as much as she could, in case she was later asked for a description so the intruder could be caught. But he wouldn't slow down.
Oh no. Where did he go? He disappeared from her line of vision. Ruth desperately strained to catch a glimpse of him again but to no avail.
Her heart picked up speed again. What if he's right outside the closet? What if he's getting ready to attack me? What if...
A door slammed.
"Ruth? Honey? Are you home?" Patrick.
Fear and relief washed over her at once. But she had to warn her husband.
"Ruth?" Suddenly, everything grew dark as her husband's six-foot frame stepped in front of the closet.
"In here," she whispered.
Ruth squinted at the light as Patrick opened the doors, his brow creased in confusion. Then his face softened. "Another spider?" he asked.
Ruth swallowed hard and nodded. She poked her head around the corner, eyes darting away from her husband's face and to the floor, in search of the intruder. She pressed a hand to her aching back.
Patrick chuckled. "Which way did he go?"
Ruth pointed.
Patrick leaned forward and kissed her forehead. He shut the closet doors. "I'll let you know when it's safe to come out."
Ruth breathed a sigh of relief, her heart finally slowing to a normal rhythm.
"Are you sure it went this way? I don't see it!" Patrick called.
Her heart contracted. Panic seized her again and a line of sweat trickled down the side of her face.
Wait a minute. Was that sweat?
Or was it...
Could it be...
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How to Add Freon to a 1999 Pontiac Grand Amby Kyle Sanstrom
The pressure in the air conditioning system on a 1999 Pontiac Grand Am must be between 25 and 45 psi. When the pressure falls below 25 psi, the system will not produce sufficiently cool air. If the pressure is greater than 45 psi, damage to the system can occur. The air conditioning system requires R-134a refrigerant; this refrigerant must be added periodically in order to maintain the proper pressure level. R-134a refrigerant is available at most auto parts or home and garden stores.
Step 1
Drive the vehicle until the engine reaches operating temperature. Place the transmission in "Park" and allow the engine to idle.
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Apply the parking brake and open the hood. Turn the air conditioning selector knob to "Max A/C" and place the blower fan on its highest setting.
Step 3
Locate the blue low-pressure port cap and remove it (you will find it attached to the low-pressure port fitting, on top of the large diameter aluminum refrigerant line located to the left of the air conditioning compressor).
Step 4
Connect one end of the in-line refrigerant pressure gauge to the low pressure port. Connect the other end to the refrigerant canister.
Step 5
Record the reading on the pressure gauge.
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Rotate the refrigerant canister until it is upside-down. Gradually tighten the refrigerant release valve until it punctures the seal on the R-134a refrigerant canister. Monitor the pressure gauge. Loosen the release valve to stop the flow of refrigerant once the pressure gauge displays a reading of 45 psi.
Remove the pressure gauge and replace the low-pressure port cap. Check the temperature of the air inside the vehicle to make sure it is sufficiently cool.
Items you will need
- In-line refrigerant pressure gauge
- R-134a refrigerant canister
- "Haynes Repair Manual: Pontiac Grand Am: 1999 thru 2003"; John Haynes and Jay Storer; 2005
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After working for a few days I find this face mask perfect as it really gets all the dirt and grime out of my skin. It refreshes and makes my skin feel so much better so I use this face mask once a week to give my face a good deep cleanse and refresh it.
What is perfect about this face mask is that you can use it all over the skin for a full face deep cleanse or you can just apply it too areas of the face that need a little detox. For example, a lot of the time I will just apply it too my nose or my forehead and leave for 5-10 minutes then rinse, as these are the areas of my face that get spotty and need a little detox.
I find the packaging of this L'Oreal face mask as it looks and feels more expensive than it is. It also holds a lot of product so you get a lot of uses out of this.
Overall I really like this face mask and I would defiantly purchase again as well as trying out the other facemasks from this range. I find it a good, affordable mask that you can use a lot on different areas of the face.
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Britain's social fabric rests on a strong bedrock of democratic political discussion. The freedom to debate and argue the issues of the day, great and small, gives lasting strength to our elected institutions.
That bedrock is threatened by those who abuse open debate and stir up prejudice and fear. Such activities make individuals the targets of violence and abuse. They obscure the real issues at stake, sowing mistrust and misunderstanding instead of open, public debate in which all can take part. Such activities, and those who pursue them, should be rejected by all.
Every voter wants to know that an election campaign was a fair one, however hard and passionately it may have been fought. Every voter has the right to the facts upon which to base their decision on the rival solutions offered by different candidates. Every candidate has the right to have their proposals considered objectively. Everyone working for the public has the right to have their efforts judged on the basis of information that is as objective as possible, not on supposition.
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Hebron Crossroads 10-7
by Jeff Gill
Harvestime is all around us; the soybeans have gone from yellow to brown, the corn stalks tan from grey-green. With those transformations, the farm equipment is out in the fields not from dawn to dusk, but from can-do to can't-any-longer.
In the fields around Hebron, coming home from late night meetings, I see headlights out in places where I know headlights can't be. At home after what I like to think of as a long day, I'm seeing the harvesters out describing ever-decreasing rectangles in the fields behind our house, the floodlit arcs shortening and lengthening across the back window.
Folks, that's the next step towards your corn flakes and tofu, your tortillas and organic plastics, feed for milk cows and beef cattle. As the bumper sticker says, "If you ate today, thank a farmer!" Just don't try calling them at home the next few weeks.
A few recent conversations have pointed out to me that not everyone knows what's going on out in those dustplumed combines by day and brightly lit harvesters at night. Harvest is when the farmers go out in fields and start "bringing in the sheaves," so to speak. Right now the corn and soybeans are ready for harvest, but wheat and hay have come in weeks ago for many, and the pumpkin crop I think we all know just came ripe.
The trick with corn and beans is the moisture content: too much water content and the crop could rot in storage, increasing the necessary expense of drying, but wait too long for everything to get good and dry, and you run an increased risk of storms flattening the plants so that mechanical harvesting can't work. There's more to it than this brief description indicates, but the point to keep in mind is that timing harvest is just as tricky – or just as much of a science mixed with luck, if you like – as planting. Too early, too late. . .too bad.
Ohio doesn't need riverboat gambling or an expansion of the lottery when we've already got farming!
Devine Farms had a great first weekend of "pumpkin season," and Martha Fickel had the Drama Club gang out running the concessions for Ralph and Charla as a fund raiser. You'll recognize the hot dog makers and cider pourers from "The Music Man" and "Guys and Dolls" down at Lakewood High, or you will recognize them when you go see "A Christmas Carol" later on this year.
The corn maze is a little smaller than some of the multi-acre works of art around Licking County you've seen featured in these pages. If you have a four year old, that's a good thing!
Chris ran up and down the blind alleys and roundabouts with glee, looking a bit confused at times, but quickly reassured by a glance over his shoulder to confirm Dad was still there and smiling. Dad, of course, could look so confident because he could see the barn roofs over the top of the corn stalks, and from his better vantage point stayed oriented. The little guy could only see corn (or "cown" as he regularly shouted), but trusted the big guy to not let him get too far lost.
Obvious metaphor alert. . .i'll just let you fill in the rest of that meditation.
We don't normally cross-promote between the Booster and the Advocate, even though we're corporate cousins, but this is really just a trip out to the recycle bag in the garage for many of you. Last Sunday (Sept. 29), on page 5D, John Skinner had a great old story about Hebron and Henry Clay back in the early 1800's.
He references "the Licking Arms, a hostelry in Hebron" as the location for a tale of duels, derring-do, and dauntlessness. You'll have to find the article to get the whole story, but Henry Clay certainly could have stayed the night in pre-Civil War Hebron; he's featured on historical markers all along both the National Road from Wheeling to Columbus, and down the Zane Trace, such as on the marker in Tarleton between here and Chilicothe.
You should remember Clay from your American History classes as one of the early great Congressional figures, a man who would "rather be right than President," and who along with Daniel Webster helped negotiate the Missouri Compromise, but later came down solidly as anti-slavery, dooming his chances for the White House in the 1840's and 50's.
This and other stories may soon be told in cases within the lobby of the Hebron Municipal Complex, as Larry Rodgers of the Hebron Historical Society and Mike McFarland are working at providing some display space and artifacts there. We'll let you know as those plans develop, or you can just drop in on their meetings on the first Monday of the month at 7:30 pm in the Masonic Building on N. High St.
The first 50 years of Hebron were wild and wooly ones, and there are many more stories to be told about these Hebron Crossroads!
Jeff Gill is pastor of Hebron Christian Church and a semi-professional pumpkin carver. If you have recipes for roast pumpkin seeds or other seasonal delicacies, send them to firstname.lastname@example.com or call 928-4066.
Tuesday, October 01, 2002
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International Order and Justice
International Criminal Accountability and
Children's Rights
Children have been the most vulnerable and at risk in armed conflicts. The situations in Darfur, D.R. Congo, the Philippines, Nepal, Columbia and many others tragically illustrate this fact. This study is a pioneering attempt to unite the two concepts of international criminal accountability and child rights.
It addresses the difficult dilemma that –children should be entitled to justice no less than adults, but testifying in courtrooms may add to—not alleviate—their trauma; and strongly recommends the development of specific child witness protection measures in the practice of tribunals.
It explores the extent to which international law instruments and international criminal accountability mechanisms are potentially useful for countering violations of child rights in and after armed conflict and demonstrates various efforts by the UN organs to ensure effective protection for children exposed to war, including the combat against the recruitment of child soldiers.
The study also addresses an additional dilemma of whether or not child soldiers should be prosecuted. It argues that accountability does not necessarily require criminal proceedings, and recommends that participation in reconciliation, rather than imprisoning of former child soldiers, would be a constructive way for societal re-integration.
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One of the most frequent homeschooling questions I get is how I plan our year, and I'm ready to get started planning for 2016/17 with the new Hey Mama! Print Schoolhouse Planner 2016-2017 from The Old Schoolhouse, so it's the perfect opportunity to talk about both!
When I plan my school year, I typically start by spending a bajillion dollars on curriculum. When we first started, I custom-made a lot of my own stuff to go along with a memory-based program we were using, but when I got sick, I started trading more money for less of my time on that front. I've been very fortunate to be gifted curriculum as friends outgrow it, and to find it used, so that's always a plus when it happens. Each child needs math, science (determined by our coop), history, language arts (reading, spelling, grammar, writing), foreign language (we do Arabic), music, physical education, and any specials they are doing (such as typing, handwriting, art, and computer science). Once I have all of that, I put it in a laundry basket.
I did not say that this was a high-tech method of planning.
Then the goal is to determine what activities we'll have next year- for example, I outsource music education, so piano lessons or choir will have to be scheduled in. Our science coop meets on every other Friday, but not in December, so that gets factored in. Then I'm ready to actually start planning. I usually follow the suggested scope and sequence for each program, deciding how many hours a week we'll devote to each subject to determine what needs to be done each day to finish school in the time we work (Full school is August-May, we do reading and mathematics year-round).
This is where my planner comes in. I've used lots of different methods, everything from a cheap $5 planner from the store to a spreadsheet on the computer. The method I've found I love the most is planning the whole year on a spreadsheet and then transferring my lessons for the week into my physical planner. I realize that this sounds like double the work, but summer planning doesn't keep what I'm teaching each week fresh, so I'd rather spend a little time on Sunday night writing in what I'm doing the next week so that I know what we're working on and any special setup or supplies I need. That hour or so of time on Sunday night I spend prepping for the week helps my days to run smoothly as I print out any worksheets, make any copies, and do any additional prep or research that I need. This method also makes it so that if something goes wrong (and it always does) I haven't "messed up" my whole planner. If someone gets the flu, struggles with a math concept, the Arabic tutor goes on vacation, or whatever, I am able to easily bump things in my spreadsheet, erase the incorrect day or two, and move on like nothing ever happened.
So, what makes this planner worth $29 (which includes shipping)?
The extras. They're what not only encourage you through your year (I don't care if you homeschool or don't, that last week before winter break is a bear and a half! And February. Who decided that dreary month should be a thing?) The Hey Mama! Planner includes devotionals, writing prompts, story ideas, and my favorite, even timelines of colonies, inventions, states, and more. What makes it especially useful for homeschool moms are the attendance tracker, notes for transcripts, and weekly/monthly goals.
Why's it called the "Hey Mama" Planner? Because it talks to you in that "hey, girl" kind of way! Here's a sample:
With plenty of space to write and track everything you need as a homeschooler, I think you'll love the "Hey Mama! Print Schoolhouse Planner. I also very much appreciate that this planner runs from July, so if you are year-round like we are, you won't have to switch mid-school year to a new planner, which drives me batty!
CREWCODE will let US customers claim their planner for $19, through July 15th, which includes shipping. If you're not a paper person, SchoolHouseTeachers.com also offers a digital version.


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Cornerstone Credentials: Kanye West
We all know Kanye West raps — and sometimes directs short films — but the Chicago superstar wants to make it clear that he's still a problem behind the boards.
'Ye is responsible for some of the most soulful hip-hop tracks of all time, from Beanie Sigel's wailing "Nothing Like It" and Talib Kweli's thunderous "Get By" to Shyne's eerie "More or Less." But, without question, his best work has been with his big brother, Jay-Z — a fact that some people still sleep on, Yeezy said.
"You know what's so bugged?" he said. "I had a friend that didn't realize I produced the last Jay-Z album. Because I'm such a notorious pop character, such a hated guy, or a loved guy, controversial or whatever it is, that people kind of forget that I sit and work hard as hell on beats. I listened to CDs for three days to find the 'Live Fast Die Young' sample, which was 'If This World Were Mine' flipped by the Bar-Kays. And I loved the sample so much that I played it for two days. Just over and over and over, and I thought about it and said, 'Claps. I want handclaps to go with this sample. That's what I need to juxtapose it and not make it just some takeoff of a '94 hip-hop song, but to make it a 2010, 2011, 2012 futuristic version of itself.' And I started the claps and put the 'hey, hey, hey' and the drums, and I just programmed it. It's kind of important for people to realize I'm a producer also."
Next up, Kanye will be wrapping up his forthcoming album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and then producing his and Jay-Z's collaborative project, Watch the Throne.
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Category: Public Events & Celebrations, Anniversaries, Centennials
Historical ItemsView All Showing 2 of 211
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Program, Windham settlement centennial, 1839
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1839-07-04 Location: Windham Media: Ink on paper
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Buxton Centennial Celebration, 1872
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1872-08-14 Location: Buxton Media: Stereograph
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State and Main, Presque Isle, 1920
Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: 1920-09-20 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print
Passamaquoddy Indians from Washington County traveled to Portland in 1920 to take part in the Maine Centennial Exposition. They set up an "Indian Village" at Deering Oaks Park.
Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland's Orthodox Synagogue
Shaarey Tphiloh was founded in 1904 by immigrants from Eastern Europe. While accommodating to American society, the Orthodox synagogue also has retained many of its traditions.


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Southern Minn. To Get Slammed By March Snow StormHope you didn't put the shovels in deep storage yet, because a big March snow storm is set to hit mid-day Wednesday. The morning commute should be fine, with precipitation in the area, but nothing too heavy.
More Cars Towed In 2nd Day Of Snow EmergencyThe cars are still arriving at impound lots as the latest snow emergency draws to its close in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Minneapolis reported that 641 vehicles were towed during day two of the three-day snow emergency.
Minneapolis, St. Paul Tow 1,300+ Vehicles In Snow EmergencyHundreds of Twin Cities drivers are ending the year with a little less money in their pockets. Minneapolis officials say 670 vehicles were towed in Minneapolis alone after Tuesday night's snow emergency, while St. Paul towed over 700. Minneapolis and St. Paul combined issued thousands of parking citations.
More Than 240 Crashes Reported Following Winter StormWhile Tuesday's afternoon commute looks to be vastly improved, Minnesota's winter storm resulted in hundreds of crashes so far.
4 Things To Know: Winter Storm Totals, Unrest In Cleveland, Kennedy Center Honors & MoreFrom weather in the north to unrest in the Midwest to Kennedy Center Honors in the east, here is a look at the top four stories from Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015.
Snow Tapers Off After Winter Storm Dumps Over 9 Inches On SW Minn.Ready or not, winter is finally here in Minnesota. Snow fell throughout the night across the state, bringing impressive totals in the southwest. WCCO Weather Watchers reported 9.5 inches in Spring Grove and 8.2 in Alpha by Tuesday morning.
Winter Storm System Hits Metro, Southern MN; Large Snow Totals ExpectedMinnesota is expecting its first major winter storm of the season. A Winter Storm Warning goes into effect 3 p.m. Monday and lasts through Tuesday at noon for central and southern Minnesota, and west central Wisconsin.
Monday Snow Storm Could Dump 6-10 Inches On Southern MinnesotaJust days after a Christmas storm brought snow to Minnesota, another system is moving in ahead of the new year, and it threatens to dump more than half a foot of snow on a large swath of the state.
Waves Of Snow Fall On The Twin Cities, Snow Emergencies DeclaredAfter an early morning wave of snow snarled the morning commute, the second wave is already moving into the state. Snow is already falling in southwestern Minnesota and is expected to reach the metro by early afternoon.
Minnesota Serves Up Snow For ThanksgivingIn addition to turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie, Minnesotans may be enjoying some snow this Thanksgiving. While northern and southern Minnesota have already seen measurable snow fall this season, Thursday's storm will be the first measurable snow for the Twin Cities area.
Minnesota Might Get Hit By Thanksgiving Day Snow StormShoppers headed out to bag Black Friday deals this week may have to trek through a couple inches of fresh snow.
How A 1-Year-Old Weather Story Went Viral, And Sent Minnesotans Into A Snow FrenzyOn Wednesday morning, thousands of Minnesotans logged on to Facebook to some disturbing (or maybe exciting) news: a huge snow storm was headed our way. There was just one problem: The story was from last year.
75 Years Ago, The Armistice Day Blizzard Struck MinnesotaSeventy-five years ago, an early season snowstorm caught Minnesota residents off guard -- the Armistice Day Blizzard.
Southern Minnesota Buried By Springtime SnowstormAfter an anemic season for snow, a spring storm dumped more than a foot of it on parts of Minnesota, forcing some schools to close.
Snow Storm Moves Through Minn., Followed By High WindsSnow came down quick and heavy across Minnesota Tuesday morning. In the metro area, the snow began picking up around 7:30 a.m. with visibility falling to less than a mile. The snow tapered off around noon, but strong winds followed.


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From the Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland: the rocks are placed on the paths both for aesthetic beauty and for the health of one's feet. A wonderful sensory input for proprioception, feeling the ground with the sensitive nerves of our feet.
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Membership Transfer Scheme
The Club offers Life and Ordinary Members the opportunity to apply to sell their Membership back to the Club through the Membership Transfer Scheme (MTS). Under the prevailing Rules, when the Club successfully assists a Life or Ordinary Member on the Membership Transfer List (MTL) to identify an Applicant wishing to apply for Ordinary Membership to the Club, the Club shall be entitled to payment of a processing fee equal to 33% of the prevailing entrance fee by way of deduction of the entrance fee received from the Applicant. The Club will maintain an MTL operating on a first-come-first-served basis.
A Life or an Ordinary Member of the Club seeking to sell his or her Membership to the Club must comply with the following key conditions:
- The Member's name must not be placed on the Absent Members' List.
- The Member shall not be placed on the on the Membership Transfer List (MTL) unless his/her monthly subscriptions for the preceding twelve (12) months have been paid in full when they are due.
- The Member must not be on the Suspended/Defaulter Members' List.
- If the Member is subsequently placed on the Absent Members' List or becomes in arrears of his/her monthly subscription, that Member shall be removed from the MTL.
- The Member shall continue to be liable for monthly subscriptions until the Membership has been successfully bought back by the Club.
Option of Nominating Your Child or Grandchild
Notwithstanding Rule 11(iii), you may make a request in writing that the Membership be transferred to your child or grandchild, regardless of his/her nationality, provided he/she is at least twenty-five (25) years of age and is on the Waiting List.
When there is a request pursuant to Sub-Rule (viii), the Club shall consider such request.
Where, in exercise of the Club's discretion, a transfer of membership is sanctioned pursuant to this Sub-Rule,
(a) The child or grandchild of the Transferor shall be resident in Singapore; and
(b) The child or grandchild of the Transferor shall pay the full entrance fee as prescribed under Rule 29.
(c) The Club shall at all times maintain the prevailing mix of Singaporean and Non-Singaporean Members except for the provision under Rule 23B.
How to Apply
The MTS application form is available at/via:
► Front Reception Desk – Main Clubhouse
► Membership Office – Level 4 of Sports Complex
► Online: https://www.tanglinclub.org.sg/membership/membership-services.html
► Email request: email@example.com
All applications for MTS must be submitted via the stipulated forms and officially acknowledged by the Club. The Club will process all applications in accordance with the prevailing Club Rules.
Please click here to view Frequently Asked Questions on the Membership Transfer Scheme.
For further clarification or information, Members may contact the Membership Department.


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