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Natural gas deposits are often located in areas of magnificent beauty because they naturally occur within or underneath ancient rock formations, on land or underneath water, where fossilized plant and animal matter has been compressed and broken down over many millions of years. It then is no coincidence that many of these fertile areas are within the boundaries of protected national park areas in the United States. While debates continue on Capitol Hill over drilling bans or permissions within these sanctuaries, it could be helpful to look at instances where drilling and extraction of resources has successfully coexisted with picturesque beauty and protected status.
Texas has long been a fertile ground for natural gas and oil reserves. Its rich, though sometimes barren landscape possesses thousands of proven mineral and petroleum deposits that have been the state's mainstay for economic growth over the past century and a half. One such area that has recently come under public scrutiny by environmentalists such as the Sierra Club and large oil outfits like British Petroleum is the protected seashore at Padre Island National Park located on the southeast tip of that great state, on the Gulf of Mexico.
Exploration and development of Padre Island's cache of natural resources has been underway for many decades. In the late 1930s, Texas' growing interest in development of its state's natural reserves motivated legislators to send surveyor J.S. Boyle to the area. The first oil well was not constructed until a decade later, by Sun Oil Company at Yarborough Pass. The permission for this and other wells drilled by Sun was acquired through legislation proposed by Senator Yarborough of Texas, and Sun was the only oil company drilling on the National Seashore during the 50s and 60s. These oil wells produced small amounts of show, but very little commercially viable crude.
There are currently three natural gas producing wells in operation at Padre Island. These wells are under the close watchful eye of the National Park Service. Rangers help in monitoring to ensure a safe environment for the over 800,000 visitors who visit the park each year. The National Park Service describes their role in managing the park's resources as a "commitment to previous property owners by ensuring their ability to recover the oil and gas mineral resources with a minimum of environmental consequences." Since the lands which make up the park were previously private, the NPS has committed itself to help serve both the public and private sector with its stewardship of the park. Oil companies such as Triple Diamond Energy Corp adhere to strict regulations when drilling and exploring this protected seashore.
About the Author: Robert Jent is the president of Triple Diamond Energy Corp. Triple Diamond Energy specializes in acquiring the highest quality prime oil and gas properties. For more information, visit http://www.triplediamondenergycorp.blogspot.com.
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Each September, the Noblesville Preservation Alliance (NPA) hosts a Tour of Historic Homes which showcases the storied structures & residences within downtown Noblesville. Guests can stroll through at their own pace, enjoying the crisp fall air and the colorful foliage of the area. The NPA has given us four tickets for the 2010 Tour, taking place Saturday, September 18 (tickets valued at $12 each). We are having a contest on the blog for these tickets & we are also giving away a $10 gift certificate to Alexander's on the Square. What goes better with a walk around Noblesville than a tasty cone from Alexander's? To win these four tickets & $10 gift certificate, fill in the blank in the comments section of this post: This is the ___th year for the annual tour of historic homes. (No idea? Check out the NPA website for a clue: noblesvillepreservation.com). Winner will be drawn on Monday, August 30 at 10 a.m. Any question on our contests? Check out our 8 Great Towns blog contest policy.
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Its times like these that I am grateful to my mother for a name that, while difficult for many to pronounce, will never be painted on cheap plastic tourist tack and sold en-masse on the streets of a once-lovely land gone bad.
In my mind Bali is a beautiful wonderland of silent stoicism, a peaceful realm of bicycle riding rice farmers, terraced hilly landscapes and pleasantly meandering streams. In reality Bali is a very different beast.
While there are still areas of natural semi-undisturbed beauty and the odd isolated village of native Balinese going about their business, there is a large part of the island that has fallen into a Cancun-like swamp of drunken, overindulgent cheap-trinket chaos. Except its worse than Cancun could ever be, uglier than anywhere I have seen and an embarrassment in every form. Bali has fallen victim to tourist terrorism and nowhere is the unapologetic sprawl worse than in Kuta, the main tourist center and many people's first glimpse of this once-majestic corner of the world.
Kuta is the frat house of the Southeast Asia.
At a souvenir stand outside my hotel's restaurant I overhear a young Australian tourist recount to his buddies the sexual escapades of the night before while still-drunkenly fingering a large bold bumper sticker advertising the "Power of the Pussy". To his right a small Javanese vendor is eagerly showing off his collection of profanity in print; from "Suck it Bitches" shot glasses to "Do Me Up the Bum" hats, a sticker that simply says "Boogers" and t-shirts that read "Kiss My Hairy Ass Cunt". Who buys this shit? Seemingly someone, a lot of some ones. Booths like this one are a dime a dozen in Kuta, so much so that it is easy to become disoriented and lost in a maze of cheap sexually explicit, neon colored junk.
Outside of these seedy city alleys, the Main drag isn't much better and caters to the unimaginative. There is a giant but crumbly McDonald's, a number of chilly air-conditioned Starbucks and Starbucks wannabes and a Quicksilver sportswear store on every corner. The nightclubs feel freakishly like overblown airport bars and, surfing aside, there isn't much to do here besides drink.
In fact the only useful thing I can find in Kuta is dusty two-for-one book exchange.
I have a hard time understanding how this place ever came to be. Once upon a time people came to Bali for what it originally was. For beautiful beaches and surfable waves, excellent diving, cheap eats and a relaxed vacation. Somewhere along the way it just got horribly out of hand. And while I am thoroughly disgusted with what tourism has done to the once quiet town of Kuta, I can't help but wonder, if in some twisted way, places like these are beneficial, if only to keep the "Bitch Princess" t-shirts and booze guzzling, belligerently indulgent pho-tourists, contained.


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As you may know, we have been working on Bitbar Monitoring for couple of months. The beta version is available for application and will be soon accessible for all of you. At the same time, we are running a survey regarding our new product and how application performance monitoring is handled in your company.
In the past month, 91 participants have contributed to the development of Bitbar Monitoring by filling out the poll and giving their comments. We have taken some great tips and ideas into consideration and now are making these as features in the new product. If you'd like to help us build a better monitoring product that can actually benefit you in the future, fill out the survey here and leave your comments. We will share the results of the survey when the beta version of the product is available.
In the survey, there is a question – 'Do you currently use Real User Monitoring to trace customer issues?' Up to now, approximately 80% of the responders don't have RUM implemented for monitoring the performance of their app or website. Though we didn't catch the reason of that, let's take a look at the differences between synthetic monitoring and real-user monitoring.
Synthetic Monitoring or Real-User Monitoring
Before we look into the differences between two types of monitoring, let's review the definition of both.
Synthetic Monitoring, a.k.a proactive monitoring, simulates the real user interactions with your mobile apps and real user behavior on your websites to periodically check the performance of your mobile apps and websites and to catch the real issues before your users do.
Real-User Monitoring, a.k.a passive monitoring, helps you constantly track the actual customer experience they are having with your mobile apps or websites in real-time and determine if your users/customers are served in actual service-level quality.
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- If you have a new mobile application/website or an upgrade, how will you know if it would be available in different countries before it goes live?
Well, synthetic monitoring is the answer to these. Synthetic monitoring helps you select the preferred locations to test the availability and performance of your mobile application or websites. It ensures that the transactions perform properly at any time when tested at a regular interval. With synthetic monitoring, you will be able to release any new products or releases with full confidence.
Conversely, real-time monitoring can't address these issues and deliver the same value as synthetic monitoring in this scenario. At 3am of the day, no one is on your website and no real-time data can be captured to determine if your website or service is accessible. And it's mostly like a shot in the dark without testing the performance of your new products before they hit the market.
Data Reliability
Synthetic monitoring and real-user monitoring have both pros and cons on the reliability of the data captured.
As it says, synthetic monitoring stimulates the user behavior with the help of test automation and test scripts. It assures if the mobile app or website is available at the moment, but the captured data cannot reflect real end-user experience in real world. On the contrary, the real-user monitoring does provide a piece of actual data generated by a real visitor or user to your mobile app or website. Overall synthetic monitoring lacks the diversity of the data collected in the real world: geolocations, user network conditions, hardware, etc.
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On the other hand, synthetic monitoring provides more useful insights than RUM, just because synthetics don't track real user sessions. The script used for synthetic monitoring is executing a predefined set of steps at a regular interval from a known location/city. The performance of your mobile apps or websites is predictable.
Though RUM can provide your enormous actual data from your end-users, lots of noises will be generated as well that it makes hard to analyze the data and pinpoint the real issues. In that regard, data provided by synthetic monitoring is more useful for altering that very noisy data collected by RUM.
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Radically Finished, Scared and Full of Hope
To the Linux people, this is the last posting on the Radical Read-Along. God bless you guys and I hope you read.
I was struggling with finishing this book. Not because it was a hard read, but because God is bringing me and my family to the mat with a lot of things.
Chapter 8
The part that moved me a lot in this chapter was when the mission team was serving patients with HIV. Would I risk getting pricked with a needle and contracting HIV for the Lord?? Would I go and pray for people who are infected with a deadly disease? I am starting to believe that I could and I will get to more of that later in the wrap. (more…)
Radical Read Along Chapter 5 – How Can I?
The following is for my radical read along group, but it can pertain to you to. So if you are afraid of this kind of stuff, then wait and I will have another Linux post up soon after this one. In fact this very post may just have some Linux content mixed with the gospel so here we go.
This chapter meant a lot to me, but it just wasn't as deep as the others have been for me. I think part of this is because I actually kind of get what Platt is saying. Why? Well if you have not read my blog before this or my other posts on geardiary.com or on Linux for Christians one thing that I love to work with (after God and my Family of course) is Linux and Open Source software. One thing that I noticed once I had become more involved with Linux has been the word community. Linux itself is a community of Linux users and software developers working towards making a better software. We hold Linux fests, Install fests and other things in the local community to help "preach the gospel" of Linux and Open Source Software. In many ways, this is exactly what Platt is talking about and I think it is something that the Linux community have down better than we Christians do because there is no Church of Linux. There is no building that is dedicated to teaching Linux. We have no choice but to go into the community and find a place to meet. (more…)
Radical Read Along Chapter 4 – How DO we share God's Glory with the World
The one quote in the book that gripped me the most is this one:
Based on the purpose of God we've seen in Scripture, shouldn't every Christian's heart be ultimately consumed with how we can make God's glory known in all the world?
How can we even do this? That is a radical faith in God that is needed in order to make His glory known throughout the world or does it? The more I thought and prayed about this and in the rest of my prayer life, the more I thought each of us can have a impact not just here, but in the rest of the world too.
Imagine this….say God is calling you to minister to children. What if you, with God's help of course, helped to show a child the glory of God? What if you prayed with a child or a teen who fully commits himself to Christ and then God calls him to be a missionary in Uganda or somewhere else in the world. What is that? Impact. In your calling and your relationship with God, you helped a child come to Christ! You did what God wanted you to do and thus showed God's Glory to the world.
In this modern world, it is even easier to do this. This read along itself that Marla has been leading is reaching all across the United States and God is enabling us all to be blessed enough to purchase the book and to read and have all we need to share this message on the Internet. The Internet's reach is world wide. We may not be directly feeding someone in another country or showing God's love directly to someone who really needs it, but we may be helping or ministering from the other side of the world.
So if you think I have I heart for South Columbus, I think that still may be correct however, Columbus is part of the State of Ohio. Ohio is part of the United States and the United States is part of the world. The very world that God wants us to show his glory. So do you have a heart for the world? Sure you do. God may just have placed you where he wanted you to be so that you can through all of those degrees of connections you make an impact in his kingdom. So you can show God's glory to just a little piece of the world.
With that said though, God definitely calls people to be missionaries in other parts of the world. That person may be you. That person may be the one you prayed with 10 years ago. Think about it.
Radical Read Along Chapter 3 – Losing Ourselves
I was enthralled with this weeks reading just like all of the others, but I think the reason why I was enthralled is God wanted me to be alert for something that required a radical change in my schedule and in myself. What I am talking about is an experience that I will share below:
Sunday morning, I was in my normal routine except I did make a couple changes already. I had decided to wake up a bit earlier than I did to go for a run. This was my first run in a long time. I prayed to God to get me through this radical physical effort that I was about to undergo that morning. I threw on the headphones with some worship music and fired up the C25K program on my phone. God got me through the run, but the big change was yet to come. (more…)
Radical Read Along – Chapter 1 – Wow…this IS Radical
God has been working on me for sometime to do something with Gabe Taviano. He leads a local group of Christians here called the Digital Disciples. A group of tech enthusiast who also happen to be Christians. I have always wanted to join their monthly gatherings, but with the timing of getting out of work as well as getting from the south side of Columbus to the northwest side in time for a 6 PM gathering, it's a pretty tall order. Maybe some day I'll make it. Anyway, that isn't what this post is about. Gabe posted on Facebook about his wife, Marla, leading a read along of David Platt's Radical – Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. Gabe said there were only three other men participating, at the time, so I prayed about it and felt God saying to do it.
In the last year we had studied in our small group at Church at the low numbers of men in leadership positions in different ministries. In my prayer about this reading, I just felt God saying I want to prepare you for your next step. This is God's way of helping me prepare for what he has in store for me. I still do not know what that is, but I hope to at least grow through this reading. So, from here on out are my thoughts on Chapter One of Radical. (more…)


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Israeli air strikes shook Gaza every few minutes on Wednesday and Thursday, and militants kept up rocket fire in Israel's heartland. An Israeli air strike killed seven Palestinian civilians, including five children, in the largest death toll from a single attack since the start of a three-day offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Residents and medical officials said an Israeli air strike bombed at least two houses in a densely populated area near Khan Younis while residents were asleep.
Bodies were pulled out of rubble from three or four homes including neighboring structures, and the Palestinian Health Ministry said five of the dead were children. Another 16 people were also wounded in the attack, the ministry said.
The attack raised the death toll to 60 Palestinians, most of them civilians, since Tuesday, in Israel's offensive aimed at halting rocket fire at the Jewish state from coastal Gaza.
Israel says gunmen have fired more than 200 rockets at it during the campaign, striking deep into the country's heartland. The rockets have caused no serious casualties, but the barrages have paralyzed business in southern communities, with hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for shelter.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strike and fatalities, which occurred shortly after Israeli media said 30 rockets had been launched in the space of an hour at southern Israeli towns and cities. No injuries were reported in those attacks.
Earlier Wednesday, Missiles from Israel's Iron Dome defense system shot into the sky to intercept rockets launched, for the second straight day, at Tel Aviv, the country's commercial capital. Some were also aimed at Israel's Dimona nuclear plant, 50 miles from Gaza, but were either shot down or landed in open country.
With cries of "Allahu akbar" (God is great), Palestinians in the Gaza Strip cheered as rockets streaked overhead toward Israel, in attacks that could provide a popularity boost for Islamist Hamas, whose rift with neighboring Egypt's military-backed government has deepened economic hardship.
Dimona, desert site of a nuclear reactor and widely assumed to have a role in atomic weaponry, was targeted by locally made M-75 long-range rockets, militants said. The Israeli army said Iron Dome shot down one and two others caused no damage - it was unclear how close they came to the town or the nuclear site.
Violence building up to the most serious hostilities between Israel and Gaza militants since an eight-day war in 2012 began three weeks ago after three Jewish students were abducted in the occupied West Bank and later found killed. Last week, a teenage Palestinian was kidnapped and found killed in Jerusalem.
Cairo brokered a truce in the conflict two years ago, but the current, military government's hostility toward Islamists in general and to Hamas, which it accuses of aiding fellow militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, could make a mediation role more difficult. Hamas denies those allegations.
Palestinian rocket barrages have sent Israelis racing for bomb shelters, with radio stations constantly interrupting broadcasts to announce where sirens have sounded. But the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange seemed untroubled, ending the day with shares slightly higher.
Israeli leaders, who seem to have wide popular support at home for the Gaza operation, have warned of a lengthy campaign and possible ground invasion of one of the world's most densely populated territories, home to nearly two million Palestinians.
"We have decided to step up even more the attacks on Hamas and terrorist organizations in Gaza," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
"The Israel Defence Forces are prepared for every option. Hamas will pay a heavy price for firing at Israeli citizens."
Netanyahu's security cabinet has already approved the potential mobilization of up to 40,000 reserve troops.
Netanyahu's office said he had discussed the situation with United Nations Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and that he would speak to other world leaders later.
Washington backed Israel's actions in Gaza, while the European Union and United Nations urged restraint on both sides. U.S. President Barack Obama, in a German newspaper article to be published on Thursday, said: "At this time of danger, everyone involved must protect the innocent and act in a sensible and measured way, not with revenge and retaliation."
Life appeared deceptively normal in Israeli cities, where shops were open and roads clogged with traffic. But questions were being asked on radio talkshows about an exit strategy and a timeframe for the offensive.
At a sidewalk cafe on a fashionable avenue in Tel Aviv, patrons seemed to take an air raid siren in their stride, staying in line for their coffee as joggers and cyclists passed.
Some 80 km away in Gaza, there were scenes outside homes hit by air strikes of panicked neighbors, including mothers clutching crying children, running into the street to escape what they feared would be another attack.
But at one convenience store, which had remained open, customer Abu Ahmed, 65, said he was pleased by the militants' resolve: "I am fine, as long as Tel Aviv is being hit," he said, as he bought cigarettes.
In an air strike on a home in the north of the Gaza Strip, a leader of the Islamic Jihad group and five of his family were killed, the Palestinian Interior Ministry said. An 80-year-old woman was killed in an Israeli attack on another target in the center of the 40-km long territory, local officials said.
A 60-year-old man and his son were also killed when two missiles hit their house in Beit Hanoun in the north.
Israeli strikes on militants' homes, local residents said, are usually preceded by either warning fire or a telephone call telling its inhabitants to flee, in an attempt by Israel to avoid civilian casualties. But such bombing sometimes injures or kills people in neighboring houses.
Abbas, who is based in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and entered a power-sharing arrangement with Hamas in April after years of feuding, said he had spoken to Egypt about the Gaza crisis: "This war is not against Hamas or any faction but is against the Palestinian people," the Western-backed leader said.
Under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Cairo has secured closures on the Egyptian-Gaza border, increasing economic pressure on Hamas from a long-running Israeli blockade.
"Sisi stressed Egypt was interested in the safety of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and sparing this grave assault," a statement from Abbas's office said, adding that Cairo would "exert efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire".
But an Israeli minister appeared to play down any expectations that Egypt would intervene soon.
In the West Bank, about 400 Palestinian youths, chanting their support for Hamas's armed wing, threw stones at an army checkpoint. Troops responded with teargas and rubber bullets.
Israel has blamed Hamas for the killing of the three Jewish seminary students who disappeared while hitchhiking in the West Bank on June 12. Hamas has neither confirmed nor denied a role.
The rocket fire from Gaza began after Israel arrested hundreds of Hamas activists in a West Bank sweep it mounted in tandem with a search for the youths, who were found dead last week. A Palestinian teen was abducted and killed in Jerusalem last Wednesday in a suspected revenge murder. Six Israelis have been arrested in that case.
While threatening an "earthquake" of escalation against Israel, Hamas said it could restore calm if Israel halted the Gaza offensive, once again committed to a 2012 ceasefire truce and freed the prisoners it detained in the West Bank last month.


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BURBANK HIGH — For a moment, the visiting Arcadia High boys' water polo team was competitive with Burbank, the sixth-ranked squad in CIF Southern Section Division V.
And for a time, Burbank had grown lackadaisical.
But when first-year Bulldogs Coach Kristina Garcia began subbing in players off the bench, the team took notice, turning in a second stanza of pure dominance that quickly turned Thursday afternoon's Pacific League tilt into an overwhelming rout, as the Bulldogs won easily, 20-8, against the Apaches.
"After the first quarter, things that needed to be done, the team stood up and they took on that powerful role," said Garcia, whose team improved to 11-6, 3-2 in league, good enough for second place in the league standings along with Crescenta Valley, which defeated Pasadena (2-3 in league) on Thursday.


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The birth narrative involves the angel visiting and talking to Mary and Joseph among others. Even though Joseph is let in on the secret of how Mary has conceived, he does two things in secret. Our culture and many other cultures see black, dark and even shadows as something bad and despicable. Joseph who in most part is a silent partner in the narrative has something to offer us in the form of secrets and shadows.
It is interesting to note that we do or we are forced to do bad things in the dark or in secret. Perhaps the usage "his/her/my darkest hour" places "dark" in bad light. Joseph wanted to secretly send away Mary when he learned that she was carrying a baby. He was going to do something bad and yet he was trying to be a nice person by doing that. This is when an intervention by the angel sets things right. But Joseph again secretly supports Mary without others knowing how she has conceived. It is challenging to see that we do bad and worse things in secret and once it is dark the real us comes out. Joseph does something different in being more considerate towards Mary both in secret and in the dark. He must have swallowed a large male ego to do so and in doing that he challenges the very notion of darkness and sin. He shows us that we can after all do good things in the dark and in secret. This is a good lesson when we think of and meditate upon the birth narrative.
Even though Joseph plays second fiddle to Mary he does not wait in secret to seek his revenge but rather does so to behave well with her. The birth narrative this way definitely has Mary in the forefront as a young girl who bears Jesus but it also shows through Joseph the supporting role which should be played by men in a society which is clearly anti-women. This supporting role may not always be played out in the public but in more private spaces. Families have problems which are seen in private and may never come to light. The man in the family who is good outside in the light will be someone else in secret.
The birth narrative offers men especially an opportunity to travel to our deepest darkness inside and choose to do good instead of surrendering to the notion that men can and should only do evil things in private. Joseph is silent but is trying to do something in his silence as well. He is present when the shepherds and elders come to meet baby Jesus but it is not a pronounced presence like Mary. It is almost like a shadow. The shadow is also seen as something which can be done away with because it also has darkness as a part of it. But Joseph invites us to witness a shadow of blessing which he turns out to be. He does not limit himself to the darkest and most evil of thoughts but rather becomes a shadow of blessing to the child and Mary.
The birth narrative should make us think different about how darkness and shadows have been seen as something bad and avoidable just like the birth of a child out of wed lock. Mary is inspired by the Holy Spirit but she could have been dragged into the darkness of male egoism and a patriarchal society and yet Joseph decides to do otherwise. Can we also during the birth of Christ become a shadow of blessing to someone? There are many in society who are outcasts because of their choice or the community they belong to. Wouldn't it be nice to use the shadow and secret initiatives to offer justice to people who have suffered under shadows and secret decisions?
Joseph defies the thought process of his time and he denies tradition. He feels that Mary needs his presence and he should offer whatever he can even though he may not be able to comprehend what he is doing. Our shadow is something we do not control largely. It is also something we do not notice always. And yet imagine it becoming a blessing to others? Our shadow can be our inner most thoughts and desires. It is there and yet we forget it is there. Joseph realizes his shadow and the strength of his shadow without actually planning his response to the predicament he found himself under.
We must realize that we are not in the manger or the rock opening where the baby is wrapped in bands of cloth. Yet our shadow could be there either when we face it or when we have our backs to it. This shadow of blessing is a realization that the birth of Christ is indeed not just an event but also a controversy. It is a controversy of a woman who has conceived of the Holy Spirit. We can deny it and secretly dismiss Mary or we can go into the most innermost darkness of our thoughts and become a shadow of blessing.


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Daily Checklist #2
(to be used once the master bedroom and bath have been completely picked up)
Master Bedroom
____Make the bed
____Get dressed
____Start at your bedside and walk around to the other side of the bed.
__Pick up all trash, clothes, and things that should not be on the floor.
__Clear surfaces of all items that don't belong.
__Make anything that does belong look good.
____Close the closet doors
____Complete load of laundry per day (wash, dry/hang, fold)
Master Bathroom
____Clear counter tops of any items that do not belong there
____Pick up the bathroom floor
____Flush toilet if needed
____Replace roll of toilet paper if needed
____Do one weekly task
___Wipe down mirror and counter
___Wipe down toilet and scrub bowl
___Wipe down shower and or tub
___Sweep floors
___Empty trash
I made a printable version of this checklist available here: Daily Checklist #2
I also made a checklist for JUST the master bathroom in case you are going in a different order, or just looking for a bathroom checklist: Master Bathroom Daily Checklist


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The real meaning behind these confusing movie endings
Not all filmmakers like their movies to have simple endings. Some leave their last scenes ambiguous to keep audiences thinking. But sometimes that plan backfires, resulting in endings that are just plain confusing. Fear not! We've got the answers you need in our video above, but beware of spoilers.


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More Honors named this year nominees for the usual categories and the new one- Phenomenon.
Review of the AUBG 2014 musical "All Shook Up" !
This year's musical - "All Shook Up" brought two alumni back to the university to share the fever !
An AUBG student had his first big DJ party in Blagoevgrad this Wednesday.
Members of Students Advocating Gender Equality sent an open letter to the Russian Embassy in Sofia.
Growing a mustache to raise awareness - a campaign that got AUBGers too.
Traditionally, ABF's theater stage will host a fresh new selection of plays.
The experience of a guy with a leg injury and his adventures on campus.
AUBG has a new math club, established to prove that math can be fun.
The official AUBG cooking club Bon Appétit celebrated their first anniversary with a special event.
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I haven't blogged in a REALLY really long time. I'm not sure if I even see a point in it anymore, but I'm too lazy to right in my journal right now, so this is the quick alternative.
Today is my birthday. I turned 21, though I don't feel anywhere near that age. 17 still seems like the appropriate response when people ask...but that is far gone from me now. I try to use moments like this in life as a sort of reflection time. Today was probably the most busy birthday I've ever had...probably in the top 10 busiest days of my whole life actually. It should have been extremely stressful, but I didn't seem to notice today. Every 10 minutes today without fail I've had someone encouraging me. Friends telling me how much they care. Family and community that called to catch up. The texts and messages were overwhelmingly comforting, and it was such a great reminder of the camaraderie (tribute to Burks) I've found in life. That's nice.
Today I found a poem that I wrote two years ago. As I look back on what I wrote, I am reminded of how convicted I felt, and I am so proud to say that my windows have changed. I can't say that everything is better, but I can say that progress has been made. There are some days that the sun will fall exactly where it did the day before (I could work in a really good Astronomy lesson right here), but the overall progress I would say has been from West to North...metaphorically that is...obviously I know the sun will never set due North. Here is the poem...most everyone that looks at it will probably see it as worthless, meaningless, and poorly written, but for me...this is life.
A Window to the Past
I'm sitting in front of a window watching the darkness, waiting for the sun to rise. I see the future. I see the past. The same things happen day after day. I am no more of a failure than I was yesterday. I am no more of a success.
I'm sitting in front of a window unable to move, unable to blink. The world is standing still. Wind chimes hang noiseless, lifeless. The world is still, calm, asleep. Soon the world will wake, and then it will sleep again.
I'm sitting in front of a window wondering if tomorrow I'll again be sitting in front of a window.
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Peter Randall-Page is an extraordinary British sculptor and visual artist whose connection to nature began in the Sussex countryside. For Randall-Page, organic forms are places to begin, shapes that push the artist to explore his own response to them.
Randall-Page does not simply render natural forms. Like a poet plunging through metaphor toward meaning, he discovers ways to shape the form's felt energies. Natural forms are ambiguous; they are all elaborations of Earth's great themes: shared origins, interdependence, obedience to gravity and the circle.
Many commentators have noted the ambiguity of Randall-Page's sculpture, its metamorphic qualities. His sculptures refuse to be one thing or another. Echoing life, they continually shift phase, defying categories such as animal, vegetable and mineral.
See In His Own Words, beneath photos.
Granite Song
moorstone, 1991
set on island in the River Teign, Devon
Mother-Tongue, Kilkenny limestone, 1998
Womb Tomb, granite, 2000
Give and Take, granite, 2003
"I Take a stone formed by the blind forces of geology over millions of years, and through articulating its surface,
imbue it with some sort of energy."
Stone Bearing Stone, granite, 1999
"I had the large stone for many years before deciding how to use it. The natural form of the eroded boulder had a sense of internal pressure. I wanted to enhance this quality by implying one form contained within another."
Excerpts from interviews with Paul Nesbitt and Brian McAvera, and quotations from Sculpture and Drawings 1977-1992:
I grew up in the country and always found the natural world deeply engaging. Later, through my work, I became particularly interested in seeds and fruit. They embody the potential for growth and can be sensual, even erotic. They detach from the parent plant, becoming separate entities full of energy to develop into full-blown plants. I have also always been fascinated by the relationship between outer appearance and internal structure, between surface and volume.
One could speak of different species as each having its own song, tone or note. There's a sense in which they are all akin, each playing its own particular tune. I would like my work to have something of this same quality. For me, when a sculpture is 'right', when the form has coherence and the object seems at one with itself, it has an almost audible hum, each part having a harmonious relationship with the whole.
I think we have a much closer connection with other living things, both flora and fauna, than we realize. We are all part of the same biological system and my desire is not only to know this intellectually but to feel it in my bones. The blurring of boundaries between zoology and botany in my work is, in some ways, an expression of this desire to lose a sense of alienation from the rest of the natural world and to experience the reality of its intimacy...
It is obviously a deliberate choice on my part to carve --I have just found for me that carving is an extremely good way of dealing with subtlety, with striking a chord and achieving a kind of resonance through a subtle control of form.
My work is both a celebration of the natural world and an exploration of its expressive potential - a subjective celebration of the underlying energy behind everything that lives and grows.
I am not interested in illustrating ideas conceived in words; I am interested in working from direct physical experience. The process of carving, rather than stone itself, is important to me. Carving, like drawing and modeling, is conducive to a meditative process where decision, action, and appraisal become fused in a fluid working dialogue. In short, the act of carving itself helps me to access my imagination.
Carving and drawing are good ways of tapping into subconscious feelings and images, through an unself-conscious dialogue in the process itself. The process engenders contemplation. It's physical and repetitive, keeping the body busy and liberating the imagination at a deeper level.
I want my forms to function as a psychological investigation, which hopefully will strike a chord of recognition in the viewer. …It would be pretty remarkable if certain forms didn't have a resonance since we share an evolutionary history.
Much of my work is derived from botanical and other natural things, but …there is quite a strong strain running through the work which is pure invention.
For example, I have often used a continuous coil which can be folded and knotted in many different and expressive ways. Fundamentally, I want these works to have the sense that they might exist in nature, to have kinship with natural form but not to be a representation of anything specifically identifiable. The importance of this, in terms of the response of the viewer, is that when one comes across something never seen before, one has to work at it in a different way. If you can see immediately what it is based on you can file it away and the perception stops there.
I'm trying to make certain forbidden aspects of privacy beautiful, closer to rightness. I'm led by that. Reconciliation is one of the important functions of art.
I've always had a tremendous feel for sensuality, for form and touching things and volume. I spent a lot of time on my own, looking closer and closer and closer at a [slate] shingle, for instance, and suddenly seeing the geometry of a shell, like another world poking through. My dad made his living as a model-maker, so the idea of making things was there. I went to the British Museum and the Ethnographic Museum as a child. The Egyptian room in the British Museum, the intensity of the objects, moved me. These people made the same images over thousands of years, a cultural distillation like natural selection. Everything non-vital was stripped away. That hit me like a thump in the chest.
I've never been interested in making sculpture which implies frozen movement or 'a moment in time'. I'd like to make things which are at rest, where the energy is internalised. Perhaps plant forms, particularly fruit and seeds, lend themselves to this sense of implicit life. They may have the feeling that they could burst into life but from the inside rather than in an obviously animated way.
You have to work at the gaps between different images; it's not quite this and it's not quite that and hopefully it can evoke a feeling rather than stopping at the identification and naming of the object itself.
My drawing has always run parallel to making sculpture. Sometimes the drawings are preparatory to sculpture, sometimes they stand on their own. I did a set of drawings a few years ago called 'Fruiting Bodies' which were of an architectural scale. I drew them with charcoal attached to a long pole, and they were very physical to make.
I like drawing from the shoulder rather than wrist. For me the problem with working from the wrist is that the brain locks into the mode of writing, of putting down information in a coded form; that's why I use charcoal such a lot; you tend not to hold it in the same way as a pencil.
Many of the drawings have a lot of black in them; it's a bit like carving, starting with a block and chipping away the bits you don't want. I approach drawing in a similar way, starting with a white piece of paper and blacking in all that I don't want to remain.
Particularly on big drawings, it's a process of whittling away at the white.
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A while ago I bought some Japanese woodblock prints on eBay. They are depicting scenes from everyday life and they all have references to flowers, flower arranging or flower symbolism. I guess that's what caught my interest. I recognize some of my own relation to flowers in these pictures.
To my untrained eye it doesn't look like high quality prints. I'm not an expert on woodblock prints, but I guess the affection value is higher than the financial.
This is perfectly fine with me. I've been told that the same woodblocks were used many times, and even sold to less scrupulous editors when they
weren't good enough anymore. The quality difference between the first edition and later prints is reflected in the price level.
The first print has a motive of a young man balancing on a fence, holding on to some kind of flowering branch. In this print Harunobu (1725?–1770) emphasizes the contrast between the long perspectives in life, represented by a small pine tree, and the present moment that will soon pass away, represented by the short lived blossom.
The second print also has a spring motive. A woman with long hair walking under a Sakura, Cherry blossom tree. I love the way she is catching the flower petals blowing in the air, or maybe just protecting her hair with a scarf. This woodblock was designed by Kunisada (1786-1865).
Lastly an autumn motive. In this design by Shigenaga (1697-1756), three young women are admiring and measuring a very large Kiku, Chrysanthemum, in a vase. To the right are three other Kiku of different colours prepared for an exhibition.
I love my woodblock prints. Next I'm going to look for prints of men working with ikebana. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.


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May 2017
In today's world, it's not just charities that have a duty to contribute to a better society. We all have a role to play — whether it's giving time and expertise on a pro bono basis, getting involved with organisations serving our local communities or embedding ethical practices into our place of work.
The third sector does amazing work to tackle a range of global issues, from disease and poverty to environmental concerns. But the onus shouldn't be on charities alone. Businesses have a responsibility, both to their staff and the wider public, to help shape a better world. There shouldn't be a distinction between the sectors. We should all be looking at how we can contribute.
Initiatives such as the Better Society Awards are a chance to celebrate the good work carried out by commercial companies and recognise the efforts this sector has made. It's also an opportunity to highlight the untapped potential to deliver more change. With more schemes like it, we can broadcast the message that everyone can contribute to a better society. And in turn, we'll see a shift towards more companies adopting ethical policies and practices.
We're delighted to have been shortlisted for the Most Ethical Business category in the Better Society Awards, alongside some other good companies. Last week, I was lucky enough to address our head office staff at one of our regular gatherings, where the upcoming awards ceremony was a hot topic of conversation. What struck me the most from the conversations I had with colleagues is that everyone at HOME recognises we can do more.
Whatever the result on the night, we're looking forward to hearing about and learning from the approach of other organisations, and forming new relationships. I'm particularly excited about the opportunities to improve and measure the progress we've made when the gongs are being handed out in 2018, so watch this space.
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"As precisely orchestrated as a symphony . . . the most honest story that can be told, the most generous, and always straight to the heart."—Pam HoustonWinner of Pushcart's Seventeenth Annual Editors' Book Award, this first novel about a marriage in crisis has evoked extraordinary praise from readers Pam Houston and Rick Bass. In presenting Lucky Man, Lucky Woman with the Editors' Book Award, publisher Bill Henderson's citation included the following remarks: "I was literally stunned by this first novel-amazed that one writer could evoke such sweetness and compassion about a middle-aged marriage and in such wonderful detail." The New York Times praised Jack Driscoll's short story collection, Wanting Only to Be Heard, for its extraordinary depiction of "the psychic terrors that dwell on the fringes of human endeavor." In Lucky Man, Lucky Woman the author investigates those terrors much closer to home. Crowding forty, Perry Lafond knows he's had a decent life with his wife, Marcia, but he's just not sure if he wants to live that life anymore. His wife, battling infertility, is obsessed on the idea of having a baby. And Perry wants a child too, maybe. Suddenly, he can't keep his mind off other women, including the young, sad, and beleaguered wife of the parolee who Perry monitors in his job as a probation officer. Always unflinchingly honest, Lucky Man, Lucky Woman tracks a man's headlong-and just possibly redemptive-leap into chaos.
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It's barely summer in the seaside community of Mystic, Conn., and Perry Lafond, the restive, 38-year-old hero of Driscoll's searing first novel--recipient of the 17th annual Pushcart Press Editor's Book Award--is facing ""the worst funk of his life."" Chafing at the confines of both his childless...| Read Full Review of Lucky Man, Lucky Woman: A Novel
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When life slows down a bit, it is nice to be able to indulge in simpler pleasures. It's been a while since I made a link-love list for you guys, so I figured it's time to share the things I have been enjoying these days...
-Roasted berries, especially in this incredible looking frozen yogurt from Oh, Ladycakes
-Simple, gorgeous life photography
-Snail mail: sometimes it's fun doing things the old fashioned way
-This song. Her voice is incredible.
-I've been dreaming about chocolate lately. This should cure the craving. Holy jesus.
-I want to learn how to salsa dance. I could totally do that in those heels. No problem.
-This video cracks me up because it is the truth.
-Take me to this bizarre and beautiful lake.
Aaand I've been loving this cake.
Always cake.
Blueberry Molasses Cake with Lemon Icing
makes 8-12 servings
1. Preheat your oven to 350º and grease and flour a 9" round cake pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and spices. Set aside and whisk together the remaining ingredients (minus the blueberries) in a smaller bowl. Add the wet to the dry and stir until just combined.
3. Pour the batter into your prepared pan and sprinkle the blueberries on top. Bake for about 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean.
4. While the cake bakes, prepare the frosting. Cream together the margarine and sugar. Stir in the soy milk, lemon juice and lemon zest and finally the powdered sugar. Mix until smooth and creamy.
5. Let the cake cool completely before flipping onto a plate and pouring the icing over the top. Slice and enjoy!


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The girls will be 9 months tomorrow, and we're still surviving. We have good days, we have bad days. All the kids, except G, hate sleeping now. V frequently wakes a few hours early and tries to get in bed with us. J has been waking up at 3-5a to nurse again, after refusing to go to sleep for the past couple weeks. V has been playing with them more. They're all mobile, and frequently get into shenanigans together. J is pulling up to stand on things. I'm still nursing, and the girls are eating more solids.
A's job is still rocky, and his job search has not been going well. Everything kept going back to him not finishing his degree. So... he has enrolled back in college. God help us. He's going to be working full time, going to school, and I am going to be even more on my own. If I had the money for a helper, I would hire one, but we don't. I really want V to be ready for pre-school this year, but it doesn't look like he'll be ready. So, we'll have to see how things go. A hasn't scheduled classes yet or anything, so we'll know more after he gets through that process... right now he's just been accepted. I won't lie, I'm scared of what this will mean for our home life. As scared as I am, I know we have no option- he needs a different job, and the only way he is going to do that is to finish his degree.
Ending on a more positive note... these exhausting yet adorable kids:


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Productivity Tips for Online Businessmen
This article is not just for internet marketers but also for anyone who is looking to earn money through internet based means whether it is freelance writing, freelance programming, affiliate marketing, selling products online, selling on ebay, etc etc.
How to do your online business?
Many people nowadays are excited and attracted with the prospect of working from home. Whether its freelancing, internet based marketing, selling on ebay etc. - there is no doubt that there is a huge choice available for people to make money from the comfort of their homes.
But at the same time also remember that many people fail to make good money in their online ventures. The reasons can be many ranging from bad advice, failure to do what they had to do, not sticking to a plan long enough etc etc.
So you have to be careful before you build castles in the air. Be practical and realistic. Realize there are many genuine opportunities to earn legal money online from your home. But do not be under the false impression that this is easy money and no hard work is required. Also do not expect overnight riches.
There are some other points which you need to keep in mind which are essential for long term online business success. Please read the below points carefully -
1. Focus on value creation is the advice of Steve Pavlina who makes a lot of money online through his website and blog. He is a recognized self help expert.
According to him, business can make money in the short run without creating much value, but it will be hard for them to sustain the money flow if they do not create enough value.
On the other hand, if you focus on value creation a lot then money is likely to follow sooner or later. And when it starts flowing, it is likely to flow a lot.
2. Simplify your online life: The more you keep your online life simple, the easier it will be to focus your efforts on the essential things so that you are not distracted, confused or frustrated.
Instead of giving suggestions on how to simplify your online life, I will provide a link to such a post which has advice for you written in a much better way than I can - Simplify your online worklife
3. Beat the procrastination habit - Many people use different methods of beating the dreaded procrastination habit. Use whatever works for you. You can even get ideas here - Procrastination Beaters
Learning to beat procrastination habit is very very essential for your online business success. You need to be able to do things that matter on a regular basis.
Sometimes you will not be in the mood, other times you will be too tired or busy with some other things. There will also be thousand distractions for you, specially if you are working from home.
All these can make you procrastinate. You have to have a plan to counter it, otherwise you won't be able to complete important tasks specially since you do not have any boss over your head to shout when you don't complete your tasks on time.
4. Learn to kill distractions: The online world is filled with scams, products with big promises and tall claims and thousands of other distractions.
You may subscribe to a lot of newsletters, may download a lot of ebooks or softwares etc. All these will steal away your time. You will browse and land on many websites which will attract you and capture your attention.
It is so easy to get distracted when you are browsing the net. It is important to stay focused and with patient determination you should follow dedicatedly a well-tested plan. You should not be distracted easily and leave things in the middle to pursue some other plan.
Carefully choose a master internet marketer to learn the tricks of the trade from him/her. And follow their advice seriously without distractions. Give their advice sufficient time before you reject it or try something else. Its no use trying out hundred things and leaving each in the middle and moving on to the next thing.
This guide may help you set goals and stay motivated and focused to achieve them - whether its online business or any other goal in any area of your life: Goal Setting Guide
You can find more tips here - 46 Productivity Tips for Work-at-Home People
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Content Marketing
Content is king when it comes to building a robust online presence that drives traffic to your website and helps your law firm convert visitors to clients. Content in the form of blog articles, website content, whitepapers and eBooks help build SEO strength, increase website visibility and bolster your firm's credibility. Google continues to make it abundantly clear to website owners that it rewards websites that publish relevant, engaging and consistently active content. Blogging and content marketing can achieve all three of these goals simultaneously, making it one of the most efficient forms of digital marketing available.
Amongst the multitude of online marketing options available to attorneys these days, content marketing is arguably the most proficient. Content marketing and blogging serve as a direct connector between your law firm and prospective clients, and can help introduce your firm when you're unable to do so face to face. Not all content is created equal though, and lawyers must strive to publish quality content in order to please search engines such as Google. The bottom line is if you want to rank well in Google, SEO is helpful but quality and consistent content creation and blogging will help set you apart from competition.
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One of the strongest pieces of online marketing advice to achieve success would be not to waste your time and resources producing poorly written, fluff content. Filler content that is published without purpose can frustrate and disappoint potential clients and will do you no favors with Google. In fact, Google currently has algorithms in place that can penalize websites if they are not adding valuable content or are engaging in "black hat" marketing tactics such as keyword stuffing or link buying.
Potential clients are overwhelmed with attorney website options when they make a search query online. Be confident that your law firm's content will engage, impress and influence them to take action and contact your office. Attorneys can host a variety of types of content marketing on their website or social media that engages potential clients and drives them to take action by picking up the phone, downloading an eBook or submitting a form fill.
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Precision Legal Marketing prides itself in writing content tailored specifically for law firms. We understand the message, tone and professionalism that law firm content creation and blogging require and we deliver content that Google rewards and prospective clients appreciate. Our content ensures that Google is happy and your law firm's blog readers and website visitors are happy too.
Standard, boilerplate content that has been replicated that we have all seen on thousands of websites doesn't work like it used to. Potential clients are searching for legal solutions or information online, and they are not impressed with empty content that serves..
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no recognizable purpose. With the overwhelming abundance of content available online, an attorney's content must stand out and provide valuable to its readers in order to earn credibility and establish differentiation.
Content marketing and blogging are superior to more traditional forms of law firm marketing. Advertising efforts like billboards, television and radio ads cannot be shared and disseminated across the Internet, which limits their reach and potential. Content works for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and helps you expand your audience and capture new client markets.
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- Do you have to be a tech-expert to use this service?No. Our specialized support staff takes care of system maintenance and operation. All you have to do is enjoy the benefits of our exceptional service.
- Do my employees "chat" with the customers?No. We handle all the "chat work" for you.No. We handle all the "chat work" for you.
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Wedding 5 inch x 7 inch Picture Frame
From the Treasures - Occasions collection
A perfect wedding gift
Code: 104839
Height: 26cm / 10"
Photo Size: 12.7cm / 5" x 17.8cm / 7"
Waterford Crystal presents a series of precious pieces that have an intrinsic beauty.
For the collector, they serve as a diary of special moments. For the person anxious to celebrate a particular event - a golf tournament, a retirement - one of these designs couldn?t be more appropriate.
Each one has a special beauty and is infinitely desirable.


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George Vourderis
Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies / East Asian Studies
Home College: Hunter
Mentors: Profs. Charlotte Brooks, History, Baruch & Maria Hernandez-Ojeda, Romance Languages, Hunter
Macaulay Honors College
Fulbright Fellowship
Korean Language Outstanding Studies Award
Korean Language Globalization Award
Huayu Enrichment Scholarship
Phi Beta Kappa
Dean's List
George Vourderis was a sophomore in the CUNY Macaulay Honors College when he applied to CUNY BA in order to broaden the scope of his degree to include Spanish, Korean and Chinese culture, literature, language, history, politics and identity, all with an eye to preparing for a career in diplomacy and foreign policy.
Vourderis has had a life-long interest in East Asian culture, and started learning Korean in his freshman year in high school. Later, he studied Korean on his own by attending private language schools and working for Korean organizations. In college, he held an internship at The Korea Society under the Korean Language Education Department. For his area, he included a year of study at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. While there he did a research project on cultural exchange, interviewing Korean and foreign college students on how they viewed the treatment of foreigners residing in Korea. He also worked translating Korean textbooks and volunteered as a guide and interpreter in a Korean hospital. In the summer of 2010, he studied Spanish language and literature in Spain at Universidad Nebrija. At Hunter, he is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter and was the president of the student-run Spanish literary magazine La Revista from 2009-2010. He has two publishing credits to his name, having been the head translator and editor for a Korean Language textbook and for a chapter he wrote on the human health impacts of meat processing for the book Where's the Beef? Environmental and Social Impacts.
In addition to his year of study in Korea, his area courses were drawn from Hunter, Baruch and Queens Colleges.
Vourderis has been chosen to be a Student Ambassador for the USA Pavilion at the "Living Ocean and Coast" Expo hosted by the Republic of Korea this summer in Yeosu, a coastal town in Korea's southern-most province. He left for that position right after completing the Spring 2012 semester. Immediately following that job, he will embark upon his Fulbright Fellowship, conducting research in South Korea for 2012-13.


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Dermot Mulroney in Intimate Affairs (2002)
Intimate AffairsHighlight: There is a quick scene with Dermot Mulroney naked and his picture is fading away as he turns to face the camera. So we get a very clear view of his butt, but a faded view of his dick. He seems to have an average size cut dick.
Naked actors:
Circumcision status: Cut
Original title : Investigating Sex
Director: Alan Rudolph
Main stars: Dermot Mulroney, Julie Delpy, Robin Tunney
Year: 2002
Genre: Comedy, Drama
IMDB Score: 4.8
Duration: 108 min
IMDB Description: A group of men and two female stenographers scientifically study sex.
More information about this movie on IMDB


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We should have the same desire expressed by Sir John A MacDonald to Queen Victoria, the Mother of Confederation, "to live under the sovereignty of Your Majesty and your family for ever." A Christian Monarchist Canadian Tory Blog
Sunday, January 02, 2011
No Election soon?
Using logic to predict political events for the next 12 months would be a waste of time, since logic has been absent from Canadian politics for quite a while. So trying to answer the most-asked question about the current political scene — namely, when we'll be going to the polls — is not just hard, it's logically impossible.
For political leaders, deciding to go to the polls in this environment is like wanting to play Lotto 6/49 without any jackpot. That's because Canadian voters have removed the jackpot — a majority government — from the prize list. The best that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper can hope for is another minority, while Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's best hope is to retain his role as leader of the opposition.
The problem with the Conservatives, despite their good work on the economy and other issues, is that they are not willing to deviate from an electoral message that is wrapped around their fixation with law and order. By doing this, they preach to the converted and ignore the potential voters they need to win a majority.
The clearest evidence of this problem was seen in Vaughan where, despite the presence of a star candidate like Julian Fantino, they were not able to get one more vote than in the previous election and failed to win the support of some of the more than 10,000 disgruntled Liberals who stayed home.
For the Liberals, the diagnosis is even simpler — they are divided and don't have a leader with enough credibility to enforce unity and eliminate dissenters. The way it has worked in the Liberal party lately is that it's the leader who gets kicked out if he raises his voice. This means that even if the diagnosis is easy, the prognosis is unknown...
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"they were not able to get one more vote than in the previous election and failed to win the support of some of the more than 10,000 disgruntled Liberals who stayed home."
But that is how change happens. Italian ethnics had voted Liberal there forever. Now an Italian Fantino comes along who made it palatable not to vote Liberal. But staying home is just stage one of change; they stay home because they cannot bring themselves to vote Conservative.
The same thing happened all over the GTA in the last election. Liberals could not vote for Dion but that didn't mean they could vote for Harper. So they stayed home.
But I don't get his comment about Conservatives "are not willing to deviate from an electoral message that is wrapped around their fixation with law and order." I would argue the problem is that there is no "electoral Message". And there probably won't be until the big Provinces decide what their "electoral message" is. Ottawa needs to shrink. That has to become the message or we'll crack up. The Provinces simply do not have enough money to run their programs and Ottawa can no longer pretend it's the piggy bank.
No federal election until 2012.
There will be an election this year, this spring. Iggo has already stated that he wants an election, and the media have gone even more hyper partisan than usual. The "Liberals" have sent out the word to their media activists and agents to sell an election, and the media polls follow, along with a ramping up of the negative rhetoric against the Conservatives. The co-ordinated efforts of the "Liberals" and their media whores is obvious. Look for a tsunami of negative "fear and smear" against the Conservative Government from the media on behalf of the "Liberals". The co-ordinated "Liberal", media agenda will be to stop PM Harper from gaining a majority and the media will sink to new all time lows to achieve this end.