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University professor Carolyn Cooper has chided Senate President the Reverend Stanley Redwood over his admonishing of Justice Minister Mark Golding to speak English only in the Upper House.
"Rispek' due to those patriotic Jamaicans," Golding said, during a debate in the Senate last Friday.
"Sorry to break your flow but the language used in the Senate must be standard English," Redwood reprimanded him.
But Cooper was not amused.
"Reverend Stanley Redwood has flown way past his nest. He had no business reprimanding Justice Minister Mark Golding for giving due 'rispek' to patriotic Jamaicans," Cooper told The Sunday Gleaner.
"And Golding should not have backed down. Instead of resorting to English, he ought to have challenged Redwood's assertion," added Cooper.
She argued that while by custom and practice, English is the preferred language of government business, there is nothing in the Jamaican constitution that declares English, or any other tongue for that matter, as the official language of the nation. "The Senate president is completely wrong. And the justice minister ought to have known that Redwood was on very shaky ground. Not even a man of the cloth can turn prejudice into law. 'Because I say so' just can't cut it," argued Cooper.
"Instead of bowing to the president, Golding should have simply asked him, 'Wa wrong wid yu, brejrin? Yu no know seh dis a Jamaica? If mi kyaan seh 'rispek due' inna di Senate, sopn wrong. We waan justice fi speak fi wi langgwij inna di Senate. An anyweh wi choose! Rispek due every time'," added Cooper.
She said the Senate president displayed his ignorance of the law and the justice minister needed to take a stand against injustice.
"For it is nothing but plain injustice that the mother language of the majority of Jamaicans is treated with complete disrespect by state institutions."
The professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, noted that in 1999, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation launched International Mother Language Day which is observed on February 21.
"Not a gun fire 'bout International Mother Language Day inna Jamaica'! We are much too backward for that, despite the high profile of our language internationally. And we refuse to acknowledge the importance of using the mother language as a tool of communication in schools, particularly for primary education.
"We prefer to let our children go to school and sit in silence because they don't understand the language of instruction. We don't mind if our children end up not being literate in any language at all. That's much better than accepting the fact that Jamaican is a 'real-real' language. Hopefully, one day, one day, we'll see the light. And all Jamaican speakers will be given due 'rispek'."


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Colin Jones preaches on this Special Service
1 Peter 3: 8-22 "Baptism"
Sermon Bible Passage
Suffering for Doing Good
Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. For,
"Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. "Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened." But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behaviour in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.For it is better, if it is God's will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.
1 Peter 3: 8-22 NIV
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A hot pan and oven temp get popovers off to a high-rising start; lowering the temp midway through baking helps prevent an out-of-the-oven collapse.
How to Make It
Preheat oven to 425°. Heat a 12-cup muffin pan in oven 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, process first 5 ingredients in a blender or food processor 20 to 30 seconds or until smooth. Stir in cheese and next 2 ingredients.
Remove pan from oven; pour 1/2 tsp. oil into each of 8 muffin cups, filling center 6 cups and middle cup on each end. Heat in oven 5 minutes. Remove from oven. Divide batter among oiled muffin cups; return to oven immediately.
Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until puffed and lightly browned around edges. Reduce oven temperature to 350°; bake 10 minutes or until tops are golden brown.
Transfer to a wire rack; cool 3 to 4 minutes before serving.


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The Dog Days Are STILL NOT OVER
Summer just ended here in our country and school is about to take place. My college colleagues (blockmates in particular plus a boyfriend hehe) and I just had our last minute summer getaway since we didn't have to attend to classes (because we already finished doing so). The dog days aren't over just yet. With … More The Dog Days Are STILL NOT OVER


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Features and Benefits
- Guaranteed monotonic over temperature
- Excellent matching between DACs
- Unipolar or bipolar operation
- Buffered voltage outputs
- High speed serial digital interface
- Reset-to-zero scale or midscale
- Wide supply range, +5 V only to ±15 V
- Low power consumption (35 mW maximum)
- Available in 16-Lead PDIP, SOIC, and CERDIP packages
Product Details
The DAC8420 is a quad, 12-bit voltage-output DAC with serial digital interface in a 16-lead package. Utilizing BiCMOS technology, this monolithic device features unusually high circuit density and low power consumption. The simple, easy-to-use serial digital input and fully buffered analog voltage outputs require no external components to achieve a specified performance.
The 3-wire serial digital input is easily interfaced to micro-processors running at 10 MHz with minimal additional circuitry. Each DAC is addressed individually by a 16-bit serial word consisting of a 12-bit data word and an address header. The user-programmable reset control CLR forces all four DAC outputs to either zero scale or midscale, asynchronously overriding the current DAC register values. The output voltage range, determined by the inputs VREFHI and VREFLO, is set by the user for positive or negative unipolar or bipolar signal swings within the supplies, allowing considerable design flexibility.
The DAC8420 is available in 16-lead PDIP, SOIC, and CERDIP packages. Operation is specified with supplies ranging from +5 V only to ±15 V, with references of +2.5 V to ±10 V, respectively. Power dissipation when operating from ±15 V supplies is less than 255 mW (maximum) and only 35 mW (maximum) with a +5 V supply.
- Software controlled calibration
- Servo controls
- Process control and automation
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Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was not one of Russian history's shining stars. An unpleasant figure, he found favor with dictator Josef Stalin and rose to become Soviet president before dying in 1946. Nonetheless, in the fashion of those times, his surname was given to two major Russian cities and their accompanying regions. One, Kalinin, reverted with alacrity to Tver, its ancient name, upon the demise of the Soviet Union. The other, Kaliningrad, has proved more resilient. One has to wonder why. And, oddly enough, although a 13-meter high statue of a smiling Kalinin greets travelers near the city's central train station, he never once visited either the city or the region.
|A statue of Soviet-era President Mikhail Kalinin welcomes visitors to the city he never set foot in.
The answer lies in geography and politics. For centuries, Kaliningrad was Konigsberg, first a stronghold of the Teutonic Knights, then a Hanseatic port, and eventually the capital of East Prussia. The first Prussian king, Frederick I, was crowned in its castle in 1701. Konigsberg's status as a German cultural center was cemented by the renown of its most famous sons, the philosopher Immanuel Kant and the playwright Friedrich Schiller. Less meritoriously, it was also a center for the Junkers, a landowning caste whose Prussian conservatism came to exemplify German militarism.
World War II ended all this. British bombing raids destroyed much of Konigsberg in 1944. Soviet armies then captured the city and East Prussia in April 1945 after a bitter fight. Thousands of Germans were killed, and even more fled before the city fell. Stalin demanded East Prussia as compensation for Russian losses, and at Potsdam, Britain and the United States agreed. The dictator subsequently awarded chunks of East Prussia to Russian-dominated Poland and to Soviet Lithuania. The remaining land and city were renamed Kaliningrad. In 1946, it became Russia's newest — and at 15,100 sq. km, its smallest — oblast, or region.
In the late 1940s, the Germans left in Kaliningrad were expelled en masse. Settlers from elsewhere in the Soviet Union replaced them, and today the population of the Kaliningrad Oblast, at roughly 1 million, is 80 percent Russian. Ukrainian, Belarussian and other minorities make up the rest. Ludmila Putin, the wife of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is from Kaliningrad.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, Kaliningrad was left stranded on the Baltic Sea coast. Its neighbors, Poland and the newly free Lithuania, no longer took orders from Moscow. Kaliningraders now have to travel some 400 km across independent states to reach other Russian territory.
Despite occasional suggestions that the Kaliningrad enclave (or, technically, exclave) be made a fourth Baltic state, Russia remains adamant that the territory will stay Russian. The reasons are both psychological and strategic.
Spoils of war
The last decade has been a humiliating one for the former superpower, although a selective nostalgia has provided some comfort. Thus, while Soviet icons have fallen from grace, the shared memories of World War II struggles are still accorded special reverence. Leaving aside readjustments of the Finnish border, there are just two remaining territories, at the periphery of the old empire, that Russians see as theirs by right of conquest and as partial compensation for their terrible losses. Those spoils of war are Kaliningrad in the west and the Kuril Islands in the east.
|Kaliningrad's main eyesore is the empty House of Soviets.
There is a significant difference between the two. The Japanese government has repeatedly, and at the highest levels, insisted upon the return of the Kurils, which are by any stretch of the imagination of marginal historical importance to Japan. The German government, however, has not requested the return of Kaliningrad, a region of far greater cultural and historical significance. To do so would enrage Russia and alarm both Poland and Lithuania. Neither of the latter two has dared to stake any official claims, despite some local sentiment favoring annexation. No one wants to plunge Europe into crisis by reawakening the specter of irredentism. Therefore, even attempts to change the name — either reverting to Konigsberg or adopting a new name (Kantgrad and Amber City have been suggested) — are regarded with suspicion. Kaliningrad remains Kaliningrad.
Russia has logical strategic reasons for retaining the territory as well. Its Baltic fleet is based there at the town of Baltiysk. With the loss of access to ports in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the Russian Navy's only other Baltic outlet is St. Petersburg. Additionally, as Poland is now a member of NATO and Lithuania very much wants to join, Russia sees its military presence in Kaliningrad as vital to maintaining an interest in the region and minimizing any perceived threats from the West.
Kaliningrad today is very different from the city it was before the war, let alone the graceful 18th-century port whose streets Kant once walked. It is not pretty. Since the postwar city was first opened to foreigners in 1991, many elderly ex-residents from Germany have visited in search of vistas to stir faded memories. They have found few catalysts.
In some cities — Gdansk and Warsaw, for example — architects made major attempts in the course of postwar rebuilding to retain or re-create elements of the past. In Kaliningrad City, the past was to be denied, so a Stalinist-barracks style of architecture prevailed. In one notorious case in 1969 — thus well after the war — the remains of the old fortress in the city center were blown up rather than rehabilitated. In their place, a massive concrete atrocity, the "House of Soviets," was constructed. It was never occupied, due to subsidence and flooding in the basement levels. Observers refer to this building variously as "the monster" or "the ugliest building on Russian soil."
There are exceptions. The city's main cathedral wasn't completely destroyed in the war, and is even being renovated. This is probably because Kant's tomb is located on the precincts; today, newlyweds place flowers at his grave, hoping for a lifetime of happiness. Of the few other buildings to survive, perhaps the most notable is the old Konigsberg Stock Exchange. Ironically, perhaps, it is now a casino.
A mixed picture
There is another, competing vision of Kaliningrad's future that is favored by locals and outsiders whose interests are more economic than military or geopolitical. That view, which has made some headway, is that the enclave should serve Russia in much the way that Hong Kong does China, as a more advanced capitalist laboratory and profitable conduit for trade. This would take advantage of Kaliningrad's location in a region of accelerated development.
Attempts to revitalize the local economy have met with limited success. Kaliningrad was declared a "free economic zone" in 1992 with much fanfare and no tangible results. In 1996, then Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a law making the enclave a "special economic zone," transforming it, at least on paper, into a customs-tax-free area. As with many such endeavors, the devil is in the details. Economic life has improved somewhat, but Moscow and Kaliningrad quibble over the degree of autonomy local authorities should enjoy, and there are problems with the costs and political restrictions associated with transiting goods across third countries.
Corruption, crime and a high unemployment rate take their toll. The black market is not hard to find, as currency traders gather outside banks and in the main markets. These are mostly young men who carry cellular phones and wear shoulder bags to conceal bank notes. They use easily removable clothespins clipped to their shirts to hold bits of cardboard inscribed with the symbols of available foreign currencies.
More serious is the trade in smuggled synthetic liquor. Some 4 million liters, or 60 percent of the total liquor trade, is bootlegged into Europe via the enclave. Large quantities of alcohol and other drugs are also used by Kaliningraders, with concomitant social costs. And the enclave has the highest rate of AIDS in Russia.
There is some foreign investment, particularly from Poland, Germany and the Scandinavian countries, but investors have to deal with both crime and corruption, often at a very personal level. For example, a few days before I arrived, a Norwegian consulting engineer staying at a major hotel in the city center was grabbed outside the lobby one night by two men, bundled into a car and taken to a locked room somewhere in the city. Under threat of injury, he was compelled by his new "mafiya" acquaintances to surrender his passport, visa, credit card and PIN number. After they left to cash in, he was able attract attention and escape, but immediately concluded his business and returned to Norway.
Reasons for optimism
To reiterate, the picture is not entirely bleak. Economically, Kaliningrad does compare favorably with many other regions in Russia. Port facilities are being upgraded, and joint ventures with foreign businesses are being formed. In addition, local authorities see strong possibilities in tourism. The oblast capital may be unattractive, but only 28 km away is the beach resort of Svetlogorsk, on the Baltic Sea. Once called Rauschen, and until 1991 reserved for members of the military and Communist Party elites, this is one of the few towns in the enclave to have remained intact after World War II. Venerable, but well-maintained German-style houses blend perfectly with the majestic pine trees that line the streets. Business is clearly booming, with health spas, hotels and restaurants proliferating.
The most upbeat assessment of Kaliningrad's future I heard came from Roman Bartoszewicz, a Polish consulting-firm owner, marine surveyor and frequent business visitor to Kaliningrad. He said, "There are, of course, very big problems now, but there will be changes. These are happening now. If you come back in 10 years, you won't recognize Kaliningrad as it is today. It will be much different and much better."


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WHEN it comes to running your own business it's not just about the money, as new Tory leader David Cameron was told in his first official visit to Birmingham.
It's also about having someone to help you cut through the red tape and encourage you when the going gets tough.
That was the message from people trying to realise their business potential as Mr Cameron met 'urban dreamers' in a pioneering city scheme run by the Newtown-based Community Education Training Academy.
Director Joan Blaney, who has mentored many urban dreamers, made a great impression on the new Tory chief when he launched his leadership campaign in Birmingham.
Her questions on social enterprise last year led him to ask more about CETA and he agreed to visit her offices before he launched his first shadow cabinet meeting at the International Convention Centre.
Young mum Veronica Robinson, aged 33, from Handsworth, who is running her own mobile creche business, told him: "The Urban Dreamers scheme has given me that personal touch. I've been given valuable advice rather than just having money thrown at me."
Mr Cameron said he thought the idea was excellent and said he wished the House of Commons had a mobile creche.
He met some of the six urban dreamer finalists who are being supported by Birmingham firms such as PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Wragge and Co.
He also visited the creche within CETA and talked to staff from the Pertemps Employment Alliance, who are in partnership with CETA as part of the Working Neighbourhoods Initiative.
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This project simply takes your breath away! It is as if it leaped right off the pages of one of those glossy home & garden magazines and right into the backyard of this Lake Murray residence. Take a look at the amazing structure in this video we created for the Archadeck of Central SC YouTube channel:
This gorgeous deck is built from pressure-treated pine that has been stained. The flowing multi-level design features a centerpiece of twin staircases leading from the landing to the upper-level deck. The deck encompasses the entire back of the home with ample area for rocking chair relaxation, outdoor dining and entertaining and 360-degree views of tranquil Lake Murray from every angle.
An eclectic custom-built pergola is also part of this spacious design. It delivers the charm of a gazebo in an open-air setting with a unique, out-of-the-box take on how creative a pergola design can be. As you can see in the photos, these Lake Murray homeowners are avid bird watchers. This deck is flanked by bird feeders allowing a "bird's eye view" of the abundant wildlife they will enjoy when using their fabulous new space!
In order to minimize obstruction of the view, Archadeck of Central SC installed a vertical aluminum cable rail, giving the deck an air of contemporary elegance. Last but not least, the skirting of the deck was built to match the home's existing siding perfectly, giving the sense that the deck was original to the home. An added bonus is the ample storage space that is hidden below the deck, keeping lawn and garden supplies out of sight.
Learn more about increasing your outdoor living enjoyment lakeside by contacting Archadeck of Central SC today for a free design consultation at (803) 603 – 2160 or email us at
You can see more of our completed projects on Lake Murray by visiting our Just Add Water page located on our website.


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The 12-920 universal in-line fuel pump is intended for Throttle Body EFI, Multipoint EFI and Forced Induction Multipoint EFI systems. It is designed to work in-line, not inside the tank, so installation is a snap. The 12-920 is rated for continuous duty service and have been tested up to 2,500 hours.
- Flows 80 GPH at 15 psi
- Draws 5 amps at 15 psi
- Will feed up to 800 horsepower throttle body EFI units
- Will feed up to 700 horsepower multipoint units
- Will feed up to 600 horsepower forced induction multipoint units
- OE proven design
- Lightweight and compact
- 3/8″ barbed fittings included
- Rubber isolator, mounting clamps and electrical hardware included


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Christmas Holly & Ivy Milk Jug
This Holly & Ivy Milk Jug would be perfect for cream, brandy sauce or as a vase for a small posy of flowers. It would look fabulous on your Christmas table.
Milk Jug: 10cm. high x 14cm. wide including handle, x 9.5cm. wide. Capacity 400ml. 14fl.oz. approx.
This will be beautifully packaged in a special brown cardboard box, tied up with string with a label you can add a message too.
My ceramics are made from earthenware clay, painting and glazing in lead free glazes.
Each ceramic piece that I sell really is individually hand-painted. As a result, all my pieces are slightly different and therefore unique.
Because of their exclusively hand-made nature, they take a full five days to produce, each piece having two painting stages and up to three firings in the kiln, so the colours will never fade or wash off.
Care Instructions: This pottery is not oven or microwave safe.
My large Christmas range stems from the very strong Christmas tradition that our family has always had. There are a lot of us, including a growing number of small children and it is absolutely my favourite time of the year.
The house becomes very noisy, filled with much laughter and lovely food. I try to make my Christmas range of ceramics reflect this, with designs that are colourful, practical and fun but still based on the English tradition and the countryside where I live.
Shipping & delivery
This item will be posted to you by Hannah Berridge Ceramics within 5 days of receiving payment.
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You have 14 days, from receipt, to notify the seller if you wish to cancel your order or exchange an item.
Unless faulty, the following types of items are non-refundable: items that are personalised, bespoke or made-to-order to your specific requirements; items which deteriorate quickly (e.g. food), personal items sold with a hygiene seal (cosmetics, underwear) in instances where the seal is broken.


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Ask and Get Answer from Trusted People
While there are several services to place your question and get answer from the community but there is always room for more. These services include Yahoo Answers, Answers, Answering Experts, Smashing Solution and many more. Every service has one or more unique feature(s) that makes it different from the others. We are going to share another startup in this context that is a part of Google now. The service is a social search engine that finds the right people, not web pages, that have specific information. Its a personalized question-and-answer service that intelligently finds the right person to answer your question.
Aardvark is a service that can find your answer from the social community and from the right people you know.
How it works
Send Advark a question. Advark finds the perfect person to answer that question. Get the response in few minutes from trusted people in your network.
Get registered at Advark, then send a question via Twitter to @vark. The service figures out which of your friends or friends-of-friends is most qualified to answer your question. Then the service asks them to give you an answer. Advark also searches through Facebook, looking for the right person in your network to answer your question.
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Bullying Facts and Resources can consist of verbal bullying, physical bullying, Social and Cyber–bullying, racial and sexual harassment are topics I believe most of us can relate with in one form or another.
Verbal and physical bullying, laughing at and treating others in a demeaning, shameful manner, being hateful and hurtful does leave its' mark on an individual. Children and teens are dealing with physical abuse, verbal expressions and cyber–bullying. Children need to feel people care and they are not alone.
- Questions and Answers pertaining to bullying
- Facts and statistics on bullying
- What you can do if bullied or you want to help
- General information on bullying
- Hot lines and Resources
There is no immediate resolution to bullying, but doing nothing is certainly not the answer. It's important to provide information and resources for individuals experiencing bullying as well as to those that would like to reach out and help. As a parent or someone concerned, it's important to be a power of example.
Children are susceptible and watch how people act or react in their lives. When teens look towards their parents, family members or peers for answers, it's important they have support and can feel safe to talk.
- Verbal bullying — This can include name calling, teasing, instilling fear and shame
- Social bullying — Starting or spreading lies and false rumors, and/or breaking up
friends and intentionally excluding others from activities
- Physical bullying — This form of bullying can involve hitting, shoving, punching,
forced to do things and other acts that can lead to intentional harm to others
- Racial harassment — Occurs when behaviors are associated to skin color, race
and cultural background
- Sexual harassment — Involves unwanted behaviors linked to gender or sexual
- Cyber–bullying — The use of digital technology involving the internet, texting, by
email and other technological means to cause harm to others
Of course bullying causes harm to others! Bullying is abusive and can cause lasting damage to the victim. Being consistently targeted damages one's self worth, they may view themselves as undesirable and unworthy. This can lead to depression, isolation, self–hate and yes, ultimately, suicide.
Those who are bullied may be afraid to go to school or to the bathroom alone, play on the playground or ride the school bus. They may also lose interest in school, have trouble concentrating and perform poorly educationally. The effects can be long-lasting into and throughout adulthood.
When kids see bullying, they may feel anxious for not knowing what to do, say or how to act. Some may join in or stay silent for fear of consequences from the bully. Over time, students who frequently observe bullying may feel less empathy for the individuals being bullied.
- Comes home with unexplained injuries or with damaged or missing clothing or other items
- Changes in eating habits
- Makes excuses for not going to school
- May have trouble sleeping
- Displays or expresses feelings of helplessness
- Change in character
- Blaming themselves for their problems
- Talks about suicide or feelings of hopelessness
- Feels helpless
- Avoids going to certain places or playing outside alone
- They don't like themselves and feel they are not good enough
It's appalling to see the degree of bullying that exists today. With the introduction of digital technology, cyber–bullying has added another dimension to the already explosive issue. The statistics mentioned are disturbing to me and should be for you, the reader, as well.
- An alarming 56% of students have personally felt some sort of bullying at school.
Between grades 4 and 8 in particular, 90% of students are victims of bullying.
- The most common reason mentioned for being harassed is a student's appearance
or body size. Two out of 5 teens feel that they are bullied because of appearance.
- It is reported that 1 in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and will only
intervene 4% of the time.
- A victim of bullying is twice as likely to take their own life compared to someone
who is not a victim.
- An estimated 40% – 75% of bullying in schools takes place during breaks, such
as recess, at lunchtime, in hallways or in the restrooms.
- Every day, 160,000 students skip school because they are afraid they will be bullied.
- An alarming 1 out of 10 students drops out of school because they are bullied.
- The average bullying episode lasts only 37 seconds. Teachers notice or intervene
in only one in 25 incidents.
- It is said to think that 57% of students who experience harassment in school never
report the incident to the school because they do not believe that teachers or staff
can do anything.
The facts on bullying reveal it is a growing problem among teens and children. There are several different types of bullying including cyber-bullying, bullying in schools as well as other forms of harassment. Below are some informative facts:
- Girls bull in groups more than boys do
- Girls tend to bully according to social status, such as popular vs. non-popular
- Boys tend to bully according to group, such as athlete vs. non-athlete
- Obese children are more likely to be bullied. Also, overweight; obese girls are more
likely to be physically bullied.
- Research indicates that children as young as age 5 who continually observes
bullying that goes unchecked or ignore by adults are at a greater risk of becoming
bullies themselves.
- There is a connection between bullying and being exposed to violence. Unfortunately,
by the time an average child enters kindergarten, he will have witnessed 8,000 or
more murders on television.
- Researchers note that bullying escalates in the later years of elementary school,
peaks in the middle school, and then lessens by high school. They also noted that
the 6th grade is the worst year for bullying.
When bullied, the victim or observer can be experiencing feelings of fear, shame, extreme discomfort, possibly mentally shutting down or runs away. These are things that you can feel or act upon if involved in such situations. Ideas you can try if you feel bullied:
- Look at the kid bullying you and calmly as them to please stop. You may also try
to laugh it off; it could help to lessen the intensity of the situation while calming
the bully's behavior.
- If speaking up doesn't work for you, then walking away may be the best approach.
Not fighting back is nothing to be ashamed of, it takes courage.
- Tell an adult, they may be able to help end the bullying.
- It's important for you to remember that it's not your fault. No one deserves to be
treated this way. Find an adult or someone you trust to talk with.
- Children need to become involved; being with a group may help you to feel safer.
- Always think about what you post, especially with the potential of postings,
pictures and video going viral in an instant.
- Do not share anything that could hurt or embarrass anyone, you don't have
control as to where your information will end up once sent to your friends or
- Protect your password and be cautious as to who you share it with. It would
be wise to let your parents have your password.
- Think about who sees what you post online. With the use of privacy settings,
you can control who views your postings to friends and/or family.
- Keep your parents involved. It's important they are aware of what you do online
and with whom. It's also important you listen to what they may say about their
concerns. Remember, they care about you and want you to be safe.
- Talk to an adult you trust about any messages you get or things you see online
that are upsetting or make you feel uncomfortable. If you experience cyber-
bullying, report it.
Help by being part of the solution and not the problem; take action, become involved.
- Talk to a parent, teacher or another adult that you trust. Adults need to know
when bad things happen so they can help.
- Kids need to know you care. Invite them to sit with you at lunch or on the bus.
Make time to talk with them at school, or invite them to do something with you;
they will fell less alone.
- Adults and concerned individuals can help by finding out more about where and
when bullying occurs within the schools and your community.
- Write a blog, letter to the editor or your local newspaper, or tweet about bullying.
Focus on Undoing the Damage
Taking steps to repair the loss of identity and self–esteem is an integral part of the process for people looking to heal from past bullying experiences. Learning how to feel safe in the world is a start to regaining control of their lives and shed the victim role. Finding safe people and groups can help one to accept the support and move forward… slow and steady.
National Crime and Prevention Council
The National Crime Prevention Council's mission (NCPC) is to be the nation's leader in helping people keep themselves, their families and their communities safe from crime. To achieve this, NCPC produces tools that communities can use to learn prevention and strategies, engage community members and coordinate with local agencies.
National Bullying Prevention Center
Founded in 2006, PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center unites, engages and educates communities nationwide to address bullying through creative, relevant and interactive resources. PACER's bullying prevention resources are designed to benefit all students, including students with disabilities.
PACER's National Bullying Prevention Video Series
PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center actively leads social change, so that bullying is no longer considered an accepted childhood rite of passage. PACER provides innovative resources for students, parents, educators, and others, and recognizes bullying as a serious community issue that impacts education, physical and emotional health, and the safety and well-being of students.
National Suicide Hotline
Call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week (24/7), we are here to help. Support from across the country assists KBHC achieve its mission to prevent suicide and educate people about depressive disorders.
The Trevor Lifeline (U.S. only)
Call anytime day or night, 24/7. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youths.
Sources Used:
My Child Safety Net
Stop Bullying
Do Something
Bullying Statistics
Violence Prevention Works
Facts, Random History
Cyberbullying Facts & Stats 2016-2018
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, as God in Christ forgave you. ~Ephesians 4:32


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Mission Rock continues to closely monitor the potential and increasing impacts of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). We have formed a committee to focus on supporting our team members, residents, vendors, and guests. We have been in constant communication with our property teams to ensure seamless operations to the best of our abilities in challenging circumstances.
We have also enacted policies recommended by public health and or governmental authorities intended to help prevent further transmission of the virus. As just two examples — resident activities and gatherings may be suspended or altered to virtual events for the time being, and many of our amenities may be temporarily closed.
Residents are encouraged to request maintenance online or over the phone to avoid in-person contact. Unfortunately, in these uncertain times, you may experience a delay in non-emergency service requests. We appreciate your understanding as we screen all service requests to verify that no one in the apartment is sick prior to entering. We are making every effort to limit closures and inconveniences that may affect our teams and residents.
Please use the online Resident Portal for rent payments and email or telephone for communications with our team. In the event you experience an emergency, please call the emergency telephone number for your community.
While we may be unable to conduct in-person tours for prospective residents at this time or in the future, we offer diverse touring options for virtual, video, and in some cases self-guided tours. To set up a tour, simply contact the community that interests you. We also invite you to take advantage of the 3D floor plans, photo galleries, applications, and leasing process — all of which are available online. We are here for you to find what you need – a place to call home.
We are doing our best to serve you in these uncertain times. This is a quickly changing environment, so we truly appreciate your patience.


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January 27, 2018
Researchers have shown that despite effective combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), HIV can hide in the spleen of patients with no detectable HIV in their blood. The study confirming the spleen as an HIV sanctuary is part of a comprehensive collection of articles describing the broad scope and current status of the ongoing global effort toward an HIV cure, published in the fourth annual Special Issue on HIV Cure Research of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The issue is available free on the AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses website.
David Nolan, BioInforExperts (Thibodaux, LA) and University of Florida (Gainesville) and colleagues from University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine and University of California at San Francisco coauthored the article entitled "The Spleen Is an HIV-1 Sanctuary During Combined Antiretroviral Therapy." The researchers used advanced technology, including single genome sequencing and droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) capable of identifying very small amounts of viral DNA in tissue samples from HIV-infected individuals.
In the article "Natural Products and HIV/AIDS," Daniele Cary and B. Matija Peterlin, University of California at San Francisco discuss the many effective therapeutic compounds derived from natural products, including those able to suppress HIV and reactivate latent virus, as well as a recent report of a combination of 13 traditional Chinese herbs capable of achieving a functional cure.
"If We Build It, Will They Come? Perceptions of HIV Cure-Related Research by People Living with HIV in Four U.S. Cities: A Qualitative Focus Group Study" is the title of an article by Laurie Sylla et al. from defeatHIV Community Advisory Board (Seattle, WA), Project Inform and Delaney AIDS Research Enterprise (DARE) CAB (Los Angeles, CA), amfAR Institute for HIV Cure Research CAB and Collaboratory of AIDS Researchers for Eradication (CARE) CAB, (Palm Springs, CA), The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine. The authors provide valuable insights and perspectives on how people living with HIV view both a functional cure and a sterilizing or eradicating cure. The differences, and skepticism about whether medicine will be able to eliminate HIV from the body, can affect patients' willingness to participate in the HIV cure studies needed to advance biomedical research.
Related Stories
"The 2018 Special Issue on HIV Cure Research contains an excellent cross section of research activity in the field, capturing the current debates and discussions driving the field," says Thomas Hope, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses and Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago, IL). "The questions relating to how a cure would impact the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS is especially interesting and informative. It is surprising that many are not necessarily excited that a functional cure for HIV would improve their lives."


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A Harry Potter Mystery Has Finally Been Solved
Every respectable Harry Potter fan knows the Hogwarts origin story.
The four most powerful wizards and witches of the age gathered together and created a school so they could teach magical kids how to turn a rat into a water goblet and other useful life skills. For their troubles, their names were honored forever as the school's four houses —Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor and Slytherin. What's not exactly clear is why Slytherin, the muggle-born hater, was invited to the cool kid's table.
Luckily sketch comedy team Viewers Like You has cleared up that mystery with a video reenacting exactly how the first Hogwarts discussion went down.
Now if they could just clear up why wizards can't use cell phones.
10 Best Harry Potter Spoofs, Parodies & Comedy Songs [VIDEOS]
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Time Flies April 14th, 2011
Time flies. It really does. Today marks one year since I took my first steps on the Camino de Santiago from St. Jean de Pied de Port in Southern France.
Memories of this extraordinary time have been flooding back at me of late. This is probably due to three things.
The first is that two dear friends are leaving this very day to start their own pilgrimages on the Camino. One of them is going for the second time.
The second is that I recently had the opportunity to watch The Way, an absolutely beautiful and moving independent movie by father-son duo Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez, which follows an American father who travels to St. Jean to recover the body of his son who died on the Camino and decides to walk it in memory of his son.
The third, last but not least, is a small package which arrived in the mail just a few days ago. A prototype of a DVD project begun by Alexander Ruediger, a friend I made on the Camino and who turns out to be something of a celebrity in his native Austria.
I'm overjoyed to have had the chance to collaborate with him on the production of this beautiful DVD which offers impressions of the sights and sounds of the Camino de Santiago. I contributed a number of pictures to the project. I can tell you, I was so excited to see my pictures featured both on the cover of and on a DVD!
The DVD will be launching soon. You can find out more on www.camino-chillout.com. Unfortunately, my German is about as bad as my Chinese, so I can't understand much of what's featured on the website… Hehe.
More coming soon!
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2 Responses to "Time Flies"
Daniel N. Says:
April 17th, 2011 at 5:01 am
Buen Camino a ellos! I so wish I was there walking again with them..
And that's great news Z! Looking forward to seeing that video.
Z! Says:
April 19th, 2011 at 10:21 am
Shpanks a million, Dan! Yeah, I'm still super excited about the DVD. 🙂
And yep, I hear you. I wish I was going with them too… Sigh. I'll walk it again, Big Boss in de Sky-willing. 😉


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Democratic Republic Of Congo
The opposition in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) can win upcoming polls provided the process is free and far, this is according to a former United States ambassador.
Herman Cohen who has frequently commented on the political process in the DRC said Kabila's chosen successor, Emmanuel Ramazani Shagary will fail to defeat the opposition.
The country holds elections to elect a successor to Kabila who has been in office since 2001 and was barred from contesting. He had exhausted his two constitutional mandates.
At the close of filing of candidacies, the elections body, CENI; received twenty-six potential aspirants including Ramazani, former veep Jean Pierre Bemba, Felix Tshisekedi, son of veteran opposition leader.
One key opponent whose attempt to file was foiled by authorities was Moise Katumbi. The former governor of Katanga province was blocked from re-entering the country by air and land after about two years in exile.
If the elections are held, Kabila will hand over political power to a new president in a historic occurrence, it will be the first time in the country's history that power has been peacefully transferred.


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The Bad Guys
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The bad guys can be just as complex as our heroes. Indeed, it's becoming something of a trend. No longer do we just see villains of pure evil, but individuals who blur the lines between right and wrong.
Understanding Your Villain
It seems of late that there's been something of a backlash against villains of pure evil. The classic, archetypal 'bad guy', if you will. People argue that they're too one dimensional; evil for evil's sake. It seems to have sparked a trend toward the bad guys who blur the lines, who have a foot in both camps. Anti-heroes.
Just because a few individuals vocalise their opinions doesn't relegate our classic villains to obsoletion. But there is a point to take away from it: that the bad guys need to be more than just props for the story, that they, in fact, have compelling stories of their own.
A part of reading involves exploring new perspectives, experiencing things we could never do, or to feel emotions we're unaccustomed to. We castigate a thief for stealing food, yet when we see the story through their eyes, we learn that he is thieving to feed his starving family. Is he as evil as we thought?
A good starting point when creating an antagonist is to ask questions. The answers will help determine where on the spectrum of evil they lie. Questions could include:
- Do they regularly carry out evil acts, or this their first time?
- Have they thought about doing it before, or is it instinctive, reactive?
- What are the circumstances that lead to their current path of evil?
- What in their past could have shaped them into what they are today?
- Do they garner pleasure or satisfaction from being evil, i.e. sadistic?
- Is this something they've recently discovered?
- How do they justify their actions to themselves or to others?
- What is their underlying motive?
- What do they seek to achieve?
Who's Right and Who's Wrong?
One thing worth considering when crafting a villain is their motivation. Our own lives are dictated by the things we are motivated to do. If you can't be arsed going for a jog, then you're not going to do it. If you're determined and motivated to lose weight, then chances are you'll stick on your shorts despite the lashing rain. Motives drive people, and the same goes for characters.
Motive alone does not suffice, though. To unlock that motivation we must believe and have faith. A person must believe that jog in the pissing rain will help them achieve their goal. The same applies to our villains. They have faith in what they are doing because they believe wholeheartedly it is the right thing to do, even if it involves killing people. From their perspective, they're dead right. Everyone else is wrong. Who cares what they think? It's a megalomaniacal stance and a pretty destructive one at that. Just take Brexit, for example.
So, let's take a look at a few different types of villain.
Villains of Pure Evil
When designing a truly evil villain, bad behaviour alone is insufficient to characterise. More must be shown to convince the reader the antagonist is truly evil. Are they corrupted to their core? Are they sadists, deriving pleasure from inflicting pain? Let's look at some examples.
Darth Vader – promoter of the Dark Side. Determined to obliterate the Jedi Order and Rebel Alliance. Destroys planets without hesitation to ensure he gets what he wants. In earlier years wiped out Jedi school, killing everyone, including children. The Dark Side has corrupted him, turned him evil to his core.
Gollum – always seeking to foil Frodo's plans and reclaim the One Ring for himself. His hatred for the "filthy hobbitses" runs deep. Like Vader, Gollum has been corrupted, his nature fundamentally changed.
Sauron – an example of a character of pure evil. Little is revealed about Sauron's true motives beyond his desire to annihilate the world of men. He is unwavering in his efforts—indeed the eye is always watching—and similarly, he commands an army which also seems to be hell-bent on achieving the same end. Conflicted orcs and goblins are few and far between in Middle Earth, it seems.
Master editor Sol Stein says in his book, Stein on Writing, that it should be extremely difficult for a villain of pure evil to be re-educated or re-conditioned into a nicer person. Frodo tried that with Gollum and lost a few fingers for his efforts—he still managed to finish Bilbo's book, though. Anyone ever stop to wonder how he managed that?
In the first two examples, the characters went through fundamental changes in their lives, passing the point of no return. A moment of tragedy, heartbreak, betrayal, embitterment.
Sauron is more of the archetypal villain. Evil through and through. There need not be any more reason than that. But that was the fifties, and this is now and writing has changed much since then.
So how can you characterise such utter bastards?
1. Physical mannerisms. Think of creepy, involuntary habits such as a twitching eye; pulling hairs out of their eyebrows, moustache or beard; earlobe tugging or lip chewing. Habitual mannerisms seem to work best—the repetitive nature can grate on readers, which is handy if you're trying to create an unlikeable fellow.
2. Competency and an unfaltering determination to succeed. In Lord of the Rings, Sauron's eye is forever seeking, the Ring Wraith's forever hunting. They are effective and efficient, forever on their tail, waiting to prey upon the slightest mistake. All this creates conflict and jeopardy, things your reader will love.
3. Ask yourself how your antagonist behaves toward people he's never met before. Some villains come across as pleasant and affable. Gustavo Fring from Breaking Bad is a good example of such a villain. He makes donations to charities and has a good relationship with the D.E.A., the very people trying to catch him. Under the surface, he's a ruthless criminal. We can look at real-life nutcases too. Jimmy Saville for example, a once loved children's entertainer and TV presenter, turned out to be a serial paedophile. He gave millions to charity, even helped set up a children's hospital. Talk about blurring the lines.
You could go the opposite way and have an antagonist who's discourteous, arrogant, or sadistic. Recently I was watching Black Beauty with my grandmother and found myself on the edge of my seat in a mild fury as the Squire lashed at Beauty with his whip. Remember that tip from the previous chapter? If you want the reader to dislike a character, have them kick a dog. Well, it works.
4. Does your antagonist do something frequently that others do occasionally? Sol Stein gives the examples of a character blowing their nose every few minutes despite not being sick, a forehead slick with sweat when the temperature is cool, persistent coughing or clearing of the throat, or bobbing a leg when sat down cross-legged. All of these things suggest something about the character, about who they really are. It helps them stand out, makes us feel that something isn't quite right.
Examples are useful. Let's look at one from Terry Goodkind's bestseller, Wizard's First Rule. For the first 250 or so pages of the book we're merely told about the antagonist, Darken Rahl. And then in chapter nineteen, we see him first hand.
"White roses, replaced every morning without fail for the last three decades, filled each of the fifty-seven gold vases set in the wall beneath each of the fifty-seven torches that represented each year in the life of the deceased. A large staff saw to it that no torch was allowed to go spent for longer than a few moments, and that rose petals were not allowed to rest long upon the floor. The staff were attentive and devoted to their tasks. Failure to be so resulted in an immediate beheading.
Staff positions were filled from the surrounding D'Haran countryside. Being a member of the crypt staff was an honour, by law. The honour brought with it the promise of a quick death if an execution was in order. A slow death in D'Hara was greatly feared, and common. New recruits, for fear they would speak ill of the dead king while in the crypt, had their tongues cut out."
These are just the first two paragraphs of the chapter, and from them, we glean much about Darken Rahl without him even being mentioned. What kind of person would employ such a large workforce just to maintain torches and flowers? What kind of person would kill those workers for the merest of blunders? And then in the second paragraph, we see how working in the staff is an honour, but only by law. An oppressive stance by whoever enacted that law. And lastly, what kind of influence must a person have on others to compel them to cut out their own tongues for fear of speaking ill of the dead king? Before we even see Rahl, we know what he's like.
The Doubtful Villain
The classic bad guy archetype has been cleverly adapted over the years. We know one of the main complaints about the evil for evil's sake villain is their lack of conflict. Orcs hate humans. End of. What I've often wondered is whether any of those orcs felt differently. What if they came to see a different perspective, one that made them question their ways and potentially change their course? But how can they break free of that life, the only one they have ever known? Where would they go? What would they do? We choose the easiest path, often the one we know. Sometimes the right way to go is the more difficult route. Herein lies the conflict.
Let's look at an example courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky. In his novel. Empire in Black and Gold, the main antagonist begins to doubt himself and the actions of the empire he's served devoutly his whole life. We're left wondering what he will do—will a man who prides himself on loyalty commit an act of betrayal? The conflict blurs the lines between good and evil and makes us wonder whether in fact, they are truly as evil as we believed.
It can be argued that Jaime Lannister in A Song of Ice and Fire is a bad guy too. One of the first acts we see him do is shove Bran Stark out of the top window of a tower. He is selfish, arrogant, heartless. Yet, at times he seems to be a man of reason, a good guy.
George R.R. Martin is a master at creating characters who sit on the fence of good and evil. Another example from his stories is the Hound. A man who kills Arya's friend and a whole host of other people, yet by the end he finds himself fighting on the frontline for the forces of good.
I like this kind of villain. For me, they epitomise hope. Hope that even fervently evil people can change for the better.
Things Have Gotten Out Of Hand
There's a growing trend toward the complicated bad guy. The folks that have lived good and innocent lives, only to be corrupted. Why is this the case? One possible explanation is conflict. As we'll come to see when we look at plotting, readers love conflict. Conflict propels stories.
A conflicted bad guy can make for an interesting character. We want to see if they'll go through with the murder, how they'll react when they see blood pouring from wounds, what has driven them to take such drastic action in the first place.
Once upon that evil path, to maintain their status as the central antagonist, it makes sense for them not to deviate. Indeed, Sol Stein advises them to fall deeper into their corrupted ways. Whether voluntarily or involuntarily is up to you.
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Look at this wonderful specimen. How can you not gaze at the marvel that is black woman? Or as the scientists call them, blackuis stareus. Let's marvel at this one in particular, shall we? We have named her "Kerry" Today, we will be focusing on her hair.
Just look at the shine. How do they get it like that, you ask? Well, it's a difficult process using a mix of wild berries found in the deep jungles of the Amazon, mixed with large amounts chemicals unknown to us as of right now. Scientists have said these chemicals give their hair a "permanent" straighting. Whatever they use, it gets the job done.
Not all black women (teehee) use those products though. Some of the species let their hair stay chemical free. Sometimes it's called "natural". In this state, the black woman's hair is more rough than usual. More likely than not, it will have a curly-like pattern. This is becoming more seen among the group as the black woman forgoes the "permanent" straightness of their hair.
Also, it's worth pointing out, you should never walk up and touch the black woman's hair, no matter what state it's in. I know you can get tempted, as it's a beautiful thing. For everyone's safety, do NOT pet on the black woman. 1, they can get highly aggressive. "Angry Black Woman" is the phrase that's used. And 2, it's just some fucking hair. It's nothing special. Buy a wig or some shit if it's that fascinating to you.


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Frontman, Singing Drummer, Multi-instrumentalist, Songwriter and Producer Boyd Small is a Cascade Blues Association Muddy Award 'Hall of Fame' inductee and has also been nominated multiple times as 'Best Blues Drummer' by the Dutch Blues Foundation. Boyd has had a huge impact on the Dutch Blues scene as co-founder of the Amsterdam based record label, Cool Buzz in 1998. He's performed internationally throughout all of Western Europe and the U.S. performing with his 9-piece Big Band, 5-piece Soul and Blues Quintet, 4-Piece Rockin' Blues Quartet, Acoustic Blues Duo and as a Solo act and Singer/Songwriter plus performing with and producing American and European bands such as Memo Gonzales and The Bluescasters, Drippin' Honey, The Sultans Of Slide, Big Monti Amundson, Frank Goldwasser, Gene Taylor, Kai Strauss, and many other international artists. Boyd has also performed as the drummer & backing vocalist early in his career with the late Blues greats Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Jimmy Rogers, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Long John Baldrey, and Phillip Walker just to name a few. His impressive entertainment pedigree shines through in his every performance. And both his U.S.A. and European bands are made up of highly skilled and talented musicians and vocalists which makes for a guaranteed "must see" performance in every different line-up and venue.
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Gatorade and advertising agency TBWA/Chiat/Day Los Angeles have made this trailer that presents series of cool online films.
Entertaining series opens a new NFL season and feature such stars like Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, Justin Blackmon, Jake Locker, Stephen Paea and others. They tell their encouraging and inspiring stories about their rocky road to success. In the first film Mark Herzlich tells how he overcome sarcoma.
You can check out all series on Everything to Prove official page or on YouTube.


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Lincoln Transport Hub
The Brief
The City Council and its partners have been seeking significant investment in new transportation infrastructure for many years. Private sector investment in such facilities following successful planning approvals have not proved to be deliverable. The Council and its partners have, therefore, led an investment and regeneration project. This will deliver a new multi-storey car park, creating around 1000 spaces, a new bus station, and integration with the enhanced railway station to form a new transport hub. A new footbridge will connect the railway station platforms and the Sincil Bank area with the city centre as a later investment phase.
Once completed the investment will provide a new integrated arrival point for people visiting the city centre arriving by car, bus or train, and allow easy transfer from one mode to another. This will be accommodated within a regenerated quarter of the city that, alongside parallel investment in the public realm, will connect the main shopping area with the University/Brayford Pool area.
Our Role
Globe's role was to support the client team in satisfying the formal planning process, which required the preparation of an Environmental Statement to meet EIA Regulations, assessing key challenges relating to townscape heritage, archaeology, transportation, air quality and other technical issues. The project required extensive community engagement and cooperation across a range of specialists and partners to meet challenging timescales driven in part by government funding criteria.
All necessary approvals were obtained in time for a commencement on site in a timely manner which will in turn deliver this long overdue and major city centre regeneration by the end of 2018.


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Company Profile
NGC was mandated by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago to accelerate and expand the use of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as a major, alternative, transportation fuel in the country. The switch to CNG is expected to take place in 2 phases.
The first phase, was projected to cost TT$500 million, and involves the construction of twenty-two (22) new or revamped CNG-only fuel stations and conversion of 17,500 vehicles.
The second phase, if approved, is projected to cost TT$1.57 billion for the construction of more stations and increasing demand.


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Mass Schedule and Reconciliation Times
Saturday Vigil: 5:00 p.m.
Sunday Morning with music: 8:30 a.m.
Sunday Morning with Choir: 10:30 a.m.
Sunday Afternoon Spanish Mass: 1:00 p.m.
Sunday Afternoon Zomi/Myanmar-English: 3:30 p.m.
Weekday Mass
Monday: 7:00 a.m.
Tuesday: 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday - Friday: 8:00 a.m.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m. Missal of 1962 - Latin
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday: 8:15 - 8:45 a.m and 4:30 to 4:45 p.m.
Sunday: Before morning Masses - 7:45-8:15 a.m. and 9:45-10:15 a.m.
First Friday: 8:45 - 9:15 a.m.
Weather Policy
Masses will be cancelled due to inclement weather when the Portland Public Schools are closed. Please do not try to attend Mass if it is unsafe for you to drive. Always use your own judgment in traveling during questionable weather.


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RSA-based company came to us with an idea of improving customer care in stores. They needed a team of professional embedded software engineers to develop an app that tracks the total number of visitors. To collect the next round of investments the MVP had to be shown to investors on short notice.
Outstaffing or Extended Team
Help in hiring developers, QA engineers, designers, PMs and other remote IT specialists


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Religious Battles
By: Rick Boxx
January 29, 2013
According to a Huffington Post article, a liberally minded religious group called Faithful America boycotted Hobby Lobby. This boycott was due to Hobby Lobby's lawsuit against the government for mandating contraceptive coverage.
Hobby Lobby believes they shouldn't have to pay for drugs that cause abortion. Faithful America believes a "woman's right" to abortion trumps a baby's right to life.
In Acts 4, Peter and John were criticized by religious leaders and told to quit preaching the gospel. They responded, "Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's sight to obey you rather than God."
When we take a stand for our beliefs, it's likely our worst enemies will be those who claim to be religious as well. Remember to be guided by God's Word and serving an audience of One.
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Occasionally I need to copy nontrivial amounts of data from one machine to another. I describe in this article three approaches to doing this on the command line, and explain why the third, using ssh and tar, is the best one.
As test data, I decided to use RVM's hidden control directory,
~/.rvm. I deleted my non-MRI 1.9 rubies to reduce the transfer size.
I haven't tested this, but I imagine that for installing rvm on multiple similar systems (e.g. those with compatible native compilers, libraries, etc.), it may be possible to save a lot of time by a full install of rubies and gems on only one machine, then on the others doing a minimal install of rvm and then copying the fully populated .rvm directory.
Not So Good – Using scp
Note: This approach requires that the ssh port (22) be open on the destination host, and sshd is running. On the Mac, this is done by enabling "Remote Login" in the Sharing Preferences.
A very simple way to do this is to use
scp (secure copy, over ssh) with the
-r (recursive) option. For example:
>scp -r source_spec destination_spec
…where source_spec and destination_spec can be local or remote file or directory specifications. (I'll use the term filespec to refer to both.) Remote filespecs should be in the format [email protected]:filespec. Don't forget the colon, or the copy will be saved to the local host with a strange name! Here is an example that works correctly:
># To create ~/.rvm on the destination:
>time scp -rq ~/.rvm [email protected]_host:~/temp/rvm-copy/using-scp/
scp -rq ~/.rvm [email protected]_host:~/temp/rvm-copy/using-scp/ 25.38s user 40.99s system 3% cpu 31:12.66 total
When I tried this, I was astonished to see that the destination directory consumed more than twice as much space as the original! To easily get the amount of space consumed by a directory tree, with the size in human readable format, run
du -sh directory_name. For example:
># At the source:
>du -sh .
# At the destination:
>du -sh .
After some investigation I found that it was due to the fact that scp "follows" symbolic links. That is, instead of creating a symbolic link on the destination, it makes a copy of the linked-to directory with the link name as the name of the containing directory.
For example, here are the ~/.rvm/rubies listings on the two machines:
># Source
>ls -l
lrwxr-xr-x 1 keithb keithb 41 Dec 28 21:45 1.9 -> /Users/keithb/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p362
lrwxr-xr-x 1 keithb keithb 41 Dec 28 21:45 default -> /Users/keithb/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p362
drwxr-xr-x 8 keithb keithb 272 Dec 26 16:51 ruby-1.9.3-p362
# Destination
>ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 8 kbennett staff 272 Dec 28 22:12 1.9
drwxr-xr-x 8 kbennett staff 272 Dec 28 22:19 default
drwxr-xr-x 8 kbennett staff 272 Dec 28 22:24 ruby-1.9.3-p362
Entries with the letter "l" in the leftmost position of the line are symbolic links, and their listings show the "real" directories to which they refer. In this case, those links were created by the first two rvm commands below:
>>rvm alias create 1.9 1.9.3-p362
Creating alias 1.9 for ruby-1.9.3-p362.
Recording alias 1.9 for ruby-1.9.3-p362.
>rvm --default 1.9
>rvm alias list
1.9 => ruby-1.9.3-p362
default => ruby-1.9.3-p362
Because scp ignores the alias' symbolic link status, all the links above have a "d" signifying a real directory in the destination listing rather than the "l" signifying a link. After doing a little research I could not find any way to change this scp behavior. That being the case, I decided this approach was unacceptable.
Better – Using tar with nc
nc, also known as netcat, is a utility that, at its simplest, merely simulates cat over a network. That is, nc reads from sockets and writes to sockets where cat reads from stdin and writes to stdout. Execute
man nc to find out more about it. Combining the netcat and tar commands on both the source and destination, you can:
On the source machine: create a tar file and send it to the destination
On the destination machine: receive the tar file and extract it, writing the files to the file system
Otherwise put, the flow of the data looks like this:
tar (source) -> nc (source) -> nc (destination) -> tar (destination)
One great thing that may not be readily apparent is that, thanks to Unix, all the component subtasks can be working simultaneously. The tar file is never really a static file, but rather a stream. One side benefit of this is that there is no need for disk space to accommodate the tar file on either end. This makes it possible to copy full partitions.
Here are the actual commands I used:
On the destination machine, with the current directory set to where I want the files to be written:
>nc -l 12345 | tar xzf -
Some notes on this command:
- the "-l" tells netcat to listen on the specified port (12345 in this case)
- tar's "x" option tells tar to extract
- tar's "z" option tells tar to (un)compress
- tar's "f -" option says "I'm specifying the path, and it's stdin" (the hyphen is used by convention to mean stdin or stdout)
On the sending side, we execute this command:
>>time tar czf - . | nc destination_host 12345
tar czf - . 21.05s user 1.47s system 9% cpu 4:07.18 total
nc destination_host 12345 0.09s user 1.04s system 0% cpu 4:07.20 total
- tar's "c" option tells tar to create an archive
- nc's options specify a destination host whose name is
destination_host, on port 12345
This approach results in the correct handling of symbolic links. In addition, it's about 7.5 times faster, partly due to the data compression, but probably mostly because only one file (the tar file) needs to be handled by the transfer protocol, rather than tens of thousands.
Best – Using tar with ssh
Note: This approach assumes that the source host's ssh port is open and sshd is running.
Although the previous approach was a great improvement, there are two potential issues with it:
- it requires access to shells on both hosts
- although the data is compressed, it is not encrypted
After some web searching, I found this excellent solution posted at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/recursive-scp-w-o-following-links-658857/.
It takes advantage of ssh's ability to execute a remote command and send its output to the local host's stdout. This makes it possible to pipe the output to a local command, tar in this case:
>>time ssh [email protected]_host "cd ~/.rvm; tar czf - ." | tar xzf -
ssh [email protected]_host "cd ~/.rvm; tar czf - ." 2.31s user 0.75s system 7% cpu 38.676 total
tar xzf - 2.01s user 6.74s system 22% cpu 38.675 total
This is over six times faster then the nc approach and 48 times faster than scp! In addition, it is a single command executed from one host, and travels over an encrypted connection. Sweet!


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Dubois confident of British title success against Gorman
PUBLISHED: 16:00 14 May 2019
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Daniel Dubois should face the toughest fight of his career to date against Nathan Gorman at The O2 Arena on July 13 - but the 21-year-old thinks it will be one of the easiest.
The two young heavyweight hopes meet for the British title on a busy Frank Warren show in the capital later this summer.
Dubois, who is based at east London's Peacock gym, is unbeaten in 11 fights and is intent on inflicting a first defeat of Gorman's career.
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"There has been a lot of talk, but I think Nathan is going to be my easiest fight so far," said ex-Repton amateur Dubois, who does not see his training stints with Gorman three years ago as relevant.
"The GB squad with Nathan is all a blur and in the past; now I have got what it takes to deal with him and it will be easy. I'm here and I'll get the job done.
"To go in the record books as British champion is something else I'm chasing and it would be a step towards being at the top of the division."
Gorman, trained by former world champion Ricky Hatton is also confident about the outcome.
"Daniel thinks I'm his easiest opponent so far, but that's rubbish. I bring a lot more than all the other opponents he has fought," he said.
"We were on the GB squad for two years together and we did 200 or 300 rounds of sparring and I don't think I lost one. I think I will knock him out when we meet."
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Concentration Camps Of Canada
Through Migizi's life, we experience a glimpse of every Indigenous life lived in Canada. Set from 1918 to the 1960s, Migizi survives the abuses of residential schools and tries to live life as a Canadian. He joins the army and becomes a war hero only to return to a country that barely tolerates his existence. His bravery and perseverance is unwavering until he is forced to face his greatest fears. Will he survive his own demons and memories? Would any of us?~Goodreads Blurb
Often times here in the States, we view Canada as this sort of Ice Utopia, very cold with violent hockey players but universal healthcare and better equality. When talking with some of my Canadian friends however they mentioned that just like America likes to hide some of its sordid past, Canada has its own history that it isn't proud of. One large example has to be Canada's relationship with its First Nation or Native Americans (First Peoples.)
By focusing on one man out of the many who struggled through the system Canada put them through, author Baron Alexander Deschauer gives his audience an unique view into this world that people may not have noticed happening around them. We get to see Migizi grow up and try to live his life while life seems to be doing its darndest to hold him back from any real progress. While I can't say it was a pleasant read, I do think it was definitely a necessary one. I would have liked more, I'm not sure what more, but at only 180 pages I can't help but feel that there was more to share. I would recommend this book for people who are interested in Canadian History and First Nations HIstory. It was an easy read but like I said it isn't a happy feel good story, nor should it be.
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The New International Encyclopædia/Pharisees
PHARISEES (Heb. pērūshīm, Aramaic pērīshīn, the set apart, separatists). A Jewish religious party. The Pharisees first emerged as a definite party when the success of the Maccabean revolt led to the foundation of a secular State, at the head of which John Hyrcanus (high priest, B.C. 135-105) reigned as a secular prince, making alliances with other powers. Opposition to this policy, along the line of the old spirit of separation from all things non-Jewish (see Gentiles), crystallized in the party of the Pharisees. They were essentially a religious party and used political methods only when their principles had been severely outraged or when they could not otherwise attain their ends. Their distinctive doctrines were: (1) Separation from all intercourse in common life with the mass of the people, whom they designated as the 'am hā'āreṣ (people of the land). This term did not include, as it had originally done, the heathen inhabitants of the land, from whom Jehovah was supposed to have commanded the Israelites to keep apart for fear of contamination (cf. Ezra ix. 1; Neh. x. 28-31); it was used by the Pharisees to designate even their orthodox fellow countrymen who were less scrupulous than themselves in the interpretation and observance of the law. Since absolute separation was impossible, they drew up elaborate rules to govern their intercourse with the mass of their fellow-countrymen. They would not buy or sell in exchange with an 'am hā'āreṣ; their great Rabbi Hillel said, "No 'am hā'āreṣ is pious." They worshiped, however, with their countrymen in the temple and synagogue, and Hillel also said, "Separate not thyself from the congregation." Nevertheless the Pharisees stood highest in the popular favor. (2) Less distinctive, but held with equal intensity, was their doctrine of the strict interpretation and rigid observance of the law as a necessity to righteousness. They insisted upon both the written law (the Torah) and also the traditions of the elders. Indeed, they made the tradition of more weight than the law (Mark vii. 8 sqq.). One of their principles was, "It is a greater crime to teach contrary to the precepts of the scribes than contrary to the Torah itself." The law was extended by them to the minute details of the ablution of hands and vessels, to tithes, fasts, and Sabbath observance. They were the strictly legal party; righteousness was the product of legal observance, according to their teaching. (3) They cherished the political ideal of a restoration of the kingdom of Israel, which they expected to be accomplished through the interposition of a divine act; preparation for this consummation they believed was best achieved through a strict carrying out of the law. Foreign domination they regarded as a punishment of God for the sins of the people. (4) Their other doctrines, regarding the immortality of the soul, providence, and human freedom, were less peculiar and held in common with other Jews.
The Pharisees are most familiar through their relation to Jesus of Nazareth. They became his bitter opponents early in his ministry and continued so until the end. The grounds of their hostility were many. He and his disciples mingled freely with publicans and sinners, thus violating the distinctive Pharisaic doctrine of separation from the 'am hā'āreṣ. They were careless about the strict observance of fasts, ablutions, and the Sabbath. The teaching of Jesus concerning the Fatherhood of God was in direct opposition to the letter and spirit of Pharisaic legalism. His interpretation of the Torah in the Sermon on the Mount was a repudiation of the Pharisaic principle that righteousness is the result of the strictness with which commandments affecting the external life are observed. The Pharisees made the religious relation one of legal compact; Jesus made it one of personal fellowship in the bond of filial trust and obedience. These two systems were utterly contradictory; the representatives of the one could not endure the teacher of the other. Hence the Pharisees were the most active in putting Jesus to death. After the destruction of Jerusalem under Titus (A.D. 70) the Pharisees survived as a party; their leading rabbis formed a body which regarded itself as the continuation of the ancient Sanhedrin; this group persisted and preserved Judaism of the stricter sort after the theocracy was really overthrown.
Bibliography. Consult the histories of the Jews, by Ewald, Graetz, Wellhausen, and the lives of Jesus; Geiger, Sadducäer und Pharisäer (Breslau, 1863); Cohen, Les Phariséens (Paris, 1877); Wellhausen, Die Pharisäer und Sadducäer (Greifswald, 1874); Schürer, History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ (Edinburgh, 1886-90); Cornill, History of the People of Israel (Chicago, 1898); Eaton, article "Pharisees," in the Hastings Bible Dictionary, vol. iii. (New York, 1900); Prince, article "Scribes and Pharisees," in Encyclopædia Biblica, vol. iv. (London, 1903).


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Gabbar is Back (2015)
Review Summary: Gabbar is for Akshay Kumar fans, who turns in an admirable performance in an otherwise average film!
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Cast: Akshay Kumar
Director: Krish
Release Date: 01 May 2015
Est. Budget: 70.0 CR
Est. Box Office Collection: 86.0 CR
Plot: Gabbar Singh Rajput ( Akshay Kumar ) creates his own vigilante military network called the Anti-Corruption Force (ACF) that eliminates the most corrupt individuals, from all walks of life, in a systematic manner. As pressure builds on Police and Government to track down the man who masterminds these killings, Balbir Read more


text: Maryland friends, Signed family up to cruise out of Baltimore and wonder if you have opinions on where to park/charge (or not) Tesla for the week. My plan is to max charge at our hotel the night before so battery is full before the weeklong park. When the ship docks at 9am on Sunday, I'd like to have at least 150mi range back to get to Strasburg to charge before going home. (Though, depending on how much battery drain for the week, I'd be ok with stopping in Bethesda or Rockville to charge, but prefer not to). It does not look like there is an outlet at the parking garage at the port. Any recommendations or prior experiences doing this? Hubby was teasing the other day and calling it a "Stress-la" road trip. I told him he'd have to drive if we end up taking the ICE van. Thanks for any help! Claire


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Staff despondent at lack of good news
The staff at Portlaoise General Hospital are despondent at the lack of good news at Portlaois Hospital, according to a Portlaoise Town Councillor.
Cllr Matthew Keegan said Portlaoise's status as a level three hospital had recently been confirmed.
"This is significant for the hospital, but it went under the radar," Cllr Keegan said.
"The hospital and the staff are thrilled. No other similar size hospital got the same status.
"Recently the staff have become despondent about the lack of good news about the hospital."
Cllr Keegan said the hospital had a "massive" budget of €45million, which was similar to that of the national maternity hospital in Holles Street.
He told the meeting that there were 550-600 staff employed in the 150 bed hospital and approximately 2,5000 babies were born there every year.
He said the CT scanner would able to be open 24 hours a day by the end of the year.
"The local TD's deserve credit for this, they have kept it to the fore all the time.
"Brian Stanley done everything he could from the opposition benches, as did Sean Fleming.
"Charlie Flanagan put his reputation on the line for the hospital. It was one of the main reasons the hospital was saved," the Fine Gael councillor said.
"It's vital to the local area and the level three status is a tremendous achievement.
"For years the hospital have been looking for extra funding for the maternity. The future of the hospital always seemed uncertain, but now that is secured there should be a clear path to funding.
Cllr Caroline Dwane said the new maternity ward was vital.
"Not enough praise is given to the hospital," Cllr Kathleen O'Brien said.
While Cllr Tom Jacob said the staff went beyond the call of duty to keep the hospital going.
"It's one of the finest hosptials in the country. I've never had one complaint about it. But politicians use it as a political football at times," Cllr Willie Aird said.
Cllr Catherine Fitzgerald said that capital funding was needed for a new maternity unit, as she said the staff were under pressure.