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Fort William Backpackers
Fort William Backpackers is a charming Victorian building with a fun, friendly and relaxed atmosphere. We know how important it is to be able to relax after a hard day's exploring, and our cosy hostel is the perfect place to re-charge your batteries and share the tales of your adventures.
Please note: Reception at Fort William Backpackers is not 24 hours. Reception closes at 12pm daily, and reopens at 5pm for check in. If you think you may be arriving later than 10.30pm, please let our reception team know so that we can inform our night porter. You are more than welcome to store your bags at the hostel for free if you arrive early, and make use of all our facilities. Please help yourself to tea and coffee in the kitchen, make use of the free WiFi, and unwind in one of our many common areas. Our hostel car park is quite small and operates on a first-come, first-served basis. Our friendly reception team will be able to direct you to parking nearby if it is full.
We have a fabulous, elegant lounge with a REAL open fire, books, games, a hostel guitar and probably the best view in town! It's a great place to meet like-minded people whilst drinking as much free tea, coffee & hot chocolate as you like!
Our fully equipped self-catering kitchen comes complete with everything you will need to prepare your meals & packed lunches and has plenty of storage and fridges available for you to use. There are a couple of supermarkets within a 10 minute walk so it's easy to stock up with supplies and in the summertime you are welcome to use our BBQ on our patio.
We serve an optional breakfast of fruit, porridge, cereal, toast, fruit juice & freshly baked Scottish scones. Its £3.00 for a wee bit of everything or, if you prefer, you can simply prepare your own. The choice is yours!
Our lovely spacious dining room has great views out to the surrounding countryside and free WiFi.
We also have a private Skype Den with its own cosy fire that's perfect for keeping in touch with loved ones and boasting about your latest adventures!
If the weather's good, we'll be outside enjoying our patio area either having a BBQ or sitting around the fire pit enjoying the stars so come and join us.
In the evening you can chill out in our lounge and exchange stories with fellow guests or stroll down to the choice of local pubs and restaurants that are literally minutes away. Fort William has a lively pub atmosphere and there is live music available on most nights. You can even have a dram or 2 of the local Ben Nevis whisky and head out to party Highland Style at the Skipinnish Ceilidh House.
You can start (or end) both the 'West Highland Way' & the 'Great Glen Way' in Fort William and there are countless walking routes that are suitable for all abilities. Have a chat with us and we can recommend the best options for you and can lend you a map.
Ben Nevis - Britain's highest mountain, sits just around the corner and below it, Glen Nevis - perhaps Scotland's prettiest glen, with its wonderful waterfalls and ancient pine forest.
If you are planning on tackling the mighty Ben Nevis you will not be alone at Fort Willy Backpackers! Again our staff can give you advice and make sure that you are properly equipped before you head off. We can also arrange guided walks up Ben Nevis if you would prefer to go with qualified guides.
If biking is your thing there are endless options of trails that cater for all standards of riders from beginner to World class level. The nearby Nevis Range offers the only lift served downhill biking in the country and is well worth a visit. If you want to bring your own bike you can store it in our shed and we have bike wash facilities available. There is also a good bike hire shop on the high street if you can't bring your own.
There is a vast array of local water available for canoeing and kayaking and several outdoor activity companies offering a variety of activities. You can go canyoning or gorge walking, white water rafting and funyakking, horseriding or even paragliding!
Even in winter Fort William stays busy with skiing, snow-boarding, mountaineering & ice-climbing all close to our fantastic location.
Dramatic and eerie, Glencoe & Glenfinnan, and the Ice Factor in Kinlochleven, also await a few miles down the road and make excellent day trips from the hostel.
If all of this sounds far too much like hard work then perhaps go for a boat trip on Loch Linnhe to visit the seals or just take it easy amidst the wonderful scenery. The Ben Nevis distillery, Inverlochy Castle, the Ruined Fort, and Glen Nevis can all be reached without breaking a sweat!
You can perhaps catch the awesome steam train and head to Mallaig along one of the prettiest railway lines in the world. You even get to go over the Glenfinnan viaduct just like Harry Potter on the Hogwarts Express.
Whether you plan to chill out or perhaps test your skills on a World Cup mountain bike trail...Fort Willy Backpackers is the place for you!
Our friendly award-winning staff are committed to ensuring you make the most out of your time in Fort William. We also LOVE the outdoors and can give you our 'top tips' to help you plan your adventure.
Please note, due to past experiences, we cannot accommodate stag or hen parties. We require all guests to show valid photographic ID upon check in. If anyone in your group is under the age of 18, you MUST contact the hostel before making a reservation online.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- Age Restriction
- Bicycle parking
- Board Games
- Book Exchange
- Breakfast Not Included
- Common Room
- Cooker
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Free City Maps
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Hair Dryers For Hire
- Hot Showers
- House Keeping
- Internet Access
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Luggage Storage
- Microwave
- No Curfew
- Non Smoking
- Outdoor Terrace
- Parking
- Reception (limited hours)
- Safe Deposit Box
- Swimming Pool
- Taxes included
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels For Hire
- Towels Not Included
- Utensils
- Vending Machines
- Washing Machine
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
Must-Read Hostel InfoThis property has specific Terms & Conditions.
Please bring photographic identification with you – you will need it to check-into our hostel.
If any guest within your booking is under the age of 18 please contact us before making the reservation online.
As our accommodation is mainly comprised of dorm rooms, we can only accept families with children if the whole room has been booked for sole occupancy. We cannot accommodate children in dorm rooms with other guests and the maximum number of people allowed to sleep in our twin room is 2.
The hostel reception is open from 7am-12pm and then from 5pm-10.3opm. If you arrive in the afternoon feel free to make yourself at home and use the hostel facilities. Check-in is available again between 5pm & 10.30pm.
Fort William Backpackers is available for sole occupancy. To check availability & get a quote, please contact us.
Unfortunately, due to past experiences, we do not accept stag or hen parties
Cancellation Policy:
Cancellations made more than 24 hours prior to arrival will receive a 90% refund.
Cancellations made less than 24 hours prior to arrival are non-refundable.
(Please note that in order to receive a 90% refund; you must cancel prior to 12.00 noon the day before your booking is due to commence)
Please note: Fort William Backpackers does not have a 24 hour reception. Reception closes at 12pm daily, and reopens at 5pm for check in. If you think you may be arriving later than 10.30pm, please let our reception team know so that we can inform our night porter.
You are more than welcome to store your bags at the hostel for free if you arrive early, and make use of all our facilities. Please help yourself to tea and coffee in the kitchen, make use of the free WiFi, and unwind in one of our many common areas.
Our hostel car park is quite small and operates on a first-come, first-served basis. Our friendly reception team will be able to direct you to parking nearby if it is full.
Group Bookings: Groups of 6 guests or more need to contact the hostel to make a booking.
DirectionsShow MapHide Map
By Car:
If arriving into Fort William from the South:
Follow the main road beside the loch until you reach a large roundabout beside Morrisons supermarket. At this roundabout turn right and follow the road past the hospital which will be on your right hand side. Shortly after the hospital turn right into Alma Road. When the road forks bear left and continue up the hill. Our hostel is on the corner on the right hands side and our car park entrance is just as you come around the corner.
By Car:
If arriving from the North:
Go straight on at the roundabout next to the Ben Nevis Distillery which will be on your left hand side and follow the main road towards the town centre. At the mini roundabout, turn right. Follow the road past the leisure centre and just after the playing fields turn left into Alma Road. A few metres later you take the left hand fork, go up the hill and just as you come around the corner you will see the entrance to our hostel carpark on the right hand side.
By Bus & Train:
Walk out of the stations towards the main road and bear left walking away from the lochside. Walk up to the pedestrian crossing opposite the hospital and cross over the road. Turn left and walk about 200 metres and take your first right turn into Alma Road. Take the left fork in the road, walk up the hill to the corner and you will find us on your right hand side.


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Personal computing discussed
Moderators: Nelliesboo, David, mac_h8r1
LicketySplit wrote:Flying Fox wrote:
@mods: this stuff probably needs a split?
Meh...dont see why.
YeuEmMaiMai wrote:1. all modern laptops will automatically stop charging when the battery is full and there is no reason to remove it from the machine
2. putting the battery in the fridge is bad especially in high humidity areas
finegel wrote:by making it produce less electricity at once, so the laptop will not run efficently.
Krogoth wrote:Care to enlightenment me?
Jiethy wrote:So if I use a netbook (Samsung NC210) almost all day long and the battery is often empty when I get home, is it bad for the battery? Do I need to charge it when it gets to 40%, not when it's already expired? I think these tips are rather hard to apply in reality
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the basics:
remove battery when lappy is connected to the mains
store battery at 40% charge and in the refridgerator if possible (do not store in freezer)
fully discharge the battery after every 30 charges to calibrate the charge meter
lithium-ion does not have a charge memory
if possible, don't buy two batteries, but wait till the first one dies and then buy another
don't buy old stock, even if discounted
expected life of a lithium-ion battery is 2-3 years

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Celebrate an Unforgettable Chinese New Year at the Royal Cliff!
Come and celebrate the Year of the Horse and the dawn of the seventh cycle at the Royal Cliff Hotels Group on the 31st of January 2014.
Take part in a long-standing tradition and indulge in a delectable international buffet with signature Chinese specialties in a spectacular pool side setting. An entertainment line-up with all the grace and excitement befitting the Year of the Horse awaits you!
Royal Cliff Beach Hotel's poolside will be all decked out in beautiful red and gold trimmings. Guests will not want to miss Royal Cliff's special treats lined up for the entire family! Get into the spirit of the Chinese New Year with our amazing live entertainment including awe-inspiring dance performances that pay tribute to the distinct Chinese culture and a spectacular Chinese Acrobat Show that will be sure to captivate one and all. Share the festive spirit by partaking in a scrumptious feast prepared by our award winning culinary team who will also create Chinese delicacies such as the "Lucky Lo Hei" to highlight and celebrate this auspicious occasion. Other delightful perks include an exciting lucky draw and live band entertainment for you and your loved ones to enjoy!
Come and be part of an unforgettable Chinese New Year unlike any other for only THB 1,500++ per person at the Royal Cliff Hotels Group! To make a reservation please contact our guest relations by email: firstname.lastname@example.com or call 038250421 ext 2007 or 2037.
Situated on a 64 acre private parkland estate overlooking the stunning Gulf of Thailand, the Royal Cliff Hotels Group has been honored with multiple awards including TripAdvisor Traveler's Choice (given to only 1% of hotels around the world) and recognition from organizations of national and international repute. Furthermore it is the only resort in Asia/Pacific to be elevated in TTG Travel Hall of Fame. It is home to four award winning 5-star hotels offering a sensory experience defined profoundly by its style, culture and elegance – all presented with the distinctive spirit of the State of Exclusivity and Fascination.
For more information or reservations, please contact our Guest Relations Department at 038-250-421 Ext. 2007 or 2037 or email email@example.com.
For more information on the Royal Cliff Hotels Group and PEACH, please visit www.royalcliff.com and www.peachthailand.com.


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Pretty embroidery around front pockets, comfy stretch and classic five-pocket styling make this pair of bebe skinny jeans the ultimate way to chic up your off-duty collection. Try them with a sexy summer top and a pair of strappy metallic sandals.
- 56% cotton, 42% lyocell, 2% spandex
- Machine wash
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- Rise: 8" (20 cm), inseam: 29" (74 cm), leg opening: 10" (25 cm)
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For those with disabilities, we encourage you to visit our Accessibility page (http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/plan/accessibility/) on the Foundation's website. You will find information for the visual- and hearing-impaired, as well as those with limited mobility. You may make the Institute staff aware of your disability with your registration information should you choose to do so. Institute programming requires 3-5 miles of walking each day in hot, humid temperatures. Please keep this in mind when considering your individual participation. Should you need to rent a wheelchair while you are here, you may contact the Visitor Services Coordinator at (800) 246-2099. Please note that the Colonial Williamsburg staff will be unable to help assist with pushing, pulling, or lifting any equipment that helps you with mobility.
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Apartment Therapy Original Projects
And the award for Best Original Project goes to… Apartment Therapy! It's true, our contributors are a talented bunch: between us we've tackled home improvements, furniture makeovers and DIYs both big and small, as this roundup of original Before & After and DIY projects proves. Take a few minutes to check it out, and you might be inspired to create something of your own before the end of the year.
Whole Room Re-hauls:
1. A Granny Office Goes Modern
2. An Entryway Makeover
3. A Fresh Bathroom Remodel
4. A Deep Blue TV Room
5. Family-Friendly Deck
6. A Simple Office Nook Makeover
7. No More Wasted Space in This Home Office
8. An Almost-Black Guest Bedroom
9. A Nature Lover's Nook
10. How To Raise a Yurt in Four Hours
Furniture & Medium-Sized Projects:
11. Simple Shelves Become a Stylish Cabinet
12. Mid-Century Inspired Dresser Knobs from Mason Jar Lids
13. How To Paint a Wooden Dresser
14. A Pair of Victorian Bedroom Chairs, and Learning New Skills
15. How To Remove Wallpaper
Accessories & Small Upgrades:
16. File Box Goes for the Gold
17. The Power of Paint: My Lamp Before & After
18. TV Tray Table Gets Decked Out
19. A Target Lamp Redo
20. How To Make a Flower Pot Table
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by Justin D. Lowry, Georgia Conservative Weekly
The purpose of the 10th Amendment is to define the establishment and division of power between the Federal government and state governments. This amendment also protects these powers from both entities. This amendment was used to define the federal taxing power, federal police power, and federal regulations.
At one time, it was read very simply, if it is not in the constitution, the federal government could not pass it to the states. Through the years, the power of the federal government has expanded through the Supreme Court.
The Founding Fathers established this country on the Compact Theory. This theory states that the federal government is a compact of the states, and that the government was a creation of the states.
This is evident in the Treaty of Paris and the Articles of Confederation. The Treaty of Paris stated that the 13 former colonies were "free sovereign and independent states." The Articles of Confederation also adopted this idea as the second article clearly states, "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated."
When they wrote the Constitution, they included the 10th amendment, which states, "Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated." The problem with this statement is that is was too open for implication by our government.
At this time, Congressional power came from Article 6, section 2, The Supremacy Clause. This stated that the federal Constitution is the supreme law of the land and the state judges must abide by this constitution, even if it conflicts with the constitution of the state.
While this country was still young, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Act. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison believed this to be an overstep of Congressional authority, so they drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolution.
They believed that the federal government had no right to exercise powers not specifically delegated to it; should the federal government assume such powers, its acts under them would be void. Thus, it was the right of the states to decide as to the constitutionality of such laws passed by Congress. They utilized the theory of Nullification, which stated that the States were to interpret the Constitution, and any acts they saw unconstitutional were nullified.
The original enemy to the cause of State's rights and federalism was John Marshall. He was a Supreme Court Justice in the early 1800's. He handed down two major rulings to cut down State's Rights. One was McCulloch vs. Maryland.
In this case, he determined that the Constitution grants the federal government implied powers to implement the Constitution's express powers, as well as that the state's action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government. In the other case, Gibbons vs. Ogden, he established that the federal government had the right to regulate interstate commerce by the Commerce Clause.
Chief Justice Marshall's successor was Roger B. Taney. He established a system of Dual Federalism, where separate but equal branches of government are the best option. Dual federalism is based on the federal and state's government is split into separate spheres, and is supreme in those spheres. It discusses specifically the role between these two governments.
This theory holds the federal government to certain limitations, these being: the government rules by enumerated power, government has a limited set of constitutional purposes, state and federal government is sovereign within its sphere of operation, and the relationship between the federal and state government is best described as tension instead of cooperation. This system lasted for over a century.
The 16th and 17th amendments both gave great power to the federal government. The 16th amendment allowed the federal government to levy an income tax. The 17th amendment changed the Constitution in which they were no longer appointed by the state legislators, but instead elected by the people. This took away the states ability of direct representation.
Through direct representation, the senators were more apt to protect states rights, and were viewed as the states "ambassador" to the federal government. Interesting fact, the state of Georgia has never ratified the 17th amendment.
President Franklin Roosevelt brought about his New Deal, taking more away from the states. This measure brought about Cooperative Federalism. Cooperative Federalism is where the national and state governments "cooperate" with each other. They cooperate by the federal government telling the states what to do, and the states doing it.
This form of federalism brought about a change in federal aid as well. Funds are distributed through grants, which gives the federal government more power over spending and over the states, as these funds come on a quid pro quo basis.
Now, we have a movement called New Federalism, which was started by Ronald Reagan and his revolution in the 1980s. There are several court cases in the 1990's, under Chief Justice Rehnquist, that displayed the cause of New Federalism.
The case of United States vs. Lopez decided that the federal government did not have the right, under the Commerce Clause, to regulate firearms in school zones. In the case of United States vs. Morrison, the court decided that victims of gender-motivated crimes could not sue their attackers in federal court.


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Haha! Juuuust kidding. We all know that this season is for baby Jesus AND me. I just wanted to put it out there that every single time I go "Christmas Shopping" I come home with an awful lot of "one for my brother...two for me!"
When the sales person goes "wow...you've got a LOT of Christmas shopping done!" I just mumble..."yahsuredid" and when I say "you don't need to wrap anything but that one small one....I like to wrap the rest MYSELF. Cuz I bought this GREAT Justin Bieber paper...." I know I'm not totally lying, cuz I DID buy that paper!
(which I did)
(for real)
But uh, yah. I can't be the ONLY one who does this...right??
So, it's been awhile. Let me catch you up on my exciting hollywood single life for the past few months....in pictograph...


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Join Date: May 2009
Location: France
Age: 30
Anyways, the chapter 6 = trolling.
Of Im Dal Young.
I think he is right with the 70 pages monthly if you have a weekly serie.
But seriously : 48 pages for a month ?
Never saw this in Claymore or others. Look at Koimoku ... XD
|2011-09-17, 13:14
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: NY
Age: 39
Read chapter 6 of Koimoku. Hinata has a point that you need to sell manga to make money, but in the process she's completely lost focus on other important aspects of making manga. She takes the creativity away from the mangaka in order to mass produce generic stuff that will sell. That's when it stops being an art form and becomes a business. You take away creativity and you're left with a ton of dull, lifeless projects that are all copy cats of one another (same goes for movie, music and video games) and culture itself stagnates. People then eventually get bored with the same old crap.
In her effort to produce mass-selling mangakas, she's apparently ruined a lot more than who've made it by overworking them and basically turning them into drawing machines instead of the artists they should be. The other editor sees that and I think she's a better character for pointing that out.
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Or, the way her expressions showed, she could be just jealous of the attention she's giving him. I mean, she's your competition, why do you care if she drags mangaka to the ground. If you're in love with her just say it already and stop pretending you care for the business.
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TomVH: Plant OL Offered
OL Tony Posada from Plant High School told me he was offered by Michigan about a month ago. He's under the radar, but he's 6'5 and around 290 pounds. There's not a lot of info about Posada, but I think more and more schools are going to start offering.
He's #75, if you want to watch their team highlight films.
He told me he will be visiting either in the spring or summer, and that Michigan is in his top three.


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CALGARY — A mega mall just north of Calgary will house more than 500 retail stores, services and restaurants.
The New Horizon Mall is a unique, traditional Asian shopping centre concept with modern architecture where condo spaces in the centre will be for sale to retailers or investors as opposed to the traditional model of leasing. It is located on the east side of the Queen Elizabeth 2 Highway, just north of the Calgary International Airport and just south of the CrossIron Mills shopping centre.
Eli Swirsky, president of The Torgan Group which is developing the project with The MPI Property Group, said construction is expected to start in late 2014 with completion in late 2016.
Total square footage is about 280,000 square feet with underground parking. He said about 400 locations will be on the ground floor with about another 100 on a second level.
Click here to view renderings of the proposed mall.
There are also two entertainment venues — a main stage on the lower level and a traditional Chinese stage on the upper level.
Future plans call for a hotel and a supermarket on the site.
"Calgary is the place to be for anything. It's a leader in the nation for retail sales, growth, disposable income. It's a very attractive place to invest both as a developer and for merchants to run businesses because the vacancy rate is so low," said Swirsky. "Calgary is attractive on the macro level.
"We developed a similar type of mall in north Toronto, in Markham, in 1993 and the biggest issue we had to deal with is access and traffic issues ... Being right on Highway 2 (for New Horizon Mall), makes it very attractive from that point of view."
Sales for the project will be officially launched October 26-27 in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Toronto. The mall will be home to fashion, health and beauty services, giftware, electronics, food and entertainment. The open concept style has spaces ranging from 285 square feet to 855 square feet with prices starting at $169,800. There's also more than 320 square feet of glass per store.
"The New Horizon project will be shadow-anchored by CrossIron Mills and will be well situated to capitalize on traffic generated by the Mills centre that is now a major regional draw," said Michael Kehoe, an Alberta-based retail specialist with Fairfield Commercial Real Estate in Calgary. "New Horizon is sure to become a destination for their target ethnic group and others as the appeal of themed specialty retail centres continue to grow across North America."
David Kalinchuk, economic development manager with Rocky View County, said it has been working with this group for about a year on the project.
"Everything's coming together. It's a great project. It's got a really unique retail offering," he said. "Architecturally, they've really put a lot of thought into the landmark, gateway kind of appeal of this particular development, not unlike other developments in that area that are absolutely world-class.
"So you add new offerings to that area and it becomes a bit of a retail cluster. That's very positive. We're seeing lots of interest in the whole Balzac area. Towards Highway 2, we're seeing more of that kind of retail and hotel offerings."
Rob Walker, senior vice-president/partner of Colliers International in Calgary, said the condo retail concept works well in the Asian community "because that's what they're used to overseas."
"Here it's something relatively new," he said.
"Usually ethnic-oriented malls are located within the area that the customers are living in. This is not. This is catering after feeding off Highway 2 and CrossIron Mills. So in that respect it's different than a lot of the other ones we've seen."


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Soapbox: Jack Mackenroth
Designer-turned-activist Jack Mackenroth is never one to shy away from the media spotlight. But unlike basically any other reality star you could name, he's actually doing some good with it! An outspoken HIV activist and educator, Jack's taking over our Health, Fitness & Wellness Issue Soapbox and getting real on HIV stigma.
HIV stigma needs to end now. The quiet judgment within the gay community is often passive but sly and cunning. For a community that has grown up feeling "less than," we certainly have no trouble segregating within our ranks. So stigma needs to end. Yesterday. Not just because nondiscrimination is the right thing to do, but also because serosorting actually has the reverse effect many hope to achieve.
Let me explain. Serosorting is a practice by which negative guys try to weed out HIV-positive partners by only dating men who claim to be negative. In the apps and websites that seem to have replaced actual human interaction, posting "DDF (drug and disease free) UB2" or "Neg only" is commonplace. Whether they mean to or not, men who do this are adding to the zeitgeist of discrimination and doing themselves a huge disservice in the process.
To be fair, HIV-positive men also serosort, but our motivation is different. As a man who has lived with HIV for 24 years, I have found it less complicated to date HIV-positive men. Explaining my situation and the risks involved can get exhausting. However, I don't want to make sweeping generalizations in an article that's attempting to refute generally accepted beliefs. Kudos to the many HIV-negative men I have met who are well educated and have absolutely no issues with dating poz men. And despite efforts to the contrary, all my long-term boyfriends have been negative. Go figure.
The only people who can be absolutely certain of their HIV status are HIV-positive men and the small group of men who have very recently tested negative and have not engaged in any risky behavior in the surrounding months. (i.e., unicorns).
This is certainly not to say you shouldn't inquire about status or discuss sexual history in a sexual or dating scenario. Just know that a negative disclosure holds little weight and may actually give a false sense of security. Does the fact that a guy cites his last negative test make it seem more official? If I'm a horny HIV-positive man, do you trust me to tell the truth? I would argue that for some people the practice of serosorting encourages lying and avoidance and keeps people from getting tested.
I would even go so far as to say that, aside from virgins and the Amish, undetectable HIV-positive guys are quite possibly your safest bet in terms of sexually transmitted diseases. An HIV-positive person typically visits the doctor at least once every four months. We get our blood work and STD screenings on a regular basis. We know better than anyone what's going on in our bodies. And as multiple studies have shown, with adherence to medicine, we can achieve undetectable status, which makes the virus virtually impossible to transmit.
So, hypothetically we could get the HIV transmission rate to zero—or at least get much closer to it. If everyone got tested and every HIV-positive person got on treatment that kept their virus at an undetectable level, we would dramatically decrease transmission rates. But there is a giant stigma in the way that keeps people from getting tested, keeps people from telling their partners and keeps people from getting those meds that could change everything.
For some people, serosorting may be a new concept but I can assure you it's been around as long as the AIDS virus. For others, even discussing other factors that can reduce transmission risk, such as undetectable viral load and PrEP, is immediately attacked and dismissed by those stuck in the "condoms only" mind-set. They immediately think one is anti-condom and might even try to shame anyone who even dares mention any alternate risk-reduction modalities. Condoms are effective and necessary, but we need to attack the transmission rates with all available ammunition.
The CDC estimates that one in five gay men in major cities is HIV positive and that half of them don't know it. So there go your odds of truly finding "neg only" partners. And those odds are only getting worse since transmission rates have not declined. So we need to change the game. Rather than judge those who are positive, we need to celebrate knowing our status regardless of what it may be. If you're negative, by all means declare your negative status. It's something to be valued and protected. But please don't let other people's status affect the way you interact with them. And know that until we cease to judge our poz brothers—no matter how subtly—they will continue to hide, deny and internalize shame. And if you are positive, own it and be proactive. With early treatment you can protect yourself and others. Let go of the blame and shame. The stigma only hurts us all. If we all know facts and treat everyone with the same respect, there's no reason why we shouldn't all be "poz friendly."
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Labda Prakarsa Nirwikara
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Pekanbaru (UTC+07:00)
Age: 31
Small, irrelevant slice-of-the life scenes? Fine, use Sound Stages and the manga for those.
Important scenes that gave a much large insight on a character, such as the accident or the deal with his father's near-death and the impact on her? Those are something that belonged in the main adaptation.
On a related note, there's a lot of unexplored territory to venture into just like how Star Wars EU are more than Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie and the droids, but everyone and their grandmother knows that the creators would never step out of that comfort zone and make a story without any appearance whatsoever of the main cast. Which is a shame because there are truckloads of story potential there: centuries of Belkan Expansionist Era, fall of the Belkan homeworld, the Unification War, pre-TSAB Midchilda, the mysteries of Alhazard, the previous Book of Darkness incident...but they can't attach nude pics of Nanoha and Fate to those stories, could they?
|2011-12-12, 11:55
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I would also like a reboot of the series, though I also sadly agree that it's not going to happen, since we have the movies.
Well, a reboot in the form of OVA might be possible, like with Hellsing Ultimate. But what would they do differently that they didn't already do with the movies?
I'd like to see more of Yuuno and Raising Heart's past explored, but Tsuzuki has just given us one big off-screen hand wave with Raising Heart, and only diminished Yuuno's importance. If he really did never care before, it certainly doesn't seem like he'll care in the future.
If StrikerS and beyond get movies, we might be able to hope for more details on pre-TSAB history and the three or four or more empires duking it out, but that's the most I could hope for.
|2011-12-12, 12:19
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Age: 31
A better example of terrible tie-ins is the whole Fate/Erio/Caro dynamic. That was never touched upon in the anime, yet essential during Fate's climactic fight. Not to mention that much of it included basic character development for Erio and Caro, two main characters in the anime, yet barely developed there at all. That is an example of terrible use of tie-ins.
As for what I'd personally like to see... I'd like to see the PSP-verse explored more. This time watching the girls grow up instead of grown up.
|2011-12-12, 14:03
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I want to see why Yuuno took a job with the Infinity Library instead of reuniting with his family; he even did so without their permission, which technically wasnt even legal. Were they simply not on Midchilda during and after A's, and unavailable to contact wherever they had gone to dig something up?
Having the Scrya Clan come rushing onto the screen for the first time shouting about the new horror they unleashed would be a nice set-up for a new season with all the old characters, set on a new world.
|2011-12-12, 21:54
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|2011-12-12, 23:12
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If you'd like more of the PSP verse, well... Play the PSP games
Though in light of what Keroko said, there's always the gap between A's and StrikerS that a new installment could explore.
|2011-12-12, 23:46
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Exploring the PSP verse is something I can get behind. It features Hayate actually learning how to fight, for one thing. That's just not something I can see Signum letting her get away with after ten years.
But I hope they'd leave off Gears of Destiny, because I hate the idea of Reliable Time-Traveling Technology and Time Police. Time travel and alternate universes simply open too many cans of worms, especially when used by bad writers.
Besides, there's no reason to put Yuuno off until Gears of Destiny if even Chrono had Materials made from his memories, since he didn't get his Linker Core taken either!
|2011-12-12, 23:56
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Subspace. It's just subspace travel from one solar system to another. The universe is too big for a franchise to need MULTIPLE universes, especially when you have spaceships.
|2011-12-13, 01:15
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Burst Mode
My prefered method of time travel is moving to a parallel universe that is 99% the same as your own universe, the 1% being that it's x units of time in the past/future.
No messy paradoxes that way.
|2011-12-13, 02:03
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Other planets are enough for other worlds.
|2011-12-13, 06:43
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
And I don't see a reason to leave out Gears of Destiny either. Sure, it introduces time traveling, but I don't see that as a massive problem. It might actually give a more direct meaning meaning to the time part in the time space administration bureau's name.
|2011-12-13, 07:34
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Join Date: May 2010
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Age: 31
Wasn't it supposed to be Space-Time Administration Bureau, and the only reason we never use that was because STAB isn't exactly a benevolent-sounding acronym?
Besides, IIRC the Movie used the term Dimension Administration Bureau
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Supreme Court Effectively Says There's No Way To Challenge Warrantless Wiretapping
from the but-of-course dept
Doesn't that seem like a serious constitutional problem? The government can pass laws that it can spy on people in private, and there's no way to then challenge that law. Oh, and if you happen to discover (by accident!) that you've been spied upon the government can just claim sovereign immunity, and that's it. Case closed.
The full ruling is pretty depressing. The court basically says any harm is "speculative," and thus there can't be any standing at all.
We decline to abandon our usual reluctance to endorse standing theories that rest on speculation about the decisions of independent actors.That's from the majority ruling, written by Justice Alito, and signed by Justices Roberts, Thomas, Scalia and Kennedy. Dissenting were Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan. The majority also rejected the idea that merely having to take precautions not to be spied upon without warrants represents a real harm that gives standing:
If the law were otherwise, an enterprising plaintiff would be able to secure a lower standard for Article III standing simply by making an expenditure based on a nonparanoid fear.Perhaps a legitimate concern, but it still seems somewhat ridiculous that there is no actual way to test the constitutionality of a law that clearly has 4th Amendment consequences.
The dissent pointed out that it's crazy to suggest that the fact that this will be used on the plaintiffs was "speculative," and clearly worried about the implications of such a ruling and what it means for the government's ability to pass these kinds of laws without real judicial review.
The upshot is that (1) similarity of content, (2) strong motives, (3) prior behavior, and (4) capacity all point to a very strong likelihood that the Government will intercept at least some of the plaintiffs' communications, including some that the 2008 amendment, §1881a, but not the pre-2008 Act, authorizes the Government to intercept. At the same time, nothing suggests the presence of some special factor here that might support a contrary conclusion. The Government does not deny that it has both the motive and the capacity to listen to communications of the kind described by plaintiffs. Nor does it describe any system for avoiding the interception of an electronic communication that happens to include a party who is an American lawyer, journalist, or human rights worker. One can, of course, always imagine some special circumstance that negates a virtual likelihood, no matter how strong. But the same is true about most, if not all, ordinary inferences about future events. Perhaps, despite pouring rain, the streets will remain dry (due to the presence of a special chemical). But ordinarily a party that seeks to defeat a strong natural inference must bear the burden of showing that some such special circumstance exists. And no one has suggested any such special circumstance here.They go on to point to a series of other cases where standing was granted based on "probable" injury. It also notes a bunch of scenarios that seem ridiculous, but which are logically implied by this ruling. And, indeed, the standard the Supreme Court ruling makes here is a very high bar that is going to deny standing in many cases, and often allow the government to act with impunity in cases where oversight is needed. This is very unfortunate. And, of course, it's unlikely that Congress will do its job and step in to fix this.
Consequently, we need only assume that the Government is doing its job (to find out about, and combat, terrorism) in order to conclude that there is a high probability that the Government will intercept at least some electronic communication to which at least some of the plaintiffs are parties. The majority is wrong when it describes the harm threatened plaintiffs as "speculative."


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Edward "Eddie" Dopkin, the popular restaurateur who founded and owned Miss Shirley's and co-owned the Classic Catering People, died Saturday at age 61.
Dopkin's dining successes and relationships within the community earned praise Saturday from Baltimoreans who patronized his establishments and who, like the Baltimore Ravens organization, relied on his family's Owings Mills-based catering company.
"My heart aches at hearing the news of Eddie Dopkin's passing," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in a statement to The Baltimore Sun. "He has been a constant fixture in the restaurant and catering community of Baltimore for many years and his commitment to the City was unwavering."
In addition to launching the original Miss Shirley's on East Cold Spring Lane in 2005, Dopkin also formerly owned several other restaurants in the in the Keswick and Evergreen neighborhoods along Cold Spring Lane in North Baltimore, including Alonso's, Loco Hombre, S'ghetti Eddies and the Roland Park Bagel Co.
But it is Miss Shirley's, which Dopkin named for a Classic Catering employee, that became his most notable success. Known for rich, Southern-inspired brunch fare, it draws long lines, notable names and national praise. In addition to the Cold Spring Lane restaurant, there are now Miss Shirley's locations in Baltimore's Inner Harbor and Annapolis as well as a popular food truck.
His dining career had begun at the Beef Inn, the Pikesville restaurant owned by his parents. Dopkin later owned and operated The Bagel Place, a chain. One site was an early Harborplace tenant, and the franchise ultimately reached as far as Staten Island, according to Dopkin's son, David Dopkin.
As the caterer for the Ravens, Dopkin was a recognizable figure throughout the organization, and was even asked on occasion by players to provide catering for private parties.
"He was a dear friend of the [Ravens] organization," said Bob Eller, the Ravens' vice president of operations. "Not only was he a terrific business partner, he was a fine individual and exactly the type of person you wanted to have a business relationship with."
Dopkin's efforts within the restaurant and catering industry, including a term as board president of the Restaurant Association of Maryland, were also praised.
"Eddie was the kind of person who understood the importance of relationships and how they intersect in business, politics and community," said Melvin Thompson, the organization's vice president of government relations. "And he used those relationships to positively impact all three."
Thompson described how Dopkin was able to influence politicians and others.
"They didn't want to say no to Eddie," Thompson said. "Because Eddie never said no."
Dopkin died at Sinai Hospital from complications associated with a rare form of leukemia, known as chronic lyphysitic leukemia.
Funeral services are slated for Monday at 3 p.m. at Sol Levinson and Brothers Funeral Home, 8900 Reisterstown Road in Pikesville.


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When it comes to gadget gifts, I take the safe route and ask for (or give) specific ideas. After all, gadgets can be expensive and that problem is compounded many times over when faced with the dilemma of receiving an unwanted gift. This is especially true in the midst of a recession. People will probably spend less, take less risks and be more tempted to re-gift when things don't go as planned. So, I have a two part question for you. First—is re-gifting a gadget wrong? And second—have you ever done it?
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Back in August of 2009, the OSnews team spent 3 full hours discussing Apple. In the course of discussion, we spent some time talking about the then-mythical "Apple Tablet." So, 5 months later, how did we do? Were we accurate in our predictions? How did you envision the Tablet, long before the nonsensically named "iPad" became a reality? This clip, which I've called "Episode 20.x" and inserted into cannon retroactively, is pulled, unaltered, from the original podcast.
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Rollie Pollie!
Meet, The Rollie Pollie:
It's a chair, it's a toy, it's your favorite pillow.
Made of durable cotton twill or soft vinyl, each bag is actually a slip cover (with another Rollie Pollie inside) then filled with mounds and mounds of soft cluster stuffing. So if it gets dirty, just zip it off and throw it in the wash. And with a handle on top, it's easy to toss around. Ready for a pillow fight? We'll let dad referee.
This is a MINI-Tutorial for the Rollie Pollie, showing the basics of how to make one.
The Full, Detailed pattern can be found at the MADE SHOP.
The detailed pattern includes: Tons of info about Fabric selection, sewing with zippers, where to buy the right filling for your Rollie Pollie, How-to make an Insert Rollie Pollie and a slip-cover to go over it (easy to wash), and TWO different sizes of Pattern Pieces, which can be printed right on your home printer!
In this mini-tutorial, we'll show you how to make the Insert Rollie Pollie.
Okay, let's get started!
The Rollie Pollie is made of two pattern pieces (shown in the drawing below). You will need FOUR of the SIDE pieces, and TWO of the Top and Bottom circles. If you'd like to add a handle, cut a rectangle about 1-inch longer than the circumference of your circle piece and about 3 inches wide.
If you want to make a slip-covered Rollie Pollie (by adding a zipper), you will need to make ONE of the SIDE pieces, 1-inch wider in the middle to accommodate the extra zipper seam.
Create your pattern pieces on a large piece of paper or on a piece of junk fabric. Then with a fabric Marker or Sharpie, trace your pattern pieces on to your fabric. Depending on your pattern size and the width of your fabric, you will need anywhere from 2-4 yards of fabric. For the insert Rollie Pollie, it's best to use white fabric (so it doesn't show through the outside slip cover). Twill and heavier cottons work best:
Once your pieces are cut out, place two of the SIDE pieces back to back, pin all the way down ONE side:
and sew down that side:
This next step is not necessary, but it will make your Rollie Pollie stronger. Serge off your seams. If you don't have a serger, do a zigzag or leave the edges raw:
Repeat the above steps, attaching all your SIDE pieces to each other. When you get to the last SIDE, YOU NEED TO LEAVE AN OPENING IN THE SIDE so that you can get the stuffing inside. I like to mark my start and stop points with pins, so I don't forget to leave an opening:
Then with all of your sides sewn together, place your Circle pieces on the top and bottom of your Rollie Pollie. Pin them down, sew all the way around, and you're almost done!
Turn the Rollie Pollie inside out and fill it with stuffing. I chose CLUSTER STUFF, found at Walmart. (The Rollie Pollie Pattern has more detailed info about all stuffing options).
Fill it as full as you like. You want it to have a little give. But the stuffing will also smush over time, so get a lot in there.
Pin the opening shut:
And though this is bulky to do, sew the opening shut with your machine. It doesn't need to look pretty because it will be inside the slip cover. Just make sure it's sewn SHUT!
Stick the Insert into your slip cover and......
You're done!
Fore more detailed info and helpful tips, please see The Rollie Pollie Pattern at MADE.
12 comments:
- Midwest Prep said...
Not to be rude but isn't part of the point of being voted the winner-that you have to share how it is done? no one else ever posted Mini-tutorials and didn't give the full directions. I really like your blog and I really love all the stuff you made and I can even appreciate that you would like to make some money off of a great idea--but you shouldn't have picked this as your entry in the contest in that case-- because everyone else shared the whole tutorial for their selections if they won. This is just me being honest- I still think you are great- but the mini tutorial left me feeling cheated. I voted for you and was excited to be able to make my own based on the tutorial. I think this has left me a little dissapointed.
- January 28, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- Kari said...
- January 28, 2010 at 3:19 PM
- TannHart said...
I agree.
- January 28, 2010 at 3:31 PM
- Jill said...
I disagree - the mini tutorial definitely gives you enough information to make your own rollie pollie with a little effort. And if you really need all the details, $6 is not a lot to ask for a great pattern.
Great job, Dana! ;)
- January 28, 2010 at 4:06 PM
- Joni said...
Yes, you could figure it out. It would stink to use that much fabric on something and have it come out too skinny though! I guess the only info I really am bummed about not seeing is how much fabric to buy for each size and how many bags of cluster fill they use. It would stink to have to make another trip to town in the middle of this super-cool project. Thanks for sharing all these really great ideas though!
- January 28, 2010 at 4:52 PM
- Carrie said...
This definitely seems like enough tutorial info to make this project to me. Perhaps not for a beginning sewer, but for advanced beginner on up.
- January 28, 2010 at 7:17 PM
- Laura B. said...
I disagree as well. I think the mini-tutorial is great and definitely gives enough directions to get there. For those of us who need detailed instructions, the pattern is great. I happily paid $6 for her fabulous instructions. It was well worth it.
Dana (and all crafters) did such a great job on their entries and have provided us with so many fun project ideas, I'm just grateful for their craftiness!
Thanks Ladies!!!
- January 28, 2010 at 7:24 PM
- ForeverYou said...
I could figure it out not a problem. For all that hard work that Dana put it 6$ is not much to spend for the great pattern. The steps are simple just need to figure out how much fabric you need. And it is not that hard draw one pattern on the peace of large paper make sure you just do it symmetrical(fold in a half and draw) Then measure the width and length and the calculate time 4 ;us extra 1/2 yard for circles.. Simple. The staffing - I use pillows and take things out of them. But if you need more options then brainstorm if you don`t want to spend 6 bucks. I love it Dana great job. I admire your patience for doing such a HUGE project.
- January 28, 2010 at 8:51 PM
- Rebecca said...
On her website MADE she gives you the amount of fabric you need and also how many bags of stuffing.
- January 28, 2010 at 11:13 PM
- Ann's ART said...
SIX bucks is a bargain! That is a lot of work. We are so used to getting stuff for nothing on the interenet. That's why there are so many copy cats. Pay the girl for her expertise in her craft!
- January 29, 2010 at 9:35 AM
- Skooks said...
I agree with Ann's ART. I didn't even bother to look at the mini-tute over here before I decided to purchase the pattern. ESPECIALLY after seeing the pattern in person, I can say that there was obviously A LOT of time and effort that went into putting it all together. I was happy to pay the $6 and was kind of surprised it didn't cost more than that. Great job, Dana!
- January 29, 2010 at 10:52 AM
you need 3 2/3 yards for the big one and 2 2/3 yards for the little one.
- February 1, 2010 at 10:28 AM


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It was announced yesterday by the PNGRFL that the Kumuls' will play three Test matches this year.
After weeks of speculation, the Papua New Guinea national team will face two Test matches against New Zealand Kiwis. The NZRL and PNGRFL originally proposed a three match series, with one game held at Rugby Park in Christchurch, New Zealand and another two in Papua New Guinea. But that proposal had to be cancelled due to the announcement of the Trans-Tasman Test on October 12th in Wellington, NZ between the Australian Kangaroos' and New Zealand themselves.
It was confirmed by Kevin Murphy in a meeting in Goroka that the Tests against New Zealand would take place on Sepetember 28th and October 5th, both to be hosted in New Zealand, probably in Auckland and Christchurch.
There will also be a Test match on home soil against a touring England/Great Britain side near the end of October. It is not known yet whether it will be a full strength Lions team because the British are set to face New Zealand in a series in November and it is more likely that their full strength side will play France.
But nevertheless, there will be an England/Great Britain side touring which will more that likely be a an understrengthed team who are also set to face other South Pacific islands such as Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and even the Cook Islands.
The PNGRFL will also give an opportunity to up and coming Kumul players from regional league's to play for a Papua New Guinean side in the Asia-Pacific Cup prior to the three Test matches.
The tournament was set to be played this month (April) in the American island Hawaii but due to a lack of sponsors the tournament is to be competed in Brisbane and other parts of Queensland. In a way that is better because it's easier for fans to travel to north of Australia rather than Hawaii.
This is great news for the Papua New Guinean national squad who are going from strength to strength each year and are sure to be playing the mighty Lions before yet another capacity crowd with the eyes of the nation watching.
The last time the Lions toured Papua New Guinea was in 1996, which they narrowly won 32-30, a 10,000 near capacity crowd turned up that day in Lae, and the performance did the country proud. The match will without a doubt be broadcasted live on Papua New Guinean TV and the British may also want live TV coverage for Sky UK.
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If you prefer the taste of filtered water, activated charcoal filters are the most common water filtration devices. These include filtered water pitchers and under the sink installations. Water is forced through the filter, removing particles and minerals and some of the taste and odours associated with the disinfection of our drinking water. They require periodic filter replacement to remain effective. There are maintenance requirements and filter replacement costs associated with each of these systems.
Reverse Osmosis Systems
Whole House Reverse Osmosis systems treat the water at the point it enters the residence. These systems are designed for areas where water quality is compromised, such as poor quality well water. This is not the case in Markham as our water is of excellent quality, making these systems redundant and unnecessary. Reverse osmosis systems;
- are energy and water intensive
- discharge water that is high in chloride and salts
- have costly filter replacement and maintenance requirements


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The Purposes of Each Organization and Auxiliary
Families, Aaronic Priesthood quorums, and Young Women, Sunday School, and seminary classes have unique purposes in helping youth to become converted to the gospel. Knowing about these purposes can help you understand the experiences your youth are having as they learn the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father established families as a central part of His plan to help His children learn the gospel in a loving atmosphere and prepare for eternal life. Parents have the primary responsibility to teach their children (see D&C 68:25–28), which includes preparing them to receive the ordinances of exaltation. No one can take the place of parents in this God-given responsibility. Priesthood quorums, auxiliaries, and Church programs exist to support and strengthen families.
Aaronic Priesthood
Aaronic Priesthood holders are to become converted, fulfill their sacred priesthood duties, be "standing ministers" (D&C 84:111), prepare to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood and temple ordinances, and become worthy missionaries, husbands, and fathers. They meet together in a Sunday quorum meeting, which is more than just a class. Each meeting is prayerfully planned by the quorum presidency with the assistance of advisers, but always under the direction of the quorum president, who holds priesthood keys. As instructed in the Doctrine and Covenants, the quorum president presides in the quorum meeting, sits in council with quorum members, and teaches them their duties (see D&C 107:85–87, 99–100). Quorum meetings also provide an occasion to conduct quorum business, which may include making assignments, reporting and following up on previous assignments, and communicating and coordinating activities. These meetings also provide an opportunity for young men to encourage and support each other in their Duty to God efforts, especially as they share what they are learning.
Young Women
Young Women Sunday classes provide unique learning experiences that help young women become worthy to enter the temple and prepare for their eternal roles as covenant women, wives, and mothers. Each lesson begins with sharing the Young Women theme and focuses on the Book of Mormon and teachings of the living prophets. Lessons also provide opportunities to learn and live the Young Women values and the standards in For the Strength of Youth. As young women exercise their agency to participate in learning experiences that invite the Holy Ghost, they are enlightened, encouraged, and strengthened to live the gospel personally and in their families. Personal Progress and Mutual activities play an integral role in the conversion process as young women practice what they are learning. To ensure that each young woman has sufficient opportunity to accept and act on the doctrine, multiple weeks may be spent on one lesson topic.
Sunday School
Sunday School strengthens faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ by providing opportunities for young men and young women and their teachers to learn and teach the doctrine of the gospel together and to strengthen one another in living it. Sunday School provides a unique and essential opportunity for youth to make connections between what they are learning in their personal study and their experiences at home, in seminary, in other Church meetings and classes, and in daily life. In Sunday School, special emphasis is given to helping youth develop skills and confidence to become Christlike learners and teachers. Members of the ward Sunday School presidency serve as specialists in efforts to improve learning and teaching in the ward (see Handbook 2: Administering the Church [2010], 12.5).
Seminary provides weekday religious education for the youth. Its purpose is to help youth understand and rely on the teachings and Atonement of Jesus Christ, qualify for the blessings of the temple, and prepare themselves, their families, and others for eternal life with their Father in Heaven. Seminary teachers and students study, and are encouraged to apply, the principles of the gospel as found in the scriptures and words of the prophets. They seek to teach and learn by the Spirit in an environment of love, respect, and purpose and in a way that leads to understanding and edification. Students are expected to take an active role in the learning process and are given opportunities to explain, share, and testify of gospel doctrine and principles. They are encouraged to study the scriptures daily, read the scriptural text for the course, and master key scripture passages and basic doctrinal principles.


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The details surrounding Jeremy Piven's "Sushi-gate" really stunk.
The New York Times has gotten hold of an arbitrator's ruling, previously confidential, in the case between the Evanston native and the producers of his Broadway play, "Speed-the-Plow."
Piven appeared in the production at the start of its October, 2008 run but dropped out two months later, citing being ill with the Epstein-Barr virus and mercury poisoning. Piven evidently loves sushi and claims he's eaten fish twice a day for 20 years, and the high levels of mercury in his blood left him feeling exhausted and disoriented.
Some associated with the show weren't exactly buying his story and filed a grievance with Actors' Equity, a union which represents live performers. They basically called Piven a "night-owl" and claimed that he'd been seen around town when he'd said he was at home resting in bed.
They filed for arbitration and a decision was made in August that Piven had not breached his contract and leveled no penalty at the star.
"I'm just a theater actor who got sick, and was physically incapable of finishing my run," Piven told the New York Times after the decision.
New sordid details:
The arbitrator's 44-page ruling offers a look at the offstage drama and shows just how sour the relationship became:
"I think he is playing up this mono/Epstein Barr as a legitimate excuse to leave which I think is simply not true, as he has had it for the past three months and has performed the show and been out partying," the show's director wrote in e-mail obtained during testimony. "We need to call his bluff."
"We must have a second opinion," a producer wrote in another e-mail. "First we were told hepatitis. Then, Epstein-Barr now mercury poisoning. Who knows next it might be tb."
Piven was eventually replaced by two other actors and the show closed as scheduled last February.
He calls the ordeal the "most surreal experience" of his acting career.


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This Guy is extremely underrated. I think we are looking at a solid back up for Kam and Earl probably get him as 7th easy maybe UFA. Always in the Backfield great run instincts, Fast, hard "Downhill" hitter, plays the ball, I think his stats this year suffered from people trying not to throw toward him, 6 pass defenses, 2 Ints, 6'2 205, all Big East 2011. Not the hitter Kam is, not the range Earl has, But who is and who does? I don't think he starts in Seattle but makes the team and would be a versatile A rated backup and Special Teams Monster.
He is Older, 6 years in College because of early injuries lost in training camp freshman year dislocated shoulder, broke arm first start, none since, 50 game starter after those initial two injuries.
Not much film but I like him, and looking forward to his proday numbers 3/13/13
Kearly , English one of you seen or have any better game film on him?
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ICD-10 Diagnosis Code G43.809
Other migraine, not intractable, without status migrainosus
Diagnosis Code G43.809
Short Description: Other migraine, not intractable, without status migrainosus
Long Description: Other migraine, not intractable, without status migrainosus
This is the 2018 version of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code G43.809
Valid for Submission
The code G43.809 is valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
Code Classification
Diseases of the nervous system (G00–G99)
Episodic and paroxysmal disorders (G40-G47)
- Migraine (G43)
- Episodic and paroxysmal disorders (G40-G47)
Information for Medical Professionals
The diagnosis code G43.809 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG V35.0)
Convert to ICD-9 General Equivalence Map
The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- 346.20 - Vrnt mgrn wo ntr mgr NEC (approximate) Approximate Flag
The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- 346.80 - Othr migrne wo ntrc mgrn (approximate) Approximate Flag
The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- Acute confusional migraine
- Lower half migraine
- Migraine variant with headache
- Migraine variants
- Migraine variants, not intractable
Information for Patients
If you suffer from migraine headaches, you're not alone. About 12 percent of the U.S. population gets them. Migraines are recurring attacks of moderate to severe pain. The pain is throbbing or pulsing, and is often on one side of the head. During migraines, people are very sensitive to light and sound. They may also become nauseated and vomit.
Migraine is three times more common in women than in men. Some people can tell when they are about to have a migraine because they see flashing lights or zigzag lines or they temporarily lose their vision.
Many things can trigger a migraine. These include
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Lack of food or sleep
- Exposure to light
- Hormonal changes (in women)
Doctors used to believe migraines were linked to the opening and narrowing of blood vessels in the head. Now they believe the cause is related to genes that control the activity of some brain cells. Medicines can help prevent migraine attacks or help relieve symptoms of attacks when they happen. For many people, treatments to relieve stress can also help.
NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- Managing migraines at home (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Migraine (Medical Encyclopedia)


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This is form enterprise architecture magazine tell us about the new innovation of architecture design building with ultra modern styles.The Laboratory and Administration Building architecture designed by Robert Puchetti and Max Rengifo . It is hard to miss this building located on the University Campus of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, a work by composer Carlos Raul Villanueva. In 2000 he was declared a UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage. This project has been under way since before the UNESCO declaration, which made his designs, submitted its proposal for approval by the Cultural Heritage Institute who approved within the Master Plan.
It is difficult to review this project since the staff of Symbiosis Group VE but there are divided opinions regarding some of the staff came to the conclusion that before proposing such a building within a campus is so important such as the UCV, it is necessary to take things more seriously and stop being passionate, leave the ego trip of having a building on the campus of the UCV and be more contemplative and less invasive.


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Alcohol in the Atlantic
David Carey Jr.
Dating from the earliest times in Latin America, alcohol has played a crucial social, economic, political, and cultural role. Often reserved for politico-religious leaders, alcohol was a conduit through which power flowed in many pre-contact indigenous societies; indigenous drinkways (production, commerce, and consumption habits) were associated with communal ritual events and social prestige. Introduced to the Americas by Europeans, distillation profoundly altered the potency of alcoholic drinks for people who were accustomed to fermentation. Even as the social and cultural practices of alcohol consumption changed over time, alcohol continued to have political and economic implications in the colonial and national periods in Latin America. Fearing that inebriation bred disorder and recognizing that moonshining undercut their own revenues, colonial and national governments alike sought to regulate, if not control, the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol. In nations as diverse as Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, and Guatemala, indigenous women came to play integral roles in the (oftentimes illicit) sale and production of alcohol. A cash nexus for moving labor and land and a crucial component of the economic system by which (often unscrupulous) labor brokers recruited workers, alcohol was a currency of local economies. As a commodity of local, national, and international significance, alcohol shaped the fate of nation-states.
People's class, ethnic, race, and gender identities all played into their access to alcohol. Although a person's choice of libation could define their position, some of the more fascinating histories of alcohol are punctuated with women and men who used alcohol to disrupt social conventions. Through the consumption of alcohol, rituals and ceremonies created and reconstituted community both within and across ethnic groups. Imbibing could also divide people. Even while they sipped their cognacs and brandies, elites portrayed indigenous people, the poor, and other marginalized people getting drunk on moonshine to discount and denigrate them. Often associated with (particularly violent) crime, alcohol was seen as a vice by many and excoriated during temperance movements. Yet defendants across Latin America took advantage of judicial systems that considered alcohol a mitigating circumstance in many crimes. As 20th-century evangelical sects that preached abstinence as the route to wealth and marital bliss grew to unprecedented numbers, traditional healers and biomedical practitioners continued to tout alcohol's medicinal value. In short, alcohol was a marker of social position and cultural identity, a crucial component in community and state building, and a commodity around which different cultural traditions, healing practices, and policing policies developed and evolved.
The Caribbean Visual Palette
Patricia Mohammed
From the 15th century onward, the Caribbean has been populated with different ethnic groups, cultures, flora, and fauna in a way that is constantly changing the visual sensibilities of the space. The mixture of ethnic and nation groups that had settled by the 20th century produced a range of iconographic symbols, use of colors and forms that would signify the Caribbean aesthetic. This included a style of Caribbean painting which is referred to as Caribbean expressionism, the latter which included the group of artists known as intuitives or primitives. With few formal schools or institutions for instruction or opportunities for critical review, the Caribbean visual palette was established largely through the creativity of those involved in various festivals or ritual practices. Artistic expressions resemble performance or installation art rather than the classic forms of painting or sculpture. This work is somewhat iconoclastic in the interpretation of a Caribbean aesthetic and focuses on the homegrown artistic expressions that merge, collide, contradict, and emerge to create originality in this cultural space.
Chile and the Pacific World
Edward D. Melillo
Since the early 1800s, Chileans have imagined their nation's history and destiny through an ever-changing array of transoceanic connections with the rest of the planet. At a deeper level, Chile's relationship with the Pacific Ocean is built upon myriad collective memories and aspirational identities. The long arc of Chile's linkages with the Pacific World—or the peoples and ecosystems in and around the Pacific Ocean—has yet to be fully explored by historians. This article fills this lacuna by analyzing five diverse historical episodes that span more than two centuries: first, Valparaíso's growth into a Pacific commercial hub during the early 1800s; second, Chile's role in the Californian and Australian gold rushes of the mid-1800s; third, the Chilean victory in the late-19th-century War of the Pacific; fourth, Chile's burgeoning commercial relationship with China, which began in the years following the Second World War; and, finally, the emergence of a Chilean-Pacific variant of neoliberal ideology in the final decades of the 20th century. These five developments reveal a litany of ambiguities and antagonisms in Chile's complicated, ongoing association with its western ocean.
Cuba's Second Golden Age of Popular Music, 1989–2005
Anita Casavantes Bradford and Raúl Fernandez
The years between 1989 and 2005 were a period of exceptional musical productivity and creativity, a "second golden age" of Cuban popular music—the first golden age referring to the 1950s explosion of the mambo and the cha-cha-chá. During this more recent golden age multiple and diverse forms of musical expression gained traction, and island artists enjoyed a dramatic increase in international visibility. The exciting new sounds of timba and Latin jazz, the Buena Vista Social Club–styled reinvention of the son cubano, and the reemergence of música guajira during the 1990s all reflected the dynamic tensions between tradition and innovation, the local and global, and between an imaginary "authentic" and the much denigrated "commercial" that have long animated the island's extraordinary musical culture. Despite the seeming newness and singularity of much of the music produced during this period, this second golden age was in fact characterized as much by cross-genre collaboration and continuities with earlier trends in Cuban music and musical culture as by the impact on musical production of unprecedented circumstances of economic deprivation of those years known as the Special Period. A closer look at this second golden age of popular music reveals a cosmopolitan Cuban musical landscape in which styles from different periods coexisted with ease and remained relevant, both as distinct sounds and in dialogue with one another, bringing together a dynamic community of musicians of all levels and styles, old and young, on and off the island. Dynamically poised between the forces of tradition and innovation, and beloved by both local and global audiences, the artists who rose to prominence or were rediscovered during these years each spoke, in their own unique ways, to the innovation, the cross genre collaborations, and above all to the profound historical continuities that have long animated the island's extraordinary musical culture.
Culture in Mexico during the Miracle and Beyond, 1946–1982
Eric Zolov
Mexican national culture in the period from 1946 to 1982 can be understood by recognizing three overlapping transformations. The first was the consolidation of various national archetypes rooted in Mexican revolutionary and prerevolutionary mythologies of national identity and that were disseminated via state-sponsored cultural institutions as well as through global marketing campaigns related primarily to bolstering tourism. A second was the commodification of national popular culture through local cultural industries, namely radio, cinema, the recording industry, and television, and the competitive engagement of these industries with external cultural flows deriving, primarily though not exclusively, from the United States. The third was the invention of new forms of urban response to inflation and the cascading crises of political legitimacy that characterized the decade leading up to economic collapse in 1982. Across the body politic, one discerns a resilience of shared points of cultural reference—sonic, visual, culinary, and otherwise—derived, often in great measure, from governmental policies and discourse. At the same time, and increasingly over the course of this historical period, one finds movements characterized by an irreverent reappropriation of many of those same reference points, carried out by a diverse range of social actors in pursuit of individual and collective strategies of resistance to both state and patriarchal forms of authority. By the early 1980s Mexican national culture had become a rich and playful bricolage made up of iconic markers over which the state experienced a diminishing, though not yet exhausted, capacity to define.
Digital Resources: The José Guadalupe Posada Collection at the Ibero-American Institute
Ricarda Musser
Eugenics in Latin America
Alexandra Minna Stern
Eugenics emerged in Latin America in the early 20th century on the intellectual foundations of 19th-century social Darwinism and positivism, and expanded in contexts influenced by Catholicism, nationalism, and transnational scientific exchange. Although the extent and objectives of eugenic policies, practices, and organizations varied across the region, Latin American eugenicists tended to subscribe to neo-Lamarckian principles of environmental modification, foreground puericulture or infant and maternal care, and support new techniques of human measurement associated with biotypology. Overall, eugenics in Latin America was less extreme than in Anglo and Nordic countries, rarely resulting in sanctioned policies of compulsory sterilization or euthanasia. It was an integral component of programs designed to combat infectious ailments, especially sexually transmitted diseases, and to ameliorate national health indicators. This overlap meant that eugenics sometimes was less visible as a stand-alone movement, and that its tenets were absorbed with little friction into public health and social welfare infrastructures and campaigns. At the same time, eugenic racism was expressed in calls for immigration restriction that reverberated across Latin America, most notably in the 1910s and 1920s. In retrospect, eugenics in Latin America contributed both to exclusionary policies that stigmatized certain social groups and to overarching campaigns for health and wellness that were backed by a diverse political spectrum that could include feminists, Socialists, and military leaders.
Everyday Life in Argentina in the 1960s
Isabella Cosse
The 1960s in Argentina was a time convulsed by profound social, cultural, and political changes. Reflecting on the effect these processes had on the everyday, conceived as the spaces and routines involved in the reproduction of life that vary according to social class, generation, and gender, provides a valuable perspective for studying historical phenomena. It gives substance to and evidences the social nature of personal experience. Through that prism, the study of everyday life will be the gateway to understanding the turbulence produced by cultural effervescence, growing consumerism, the expansion of the media, the problems triggered by economic instability and escalating inflation, and the ruptures caused by political and social radicalization and the rise of repressive violence.
The Extraordinary Career of Juana C. Romero, Cacica of Tehuantepec
Francie Chassen-López
In the 1850s, Juana Catarina Romero, known popularly as Juana Cata, peddled her cigarettes on the streets of Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, an activity that enabled her to serve as a spy for the liberals under the command of Captain Porfirio Díaz during the War of the Reform (1858–1860). By 1890, Romero (1837–1915) had emerged as an international merchant, sugar cane producer and refiner, philanthropist, and "modernizing" cacica of the city of Tehuantepec. As powerful women rarely receive credit for their achievements, popular myth attributes her success to the men in her life, a supposed youthful love affair with Díaz or a later lover, Colonel Remigio Toledo. In contrast, a study of her career helps to shed light on how women could attain and exercise power in the 19th century and the ways in which they participated in the construction of the nation-state and a capitalist economy. Her trajectory shows that when allied with these forces of modernization, women could take on a more public role in society. It also reveals that it is through the lens of local and regional history that women's contributions and accomplishments, so often erased in national histories, can be made visible.
Gabriel Vargas and La familia Burrón
Maira Mayola Benítez Carrillo
Gabriel Vargas Bernal created one of the greatest examples of Mexican comic strips, The Burrón Family. He had a remarkable career as a prolific cartoonist, screenwriter, historian, and journalist, with many titles published throughout decades of work. His predominant topic is social criticism and his narrative style is that of journalistic humor. Self-taught, he worked for the country's most important–newspapers. Over the years, he wrote pieces on sports and the most popular festivals in Mexico, completed comic strips to support literacy campaigns, and designed many types of comics: historical, religious, war, detective, ecological, didactic, humor, and adventure. In 1948, he created the comic La familia Burrón, a series that tells of a poor family's daily life in a working-class neighborhood. The author's sense of criticism was the key to allowing readers to identify with the almost one hundred characters who appeared on its pages. Many of them came from real life and were recreated on the pages of this comic, which was published for six decades.
Vargas had a clear critical view of Mexican society. He incorporated costumbrist scenes and knew how to use idioms and popular expressions through his characters, adapting them to each decade in which the comic strip was published. His stories are full of humor and absurd situations, a mix of reality and fiction. The strip had a half-million printings per week and has been published in compilation books that are among the most sold at Mexico's main book fairs. Vargas's work is a necessary reference to learn and understand the idiosyncrasies of Mexicans—their customs, traditions, conflicts, and short-comings—in the urban environment.
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Exclusive: Sanho's six-port HyperDrive USB-C Hub shows that Apple made the right choice when it ditched the Lightning port.
Normally $100, it's an ultra-compact, NFC-equipped printer that might be perfect for your home office.
The new "T-Rex" has fundamentally the same specs as Nvidia's Quadro RTX 6000 -- for $3,800 less.
You like technology, and you want to give a cool gadget this year. You have a healthy -- but not crazy -- budget for that recipient on your list. Here's where to start.
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By Nicki Kasper
Calling all bike enthusiasts… The Southern Oregon Custom Classic is fast approaching. It's a bicycle themed gallery show I'm curating at Off The Map's new Northwest location in Grants Pass, Oregon on September 7th from 7pm to 10pm…
I've done a couple of events for artists before, but only one gallery show. I'll be honest, when I was asked to put this show on I was a little nervous. I was up to the challenge as usual, but unsure if I'd be able to pull it off and make it as big as I imagined it could be.
I quickly figured out that bike builders have their own little secret sub-culture, and you're not in unless you're invited… To my surprise, I found the right people and must have made an impression because they've been amazingly helpful. I've got eight builders committed to letting me display about 20-25 bikes for the show. The gallery will also be full of bike themed paintings by Jeff Gogué, Christopher Gay, Tom Strom, Mark Hannah, and Canyon Webb.
Now, I know that a bike show wouldn't be complete without beer, so I didn't stop there… Here in Oregon, we like our beer, and Ninkasi is one of our most loved Oregon based brewers. They happen to be bike enthusiasts as well… It was a perfect pairing, and I wanted them at the event representing their brand and celebrating with us. I decided to catch up with Ninkasi at an event in person and talk directly to Ryan, who runs their mobile beer lounge. We made friends, and what do you know…? Ninkasi is coming with their couch, rug, tent, and BEER! We'll also have some tasty snacks by Fulcrum Dining to pair with our keg of deliciousness.
It's gonna be a great time. If you live in Oregon, please stop by and check out the show. Good times will be had, and the gallery will be full of amazing paintings and bicycles!
Off The Map Tattoo
214 NW 6th St
Grants Pass, OR
September 7th, 7pm-10pm


text: Sheriff Scott Walls received a $294,289.00 grant to fight meth in Marshall County. The grant was awarded to the Marshall County Sheriff's Office by the United States Department of Justice. This grant will assist the Marshall County Sheriff's Office in expanding resources to fight methamphetamine abuse. The battle against meth is one that we all must be aware of and fight together. It is imperative that community members educate their children about the dangers of meth and promote awareness of this growing problem in our area. The Marshall County Sheriff's Office has a visual aid mobile training center to provide on-site training for citizens, schools, crime watch groups, etc. This website can also be used to send anonymous and confidential tips on suspected drug dealers to the Marshall Co. Sheriff's Office.