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Why My Vote is for Hilary
Before explaining how I came to support Hilary it is important to try to explain away any perceived biases people may have of someone who is acknowledging their support for the democratic nominee. As a 36 year old software engineer, husband of almost 8 years and new father of a 5 month old girl my views today don't resemble the person that was a single, 24 year old, insurance agent and part-time financial adviser and bartender. Back when I was 24 I was a far right leaning libertarian, who believed in the gold standard, state decided civil rights, balanced federal budgets, and unwavering support for any foreign wars we engaged in. Today I am a centrist among the rest of the worlds political structures and what could be seen as far left here in the United States to some, as I believe in expanding civil rights federally, larger deficits, fiat currency, and a better understanding of geopolitical engagements.
I mention this shift in political beliefs because it is important to emphasize that people can actually change their beliefs based on new evidence and from life experiences that make their world a much larger place. Empathy, compassion and understanding are things I started to adapt into my everyday life when I fell on harder times living paycheck to paycheck during and after the financial crisis, and I understood what it meant to need to rely on other people even though the decisions I made (for the most part) weren't the reasons I was living that way. I am not trying to imply that people can't experience this without falling into hard times, but that it is very difficult to live in another persons shoes and understand their struggles without having been there yourself. And what I see from Trump is someone who mocks other people struggles, other peoples races, other peoples cultures and other peoples handicaps. I don't see him as someone who I can remotely trust to run a government meant to protect people and support their general welfare. He doesn't understand what it is like to be a victim, and often resorts to blaming victims. So this is why I support Hilary over Trump, and support Hilary over wasting my vote away for a third party candidate as a protest vote.
I fully believe that if she is able to enact the policies she claims to support that this country will start to help take care of people in difficult situations and improve the standard of living for the bottom 90%.
As with any candidate I don't fully support everything she stands for but I do support the below policy choices as they are heavily backed by empirical research and are in line with policies I have generally supported and would like to see enacted. As you read through this piece I genuinely hope you read each link I posted and provide some feedback, it is important to keep civil discourse open during such a heated election.
-Supreme Court – Overturn Citizens United and expand voting rights.
Since the supreme court has made the disastrous decision to equate money with free speech, the amount of money that has been funneled into federal and local elections has increased dramatically. It is important that we try to limit the amount of private donations to a capped amount so that elections can be more fair, and become less influenced by outside money interests.
In order for this country to adhere to its democratic and republic based principles it needs to expand voting rights so that all legal citizens have zero barriers to vote, and the idea to automatically register all U.S. citizens to vote helps this country create a larger voter turnout so that all voices can be heard.
-Economic Issues – Debt free college, 100 day jobs plan, world leader in clean energy, profit sharing, guaranteed paid leave.
Debt free college is a great way to help transition this economy from the remnants of a manufacturing/blue collar economy to a more service/white collar based economy. This country is seeing a large skills gap expand in the technology sectors because not enough people have the skills to get those jobs. Even in the manufacturing sector we are seeing difficulties in filling those jobs because they have become more technical and technologically driven. With college debt free people can cross train to fill these jobs and at the same time lessen their debt burden so they can purchase more things, as buying more things is what helps drive the engine of job growth in this country.
If you've read my blog before you know that I support a Job Guarantee Bill , so supporting a 100 day jobs plan should be no surprise to anyone.
Becoming a world leader in clean energy has several advantages: reducing the costs of clean energy by investing in its technology, reducing the amount of carbon emissions, and increasing the amount of jobs our debt free college educated populace can be absorbed into. One doesn't even have to believe in anthropogenic global warming to see this as a solid plan to move this country forward for cheaper and renewable energy.
Profit sharing is not only beneficial for workers but highly beneficial to employers, as Clinton only supports a tax break for companies who do this there is no forceful action to make companies do this, but there is a great incentive to do so: "Together with job training and opportunities for workers to participate in problem-solving and decision-making, such programs have been shown to foster employee engagement and loyalty, reduce turnover, and boost productivity and profitability.
Profit sharing also benefits workers. Indeed, workers in companies with inclusive profit-sharing and employee-ownership programs typically receive significantly higher wages than workers in comparable companies without such arrangements. About half of Fortune's list of the 100 best companies to work for have some kind of profit-sharing or stock-ownership program that extends beyond executives to include regular workers."
Guaranteed paid leave has been examined thoroughly over several decades and it has been found to actually save businesses money by reducing turnover and training costs. The numerous benefits afforded to families health and economic positions are well covered in this CNN article.
-Civil Rights Issues
I will just leave a statement by Hilary to explain her position and why I support it:
"Really systemic racism in this state, as in others, education, in employment, in the kinds of factors that too often lead from a position where young people, particularly young men, are pushed out of school early, are denied employment opportunities. So, when we talk about criminal justice reform and ending the era of mass incarceration, we also have to talk about jobs, education, housing, and other ways of helping communities."
If you have read my blogs in the past you know that these are the kind of policy directions we need to implement to combat "implicit bias" in this country. Many people, including BLM, have become too narrowly focused on law enforcement and having a more broad focus could help to ease tensions between BLM and law enforcement.
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Having outlined, policy wise, why I am voting for Hilary it has come time to refer to the more intangible reasons why I support her.
Experience wise she far exceeds any candidate out there. While I cringe at the thought of voting for someone who appears to be part of an oligarchical type system we seem to be left with only one candidate who can name world leaders and understand geopolitical issues and diplomacy. To allow certain treaties, trade deals and good relations fall apart for the sake of not electing an oligarch seems rather irresponsible to me.
As I mentioned earlier, I am now a proud father of a baby girl, and that has drastically altered how I view raising a future women in this country. I don't want my daughter to grow up thinking that she is limited by her gender, and having her grow up only knowing a woman president for a few years can help not only my daughter but all girls and women throughout this country realize that nothing limits their potential.
JP Hochbaum, why would you support a criminal?
She was not technically convicted of a crime. James Comey laid out the case as to why she should have been charged with criminal misconduct over the fact that she had classified emails on a private server as well as her conduct during the Benghazi, Libya terrorist attack. He laid out the case and then backtracked. Google the history of both events. Don't make me explain things to you that you can research yourself.


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Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory.
A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenantsincluding a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood; and their landlord, whose relationship to the tenants is both intimate and shadowy. At times, he shares their preoccupations and memories. He will also share their fate.
In Night of Fire, the passions and obsessions in a dying house loom and shift, from those of the hallucinating drug addict in the basement to the landlord training his rooftop telescope on the night skies. As the novel progresses, the tenants' diverse stories take us through an African refugee camp, Greek Orthodox monasteries, and the cremation grounds of India. Haunting the edges of their lives are memories. Will these remembrances be consumed forever by the flames? Or can they survive in some form?
Night of Fire is Colin Thubron's fictive masterpiece: a novel of exquisite beauty, philosophical depth, and lingering mystery that is a brilliant meditation on life itself.
It began with a spark, an electrical break like the first murmur of a weakening heart that would soon unhinge the body, until its conflagration at last consumed the whole building. Years ago, at the end of the Victorian century, the house had been built in dignified isolation, but later developers split its storeys into separate flats, and the once-grand staircases now ascended past empty landings and closed doors. It was slipping into stately old age. Its balconies sagged behind their wrought-iron balustrades, and chunks of stucco pediment were dropping off on to the dustbins fifty feet below. The garden behind, which had once been the landlord's pride, lay half forgotten, and its shrubs photinia, daphne, rosemary burgeoned unclipped over the lawn.
Somewhere in the bowels of the building, behind a damp wall, a kink in a carbonised wire had become a tiny furnace. Down this half-blocked artery it travelled to a worn Bakelite socket, and the tenant asleep in ...
Memories, like butterflies, flutter throughout the pages, constantly reminding us of the brevity and ephemeral nature of our existence. Live your life. Love those around you. Be kind. This seems to be what Thubron is saying. He does so in a manner so elegant and poetic that if I could just read one book this year, I would absolutely pick this one.
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Night of Fire frequently references butterflies, often ethereal, almost infinite in variation, and miraculous in their metamorphosis: "...the butterfly's resurrection was different: the winged angel risen from a worm...It showed that anything could become anything." It's as though Thubron wants to remind us time and again that we can change, we don't have to be worms.
The word butterfly literally means a fly that's attracted to butter. A German name, "milchdieb," means milk-thief. In places where ancient farming methods are still practiced, it's not uncommon to find butterflies hovering over buttermilk left to settle.
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The latest issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing contains an article by Gerry Coulter entitled "Launching (and Sustaining) a Scholarly Journal on the Internet: The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies." For those thinking about starting an online journal, it provides some practical tips (e.g., get an ISSN as soon as possible) and commonsense advice (e.g., have a "good idea" behind your journal). It's also encouraging about the viability of online journals and the impact they can have on scholarly work.
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This paper is written by the founding editor of the electronic scholarly journal the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (IJBS): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies. While it will be of interest to persons with a general interest in electronic publishing, it is aimed primarily at those who may be contemplating the launch of an electronic journal. The paper focuses on several key interdependent factors in pre-launch planning: a good idea confirmed by peers, an editor committed to the success of the publication, gaining acceptance in the field, finding high-quality content, publicity, resources, building long term success into initial planning, and technical and language issues. The paper also considers some of the rewards and opportunities that involvement in this project has conferred upon its editor. In the case of IJBS the editor happens to be its founder but this need not always be the case. This is the experience of one journal, not an attempt to establish rules by which all journals should operate.
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Researchers Discover 'Lost' Colonial Post of Jamestown RAIDERS OF THE LOST FORT
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With a charter from King James I, 104 artisans, craftsmen, and laborers boarded three small ships to establish England's first permanent foothold in the New World in 1607. They called it Jamestown.
Yesterday, researchers announced they have discovered the remains of the band's original fort along a river ridge in Virginia. It represents a major archaeological find. The discovery will yield important clues about a key development in North American history - and provide valuable information about early colonial life.
It puts Jamestown "absolutely at the top of the list of historic archaeological sites," says James Deetz, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Until now, "we've never had a look at the continent's initial English settlement." The find also represents a triumph of instinct over conventional wisdom. For decades, scientists assumed that what remained of the triangular fort had been lost - swallowed up long ago by the James River. But the perseverance and intuitions of a handful of researchers have now produced what many agree will be a unique window on America's past. Indeed, researchers at the site estimate that fully 80 percent of the area covered by the fort remains on dry land - and can be recovered. "This solves a mystery," says George Stuart, vice president for research and exploration at the National Geographic Society in Washington, which helped fund the effort. "They've located something that we thought was lost. And it gives tangible expression to a milestone in North American history." Yesterday's announcement caps two years of painstaking excavations marking the approach of Jamestown's 400th anniversary in 2007. Until 1994, the riverside plot on Jamestown Island, owned by the Association for the Protection of Virginia Antiquities, had never been the object of a major excavation, says APVA senior archaeologist Nick Luccketti. BUT from 1954 to 1956, the APVA allowed National Park Service archaeologists to dig test trenches to see what would turn up. The trenches yielded a number of 17th-century artifacts, giving the current team a clue that perhaps some of the original settlement hadn't been lost to the James River after all. Another clue came from the presence of Confederate earthworks in the area and, underneath those, Revolutionary War earthworks. These were built on a ridge within the APVA boundaries. …


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Paleo Eating
I have been slowly cutting certain things out of my diet moving towards this paleo diet…i thought it would be really hard but in fact i feel really good now! Does anyone here have experience with a paleo diet? What are your thoughts? It seems so logical!
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I've been doing it (well, a slightly modified version of it) for about 4 years now, and it's been very successful for keeping my BG in line. There have been articles touting it as not being good long-term, but since this has only taken hold since the 80's there's no real science behind that.
If you follow the diet strictly, there is a chance you can "over-protein", and depending on age and other factors, you may end up missing some vitamins and minerals your body has been used to getting. All in all though, if you get frequent check-ups/bloodwork, and you are fairly in-tune with your health, it really is a good plan.
I wasn't familiar with the specifics of that diet. Having just looked it up, it appears to be interesting. By and large, it is my understanding of what is recommended for this condition. If someone decided to follow a healthy diet, it would look pretty much like this no matter what you call it. The only thing I noticed were a few references that a Paleo Diet can "reverse" or "cure" Type 2, which of course it can't.
Someone can maintain their BG at "normal" levels for prolonged periods and still have to follow the dietary and/or pharmaceutical guidelines for diabetes (I have).
It will interesting reading others who have use this diet and if not, why not.
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Page Count: 320
Release Date: November 5th 2013
Publisher: William Morrow Books (Harper Collins)
Source: Complimentary copy provided by publisher via tour publicist in exchange for an honest and unbiased review (thank you, Harper Collins and TLC!)
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Before she goes after the life she's always wanted, she's about to find the one she needs.
Pepper has been hopelessly in love with her best friend's brother, Hunter, for like ever. He's the key to everything she's always craved: security, stability, family. But she needs Hunter to notice her as more than just a friend. Even though she's kissed exactly one guy, she has just the plan to go from novice to rock star in the bedroom—take a few pointers from someone who knows what he's doing.
Her college roommates have the perfect teacher in mind. But bartender Reece is nothing like the player Pepper expects. Yes, he's beyond gorgeous, but he's also dangerous, deep—with a troubled past. Soon what started as lessons in attraction are turning both their worlds around, and showing just what can happen when you go past foreplay and get to what's real...
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Pepper—perpetually dubbed a "nice girl"—knows exactly what she wants. She wants a place to call home, a stable marriage, two-point-five children, and a white picket fence. Intelligent, kind, and newly single Hunter, whom she's loved from afar ever since her adolescence, can provide all these things—if she can even get him to notice her. But that's the thing with nice girls... they typically go unnoticed, especially the plain-Jane wallflower V-I-R-G-I-N-S like her. To get Hunter to fall for her, she needs a game plan: she needs to tease out her inner bombshell. But in order to do that, she'll need experience, and at her level of desperation, she'll look anywhere to get it.
Pepper's search for a purely physical relationship, particularly with her lack of experience and sexual maturity, in order to achieve the idealistically domestic life she's always wanted, creates a complicated jumble of a romance story—a not-quite love triangle, with a few fatefully belated realizations tangled in. This is an entertaining twist on the typical We Agreed to be Fuck Buddies But Ended Up Falling In Love and the Honey, It Was You All Along! plots, but you can't really expect it to knock anyone's socks off.
The biggest thing that contributed to my enjoyment of this novel was the emotional depth within both Pepper and Reece. I'm not talking about the troubled pasts trope here, because I really felt it wasn't necessary to the development of the book, but rather, the reluctance and self-control both characters are forced to demonstrate when thrown into their sticky situation. Reece's mysterious, bad-boy-with-exceptional-morals vibe will make you want to probe him and get to know him, and Pepper's insistence on having Hunter while simultaneously falling for Reece, is a painful and conflicting issue.
Jordan's characters are intricate and very lifelike—that, I can't complain about—but Pepper as a whole, I had a problem with. As kind-hearted and easy to sympathize with as she is, for her age and circumstance, she seems like a loser—and not the adorable, klutzy kind of loser either, but a complete and utter square. I know that makes me sound like a turbobitch, but her lack of social awareness (about everything and anything, not just with sex!) and very not-cute naïveté are so exasperating. She's a genuine, determined person, I'll give her that, but she's the kind of girl who doesn't understand sarcasm and innuendos, or is deluded enough to actually believe that one guy will give her everything she's ever wanted but never had (happiness, a perfect family, a large house, etc.). AND she's foolish enough to refuse Reece, who's right there in front of her practically ripping his heart open for her to use, because she's so fixated on this dream she's had. I accepted her as the narrator, but really had trouble liking or even relating to her.
Reece, as with most NA heroes, is absolutely delicious—the kind of guy girls lose their heads over. Despite the fact that he seems perfect (has icy blue eyes and a flawless body; is a soccer-player-turned-bartender, as well as sex god), what readers learn of him beneath the surface is what will really made me swoon. Tall, dark, and troubled fans, you will go wild with this bad boy—such a catch!
REECE! Holy fuck // Pepper's initial mortification with Reece is hilarious // All the characters are well written; I'm intrigued by Pepper's friends because they seem so two-dimensional, but I'm sure they each have their own stories (possible future books in the series??) // Great writing that flows smoothly and steadily // Easy, mindless read // Pepper and Reece make an unexpectedly good pair // Contemporary college setting
Predictable // Unimaginative storyline: "Average girl and super hunk fall in love in an initially no-strings-attached relationship"—doesn't this scream contemporary romance? // Pepper is a consistent narrator, but an aggravating character // Hunter didn't seem that great to begin with; Pepper's "love" for him is unconvincing
While the familiar synopsis of Sophie Jordan's debut contemporary romance didn't get my hopes up for a completely exceptional or mind-blowing read to begin with, I couldn't help but be charmed by her effortless, intriguing execution of the overrated plot. The cast of lively characters, steamy chemistry, and entertaining, endearingly awkward relationship that only comes with the college experience—or rather, college inexperience—make Foreplay a breezy, party-like new adult novel, but Pepper's encounters with intimacy of an unwarranted connection, as well as release from repression to confront true desires, both add depth and complexity. I wouldn't call this an urgent must-read, but it's definitely a promising start to an exciting new university-set romance series


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I am really looking forward to this weekend's Philip Glass's Days and Nights Festival. Here is the links to the festival. http://philipglasscenter.org/indigenous-world-part-two-philip-friends/
"The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything. If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.
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This weekend I will be joining Philip Glass's Days and Nights Festival. Here is the links to the festival. http://philipglasscenter.org/indigenous-world-part-two-phi…/
"The past is reinvented and becomes the future. But the lineage is everything. If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.
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Philip Glass presents the 2017 Days and Nights Festival
On this 15th Moon of the Autumn sitting on a rock looking at the distant horizon while the sun is slowly being taken over by the dusk and the full moon slowly peeping through I am "Calling the Guru from Afar" a heartfelt request to my guru for blessings to realize all the stages of the path.
How marvellous that we received a very special message from HH the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet "caring for this blue planet, our only home" which was beautifully read by Jesse Paris to over 4.5k beings who joined the two amazingly inspiring events of Pathway to Paris concerts on September 14th at the historic Masonic in San Francisco and September 16th at The Theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Set to cap off the Global Climate Action Summit, the concert focused on the potential for cities to push for, achieve, and go beyond the climate targets highlighted in the Paris Agreement.
Pathway to paris brought together leading musicians, artists, thinkers, and policymakers, as a call to action, urging the international community to ramp up ambition towards a climate safe future for all.
Thank you Jesse and Rebecca for all that you do.
May this Special Message of HH the Dalai Lama inspire you and still you with all the courage you need to stand up against all odds. Please share this message with your friends and family.
"Tibet is the roof of the world, and our roof is leaking. This blue planet is the only home we have. Let's all protect it."
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I will be joining the most super amazingly warm-hearted Master Philip Glass's Days and Nights Festival on 30th September. Please check the details of the festival site.
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The Rubybike is a stylishly designed vehicle built for convenience and a lifelong riding experience thanks to the creation of a structure that can easily be subbed in with new bike parts. The bicycle, put together by Kasper Schwartz, allows users to easily upgrade the design and customize the ride depending on their personal commuter needs.
Consumers are often looking for a bicycle that can withstand a lifetime of riding as often times they are an expensive investment. The Rubybike accommodates this with interchangeable parts that are easy to unfasten and hook into place. This is ideal for commuters venturing on different types of routes, using a variety of speeds or even searching for an e-bike as the Rubybike frame can accommodate to all these needs.Photo Credits: designboom, kasperschwartz
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Sorry about the blogging or lack there of. But I usually like to size my pictures in photobucket so everything lines up nice but photobucket is not cooperating. So we will just do it this way.
We went to the Bay and rented a really nice house. Mom and Dad came out during the day and kids came and went as needed. Bill had off all week so we tried to do some relaxing:) Ill just do my best to describe every picture.
Here are some SNAP sisters....NOT!
Hana is the queen of the "self photo"
Max surprised everyone by coming home from George for the weekend. He missed us.
Our boys and my Dad
Ken's kids:)
Dad and Eddie chillaxin.
All our kiddos.
Levi and Meagan....ahhhh sweeet!
Ken's boat waiting to head out in the morning for some salmon fishing and crabbing.
Ken and Bill brought in some nice crab.
Going to meet the fisherman.
Katie, Carlie and Hana:)
Katie and her Toby
Lexi and Cassie came out with Kathi one day.
Nice smile Cassie!
We all loved hanging out on the deck
Beach combing
Jeff and Kathi kickin it.
Wyatt had a birthday. 16!
A dog friend on the beach
It felt very much like home with the coastguard watching us all day.
Just like the border patrol here:)
Wyatt shot his airsoft gun. Charlie did not care for that.
Marley (I mean Kona) and Kathi on the beach.
Sorry if this picture makes you drool.
Salmon cooking on a wood fire. Bill caught a 15 pounder!
Fresh pedi from Carolyn at Mane Styles. She's the best.
Sunset and Bill and Fred chatting.
Mom's treasures from the beach
We rented Jeffs uncles place so he did allot of reminiscing about back in the days at the beach house.
All had a wonderful time and we are already planning next year.
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**CNN's countdown to London 2012 launches with Sebastian Coe interview – INCLUDES QUESTIONS FROM CNN'S AUDIENCE**
**Special show marks the start of a year of dedicated programming for CNN's global audience**
First programme: Thursday 28 July at 1030 and 1830 BST
With just one year to go until the eyes of the world are on London for the Games of the XXX Olympiad, CNN is launching a series of special Olympics 2012 programming, 'Aiming For Gold', as it takes on the role of the international home for the greatest sporting event in the world.
CNN's programme will speak to the biggest Olympic stars, as well as the newsmakers driving the myriad decisions and events that contribute to the 2012 Games, with contributions from its many bureaux around the world to bring all aspects of the event – financial, social, cultural, political or sporting – to global viewers across all its platforms, from TV to cnn.com and through dedicated social media on Twitter and Facebook.
'Aiming For Gold' kicks off its year-long programming with a key interview with Lord Sebastian Coe, former Olympic 1500 meter champion and the man responsible for spear-heading the London 2012 campaign. Coe talks to CNN's Don Riddell about the challenges, controversies and opportunities the Games will bring to people from across the world, including questions from the CNN audience.
Also in the debut show, Becky Anderson reports on London's history in hosting the games – in 1908, 1948 and now 2012; Stan Grant looks at the legacy of the 2008 Beijing Olympics; and Christina Ohurugu, a British 2008 gold medallist who grew up in the shadow of the games being built in east London, talks about the inspiration the 2012 provide.
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Armitage, C. J., Rowe, R., Arden, M. A., & Harris, P. R. (2014). A brief psychological intervention that reduces adolescent alcohol consumption. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82, 546-550. doi: 10.1037/a0035802
Wileman, V., Farrington, K., Chilcot, J., Norton, S., Wellsted, D. M., Almond, M., Davenport, A., Franklin, G., Da Silva Gane, M., & Armitage, C. J. (2014). Evidence that self-affirmation improves phosphate control in hemodialysis patients: A pilot cluster randomized controlled trial. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 48, 275-281.
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Wolfe Tones
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One of Ireland's leading bands the 'Wolfe Tones' are playing The Tower Live @ Dinn Rí Carlow on Saturday 4th August. Their live shows and songs are a Celebration of Ireland's heritage and history and include big hits like 'A Nation Once Again', 'My Heart Is In Ireland', 'On The One Road', 'Irish Eyes', 'Song Of Liberty', Spancil Hill', 'Streets Of New York', 'Some Say The Devil Is Dead' and many more. With 55 years of performing, the Wolfe Tones entered the Guinness Book of Records in 2018 and continue to be one of Ireland's biggest Box Office Attractions. In short, they are a living Irish legend of ballads, folk and traditional Irish music.
Doors: 9pm | Support Act: Róisín Dubh
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So I do actually have some sewing done; I've only got the bottom hem left on B5644, but I ran out of matching thread. What I do have is an accidental vintage machine acquisition. I'd heard good things about vintage machines, but right now the budget had no room for anything like that. Also I haven't had anything yet that my Brother just couldn't handle. But there was a definite draw. So when I saw on Swap.com someone in Madison that was just giving away a 70's Kenmore, no strings attached, you know I was all over it.
|My new (old) Kenmore 1227
It even came with the original manuals, and two additional feet.
I've tried sewing on it for a bit, and the stitches form just fine. But the darn thing is so loud! I can't tell if it's just the way it is or if it is grinding; a bit more investigation is needed. If nothing else, it's pretty to look at. Has anyone else had experience with this series of machines?


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The huge explosion that ripped through an Ashrafieh neighborhood may have targeted Wissam al-Hassan, the ISF's Information Branch chief, media reports are saying.
There are conflicting reports: some claim he was severely injured, and others that he was killed.
Al-Hassan played a major role in the Hariri investigation. If true, Hizbullah will not be sorry to see him go, to say the least.
Update: MTV reports that he was killed. This will have wide repercussions in the country. Al-Hassan is Hariri's man in the ISF, and was involved in the arrest of former minister Michel Samaha, who was caught planning attacks on behalf of the Assad regime.
Update 2. And Hariri accuses Assad of killing al-Hassan. Junblatt: al-Hassan killing revenge for Samaha arrest. Meanwhile, folks are blocking roads-- because this was proven to make Lebanese feel better in tough times.


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A Slight Change of Pace
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Watch: PARTYNEXTDOOR Performs At 'Would You Like A Tour?' In New Jersey
OVO Sounds signee PARTYNEXTDOOR has taken the party stateside. As the opening act for Drake's cross-country gig "Would You Like A Tour?," the Torontro-bred rapper/singer has generated buzz with his self-titled mixtape and performs a 10-minute set which has now hit the Internets courtesy of WordOnRoad. Watch him rock the Prudential Center in New Jersey below.


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Start by making four patches with 2 squares of 2 different fabrics. I'm using 2.5" squares but it will work with any size squares. Remember to pinwheel your seams at every chance, which will make it super easy to put your blocks together at the end.
Let's start with a little math so you can convert this project to any size 4-patch. Essentially you will be cutting the right most squares in half based on its original size. I cut 1.0" to the right of the center seam because half of 2.5" is 1.25" and .25" was already used in the seam allowance. The first time I made these blocks I cut it backwards - it was the only time I cut them wrong. LOL.
Take the piece you just cut off the right side and sew it to the left side of the 4 patch as shown above in the black and teal block.
After pressing and pinwheeling those new seam intersections, rotate the block 90 degrees and again cut 1.0" to the right of the center seam. Sew the piece to the left side of the 4 patch. Tada!!! You have a Puss in the Corner block!!
There are a lot of opportunities to fussy cut and play with stripes in this block. If there is a fussy cut block I don't want to cut in to I place that in the upper left before I start cutting. If I am playing with stripes, when making the original 4-patch I make sure the stripes are perpendicular to each other if I want them to radiate out from the center of the final block or I run them parallel if I want them finishing in different directions.


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2016 Life Insurance Open Season: 1 - 30 SEP 2016
1. The Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) Open Season will be held from 1 through 30 September 2016. This is the first FEGLI Open Season since 2004. Eligible employees can elect or increase any coverage FEGLI offers, including Option C - Family. No medical exam is required and employees are not required to answer any health questions. Elections made during the open season will be effective 1 October 2017; a year later! Employees who do not make an election will keep their current life insurance coverage.
2. Getting ready for the FEGLI Open Season:
- Employee Benefits Information System (EBIS). The easiest way to make your life insurance election is to use EBIS, a self-service Web application (CAC required). EBIS allows you to independently make your election without waiting for a Customer Service Representative. Since your EBIS password expires every 60 days, you may need to reset it to make an election. If this is your first time accessing the Web site, you will be required to complete a simple registration. Information about establishing your EBIS account name/password and accessing EBIS is available at https://portal.secnav.navy.mil/orgs/MRA/DONHR/Benefits/Pages/EBIS.aspx. (CAC required - select your e-mail certificate)
- OCHR Private Portal. Review current information about the FEGLI Open Season at https://portal.secnav.navy.mil/orgs/MRA/DONHR/Benefits/Pages/FEGLI-Open-Season.aspx. (CAC required - select your e-mail certificate)
- FEGLI Calculator. The Office of Personnel Management has an online FEGLI Calculator that will assist you in calculating the value and the amount of your premiums for the various combinations of FEGLI coverage. The FEGLI calculator is available at https://www.opm.gov/retirement-services/calculators/fegli-calculator/.
3. Employees may direct questions about the FEGLI Open Season or accessing EBIS to the Benefits Line at 888-320-2917 from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday - Friday, except on Federal holidays. The TTY number is 866-359-5277. Employees may also email their questions to firstname.lastname@example.com. Employees must include their full name, pay plan, grade, and contact telephone number. Please do not include Privacy Act or other Personally Identifiable Information such as date of birth or Social Security number in your email correspondence.


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I think we can all step back somewhat and look our grandparents because in their generation, they were self reliant. Look at the example of the pioneers.... they couldn't just drop in a store and buy whatever they needed for food, they had to plant, nurture and grow it to sustain their families, not only for their food source, but to provide income to live.
This year has been a particularly crazy weather year, with way too much snow and water, and we are seeing the results. Lots and lots of flooding. I was just barely able to plant my own little garden, but I have read about farmers who do this for a living have had to really delay their planting because of the rain and snow and floods. What would happen to us, if we couldn't just drop in at the grocery store and purchase our food? What if the farmers couldn't plant their crops this year at all, what would happen to us? We take for so much for granted and we should take a leaf out of the books of our ancestors and learn how to do things for ourselves, in case we have to!
I have to share a story of my own mother. My Mom and Dad raised 8 children on a very limited income. Dad was a milkman and later a janitor. Mom taught violin lessons. Together there was barely enough money to pay the bills, and feed the family, but somehow they did it. Mom cooked from scratch, and made homemade bread, pancakes, and other wonderful things. Mom made sure that every year she would plant a garden, and that garden became a winter source of food for our family. Dad built the food storage shelves, and Mom filled them. Her industry was taught to her children, and all of us learned how to bottle and freeze fruit, and vegetables. My favorite was the grapes that she juiced and we enjoyed this fresh grape juice every Thanksgiving.
It was a blessing that she was industrious enough to plant, and water by hand the garden that produced so much. Yes, I said by hand, she had no sprinkling system but herself. After all her children married or moved away, and my father died, Mom still continued to plant her garden. That large home became too overwhelming to take care of so she moved to a smaller little cottage, and at her new home, she still plants her garden every summer. She really has no garden space to speak of but uses spots between the bushes in her driveway, and plants pots with lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, and tomatoes. My husband loves rhubarb, and she always brings over a rhubarb cobbler for him to enjoy from her garden. Mom is a wonderful example of self reliance. It is interesting too, that she always has enough for herself and also to give to others. Mom still drags the hose to water her plants, but they are growing and will produce some fresh vegetables.
My daughters ask me every year to get together to do canning of spaghetti sauce, and salsa, peaches, and other items. Because I was taught by my mother, I have been able to teach my daughters as well this wonderful homemaking skill. It is lots of fun to spend entire days canning together with my daughters. Our scene in my kitchen reminds me of the memories I have canning in mom's kitchen.
|Grammy Great top Right, my mother bottom Left.
My Grammy Great, whom I have written about in my blog posts, was also a wonderful example of self reliance. She bore 13 children, 2 of which died in infancy, as did her husband when she was pregnant with her last child. She even took in another boy to raise. Grammy Great had to be self reliant. She saved every scrap of fabric and made beautiful rag rugs that she sold for money to provide for her family. Her children helped too, as they stitched the long ropes of fabric together. There was never idle time, as Grammy Great used her precious time prudently. She picked the fruit off of the trees on her yard, and bottled them and all winter long, there was delicious peaches, apples to make her special "Thing in the oven" recipe, and beans, and all manner of vegetables and fruits. I can't think of anyone who would have been as needy as my Grammy Greats family, but it was Grammy Great who was first to take food to those in need, and help in anyway she could even outside of her own family. None of her children really ever knew just how needy they were, because she was so grateful for everything and the Lord provided, and gave her the skills, strength and industry to accomplish all she needed to do. This is self reliance, and charity!
The Visiting Teaching lesson teaches ..."When the Saints arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, President Brigham Young (1801–77) counseled sisters to assist those in need and to learn skills that would allow them to take care of themselves. He said, "Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity." 3 Under the direction of the priesthood, Relief Society continues to teach self-reliance, to safeguard the family, and to encourage personal righteousness and acts of charity, the pure love of Christ."
May we become more self reliant, may we broaden our mind and skills to learn and become self reliant, and may we reach out to help others do the same, though acts of charity and kindness. May we all have the pure love of Christ in our lives, as we strengthen our families and others,through becoming self reliant!
Katie G.


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Science Fantasy Adventures in the Star-Faring Ancient Past
of Professor M.A.R. Barker's World of Tekumel
website blurb:
These rules include character generation, PSY and Super-Scientific powers, and sufficient combat and adventuring rules to get a party through a space dungeon. The system is essentially an iteration of my Synthetic 75 Science Fantasy Retro Roleplaying concept, a mash up of (what I consider) the best from the hottest RPGs of 1975, Dungeons & Dragons and Prof. M.A.R. Barker's Tekumel: Empire of the Petal Throne.
The draft playtest rules will be expanded with additional material and will constitute Book 1: Science Fantasy Adventures. Book 2: Space Monsters will include a selection of inimical alien fiends, bug-eyed monsters, inter-dimensional horrors, and other terrible creatures and a system for randomly generating new space monsters.


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As promised in the title of this post, for me this is the perfect substitute for Urban Decay's "Naked" palette. I do own the palette in question, yet I received it as a gift and will therefore be seriously stretching the purse strings when the day comes to replace it. I absolutely love it, and so began on my quest to find a cheaper alternative. I also fancied finding something with the main colours I use in my "Naked" palette, which tend to be brown, bronze and gold hues.
Famous High Five Eye Shadow palette in Glitzy
First of all, the packaging is a little tacky. However, do not let this put you off! Inside the lid, there are five eye shadows of different types. I am a big fan of metallic shades and textures, therefore this is absolutely perfect for me. Because of my blue eyes and fair skin, my favourite colour in this palette has to be the top right gold corner, as it is almost identical to Urban Decay's "Half Baked" and has really good staying power.
Famous High Five Eye Shadow palette in Glitzy
Moreover, this palette is much more travel friendly. I know it doesn't have as many colour choices as Urban Decay's cult product, but this suits me perfect, as I only stick to these shades in the larger palette anyway. It's compact size means packing lightly for days at university or even a holiday becomes much easier, as it fits much better inside my make-up bag.
Famous High Five Eye Shadow palette in Glitzy
I personally cannot fault this product. It's only obvious disadvantage is the limited choice of colours, but for around the £5 mark I don't really think you can go wrong. The eye shadows are really good quality and the packaging isn't overly tacky, so I definitely think I would purchase this product again.
You can buy this palette from Superdrug.
Love, Sally x


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CAIRO A outstanding Egyptian human rights lawyer stated that airport safety prevented him from boarding a flight to Jordan on Thursday and instructed him his identify was on a travel ban checklist. Appeal to more customers: Offering your clients with satisfactory traveling expertise together with your innovative travel products and services can earn you their gratitude, which they are going to share through reviews. Financial obligations for the bills an individual may incur to meet up with a group or head back home turn out to be the duty of the insurance coverage company. Sticking with the marriage theme for a moment, coach rent will also be a good way to travel to the wedding.
Via traveling you may volunteer, support, and teach others alongside your journey and alter the world for the better. The WTTC estimates the travel and tourism industry straight contributed 2.7 percent of the U.S. whole gross home product in 2015. Thailand was additionally point out for theft problems, but the report additionally advised unwary travelers should also concentrate on tummy issues, site visitors accidents and lost belongings.
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If there is any such thing as "healthy" Chinese food, this would be it. Not as greasy or oily, which lends to fuller, more fresh tasting dishes. They get busy in the evenings so go early or make a reservation, everything is awfully good!4


text: I've been waiting for this for 2-3 years now, and they've finally done it. http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ The third-party firmware projects such as DD-WRT will benefit from this greatly after the driver has some time to mature. We won't have to use the Broadcom-provided binary module anymore. Can anyone say "2.6 kernel"?


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Narkosis (Blimburn Seeds) feminized
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The feminized Narkosis by Blimburn Seeds is virtually the definition of intense intoxication. Serious, what else did you expect with that name? The combination of Critical with its extreme yields and SoMango with those sweet flavors and fruity aromas resulted in a super fast flowering strain that produces 550g and keeps you ecstatically happy for hours - comfortably seated and chilling.
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He was a welcome face to customers and a comforting support to a Regina man with a brain injury.
Blue the dog first made headlines in June when he – and his owner, Owen Lima – were hired at a Lowe's store in Regina.
Lima had difficulty finding work until the Northgate Mall Lowe's on Albert Street decided to hire him as a customer service representative.
Since Blue would also be coming to the store each day, the dog was given a Lowe's signature orange "customer service" vest to match his owner.
On Wednesday, however, the company tweeted Blue had been put down due to illness.
Sad news: Blue the Dog was put down due to illness. Our thoughts are with Owen and all those that were touched by their inspiring story. pic.twitter.com/m8W7tq6ftp
— Lowe's Canada (@Lowes_Canada) December 14, 2016
When Lima was interviewed by 980 CJME in June, he said Lowe's had not only accepted him, but also his "better half" – Blue.


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The boys are back, and they're as disgusting as ever, crazier than before and more outlandishly sexually depraved than before.
They're also dangerously broke and involved with more litigious, licentious, lewd and lascivious sub-humans than you thought humanly possible.
Which, of course, is correct — it would all be humanly impossible — which is why viewers still find the show deliciously dark.
I'm talking about "Nip/Tuck," the series that makes "Fringe" look like it's made up of average Joes.
Its sixth season premieres tomorrow night, and it looks like the past year has been a lean, very mean one for Drs. Sean & Christian (Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon) who, like owners of other luxury goods businesses, have fallen on hard times.
In fact, the doctors are now arguing over whether or not they should buy Yoplait or the store brand, how to pay the rent as well as their ex-and-future wives', and how to find money to keep their plastic surgery practice open with nary a rich lady in sight.
If you watched last year, you know that after Christian found out he wasn't dying of breast cancer, he decided to divorce his anesthesiologist, Liz the lesbian (Roma Maffia), who couldn't get enough of his big, ah, ego once they got married. Oy.
Meantime, Sean's lover, Dr. Teddy, played by Katee Sackhoff, has either undergone a total face, body and voice makeover under the knives of Sean and Christian or she's miraculously simply morphed into Rose McGowan. Yes — this has happened without so much as a "The part of Dr. Theodora Rowe will be performed this evening by Rose McGowan" announcement like you get on Broadway. And no, McGowan brings nothing to the part that wasn't there before.
But is having viewers accept that Sean's lover has become a totally different person — without anyone noticing — any stranger than having Mario Lopez show up as an ab-fab (as in six-pack) plastic surgeon with a 102-foot yacht that he's acquired from giving, yes, vagina uplifts? No.
Then there's Kimber (Kelly Carlson), who has given up her career as a porn star but is convinced by broke-and-desperate Christian that there's gold in his pants and it just needs to be mined for them both to get rich. Don't ask.
Barry Bostwick also shows up as a blind and perverse divorce attorney, but it's Linda Hunt who narrates the first two episodes (a la "Desperate Housewives' " Alice) that adds the ingredient that's always been missing: Class.
For fans, it's a bloody good start. For everyone else, there's always "CSI: New York" — where you get the blood without the guts.


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To Aung San Suu Kyi,
64 words to say Feliz Cumpleaños! Glad you were born and hope you live many more years on this earth. To thank you for struggling to make a difference in this world full of people who only hold ant vision; who don't look beyond themselves or their daily tasks. You are an eagle vision woman who looks beyond today to our children's future. Peace!


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Have you ever had the dream where you were up in front of a crowd giving a speech, only to realize at some point that you were totally naked? It's difficult to think of something more embarrassing than this. Many … Continue reading
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A proper relationship with God is one in which we are first of all passive. This is clearly taught in the first two chapters of Genesis. Before the Fall into sin (Genesis 1–2), God does most of the talking and … Continue reading
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Part of Health and Social Care(Re-Committed) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:51 am on 28th June 2011.
Professor Field, in the report you referred to the fact that you no longer wanted Monitor to be an economic regulator, and that you wanted choice to be emphasised and competition to be played down. Are you not disappointed, therefore, that part 3 of the Bill, which relates to competition, is still called "Economic regulation of health and adult social care services"? Are you not also slightly concerned that the shift of emphasis in the wording of the amendments from promoting competition to preventing anti-competition, which I contend is pretty much the same duty, is a very minimal change?


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Jenny from the ACT writes: I recently had a genital herpes outbreak — something that hasn't happened for years (in fact I had almost forgotten I had it). Is it likely I'll now have more outbreaks or is this just a one-off? I was a bit run down and under some stress at work. I don't really feel like adding another pill to my regime but should I?
Dr Louise replies: Thanks, Jenny.
Herpes is a very common infection and antiviral herpes medications, like Valtrex, can help manage the symptoms. They are very effective and very safe, even when you take them for prolonged periods.
Mild and infrequent recurrences can be treated with short (e.g., two-day) courses. This is called 'episodic' therapy. But you should start treatment at the first sign of symptoms. If you catch it early enough — when you first notice itching or redness — it can sometimes prevent the full development of herpes lesions.
If you are experiencing more frequent outbreaks, you can take medication daily as 'suppressive' therapy. As well as reducing outbreaks, this will reduce the likelihood of transmitting it to your partners. Even when there are no symptoms, virus particles are shed from the skin and can be transmitted to others.
Genital herpes is caused by the Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV).
There are two strains of the virus and either can cause outbreaks in the genitals. But HSV 2 is more common. HSV 1 often causes the common cold sore, but can cause lesions in both areas. Accurate diagnosis is recommended and the best way to confirm you have the virus is from a swab taken from an ulcer or lesion.
Symptoms vary but usually include recurring sores or ulcers on the genitals, perineum, perianal region or buttocks.
Sometimes the first true outbreak can be quite severe and you get multiple ulcers, fevers, enlarged lymph nodes and muscle aches.
Initial herpes infections should be treated for up to 14 days to reduce the severity and duration of the initial episode. After that, outbreaks may be infrequent or come quite often.
Even though herpes is a common infection, many people don't talk about it. If you have questions ask your healthcare professional or check out a rich source of professional, accurate and up-to-date information at the Australian HSV Management Forum.


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Halle Berry takes on killer sharks for next film 'Dark Tide'
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Halle Berry is not new to action in her movies – and this time is no different – as she prepares to take on great white killer sharks for her next film 'Dark Tide'.
But the star looked totally at ease as she waited to film a scene at Seal Island in False Bay, South Africa, where she will be on location for several months.
Her role in 'Dark Tide' is that of a diving instructor who returns to deep waters after a near-fatal encounter with one of the predators.
False Bay is the perfect shooting spot – sharks flock to the area due to the high number of seals to feed on during breeding season.
The film crew are believed to have permits from officials to attract sharks for cage diving.
However, the filming has not gone down too well with conservationists.
"After reading the script we decided it was not something we would like to put our names to," The Daily Express quoted Alison Kock, a shark conservationist at the Save Our Seas Foundation near Simon's Town, as saying.
"Our mandate is to try to change people's perceptions of sharks.
"But fighting off a shark, or surviving a shark attack – we couldn't see the positive side of that, as much as we tried," she added.


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Although chat bots have been used for a number of customer service and marketing purposes, this charity chat bot is using the power of storytelling to raise awareness for the water crisis. Charity: water in partnership with Lokai utilizes Facebook Messenger for their Walk With Yeshi campaign -- taking people on a journey with Ethiopian women on their daily search to find clean water.
Stories are often used by charitable organizations hoping to engage with potential donors' emotions. Following their foray into VR filmmaking, the charity chat bot helps more fortunate people experience the gruelling reality many women in developing communities face. Although Yeshi is a fictional person who must walk 2.5 hours to her water source and then carry it back on her head, the chat bot lets users ask questions and gain understanding.
Awareness-Raising Chat Bots
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Socially Conscious Timepieces
Water Crisis VR Films
Charity Ball VR Presentations
Charitable Temporary Tattoos
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The Charity Chat Bot Helps Messenger Users Understand the Water Crisis
- By: Alyson WyersSep 27, 2016
References: charitywater.org & springwise
References: charitywater.org & springwise


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Ontbijtkoek is not traditionally baked at home but is produced commercially. It's fair to say that, by baking ontbijtkoek at home, I'm trying to find a recipe close enough to the commercial product that I grew up with. How sad that my benchmark is a product that has been produced en masse and in ways that I could never reproduce at home. Kinda makes the whole baking a futile experience, but yet I try! I guess baking something that is close enough to satisfy my tastebuds memory is better than nothing!
I googled ontbijtkoek and ended up on a Dutch blog by Cisca. For those that read Dutch, check it out, she has a great sense of humor and has her own version of the spice bread.
1 cup of rye flour
1 cup of all purpose flour
3 teaspoons of baking powder
2 teaspoons of cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of cardamom, ginger, coriander and ground cloves each
1/2 cup of dark brown sugar
1/4 cup dark molasses
1/2 cup of honey
1 cup of milk
pinch of salt
Mix everything together into a smooth batter. Heat the oven to 300F, grease a cake pan and pour the batter in. Bake for 80 minutes or until the cake is done.
Cool on a rack, then wrap in aluminum foil or plastic wrap for that extra sticky outside crust. Eat sliced with a lick of good butter.


text: I just upgraded the firmware on my Linksys WRT54GL to Tomato 1.07 this past weekend. Previously I was using a D-Link wired router, and was able to remote into my home PC (Win XP Pro) from work using Ultra VNC (and No-IP). Now my Ultra VNC is not working, and I assume it's because I have to configure my router to be able to do that. I'm still not very familiar with Tomato. Is this a port forwarding issue? Any help would be appreciated :biggrin: .


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Atkins has been appointed by China Harbour Engineering Company to assess the opportunity of incorporating a marina into the proposed 2.5sqkm mixed use Colombo Port City development in Sri Lanka, atkinsglobal said.
The full text of the media release issued by atkinsglobal is reproduced below.
Atkins conducting multidisciplinary marina study for Colombo Port City, Sri Lanka
Atkins has been appointed by China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to assess the opportunity of incorporating a marina into the proposed 2.5sqkm mixed use Colombo Port City development in Sri Lanka. The study is multifaceted and will establish the overall demand for marina facilities, the size of the marina, appropriate berthing mix and seek to optimise its configuration. The study will include the hydraulic modelling of the effect of the marina breakwater on the near shore coastal conditions and the adjacent Beira Lake stormwater outlet.
Philip Chiang, Atkins' project director, said: "We are very pleased to work with CHEC on this project, the first major project under our memorandum of understanding for global strategic cooperation with China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC) and our global cooperation agreement with CHEC signed in April this year. It shows our strong commitment to work strategically with each other to unlock more opportunities for all parties both in China and abroad.
"The project also demonstrates how Atkins' teams from different regions can work seamlessly together to provide our partners with integrated solutions to address every stage of the development, from early stage demand assessment and planning to engineering design of associated infrastructure to make our plan a reality."
A multidisciplinary team of economists, urban planners, urban designers, marina designers and water and coastal engineers from Atkins' Asia Pacific and UK businesses is involved in the project, which will focus on three key areas:
• a market study of the marina sector in the region to estimate current and future levels of demand for sailing and motor boat facilities and to identify the boat types, sizes and traffic expected at the marina. Atkins is working closely with a number of internationally renowned marina operators to ensure the outcomes of the work are realistic and implementable.
• a layout plan for the marina which maximises the capacity and efficiency of berths based on the market study as well as a concept plan for the landside facilities such as a club house, boat storage, maintenance and repair workshops along with commercial activities in retail, residential and hotel accommodation.
• a concept design of the breakwater to provide an active and attractive setting for the marina facilities.
The target users of the marina facilities include the high net worth individuals purchasing the high end residential property which forms a major component of the Port City concept, local sailing and motor boat enthusiasts, visiting international yachts and commercial tourist operators active in a wide range of water based activities in Sri Lanka including whale and dolphin watching, sports fishing, diving and marine safaris.
Colombo Port City is the biggest property development project for CHEC. Other cooperation opportunities for this development are being discussed.


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NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ - Senior outside hitter Caroline Beardsley collected seven kills and nine digs and produced three aces and freshman Lisa Steward came through with 16 assists and five digs as Chatham rallied from a first-set loss to defeat New Providence, 2-1, on Tuesday in the opening game for the girls volleyball team.
New Providence, led by Elaine House, who finished with 18 total assists, and Myah Campbell -Reves (7 kills), won the first set, 26-15 before Chatham rallied to win the next two sets, 25-20 and 25-17, to take the match.
"They weren't doubting themselves after losing the first set," Chatham coach Anna Amster said. "We came out with a lot of confidence that we could win the second set and we never gave up. I think the first set had to do with first-game jitters. It feels really good to win our first game. The whole team played really well and our bench stepped up."
Senior libero Natalie Schroeder contributed three kills, eight digs and two aces for Chatham, which received three kills, one block, two digs and two aces from senior middle hitter Grace Hauck.
Sarah Prill and Ella Maddi each had two kills while Olivia Diaz-Saavedra posted a kill, a block and a dig for Chatham.


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Graham Greene's The Third Man: a detective fiction which made me discover an after-war Vienna I didn't know a thing about.
George Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughter: Orwell has an efficiency in his way of describing human nature; I find his lack of fioritures as beautiful as some others' poetic works, as if bareness and fullness met in one point. His writing is truthful, that is the best way I can decribe it even if it may sound uneasy.
Photos: Penguin.


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Cotton interlock jersey. Interlock is a double knit jersey that has a plain finish on both sides of the fabric. The added elastane gives it has excellent stretch and recovery. Interlock jersey is suitable for lots of dressmaking applicatons where a knit/stretch fabric is required; t-shirts, dresses, tunics, leggings and baby and kids clothes. OEKO-TEX certified to comply with the reduction of harmful chemicals and substances. We recommend sewing this fabric with a ball-point needle and stabilising shoulder seams with clear elastic.
Stretch: 2-way stretch with approximately 50% cross-wise stretch
Colour: candy pink with white seed head design (medium-large scale design)
Composition: 95% cotton / 5% spandex
Weight: 250 g/m2
Width: 61″ / 155cm
Sold by the quarter metre – multiple units will be cut as a continuous length (4 units = 1m).


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Promote Child and Young Person Development
Assessment criteria
1.2a Assess a child or young person's development in the following areas: physical (Planned: 0 , Completed:0)
In my line of work as a carer there are different ways of assessing a young person for physical development. Each week young people in my care are given a weekly activity and menu planner in which they complete to show what activities and food they are planning through the week. The young people are encouraged to carry out the activity plan as it is a good form of exercise and helps them develop physically. The menu planner is used to monitor if the young people in my care are consuming healthy balance diet which also contributes to physical growth. Another way of assessing a young person's physical development is through LAC reviews as this is where the physical measurements are taken and recorded. 1.2b Assess a child or young person's development in the following areas: communication (Planned: 0 , Completed:0)
In my line of work there are different strategies we use to assess young people communication. There are house meeting held where the young people have the opportunity to express their views and communicate their feelings to staff members. All young people are treated as an individual and are all offered the same equal opportunities. We offer therapy sessions to the young people as a way assessing how they can communicate their emotional feelings. When out in public the way young people interact with the general public is constantly observed and recorded in their daily report. Whilst in school it's a good place to assess a young person's development in communication as they come in contact with their peers and some might be confident to speak in groups and others are confident when there are not many peers around. If a young person finds it hard to communicate it is vital to be patient and take time to understand their needs to try and help care for them. 4.2 Explain how...
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an implement, a Jew, chief of the priests at Ephesus ( Acts 19:13-16 ); i.e., the head of one of the twenty-four courses of the house of Levi. He had seven sons, who "took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus," in imitation of Paul. They tried their method of exorcism on a fierce demoniac, and failed. His answer to them was to this effect ( 19:15 ): "The Jesus whom you invoke is One whose authority I acknowledge; and the Paul whom you name I recognize to be a servant or messenger of God; but what sort of men are ye who have been empowered to act as you do by neither?" (Lindsay on the Acts of the Apostles.)
M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.
[N] indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible
[H] indicates this entry was also found in Hitchcock's Bible Names
[S] indicates this entry was also found in Smith's Bible Dictionary
Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. "Entry for Sceva". "Easton's Bible Dictionary".


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Last Friday, Allison Ammeter was mulling over the rail backlog that's preventing Prairie farmers from getting their crops to market.
Then the phone rang, and within hours she was on a plane to Ottawa, where she testified before a House of Commons committee and spoke to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as well as ministers Peter MacKay, Jason Kenney, Ron Nicholson, Lisa Raitt and Kevin Sorenson.
Ammeter, who farms with her husband Michael southwest of Sylvan Lake, is vice-president of the Alberta Pulse Growers Commission and a director with the Grain Growers of Canada.
She was dispatched to Parliament Hill by the latter group, which had been asked to discuss the rail transport issue with members of the Commons standing committee on agriculture and agri-food on Monday.
Ammeter felt it was important to "step up" and offer a farmer's perspective. Reaction from committee members suggested she was right.
"It's amazing how, when a farmer sits there and says, 'This is how it's affecting us,' that they all sit up straight and lean forward."
Several members of the all-parties committee are farmers themselves, noted Ammeter, including Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen.
"Even in the questions, you could tell it was, 'What can we do to fix this problem for you and get the grain moving?'"
In her presentation, Ammeter described how much of last year's record crop remains in bins or on the ground — even though port terminals in Vancouver are half empty and ships there are waiting to be loaded.
She related a story about one Japanese ship that waited weeks before sailing to Seattle and taking on a load of American wheat there.
Ammeter also talked about the cash-flow crunch that's affecting farmers' ability to buy the inputs they'll need to plant the next crop.
And she reinforced the Grain Growers of Canada's recommendations for change: improved efficiencies, better communication and co-ordination, greater investment by railways in equipment like engines and cars, and amendments to the Fair Rail Freight Service Act so that rail companies are subject to monetary penalties for late deliveries.
The committee also heard representatives of Pulse Canada, the Western Grain Elevator Association, the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association and the Canadian Canola Growers Association. And on Wednesday, representatives from the Alberta Federation of Agriculture, the Inland Terminal Association of Canada, the Thunder Bay Port Authority, Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway spoke.
Dreeshen said Ammeter did an "excellent job" of communicating the concerns of producers.
"She certainly delivered a lot of common sense to the conversation."
Dreeshen said CP and CN have already committed to take steps to improve the situation.
"I think they are aware that things have to happen."
In addition to quick fixes, the federal government is pushing for long-term improvements to the transportation system in anticipation of bigger crops in the future as farming practices and technologies continue to improve.
"We're trying to look at everything in the system."
For now, Ammeter is worried about the impacts of the current deficiencies. In addition to lost sales and damage to Canada's reputation as a grain exporter, a drop in ag commodity prices are a big concern.
"They are a third lower than they were a year ago and going down," she said, adding that even producers with contracts in place won't get paid until their products move.
"Take the disposable income away from the agricultural community to where they're barely holding on to put in their crop, and you are going to see all kinds of things occurring in the Prairie economy," warned Ammeter.
While in Ottawa, she was invited to receptions related to the federal budget, which was tabled on Tuesday. There, Ammeter met the prime minister and a number of his ministers.
She left satisfied that the rail transport issue is one they're familiar with.
"I know they're all talking about it."
Officials with CP and CN told the Advocate recently that their companies have been carrying record volumes of grain, but last year's bumper harvest has made it difficult to keep pace with demand. They added that extreme cold weather this winter has hampered efforts to carry crops to market.


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If it was survival of the fittest, first-year Morgan City coach Terence McCutcheon loved his team's chances to walk into Ellender's House of Pain and come away with a win.
Morgan City used a strong fourth-quarter rally to send Friday's District 7-4A showdown into overtime.
In overtime, the Tigers took advantage of several Ellender turnovers and hit clutch free-throws in the final seconds to pull off an 89-84 win over the Patriots.
Morgan City (22-5 overall, 4-0 in district) took control of the District 7-4A standings with the win over Ellender (10-14 overall, 3-1 in district).
McCutcheon, a former Nicholls State University basketball player, said he credited the Tigers' conditioning in pulling off the win.
"That's our style. We play up-and-down the court," McCutcheon said. "Usually as the game goes on longer, we get better at that and teams kind of tire out. We saw some of their guys cramping and I noticed body language in some of their players that they were getting tired, but we just kept playing."
Ellender coach Cornell Scott said the Patriots made too many mistakes in the final stages of the fourth quarter and overtime
"It was a good game. Coach McCutcheon had his guys ready to play," Scott said. "We just didn't execute at the end of the game. We had some chances to put it away. Some of our guys took some bad shots. If we maintain and take of the ball, we come out on the winning end, but we didn't. It's not the end of the world. It was just a good job by Coach McCutcheon and Morgan City."
The showdown between the two district rivals was close throughout with Ellender leading 21-13 after the first quarter and Morgan City taking a 39-37 advantage at halftime.
In the third quarter, the Patriots started to distance themselves with a key 23-11 run. J'amire Mott, who led the Patriots with 17 points, converted a three-point play that made it 52-45 with 2:44 left in the third quarter.
Kobe Hartman had his fourth dunk of the night on a fastbreak play in the final seconds of the quarter that extended the Patriots lead to 60-50 at the end of the third quarter.
The Tigers refused to go away. Marquese Charles scored seven of his 13 points in the fourth quarter to lead the comeback charge. Trailing 74-72, Morgan City's Taaj Daniels tied the game with a layup with 7.3 seconds remaining to send the game to overtime.
In overtime, Daniels put the Tigers up 83-82 with 35 seconds left. After two costly Patriots turnovers, Daniels helped seal the win by making 4-of-4 free throws in the final seconds.
Daniels, who had 18 points, said keeping their composure late was key.
"It's a big win for our team," Daniels said. "We just trusted in our coach and trusted in our system. At the end of the day, we got it done. We've been in that situation many times throughout the season. It's just the character of our team. We always fight back and find a way. We were able to come together and get the win."
Jared Singleton also scored 18 points for Morgan City, while Tywaun Walker had 15 points.
After Friday's win, Morgan City will try to wrap up an outright district title with wins over Vandebilt Catholic (Tuesday) and Assumption (Friday) next week.
"I think it's big for the community," McCutcheon said. "I'm familiar with the tradition of Morgan City. It's been awhile since they've had a win like this. For us to come here and get a win and kind of put Morgan City back into people's mind, it feels great."
Other leaders for Ellender were Kobe Hartman (16 points), Marquie Mosely (15 points), Davarin Brown (14 points) and Askyre Anderson (12 points).
Despite the loss, Scott said the Patriots will quickly move on and continue focusing on the rest of the season. Entering this season, Ellender has won six straight district titles.
"We really don't worry about district championships because we have a bigger goal in mind. We have enough of them in our book," Scott said. "Our ultimate goal is to make it to state and to the playoff and try to win a state title."
ELLENDER 83, MORGAN CITY 53 (at Houma, District 7-5A game)
Score by quarters: Ellender led 16-6 after the first quarter, 37-25 at halftime and 68-39 at the end of the third quarter.
Statistical leaders: Ellender – Orieon James (18 points, eight rebounds), Marghan Frierson (15 points, six rebounds), Trastasia Hester (10 points), Carly Anderson (nine points); Morgan City – Alisha Singleton (23 points).
Records: Morgan City (13-14 overall; 1-5 in district); Ellender (21-6 overall; 6-0 in district).
Note: Ellender clinched a perfect season in District 7-4A play with the win.


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The Political Economy of Avian Influenza: SE Asia country study workshop. Brighton, UK, February 26-27, 2009.
This workshop was aimed primarily at reviewing the country papers from Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Viet Nam, and setting them in a comparative framework. Additionally, it examines the lessons learned from the international response to avian influenza and the implications these have for the 'One World, One Health' initiative. Documents attached are the agenda, list of participants, background and 14-page meeting report.
Building on earlier work on the international response to avian influenza, the aim of the country studies has been to look at the national contexts for the response, examining the implications for both national and international policy.
Published 1 January 2009