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Indian Oil has announced 2600 Scholarships to students pursuing 10+2 , ITI, Engineering, MBBS & MBA streams on merit-cum-means basis for 2014-15. A total of 2000 scholarships are offered for 10+/ITI students. The proportionate distribution of scholarships will be state-wise, based on the number of students who appeared for 10th Standard examination during 2013-14.
For Graduate and Post-Graduate studies, 600 scholarships are offered to students pursuing professional courses (Engineering-300 Nos., MBBS-200 Nos. & MBA-100 Nos). The scholarships will be proportionately distributed Zone-wise (North, South, East & West), based on the number of students who appeared for 12th Standard examination during 2013-14.
The Stream, duration for which scholarship will be awarded, minimum duration of course, No. of Scholarships, Qualifying Examination, minimum eligibility marks in qualifying examination for (i) General (ii) SC/ST/OBC/Girls and (iii) PwDs and the Scholarship amount per month are as follows.
(i) 10+/ITI: for 2 years- 2000 scholarships; Qualifying examination: 10th with 65% (General), 60% (SC/ST/OBC/Girls), 50% (PwD); Scholarship amount Rs.1000/- per month.
(ii) Engineering: For 4 years- 300 nos- 12th -65% -60%- 50%; Rs. 3000/- pm
(iii) MBBS: 4 years; 200 nos; 12th; 65%, 60%, 50%; Rs. 3000/- pm
(iv) MBA: 2 years; 100 nos; Graduation; 65%, 60%, 50%; Rs.3000/-p m
(ii) Engineering: For 4 years- 300 nos- 12th -65% -60%- 50%; Rs. 3000/- pm
(iii) MBBS: 4 years; 200 nos; 12th; 65%, 60%, 50%; Rs. 3000/- pm
(iv) MBA: 2 years; 100 nos; Graduation; 65%, 60%, 50%; Rs.3000/-p m
Students pursuing full time/regular courses (not correspondence/ distance/ online mode) in these streams & studying in Schools / Colleges / Institutions recognized by MCI / AICTE / State Education Boards/State Technical Education Boards / ICSE / ISC / CBSE only are eligible to apply for the different streams.
10+/ITI : For 10+, applicants should be bonafide students (full time / regular) in 11th standard / 1st Year of Intermediate course or equivalent course in 2014-15 to be eligible to apply. For ITI, bonafide students (full time / regular) in 1st year of 2 years ITI course in 2014-15 are eligible to apply.
Engineering & MBBS: Bonafide students (full time/regular) in the first year of Engineering/MBBS degree courses in 2014-15 (minimum 4 years' duration course) are eligible to apply.
MBA: Bonafide students (full time/regular) in the first year Post graduate course of minimum 2 years, in Business Administration/Management in 2014-15 are eligible to apply.
Gross Joint annual income of the family of the student from all sources during financial year 2013-14 should not exceed Rs. 1,00,000/-. However, in case of tie, preference will be given to the students whose family income (gross joint income from all sources in 2013-14) is upto Rs. 60,000/-. Any Affidavit submitted as Income Proof shall not be accepted. Income certificate should be ones issued by appropriate civil authorities of the State/UTs/Central Governments whose details have been specified under the head 'Submission of Documents by Applicants'.
Applicant should not be below 15 years of age and should not above 30 years as on 01.07.2014. Persons born between 01.07.1984 and 01.07.1999 (both days inclusive) are eligible to apply. However, there would be a relaxation in the upper age limit by 3 years for OBC candidates, 5 years for SC/ST candidates and 10 years for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs).
The marks obtained in the qualifying examination making the students eligible to seek admission in the respective first year of these courses will be considered for selection. Percentage of marks obtained in qualifying examination shall be calculated on total aggregate marks of all subjects. In case of Graduates, percentage of marks obtained shall be calculated on total aggregate of marks of all subjects for all the academic years of graduation.
Normalization of marks for all streams shall be done by using percentile method so as to rationalize the variation of marks provided by different Education Boards and Universities/Institutions. 49.5% scholarships are reserved for various categories- SC(15%), ST(7.5%) & OBC (27%). Only those listed in the Central Govt's OBC list will be considered against OBC quota. OBC candidates of State list but not covered by Central Govt's OBC list may apply against General Category. 25% of scholarships are reserved for girl students and 10% of scholarships are reserved for persons with Disabilities (PwDs) (minimum 40% disability as per definition under Disabilities Act 1952) in each category/sub-category and the reservations shall be maintained on overall All India Basis.
Applications can be submitted online by logging on to http://ioclscholar.sifyitest.com or www.iocl.com/Aboutus/Scholarships.aspx, latest by 30.09.2014.
Applicants will have to provide valid & active e-mail address & mobile number in their online application form. They should keep on checking their personal e-Mail / Mobile SMS, Portal of Administrator of the Scheme at http://ioclscholar.sifyitest.com as well as on the website of IOCL www.iocl.com/Aboutus/Scholarships.aspx regularly for instructions specific for them from Administrator of the Scheme/IOCL.
Once the online application is submitted by an applicant, the system will generate a unique Registration Number. The applicants should note down this number and also take a print out of this Online Registered Application Form for future reference/correspondence. A message through SMS on the mobile number given in the online application and an e-Mail message on the e-mail address given in the online application will be generated automatically as a token of confirmation of submission of Online Application Form by an applicant.
All applicants should submit printout of the online application duly signed, along with the documents specified to IOC. The details of the documents/forms etc. to be submitted by the applicants is given in the website under Head 'Submission of Documents by Applicants'. The detail of documents to be submitted can be seen by individual applicant at the bottom of the print out of their Registered Online Application Form.
The printout along with the documents specified should be sent by Speed Post or Registered Post only in a sealed cover, to reach 'Sify Technologies Limited (IOCL ESS I-Test Division), Plot No B 7, Sector-132, Noida, Uttar Pradesh-201301, on or before 15.10.2014.
All the documents to be submitted by applicants should be got attested from Principal/Head of the institution where the student is studying or from a Gazatted Officer or from a First Class Judicial Magistrate. Applicants should get the grade (CGPA/GPA/SGPA/OGPA/CPI etc.) obtained converted into percentage of marks as per approved formula of Academic Board/Institution and should mention the formula used for conversion of grade into percentage of marks. Applications with any invalid Caste Certificate shall be considered against General Category. All applicants are advised to have the savings bank account in their names (joint bank account with parents/guardians in case applicant is minor) in any branch of State Bank of India having Core Banking Facility and send attested copies of bank documents as mentioned in 'Submission of Documents by Applicants'.
Wards of the IOCL employees, its Joint Venture and Subsidiary companies and Consultant managing the Scheme are not eligible to apply. Selection will be based on merit and family's income. The first instalment of the scholarship for the selected students, shall be released for 12 months by demand draft and subsequent Scholarship instalments shall be released on six monthly basis through NEFT/Bank Transfer based on satisfactory performance and other details provided by the Principal/Head of the academic institution in the Feedback Form.
A scholarship holder under this scheme will not hold any other scholarship / stipend / financial aid from any other source. There will be no obligation on part of IOCL to provide employment to any Scholar at any point of time. Those qualifying in the merit list of the particular course (Top 10 in 10+ or Top 3 in graduate/post-graduate) will get a lump sum Bonus Prize of Rs. 10,000/-. Toppers will be invited at IOCL's cost for receiving the amount.
A Help Desk will be operating 6 days a week (Monday to Saturday) from 10 am to pm, except Gazetted & National Holidays, for any information/queries/clarifications from applicants. Help Desk can be contacted only over phone no. 9810421827 / 9810422305. Any query/information or correspondence be made with the Administrator of the Scheme at the following address: Sify Technologies Limited, (IOCL ESS I-Test Division), Plot No B 7, Sector-132, Noida-201301 (Uttar Pradesh).
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SCERT, Kerala, has invited applications for the Centrally Sponsored National Means-Cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme for students of Kerala. Under this scheme, MHRD, Government of India, proposes to award 100,000 scholarships to the gifted or meritorious students whose parental income is not more than Rs 1,50,000/- per annum from all sources. Each State /UT shall have fixed quota of scholarship which will be decided on the basis of defined criteria. The States/UTs will be conducting the test for selection of candidates for the award of Means-cum-Merit Scholarships in the State/UT.
In Kerala, the test for selection of students for the award of the Means-cum-Merit Scholarship, is being conducted by the State Council for Educational Research and Training, The test to be conducted on 2nd November, 2014 will have two parts. Part I will be the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and Part II will be the Mental Ability Test (MAT). Each test will be of 90 minutes duration and carrying 90 objective type questions, each carrying one mark. Children with disability will be given 30 minutes extra time for each part. The Scholastic Aptitude Test will have questions from Science, Social studies and Mathematics of the standard of 8th Class or of lower classes.
The Mental Ability Test will have 90 multiple-choice questions, testing verbal and non-verbal meta-cognitive abilities like reasoning and critical thinking. The questions in the test may be on analogy, classification, numerical series, pattern perception, hidden figures etc.
Applicant should be studying in Class 8 during 2014-15 in a Government/Aided School in Kerala State Syllabus. Applicant should have scored a minimum of 55% marks in the annual examination of 2013-14 in Class 7. Parental income should be less than Rs 1,50,000/- per annum from all sources. Applicants in Kerala have to apply for the scholarship, online, latest by 5 pm on 25th September, 2014, at the appropriate link at http://www.scert.kerala.gov.in/.
There is no fee for applying for the NMSCE. After submitting the application and ensuring that the information is correct, applicant should take a printout of the online application and get it attested by the Head of the Institution where the student is pursuing the course.
Applicant should obtain and attach the original Income Certificate issued by the Village Officer. A copy of Community Certificate in case of SC/ST applicants and PH Certificate in cased of PH applicants (as applicable) should also be attached to the completed printout. The application and documents should reach 'The Liaison Officer, NMMS Examination, SCERT, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram-695012' by 5 pm on 30th September, 2014.
A student can avail only one Scholarship under any scheme. The awardees will be asked to open Joint account with parents in State Bank of India, which has core banking facility; SBI will ensure that their branches and its associates SBI Indore, Patiala, Mysore, Hyderabad, Travancore, Saurashtra, Bikaner and Jaipur will open account of such awardees without any initial deposit/minimum deposit charges and will issue ATM-cum- Debit Cards. The state will identify the awardees and hand over the list of beneficiaries to SBI for payment of scholarship;
The scholarship at the Secondary and higher Secondary stage or equivalent Classes IX to XII is payable for a maximum period of four years for studies in India only. No scholarship at this stage is payable for studying diploma/certificate level courses.
For continuing the scholarship in class X and XII the awardees should get clear promotion from class IX to class X and from class XI to class XII in the first attempt with 55% marks (relaxable by 5% for SC/ST). The awardees must obtain a minimum of 60 per cent marks in Class X (relaxable by 5% for SC/ST) exam or equivalent examination for continuation of the scholarship at higher secondary stage.
Applicants will get the facility to download their Hall ticket from the website from 16th October 2014 onwards. At the time of selection for the award of scholarship the candidate must have scored at least 55% marks or equivalent grade in Class VIII examination. There will be 5 % relaxation for SC/ST.
For details, visit http://www.scert.kerala.gov.in/ MHRD Guidelines related to the NMMS scheme is available at http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/Scheme_NMMS.pdf
The Provisional Rank list of General candidates and the results of service candidates who have appeared for the Entrance Examination for admission to M.Sc.Nursing 2014 conducted on 17.08.2014 at Thiruvananthapuram has been published by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations.Reshmi R Nair from Kozhikkode secured the first rank in this Entrance Examination.
The Provisional Rank list of General Quota candidates and the results of Service Quota candidates will be available for reference in this office and on the website www.cee-kerala.org. The Director of Medical Education will make allotment and admissions as per the conditions laid down in the Prospectus.
Dr Babu Sebastian has been appointed as the new Vice-Chancellor of MG University. The Governor has signed the order regarding the appointment.Presently, Dr Babu is the director of the State Institute of Education Technology. He was a faculty member (Malayalam) of Saint Thomas College, Pala.Dr P. Prasanna Kumar from Kerala University and Nanotechnology expert Dr. Sabu Thomas were among the people considered for the post.Previous VC of MG University, Dr. A.V. George, was removed by former Governor Sheila Dikshit in May on the grounds that he was not eligible to hold the post.


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Welcome to Horizon 100 cycling club, a Saskatchewan Cycling Association member club, supported by Sask. Sport. We are a dynamic road riding club with roots and an ever growing membership in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Our goal is to develop and support the local and provincial cycling community. The focus is on helping beginners achieve the fitness and skills to ride at the group pace, in an enjoyable and supportive atmosphere. Club rides are generally divided into three different paces that you can choose depending on your level, along with two different distances.
Horizon 100 Cycling Club is a volunteer-run, cycling club operating in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. If you'd like additional information email firstname.lastname@example.com.
We ride 100km group road rides every Saturday from April through October. The goal of the group is to help beginners achieve the fitness and skills to ride at the group pace, in a fun and supportive atmosphere. The club also rides 50km on Wednesday evenings from May through August and every Saturday.
Please view the events calendar for dates when club rides commence and end.
A handbook that contains useful information for new club members can be found here. Please read this document to help familiarize yourself with how to ride in a pack and to learn more about awards offered, the routes we take and a bit of history about our club.
The club has established a consititution that identifies our core values and defines the roles of the executive. It can be viewed using Adobe acrobat reader, and the document can be accessed here.

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I was thinking about this as the beliefs of Van Jones, the Green Jobs Czar, come to light. For those who do not know, he was one of the founding members of a Truther Commission and also one of the signatories of their petition demanding that Congress look into the Bush's role in 9/11. Just to be clear, they weren't just curious if the Bush administration was involved, they were asserting that as a truth that needed to be uncovered.
So, which is worse? Birtherism is the belief that Obama is not eligible to be President of the United States because of a technicality - some believe that Obama was born in Kenya and that although his mother was a citizen, she may not have spent enough time as an adult in the US before travelling overseas and giving birth to Obama in Kenya. They believe that there has been a conspiracy by a number of people to keep this secret - several at his birth which would have included family members, several in the state government of Hawaii when they found out and Obama, when he found out. In the end, they believe that it's a conspiracy of dozens to trick the system.
On the other hand, what do truthers believe? At the most extreme, they believe that the Bush administration, the US military, members of state and local government, private citizens as well as the Air National Guard conspired to set up the murder of 10s of 1,000s of American civilians. I say 10s of 1,000s because that was the goal.
So, these dozens (?) of conspirators all agreed to collaborate in this murder because they all believed what? It's ridiculous to argue.
They all believed in the W administration? Really? 8 months after a horribly divisive election debacle there were a huge number of true believers who wanted to support mass murder?
They all believed in the need to invade Afghanistan, a country that 80% of Americans still cannot find on a map?
They all believed in the need to invade Iraq and take its oil? Something we still haven't done?
They all believed in taking down bin Laden - a man that 90% of Americans had no knowledge of before 9/11?
So, Birthers vs. Truthers. I, of course, am neither. That said, who's got a more implausible theory? Who's more nutter? I will go with Truthers.
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Station 4/5 Fittings
Then the front and back pieces were clamped in place.
And brazed together. Here's the first one after brazing and grinding smooth.
Looks like the original on the right. I must drill the holes to size yet.
The second one was finished as well. Now I have all the fittings for Station 4 and 5.


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Back to 2000 Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Index Page
2000 Harley-Davidson FLSTS/FLSTSI Heritage Springer
– 2000 Harley-Davidson FLSTS/FLSTSI Heritage Springer
Modeled after the 1948 Harley-Davidson® Panhead, the Heritage Springer®'s front end boasts an exposed spring suspension, full floating fender and classic horn. The classic tooled leather, crossover exhaust pipes with dual-fishtail mufflers, fringed saddlebags, tombstone taillight and whitewall tires look spectacular with 2000 color schemes. At the center of it all is the powerful performance of the new Twin Cam 88 Counterbalanced engine, giving the bike a unique blend of old and new technology.
Engine Type: 1449 cc, 4-Stroke, Air Cooled, V-Twin
Engine Bore and Stroke: 95.3 mm x 101.6 mm
Valves 2 valves/cylinder
Claimed Horsepower: 63 hp (47 kW) @ 5500 rpm
Maximum Torque: 110 Nm (81.1 ft. lbs) @ 2800 rpm
Transmission type: 5 speed
Final Drive: Belt
Tire – Front: 130/90-16
Tire – Rear: 130/90-16
Brakes – Front: single 292 mm disc with 2-piston calipers
Brakes – Rear: single 292 mm disc with 4-piston calipers
Seat Height: 657 mm (25.9 inches)
Wheelbase 1630 mm (64.2 inches)
Fuel Capacity: 18.9 l – 1.9 l
Dry Weight (without fluids): 340 kg (749.6 pounds)
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Over the past several months, Governor Scott has continued to issue emergency declarations, resulting in the opportunity for developers to claim extensions of certain development approvals. Two new states of emergency were declared this spring for wildfires (EO 17-120) and the opioid epidemic (17-146). Recent executive orders extended the tolling period for the Zika virus (EO 17-166) and wildfires (EO 17-174). The previously extended emergency declaration for Hurricane Matthew (EO 17-67) has now expired, but can still be claimed if required notifications are filed by the statutory deadline.
Florida Statute 252.363 provides an extension for certain permits and authorizations when the Governor declares a state of emergency, effective within the area covered by the emergency declaration. With some exceptions, the extension applies to expiration of local-government-issued development orders (such as rezonings and proportionate share agreements with phasing or expiration dates), building permits, Development of Regional Impact build-out dates, and Environmental Resource Permits issued by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection or water management districts pursuant to Part IV of Ch. 373, Florida Statutes. These extensions do not apply to federal permits.
The emergency declaration tolls the period remaining to exercise the rights under a permit or other authorization for the duration of the state of emergency and extends the deadline for the permit or authorization for an additional 6 months beyond the tolled period. Within 90 days after the termination of the emergency declaration, the holder of the permit or authorization must provide written notice to the issuing authority of the intent to exercise the tolling and extension granted. The notice must reference Section 252.363, Florida Statutes, identify the specific permit or other authorization qualifying for extension and identify the particular state of emergency under which the extension is being sought.
The chart below provides information on the currently available extension opportunities. With the exception of Zika, these emergency declarations were issued statewide; the Zika emergency declaration was issued only for certain counties, as identified within the original Executive Order (16-149).
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While multiple extensions may be applicable to some projects under the recent executive orders and each state of emergency provides a separate 6-month extension, overlapping tolling periods cannot be double-counted. Care must therefore be taken in calculating the total amount of time available under the various development approval extensions and to ensure the notice deadlines are met for each applicable extension. In addition, governmental agencies may vary in their approaches to recognizing extension opportunities provided under this statute and to calculating the extension periods and deadlines. Clients are therefore advised not to rely on any such extension until it has been acknowledged by the issuing authority.


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Monday, January 4, 2010
The Mysterious Case of The Bolster Bosom
I wrote this, but never posted it, on August 18, 2009 while considering the significance of Bristol being stuffed at the RNC:
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes
I have had some experience figuring out the scams of people high on the psychopathy checklist, a task requiring working out their logic and thought processes which are different from what normal people do. Once you get the hang of it, psychopaths are highly predictable. Sarah Palin has yet to surprise me. (My hunch is we should soon be prepared for the unveiling of a cosmetically enhanced Sarah Palin, paid for by PAC money and/or her book advance - money that she couldn't use until she resigned as governor and quickly dropped from sight. Why have policy positions when you can run on facelifts, body sculpting of her rather stocky legs, and breast enhancements?)
But it is different breast enhancement that we are looking at right now: the desperate, incompetent padding of Bristol at the RNC. What was Sarah trying to hide and who was she trying to convince at that moment?
What has been established is that Bristol was padded excessively and that, other then earlier that day while meeting McCain on the tarmac, this is the only time her breast size was enhanced. (Earlier her breasts looked odd, as if they had been stuffed in a Lana Turner cone shaped push up bra, the blouse fabric stretched between two protruding points, but were still significantly smaller - without the pillowing - of the rounded bolster that went public that night.)
The argument that the excess padding was to prevent possible leakage is a red herring. At no other time, except possibly the the one noted above, was excess padding in place. If heavy leakage was a concern, Bristol would not have been seen wearing the unpadded black dress or the light grey sweatshirt within days of the RNC. Audrey makes convincing arguments that Bristol was probably not breast feeding at this time at all, but for our purposes here it doesn't matter whether she was breast feeding or not because that is not what they were hiding.
So what could be the possible story line?
Bristol, suddenly, in full bloom.
Just before Bristol's appearance at the RNC, her pregnancy was announced and, at the time, Levi, the hidden boyfriend, was not identified by name as the father. The situation, like a dead fish forced to go with the flow, suddenly changed when he was quickly flown in to be the fiancé - legitimizing the pregnancy as much as possible. This was a narrative, similar to the wild ride story, that was being ad-libbed on the spot rather than being thought out.
All of this seems to be a reaction to the immediate explosion of stories on the internet and the press about the Trig birth rumours after the announcement of Palin as McCain's running mate. As part of the containment, the internet was quickly and blatently scrubbed of photos and written material for the period in question according to accounts and dead links report by many different, unrelated people. Based on the variety and the extent of the sites scrubbed, this feat could only be accomplished with Sarah Palin's explicit involvement to direct, call in favours, etc. from individuals to remove the material. Her newly appointed press point person, Bill McAllister, would be a great help here. He was who Sarah confided to about the Bristol pregnancy rumours when he was still working at the local television station, a station that never covered the story. Bill, soon after, got a new job with the government, that I assume was more lucrative, working directly for Sarah. Apparently he passed the test of who Sarah felt she could work with. This new crisis would give him a chance to show his loyality once again to Sarah. When the Gusty photos, where Sarah is finally padded enough to actually look pregnant, were quietly released that week, the people involved were his former co-workers and he appeared in one of the pictures. It seems that a lot of favours were called in that week.
There were two problem photos that made it through the scrubbing process. The family group picture in Juneau and the Christmas photo on the stairs, taken the same day, which slipped through to the Alaska Business Journal, Audrey discusses these in an excellent May 9th posting titled Ho! Ho! Ho! The photo shot took place on September 13 or 14, 2007. In these pictures, Bristol's body has taken on an remarkable fullness compared to a picture taken three months earlier in June. A fullness that is extremely similar to how Bristol looks in the black dress in the photo shot with the McCains - less then two weeks shy of a year later. If anything, the breasts in 2007 appear fuller, which would be consistent with a first pregnancy when the breast tissue and skin are taunter than subsequent pregnancies. A situation that many woman reading this forum could verify.
It appears that after scrubbing all the pictures of Bristol from public viewing in the couple of days leading up to the RNC, and thus seeing many pictures that we never did, Sarah and her accomplices would have been painfully aware that Bristol had the same body in 2008, when they were trying to show she was pregnant, to the body a year earlier, which, in a stretch with nothing to compare it to,could be passed off as a normal teenage growth spurt. Thus the desperate need to pad, especially Bristol's chest, to make her look different and more pregnant. We can assume from the RNC pictures that Bristol did not inherit her 44 year old mother's tight abs and at the young age of seventeen she had already "let herself go." Perhaps this is why she was hiding her changing body under a draped blanket during the VP announcement a few days earlier, before her pregnancy was made public. Or maybe this dead fish was being carried away through rapids.
So who could possibly have done the padding and who was Sarah trying to fool?
Check the facts, ma'am.
What do we know and/or can safely assume about the events leading up to Palin being picked as VP:
* We know that John McCain had spent most of his life positioning himself to run for president and wanted that office with a fierce intensity.
* Having won the process to be the Republican candidate, the most skilled and professional people within the party were helping him achieve this.
* That Obama was, no pun intended, the dark horse candidate for the Democrats in, what became over time, a tight race with Hillary Clinton.
* Obama winning the nomination suddenly changed the game plan for everyone and made it desirable for the Republicans to have a woman VP candidate and that they had to make a decision quickly.
* That, to Lily B and Andrew Sullivan's dismay; the Republican party's detriment; and the country's disservice, there is a dirth of qualified candidates that can get past the extreme right wing base of the party.
* It was a perfect storm for Sarah Palin.
In answer to the question, "What do we know about Sarah Palin?" We can now say:
* That ever since her first public appearance she wanted to stop being a fishwife and hobnob with the likes of Ivana Trump.
* That she has thrown so many people under the bus that it gives a whole new meaning to Bette Davis' warning in all About Eve that people should "strap yourselves in: it is going to be a bumpy night."
* There is scant evidence that she has shown loyalty or reciprocity to anyone. Todd, until the revelations in the last couple of weeks, appeared to be the only possible exception. Frequently she has turned on people immediately after getting what she wants. Her motto appears to be: leave no bridge unburned. She is not a team player and goes rogue.
* Although she has furiously attacked people in the name of others, ex-brother-in law - separated husband of a friend, we can not assume that it is done out of loyalty as opposed to, for instance, sadistic enjoyment.
* She is petty, vindictive, impulsive, and unethical.
* She lies so freely, frequently, and flamboyantly that we can confidently refer to her as a pathological liar. Early in the campaign the McCain team had learned to double check anything that Sarah told them. I am referring here to team checking with Todd when she told them that they didn't have health insurance at the beginning of their marriage. Todd told them they always had coverage. The point is that within a week of the campaign the McCain team knew she wasn't trustworthy. What made them feel this way so quickly?
* She is secretive and doesn't trust anyone - even her own family.
* She is post-logical and beyond reason. While there is no denying that she is cunning, she is not intelligent - a dangerous combination that causes people to underestimate the damage psychopaths are capable of until it is too late. A strong argument can be made that she is also delusional.
* In her mind, nothing is her fault and she is the victim. Except, of course, when she is an unmitigated success - "the world's greatest." The swings between the two extremes are rapid and almost instantaneous. To try to follow it will give you vertigo.
* She does not understand the concept of merit and she can't see it from her house.
* One of her few notable skills is to opportunistically turn situations to her advantage even if it harms others and it usually seems to do that. Political mentors destroyed; an inability for her to hold down a cushy job turned into a witch hunt against members of her own political party; a troubled son shipped to Iraq providing political capital; Trig's Downs Syndrome turned to political advantage while,it appears, that his developmental needs to reach his potential are being ignored; her children regularly pulled from school so they can act as props and human shields; humiliating her minor daughter in front of the entire world because, assuming that she is not lying, she is too much of a prima donna to produce a birth certificate - fake or real. I could go on with this list, but in the interest of your stomach I will stop for now.
* The two most frequently used manipulative techniques we see Sarah do in public are using sexual flirtation and affinity cons. An affinity con is when you make a connection with people because you pretend to be just like them, sharing the same values, beliefs, and experiences. "I'm a hockey mom just like you!" "Someone called me a red neck and I said thank you!" Although we can guarantee that sexual flirtation was part of her interaction with McCain, in his defence when explaining his choice, he said that Sarah reminded him of his younger self.
* She believes that, by being brazen, she can manoeuvre and lie her way out of any difficult situation.
How does this all tie into the bolster bosom?
Let's now look at what lead up to the RNC. Some of this is conjecture but it is based on how the individuals would act if we take previous behaviour into account.
* Having to make a quick choice for VP and tactically wanting a woman on the ticket, Sarah Palin was called down to meet with McCain. There was no time to do a independent vetting of her.
* McCain's team, however, would have sat down with Sarah and asked her detailed questions including if there were any skeletons in her closet which they would have to manage.
* Without stopping to blink, Sarah, with amazing consistency of character, would do the only thing she knows how to do: she would lie through her teeth. She would not tell them she had a pregnant daughter; she would have dismissed out of hand the Trig rumours; she would have laughed off the ethical complaints. She wanted the nomination and she would, as she always had, lie and betray her way to it. If she had to fudge a few things and cover some things up, she felt confident that she could get away with it. After all, she had got away with it before. She smiled and winked and came across as charming.
* She got the nomination. The family flew down and it was publicly announced.
* Immediately the skeletons started to surface. The team tried to talk to her about the various issues, but she stonewalled them.
* Meanwhile, she went into personal damage control without McCain's team: having the state site, along with others, scrubbed of photos. Getting the Gusty photos posted. The scrubbing was noticed and someone on the McCain team, perhaps the stylist, noticed Bristol's body.
* Being caught on Bristol's pregnancy and still avoiding the McCain's team request for Trig's birth certificate to squash the rumours, Sarah decided to kill two birds with one stone and Bristol's pregnancy was announced. She was good at improvising - no need for a birth certificate now. Bristol's body now needed to be as pregnant as possible, hopefully people won't notice that she looked the same way the year before. When the McCain aid told the press that Bristol was around five months along, they were only repeating what Sarah had told them.
* Levi was called to come down, probably at the team's insistence, to be Bristol's fiancé.
* Sarah had a problem. She did not want to or couldn't produce Trig's birth certificate and the McCain team kept asking her for it. They were beginning to hint to her that she could gracefully step down citing family responsibilities. There was no way she was going to miss this opportunity. She loved the attention and she loved all the new clothes. There was people to do her hair and make up and an entire trailer dedicated to the wardrobe for the McCain and Palin families. She had spent time there looking at all the great clothes - she would get more of course. How could she get the McCain team off her back about the birth certificate. They didn't need it since Bristol was pregnant - did they? So why were they bothering her about it? Maybe Bristol should look more pregnant so no one would ask any more silly questions. Suddenly Sarah had an idea and she strolled over to the wardrobe trailer to help herself to one of Megan McCain's dresses.
* Megan McCain, as anyone with eyes can see, is a well endowed woman. She also has an interest in fashion design. Her tailored dresses look custom made for her body and one of her styles, which shows up repeatedly on the campaign, is the dresses that have the same fabric and cut of the grey dress Bristol is stuffed into at the RNC. That dress is not one that can be bought off the rack or is it a maternity dress (It is too structured and would only work for a week or two at the most during a normal pregnancy, if it would fit at all.)
* That evening, after Bristol had her hair and makeup done, Sarah got everyone out of trailer except the two of them. Bristol removed the dress the stylist choose and put on Megan's, then Sarah stuffed it to fill out the bosom. It took a lot of towels and perhaps the empathy belly as a foundation. Bristol carried Trig, well she always carried Trig, to hide the over stuffed bosom until she was at the RNC when it was too late for the McCain team to do anything about it.
* Sarah had pulled it off and she felt on top of her game as she mounted the podium to speak. She was exuding confidence and smugness and the crowd loved her. When they came to her afterwards about the dress, she threw the success of that speech into their faces. They were committed to her now and couldn't back out. Sarah had won.
* Now committed to a course of action that they didn't feel that they could retreat from without fatally wounding the campaign, as good political operatives, the McCain team would fall on their swords as Sarah threw them under the bus. They went into damage control - helping to cover up for Sarah.
* Within the campaign Sarah circled her few wagons against the McCain team and the team had no choice but to circle theirs around hers to protect her from the public and to try to contain the damage she was inflicting. Bristol was stuck in the very middle, pulled from sight once again - on the bus looking after her "baby brother."
The smoking gun: out of the holster and into the bolster
Why is the bolster bosom a smoking gun? If Sarah had given birth to Trig there was no need to do it. In the rational world that is obvious to see. In the distorted logic of Personality Disorders there was no gain in doing it and a lot of risk if she wasn't able to pull it off. PDs are never that concerned about risk, but they are very aware of gain. And Sarah gained a lot by stuffing Bristol and going rogue on the McCain team. She hijacked the crazy republican base and is now in control of them; she is reportedly getting 11 million dollars [now reduced to seven] for her book - when she isn't capable of writing a sentence; she is getting her followers to send her money to spend as she pleases; she has fame; and she no longer has to be a fishwife. And, if McCain had won despite the impact she was having on the campaign, he would have been stuck with her as his VP.
She gained because she managed to pull it off, but the problem she was facing at that moment was trying to avoid giving Trig's birth certificate to the McCain team and then the rest of the world, which means that she didn't give birth to Trig. We knew that already, but the effort she took to pad Bristol's bosom confirms it. Why would she casually pad Bristol for no reason when she couldn't be bother to consistently wear belly pads for a month? With all the other important events happening to Sarah in that week - why did this become her pressing priority? The Trig rumours were not even on the radar for Sarah the week before and after the first week of the campaign she went back to her stance that we should just believe anything that she says regardless what reality looks like. In that one week, Sarah was under pressure to prove the Trig rumours untrue and she couldn't. By the end of the week, the McCain team would have realized that there was no birth certificate coming forward because Sarah had lied to them and they probably stopped asking for it. By the time they sent a couple of operatives, posing as secret service men, to Sherry Johnson's house to scrub their computers they knew what they were looking for and why they were deleting it. (Although my guess is that they kept copies of what they found.)
Why do I think that she was conning the McCain team? It is very hard committing a con on a large group of people. Sarah has trouble focusing and does not plan ahead. She only reacts to what is happening to her in the immediate present, as her sudden resignation showed us. Conning McCain and his team was her immediate priority. The public appearances of Bristol were just part of her clout with them to show them they were stuck with her. Before the election was over, she felt that she didn't need the team anymore, she had established herself with the extreme right on her own terms.
There is no way that McCain and company would have worked with Sarah, if they had any inkling of who she was. It was all risk, very little gain, and enormous loses, which we saw as the campaign continued. It took less then a week for her to turn on them and I think that they were stunned by what happened. They became accomplices in her actions against their will. They were tricked.
By the way, it may be worthwhile, before it is scrubbed, to look for pictures of Megan McCain in that dress or ones that are similar. She would never wear that dress after that night but she may have worn it before then.
Why did the MSM not follow up on this? Three reasons: the first is the success of her speech at the RNC overshadowed the story. The boost she provided to the campaign was only two weeks long before she became a liability that the public was reacting to. In the news cycle that made the Trig rumours old news. Second when the media asked Obama about Bristol's pregnancy he stopped them cold by taking a principled stand to leave families alone. This was so breathtakingly civilized that the progressive media backed off the story (this was before more revelations surfaced). The right wing media is in no mood to be civil and Sarah is their pitbull - so they won't cover it.
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- AnonymousJanuary 4, 2010 at 7:14 PM
Excellent article, I will be back to visit your site.ReplyDelete
I'm impressed. Well thought out.ReplyDelete
Yes: "breathtakingly civil!" That's our Obama.ReplyDelete
I disagree with this: "And, if McCain had won despite the impact she was having on the campaign, he would have been stuck with her as his VP." I think if McCain had won he would have died soon and SP would be our puppet president. Swastika, anyone?
Interesting, thorough, well-written and entertaining post. Thank you!ReplyDelete
I am very impressed, great piece, Vera. I think one of the biggest mistakes the McCain campaign made was that they did not do sufficient homework to discover that Palin already had a history of discarding mentors and allies. They assumed that any person like Palin who got plucked out of relative obscurity and was ambitious, which she clearly was, would work hard to capitalize on the opportunity. And part of Palin's schtick is that she is a team player: high school B-Ball and all that.ReplyDelete
My guess would be that the McCain team's main concern was "will she be able to get up to speed in time?". They embarked on a typical program to sheesh, the words that come to mind, "flesh out", no, that's bad, "bolster", no way... well, they did the usual crash course to try to improve the candidate's weak areas of knowledge. Their main concern would have been "can she pick this up in time?", not "will she agree to even try to do what we ask?". As you said, by the time they figured this out it was too late, and they had no idea how to handle her. I think Steve Schmidt did the best he could, given the situation. And I still remember even feeling a bit sorry for McCain when the disasterous Gibson and Couric interviews had occurred, and so one of the next interviews featured McCain and Palin seated together to answer the interviewer's questions. This might have been Brian Williams, I don't remember for sure, because what I remember most was McCain's look of fear each time Palin opened her mouth, which he was not successful in disguising.
But back to the dress: I think you are spot on. It was remarked by somebody back at the time that the dress looked like one of Meghan McCain's. My guess is that was you who posted that comment. I see the photos you have of Meghan above and it lends credence to your theory. I also agree that the "perfect timing" of the exactly just right amount of pregnancy, combined with Obama's "families are hands off" statement helped to silence the mainstream media, and by the next week or two, the news cycle had rolled on.
I bet you are right. I used to think the padding was because of forced rapid cessation of breast feeding Trig, but you have me pretty well convinced of the real reason for the padding.
I like the way you think and write. I've followed this story since the VP announcement when I immediately started to unearth anything I could find on SP. I regret that I didn't copy some of those first treasures that were still in the public domain.ReplyDelete
Obviously, you have done your own sleuthing. What I specifically enjoy is your take on the behaviour of psychopaths....specifically Sarah's M.O. and thought process. I think you are right on.
I'm following your blog now.
Thank you everyone. It is gratifying to actually have some readers and get some feedback. I was hoping that this site could explore the Psychopathy Checklist side of the Palin story. It always gets lost in the comments when the discussion starts.ReplyDelete
I posted some of my earlier comments on Palin Deception on the earlier post. I will try to post my other background pieces.
Vera, thank you for the well-thought out and excellent way you have written the article.ReplyDelete
I look forward to reading more from you! :)
Great, great post. I also think she got lucky because of the Birthers - no journalist wanted to be compared to them. I know, because of the several I've spoken to, they all immediately defaulted to "birthers = truthers."ReplyDelete
Great post!ReplyDelete
Consider yourself bookmarked....
"post-logical" is an awesome phrase! Thank you. grammyReplyDelete
This is really thoughtful and meaty- thanks!ReplyDelete
I agree that this is a very likely scenario.
I remain confused and disturbed by the cluster of events that occurred at the time of the supposed birth of T2 in Dec. '08... i.e. strange birth announcements, S. Johnston's arrest, 2 fires, no photos of T2 until Feb..... I continue to wonder about what that all means.
I am absolutely clear that SP faked the pregnancy and the sooner this issue achieves critical mass, the better.
VEra, Can you give us an estimate of the length of the dress? Is Bristol's height the same as Megan's so the dress would look like the right length for Bristol. I would reinfoce your theory somewhat.ReplyDelete
Pictures of Bristol wearing the sweatshirt show that she is intent on hiding something. It is either to hide that she is pregnanat or it's to hide that she isn't pregnant. I go with the latter because some of the pictures follow the announcement of her pregnancy. Aside from that too is that she apparently kept the sweatshirt stuffed with cloths or maybe tissues or something similar. This doesn't seem to be an attempt to hide something.
Sarah Q,ReplyDelete
The dress ends an inch or so above the knee. Now that I look at it you are probably right, visually it should be a little higher or a couple of inches lower to match Sarah and Willow's skirt length. Willow is also in a conservative cut dress which is reads as Republican frumpy. The difference is it fits her.
To me the issue isn't whether Bristol is pregnant or not pregnant at the RNC. It is that it is obvious that Bristol was padded for the event. At no other time does she have a bosum that is as endowed as the night. That to me is the important part of the dress.
I don't see how that makes me right on anything. In fact I was assuming that Megan was a little shorter than Bristol and I was asking if you were interested in checking that out to the best of your ability. Bristol being a inch or two taller than Megan would perhaps be consistent with a dress that is above the knee on Bristol. Yes/No?ReplyDelete
I think the dress length doesn't go against your theory but it doesn't prove it either.
And another thing, Megan is large around the arms and her dressed are loose fitting around the arms. The one Bristol is wearing is tighter around the arms and I wonder if Megan's arms would fit into it. ??
And yes, the dress she is wearing fits all that padding and would look pretty stupid on her without the padding. I'm just not convinced that it belongs to Megan yet.
One thing that we can probably take for sure is that Megan McCain is in on all the secrets by now. I would say that her attitude from after the election displays a certain amount of disgust toward the Palins.
I'm in the process of reading Stout's book at the moment. Quite an eye-opener for me, so I found this intriguing.ReplyDelete
Incidentally, my daughter recently had to appear pregnant for a psychology experiment. She donned an empathy belly bored from the drama department, but it was a cheap one without the enlarged breasts attached. She told me the silhouette was all wrong, and so she had to borrow a bra from a larger friend, stuffed it with socks, and then borrowed a larger shirt from the friend; only then did it look right (she sent me a photo and she genuinely looks about 8 months pregnant!)
So something like that could have happened at the Convention. They tried the empathy belly but the silhouette wasn't right. So they had to borrow a bra and a dress from Megan. In this scenario, the McCains would be in the thick of it.
Sorry, that was "borrowed" from the drama department.ReplyDelete
I am not sure that Meghan McCain would participate by loaning a dress. She seems to have had a superior attitude to all Palins and no sympathy for a pregnant teen. I can however, readily believe that somehow SP got into the wardrobe (or ordered a stylist to do so) and took just what she was looking for.
Somewhere along the line, I read a report from the stylist that had to dress the family for the RNC. She reported that there was a processs: she did the shopping with the help of an assistant, each family member got a personally tailored and perfectly fitted outfit for the appearance onstage at the convention. From the tailor, the outfits were pressed and readied for the event. It was an assembly line.
I have no clue where I stumbled across this, maybe in the book Sarah from Alaska or the NYT. I have read so much that it is difficult to remember.
So, SP had to intentionally force that poor girl into a stuffed bosom. I personally can see her doing that just the way Vera City suggests.
- AnonymousJanuary 10, 2010 at 1:28 AM
This might also be a reason Megan refuses to discuss La Palin. From comments that she has made, including her meltdown when she didn't have a hairstylist right before an interview, I think she would take a very dim view of Sarah and Bristol "borrowing" a dress without permission- something that creates tension between sisters and roommates who get along well, let alone Megan and Bristol, who may not have gotten along at all, and Palin, who evidently can't get along with anyone.ReplyDelete
I'm not saying that it's the sole reason, but I think it might feed into why Megan won't talk about Sarah. I bet, when Megan saw Bristol in her dress, she went absolutely ballistic.
Great, thoughtful, organized post.
One comment though: as I've maintained from the beginning of this mess, I believe the other reason the MSM won't touch her hoax is that they want to keep her alive. She is ratings and $$$.
- AnonymousJanuary 14, 2010 at 3:30 PM
Ivyfree, could this blog perhaps be one that doesn't do all the ridiculous speculation? The theory of the dress belonging to Megan is weak to start with and to speculate that Sarah stole it or took it without Megan's consent is just going to far IMO.ReplyDelete
Now, it's not that this is my blog or that I have a right to demand what is the content, it's just that if this blog becomes one and the same as the others then it's value is lost.
And if that's the case, I'm outta here and I think those that come here may be outta here for the same reason.
- AnonymousJanuary 14, 2010 at 3:32 PM
And same message to you Joe. You have no reason whatsoever to think that the other media outlets want to keep this going. Is it not just as likely that Olbermann wants to expose Palin and would have free hand from his boss to do so?ReplyDelete
Anon. at 3:32ReplyDelete
My rebuttal about the MSM keeping Palin alive is dependent on whether you feel strongly that she is not Trig's biological mother or you are questioning these blogs in general.
- Say NO to Palin in PoliticsJanuary 31, 2010 at 4:12 PM
Excellent post Vera!ReplyDelete
And do you have your first troll?
Say NO to Palin in Politics,ReplyDelete
Thank you and yes I have experienced my first troll. I had to switch over to moderated comments to revirginate the site.
- Say NO to Palin in PoliticsJanuary 31, 2010 at 4:50 PM
anon......you don't seem to understand. It takes speculation to think like a psychopath, in order to figure out why they did 'whatever' and what they may do next.ReplyDelete
Vera has studied Scarah long enough to know her patterns. And she is a person who understands how psychopaths think. Hell, I've been following and studying her, I feel like I know Scarah's patterns, also, too. I struggle to think like she thinks, it makes my brain hurt, but I try.
I'm perfectly okay with considering theories that explain what Scarah has done. And there is SO much, she's a very busy crazy person. My red flag antenna went off immediately upon her being picked, alarms screaming in my head. This woman is not right.
I also think this post is a very plausible picture, close to what could have occurred, if not what actually happened. VERY plausible.
You should read Vera's back posts. They are very informative and interesting.
Vera, I'm now wondering if Scarah didn't already have the Gusty pics ready to go,just in case? or if not, I wonder if she also did the pic set up behind the campaign teams back, being the sneaky and manipulative person she is.
I can see her taking advantage of newly created situations, where she can get things set up to her agenda before the dust settles. When she can, lol, this was obviously so thrown together at the last minute I'm sure she smelled opportunity from Alaska.
That's a wonderful explanation of the amazing bosom. It's the first explanation that makes sense to me==especially that it was Meghan's dress. At the time this was happening I stumbled onto a Megan McCain blog in which she showed the Palin's backstage during the convention. She only said positive nice things about the Palin girls but the pictures were interesting. I would love to see that again after reading this theory...ReplyDelete


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July 22, 2015 at 5:18 pm #2748
IT IS URGENT! I bought im Event template for my client and they need two additional registration fields. All the fields should be mandatory and there should be 5 of them all together. Can you help with that? What information you need from me.
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"Singapore must be prepared for several years of slow growth," he said. "Even the most pessismistic bears did not anticipate the consequences of the bubbles," Lee added, referring to U.S. subprime housing woes and global trade imbalances.
The central bank, which sets monetary policy by managing the Singapore dollar against a secret basket of currencies, in October switched from allowing a gradual rise in the currency to a neutral stance of zero appreciation.
Some commentators expect the central bank to ease policy further by letting the currency weaken ahead of its next scheduled review in April.
Lee, the son of Singapore's founding father and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, is facing his biggest test since taking office four years ago, with the country's top trading partners the United States and Europe in recession and growth in Asian neighbours slowing.
Lee said policies to boost the economy would take effect immediately after being announced in an expansionary January budget. The government would partly rely on construction to help growth with project costs coming down, he said.
"It makes sense for us to take advantage of that," Lee said. "The budget emphasis will be on jobs." He expects unemployment to rise, particularly in manufacturing, which accounts for about a quarter of the economy.
Last month, the government pledged to spend S$2.3 billion ($1.5 billion) to help firms get credit and said it would run a larger budget deficit to support an economy that it said could shrink 1 percent in 2009 and at best would expand 2 percent.
The government is trying to diversify away from manufacturing into service industries such as tourism and finance.
Singapore's banks have not suffered huge writedowns on risky debts unlike peers in the United States and Europe, though top bank DBS Group said last month it would cut 900 jobs after suffering a 38 percent drop in quarterly profit.
Lee said Singapore may face political pressure from the European Union and the United States over its role as a financial centre for rich foreigners, following a landmark deal by offshore haven Liechtenstein with the United States to drop bank secrecy in cases of tax evasion.
"I expect Singapore to come under pressure too," he said in response to a question on whether pressure on countries like Liechtenstein and Switzerland will help private banks based in Singapore.
The government has previously denied suggestions that the country is a tax haven. It has strict bank secrecy laws and has been promoting itself as a rival financial centre to Hong Kong to attract banks such as UBS , Credit Suisse and Citigroup to manage money for rich clients.
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All of the girls looked so gorgeous! Pink heels from Famous Footwear, clutch from Colette, fitted skirt from Ally, sequin top from Dotti.
Sorry I've been away for a little while. Hope you've all been well! Last night, I went with a group of friends to Jo-Jo's to celebrate Billy's birthday. I had such a lovely time seeing everybody again but nothing out of the ordinary happened so for the sake of posting, here are some photos from the event!
This drink tasted amazing! It was like a melted Lifesaver popsicle.
Jiwon got a fish eye lens for her iPhone camera!
*awkward crouch* Finally got to see my little Evee after so long!!
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If you are using digital advertising, develop landing pages for your potential leads. Landing pages that are targeted to the exact ad that led them there are much more effective than driving them to the general website. They are receiving the information that they wanted from you. Make certain a contact form is available and easy to use.
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Learn about the value of leads. Some leads may just not be quite right for an individual campaign you have running. Qualify each lead to ensure they are worthwhile before spending a lot of time on them. Getting the best leads is definitely the key to success.
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No, I'm not pregnant! This family expansion is coming through adoption again!
Kris and I have always felt that adopting wouldn't be a one-time experience for us. When God called us to adoption, He never told us how many, but to be open to however many children He laid on our hearts. We seek obedience to Him, trusting by faith that this road He has called us to will be honoring and glorifying to Him. For the past year, we've been doing a lot of praying and waiting.
We had a mental checklist of things that had to be in order to feel the door was open for us to walk through another adoption. One of the factors was my health, which is doing much better after getting treatment for a condition I was suffering from. Other factors we felt would have to be in order have fallen into place as well (such as purchasing a minivan to fit us and finishing Anna Faith's surgeries), and after lots of calls and consultations, we began the home study process last week!
|Home study paperwork- it's much less complicated this time!
This time around, we are adopting an entirely different way. We are going domestic! Three years ago we explored every type of adoption, from all the countries with programs to fostering to adopt to domestic newborn adoption. The domestic route did not feel right as we were dissuaded by agencies here in Kentucky who said that our family with three biological sons would likely not be picked by a birthmother. However, we have come to see that God can work in the heart of a birth mom to choose a large family just like a childless family. It all depends on her wishes and His plan to bring a child into our family through her decision. This requires a lot more faith than our putting in an application with a secure country that more or less will guarantee a child of our choosing to us within 12-15 months. We are anxious and know that the Lord with stretch our faith through this. Instead of us choosing her, her birth mom will choose US! Yikes!
|Taking big sister on a trip to pick her baby sister's first outfits.
|Waiting for you, little sister!
The timing of this adoption is a huge question mark. We are doing this adoption independently, meaning instead of an agency we have hired a local adoption lawyer to advocate for us. Birth mothers come to him frequently, as his name is well known in Kentucky and surrounding states. As soon as we hand him a profile of our family in the next couple weeks, he can show it to birth mothers and we may be matched immediately or have to wait indefinitely. So potentially, our baby girl could be home between two months to a year from now! Talk about messing with your head when you're type A!
|Watching the balloons they released toward heaven after praying for their sister
Please be in prayer for this precious birth mother who is yet to be identified, that we will be able to meet with her, share Christ with her, and encourage her.
Please be in prayer for our daughter, who may very well be forming in the womb of her birth mom right now, that God will protect her from harm and weave her together to be who He has planned her to be for His glory.


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Raspberry GDB Python support
I followed https://wiki.qt.io/RaspberryPi_Beginners_Guide and I'm now able to cross compile Qt applications on my Ubuntu PC for Raspberry. However, GDB in Qt Creator is not working - I get "The selected build of GDB does not support Python scripting. It cannot be used in Qt Creator" error for /home/<user>/opt/gcc-4.7-linaro-rpi-gnueabihf/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gdb. Is there anything I can do in order to enable remote debugging for Raspberry Pi?


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VK Sasikala Convicted Of Corruption, Jail For 4 Years: 10 Facts
A trial court in 2014 convicted all four accused in the case, following which Jayalalithaa stepped down as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu. MLA who has been identified as SS Saravanan escaped the beach resort and landed up at O Panneerselvam's residence.
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Trump travel ban: Policy adviser attacks USA federal appeals courtUS National Security Adviser Michael Flynn reportedly had secret discussions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about sanctions the outgoing administration of President Barack Obama imposed on Moscow late a year ago. "Yes, General Flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president", Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said on MSNBC on Monday afternoon.
Two killed in fiery Lamborghini crash at Las Vegas supercar experienceA client at a track-day experience in Las Vegas apparently lost control and crashed a Lamborghini into a wall on Sunday, killing himself and the driving instructor in the passenger's seat, the Las Vegas Sun reports. It has been confirmed that the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration will investigate the incident and until these investigations are completed, full details surrounding the crash won't be known.
Phillips 66: Worker Unaccounted for After Louisiana Pipeline ExplosionOfficials in St. Charles Parish said they began receiving calls Thursday about an explosion and fire at the Phillips 66 pipeline station at Paradis (PAIR'-ah-dee), west of New Orleans. At one point, 60 nearby homes had been evacuated. Pipeline workers were cleaning the equipment when it exploded. "The pipeline has been blocked in and the remaining product in the line continues to burn", the company said in its statement.
Melania Trump to preserve Michelle Obama's vegetable garden at the White HouseAnd for her final tweet on Saturday, Melania shared a photo showing her and Abe in a corridor area while touring the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, as the two women look relaxed and at ease. But the former model has now settled the "will she or won't she" talk once and for all by making several major staffing announcements and revealing plans over the past few weeks for her role as America's FLOTUS.
Lance Armstrong set to face £80m lawsuitThe government joined the case in 2013 after the seven-time Tour de France victor admitted using performance-enhancing drugs. The case, which was brought by Armstrong's former teammate Floyd Landis and the USA federal government, alleges that Armstrong and his team's owner Tailwind Sports, along with team directeur sportif Johan Bruyneel, violated the False Claims Act (FCA).
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The corp had another hisec wardec. From my perspective it is inconsequential and not surprising. For the kill-board farmers however, a corp like ours looks too good to be true. Our Credo dictates we are a peaceful corp so in ISK efficiency terms our stats are terrible. In principle it is not an issue but to a new corp member a trade hub is like a flame to a moth. It is a hard lesson to learn.
This in turn sparks a lively internal debate. It is natural for people to want to fight back. It is natural for people to take a wardec personally. The clinical gaming of the mechanic for easy content and kill-board padding isn't readily understood by some of the newer players. The Credo comes under scrutiny. In truth, there is no comfortable resolution and the debate will continue. But for me it is straight forward once you distinguish the difference between being peaceful and being a pacifist. Being peaceful is a behavioural choice. Being a pacifist is more of an ideology. One is a pragmatic approach the other is a dogmatic approach. I interpret the Credo as being pragmatic. I choose not to shoot. I choose to find alternative ways to interact with Eve and its players. Ways which doesn't involve them exploding.
Which leads me onto last night's fleet operation. It has become a tradition before a wardec becomes active to give some "hugs" to our adversaries. Hugs in the form of fireworks and snowballs. It was only my second experience of being in a fleet. Weapon of choice was a gratuitously equipped Corax with 7 festival launchers, a couple of hardeners for that glow in the dark effect and an afterburner. The cargo bay was full of pyrotechnics. Our targets were shy to say the least. But being explorers means it is quite natural for us to track something down. The downside is FC'ing a group of explorers is like herding cats. Kudos to the FC for maintaining his sanity. Anyway, the pursuit began and hugs were forthrightly delivered. The impression I get from both operations I have been on is the victims seem pretty embarrassed by the attention. Being a sneaky dock or gate camper is not entirely consistent with being lit up like the 4th July for 90 minutes. It certainly disturbed their gameplay and they often warped off or docked up. Their ISK efficiency spoiled for the night I retired secure in the knowledge you can conduct war peacefully.
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Mariah's Senior Portraits
I met up early with Mariah and her mother Shelley last Sunday morning for Mariah's senior photo session. Shelley and I had discussed incorporating all kinds of delightful props, and it was so much fun getting to make her ideas come to life. I should say Mariah did an AWESOME job working it for the camera – she owned it like a boss.
Mariah, you're gorgeous.
We had a little fun with forced perspective:
And I love this fabulous vintage mirror that Shelley provided. It made me think of "Through the Looking Glass" and added a unique touch to this portrait:
And we naturally had to take a few portraits of Mariah in her letterman jacket!
Mariah, congratulations on your upcoming graduation, and thank you so much for choosing me to photograph your senior portraits!
It's that time of year, so book your hour long, stress-free senior session with me today! :D


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Hello cavers,
I am a neophyte to this forum but not to caving. I go by GrottoKid ever since some guys at my high school teased me about caving and joining the Windy City Grotto. I've caved in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Arkansas, Iowa, South Dakota, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, and Idaho. BTW, I was trying to find the location of Old Man's Cave in eastern Nevada a number of years ago. But the over the phone directions were so inadequate I had to give up. Does anybody out there know where it is? Thanks.


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Hi folks,
In this post, I wanted to draw attention to a feature that we'd released and documented some time back, but hadn't really covered in this blog. I often talk about how the application proxy enables bringing 'new age' value (like MFA, conditional access controls and security reporting) to legacy applications--a super compelling value proposition. This feature that I cover below is about enabling 'new age' clients to talk to legacy applications.
Azure AD Application Proxy is widely used to publish browser applications such as SharePoint, Outlook Web Access, and custom line of business applications. Now it is also possible to use it to publish HTTP backend services that are consumed by non-browser applications.
There is a growing demand in organizations to create mobile applications on various platforms that target backend services that for a variety of reasons need to exist on-premises. Now you can do that with the rich application support we've released.
The Azure AD app proxy now supports pre-authentication using Azure AD bearer tokens that rich client applications can obtain and pass in standard HTTP Authorize headers. The recommended method to do this is for these client applications to use the Azure AD Authentication Library (or ADAL for short). ADAL takes care of all the authentication flows and is supported on a variety of different client environments. Learn more about it here.
All the details of how to point these rich client applications at published apps are available here. Every pre-authenticated proxy app can be accessed this way. No need to make any configuration change.
One of the big advantages of App Proxy is that if your backend service uses Kerberos, then Application Proxy can convert the Azure AD token to a Kerberos ticket. As a result, your legacy backend systems can be easily published without changing their authentication mechanisms. However, you can still have 'new age' rich clients integrate with our modern authentication system and get SSO all the way to the backend.
Here is the overall flow:
Go ahead, give it a try! And let us know if u have any feedback. I'd also love to hear the types of apps you're integrating through this paradigm—so feel free to leave a comment in that regard. And as always, if you have any feedback/questions feel free to contact the team at: email@example.com.
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