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The SWN includes democratic, nongovernmental and independent personalities and organizations working on gender equality, stabilization of democracy, human rights, civil peace, and achieving transitional justice, including women in decision making for the prospective Syria, establishing an influential power in the way for democratic change towards reaching free, democratic, united and civil Syria of self-authority. A state of equal citizenship without any distinction based on gender, religion, ethnicity, belief, wealth or fame. The authority of law to be considered the supreme one that guarantee equality among members of one people. Networking with organizations and groups that have common grounds on purpose of women empowerment in all respects.
:The network aims at
- Including within the Syrian Constitution human rights' legislations that are guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the two international bonds related to the political, economic, and social rights, the seven principal international treaties and the related protocols, treaty of the abolition of all manifestations of women discrimination particularly (SIDAW) abiding by it without reservation and considering it a reference for drafting laws and legislations, in addition to activating the supreme court.
- Including within the Syrian Constitution and laws full equality with women in the civil, political, economic, societal, and educational rights, in all public life scopes and familial life, in front of the law and within the law.
- Reinforcing effective participation of women (until reaching the fifty-fifty) in decision making centres and the legislative, executive and legal bodies, public institutions, general boards, political parties, civil society organizations, and within constitution drafting committees, setting up the transitional justice mechanisms and national reconciliation panels, and even at every mediation or arbitration.
- Held the state committed to convict and combat all manifestations of violence and discrimination against women and children including familial violence, sexual exploitation, honour crimes, and all forms of human trafficking. Developing legal mechanisms in order to ensure ways of protection and treatment for victims, with intense work for changing every article within the Law of Personal Status that is not based on equal footing for both men and women.
- Ensuring protection, health, educational, economic and social care for the inflicted groups of women and children particularly the deported and displaced, families' breadwinners, detainees' and lost people's families, martyrs and the injured throughout sustainable development programmes.
:The Network works to
- Ensure women participation in the transitional period within all the establishment bodies, constitutional drafting and issuing laws for the prospective Syria.
- Encountering the marginalization education, exclusion, societal prosecution and oppression against women and working on dissemination of citizenship education, human rights and equality in the Syrian society.
- Creating general strategies and policies for women rehabilitation, empowering them until reaching the fifty-fifty at authority positions, decision making, ministries, public institutions and local councils.
- Hold commitment to disseminate all human rights' thoughts, equal citizenship, and accepting the other, respecting multiplicity, social gender and gender equality regarding to the educational curricula since childhood.
- Cooperating with international organizations for the development and training some women in a way to serve women empowerment topics and activating their role within the state and society.
- Observing and documenting all human rights violations, and all types of violence women and children are being exposed to.
- Launching and adopting projects in order to protect the civil peace, conflict resolution and rehabilitating the needed women cadres.
- Change the typical picture of women in the media and the educational curricula, showing her positive role in building society and rehabilitating the required cadres for that.
- Including women in the reconciliation committees within the transitional justice mechanisms as of the various experience they have on peace-making, and preparing cadres for that purpose.
:The network consists of
First: The General Assembly: Includes all member personalities and organizations in the network and is considered the supreme board for decision making in SWN (SHAMS). The assembly holds responsible to draw out network's policies, set up strategies, observe execution, elect the Coordination and Follow-up Committee and investigate into the financial report.
(Second: The Coordination and Follow-up Committee (CFC
Consists of seven members and administer network's activities within the period between two conferences.
The Syrian Women's Network has been created in May, 2013 in the establishment conference which was held in Stockholm.
Since then, several activities have been implemented as follows:
- 'Syrian Women Initiative for Peace and Democracy':
The network is considered an active partner in the initiative which has been launched in 2013 through the participation of network's members in the meetings United Nations has already invited to.
- :'Syria, a Home, not a State of Detention' campaign
This is to seek detainees' and forcibly concealed people's rights (males/females) as a conditional guarantee for stabilization of Human Rights Principles and ensure building a civil state of authority.
For that, the network launched the first part of the campaign 'Syria, a Home, not a State of Detention' in 2013 simultaneously with holding Geneva talks 2 on purpose of advocacy and practice pressures to abide by Geneva 1 Talks's articles particularly the release of opinion prisoners and adhering to the security council decision No. 1325 and other related international treaties.
The second period was held in February 2016 and aimed at advocacy and social mobilization in order to release detainees (males/females) as a trsutbuilding and good intention step for a political resolution in Syria simultaneously with Geneva Talks 3, build a civil democratic and a state of multiplicity that ensures freedom of expression in Syria and guarantee no threat for civilians, chasing or detaining them.
- :Project of Changing the Syrian Women Typical Picture
Within its strategies, the SWN has adopted the idea of work to change the Syrian Women Typical Picture. For that reason, the network implemented in 2015 two-section project. The first one, the media project ( in cooperation with 'SyrianOfWomen' Magazine) aimed to rehabilitate women cadres who are able to write down news, report them , and prepare radio reports on purpose of helping them to find positions throughout marketing of the written products. In addition, one of the project outputs was the women revelation contest.
The other part of the project was implemented in cooperation with 'Hurras Network' in which training workshops have been held in the southern Syria targeted the workers of Child Protection Sector, increasing their experience on the way of dealing with children at the time of war.
- :Syrian Women Platform
In cooperation between SWN and a group of a Dutch journalists, a media platform under the title of 'WOMENOFSYRIA' has been created on 12 January, 2015.
The platform was operated by a group of network members and Dutch journalists as an individual initiative to get the western world particularly the Dutch to know the Syrian women circumstances and their daily life conditions during the situation of war in Syria.
The platform has presented several stories for Syrian women relating themselves details of their daily life, taking into consideration demographic the diversity when selecting the stories, where all the Syrian provinces have been covered. These stories also have been published in Dutch attached with pictures reflecting the woman relating her story.
- :SWN Political Empowerment Project 2016
This project has been implemented in the northern Syria in cooperation with Alkawakbi Organization for Human Rights (a member organization in SWN), where two organizations have been trained on political empowerment by holding workshops during the year in two different areas. The project aimed at empowering women politically, increasing their knowledge in a way that reinforce their presence in decision making positions locally and nationally.
- :SWN Political Empowerment Project 2017
- This project aimed at building Syrian women self-capacity and empowering them politically by holding workshops about various political topics for a number of Syrian women who have a general level of knowledge on women related topics, also building their capacity through the different activities and programmes such as – English language, administration programmes- computer courses) in order to build a group capable of working individually and own high capacities that qualify them to discuss the different political empowerment topics.
Finally, the Syrian women network was always careful to run projects by which it could provide further support to Syrian women and their families throughout urgent relief campaigns aimed to distribute relief baskets for the refugee families in Turkey.


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- By Conny Withay
- Published April 10, 2014
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"Oh, what have I done? She wrapped her arms around herself, breathing shallowly through the pain. What would Pastor Zeke think? And Joshua? Oh, Joshua, if you could see me now. A mocking tune played in her head. She'd burn the bridge to Haven long ago," Abra ponders in Francine River's novel, Bridge to Haven.
This four hundred and eighty-one page hardbound book targets those who enjoy romance with relational conflicts and forgiveness. With two minor slang words, topics of premarital sex, alcohol use, and abuse make the Christian read inappropriate for immature readers. The ending includes a discussion guide with eighteen questions.
In this lengthy tome that starts in 1936 in the small town of Haven, California, a scared woman gives birth to a baby girl, abandoning her under the town's bridge, hoping she will be found.
As Pastor Zeke Freeman hears the struggling cries, he rescues the child, taking her home to live with his wife and five year old son, Joshua. When his wife dies several years later, Zeke has no other choice than to let the Matthews raise the little girl named Abra he has learned to love.
However, Abra Matthews feels unloved and unwanted by her foster family, always wondering if she was to blame for Zeke's wife's death. In the teen years, her insecurity and guilt overshadow her strained relationships.
When suave and self-absorbed Dylan Stark pours his attention on her, the seventeen year old naïve woman willingly flees with him to San Francisco, expecting a life of love and loyalty. Going to Los Angeles to live with his controlling mother in the movie industry, he becomes more abusive and dominating.
Tired of his girlfriend, Dylan makes a bet with a movie agent to take the under-aged girl off his hands. The power-hungry man convinces Abra her beauty will make her famous, grooming her to be an actress and changing her name to Lena Scott.
After five years of being in the spotlight, away from Haven, Abra must decide if she wants to keep acting as Lena or be true to herself and find God's purpose in her life, even if it means going back to her past.
With tragedies, temptations, and twists, readers get caught up in a tale of learning love and forgiveness by others and God. Although Abra feels she has burned her bridges, Rivers leaves a surprising bridge to a sequel.
Thanks to Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. for furnishing this book in exchange for a review based on the reader's opinions.
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Left San Jose for the town of Cartago where we visited its old ruins and there Los Angeles Cathedral,the only bird of note was Rufous collared Sparrow.
time to photograph Montezuma's Oropendola's at there nest site,now that's a mouthful.
This is an account of my birding trips in the valley plus holidays birding abroad.


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Celebrating the life of Helen Bryant Motes
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We ask on behalf of the family that you keep your comments uplifting and appropriate to help all who come here to find comfort and healing.
Helen Louise Bryant Motes of Carrollton passed away Wednesday, August 16, 2017 in a local hospital. She was born in Cherokee County, February 1, 1936, daughter of the late Lonnie Bryant and Nettie Lou Kiser Bryant.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Ron and Melissa Motes of Carrollton; five grandchildren and six great grandchildren; three sisters, Janet Pack of Douglasville, Brenda Edgar of Douglasville, Paulette Day of Louisiana and two brothers, Bobby Bryant, Douglasville and Jean Bryant of Marietta.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015
From our adult class: 'Dance Show-Related Issues, and How to Fix Them'
Introducing guest blogger, Monday night adult dance class participant, and beautiful visually-impaired dancer in and out of her wheelchair, Faith Girvan!
For this week's blog post we're linking you to Faith's recent blog post on the awesome 'Living Blind Blog'. Faith described her personal process of dancing with a visual impairment, and how support and communication are key in preparing for a performance.
Come see Faith and the Monday, and Wednesday, night adult dance classes perform alongside the company on May 8th and 9th at the Great Canadian Theatre Company.
Buy tickets here!!
Photo credit: Chrystia Chudczak. Faith is the dancer on the right.
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It appears the Ferranti Pegasus is not happy in her temporary home. The venerable cold-war-era valve-based computer was originally installed in the undercroft of Pitshanger Manor as part of a hugely hush-hush project by Ealing Council, and as you may recall the Pegasus has been forced to relocate to the basement of the Town Hall while restoration work to the Manor continues. The idea hatched by the Town Hall's Data Science Boffinery was to mathematically model the effects of a Soviet invasion on the Borough, paying specific attention to the impact a column of tanks would have on bus scheduling in the Haven Green/Ealing Broadway area. It was the kind of project which could justify significant funding in those restive times. It even extended to the test installation of tank traps on Ealing Common to simulate the measures which would be required to maintain the vital 207 bus link into Shepherds Bush, should the Soviet Sixth Guards Tank Corps decide to make a lunge for the Town Hall via Kew Bridge and the North Circular. Not actually having any tanks the boffins simulated the effect of armoured personnel carriers and tracked missile platforms sweeping across the Common carrying all before them using the Council's fleet of ride-on lawnmowers. It's comforting to know that the fortifications were totally effective against the lawnmowers and, forcibly repelled, they had to fall back to the South Western corner of the Common just opposite The Grange pub, which they effectively occupied until closing time.
Fortunately, one of the Boffins, Parsonage, is also a doyen of the art of Prosery and when the punch card machine was not otherwise occupied he set about reprogramming the Pegasus for poetry. The resulting compositional algorithm, based on a statistical analysis of word frequency, syntax, rhythm and phonetics is still able to churn on a passable sonnet but cannot be trusted with half-rhyme, tricky enjambment or a hanging trochee. Thereafter, the Pegasus' microphone was a fixture at Pitshanger Poets workshops throughout the Sixties and Seventies, absorbing and processing every word, resulting in a lengthy daisy-wheel printout of relevant statistics which would be filed carefully in the archive.
Unfortunately, it appears that some of the Pegasus' Cold-War subroutines became enmeshed into her Poetry Analysis programming. Decades of sifting data in order to detect communist threats took their toll on the Pegasus' ability to appreciate the spoken word in a balanced fashion. Given the wide range of views expressed by Poets in the typical Pitshanger Workshop it is welcome that the somewhat febrile witch-hunting computer was equipped with nothing more powerful than a daisy wheel printer. This did not stop her acting against poets she considered threats, however, aided by a supply of Ealing Council-headed paper. For example, it is suspected that the virulent snow storm of Parking Tickets issued to Louis MacNiece on each of his visits to the Workshop (despite him not actually owning a car) were the work of the Pegasus, while Stephen Spender and Dylan Thomas both found their journeys into the heart of Ealing compromised by 'flash' road works, the latter writer famously never succeeding in reaching a workshop.
This weeks' Workshop would have got the Pegasus' relays clacking were she still listening in. Pat Francis brought a short, perfectly formed piece on the sound of the world. Christine Shirley has been feeling glum, but her States of Feeling piece was full of light as well as shade. John Hurley's style has evolved in the last few months and his free-verse observation of a sick friend greeting a precious morning was touching and powerful. Newbie John Cheung gave us a tight, poignant, social poem describing of an encounter with a homeless man in Hammersmith. Olwyn Grimshaw has been counting the cells in the human body, keen to show that life is just as much about why as how. Another newbie, Jamie Warren also brought us a distinctly social piece about a man in the Borough he found dying. Nick Barth has been travelling again and found himself distracted by the phrase 'for personal use' on a Customs Notice. Alan Chambers has been bringing poems he has written to cure Writer's block, this weeks' piece stressed the lack of easy cures to this crippling condition. Peter Francis has been musing on Group Dynamics; more than one attendee felt he was writing about the PP Workshop itself. Finally, Martin Choules has been railing against the futility of an entertaining dream.
Bringing the story of the Ferranti Pegasus up to date, Parsonage tells me its McCarthyist behaviour forced him to rebalance her moral compass circuits with a couple of blows from a nine-pound hammer, and that the council work continues. Parsonage even jury-rigged the Pegasus for the internet using an Ethernet card scavenged from a long-dead Amstrad PC. This re-commissioning formed the basis for the Ealing Borough Council Listening Project in which the Pegasus was pressed into service monitoring every possible threat to fluid traffic flow in the West London area from the forces of evil, wherever they might originate.
Thinking back, I'm not sure it can be the experience of being installed in the Town Hall basement that the Pegasus finds so objectionable. It's true that every few days there is a flare-up of activity and Parsonage is forced to replace a valve or free a stuck relay but her troublesome behaviour appears to have started sometime around January the 20th. Her breakdowns are often accompanied by cryptic messages on the continuous paper rattling out of her printer, for example the other day I saw:
Which was followed by a loud bang and a cloud of smoke from the computer's logic boards. What could this mean?
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I'm 33 days sober, -again, and living in a Sober Living House. As my sponsor tells me, I have been blessed with desperation.
Anyone who has lived n such circumstances knows that a Sober Living House ain't sober. Overdoses, drinking relapses, dry unaddressed old behavior and defects are in abundance. I came here because have nowhere else to go right now, and in hope of immersion in AA . On my 4th step, I sit here knowing I am filled with resentment and judgements of all those in the house who have "tested my sobriety" . Dayam, this doesn't feel good! Nor does the guilt I felt for 3 days when I reported my own roommate came home drunk, trashed. Why'd I do such a thing? Because I wanted to join her, because I also didn't want to watch her die as her Dr told her she would, because I had a resentment, but mostly, because I saw my drinking self in her face!
Still, I feel awful. Yet, I am grateful for the glaring reminders of the very real fact that there, but for the grace of God, go I.


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text: Beyond the DC field trip----which I describe in depth in the last sketchbook to the point posting here feels redundant------our class has not gone on any additional art field trips to museums or galleries, and my own life circumstances have made greater world art exploration (AKA actually making use of my mother's VMFA membership) unlikely. However I think I'll go for a stretch on the art experience post and try to justify work I've been doing for a while with my dad as an art experience within itself. Though I have not visited a gallery recently, I have helped build and edit a gallery piece comprised of George Ferrandi's work in VCU's online magazine Blackbird, which I've had the pleasure to volunteer with this year. I've always been a huge fan of George Ferrandi's work, but doing this build gave me the opportunity to see and work with the majority of her published/presented work all in one place, allowing me to revisit some of my favorite pieces ( Super Silver Monkey) and fall in love with a few I hadn't seen before (Wherever There Is Water---- if you have a chance to look at any of the build, please look at this piece. I find it particularly affecting. I also think it has connections to the Social Practice art we've been reflecting on, i.e. that element of com.munity involvement and "narritive" creation )


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Art in Cincinnati--Journalism--A Spiritualist Apostle--Theodore Parker --A Conflict among Unitarian Alumni--Letter from Martineau-- The Raid of John Brown--My Condemnation of the Crime, and my Retreat--The "Infidels"--The "Tom Paine" Mythology-- Sermon on Paine--Secession from my Church--The Monthly Dial --W. D. Howells--My Tale of Excalibur--Frothingham's Articles --Letter of Emerson, and his Contributions to my Dial-- Notable Papers--The Welcome to Hawthorne.
IN later years Cincinnati became celebrated for its art collections. There was an English artist there, Henry Worrall, a man of fine wit, around whom we formed a little "U & I" society. Our artists brought to its weekly evenings quaint sketches and the rest of us literary fancies. I contributed a half-humorous, half-philosophical series, "Dr. Einbohrer and his Pupils," which I have at times thought of printing on account of the pen-and- ink illustrations inserted by Worrall.
There is in the Catholic cathedral at Cincinnati a large picture by Haydon, the subject being the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem seated on an ass. I was told that the picture had reached an American port in a slightly damaged condition, and the importer parted with it at a reduced price. The figures in it, however, were in good condition, and I found some symbolism in it. Among those surrounding Jesus the artist painted a devout disciple with the face of Wordsworth, and a scoffing Sadducee with the face of Voltaire. Voltaire has his chin too high in the air to see Jesus exactly, and Wordsworth bends so low that his worship seems rather to the ass than to the man on it. At that time I retained some ignorant prejudices against Voltaire, and identified Wordsworth with "The Lost Leader" of Browningmore literally than was just. Haydon's picture gave me the theme of a sermon, which when reported pleased the Catholics by exciting interest in their picture; but it dis-


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Turkey Facts
At one time, both the turkey and the bald eagle were national symbols of America.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, one-sixth of the 300 million turkeys sold each year are sold for Thanksgiving.
A turkey under 16 weeks old is called a fryer ; a roaster is usually five to seven months old.
Turkeys have great hearing, but no external ears.
Age is the most important factor in the taste of a turkey. Old males are preferable to young ones. The opposite is true for female birds.
Turkeys are the only breed of poultry native to the western hemisphere.
At one time, both the turkey and the bald eagle were national symbols of America.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, one-sixth of the 300 million turkeys sold each year are sold for Thanksgiving.
A turkey under 16 weeks old is called a fryer ; a roaster is usually five to seven months old.
Turkeys have great hearing, but no external ears.
Age is the most important factor in the taste of a turkey. Old males are preferable to young ones. The opposite is true for female birds.
Turkeys are the only breed of poultry native to the western hemisphere.
In our home, nothing says Thanksgiving more than a good old bird! It simply would not be the holiday without it. Over the years I have tried many versions of cooking this monster fowl, some with great success, some dismal failures at best. We won't even discuss the time(s) the creature came alive and found its way to the floor...hmm...
My sure fire methods for a juicy, brown, succulent bird are rather simple. First, without a doubt brining the bird makes for a downright tender, juicy, succulent bird. Even the left over meat retains the moist flavor. I have also tried many ways to do this. I'll spare you the wrong ways. Use your trusty ice chest. Scrub that baby clean inside and out. Add in your brine ingredients, the bird, some ice, and shut the lid. Every few hours, open it up, flip the bird over until you are ready to cook. I also learned the hard way, keep the cooler in the garage or on the porch. Trust me, you don't want the brine all over your floor, TRUST ME! I use the following recipe from Alton Brown on the Food Network as a starting place. The first year I followed it, and from then on I just tweak it a bit to suit our tastes. Seriously good eats!
The second required equipment is the Reynolds Oven Bags-Turkey Size. Rinse your bird, shove him in the bag, stuff him with some aromatic veggies or fruit, sprinkle the skin with salt, pepper, and a bit of garlic powder. Then seal it up, put it in the oven per the bag directions and you get a juicy bird, NO BASTING! I'm all for easy of prep here folks. When he is done, slit the bag, cover with foil to rest and then carve away.
Good Eats Roast Turkey
Recipe courtesy Alton Brown
1 (14 to 16 pound) frozen young turkey
For the brine:
1 cup kosher salt
1/2 cup light brown sugar
1 gallon vegetable stock
1 tablespoon black peppercorns
1 1/2 teaspoons allspice berries
1 1/2 teaspoons chopped candied ginger
1 gallon heavily iced water
For the aromatics:
1 red apple, sliced
1/2 onion, sliced
1 cinnamon stick
1 cup water
4 sprigs rosemary
6 leaves sage
Canola oil
Click here to see how it's done.
2 to 3 days before roasting:
Begin thawing the turkey in the refrigerator or in a cooler kept at 38 degrees F.
Combine the vegetable stock, salt, brown sugar, peppercorns, allspice berries, and candied ginger in a large stockpot over medium-high heat. Stir occasionally to dissolve solids and bring to a boil. Then remove the brine from the heat, cool to room temperature, and refrigerate.
Early on the day or the night before you'd like to eat:
Combine the brine, water and ice in the 5-gallon bucket. Place the thawed turkey (with innards removed) breast side down in brine. If necessary, weigh down the bird to ensure it is fully immersed, cover, and refrigerate or set in cool area for 8 to 16 hours, turning the bird once half way through brining.
Preheat the oven to 500 degrees F. Remove the bird from brine and rinse inside and out with cold water. Discard the brine.
Place the bird on roasting rack inside a half sheet pan and pat dry with paper towels.
Combine the apple, onion, cinnamon stick, and 1 cup of water in a microwave safe dish and microwave on high for 5 minutes. Add steeped aromatics to the turkey's cavity along with the rosemary and sage. Tuck the wings underneath the bird and coat the skin liberally with canola oil.
Roast the turkey on lowest level of the oven at 500 degrees F for 30 minutes. Insert a probe thermometer into thickest part of the breast and reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Set the thermometer alarm (if available) to 161 degrees F. A 14 to 16 pound bird should require a total of 2 to 2 1/2 hours of roasting. Let the turkey rest, loosely covered with foil or a large mixing bowl for 15 minutes before carving.
A couple other tips for you.
1. Make sure the bird you select will actually fit in the pan, which will both then fit into your oven. Nothing more frustrating than discovering this tidbit as you are hefting the bird into your too small oven.
2. If you use a bag, make sure you save room for the expansion as it does raise up a few inches above the bird.
3. Those disposable tin pans are great for easy clean up. Not so great for securely moving the bird. If you go this way, buy two pans for some added stability to the bottom. Don't say I didn't warn you on this one!
4. If you loosen the skin on the bird all over, then add some compound butter between the meat and the skin it will give a great flavor boost as well. I make the compound butter in several forms. To several sticks of softened butter add lemon peel, crushed garlic, sage, thyme, poultry seasoning, ginger, orange peel, whatever strikes your fancy. One caution, if you brine the bird, hold off on adding any salt here as the bird will already have sufficient salt from the brine.
5. Check both the body and neck cavity areas for the "extra" parts prior to cooking. You just may want to take them out or you get a surprise while carving those little paper packets holding the "parts". No, I didn't ,but my good old sister did this one. I throw the parts in some water with herbs and simmer them for my gravy. Yes, we eat those morsels, and fight over the heart. Too much information? Sorry....
So, what turkey tips do you have to share? Do you have turkey for Thanksgiving? Too much work? Come on, share your secrets too!


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Life on Mars (2006)
3 continuity mistakes in season 2
Starring: Dean Andrews, John Simm, Liz White, Philip Glenister
Episode #2.4 - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: When Sam sits down next to Carol Twilling on the bed, asking, "Do things ever get a bit frisky?" the top button of his shirt is undone. The camera cuts away and back, only to find that there are now miraculously two buttons undone, not just one. Sam has not moved in this time.
Episode #2.2 - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: During the scene between Hunt and Tyler, which takes place directly after Hunt has been "communicating" his outrage to Dickie Fingers, by hitting Dickie's hand repeatedly with a telephone, Hunt puts his hands in his pockets. However, in the next shot, which is the opposite camera angle, Hunt's hands are suddenly back out of his pockets. When the camera angle changes again, they're back in, all with no movement on Gene Hunt's part.
Episode #2.2 - S2-E2
Continuity mistake: Look out for the self-cleaning windscreen on the car driven by D.C. Skelton. As it turns into the field, it's dirty one moment and clean the next.
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5 footballers and the equivalent cars they represent
One of the things that human beings love doing is compare. We all love to evaluate things at every turn. Want to buy a laptop? Compare between the different brands. Want to buy anything? Compare and infer.
While doing the comparison, we begin to realise the similarities and the differences between the products. It is while doing so, that I began to find out the links between a football player and some certain cars.
And so came the concept of this article: comparing footballers to cars, and deciphering which car brands they best represent:
#5 Gareth Bale – Bugatti (Veyron and Chiron)
What's the first thing that comes in mind when thinking of Gareth Bale? It's perhaps the same thing that comes to your mind when thinking about a Bugatti: SPEED. Indeed, the Welsh international initially burst into the scene because of his pace: just like the Buggati Veyron.
I remember the kids in my class back in the day when the Veyron was released. We were all banged up about the fact that it could go from 0-100kmph in 3 seconds and had a maximum speed of 408kmph. When Gareth Bale was making his way into the world of competitive football, he was pretty much like the Veyron.
However, after his game against Inter Milan, he upgraded from the Veyron to the Bugatti Chiron – quicker, stronger and much more powerful. The Chiron has a larger turbo and injectors when compared to the Veyron – which is what we could say about the internationally acclaimed star that we see at the Bernabeu now, and the younger version of himself that first walked into the Bernabeu.


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Matthews, NC (PRWEB) August 27, 2015
On Tuesday, Harris Teeter and its vendor Titan Farms, donated approximately 16,200 pounds of peaches to Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina to help feed the hungry in the local community. This donation was made possible thanks to Titan Farms' third annual Peaches with a Purpose program.
Titan Farms, the largest peach grower on the east coast, created Peaches with a Purpose to help feed the under-served while bringing attention to the problem of food insecurity. During the program which took place in August throughout all North Carolina Harris Teeter locations, the company along with Titan Farms donated a percentage of all peaches purchased to the food bank. The total donation is in excess of 34,000 pounds of peaches and was split between Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina in Winston-Salem, N.C. and Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina in Charlotte, N.C.
Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina serves 19 counties and provides food for almost 650 partner agencies including soup kitchens, emergency pantries, residential care facilities, homeless shelters, senior programs and low income daycares. In its fiscal year 2013-2014, Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina distributed over 45 million pounds of food and other essential grocery products.
"On behalf of the hundreds of thousands of children, seniors and families who struggle daily with hunger in our region, we want to thank Harris Teeter and Titan Farms for their commitment to help end hunger," said Kay Carter, chief executive officer of Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina. "Produce is an item that those living in poverty can least afford but need as part of a healthy diet. We are very grateful for this support."
"We want to thank Titan Farms for supporting local hunger relief efforts and for allowing us to be a part of this program for the third year," said Danna Robinson, communication manager for Harris Teeter. "Fresh produce is scarce in food banks across the country, and we are happy to be able to contribute nutritious items to those in need."
"Three years of making a difference in the community through Peaches with a Purpose means a lot to Titan Farms," said Chalmers Carr, president of Titan Farms. "We really appreciate having Harris Teeter as a partner in the fight against hunger."
The food bank is scheduled to begin distributing these peaches to schools and other populations on Friday, August 28, 2015.
Harris Teeter and Titan Farms would like to offer a special thanks to Salem Produce, LLC for helping transport the donated product.
About Titan Farms
Based in Ridge Spring, South Carolina, Titan Farms is the premier grower, packer and shipper of over 2.4 million boxes of fresh peaches, broccoli and bell peppers annually. Titan Farms recognizes the importance of sustainable agriculture practices, and uses them to benefit America's consumers and to protect our country's precious natural resources.
The team at Titan Farms has an extraordinary commitment to providing only the safest, highest-quality produce for their customers.
Titan Farms brings modern farming and old fashion values together to put the highest-quality fruits and vegetables on your table.


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The Severna Park Assistance Network last week celebrated two years of existence by urging other communities to start similar charitable organizations.
A food pantry and emergency assistance program run by nine churches in the Severna Park area, SPAN has helped more than 2,000 client families with money for fuel and electric bills, rent to prevent eviction and prescription drugs.
"We all concur as volunteers and other assistance agencies that we need to develop more agencies like this in the county, so we can start supporting ourselves as communities," said Barbara Birkenheuer, the group's volunteer chairman.


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August & September 2012 – California Ski Company will hold their annual Parking Lot Ski Sale from 10am to 6pm. Here's a chance to buy skis on sale and discounted gear. Drop by and mingle with members in the East Bay & Berkeley, CA. Save the following dates to your calendar and drop by on:
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Last year's gear reduced up to 60%. Great deals on 2013 equipment.
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Home Improvements To Maximize Your Home's Value
Without a doubt it is a sellers market in north Texas. With shows like Fixer Upper, Flip or Flop, and many others on HGTV, rehabbing homes is all the craze. If you are a first time rehabber, you will have tons of questions about what improvements can maximize your return on investment (ROI). There is a lot of behind the scenes planning taking place that viewers don't necessarily see on these shows. If you don't plan for the unknown you can find yourself upside down on a rehab really quickly!
The Most Important Updates
"We are going to blow out this wall, create an open floor plan, and add granite counter tops!" <——- This is one of the most cliché phrases you hear on trendy rehab shows. These are the features that catch a buyers eye, but are they the most important updates you can make to increase a properties value? The last thing a buyer wants is a pig with lipstick. If you're going to rehab a home you need to evaluate the structure of the home (foundation, roof, windows), the infrastructure of the home (plumbing, electrical), and major mechanical items (HVAC, water heater, large appliances). These can be costly improvements and it's not very exciting, but it can greatly increase a properties value to a potential buyer.
The Most Exciting/Desired Improvements
As I mentioned earlier, the most exciting updates have to do with the finish out and floor plan of a home. The visual appeal of a modern, open concept kitchen and dining area, and updated master suite really attract buyers to listings. These are the features that "sell" the home! Generally a good rule of thumb is to have neutral, inviting colors, open floor plans, and attention to detail on the finish out of a home. In different parts of the country, and even different parts of Texas, buyers have different taste and preferences. As someone who spends my time listening to the feedback of buyers, I can confidently say that you can't please them all.
Maximize Your Return On Investment
As a property owner looking to maximize your ROI, you definitely need to consult with a Realtor® on what updates are best for your property in your market. Also you need to be careful not to over-improve a property for the neighborhood it is in. This is another reason why it is important to have a comparative market analysis done by a market expert to determine the current market value and the after repair value (ARV) of your home. Another mistake that sellers can make is not understanding the closing costs involved in a real estate transaction. I highly recommend you consult with an experienced Realtor® to understand each item that will appear on your closing statement. As I mentioned earlier, there is a lot of behind the scenes action taking place on all of the popular TV shows. The last thing you want is to not factor in an expense, or over estimate the price a home can sell for.
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EIGHT workers at one firm have clocked up 200 years service between them.
The eight have been working for express delivery giant TNT Express, based in Atherstone, since 1981.
Commercial manager Robert Bagley, financial controller Barry Cooper, national process manager John Morris, accounts payable manager Robert Wilson and secretary Wendy Clark all work at TNT House on the Holly Lane industrial estate in Atherstone.
Operations training officers John Lawless and David James and regional training officer Karen Naylor work at TNT Chambers, in the town's Long Street.
Each TNT "veteran" received an engraved gold watch, jewellery for the women, a bottle of champagne and a gold pen.
The gifts were presented by TNT UK chairman Bill Hanley and TNT express services managing director Tom Bell at a special dinner to celebrate the employees' achievements.


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- Hootsuite: This is a fabulous cloud application to manage all your Social Media sites from the one location. You can select which of your sites you'd like your posts to go to, you can defer posts, and you can also add images, links, location details etc. And it's easy to keep abreast of all the feeds from your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, from the one dashboard.
- RoboForm: This is a time-saving Password Manager that also fills the form details when you login to different sites online (i.e. it automatically fills your username, password or other details required to access a site, so you don't have to keep re-typing these details every time you access your profiled sites online).
- SnagIt: This is the most amazing program ever! (Well, if you need to use images in your documents at any rate). This fabulous screen grab and image editing tool to capture and enhance images for use in your documents or web applications. With screen recording, and loads of tools and effects, it's so easy to use!
- WhiteNote: This is a fabulous digital notebook application for the iPad which is great for taking notes at meetings, with clients and when brainstorming. You can add images, audio recording and colour to each page, and you can structure your notes to pages and sections within each notebook. Type or hand-write as you go then email or print your notes for everyone who needs them - fabulous!
- SnapSeed: This is a very cool and very fun photo Tweaker. You can selectively adjust your photos to make them look like they've been tuned by a graphic designer. You can add vintage films, dramatic effects abd grunge tones; add borders and vignettes; and tune, crop straighten and rotate images quickly and easily (see the picture I've added).
If you have any great apps or programs that add to your productivity and sense of calm, please leave a comment and let me know....(From an app addict, I'd certainly appreciate it).


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Sunday, May 02, 2010
Story time
I love books. Love them. I remember when I was young, our town had one bookstore. It was a B. Dalton Booksellers, and my mom took my brother and me there often. By far, my favorite thing about the store was the smell. The smell of a bookstore remains a welcoming and soothing aroma to me. I feel like I am being hugged when I walk into one.
That B. Dalton became a pivotal place for me; I would thumb through the latest junior novels and classics time and time again, finally choosing something that caught my interest. I brought it home and read it loyally. And I fell in love with the feeling of what a book can do. It can stir up your greatest passions, or break your heart. A book can reveal a problem or plant a seed of learning. It can make you feel scared, cry bitterly, or inspire courage. I continue my pilgrimages as often as I can.
I wish today I had more time to read, particularly fiction and classics. But with the little time I do have, I now lean toward books from which I can glean something helpful – marriage and parenting books mostly – and books that challenge my faith. I will include the fact that I spend a LOT of time reading with my kids. I spend too much money on books for them. And when they outgrow certain ones, I have to stop myself from boxing them up and saving them for their kids. (OK, certain ones I will save forever and ever and if a fire burns down my house, I'll just buy them all up again!)
Books are both powerful and precious to me. In many instances, they act as mile markers for my life. At certain stages, God has given me a book right when I needed it, to guide me and teach me and love me. And for my children's lives, I always turn to books to aid me in teaching them during transitions and challenges.
When I was pregnant with my second, my daughter and I read Minnie and Her Baby Brother.
When my son broke his leg at 2 years old, we read Maisy Goes to the Hospital.
When my daughter started preschool, we read I Love You All Day Long and The Kissing Hand.
When both my grandparents died this year, we read God Gave us Heaven.
Your head would spin if you knew the number of times I read both the boy and girl version of Once Upon a Potty. (I can nearly recite it: "What was it? Was it a flower pot? Was it a hat? Was it a bowl for the cat? NO! It was a potty!" This one deserves a photo. Motherhood is so glamorous!)
Books are irrevocably intertwined with my memories. They are a beautiful part of the pages of my story. So I decided I would begin to write book reviews on my blog. Most of us love new recommendations, and there are so many great pieces of writing – for grown-ups and kids – that can be instrumental in our own personal stories. (Now I just have to decide which one I'll write about first!)
Ultimately, God is a lover of a good story. That is why our lives are filled with drama and adventure. He is the ultimate author, and that fact forms the basis for this entire blog. We are all enrapt in His story for each of us, whether we realize it, or want it, or not. The idea that I am reading my way through life, and that I am simultaneously being written through life is thrilling to me. God writes only epics, and I love being the heroine of one. I imagine, in my book review posts, you won't be able to separate the story itself from the power of it in my own. Regardless, I hope you enjoy my informal suggestions for a good read, and I hope you have some recommendations for me as well.
God made man because He loves stories.
- Elie Wiesel, 1928
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Let's understand what the hell is regularization ?
When the model fits the training data but does not have a good predicting performance and generalization power, we have an over-fitting problem. Here is the best answer at quora.com
Here one can see by using this visualization that the line separating red and blue dots (data points) have 2 classifier one is green line (over-fitting) another is black line (best-fit).
Regularization is a technique used in an attempt to solve the overfitting[1]problem in statistical models.*
First of all, I want to clarify how this problem of overfitting arises.
When someone wants to model a problem, let's say trying to predict the wage of someone based on his age, he will first try a linear regression model with age as an independent variable and wage as a dependent one. This model will mostly fail, since it is too simple.
Then, you might think: well, I also have the age, the sex and the education of each individual in my data set. I could add these as explaining variables.
Your model becomes more interesting and more complex. You measure its accuracy regarding a loss metric where is your design matrix and is the observations (also denoted targets) vector (here the wages).
You find out that your result are quite good but not as perfect as you wish.
So you add more variables: location, profession of parents, social background, number of children, weight, number of books, preferred color, best meal, last holidays destination and so on and so forth.
Your model will do good but it is probably overfitting, i.e. it will probably have poor prediction and generalization power: it sticks too much to the data and the model has probably learned the background noise while being fit. This isn't of course acceptable.
So how do you solve this?
It is here where the regularization technique comes in handy.
You penalize your loss function by adding a multiple of an (LASSO[2]) or an (Ridge[3]) norm of your weights vector (it is the vector of the learned parameters in your linear regression). You get the following equation:
(L is either the L1, L2 or any other norm)
This will help you avoid overfitting and will perform, at the same time, features selection for certain regularization norms (the in the LASSO does the job).
Finally you might ask: OK I have everything now. How can I tune in the regularization term ?
One possible answer is to use cross-validation: you divide your training data, you train your model for a fixed value of and test it on the remaining subsets and repeat this procedure while varying . Then you select the best that minimizes your loss function.
Let's start and make our hands dirtyhere. Some useful information about data-set before proceeding further-
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For more information, read [Cortez et al., 2009].
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Mini-batch gradient descent is a variation of the gradient descent algorithm that splits the training dataset into small batches that are used to calculate model error and update model coefficients.
Implementations may choose to sum the gradient over the mini-batch or take the average of the gradient which further reduces the variance of the gradient.
Mini-batch gradient descent seeks to find a balance between the robustness of stochastic gradient descent and the efficiency of batch gradient descent. It is the most common implementation of gradient descent used in the field of deep learning.
I have tried this with so many batches but let's hop up to the best parameter one.
So, machine learners here we learnt how to make our prediction accurate with-out letting model to learn the noise around data.
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Well, it's that time of year again. My wife is asking me what I want for Christmas. I have until this Saturday to tell her. If I don't come up with something, she'll just buy stuff for me.
There's really nothing I need or want, so that's why I decided to ask for suggestions here. I DO like to cook. My wife doesn't, so I do the majority of the cooking.
Last year I got a guitar. I haven't even taken it out of the box yet. My wife bought me guitar lessons for my birthday (which was 3 months ago). I wonder if those will ever get used.
Anyway, I used to be a vegan.. I've gone completely in the other direction.. now I'm paleo (that means I eat meat!) Bacon rules. We've got a freezer full of meat. I've got a nice blender, a nice Calphalon roasting pan, and 2 outdoor grills. And a ton of cookbooks. I guess I could ask for stuff off my Amazon wish list, or gift certificates to restaurants, but that's another problem. I'm very adventurous.. my wife is not. My birthday dinner was at Elements in Princeton, NJ. They have a 9 course tasting menu. Let's just say I ate most of my wife's courses as well. Still, it was one of the best meals I've ever had.
I've got some nice knives. A nice spice rack. Plenty of pots and pans. I just really can't think of anything, so I'm open to any and all suggestions.
Oh, I did come up with one idea.. a digital thermometer with probe, for cooking meat. But my wife said, that's a household item. Just buy it for the kitchen. While we're at it, can anyone recommend a good one to buy? Thanks!


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Can America survive the deep interrelationship between its politicians and its major corporations and the absolute greed of both?
We keep printing money while piling up trillions of dollars in debt and devaluing the currency day by day against gold, oil and almost every other currency.
We have major debt crisis, entitlements are exploding, our rights are being eroded and through campaign financing and the cozy interrelationship between corporations and politicians, major corporations run every aspect of government.
When are we going to have the guts to say enough?
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All across the world, parents face challenges. It's a full time job to keep kids safe, healthy, and learning. It may be an even bigger challenge to keep them entertained, because that is a need that's pretty much constant. Family hobbies can be hard to choose, but bowling can simplify things a bit.
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Bowling is Accessible
Many hobbies are thrilling but, frankly, a pain in the posterior. If you want to go white water rafting, horseback riding, even just camping, it can involve long car trips, weather issues, seasonal limitations, and a host of other factors and problems. Bowling is always there. Pretty much every town in America has at least one bowling center, and they are open all year round, through rain and sleet and snow, usually seven days a week.
Bowling is Inexpensive
Family hobbies and outings can be really pricey, but bowling is one of the least expensive outings a family can enjoy. Much of the equipment is free, and any other equipment you need for bowling is usually cheap. Of course, prices, discounts, and other factors vary depending upon where you go, but as a rule it's not very expensive to go bowling, even with a group.
Bowling is For Everyone
Just about anyone can bowl, no matter their age or physical condition, and there are even options like bumper bowling to help out. I have seen very small kids bowl, no more than two or three years old, and elderly people in their eighties often crush the pins. That means it's a hobby that everyone in the family can usually participate in actively. Even people with disabilities can usually manage to get the ball down the lane with a little bit of help and / or modification. Furthermore, most bowling centers have other activities too, including video games, pinball, darts, billiards, all depending on the place. It's always good to have options, and most bowling centers have them. If someone doesn't want to bowl, you will usually be able to find some other fun, safe activity right there under the same roof.
Bowling Can Be Educational
Bowling can even be educational for the kids, depending on how much you want to get into the specifics of it. Bowling is very scientific, especially in terms of physics, but also in terms of chemistry and engineering, especially with reference to the equipment. You can relate bowling to physics in terms of ball motion, impact, trajectory, etc. There is also the concept of engineering in ball construction, core design, concepts of torque, the chemistry and nanotechnology in the coverstock and finish of the ball, and many other factors. All of this can really help kids to develop a love for science. You can even talk about the history of the sport, the famous people who bowled, and other historical and cultural factors that can educate the kids and expand their understanding of the interconnectedness of all knowledge.
The author is a teacher and bowler who enjoys introducing people to the sport of bowling. He has written several articles that cover a range of topics, from finding cheap bowling balls to organizing bowling parties for kids.


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Name: Dawn Keckley
Virginia Beach, VA (Zone 7b)
Oct 7, 2017 6:25 PM CST
|We have two trees (a maple and a gum) in the front yard. This is the sunniest area of our property and faces west. All the area from the street to close to the trees receives 6 or more hours of sunlight. We've always had fescue grass (he's a lawn maintenance owner who has a couple decades working on it to keep fescue growing) and the center bed with the trees. The patio with adjacent narrow bed and the bed near the street are three years old. When digging out coleus and vinca for our pansies, we discovered the beds are just crowded with tree roots/root hairs. My husband said tonight he just wants to put down ivy and forget about growing anything else.
I've been wanting to grow more food. Right now, I have most in pots on this front patio with a few things in our tiny side garden (which doesn't receive enough sun for things like tomatoes and peppers). I've been hoping to grow food in the front lawn, it I realize it will have to be in raised beds because the soil is simply too consumed with tree roots and too compacted.
It will look ugly
The tree roots will ruin it all
Any thoughts? 😊 Any ideas of how to make it pretty, edible, and not cluttered?
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|You can grow food and have it look pretty. Easiest way is to plant like you would plant flowers in that bed. Tallest plants in the middle (tomatoes for example) and go down in size until you have lettuce or something small in the front. Figure out what you want to plant then find colorful varieties. Tomatoes come in many colors and there are even varieties that have a metallic sheen to them! Peppers always look great in a garden and there is lettuce that comes in different shades of green and there are some that are a burgundy color as well. Swiss chard is very colorful also. If you like kale you can plant purple kale. Cauliflower now comes in purple as well.
If you go to this thread, you will get lots more ideas from other veggie growers. Or you can start your own thread in the forum also. The thread "2017 Vegetable Gardening" in Vegetables and Fruit forum
Name: Dawn Keckley
Virginia Beach, VA (Zone 7b)
Oct 12, 2017 3:26 PM CST
|I'm having a hard time figuring out how to make several raised beds that don't make the front look boxy. We naturally landscape with curves, but raised beds are rectangular. The soil is just so full of roots, compacted, nutrient-deprived!
Minnesota (Zone 3b)
Oct 12, 2017 5:49 PM CST
|You could take railroad ties, NO they do not harm the soil or plants, and cut them so you could make an octagon , two tie high.
Then take soil and and build you lawn up to the height of the ties.
No one would see them and you would have a garden shape quite unique.
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|They also make landscaping blocks that you can use to make curved beds. Nothing says you have to use wood. Go to a local home improvement store and see what they have. You can go 2 or 3 high and you won't need a liner to hold the dirt in.
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Foundations Bible Reading Plan
In 2018, Dawson as a whole will be focusing on The Word. As a student ministry, we would like to provide an opportunity for students and parents to study Scripture through the Foundations Bible Reading Plan. Our goal is for students and parents to read through the Bible together in 2018 and discuss Scripture weekly. You can find a description of Foundations below.
"With Foundations: A 260-Day Bible Reading Plan for Busy Teens, students can read through all 66 books of the Bible in one year, while still having the flexibility of reading 5 days per week. Along with supplementary devotional content each day, they can experience the miracle of reading and responding to the entirety of God's Word. By using the H.E.A.R. journaling method, students will be guided through Highlighting, Explaining, Applying, and Responding to passages, allowing for practical application throughout the year-long plan."
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The Black-throated Sparrow (Amphispiza bilineata) is is also known as the Desert Sparrow, as it is usually found in arid desert scrub.
Distribution / Range
This small sparrow is primarily found in the southwestern United States and Mexico.
The Black-throated Sparrow reaches a length of about 4.5-5.5 inches, and is pale gray above, with a distinctive black and white head pattern.
Diet / Feeding
It feeds primarily on insects and seeds, and travels in small groups, though larger groups may accumulate around sources of water in the desert.
Calls / Vocalizations
Its call is high and bell-like, and its song is a fairly simple, mechanical tinkling.
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WILLIAMSPORT — Elynor Marie Matkins, 89, a resident of Ravenwood Lutheran Village and formerly of Williamsport, Md., died Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 at Ravenwood Lutheran Village, Hagerstown, Md.
Born July 17, 1921 in Shenandoah, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Charles and Marcella Bolonis Yanchulis.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Leo Matkins, in 2000.
She was a 1937 graduate of Shenandoah High School, Shenandoah, Pa., and attended Bloomsburg State Teachers College.
She was a homemaker.
She attended St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, Williamsport, Md.
She was a military wife and traveled all over the world.
She enjoyed playing bridge and played it well.
Survivors include daughter Penny McDougal of Williamsport, Md.; daughter Ellie Weider of Hope, Maine; and son Leo S. Matkins of Wilmington, Del.
She was an outstanding grandmother. She had five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews
She was predeceased by numerous siblings.
A Mass of Christian burial will be held at St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, 32 E. Potomac St., Williamsport, on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 at 10 a.m., with the Rev. Father Stephen Hook as celebrant.
Graveside services will be held at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, Annville, Pa., on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010 at 10:30 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Community Free Clinic of Washington County, 249 Mill St., Hagerstown MD 21740.
Online condolences may be made to the family at www.osbornefuneralhome.net.


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A MECHANIC from Clacton has set a new world record by cramming an astonishing 51 people into his classic VW campervan.
Jamie Bakker, 26, of Coppins Road, was joined by friends Christopher Dee, Phillip Perry and 48 other enthusiasts for the attempt, which took place during the Busfest Van Festival, in Worcestershire, at the weekend.
The bid was part of a charity fundraising event for the Make A Wish Foundation, which makes the dreams of youngsters fighting life-threatening conditions come true.
Jamie, who works for Ace Autos, in Crossfield Road, said: "I restored the campervan myself and modified it myself – it was a project over ten years.
The attempt, recognised as a Guinness World Record, also helped raise money for Make-A-Wish Foundation, a charity that grants wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening conditions such as cancer.
james Lewis, from BBC's Flog It and Bargain Hunt, was there to witness the record-breaking attempt organised by Comfort Insurance.
He said: 'I've been involved in quite a few world records in my time but this has been one of the most exciting yet, especially as it has never been done before and for such a worthy cause.'
One of those who took part, Calvin, added: 'I didn't think we'd do it at first. People's hands and arms were squashed in my face. When it came to the last person, everyone joined in to pull him in. What a great atmosphere!'
Peter Cue, founder and director of Comfort Insurance, which organised the record attempt, said: "Our customers enjoy having fun with their campervans and we wanted to do the same. What better way than getting everyone involved in trying to set a world record, whilst helping families and children across the UK!"
Busfest saw around 25,000 campervan enthusiasts and 5,000 vehicles visit the festival over the weekend.
"I have loved VW campervans since I was a kid, so bought one when I had the chance.
"My partner, Lauren, saw something on the internet about the show saying that Comfort Insurance wanted a pre-1975 campervan to volunteer for something.
"We agree to do it and when we got there, we found out it was to set this world record and raise money for charity."
He added: "It was crammed. It was comfortable to start with, but it got a bit claustrophobic in the end.
"They only had 40 minutes to complete it and after about 30 minutes they were getting a bit desperate and were shoving people into the gaps.
"I'm so pleased we were part of it – it was brilliant.
In total, 51 people squeezed into Jamie's 1974 Type 2 campervan, helping to set the official Guinness World Record.
"There has never actually been a record set before – Guinness basically made it a challenge for 51 before they would consider it a record, said Jamie


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Hi dangear,
It's the same to Android.
Please refer to
Hi dangear,
It's the same to Android.
Please refer to
I use Win32DiskImager to create USB Drive with Armbian and try boot via Keys mode. But I see black screen only. I need to install Android and then update VIM bootloader for multiboot from it?
Good news.
With the support of @narmstrong , it was possible to get a working version of u-boot-2018 for all models of VIM2 (S912). I checked on the VIM2 Basic and Max, u-boot-2018 works with SD card and eMMC. This will allow you to use Linux in normal disk mode with the latest version of u-boot on all VIM2. For those who want to try the new u-boot-2018, I uploaded two files to the site, for VIM and VIM2.
I managed to install Armbian in EMMC with MBR version 5.59 with two partitions, a BOOT of 122MiB and ROOT of 57,47GiB, the first one is unallocated by 668MiB I do not know why.
Has interruptions to the network and boots pretty fast.
Which hub do you connect to 100Mb or 1Gb ?
Primary 700Mb is the service part when using the regular u-boot-2015. If you use u-boot-2018, it will be possible to exploit the full capacity of eMMC for the system (minus the 4MB service in the beginning to u-boot-2018).
We stopped the network and created another connection with modified parameters, now it works.
How to install u-boot 2018, I saved u-boot 2018 for VIM2.
Thank you.
Install u-boot-2018 eMMC easy (to download and burn the dd command to eMMC). But the big question is, what are you going to use it for ?
I do not know but I'm trying to learn.
What format does the partition do not see with gparted either
Please note that u-boot-2018 does not support all the features that u-boot-2015 has. It is intended primarily for Linux\Libreelec-9 users with the "4.1 x" kernel. If you created an MBR using a script from Armbian for u-boot-2015, you will be able to work with eMMC via gparted. But do not delete existing partitions or modify the MBR table.
Ok not delete existing partitions. With u-boot 2015 can i install kernel 3.14?
Hi @balbes150
Thanks for your great work.
On one of my VIM2 I run 3_in_1 and copied VIM2/u-boot.bin (md5sum 3eeffb0193daf958a1d78714062a25ad) with dd to /dev/bootloader (I was booted in LE).
But now the box does not finish boot (I can provide serial log):
=> version
U-Boot 2018.07-rc2-armbian (Sep 11 2018 - 17:36:32 +0300) khadas-vim2
aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.11) 7.2.1 20171011
GNU ld (Linaro_Binutils-2017.11) 184.108.40.20670706
The sdc_update command seems not available to revert back to previous u-boot from SD card.
I tried tftp as well and it timed out
=> tftp 1080000 u-boot.bin
Speed: 1000, full duplex
Using ethernet@c9410000 device
TFTP from server 192.168.168.241; our IP address is 192.168.168.191
Filename 'u-boot.bin'.
Load address: 0x1080000
Loading: #T T #T T #T ##T T #T T #T #
Retry count exceeded; starting again
note that 192.168.168.241 could ping 192.168.168.191 during attempt:
standby /tftpboot # ping 192.168.168.191
PING 192.168.168.191 (192.168.168.191) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.168.191: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.167 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.168.191: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.189 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.168.191: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.187 ms
--- 192.168.168.191 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 119ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.167/0.181/0.189/0.009 ms
and tftpserver is correctly working on 192.168.168.241
desktop ~ # tftp standby
tftp> get u-boot.bin
tftp> quit
desktop ~ # ls u-boot.bin
Question: how shall I revert back to previous u-boot and/or adjust 2018 u-boot to work for 3_in_1?
I can use loadb to send previous u-boot from server disk to memory with kermit, but there is no store command to write to rom mmc. Perhaps another command exists?
Have a nice day
I warned you, you can not use u-boot-2018 in systems with Android partitions, he does not see them. To run from SD card latest version Armbian (kernel 4.18) VIM2 where you saved the u-boot-2015. Make a copy of the first 4 MB of eMMC (dd). Run this system on VIM2 with MultiOS And restore the first 4 MB to eMMC.
Thanks for reaction.
I must have misunderstood the u-boot-2018 purpose. My bad.
Sometimes translated text is not very clear to me in forum.
I am also not sure I understand restore procedure you kindly provide.
Note that I can no longer boot from SD. I tried with image Armbian_5.59_Aml-s9xxx_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.18.0_20180908 and LibreELEC-S912.arm-9.0-devel-20180910093444-bdb5a5b.
I will contact you personally for specific instructions. I will document restoration here once successful.
Thanks for your valuable time !
Use version 5.55.
It has a built-in u-boot. There is no built-in u-boot in the 5.59 images (it needs to be written manually to the SD card after the image is written).
Thanks @balbes150 for kindly helping restore previous u-boot (2015)
[which I had replaced with 2018 one].
Note: I had a backup file from /dev/bootloader named bootloader.dd
(copied with dd) taken right before replacement. The dd bootloader size is 4MB.
Here is how to restore:
dd if=bootloader.dd of=/dev/mmcblk1
Done. My 3_in_1 survived the adventure.
Have a nice day.
I thought we fixed it, there is a solution to randomly disconnect the network, I use the last Armbian 5.59.
What exact command is given for U-BOOT EMMC backup?
There were no corrections.
dd if=/dev/ of=uboot_backup.img bs=1M count=4
Have the last Armbian 5.59 I have on the SD card and so it happens
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 92:b4:f0:96:d6:xx
inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe8… Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:66459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27677 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:76452482 (76.4 MB) TX bytes:3052445 (3.0 MB)
After dev / name of EMMC unit?
Yes. How could it be otherwise ?


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A pal of Black Country Tunisia terror attack victims Adrian and Patrick Evans tells Russell Brand to explain himself after the controversial comic dismissed minute's silence tribute as "b******t" in a YouTube rant.
In the rant about Friday's tribute Brand took aim at the Government, saying foreign policy and engagement in the arms trade played a part in causing the attacks.
He said: "There's no point in having a minute's silence on Friday – it's a minute of b******t.
"As long as during that time, [the Government] continue to sell arms, they continue to bomb foreign countries – they have no interest in a solution.
"They are only interest is perpetuating the problem and continuing to profit from it."
But Brand released a video yesterday (July 6), showing an encounter with white-van-man Rob, a friend of father and son Adrian and Patrick Evans murdered while on holiday in Tunisia along with their nephew and grandson Joel Richards, aged 19.
Rob asked the funnyman what he meant by his comments.
Brand claimed the Government had created lists of unsafe countries with "dodgy" regimes, but then helped arms companies to sell weapons to those same regimes.
He said: "If you really care about these issues, if you want to do something about the situation, one thing: don't sell weapons to those countries. Don't arm them.
"Or if you think business is more important than people's lives, just sell the weapons and shut up."
Brand went on to claim the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were economically motivated and contributed to the global climate of extremism.
He told Rob: "When I said about the minute's silence, I believe in God, right? So I pray every day. And when people are suffering I pray for that, that's something I really really care about.
"Of course I'm not affected in the same way - you knew those people.
"But what I was saying about the minute's silence is, don't do those gestures if you are contributing to the situation that led to their death."
Rob said that when he saw Brand in the street he felt compelled to stop and ask him to explain himself.
He said: "I'll be honest with you, the people around me, their reaction was: "F*****g hell, who does he think he is?"
But he found himself agreeing with much of what Brand had to say.
He said the Government sweeps the global arms trade "under the carpet", agreeing that military action overseas fuels tensions between ethnic and religious groups at home.
"It's a roundabout scenario," Rob said. "Nothing's ever going to be done, is it?"
In a lighter moment at the end of the video, the pair found common ground over football.
Rob is a fan of Aston Villa, while Brand supports West Ham.
Brand said: "We're both claret and blue, we've got different tattoos, but when it comes to it, despite the superficial differences we do want the same thing."


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Today we bring you our review of the historical novel The Legacy of the Lynx, by Clio Gray. Yes, this book has a lynx in its title, but there are no actual lynxes in the text, so don't get too excited about the prospect of reading a great book about wild cats. What this book does have is a puzzle of a plot set against a historical background, and some pretty good characters. There is also a fair amount of violence, so be warned.
The basic plot
The Legacy of the Lynx is set in 1798–99, primarily in Ireland and the Netherlands. "The Lynx" is a society formed nearly two centuries ago to pursue mostly scientific knowledge. Its considerable library was long ago broken into segments, each moved to a separate location for safety. Now one Golo Eck wants to resurrect the Lynx and bring together the knowledge contained in its entire library. But not everyone thinks this is a good idea, and when he sets out from Scotland with young helper Ruan Peat and the older Fergus, Golo does not know that the wheels are already turning to stop him at any cost.
A storm wrecks the ship Golo and Ruan are on, and Golo is killed, leaving Ruan to carry on somehow. Meanwhile, Fergus has been sent to Ireland to find the part of the library kept in Wexford, but he lands right in the middle of a revolution, with the United Irish fighting English oppression. He meets up with Greta, a teenage girl who is…well, let's just say you shouldn't mess with Greta.
The book concludes in Deventer, the Netherlands, where Ruan and, eventually, Greta land and meet up with one Hendrik Grimalkin, a scholar. Ruan, who has been more or less a jerk through much of the book, begins to mature into someone respectable under Greta's appraising and unflinching stare. The question, though, becomes, will any of them survive this quest to resurrect the Lynx?
The history
The Legacy of the Lynx is set against a historical background, and Gray includes a brief note at the end to let you know what parts are real. The Lincean Academy was real, founded in 1603. Galileo (yes, that Galileo) was a member. The battles in Ireland actually happened, though Fergus's and Greta's parts of course are fictional. One of the most interesting parts to us was the South American connection (in the form of a khipu, a stringy thing with various beads and knots, used to record information), which we did not really believe until we read the historical note. Now we think it's possible, though improbable.
Our verdict
We have left out much of the plot and several characters…because the book is complex, and this is a short review. Know that we were only a little bit disappointed by the lack of an actual lynx in this book, because it is so filled with rich, evocative writing that puts you right in the scene. Gray's descriptions of characters and their emotional states, as well as the physical scenery, are so well done, we were sorry to leave this book's people and places.
A note on the "Paws Up" system: Miss C gives either one or two paws up. One paw is for a good read; two paws is for a great read. She never gives three or four paws because that would require her to lie on her back...and Miss C does not do that!
We received a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. We wouldn't tell you it was good unless we really liked it!
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Clarence Scharbauer was talking about money and horses two subjects with which he is well-acquainted.
"The first 3 million was easy," Scharbauer said. "It was the second 3 million that was tough."
Then the cattle and oil baron from the west Texas town of Midland -- "We're just country folks" -- made his point of distinction.
"Alysheba won $6 million without any bonuses."
Alysheba, the bay colt Scharbauer bought in 1985 for his wife, Dorothy, and daughter Pamela, is thoroughbred racing's all-time leading money winner, having surpassed John Henry in 1988.


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Vettel scorches Monza, poised to rule weekend
Red Bull's Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel did his best to demoralise the ranks of Ferrari fans at their home circuit with a stunning show of speed in Italian Grand Prix practice on Friday.india Updated: Sep 07, 2013 02:40 IST
Red Bull's Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel did his best to demoralise the ranks of Ferrari fans at their home circuit with a stunning show of speed in Italian Grand Prix practice on Friday.
The triple champion was a commanding 0.623 seconds quicker than his own team mate Mark Webber, next on the timesheets, in the afternoon sunshine at Monza with a fastest lap of one minute 24.453 seconds.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, the German's closest championship rival with a cavernous 46-point gap to make up and eight races remaining, was fifth and 0.877 off the pace on the fastest circuit on the calendar.
Last year's winner Lewis Hamilton had put Mercedes on top in the morning session with Alonso putting in the second-best lap only 0.035 seconds slower and Vettel fourth fastest.
Hamilton, who will be chasing his fifth pole position in a row on Saturday, roared around Monza's classic 'Pista Magica' in 1:25.565 on a sunny morning in the former royal park. He was sixth after lunch.
The Briton, who was booed by some of the passionate Ferrari 'tifosi' when he won for McLaren last year, had said on Thursday that he hoped they would be booing him again if it meant a return to the top step of the podium on Sunday.
Alonso might have gone quicker than Hamilton in the morning had he not run wide, kicking up a cloud of dust, at the exit to the Parabolica corner on a fast lap with half an hour to go.
Raikkonen suffered his first retirement of the season, ending a 27-race scoring run, at the previous race in Belgium and has fallen back to fourth in the championship behind Hamilton.
A banner in the start/finish grandstand, written in large red letters and positioned next to a Ferrari flag, declared 'Kimi in pole' in what looked like a throwback to 2007 when the Finn finished third for the Italian team.
Raikkonen has a longer wheelbase car for the race, the fastest on the calendar with speeds of up to 340kph, but has played down his chances.
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I liked these sentences, because I could turn them into Rihana-ye with only one invented word (garden) and one invented construction (for simple). 1. Three birds are flying. Dy tafa-fe ralevejo-mi. Three birds flying. 2. Goquim is a simple language. Gokimu gu levado-si-ji fivaroha. Goquim quickly learned-is-can language. 3. *Ligana-me fugefe fugeli tiga-fe. Garden (prettyplantland)-in many verypretty trees. 4. I am learning Goquim. Seba Gokimu levado-mi. I Goquim learning. 5. My name is Nikil Sinha. Seba-ye sevaroha Nikilu Sinaha. My name Nikil Sinha. 6. Where is the book? Helehana-me wewavaroha-hi? Whatplace-in book-query? Note: This is an example of my recent tendency to use verb suffixes such as "hi" independently of verbs. 7. You are coming with me. Feba seba-fe vejo-mi. You me-with coming. 8. Are you coming with me? Feba seba-fe vejo-mi-hi? You me-with coming-query? 9. What is the name of that city? Heleha vese fibasa-ye sevaroha-hi? What that city-of name-query? Another word order might be: Vese fibasa-ye sevasroha heleha-hi? That city-of name what-query? John Leland
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the kinkiest of kinks, without getting really nasty. I'm not a fan. but someone has to be. im thinking the germans?
A kink is surely the last thing you want when shaving.
Nah, probably Brazilians.
nah they prefer erotic waxing
i just remembered tho. on the sarah silverman program the 2 old gay guys like to shave each others balls. grim
Shaving your pubes is the most kinky thing you can think of?
I can't wait to see how happy you are when you discover 'woman on top'.
on top?
that be the work of satan!
shaving each others pubes!
im well accustomed to the art of auto-shaving
I think we're going to disagree on this.
If you find this to be the kinkiest things you can do bar sitting in chains and licking dog poo off your sister's corpse, then I worry about your league tables of kink.this'd this
maybe we should have a kink off
cos im freaky baby
wax on, whacks off!!