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Yin-Yang Smile, by Adam StanislavSince we are using colors for both, the light and the dark, we simply draw a circle in one color, using Bézier curves with kappa=4*(sqrt(2)-1)/3, counterclockwise. Then we draw the complementary design, clockwise, in another color of the same hue but darker. This is unlike the black-and-white version which required a black rim around the “white” part that was actually transparent and would thus be invisible without the rim. In this version we have no rim, just the light and the dark embracing. All hand-coded SVG, by the way. That’s because math rules the Universe! I used https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/ to pick both, the light and the dark, colors.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Messi was named the world’s best player in January. The 29-year-old player has been in inspired form for Barcelona, helping the club win a momentous treble last season. Messi’s attacking trident alongside Neymar and Luis Suarez has been a revelation over the last 12 months and the Camp Nou side are currently in a dominant position both domestically and in European competition. The Argentine star has been criticized in his homeland for allegedly saving his best form for his club. However, Messi returned to Albiceleste colors and played the full 90 minutes as Argentina beat Chile 2-1 in Santiago last night in World Cup qualifying. The Barcelona star had a relatively quiet game, however, and unusually did not have a shot at goal.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Saturday, May 25, 2013 NYFD Fries I love potato dishes. I love potato salad, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, potato chips, and everyone's favorite, french fries. Never mind the fattening elements brought by the excessive oil. Oh well, I believe that's what make the french fries irresistible. One of the french fries I love is NYFD. I discovered NYFD when I watched my first basketball game at the Araneta Coliseum. Since then, enjoying a bucket of NYFD fries and dips made me look forward to the rare times I watch a basketball game. When I started working, NYFD even have a space at Gateway's food court and as expected, I became a contributor in their weekly sales quota. Haha Unfortunately, their food court outlet ceased operations. It saddened my screaming belly heavy. My dose of NYFD only happens whenever our school's basketball team makes it to the finals. (This reminds me, I'm hoping that we could make a return to the championship this season.) Years after missing my NYFD fries, I discovered that they reopened at Rustan's Gateway Supermarket. This time however, they are squeezed to a small kiosk and their offerings are limited to fries. I wanted to take photos of their tiny kiosk but I was quite shy because of the bulk of customers. Hence, I ended up relieving my NYFD reunion with these My most awaited NYFD tumbler of fries! More than the fries, I like their graphic design too. The tumbler was overflowing with fries but yours truly can't wait for the photos to be taken. I grabbed a few sticks on the way home. Deprived happiness after so many years, haha Aside from the rich huge sticks of french fries, NYFD provides selections of different dips. They have 10 flavors to choose from. I took home these Perfect lethal combo of crisp fries and flavorful dips! While I'm still contented with their french fries, I wanted to experience dining to any of their premiere branch. I wanted to see whether their sandwiches, pasta and other dishes can satisfy my always hungry belly. :) Instagram Welcome to my blog! A Simple Request All materials used in this blog are owned by the author, unless specified otherwise. In case you find any of my posts and photos useful for your legal endeavors, the author requests proper notice or acknowledgement.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Erap: Manila needs Jinggoy's pork barrel By Dharel Placido, ABS-CBNnews.com MANILA - Former president and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada on Friday defended his son, Senator Jinggoy Estrada, after the latter realigned P100 million of his pork barrel funds to the city of Manila. It was earlier revealed that Sen. Estrada realigned his P200 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) to three local government units: P100 million for Manila, P50 million for Caloocan, and P50 million for Lla-lo in Cagayan. Mayor Estrada said there is nothing wrong in the realignment, as this followed a Supreme Court ruling barring post intervention by lawmakers in the national budget. Sen. Estrada also explained his move, saying that the realignment was approved by the Senate plenary in the bicameral conference committee, and ratified by both houses. Budget Secretary Florencio Abad earlier said that the realigned pork barrel funds of Sen. Estrada cannot be released without a special budget request. The P200 million in realigned pork is part of the P405 million subisidy fund for LGUs. Manila is poor, needs funds Mayor Estrada welcomed his son's decision to pump more funds to the city government, which he said is in dire need of resources after the previous government supposedly left it bankrupt. He said the city government's unpaid electric bills to the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) left by his predecessor, Alfredo Lim, amount to P613.6 million. The city also owes P57.7 million to Maynilad Water Services, Inc. Estrada said among the PPP projects being deliberated by the city council is the P2 billion Manila Zoo rehabilitation project which involves Singaporean investors, and the development of the central market in partnership with SM Development Corp.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Program Apr 13, 2014 7:30 PM Sonja and the Bull (Sonja i bik) This movie screening is a part of a program of Panorama Europe film festival of new european films. Known as Disappearing Act for its first five years, the newly re-named festival continues the mission of showcasing vital European filmmaking as distribution remains challenging for foreign language films in the United States. Panorama Europe gives New York audiences access to what may be their only chance to see these acclaimed films from the festival circuit on the big screen or at all. This year’s festival will take place at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria and at the Bohemian National Hall in Manhattan. It was programmed by David Schwartz, Chief Curator at Museum of the Moving Image. Presented by the Consulate General of the Republic of Croatia and the Croatian Audiovisual Centre Croatia. Dir. Vlatka Vorkapic. 2012, 103 mins. Digital Projection. New York premiere. With Judita Frankovic, Goran Bogdan. Set in the unlikely world of bullfighting, this delightfully offbeat comedy concerns Sonja, a big city animal-rights activist lobbying to end the sport. Panicked over the media attention she’s received, a pro-bullfighting contingent from the country approaches Sonja with a seriously bizarre, put-up-or-shut-up wager she cannot ignore. An enormous box-office success in Croatia, Sonja and the Bull is a winningly acted and directed mix of irreverent satire and sweet-natured romance. Tickets: $12 public / free for Museum members. Order online or call 718 777 6800 to reserve tickets. For more information on membership and to join online, visit our membership page.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Author Topic: Greetings ans salutations... (Read 1173 times) Greetings all. My name is Khelden Nur. I have been around some SW forums for only a few months. I have only really just recently gotten into SW. I have always liked SW but up until about 9 or 10 months ago it was a passing thing for me since Transformers was my first love. Oddly enough I have found that this has switched and I have focused more of SW then TF of late. What Star Wars items are you focusing you collection on? Vintage? Modern items? Jedi? Sith? Any specific character? Right now more on the new Clone Wars. Most of the older stuff i was looking for, which wasn't too much, I have gotten. Although I am still getting some of the Legacy figures too, but I have been focusing more on Clone Wars thus far.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Car involved in 2 hit-and-run accidents found On behalf of Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli and Pratt P.A. posted in Car Accidents on Friday, January 25, 2013. Pedestrians and cyclists are more likely to sustain severe injuries in auto accidents because those individuals they have little or no protection against the force of vehicles. If victims or their family members wish to seek justice through a civil claim, they have the right to do so. With these issues in mind, Florida residents may be interested to hear that information from a tipster led the Florida Highway Patrol to a car that matches the description of a Dodge Charger that is believed to have caused two collisions on Jan. 13, one of which claimed the life of a cyclist. Both collisions were hit-and-run accidents. As of the evening of the day of the accidents, troopers were still investigating the case and had not arrested anybody. According to a police spokesperson, the driver of the Dodge Charger was traveling west on Ives Dairy Road in Miami when he collided with another car near Interstate 95. He allegedly fled from the accident scene and was followed by the victim of the crash. The fleeing driver continued west on the same road and allegedly caused another accident moments later. This time, he was found to have hit and killed a cyclist. He drove off again after the second collision. Innocent victims of an auto accident or their loved ones can file civil claims against the negligent parties to obtain the compensation they deserve. A driver accused of hit and run may be convicted on criminal charges as well, and this can strengthen a victim's personal injury or wrongful death claim against the at-fault motorist. No Comments Leave a comment Comment Information Name Please enter your name. E-mail Address Please enter a valid e-mail address. Website Comment We Literally Wrote The Book On Immigration Law Our firm is a recognized leader in immigration law and litigation. We handle the spectrum from family and employment-based visas to deportation defense and immigration appeals. Founding partner Ira Kurzban authored the Immigration Law Sourcebook, widely used by immigration lawyers, judges and government officials as the authoritative field reference. The use of the Internet or this form for communication with the firm or any individual member of the firm does not establish an attorney-client relationship. Confidential or time-sensitive information should not be sent through this form.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Frequent sales and huge discounts — it’s a strategy that’s kept many Kohl’s shoppers coming back time and again. Since the late 90s, Kohl’s has exploded to more than 1,000 stores and driving more than $18 billion in revenue last year according to published reports. Customers certainly seem to be getting into the Kohl’s craze — but are Kohl’s sale prices always as good as they seem? A CBS13 hidden-camera investigation conducted between November 2011 and January 2012 found items marked up as much as $100 from earlier prices and then put on sale. What does it really cost? Pattie Woody came home thinking she got 50 percent off a $209.99 sheet set from Kohl’s. But inside the packaging, she found another price tag — this one listed at $169.99 — $40 cheaper than the outside sticker. “It really surprised me,” she said. She still believed she had gotten a good deal — but, peeling back three layers of price stickers — she found her sheet set had been marked up three times, she said. “You always expect to see the price tag stuck on top of another one is the cheaper price,” said Woody. “Actually, it was more expensive.” She suspected Kohl’s may be marking up prices before marking them down, she said, making sales seem bigger. The Investigation CBS13 hidden cameras went inside several Kohl’s stores, checking the printed price tags of some items currently on sale. A CBS producer found clothes, luggage, kitchen, bath and bedding products — 15 items in all — marked up, some as much as $100, and price tags on top of price tags. Other items have different price tags on different areas of the product. One twin sheet set was listed at 50 percent off the original price of $89.99. But inside the plastic zipper, the earlier price tag shows $49.99, indicating the current sale is only $5 savings from the original tag. A 10″ skillet was listed on sale for $34.99, with a regular price of $39.99, but underneath that sticker, the earlier price tag was marked $29.99 — meaning Kohl’s current price on sale is $5 more than the originally marked price. CBS13 was not able to learn exactly when the prices were raised. The Practice of Marking Up Prices Consumer attorney Stuart Talley thinks if Kohl’s is marking up prices to mark them down, the company is breaking California State law … which bans companies from “making false or misleading statements” about the “amounts of price reductions.” “That’s illegal in California,” he said. “You just can’t do it.” A CBS13 producer wanted to see what would happen if customers challenge the price at the counter, with a sheet set marked 30 percent off the sticker price of $149.99 The sheets rang up $104.99, as displayed in store, but that sale price is $15 higher than the sticker inside the packaging showing these sheets were once marked $89.99. “This thing actually says $89,” the producer said to the clerk. “Can I get 30% off that?” The clerk calls over a manager, who agrees to give the 30 percent discount off the $89.99 label. “Why would it go up that much?” the producer asks the manager. “Sometimes when we do scratch-off coupons, we mark stuff up,” the manager said. “Oh, really?” the producer said. “You mark stuff up if it’s a scratch-off, something like that?” “Something like that,” the manager replied. When CBS13 reached out to Kohl’s, the company denied any wrongdoing, saying, “Kohl’s does not raise “off-sale” prices on a short-term basis just for purposes of a future sales event.” “As is common in the retail industry, from time to time, product prices are increased due to production and raw material cost increases,” the statement said. “When these types of price increases are implemented, our stores are instructed to re-ticket all items currently in our inventory to match the prices on the tags for all in-coming merchandise.” Kohl’s claimed the price of Woody’s sheets went up because of the rising cost of cotton, and admitted the prices on the 15 items a CBS producer found marked up were raised in the late summer or early fall — well before the current sale. The Business “No excuses, flat out no excuses,” said Harry Friedman, president of The Friedman Group, the world’s largest retail consultant firm. Friedman consults retailers around the world on how to maximize profits while maintaining strong customer service. He didn’t buy Kohl’s explanation for the markups ahead of sales and said the company is playing a game to make up for shrinking profits in this economy.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ…”(2 Cor 10.3-5, ESV) Search Main menu Post navigation Rev. Lowery…My Final Thoughts Several people have replied to my earlier post on this blog and made statements elsewhere on the web in defense of Rev. Lowery’s benediction during the inauguration. In short, the response has been that his words should not be interpreted as racist remarks. The rationale for dismissing his statements as not racist are essentially three: Whites have never been treated like other races in the United States…so get over it His statements were thanking God that the day mentioned in his song had arrived He was merely quoting an old song familiar to many in the civil rights movement To the first objection, my response is simply this: You’re right, whites have never suffered the horrible atrocities that other races have been subjected to in United States history, but two wrongs don’t make a right. This objection is bogus. To objection number two, if you look at the transcript of his benediction on my first post, Rev. Lowery prays that God will “help us work for that day…” Clearly this is not thanksgiving for the arrival of said day but a pleading that we will get there in the future. The most common objection is the last one, that he was merely quoting (or alluding to) a song familiar to those in the civil rights movement. Wonderful! If Rev. Lowery wishes to pay homage to those who have labored in the civil rights movement against adversity, persecution, and the horrors that have been a sad part of our nation’s history, I will be the first to stand by his side (as a Caucasian) and say, “Amen!” I for one am horribly ashamed of the racism that has been and arguably is still part of U.S. history. To quote or allude to a song that itself is racist (which this lyric clearly is…whites after all are the problem that needs fixing in this verse) as a tribute to Civil Rights leaders is so blatantly wrong and hypocritical, I honestly struggle with the fact that we’re having this discussion in the first place. If I, as a Caucasian, were to be in the position of Rev. Lowery and quote any kind of racist poem as part of my benediction I would rightly be called to account for my actions. Why the same standard is not being applied to a Civil Rights leader, who from his own hallowed experiences should know better, is beyond me. If we are to move beyond racism in this nation, this sort of language must perish from the lips of all.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Monthly Archives: May 2011 Post navigation Wales‘ electronic music scene is so buoyant right now, that Cardiff Arts Institute were able to run a three day festival over the bank holiday weekend, exclusively filled with people based from Wales on the stage. Kovas said: “I’ve not been playing out much these past couple of years, so I was rather up for this. Playing a set of exclusivly 64bar beats made it all the more interesting for me personally. “The fact that I was able to go exaclty where I wanted with it, I.E. be as experimental as I liked was another reason I wanted to do it. The last couple of residencies I had slowly but surely saw me watering down what I was able to play. “This is an organic set of some 25 or so 64bar tracks. It’s pretty diverse and sounded boomin on the CAI sound system. 64barmusic will put out their sixth album in the summer. It’s called the 64barchallenge volume six and will be mixed by DJ Food and DJ kovas. Also on the menu are the Cardiff and Melbourne Representz mixes, due in July. Cardiff Representz contributor AudioDriod has been busy crafting bukem-esque beats, and at the second Feed the DJ welcomed the peeps from the Cardiff Soundcloud meetup, with Audiodroid and Derek C , aka el loco escosse becoming guest feeders for DJ Flipside. Now, bear in mind Flipside had never heard these tracsk before, he had zero preparation time and had to just play from instinct. Audiodroid’s mix is 100% self produced. It’s a nod to the Logical Progression era of Drum and Bass. Melodic and layered, sparse and broken. Audiodroid gave us the back story: “I started this journey when I was 17 – Served Chilled in Bristol and a very good friend – DJ Escher, we used to hang out all the time and then lost touch, it took us a long time to get back in touch! We don’t write together but the influences I got and the way I went were vital to how I created me as Audiodroid. “I love the current Electro-House scene, some Dubstep and Drum & Bass but my primary influences are Jungle and Dirty Dutch but to be honest anything goes, hehehe! To hear my tracks played at the current “FtDJ” was amazing and really eye-opening, I never realised how my tracks would go down in public!” Mix no2 of the evening came from Derek C. It’s a ride through house rhythms and can be characterised as Detroit in a suit, very deep – very dapper. Many of the beats in the mix are made by Derek, with some of his favourite artists checked in for good measure.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Goose Island Gillian Review The craft beer scene is a fickle beast. Advocates can embrace a brewery for years, only to scoff at them the moment they break bad by joining the ranks of the macro-brew players. Witness Goose Island, the Chicago-based brewery that was one of the first to start experimenting with barrel-aging beers back in the early ‘90s. This experimentation won them droves of fans—until they sold 58% of the brewery to Anheuser-Busch. We’re never one to criticize a craft brewery for making good on years of quiet labor, but others rolled their eyes at the move. Opinions on selling out vary, but the saving grace of this move was that it provided the breathing room needed to expand their barrel-aging program and make more off-the-beaten-path brews. And having their distribution anchored to a major player also makes it a lot easier for Goose Island fans to find those once-elusive bottles. The Gillian is one of the latest to hit the market. Inspired by an amuse bouche made by one of the brewer’s wives, the beer strives to introduce white pepper, honey, and strawberries into a wild farmhouse ale. And it mostly succeeds. It pours a deep straw color with a medium head and an almost opaque clarity. On the nose, all the ingredients are noticeable: hay, honey, a hint of funk, spicy pepper, and a big bouquet of strawberries that originates from the 40 to 50 pounds of the fruit used per barrel. But the first taste almost betrays that initial expectation. Rather than being cloyingly sweet, it comes across bright and lively, with tinges of sugar complimented by a tart funkiness. Rather than playing the lead, the strawberries deliver a steady undercurrent of sweetness, leading to a crisp, dry finish where the pepper and wood-aging announce themselves. The use of Amarillo hops is refreshingly subdued, and though it boasts a potent 9.5% ABV—stronger than most farmhouse ales—it doesn’t come across as particularly boozy. Gillian joins the other “sisters” in Goose Island’s barrel-aged beer line, which includes the Lolita, Sofie, Madame Rose, and—also released this year—the peach-brewed Halila. Each have decidedly modest labels that almost belie the beers’ complexity; the deep red and the subtle strawberry graphic behind the graceful lettering on the Gillian’s label serve as the only visual indication that there’s some interesting stuff going on here. As with all of their barrel-aged releases, you can cellar for up to five years. If you manage to hold onto the bottle till spring, it may be the perfect beer to accompany a hot, lazy summer night. By then the more sour elements from the barrel-aging should also become more pronounced. As drinkable as this beer comes across, the one moment of pause may be its price ($22), which feels a bit expensive. Maybe we can at least blame Anheuser-Busch for that.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Ruth and Donald Murray celebrate 50th anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Donald Murray of Green Brook Township, formerly of Watchung, were honored with a 50th wedding anniversary dinner party given by their children on Sunday, June 10, 2001. The couple renewed their vows with Father Brian Nolan of St. Mary's Stony Hill Church in Watchung officiating. The couple married on Feb. 23, 1951 at the Naval Chapel in Key West, Fla. Mr. Murray served in the Navy before working at Bell Laboratories in the Murray Hill section of New Providence and Holmdel Township. He is a commercial real estate developer through Colonial Square Properties, Green Brook Township. Mrs. Murray, the former Ruth Ferris, served with the Watchung Rescue Squad for 16 years, volunteered at Overlook Hospital, Summit, and was an active member of St. Mary's Stony Hill Church for 42 years. The Murrays have two sons, Thomas Murray of Watchung and John Murray of Dunellen, and eight daughters: Patricia Monsell of the Martinsville section of Bridgewater Township, Connie Tamburini of Golden, Colo., Diane Valentino of Watchung, Christine Blackadar of Watchung, Sandra Papazian of Pittstown, Lorie Hopeck of Green Brook Township, Jacquline Desnoyers of Watchung and Colleen Galicki of Green Brook Township. The couple also has 21 grandchildren. Watch this discussion.Stop watching this discussion. (0) comments Welcome to the discussion. Be Yourself. We do not accept and will not approve anonymous comments. If your username is not your name, please sign your posts as you would a letter to the editor with your full name and hometown.Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.Don't Threaten. Threats of harming another person will not be tolerated.Be Truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone or anything.Be Nice. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism that is degrading to another person.Be Proactive. Use the 'Report' link on each comment to let us know of abusive posts.Share with Us. We'd love to hear eyewitness accounts, the history behind an article. Online Poll In recent weeks, Long Hill Township and Watchung Borough passed ordinances allowing their police departments to be able to apply for surplus equipment from the Department of Defense. Long Hill recently procured a Humvee to use in times of flooding, which Watchung states as the reason they are getting into the program. However, in cities around the country, police forces have used the program to obtain military gear, such as weapons and armor. For more background, go to the link below http://www.newjerseyhills.com/echoes-sentinel/news/watchung-police-department-hopes-to-receive-equipment-from-department-of/article_12ad002a-92b3-5449-a2cc-4b2cf0ce4339.html	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Reviews Browsing "Previews" It’s a safe assumption that if you’re a fan of video games, you’re probably a fan of classic action movies. Guns, explosions, a splash of gore… You could probably label these attributes to almost every blockbuster action film and first person shooter game in the last 20 years… Fighting games have a special place in my heart, not that I’m particularly skilled at them – put me up against any player who’s had some decent practice and I’m likely to hear the chants of “noob, noob, noob!” aimed squarely in my direction… Crypt of the NecroDancer has been doing the rounds for just over a year now, generating incredibly positive reception from events such as PAX. Now with the game finally released on Steam under the Early Access program…	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
View/Open Author Primary Supervisor Other Supervisors Year published Metadata Abstract Cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease in the number of deaths every year and millions of deaths are caused by cancer globally. Current therapies for many cancers are still not sufficient to achieve a long term cure. One of the important hallmarks of cancer is rapid cell division. Another hallmark of cancer is avoidance of senescence. Telomere stabilisation facilitates rapid cell division and is one of various factors that contribute to the avoidance of senescence. Telomeres are tandemly repeated sequences found at the end of eukaryotic chromosomes. Telomerase is an enzyme complex that extends telomeric repeat sequences, protects cells from senescence and has a major role in the acquisition of high proliferative potential by cancer cells. Thus, down-regulation of expression of the catalytic subunit of telomerase may be an effective way to treat cancer. Interventions that target cancer metabolism can also prevent proliferation of cancer cells. Downregulation of expression or complete silencing of expression of those genes which encode products that are essential for cancer metabolism is one of the key future strategies for cancer treatment. In this regard, the products of genes including lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA), monocarboxylate transporter 1 (MCT1), cluster of differentiation 147 (CD147) and pyruvate kinase isoenzyme 2 (PKM2) are critically required for aerobic glycolysis and are possible targets for cancer therapy. Upregulation of expression of these gene products favours tumour progression. Thus, silencing the expression of these gene products may provide a non-conventional approach for cancer treatment.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Ballantine’s, the world’s No.2 Scotch whisky, has today announced the global launch of its 2014 Christmas Reserve Limited Edition. The launch of this delicious and seasonal whisky blend will be supported with an integrated marketing campaign, ‘The Taste of Christmas’, which aims to maximise awareness and create demand by educating customers and engaging them with the festive drink. First launched in 2010, the fifth edition of Ballantine’s Christmas Reserve is today available in 20 countries worldwide, including Korea, Turkey, Kenya, Estonia and Japan, who are stocking the whisky for the first time this year. The print and digital advertising, for use across both on and off trade, features illustrations of the tasting notes. A Facebook and iPad App, ‘Discover Your Taste of Christmas,’ has also been developed, allowing fans to select their preferred tastes and Christmas elements which then results in a recommendation of the ideal Christmas Reserve serve for them. A hugely popular signature cocktail, ‘The Ballantine’s Christmas Reserve Cinnamon Sleigh’, has also been developed to match the seasonal tasting profile of the expression. First created in 2013, the winter cocktail is served warm and uses cinnamon to underline the blend’s fruity depths. Peter Moore, Global Brand Director for Ballantine’s, said: “We are delighted with the global sales success of Ballantine’s Christmas Reserve, which has more than doubled in growth since its 2010 launch. “Our esteemed Master Blender, Sandy Hyslop, created this blend to naturally exude the spirit and taste of Christmas, resulting in a delicious drink for our fans around the world to enjoy – or gift for someone else to enjoy – during the 2014 festive season, and which stays true to both our Scottish heritage and quality values.” The 2014 Ballantine’s Christmas Reserve Limited Edition is available now globally at an RRP of $26-29 USD in Duty Free.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Release Detail November 15, 2001 - Terrorism Is Most Important Problem Facing Nation, New York Voters Tell Quinnipiac University Poll; New York City Voters Are Most Confident In Future Terrorism is the most important problem facing the nation today, most New York State voters say in a Quinnipiac University poll released today. In an open-ended question, where voters can give any answer, 55 percent of New York voters list terrorism or war or security as the most important problem facing the U.S. today. A total of 15 percent list the economy or unemployment as the most important national problem. Turning to New York, a total of 32 percent list economy/unemployment as the most important problem facing the state, followed by 20 percent who list terrorism/security. The nation's economy is "not so good," 54 percent of New Yorkers say, while 14 percent say the economy is "poor;" 29 percent say it is "good," and 1 percent say "excellent." The state's economy is "not so good," 54 percent of voters say, while 12 percent say the economy is "poor;" 31 percent say it is "good," and 1 percent say "excellent." "Nationally, we worry about war and the economy. Looking closer to home, we switch priorities and worry about the economy and war," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "The national and state economy is in trouble now, voters say, and there is only tepid optimism that it will get better. But most voters say their personal finances are in good shape. Note that New York City voters are more optimistic than upstaters and suburban voters." Looking at their personal finances, 59 percent of New York State voters say they are "good" while 8 percent say they are "excellent;" 25 percent say they are "not so good," and 6 percent say they are "poor." Their personal finances will "get better" in the next year, 35 percent of voters say, while 7 percent say they will "get worse" and 55 percent say they will stay the same. But 44 percent of New York City voters expect their finances to get better, compared to 38 percent of suburban voters and 27 percent of upstate voters. Casino Gambling Seventy-two percent of New York State voters say they have not been in gambling casino in the last 12 months, while 22 percent say they've been in a casino once or twice and 6 percent say they've been in a casino several times in the last year. All New York State voters oppose 80 -13 percent legalized casinos in New York City only. Opposition is consistent among upstate, suburban and city voters. And voters oppose 66 - 30 percent having a gambling casino in their town or city. "Most New Yorkers support the state decision to allow casino gambling on Native American reservations. They are tepid at best about casinos elsewhere in the state and they are adamantly opposed to allowing casinos in New York City only," Carroll said. "And, of course, New Yorkers oppose 2 -1 having a casino near them." From November 7 - 12, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,207 New York State registered voters, with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percent. The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public opinion surveys in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as a public service and for research. For additional data -- www.quinnipiac.edu or call (203) 582-5201 24. What do you think is the most important problem facing the country today?	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Malindo Air flies Kuala Lumpur to Sanya via Penang Malindo Air’s Boeing 737NG took off to the skies for its inaugural flight from Kuala Lumpur to Sanya, China via Penang on 20th December 2015. Flights, which will initially take off twice a week every Thursday and Sunday, are expected to be increased gradually to four times weekly. This new route in to Sanya is the first into the China market, the tenth country in the airline’s growing international route network. Sanya is a popular tourist destination at the southern end of the island of Hainan in Southern China. The area has several bays with a number of large beach resorts. While Yalong Bay is best known for its upmarket hotels, Wuzhizhou Island is the place to go for scuba diving around its coral reefs as well as surfing and other water sports. Many tourists visit the Nanshan Temple complex which features a huge Guan Yin bronze statue on a man-made island. There is no time difference between Malaysia and Sanya, with a flight time between Penang and Sanya of just under three hours. The Thursday flights are evening flights, arriving very early the next morning, but the Sunday flights depart Kuala Lumpur in the morning, returning the same afternoon. You may also like... Malindo adds more new routes Malindo Air takes off to Lahore, Pakistan Malindo Air adds Hong Kong to their network Malindo Air heads for Hanoi, Vietnam About Economy Traveller Economy Traveller is your well-travelled friend, having flown hundreds of flights and hundreds of thousands of miles. We hope to share what we have found to make economy class travel not only bearable, but safe, comfortable and fun! We strive to remain independent and unbiased so that you know you can trust us. All travel is self-funded unless otherwise noted in our reviews.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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ladyD&DKluv4evrSenior Member Disha decides to ask DK about Pori ...After the holi bash Disha asks DK about Pori but being the egoist that he is, he wont care to explain !DK thinks that Disha doesnt trust him... Here our Disha doesnt know what to do and at the same time Vedant starts developing feelings for Disha....DK observes this and gets jealous...Disha's behaviour with him makes Vedant think that she has feelings for her ! But Disha unaware of all these things carries on her friendship act like a bimbo... She on the other hand slowly starts realizing that she is getting drawn towards DK!But before she could fully realize and express the same to DK their marriage contract gets over...DK, who by now thinks that Disha has no feelings for him and only loves Vedant, signs on the divorce papers and leaves them in Disha's room and with out telling anybody goes off to somewhere taking his mom along!He also leaves a letter to Disha thanking for all that she has done to him and his mom and tells her that he will always remember her as a sweet memory etc and etc....He wishes her all the best for her future and hopes that atleast from now on she would be able to live life happily....He appologises to her that he was never able to give her what she gave to him...He also promises to her that now their paths will never cross and whereever he is, he only wants her happiness! Here Disha finally decides to tell DK how much she loves him and that they should make their marriage a normal one....But by then its too late and she doesnt know why DK went off like that....She finds the divorce papers and also the letter ! Reading the letter she feels very sad and cries her heart out...She doesnt know why God is testing her like this...Just when she thought she found her soul mate, God does this seperation act... Vedant sees the divorce papers and stuff( of course not the letter)....He thinks Disha is feeling sad cos now she has no where to go....He also wants to clarify with her if she also feels the same about him as he feels for her.....But decides to give Disha some time... Meanwhile, Disha goes off to Bhonsale house....Leaving Gargi with all her new found riches....Inder and Rano by now are a happy couple...Its a shocker for everybody when they learn that DK and Disha divorced...Actually Disha never signed those papers...they only have DK's signature...But nobody knows that....Disha now totally focusses on the business with the help of Inder and Vedant....She secretly keeps loving DK in her heart and hopes and prays that one day she will be able to see him and tell him how much he means to her.... One fine morning Vedant proposes to Disha to her utter shock...Disha in no uncertain terms tells Vedant about her true feelings and tells him that she always found a great friend in him...She tells him that if there is anybody on this earth who she wants to spend the rest of her life, that would be her husband DK....She requests Vedant to be there for her as a friend....Being a nice human being that he is, Vedant fully understands Disha and accepts her as a friend...Of course in the meanwhile the Gargi, Pori real faces are revealed and Vedant has again a soft corner for his brother DK....He secretly keeps searching for him but with no success.... 3 years leap...... Disha reaches new heights in the business world....She has to go to Delhi for some business conference as a CEO of her company....The conference was being headed by none other than our own DK...Disha and DK are stunned to find eachother there....DK is totally changed...He is able to walj without his crutches and also he is looking more handsome now....Disha is so happy to see him like that and goes towards him to talk to him...But Dk addresses her as 'yes MS.Bhosale...What can I do for u?'Disha feels very bad with his indifferent behaviour....She still asks him how he has been and how is mom doing? He says he is ok and so his mom...He also asks her how she is doing? Disha says she is ok and that she knew one day she will be able to meet him....She also asks him why did he go away like that without even telling her.... DK says that he didnt think that it was necessary.... Disha gets hurt but doesnt know what to say..... DK only again says that, Disha I hope you are happy now....I'm sure you are as you are with your loved ones now.... Disha thinks in her heart, but my most loved one has left me in the middle of the road and nowafter so many years he is behaving as if I'm a stranger to him... DK says bye to her and leaves, leaving an astonished and hurt Disha looking at him cluelessly.... Disha decides that there is no point in talking to such a heartless man...She better finish her work and push off...She feels that if DK has any love for her, he would not be leaving her like that at the first place... ladyD&DKluv4evrSenior Member Disha is sitting in her hotel room thinking about the previous day...No matter how much she tries to forget Dk, she is not able to do that....She gets a call on her cell...its from Vedant..."Hi Dish, how is it going?" Disha feels very happy to get his call at this time as she needed to talk to somebody to come out of her gloom..."Hi vedant...Thanks for calling now....I'm feeling very lonely""what happened dish?(he senses something is wrong with her)""nothing Vedant...Just a little tired i guess...""hey Dish I have a surprise for you""What's that""just open your door and you will find your surprise" she goes and opens the door and really gets surprised to find Inder,Rano and Vedant there.... She gets really happy to find them all there...."Heyyyyyy....What a surprise?Rano and Inder,good you all came here....Vedant thanks for doing this for me....actually it looks like my stay here may get prolonged and I almost felt like leaving the project and running off from here...Now that you all are here I can concentrate more....Inder I need your help too..." Vedant finds it a little intriguing as Disha never felt bored and lonely and all before even when she had to make international trips all alone....Of course he knows that she never forgot DK...But never really let her personal feelings come in her way in the business....So he knows something is fishy here...But doesnt ask Disha anything..... All of them retire to their respective rooms deciding to meet in the evening and go out to a restaurant for dinner... In the evening at the hotel: Disha is in this stunning black chiffon saree with her hair nicely done....Inder and Rano are seated opposite to Disha and Vedant...All of them are very happy except Disha...of course she doesnt show it out...While they were having this soup suddenly Inder's hand touches Rano's soup and it falls on her dress...So they rush back to their room to change and all...Here disha is left with Vedant and as usual Vedant has something funny to say hearing which Disha breaks into a laughter...Just then as it had to happen, our man DK enters the restaurant and sees Disha and Vedant sitting together and having fun...(BTW Disha never removed her Mangalsutr and sindoor)....He feels really jealous and sad, but quietly goes and sits in one corner(He is actually there to meet a client)....Disha and Vedant dont see him there...While they were chitchatting somebody comes there calling out 'hi Mrs.Sehgal, how are you?" and 'Hi, Vedant how are you?' Dk could hear that very clearly and is truly pained and hurt....He doesnt know why it has to bother him....He decides to control his emotions.. Disha casually turns back to find DK sitting in a corner staring into the space...She feels like going to him and sitting with him....She suddenly hopes that Vedant and also rest everybody else disappeared from that restaurant leaving only DK and her all alone....She does not know that DK has already seen her....She tells Vedant that she is not feeling well and wants to go back to the hotel...SO they leave right away....After a while our lady D comes back again just to talk to DK....She just could not sit in the room peacefully....So she goes directly to DK's table and stands there in front of him...DK, who just got a call from his client that he will have to postpone the appointment as there was an emergency that he will have to attend to,is just lost in his own thoughts.....He suddenly lifts his head sensing somebody standing there and gets stunned to find Disha standing there.... Disha is looking at him with a mixture of feelings and emotions....She asks him if she can sit there for a while and talk to him....DK says that he was about to leave, in any case a few more minutes is fine....But he doesnt understand what is it that she wanted to talk to him... Both of them sit there quitely waiting for the other to break the ice....finally D only breaks the silence... D:DK can I ask you, why you are behaving like this with me?What did I do to deserve this kind of a treatment from you? DK:actually amazed at her qstn and says what did I do Disha?You've always had a problem with me...I know I hurt you so much before but now I've no intentions of hurting you...I dont know when you will realize that... D:Please DK can we talk without beating around the bushes? DK:You know me too well Disha...and you know that I hate to talk in puzzles...whatever I have to say I say it out straight...Anyways what is it that is left between us to talk now...In fact there was nothing in the first place...If there is anything, that's a peice of paper and I 'm sure that should not be a problem as I have made sure that it is also destroyed.... D:has a pained look on her face....just does not want to show off her tears that's why holds them tight and keeps staring at DK... Dk continues:"anyways...I hope you are living the life that you always wanted to....I will only be happy to help you in any way that I can...though I know you dont need my help as you have all your loved ones and your husband to help you" D:Stunned to hear this from him...Husband? DK:Yeah..I just saw Vedant here...So is he also here for the conference?anyways all I want is you both to be happy.... D is disgusted with DK by now....She becomes furious and retorts saying:"ha you are right Dushyant, my husband is my most loved one on this earth and no matter where he is, he helps me in everything....He is the one because of whom I'm sitting like this in front of you...Why am I even saying all this to you?you never understood these things and never will....Alright dushyant, I'm sorry I wasted your valuable time...Now you can leave...Thanks for your time...Bye...." and leaves... DK doesnt understand why D became so furious all of a sudden... Next day at the conference...all of them are seated and are waiting for DK...Meanwhile somebody asks Disha if she is related to DK in anyway as they both have the same second names....She doesnt know what to say, but when she was just about to answer our DK makes an entrance...He also listens to that question and somehow doesnt want Disha to answer that one....May be he did not like the answer very much....The meeting commences and there was a grand party in the evening to which all of them were invited... At the party,(Vedant,Inder and Rano do not want to go there as it was a business party) So Disha goes there all alone...She is once again looking very stunning in a simple and smashing yellow saree with a blue border and pallu...Disha feels suffocated there and finds one corner and sits there...Actually she doesnt notice DK who is also seated a little 2 seats away from her....He keeps looking at her secretly and is as usual taken away by her simple beauty...Somebody comes to her and greets her and inquires her if her husband is also with her...Disha not knowing how to respond says, ha he should be here any moment now...DK is hearing to all this and he thinks may be Vedant is also coming here...He does not feel too good about it...Somebody calls out DK's name loudly and comes running to him to wish him...That's when Disha also sees him.... Party is going on and Disha is feeling really strangled there....She wants to go off to some lonely place...Now that same person again comes to her and asks her if her husband has come yet?Disha says yes he is already here.... Now that person goes to DK and tells him that Disha is standing all alone there from that time and we should go and give her some company and also says that Disha's husband is also here so may be we can go and introduce ourselves to him...DK unwantingly comes to Disha along with that other person(lets name her Mrs.Malhotra)... DK:Ms.Disha....Mrs.Malhotra says that your husband is also here...I'm sorry I did not see him...If you can please call him here we would like to meet him... D is already feeling like slapping DK left right and center...but controls herself and says:" sorry, but my husband is a high tempered person and would not like to meet anybody.....and ha, I would preferred to be called as Mrs.Sehgal..." Mrs.Malhotra: "but he can atleast give you some company no?" D: He is like that only....May be he wants to be left alone...and then she excuses herself and moves from there.... DK doesnt understand what's going on here....He thinks that there are some misunderstandings between D and Vedant and that's why she is not all that happy...He feels pained at this thought and does not know how to help D... D comes to DK and says:Dushyant, I know I have no authority in asking you this...But how is maaji?Can I meet her, if you dont mind? DK:Arre disha why would I mind...You can come her and meet any time you want.... ladyD&DKluv4evrSenior Member Disha asks Dk if she can meet mummyji....D and Dk are still standing together while everybody else is immersed in the party...Dk senses that D is hesitating to say something....DK: "Ha Disha do you want to say anything?" D:yeah, er, Dk if you dont mind can I say someting?Its so nice to see you like this DK...(without crutches, she means)....I know its your sheer determination that got you to once again walk normally...And also I felt so good seeing you once again as owner of one of the largest business empires of Asia today.... DK:thanks....(he looks the other side) D:Hm...ok Dk I will come to see mummyji tomorw....I will make a move now...Its getting late... DK: you came alone? But I heard you telling somebody that.......... D:No DK I'm all alone(indicating that all these years she is actually all alone)....Bye DK:alright....People must be waiting for you also.... D: That's right....cant wait to meet mummyji...I hope she made some progress.... DK:you will see her tomorw no? You can see it for yourself... Dk thinks to himself, "hm...she did not change a bit...till today she doesnt consider me as one of her best wishers.." D thinking to herself" DK if only you have asked what I have done these years after you've left, I wld have told you...Hm you are still the same ego self" ***************************** By the time Disha goes to the hotel , the rest 3 dont show up yet....She really wonders as to what kept them out so long...she even tried to call them from the party so that they can pick her up...She took a taxi and came back...She cant wait to hit the bed as she is dead tired and DK only made the matters worse.... *************************************** Here Vedant is saying something and Inder and Rano keep giggling...But Rano is a little bit scared..".Vedant I think we are going a little over board...Inder atleast you should know better...." But they both just convince her... ***************************************** Next day morning Disha gets up early and gets ready real fast and once again tries to call these guys but they were all sleeping may be, so they dont pick the call... Disha is a little bit nervous to go to DK's home.....At the same time she is excited to meet Mummyji....The car that Disha was going in gets into trouble and Disha is forced look for a taxi....She finally reaches DK's home....What home, its a beautiful bungalow with a huge landscape around it...This seemed no where to the Kanaka house that he had before...He named this also the same though.... Disha goes in hesitantly and when she said her name the gatekeeper just allows her saying "shaabji was waiting for you till now and he had to leave" ladyD&DKluv4evrSenior Member D is relieved to know as soon as the gate keeper says that DK is not at home....But slowly the disappointment seeps in...She just doesnt understand herself as to why she was feeling like that... She enters the home looking for Sumitra maa...She sees a servant there and even before she opens her mouth, the maid comes over to her and wishes her as if she had known her forever...D is a little surprised and tells the maid why she was here....Maid tells D that she knows that she would be here today and her saabji has already told everybody there that a special person was going to come today....D repeats to herself "special person?" Maid leads her to the first floor into sumitraa maa's room....Disha almost jumps up with joy looking at a very healthy sumitraa maa doing some knitting sitting in her rocking chair....As soon as D entered Sumitraa maa lifts her head and a broad smile flashes on her face.... Sumitra: Hi Disha beti...how are you doing? D: very hesitantly....Mummyjiiiii.....Actually...I'm here... Sumitra:Yeah I know that you were going to come today to see me...Dushyant told me about that...In fact he was also waiting for you till now, but had to go as he had a very imp meeting...He said he will talk to you later.... D: ha that's ok mummyji...How are you doing? S: Yeah I'm doing great as you can see...Thanks for everything that you have done for me and my son when I was not well... D: So you know me ? S: Not much...But I know that you make a very important person in my son's life....I hear your name taken by him atleast once a day...of course I did not know that it was a beautiful lady....In fact only today he told me that a person called Disha was coming...when I prodded further, he told me that Disha is the person who helped us in our most difficult times... D: confused..."Er,forgive me but I'm not understanding what you are trying to say" S:You will understand everything...I will take you somewhere today, then you will understand everything...But you have to sit here for sometime as I have my morning pooja to do...In the meanwhile you can go around and see the house... D:ok mummyji... S:BTW why do you call mummyji? and I dont know why...but I like it...SO whatever it is just keep calling me like that only...smiles... D:smiles back.... So Sumitraa maa goes into her pooja mandir and D is left there all alone...she goes around and suddenly comes accross DK's room...She very hesitantly enter's his room...She remembers the nights seen in the his bedroom when he actually conffessed his love to her....She feels sad thinking about all that...Overcome by emotions, she just finds herself a seat there infront of a table...Casually she opens a book that is there and gets stunned to see their wedding pictures(dont ask me who clicked those pictures...literary liberties you see) there inside that book....and some more pictures of her... She gets curious now and opens the book...Its actually DK's dairy...After going through the whole dairy she knows how much DK still loves her...And also she understands the reason why he had to leave...She cant help cursing herself for not making it clear to him that there was nothing between her and Vedant and also she never really believed that DK can do such a thing to his own brother in porineeta's issue.... Reading the last paragraph in the diary made her cry: "Disha today I saw you after so many years...You are still the same and to me you will never change...No matter how much you have changed yourself from the time I first met you...Disha you dont know what you mean to me and how you have changed my life....And you are my wife Disha...I know its not a right thing to think like that, but I cant help it....I may not mean anything to you, but you are my everything...I wish I had the vocabulary to express the same in words to you...Somehow I was never able to come up with enough words for you to understand my inner feelings...And whatever I was able to manage, made you only misunderstand me further...I know I will never be able to win your trust and for that I have only myself to blame....And also I know that I have no place in your lifelet alone the heart..I can live with your memories but I ask God to atleast give you to me in my next birth..." Disha gets up from there...She knows what she has to do now...She wipes her tears and a mischevious smile flashes on her face and she goes out of the room looking determined... By then Sumitra maa completes her pooja and tell Disha that she wants to take her somewhere.... So they both head out and Disha has this puzzled look on her face...Sumitraa maa did not tell her as to where she was taking her.... On the way they talk some more and Disha feels very happy seeing Sumitraa maa hale and hearty... The car stops in front of a big compound...And looking at the name of that place, Disha is stunned.... it says : TUMHARI DISHA S looks at D with a smile and tells her" this is how I knew your name...All these years when Dushyant was taking this name so fondly I thought may be because of this ashram...but now I know he likes this ashram because he named it after you...Ok lets go in Disha...Let me show you the various wings here...Oh no...Its too big for me to walk..." she calls one middle aged lady Savitri and asks her to take Disha around... Disha is totally spell bound after she is done with seeing the whole place...Everywhere she went she heard only one name...DK DK DK....some call him DK beta, some call him DK sir, some call him DK uncle so on and so forth but everybody has that love and affection ingrained in their voices when taking his name,....She just loved the place...It has a super speciality hospital, old age home, child center,school,library,play ground and also a Temple.... Disha is verymuch impressed with the whole thing....She has tears in her eyes thinking how far away DK has come f from his own previous self...she feels proud of him...Her love and respect for him reach unseen heights...She also blushes thinking about the name of that whole place....She feels happy that DK has still the same feelings for her... Sumitraa and Disha come back home and by the time they were there DK is already home and is waiting for them...He did not like it that his mom took Disha there...He thinks that now Disha will think that he was trying to show off all this...Left to him, he would have never taken Disha there... *********************************************** Ok guys will get back to you once again.,.Till then i hope you all enjoy reading this...Let me have your feed back please... ladyD&DKluv4evrSenior Member She for a second loses hope and wonders if anything good can ever happen to her....She remembers various incidents from the beginning and has tears in her eyes...But she regains and reboots herself and says to herself that she cant lose hope at this point of time...She has to get her life back on tracks no matter what....She remembers DK and how he became such a hero for so many people in the ashram and also how he changed his life for better...she thinks no matter what she cant lose such a jewel again ever.... Here Vedant keeps asking Inder what's the problem why are you tensed...inder says rano wants to say that only to D... D comes there and asks them why they called her what's the problem...then they tell her abt Rano and they all rush to rano and Inder's suite...They get surprised seeing all the decorations done there...Rano comes and hugs D very happily...Then Rano tells that she wanted to give the good news to her first and then only to everybody else..that's why she has asked Inder also not to tell anybody...Vedant comes and wishes Inder and Rano and D is also happy for them and wishes them and pulls rano's leg a little bit as she is going to be a mom...They all wanted to celebrate...of course D is not that interested.....But she just had to oblige...******************************************* Dk is sitting on his rocking chair and going over what happened that day between him and D and feels very bad for his behaviour with her....He thinks to himself: Disha you have always been patient with me...If only you had a little bit trust also on me...Knowing very well that I love you, you have never ever reciprocated my feelings...and you just believed in whatever Vedant had told you....Why Disha why? He has tears in his eyes"I really miss you Disha" ************************************* Disha,Rano,Inder and Vedant are sitting in a nice Restaurant...Vedant realizes that Disha is not all that happy.... He knows the reason also....In fact he also saw DK that day in the restaurant and knew that D came back to again meet him...All three of them purposefully did not go to the party so that D can be with DK and they can sort out their misunderstandings....Even the next day they did not pick up her call so that she will ask DK to pick her up... Now he is thinking hard as to how to get these two to come out of their shells...He very well knows that DK is the hard nut to crack and very egoistic... Disha had to go to the rest room and in the meanwhile she has a call on her cell phone...that's from DK...Looking at that Vedant suddenly gets an idea...and he discusses that with Inder and Rano...So they are all set to fool Disha and send her to DK's house somehow... Disha comes out and Inder in a complaining voice says, D you did not tell us that DK is here only and you met him today morning? D:surprised...how did you know Inder?Actually I wanted to tell you all... I:Just now there was a call from DK and he left a message with us saying that he wanted to speak to you urgently,.....he really sounded disturbed... D:what?I think I must go and meet him right now...wonder how mummyji must be... V:uff Dish...Lets finish the party no? you can go first thing tomorw morning.... ladyD&DKluv4evrSenior Member Vedant winks at Inder and Rano and all three of them have a good laugh...They are also hopeful now that Disha's life will again start blooming... Vedant specially feels better and says to himself that "after all brother is going to get his lady love...He had too much of sadness in his life so far and now its time for happiness and only happiness" ************************************************* Disha takes a cab and while in the cab she tries to call DK so many times, just to let him know that she is coming and he doesnt have to worry... Here our DK is lost in his own world....He stopped drinking the moment he left Disha....But right now he is so lost and gloomy that no amount of drink can make him forget that...For the nth time he felt that its not only difficult to lead the rest of his life without Disha but its plain impossible... While he is lost in his thoughts here, our Disha barges in and calls Dushyant....She does not get any response and she gets more worried and walks in very worriedly only to find DK sitting in his rocking chair lost in his thoughts... Disha could no longer control her tears...(she really thinks that something has befallen on DK)...She runs to DK and kneels next to him calling him very softly...'Dushyant...' DK gets shocked to find D there as he opened his eyes....He actually thinks that it was a dream...So he again tries to close his eyes when D keeps her hand on his hand and presses it affectionately and assuringly... DK now wakes up with a jolt....he says" Dishaa...YOU?Why did you come now?" D:I'm sorry Dushyant, I was late...I should have come much before...But its never too late.... DK doesnt have a clue what she is talking about... DK:but,why did you come here at this late hour?Its not safe Disha...I dont know why you always do this to yourself...Even before also you used to do the samething..Disha we should learn from our past mistakes...See I know I have done a lot of mistakes and never gave anybody any happiness but you also should not repeat the previous mistakes...Its not at all a good idea to come here at this hour and I suggest that you leave right away... D:But I only came because I was worried for you and mummyji.... DK:worried..Why? D:please DK stop your carcasm....I know I did not come in time but I came right...Now that I'm here please let me take care of things...please let me take care of mummyji.... DK: what are you talking about?suddenly what happened to you?Disha....Mom is well taken care of..why do you feel that you need to take care of her?Let us live our lives Disha and please already I'm indebted to you and dont want to increase it further....You please take care of yourself and your people... D:that is what I'm doing now..enough of your stubbornness and ego...because of that so many lives have already been spoilt and wasted...atleast now stop it Dk, stop it....(she really loses it now) DK is surprised at this sudden outburst... DK:If I'm stubborn and egoist then what are you Disha?you are no less...whose life did I spoil anyway?ha if there is really somebody whose life is spoilt, its mine...You have yours...That's why leave right now and enjoy your life...Dont ever come here...We can live like this... D: Just stop it DK...I'm sitting here in front of you doesnt mean you can go on talking and I keep hearing you....You were the one who left me...you did not even think how I will live after that...with whose support I will live...(tears start collecting in her eyes...)Did you even care to find out how I was? You have always been like this DK..Never respected me or my feelings...You always did whatever you wanted to do... DK: what? I never respected your feelings? he jumps at her and holds her shoulders.... In a fit of anger Disha says..."ha...you are not only an egoist...you are also a selfish man...you did not know how to love your wife...relations are a mere contracts for you...You cannot love anybody you can only love youself" DK cannot take it anymore....He raises his hand to slap her screaming "Dishaaaaaaaa".....but controls himself and says " Disha why, why do you always have to say things that hurt me...No one can hurt me more than you do Disha....Why do you take my niceness as weakness?You very well know what feelings I have for you...And that's why I'm helpless Disha...In front of you I become totally helpless...Please go away before I lose all my patience...Please go away and never come back..." saying this he closes his eyes in an attempt to hide his emotions.... D:GO AWAY, GO AWAY, GO AWAY...Yes I will go away...but not before you tell me what wrong did I do....You were the one who said that our marriage will be a contract...You were the one who treated me like a peice of crap...then suddenly you were the one who started having feelings for me and just when I, I have forgotten my past and decided to make you my future and started liking you, you left me? whose mistake was it Dushyant...Did you ever care for me? DK is totally zapped..."what...You started liking me?Come again..." D realizes what she said and shuts her mouth now.... DK again holds her shoulders and demands her to repeat whatever she has just said.... Check these Celebrity also Disclaimer: All Logos and Pictures of various Channels, Shows, Artistes, Media Houses, Companies, Brands etc. belong to their respective owners, and are used to merely visually identify the Channels, Shows, Companies, Brands, etc. to the viewer. 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"I heard at least 13, I thought it was fireworks at first, but it was actually a cop reloading his gun right there and the car was just rolling. I guess he put it in neutral. The car was rolling and he was out, his partner jumped out and they ran to another cop car and were rushed to the hospital. He said 'officer down, officer shot,'" she said. She said she is not surprised by the violence. "They are picking up dead bodies from my backyard, I have OD's on my steps. This is is crackheadville, prostituteville, that is all you see out here. My kids don't play outside, they are in the house all the time," she said. The ATF and the FBI are helping in this investigation, searching for the suspects. There was no further description available about those men.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Outdoor Idaho"Riding The Rails" In Idaho as in the rest of the West, the Iron Horse helped carve a civilization out of a wilderness. Today, many of the smaller roads have been vacated by the railroads but inventive Idahoans find new ways to enjoy them from modern rail bikes to model trains.G 9:30 am Dialogue"Life on the River of No Return" Host Marcia Franklin interviews Isaac and Bjornen Babcock, husband and wife filmmakers from McCall, about their NATURE documentary River of No Return. The couple, who spent more than a year in Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, discuss the making of the film, some of the highlights of their adventure, and some of the challenges they faced.G 10:00 am Ideas In Action with Jim Glassman"Interview with His Holiness The Dalai Lama" An interview with the Dalai Lama on his people's struggle for religious and political freedom in Tibet. D 10:30 am Closer to Truth"Why Is Free Will A Big Question?" Free will seems obvious, simple, common; but it's subtle, profound, maddening, Free will probes the deep nature of human existence. But big questions have big problems. D 11:00 am Conquistadors with Michael Wood"The Search for El Dorado" Wood moves to Ecuador, where a member of the Pizarro clan, Gonzalo, led an expedition in 1541 to find El Dorado, a ruler reputed to possess vast riches. Part 3 of 4G 12:00 pm Conquistadors with Michael Wood"All The World Is Human" Wood follows clues to trace the route of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, who walked across America from Florida to the Pacific coast. Part 4 of 4G 1:00 pm Mystery of Chaco Canyon Robert Redford narrates this film about the New Mexico site designed by ancient people to mirror the yearly cycle of the sun and the 19-year-cycle of the moon.G Conquistadors with Michael Wood"The Search for El Dorado" Wood moves to Ecuador, where a member of the Pizarro clan, Gonzalo, led an expedition in 1541 to find El Dorado, a ruler reputed to possess vast riches. Part 3 of 4G 5:00 pm Conquistadors with Michael Wood"All The World Is Human" Wood follows clues to trace the route of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, who walked across America from Florida to the Pacific coast. Part 4 of 4G 6:00 pm Robert Plant & The Band of Joy: Live from the Artists Den A rare snowy day in Nashville, Tennessee, set the stage for an even rarer event - an intimate concert by rock icon Robert Plant at the War Memorial Auditorium. Performing with his new, Grammy-nominated group - aptly titled the Band of Joy - Plant played both Led Zeppelin classics and new songs that continue to have an impact on the music scene today. Recorded February 9, 2011. D Nightly Business Report Tonight on Nightly Business Report, a strong employment report - we look at where the jobs are and where they aren't. We will talk with Alan Krueger, Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Plus, does a positive jobs report mean interest rates are ready to rise? We will discuss with Bill Gross, founder, managing director and co-CIO of PIMCO, the world's largest bond fund. D	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Tag Archives: World Imagine an ancient forager band had a conflict. For example, imagine some were eating foods that induced stinky farts which bothered others who slept nearby. There are several generic ways to deal with such a conflict: Force – someone strong might destroy the stinky foods, or threaten to beat up those who eat them. Deal – those bothered by the smell might compensate others for not eating stinky foods. Exit – those bothered by the smell might leave and find or form another band. Prestige – prestigious folks could push the idea that eating stinky foods is low prestige, to shame people into not eating them. I think foragers had a strong preference for this last type of solution. But note that prestige is not available as a solution to conflicts unless prestige is in part political. If prestige were a fixed thing, say some fixed weighting of smart, strong, tall, etc., then it couldn’t be changed to solve problems. But if prestige is somewhat flexible, a dominant political coalition can try to flex it to encourage desired outcomes. Now consider an analogous global conflict today, such as global warming. It seems to me that people also intuitively prefer a prestige solution. Instead of forming a world government powerful enough to impose its will, or making a deal where rich nations pay poor ones whatever it takes to get them to sign, what elite nations actually seem to be doing is visibly cutting back on carbon, and trying to shame other nations into following their lead. They’d rather risk failing to solve the problem than having to resort to a non-prestige solution. Arguably prestige is in part how world elites actually pushed for changes such as more democracy, less slavery, and better protected environments. I’m also reminded of how people seem to prefer to choose their lawyers, doctors, investment advisors, etc. via prestige, instead of via track records or incentive contracts. And how people want to change who succeeds in the world via pushing elite colleges and institutions to change their admissions process, instead of reducing barriers to competition to make success more meritocratic. There are two kinds of status, sometimes called “prestige” vs. “dominance.” Both exist, but on the surface at least we want the former to matter more than the latter. And we often seem to categorize gaining via trade or personal effort as gaining via dominance. Which is in part why we often dislike market based solutions. But note that these two kinds of status could also be called “politics” vs. “non-political reality”. We prefer social outcomes to be determined by prestige that can be influenced by dominant political coalitions, and fear and suspect social outcomes determined by nature, personal effort, or social competition, even when such competition is peaceful. Smart capable personal assistants can be very useful. You give them vague and inconsistent instructions, and they “do what I mean” (DWIM), fixing your mistakes. If you empower them to control your interactions, you need less fear mistakes messing up your interactions. But one thing a DWIM personal assistant can’t help you so much with is your choice of assistants. If assistants were empowered to use DWIM on your choice to fire them, they might tend to decide you didn’t really mean to fire them. So if you are to have an effective choice of assistants, and thus effective competition among potential assistants, then those same assistants can’t protect you much from possible mistakes in your meta-choices regarding assistants. They can protect you from other choices, but not that choice. The same applies to letting people choose what city or nation to live in. When people live in a nation then that national government can use regulation to protect them from making many mistakes. For example, it can limit their legally available options of products, services, and contracts. But if people are to have an effective choice to change governments by changing regions, then such governments can’t use regulation much to protect people from mistakes regarding region choice. After all, a government authorized to declare your plan to move away from it to be a mistake can stop you from rejecting it. Similarly we can elect politicians who pass laws to protect us from many mistakes. But if we are to have an effective choice of politicians to represent us, then they can’t protect us much from bad choices of politicians to represent us. We can’t let our current elected leaders much regulate who we can elect to replace them, if we are to be able to actually replace them. I’ve long been intrigued by the idea of private law, wherein people can stay in the same place but contract with different legal systems, which then set the rules regarding their legal interactions with others. Such rules might in effect change the laws of tort, crime, marriage, etc. that people live under. And so such competition between private laws might push the law to evolve toward more efficient laws. One of the things that legal systems tend to do is to protect people from mistakes. For example, contract law won’t enforce contracts it sees as mistakes, and it fills in contract holes it sees resulting from laziness. Law is often DWIM law. Which can be great when you trust your law to choose well. But if one is to have an effective choice of private law, and real competition for that role, then one’s current law shouldn’t be able to overrule one’s choice of a new law. Instead, one’s choice of a private legal system, like one’s choice of nation, needs to be a simple clear choice where one is not much protected from mistakes. Today we don’t in fact have such private law, because our standard legal system won’t enforce contracts we sign that declare our intent to use different legal systems. To achieve private law, we’d need to change this key feature of our standard legal system. Your choice to change nations, either for temporary travel or for permanent moves, can be a big mistake. It might result from temporary mood fluctuations, or from misunderstandings about the old nation or the new. Nevertheless we have little regulation of such choices. Instead individuals are mostly fully exposes to their possible mistakes. For example, while Europe is heavily regulated in general, European teens today can decide to go join ISIS, even when many others greatly regret such choices. We disapprove of nations that prevent people from leaving because that cuts competition between nations to serve people. Similarly, if we want completion between legal systems without forcing people to move, we’ll have to change our law to accept our not protecting people from bad choices of legal systems. There will have to be a simple clear act by which one chooses a law, a choice not much subject to legal review and reversal. We’d want to encourage people to take such choices seriously, but then to accept the choices they make. Freedom of choice requires a freedom to make mistakes. For big choices, those can be big mistakes. In far mode we emphasize basic values a lot more, relative to practical constraints; in near mode we do the opposite. … This certainly fits my more detailed opinions on large scale policy and the future. You have to pay attention to an awful lot of detail in order to figure out which policies are best, or what is likely to actually happen in the distant future. But most people seem to quickly form opinions on such topics using simple value associations. When they can identify a clear value association, people seem pretty willing to form opinions, which seems to me a vastly overconfident attitude. (more) When people talk about larger social scales, like nations or the world, or when they talk about long time scales, they prefer to talk values, not practical facts and constraints. One might argue that people neglect physical and organizational constraints because they don’t understand such things well. But people also tend to ignore political constraints, which they usually say that they understand pretty well. That is, people tend to show a lot of interest in tracking the various political coalitions, and their varying power and preferences. But people show far less interest in working out what sort of political compromises might be feasible and desirable. Instead, people usually prefer to talk about what they’d do if they personally ruled the world, if their nation ruled the world, or if their favored coalition ruled the world or their nation. Yes, figuring out what you personally want can sometimes be a useful first step. You might then reevaluate what coalitions to support, and then focus on which possible political comprises and deals you’d be most interested in helping to promote. But people rarely go beyond that first step — talking about what they personally want. And people are usually rather reluctant, even hostile, to discussing specific compromises proposed by others. The obvious interpretation here is that politics isn’t about policy. While people talk as if they care about outcomes and want to discuss big issues in order to influence outcomes, what they really want is to declare and express values. Expressing values helps them to signal loyalty to like-minded folks, and a commitment to norms their community holds dear. Discussing compromise, in contrast, risks your seeming a traitor to your allies, and lacking firm value principles. An interesting claim: the nation-state didn’t exist before, and was caused by, the industrial revolution. Oh there were empires before, but most people didn’t identify much with empires, or see empires as much influencing their lives. In contrast people identify with nation-states, which they see as greatly influencing their lives. More: Before the late 18th century there were no real nation states. … If you travelled across Europe, no one asked for your passport at borders; neither passports nor borders as we know them existed. People had ethnic and cultural identities, but these didn’t really define the political entity they lived in. … Agrarian societies required little actual governing. Nine people in 10 were peasants who had to farm or starve, so were largely self-organising. Government intervened to take its cut, enforce basic criminal law and keep the peace within its undisputed territories. Otherwise its main role was to fight to keep those territories, or acquire more. … Many eastern European immigrants arriving in the US in the 19th century could say what village they came from, but not what country: it didn’t matter to them. … Ancient empires are coloured on modern maps as if they had firm borders, but they didn’t. Moreover, people and territories often came under different jurisdictions for different purposes. Such loose control, says Bar-Yam, meant pre-modern political units were only capable of scaling up a few simple actions such as growing food, fighting battles, collecting tribute and keeping order. … The industrial revolution … demanded a different kind of government. … “In 1800 almost nobody in France thought of themselves as French. By 1900 they all did.” … Unlike farming, industry needs steel, coal and other resources which are not uniformly distributed, so many micro-states were no longer viable. Meanwhile, empires became unwieldy as they industrialised and needed more actual governing. So in 19th-century Europe, micro-states fused and empires split. These new nation states were justified not merely as economically efficient, but as the fulfilment of their inhabitants’ national destiny. A succession of historians has nonetheless concluded that it was the states that defined their respective nations, and not the other way around. … “nation building” … required the creation of an ideology of nationalism that emotionally equated the nation with people’s Dunbar circle of family and friends. That in turn relied heavily on mass communication technologies. … Nationalist feelings … arose after mass-market books standardised vernaculars and created linguistic communities. Newspapers allowed people to learn about events of common concern, creating a large “horizontal” community that was previously impossible. National identity was also deliberately fostered by state-funded mass education. Continue reading "Did Industry Cause Nations?" » The world has many problems and some of them are global. That is, some problems like war, global warming, and promoting innovation can benefit substantially from large scale coordination to address them. To judge from my Facebook feed, many think the main thing we need to solve such problems is more preaching – if only more folks would rail against the immorality of those who opposed their favored solutions. Another widely held view, expressed in a great many inspirational TED talks, is that we need more smart emphatic activists and inventors. But the following take is a more expert and believable: Addressing Global Environmental Externalities: Transaction Costs Considerations. Is there a way to understand why some global environmental externalities are addressed effectively whereas others are not? … Property rights are supplied by international agreements that specify resource access and use, assign costs and benefits including outlining the size and duration of compensating transfer payments and determining who will pay and who will receive them. Four factors raise the transaction costs [and hence the difficulty] of assigning property rights: (i) scientific uncertainty regarding mitigation benefits and costs; (ii) varying preferences and perceptions across heterogeneous populations; (iii) asymmetric information; and (iv) the extent of compliance and new entry. (more) While this paper doesn’t discuss it, another big issue is the strength and capacity of our institutions of global governance. For example, a lot of these problems would get solved a lot better with a high capacity world government. Such a government could better reduce uncertainty and secrets, enforce compliance, and promote compromises between conflicting interests. If just you want to show off your moral outrage that problems aren’t being solved, by all means continue to preach that we must do better. But if you actually want to solve these problems, you should focus on identifying and dealing with their fundamental causes. Especially including the development of better mechanisms of global governance, and working to better understand what limits their deployment. Btw, I tend to think that we hear the most preaching not about the problems that cause the most damage, but about those that best fit our schemas for moral outrage. For example, I tend to agree with Matt Ridley that global warming is a relatively minor problem, compared with for example overfishing and innovation promotion. This paper provides a full decomposition of world [individual purchasing-power-parity income] inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, in the period 1970–2009. (more; ungated) The top two lines show total world inequality over time as estimated by this paper and by another previous paper. Both agree that worldwide income inequality has been falling consistently over four decades, especially in the last decade. Of course this ignores non-financial inequality and inequality across time. Relatively minor technological change can move the balance of power between values that already fight within each human. [For example,] Beeminder empowers a person’s explicit, considered values over their visceral urges. … In the spontaneous urges vs. explicit values conflict …, I think technology should generally tend to push in one direction. … I’d weakly guess that explicit values will win the war. (more) The goals we humans tend to explicitly and consciously endorse tend to be more idealistic than the goals that our unconscious actions try to achieve. So one might expect or hope that tech that empowers conscious mind parts, relative to other parts, would result in more idealistic behavior. A relevant test of this idea may be found in the behavior of human orgs, such as firms or nations. Like humans, orgs emphasize more idealistic goals in their more explicit communications. So if we can identify the parts of orgs that are most like the conscious parts of human minds, and if we can imagine ways to increase the resources or capacities of those org parts, then we can ask if increasing such capacities would move orgs to more idealistic behavior. A standard story is that human consciousness functions primarily to manage the image we present to the world. Conscious minds are aware of the actions we may need to explain to others, and are good at spinning good-looking explanations for our own behavior, and bad-looking explanations for the behavior of rivals. Marketing, public relation, legal, and diplomatic departments seem to be analogous parts of orgs. They attend more to how the org is seen by others, and to managing org actions that are especially influential to such appearances. If so, our test question becomes: if the relative resources and capacities of these org parts were increased, would such orgs act more idealistically? For example, would a nation live up to its self-proclaimed ideals more if the budget of its diplomatic corps were doubled? I’d guess that such changes would tend to make org actions more consistent, but not more idealistic. That is, the mean level of idealism would stay about the same, but inconsistencies would be reduced and deviations of unusually idealistic or non-idealistic actions would move toward the mean. Similarly, I suspect humans with more empowered conscious minds do not on average act more idealistically. But that is just my guess. Does anyone know better how the behavior of real orgs would change under this hypothetical? I heard a talk recently by Jal Mehta on his new book Allure of Order, where he says how he’d reform US (pre-college) schools. He wants the US to do like Finland where schools are great: select smarter folks as teachers, train them more, and give them more respect, time to prepare, and freedom to structure classes. When I asked him directly how he would pay for all this, he said to cut administration. It seemed to me that Mehtra’s main complaint is that US teachers are over-regulated. And it occurs to me that this is a common complaint about US government. For example, we hear that US police are over-constrained by rules. And a similar problem would befall US single player health plans — while the UK National Health Service has lots of discretion that is mostly accepted by the UK public, US versions would instead be regulated in great detail. If you think that private actors in the US tend to be over-regulated, you should wonder why. Perhaps it is because government regulators just act spitefully toward non-government actors, but more plausible are over-confidence and do-something biases. When problems occur, people want something done, and more regulations are something to do. Voters and regulators both overestimate their ability to anticipate future problems and what would help them. But if this is why US private actors are over-regulated, then US government actors should be over-regulated too. For example, people should see things go wrong in schools, and so add more rules to “do something,” rules that assume too much about what rules can do, and that require too many administrators to implement. This view suggests that being pro- or anti-regulation isn’t the same as being pro- or anti-government, and it suggests a possible left-right deal: reduce regulation in both private and public sectors. Have more trust in private competition to deal with the problems we leave to the private sphere, and in smart well-trained civil servants to deal with the problems we leave to the public sphere. And have less trust in lawyers, judges and rule-specialists of all sorts to fix our problems with more rules. Four studies show that an independent self-view is associated with abstract representations of future events and with perceiving these events as happening in the more distant future, whereas an interdependent self-view is associated with concrete representations of future events and with perceiving these events as happening in the more proximal future. … Individuals with an accessible independent self-view (a characteristic of members of most Western cultures) place high values on self-reliance and autonomy. They strive toward being unique, different, and separate from others. Of key importance to the independents is the “inner core” of the self—internal attributes and traits that are enduring and invariant over time and context. In contrast, individuals with a more accessible interdependent self-view (a characteristic of members of many Eastern cultures) value relationships with others and interpersonal harmony. They view the self as part of a social group and strive toward blending and fitting in. … There are reasons to believe that the two distinct self- views are associated with different levels of construal and psychological distances. First, interdependents are concerned about relationship harmony and are sensitive to the interconnectedness between people and events. From this perspective, it is both desirable and necessary that they pay close attention to the immediate environment to ensure that relationship harmony is attained and preserved. This attention to the “here” and “now” likely prompts a low-level construal and its corresponding proximal temporal perspective. Second, feelings of agency and control may also lead to higher construal levels among those with an independent self-view. (more) This suggests that westerners tend to think more in a far view, which suggests that they are more idealistic, plan further into the future, are more socially inclusive, and think more via analogy. It was once thought appropriate to settle legal disputes by combat – the winner of a physical fight won the case. This accomplished two key functions of a legal system: it clearly settled cases, and in a way that seemed legitimate to most observers. The fact that who won was poorly correlated with the truth of their claims mattered less. Today we have better legal systems, but our policy debate system has a big element of trial by combat. I was reminded of this while reading The Infinite Resource by Ramez Naam, which he was nice enough to send me. Like many respected policy books, it is well written at a sentence and paragraph level, takes positions on important subjects, and is full of engaging and entertaining examples. The book makes many claims, illustrating them with simple plausible supporting arguments and detailed examples. Most of these claims are accepted by some relevant community of experts, and in fact I agree with most of them. My problem with such books is this: little is said that is is original, and the arguments and examples given are mostly not the main reasons that relevant experts say are why they accept such claims. So experts shouldn’t change their beliefs on the basis of such a book. And if ordinary people knew this fact, they shouldn’t change their beliefs that much either, except as the prominence and acceptance of the book signals that experts agree with it. But it is easy to see why such books are popular. Readers want to affiliate with impressive authors, and want to collect impressive sounding and unlikely-to-be-embarassingly-wrong examples and arguments with which to impress associates in conversation. So of course policy book authors compete to be eloquent and engaging while taking the sort of positions readers will find plausible and worthy of embracing. Given such a competition, the policy positions that gain the most public support are those, among the popularly plausible positions, that can attract the best writers. This is policy trial by writing combat. Yes, if this is the game and you want your position to win, you want a good writer like Naam to write a book like his supporting your position. And yes you can infer something from the fact that such a person has been enticed to write such a book, and that the powers that be have endorsed it or at least not criticized it. But one could wish for another world where the popularity of policies was more strongly correlated with good arguments and evidence. To illustrate my criticism, here is Naam on why the US should unilaterally tax carbon heavily: I believe the United States should press ahead with adopting a carbon price and driving our emissions down by 80 percent by 2050, even if China and India don’t. Why? Three reasons. First, we created this mess. Carbon dioxide lingers in the air for an average of 100 years before breaking down. …On that basis the rich countries are responsible for two-thirds of the heating of the planet that is happening today. … Second, its in our best interests. Shifting away from oil and coal will shield us from recessions cause by global oil and coal price spikes. It’ll reduce the dollars we send to the Middle East and Russia. It’ll drive our long-term energy costs down by further fueling innovation in capturing the nearly endless supply coming from the sun. If we want energy independence, health economic growth, and long-term cheap energy, a carbon price is the way to go. Third, the best way to get China, India, Brazil, and the rest of the developing world off of fossil fuels is to drive down the price of the alternatives. If it’s cheaper to produce electricity from solar and wind that it is from coal, if if that electricity can be supplied 24/7, then countries will switch. Make it cheaper, and they will come. And the best way to make it cheaper is to invest in R&D in those areas, and to shift business and consumer spending into them. Here Naam takes a position that many experts have taken, and he gives plausible supporting arguments. But he doesn’t consider the contrary arguments that I find on net to undermine this position. Such policy books rarely consider contrary arguments – since such arguments usually require more sophisticated conceptual understanding to engage, most readers won’t want to hear about them unless they are especially likely to actually encounter such arguments when they pontificate on the subject. FYI, here are the contrary arguments that persuade me. First, if rich countries should be blamed for hurting the rest of the world via past carbon emissions, they should be credited with helping much more via their past innovations. On net the world owes them, not vice versa. Second, it is bad economics to not buy the cheapest product that does what you need just because its price fluctuates. Paying steadily more for something else is a worse deal. Third, it requires a coincidence of magnitudes for a big carbon tax and solar research subsidies to be a good selfish unilateral policy for the U.S., but not for smaller nations like China, India, and Brazil. If our best explanation for these smaller nations not unilaterally adopting big carbon taxes and subsidizing solar energy research is that they correctly expect to selfishly lose by such plans, even if the world overall gains, then we should guess the same is true of the US, which in PPP terms has only twice the GDP of China. The cutoff nation size for this being a selfishly good vs. bad policy would have to just happen to fall between the size of China and the US, and even then because we’d be near the cutoff it wouldn’t hurt us that much to pick the wrong policy. And Naam offers no arguments for why this cutoff just happens to fall in this range.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Under a 12-month pilot version of the Access Program approved at the EDA’s October board meeting, the agency will set aside $15 million that small businesses can borrow to handle the costs of overhead and scaling their operations. “Small businesses are the backbone of our economy and employ more than 50 percent of our workforce, so helping businesses that may have been left behind previously get capital to grow their businesses and create jobs is essential to economic growth and improving New Jersey’s business climate,” Murphy said in a written statement. Under the program’s Premier Lending Partner component, the EDA will guarantee loans with at least one of 26 banking partners. The program would set aside $10 million for the program, capped at $1.5 million for any single borrower. The second program, the $5 million Direct Loans program, is money directly from the EDA, with a cap of $750,000 per borrower. Up to $500,000 will be available to cover fixed assets, which is long-term property such as land, buildings and equipment. Up to $250,000 will be available to cover working capital. “I think it will be better and more tailored to the marketplace,” EDA CEO TIm Sullivan said at the Thursday board meeting. “Small businesses continue to struggle with access to capital, particularly women, minority and veteran-owned businesses.” Under the new program, the EDA will require that businesses are in operation for at least two years, and have an average historical and global debt service of at least 1.25x over the past two years. The FICO score must by at least 700 for 50 percent of the personal guarantors at the business.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Details Who's attending Description LG Chem looking at second electric vehicle battery plant in US, report says LG Chem provides batteries for a number of both domestic and foreign automakers, almost all of which are slowly ramping up electrification efforts by adding plug-in hybrids and, eventually, more battery-electric vehicles. Of course, that demand needs to be met with supply, and a new report claims the supplier is looking to expand its production capacity in the US.green Energy Storage BatteryLG Chem, based in South Korea, is investigating the idea of opening a second EV battery factory in the US, Reuters reports, citing three sources familiar with the company's ideas. LG Chem did not immediately return a request for comment, but the company told Reuters in a statement that it has no concrete plans at the moment. According to Reuters' sources, the battery supplier is considering a $1.7 billion investment in a plant that could start producing batteries as soon as 2022. The sources also told Reuters that Kentucky and Tennessee are two states in the running for such a factory, and that a decision on a potential site could arrive as soon as the end of July. LG Chem's first, and currently only US factory is located in Michigan, but it has other plants in China, Poland and South Korea. The sources also told Reuters about potential clients for these new batteries. According to the report, the new factory could be responsible for delivering batteries to Fiat Chrysler and Volvo, with other potential automakers including GM, Hyundai and Volkswagen. The supplier already manufactures batteries for the Chevrolet Bolt EV, Hyundai Sonata Hybrid and other models. It's no surprise that LG Chem is looking to increase its production figures. Automakers around the world have committed to electrifying their vehicle lineups in short order, and whether it's plug-in hybrids or full-on EVs, the demand for batteries will only multiply as we enter the 2020s. Getting ahead of the curve and opening another factory could give LG Chem an advantage over competitors like Panasonic or SK Innovation, the latter of which was the target of a LG Chem lawsuit over alleged trade-secret theft.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
TAYLOR HOUSE RESTORATION One of the last unrestored pre-Civil War buildings in Springfield is finally getting some love. Workers started tearing asbestos siding off of the Judge John Wickliffe Taylor House at the corner of 12th and Cass streets in Springfield on Aug. 5, and a huge pile of trash had already been removed from the front lawn of the long-neglected building. The house was built by Judge Taylor sometime in the 1850s, around the same time Abe Lincoln’s house was built, and it used to sit alone in a field because that area of Springfield had yet to be platted. Taylor was a county judge who likely had at least some dealings with Lincoln, and it’s possible Lincoln even visited the house. When the workers tore off the asbestos siding earlier this week, they exposed older siding that may be original to the house. At one point, the building was used as a Home and Hospital for Fallen Women such as prostitutes, and it later became the Ambidexter Institute trade school, which taught young black men and women at a time when educating African-Americans was looked down upon. Inside the house, the original staircase and some woodwork remain intact. A local nonprofit which requested not to be identified yet is undertaking the work, with plans to restore the house and create a park in the open lot to the south.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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In all of these expressions, IF(z) and DF(z) are the discrete integrator formulas for the integrator and derivative filter, respectively. Use the IFormula and DFormula properties of the controller objects to set the IF(z) and DF(z) formulas. The next table shows available formulas for IF(z) and DF(z). Ts is the sample time. IFormula or DFormula IF(z) or DF(z) ForwardEuler (default) Tsz−1 BackwardEuler Tszz−1 Trapezoidal Ts2z+1z−1 If you do not specify a value for IFormula, DFormula, or both when you create the controller object, ForwardEuler is used by default. For more information about setting and changing the discrete integrator formulas, see the reference pages for the controller objects, pid, pidstd, pid2, and pidstd2. Setting Td = 0 specifies a PI controller with no derivative term. As the display shows, the values of N and c are not used in this controller. The display also shows that the trapezoidal formula is used for the integrator. This website uses cookies to improve your user experience, personalize content and ads, and analyze website traffic. By continuing to use this website, you consent to our use of cookies. Please see our Privacy Policy to learn more about cookies and how to change your settings.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Top of the League: March 31 Updated March 31, 2014 09:58:44 Francis and the Herald Sun's chief football writer Dave Davutovic for the Herald Sun discussed all the weekend’s A-league action as well as the alarming accusations starting to build surrounding FIFA and the FFA’s bid for 2022 World Cup. Damian Lovelock then joined Francis to discuss Besart Berisha’s unruly challenge that resulted in a red card on Friday night as well as the how things are shaping up in the A-league final’s race.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Floating Touch is a button floats on your screen over other apps, and you can move it anywhere. Floating Touch contains most commonly used switches of Android system and all installed apps, you could control your device or open your favor app easily without exiting current app. Besides that, you can make it unique by: Customizing the panel functions, pick your most commonly used switches or favor apps FAQ: Why I cannot uninstall Floating Touch? The “Lock screen” feature requires activating device administrator, you have to deactivate it in security settings before installing. There are two ways to uninstall it:	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Investing in a business: Another good way to generate passive income is to invest in a business --even a small one -- in return for a percentage of the profits - just like Shark Tank, only smaller. Lending $10,000 to a local business that, for example, is working on a mobile app for Apple phones could lead to a passive income-generated share of the profits when that mobile app starts selling like hot cakes. 1) If your property is not under rent control, you have the ability to raise rent to market prices with proper warning. In SF, I have to give tenants a one month warning for up to a 10% increase and a two month warning for up to 60%. Rent control limits to an inflation index, usually around 2% a year, which is why initial pricing and tenant turnover is important for better profitability. Active income is needed because you know you can always push away to bring in steady income. Passive income is needed to bring in a little extra on the side. You must ensure to never put all your eggs in one basket. When generating multiple streams of income, you must have different sources to rely on – because in the end, nothing is 100% reliable. A number of operations have supported access to safe water sources and sanitation services, and the better management of water resources, including giving 4.2 million rural people an improved water supply (from 2013). A $250 million urban water supply and sanitation project is to increase the sustainable water supply and sanitation services in Addis Ababa and selected cities, providing one million people in urban areas with improved water sources, 2.7 million with improved water supply services, and 200,000 with sanitation services. A follow-on $445 million IDA credit was approved in March 2017. Under its CPF, the Bank continues to support the government’s goal of providing 100% national potable water supply coverage by 2020. People don’t realize how important this is. Recently an online marketing system, who had thousands of members who depended on it for their income, just shut down without notice. One morning all the members could no longer log in to their back office. Capture pages were gone, built in autoresponder gone, and their email list of subscribers were gone forever. Many were running solo ads and advertising. To make matters worse those who clicked on their links were redirected to the before-mentioned system creator’s new business and their own affiliate id’s. This means that any sale that was made went in their pocket off the backs of their now former members. Working from home is awesome but everyone who does it needs to be cautious and prepared. The best thing to do is earn multiple streams of income, just as this article talks about, and try to have control over your business. Don’t depend on all-ready-made systems. Make your own capture pages, have your own autoresponder, website, etc. This will go a long way to keeping your business alive and income flowing in. 1.8 billion people who have access to a water source within 1 kilometre, but not in their house or yard, consume around 20 litres per day. In the United Kingdom the average person uses more than 50 litres of water a day flushing toilets (where average daily water usage is about 150 liters a day. The highest average water use in the world is in the US, at 600 liters day.) Those who choose to focus on passive income will need either family money, funds from investors, or the nerve to borrow large sums by taking on debt to fund the purchase of assets. The easiest to understand is someone who takes out substantial bank loans to build an apartment building or buy rental houses. Although this can turn a very small amount of equity into a large cash flow stream, it is not without risk. When using borrowed money, the margin of safety is much smaller because you can’t absorb the same degree of setback before defaulting and finding your balance sheet obliterated. India's gross national income per capita had experienced high growth rates since 2002. It tripled from ₹19,040 in 2002–03 to ₹53,331 in 2010–11, averaging 13.7% growth each of these eight years, with peak growth of 15.6% in 2010–11.[328] However growth in the inflation-adjusted per-capita income of the nation slowed to 5.6% in 2010–11, down from 6.4% in the previous year. These consumption levels are on an individual basis.[329] The average family income in India was $6,671 per household in 2011.[330] Indian Railways is the fourth-largest rail network in the world, with a track length of 114,500 kilometres (71,100 mi) and 7,172 stations. This government-owned-and-operated railway network carried an average of 23 million passengers a day, and over a billion tonnes of freight in 2013.[238] India has a coastline of 7,500 kilometres (4,700 mi) with 13 major ports and 60 operational non-major ports, which together handle 95% of the country's external trade by volume and 70% by value (most of the remainder handled by air).[239] Nhava Sheva, Mumbai is the largest public port, while Mundra is the largest private sea port.[240] The airport infrastructure of India includes 125 airports,[241] of which 66 airports are licensed to handle both passengers and cargo.[242] Excellent collection of ideas!!! As always, very nice write up. Also for people interested in teaching say you are good in some technology, you can go and drop your CV to any training institutes which teach that technology. Most of the training institutes these days do not have full time faculty working for them, its mainly people working for some companies coming and taking part time classes as a visiting faculty either during weekdays/weekends. You just need to go teach and get your pay which will be either in terms of per hour basis or per course basis. Very effective way, though I do not do it now, I had used this for quite some time and made some good money. Good ranking FS, I’d have to agree with the rankings. And it looks like your portfolio covers five of the six! Some people consider real estate passive will others classify it as active. But every scenario is different, whether you are doing all the maintenance and managing yourself, or you are contracting out a lot of the work. Obviously it takes a lot more time and effort than purchasing a 36 month CD and “setting it and forgetting it.” This has become a very fast growing business. One can make videos in an area that you like — it can be in music, tutorials in any field such as makeup tutorials, drawing tutorials, vlogging and many more like these, reviewing, unboxing experience, reactions, comedy etc., anything which you think people are going to like. Upload these video on YouTube. One can then attach Google AdSense code to the videos. This will overlay the videos with automatic ads. When the viewers on your videos will click on those ads, one will earn money from AdSense. The citizens of the Indus Valley Civilisation, a permanent settlement that flourished between 2800 BC and 1800 BC, practised agriculture, domesticated animals, used uniform weights and measures, made tools and weapons, and traded with other cities. Evidence of well-planned streets, a drainage system and water supply reveals their knowledge of urban planning, which included the first-known urban sanitation systems and the existence of a form of municipal government.[58] Venture Debt – I invested $120,000 in my business school friend’s venture debt fund. He started his own after spending 8 years at one of the largest venture debt funds as a Managing Partner. I’m very focused on income generating assets in this low interest rate environment. The true returns are yet to be seen, as the fund has a 5-7 year life before it returns all its capital. Since David may never be coming back to this site, If anyone other than David can point me in the right direction, Id greatly appreciate it. I live in Chicago, and I need to buy a quality rental to hold long term somewhere but I have no idea where, and I really don’t want to buy in Chicago. Chicago is insanely corrupt and in HUGE debt. I cant leave Chicago in the near term, I take care of an aging parent, and if I left, my salary would drop by 50%. Id still like to diversify into a rental property.. but I feel that if I just call up a stranger, they’d attempt to sell me their best pig with lipstick, and pressure me to jump on the deal before someone else ‘stole’ it. I have no problem hiring a property inspector from a different city, but don’t want to waste hundreds of dollars if the agent is steering us towards crap property after crap property. I’m looking for broad advice. Any constructive reply appreciated. Thanks guys. Ebooks are one of my favorite sources of passive income. Now, you can do this the simple way and just publish it on Amazon's KDP. Or, you can go all out and build yourself a book funnel. Book funnels are powerful, but they won't be fully passive. For example, if you do a free-plus-shipping offer for your ebook (converting it into a physical book), you'll need to create some one-time offers (i.e. extra training) and up-sells (i.e. an audiobook). But, a book funnel can be very powerful. 1. I started with doing tuitions , even after I picked my first work. Being in IT, I always had 5 days a week schedule but tuition/coaching is a time-tested way to earn clean money. I was teaching Mathematics to class X people. And if your pupil do good, like what happened when I was teaching this lady (in 1995) whose parents have given up on her, she was a in a plush school and I don't know what worked, she got such good marks that they hunted me down for a big pack of sweets after her X board exam, then that is extremely rewarding. You can start from your home, do evening class then move to a rented place and so on. It is very tiring but as I said, noone would short-change a teacher. India's retail industry mostly consists of local mom-and-pop stores, owner-manned shops and street vendors. Retail supermarkets are expanding, with a market share of 4% in 2008.[247] In 2012, the government permitted 51% FDI in multi-brand retail and 100% FDI in single-brand retail. However, a lack of back-end warehouse infrastructure and state-level permits and red tape continue to limit growth of organised retail.[248] Compliance with over thirty regulations such as "signboard licences" and "anti-hoarding measures" must be made before a store can open for business. There are taxes for moving goods from state to state, and even within states.[247] According to The Wall Street Journal, the lack of infrastructure and efficient retail networks cause a third of India's agriculture produce to be lost from spoilage.[249] If you are an expert in some area, which you think can be taught to others by creating a course out of it, you can always sell it on udemy.com or skillshare.com and make money on the fees recieved by the students. So if you are an expert on cooking, Yoga, SEO , Designing, MS Excel, Java, Python … whatever.. Create a nice rich course , record your videos and done ! .. You can tie up with these websites and then earn a lot money. Just understand those models and work on it. The United States and its partners continue to face a growing number of global threats and challenges. The CIA’s mission includes collecting and analyzing information about high priority national security issues such as international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, cyber attacks, international organized crime and narcotics trafficking, regional conflicts, counterintelligence threats, and the effects of environmental and natural disasters. However, you should pick a niche and blog about that. If you're launching a money related blog, maybe it'll be about how to make money in real estate or simply how to make money online. Pick the niche and stick to it. If it's a diet and fitness related blog, maybe the niche is the Ketogenic diet, the Atkins diet or some other form of diet or fitness. I've got a $185,000 CD generating 3% interest coming due. Although the return is low, it's guaranteed. The CD gave me the confidence to invest more aggressively in risk over the years. My online interest income has come down since I aggressively deployed some capital at the beginning of the year and again during the February market correction. You'll see these figures in my quarterly investment-income update. Vanguard: Vanguard has a minimum of $50,000 and a fee of 0.3%. Rebalancing is done automatically once every quarter and tax loss harvesting is done on a client-by-client basis. We included Vanguard because clients who invest between $50,000-$500,000 have access to a team of financial advisors. Those with accounts over $500,000 will have a dedicated advisor. The Second Bill of Rights is a list of rights that was proposed by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, January 11, 1944.[1] In his address, Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize and should now implement, a second "bill of rights". Roosevelt's argument was that the "political rights" guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness". His remedy was to declare an "economic bill of rights" to guarantee these specific rights: In 2011, the Indian government concluded that most spending fails to reach its intended recipients, as the large and inefficient bureaucracy consumes budgets.[381] India's absence rates are among the worst in the world; one study found that 25% of public sector teachers and 40% of government-owned public-sector medical workers could not be found at the workplace.[382][383] Similarly, there are many issues facing Indian scientists, with demands for transparency, a meritocratic system, and an overhaul of the bureaucratic agencies that oversee science and technology.[384] This was a very inspirational article! I too spent 20+ years in a high-stress career selling a high-end product under a 100 percent commission plan; that is, no salary! I realized, after racking up millions of frequent flyer miles, that there had to be a better and less-stressful way of making a living. My goal was to design my own lifestyle free of corporate shackles, which required a pre-determined amount of passive income. Great Article. If you think about it, it doesn’t make sense why every person in the WORLD doesn’t have multiple streams of income. Why is it the norm to have 1 source of income to pay for 15 expenses (mortgage, student loans, rent, food, phone, utilities, car note and etc). You have to do something different in order get a head and have some financial freedom or else you are going to stay in your situation at your J.O.B. (Just over broke). I applaud those who have found this site because they are taking the first step to change their life because like I always say, change your mind and your money will follow. The much loved model for bloggers and content creators everywhere and for a good reason…it’s pretty easy to write a 60-80 page ebook, not hard to sell say $500 worth a month through online networking, guest posting and your own SEO optimized blog, and well you get to keep a large whack of the pie after paying affiliates. Hells yeah! Continue reading > Hi Sam! I loved your sentence, “There’s so much information in my head that I need to write it down or else I might explode.” That’s exactly how I feel! I never thought of myself as a writer, and especially not a blogger, but recently I’ve started dabbling in it and it feels so nice to get everything out! I’m dedicated to helping others succeed with personal finances, and there are plenty of “how-to” sites, but it’s important to get people thinking and motivated to prepare, plan, and save! Infectious diseases continue to blight the lives of the poor across the world. An estimated 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, with 3 million deaths in 2004. Every year there are 350–500 million cases of malaria, with 1 million fatalities: Africa accounts for 90 percent of malarial deaths and African children account for over 80 percent of malaria victims worldwide.Source 9 This world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the good people that often act in irrational and/or criminally wrongdoing ways within the confines of their individual minds, core or enterprise groups, but because of the good people that don’t do anything about it (like reveal the truth through education like Financial Samauri is doing!). Albert Einstein and Art Kleiner’s “Who Really Matters.” Since David may never be coming back to this site, If anyone other than David can point me in the right direction, Id greatly appreciate it. I live in Chicago, and I need to buy a quality rental to hold long term somewhere but I have no idea where, and I really don’t want to buy in Chicago. Chicago is insanely corrupt and in HUGE debt. I cant leave Chicago in the near term, I take care of an aging parent, and if I left, my salary would drop by 50%. Id still like to diversify into a rental property.. but I feel that if I just call up a stranger, they’d attempt to sell me their best pig with lipstick, and pressure me to jump on the deal before someone else ‘stole’ it. I have no problem hiring a property inspector from a different city, but don’t want to waste hundreds of dollars if the agent is steering us towards crap property after crap property. I’m looking for broad advice. Any constructive reply appreciated. Thanks guys. Although renting out your room or home can also be a side hustle to make extra cash, it's also a great source of passive income. However, another route to go is to get an income property just for the purpose of renting it out. This is even better if you live in a touristy area, because you can probably make even more than usual during the high tourist seasons. Primary energy consumption of India is the third-largest after China and the US with 5.3% global share in the year 2015.[220] Coal and crude oil together account for 85% of the primary energy consumption of India. India's oil reserves meet 25% of the country's domestic oil demand.[209][221] As of April 2015, India's total proven crude oil reserves are 763.476 million metric tons, while gas reserves stood at 1,490 billion cubic metres (53 trillion cubic feet).[222] Oil and natural gas fields are located offshore at Bombay High, Krishna Godavari Basin and the Cauvery Delta, and onshore mainly in the states of Assam, Gujarat and Rajasthan. India is the fourth-largest consumer of oil and net oil imports were nearly ₹820,000 crore (US$110 billion) in 2014–15,[222] which had an adverse effect on the country's current account deficit. The petroleum industry in India mostly consists of public sector companies such as Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL). There are some major private Indian companies in the oil sector such as Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) which operates the world's largest oil refining complex.[223] Many people like writing blogs but only a few know that it can fetch you money as well. You can sign up with different companies as a promoter (or an affiliate) to promote their certain product or services on your blogs and websites. The payment method can be either a flat fee or a percentage of the amount of the sale completed, depending on your agreement. Writing and publishing an eBook has become a widely popular means of earning passive income in recent years. eBooks on non-fiction topics like online marketing, business development, career advice, and the like are especially successful. While fiction eBooks are also good sellers, the market for them is much more competitive as compared to non-fiction ones. Once you've written an eBook, you can put it up for sale on platforms like Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing or Apple's iTunes Connect. Up to 2012, the taxpayer could opt for French savings income to be subject to taxation at source, with no further income tax payable in their annual tax return. This is known as a prélèvement forfaitaire libératoire (PFL). This option was abolished as of 1st January 2013, with the exception of taxpayers with income of less that 2,000 Euros per annum. India started recovery in 2013–14 when the GDP growth rate accelerated to 6.4% from the previous year's 5.5%. The acceleration continued through 2014–15 and 2015–16 with growth rates of 7.5% and 8.0% respectively. For the first time since 1990, India grew faster than China which registered 6.9% growth in 2015.[needs update] However the growth rate subsequently decelerated, to 7.1% and 6.6% in 2016–17 and 2017–18 respectively,[144] partly because of the disruptive effects of 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (India).[145] As of October 2018, India is the world's fastest growing economy, and is expected to maintain that status for at least three more years.[146] In focusing on your wealth management goals, investment income is obviously critical but you might fund your goals from wider sources of income. A typical long-term portfolio might produce about half its return as income and the other half as capital growth, though in times of duress the capital growth component wanes. In this low-interest rate climate, some sources of income have become quite expensive and may prove disappointing against your spending needs. But by tax efficiently and sustainably drawing income from wider sources, you might meet your goals while more prudently balancing risk against reward.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Failed GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, still a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Minnesota, has requested that several federal agencies investigate infiltration of the government by Muslim extremists. In particular Bachmann has singled-out Huma Abedin, long-time aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (and wife of disgraced former representative Anthony Weiner). Bachmann claims members of Abedin’s family are or were members of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood. Speaking at the Joseph McCarthy Foundation For Destructive Political Grandstanding, Bachmann delivered a rambling tirade about Huma Abedin’s father who knew a guy who knew a guy whose uncle knew a guy who may have dated the daughter of a guy who knew someone who once stood next to a building where the Muslim Brotherhood had a meeting. Even members of Bachmann’s own party are supporting Abedin: Senator John McCain (AZ) spoke from the Senate floor Wednesday and said of Bachmann’s claims: “To say that the accusations made…are not substantiated by the evidence they offer is to be overly polite and diplomatic about it. It is far better, and more accurate, to talk straight: These allegations about Huma, and the report from which they are drawn, are nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable woman, a dedicated American, and a loyal public servant.” Michele Bachmann announced she is ending her campaign for the GOP nomination for President after finishing a distant sixth in the Iowa caucuses, with just 5% of the vote. Most Americans seem relieved they will not have to hear her whiny, nasal, seizure-inducing voice again. Texas Governor Rick Perry announced he will return to Texas to "re-assess" his campaign after finishing fifth with 10% of the Iowa vote. Perry said he will pray and reflect, mainly on "what a caucus is, and is it dirty?" Super-conservative Newt "Herd 'Em Into Camps" Gingrich addresses a crowd in Iowa after he placed a distant fourth in the state caucuses. Newt Gingrich finished the Iowa caucuses a distant fourth (13%) to Ron Paul (21%) in a disappointing and humiliating defeat at the hands of Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney (25% each), who finished the race virtually tied for first place. A crushed and deflated Gingrich thanked his supporters in Iowa, telling them both how much he appreciated their tireless efforts, and how the pair came within a narrow but wide margin of putting Gingrich somewhere but not at the top of the state polling. But with 96% of the votes tallied Gingrich had to admit that “the electoral system in this country is broken and in need of repair. First I can’t qualify for the ballot in my home state of Virginia. Now I didn’t easily defeat that big-mouthed Mormon pansy Mitt Romney in Iowa. Something is seriously wrong!” Gingrich went on to characterize American voters as “a bunch of fickle bitches! When I am crowned President for Life I’m going to take some names and do some house cleaning – and I mean permanently!” Just a few weeks ago Gingrich was leading in national polls and arrogantly claimed when he is President he will ignore the Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights, create a “second CIA” as a secret police force to spy on and interrogate persons in the United States (contrary to the CIA’s mandate NOT to engage in domestic espionage), and how he would redecorate the White House with some “new lampshades – a sort of leather-look, if you know what I mean.” While such comments endeared Gingrich to the quickly fading “Tea Party” ultra-fascist wing of the Republican party, he lost support with the almost-equally craven fundamentalist Christian element of the GOP. Those voters, especially prominent in Iowa, turned to former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who said as President he would appoint only fetuses to the Supreme Court and “get that ‘reproductive rights’ bullshit cut-out of our national body of laws!” Texas Governor Rick Perry placed fifth in Iowa with only 10% of the vote. He announced he will return to his home state to “re-assess” his campaign, meaning he isn’t quite ready to but will ultimately officially quit. This is quite a downturn for the once high-riding candidate who held a lead in national polls until his inability to speak, think, or even count on his fingers became evident to voters. Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann garnered only 5% of the Iowa vote, but most analysts think she is so bat-shit crazy she won’t drop-out of the race until sometime in 2013. Some guy from Utah got 1% – no one knows who he is. A grand total of 121,459 votes were cast in the somewhat informal and statistically irrelevant caucuses. In fact so few convention delegates are selected in Iowa it’s surprising anyone pays any attention at all. Several key pieces of information came out during the ABC Republican debate in Iowa Saturday: MICHELE BACHMANN: According to Michele Bachmann there is a new candidate named “Newt Romney”. Although this new candidate did not seem to be on the stage, Bachmann referred to him several times and indicated he was off somewhere to her right. RICK PERRY: Actually can get through an entire debate without doing or saying anything that makes him look like a complete moron – mostly. RICK SANTORUM: Still has all the charisma of roadkill – which he pretty-much is politically. MITT ROMNEY: Still really hates Rick Perry, and doesn’t seem to be too fond of Newt Gingrich. The only position he hasn’t flip-flopped on is the claim he hasn’t flip-flopped on anything. RON PAUL: Starts to make more sense the longer you listen to him – kind of like a hypnotist. NEWT GINGRICH: If Diane Sawyer asks “How important is marital fidelity to a candidate for the Presidency”, that’s pretty-much giving everyone a free shot at Gingrich since Herman Cain left the field. As a consummate professional obfuscator Newt was able to answer the question himself without actually answering it at all. GUY FROM UTAH: Is invisible. Also, no matter how small several of the micro-sized candidates are, they are still taller than George Stephanopoulos. GOP back-runner Michele Bachmann tries to get her Tea Party cred back by saluting in a manner they understand. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann tried to re-energize her failing presidential campaign by accusing her Republican opponents of being “frugal socialists”. Bachmann claimed President Obama and her Republican rivals support “socialized medicine … because they share the same core political philosophy about the purpose of government.” “I mean look at the color the Republican party has adopted to symbolize its ideals: red – the color of socialism! You won’t catch me dead in red!” An aide then whispered in Bachmann’s ear and she added: “That’s why I’m wearing this nice salmon-colored jacket today!” “Well, of course, we found out that this is really a misstep on the part of the Perry campaign because these are Perry supporters that came out,” Bachmann told CNN. “This was a clumsy move.” An aide then whispered in her ear and she continued: “I mean…umm…I don’t mean…errr…that the Tea Party is now supporting Perry! These supporters of Perry aren’t real Tea Party! They’re fakes dressed-up like Tea Party, just like I’m dressed like a sailor in the Russian Navy!” “It certainly isn’t a blow to my campaign,” Bachmann added after regaining her composure, “because I’ve had nonstop support coming out of the woodwork from tea partiers all across the country ever since this came out.” The aide once again whispered in her ear: “OH! Which is not to imply that tea partiers are mice, or rats, or like termites or something! I mean, y’know, they crawl out of the woodwork in a good, non-vermin way!” When asked why Perry would target her instead of one of the front-runners like pizza-magnate Herman Cain or Mormon cultist Mitt Romney, the aide whispered in Bachmann’s ear a third time, and she said “Well, obviously, he’s jealous of my hair! I mean Mitt’s is all greased-back, and Herman doesn’t really have any. For Perry it’s all about the hair demographic!” GOP leaders are criticizing President Barack Obama for announcing all U.S. forces will leave Iraq by December 31, 2011. The announcement has been called a “bad idea” by Senator John McCain, a sign if “failure” by candidate Michele Bachmann, and “an astonishing failure to secure an orderly transition in Iraq” by candidate Mitt Romney. If leaving Iraq is a failure, it’s a failure of George W. Bush, who set that date as the deadline for withdrawal back in 2004. “But I didn’t really mean it!” Bush said when contacted standing next to a manure pile at this ranch in Texas. “I was just bullshitting the Iraqis. Hell, I didn’t think we’d ever manage to get our asses out of there.” The GOP candidates take questions in Las Vegas. Guy From Utah boycotted the debate because he thought what happened in Vegas should stay in Vegas. Seven of the approximately 40,000 Republican hopefuls for the GOP Presidential candidacy lined-up in Las Vegas to take questions from the audience and moderator Anderson Cooper. Several key points were revealed in the course of the evening. 1: Herman Cain and Rick Perry are brothers. While we see no family resemblance Perry made this point twice. 2: Michele Bachmann is a member of the Russian Navy. She proudly wore her uniform to the Nevada event. 3: Rick Perry and Mitt Romney really, really hate each other. A lot. 4: No one cares at all what Rick Santorum has to say. 5: Newt Gingrich thinks he’s on a book tour. 6: Ron Paul knows how to get applause. Say you think war stinks and so does having to pay taxes. Say it over and over and over, as is you really have nothing else to say. Except you hate the Federal Reserve Bank almost as much as Rick Perry and Mitt Romney hate each other. 7: Herman Cain does well under pressure even if he does have absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. Probably comes from working the counter at the pizza joint on Friday nights. Businessman Herman Cain grew almost 12 full inches as a result of winning the Florida 5 straw poll. Pizza magnate Herman Cain upset the entire GOP presidential race Saturday by winning the straw poll at the Florida 5 convention held by the state Republican party. Cain took a massive 37% of the vote, more than doubling Texas Governor Rick Perry’s 15.4%, and Mitt Romney’s 14%. Perry is currently leading national polls, with Romney running second and Cain a distant also-ran. However, because of Florida’s traditional disproportionate effect on national politics, and the state’s traditional electoral incompetence, it is difficult to judge how Cain’s win in the unofficial and non-binding straw poll may affect the race. Perry may actually die as a result, and Romney may lose the ability to feed and dress himself. Bachmann’s famous recalcitrance to admit a mistake was in full force, however, as she refused to deny the claim was false, only that people need to talk to the unknown, unidentified source to determine the truth. Therefore, in Bachmann’s alternate reality, she is merely a reporter or even a human recording of the woman’s claim – and so not in any way wrong. The candidates line up before the debate so an audience member can identify the person who stole her purse. In a case of fairly strange bedfellows, CNN and the Tea Party Express put on a GOP debate at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa. Texas Governor Rick Perry is ahead in the polls, and the other candidates took every opportunity to criticize him for his statements about Social Security and his record in Texas. Only Newt Gingrich stayed above the fray as he continued his campaign to seem like the “nice” candidate who refuses to spar with other Republicans. When called on his support of a law requiring prepubescent girls to be immunized against the human papilloma virus, a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to cervical cancer, Perry responded “I will always err on the side of human life – and since I may have unprotected sex with some of these girls in the near future, my life needs to be protected.” Michele Bachmann pointed-out that one of Perry’s aides was associated with a pharmaceutical company that made a profit from the legislation, but Perry had a ready response to the allegation of influence peddling: “That was part of my jobs plan – that’s how we create jobs by helping companies expand into new markets like prepubescent girls.” The audience applauded Ron Paul when he said the economy would improve if we didn’t spend trillions of dollars on foreign wars. The crowd seemed to like the idea of saving money. But Paul drew derisive boos when he tried to make the case that terrorism is a result of arrogant American foreign policies instead of a rabid and unreasoning hatred of Americans because we’re so free, good, and pure, as Rick Santorum insisted. Businessman Herman Cain said very little because moderator Wolf Blitzer didn’t ask him any questions. Blitzer tried to send some questions Cain’s way, but every time he did members of the Tea Party audience brandished nooses and buckets of hot tar. After the debate a poll showed that most voters thought Rick Perry was a plastic department store dummy that can talk, while Mitt Romney drew the most votes for “inflatable life raft”. As usual Ron Paul took the prize for “most incoherent”, while The Guy From Utah and Rick Santorum tied for “who are those guys, anyway?”. Candidates Bachmann and Gingrich were in their usual tie for “most difficult to see behind the podium”. Michele Bachmann, currently leading the massive pack of Republican hopefuls for the 2012 presidential nomination, told a crowd in Spartanburg, SC “let’s all say ‘Happy Birthday’ to Elvis Presley today,” Which would be great except the date was the anniversary of Presley’s death 34 years ago. Does anyone check this woman’s copy? Let’s see: she didn’t know what state Lexington and Concord were in when the “Shot Heard ‘Round The World” was fired (same one they’re still in: Massachusetts); she thought John Wayne the actor was from her home town – but it was actually John Wayne Gacy the serial killer; and now she has Elvis being born the day he died. I guess none of these are enough to disqualify someone to be President of the United States, but perhaps the trend in dumbness should. This is not a joke: Michele Bachmann paid for 6,000 tickets to the Iowa Straw Poll that she then gave away to supporters and other attendees. And 4,823 of those people returned the favor by casting their ballots for her. In contrast Ron Paul gave away very few tickets yet came-in second by only 152 votes. Yet the media is strangely mute about Paul’s very existence let alone his performance in Iowa. That’s because the media want a three-way between Bachmann, Romney, and Perry – it will be good for ratings. Statistically the Straw Poll is not a good predictor of anything, because it has only been held six times. Based on that small sample it seems to be a good predictor of the outcome of the Iowa caucuses, but also a good predictor of who won’t win the presidency. But all this is up for grabs as the numbers are actually insignificant. So what is the Iowa Straw Poll actually about? It’s about PR – it’s a way to buy media attention. Or if you’re Tim Pawlenty it’s a good way to discover you don’t have the stomach for national politics. Based on the votes of around 7,000 attendees at the Ames, Iowa fair, where voters paid $30 each to cast a ballot in the fundraising polling event, Pawlenty was a distant third with less than half the votes of either Bachmann or Paul. When asked if dropping out of the race based on such a minor contest was really warranted, Pawlenty told reporters “I ate one of those deep-fried butter things, and now I have a terrible belly ache – ulp! Excuse me – must get to the restroom! Out of the way!” Michele Bachmann has won the first of the nation’s unofficial, non-binding, wholly trivial campaign contests by taking the Iowa Straw Poll with 4,823 votes, just edging-out Ron Paul’s 4,671 votes. Tim Pawlenty came in third with 2,293 votes, making him an unbelievable loser when you consider who beat him. Texas Governor Rick Perry explains his campaign strategy which he calls "MAD", or "Might Actually Do'er". "Do'er" is of course Texan slang for screwing a person or a country. Texas Governor Rick Perry is just two polling points behind Mitt Romney in the latest CNN/ORC International poll. Of those Republicans and Independents who identify themselves as likely to vote for a Republican candidate 15 percent favor Perry, while 17 percent favor Romney. The poll has an error margin of more than 2% – making the two front-runners dead even. “It’s the unknown factor X” one pollster said. “No one knows who the hell Rick Perry is, so he looks pretty good compared to the rest of the pack. There hasn’t been time for the media to smear him, and he hasn’t had enough national exposure to act like a moron in front of people.” Former 1/2 Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and former sane person Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, are at 12 percent apiece. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Australian pitchable-midget Rep. Michele Bachmann are so far behind they can’t even be seen on the horizon – not surprising considering they are only 2 feet tall. GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said “I want them [voters] to know just like John Wayne is from Waterloo Iowa, that’s the spirit I have too,” while being interviewed on Fox News on Sunday. The only problem with that is John Wayne is from Winterset, Iowa, where the legendary actor was born. It was serial killer and evil clown painter John Wayne Gacy who lived in Bachmann’s home town of Waterloo. When it was pointed out to Bachmann that she had made a mistake by comparing herself to the serial killer, she replied “No I didn’t”.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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From the mind to substance Deja’ vu 2 cents: If Biden enters the Democratic presidential race for 2016 it is solely to take votes away from Sanders and push Hillary in. The same strategy that worked to take votes from Bush and put Bill in the WH. They learned it is a tried and true strategy. Undoubtedly Biden will agree being the loyal Democrat. His back story of losing his son will be used to garnish the sympathetic vote.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Markets & Finance CS First Boston Ups Marvell Technology Outlook August 21, 2003 CS First Boston raised its estimates on Marvell Technology (MRVL). Analyst Michael Masdea says he raised the fiscal 2004 (Jan.) guidance on improved visibility on new designs and existing product ramps. He says Marvell continues to execute in the tough end-market as growth from share gains, and new product area ramps. He notes Marvell's strong technology and design barriers; he believes these barriers are key in a current fiercely competitive semiconductor environment. Masdea thinks an ongoing PC shift to notebooks from desktops should continue to benefit Marvell. He raised his 89 cents fiscal 2004 (Jan) earnings per share to 92 cents, and upped the $1.11 fiscal 2005 earnings per share estimate to $1.16. Masdea also raised the $36 target to $43. He keeps his outperform rating.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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As Lin Zhi gazed at the black mountain, which rose from Lin Dong’s hand and expanded rapidly in the mid-air, his eyes were filled with deep fear. As one of the guardians of the clan trove, he knew everything about the various treasures in the clan trove. Even though the Heavy Prison Peak appeared ordinary on the surface, it was still placed inside the most valuable light canopy. The only reason for this was that ever since the Lin Clan obtained it, no one could actually activate it. In Lin Zhi’s memories, there was once a practitioner, who had reached the apex of Manifestation Stage, who tried to move the mysterious Heavy Prison Peak by brute force. However, he was gravely injured by the Soul Treasure’s resistive force in the end. From that day onwards, no one tried to obtain the Heavy Prison Peak anymore. Even that time, when Lin Langtian entered the clan trove and tried many methods to activate it, he could not obtained it. Even though no one was able to activate it,everyone knew that the mysterious Heavy Prison Peak must be a very powerful Soul Treasure. Unfortunately, this treasure seemed to require a unique method in order to be activated. Lin Zhi previously wanted to obtain the Heavy Prison Peak as well, yet he failed to do so in the end. Therefore, when he saw the Heavy Prison Peak, which numerous Lin Clan elders were unable to move regardless of what methods they used, reappear gloriously on Lin Dong’s hand, he was unable to conceal the terror in his heart. “It seems a old fart like you also know about the Heavy Prison Peak,” Lin Dong smirked when he heard Lin Zhi mention the name of the black mountain. “Lin Dong, this Soul Treasure is the heirloom treasure of the Lin Clan. You have no right to take it away. Quickly hand over the treasure and impart the special technique required to activate it to me now, and maybe after doing these, I might forgive your insolent behaviour towards the clan elders!” Lin Zhi shouted fiercely, his eyes were flickering with intense greed. “Old fart, it seems you are not aware what’s going on now. As I have said before, in my eyes, your status as the clan elder is worse than a dog!” Lin Dong’s eyes were ghastly. Towards Lin Zhi, Lin Dong‘s mind was surged with deep hatred and killing intent. This is the first time he came across such a hateful old fogey. “You!” Lin Zhi’s face was pale with anger after hearing Lin Dong’s ruthless words. However, when he saw Lin Dong’s glance, his heart suddenly trembled with fear. That was a genuine killer intent. Lin Dong… actually wanted to kill him for real. “Boom!” At this moment, while Lin Zhi was still terrified of Lin Dong’s killer intent, the latter did not give the former any time to talk. With a swipe of his gown, the Heavy Prison Peak, which had been expanded to more than ten feet tall, became a beam of black light and headed directly over to crush Lin Zhi. Bang bang bang! When the Heavy Prison Peak flew across the horizon, the air below it exploded. It was as if the sky was being ripped apart, forming a tear where the Heavy Prison Peak had flown through. An astonishing air wave began to diffuse rapidly. A heavy aura, as if it could suppress all living things, engulfed Lin Zhi thoroughly. As the special type of heavy aura engulfed him, Lin Zhi quickly discovered that the air around him had become something like quicksand, rendering him unmovable. Furthermore, the heavy aura that was crushing him had caused all the bones in his body to produce clicking sounds. That kind of power appeared to be crushing him into flesh pulp. “Blood Phoenix Scale!” As he saw the enormous shadow approaching, Lin Zhi was terror-stricken. He knew that if he was to be crushed by this thing, his body would become a blood mist in a flash. Without further hesitation, he opened his mouth and a blood streak shot out from it. The blood streak appeared to be a palm-sized, blood-coloured scale. As the scale appeared, it expanded through the air and a blood light flashed upon it. It was like a shield, protecting Lin Zhi under it. On the shield, there was a huge blood phoenix flapping its wings indistinctly. It could be observed that this blood scale was a Earthly Soul Treasure as well. However, with regards to the other four Soul Treasures in the clan trove, its spiritual abilities pale in comparison. “Clank!” Even though Lin Zhi had used his Earthly Soul Treasure, the Heavy Prison Peak did not seem to stop. Instead, its falling speed became increasingly fast and violent. Finally, it landed ferociously on the that huge piece of blood scale. Immediately, a clear and crisp metallic sound resounded through the air. “Grumble!” At this moment, the blood-coloured scale let out a mournful screech, and its bloody glow collapsed and became dimmer. It then fell powerlessly onto the ground. Upon the first collision, this Earthly Soul Treasure had been unexpectedly crushed by the Heavy Prison Peak. “Cough! Vomit!” When his blood scale broke, a pale-white look flushed upon Lin Zhi’s face. After that, he spat out a mouthful of blood and as if his body was being heavily hit, he flew and crashed into a particular pavilion ferociously. The tremendous power caused the entire pavilion to cave in. In the mid-air, a delighted look swept across Lin Dong’s eyes as he witnessed the prowess of the Heavy Prison Peak. Apparently, he did not expect the Heavy Prison Peak to be so dominating. Even against an advanced Manifestation stage practitioner with an Earthly Soul Treasure like Lin Zhi, was defeated so quickly. Even though this area was in the inner sanctum of the Lin Clan, the repeating and roaring sounds of activity had aroused the attention of numerous clan members. At the moment when the deafening sound broke through the sky, numerous clan members rushed over. However, when they saw the three elders groaning on the ground, their facial expressions changed drastically. “Bang!” Just as the clan members’ facial expressions began to change, a wretched figure flew out of the collapsed pavilion. As the onlookers saw what had happened, they cried out in alarm immediately. “Idiot, there is nothing that Lin Dong don’t dare to do. Can’t you see the situation now? Not only does Elder Lin Zhi look wretched, but even the other three elders are gasping for air. Apparently, they have just fought with Lin Dong and were all defeated…” “How could it be?” “……” Upon hearing the outcries of shock, Lin Zhi’s already pale face further ashened, appearing extremely twisted and sinister. He wiped off the blood stain on the corner of his mouth and raised his head towards Lin Dong, who was floating in the mid-air. He then shouted sternly, “ Listen to my orders, clan guards. This man is conspiring against the Lin Clan, kill him on the spot now!” “Whoosh!” Just as Lin Zhi finished his sentence, a deafening sound broke out from all corners of the area. Immediately, numerous intimidating elite guards appeared on the huge trees around the pavilions, with their sharp eyes fixated on Lin Dong. “Capture him for me!” Lin Zhi cried out coldly, with a sense of ghastliness flickered in his eyes. Even if these guards could not arrest Lin Dong, as long as the latter dared to kill them, he would have to sever his relationship with Lin Clan after today! As they heard Lin Zhi’s commands, these guards immediately flew out violently. They then combined their auras and formed a formation, encircling and moving in towards Lin Dong. Upon seeing these guards rush over, Lin Dong furrowed his brows slightly and took a glance at Lin Zhi. Then, he smirked to himself. He was not a fool who would do anything rashly and naturally and he knew what those old fogeys were up to. Immediately, with a flick of his mind, formidable Mental Energy instantly swept forth as quick as lightning. Then, he gripped his palm, before the guards’ auras were all directly broken. Soon after, crystal bubbles formed from Mental Energy emerged and surrounded them, before it flung them onto the ground. “As the clan guards, you should know right from wrong. Lin Zhi and the three others tried to manipulate the formation in order to assassinate me when I entered the clan trove. Therefore, when the clan leader arrives, I will personally explain to him. If you guys still insist on attacking me, I will spare no mercy.” Lin Dong’s icy-cold voice emerged from mid-air, before it clearly echoed out in every guards’ ears. When they heard his voice, the guards’ facial expressions gently changed. As they stared at the crystal Mental Energy bubbles that surrounded their bodies, all of them knew that Lin Dong could instantly kill them with a single thought. “Lin Dong, you dare to defy the clan’s enforcement guards!” When Lin Zhi saw this sight, he shouted out venomously. “Noisy old fart!” Lin Dong’s eyes turned cold. Then, his figure flashed before he transformed into a green puff and dashed forth. When he saw this situation, Lin Zhi’s expression changed as he hurriedly tried to retreat. However, how could he outrun Lin Dong. The figure in front of him flashed, before his arm lightning-quick ripped through the arm and viciously gripped onto Lin Zhi’s throat. “Tsss!” When they saw Lin Dong had actually captured Lin Zhi, the surrounding crowd began to suck in a breath of cold air, while some of them even involuntarily retreated. Naturally, they did not want to have anything to do with his matter. After all, both parties were vicious and they could not afford to offend any of them. “Lin Dong, don’t be rash!” However, just as Lin Dong grabbed onto Lin Zhi, an anxious voice echoed out from a distance. Promptly, a figure flashed by, before Lin Mu immediately appeared in this area. Right now, as he stared at this carnage surrounding him, his face began to twitch. Then, he hurriedly shouted at Lin Dong. Regardless, Lin Zhi was still a clan elder. If Lin Dong really killed him, it would definitely cause a huge commotion. When he saw Lin Mu appear, Lin Dong’s icy-cold eyes swept across a flustered Lin Zhi, before he promptly waved his sleeves and vicious slapped Lin Zhi’s face. The vicious force behind his attack caused him to be directly blown away, before he hideously landed and rolled on the ground. After a dozen over tumbles, he finally stopped before he vomited out a mouthful of freshblood mixed with his teeth. His appearance struck fear into the hearts of the crowd. Lin Dong was simply too vicious and he even dared to hit a senior elder till such a sorry extent. When Lin Mu saw this situation, he released a pained laugh. He was aware of Lin Dog’s vicious and vengeful character. Thankfully, Lin Dong still held back and he did not actually kill Lin Zhi… “Haix, you…” Lin Mu sighed. Just as he was about to speak, in another section of the clan, an exceedingly powerful aura suddenly shot into the sky. Then, it begun to head toward this direction at an exceedingly formidable pace. When he sensed that familiar aura, the pained smile on Lin Mu’s face intensified. That must be Lin Langtian, which had just finished his training. Based on his character, he would definitely not sit by and allow his allies Lin Zhi to be beaten till such a sorry extent.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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This park usually evokes thoughts of mini-golf and carousel rides, but on select nights this summer, the kids won’t be the only ones having fun. Beer will be flowing from Frankford Hall and food trucks will be on hand to serve up plenty of delicious treats. Thursday, June 18 is the first Festivus, followed by the Red, White and Blue Festivus on July 23, the Summer Festivus on August 20 and the Oktober Festivus on October 24. (200 6th St.)	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Have you ever been to the doctor convinced you had a problem in one part of your body only to be told it is actually originating somewhere else? The original article posited the statement that frequently conference participants are unhappy with the event they attended citing: “…The content or the interactioncould have been better in some way”. In order to solve this problem the author (Wesley Hales) has created some open source software called Onslyde which allows you to vote in real time as the speaker addresses the audience. Let me be clear, I wholeheartedly appreciate this effort, in-fact my hope, is that my response to this conversation will help re-inform the software perhaps in a direction I haven’t considered, or spark more debate and inspire others to tackle this issue in a unique way. The conversation has just begun and we have a lot to talk about. My rebuttal has a simple premise, I don’t believe real-time sentiment tracking is the right way forward, but in order to frame my analysis to the original problem posed by Wesley first we need to to apply some design thinking to what is happening when a speaker is on stage addressing the audience. Consider the question: Does the problem as stated represent the problem we should observe? When a speaker addresses the audience, they are starting a 1 to many conversation, so in order to diagnose the problem let’s first understand how a conversation works and at what points it breaks down. There has been a great deal of research done on the conversation model, in particular Dr Paul Pangaro has done a large amount of workin this area, de-constructing the effective conversation model in to it’s constituent components so that we can understand and write software to have meaningful conversation. Dr Paul Pangaro uses the acronym C-L-E-A-T which is broken down in to these parts: Context Shared Language Exchange or Engagement Agreement Action or Transaction Let’s just recap over those: Context When you strike up a conversation you need to understand the receivers context. If your friend was in a meeting, and you gave them a call they would probably not pick up, because at this precise point in time your conversation isn’t applicable to them. Both participants need to share the same context for a meaningful conversation to take place. Shared Language Conversation participants need to both speak the same language. This doesn’t just equate to a spoken language like English, French or German, but is also related to the way you think about the world. For example, when you send a message or speak with a friend you already infer some context because you understand their sense of humour or position on the topic to be discussed before beginning the conversation, a complete stranger does not bring with them this shared language so you have to establish a baseline. Exchange or Engagement You have to have an exchange or be engaged in what the other person is saying in order for the conversation to be meaningful. If one of the participants is dismissive of what is being said, or not paying attention then the conversation quality degrades. Agreement A productive conversation ends with you agreeing on something, even if that point is to agree to disagree. Action or Transaction The conversation should end by deciding between the participants on an agreed action. Sorry I’m Not That Sentimental When we break down the 1 to many conversation a speaker initiates like this we can quickly identify that the speaker and the audience share context, but when attendees cite: “…The content or the interactioncould have been better in some way”. The conversation has broken down because they do not have a shared language. It is true that we would expect the speaker and audience to share some common language, but it’s often the case at speaking events with people from many disciplines not to share the same ability level on a given topic, the larger the audience the greater this is to occur, thus some of the audience immediately feel a disconnect and cannot re-engage with some talks. While discussing this subject, it seems reasonable to conclude that this is why popular web celebrities are often better received at speaking events. Many of the audience participants are already familiar with “where they are coming from”, they have read the speakers blog, perhaps seen them on web videos or heard them on podcasts. When you attend a conference with this prior knowledge of a speaker you bring your frame of reference with you to the talk. In this environment the popular speaker has far less work to do in establishing a shared language, hence the audience reaction that it was a more “quality engagement” and the event co-ordinators belief that the celebrity is a “bankable” speaker worth hiring in future. This starts to become a self perpetuating loop that’s hard to break which actively dismisses a section of people who may have other valid topics to raise and put forward but rarely get the chance because they are less likely to draw the crowds. My issue with sentiment tracking is that it has no understanding of the context of a person’s response to the question, and no way to frame the questions asked by the speaker that will be received and understood by the audience. Sentiment tracking responses are boiled down to binary choices. These binary choices are made by the speaker as they construct their talk, so by this very nature they are unintentionally directing the conversation down chosen areas and routes. In essence, they are rounding off the corners and controlling the audience responses so they can reduce the chance of a negative reaction. This is reducing the quality of the conversation to be had and alienating those who don’t respond with the majority. History is littered with great minds that have disagreed on a commonly held belief at the time and been ousted by their peers only to have their opinion gain favour long after death. If we are to truly have great speaking events, then we should never be openly dismissing others opinions without fair debate first. We should be working hard to establish a great conversation with our peers and find common ground on which to build on. Not boiling down responses to binary options and alienating those who disagree. How Do We Make Conferences Great? So now we have a better understanding of what is happening when we stand and speak in-front of a crowd who can we actually improve the experience? Interference On The Line One of the key reasons why audience members can feel disconnected lands at the feet of the event organisers. It has become quite common these days for events to feature a wide range of speakers from several disciplines. The economic theory behind this is sound. If you cover various topics at your event then you can attract the widest audience, but when I see these events I often question to myself. “Who is this event actually for?” This often equates to something like: 1 mobile designer, 2 JavaScript gurus, 1 CSS expert, a wireframing advocate and a keynote by someone in an alternative field. In the last few years, the industry on the web has changed dramatically. When I began as a “Web Designer” in 1999, I was simply expected to “do it all” Design, Typography, Wireframing, HTML, CSS, JS and PHP. These languages have expanded and the understanding within them that most people consider these disciplines completely separate, in fact many of the younger people working on web technologies simply don’t know some of these languages or disciplines at all. Every day I hear a new job title, that describes this language and that “thing” but not that other “thing” you might think it does. If our job landscape is expanding rapidly to such a degree why are we holding conferences where the participants will not be engaged, interested or able to share the same language as the speaker, how can we hope to get meaningful conversation as a result? Surely it would be better to ensure when creating a conference that it is for a particular goal within a profession or language type? Selecting a group of speakers around a shared set of problems to solve, will encourage like minded attendees, this massively reduces the issues around a shared language vocabulary, it promotes great thinking in a particular field and focuses the debate on real issues to solve. We can achieve a lot in a short space of time by saying very little. But when we talk about everything at once the problems are too vast and we end up saying nothing at all. Not Every Problem Is A Square Peg The second problem I have identified is the ordinary speaker format. When a speaker gives a talk on a particular viewpoint it is nearly always a fixed time slot of an hour. This works neatly in to a schedule and package to sell to the public, but not every point needs an hour to be raised and framed. It’s been my observation over the years that when brief points are raised, at smaller speaker events, say under 30 minutes, that the audience is far quicker to offer opinion and strike up a conversation after the event than an hour long talk. I think this stems from the amount of information needed to digest and form a cohesive response. When information is fed to us in bite sized portions we are able to process it quicker and draw conclusions based on our existing knowledge. It seems imposing such a long period of time causes the speaker not to focus in on the key issues that are important to their point and as a result introduces many ideas in the talk duration where audience members can get lost or fall behind the discussion. Rapid prototyping has become the standard way to try out ideas and test ideas. It yields positive and negative feedback quickly and in a manageable fashion encouraging all parties to work for the same goal. You might not realise it, but when you engage in rapid prototyping with a client you are actually establishing a conversation with them that follows the C-L-E-A-T metaphor, you’re having a meaningful conversation. Smaller bite-sized tasks follow the same principle, get smaller ideas out there and get feedback quicker. Smaller ideas can be easily shaped and expanded in to much greater theories and solutions as more people join the discussion. One Talk Is Not A Debate Following on from the thought that 1 hour long talks are not always the most constructive way to begin a discussion, we also need to consider that many discussions need to be had to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion. Layers of conversation are how humans come to accept things in the world, it’s our model for sharing knowledge and agreeing on things, weeding out the bad ideas and seeing what’s left standing. If we want to have meaningful conferences I think we need to: Reduce the number of people involved in the conversation at one time. Ensure those involved understand the context and language of the conversation. Re-consider the length of speaking time versus the issue being raised. Encourage audience participation. Give the speaking day a common goal or theme. Considering these rules let’s begin to discuss original ideas for a different speaking format that could change the way we discuss our industry. Instead of numerous speakers on a day how about only having two speakers? One in the morning, the other in the afternoon. The format would involve the speaker giving a talk under 30 minutes on the issue to be discussed that morning. After the talk, participants are split in groups and discuss the issue raised, forming their own group opinion. In the afternoon, the second topic is started. The point of doing this is to: Try and ensure context by having a singular topic, so those attending will be familiar with the chosen field. Decrease the number of people having a discussion at one time so it becomes quicker to establish quality conversation and reach a conclusion. Rapidly exploring multiple avenues in a brief space of time. By having many small debates at once, we are generating many outcomes to a problem to test while reducing the problems around the audience losing context or understanding the shared language. After the groups opinions are formed, a speaker is elected from each to put forward their group’s opinion. Once all the groups opinions have been heard, they will inevitably spark further debate where the attendees can return to their groups and discuss it further and try things out. The findings of the day can be shared with the wider community online and further discussion or speaking events can be held to continue the debate. It’s time we re-evaluated the current conference scene and began to consider additional formats, let’s kick off this conversation and find a more meaningful way of communicating together.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
My Grimmspeed crankshaft and Beatrush alternator pulleys just arrived today by USPS EMS. I didn't expect it to arrived so quickly. I was expecting it delivered either on Wednesday or Thursday. Anyway, I was amazed at how good the pulleys looks like and also how lightweight they are. Immediately I went to my car to compare them side by side with my OEM pulleys. This is how my OEM pulleys looks like at least for my JDM 2010 2.5i CVT Legacy. Comparing the Beatrush alternator pulley with OEM pulley. It's confirmed that they are exactly the same in build and size in diameter. Here's another: Here's the crankshaft pulley comparison. It's confirmed that the diameter and thickness are the same. I will probably need to buy a new stretch belt just to make sure.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
DeLee Bags 26lb Turkey 05/24/11 9 year old Austin DeLee of Plymouth is pictured with his 2011 turkey. He shot it during the youth turkey weekend April 23, 2011. It weighed 26 lbs and had an 11 inch beard. He watched it fly down from the roost and run to the decoys. He used a 20 gauge from 23 yards away. This is Austin’s 2nd turkey. This entry was posted on May 23, 2011 at 8:43 am and is filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. The am1050.com website and ALL its content is the property of WTCA, Community Service Broadcasting, Plymouth, Indiana. Any Use or copy of this website's content is a copyright infringement without the consent of WTCA Management.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Hyundai A-League MatchDay 20 Preview This week’s Hyundai A-League fixtures will be pivotal, with all teams bar Adelaide United having the opportunity to make the top six with a win. Western Sydney currently sit in 7th place (21 points) and will be hoping to claim their first derby win against Sydney FC since the 11th of January, 2014. Newcastle (21 points), Wellington (19 points) and Central Coast (19 points) will be hoping the Wanderers are un-successful once again, improving their chances of making the finals. Adelaide United V Newcastle Jets: 2015/2016 Hyundai A-League champions, Adelaide United will host Newcastle on Friday night after a humiliating 5-0 loss to Perth Glory last week. Adelaide were favourites last week, most expecting them to win comfortable. I mentioned their match against Wellington, in which they had 27 shots and only managed to walk away with the draw (2-2) as reason to avoid them. The Jets were unable to take advantage of a struggling Melbourne Victory last week, settling with a 0-0 draw. Unfortunately for Adelaide United their horrible title defence will worsen at the hands of the Jets on Friday night. The Phoenix haven’t been able to record a victory in over a month, scoring just one second half goal in their last four games. Melbourne City have won five out of the last six games against Wellington however are winless in their last seven games away from home (D3,L4). The absence of defender Ivan Franjic is significant for Melbourne City, as a result I’m expecting a high scoring encounter. It has been over 1132 days since the Western Sydney Wanderers last won a Sydney derby. The Wanderers are competing in the AFC champions league this Tuesday and will make some necessary squad rotations to ensure their best squad will play in that fixture. A victory in the league would see them in finals contention however they are coming up against the undefeated Sydney FC. The curse will continue. Best: Sydney FC WIN ($2.00) – CrownBet Perth Glory v Brisbane Roar: The midfield maestro, Diego Castro scored two goals and helped his team annihilate Adelaide United 5-0 last week. This week they will face off against a solid Brisbane Roar outfit who will be without two starting defenders. Brisbane were unable to punish a depleted Melbourne City side last week, instead holding onto a 2-2 draw away from home. Perth Glory are in fine form and with Brisbane’s defensive stocks taking a blow i’d expect them to capitalise. A rotten month for Melbourne Victory has seen them fall 11 points behind league leaders Sydney FC. They will no doubt be eager to walk away with the win however a newly revamped Central Coast side will stand in their way. The Mariners have won 3 consecutive matches and now sit 2 points outside of finals contention. Central Coast have scored two goals in each of their past three games, enough to see them walk away with the victory. The more experienced and proven team should be too strong come match day.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Originally posted by Ming Loyalist yeah i have read some of the threads there, and there is a lot of misinformation going on. i think that a small percentage of the people on there train with sparring and can fight. i hope some people from there do come with the right attitude. I've invited two posters from that forum who are from New Jersey. They sound interested but cautious. I think the Bullshido vs. Shaolin Wolf thing has them a bit wary. Hopefully they can see it as a positive way to evaluate their training and decide to attend. The more the merrier! Good job, by the way, Ming Loyalist in starting this back up and making it happen. I was debating on whether or not to bring my gi to this throwdown but since we got a BJJ stylist willing to give some lessons on gi chokes i'm down to wear it. The only gi choke that I know is the cross collar choke and a variation of it. Originally posted by Gypsy Jazz :( I really wish I could go to this. I'm pretty close to the city, but alas am a high school student and the prospect of my going into the city to meet a bunch of guys who only want to punch me in the head isn't going to be too appealing for my parents to hear. Hopefully after I turn 18 (june) there will be another throwdown for NY. Have fun anyway guys. well as jay said, i'm sure a lot of the sparring will be light contact, but there is the issue that i think we need to all sign waivers and unless you get a parent to sign it you'd have to be 18 to participate. i want to bring my little brother along but i don't think my dad would be down to sign the waiver. don't worry, i'm sure we'll have another one when you are 18. as far as the shaolin wolf people go, does anyone see the irony in the fact that they are getting all defensive about the invitation to come to the throwdown, assuming it is an attack on kung fu. i'm a kung fu guy and i'm the one organizing the damn thing! "Face punches are an essential character building part of a martial art. You don't truly love your children unless you allow them to get punched in the face." - chi-conspiricy "When I was a little boy, I had a sailor suit, but it didn't mean I was in the Navy." - Mtripp on the subject of a 5 year old karate black belt "Without actual qualifications to be a Zen teacher, your instructor is just another roundeye raping Asian culture for a buck." - Errant108 "Seriously, who gives a **** what you or Errant think? You're Asian males, everyone just ignores you, unless you're in a krotty movie." - new2bjj Hey all, I'm Matt from Fightauthority.com. I live in CT and not too far away from NYC. I've seen some videos and stuff, but how do these throwdowns work? Do some of you guys actually teach? Or is it just fighting? How many people normally come? I assume it's open to all, right? Is it just NHB or you guys mix it up? Would you guys mind if I posted some throwdowns on Fightauthority.com?	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
It won't be a 1:1 swap with dark corn syrup and molasses. I'd probably try 3 parts light corn syrup to 1 part molasses; or you could try brown rice syrup, golden syrup (like Lyle's); or cane syrup. I might be wary that the sugar will crystallize differently and could make your pie grainier, however—so it could be a risk. The molasses is going to give it a very different flavor - seriously not a good idea for a true Southern pecan pie -- wholly apart from the chemical structure. Yes, brave the grocery store. BUT, if you have light corn syrup, you can use that, but make sure that at least 2-3 tablespoons of the sugar in the recipe is brown sugar. I've done that many times. (I married a nice fellow from the deep south a long, long time ago and have made dozens of pecan pies for him over the years since, tweaking on occasion along the way . . . . ) Have fun, and Happy Thanksgiving! ;o) Southern born Virginia Willis is a French-trained chef, food writer, and content creator. Her latest cookbook, Lighten Up, Y'all: Classic Southern Recipes Made Healthy and Wholesome received a James Beard Award of Excellence in 2016.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
UPCOMING EVENTS A version of this story originally appeared on SGEntrepreneurs and is published here with permission. We saw a number of cloud and enterprise startups pitch the crowd at Demo Asia 2012 this morning, some of which were pretty memorable. Since this is Oscars season, we’re giving each startup our own awards just for fun. Tradesparq lets merchants and businesses search through AliBaba suppliers and then ranks them based on a merchant’s social networks and contacts. It LinkedIn meets AliBaba. The company’s demo walked the audience through the process of trying to find a kitchen sink supplier in AliBaba. It showed that AliBaba had no problem returning thousands of results but had a problem finding a supplier that could be trusted. Tradesparq was able to filter the results based on the trust established in your existing network. The panel straight after the pitches was unanimous and effusive in its praise of Tradesparq as well as its product-market fit. If you’re into consumer-driven, social and local mobile apps, APIs are bound to turn you off immediately. But as someone who knows programming, I have to say that Hoiio and its Hoiio API lets developers quickly develop voice-related telephone apps. Of course, Twilio is operating in the same space. So Hoiio’s play would be to quickly be a Twilio for Asian telcos. Given the difficulties of negotiating with the various telcos across different countries and legal domains, Hoiio has a chance to play catch up in this area. The Freedom Award: DropMyEmail.com DropMyEmail.com does two things cleanly. It switches your emails from one email account to another, and it backs up your emails. The play here with these two functions is that you are free from the fear of getting valuable emails tied up to any email provider. I have to say, this is only obvious to people who are running businesses or media sites and whose livelihoods are dependent on emails. However, the issue here is that the backup business is decidedly unsexy in the world of technology — especially with social networks and the like. The So What Are You Selling Again? Award: e-Xefs This crowd definitely wants the startups presenting here to succeed, judging by the generous encouragement shown to those who experienced technical hiccups. But we want to be constructive to the winners of this award — e-Xefs. It is supposedly an expert forecast system churning out instantaneous forecasts based on raw business data. Beyond that, we can’t see the appeal or the possible user community for this. We had an issue Googling for the company’s website as well. On top of that, I have no idea how to pronounce the name. (e-saf? e-x-f? eeks?) Clearly, judging from the demo, there is some technical talent here. I wanted to see the WOW factor of using the product, and there is a significant gap between the WOW I expected and what I saw in the pitch itself. So what do you think about the awards we have given? Any memorable pitches we missed? What kind of award should they get?	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
You have a vision worth showing off The only thing holding you back from sharing it with the world? The quality of your smartphone photos. That’s why I’m here. Hey, I’m Caitlyn and I’m here to document your story and share it with those who matter most. Whether I’m hanging out with you and the kids at the playground down the street and freezing their natural smiles or taking pictures of you hard at work at the local coffee shop, the photos I take are sure to capture the heart of the moment. You want an updated photo album to show off to your friends and family. You want to increase your Instagram engagement and personalize your feed to reflect your brand. You want to present what you’ve created to the world. And I’m here to help you make that happen From shy and quiet to capturing memories and making true connections I believe magic happens outside of your comfort zone. I wasn’t always the friendly and outgoing photographer I am today. There was once a time when I avoided meeting someone new like the plague because of the anxiety it caused me. Yet, as soon as I picked up a camera in college, I knew this is what I was meant to do. It ended up being the perfect career for me; I can create art, capture beautiful moments, and finally get outside my comfort zone to meet new, wonderful people. My patience, detail-oriented style, and caring demeanor makes me the perfect fit to photograph families. Crying children and hiccups in the original plan are the least of my concerns; I’m quick to think of solutions so we can still take the photos we need. When I moved to Seattle from San Fransisco, I also realized many solopreneurs don’t have the time, energy, or experience to take the right photos for their brands. Now, I’ve grown to help both families and small businesses share their stories through images that capture their incredible personalities. Get to know me I can’t wait to meet you and get to know more about you, your family, and your business. In the meantime, here are a few things you might want to know about me. I’m originally from San Francisco but moved to Seattle in 2018 to follow my husband as he pursues his career. Being from California means I love the ocean - and yes, I love long walks on the beach, but only when the sun is hiding behind the clouds. You’ll never see me turn down a piece of chocolate (unless it’s filled with fruit!). In fact, if you bring one to our photo session, you’ll definitely win the best client of the year award. Finally, my goal is to utilize photography to help others make their lives easier and to spread joy and encouragement. To do so, I incorporate the following values into my work: Caring for family, friends and everyone else in my life. They are important to me and I do my best to take care of them and help however I can. Showing my community that they can rely on me and I will be there for them. Doing everything through an optimistic and kind outlook. Finding new places, new ways of doing things and approaching life in a playful way Using imagination and inspiration to solve problems and come up with new ideas Perceived to be the best possible. Now that you know me, I’d love to get to know you. Let’s capture your favorite moments, together.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Cleveland brings in top grosses with ‘Wicked’ Road Grosses NEW YORK The road grosses rose 1.14% in Week 28 (Nov. 30-Dec. 6), bringing the total gross for the 13-show slate to $11,642,999. Several shows were up, including “Jersey Boys,” which broke the house record for the third week running at Washington, D.C.’s, National Theater with $1,289,022. “Wicked” brought in the week’s top gross with $1,650,086 in Cleveland.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Welcome to the village history archives! Welcome to the village history archives, as part of our Millennium celebrations in 2000 a small working group put together an exhibition of archive material about the village. Inspired by Elizabeth Bicknell’s book ‘Isle Abbots’(c 1980 now sadly out of print) we brought together information from a variety of sources (eg Somerset Records Office and Somerset Studies Library). Most of this material is now held in trust by Mrs Barbara Rickitt of Brome’s House. For this website we hope we have reproduced this material accurately but cannot guarantee this. You may wish to check with original sources and we try to indicate where to go and how to consult these sources. There is no charge for any of our information and we hope you may either amend or add to our archives as you acquire new information. In either case Please email David Sutcliffe Sarah Hawkins has kindly provided the link to transcriptions of parish records following a visit to the village website.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
I left Atlantic City, June 30th getting on the A.C. expressway about 10:15 (north). This all occurred after the 50c pleasantville toll and before the 2$ toll wherever that is. I am driving slow about 60mphs, it had been raining a bit earlier and was still drizzling off and on. I am writing this about 5 hours after the experience. Driving along I notice a Triangular shaped abject hovering directly above the highway maybe 40 feet, very close to us. It seemed to be moving very slowly, no more than 10mph's and it may have been staying still, its tough to judge going down a highway. The object was directly above the highway, with the front point pointing directly at oncoming traffic, I passed directly underneath it and past it. I keep driving still about 60 mphs for a good 3-4 minutes and as I'm thinking what the hell was that thing I see it ahead of me again, same distance above groud, exact same thing. This time I slowdown somewhat to get a good look at this thing and as I pass by underneath it this time, I roll down my window to see if I could hear anything, but did not hear anything. There wasn't a ton of traffic, but there was a good amount of cars around a couple zooming past me as I slowed down to get a better look. This was a black triangular shaped object about 25 feet each way, with white lights on the corners, the 2 back lights did not appear to emit any kind of shine, just very pure white lights. I did get a good look at the front light though, which did emit a light beam strait ahead of it that I noticed. The light itself was the whole front tip of the triangle, the front ended in a single tipped point, the light starting from that point seemed to extend about a foot back seeming almost crystal like as it seemed somewhat see through. I did my best to look underneath it as I got close, I did see some white lights on the bottom of the craft. The object didn't seem to have any aura or haze around it, When I noticed it the first time I immediately thought it must be a helicopter hovering so close to the ground probably enforcing the speed limit, it turned out not to be a helicopter. And that is it.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Saturday 24 August Sunday 25 August Outro: Next week, an explosion uncovers a grizzly remnant of an earlier age whose motto is "let your fingers do the killing." Join us next Sunday night at 11 for a look at "The Hand of Fear." Right now you'd be wise to turn your hand to the business of assuring the continuation of the programs you like on 11. Use your fingers to reach 372-1200 with your subscription to Channel 11. 372-1200. [source: ChicagoEpguides]	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
CEO of CASES Appointed to New York State Commission of Youth, Public Safety and Justice Published on April 15, 2014 On April 9, CASES’ CEO Joel Copperman was announced as a member of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s new Commission on Youth, Public Safety & Justice. The mandate of the commission is to provide concrete, actionable recommendations for youth involved in New York’s criminal and juvenile justice systems. The Governor proposed establishing the commission in response to the Raise the Age NY awareness campaign, which argued that the state should revise its policy of charging all 16- and 17-year old persons as adults. The commission will convene by the end of 2014. “It’s time to improve New York’s outdated juvenile justice laws and raise the age at which our children can be tried and charged as adults,” Governor Cuomo said through a press release. “New York is one of only two states that charges 16- and 17-year olds as adults. It’s not right and it’s not fair. I am pleased to welcome these exceptional members of the Commission on Youth, Public Safety & Justice, who will work to make the system fairer and safer for our youth and communities.” Mr. Coppeman was grateful to be invited to participate. “I am excited and honored by the opportunity to serve on this commission,” Mr. Copperman said. “Every day at CASES, we see the significant barriers that an adult felony conviction can create for young people involved in the criminal justice system. I look forward to joining in the commission’s work to improve these young people’s opportunities for future success.” Mr. Copperman joined CASES in 1990 as the organization’s first Executive Director. Prior to joining CASES, Mr. Copperman held several positions in New York City Government during the administration of Ed Koch. He was in the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Relations serving as a legislative representative in Albany, was Deputy Director of the Mayor’s Office of Operations, and was the first Director of the Mayor’s Office of Contracts. Currently, he chairs the Board of Directors of the Human Services Council, a coalition of more than 160 New York City organizations that advocates for the needs of the human services sector.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Gaming MediaWant to showcase yourself playing a game? Want to write a guide on how to beat the hardest levels of a game? Or maybe you want to give your review of a game you have? If so, this is the place for you! In the last couple years, the Wii is losing sales due to focusing on the casual market instead of the hardcore market. People are losing interest on the Wii switch to other consoles for more choices. While there are very few games left on the Wii's lifespan. There are three that have alot of potential to be good while each one very different. In last year, Nintendo of Europe wanted to show one of the three but Nintendo of America say they have no interest in releasing that one and the other two. It went to the point that some fans even created Operation Rainfall. They did as much as they could to convince Nintendo to reconsider their decision. In this year, two out of the three is released or releasing soon. The first is Xenoblade Chronicles which is called one of the best RPGs of this generation and released last April. The second one coming out in July 31th called The Last Story made by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. The third one however is only released in Europe so far with no word of its release in the US. This third one is Pandora's Tower. The plot is that Elena is singing for the kingdom of Elyria's Havest festival but however an monster attacked the festival. Our somewhat silent hero Aeron go's and find Elena and escapes with her from the army. They ran into the mysterious merchant named Mavda that takes them to the wastelands near an Observatory. Aeron finds out that Elena has a curse that turns her into a monster as time go by. Mavda gives him the Oraclos Chain and tells him to head to the Thirteen Towers. Each tower has an master he must beat, if he beat each one. He has to take the flesh out of them and Elena has to eat each one to remove the curse forever. The gameplay is similar to Zelda that you have to solve puzzles to get around places and some cases defeating enemies to get by. To get to the master’s room, you have to destroy parts of it's chain in different rooms to unlock the door. You have the sword to attack at the beginning and if you hold the A button, you can do a special attack for more damage. However the gameplay is more about the chain than the sword and the other weapons you get during the game. You use the chain for puzzles, getting to places, and attacking/blinding enemies. However this is not a game to be exploring a lot, you have to watch the gauge that show you how much Elena has left before she turns into an monster. She starts turning when it’s at purple and that happen to me while in the tower, and you have to leave the tower to give her meat to set the gauge back to the beginning. This may sound annoying at first but this game makes backtracking very convenient that the puzzles you done are still done and you can go shortcuts to get back where you there at. Not to mention there is an item to sends you back to Elena so you don’t have to rush back to the beginning part of the tower. When you face a master, you have to watch its movements to find the weakness to take advantage of the fight. While not in the towers, you can talk to Elena, give her gifts that she will like, and requests to translate books for you. This you have to do a lot since this increases the bond between Aeron and Elena and this will be important for getting one of the five endings depending on how much you increase it. You can also talk to Mavda that has a shop opened for materials, healing items, and gifts. You can give her flesh, and papers you not using to get money. You can create items that you don’t get in the towers like armor from materials. Lastly you can upgrade your weapons for more attack power from using materials. I really like the concept of this game that is pretty well thought out with tons of background information to keep you interested. This game did really well in making you feel bad for Elena. The one time the gauge goes down to purple and I went back. I saw Elena has transformed abit and I felt bad for letting it happen. Since that I always make sure I leave the towers when the gauge is halfway so she doesn’t transform. The time limit system works really well, when you in the towers, they will be shortcuts to find/make to make exploring not annoying. I have to say using the chain is pretty fun with the controls good and the difficultly being fair. The boss fights are pretty fun to do finding out what works and what doesn’t work to your advantage. The music is really good fitting with the themes of this game. However I wish they made Aeron more interesting as he is kind of bland and you don’t learn much about him besides a few cutscenes. Also the second half of the towers can be tiring due to it being the same as the first half with the exception of the last two. Overall with some flaws, Pandora’s Tower is a good game with an interesting concept, fun gameplay, good music, and good use of the time limit. I recommend trying this out and I really hope Nintendo release this to the US. Interesting review and thank you for posting one; more reviews needed! I think this game sounds rather interesting, but I get the feeling that the whole 'having to go back to feed Elena. Those types of games objectives annoy me because, I feel they restrict your gaming experience and exploration. However, that is just my initial thought about the mechanic, as a whole and not the one that is included in this game. 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Very exotic, and for more reasons than one. Clearly she’s very Asian – Her name is Shasha – but she’s wearing a cheerleader uniform. The two combined makes her super hot. And then toss in the fact that she’s got a hairy pussy and it’s too much for us to handle!	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
This Version Already come with working counter strike addons and plugins and already we use most of them in the our zombie plague server, also our competitors can download it too also some uniq plugin from our orginal cs 1.6 zombie server world war z, plague mod but certan if you want to own your personal cs 1.6 game server your way still long, this versoin really helpful to beginers and new server manager but you need to more study about plugins and especally security, follow the cs.rin.ru and download latest dproto and also need other serverside fixes and anti counter strike 1.6 crash tools. My advice first choose some simple plugins and localy compile them with amx studio, and send them plugins directory /cstrike/addons/amxmodx/plugins and also do not forget to and plugins.ini (just full name) server management not to easy and never use ready addons, test everything one by one and after every new plugin check log files and simple do control error-logs already i use old server side amx mod x version but also if you want you can update current metamod file and version, after simple works you can try more complicated plugins like need ekstra uploads to server side with sound, model and module do not forget alway check version compatibility try to understand what just you need so latest version do not mean always the best one. There is 2 most important 3th party module Orpheu and Gelileo and i use one old version orpheu that some plugins workng with it without bug problem. I alway use https://forums.alliedmods.net for first plugin resource and usually i look the other members comment and there is mor hint can find if you live some problem with your plugin, sure for me bug mean firstly plugin releated server crash problems so read the others comment usually help and you find alternative fixed sma files. This is the open source and open public release so also open for new ideas and advices, time to time update this version and if people demand i can add new plugins and addons and finally v34 update leaked. Info: Full Counter Strike 1.6 game(full game) Comes with default registry that mean you do not need to add any serial no or key FuLL Zombie Plague Server copy (working zombie server addons, you can start it like the other servers also can play on LAN) Files: Repack Size: 343 Mb. Archive Type: Winrar Change Logs: new version released, now pack include latest added maps and also some fixes and optimisations (still can add some 3th party fix but i am not sure about those second hand dll files) but i have a server browser fix you wait some for until next release. New version calls v34 and pack setup file, removed some unwanted installation steps and installation starts after 3 clicks later, now jetpack + bazooka plugin added to this version and be sure i found most stable latest release for zombie plague 4.3 (fix5a) and player can shoot when flying or on the air that mean jetpack already active after take to hand a gun, a last point when your fuel finish or almost finished you start to fly with fart gas or just fart power for fly also updated podbot version (only dll) and now bots more smart and they reload only when their bullet just finish but i am not sure they are more smart still they camp (already their camp time 0) anyway for me users comment important enjoy for new version.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Every time I pop some leftovers in the microwave, the thought runs through my mind that I might be eating an extra dosage of some 14-letter synthetic chemical, added to the plethora of components in the plastic container. The frightening thing is that, after reading your article "LePage's Secret Puppeteers" (by Colin Woodard, February 11), I just might be telling myself the truth! Once these molecules enter our bodies, there is little way of knowing how they will interact with our living cells. Surely one might think the government would have some sort of legislation in place to check on chemicals used in such common household products. The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1974, however, does little to calm our worries. Only 200 of the over 80,000 industrial chemicals are tested by the EPA; five of those 200 have been partially restricted. I am appalled to think that it has taken our government nearly 40 years to realize the inefficiencies of this law. However, there is hope. Recently in Congress, there has been a push for the passing of the Safe Chemicals Act. Our senators, Snowe and Collins, both publicly acknowledged that the outdated TSCA needs to change. Now they both have a unique opportunity to help move these important chemical safety reforms forward by co-sponsoring the Safe Chemicals Act. Under this new legislation, chemical companies would be under similar regulations to pharmaceuticals. Chemicals would be tested and companies would have to present information on the health and environmental safety of their products. Another key benefit to the passing of this act is the usage of advanced science in assisting the EPA's risk assessment of chemicals. These techniques, developed by the National Academy of Sciences, will help alleviate the burden of assessing the ever-growing stockpile of molecules and compounds found in our markets. All in all, progress is finally being made in a sector of industrial America that has largely been untouched. This comes as a relief to mothers, infants, elderly, and to my demographic — young, freshly graduated professionals who want to live in a world knowing that the food they're about to eat isn't dosed in some endocrine-disrupting chemical. It's a human right to know these facts, and it's a human right not to be poisoned! DONE WAITING FOR PATIENT SAFETY \| March 07, 2013 As an employee in downtown Portland as well as a resident, I've been exposed to a climate of escalating hostility surrounding the entrance to the Planned Parenthood of Northern New England offices.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Coming Soon: Matt Damon on 30 Rock! One of my favorite TV shows just got impossibly better, thanks to an infusion of Jason Bourne-style hotness! That's right, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Matt Damon will appear on an upcoming episode of 30 Rock! So what will his role be? Well...	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Oriimec was formed by a merger between Orii, the top manufacturer of press room automation equipment, and Mec Corporation, the top manufacturer of spring machines. Oriimec is continuously striving to branch into new fields, using its extensive experience and technology as a base. Company Information Oriimec Corporation of Mexico Established Erlanger, Ky. —Oriimec Corporation of Mexico will begin operations on April 1, 2013. OCM was established due to demand from numerous customers in factory expansions of Japanese-affiliated companies in Mexico as well as demand from local stampers.� OCM will be a service company located in Queretaro city, an area of central Mexico where the auto industry is concentrated.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Internet and social media ranked at the bottom on a list of the most trusted industries for privacy, according to the Ponemon Institute. Released yesterday, Ponemon's "2012 Most Trusted Companies for Privacy" was compiled from a survey of U.S. adults asked to name the five companies they trust the most to protect the privacy of their personal information. Based on more than 6,700 responses, the Top 20 list did not include several tech players that had been on it in past years. Apple failed to make the list for the first time in four years. Google, Best Buy, Facebook, Yahoo, Dell, and AOL also were gone from the Top 20 after scoring good or decent grades in the past. Those results aren't surprising, as many of those polled expressed concern about certain technologies. A full 59 percent of the respondents said they feel their privacy rights are diminished or undermined by social media, smart mobile devices, and geotracking tools. Almost half the people surveyed said they received one or more data breach notifications over the past two years. And 77 percent of those people said such notifications hurt their trust in the organization reporting the breach. A majority of those polled said they've shared personal information with an organization they didn't know or trust, with most admitting they did it for the convenience of online shopping. And only 35 percent feel they have control over their personal information, a percentage that has dropped steadily over the past seven years, the report said. Identify theft was seen as the most significant threat to privacy, followed by government surveillance and data breaches. And what do people expect from companies that use their personal information? Security protection was named the most important feature. But a majority also said they don't want their data shared without their consent and they want the ability to be forgotten. About the author Journalist, software trainer, and Web developer Lance Whitney writes columns and reviews for CNET, Computer Shopper, Microsoft TechNet, and other technology sites. His first book, "Windows 8 Five Minutes at a Time," was published by Wiley & Sons in November 2012. See full bio	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Latina Actress Takes Heat For Starring In Tea Party Candidate's Ad Cuban-Venezuelan actress Maria Conchita Alonso is one of the most prominent conservative voices in Hollywood, citing her family’s history with the extreme left as fueling her passion for politics. Now she is ginning up controversy once again for endorsing a Tea Party candidate who opposes immigration reform. According to Fox News Latino, Alonso endorsed California Assemblyman Tim Donnelly for governor because of his Tea Party principles and conservative values. She stars in a humorous bilingual ad with Donnelly, in which she holds a small dog and gives her reasons for voting for Donnelly in Spanish. While running on a multidimensional platform, Donnelly is best known in his region for starting a chapter of the Minutemen, a group dedicated to protecting the United States border from illegal immigrants. advertisement This has angered several left-wing Latino groups who find the Venezuelan actress’s support of restrictions of Mexican illegal immigrant incongruous with her identity, and attack the ad for its humor, which Fox News notes is being interpreted as insulting by some groups. In an interview with Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión, Alonso said that she had discussed immigration with Donnelly and was satisfied that his opinion aligned with hers. “I am one of those who thinks that we have to help illegal immigrants that are already in the country and don’t have criminal backgrounds,” she explained, “those that contribute and are good people– but those who are not, we have to remove.” On his end, Donnelly told La Opinión that for him it was “an honor and a pleasure to receive the total support of someone as extraordinary as actress María Conchita Alonso… we are both tired of listening to [stories] of how high taxes are expelling businesses from our state.” In addition to his views on illegal immigration, Donnelly is running on a platform based on lowering wasteful government spending and taxes, as well as fighting the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. In the ad above, Alonso agrees with Donnelly primarily on economic and spending issues, with immigration only one of many points discussed.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Cortical excitation and chronic pain. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Centre for the Study of Pain, University of Toronto, Medical Sciences Building, 1 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada. [email protected] Abstract Investigation of the basic mechanisms of chronic pain not only provides insights into how the brain processes and modulates sensory information but also provides the basis for designing novel treatments for currently intractable clinical conditions. Human brain imaging studies have revealed new roles of cortical neuronal networks in chronic pain, including its unpleasant quality, and mouse studies have provided molecular and synaptic mechanisms underlying relevant cortical plasticity. This review paper will critically examine the current literature and propose a cortical network model for chronic pain.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Tag: nostalgia AOL’s Long running messaging service will end on December 15th. Though it’s true that i rarely use it these days and that I actually lost my original account years ago… I have fond memories of this communications protocol. I continue to communicate with people though AIM. Apple had strong links to it at the launch of iChatAV. #nostalgia Well, AOL broke the news with a tweet. ironic? In truth, I haven’t touched it in years. I haven’t even touched cydia recently. Sadly, all this work would only be useful for someone with an original or 3g iPhone. Apple certainly doesn’t support those devices anymore. Does anyone still use them? Unfortunately, my ISP insists that I remove the content. After 7 years of hosting it, they realized it violates TOS. I should check the logs. I wonder if it will even be missed. People say the internet never forgets. Sometimes it is quite the opposite. For nostalgias sake, I left the instructions site up: http://cydia.be3n.com/ (at least that does’t violate Dreamhost TOS). For the record, much of my work continued support well into iOS 4. Back in 1997, I registered my first domain benforpresident.org. It was a silly site that I would do almost nothing with. I had grand plans for a genuine run for 2016. With technology on my side, how could I fail? Well, I missed a registration payment and it was snatched from me. Oddly, the content remained the same in the hands of it’s new owner. Nothing was added, nothing was changed. (apart from some tracking javascript). Yesterday on a whim, I checked it’s availability and reacquired it. I don’t know exactly what I am going to do with it, but for now, I have set the clock back to 1997. typos and all. got ideas? I found more pictures of my old bedroom recently. Below, I cleared out my bed to install a pull out sofa (seen in next frame). It turned my high school room into quite the hangout. Also on display were some art and other decorations from that era. If you look closely, you can find Pez, impressionists paintings, comics, Magic packs, and a Sun optical mouse/mousepad. I wonder what others will find. My room’s walls were quite the collage. I’ve added more pictures including this 4up from my Nickelodeon Photo Blaster. Can you find Audio/Video tapes next to the original Nintendo? enjoy. In that last picture, my room is trashed while i pack for the Defcon Hacker conference in Las Vegas.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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LETTER: NHS is under the cosh As doctors from all across the UK gather in Belfast this week for the BMA’s annual representative meeting, this will be a welcome opportunity to reflect on the pressures facing the NHS. With the NHS facing financial uncertainty, it is clear that the government, in our view, is in denial about the state of the crisis in our health service which has left most hospitals in England in deficit. Worryingly, a recent BMA public survey found that only a small minority, 13 per cent, believe that the government is giving the NHS the funding it needs. Across England cuts of £200 million to the public health budget have meant that services that people have grown to rely on such as sexual health and smoking cessation services are being cut or put under enormous pressure. These are vital services within the community and cuts of this magnitude will inevitably have a detrimental impact on public health. As our health service is forced to trade concerns for patient care for financial worries, it clear that the public is losing faith in the government’s empty promise to “cut the deficit, not the NHS”. The government need to step up and finally invest in the health service it promises - the one that our patients rightly deserve.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Ballentine, 23, is “expected to make a full recovery,” per Washburn University. The Giants said they’ve spoken to their sixth-round pick (180th overall) as he recovers in the hospital. Advertisement Ballentine was injured Sunday morning. (Michael Conroy/AP) Both Washburn and the Giants, though, had their thoughts and prayers with Simmons, 23. “We are aware of the tragic situation and continue to gather information,” the Giants said in a statement. “We have spoken to Corey, and he is recovering in the hospital. Our thoughts are with Dwane Simmons’ family, friends and teammates and the rest of the Washburn community.” Investigators told 13 NEWS in Topeka, Kansas, that officers responded around 12:45 a.m. to the 1400 block of 13th Street on reports of gunfire. An officer on the scene told 13 NEWS that Simmons died in the street from a gunshot wound and later confirmed Ballentine had been injured, as well. “Any time we lose a student it is a sad occasion, but it is particularly poignant to lose a student through such a senseless act,” the University said in a statement. “Both Dwane and Corey have been great examples and representatives of the football team and of Washburn University in general. This was a terrible way to end a day which should have been a day of celebration and a day to look forward to Dwane’s upcoming year at Washburn and the beginning of Corey’s professional career.”	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Pages Friday, January 20, 2017 xXx: 15th Anniversary Edition Blu-Ray Review About the Film: From Revolution Studios and and Sony Pictures, Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is a notorious underground thrill-seeker who, until now, has been deemed untouchable by the law. But when crack NSA Agent Gibbsons convinces Cage to infiltrate a ruthless Russian crime ring, this new breed of secret agent (codename: XXX) takes down the enemies of justice with a vengeance in this high-octane, turbo-charged thrill-ride from the acclaimed director of The Fast and the Furious. Synopsis for 15th Anniversary Edition Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is a notorious underground thrill-seeker who, until now, has been deemed untouchable by the law. But when crack NSA Agent Gibbons convinces Cage to infiltrate a ruthless Russian crime ring, this new breed of secret agent (codename: xXx) takes down the enemies of justice with a vengeance in this high-octane, turbo-charged thrill-ride from the acclaimed director of The Fast and the Furious. Our Take: I'm a junkie for action films, through and through. I grew up in the glory days of action...the 1980s. My love for the genre is what made me an instant fan of xXx when it was released back in 2002. Its an action film and a spy film all rolled into one and the extreme sports angle, which was hip at the time, gives it a unique charm. Vin Diesel does a great job as a lead, but my favorite part of this film is Asia Argento. Her performance is fantastic. The film holds up well on blu-ray. I only had this one on DVD, so I'm happy for the upgrade and the extras. I recommend this one, its a great watch and a fun way to prep before you see the new xXx: Return of Xander Cage film in theaters!	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Login Form Remember me Article Installing Windows XP Off of a USB Thumb Drive … is an enormous pain in the ass. The only installation mediums that Windows XP comes on that I know of are CDs and DVDs, from which you can of course rip images. So if you don’t have a CD drive on your computer or your CD drive is broken, you have to jump through hoops. Here are those hoops. Jump through them at your own risk. Hardware you will need: A valid Windows XP CD or CD image compatible with your license key (eg. if you have an XP Home license that came with your computer, you should use an XP Home OEM disk) A USB Key at least as large as the source installation media (1GB will do). Note that not all USB flash drives are bootable. If this tutorial doesn’t work the first time, try again with a different USB flash drive. A computer running Windows to set up the USB key with. The computer you are trying to install Windows XP on. Make sure it can boot from a USB device. Software you will need: usb_prep8 PeToUSB bootsect I have zipped all of these into a file available here. When you unzip the archive you will only see two folders, bootsect and usb_prep8. PeToUSB is inside of usb_prep_8. Don’t even worry about it, just follow the instructions. Making your bootable USB drive: On the computer you are using for setup: Plug your USB key. Insert your installation media. This means putting the CD into your CD drive, or if you have an image file mounting the image file using a tool like PowerISO. Unzip the archive. Go into the usb_prep8 folder. Run “usb_prep8.cmd” (double click it, highlight and hit enter, whatever). This will pop up a command window. Hit a key and it should start PeToUSB, which should detect your USB key. It should look like this: Select your USB drive from the drop-down menu. BE SUPER SURE THAT THIS IS THE RIGHT DRIVE, YOU WILL BE WIPING OFF ALL DATA. Enter the path to your installation media. For me that was the I: drive, where I had mounted the CD image. Make the other settings look like mine. Hit the Start button. Hit Yes on the prompt to continue. Hit yes again when it informs you that you are about to format your USB drive. The format should only take a few seconds and end in a window that says “Operation Completed Successfully!”. You may now close PeToUSB. Hit the close button in the bottom right of its GUI. Do NOT close the command window from which it spawned. This is your usb_prep8 window, leave it alone for a minute. It should look like this: Now you have to run bootsect. Go back to the folder where you unzipped USBBoot and go into the bootsect folder. You need to navigate to this folder in a command prompt now. If you know how to do this, do it. If you don’t: Start a new command prompt by hitting Start->Run, then type cmd into the window that comes up and press enter. Type “cd “, then copy and paste the full path of the bootsect directory into the command prompt window. Note that Ctrl-V doesn’t work, you have to right click and hit “paste” in the command window. The whole command should look like “cd ‘C:Documents and SettingsUserdesktopUSBBootbootsect’ “. Press enter. Now type “bootsect.exe /nt52 <YOUR USB DRIVE LETTER>:” and press enter Your command window should look like this: If the operation completed successfully, you can close the command prompt in which you ran bootsect and return to you usb_prep8 prompt, which should be displaying a text menu. Make sure that the Virtual TempDrive letter selected does not correspond to an actual drive. If it does (it shouldn’t), press 2, enter, then enter an unused driveletter. Verify your settings and press 4, then enter. This is what my setting look like: You will be asked if you want to format your temp drive and warned that all data on that drive will be lost. Since the drive doesn’t actually exist, you’re not really losing any data, so go ahead and press y, enter. You will told that a temporary image is about to be created on the temp drive, go ahead and press any key. Scrolling list of files for a minute or two, be patient. For me it took about a minute to get to the next prompt. You will reach another “press any key” where it tells you its about to copy files from the temp drive onto your usb key. Press a key. Then it will ask if you’re sure you want to copy files, hit yes. Next step takes 10-15 minutes, so go make yourself a sandwich while the files scroll by in your command window. You will get a prompt asking if you want to USB stick to be the preferred boot drive. Hit yes. You will be asked if you want to unmount the virtual drive. Hit yes. Enjoy your Windows Setup On A Stick! Installing Windows From Your USB Drive: This should be exactly like installing Windows XP from a CD, but with a few caveats. You can find instructions on how to install windows from a CD elsewhere, I will just list the caveats. I say stage 1 and stage 2 of the installation, for reference stage 1 is the non-GUI stage where files are copied over to the hard disk. Stage 2 is the part where you normally reboot of the new installation on the hard disk and setup continues in GUI mode. Booting off a windows XP installation CD will prompt you whether to boot from the CD or from your hard disk with a “press any key to boot from CD”. This USB key will bring up a menu with two options, one of which takes you to stage 1 of the installation process and the other of which takes you to stage 2. Stage 2 is NOT just booting from the hard drive like it is when installing from a CD, Windows is started with special parameters that allow it to accept the USB key as an installation media. After stage 1 of the installation ( the no-GUI stage ), DO NOT REMOVE THE USB KEY. You need to boot into the key menu again to complete stage 2. Remove the USB key only after you complete stage 2 of the install. In Conclusion: If your BIOS allows booting from an external CD ROM drive and you have one available, just do that. Seriously. It’s way easier. Let me know if you find anything wrong in this post and I will correct it and credit you. I drew information from a lot of forum posts all over the internet.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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You appointed so many incompetent people into office NIA Director General is a failure Controversial senator from Nigeria’s governing party, APC, Isa Misau, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of appointing incompetent people into his cabinet. The Bauchi senator also said the appointment of the Director General of the Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, was shrouded with favouritism. He alleged that Mr. Abubakar failed examinations preceding his appointment. President Buhari appointed Mr. Abubakar as the substantive DG of the NIA on Wednesday, 10th January. Misau said the appointment of Mr. Abubakar who was until then the Senior Special Assistant to the President (SSAP), on Foreign Affairs/International Relations, was improper. “Today, the DG NIA that was just appointed, is he qualified to be there? He’s not qualified. This is the person that failed two exams, we know. He failed two exams and just because he is close to people taking decisions, he was appointed.” He berated President Buhari for surrounding himself with incompetent people who “take decisions anyhow “So many incompetent people are holding so many positions. Fifty per cent of the ministers are not performing. Since the president assumed office he has not taken any decision to move this country. Today we are seeing it and everybody is avoiding it, nobody wants to say anything. “So many appointments in this government are not on merit. Some people have taken over the government as if they are even above the president. They take decisions anyhow. We say we are fighting corruption, Babachir that the vice-president’s committee indicted him. Today, they are pursuing other people, why can’t they take Babachir (Lawal, former SGF) to court and all of us are here keeping quiet. People who have not done anything are always in court. This is the man that squandered money meant for IDPs and he is still visiting villa every day.” “This Attorney-General is becoming a nuisance, going to court to stop Maina probe and we are still here, the IG came here with a lawyer that he is not going to answer any question from the Senate. After that he went to institute an order restraining Senate from investigating him. The lawmaker accused a minister of plotting to remove the Senate President, Bukola Saraki. “When we were on holiday, so many people were going behind that they should try and remove the senate president. And it was a minister that was spearheading that thing. What is the reason, they said that the senate president would leave APC that they should create problems for him (Saraki). What kind of country is this? Everything is about religion, about tribe.” He maintained that the issue of security would not be properly tackled until the executive makes appointments based on merit. He added that without competent people handling the nation’s security apparatus, issues of insecurity will continue to linger. “It is right time for us, let us know what to do. If it’s about talking here or holding conference, until we look at how the security system is. Who and who are holding sensitive positions? Are they competent? Were they appointed on merit?” Misau was, however, countered by Abdullahi Adamu, (Nasarawa-APC), who took offence at his choice of words. “I will not accept, anybody coming here virtually calling the President by his name. Calling operatives of government by their names and condemning them. It’s not right. Make your points within the laws. Comment that there is insecurity, nobody is saying you shouldn’t say so but you don’t say so in a way of inciting the public, it’s wrong.”	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Industry Links ROCHESTER, NY \| Eastman Kodak Company reports it will retain its PROSPER inkjet business. “This is a pragmatic decision given the improvements in the business and the offers received,” says Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke. “PROSPER performed well in 2016 with a 40 percent increase in annuity sales for the full year. We expect our Enterprise Inkjet Systems Division (EISD) to be profitable this year, including our next-generation ULTRASTREAM investment. Kodak will continue to invest in its ULTRASTREAM program and has entered into letters of intent with partners which will create new applications that drive market demand for the technology. The company will begin delivering ULTRASTREAM evaluation kits to 17 companies to explore its integration into their future printing solutions and expects products built on ULTRASTREAM technology to go to market in 2019. “The sale process for PROSPER which we conducted over the past year was robust,” says David Bullwinkle, Kodak Chief Financial Officer. “We hired Sagent Advisors, which solicited interest from global organizations. Strong interest in the business and technology existed throughout the process. While we had multiple offers, the range of consideration did not reflect the value of the business today." The company will recast financial results to reclassify PROSPER into continuing operations of the company within the Enterprise Inkjet Systems Division. Kodak has been accounting for PROSPER in discontinued operations as an asset available for sale and will provide an update of this reclassification on its next quarterly earnings call. In other news from Kodak, the company says Randy Vandagriff, who has played an integral role in the development of ULTRASTREAM technology and the digital print business since 2004, will become president of the Enterprise Inkjet Systems Division effective May 1, 2017. Vandagriff says, “It’s an exciting time to continue driving Kodak’s inkjet business forward, as ULTRASTREAM Technology will move production inkjet into the mainstream of commercial printing, packaging, labels, and home décor. I look forward to working closely with our PROSPER press and head customers going forward, as well as OEMs in the coming months and years to bring ULTRASTREAM technology to market.” Kodak also announces a revision to its reporting structure. The Micro 3D Printing business within the Micro 3D Printing and Packaging division (MPPD) has been moved into a new division named Advanced Materials and 3D Printing Technology (AM3D), which also includes the operations of the current Intellectual Property Solutions Division. The new AM3D division is being led by Terry Taber, Kodak chief technical officer, as president. The Flexographic Packaging business, formerly part of MPPD, is being reported as a dedicated division. The Flexographic Packaging Division is led by Chris Payne as president. These changes will be reflected in Kodak’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the first quarter of 2017.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Boltzmann Machines and Auto-Encoders There are two basic variations on this idea depending on whether the data you are trying to work with has a lot of statistical variation or not. If the data isn't noisy then you can simply take the first layers and train them as an auto-encoder. An auto-encoder is a neural network that learns to reproduce its inputs as its outputs. You might think that this is just a memory but if you set the neural network up so that it doesn't have enough resources to memorize the inputs then something really interesting happens. To reproduce the inputs the neural network has to find an internal representation of the data that isn't a simple memory of the inputs. It has to find features that allow the inputs to be stored in less space. You might say that to reproduce a face I could do it by saying things like "big mouth, wide eyes, small nose" and so on. By describing features I can tell you what a face is like using much less data than a photo say. You don't have to remember a pixel perfect representation of a face because you can reconstruct it from your memory of its features. A memory restricted auto-encoder has to discover a feature representation of the input data to be able to reconstruct it. Notice that the features that an auto encoder deduces aren't guaranteed to be useful to the next layers of the network, but you can see that there is every chance that it will be. What you do next is to take the auto-encoder and use the features it has found as features as the input to the next layer, which you train as an auto-encoder. You train this to reproduce the output and so it learns higher features, and so on until you have pre-trained all of the layers of the deep network. At this point you can put the entire network together and use back propagation to fine tune its settings. The result is a network that delivers on the promise of deep networks. If the data is noisy or statistical in nature then you can do the same thing, but instead of using auto-encoder pre-training you can use the lower layers as a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) which learns to reproduce the statistical distribution of the input data. The same arguments about not having enough memory to simply store the distributions means that the RBM has to learn statistical features to do a good job of reproducing the input data. Once the first RBM has been trained, you can use its output to train the next layer as an RMB, and so on until the entire network has been trained. Then you stack the RBMs together and throw away the extra mechanisms needed to make the sub-layers work like an RBM - and you have a standard neural network again. A little back-propagation fine-tuning and once again you have a network that delivers the performance you are looking for. There are other justifications of why the RBM approach works and there are even some weak theoretical results which suggest that it should work but what really matters is that we have practical evidence that deep learning does work. It is not that the original idea was wrong it was just that we need more data than we imagined - a lot more data - and we needed more computational power than we imagined. Put simply deep neural networks didn't learn in the past because we didn't give them long enough. Pre-training reduces the time that a neural network takes to learn by allowing it to build a structure that is likely to succeed when the training proper actually starts. There is evidence however that if you have enough computer power then perhaps you don't even need pre-training. Biology Neural networks were first put forward as analogs of the way the brain works. Surely this sort of pre-training can't be an analog of how a biological brain works? it does seem fairly obvious that there isn't an initial pre-training phase of an infant brain, trained layer-by-layer and then stacked together to create a deep network. So the whole analogy probably breaks down and what ever we are doing at the moment it doesn't have much to do with biology. This view misses the simple fact that brains are the product of evolution as well as training. It could be that layer-by-layer training is part of the evolutionary development of a brain. This could be how the structure comes about and what we think of as learning is just the fine tuning. Of course this is speculation intended more to make you think about the problem rather than present a solution. We really don't understand that much about how the brain works. The Promise There is still a lot of work to be done but it really does seem that deep neural networks work after all. 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Round the World Family Trip: Living the Dream May 19, 2011byHeather For years we’ve described it as our “Dream Trip.” Lots of people have one. It’s the trip that you’ll take one day, when there’s more time, more money, less stress, less school. The problem with big dreams is that more often than not they’re never realized. They’re the wishy-washy, pie-in-the-sky intangibles that hang around for years until they turn into regrets. It doesn’t start out that way. Will your dreams soar or float away? As kids, our dreams seem bright and completely possible (one day you’ll fly to the moon, be a cowboy and drive a firetruck!). It’s only with the passage of time and the realities of mortgages and car loans that the big ones begin to falter. I’ve been there. Ten years ago I was a lawyer at a Bay Street law firm. I left that – and the paycheque it came with – behind to pursue a fulltime career as a freelance travel writer. I’ve never been happier. When the kids came we immediately began to see the benefits the trip could have on their lives but we didn’t know when or how to make it happen. Five years ago we got an unexpected push. Ish was offered a chance to sign up for a “4 for 5″ program at work. For 4 years his work would withhold a portion of his pay and in the 5th year he’d get it back as pay…but wouldn’t have to come in to work. My decision to become a full-time freelance writer meant that I could work from anywhere. We wanted to see the world as a family and now we had a date when it could happen – 2011. Family Fun x 365 For four years we would mention the idea to the kids but there was little real interest.It’s really only over the last year that they’ve begun to get it. At 6 and 8 the fact that they are about to set out on an adventure that will change all of our lives forever is a hard thing to grasp. Instead we focused on the little things. We called it “The Wish List” On it we all write down our dreams. They can be crazy, wild, tame or lame. They are the things we’ve always thought of doing and the things we never thought we could. My oldest son wants to learn to surf. My youngest wants to see (okay… hug) a penguin. I want to learn to cook and dance (tango would be awesome!). My husband wants to visit friends he’s made around the world and learn to ride a motorcycle. Dinner conversations revolve around changes to the list. “Will we still get to see the pyramids?” ” Do they have chicken nuggets in Australia?” Often the answer is “I don’t know” and so far the kids are okay with that. I love that this trip requires us to leave behind the possessions that really don’t matter, grab a couple of bags and set out to meet our dreams head on in far flung places and with only each other for support and company. Now that the trip is only a few weeks away. The list is growing longer for the kids and shorter for me. More than anything I want us to be safe and healthy but I also believe that we will learn by having to overcome adversities and come back from the trip as more compassionate human beings. When it’s over we’re hoping to have strengthened our relationships with each other, written journals full of stories and filled cameras with memories that celebrate our decision to live our dreams. With every day that passes our excitement grows, and sharing it with you only fuels that. Thanks for reading and sending us your good vibes. We can’t wait to get out there and begin to live the dream. Is there something you dream of doing? On your own or with your kids? What’s holding you back? Perhaps not surprisingly considering I’ve subscribed to your site, being a world traveller is my dream. And at this moment of time, it’s money that’s holding me back–which I think for most people, tends to be the biggest dream crusher. The work plan your hubby got sounds amazing. I’ve also dreamt of going to law school ever since I was a kid, but I have too many academic sins (long, boring personal story) to let that become a reality before I hit 40. Such is life! Guess I’ll have to settle for travel at some point down the road… ;) Valerie- Whey the age of 40 limit on the law degree? I went to school with people who were much much older than that. I think it’s never too late to follow a dream. In my mind it doesn’t even matter if you ever practice. If it’s a passion, you should pursue it however you can – 1 course at a time for the rest of your life if need be. Taking the first step will fill you with longing for the next, no? As for the money issue. I get it. It helps that he has a great plan and that I’m working as we go but I know a lot of families who are doing similar things in a lot of different ways – savings, work abroad programs, real estate investments, etc. I think the key is not to think of it as a huge trip but one flight at a time. Don’t let $ hold you back your dream. Give somethings up and put those $$’s towards your trip. Get involved with couch surfing etc. Don’t know where you are but buy a ticket on sale and go someplace. I wait for sales to buy tickets to London. Lovely explanation, Heather, and I am so excited for you all. We’ve taught our own kids similarly and now that they are young adults I am seeing them following their passions to live rich and interesting lives. I served almost 30 years in the Armed Forces. In 1993, a single parent, I was serving with the UN in the Middle East. I made the decision to take my son out of school for three weeks and we backpacked through Europe. It was one of the best things I’ve ever done – for both of us! I watched my son grow in so many ways and as a resulot so did I. And yes, my son’s school supported me in my dedcision.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
This is Big History. Big history requires students to examine big questions: • How has the Universe and life within it grown more complex over the past 13.7 billion years? • How do we know what we know about the past? • How can we judge claims about the past? • Why does what we “know” change over time? • How does what happened during the early days of the Universe, the Solar System, and the Earth shape what we are experiencing today? • Where does mythology end and science begin? • Why should we care about any of this? No, not the television show! The term Big Bang has become part of the standard scientific vocabulary, but it was first coined in the 1940s as a putdown. The idea that the universe actually had a beginning seemed just plain wacky -- especially since there was almost no evidence at the time to support it. Yet by the end of the 1960s, virtually all astrophysicists were convinced that the cosmos was born in a single massive explosion, and doubters were left out on the fringe. According to the conventional explanation, the cosmos began to expand and cool immediately after the moment of the Big Bang. For 300,000 years or so, the expansion continued, but enormous numbers of tightly packed, free-ranging electrons created a dense fog that kept light from shining: the universe was hellishly hot, but utterly dark. Finally, the electrons were incorporated into atoms, and the light broke free in a gigantic flash. Astronomers can still see that ancient light, known as the cosmic background radiation, although it has cooled to about -270 degrees C (-454 degrees F) and is visible only to sensitive radio telescopes. Yet the Big Bang theory remains essentially intact because it is based on three fundamental pieces of evidence, none of which can be accounted for by any competing model. The first is the cosmic background radiation: its evenness and the mix of electromagnetic wavelengths it contains can only have come about, as far as anybody knows, if the universe was once dense, hot and small. The second is the fact that the universe is expanding. Calculating backward, one easily concludes that all the galaxies must have come from a single point. Finally there is the fact that hydrogen makes up 75% of the matter in the universe and helium nearly 25%. These elements can only be forged in a furnace as hot as the Big Bang, and the proportions correspond exactly to what the Big Bang model posits. There's something to keep in mind: Theories are sometimes wrong. There ARE credible scientists that think the Big Bang Theory gets the creation of the Cosmos wrong. So the question is left begging. Is the Big Bang a modern form of mythology? Mythology is the study of stories exploring fundamental mysteries of existence, especially those pertaining to the following three questions: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? I borrowed these questions from Paul Gauguin’s painting of the same name, “Where Do We Come From? What are We? Where are We Going?” You'll have to think this one out for yourself...	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Many revolutionaries have cherished their dreams in remote mountain hideaways - but few with such peaceful intent as the nuns of Naro Photang nunnery in Shey. 50 nuns of the Buddhist Drukpa lineage are learning ancient skills forbidden to women for centuries. They've been allowed to do Kung Fu for two years now. But what's making these otherwise serene young women slightly nervous is the fact they're also now being allowed to perform the sect's sacred dances.At the Annual Drukpa Council this summer they'll be responsible for the venerable Dragon Dance itself. Bearing aloft and bringing life to five unwieldy golden beasts - aided by sticks, synchronized steps and an intricate drum pattern - is much tougher than it looks. Available with French and Chinese subtitlesFormat: DVD-PAL (All Region) Total running time of DVD: 26 minutes Price: USD 12.99 (excluding postage, which will be calculated based on shipping address) Email your order and shipping address to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and online payment will be made through PayPal. Or you can pay through PayPal now and we will bill you the postage (by standard Registered Airmail/you can request for other postage methods) separately. Under the tutelage of the nuns' Vietnamese Kung Fu master, Dang Dinh Hai, the nuns are already skilled at Kung Fu, a martial art previously reserved for monks. "Kung Fu helps us concentrate when we meditate," says 26 year old Kunzang, who left home to study here. "Secondly it helps keep us healthy and strong." "This is the kind of culture that the women come second," he says of Ladakh generally. "From a point of view of Buddhist teaching, it is perfectly okay to put them together - the men and women, on the same level." His Holiness has another revolutionary way of emboldening the nuns, which is to teach them in groups personally. That means that monks have to turn to the nuns, "to learn something that they have learnt from me". "So, if I may say, it's kind of a trick that I am playing," he says with a smile, "so that the nuns automatically will have a little bit of better status." As for the Dragon Dance itself, the 10 nuns who form each of the serpent-like beasts don't need extra strength - just the confidence that's sometimes elusive after centuries of exclusion. "Girls often come to me to be accepted as nuns, actually with a great deal of sufferings. They have sufferings within their own family... especially in our culture or in the Himalayan region." He pauses for the merest instant of reflection, "or maybe not only in the Himalaya region. I think everywhere in the world, women are a little bit looked down on, you know." After listening to His Holiness a while, you do begin to wonder what your own karma is. Kunzang and the Drukpa nuns themselves have now performed the Dragon Dance at the Annual Drukpa Council in Ladakh. We can report Dang Dinh Hai was proud of his pupils' performance - that the dragon never touched the ground, and that next year the nuns plan to perform other activities - for centuries reserved exclusively for the monks.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 I have the privilege of loving my native culture, Cuban everything, and yet being grateful for living in a land all my life where I was able to study and have an independent spirit. I came of age with The Feminine Mystique, but even before that, both my parents nourished my dreams and helped me pursue whatever path I chose. I grew up a free thinker and a challenger of what seems to me absurd. I remember, at about 7, living in NJ, pondering the Catholic class teaching that God would punish me if I stepped out of line, especially if I didn't swallow whatever story I was told. As a kid, it seemed to me: Well, God is Good. My dad is good. I would never fear my father's reaction to anything I did. His very intelligent sense of humor seldom let him get angry at me. My dad taught me kindness and understanding as a way to relate to others and he taught me the value of humor in gaining perspective. Here's an example I particularly love. At 18, a freshman in college, I'm home for a weekend. I'm telling my folks about my first semester and how I met this lovely Black guy who seems fun to get to know. My mother stiffens in her Spanish roots and says; "Pues, no se te ocure traer un Negro aqui que mates a tu padre." (Don't even think of bringing a Black man here, you'll kill your father.) Now my dad is sitting right there with us. I look at him, then I turn to her and say: "De algo se tiene que morir." (He's got to die from something.) I will forever love the memory of my dad totally cracking up, laughing. My mom was not pleased, but we thought it was so funny. When I ask myself how a supposedly loving father god can sacrifice to gory and early death, his only son, I can only say that the story supports a patriarchal paradigm in which the mother gives birth, but it's the father who makes the decisions and they usually involve bloody sacrifice. That never made sense to me. My dad would have said, no; if a sacrifice is demanded, take me. I asked myself at that early age, and all the way to the present, how can that be a god of Love? It's love with strings, love you earn by pleasing others and serving the rules. There are a zillion things in the big three patriarchal theologies that a person can do to piss the patriarchal god off, and women seem to get blamed and punished for most of it. The patriarchal gods do not ooze love, no matter how you spin it. With once exception, ironically enough, the young man who died on the cross, Jesus, (who was sacrificed to appease the Father) taught the most direct road to unconditional divine love that western Christian patriarchal civilizations have to offer. If you stick to his teachings, how can you have hate, war and greed? How can you have disdain for women; Jesus was a feminist. How can you have white supremacy; Jesus wasn't white. How can you be an asshole; Jesus was kind. Divine Love just is; it finds a way through most things and endures. It doesn't use fear, force, shame and coercion to exact allegiance. For millennia before the "his-torical" rise of patriarchies, cultures celebrated the Goddess as the creator of all things. It's patriarchal thinking that splits us into dualities and calls it reason; goddess religions weren't the flip side of god religions. A divine paradigm that honors the feminine doesn't dishonor the masculine; perhaps there was a greater awareness that what ultimately matters is spirit. What feeds ones spirit is not what one feeds ones body, although one does feed the other. If our ancestors were more aware of themselves as spiritual beings, perhaps there was a common social paradigm based more on a circle than on a pyramid, cooperation as opposed to conquer. Yet, history is the story told by the conqueror, a spectacular example of this was just set by the US Senate recently. Despite three accusers and his own bad behavior under oath, including perjury, the light shines on the chosen patriarchal son who will carry the torch of righteousness to the highest court in the land. Patriarchy is the paradigm where any male of any color, rules over women of their own race. It also includes a hierarchy of supremacy based on race. At this patriarchal juncture in time, the white race believes itself dominant, and the white male bastion of patriarchy in America are trying to set American women's personal power back a few centuries. We've had it better than most, but the paradigm they are trying to tighten around us is going to hurt, unless we can change things. To change this paradigm, we don't have to flip it so that women do what men would do, matriarchy is the patriarchy's idea of ancient goddess religions. Thanks to the work of excellent archeological scholars in the last century, we know goddess cultures did not promote the same psycho/cultural paradigms we endure today enslaving our bodies, minds and souls. We live in a time of expanding spiritual consciousness that has it's sister parallel in quantum physics. Science and spirituality today are opening doors to mind boggling possibilities. Dreaming is the door I most enjoy exploring, but the fields of exploration beyond the border of patriarchal sanctions are as intriguing as they are numerous. One example is in medicine; Functional and Alternative practices that are mainstream now offer paths to healing that include spiritual concerns. As beings of light living in physical bodies, female or male, we survive way beyond this particular physical manifestation we're living in a body right now. We don't have to earn salvation, we don't need saving to begin with. We've been taught that because the first humans disobeyed the divine, we are born in "sin." This is one of the doctrines that gives patriarchies the psychic reins to rule us, but it's a made up story. Spirituality isn't a club the way religion is; spirituality is awareness of the multi-level nature of existence in the physical. For example, by day we live in waking consciousness, by night we live in dreaming consciousness. Paying attention to both is breaking from the paradigm that only waking consciousness matters. Breaking through our own false beliefs is part of a responsible spiritual journey. If your beliefs justify you judging others and considering yourself superior, let alone entitling you to limit another's freedom, you are deluded in your thinking by a myth that doesn't support Love. If you think that it's ok for men to tell women what to do, for God to be only male, you have bought the story and drank the Kool Aid. There is no divine right granted to males to limit the life choices of women, and there is no divine right granted to the white race to dominate and limit the wellbeing of other races. If we are, by nature, spirit residing in matter, immortal in a way that is beyond what any of the paradigms used to indoctrinate us suggest, then it behooves us to find out more and stop giving power to these toxic paradigms. Religion dominates at a psychological level, the state dominates at a physical level through force. When those two branches of patriarchy align themselves completely, wielding the law of force and psychological brainwashing, human beings do not do well. People get hurt, we lose our personal freedoms and choices and we lose our spirit, individually and collectively. The big three patriarchal religions love to champion men and shame women; the double speak they use to explain the rightness of this is mind boggling. They want us to believe that "sin" is a blemish on our existence, by sin they mean whatever they want. They've distorted our natural inclinations with taboos on our sexuality, creating a morality that usually ends up burdening women in the extreme, but that involves so much distortion of the human spirit that we end up with atrocities like the rate of child abuse in the Catholic Church, the church of eunuchs for Christ. And what's the myth underpinning this mess? God is a male patriarch, in the big three mainstream religions, he has no partner in the Feminine Divine; in fact, he takes a dim view of women, projecting all sexuality on them, as if it doesn't take two to tango. Men are just duped by women, so they should beware. Adam should never have listened to Eve because she listens to the serpent. From there the story deteriorates into the God who demands obedience and is willing to use shock and awe to enforce his rule. If my dad was so much better than that at parenting with love, how can God be anything less? My God was always Love, could take a joke and worked with you, on your behalf. Unfortunately, after more than 6,000 years of patriarchy, that's not the experience of so many growing up, but fortunately, things can change, if we believe they can. Love is love, it's a practice, not a doctrine. If I've known so many human beings capable of such great love, how can God be any less? In fact, Love is always urging us to be our very best selves. Love doesn't include treating any other living being as less valuable than me based on supremacy and force. I join William Blake in bemoaning war and it's cost to the young male gender. But patriarchy is the culture of war. If it's the form of social organization practiced world wide, the world order, there will be wars. It's obvious what has to change. Once you live in more than this world order, once you trust death and your own living path to it, once you believe in the power of Love to teach the way, in dreams and synchronicities and just plain human experience, you need a broader, happier paradigm to walk with spirit on this earth. Once we practice Love, each as much as possible, there won't be any need to follow absurd dictums that are detrimental to both the female and male psyche, not to mention the psyches of our children. There is no superior race or gender, there is only the human spirit. We probably, as spirit, have lived in both female and male bodies on this planet. The path Of Love never follows bitterness, anger and hate. The path never follows condemnation, subjugation and force. Ask Jesus; what would he say? Patriarchal religions suck. They are destroying the world. The multi-national cadre in power right now is worrisome in so many ways, but at their root, they really don't like or respect women. Example after example are blatant around the world, but the glaring moment right now is a bunch of old white geezers denying American women reproductive freedoms in the USA, the land of the free, especially the land of freedom from religious dogma ruling all. Sen. Kamala Harris's question to the Republican nominee for the SC says it all; "Can you think of any law giving the government power to regulate a man's body?" I don't want these wizened old patriarchs making rules that limit the freedom of women in my country. I don't accept their newspeak justifications. They can't plant the flag of theocracy, proclaiming what everyone must do to please Almighty God. Patriarchy is government by patriarchal mysogynists hell bent on controlling women and the surest way is to get God, the Father, to do it. Without the Feminine Divine, women are not equal in the culture; the more constricted women's role is in a culture, the more overbearing the patriarchal God, especially where her life choices are concerned, like her freedom of sexual and reproductive choice. Patriarchy is a very unhealthy organizing social principle. The good news is that it's a paradigm, thus, it is possible to change our individual and collective minds and thereby, change the paradigm. Same for planting the flag of privilege over others. We all came in the same spiritual nappies, we each manifested in an assortment of races, gender and places, but we'll all dissolve into somewhere else. Just like we all do so in dreams, regularly. There are so many wonderful mysteries that go so far beyond the dogma and the rigid rules, why should we waste another minute in fear and doubt? No one is in charge of me and I'm not in charge of anyone. I love to help, as does anyone who practices Love, but I'm also here to learn, to grow and to promote dreaming. I"m responsible for the state of my soul, just as for the health of my body and mind. I must do what I can for myself, especially my spiritual security, and for others, too. Another teaching of all the great mystics is that we are all one in spirit; if spirit is eternal, perhaps it's what enlivens everything, as native Americans taught. The Fall of the patriarchy would solve a lot of problems. I see the passion in women speaking out and stepping up more and more, everyday and it makes me dream that patriarchy may just fade away, lacking any sense, any rhyme or reason for continuing to be the way we do things. Women and men of spirit and character, with love and compassion, can figure out ways to bring things around. And if we don't succeed in our own lifetimes, there will probably be even greater opportunities to help once we've crossed; it doesn't end. What we choose to create, we can create, here "as it is in heaven." Monday, June 4, 2018 Here's a waking dream for you. Perhaps you've had the experience of shepherding a loved one through a close brush with death; that's the card I drew from luck's deck this week. How blessed am I to have a family support system that includes a Functional Med doctor for a brother? How blessed am I to live a block and a half from a small, clean and professionally staffed hospital? How blessed am I to have loving friends who care for Jim and went out of their way to support us through this crisis? My neighbor, Lou, mowed the lawn on Sunday; it was music to Jim's ears. A brush with death is one thing, a loved one's brush with death is another. I've been in a state of bliss that Jim didn't have to cross over at the moment, then this synchronicity yesterday: I deposited Jim safely at home from the hospital and took off to do errands, like food shopping for his post-op diet. I'm leaving Trader Joe's, walking towards my parked car in the lot when I notice a tall, thin blonde woman is walking practically lock step with me. She's mumbling about how she can't find her car, "I absolutely am coming down with Alzheimer's; oh, where's the car." I ask if she has a remote that beeps the car shut, a tactic I've resorted to on occasion. "No", then she points to a big black jeep next to my small black VW and says, "there it is at last". Before she gets in, she turns to me and says; "You see, my husband very recently died suddenly." I was stunned. I said, "My husband very recently almost died suddenly," but she didn't hear me and I didn't pursue it. She so obviously wanted to tell me about her experience that I let her. I listened and comforted for a little while, then she got in her car and I got in mine. All the way home I feel I'm living in this waking dream, my husband almost died, but he didn't. It's not the dying that's the problem. If you've ever read my posts on death and the healing dreaming can bring those left behind in the physical, you'll know that I think death is nothing to fear, especially if you've lived with as much love in your heart as possible. (If you're a mean jerk, I presume your habitat after death will be a community of fools like yourself. I think we gravitate towards what and who we love, so the stronger, broader and more courageous our love is now, the more exciting the crossing into the non-physical dimensions of our spiritual/energy existence.) Jim is a kind and caring person; this is his second near death experience since I've known him, and I'm pretty sure he doesn't fear death either. Separation? "Ah, there's the rub." How much better for me that he's here with me! The stark contrast to my widow shadow woman in my waking dream at TJ's just fuels my hallelujah! This synchronicity confirmed for me that I'm never alone, one way or the other, one path or the other; I can depend on help to be there for me. I feel luckier than she because my partner didn't die, but there's help for her in her love for him, and his for her; as she told me, "He would want me to take care of myself." Tuesday, May 29, 2018 One of the best things I've learned from following my dreams for over 30 years is that I'm my own authority when it comes to me. There is no need to give my soul into another's care; she's my responsibility. Contemporary patriarchal religions claim they will save my soul. She doesn't need saving, save from them. I'm a spiritual being having a physical existence; dreaming is the bridge between the realm of my spiritual being and the physical realms "I" dwell in now.Why would I give anyone authority over my soul? So much of what these religions espouse denigrates woman, that's what's damaging to my soul, my psyche. It's damaging to the male psyche, as well. Myths we've imbibed since childhood, especially when we're parked in "church" and religious studies early on, endure at an unconscious level. One example is the psychically imbedded patriarchal myth that woman is the patsy of all evil, "woman born of the rib of man" (go figure), Eve; she who crossed an arbitrary line and wham, all Hell literally breaks lose. There's also the patriarchal Greek version of this dumb, trespassing woman, Pandora. Those myths are a heavy burden on womankind. Religions like Catholicism, Orthodox Judaism and most Islamic sects from what I can tell, see women as threats to man's ultimate spiritual sanctity. His Holiness the Man can be sullied by her unholiness, the woman, therefore justifying her pitiful place in the pecking order of His patriarchal society.The Good News is I don't need religion because dreams teach me the most profound and the most practical lessons, in a custom tailored narrative. I follow my dreams in the most literal sense. In this way, I live twice as long, in both the spiritual and physical worlds at once. This allows me to replace belief with experience. I don't believe in life after death, I know life after death is the next stage of my own and all physical adventures. I trust my own spiritual experiences in dreams to assure me and sustain me in waking life.Dreams guide me through my experiences in waking life, too. As I say in my bio on this blog, they've helped me, comforted me, disabused me of illusions, scared the pajamas off me and lent me strength. They teach in amusing, often kind ways, though sometimes, they're heart thunderingly scary.Along with dreams, there's synchronicity, dubbed that by Jung to describe the psychic phenomenon of "acausal connections." Castaneda's Shaman teacher, Don Juan, calls it "Agreement. It's that wonderful thrill of recognition we experience when life's physical events echo our inner worlds, especially the dream worlds. I see it as another bridge between waking and spiritual life. It's that deja vu feeling; or as Robert Moss has pointed out, it's probably really Deja Reve. When something from the dream worlds manifests in waking, it's also an affirmation that there is guidance and support available from other dimensions. I live in more than just this physical reality; I walk a path in waking life and I walk a path in dream realities. I pay attention to both. From my dream path, I know I'm not alone. I know I am loved, connected and assisted; dreams allow me to explore the mystery of existence for myself, which is how I take responsibility for my own soul. My soul is an eternal reality, so it's my soul that seeks connection to me. It's my Soul who is saving me. My Soul or as some teachers refer to it, my Higher Self. I connect to my soul most strongly through my dream experiences.Dreams bring healing with them when we pay attention and respect them. Listening to our own dreams, seeking our inner guides first hand is a great adventure. If it seems like scary terrain, it might be worth getting a dream coach; otherwise, it should be as easy as riding a bike when we were kids. We all dream; pay attention, why not? It's an organic avenue to self awareness and self-loveHere's a story that illustrates the dream/synchrocity connection. I often have post dream teaching life synchros; they're like a huge hug from another world. I recently taught a workshop at a local university; a young woman shared a dream about seeing a dear sweet Huskie pup in desperate need of rescue and yearning to do something to save it. At the end of our Lighting Dreamwork process, she announced that she was definitely going to volunteer at her local animal shelter, as she had been wanting to do. The next day I'm at Petco for cat supplies and see that they're running a special adoption clinic event for dogs from some awful puppy mill, mostly pit bulls or similar breeds. The sight of those dogs in cages and numerous people there to adopt put me in mind of yesterday's dreamwork. The synchronicity really hit, though, when, standing in the check out line, I turn to see that the man behind me has a young, beautiful blue-eyed Huskie on a leash. Immediately the dog jumps, places his paws on my shoulders and stares into my eyes. Whoa! Deja Reve! I felt animal love so profound that, if that man hadn't already adopted him, that little boy would have come home with me. I did leave the store with those physical shivers of recognition that synchronicity induces; a kind of spiritual high-five.When I taught high school theology, I tried to apply the learning model that derives from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, (physical, security, belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization): we learn best by experience, second best by example and least best by being told. I still find that's true. Dreams are experiences, just like waking events are, experiences in my life. I don't need to be told what to believe. As Jung once cryptically said, I know. I know what I know, what I don't know, I've yet to find out. What you know is part of your story. We can share our stories, we can use our imaginations to place ourselves in another's dream scenario, but we cannot live a dream or a life for another. We each have our own path to follow; our own actions to live out in lessons and consequences. The best way to teach another how to understand dreaming is to point to the door available in their souls and show them how it opens. The worst way is to presume to tell someone else what their dream means.By way of convincing us to pay attention, pre-cognitive dreams are one of the most compelling dream experiences we can have. When a dream weaves itself into the fabric of my lived experiences, the next day, the next month or the next decade, I realize there's more to me than meets the I. I'm not alone; guidance is available to me through dreams. Something beyond this physical world makes sense, help is available, if I pay attention.So, I invite you to let your dreams guide you. All it takes is paying attention to your dreaming experiences. Even when dreams don't manifest in waking life literally, their symbols and scenarios are often vibrant metaphors for our waking experiences. Giving dreams space to exist in my life, as real as any other real I can experience, broadens my perspective on existence considerably. Most dreamers find this to be true; why not you? Wednesday, February 7, 2018 “It’s ok not to be ok” popped up in a meme on my FB page.It made me think of all the times I’ve heard health professionals teach about self-acceptance. Why should I need anyone’s permission to be who I am? To feel OK? Who set the standards for okayness? Society?The norms that bring us so much gun violence and so much divisiveness are in painfully obvious need of reinvention. American citizens are dealing with a hot mess, politically at home, as well as around the world; the hot mess male leaders insist on making perpetually. Boys with very dangerous toys! Or morally?That which is right?And who gets to decide that; the boys in black dresses with their ‘oh so special’ inside track to Nobodaddy? Who is your God?Patriarchy’s bloviating dictators who demand total allegiance on the pain of death and perdition, or Love, the greatest mystery we can know, the champion of our self-acceptance. I believe, as a spiritual being having a physical experience, each of us has her or his own inside track to morality. Our hearts teach us what is wrong and what is right throughout our lives, and that still inner voice Jesus pointed to, assures us we’re never alone.The Queen/Kingdom of God is within. Morality is my social conduct based on my spiritual understanding, which is based on my own experience, not some external law. My experience has brought me to the conclusion that Love is the Answer (LITA). Love is a force that very few people have never experienced, but plenty of people deny. Love is so much more than private ownership of a physical chunk of earth or another person. Love transcends the physical appearances of waking life, whispering in our ears at night.I AM Here with you; you are SAFE with Me.Look within. My spiritual evolution comes from dialogue with my dreams. Watching my dream life taught me to observe waking life in a similar way. I often experience how the magic of sychronicity and dream correlations meld my waking and dream experiences into a complete sense of Self. Because of dreams and dreaming, I have faith that however distressing life gets, collectively and personally, help is always available from the spirit, from those who love me on the other side, from Home.I have faith that goes from my heart to the Heart Divine.I’ve found grace, forgiveness and courage so many times in my dreams, and I know it’s a universal reality.Dreams are our bridge to spirit.Our breadcrumbs to home. If I feel not okay, it’s because I’m suffering from the expectations of me that come from outside myself.Rules, regulations, codes and enforcers are the hallmark of patriarchies. Our modern psyche is full of dread from too many years of brutal patriarchal rule.Granted, 6,000 years of warring father religions and rulers is nothing compared to where archeology puts us homo sapiens, 200,000 years of human cultures around the globe.It's time to admit that patriarchy is bad for the soul, the spirit.Angry Father Gods have got to go. Our earliest archeological records are of the veneration of the Mother Goddess and her Body, the Earth. The Venus of Willendorf, circa 29,000 BCE,is one of the few ancient Goddess images extant in the modern patriarchal era; goddess worshiping traditions were largely destroyed by centuries of patriarchal religious inquisitions.Goddess worshiping cultures weren’t necessarily matriarchal, they were, as Riane Eisler brilliantly presents in The Chalice and the Blade, cooperative societies. The Goddess spoke to me first in a dream, Howling Mary. Honoring the Feminine Divine doesn’t involve putting our old patriarchal paradigm on a female projection; it means accessing what’s been demeaned.Chief of all things to access is Love.Self-love, love of others and love for all things; love as a spiritual practice.There’s no doctrine for that; it’s a practice, just like dreaming is a practice with guidelines, but no rule book. Sunday, December 10, 2017 My cat spoke to me in a dream a few nights ago; I love it when that happens, when animals have a dialogue with me in the dreaming. It's always worthwhile to listen. It was kind of funny because, as in waking life, my old gentleman is hard of hearing, so I was speaking right to his face, so he could lip read and enunciating to be as clear as possible. He was telling me about his mother and father; I asked him to tell me more about his dad. I don't know if he heard me correctly, but he answered "fathers are important", or something like that. Of course it put me in mind of my own departed dad, how important he is in my life. From there, a host of other beneficial ponderings ensued. But how cool is it to hear an animal speak in a dream! I laugh because in the dream I thought he sounds a lot like me but in a lower register. Part of me is aware in the dream that it is all coming from me, for my sake. Talking animals are the stuff of fairy tales, and dreams. The fact that it's my beloved waking life cat conversing with me makes it even more thrilling. Sunny is the most psychic cat I've ever lived with, from the beginning he acted like he just read your mind. It's fun to have him show up with me in a dream, let alone talking. There's a trickster, but deeply divine energy to the wisdom animals impart in dreams. I collect my animal dreams in one file; I reread them often and value the energy and significance each one has gifted me from the dream lands. Different animals gift different energies to the dreamer they visit. I figure it's up to me to recognize the gift and honor it by paying attention and learning the lesson offered. Tuesday, November 7, 2017 I don't know if you've noticed, but the world is in a shit load of trouble. My best friend and partner, Jim, has taught me to distinguish between the world's situation and the people in it. The trouble is incontrovertibly, the people. The world, as Jim insists, is a beautiful place. Why are people causing so much trouble, so much suffering for themselves and every living thing around them? Could it be that the people are acting out of misguided beliefs? For all of recorded history, not to be confused with actual history, history is the story as told by the conqueror. The conqueror's rule, the conqueror's dictums, the story as the conqueror sees it. In a patriarchal paradigm, might makes right, strength is power and daddy knows best. Patriarchy conquered about 6 millennia ago; Homo Sapiens, our clan, have been around for about 200,000 years. Do the math; do you really think we came into our own only 6,000 years ago and sat around twiddling our thumbs before that? Archeological records suggest periods of human history resplendent with remarkable human works, and whats more, with respect for the Feminine Divine, God as Mother. Today, can we recognize a failed paradigm when we're living it? On this beautiful planet, patriarchal religions constructed the paradigm of violence and domination. For the six millennia of father rule, patriarchies have been one blood bath after another. The more rigid the tenets of the patriarchal belief structures, the worse women in that culture fare. Restrictions on everything female are a hall mark of these paradigms. "And he shall lord it over her" because she is at existential fault for all things evil. You can call her Eve, make sure she stays in her place or she will deceive and subdue you. But there was a time when we emerged, wide-eyed from our caves and proclaimed the Divine Mother. It was a simple deduction. Who gives birth? Who bleeds and does not die? The Great Mother is not Barbie dressed as the Virgin Mary; the Great Mother is the primal creative force of the Universe. The problem with problem paradigms is, as you think, so shall you do. If society can get us to accept absurdity as the norm, even the goal, through the crap they teach you is true, when it isn't, then that particular consensus reality can rule. Patriarchy is a physical earth consensus reality that I think is way past its use by date. Men don't have to feel threatened; they just have to open their hearts to the Feminine Divine, think with their hearts more and join the revolution. The opposite of patriarchy isn't matriarchy; the patriarchal paradigm rules by hierarchies and force. The opposite of patriarchy is balance - harmony, dance, and chill living. Anyone want to sign up for a new paradigm? Thinking is dangerously arbitrary; a paradigm that dictates inane, insane beliefs, especially about women for the benefit of men, also justifies the subjugation of one race to another. It all begins with the hubris to make rules that handicap to any degree the natural potential of a person, whatever gender, whatever race. Isn't it time we took stock of the wineskins into which we pour the truest elixirs of our soul? God is not male or father. God/Goddess is All. Light. Energy. Way too big for those tiny, stiff foreskins, I mean wineskins. Haven't you met the divine in your dreams? It doesn't always take the same form. Sometimes it's surprising or humbling to recognize our initial blindness to the shape the divine does take in our dreams, but when we become aware, we know it by the awe it inspires in us. Your divine and my divine will not manifest the same. Yet, from the time we're born, we're told god is Father, mighty, to be feared and to be catered to, regardless of how callous, cold and petty vengeful his actions often prove to be. Take the principal sacrifice at the heart of patriarchal Christianity, that of the only, the good, loving son who must die to settle a debt. How can a religion that claims god is love also insist that something so unnatural, horrible and cruel as demanding your own son's gory death to satisfy a sour tempered grudge is ultimately an act of selfless love for humanity? But then again, how many sons have been sacrificed in any of those bloodbaths that are just the way patriarchy rolls. Why has the Divine Mother been forgotten or relegated to the handmaid who'll do whatever the Father says? It is no accident, as I've written, but the question for today, for the 21st century is, how much longer is an untenable spirituality going to rule us? How much longer will people listen to religious babble and consider it the word of the one, almighty, all male, god? Isn't the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? If, as I've mentioned, our spirituality is as natural and individual to us as our bellybuttons, why not tune in to the channel you frequent every night and find out more about who you really are from your own direct connection? Does that mean that we share nothing? No, as it turns out, we soon learn that we share everything. We are One. Try seeing the divine in Mother as well as Father, equally; the yin and the yang is the great balance that makes life flow. Try keeping an ear to your own best counsel of your dreams so that you come to realize you live in more than one place at once; the dream world and the physical world are equally, if differently, real. Our differences are based not on physiology but on beliefs. It's our belief that separates one from another, sometimes breeding real hatred. Look at the racial hatred in vogue now; how stupid are these beliefs? Many people can concur that they are; then how stupid is the belief in one supreme, male deity who wants anyone who doesn't agree to die a horrible, long painful death and forever burn in putrid fires for eternity. Nice. Dreaming is just one avenue to the spirituality that can liberate us of old, mean and dangerous beliefs. I heard Neal Degrasse Tyson call his version, cosmic spirituality. We all don't have to arrive at the same conclusions nor follow the same paths; but we all have to find true balance so that we don't continue to rock the boat so violently ( the planet) on which our survival depends There is no mistaking Love. It doesn't restrict, punish nor demand. It flows with what is needed most for the wellbeing of the soul. Love is ineffable and best experienced directly, so why not tune in to your own connections and open your heart to greater possibilities? I didn't need to give up Jesus to give up patriarchal christianity; Jesus is the best feminist role model for men in patriarchal history. The divine feminine is equally important to our psychic health as the divine masculine. A divine masculine out of control is bad for you, a fact that history bears out repeatedly. For spiritual balance the divine feminine must exert equal influence in the human psyche and the cultures we create. Divine Love is a Dance. We're here to dance, or at least let our hearts do it for us. Tuesday, October 31, 2017 This is an important time of year for me; I chose to marry my dear man on October 31st. It's a sacred day to the earth religions, the pagans of the planet. It's the day of transition between life and death, autumn and winter, into the dark, the still, the cold, the lifeless. It's also a time to give thanks for the bounty of the summer's harvest. In pagan thought, all that dies will be reborn: Spring follows Winter; Life follows Death. Spirit doesn't die; it transforms and transitions from matter to energy, and back again - from here to there, and back again. Today, a friend spoke to me of her reservations about Halloween and all its hype. Someone very dear to her died on this date and the practice of dressing as scary ghosts and ghouls repulses her. Me, too. The dead are not ghosts and ghouls; among them, are our beloved. I shared with her the pagan understanding of Samhain, the Celtic holy day we now call Halloween, as the time in the circle of the year when the veil between the living and the dead is the thinnest, when we're even closer to those we love who've died to the physical, where we still reside. I celebrate my beloved dead at this time of year. I forgive them their trespasses and ask them to forgive mine. I know I'll see them, in dreams and most probably, after my crossing, so I strive to keep in touch. My relationship to both my departed parents has grown immensely through our continued interactions in the dreaming. All Hollow's Eve is a wonderful time to tune into the energy vibe of wishing those we love who've transitioned from the physical continued blessings on their spiritual paths and the assurance of our heartfelt love. It's also a time to let go of attachments to the dead that may cause us unnecessary grief. The veil is the thinnest for the benefit of both sides. I wish you healing dreams to help you connect to those you love across the divide we call death. Follow by Email By Way of Introduction I've had an active relationship to my dream life for over 30 years. I've experienced how they've helped me, comforted me, disabused me of illusions, scared the pajamas off me and lent me strength. I've been blessed with many great guides and teachers on both sides of the dream gates. One of my favorite contemporary waking life teachers is Robert Moss, whose work is a wonderful resource for dream explorers. I studied with Robert for a number of years; the video company I own with Jim Cookman, Psyche Productions, produced an eight program DVD series, "The Way of the Dreamer with Robert Moss" in which he teaches his Active Dreaming method. (www.psycheproductions.net or Amazon.) My undergraduate degree is in literature from the U of Rochester; I also have graduate training in psychotherapy and spiritual counseling. For over twenty years, I've taught dream play to a variety of groups of all ages. I'm sharing my thoughts with you on this blog in the hopes that it helps you establish your own dream dialogue.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Voluntary Recall Bellisio Foods, Inc., a Jackson, Ohio, manufacturer, is voluntarily recalling certain Michelina’s Fettuccine Alfredo due to the possibility some packages may contain undeclared chicken with soy that is not listed on packaging. People who have an allergy or sensitivity to soy may run the risk of serious allergic reaction(s) if they consume this product. The recall covers the following product: Brand Description: Michelina’s Fettuccine Alfredo Product Label: “See below for the product label” Code Date: J7305 UPC Number: 7 17854 10501 9 The Michelina’s frozen entrée identified above was distributed by Bellisio Foods to retail locations and distribution centers located in: Out of an abundance of caution and with an emphasis on consumer safety, Bellisio Foods is issuing this voluntary recall to ensure that consumers are made aware of the potential hazard. No illnesses have been reported to date due to consumption of this product. No other Michelina’s products are affected by this recall. Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase. Michelina’s® is committed to creating and improving our web content in order to be accessible to all individuals. If you would like to let us know how our site can be improved to be more accessible, please contact us at 1-800-446-5469.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Website policy We provide links to articles we think will be of interest to our supporters. We are sympathetic to much of the content of what we post, but not to everything. The fact that something has been linked to here does not necessarily mean that we endorse the views expressed in it._____________________ Europe steps in as Israel holds back revenues for Palestinian Authority France has said it will donate €10 million to the Palestinian Authority following a recent Israeli decision to halt tax revenue transfers to the administrative organisation based in Ramallah. The announcement on Monday (9 May) comes shortly after a similar move by the European Union, with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad warning that his government was unable to pay employees. “The Palestinian Authority cannot pay the salaries for the month until the Israeli government transfers the money,” he told journalists. Israel announced the suspension of tax revenue transfers earlier this month, following the signing of a Palestinian unity agreement between Fatah and rival Islamist group Hamas in Cairo on 4 May. In Paris, French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero criticised the Israeli move, describing the Palestinian Authority’s “right” to have access to the funds. Shortly after the Cairo deal was announced, Israel called on the European Union to cut its funding to the Palestinian Authority if Hamas does not recognise Israel and “renounce violence”. But Brussels last week said last it would provide an additional €85 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority after Israel blocked the transfer of tax revenues, a controversial move that has also sparked criticism at home. Valero hailed the EU decision on Monday. “We consider that the current Palestinian government, under the leadership of Salam Fayyad, has presented all the necessary guarantees of transparency in public finances and good use of international aid,” he said. “We expect that any future Palestinian government will maintain these guarantees.” Europe has traditionally been divided over how best to tackle the Israeli-Palestine peace question, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy indicating that Paris may recognise an independent Palestinian state later this year. “If the peace process is still dead in September, France will face up to its responsibilities on the central question of recognition of a Palestinian state,” Sarkozy said in an interview with L’Express earlier this month. “The idea that there is still plenty of time is dangerous. Things have to be brought to a conclusion [before a UN gathering in September].” Germany, meanwhile, has stressed that it will not recognise a Palestinian state without Israel’s acceptance. The question has become more pertinent following the surprise signing of a unity deal between the main Palestinian factions on 4 May, after many years of bloody infighting between themselves. Brokered by the new post-Mubarak Egyptian government, question marks remain as to whether the deal will last however, with a similar accord struck in February 2007 in Mecca quickly unravelling.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
The price of going to college has skyrocketed—over 1,000 per cent in 30 years—faster as compared to price of inflation Numerous pupils and their own families must borrow cash to fund university. Education loan financial obligation in the usa now tops $1 trillion, and education loan financial obligation happens to be the 2nd form that	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Pat Grimm is not bitter about the timing of her window as a high school and college athlete. She could be. Grimm graduated from high school at Center Grove in 1967 and, four years later, from Purdue, the latter a year before Title IX was passed and eventually opened the doors for female athletes like Grimm who came later. Pat Grimm(Photo: Courtesy of Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame) Bitter? No. She smiles at the thought of her induction into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, though. “There will probably be more people watching me give my induction speech than ever watched me play basketball put together,” Grimm said, chuckling at the thought. The others inducted as players competed in girls basketball in the 1980s and ‘90s, after the Indiana High School Athletic Association crowned its first state champion in 1976. Names like Abby Conklin, the 1993 Miss Basketball from Charlestown who scored a then-state record for girls with 2,616 career points. Or Tiffany Longsworth, who led Kokomo to two state championships in the early 1990s and starred at Penn State. For Grimm, playing girls basketball in the 1960s was almost a different sport entirely. When she was in middle school, girls were allowed to dribble only three times before passing. In her freshman year of 1963-64, unlimited dribbles were allowed. But the girls’ game was still far different. There were three players on offense and three on defense who were not allowed to advance beyond midcourt on either side. A rule was later passed to allow each team to have two “rovers” who could play on either side of the court. “I was a rover,” Grimm said. “You were basically playing four-on-four on both ends of the court.” It seems archaic now. But that was girls basketball in the 1960s. There were no tournaments, no championships. Carol Tumey, who developed the first girls athletic programs at Center Grove and was the school’s first girls basketball coach, was allowed to coach the girls for one night a week – a two-hour block on Thursday nights when the gym was not otherwise occupied. Pat Grimm (left)(Photo: Courtesy of Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame) The girls used hand-me-down basketballs from the boys. During her sophomore season, they scheduled a game against Greenwood at the end of the school day. They got to halftime. “We came out to start the second half and the boys team took the court for practice,” Grimm said. “There was some discussion, then we went to Greenwood and ended up finishing the game at 7:30 that night because that was the only time we could get gym time.” Grimm led Center Grove to a 10-0 record as a senior in the pre-IHSAA days of the Girls Athletic Association, defeating programs such as Beech Grove, Greenwood, Franklin, Whiteland and Southport. Grimm, whose parents supported her athletic endeavors by putting up a basketball goal behind her house and attending all of her games, once scored 50 points in a high school game. “I was more of a point guard, though,” she said. “I was not a big shooter, really. I enjoyed passing as much as scoring but I was very quick. I could steal the ball and then thunder down to the other end of the court for a layup.” Women’s college basketball was essentially an intramural sport when Grimm arrived at Purdue in 1967. She certainly was not recruited. But she liked sports and ended up on the field hockey team, which led her to basketball. The team was allowed to practice three times a week and played its games in the “Co-Rec’ gym. “We felt lucky,” Grimm said. “We had to miss dinner those three nights we practiced, but it was worth it.” Pat Grimm (right)(Photo: Courtesy of Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame) Grimm had a part in women’s basketball history at Purdue, though she did not appreciate the significance until years later. In 1968-69, her sophomore year, Purdue was invited to play in the first women’s national championship tournament. It was a 16-team mashup at West Chester State in Pennsylvania, made up of teams of all different sizes and affiliations. It was run under the auspices of the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. Purdue lost its first game to Southern Connecticut State, then rebounded to beat Kentucky and Northeastern before losing to Towson State. West Chester, one of the early women’s basketball powerhouse programs, won the tournament with no game closer than 25 points. “Quite a year,” Grimm said. “We put a man on the moon, Woodstock and we played in the first women’s national tournament.” It was not until 30 years later, though, that Grimm came to appreciate her role in history. At that time, she was near retirement as a national sales manager for Finish Line. She had become a fan of Tennessee and coach Pat Summitt and secured tickets to the 1999 women’s Final Four in San Jose, Calif. “I always wanted to see Tennessee win a national championship in person,” she said. Tennessee had won the three previous titles, but was upset by Duke in the regional final. Purdue did make it, however. And when the Boilermakers knocked off Louisiana Tech and Duke to win the program’s first national title in women’s basketball, Grimm was brought to tears inside the San Jose Arena. “It could not have aligned any better,” Grimm said. “I sat in the stands and cried that night because I knew I was a part of it. They didn’t know it, but I did.” Grimm appreciates her place in history, even if there is little record of her accomplishments. Statistics from those years are hard to come by. She jokes that her Hall of Fame blurb will be half the size of those she is inducted with. But she appreciates that the Hall of Fame sought to recognize her all of these years later. “I would love to play now,” she said. “You get to practice and train. Just imagine how much better you could get with more practice. But at the same time, we were so lucky. There were women before us who never had that chance to play at all. We did.”	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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DiGRA 2015 The next major DiGRA conference to take place in European soil will start tomorrow in Lüneburg, Germany. There are several interesting dimensions to this year’s event, including its chosen theme on “Diversity of Play” and the research papers that highlight the multiple phenomena that bound together games, cultures and identities (sometimes in problematic, as well as constructive ways). Myself, I will be e.g. celebrating the original Level Up conference (2003; see the re-opened website), chairing the “From Game Studies to Studies of Play in Society” panel (related to our “Ludification and the Emergence of Playful Culture” research project), and talking about Finnish games and game cultures in the “Video Games Around the World” session (based on a new book of the same title). See you soon in Germany! The conference program is here: http://projects.digital-cultures.net/digra2015/files/2015/05/digra_program_final150504.pdf.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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I just realized that the one year anniversaryfor this blog, Shanimuni Paradise (originally VERY BEAUTY), passed exactly a month ago! My first post was August 24th, 2007! One year of people bitching at me for not agreeing with the norm; one year of changing my views on everything twenty times; one year of discovering really hot JE boys; one year where my life has been significantly busier than ever before; and one year of massively expanding my Asian pop culture horizons~ And almost 50,000 views strong! So yay me! Rant with Friends: Like this: Today my blog broke 3,000 hits. I know probably for most of you, that’s nothing, but it is to Kibum! (If you’re not a SuJu fan, that’s reference to their movie, Attack on the Pin-Up boys where DongHae and Kibum are amazed that Kibum’s blog has 3k hits). Today alone I got about 170, which again, may not be a ton to you, but that’s more than I’ve ever had in one day. I really, really appreciate that you guys are reading and the few of you that comment. <333 Especially because I have absolutely no writing talent (I’ve read over some of my stuff… its total crap compaired to everyone else) and foremost above all else that even though I voice some very strong and contradictory opinions that upset a LOT of you (ahaha all the hateful comments <3), you still come back and read more. XD;; I have no idea why, but thank you for doing so. So please continue to visit me! And once again, thank you sooooo so sos so much for your support!!!!!	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
NARRATOR: The mirrors in this room come from a series that Koons titled Easyfun. SCOTTROTHKOPF: You see each of these mirrors takes the form or shape, silhouette, of a cartoon animal, and is rendered in a bright, almost Life Saver like color, candy colored tones. When you look at yourself in these mirrors, you’re distorted a little bit like in a fun house. That distortion in a way relates to me to Koons’s own presentation of himself in the earlier Made in Heaven work. But here it’s a way of cooling down, of coming to terms with oneself, of having a pause from the extreme imagery in the previous gallery. NARRATOR: Koons intended the Easyfun works as a kind of release valve for himself, as well. Made in Heaven and the scandal it had provoked had wreaked havoc on his personal and professional lives. He had also run into difficulties with a project that we’ll encounter upstairs, called Celebration. It proved technically exacting, expensive, and extremely time-consuming. Easyfun and the next project, Easyfun-Ethereal, gave Koons a lighter, more improvisational way of working during this period.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Received 7 paper copies of Amicus brief [25] filed by State of Arizona. Received 7 paper copies of Amicus brief [25] filed by State of Arizona. 2/11/2014 Court Streamlined request [29] by Appellants Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Wildlands Council and Sierra Club to extend time to file the reply brief is approved. Amended briefing schedule: the optional reply brief is due 03/14/14. 2/11/2014 Court Filed (ECF) Streamlined request for extension of time to file Reply Brief by Appellants Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Wildlands Council and Sierra Club. New requested due date is 03/14/2014. 2/10/2014 Court Received 7 paper copies of Amicus brief [22] filed by NRA, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc., and Safari Club International. Filed clerk order: The answering brief [19] submitted by USFS is filed. Within 7 days of the filing of this order, filer is ordered to file 7 copies of the brief in paper format, accompanied by certification, attached to the end of each copy of the brief, that the brief is identical to the version submitted electronically. Cover color: red. The paper copies shall be printed from the PDF version of the brief created from the word processing application, not from PACER or Appellate ECF. Streamlined request [15] by Appellee USFS to extend time to file the answering brief is approved. Amended briefing schedule: Appellee United States Forest Service answering brief is due 01/29/2014. The optional reply brief is due 14 days from the date of service of the answering brief. 12/11/2013 Court Filed (ECF) Streamlined request for extension of time to file Answering Brief by Appellee USFS. New requested due date is 01/29/2014. 12/5/2013 Court Filed Appellants Center for Biological Diversity and Grand Canyon Wildlands Council paper copies of excerpts of record [11] in 2 volume(s). Filed clerk order: The opening brief [11] submitted by Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Wildlands Council and Sierra Club is filed. Within 7 days of the filing of this order, filer is ordered to file 7 copies of the brief in paper format, accompanied by certification, attached to the end of each copy of the brief, that the brief is identical to the version submitted electronically. Cover color: blue. The paper copies shall be printed from the PDF version of the brief created from the word processing application, not from PACER or Appellate ECF. The Court has reviewed the excerpts of record [11]submitted by Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Wildlands Council and Sierra Club. Within 7 days of this order, filer is ordered to file 4 copies of the excerpts in paper format, with a white cover. The paper copies must be in the format described in 9th Circuit Rule 30-1.6. [8881845] (GV)	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Media Resources Share Comment We drink it, swim in it, and our bodies are largely made of it. But as ubiquitous as water is, there is much that science still doesn't understand about this life-sustaining substance. For example, unlike almost all other compounds, which typically shrink as they get colder, water expands when it freezes — which is why ice floats on water. Yet even the reasons for this unusual fundamental property remain elusive. Now an MIT doctoral student and a team of researchers have carried out new experiments supporting a controversial theory about water's behavior that could help explain some of its mysteries. Their findings, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could have important implications for fields ranging from biology to construction, the researchers say, because the behavior of water affects so many important processes. In this video clip, Yang Zhang PhD '10 demonstrates supercooled water, a key aspect of this research. An ordinary bottle of spring water was kept in the freezer overnight. Because it was kept still, the water reached a temperature well below the freezing point, but the water didn't freeze because it had no nucleation centers — such as ice crystals, bubbles or ripples — to start the freezing process. Then, when the bottle is subjected to a sudden impact, the shock wave causes almost all of the water to freeze instantly.Video: Yang Zhang Water is "probably the most weird substance on Earth," says Yang Zhang PhD '10, lead author of the PNAS paper, which was based on his doctoral thesis research. "It behaves very differently from other materials," he says, with scores of anomalous characteristics. The work was done in collaboration with Zhang's doctoral supervisor, Sow-Hsin Chen, professor in MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and six other co-authors. All materials undergo phase transitions between the basic states of matter — solid, liquid and gas. At these transitions, a material's properties can change significantly and suddenly. A theory proposed about two decades ago explained some of water's odd behavior by suggesting that a similar transition may take place between two different liquid states, in which the arrangement of the water molecules changes so that the two states have very different densities. The new research, which probed water's molecular structure under a wide range of pressures and temperatures, provided some evidence for the existence of this liquid-liquid transition, though the evidence falls short of proof. Evidence for this posited transition has been very difficult to obtain because it occurs only at temperatures and pressures at which water normally could not exist in liquid form: For instance, the temperature at which the liquid-liquid transition may occur lies far below the normal freezing point, at about minus 60 degrees Celsius. So the researchers had to find a clever way to get around that limitation. One key trick: the use of tiny tubes of silica, in which the molecules of water were tightly confined so that they were unable to crystallize into ice. This tight confinement made it possible to maintain water in liquid form far below its normal freezing point. With the water molecules in this state, Zhang, now the Clifford G. Shull Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was able to probe their density using a neutron beam from a reactor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In the experiments, he gradually varied the pressure from normal sea-level atmospheric pressure (or 1 bar) up to about 3,000 times that amount, and varied the temperature over a range of 170 degrees Celsius. He found a difference in water's density by approaching the expected transition temperature from opposite directions, as predicted by the theory. Pablo Debenedetti, a professor of engineering and applied science at Princeton University who was not involved in this research, says "these are beautiful experiments" that address "one of the most interesting open questions on the liquid state of matter, and in particular on water: the possible existence of a phase transition between two distinct phases of liquid water." While the experiments support the theory, he says, interpretation is complicated because confined water might behave differently from water in bulk. "The theoretical tools needed to unambiguously relate observations in nanoscale confinement to the behavior of bulk water are not available at present," he says. "Supercooled" water that remains liquid below the normal freezing point is relatively easy to produce; Zhang even filmed a short demonstration using an ordinary water bottle cooled in the refrigerator. Water can also be "superheated" in a microwave oven to well above the boiling point, flashing to a boil all at once only when it is disturbed in some way. (In both freezing and boiling, water usually needs a nucleation point, such as a bubble or a ripple, to trigger the change of phase.) Because water is key to so many aspects of people's lives, these phenomena could have important consequences. For example, Chen delivered a keynote speech this July, at a conference on low-temperature agriculture, on the possible impact of these supercooled states on plant life. He believes the fact that living organisms apparently cannot be revived after being subjected to temperatures below about minus 45 C is explained by water's transition to a lower-density state that prevents proteins, the molecules on which living organisms are built, from functioning. This density difference could also affect construction, because concrete contains tiny amounts of water that can cause buildings and roads in polar regions to suffer serious cracking when temperatures plunge below minus 45 C. If the theory is correct, this critical temperature could set a fundamental limitation for both organisms and concrete buildings. "The building blocks of our bodies and the building blocks of our society," Zhang says, "both have a lower limit of temperature that is based on the properties of water." But by understanding those limits, he says, it might be possible to alter the water — for example, by dissolving certain chemicals in it — to change the transition points and lower that limit. Comments shrox July 24, 2015 Almost 4 years later, and I am the first to post on this interesting subject. SSS July 27, 2015 If water condensed ,like nearly all other substances, life would end on our planet. Ice would form on the bottom of rivers and lakes and fish would not swim and live. Could there be an intelligent designer behind this? Why are scientists so afraid to consider the existence of the Creator?	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
AMD Radeon HD 7790 Arriving This Week @ 2013/03/19 It looks like AMD isn't waiting till the end of March or early April to launch its Radeon HD 7790 performance-segment graphics card. According to a 3DCenter.org report, the new graphics card will launch this week, either on Thursday or Friday, and that press-samples of the card have already shipped out. Based on the brand new 28 nm "Bonaire" silicon, the HD 7790 is expected to capture a price-point competitive to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 650 Ti, around 135€. NVIDIA isn't sitting idle, and is planning a GTX 650 Ti refresh of its own.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Pen Hope sat there with the pen in her hand while Steffy bragged about Liam. She looked at the pen and thought about stabbing Steffy with it. It was very tempting.She was so sick and tired of Steffy trying to ruin her life. "So you want to get along now Steffy?" Hope walked up to Steffy and stabbed her in the eye. "Merry Christmas Bitch!" Hope walked out of Ridge's office and enjoyed the sound of Steffy screaming. "That felt so good." "Hope." Hope opened her eyes. Rick was standing before her with a look of concern on his face. "Are you okay?" Hope looked down and saw the pen in her hand. She noticed Steffy walking out of the office. "I'm fine." A small part of Hope was disappointed that it was just a dream but she knew that she wouldn't stab someone in the eye even if it was Steffy. By Barbara Desmond Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }

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