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The Village of Flint in northern Franklin County has been annexed to the City of Columbus for some time. Or perhaps there are still unincorporated areas along Flint Rd. and Park Rd. mixed in among the City of Columbus neighborhoods in the area:
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Maybe The Sanctuary is NOT really part of what was Flint, but doesn't it back up to the Flint Cemetery? I don't think of neighborhoods like The Sanctuary, Seven Oaks, or Worthington Highland being Flint. To me Flint is the intersection of Flint Road and Park Rd. and the streets, West St., Station St., Oak St. but I am sure homes in the surrounding area had Flint Ohio mailing addresses before the area became part of the Columbus and Worthington mailing addresses.
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When I was in primary school there was always a great emphasis placed on the daily ritual of lining up for class. While the simple activity of forming a queue was our teacher's only means of achieving a modicum of structure among an otherwise rambunctious group of sixth graders, the apparent arrangement of the aforementioned queue also held a measure of significance for the students. You see, managing to get to the front of the line generally afforded an individual the advantage of being able to sit in their preferred seat. Though the benefit may appear inconsequential, many children perceived their relative position to both the chalkboard and their friends to be a serious matter and would thus devise ways of achieving their ideal location.
The most common tactic employed was referred to as the 'monkey swap'. This maneuver allowed an individual to graciously let another person in front of them only to immediately have the favor returned. The result was a less than subtle exploit of the unwritten laws of Queuing Theory which managed to inconvenience everyone else waiting in line without troubling the individual who decided to allow their friend to cut in. Now to a group of young children who were consistently being taught the significance of sequential gathering this was never perceived as a fair transaction. Yet it was important for us to learn that our opinion of society isn't the only one that matters.
The notion of a queue is a western invention that represents our opinion of civility and our desire to create order out of the perceived chaos of the natural world. It appeals to our noble, yet often misguided sense of fairness. In most parts of the world however, that vast portion of the globe that isn't informed by Hellenistic philosophy, there is little understanding of what it means to "wait your turn." This does not make these cultures primitive or less enlightened; it is simply a different way in which we might perceive and relate to the world around us.
Yet however we inevitably structure society, the concept of a queue does not accord with the reality of the asylum process.
There are currently an estimated 42 million people worldwide who have been forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution. This figure represents many different types of refugees, including those in protracted exile, stateless individuals, as well as internally displaced people. Yet as it stands, less than an approximate 900,000 refugees are actually registered with the United Nations as seeking asylum. It is clear therefore, that the number of asylum seekers registered with the UNHCR does not reflect the magnitude of individuals in need of resettlement.
Furthermore, asylum claims made to the UNHCR do not represent any order to those who face situations of displacement. To clarify, refugees who are currently registered with the United Nations are not necessarily those in the most danger, nor do they necessarily represent those who have been waiting for resettlement the longest. The only distinction between those who have lodged a claim for asylum and those who have not, is simply their ability to do so.
Take protracted refugees for example. These are individuals have been in exile for more than five years with limited hope of finding a solution in the near future. While they make up almost 25% of the worlds displaced people, a lack of administrative resources and the effects of considerable political instability means that very few are actually registered with the UNHCR. Meanwhile, almost 80,000 claims for asylum have been lodged in the past 24 months by refugees uprooted by conflict in the Middle East. Asylum claims are therefore no indication of who has been "waiting the longest."
Further suggestions claim that Irregular Maritime Arrivals cause a delay in the resettlement of offshore refugees. Again this represents a flawed understanding of the asylum process. The administrations of onshore and offshore asylum claims are independent processes that rely on completely separate infrastructure. Therefore, Australia's ability to manage internal applications for asylum has no effect on the administration of the UNHCR to refer asylum claims to signatory countries nor does it have any significant effect on the 80,000 resettlements each year.
It should also be noted that refugee's do not in fact have the right to be resettled, nor is there any obligation by signatory countries to resettle asylum seekers, it is purely a voluntary process. However, according to international law every individual has the right to seek asylum and obtain protection. Refugee resettlement therefore compliments and is in no way a substitute for the provision of protection for people who apply to a signatory country for asylum under the United Nations Convention for the Status of Refugees.
While it becomes quite evident that the asylum process is not indicative of a queue, the most appropriate question we must ask ourselves is how might we respond to this issue as individuals who espouse a message of justice?
It is of course difficult to ignore the multitude of scripture that addresses the matter. For example, Leviticus tells us that "when a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were once foreigners in Egypt." This message is consistently reiterated through the ministry of Jesus who encourages us to "love your neighbor" and "offer shelter to the poor wanderer." While these references are specific in nature, they represent the fundamental call of scripture; a call for justice. So it would seem our response must be two fold.
First to challenge a cultural ignorance toward oppression and to reshape societies flawed understanding of asylum seekers. An example we often face is that many people possess an irrational yet somewhat understandable fear that there will not be enough resources to support an increase in refugee intake. This is simply not true. If we as a nation are willing to wholly embrace those seeking asylum in our country then the adaptable nature of our social structure will inevitable integrate these individuals into our economy.
For example; If we have more people, we need to build more houses, grow more food, create more energy, and develop more infrastructure. However, for each of these processes we also need more workers: such as builders, farmers, engineers, teachers, doctors, etc. But wait a minute... we have more people! Those refugees that we let into our country, the ones who need the houses and the food and the energy and the infrastructure. And the beautiful thing is when they are employed they'll pay the government more tax so we can build more houses, grow more food, create more energy and develop more infrastructure. Now I appreciate that our system of economics is significantly more complicated than just described, but as a very simple explanation this is how assimilation generally occurs.
Finally, we must look within ourselves and be challenged to set aside our shallow and often self-seeking understanding of justice to embrace the suffering of these people (and there's the key word... people; as in real people) who approach our shores with nothing but the clothes on their back. We have to approach this situation not with a fear of those who are different but with love and compassion because we are inherently the same. And we need to get over our petty and often misunderstood notion that boat people are the inconsiderate brats of the class who choose to monkey swap their way to the front of the line with little concern for anyone else who might be pining for their preferred seat.
There is no such thing as a queue, only a terrible mess of hurting people.
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EDINBURG – The Hidalgo County Criminal District Attorney's Office, in partnership with the Hidalgo County Family Violence Task Force, will commemorate Domestic Violence Awareness Month with the third annual "Purple Day" informational fair on Tuesday, Oct. 3, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. outside the Hidalgo County Courthouse.
Domestic Violence is a serious issue in Hidalgo County. In 2015, 5,505 cases of family violence were reported to local enforcement agencies in Hidalgo County. The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office responded to 1,852 calls for family violence incidents, which equates to 36 percent of the calls that were made to deputies.
"The reported cases are just the tip of the iceberg," said Criminal District Attorney Ricardo Rodriguez Jr. "Many victims suffer in silence and we need to do everything we can to help shed light on the issue, and to let the victims know that they are not alone; that there are resources, programs, and services available to help them."
According to the Texas Council on Family Violence, more than one in three Texas women are victims of domestic violence and more than 100 women lose their lives in domestic violence murders each year.
According to the National Crime Victims Coalition, every year 1.3 million women suffer family violence by their intimate partner. This is translated to 3,869 women a day; more shocking this equals to 3 women suffering a form of family violence every minute of the day! In addition, 3 women die every day due to acts of family violence.
"Domestic Violence Awareness Month provides an excellent opportunity for Hidalgo County to demonstrate its support for the victims of domestic violence," Rodriguez said. "Moreover, it is a key opportunity to educate the public about domestic violence and the prevalence of this epidemic."
The fair will include booths from several domestic violence support organizations, including: Mujeres Unidas; Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office; Nueva Luz Foundation; Rio Grande Valley Families and Friends of Murdered Children; Doctors Hospital at Renaissance Safe H.A.V.E.N; RGV Children's Bereavement Center; Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid; Children's Advocacy Center; CASA of Hidalgo County; Safe Heaven for Kids; Angels of Love; UTRGV Office of Victim Advocacy and Violence Prevention; Fuerza Del Valle; L.R.G.V.D.C; South Texas College; and Crime Victims Liaisons from Peñitas PD, Weslaco PD, HCSO, Sullivan City PD, Hidalgo PD, Pharr PD, and San Juan PD. In addition, students from South Texas College and the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley will present the Gravestone Project, to honor and remember all the victims that have lost their lives due to domestic violence.
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The liberal method, of course, is to use emotion as their tactic of choice, by creating fear and panic. They play on people's emotions, rather than, use logic and facts. They want to continue feed out of the trough. They believe that they are entitled, to you, the taxpayers money. They seem to think that they know how to spend your money better than you know how to spend it. This is classic socialism. They keep robbing and stealing by whatever means is necessary, so they can continue to be blood sucking parasites.
The state has continued to over regulate, over spend, and over tax. And, it's economically destroying this state. All, of which, has ran jobs out of Colorado, increased the poverty rate, and created fewer jobs in the private sector. When is enough going to be enough? Socialism doesn't work! History has shown that repeatedly. Look at the financial collapse in Europe, where socialism is miserably failing, thus, causing a financial/economic crisis.


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Pinxton is a ward in Bolsover of East Midlands, England and includes areas of Pinxton and Selston.
In the 2011 census the population of Pinxton was 4,202 and is made up of approximately 50% females and 50% males.
The average age of people in Pinxton is 41, while the median age is higher at 42.
96.6% of people living in Pinxton were born in England. Other top answers for country of birth were 0.5% Scotland, 0.4% Wales, 0.3% Ireland, 0.2% Philippines, 0.1% Zimbabwe, 0.1% South Africa, 0.1% Pakistan, 0.1% Nigeria, 0.1% Northern Ireland.
98.8% of people living in Pinxton speak English. The other top languages spoken are 0.3% Polish, 0.1% Urdu, 0.1% Slovak, 0.1% Latvian, 0.1% Tagalog/Filipino, 0.1% British sign language, 0.1% Romanian, 0.1% Russian.
The religious make up of Pinxton is 58.2% Christian, 33.7% No religion, 0.2% Muslim, 0.1% Sikh, 0.1% Hindu, 0.1% Agnostic. 286 people did not state a religion. 6 people identified as a Jedi Knight.
45.6% of people are married, 14.4% cohabit with a member of the opposite sex, 1.4% live with a partner of the same sex, 21.8% are single and have never married or been in a registered same sex partnership, 8.1% are separated or divorced. There are 211 widowed people living in Pinxton.
The top occupations listed by people in Pinxton are Elementary 18.7%, Skilled trades 15.9%, Process, plant and machine operatives 15.9%, Elementary administration and service 14.4%, Associate professional and technical 9.4%, Process, plant and machine operatives 9.3%, Administrative and secretarial 9.2%, Caring, leisure and other service 8.9%, Professional 7.8%, Sales and customer service 7.7%.
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Dallas had a three-point lead until Thompson made a 3-point shot with 1:01 remaining in regulation.
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Everything you need to understand or teach The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild.
Annie McDee is a 31-year old woman who has come to London after an abrupt end to a long-term business partnership and relationship. Annie, who works as a personal chef, buys a junk shop painting for a birthday gift for a new man in her life who doesn't bother to show up for dinner. Annie wants to return the painting but the shop burns down and she is saddled with it. The painting speaks to the reader and eventually reveals that it is the work of a famous French painter and has been the property of many royal and otherwise celebrated people throughout history. Annie eventually tries to trace the painting's origins and in the meantime becomes enamored with a starving artist named Jesse and tending to her well-intentioned, but alcoholic mother, Evie. When Annie becomes the personal chef of the Winkleman family, renowned in the international art world, she is introduced to the wealthy and powerful who have the abilities to both help her career and ruin her life. Annie's painting is called The Improbability of Love and the lineage reveals duplicitous behavior by the head of the Winkleman family. What once was a simple purchase of an assumed simple piece of art lands Annie in prison as the Winkelman family scrambles to cover its horrific behaviors. Love does conquer all, however, and Annie is released from prison after Jesse's refusal to believe in Annie's guilt and his perseverance in ferreting out the truth.


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African elephant
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African elephant[1]
African bush elephant, Loxodonta africana in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: Elephantidae
Genus: Loxodonta
Anonymous, 1827
L. adaurora †
ssp. L. a. adaurora †
ssp. L. a. kararae †
L. africana
L. atlantica †
ssp. L. a. angammensis †
ssp. L. a. atlantica †
L. cyclotis
L. exoptata †
Distribution of Loxodonta (2007)
African elephants are the elephants of the genus Loxodonta (Greek for 'oblique-sided tooth'[2]), consisting of two extant species: the African bush elephant and the smaller African forest elephant. Loxodonta is one of the two existing genera in the family Elephantidae.[1]
Fossil members of Loxodonta have been found only in Africa, where they developed in the middle Pliocene.
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1 Description
1.1 Teeth
2 Distribution and habitat
3 Classification
4 Behavior
4.1 Feeding
4.2 Intelligence
5 Conservation
5.1 Population estimates and poaching
5.2 Legal protections and conservation status
6 References
7 External links
Female African forest elephant with juvenile in the Republic of the Congo
One of the species of African elephant, the bush elephant, is the largest living terrestrial animal, while the forest elephant is the third largest. Their thickset bodies rest on stocky legs, and they have concave backs.[3] Their large ears enable heat loss.[4] The upper lip and nose form a trunk. The trunk acts as a fifth limb, a sound amplifier and an important method of touch. African elephants' trunks end in two opposing lips,[5] whereas the Asian elephant trunk ends in a single lip.[5] In L. africana, males stand 3.2–4.0 m (10–13 ft) tall at the shoulder and weigh 4,700–6,048 kg (10,360–13,330 lb), while females stand 2.2–2.6 m (7–9 ft) tall and weigh 2,160–3,232 kg (4,762–7,125 lb);[6] L. cyclotis is smaller with male shoulder heights of up to 2.5 m (8 ft).[7]
The largest recorded individual stood four metres (13.1 ft) to the shoulders and weighed 10 tonnes (10 long tons; 11 short tons).[3]
Elephants have four molars; each weighs about 5 kg (11 lb) and measures about 30 cm (12 in) long. As the front pair wears down and drops out in pieces, the back pair shifts forward, and two new molars emerge in the back of the mouth. Elephants replace their teeth four to six times. At about 40 to 60 years of age, the elephant no longer has teeth and will likely die of starvation, a common cause of death. The enamel plates of the molars are fewer in number than in Asian elephants.[8]
Their tusks are firm teeth; the second set of incisors become the tusks. They are used for digging for roots and stripping the bark off trees for food, for fighting each other during mating season, and for defending themselves against predators. The tusks weigh from 23–45 kg (51–99 lb) and can be from 1.5–2.4 m (5–8 ft) long. Unlike Asian elephants, both male and female African elephants have tusks.[9] They are curved forward and continue to grow throughout the elephant's lifetime.[5]
A male African bush elephant skull on display at the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
A female African bush elephant skeleton on display at the Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Distribution and habitat
African elephants can be found in Eastern, Southern and West Africa,[10] either in dense forests, mopane and miombo woodlands, Sahelian scrub or deserts.[4]
Although it is commonly believed that the genus was named by Georges Cuvier in 1825, Cuvier spelled it "Loxodonte". An anonymous author romanized the spelling to "Loxodonta", and the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) recognizes this as the proper authority.[1]
African bush elephant, Loxodonta africana[1]
North African elephant, Loxodonta africana pharaoensis (extinct). Presumed subspecies north of the Sahara from the Atlas to Ethiopia.
African forest elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis[1]
Loxodonta atlantica (fossil). Presumed ancestor of the modern African elephants
Loxodonta exoptata (fossil). Presumed ancestor of L. atlantica[2]
?Loxodonta adaurora (fossil). May belong in Mammuthus.
Male African bush elephant. Adult males usually live alone.
Females (here bush elephants in Tanzania) usually live in smaller or larger herds
Bush and forest elephants were formerly considered subspecies[11] of the same species Loxodonta africana. As described in the entry for the forest elephant in the third edition of Mammal Species of the World (MSW3),[12] there is now morphological and genetic evidence they should be considered as separate species.[13][14][15]
Comparison of bush (left) and forest (right) elephant skulls in frontal view.
Note the shorter and wider head of L. cyclotis, with a concave instead of convex forehead.
Much of the evidence cited in MSW3 is morphological. The African forest elephant has a longer and narrower mandible, rounder ears, a different number of toenails, straighter and downward tusks, and considerably smaller size. With regard to the number of toenails: the African bush elephant normally has four toenails on the front foot and three on the hind feet, the African forest elephant normally has five toenails on the front foot and four on the hind foot (like the Asian elephant), but hybrids between the two species commonly occur.
MSW3 lists the two forms as full species[1] and does not list any subspecies in its entry for Loxodonta africana.[16] However, this approach is not taken by the United Nations Environment Programme's World Conservation Monitoring Centre nor by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), both of which list L. cyclotis as a synonym (not even a subspecies) of L.africana.[17][18]
A consequence of the IUCN taking this view is that the IUCN Red List makes no independent assessment of the conservation status of the two forms of African elephant. It merely assesses the two forms taken together, as a unit, as vulnerable.[17]
A study of nuclear DNA sequences published in 2010 indicated that the divergence date between forest and savanna elephants is 2.6–5.6 million years ago, which is virtually the same as the divergence date estimated between the Asian elephant and woolly mammoths (2.5–5.4 million years ago), strongly supporting their status as separate species. Forest elephants were found to have a high degree of genetic diversity, perhaps reflecting periodic fragmentation of their habitat during the climatic changes of the Pleistocene.[14]
African elephant societies are arranged around family units. Each family unit is made up of around ten closely related females and their calves and is led by an old female known as the matriarch.[3] When separate family units bond, they form kinship groups or bond groups. After puberty, male elephants tend to form alliances with other males.
Elephants are at their most fertile between the ages of 25 and 45.[3] Calves are born after a gestation period of nearly two years. They are cared for by their mother and other young females in the group, known as allomothers.[3]
Elephants use some vocalisations that are beyond the hearing range of humans, to communicate across large distances. Elephant mating rituals include the gentle entwining of trunks.[19] The following sequence of five images was shot in the Addo Elephant Park in South Africa
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African elephants can eat up to 450 kilograms (992 lb) of vegetation per day, although their digestive system is not very efficient; only 40 percent of this food is properly digested.[20] They use their trunk to pluck at leaves and their tusks to tear at branches, which can cause enormous damage.[5]
See also: Elephant cognition
African elephants are highly intelligent,[21] and they have a very large and highly convoluted neocortex, a trait also shared by humans, apes and certain dolphin species. They are amongst the world's most intelligent species. With a mass of just over 5 kg (11 lb), elephant brains are larger than those of any other land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twenty-fold those of a typical elephant, whale brains are barely twice the mass of an elephant's brain. The elephant's brain is similar to that of humans in terms of structure and complexity - such as the elephant's cortex having as many neurons as a human brain,[22] suggesting convergent evolution.[23]
Elephants exhibit a wide variety of behaviors, including those associated with grief, learning, allomothering, mimicry, art, play, a sense of humor, altruism, use of tools, compassion, cooperation,[24] self-awareness, memory and possibly language.[25] All point to a highly intelligent species that is thought to be equal with cetaceans[26][27][28][29] and primates.[27][30]
Men with African elephant tusks, Dar es Salaam, c. 1900
Main article: Ivory trade
Population estimates and poaching
Poaching significantly reduced the population of Loxodonta in certain regions during the 20th century. In the ten years preceding an international ban in the trade in ivory in 1990 the African elephant population was more than halved from 1.3 million to around 600,000.[31][32] An example of how the ivory trade causes poaching pressure is in the eastern region of Chad. There, the estimated elephant population was 400,000 as recently as 1970, but by 2006 the number had dwindled to about 10,000.
The magnitude of poaching during 2006-2012 has been large, including some 3,000 elephants slaughtered during the three-year period 2006-2009 (an average of some 3 elephants killed per day during the period), some 650 elephants poached in February 2012 over the course of a few days in Bouba N'Djida park in Cameroon, and at least 86 elephants including 33 pregnant females killed in Chad in less than a week in early March 2013 in "a potentially devastating blow to one of central Africa's last remaining elephant populations."[33]
According to the World Wildlife Foundation the population of African elephants in Southern Africa is large and expanding with an estimated 300,000 now roaming the sub-region. Overall, the total population of African elephants is estimated to be around 700,000 compared to the Asian elephant population of 32,000. Large populations of elephants are confined to well-protected areas. However, less than 20% of African elephant range is under formal protection. [34]
Legal protections and conservation status
The African elephant nominally has governmental protection, but poaching for the ivory trade can devastate populations.[35] Kenya was one of the worst affected countries with populations declining by as much as 85 percent between 1973 and 1989.[10]
Protection of African elephants has become high profile in many countries. In 1989, the Kenyan Wildlife Service burnt a stockpile of tusks in protest against the ivory trade.[36] A number of states permit sport hunting of elephants.[5] In 2012, The New York Times reported on a large upsurge in ivory poaching, with about 70% flowing to China.[37]
A major issue in elephant conservation is the conflicts between elephants and a growing human population.[10] Human encroachment into or adjacent to natural areas where bush elephants occur has led to recent research into methods of safely driving groups of elephants away from humans, including the discovery that playback of the recorded sounds of angry honey bees is remarkably effective at prompting elephants to flee an area.[38] The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) African elephant specialist group has set up a human elephant conflict working group to look at conserving a species that has potential to be detrimental to human populations. They believe that different approaches are needed in different countries and regions, and so develop conservation strategies at National and Regional levels.[39]
Under the auspices of the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), also known as the Bonn Convention, the Memorandum of Understanding concerning Conservation Measures for the West African Populations of the African Elephant was concluded and came into effect on 22 November 2005. The MoU aims to protect the West African Elephant populations by providing an international framework for range State governments, scientists and conservation groups to collaborate in the conservation of the species and its habitat
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Saturday, June 18, 2016
Experiments with Fluffy Writing #1: Cars and Country Side
June 18, 2016 was the perfect day to drive through the country side in western Illinois. The sky was bright blue and spotted with clouds. The sun beamed from above shedding light to the country side. The temperature was cozy with a warm summer breeze to blow off the thin layer of perspiration that coated your skin. The day was comfortable but the humidity made it warm. I never check just how humid it was because I never needed to. It was just enough to notice but not to bother, which for my tolerance is a low thresh hold. The day was perfect so I did what many people did on such a day: go out for a drive. That's not to say I enjoy long drives, anything over a few hours makes me anxious and eager to be released to the outside world. I didn't have a deeply root love for the union between man and machine on black top, rather personal understanding with the mechanical beast at my finger prints. It was made to take me where I needed to be and I needed to be somewhere. I do enjoy it, however, when I can fall into the brain dead stasis of highway hypnosis. While many try to fill that time with productivity, I take it for myself. Leave the work and thinking for the destination, the journey is mine. It is mine to feel the wind whipping at my face. It is mine to immerse myself in the beautiful landscape. It is mine to grasp the leather covered wheel at my finger tips. It is mine to listen to the rhythms and harmonies of my music and sing to my hearts content. I love these journeys that allow me these freedoms while I ride alone in my mother's small Honda Civic. I was a mere casual however to those who took the rode for themselves. Those who drove for drivings sake. These were people who came out with their motorbikes, how they chopped through the air, breaking it with their burning engines and blasting pipes. Usually in small groups, they rode together. When a woman was with them, they would either wrap their arms around their man in the back seat or ride with the group, asserting their spot to ride. Their bravado was superseded only by the muscle car, salvaged or maintained, and their predecessors the sports car. The muscle car roared down the road asserting its dominance and reminding the world of a time when gasoline was the least of anyone's concerns. The gleaming beauties pronounced their owners love for them with their polished sides and perfect colors. The sports cars made their presence known by cutting through the air like a chain saw breaking wood. their blasted down the roads, riding low and hard. Each driver pulling out their best ride to show off their money and style. I couldn't blame them. If I had the money, I'd do it too. Alas, I was a casual. Those like me drove because there was somewhere they had to be and drove their simple cars because they either had no reason to show off or couldn't. I saw no problem with that. I was content in that Civic. It was petite, efficient, and private. It had served my family faithfully for years, undertaking thousands of miles for us and not once breaking down. I was happy with it. It was taking me where I needed to go: to my girl. She lived out among farms and small towns deep in central Illinois and I always think of her when I see them. I used to not care for farm lands. I'd see them all the time and felt no sense of wonder or awe. On that trip, however, each glorious view brought beauty to my eye. As I drove through the rolling hills, I'd dip down, my eyes level with the crops such that the green a few yards away was my horizon and endless blue reached out beyond. I'd reach a peak and see the rolling hill quilted over with square farms that were hand stitched with roads, broken by rivers, and speckled with buildings. I would see charming farm houses, proud barns, and gleaming domed silos and elevators that made the rural skyscraper. The view was amazing but not perfect. Not yet. The farms told me I was closer than I had been, but the hills told me I was still too far. She lived on flat lands where wind erosion was required farmers to boarder their farms with tree lines. As she would say in her grand tour of the farms around her, "to your right, you'll see corn fields. To your left, you'll see a tree line covering corn fields." The hills were beautiful but they reminded me that I still had ground to cover and roads to travel.
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114 S Jefferson St
Perry, FL 32347
Taylor County
Available Sq Ft: 900 sq. ft.
For Sale or Lease: For Sale
Sale Price: $42,000.00
Year Built: 1900
Building Types: Retail,General
Ceiling Min.: 12 ft.
Electric: Duke
Sewer on Site: Yes
Water on Site: Yes
Telecom on site: Yes
Nearest Interstate: 10
Distance to Nearest Interstate: 22 miles
Distance to Nearest Airport: 60 miles
General Runway Length: 5280 ft
Distance to Airport 2: 3 miles
Scott Frederick
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Phone Number: 850.584.5627


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Meera is a very imagistic poem where one can almost see the actions of a young sweeper woman as she cleans the streets in the morning. The footloose coconut frond is a dropout much like the young woman but the coconut fond has the choice of dropping out from the top while she is forced due to economic circumstances to give up schooling.
in this part of town."
The coconut frond had nothing to do and so while on the lookout for something more interesting and useful it decides to join the young lady and help her sweep. This is a contrast to her own feelings of the job where she aspires for life at the top for she is almost at the bottom rung of the social scale. The frond has befriended the lady which is rather interesting in itself considering her isolation and lack of friends. Kolatkar uses the metaphor "Our Lady of Dead Flowers" for her as she is probably sweeping dead flowers away though to a remote extent it does remind us of Christian divinity where the holy mother many a time is given such a name.
"the sad-eyed feminine halfof the municipal street-cleaning team
in this part of town."
The young woman is not happy with her job and though she innovates and uses the frond for sweeping, she cannot derive as much pleasure from the job as the frond does. The only thing in her life that she has absolute control of is the frond.However, in the second part of the poem there is a twist, she now has fun in being the person who takes some decisions and using the frond makes a boring job seem a bit fresher. The frond is more suited to her and is more fun to use as well as more effective. This in a way shows the breaking of gender barriers, she breaks through and uses her own sense to see what will be more comfortable to her. Just as the novel's language was masculine and hard in the hands of the Bronte's; and later became more pliable under Jane Austen's pen; so the frond makeshift broom sits with more ease under her command.
The fan-tail broomstick is a masculine preference but she doesn't want to deal with a set down tradition and through this discovers that her new broom is better than what her male counterpart is so content with. 'Meera' the name reminds us of the poetess Meerabai who just like this lady defied tradition and took to writing, singing and dancing though the society took had dictated a place for her.What is so fascinating about the poem is its simplicity of topic. Across India there are thousands of such women though not every one of them can be a Meera. To the eyes of her male companion, the sweeper woman with the frond may appear to be "clowning around" as much as the frond is doing when actually she is doing a better job. She is bending as she sweeps just as a woman or people who are oppressed must bend but even though she has stooped she is not been conquered.
Though the woman is sad and probably wishes to have a more better paid job, she is able to transform her work into a thing of joy at least momentarily and so she too is as innovative as any human being though circumstances have been harsher to her than to others.


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Enquiries: Information: How do I work an Enquiry?
In general terms examinations and enquiries are worked in similar ways.
- you will send the claimant a letter opening your enquiry or examination and ask them for more information
- you will then consider any response and make a decision about their award.
- you will send them a letter explaining this decision and take the necessary follow-up action. The claimant has the right to appeal to the Independent Appeals Tribunal against your decision.
Before you begin to work enquiries you should make sure you are familiar with all of the points shown above.
However, there are some major differences between examinations and enquiries.
- The legislation allows us to open an enquiry even if there are no obvious or disclosable risks. This allows us to open enquiries in a randomly selected case that forms part of our Error and Fraud Analysis Programme - see CCM12530.
- We can only make one enquiry for each tax year so it is important we consider all risks - see CCM12015
- The enquiry must be opened during a specific 'enquiry window' - see CCM16120
- Enquiries must be opened in writing and it is not a valid enquiry until the enquiry notice has been received by the claimant or both of them if the claim was made by a couple. If the notice is returned RLS it is not a valid enquiry.
- The claimant can ask an appeal tribunal to direct that we close the enquiry - see CCM16090
- If the enquiry shows an adjustment is needed to the award there will usually be another year to consider.


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December 13th
I use the term, 'Learn to Love Yourself' because many of us often leave that to someone else to do for us. Despite what you have thought in the past, you must LOVE yourself before anyone else can truly love you.
To love yourself is to be completely honest with your thoughts and actions towards you. And you do not have to share your inner most thoughts with anyone unless you choose to do so. So what are you really thinking these days? Do you believe you are worthy of the goals and dreams you have for yourself? Are you beautiful by your own standards? Do you experience JOY on a deep soul satisfying level?
You can learn to be 'in love' with you, at all times and through all circumstances. You learn this by simply doing it, without excuse or resistance. Just Love who you have become, all the wonderful lessons you have learned and all the growth you have experienced. Isn't it grand to count it all a blessing? It is your life, your physical existence. It is your heart and your soul that we are celebrating with absolute Joy! Love that person at the deepest levels and watch how much better your life becomes. You are doing it for yourself AND that is reason enough.
Practice giving the best to you this day. They say practice makes perfect. So continue to practice loving your self until you become a master at it. Truly love without any conditions. To love yourself is the greatest gift you can give to you today.
I Love Me today! I truly Love Me today! I Am worthy of LOVE! And I accept Love into my life, beginning with self love. I give myself permission to Love freely, without restraints or limitations. I simply choose to LOVE!
I Am my best friend. I tell myself the truth at all times. I am patient and kind with me. I choose words of support and encouragement with myself. I know I can and I will; it is my choice.
This very day, I WILL LOVE MYSELF FULLY AND COMPLETELY!


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Every year, as soon as spring hits, I'm constantly amazed at how amazing the fresh produce can be. You'd think I'd get used to it, but after a dreary winter of eating soups and stews, a fresh meal on a warm day is absolute bliss. And of course, anytime I can also fire up the grill, I'm even happier.
Grilled Corn and Pepper Salad on Cilantro Lime Rice
serves 2-3
2 small red/orange/yellow bell peppers (I used 1 red and 1 orange), chopped
1 medium ripe tomato, chopped
1 poblano pepper
2 ears of corn, shucked
1/4 red onion, finely diced
1/2 cup of cilantro, chopped
1 large lime
1 cup rice
Cook the rice according to its instructions, preferably in a rice cooker.
While it's cooking, rub the corn and the poblano in olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Grill them, turning often, until the corn caramelizes slightly on the outside and the poblano skin is charred. Let them cool off the grill for 5-10 minutes, and then peel the charred skin off the poblano and discard, and chop up the flesh (removing seeds and stem). Carve the kernels off the corn cob (alliteration, for the win!). Combine the chopped poblano flesh and corn kernels with the fresh chopped bell peppers, finely diced red onion, chopped tomato, and half of the cilantro. Juice 1/2 of the lime on the mixture, and season with salt and pepper. Toss to mix, and set aside.
When the rice is finished cooking, add the remaining cilantro and juice from the other half of the lime to the rice, add a pinch of salt, and fluff to combine.
Serve the corn and pepper salad over the cilantro lime rice, and enjoy!
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An 18-year-old man was arrested on burglary charges Thursday after the residents of an apartment in the 1100 block of Northwest 40th Ave., found the man picking the lock on their front door, according to a police report.
The residents were inside the apartment about 2 p.m. when they heard a knock on the front door, the report said. The residents didn't answer the door but heard scratching sounds coming from outside the door a few moments later.
One of the residents, after hearing the noise continue for about five minutes, opened the door to find the man standing outside the door with a knife in his hand, the report said. Paint chips lay on the floor and there were pry marks near the lock. The resident talked the man into sitting down inside the apartment until police arrived, the report said.


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by Mike Masnick
Wed, Nov 24th 2010 4:45pm
Filed Under:
blocks, net neutrality, opendns
opendns, verizon wireless
The Washington Post recently ran an interview with OpenDNS founder David Ulevitch, where he notes that Verizon Wireless appears to be blocking OpenDNS, such that users cannot easily route around Verizon Wireless' own DNS services. This seems like an odd decision for Verizon Wireless -- especially at a time when the government is seriously considering network neutrality regulations. You would think that the company would recognize that blatantly blocking a competing service from being used might attract some attention. Perhaps Verizon Wireless is hoping that people won't care because "OpenDNS" sounds boring? Or perhaps they're still working on this belief that "wireless" plays by different rules?
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Anonymous Coward, 24 Nov 2010 @ 4:53pm"Or perhaps they're still working on this belief that "wireless" plays by different rules?"
I think the appropriate spin would have to be:
"Or perhaps they're still working on this belief that Verizon plays by different rules?"
ilya brook, 24 Nov 2010 @ 5:09pm
no surpriseTime Warner has been forcing subscribers to use only its own DNS for over a year. They do it so they can monetize the error pages with ads. Its just one more reason they are beloved by their customers.
Jungle, 24 Nov 2010 @ 5:47pm
Re: no surpriseI've been using OpenDNS on my TW connection for a couple years. No issues.
ilya brook, 24 Nov 2010 @ 9:26pm
Re: no surpriseI should have limited my observation to TW in Southern California.
Kingster (profile), 26 Nov 2010 @ 12:38pm
Re: no surpriseUsing openDNS here in Maine without an issue...
Anonymous Coward, 24 Nov 2010 @ 6:25pmIf I try to use the open internet I have DNS problems I know that because a number of pages don't show up, but mysteriously it all works good when I'm using TOR, it just loads the pages I want because the requests are done on the otherside.
And that is why I'm seriously looking into alternatives for the internet that don't depend on these infra-structure prone to censorship.
Hint: Use SOCKS 4a or SOCKS 5 to request DNS queries from the otherside.
Shane C (profile), 24 Nov 2010 @ 6:37pm
Sprint's forging DNS responsesWe ran into a problem with Sprint wireless redirecting all DNS traffic to their servers. So instead of blocking it, their servers were/are masquerading as the server you're trying to reach, and responding as such.
We figured this out when we were trying to setup dynamic DNS. Any updates going to the server (over port 53) were never making it to the server, yet the client was establishing a connection, to what ended up being the Sprint servers.
Karl Scrote, 24 Nov 2010 @ 8:02pm
Another BS story loaded with misinformation.You tin hats find the boogerman everywhere.
Mike Masnick (profile), 24 Nov 2010 @ 8:10pm
Re: Another BS story loaded with misinformation.Another BS story loaded with misinformation.
Let me explain how this works. When you accuse us of providing "BS" or "misinformation," it then is your responsibility to let us know what is wrong, so that we may fix it. Simply declaring it full of misinformation doesn't help anyone and, if anything, only makes us question your motives.
You tin hats find the boogerman everywhere.
I'm sorry. I don't quite see how that applies to this post. We're not "seeing" a boogerman anywhere. I'm just pointing out that Verizon Wireless is blocking OpenDNS. Are you claiming this is "BS" or "misinformation"? I'm not suggesting any conspiracy theory -- just noting the fact and that it's probably not in VZW's best interests. You are arguing otherwise, apparently, but I'm not quite sure I understand the basis of your argument.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Nov 2010 @ 5:10pm
Re: Another BS story loaded with misinformation.I guess you really needed to get out of your way to look like a retarded douche on the Internet. Feel better?
Kaega (profile), 25 Nov 2010 @ 6:21pm
Re: Re: Another BS story loaded with misinformation.He is right you know. Simply declaring something without trying to back it up tells us one of two things. 1.) You simply want people to believe the store is BS 2.) You are twelve and he started it Maybe you're even lying to yourself. If the story is BS as you say then you should be able to show this is true. If you have no evidence then we would ask you to take a leap of faith and consider that maybe, possibly, a chance that... you may be wrong, and this story isn't BS. But I believe I have as much faith in you as you have faith in this story. Whenever you will, I will be ready for your one sentence name calling reply.
Anonymous Coward, 27 Nov 2010 @ 6:10am
Re: Re: Re: Another BS story loaded with misinformation.Well on the strength of his argument alone I am convinced Karl Scrote is a moron.
Lonny Paul, 24 Nov 2010 @ 8:07pm
Net Neutrality - An absolute necessityOpen DNS is a great service - reliable (much more so than Comcast) and free! What could be better? I use OpenDNS at my home on the router side, allowing all devices to use it.
While I've never considered changing DNS servers on my phone, this article has opened my eyes to that potential possibility (or not since I'm on VZN).
I'm not sure how any carrier can currently FORCE their DNS on you (considering you can hard code it in both Windows and in your router) unless they are blocking the ports for any other IP destination.
Anonymous Coward, 24 Nov 2010 @ 10:29pm
Re: Net Neutrality - An absolute necessityI'm not sure how any carrier can currently FORCE their DNS on you (considering you can hard code it in both Windows and in your router) unless they are blocking the ports for any other IP destination.
It's very easy for them to block or redirect and IP addresses they choose.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Nov 2010 @ 11:33am
Using TW and OpenDNS in SoCalI have been using OpenDNS on time warner cable for about 1 year and a half with no problems in Los Angeles (the valley).
What prompted me to switch was that TWC DNS servers went down often for a while and all of a sudden you could not get anywhere.
Pixelation, 26 Nov 2010 @ 7:58am
No Rules"Or perhaps they're still working on this belief that "wireless" plays by different rules?"
What rules? That's a likely reason for doing what they are doing. Hopefully rules will follow stopping behavior like this. Too bad it will likely be necessary since more rules often create more problems.
user.bin, 26 Nov 2010 @ 9:27amdo what i did, build your own dns server.
Raptor85, 26 Nov 2010 @ 6:13pm
Verizon does this on DSL as wellI have verizon DSL at home (just started being offered a few years back, so it's that or 28.8 dialup from earthlink), they do the same on their DSL lines here.
DNS isn't outright blocked though, they're masquerading as whatever server you're trying to connect to, which is horrible as their DNS servers go down a LOT and I end up not being able to access a ton of websites. On throwing DNS errors or failing a domain lookup, instead of properly throwing an error you end up on a verizon "help" page...
Vince McCabe, 26 Nov 2010 @ 8:24pm
My URL IS being treated as "INVALID"And conmunicating with India does not HELP AT ALL !!!verizon has not been "friendly" at all; no assistance at all.
Why do you make everything so difficulty to do business with you. Why not view a class URL company like "AOL" way of doing business,i.e., such as stop constantly asking for "Password" and "Id". OR YAHOO;GOOGLE or any other URL.
Anonymous Coward, 27 Nov 2010 @ 6:15am
Find the fastest DNSTo find the fastest available DNS server go to http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm and run the DNS benchmark test. It has the added benefit of Identifying lots of DNS servers that might work for you and it could tell you if you are being redirected.
ebk, 29 Nov 2010 @ 4:30am
Update neededDave Ulevitch corrected this info himself on HackerNews this weekend, OpenDNS isn't blocked by Verizon (read the first comment):


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Review: Just Mobile AluBolt
Company: Just Mobile
Website: www.just-mobile.com
Model: AluBolt
Price: $50
Compatible: iPhone 5/5c/5s, iPad mini
Just Mobile's first entry into the still-sparse category of Lightning docks is AluBolt ($50), which officially offers compatibility with Lightning-equipped iPhones and iPad minis that aren't inside cases. The design language is very familiar to the company's earlier stands and accessories, especially the Mac-focused AluDisc. Silver aluminum is combined with black plastic and rubber, forming an elegant yet somewhat bare solution.
The dock is four inches in diameter, a perfect circle of aluminum atop a layer of plastic, with rubber underneath to prevent slipping. Towards the front is the Made for iPhone-certified Lightning plug, found in the center of a 2.25" long, spring-loaded base. Behind it, there's a curved piece of plastic for support, which comes about halfway up the back of an iPhone, and has the ability to accommodate iPod nanos and touches as well despite the absence of official compatibility promises. Finally, a 38" long USB cord sticks out from the back, suitable for syncing and charging.
Outside of cases, Lightning iPhones and the iPad mini fit properly, without putting up any resistance. But unless you're using a slider-style case or a cheap shell, protectors are totally out of the question. It's clear this is an issue that concerns Just Mobile, as it introduced docks at the 2014 International CES that get around this issue by requiring user-provided Lightning cables. Our other qualm is the lack of weight to the dock. Because it has no heft, devices won't lift right off. Instead, the dock rises up with them unless you hold it down as you're pulling on the device.
As a beautiful accent to a desk, AluBolt is a success. It looks great on its own, and is a clean way of showing off any iPad mini or Lightning iPhone without distraction. All that's missing is case compatibility. While the issue may be out of Just Mobile's hands if it wants to put out Apple-sanctioned accessories, it's a problem for the nearly 4 out of 5 iPhone users who do use cases. That's why the dock earns a limited recommendation. The price is justifiable for the design and features, but it's not the right solution for a majority of users.
Editors' Note: iLounge only reviews products in "final" form, but many companies now change their offerings - sometimes several times - after our reviews have been published. This iLounge article provides more information on this practice, known as revving.


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text: 5/19/2017 About the Author Rocks and Rollin' 5/19/2017 My son and I took a trip to the West Desert in Utah with the goal of mining some geodes. We made some stops along the way at the Great Salt Lake, Black Rock and then lunch in Johnson Pass (part of the original Lincoln Highway). We dug in the rock beds for over an hour and found about eight geodes ‒ the hardest part is cracking them open without destroying them. Most were the size of a golf ball, but one was softball-sized. That night, we camped near the geode beds on Bureau of Land Management land and slept in our rooftop tent. Our 2015 Forester XT got us there and back with no drama, including 60-mph blasts down dirt roads, rocky trails and copious mud. David Colvin Salt Lake City, Utah


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Pay TV has infiltrated the industry's awards night with Foxtel picking up its first Logie.
Foxtel won the Most Outstanding Sports Coverage award in Melbourne on Sunday night for its Olympics broadcast.
Eddie McGuire accepted the peer-voted award with host Matt Shirvington.
Shirvington thanked the Australian athletes who took part in the Olympics for making the coverage possible and the games memorable.
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Did you know that it takes two very dedicated Program Coordinators to secure our Holiday Party at Winter Lodge?
If you are an Alumi Senior Friend, you've probably come to one of our Holiday Parties at Winter Lodge in Palo Alto. For the last few years, due primarily to budget set backs, Friends for Youth has offered an alternative to our annual ice skating experience. We've had a good run with Nothing But Hoops. But, to really get into the holiday spirit, we wanted a cozy fireplace to sit near, a lovely ice rink to play on. No doubt the dodge ball of the last two years was great fun, but it didn't put everyone into the season's spirit.
|Dodgeball insanity at Nothin But Hoops!
Winter lodge is a pricey event, for sure. But, thanks to the generosity of our Alumni, and the hard work of Mentoring Services Director, Rebecca Duran, we have raised the funds needed for this year's Holiday Party on ice! Hurray! Done deal? NO.
Winter lodge has this funny system where you have to wait in line on the first day of registration to get a spot. No big deal, you say? People camp out starting from 8pm the night before. We're serious!
|Everyone in front of us had been there since 11pm the night before.
Maribel gracefully took the 3am to 7am shift, while Kristen took us home from 7am to 11:30am. The results? 13th place in line and a KILLER TIME SLOT this year! 11:30am to 2:30pm!!!
It's going to be an amazing event this year for sure. This holiday event is usually the BIGGEST activity of the year, drawing both new and Alumni Friendships. Make sure to check out the Discovery Times to find out dates and times for this awesome party.
We'd better see you come December! :)


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Building Spiritual Connections for Women in Simcoe County
Barrie Ontario
The first Monday of each month
7-9 PM, starting February 5, 2018
FREE (please come with loving intention)
"Because there's one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood."
― Robin Benway
― Robin Benway
Connection * Empowerment * Support * Spirituality * Growth
Join a group of women dedicated to growing spiritually with one another, supporting each other through the messiness that is life, and baring witness to the joys and sorrows we each experience.
This is a safe space where we can build each other up as women, support each other without judgement, and learn to truly love our bodies, our minds and our souls together.
Meetings will include mindfulness/meditation activities, group discussion, setting intentions and building connections.
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Learn traditional Ashtanga Vinyasa to inspire your self practice and discipline. The foundations taught in this 8 week course will guide you in any style of yoga and assist your inner journey as well as physical practice. Traditional Ashtanga Vinyasa is accessible for anyone with an open mind and open heart. Flexibility and strength are NOT required but will be a physical bi-product along with increased energy, self confidence, awareness, focus, inner peace and willpower plus so much more!
What's included: 8 x 90min classes/workshop
*Explanation of Breath, Bandha, Dristi- the fundamental principles to guide your practice
*The Primary series as taught by Ajay Kumar, through direct teachings from BNS Iyengar, student of Sri T Krishnamacharya
*including instruction to intuitively self adjust, to explore your own body and breath in each pose, hands on adjustments also available.
*Small group size, LOADS of individual attention, AND personalized strategies and prep work as needed!
*FREE private Facebook group for ongoing assistance, questions and inspiration!
*BUILD your self practice from the ground up, deepen existing practice and establish a discipline rooted in tradition, spirituality and transformation is inevitable!
*The secrets to NAILING your vinyasa!
*Backbending like you've never seen before!
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Here's what participants from the last course had to say:
"These workshops are a MUST for all growing yogis. I really needed the structure, strength, energy, understanding and discipline that Jess brings to the classes. She explains things clearly and with purpose, and I knew she was 100% there with me guiding me along the next step of my yoga path. From these workshops I now have a solid foundation of asana from the primary sequence and a much deeper understanding of the ujjayi breath. I draw on these skills that Jess has given me in my own practice and in the classes that I attend." ~returning student
"Thank you so much for this generous introduction to Ashtanga yoga. Every week was a challenge and while I still have so much to learn and experience, I really felt your approach was an amazing gift to me of insight, perseverance and acceptance.
I committed to a serious yoga practice a year ago after major surgery, so I am far from experienced. Jess Jones and her inspirational Ashtanga practice came at a point where I had come to believe my own physical and mental limitations. I am amazed by the changes in my body in 8 short weeks and my desire to learn and grow. Thanks Jess, I am on this path to the end of my days."
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"The Light Your Soul on Fire course was an awesome introduction to Ashtanga yoga. I noticed a huge improvement in my physical body over the course of the nine weeks, getting into postures that I didn't think were possible for my body. And the discipline of the practice gave me mental clarity, energy and an overall feeling of well-being. It was a great investment in body and mind. Thanks Jess!" Kate, 34
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I received my first book from the Tyndale Rewards program recently and have enjoyed reading it. Its called "The Promise of a Mother's Prayers" by Scharlotte Rich. I like the advice and ideas that this book shares, its a book filled with wisdom for those days when we need encouragement!
More about the book:
"Sometimes when we are most weary, the best thing to do is just sit down with our kids and enjoy the wonder of them." Enjoy time with your children and take a few minutes every day to refresh yourself with The Promise of a Mother's Prayers. Grow more joyful and strong in your relationships with God and your family by emphasizing the power of every-day prayer and biblical wisdom. This devotional shares down-to-earth mothering advice, encouragement, and creative ideas from real-life experiences using 1 Corinthians 13, "the love chapter". Learn specific ideas for prayer and practical ways to balance your hopes and dreams for your children with your own needs as a busy mom.
From: http://tyndalerewards.com
More about the author:
Scharlotte Rich is an author, teacher, and editor with a master's degree in education. Her own struggles with motherhood prompted her to write this book to encourage mothers. Scharlotte is the mother of two wonderful mothers and has four engaging, creative, and silly grandchildren.
This is a wonderful book filled with great mothering advice and encouragement. Its perfect for Moms, and would make a wonderful gift!
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Print on Demand and ebook publishing have created a whole new model for publishing. Are POD and digital books the answer to an author's prayers, or just an evolutionary step between traditional publishing models and free Internet distribution?
eBook Piracy And The Moral Hazard Of DMCA
If Google didn't index these piracy sites, the DMCA ensures that the other search engines would, and that many people would defect to them. The same holds true for the "legitimate" file sharing sites like ScribD and YouTube whose early growth was supported through large-scale copyright infringements. As long as enabling copyright infringement on a massive scale is viewed as an innocent activity, any Internet based corporation foregoing the opportunity for free content is ignoring its fiduciary obligation to its shareholders. Setting up a website for pirated eBooks (while protesting one's innocent intentions with a DMCA link) is a great growth industry. The graph below shows a fairly new download site I never heard of before last week. It will soon be one of the top 500 websites in the world, according to Alexa. A good chunk of their traffic comes from search, some of which is supported by illegal copies of my eBooks.
The damage done DMCA in encouraging the widespread dissemination of illegal copies of digital works goes beyond the erosion of rights-holders earnings and the moral hazard for infringers. Innocent people using Google to search for books can be steered to pirate sites without understanding that they are infringing on copyright. That's why I still go to the trouble of filing DMCA takedown notices with "legitimate" sites like ScribD, where a normal person could believe they are downloading an eBook that the author and publisher decided to offer for free. The version of my laptop workbook that I requested ScribD remove last week had been edited to remove my name, which had been replaced with:
and the entire copyright and license agreement page was replaced with:
Another problem with the moral neutrality of search engines is the indexing of file sharing sites which are likely to infect the user's computer. You might think I would find it amusing for somebody trying to steal my computer troubleshooting books to end up buried in malware, but I don't like seeing my work used as a stalking horse. I have too much respect for the technical talent at Google to believe that they couldn't filter out these results in real time with their own malware site detection algorithm, which is why I attribute those results to the moral hazard of DMCA and the abdication of responsibility to do right. The results with the double exclamation points were judged potentially dangerous by AVG. Sometimes, not being evil just isn't enough:
Any author or publisher of eBooks with an audience can do a search to see how many sites are using the lure of pirated versions of the eBooks to attract traffic. Just Google the title of an eBook in quotes, followed by the word "download" and tell Google to limit the results to the last 24 hours through the "options" link. During the occasional waves of piracy that sweep over my eBooks, the new notifications for potential downloads reach into the hundreds per day. But it's a little trickier to find out how many people are intentionally (traditional spelling) searching for pirated eBooks. One rough measure is simply to start typing the title of the eBook and see what suggestions Google's auto-complete function comes up with, as in:
Unless you've chosen to release your eBook for free, seeing the title paired with "torrent" or "rapidshare" is a bad thing. But to get some hard numbers, though dated from some previous month, I suggest the Google's Adwords KeyWord tool. The results below are from the month of February, before the wave of new infringements that caused the number of webpages referring to a downloads of the laptop eBook to jump. That search gives an idea of the number of people who know exactly what they are looking for, vs the ones who might have heard about the book somewhere and want to learn more about it or even to make a legitimate purchase:
Ironically, freedom loving piracy sites never make the PDF versions of eBooks directly available to search engines for indexing. The reason? If search engines sent seekers directly to the downloadable eBook, the pirate site would lose the opportunity to show advertising and end up paying for bandwidth with no financial return. Pirate sites can't embed advertising in the stolen eBooks without taking the legal risk that the DMCA would no longer protect their infringements. I say "risk" because it's possible that by automating the addition of advertisements to all files uploaded, a sharing site could to maintain a gauziest veil of legal innocence under DMCA.
In the short term, I look at the piracy issue from the standpoint that the Internet giveth and the Internet taketh away. Whether or not I'll continue bringing out new editions of the books that are popular piracy targets in the future depends in part on whether sales of the paperbacks and the legal eBooks justify the investment. If piracy impacts sales to the point that new editions aren't logical, I'm not publishing for the sake of advertising supported piracy. And while I don't laugh at people getting viruses in the process of ripping me off, I might find it amusing to Google around a bit in a couple years and see how many piracy forum wish lists I can find where people have requested the new edition of Rosenthal's book. They may have a long wait.
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- jscam87 said...
There is software that is supposed to prevent/stop/discourage piracy. Would it not serve the greater good to have digital security and continue to provide your books?
- Morris Rosenthal said...
The software is known as DRM, Digital Rights Management. It doesn't prevent piracy, and it does make the eBook harder to use for the paying customers. I had Adobe DRM on my eBooks published from 2004 to 2006 or thereabouts, they still got ripped off, and people complained. So I dropped it when I satarted publishing eBooks again in 2008, full explanation here:
Business model for eBook publishing
- Anonymous said...
You told me a while back that you weren't worried about piracy as a threat to your e-book business model. Are you now?
I am. The thought of releasing my bestselling books as unsecured PDF's makes me shudder. On the other hand, all it would take for one of these books to get smeared all over the net is a lone PDF file somehow wandering off my hard disk. It's like playing with fire, in a way.
I wonder if the Kindle and soon, iPad formats are more difficult to pirate when coupled with Amazon and Apple DRM. Although I do plan on making my books available in these two devices, I don't want to release an unsecured PDF download. Maybe I'm delusional, but it seems that the DRM on these devices must be pretty good or their business models wouldn't survive.
- Morris Rosenthal said...
Did I say I didn't see it as a threat or I didn't see it putting me out of business? For the time being, my eBook sales are stable since my customers come through my website. I tend to suspect that most people who steal eBooks aren't potential customers in any case, but who knows.
I have no doubt that iPad and Kindle are hackable, hacked, etc, in terms of getting eBooks off of them, especially since they offer PC reader options. But publishers for those devices are trying to increase their gross by being available on them, not worrying about people on computers stealing
At least I think that's the case.
- The Chinese guy said...
I worry about this too for my own books, although my books are not really commercial ventures they are more of a stepping stone for bigger things. I just hope to break even on LSI and most of them have broken even.
Some of the debates on torrent freak are interesting, although you should read them in a calm mood as some of the posts actually made me angry as there seemes to be an entire generation of people who seem to think that absolutely everything should be and can be gotten for free.
One of the comments on the woman who wrote the Twiglight series were seriously ad hominem.
I think the issue is that an awful lot of people don't seem to realise that making such information research and typing it up all takes time. My first work took me over 7 months 13 if you include the research time to write.
And a couple months to get through LSI.
I think publishers will have maybe 5-10 years grace period before ebook readers become incredibly mainstream in that comparing them to mobile phones we are probably at 1995 or something 5-10 years they will become so incredibly popular that piracy will jump massively.
You might want to check out the front page of torrent freak which states that since the Ipad came out ebook piracy has jumped to follow.
But in your closing comment above I think you are right in that essentially the creators of such work are just going to say, aw sack it, it simply isn't worth my time.
I've done this once already when people started to take my art work as their own!
- Morris Rosenthal said...
Chinese Guy,
Sad to hear you gave up on the art work. I'm going to wait for the numbers to add up to see what happens. It's less important to me whether 99 out of 100 of my readers are downloading stolen copies than whether the remaining 1 in 100 add up to enough to make it worthwhile without having to raise prices. I don't want to start charging people more than I think they should be paying to make up for all the pirates.
I have looked at discussion threads on piracy sites, I often find them when people are saying very complimentary things about my work, concluding with, "And here's where you can get it for free!" They might have made me angry years ago, now I just find them silly. Doesn't help that a few public speakers have made careers (getting paid for public speaking) justifying the piracy model.


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Research – Hydraulic Tomography – Examples
Steady State 3D Hydraulic Tomography
This example, from Yeh and Liu, 2000, illustrates the principle of hydraulic tomography for a small, steady-state synthetic case. Sandbox experiments were also performed using a both a simple stratification and a more realistic heterogeneous media. Inversion of the data collected from these laboratory experiments produced similar results (Liu, Yeh and Gardner, 2000). This method would be well suited for sites where multi-port (e.g., continuous multichannel tubing, Westbay, or Waterloo multilevel systems) observation wells have been installed for characterizing aquifer contamination. Superfund sites, where characterization of the heterogeneity of the subsurface, and the distribution of contaminants is important, would benefit greatly from this efficient method.
|Actual distribution of hydraulic conductivity.
|Results of hydraulic tomography.
|Pumping and observation locations.
Transient 2D Hydraulic Tomography
Estimate Hydraulic Conductivity (K)
In the above example, pressure data collected at observations after a long duration of pumping (at or near steady-state) were used. This is because at steady-state the response of the aquifer is only a function of hydraulic conductivity, not specific storage (the two components of the hydraulic diffusivity). This makes the analysis much more straight forward, and makes the dependence of pressure response to K alone more apparent. Current my research group is doing work which is showing that efficient analysis of transient tomographic pumping data is a reality.
|Actual distribution of hydraulic conductivity (K)
|Estimated K from Hydraulic Tomography with pumping and observation locations
Estimate Specific Storage (S)
A variation of the procedure used for estimating a distribution of K in the domain, can be used to estimate the specific storage. Typically K is estimated only from longer-term (near steady-state) observations from a pumping test, while S is obtained only from the early-time data, but using our algorithm and inverse methods, we can use any transient data (early or late) to improve both estimates.
|Actual distribution of Specific Storage (S).
|Estimated S from Hydraulic Tomography with pumping and observation locations
Transient 3D Hydraulic Tomography
The concepts introduced with the two-dimensional hydraulic tomography are generalized to three dimensions, so that a block of aquifer with heterogeneous properties can be characterized by using this method to analyze the data collected from several small pumping tests.
This method utilizes all of the data collected during a pumping test, not just the steady-state data, collected at the end of test, but using all data. Realistically, pumping tests cannot be run until they reach steady-state (which may be days or weeks for some aquifers), so this is quite useful for shorter real-world pumping tests.