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Tue, 23 July 2013
On this week's episode, Jon, Gabriel, Steve, and Matt mix things up with a little something they like to call director roulette. Steve tackles Brian G Hutton, Gabriel hits us with Alex Proyas, Matt Goes to the mat with Rob Zombie, and Jon takes it to the top rope with Jan De Bont! This all sounds so very interesting, why aren't you listening already?!


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Practice Hospitality
Last year, before graduation from high school, our oldest son was searching for the answer to the looming question, "What do I want to do with my life." Due to being moved up in the middle of his fourth grade year and already being young for his grade with a summer birthday, he walked the stage at just 16. It's hard enough for an 18-year-old to try to figure out what the future holds, but for a sixteen year old, who lacks two more years of maturity, it's even tougher.
To add to the struggle, similarly intelligent peers all seemed to be headed in one direction. I remember sitting at his national merit award breakfast, cheering, as one after another of the winners came forward to receive their certificate of achievement. As a part of the ceremony, the superintendent shared with the crowd of family and friends what each one of them wanted to study after high school. Again and again we heard the same thing. It seemed each one of the students was going to go into the field of engineering. Russel was only one of two kids who listed business, or anything other than engineering, as his area of interest.
As we left the ceremony I couldn't stop thinking about what unfolded there. A group of highly intelligent kids all feeling like they had one or two choices of fields to go into to use the gift of knowledge and understanding God blessed them with. Now I am not knocking the field of engineering. I have a degree in Biomedical engineering myself. What I questioned was the thought and steering they'd received that intelligence had few options after high school. As I talked with Russel about it, I told him not to put himself in any box. I said intelligence can be used in any field or area of interest.
There have been plenty of times I've offered advice to my teen age son, and it wasn't received. This time, by my surprise, it was fully embraced! I discovered this after Russel went to visit a University of Houston Open House; the same school where he is now attending college. He came back from that orientation so excited about what he'd found as an option for study. He'd met a guide there who was majoring in Hotel and Restaurant management, and after spending time listening to the ins and outs of what that entails; he was set that this field was for him!
Now, I have to be honest, I didn't jump up and down at the news initially. I thought, "He went too far!" I thought he was messing with me at first, saying that just to see if I'd stand by what I said. But he wasn't. He was dead serious. As I researched the field and had time to process myself, I realized what an opportunity this was for him. Yes, people who own or run hotels, restaurants, or country clubs make good money. That's important for his future ability to support a family in the way he'd like to. But it's more than that. This was a business degree that would teach him how to focus on the needs of people. Russel didn't want to be in a cube. He wanted to interact and work with others. It's perfect for that. And what it teaches, hospitality, is something he can use anywhere.
I remember when we were launching the West Campus, I taught our team on the topic of hospitality. This past Sunday I had a chance to speak to the guest services team at our church, and as I thought about what I wanted to share, this same message came back to mind. It's fitting for what we do on Sunday's; it's fitting for any area of our lives.
Many of those I talked with were like me. Before learning it's true meaning, when I heard the word, hospitality, I thought of magazines like Southern Living that taught how to set a table well, or how to arrange our homes in such a way that people would automatically feel welcome. In a church or business setting, I thought of hospitality teams as just those who served food or drinks to guests and others, or those who set the tables and made rooms beautiful for use. That can be a part of it, but hospitality is so much more than that. It was while studying Romans 12:13, that I found this out. Romans 12:13, says, "Share with the Lord's people who are in need. Practice hospitality."
The Greek word used there for hospitality, is philoxenia, which means love to strangers. So on Sundays, any time anyone comes in the doors of the church, we have a chance to offer hospitality. For Russel, anytime he works at the Hilton on campus at the University, while in training, he has a chance to practice hospitality. Hospitality is showing God's love to all who come our way in any setting.
When we look at hospitality that way, we realize we have a chance to offer hospitality anywhere we go. We can offer hospitality at the grocery store by offering to put up someone's cart, or help load groceries, or even by just sharing a smile and kind word to someone who seems to be having a tough day. We can offer hospitality at the office by blessing a coworker in some way. We don't have to have perfect homes to offer hospitality. We don't have to be Pinterest or Southern Living Queens. All we have to be is people who want to be vessels God can use to pour his love through to touch hurting humanity and all people with his love.
We are all in the hospitality industry! What a blessing it is to be used by God in this way.
Let's Pray: Father God, thank you for each and every opportunity I have to offer love to all you bring across my path today and every day. I recognize I am an imperfect vessel, and I thank you that you use me, even with all of my flaws and my desperate need of you, to pour your love out to those around me. Help me to be tuned in to needs everywhere. Give me a willing heart to obey your promptings to practice hospitality. Help me to remember it's not about me, but about what you can do through me. I love you Jesus, amen.


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'Access All Areas Conference: The role of current students in access and widening participation to higher education'
Access All Areas - Manchester University Students' Union
Thursday, 16 March 2017 from 09:30 to 18:00 (GMT)
Event Details
Who are Access All Areas?
Access All Areas is a student-led group at The University of Manchester Students' Union. The group support current students to create and participate in projects that aim to tackle educational inequalities.
Manchester Outreach Medics (Access All Areas) allowing local students to experience life as a medical student.
Who should attend the conference?
The conference is ideal for practitioners from students' unions, universities and widening participation organisations as well as current university students.
It will be of particular interest to those who hope to develop student leadership within access and widening participation initiatives.
What can be expected of the conference?
Join us at Hulme Hall on The University of Manchester Campus, to explore student leadership.
The conference will provide a selection of workshops from the following themes:
- Student leadership in widening participation
- Building and maintaining effective partnerships for widening participation projects
- Experience of Access All Areas and The Living Off Campus Project at The University of Manchester Students' Union
- Current students as ambassadors and role models
- Support that works (measuring impact)
Speakers will include:
University of Wolverhampton and Wolves SU, Sussex Students' Union, Kings' College London Students' Union, The Brilliant Club, IntoUniversity. University of Manchester – Widening Participation Department. University of Manchester Students' Union Off Campus Students' Project as well as some of our own student project leaders from the Manchester Outreach Medics and LGBTQ+ Peer Support Project.
We will also be joined by representatives from NUS (Malia Bouattia and Sarah Kerton) and NUS Scotland (Vonnie Sandlan).
When & Where
Hulme Hall
M14 5RR Manchester
United Kingdom
Thursday, 16 March 2017 from 09:30 to 18:00 (GMT)
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Access All Areas - Manchester University Students' Union
Access All Areas is the newest volunteering arm of the Students' Union, bringing together a range of student-led educational volunteer projects in the local community.
All of our projects have the same aim - to improve access and widen participation in education.
We lead workshops in local primary schools, run educational outreach projects and mentoring schemes in the community.
For more information, please contact our Access All Areas Chair, Memona : firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Location: Denver, CO
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Sounds like a plan. I've never been out there before. I'd love to see it
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Welcome. My wife cuts her hair every 2 years for Locks for Love.
She also can't wait to go out and visit her uncle in Denver before he moves for their laws.


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Peter's constituency stretches from Cardenden to central Leven, with Glenrothes and Levenmouth being its two largest population centres. He was elected to Parliament in 2015, achieving a swing of 35% from Labour to the SNP.
Peter was brought up in Lanarkshire and moved to Glenrothes in 1983. He worked as a teacher before retraining as an accountant with the NHS in Fife, and subsequently worked in a variety of finance related jobs in public sector and charitable organisations.
Peter served as a councillor in Glenrothes from 1992 until 2015. He was leader of Fife Council between 2007 and 2012.
In the last Parliament Peter was a member of the SNP's International Affairs team and served on parliament's European Scrutiny Committee and the Select Committee on Brexit.
Supported by his constituency staff Peter gained a reputation as a hard working local MP. He has championed the work of a number of local organisations who provide help to constituents living with the impact of UK austerity cuts. In the last year his team have helped to recover over £93,000 for constituents whose benefits or tax credits had been wrongly assessed by the DWP.
Peter lives in Glenrothes and has been married for nearly 33 years to Fiona, a local GP and Councillor.
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Steve talks about recording "Highway Star"...
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Joyce Foundation: Grants for Marine Conservation/
OVERVIEW: The Joyce Foundation generously supports groups working to manage stormwater, prevent pollution, rehabilitate damaged shorelines and waterways, and defend the lake ecosystem against invasive pests such as the Asian carp. The foundation also is keen on policymaking and field work, so its awards most often support groups that either work with government agencies or in coalitions to help build support for environmental policy change.
IP TAKE: The Joyce Foundation supports a variety of organizations and grantees; however, it has detailed rules guarding its funding, which grantseekers should study in-depth. It also appreciates those who partner with other organizations, whose work will thrive beyond Joyce's support, and policy work.
PROFILE: Beatrice Joyce Kean, sole heiress of the Joyce family, established the Joyce Foundation in 1948 to benefit the Great Lakes region. Its grantmaking is "driven by a belief that communities are stronger when they share benefits broadly among their people. That requires our public systems to get a few essentials right." Joyce invests in quality public education; expansion of economic opportunity for disadvantaged workers; and a more representative democracy; the environment; research-based strategies that can prevent gun violence; and culture with stories rooted in communities of color.
The Joyce Foundation conducts its marine-related grantmaking through its environment program, which is "committed to speeding the Midwest's transition to a thriving, low-carbon economy; protecting and restoring a healthy Great Lakes environment that sustains the millions of Americans and Canadians who live along the Lakes; and broadening the base of support for strong environmental policies in our home region." Rare among funders, the foundation offers email updates on its environmental investments. It can be found at the bottom of the program's page.
True to its legacy, Joyce still limits it's funding to the Great Lakes region. Nonprofits from Chicago, downstate Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin are most likely to secure the foundation's grantmaking. However, a handful of nonprofits from Canada win grants, too, but only if their work involves the Canadian side of the Great Lakes.
Grants can be quite generous. Grantees have been known to receive six-figure awards from Joyce, around $400,000 on the higher end, often in a single year. A few exceptional applicants have landed awards that exceed $1 million. The foundation also likes to support organizations that partner with others to pursue conservation goals together.
To add, the Joyce Foundation also appreciates supporting policy measures. No matter what cause it is funding, Joyce seeks grantees that seek to improve public policy, whether it does so through direct work with lawmakers or by helping to build critical masses of activism among the public. And it almost always awards grants for specific programs, as opposed to general operating support. This is a foundation that expects to see concrete actions and results flow from its investments. However, keep in mind that they have a concrete list of dos and don'ts for talking to legislators when its funds are involved.
The Joyce Foundation expects letters of inquiry to be submitted at least six to eight weeks prior to the proposal deadline for a given grant cycle. The foundation recommends initial LOIs be two to three pages and go directly to the appropriate program officer.
Grant proposals are considered at foundation board meetings in April, July, and December. Grant applicants are encouraged to submit their proposals for the April or July meetings, since most grant funds will be distributed at those times.
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03/01/18 Excelencia in Education, EPIK Dance Company
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Learn about Excelencia in Education and their mission to accelerate the success of Latino students in higher education. Sarita Brown, president and Deborah Santiago, chief operating officer and vice president for policy talk about the organization. EPIK Dance company is a street fusion dance company dedicated to sharing their passion for performing arts, music, and movement with the community.
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Join my blogging adventure as I stumble through better health & fitness with family fun along the way.
Monday, January 5, 2015
Inching closer to the goal
As we all trudge forward into another glorious year, I felt like this picture was a perfect mindset to start off the year. I wrote a piece( for The Journey) called Ho-Ho-Hold On that hit on the New Years Resolution phenomenon..ALL those bodies in the gym...but it was about then that too...it was about taking those small steps towards the bigger goal. What a perfectly named site right, The JOURNEY because that IS what it is all about.
I decided this year to try something different. I've talked about accountability, and that is SO important, but what have I really put at stake? What measurable goals have I shared with you? None. How do you know how I am doing other than through these fabulous updates? You don't. How do I really know? I don't. and that isn't fair...to you, or to me. So this year I am laying it all out there.
It has been a rough few weeks. This hip pain has only gotten worse, so I am FINALLY going to see another doctor and see what we can do. My hubby is having a similar problem, so there has to be something more to it all then just an overworked hip flexor muscle. I am excited about our appointments because we are meeting with a very accomplished kinesiologist and will both be getting full work ups...nutrition, blood work, alignment, everything. It has been hard with all this pain to even walk sometimes, so I am DEFINITELY not at a happy place on the scale...but even that doesn't matter. The goal is to get there. The goal is to see what I am doing to my body and correct the things that aren't working properly.
All that being said...it's time to look at hard numbers. I am a vain person. I have NEVER posted numbers like this before, but I think in order to make it sink in for myself...I need to be as honest as possible with myself...and with you, so here it goes.
As of this morning, Monday 1/15/15:
Weight: 131 (not since I was preggers have I hit this number)
Bust: 34
Waist: 27
Hips: 38
Thighs: 22
How do I set a goal from here? Inch wise I have no idea...less is better I guess, right?!?! weight wise, I am at the high end of normal for my height...so I would like to drop at least 10. Not a huge amount, but they always say the last 10 are the hardest. I have my work cut out for me. I will keep you posted, and will update the numbers once a month. I will let you know what the new doc says too...I am excited to see how my inner workings are doing. I think I will be in for a shock. The general stuff is good, that I know from having them done in November (cholesterol, BP, etc), this will go into things like thyroid and liver function, general nutrition, etc.
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Hi all, sorry you've had to wait so long for an update. I've been cooking and taking photos, but work and this amazing new game Rocket League have been taking up a significant amount of time… Also the gym, can't forget that… Ahh, fitness, the never ending journey. ANYWAYS.
This week, a fabulous warm and fuzzy squash soup, which I know may be the last thing on your mind in the Summer, but, its a fabulous treat to me just the same.
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup
Servings: 4, 383 cals/serving
- 2lbs butternut squash, peeled and cubed
- 10 slices of bacon
- 1 large white onion
- 1 apple (honey crisp or granny smith is my fav)
- 1 red pepper
- 6 cloves of peeled garlic
- 1 cup white wine (dry is better than sweet here)
- 4 cups chix broth
- 8oz of goat cheese
- Spices: salt, pepper, red chili flakes, cinnamon and garlic
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1) Get chopping… Prep is THE BIGGEST part of this recipe unfortunately. For the users that want to stop reading, keep going. I promise the tasty result at the end is worth it. Pre-heat your oven to 425 degrees and place foil on a 13 x 9 pan, spray with non-stick cooking spray.
2) Grab your butternut squash, cut off the ends, peel, de-seed and cube, add to tray. Peel and cube your onion. Cube your apple and pepper minus core and add all to sheet. Add pinch of pepper and salt and place in oven for 60 minutes.
3) Grab a sauce pan, heat, cube your bacon and dice your peeled garlic cloves. Add to pan and stir until browned and fragrant. Place on side on paper towel lined plate.
4) When your timer is up, remove veggies from oven and set aside. Grab a large stock pot, add 4c of chix stock and 1 cup of white wine to pot. Add all cooked veggies to pot and seasoning. My secret is the cinnamon, gives it a fabulous flavor. I usually add 1-2 tablespoons. Bring to a boil and then turn down heat and simmer for 15 minutes to soften veggies further with liquid.
5) Take your immersion blender, and blend until thick and bright orange. Add 4oz of goat cheese and give one more round of blender around the pot.
6)Divide into equal servings and top with bacon/garlic mixture and remaining goat cheese equal parts.
ENJOY! Recipe is gluten free and adapted from the beautiful Danielle at Krafted Koch
Happy cooking and eating, until next time! 🙂


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Artist Self Promotion
Posted by Gayle Levee, 19 May 2011 · 1,643 views
This morning I served on a panel, along with Meg Nordmann of NashvilleArts Magazine, Beth Inglish of Binglish Art, and Cathleen Windham of the Chestnut Group. My contribution mostly had to do with how to make ourselves do the necessary self promotion! Here is what I said:
The biggest problem I have had with self promotion (and I think this is true for many artists) is my own reticence. I'm a private person, my art is close to my heart, and I'm not inclined to blow my own horn.
Yet how can anyone know about our beautiful art if we don't tell them?
For years, I used to go about my painting and then work myself up to a big, heart-racing, adrenaline-filled promotional effort like putting a stamp on the application to a juried show. A few weeks later the rejection notice would arrive, I would be despondent, and it would be a LONG time before I could work up the courage to do that again!
I've concluded that the best way for me to deal with self-promotion is to think of it as just another chore, like mowing the lawn or cleaning the toilet, and put self-promotional chores on the calendar so they will get done regularly.
Once every quarter, I send out my workshop information, since I teach on a quarterly basis. That gets sent to my snail mail and email lists, and published online on my website and Facebook. Plaza also sends it out to their mailing list. My own mailing list started with six people. Every time anyone expresses interest in my workshops, I add their name.
Once a month I enter a juried exhibit (receiving the rejection slips happens about once a month too!)
Once a month I spend some time researching advertising venues and
working with those costs.
Once a month I send out something to a magazine for free submission.
Once a month I feature the work of one of my students on Facebook.
Several times a week I post something on Facebook or my blog.
My gallery relationships are like friendships. These are people I keep up with casually, calling on the phone, sending an email or dropping by. When I have new work, I send an email to the out of town galleries, or I bring it in to Richland. Sometimes I will have a nice bound printed book made up to send to my out of town galleries so they have something to show their clients.
I'm about to expand to some more galleries, now that the recession is easing up. To do this, I will first research galleries which carry work that may be complemented by what I do, but not quite like what I do.Then I'll send some samples, either in a printed book or by email. To find new galleries will take the same kind of persistence that the other promotion takes, as most galleries will tell me they are "not taking on new artists just now."
Self promotion can be difficult for us sensetive artist types, and to grit my teeth, close my eyes and just make it a regular chore seems to work for me better than anything else I've tried. Hope this helps!


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Another ART4SPACE screening has been announced, this time in New York City. The event will take place on Tuesday October 29th 2013 at the Sunshine Cinema on 143 E Houston St. The Screenings is from 8:00pm to 9:00pm and entry is free. If you're thinking of going please let us know, we'd love a review or some photos from the night.
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Minority protection norms - the setup, the interpretation and the practice
An effective protection of national minorities presupposes a clear and consistent legal framework, established institutional arrangements which provide efficient implementation of set norms, and effective remedies and protection mechanisms in case of violation of guaranteed rights. Exactly these areas form a core of the interest of the Cluster and the main strategic areas for research and action-oriented projects.
••• Normative Framework(s) for Minority Protection: The work in this area focuses on legal guarantees of national minority rights set in domestic legislation throughout Europe. The research addresses the quality of legal frameworks in general, plus the legal setup of specific national minority rights in particular. It also analyses to what extent established legal (normative) setups in domestic legislation provide a channel for the implementation of European standards (set in the FCNM and the ECRML).
••• Implementation and Protection of National Minority Rights: Even a perfectly formulated legal act can remain a façade, impotent to produce effects. Thus, the quality of minority protection depends to great extent on the quality of the implementation of set norms and especially of guaranteed rights. Thus, the focus here lies on identifying shortcomings in implementation and the causes of such shortcomings. In addition, the focus lies on justiciability of national minority rights, on remedies which are on disposal if national minority rights have been violated, on effectiveness of such remedies, and on analysis of the case-law relevant for national minority protection.
••• Institutional Arrangements: Here our interest lies in varying institutional arrangements at different levels of governance related to minority protection, in particular: decentralization of powers and mechanisms at regional and local level of governance for protection of national minorities, impacts of autonomy arrangements on the quality of minority protection, and consultative mechanisms established to channel participation of national minorities in public affairs.
••• Minority Protection Dynamics (New Trends): Protection of national minorities should not lead to their conservation and underdevelopment. Minorities as well as minority protection should keep pace and follow the developments in modern society. Thus, the focus in this respect lies in new challenges in minority protection, as well as the specific dynamics in minority protection. In this respect, the following can be of relevance: the collection and protection of ethnic sensitive data, the impact of the development of e-administration on the enjoyment of national minority rights, mobility and migration, multiple-identities, and dynamics within minority groups (with the emphasis on the democracy from within).


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It's tiresome to hear people declare that every trip to the polls is "the most important election in our lifetime" or "in the past decade" or "since the last one." Even if it weren't a hackneyed phrase, it's impossible to know whether an election is all that significant until the people who win have a chance to govern. So, no predictions here about whether the 2013 municipal elections will change anything other than names on doors.
But there are reasons the race could be important: All three citywide offices, four of the five borough presidencies and most of the City Council will turn over; the city will be bidding farewell to a three-term mayor, marking the end of an era; there is a crowded field for the top job–at least 10 serious candidates between the two parties, with another two or three people weighing a run.
The biggest question, though, is whether most of the city will care, let alone vote.
Only 26 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the 2009 mayoral election, down from a pretty poor 33 percent in 2005. And the turnout numbers seem to reflect a deeper, even more troubling problem of people disengaging from the civic sphere–feeling that the government and our elections belong to someone else.
The media has a lot of important jobs in the political process, like simply reporting what the candidates say so that voters who do pay attention can pick the person they want to vote for, and checking at least some of those campaign claims to see if they bear some resemblance to the truth. But sometimes the coverage of elections–with its focus on fundraising numbers, commercials and strategy–not only misses the big story of voter disengagement, it could even contribute to the estrangement.
This year, in partnership with City & State and WNET's MetroFocus, City Limits is going to cover the campaign a different way. Rather than just following what the candidates do, we're going to report on how the campaign–and the city–look to small groups of people in five city neighborhoods.
Are the campaign debates getting any notice in public housing in Brownsville? Does anyone who frequents an Upper West Side diner actually watch the candidates' commercials? How do patrons of a Staten Island bar feel about the way post-Sandy issues are being addressed? What do folks in Bayside think of the mayor? What do customers at a Mott Haven restaurant want out of the next one?
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Home Without Security Alarm System Burgled Several Times
By Angela, (IL), I moved out of my mother's home and in with a boyfriend who had recently bought a home in the center of our town in an area known as "The Elms". This area had historically been a geriatric neighborhood with well-tended lawns and quiet neighbors. Unfortunately, as the economy declined, crime rose in areas such as this which offered affordable, small houses.
We were broken into in January and lost $4,500 of belongings and incurred damage to our home amounting to $1,800. The security bars (which should have been a warning not to buy the home) were torn from our bedroom window, which had unwittingly been left unlocked throughout the winter. All of our electronics, cash, and many other items were stolen and my Harley Davidson clothes which I required for work were possibly the most troublesome.
Our cat was shaken and under a neighbors bush, while our dog remained in the house and hiding until we returned home. The theft occurred in broad daylight, in winter, when snow was on the ground. Our elderly neighbors saw or heard nothing although with the volume and size of items stolen, there must have been a vehicle involved.
We felt unsafe and I (as a small female) felt incapable of being home alone. We began looking into alarm systems but found the options expensive and limited. Instead, we decided to look for larger, more intimidating dogs (as I am a professional trainer and our beagle does not seem as opposing.) We had been considering adding another dog into our home before the break in, and this provided motivation.
We found a lovely Catahoula/Lab mix which previously belonged to a Military family and was well-trained at a local shelter. We began the daunting task of teaching Zeus to bark at everyone and everything in the radius except for us, of course. He was also trained not to take food from strangers. This made us feel more comfortable, however, in June (6 months after the first break in) my boyfriend arrived home from work early to find all the lights on in our home. Both dogs greeted him loose in the front yard. Apparently, he had arrived home during or directly after another break-in, this time through a dead-bolted back door.
The frame of the door was broken and left hanging. This time, only a few electronics were stolen not enough to meet the insurance deductible. Only the small valuables in one room, the living room, were stolen. We believe this was due to an imposing dog being present. The most valuable items in the house were in a spare bedroom and were untouched. Zeus, our guard dog, later brought me a large bone from what appeared to be a steak. While I'm sure he didn't take it from their hand, he may have been convinced to take it from the ground temporarily outside while our thieves made their escape.
In short, we were once again fearful and uncomfortable, and now we worried about our pets safety. We began looking for homes to move out of the area, but in the meantime we needed something quick. We once again began looking into alarm companies, aware that the installation and equipment fee would be cheaper than having our valuables stolen and house damaged yet again, even when added to the $50/bag pet food.
APX alarms would not schedule a consultation with us, while ADT sent a spokesperson to our home to discus options. Unfortunately, we were told the only package included a motion detector which would be ineffective with our animals. Although the salesperson claimed this detector could ignore animals under 60 llbs, we both knew our 55 lb dog was as large as a teenager and as energetic. The salesperson said this package could not be adjusted we would receive two door alarms, one motion sensor, and one glass break sensor which was placed on the window to sense vibrations. Knowing that our cat enjoys batting at birds from the window, we knew this option would also be ineffective. The service and installation were expensive, and we elected to only buy window decals and a yard sign for $75.00 (which was, in itself, ridiculously expensive).
Disheartened, a coworker referred us to a local auxiliary police officer who did security installation and service on the side. We met with him and he informed us that he buys equipment directly from ADT Security and uses their same call center, only leases a small part for his personal service. He could offer us with any package we wanted, and was available locally for service, repairs, and questions. His charge was also significantly cheaper than ADT- $30/month monitoring or $300/year, and $749 total installation for 4 glass breaks and two door sensors. The touchpad itself was also ran through DSL, rather than the wireless option that ADT alarms offered.
Installation took a few days and required tedious adjustments dog barks and lightning/thunder set off the glass breaks (which were wall-mounted and required both vibration and high-pitched noise, as did dropping a pan in our kitchen. However, after the adjustments, we easily adjusted to entering a code when we arrived and left the house, and hearing the occasional "beep" to know that everything was functioning. Luckily, we found a house to buy in a neighboring small town that is, truly, geriatric. While the house sat empty and was listed to sell, we continued to pay for the alarm system even though the house was empty. We are thankful we did, as twice we have received phone calls from the alarm company alerting us to glass-breaks. Both times we have called the police and met them at the house to find a storm window had tried to be kicked in.
Obviously the thieves were not scoping the house, as they would have known it was long empty and had no frequent visitors. The security lights were also bright enough to be seen from the porch showing "alarmed" and "functioning." We can only imagine how much damage could have been caused by angry thieves in an empty and meticulously cleaned house.
When my coworkers and friends say they are looking for a new house, I give them the auxiliary policeman's card and steer them away from any questionable neighborhoods. I stopped purchasing electronics from retailers that do not report to the police or acquire identification before providing cash for items. And, most importantly, I was able to re-train our Zeus to be friendly to anyone and everyone he meets.


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1. Q: difference between Economical Remy, Deluxe Indian Remy,
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Virgin hair is not processed chemically and it keeps cuticle intact. you can dye it any color,either darker or lighter.Please test a small sample first and see whether it can be dyed to your desirable color.
5.Q. Can I wash & blow-dry the hair extensions
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The reforms of the Family Court unveiled today by Mr Justice Ryder are likely to be a case of re-arranging the deckchairs:-
Inquisitorial judges at heart of family reform proposals Tuesday 31 July 2012 by Catherine Baksi
The longstanding problems with the Family Court will never change until control over the Court and its cases is taken out of the hands of Judges appointed from the English Bar and out of the control or influence of their colleagues at the English Bar.
The Family Court has a reputation amongst the public, practitioners, politicians, expert witnesses and journalists for administering injustice. Ryder reform plans will likely not bring about change to that reputation.
We need a new system to break up the incestuous organic and social relationships behind the English Bar's system of Barristers' Chambers and appointments to the Judiciary – mainly from its own members.
There is an unhealthy relationship between the Judges, predominantly from the English Bar and their friends and former colleagues at the Bar who appear before them. They in practice control most of what takes place. The problems with the Family Court are systemic and organic. So it is unlikely any judge appointed to deal with the problems will ever go to the heart of the matter.
The Family Court is and will continue to be a Court whose Judges fail to observe basic principles of procedural fairness and justice. The long abandonment of pleadings means issues are introduced on spec in Court instead of being defined in advance. Litigants can be and are taken by surprise and faced with a litany of invention and accusation introduced "on spec" during the course of a case which they have to try to answer and when least fitted psychologically to do so.
This is at the culmination of a long process during which they have been softened up by unpalatable conduct of some lawyers and when they have been are subjected to considerable stress, not knowing what invention and accusation they may face at the next hearing before the trial.
The position is compounded by the Judges of the Family Court who appear to do nothing whatsoever about improper litigation conduct by the lawyers who appear before them as Officers of the Court and who may be their former colleagues, current friends and social peers.
It is a Court system which rewards the wrongdoer and punishes the victim. Those of the lawyers who fail to observe accepted standards of conduct in Family Court cases and routinely act in contravention of their obligations to the Court and under the rules of Court go undealt with, save to the extent they are rewarded with the outcome they seek by such conduct.
The worst aspects of course are when it comes to children and the false evidence presented by social workers from some local authorities and the consequent cases which some members of the English Bar present. There has long been complaint about these abuses and nothing has been done. Ryder will never address that. The litigants cannot do it – it is the lawyers who do it for them and the Judges who make it all happen. And the Judges just let it go on day in and day out.
The Family Court thus operates and maintains a Cheats Charter. Under the auspices of the Court wrongdoers who play the system and break the rules are rewarded and victims of that wrongdoing punished. The Judges do nothing about sometimes rampant impropriety taking place daily within the walls of their Courts and even under their noses. And nor do other members of the English Bar despite it being their duty to report it.
Regrettably of course it is a self-perpetuating system in that those members of the Bar who do operate unscrupulously and unlawfully may eventually be recruited to the ranks of the judiciary. Not all members of the English Bar behave improperly and likely many or most do not, but one too many do and they are allowed to get away scot free by their colleagues and Judges alike. The public as always pay the price and the lawyers collect.
We could clean up litigation in this country in six months if improper conduct were to be dealt with at source at the time in the Court. With the current social and other relationships between Judges and the English Bar that will of course never happen.
We can see from the report in the Gazette yesterday that the claimed high ethical standards of the English Bar are a myth, which go unpoliced by any effective system of regulation:-
"Review slams 'systemic failures' in bar's disciplinary system" Monday 30 July 2012 by Catherine Baksi
Solicitor Judges and Solicitor Advocates are a step forward in breaking up this cosy insidious cartel in British justice controlled by Judges appointed predominantly from the English Bar and by the Bar. But that is hardly even a pin-prick on the carbunkel.
The Bar Council better start looking at its own ranks before it has any standing to attack the only relatively recent phenomenon of Solicitor Advocates.
Ha Ha. Londoners Come Last In Olympics – "Ha Ha Road Closed" – Official Olympic Road Closure Signs
July 16, 2012
The pictures here are of road closures signs officially placed in London for the 2012 Olympics saying "Ha Ha Road Closed". Olympic Road Closures took effect from today. These signs were last week at a junction near the The Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich South-East London which is hosting Shooting, Paralympic Shooting, and Paralympic Archery at the London 2012 Summer Olympics.
Road closures will cause significant traffic disruption for Londoners. Last week similar pictures were touted to The Sun and Daily Mirror newspapers but were not published. By today the signs have gone – no doubt someone realised the potential public relations impact.
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More information on road closures can be found on Get Ahead of The Games website.
Who Says The Old Bill Are Flatfoots? Met Police Execute "CSI" Result In Less Than 12 Hours
March 28, 2012
Not even the fictional CSI Captain James (Jim) Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) of the Homicide Division who works with the CSI team and Dr. Gilbert "Gil" Grissom, (Ph.D.) the fictional star character of the original CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, have done anything like this in less than 24 hours in one of the shows in the successful and popular US TV series, screened also on UK TV screens.
Late last night in a London residential area, acting on detailed information received of a suspected burglary involving the suspected theft of electronic equipment from a London residence, New Scotland Yard's emergency call centre responded rapidly to calls with the despatch of Metropolitan Police officers in three patrol cars with uniformed officers to seek out the fleeing suspects.
With the assistance of information from the public, and despite rapid flight in the dark of the night and cunning and evasive tactics by the suspects to avoid detection and CCTV, the officers executed one or more arrests of suspect(s) within hours and were processing the paperwork for the case within much less than 12 hours!!
Well done Old Bill. Smart work.
And US CSI scriptwriters, you really must beef up your scripts. Mr Plod over here and Inspector Knacker of the Yard are ancient history. Even your fictional TV crimefighters are not as quick off the mark as the real thing over here. Maybe you should start watching the UK TV series "The Bill" to pick up a few tips from Sun Hill police station, in the fictional "Canley Borough Operational Command Unit" in East London. Ha!!
This blog is making no suggestion that any apprehended suspect is a perpetrator of the suspected burglary. Innocence is presumed until the contrary is proven to the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt.
No further details can be or will be provided. Sorry folks. You'll just have to read about it in the papers [maybe] one day, if at all. That is up to "Old Bill's" press office or a lucky local journalist being in the right Court on the right day, if charges are brought and pursued by the Crown Prosecution Service.
POSTSCRIPT 2/Apr/2012: The case was in the local magistrates Court on the Thursday morning. Tuesday night to in Court on Thursday morning must be something of a record for a burglary?
If you thought it was OK to display an image on your blog or website which you have never copied but include by including a weblink to the image on someone else's website [embedding] then think again. You could be made liable for damages for copyright infringement.
At least that is the case in Germany today according to the Dusseldorf Court of Appeal [8 October 2011, I-20 U 42/11]. Embedding content now appears to be copyright infringement by making the content available to the public on your website even though you have never taken and kept a copy of the image yourself and even though the image is never "physically" part of your website. The Dusseldorf appeal court overruled the lower Court of First Instance.
The Defendant in the case had included links on his blog to two photographs which appeared on the Claimant's website. No prior permission had been sought or obtained.
This is a completely different case from that of simply including a link on your blog or website to content which only appears on the site to which you link. Mere linking is not, in Germany, copyright infringement but obviously the person viewing cannot view the linked content on your site or blog but must follow the link to the original site to do so.
UK Banks Responsible For Direct Debit Scams – Don't Use Direct Debit Or You Could Lose Your Money
January 26, 2012
If you want to avoid problems with your money and bank accounts, the message has to be "don't use Direct Debits and don't let anyone, not even a company you think is reputable, have your bank account details and don't trust your bank to be honest". It is clear that as automated payments go, Standing Order is by far the safer bet where you have full control over what is paid out of your bank account.
And does this also sound far-fetched:
National Westminster Bank plc, in particular, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group of banks encourages Direct Debit scams and enables fraudsters to take money out of your bank account with non-existent Direct Debits. And when the problem occurs they do nothing to prevent a recurrence. NatWest appears to have no anti-fraud measures regarding Direct Debits and appear to care even less about this problem.
In fact it is not far-fetched and has been going on for a number of years. The problem of Direct Debit fraud is extensive according to research by Liverpool Victoria Insurance which reveals that over 97,000 Britons have fallen victim to criminals setting up fraudulent direct debits from their accounts. An average of £540 goes missing before the customer notices. Direct debit payment fraud in 2010 accounted for around 10.6% of all identity fraud cases. The extent of Direct Debit scamming is set to grow to 41,000 cases a year by 2013, equating to a 57% rise.
But that is only part of the problem. And it is not just "criminals" but what many decades ago might have been considered "reputable" organisations.
It appears that if you have issued a genuine Direct Debit instruction which is later cancelled – so that there is no longer any Direct Debit – money can be and is being taken from bank accounts just like yours under the non-existent Direct Debit.
The research shows that in 2009 £385 million was taken from customers' bank accounts with obsolete Direct Debits. For those customers who find out, it takes them on average four months to notice and its cost around £190 each time.
No figures or estimates were provided for what this costs customers who do not notice. However, it is clear there is substantial number of people losing considerable amounts of money annually because the obsolete Direct Debit is neither noticed nor recovered.
So how can you not notice? Only one in five customers (21%) confirmed they check their balance once a month. The average customer who does notice takes 4 months to do so. For cases where the loss is noticed but accounts are not checked monthly they lose 10% more [£611 compared to £540 for those who check their bank statements at least once a month].
Another reason this is not noticed by consumers is that some Direct Debits are annual and for small amounts which do not get picked up and corrected.
And is that the end of the problem. No chance. When you contact the bank they will tell you you must contact the company who took the money out of your account to agree cancellation of the Direct Debit before you can get a refund. That is wholly untrue. The express terms of the Direct Debit scheme are that you only need to contact your bank to cancel the Direct Debit. Once it is cancelled it legally no longer exists – there ceases to be a valid Direct Debit. You only need to contact your bank and no one else. The binding legal contractual provision binding on all parties provides:-
…… If an error is made in the payment of your Direct Debit, by …… your bank or building society you are entitled to a full and immediate refund of the amount paid from your bank or building society. ……..
You can cancel a Direct Debit at any time by simply contacting your bank or building society. Written confirmation may be required. Please also notify us."
And is that the end of the problem? No chance. That previously annual now non-existent cancelled Direct Debit for £85.00 can still be used to take money out of your bank account for years to come or even sporadically some years and not others. It is a crooked company's dream. If they do this and it is not noticed they gain. If it is noticed you get your money back after your time is wasted but the same company can do the same thing next year and the next and the next.
And is that the end of the problem? No chance. In the case of NatWest they do not even check to ensure there is any Direct Debit at all before taking the money out of your account. The UK's National Westminster Bank plc, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group of banks may not be the only bank which is encouraging Direct Debit fraud but it is one where it is now clear there are no controls against anyone setting up Direct Debits on your NatWest account nor against repeatedly doing so.
Here is what happened to a NatWest business customer in Wales:-
Snowdonia Tourist Services hit by fraudsters by Dan Beavan, Daily Post Apr 27 2009
A TOURISM agency lost hundreds of pounds after fraudsters set up fake direct debits to take cash from its accounts. ….. Hefin and Marian Williams and their daughter Gwen Thomas, 48, were shocked someone had managed to set up the fake direct debits …. they say they've been let down by the authorities and have been left with no protection against the same thing happening again …..
Angry Gwen said: "It would appear anyone can do this without us authorising it. If I want to speak to my bank I have to answer eight questions, yet they let just anyone set up direct debits on our account. If you notice an odd direct debit and ask the bank to explain, you're given the phone number of the company to start sorting it out yourself. Once you've convinced that company that you've not set up the direct debit, you have to phone the bank back to arrange an indemnity refund. After noticing a number of fraudulent debits on their account this month and last, Gwen said NatWest told her she "shouldn't worry" because they were protected by indemnity. Gwen said: "But that's if you notice someone has taken money in the first place." She's asked the bank not to allow any direct debits on their account – but the bank said it couldn't.
A NatWest spokesman said: " …. It's not our practice to advise customers when a new direct debit is set up …."
The writer of this blog item has banked with NatWest for some years and has direct experience of this problem. Every year for over 8 years NatWest has been allowing an organisation to take money out of a business account with a non-existent Direct Debit. It may only be a small amount of money but it is only picked up because of accounting procedures and it takes time every year to sort out – and time is money.
The overall problem of course is the steady and continuing erosion of ethical behaviour in leading financial and governmental institutions. If the Board Directors of RBS or NatWest or their children or other relatives become the victims of crime or do not like rioting and looting like that seen recently on London's streets, they are in no position to complain. They are setting the moral and ethical standards and the ethos which others copy in one way or another.
Evidence-Based Medicine or Ignorance-Based Evidence
September 28, 2011
New peer reviewed papers published today Wednesday September 28th 2011 in the International Journal of Person Centered Medicine reveal Evidence-Based Medicine [EBM], the reigning medical paradigm for the practice of modern medicine for the past 30 years, as an inevitable failure from its inception and that the "Gold Standard" of evidence in modern medicine, randomised controlled trials [RCTs] as currently practised should be abandoned. The irony of EBM's failure is that its proponents over the past 30 years simultaneously claimed the scientific high ground whilst having failed to adopt a scientific approach to EBM's foundations. EBM is fatally philosophically wounded.
Penston, J (2011). "The Irrelevance of Statistics-Based Research to Individual Patients", The International Journal of Person Centered Medicine 1, 2, 240-249.
Miller, CG; Miller, DW "The Real World Failure of Evidence-Based Medicine" IJPCM 2011 1,2 295-300
The second of the above cited papers is by Clifford Miller and Professor Donald Miller. It asks whether EBM "may have to be consigned to the wastebasket of medical mistakes, alongside bleeding people in the 17th and 18th centuries and treating syphilis with mercury in the 19th and early 20th centuries".
This puts in question the reliability of the formal medical journal published evidence base underpinning modern medical research and practice. The impact is on medicine and its practice is at every level internationally. Evidence-Based Medicine was doomed from its inception, lacking logical, scientific and theoretical foundations. Large scale RCTs are used universally to prove the safety and efficacy of new drugs but commonly used to claim "small" treatment effects. This means in that in the majority of recipients, the drugs are shown to have no effect. In only small numbers are effects claimed and those claims are shown now to be based on flawed premises where even the claimed effect may not exist.
Randomised controlled trials and epidemiological studies provide the grounds for much of clinical medicine and consequently affect the lives of millions of patients around the world. But this statistics-based research offers little to individual patients.
The ability to generalise the results of these studies to the wider population of patients is unsuccessful. External validity is brought into question by the selection involved in the recruitment process and in the participation in clinical trials. Thus, we cannot know with any confidence to whom the results apply and this has obvious implications for individual patients. Yet, there is a further problem: conventional statistical analysis involves the frequentist approach which entails that probabilities only apply to classes. Hence, the results of this type of research are not strictly applicable to individuals.
But even if we set aside the difficulties associated with external validity, there is a more important problem which relates to the size of the treatment effect. Large-scale studies entail that any treatment effect detected will be very small. While this is often hidden by the use of relative risk reductions, once the absolute treatment difference is presented, the paltry size of the benefit becomes clear. This has little importance or relevance to the lives of individual patients and, as is argued, has doubtful meaning.
Current medical practice encourages patients' participation in decisions regarding their care and this includes providing them with sufficient information to enable them to make informed choices about their treatment. However, were they to be told about the problems with external validity and the true size of the benefit – not to mention the many other problems with statistics-based research – it is likely that far fewer would accept treatment than is currently the case.
Further reference may be had to the recent book by British NHS medical doctor Dr James Penston "Stats.con – How we've been fooled by statistics-based research in medicine." The London Press. London, November 2010.
As a way to make medical decisions, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) has failed. EBM's failure arises from not being founded on real-world decision-making. EBM aspires to a scientific standard for the best way to treat a disease and determine its cause, but it fails to recognise that the scientific method is inapplicable to medical and other real-world decision-making. EBM also wrongly assumes that evidence can be marshaled and applied according to an hierarchy that is determined in an argument by authority to the method by which it has been obtained. If EBM had valid theoretical, practical or empirical foundations, there would be no hierarchy of evidence. In all real-world decision-making, evidence stands or falls on its inherent reliability. This has to be and can only be assessed on a case-by-case basis applying understanding and wisdom against the background of all available facts—the "factual matrix." EBM's failure is structural and was inevitable from its inception. EBM confuses the inherent reliability and probative value of evidence with the means by which it is obtained.
EBM is therefore an ad hoc construct and is not a valid basis for medical decision-making. This is further demonstrated by its exclusion of relevant scientific and probative real-world decision-making evidence and processes. It draws upon a narrow evidence base that is itself inherently unreliable. It fails to take adequate account of the nature of causation, the full range of evidence relevant to its determination, and differing approaches to determining cause and effect in real-world decision-making. EBM also makes a muddled attempt to emulate the scientific method and it does not acknowledge the role of experience, understanding and wisdom in making medical decisions.
A recent English Supreme Court decision on copyright in Star Wars merchandise spells bad news for George Lucas and his Lucasfilm companies: Lucasfilm Ltd & Ors v Ainsworth & Anor [2011] UKSC 39 (27 July 2011)
British based Andrew Ainsworth was making and selling copies of the distinctive body armour costumes of the Imperial Stormtroopers used in the highly successful Star Wars films. Between 1974 and 1976 Ainsworth was one of the original creators, responsible for the injection mouldings for the costumes when Mr Lucas had come to live in England while the first Star Wars film was made [at Elstree Studios, Elstree on the outskirts of London (there was also filming on location in Tunisia)].
Lucasfilm however own the intellectual property rights in the designs.
Mr Ainsworth later sold to some customers in the United States costumes that he made in England. In 2005 Lucasfilm sued Mr Ainsworth in the United States District Court, Central District of California, and in 2006 it obtained a default judgment for $20m, $10m of which represented triple damages under the Lanham Act. A "default judgement" is one where the defendant takes no part in the proceedings. The whole judgment remains unsatisfied. Ainsworth is unlikely to be visiting the USA in the near future no doubt. It is also difficult if not impossible to enforce a US judgement in an English Court and vice versa. So Lucasfilm also commenced proceedings in the Chancery Division of the English High Court.
The case was appealed to the English Supreme Court. The only way Lucasfilm could squeeze a copyright infringement claim into an English Court was to claim the costumes were copies of an artistic work and the only artistic work in English copyright law they could try to rely on was a "sculpture".
The Supreme Court rejected the contention that the original designs for the costumes were sculptures.
George Lucas' concept of the Imperial Stormtroopers as threatening characters in "fascist white-armoured suits" was given visual expression in drawings and paintings by an artist, Mr Ralph McQuarrie, and three-dimensional form by Mr Nick Pemberton (a freelance scenic artist and prop-maker) and Mr Andrew Ainsworth (who is skilled in vacuum-moulding in plastic). Mr Pemberton made a clay model of the helmet, which was adapted several times until Mr Lucas was happy with it. Mr Ainsworth produced several prototype vacuum-moulded helmets. Once Mr Lucas had approved the final version Mr Ainsworth made 50 helmets for use in the film. These events all took place in England between 1974 and 1976.
The Supreme Court upheld Lucasfilm's contention that they could sue in England for copyright infringement under US copyright law for sales in the USA.
So it looks like Ainsworth can carry on making and selling the Stormtrooper body armour costumes as long as he does not sell into the USA or any country with copyright law which might prevent such sales. As the US judgement was a default judgement, it is not established between these parties in a contested case that making and selling the costumes in the USA is infringement either. [So if a US lawyer would like to comment here they are more than welcome].
That part of the judgement is of little use to Lucasfilm in any event and is a Pyrrhic victory.
Ainsworth sold goods to the value of US $8,000 but not more than US $30,000 which is hardly worth bothering with in comparison to the publicity generated for Lucasfilm's lack of ability to prevent copying of the Star Wars Stormtrooper white body armour in the UK and some other countries.
So it looks like the floodgates might be opened up to cheap copies for some kinds of merchandise from blockbuster Hollywood films [as long as no patent or design protection laws apply instead of copyright]. Be warned though. This does not mean registered trademarks can be used – like "Star Wars" to describe the copy products. And be careful. Just in case any other Star Wars merchandise did start out life as something which does qualify as a "sculpture".


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Well I wasted my time, might as well say I know who the winners are going to be already.
UnCivil_Engineer - Medic Assists
Equipto - Kills
Thats it, I'm giving up, I put like 8 hours into medic today, only to find out UnCivils put about 16 into it.
Great contest, it was fun! Someday Equipto I'll have 14hrs to spend to get my free copy:P
I did good, most shotgun and most rocket kills!
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Too bad it wans't flag-capping, taunt kills, deflected projectiles, self-teleporting, or FaN kills or I'd be right there.
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I got Most SMG Kills(45) and Most Sniper kills(615)...imagine all those poor families. A Heavy can just spray-and-pray and not witness his brutality, a Demo can just throw up stickies and turn while people blow up behind him, but behind a scope...*shudder*....oh the humanity!
grats to equipto and conebone. enjoy L4D2, I HATE YOU =)


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It is Day Ten since the earthquake struck Nepal and the scale of the devastation is only just becoming evident. The official death toll has now crossed 7,000, of which 5,000 have been confirmed in remote rural areas. As many as 15,000 people are injured, many critically. Aftershocks continue to rattle central Nepal and most people are still too jittery to come to terms with what has happened.
As Kathmandu limps back to a new normal, the tragedy in rural Nepal is far from over. Homeless survivors are coping with unseasonal rains, obliterated livelihoods and very little by way of relief support. As if the weather and the terrain weren't challenging enough, landslides have swept away mountain trails – their only connection to the outside world.
Time is running out. Chances are that subsistence farmers will miss the planting season which is only three weeks away. The monsoon is barely six weeks away and with it the likelihood of epidemics and more misery. The poorest have been hit the hardest.
As the administrative machinery flip flops the thin line between coordination and control, citizens groups have sprung into action. Thousands of young Nepali women and men – many who suffered tragedies of their own – are volunteering to reach out to the less fortunate. Nepal's security forces have won high accolades for their professionalism. Social media is abuzz and friends of Nepal across the world are contributing what they can. These are the real heroes in this tragedy.
Among the survivors in Kathmandu there are mixed feelings of gratitude and dread. "What if" questions pervade most conversations. What if the earthquake had struck at night? What if it had hit on a school day? What if the only international airport was damaged? What if the hospitals were wiped out? What if vital supply chains were blocked?
Obviously, every single life lost is one too many. The emotional scars will take a long time to heal. Families will need to borrow or to dip into their life's savings to repair or rebuild their homes. And the damage to Kathmandu Valley's priceless heritage is colossal. Nonetheless, by and large Kathmandu seems to realize it got off fairly lightly if the April 25 earthquake was indeed the 'big one' everyone feared was coming.
Scientists had long warned that a big earthquake was overdue in Kathmandu. So did our grandparents. It turns out both were right. But we took our grandparents' advice lightly as memories of a bygone era. And the science was a bit too imprecise to be convincing.
Not that all of the warnings were ignored. In recent years the government and development partners significantly ramped up disaster awareness and preparedness. Building codes were strengthened (albeit enforced in only three districts), earthquake drills were widely promoted, and open spaces were designated for safe havens in and around Kathmandu. But most doomsday scenarios centered only in Kathmandu Valley. Scant attention was called to the potential calamity in rural areas and emerging towns. This should be a big lesson when the next generation of preparedness plans are drawn up.
The international rescue teams will soon head back home. The global media will move on to the next big headline. But in Nepal the road to recovery will be long and arduous. For development workers the challenge will be to seize long-term opportunities in today's adversity.
The recent earthquake that
The recent earthquake that hit Nepal twice were astounding.the rescue operation and the first aid is imminent for the people injured.we,Japan,received the first aid and rescue operation from the world community 4 years ago in Higashi Nippon(the eastwern Japan) earthquakes and the Tumami.I have been to Nepal for holidays,i have been to Pokarajust one day trip from the capital kathumandu in january,1976.
The cause of the earthquakes shall be scientificall verified by the expert,i think the project by UNDP shall be organized and WBK shall finance the infrasturacture for the welfare for the nepalese poeple.
Let us hope the better development plan for the nepanese poeple in futurewill be designed and put into the action immediately.
By Yoshiyuki Fudemoto,osaka,Japan
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Dynamite Entertainment has provided us a preview of the new Purgatori comic.
Doomed to spend her days as a mindless ghoul, Purgatori struggles to keep her sanity. As if that's not enough for the vampire goddess, an ancient and mysterious enemy wants her dead. Purgatori will have to rely on her wits to get out of this one… but how will she survive if she can't think past her overwhelming thirst for blood?
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Sports clothing and t-shirt design
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Sign language is brief.
According to the new book, Brief, our attention span has been compressed to an 8 second sound bite. I was talking about this observation with some leaders last week and we wondered what it means for reaching people with a message and then what happens after that. We think compressed communication has something to do with high touch, high relationship gatherings. Brief is what happens when we share a "postcard" about ourselves. Life happens when we get into a room together. Brief helps us make the choice.
What do you think?
More on the book… http://www.thebrieflab.com/


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Article written by Richelle Putnam
Photos by Brittney Dowell
Hope Caldwell was working as a registered nurse and homeschooling her daughter when her 72-year-old mother's stroke left her unable to drive. Hope searched for a place in her community that offered activities and good company during her mother's recovery. She wanted her to stay mentally, emotionally, and physically active, but they "…couldn't find the fit for her at the time," Hope said.
For two years, Hope tried to do it all with no resources, only to end up experiencing extreme fatigue and feeling "hopeless." She decided to turn in her Superwoman badge and start Hopeful House, an elder day care center equipped with a kitchen, a dining area, an exercise room, a computer station, an entertainment area, a nurse's office, a screened-in porch, and a back deck in a quiet spot.
Often, when taking care of elderly parents, we feel that we can and should do it all without any kind of help. "We place ourselves at risk of not being able to help anyone," Hope said, who is able to talk about caregiving all the way around.
The goal of Hopeful House is to help the elderly maintain integrity and purpose and to provide them a home away from home, while giving caregivers peace of mind and some time to take care of personal needs.
"When anything happens in your life, people with similar situations come to you," Hope said. "So, – individuals falling within my age bracket, around 50 – are going to work every day while caring for parents. They needed a special place of safety for their parents while also needing guilt-free private, personal space of their own."
After Hope's mother had her stroke, Hope didn't want her to just sit down, "Because [as a nurse] I've been in situations where, when they retire, they go home and don't have any outside interests and so the decline happens rapidly," Hope said. She kept her mother moving and active and she realized other families with elders needed that as well. "I noticed that many elderlies were at home, losing touch with the community. They were becoming hopeless."
And that's where the name of the business came from, changing hopeless into hopeful. "When I graduated from nursing school 27 years ago, I thought I would have a small care home," Hope said. Hopeful House caters to those with minimal limitations. Of course, Hope is a nurse, so minimal limitations may be different than what you think. "All that means is that we don't do total care and that people are basically able to feed themselves and toilet themselves with some assistance," she said.
Research and clinical studies reveal how mental and emotional health affect physical health. Hopeful House has an exercise room to encourage movement in maintaining what you have and improving where you are. "My mother had a stroke the day after a knee replacement, so when that happened, we had to go through the stroke rehab," Hope said. Since lack of movement and stimulation affect us physically and mentally, explained Hope, "We try to do stimulation for all of it, including spiritual."
Hopeful House, being a private center, facilitates devotion time to address the spiritual, as well as the mental, emotional, and physical all in one place. The day is usually divided into segments of 7 a.m. – 12 noon and 12:30 – 5:30 p.m. Each five-hour slot is $45.00 and a full ten-hour day is $80.
They also offer hourly rates and try to accommodate rates for everyone.
Hopeful House is not a nursing home or assisted living, but a place where seniors enjoy companionship and do fun activities incorporated with food and fellowship.
Many, like Hope, want to provide a home for their elderly parents. But elderly parents also need a space where they can be active, and communicate with people closer to their age who experience the same lifestyle.
"A lot of family members feel that having helpers means we aren't doing it ourselves," Hope said. "All of us, at a time in our life, are going to need help. Needing help is not a weakness."
(For a full list of activities at Hopeful House, visit website)
Contact Hope to speak to your group about caregiving and the services of Hopeful House.


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|Posted by Frederick J Seitz III on February 4, 2011 at 8:45 AM
Last night the January meeting of IPMS Gabreski was held. Considering it was a "Nake up" for the canceled meeting of 27 January due to the weather, attendance was good and it was a productive meeting.
I ran a quick clinic on thinned oils to enhance panel lines, and if anyone has further questions about what was done, please feel free to email me for the answers. This club is ALL about helping improve each others modeling abilities so ask away. Remember, the only stupid questions are the ones NOT asked.
Dues started to get collected with almost all in attendance shelling out the $25, an outstanding start, but we'll need to keep pushing to get it all done as March is the deadline.
Bob Demaio showed his progress on the Intrepid builds he is doing. Great work Bob, and thanks for giving your pointers on what to expect with these kits!
Next month's meeting will be on 24 February. Bill Koppos will do a clinic on decanting paints from rattle cans into a more usable form for airbrushing. That's one I have not seen yet, kind of up there with Greg's decal making. Way to step up guys.
Keep building, keep posting and when you can, come on down for some meetings. See you then, OOORAH!
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