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Sixty & Worcester AutoSOLO
Event Report
A new venue is always welcome and the 60 & Worcestershire MC had searched hard to find a good site after Throckmorton was closed for motorsport. They were rewarded by 45 competitors turning up at Cheltenham Racecourse on the 14th October. This was also the penultimate round of the BTRDA AutoSOLO champion and 8 of the 16 entry in the Nat B part were championship entrants. There was also Dave Walker who was making this event his final one to qualify for the BTRDA Allrounders Championship.
In Class A Alan Wakeman had Richard Pain to contend with and despite Richard's Toyota Starlet reducing its drag by spending most of the time on 3 wheels it wasn't quick enough to catch the nimble Micra driven by Alan.
Class B had 5 entrants with the BMW 318i of Haydn Marks setting the pace. Stephen Mather pushed his Clio hard and kept in touch to finish only 9.3 secs behind Haydn. Richard Olsen was also going well in his MG ZR which he shared with his wife Emma. At lunchtime there was just 1 sec between Richard and Stephen whilst Dave had a healthy 3.7 secs lead over Emma. The afternoon tests were all on one layout to save time and the order changed as Emma pipped Dave by 0.1 secs Stephen eked out a second spot by 6.0 secs over Richard.
It is usually the blue Subaru of Mark Benstock and Peter Dickinson who are the only entrants in Class C but Richard Yapp decided to see if the Audi A3 was going to be as competitive. It looked good after Test 1 with Richard ahead of Peter by 0.9 secs only for the Test 2 layout to be better for the Subaru and Richard was 1.3 secs down at lunch. A cone penalty on 2 runs on Test 3 by Peter reversed the order and Richard took a well earned class win.
Mark Summers and Peter Cox were the BTRDA entrants in Class D but both struggled to keep up with the MX5s of past BTRDA champion Steve Conner and Jim Bryant who finished first and second, Steve being FTD of the Nat B event. Mark was a good 3rd whilst Peter in his Honda S2000 beat the MX5 of Rich Welsh after Rich couldn't get the layout of Test 3 sorted with wrong test penalties.
All competitors finished the day with plenty of smiles on their faces and look forward to the 2018 events on the site.
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When choosing a Realtor ® it's important to find someone who can relate to your situation and requirements. In addition, someone who's knowledgeable about the community, and how it compares to surrounding areas. An expert with years of experience in the real estate industry that can guide you through the myriad details that are inherent in a purchase or sale. The negotiating skills of your Realtor® are a huge factor, one that you can't really judge until you're at the point in a transaction where they're really needed. A Realtor® with a good reputation with her peers and clients, and that works diligently to accomplish your goals.
Debbie Blumenthal provides these abilities and more. According to Debbie, "You can be assured that I will take time with you in explaining the intricacies of a real estate transaction in this area. You can be certain that you will be well represented, and that I will work hard to help you achieve your desired outcome. I will not be satisfied until you are."
When using her "people" skills, Debbie has the natural ability to make clients feel at ease. It is one of her strengths that assists buyers and sellers alike. Add to this her sharp negotiating skills and professional experience, and Debbie's clients are very comfortable as they place their transactions in her capable hands. Because Debbie understands business, she is keenly aware of the unique needs and requirements of executive clients. Their special demands are her top priority as she represents them.
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Debbie has been in sales and management for over 25 years, and has earned numerous awards for superior production. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from Mississippi College, and was instrumental in assisting her husband in launching a successful entrepreneurial company. She and her husband have two adult sons, and enjoy living in the Conejo Valley. A past President of the Westlake Village Newcomers Club, Debbie thrives on meeting new people and creating an ever-widening circle of friends and clients.
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The Saga of Melanie Daniels (a fantasy) - part II
"At last, you're there. I was about to call someone else in L.A."
Melanie Daniels stood up from the shadows of the Confederate style villa at the shores of the lake. She wore a strict puritan-like black suit with a long pearly silk scarf that could have made all distance from Earth to Moon if unfolded.
"Nice words of welcoming me after such a knocked down trip Melanie. You look pretty much as I figured you out. Arrogant. Superb. You're a living disaster for men, and maybe women for what God knows of your tastes.
- Stop kidding me C. I'll call you C. from now on.
- You called me because of my skills. And I've a name. And a bank account although I prefer cash. I'm doubling my fees because you're so charming.
- You could triple them. It's a deal then?
- I've no idea of my assignment Melanie. What is so important you've to tell me that no long distance phone call could transmit?"
Melanie looked a bit dizzy then started fading all of a sudden. She nearly collapsed and fell down in my arms.
"Sweetie, are you ok?"
She was as light as a nightingale, as soft as a white linen sheet I folded with my strength, as fragile a piano melody in C sharp minor a romantic heart could listen to. And she was so beautiful. God.
"Should I put you to bed and wish you good night Moon?"
She seemed recovering a bit.
"It's fine C. I'm just… just… tired. Very much tired of all that's coming here so suddenly, I can't cope with all this chaos anymore.
- Maybe we should sit somewhere and take a coffee I suggested while moving her to an armchair under the shadow of the veranda.
- Melanie, what's all about with this mysterious affair? I asked her after a couple of minutes.
- It's about the end of the world, C."


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The Russia Investigation Heats Up Again: Lawyer Who Promised Dirt on Clinton Turns Out to Be a Kremlin Informant
Every time I start questioning whether there's really anything to the Russia investigation, something like this comes out: Lawyer Who Was Said to Have Dirt on Clinton Had Closer Ties to Kremlin Than She Let On.
MOSCOW — The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted she is a private attorney, not a Kremlin operative trying to meddle in the presidential election.
But newly released emails show that in at least one instance two years earlier, the lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, worked hand in glove with Russia's chief legal office to thwart a Justice Department civil fraud case against a well-connected Russian firm.
Ms. Veselnitskaya also appears to have recanted her earlier denials of Russian government ties. During an interview to be broadcast Friday by NBC News, she acknowledged that she was not merely a private lawyer but a source of information for a top Kremlin official, Yuri Y. Chaika, the prosecutor general.
"I am a lawyer, and I am an informant," she said. "Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general."


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Tarmac gives way to dirt on the road out to ceremony, where more than a hundred participants from Australia's eastern states will gather over a public holiday long weekend for the serious business of performing ancestral law.
Some grew up in large coastal cities, others in rural and remote towns. Some can trace their lineages back to first contact with explorers and settlers on their traditional lands, while others from Stolen Generation backgrounds have only recently discovered their Aboriginality.
But all have chosen to regularly participate in ceremonies as a way of living in this country that is as relevant today as it was in 1788, perhaps even more so.
All important social functions in Australia's pre-colonial societies – from marriages to funerals, from peace accords to dispensing justice – were once enacted through extensive ceremonial processes. All have been systemically eroded through the processes of Australia's colonisation, and little has changed for those that remain.
I will not publicly disclose where ceremonies are currently held in the eastern states, who participates in them or what they entail.
There's enough social discrimination and systemic abuse against Aboriginal Australians already without naming individuals who willingly continue to deviate from Anglocentric institutional norms, or who insist on practising ceremonies that many Australians erroneously believe were wiped out some 200 years ago.
Yet all such ceremonies today are run by private citizens on their own time on privately purchased land, without any public assistance.
There is nothing "bullshit" about them, as last week's comments by Warren Mundine, who chairs the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, may have led many to believe.
Rather, such ceremonies represent the initiative of contemporary Aboriginal Australians in seeking to strike a healthy balance in their lives between the weekday routines of work or study and the empowering sense of direction and belonging that comes through maintaining active ceremonial links with their ancestral lands.
The community networks that form around these ceremonies also offer material aid and personal support to those who fall between society's cracks and need a new start.
Without ceremony, the lives of many Aboriginal Australians would be greatly impoverished, as would the lives of many others who have long been welcomed by Aboriginal families to share in this uniquely Australian experience.
Working for cultural survival
Recently on The Conversation, Dr Catherine Grant reported that some 98% of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music traditions, many of which were ceremonial in nature, have already been lost.
This statistic comes from the International Council for Traditional Music Statement on Indigenous Australian Music and Dance, which was endorsed at a world conference in Canada in 2011. It cites the causes of this attrition as the "devastating impact of colonisation," which continues to this day, and the adoption of "modern lifestyles".
Here, in particular, the imposition of the British work ethic upon Aboriginal communities since 1788 remains a deliberate tactic on the part of the state to erode the traditional labour force that was once able to work unencumbered on the preparation and performance of large-scale ceremonies as the most important of traditional social institutions.
Those ceremonies also provide an educational context through which the young are initiated into adult behaviours and responsibilities; their demise serves to erode the functionality of traditional family structures that have survived and thrived on the Australian continent for countless generations.
Last week, Mr Mundine alleged that ceremonies such as funerals did not last for weeks traditionally, and that cultural obligations should not be an excuse to avoid responsibilities to go to school or work.
Yet it is very well documented that in places such as Arnhem Land, where I have been a guest at many ceremonies, funeral rites were once lengthy processes with many different stages that could take more than a year to complete.
Their length has been greatly truncated now to accommodate contemporary employment and study commitments, and their business is mostly conducted after work each day. But it is still necessary for some family to remain on site each day to hunt and cook for participants, to prepare and maintain the ceremony ground, and if one is a particularly close relative, to respectfully mourn the deceased as ancestral law requires.
Again, the dissolution of these vital community networks through the erosion of enduring ceremonial structures perpetrates an impoverishment all its own.
It undermines the work of government and philanthropy in seeking to improve Aboriginal health, education, literacy and job readiness, precisely because it sends Aboriginal Australians, and particularly the young, a very clear message that their most cherished traditions and values are not respected or included in the great Australian narrative, and that their very survival is viewed with suspicion.
Why I care
In her Conversation article, Dr Grant thoughtfully considered why the rest of us should care that Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music traditions are at grave risk of vanishing completely.
There are many worthy reasons. They can form a basis for new cultural expressions as in the music of Gurrumul Yunupingu, and help people reach out across linguistic and cultural divides. They contribute to the maintenance of human diversity overall, and with the detailed ecological and topographical knowledge of Australia they hold, they broaden our survival options should we need to adapt in response to some great cataclysm.
I care because I have had the great privilege over the past two decades of learning from many generous Aboriginal elders and colleagues, who have wanted nothing more than to have their most cherished traditions and values respected and reflected in the great Australian narrative.
One, the late Dr Yunupingu of Yothu Yindi, spent his entire career trying to promote the need to maintain balance between traditional ceremonial practice and the modern Australian way of life. For others, such as Steven Wantarri Patrick, who directs the Milpirri Festival at Lajamanu in the Tanami Desert, the arduous struggle to maintain ceremonial traditions in the face of unsympathetic government attitudes continues unabated.
From these people and their ceremonies, I have learnt values of egalitarianism and belonging, humility and charity, concern for our living environment, and consideration for society's vulnerable that many Australians now find so lacking in our nation's leadership. They have taught me and many others that these are quintessentially Australian values that can hold resonance for us all.


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The white supremacist Army veteran who stabbed an elderly black man to death in New York City says he wishes he'd killed "a young thug" or someone "more successful" than his 77-year-old victim.
The New York Daily News said that James Jackson — a former military intelligence specialist who traveled from Baltimore to New York City on a mission to murder black men with a sword — gave a "self-aggrandizing, emotionally detached" statement on Sunday regarding the murder of Timothy Caughman last week.
"I'm sorry I killed that man," said Jackson, 28. "It was pitch black, I picked a dark place. I didn't know he was elderly."
He says now that he wishes he'd killed "a young thug" or "a successful older black man with blondes…people you see in Midtown."
The killer — who police say rode the bus from Baltimore expressly to kill black men in the streets of New York for maximum media impact — said that he did not hate Caughman because it would be beneath him.
"I don't hate anyone I don't think is on my level," Jackson said.
Caughman was walking by himself at around 11:30 Monday night when Jackson attacked him, plunging a sword with an 18-inch blade into the elderly man's chest. He turned himself in to police on Wednesday.
The killing, Jackson said, was a practice run for a larger plan in which he hoped to convince white women not to have relationships with black men.
"Well, if that guy feels so strongly about it," Jackson said he hoped women would think, "maybe I shouldn't do it."
Killing was not as satisfying as he'd hoped, Jackson said.
"I got depressed…I saw it was too late. It's irreversible," he told the Daily News, adding, "I didn't want to put my family through any more pain."
Jackson said his family did not raise him to be this way.
"My family is as liberal as they come…typical liberal Democrats," he said, but confided that he has felt violent antipathy toward black people since around the age of 3.
"The white race is being eroded… No one cares about you. The Chinese don't care about you, the blacks don't care about you," he said before urging a female Daily News reporter to have children, saying, "Good white women should have as many children as possible."
His ideal vision of society, Jackson said, is "1950s America."
When it was pointed out to him that it's now 2017, Jackson said, "I know. I'm too late. We're screwed."


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Sad Day for Methodism
The author notes that the March 15th issue of Christian Advocate, the journal of the Methodist Episcopal Church, contains numerous articles urging desegregation in Methodist churches. Murray F. Leiffer wrote the principle article in that issue of the journal, and reported that over half of the polled Methodists are in favor of removing racial barriers. The author expresses disbelief of Leiffer's statistics, and expresses disgust at photos in the issue showing whites and blacks interacting with social equality. The author notes that it was a sad day for Southern Methodism when it voted for union with Northern Methodism.
Document Description: one-page photocopy of article; located in the PLT Archive folder "Ed King Notes on Methodism"; The publication date of the article (noted above) was written in pencil on the article or on the photocopy of the article; Notations: "5ollens [?], Sunday, May 2, Sat 4, D-i, C-L, 3-25-56, 56, JDN, JCC"; Markings on the photocopy suggest that this article was acquired from "Ed King Collection" Box 1, Folder 24.


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Public Power Week is celebrated each year in appreciation of locally-owned and operated electric systems. Wilson joins more than 2,000 public power communities across the country to celebrate the benefits of public power, including high reliability, fast response after outages, and local decision making in the best interest of the community.
Come to Customer Appreciation Day, Thursday, October 5 from 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., at the Customer Service Center, 208 Nash St. NE. Attendees will be able to enjoy free coffee and doughnuts, receive a free LED light bulb, and learn more about Fix-It Wilson mobile app, Code Red notification system, energy audits, load management, area lighting and outage reporting. Click on the image below to learn more.
Wilson Energy was recently recognized by the American Public Power Association as a Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3) at the Diamond level, the highest level of recognition.
Public power illuminates the homes and workplaces of over 1.2 million people living in over 70 communities across North Carolina. Enjoy the video below that showcases the benefits of public power in Wilson, NC.
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ElectriCities is the energy behind public power! We provide professional and technical assistance to municipal utilities. We also provide management services to the state's two municipal Power Agencies: NCMPA1 and NCEMPA. Learn more about public power and ElectriCities by visiting www.onemillionstrong.com.
The American Public Power Association is the service organization for the nation's more than 2,000 community- and state-owned electric utilities. It represents public power's interests in Washington, D.C., and provides an array of services to help its members with managerial and operational issues. Take a look at their public power fact sheet (PDF).


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La Panthère Eau de Parfum Légère
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For more information, please Call 1-800-227-8437
As befits the most jewelry-inspired of Cartier fragrances, this limited edition La Panthère bottle takes its design from the master jeweler's emblematic panther-head ring. Dazzling faceted glass is highlighted with fine gold-colored edging that captures the mystery and magnetism of the Maison's iconic feline-floral fragrance in crystalline perfection. With sun-kissed radiance, La Panthère Eau de Parfum Légère casts the original cypress-gardenia-musk accord in a new light. A graceful combination of floral and feline illuminated by notes of tiaré flower.
A captivating perfume that reflects a liberated, passionate woman. A feline floral fragrance born out of radiant, delicate gardenia coming together with velvety notes of musk. Within the flask, a sculpture depicts the majestic, fascinating panther.


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I'm Just a Guitar Man- CD
Cardboard and Illusion- CD
Man on the Run- CD
This album is a rock western that incorporates the many sounds of rock music. The story is set in the Old West. Narration between tracks is provided by veteran actor, Will Hutchins. Will has three television series in his long list of credits, the most famous series being the tv western, "Sugarfoot." Will has also acted in many films including 2010's "The Romantics." Will's co-stars range from Jack Nicholson in "The Shooting" to Andy Griffith in "No Time for Sergeants" and Elvis Presley in "Spinout" and "Clambake." Others participating in this album are Louis Kahl, who has performed with legendary New Orleans musicians Lee Dorsey and Huey "Piano" Smith; Dean Townsend; Lejoe B Young, who is currently playing drums for Travis Tritt; and Mark Cooper. Over two years in the making, I think this album rocks in all the right places. Hope you enjoy it.
Click on the album title to buy the album at CDBaby.
Moon Singer- CD
This is my 2010 album. When I was in college, I formed a songwriting partnership with Michael Kelley. We recorded more than twenty hours of experimental music during that time. Later on, we wrote more conventional songs. Most of the time I would write the lyrics and Michael would write the music, but we also recorded songs we wrote separately. Michael moved to New York City to pursue music full-time and I stayed in the West Virginia area where I taught school and made music on a part-time basis. About four years ago I teamed up with Durbin Funk IV's (and Audio Alchemist's) Jamie Townsend and started recording music professionally. I had long wanted to do an album of some of my favorite songs that Michael had written. Jamie and the other guys in the band (Louis Kahl, Dean Townsend, Lejoe Young, and Cortni Loftis) made that possible. Hope you like it.


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Current Series
The UN Series
Deep Before High
Some things should not be forgotten.
Non-Series Stand Alone Messages
Old School : Jeremiah
Metro at the Movies
We're starting a brand new series called COMEBACK because COMEBACKS can happen. With God's help you can move forward again. You can overcome. You can have a COMEBACK.
The Greatest Comeback Ever
Everyone loves a comeback! When it seemed like Rocky Balboa was down for the count we all stood and cheered as he rose again. America cheered as the Chicago cubs finally won the World Series after what seemed like 100 years, wait...It was over 100 years. So that doesn't count. But you get the picture, right?
We all love a comeback. We love it when we see a marriage on the edge of divorce come back from the brink. We love it when we see somebody strung out on drugs gets sober and finds new direction.
Easter celebrates Jesus' comeback! We celebrate Jesus beating death back. The Christian faith hinges on Jesus' comeback from the grave. And believe it or not - His comeback means a comeback for us too!
The truth is every single one of us needs a comeback in some area. Now is your time!
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BrightMove, Inc., a leader in Applicant Tracking Software for HR, Staffing and Recruitment Outsourcing (RPO), has released a complimentary White Paper/Field Guide designed to aid recruiting firms and HR departments in getting their Social Media Recruitment efforts in full swing. BrightMove has partnered with Nanci Lamborn, a 20 year veteran of recruiting and HR in writing and designing the guide.
Nanci points out that "With the ever changing lay of the recruiting landscape, employers and hiring managers now have more staff sourcing avenues and opportunities than ever before seen. Terminologies and technologies never heard of even two years ago seem to pop up almost weekly. It is no secret that online technologies now dominate the recruiting marketplace. But try to launch a strong Web 2.0 recruiting strategy without adequate planning and preparation, or miss a critical element along the way, and very quickly your candidate pools can dry up as top talent grows tired of waiting for your response or moves on to a better functioning recruitment process. This free guide is aimed at helping you formulate a strategy for your social media recruitment efforts. "
- Included in this field guide are:
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Maximo satisfied with players` training
Taifa Stars chief coach Marcio Maximo has expressed his optimism over his team`s performance in future tournaments.
The coach made the remarks yesterday at the opening ceremony of a three-day training camp at Bulyanhulu mine in Kahama district Shinyanga region where the team will stay till Monday.
He told The Guardian on Sunday after the morning training session that, his major work now was to set strategy and carry out training in team work, physical ability and skills.
Maximo described his players as talented but lacking physical strength. "So this is a challenge for the football clubs and players to think of setting up gyms for the players instead of waiting until they join Taifa Stars," he advised.
He said 18 players had already reported for training while Shaaban Nditi, Uhuru Selemani and Salum Swed from Mtibwa who are with their club in Kagera will join camp on Monday.
"Henry Joseph is injured and will not join us, but Nadir Haroub `Canavaro` whose wife passed away last week will join us on Monday too," he said.
Players who are at the camp include, Farouk Ramadhan, Ivo Mapunda and Amani Simba who are goalkeepers, defenders are, Shadrack Nsajigwa, Juma Jabu, Fredy Mbuna, Nurdin Bakari, Meshack Abel and Kelvin Yondani.
Others are Midfielders Godffrey Bonny, Nizar Khalfan, Jabir, Athumani Idd and Jerry Tegete, Mrisho Ngasa, Adam Kingwande, Mussa Hassan Mgosi and Kigi Makasi all strikers.
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There has been a lot of talk in my little circle of Weight Loss Surgery friends lately about what we're willing to share about our successes with the outside world... I am VERY open about my successes and failures - but that's also when I'm mainly cloaked in the anonymity of the blog world.
My friend Meghan had this to say recently about her experience... Here and the follow up message is Here. Then just yesterday, Jil had an experience that is nothing less than disheartening to those of us that have chosen weight loss surgery as our path... Here.
I wrap all this up with our message from last night's Bible study lesson... it was about speaking the truth in love to one another... and basically it's all about the way in which you say things, your motives, and then the way that your message is delivered to the recipient.
We all know how cruel this world can be a times, and sometimes the people that are the closest to us are the most hurtful - even when it's unintentional. Once those words are out there - you can't ever take them back... and sometimes recovery from that just never happens. In the case of what Jil experienced - if I were in the same situation, I don't know that I'd ever be able to carry on a normal relationship with the person that wronged her again.
Sure, I could be the bigger person - and move on - forgive if you will, but do you ever let that person back in as close as they were before? I'm not so sure.
The heart is an interesting part of us, don't you think? As I look back at my own life... there have been many people that have hurt or wronged me over the years, but each one of those moments has shaped me into the person that I am today... and for that - I thank each and every one of those people for their part in my life's story.
Every break up, lost friend... whatever the moment was that caused me pain - also caused me to learn a lesson of some sort, and led me down a path that has also brought me great joy too. Think about it, if you hadn't lost your first love... you wouldn't have experienced the moment of meeting your future spouse. (Unless they are one in the same - which for most of us isn't the case.) Somehow, I've gotten way off the topic that I thought I was writing about when I started this post...
To bring it back to Meg & Jil and their recent experiences - I have been very lucky so far in my journey through weight loss surgery. I have been very open in every avenue of my life about what I've done and what I'm going through... maybe it's different because the weight loss hasn't been as rapid for me has it has for others... but I haven't experienced anyone feeling anything other than happiness for my weight loss.
Occasionally at my last office, I'd hear grumblings about it being easier for me than for others to lose weight because of the path that I chose... but in all honesty - those people are jealous, and it's their way of justifying their own weight loss failures to themselves. I've done it a time or two in my life too - now - I chose to keep those feelings between myself and maybe John... but there have been times when I've been jealous for whatever reason and lashed out in my own emotions.
The difference is that I would NEVER say that to the person or to anyone else... because really it's a moment when God is trying to teach me about being content in the season of life that he's put me in, and learning whatever lesson I'm meant to learn from that season... some are harder to learn than others, but in the end - it shapes me into the person that I am supposed to be.
So why can't we all just embrace the successes of those around us? Maybe the lady in Jil's story needs to spend some time watching the videos our group has been watching over the last 4 weeks... she might learn a lot about what it means to love people around you... and get closer to God.


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Understanding the effects of broken promises can hopefully make you mindful of making and breaking promises.
"You are just like ma, you make promises you can't keep!"
An emotional outburst by my daughters directed at their dad. Their disappointment was apparent.
It all happened when their grandmother promised to buy them an ice cream after school. Something came up and they had to take a detour from the ice cream shop. Postponed to the next day and still no ice cream. Her excuse was that she either forgot or didn't have enough money to buy the ice cream. Of course they saw this as just another empty promise.
Then my husband promised that they can take the dogs for a walk to the park. However this never materialised as the weather was not conducive on that day and let's just say life got in the way and it never happened the next day either. Then came the weekend and again the promise was not followed through. He completely forgot what he promised them in the week as he was preoccupied with work.
Although breaking his promise was unintentional – the fact of the matter is he slipped up. At that moment, they wanted no comfort, just an explanation and affirmation that it will not happen again.
The negative effects of a broken promise
A child understand the word "promise" as a declaration. Followed with an action. Breaking this promise is a pretty big deal to them. As adults, we might see a little promise as insignificant. No matter how big or small, a broken promise is something that could form part of a child's memory for years to come. Those who continuously face broken promises; start to anticipate disappointment.
It's understandable that life happens and so many things consume our time. We end up forgetting about what we promised. Breaking the promise might not be intentional but children often don't see it that way. Their interpretation is that we went back on our word.
Continuously breaking promises can compromise your relationship with your child.
These empty promises can lead to trust issues. As parents we want our children to believe what we say. Continuously making empty promises and not following through on it will jeopardize that trust.
Forever making and breaking promises can lead to disrespect. Disappointment spills over to anger as you not honoring your word.
The words might be forgotten of the broken promise but they will never forget how it made them feel. They start feeling unimportant, worthless, sad and rejected.
Brushing it off, not explaining why a promise was broken and not asking for forgiveness allows our children to question our morals and values. As they grow older, they will adopt this behaviour.
In life, our children will face many disappointments and there will be times when other people break promises made to them. As parents we need to give them the necessary support so that they will have the ability to deal with this kind of disappointment in the future.
So next time choose your words wisely and instead of saying "you promise" rather opt for words like "we will see" or "if there is time, we can try".
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17 comments on "Understanding The Effects of Broken Promises"
I completely agree. I am very mindful about what I promise my kids. I grew up with lots of broken promises and apologies from my parents. I prefer people to under promise and over deliver than the other way around. #dreamteam
I agree with all you said, but I also question it (as in I fluctuate in what I think about this) because children break promises to their friends and their parents all the time and don't seem to care so it's only when someone breaks a promise to them. Promises are kind of stupid anyway, for adults. As an adult, you should know nothing is guaranteed…but I agree with what you say so I guess I don't know what I think about it all #FotheloveofBLOG
I agree and something my cousin and I get quite pedantic about saying something and following through. Sometimes to the detriment of our sanity.
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Couldn't agree more. This is why, so many times, I don't tell my son what we are going to be doing until the day of the event. Just in case something happens and we don't end up doing it. I once told him we were going to the zoo then the weather was terrible so we didn't go and he was really disappointed. I hated that so made the change. Plus, it's a nice surprise for him when he says "what are we doing today?" and I can tell him something good!
Broken promises are so disappointing aren't they. I completely agree with trying to steer clear of making promises if you are not certain that you can keep them to little ones. It is a big deal to them. Actually, it's a big deal even to us grown ups when promises are broken. Thanks for joining us for the #DreamTeam.
Yes, so wise to temper our words with the reality that we don't have control of the universe, and, therefore have to break our promises at times. I love the opportunity this provides to contrast my own limitations with the love of a Promise Keeping God who always comes through!
This is a really interesting post, and I think that I'm always promising things to my daughter or that'll be just a few minutes. However some of these never materialise, I just need to be better at either not making them, sticking to them, or explaining why is never happened. Thanks for linking up at #fortheloveofBLOG. Claire x
I completely agree. I never say promise because I can remember how disappointed I used to get when promises didn't happen as a child. There's too many things that can get in the way and children just don't understand. Thanks for linking up to #TwinklyTuesday x
You're right and I try very hard not to make promises unless I really mean it, Sometimes I'll tell Dee that we will do something, but then think 'actually, that might not if x,y,z happens…' so I'd immediately correct myself and emphasise the 'maybe'! #BlogCrush


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1. Because you love me and I love you doesn't mean we're meant to be.
2. There are no guarantees in life.
It's not easy loving someone deeply, not the one based on something oh, I mean pure love that flows from within. You know the whole your lover being on your mind all day, the way you smile to yourself when you remember awesome moments together, the calm you feel when you go over your chats, the way you feel giddy when your phone rings and their name is flashing on the screen, etc and someday, due to whatever, you two go your separate ways and suddenly, the person you claim to love becomes a stupid person, you start telling the world on social media especially how you regret and start posting hurtful memes. Why do people do that?
Yes, I know sometimes one party might have offended but does that singular offence erase every other good thing about them? Isn't such tantrum throwing a pointer to the fact that you are immature and have no idea what love is about??


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The Tianning Pagoda in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province opened one palace hall of its fifth floor to public recently.
There are four large eaglewood carving exhibits respectively in the east, south, west and north side of the fifth floor of the pagoda. The whole hall is mainly made of eaglewood. Carvers adopt comprehensive carving techniques, such as circular carving, openwork carving, and stereo hollow carving, to carve the Buddha figures and wood murals of different historic times, reflecting the history of the introduction of Buddhism into China and its development and exchanges with abundant pictures and captions.
Coming from a carving family, Li Fengqiang, is the person in charge of this carving work. He used eaglewood and Phoebe wood as the major carving materials and led a team of over 200 people to finish these works.
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On Ash Wednesday, the children's service at St. Philip's Episcopal Church lasts only half an hour. We designed this service to use language that is accessible to young people, but it sacrifices none of the elements of traditional worship. Older children read the Lectionary passages for the day, repeating the prophet Joel's call to "rend your hearts and not your clothing" and to "return to the Lord your God." As the lector prays Psalm 103, reminding us that God "knows whereof we are made; he remembers that we are but dust," the whole congregation repeats the antiphon, "The Lord is merciful and gracious." By the final verse, even toddlers are chiming in, in a chorus that is truly precious.
But the children are not there to be precious. Like the adults who accompany them, they are in church on Ash Wednesday to, in the words of the children's liturgy, "prepare our hearts for the great mystery of Easter." We ask them to make sacrifices to that end. The invitation to keep a holy Lent asks everyone present "to think about how you can love God more deeply. Think about those things for which you are sorry, pray daily, and offer acts of kindness that will help others and be a sign of your love for God." The prayer over the ashes focuses our attention on the season's promise: "May the ashes placed on our heads remind us that our life on earth is temporary, but because God loves us, we will live with God forever."
Then comes the moment when, in my role as associate rector, I take the ashes and prepare to walk around the congregation, gathered in a circle. And as this moment arrives, I swallow hard, because in that circle, life and death are visibly intertwined. I utter the words: "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." They are words that bring us down to earth. Repeated as ashen crosses are signed on forehead after forehead, they remind us of our uniquely human fate: to die one day, as all creatures must, but alone among those creatures, to know that death is coming. Taken out of context, these words might be depressing. On Ash Wednesday, they invite us to prepare our bodies, souls and minds not only for the death that Holy Week will bring, but also for the resurrection we will celebrate on Easter morning.
Christians stake everything on the revelation that death is the pathway to new life, but sometimes we need to see life and death standing side by side to understand fully the cost and the promise of that mysterious reality. And that is not easy.
Before me stands a boy conceived years after his parents lost their first child to cancer. Next is a little girl whose baby brother was stillborn. There are families complicated by divorce and enriched by adoption. Infants too young to hold up their heads sit propped on a parent's arm. I mark each of them with a cross of ashes, exhorting solemn children, gurgling babies and adults of all ages alike to "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
Every year, I finish the service with tears in my eyes. Every time, I am struck by the trust parents show by bringing their children to be marked. It is hard to accept the fact that our children will return to dust. But Christian faith not only tells that truth, it calls disciples of Christ to raise our children in light of it. It calls us not to fear death, but to cherish life, knowing that it can be painfully short, yet trusting in Easter's promise that our lives with God will be wonderfully long.
The trust parents show on Ash Wednesday is the same trust they display at their children's baptism. When I baptize infants, I ask parents not to hold their own baby as I pour the water, but instead, to place the child in my arms. That simple physical act embodies a theological truth: that parents are committing their child to a larger household than their own, in which relative strangers share responsibility for each other's souls and bodies. Within that household, we help each other die to sin, and we remind each other of the daily reality of resurrection, as together we seek the reign of God.
Children are more honest than adults about the resistance to death that we all share. I heard that resistance spoken aloud when, several years ago, I baptized Caleb, a 9-year-old boy with autism. Caleb's parents had explained that baptism would make him a member of Jesus' family. Looking forward to that, he leaned happily over the font. But after the water ritual, as he heard me give thanks that God had "raised him to the new life of grace," fear seized Caleb. His scream echoed through the church: "I don't want to die! I don't want a new life!" His parents and I soothed him until he let me sign a cross on his forehead with holy oil, when he smiled at being "marked as Christ's own forever." Once Caleb was reassured that his new life had already begun, he went gladly to the Lord's Table to share Communion with his birth family and the larger household of the church.
Caleb was honest enough to speak the truth most of us avoid. We don't want to die; we don't want a new life. I don't like placing ashes on babies' foreheads. But I do it, at their parents' invitation and in view of the whole congregation. Those ashen crosses are a sign that together we are raising these babies to trust the merciful and gracious God who remembers that we are but dust, and who promises that this precious dust will live forever.
Rev. Rhonda Mawhood Lee, associate rector of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Durham, N.C., is the author of Through With Kings and Armies: The Marriage of George and Jean Edwards (Cascade).


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How tough is vacation planning these days???
As a child, our vacation planning used to be planning the route on a paper map and marking stopovers. Later on, we started booking 'all taken care of' vacation packages. With the advent of the internet, most of our vacation planning is done online. Right from booking flights, hotels, car rentals and even planning the itinerary. This obsessive desire to cover the best places, get the best bargains and have a fantastic time makes us spend so much time online and put in so much effort reading reviews, blogs and forums. I have an information overload now and seems like I had a working weekend.
Grrrr… where is my coffee?
I would love to have a relaxing vacation one day. However, in the 'do more' age, all we seem to be doing is cramming as much as possible in one week. Vacation Planning becomes like another chore then. So much to do! Although I got to admit that this chore is much more enjoyable than doing the laundry 😉
What about you. How do you guys do your vacation planning?
In the last 2 weekends, I have read tonnes of tripadvisor posts, looked at thousands of online pics, created Pinterest boards and downloaded 2 apps on my phone. Inspite of all that, the most critical details of the planning are in a small notebook on my dining table!
Speaking of vacations, have you read about my one day vacation in Munich?


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Mattel studies Bratz ruling
SANTA ANA, Calif. - The first salvo was fired years ago when toy giant Mattel sued MGA Entertainment over the popular Bratz fashion dolls. The turbulent legal chapter has ended with a federal judge ordering Mattel to pay its rival more than $309 million.
Mattel said it was disappointed with Thursday's ruling. The El Segundo, Calif.-based company can appeal.
U.S. District Court Judge David Carter reduced a previous jury award from more than $88 million to $85 million, but then awarded Los Angeles-based MGA an additional $85 million in punitive damages for trade secrets misappropriation. He also awarded MGA, the company's Hong Kong affiliate and its chief executive officer, Isaac Larian, $137 million in legal fees related to copyright and trade secrets issues.
Two trials, two verdicts
The total, which also included more than $2 million in legal fees on trade secrets claims, was more than $309.8 million, according to court papers and MGA lead counsel Jennifer Keller.
Mattel first filed a lawsuit in 2004 alleging that Bratz designer Carter Bryant was employed at Mattel when he created the Bratz line. The dolls with pouty lips, hip-hop-style clothing and oversized feet were aimed at "tweens," or girls ages 9 to 11, and flew off the shelves when they debuted in 2001.
In 2008, a federal jury in Riverside sided with Mattel and awarded it $100 million - but the verdict was overturned. After a second trial, this time in Santa Ana, a jury in April rejected Mattel's claims and instead awarded MGA damages in a counter-claim. The smaller toy maker had alleged that Mattel spied on its toy designs and marketing plans at trade shows and stole its trade secrets.
Costly for both sides
Mattel filed motions asking for a new trial and challenging whether the 26 trade secrets MGA alleged it stole actually qualified as such.
The judge, however, denied the motion for a new trial and rejected Mattel's arguments on the trade secrets.
"Mattel's Chief Executive Officer, general counsel, two in-house counsel, three former high-ranking executives and a current employee all admitted under oath that employees misrepresented themselves to access competitors' private showrooms and gather information about unreleased products," the judge wrote. "Every one of these individuals acknowledge that the conduct was sanctioned by senior members of Mattel's corporate hierarchy and that it was improper."
The case has been tremendously costly for both sides.
Larian has said he has spent as much as $170 million on legal fees, while Mattel's legal fees were estimated at $400 million after the April verdict.


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Laura Biagiotti dies at the age of 74
After been hospitalized a couple of days ago for a heart attack, Laura Biagiotti, the Queen of Cachemire, passed away this morning in Rome, her beloved city.
After graduating in archeology and after a creative collaboration with Roberto Capucci and Rocco Barocco, in 1972 the designer launched her first namesake collection. Extremely connceted to her country and her city, to which she has dedicated a perfume, "Rome", Laura Biagiotti has always looked beyond the borders, presenting some of her most renowed collections out of Italy, in China, Egypt and Russia to say a few.
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Ahhhhh, art.
Grace & peace,
Jun 20, 2011
Dear Photograph
I came across a very cool website, Dear Photograph, that will stir your imagination and creativity, I'm sure of it! As I prepare to head West this week to visit my grams in the town I grew up in, I may attempt something like this. My grams has lived in the same house my whole life and I have photos of me hunting Easter eggs in her postage-stamp-sized back yard. I want to find one of those photos, take it with me, and try this creative idea while I'm there, in her back yard decades later.
I hope you find inspiration from this website, Dear Photograph, just as I have.
Grace & peace,
Jun 16, 2011
Transformative Creativity
Each of us is created in the image of God, the Master Creator and Artist. Therefore, we too, have the ability to create beauty that brings Glory to Him. That is the real purpose of art.
Art is an expression of the human heart. Creating can be a form of heartfelt prayer and worship, a time where you encounter the Creator Himself and transformation in occurs in the heart of the artist.
Not only does God speak to our hearts through our own creative endeavors, He uses what we create to speak to others who encounter and interact with it.
It's amazing, beautiful, and mysterious.
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For some fun reading, pick up the gallery booklet, The Heart Behind the Art, which features fun bio's for each staff person. Enjoy!
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The potency of Christ's intercession demonstrated, in that he intercedes with God, who is our Father. How God's heart is as much inclined to hear Christ for us as Christ's is to intercede.
Secondly, Christ is an advocate for us with our Father. You may perhaps think there is little in that, but Christ puts much upon it; yes, so much as if that God would however grant all that Christ himself means to ask, whether Christ asked it or not. This you have expressly in John 16:26-27, "At that day (says Christ) you shall ask in my name, and I say not to you, that I will pray the Father for you; for the Father himself loves you." To open this place, where he says "at that day." The day he means through this whole chapter, is that time when the Holy Ghost should be shed upon them; for throughout his discourse he still speaks of the fruits of his ascension and of giving the Comforter, which was done upon his ascending, and was the first fruits of his priestly office in heaven. Thus Peter informs us in Acts 2:33, "He being (says he) exalted by the right hand of God, and having received" (namely, by asking, "Ask, and I will give thee") "of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he has shed forth this, which you now see and hear." Now of that time when he shall be in heaven, he says, "I say not that I will pray for you;" which is not meant that Christ prays not for us in heaven, but rather those very words are the highest intimation that he would and does pray for us that can be.
When men would most strongly intimate their purpose of a kindness they mean to do for one, they used to say, I do not say that I love you, or that I will do this or that for you; which is as much as to say, I will surely do it, and do it to purpose. But Christ's scope here is, as in the highest manner to promise them that he would pray for them; so in addition, further to tell them of their more abundant assurance and security, that besides their having the benefit of their prayers, God himself so loves them of himself, that indeed that alone were enough to obtain anything at his hands, which they shall but ask in his name; so as he needs not pray for them, and yet he will too. But now in case that he himself prays for them, and they themselves in his name, and both unto a Father who of himself loves them, and who has purposed to grant all, before either he or they should ask; what hope must there need be then of a good success! This is both the meaning of this place and a great truth to be considered on by us, to the purpose in hand. That it is the meaning of the place, the manner of Christ's speech implies, "I say not that I will pray the Father for you, for the Father himself loves you." It is such a speech as Christ used upon a clean contrary occasion in John 5:45, "Do not think (says he) that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you, even Moses." He there threatens the obstinate and accursed Pharisees with condemnation. Never stand thinking that it is I (says he) who am your only enemy and accuser, that will procure your condemnation, and so prosecute the matter against you merely for my own interest, no, I shall not need to do it; though I should not accuse you, your own "Moses in whom you trust," he is enough to condemn you, he will do your errand sufficiently, you would be sure to be damned by his words and sayings; I shall not need to trouble myself to come in and enter my action against you too, Moses and his law would follow the suit, and be enough to condemn you to hell. So as this speech does not imply that Christ will not at all accuse them; no, he means to bring in his action against them too, for he after says, "if he had not spoken to them, they had had no sin," and therefore he meant to bring the greatest accusation of all.
Now, in an opposite (though parallel) speech here, to comfort his disciples, he says, "I say not that I will pray for you," that God may save you, I who yourselves shall see will die for you, I say not that I will pray for you, not I. But though I speak this to insinuate in the highest manner that I will, for if I spend my blood for you, will I not spend my breath for you? Yet the truth is, that the case so stands, that but for God's own ordination I should not need to do it, "for the Father himself loves you;" that is, the Father of his own motion and proper good will, taken up of himself towards you, and not wrought in him by me, does love you, and bears so much love to you, as he can deny you nothing, for he is "your Father" as well as mine. How much more then shall you be saved when I shall strike in too, and use all my interest in him for you? Christ on purpose uses this speech, so to dash out of their hearts that conceit which harbors in many of ours, who look upon God in the matter of salvation as one who is hardly entreated to come off to save sinners, and with whom Christ, through the backwardness of his heart, has so much ado. And we are apt to think that when he does come off to pardon, he does it only and merely at Christ's entreaty and for his sake, having otherwise no innate motion in himself sufficient to incline his heart to it. But that it is in this transaction by Christ with him, as a favorite procures a pardon for a traitor, whose person the king cares not for, only at his favorite's suit and request he grants it, which else he would never have done. You are deceived, says Christ, it is otherwise; my Father's heart is as much towards you, and for your salvation, as mine is; himself, of himself, loves you. And the truth is, that God took up as vast a love unto us of himself at first as ever he has borne us since, and all that Christ does for us is but the expression of that love which was taken up originally in God's own heart. Thus we find that out of that love he gave Christ for us.
So in John 3:16, "God so loved the world (of elect), that he gave his only begotten Son to die." Yes, Christ's death was but a means to commend or set forth that love of his unto us. So in Romans 5:10, it was God also that did himself give the persons unto Christ, and underhand set him on work to mediate for them. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself:" He only used Christ as his instrument to bring it honorably about. All the blessings he means to give us he first purposed and intended in himself (so Ephesians 1:3, 5, 9, 11, compared) "out of the good pleasure of his will." Yet in Christ (as it is added there) as the means through which he would convey them; yes, Christ adds not one drop of love to God's heart, only draws it out; he broaches it, and makes it flow forth, whose current had otherwise been stopped. The truth is, that God suborned Christ to beg them on our behalf for an honorable way of carrying it, as also to make us prize this favour the more; so as his heart is as ready to give all to us, as Christ's is to ask and this out of his pure love to us.
The intercession therefore of Christ must necessarily speed, when God's heart is thus of itself prepared to us. In Isaiah 53:10 it is said, "The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand." If our salvation be in Christ's hand, it is in a good hand; but if it be the pleasure of the Lord too, it must necessarily prosper. It is said of our hearts and prayers, that "he prepares the heart, and hears the prayer;" much more therefore, when his own heart is prepared to grant the suit, will he easily hear it. When one has a mind to do a thing, then the least hint procures it of him. So a father having a mind to spare his child, he will take any excuse, any one's mediation, even of a servant, a stranger, or an enemy, rather than of none.
Now, when Christ shall speak for us, and speak God's own heart, how prevalent must those words need be! David's soul, "longing to go forth unto Absalom," in 2 Samuel 13:39, whom notwithstanding, for the honor of a father and a king's state policy, and to satisfy the world, he had banished the court for his treason. When Joab perceived it, that "the king's heart was towards Absalom," in 2 Samuel 14:1, and that the king only needed one to speak a good word for him, he suborns a woman, a stranger (no matter whom, for it had been all one for speeding), with a made tale to come to the king. And you know how easily it took and prevailed with him, and how glad the king's heart was of that occasion; even so acceptable it was to him, that Joab could not have done him a greater kindness, and that Joab knew well enough. Thus it is with God's heart towards us, Christ assures us of it, and you may believe him in this case. For Christ might have took all the honor to himself, and made us beholden to himself alone for all God's kindness to us; but he deals plainly, and tells us that his Father is as ready as himself, and this he does for his Father's honor and our comfort. And therefore it is that in John 17, in that this prayer so often cited in this discourse, he pleads our election, "Yours they were, and thou gavest them me," John 17:6. You commended them unto me, and bids me pray for them, and I do but commend the same to you again. In the high priest's breastplate, when he went into the holy of holies, were set twelve stones on which were written the names of the twelve tribes, the mystery of which is this: Christ bears us and our names in his heart when he goes to God; and moreover, we are God's jewels, precious in his own account and choice. So God calls them in Malachi 3:17, "Made precious to him out of his love," Isaiah 43:4. So that God loves us as jewels chosen by him, but much more when he beholds us set and presented unto him in the breastplate of Christ's heart and prayer.
To conclude therefore, we have now made both ends of this text to meet, God's love and Christ's intercession. The apostle began with that, "Who shall accuse? It is God that justifies;" and he being for us, "who can be against us?" The Father himself loves us, as he is our Father. And then he ends with this, "Christ intercedes," namely with our Father and his Father, "who then shall condemn?" Who or what can possibly condemn, all these things being for us, the least of which were alone enough to save us?
Let us now look round about and take a full view and prospect at once, of all those particulars that Christ has done and does for us, and their several and joint influence which they have into our salvation.
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There is a novel healthy option now on offer at the Guisborough Forest and Walkway centre with special 90-minute fitness sessions starting tomorrow.
The six sessions, from 10.30am to midday, are being organised by one of the Walkway's volunteers, qualified athletics coach Jill Sexton.
Jill, a mature student studying environmental management at Durham University's Stockton campus, promises she will arrange the exercises to suit those taking part.
She said: "We'll see who turns up and then accommodate them. Maybe people will have done a bit of jogging or a bit of walking, so we'll start off nice and easy.
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Countryside warden Deborah Jefferson invited Jill to run the sessions and said: "We hope it will be a good way of losing those extra pounds put on at Christmas and New Year as well as enjoying a lovely environment."
Jill, 42, from Guisborough, a member of New Marske Harriers, said: "I was delighted to accept - it combines my two interests, keeping fit and a love of the countryside."
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Accountable to the Station Manager, the Community Outreach Coordinator works as part of a team and is expected to be involved in an array of the station's operations with a focus on attracting new volunteers, supervising youth, and organizing/representing CICK at various community events that include music festivals, volunteer appreciation, in-studio music performances and more.
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Definitions of concepts are extremely valuable, but are they sufficient for data management? There seems to be a need for something more - for "data centric definitions". By this I am referring the definition of a table, or column, or other data object in a database. A concept definition - a full description of a business concept - is undoubtedly needed for a data object, but there is a strong case that more is required to form an adequate "data-centric definition". I do not really like calling what I am discussing here "data-centric definitions", because a definition has traditionally been thought of as a property of a concept, not of a data object. However, the term "data-centric definition" at least focuses us well on the area of interest, so I will keep it for now.
Let us first try to discover if there is anything in logic that relates to the topic we are discussing. And indeed there is. Definition has been part of logic since its inception, and continues to be an area of interest, even in modern logic. However, an idea called "supposition" goes beyond definition and seems to have something to say about data-centric definitions. "Supposition" appears to be a purely Medieval idea, apparently not appearing in either ancient or modern logic.
Supposition works like this. Imagine I can successfully come up with a definition of "employee" for my enterprise. The definition, as such is describing the concept of employee. The definition, as such, has nothing to say about any actual employees. It is only when I begin to use the term "employee" in propositions that I have to consider exactly what set of instances (actual employees) I am referring to. The definition alone cannot help me with this.
If I make a database table called "employee" I have to ensure that I am conforming to the definition of the concept "employee". But the table may be designed to capture a specific set of employees. Perhaps the table is only intended to store US employees, or Canadian employees. Perhaps it is only intended to store current employees, or perhaps only past employees. None of this information about the nature of the table can appear in the definition of the concept "employee". This information is the supposition of "employee" - better yet, the supposition of "employee" in a data-centric context. To work effectively with my employee database table, I need the supposition as much as the definition.
So what is supposition? Here I will paraphrase George Hayward Joyce's discussion in "Principles of Logic". The supposition of a term in a proposition must be understood because even a univocal term (a term which signifies only one concept) can be construed is various ways. For the logicians there were three main forms of supposition:
(1) Collective and Distributive Use. When anything is affirmed or denied of a plural subject, the predicate may apply: (a) to individuals (instances); or (b) to the individuals taken as a group. (a) is called the distributive use (suppositio distributiva) and (b) is called the collective use (suppositio collectiva). E.g. for (a) "The employees attended a town hall meeting" applies only to the individuals that came to the event. E.g. for (b) "The employees in our enterprise sign an employment contract" applies to all employees, without having to think about any instances.
(2) Real and Logical Use. Is the term being used as it applies to: (a) the real order, or (b) as it is at the conceptual level? E.g. for (a) "Employee A is sitting at his desk right now" - this refers to reality. E.g. for (b) "I am working on the definition of 'employee' right now" - this refers to my dealing with the concept of "employee", and not any individuals who are employees. In logician's Latin, (a) is called suppositio realis and (b) is called suppositio logica.
(3) Material Supposition (suppositio materialis). This one is much closer to our ideas about metadata. It happens when I am referring to the sign I am discussing. E.g. if I say "'Employee' is a word consisting of eight letters", I am not dealing with the concept, nor any individuals, but only discussing the sign. Aspects of naming conventions in databases intended to keep the names of data objects reasonably short would seem to fall into this category.
I suspect that the distinction between supposition and definition may answer some of the problems brought up under the heading of "context" by data managers. It seems to me that "context" is an overloaded and overabstracted term that refers to a number of quite different issues.
I hope this proves that there is a theoretical basis for "data-centric definitions" and that supposition provides part of it. We have a lot to follow up on regarding "data-centric definitions" and will be returning to it in the future.


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I just acquired a functionally perfect HP-27 Woodstock, which has one very annoying cosmetic flaw. The previous owner chose to engrave his last name into the bottom of the red transparent LED cover in the front of the calculator. I have a spare broken Woodstock with a clean cover, and wondered if it is possible to non-destructively remove its red LED cover and re-implant it in the good calculator. I have done this with several Spice calculators, which have LED covers that are simply snapped in place, and are easily removed. However, from what I can tell the Woodstock cover is not removable without being damaged. Perhaps one of you knows otherwise?
From what it looks like, you will be able to push from the front once you open the calculator.
I would separate the back by taking off the rubber feet and gently unscrewing the screws underneath. The top will separate with a gentle tug and the bottom connection should lever out.
Now I don't know what the cover is glued in with so you will have to play around a little. Sometimes you can heat it up (hair dryer or heat gun - be careful with a heat gun) and the adhesive will soften up.
Thanks, Dallas. I already know how to open these up, and in fact have done so many times, but it seems like the red LED cover is stuck on pretty good. I've tried gently prying to no avail. I tried a hair dryer like you said on the donor calculator and it separated on the bottom but didn't budge on the top, so I don't think this approach will work.
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They may have used a cyanoacrylate type glue or epoxy-ish. It that is the case, you will have a much harder time and heat won't help a bit. I would recommend against the solvent route.
Sorry, Mate; in your shoes, I would pull out a drill, jewelers saw, files, polishing files, lapping cloth, a hot glue gun, and some nice hard plastic. Acrylic is my favorite for this type of thing, but it can shatter if dropped. Making Frankenstein's monster look good is such a fun hobby.
"Debonders" are readily available for loosening cyanoacrylate glue, at many model hobby shops, for instance. Whether they would harm the surrounding plastic, I do not know. Epoxy glue would probably be a more difficult proposition.
True and I haven't tested them on the various plastics. I had a bad experience with lacquer thinner when repairing a 41c and have stayed away from solvents.
(I know, I know; that was more than dumb and resulted in my first screen transplant operation. I was clearing flux after solding the new LCD on and grabbed the thinner off my shelf instead of alcohol. It was very sad.)
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Lobby Group: Norway's Politics Threatens Oil Competitiveness
OSLO, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Norway's high carbon tax, reduced tax allowances for investments and political meddling in oil and gas projects is threatening the competitiveness of the country's vital offshore energy sector, the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association said on Wednesday.
The country still scores among the top producers for competitiveness but a study by consultancy IHS, commissioned by the industry lobby group, is showing growing risk.
Norway is the world's seventh biggest oil exporter and Europe's second biggest gas supplier but production is a decade past its peak as fields mature and many new finds prove to be either small or very expensive.
"This is the first time Norway has been put on a watch-list in a survey like this, and we take it very seriously," Erling Kvadsheim, the director for industry policy at the lobby group said.
Parliament last year tried to force Statoil to power its Johan Sverdrup field, its biggest oil find in decades, plus nearby fields from the shore from the start, risking its 2019 start up date and $20 billion budget.
The parties eventually relented, compromising on a 2022 date, which could still put pressure on the project's budget, analysts said.
"One particular watch-point which could result in a downgrade in Norway's score for the monetization of resources is if parliament repeats its attempt to intervene on field development plans," IHS said. "The compromise on Johan Sverdrup has been noted in this regard, but the precedent provides a watch-point for future action."
The centre-right government rules in a minority and the study noted that its reliance on two smaller parties is an additional risk given these parties' "more ambitious environmental policies".
IHS added that Norway has among the highest oil taxes in the world while a reduction in investment write offs and the increased carbon tax levied on energy firms that do not get power from the shore are also a concern.
The oil ministry could not immediately comment on the IHS report.
(Reporting by Joachim Dagenborg; Writing by Balazs Koranyi; Editing by Michael Urquhart)
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Fake contests that purport to be sponsored by a reputable company are not new, but now, cybercriminals that launch such campaigns have turned their attention to mobile phone owners. In one instance, to ensure the success of the operation, they use the name and reputation of Apple.
"Congratulations, Your entry into our contest last month made you a WINNER! Goto www.apple.com.textwon.com to claim your prize! You have 24 hours to claim," reads the message found by Sophos researchers.
While at first glance it may seem that the link points to the genuine Apple site, if we take a closer look we see that "apple.com" is actually a subdomain of the "textwon.com" website.
After investigating the domain, experts determined that it was registered on May 4, 2012.
"The actual contact information for who registered the domain is hidden behind by a domain privacy service, but the A-Record IP address of the domain is linked with others that are known to have hosted malware, scams, adware and fake anti-virus in the past," Graham Cluley of Sophos reports.
Users who fall for the scam and click on the link are redirected to one of the many shady websites, depending on their location. However, in most cases, the victim is taken to a site which promises a free iPad, or other fancy gadget, in return for the completion of a classic survey.
As always, no one ever wins anything, except for the fraudsters, who earn a certain amount of money each time someone falls for the trap.
In some scenarios, after completing the survey, the users are requested to provide a mobile phone number which is used by the cybercrooks to sign them up for unsolicited premium rate services.
These types of schemes are not uncommon on social media websites and many have learned to avoid them, but now, we recommend that you also take a closer look at shady-looking offers received via SMS.


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Thursday, February 17, 2011
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We are attempting at the moment to get the essence of Ashley school down on paper! What makes us who we are. Our vision sums up what we want, our curriculum attempts to connect to all our children but there is so much more. There is what our students bring to the table and what our families provide outside of school. It is constantly changing as new families come and go and add to this huge tapestry. I will continue to get it down but there are days it is easier to speak about than write.
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