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The Oyo State Government says its decision to revoke the 26,000 hectares of forest reserve land allocated by the immediate past administration was in the interest of the state.
Briefing newsmen on Tuesday over the revocation, Kehinde Ayoola, the state Commissioner for Environment and Natural Resources, said the allocation was illegal and not for agricultural purpose as claimed by the past administration.
According to Ayoola, the administration of Senator Abiola Ajimobi illegally allocated 6,000 and 20,000 hectares to individuals at Gambari in Oluyole Local Government Area and Opara in Oke Ogun area of the state.
Ayoola said: “Their claim was that the allocations were for agricultural purposes but you cannot see any farming or other agricultural activities going on in any of the areas now.
“It is very unfortunate that the administration that was supposed to preserve forests in the state to fight against global warming was depleting them.
”Forests are essential in the management of ecology of our state in that they assist in fighting global warming.
“Forests also contain plants with their roots binding the soil together to ensure that there is no erosion, so to avoid ecological disaster, you need forests.
“Nations throughout the world look into their reserves or even increase the size of their forest reserves.
“So it is ungodly for anybody to do anything that would reduce the size of our forests or to take such for themselves.
“The present government will do everything to secure and protect its forest reserves and also take steps to expand its forest resources.
“The public should be made to know that we are on course to access significant grants from the United Nations for the development of our forest resources under a programme called REDD Plus – Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Degradation.
“The REDD programme is in the second phase and Oyo didn’t apply during the first phase.
“The team for the REDD was in the state last week for the selection of three states out of seven states competing for the grants.
“You can now see how the allocation of such forest reserves to individuals would be and work against us on the REDD grants.
“That is why Governor Makinde takes serious exception to looting of our patrimony.”
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Peking Duk truly redefined what it meant to have a breakthrough year in 2014. The Australian electronic duo became overnight sensations off the strength of their mega-single ‘High’, which the followed up with the equally mammoth ‘Take Me Over’.
Countless sold-out gigs and prestigious festival spots soon followed the Canberra pair, whose mums know them as Reuben Styles and Adam Hyde, and if their recently unveiled tour video is anything to go by, the duo was getting up to some serious partying whilst on the road.
Now commanding a status as Australia’s premiere party-starters, we decided to get in touch with Adam to get the honest scoop on what it takes to throw an unforgettable party. These are essential tips so make sure you bookmark this page the next time you’re throwing together a shindig.
Do: You want to cater to every part of the spectrum, genre-wise and style-wise, so you’re going to want some sexy, slow music; you’re going to want some upbeat, energetic music; you’re going to want some rock; even some pop.
You know, some cheesy pop throwbacks always go down a treat or not even cheesy pop, I’m talking like Aaliyah or Timbaland, that sort of vibe, the ’90s R&B thing. You’re going to want some old-school hip-hop, some of those New York vibes, maybe some Wu-Tang in the mix.
Also maybe some Tommy James & The Shondells, get it nice and sexy, turn the lights down low. Then you can turn it up with some new trap, some of that Future, Young Thug, Atlanta trap music. Maybe some Jamie xx, get the room nice and hazy. You can take it to a lot of places.
Don’t: As for what you want to avoid, I’d probably say Mumford & Sons. Avoid Mumford & Sons at all costs.
Do: Much like the music, you want a mix. You want a mix of a lot of different personalities, that always makes for a good night. Say you’ve got one dude that’s very straight edge and another that’s wild as all hell, that’s a good mixture.
And if you’ve got a really good girl that never really parties and then you’ve got that wild girl who knows how to turn up, that’s a good mixture.
Don’t: Avoid anyone with bad vibes. Anyone that’s not about having a good time can get the fuck out of there.
Do: I love being at a party, personally, where everyone’s dressed up to the nines, that’s always fun. But by the end of the night, it starts getting a bit hazy and some clothes may come off or may not.
I’d like to throw a party where the dress code is wear whatever you want to wear. That could be a suit, that could be a costume, that could be complete nudity, if need be.
I think in order to have a good party and everyone to be in the right vibe they should wear whatever they’re most comfortable in.
Don’t: You should ban those really corny graphic print T-shirts from Cotton On and shit like that. Oh, and TapouT clothing, TapouT clothing is a no no.
Don’t: The One Day boys threw a little shindig during Splendour and they had a very beautiful bar with every kind of alcohol you can imagine. So I thought I’d dip into a little bit of all of it and that was definitely a no-no, because I ended up pretty much not being able to see, but you learn from your mistakes.
Do: Me, personally, I enjoy shots of tequila and then vodkas for the rest of the night. If I just mix those two, I’m fine. But if I start on red wine and then hop onto something else and something else, I’m fucked.
In the morning, you’re gonna wake up with a big headache. So I’d say have the bar full with everything, because you’re gonna have different guests from all different walks of life that like different things. But just remind everyone that they should stick to a maximum of two things.
Do: Usually there’s a couple shots of tequila, some good music, and a good crew. That’s usually the ritual, which usually just leads to getting really, really drunk and rocking up to the party really drunk.
But we’ve learnt to tone down and not drink so much before the party and enjoy ourselves at the party instead. You don’t want to overdo it beforehand, we’ve learnt that many times.
Don’t: When we first started DJing in Canberra, we used to do some wild shit before we went on stage. We learnt that it’s not a good idea to go too hard before you go on. You want to enjoy yourself.
We had one of the nightclub owners in Canberra sit us down and have an intervention with us and it was a good wake-up call, so shout out to… uh, I won’t mention any names.
Do: You’re gonna want big, massive, comfy couches; you’re gonna want a designated dance floor area; you’re gonna want a bar, just a little one, even just a long bench to set drinks up, I think having a bar there is a good vibe; you’re gonna want some soft lighting and maybe even some coloured lighting in the corners, nothing tacky, but I think hazy lightning is a good vibe.
Don’t: You probably don’t want really, really bright lighting at a party, that’s definitely never a vibe.
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Last year saw the City of Chicago reportedly post the fewest homicides since 1965, and the Second Amendment Foundation says one plausible explanation for at least part of the decline is because criminals can no longer be certain that their intended victim is not legally armed.
Since SAF’s landmark Supreme Court victory in the 2010 McDonald v. City of Chicago case that nullified the 30-year-old handgun ban in the city, increasing numbers of law-abiding citizens have obtained firearms for personal protection, noted SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb.
“For three decades,” he said, “street thugs essentially enjoyed a risk-free environment in the Windy City. That changed, thanks to a series of court victories stemming from SAF’s win in the McDonald case. That forced the city to enter the 21st Century and rejoin the United States where the right to keep and bear arms is protected by the Second Amendment.
“Surveys have repeatedly revealed that predatory criminals fear armed citizens,” he added. “Just the thought that an intended victim might be armed, and willing to fight back, tends to discourage some of these outlaws.”
ABC News reported that the city saw a 16-percent reduction in crime overall last year. There were 415 homicides, which was 88 fewer slayings than the city logged in 2012.
“Improved police work is certainly a factor, and no doubt a number of slayings involved people with criminal backgrounds, themselves, who are no longer victimizing the community,” Gottlieb observed. “However, it cannot be discounted that with the restoration of gun rights in the city, there is a deterrent factor that did not exist for many years under the virtual ban on private handgun ownership within the city limits.
“One thing about criminal predators is that they don’t want to risk getting shot by an intended victim,” he concluded. “Now, with legal concealed carry coming to Illinois thanks to SAF’s victory in Moore v. Madigan, this sends an even stronger message to criminals that it may be time to change their lifestyle.”
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In comments to this post below, there’s disagreement about whether anything can simultaneously be both rubbish and nonsense. I maintain that it can’t: that something can only be rubbish if it is coherent, and anything incoherent is nonsense. That’s how I learned this vocab from my friend Martin, and I’m sticking to my guns.
On the other hand, I see this morning that Lenin agreed with my critics, and that in Chapter Six of Trotsky’s classic work, The Stalin School of Falsification, he is quoted as saying that something was “nonsense and pathetic rubbish” and that “it is a shame and disgrace to waste time on it”. So if there are any readers of the Stoa who are happy to let some of the Great Bearded Leftists of history decide technical points like this one, they at least can be satisfied that the dispute has been settled.
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287 people wounded (59 of them by gunfire, according to Foro Penal), over 50 detainees (according to the National Assembly) and at least 14 people murdered is the balance left from a day marked by the violence of the Armed Forces and paramilitaries (colectivos), who fired even against a hospital in Santa Elena de Uairen. In Ureña, they went as far as to arrest Civil Protection officers who were tending to the wounded.
#ÚLTIMOMINUTO | 26 funcionarios de Protección Civil Táchira, incluido el director Jaiberth Zambrano, fueron detenidos en Ureña y San Antonio cuando prestaban servicio de asistencia a los heridos. 5:40pm #23Feb
— Christopher Abreu (@AbreuReport) February 23, 2019
GRAVE cuánto ocurre en el hospital de #StaElenaDeUairen varios muertos,muchos heridos y las tanquetas de la GN disparan contra los ciudadanos que se encuentran en el centro asistencial
— Americo De Grazia (@AmericoDeGrazia) February 23, 2019
In Santa Elena de Uairen, besides the wounded and the four murders, they even suffered a blackout. The testimony of a young man at the Simón Bolívar bridge sums up a key idea: “There’s a blockade to buy food and medicines, but they do have money to buy tear gas, pellets and bullets.”
#23Feb A esta hora (5:40pm) han atendido a 24 personas (en su mayoría con heridas por armas de fuego) en el hospital de Santa Elena de Uairén.
Cuatro (4) fallecieron:
– José Fernández (40)
– Emir Barreto (26)
– José Hernández (24)
– Uno sin identificar pic.twitter.com/754mNxJNx7
— Germán Dam (@GEDV86) February 23, 2019
Santa Elena de Uairen sin electricidad, el Sebin reprimiendo en el hotel donde están los diputados y en el hospital. Y sin embargo, los peñones aún tienes retenidos a los militares, incluidos generales, que capturaron
— maria eugenia este (@meste48) February 24, 2019
The ship that sailed from Puerto Rico with humanitarian aid received direct threats of fire by the Venezuelan military which forced them to change course, and two trucks with humanitarian aid were burned down at the Francisco de Paula Santander bridge by National Police officers.
ALERTA: Barco con Ayuda Humanitaria, proveniente de Puerto Rico, recibe amenaza de fuego por parte de una fragata de la Armada.
Esta embarcación trae más de 200 toneladas de Ayuda Humanitaria, su tripulación es civil y su único propósito es llegar a Venezuela para salvar vidas pic.twitter.com/hWWr4OypWN
— Juan Guaidó (@jguaido) February 23, 2019
Despite the danger, there were volunteers who helped save the supplies and medicines on those trucks, how brave the people at the border has been! so much so, that many accompanied each soldier who decided to defend the Constitution to cross to Colombian territory.
Voluntarios tratan de salvar carga de ayuda humanitaria incinerada por la Guardia Bolivariana#TvcucutaNews #cucuta #tienditas #ayudasHumanitaria #venezuela #AyudaVenezuela #colombia #guaido #maduro #frontera #23feb #tvcucuta #tienditas #gnb #guardia #ejercito #envivo pic.twitter.com/vV2nLoGidq
— TvCucuta (@TvcucutaC) February 23, 2019
Actualización 6pm (Colombia): 61 miembros de las fuerzas de seguridad del Estado venezolano huyeron hoy de Venezuela por la frontera con Colombia. La mayoría son miembros de la GNB, otros de la Armada, Ejército, PNB y FAES pic.twitter.com/sqd12NYgp5
— Raylí Luján (@RayliLujan) February 23, 2019
Dancing to indifference
Ignoring all the violence that he ordered against citizens and unconcerned by the serious balances that were well known by the time of his speech. Nicolás announced that he broke all sorts of political and diplomatic relations with Colombia and set a 24-hour deadline for Colombian officials to leave the country: “Get out of here, oligarchs! Out with the oligarchs, enough already!”. In his narrative, Colombia has offered its territory to plan an alleged attack against him, that’s why he said that President Iván Duque is the devil, not without explaining that “his face is like a little angel’s (…) I’d squeeze those cheeks.” Nicolás once again challenged caretaker President Juan Guaidó to call for elections, opening the way for all the diplomacy that demands not to escalate violence, which is, however, only exercised by the offering usurper; yesterday, he threatened to imprison any Venezuelans who protest and confront his security forces to try and get the humanitarian aid into the country: “Come to jail, any rioter on the street will be jailed!”, he said before claiming that he’s already getting ready for the carnivals, before dancing with Cilia the mute, fulfilling his ritual of disregarding the deaths that he orders while he moves his fat and sweats his mustache.
Courage at the border
Last night, caretaker President Juan Guaidó said: “Today you’ve seen the worst face of a regime. Today the world saw for hours the worst face of the dictatorship.” Guaidó explained the members of the Armed Forces that they owe no loyalty to someone who burns food before the hunger, that they don’t owe obedience “to someone who sadistically celebrates that humanitarian aid is blocked from a country that needs it,” adding that Nicolás has taken the worst path: crime and extermination by action or omission. He also explained the “sad faces” mocked by several chavista spokespeople like Diosdado Cabello and Jorge Rodríguez, and asked them: “Do you celebrate the death of Venezuelans?”. Guaidó asked the coalition of nations that support him to keep all cards on the tale and a announced that he’ll attend the Lima Group meeting on Monday. “The change is irreversible,” he said and added that yesterday, the lie about the military invasion was laid bare. Yesterday’s events clearly show who believes in violence, who exercises it in cold blood and who enjoys it.
Violence is censorship
The National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) and the NGO Espacio Público made an important coverage of all attacks suffered this Saturday by journalists, photographers an cameramen, which ranged from attacks against the hotels where they were staying, going through stolen equipment and belongings, threats, harassment and coercion, to erasing the recorded material, to even gunfire. The attacks were committed by State security officers and by paramilitaries, the latter of which with the most disproportionate use of firearms. There are journalists wounded by pellets and other projectiles; some suffered asphyxia (like most protesters) due to the effect of tear gas; and Swedish journalist Annika H. Rothstein was detained by paramilitaries, who stole her equipment, beat her and threatened to kill her. The released her after two hours. Also, CANTV blocked the webpage of El Tiempo de Bogota and Conatel blocked TV stations.
Today I had a taste of what Venezuelans have gone through for over two decades and it was terrifying and humiliating and I hopeif nothing else these tweets can help the world see what Venezuela is suffering under and in some small way contribute to an opening of eyes.
— Annika H Rothstein (@truthandfiction) February 24, 2019
Movements on the board
U.S. security advisor John Bolton said: “Masked thugs, civilians killed by live rounds, and the burning of trucks carrying badly-needed food and medicine. This has been Maduro’s response to peaceful efforts to help Venezuelans. Countries that still recognize Maduro should take note of what they are endorsing,” adding that the actions of the Armed Forces to incite violence against peaceful civilians won’t be forgotten.
Any actions by the Venezuelan military to condone or instigate violence against peaceful civilians at the Colombian and Brazilian borders will not be forgotten. Leaders still have time to make the right choice.
— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) February 20, 2019
Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo explained they’re making preparations for the entire diplomatic staff of his country to return as soon as possible, after Nicolás’ expulsion, also making him responsible for any attack of disregard for their officials’ rights.
— Cancillería Colombia (@CancilleriaCol) February 23, 2019
Col. Jacaúna, chief of operations of the Brazilian Army in Pacaraima, said that Venezuelan soldiers invaded their territory, saying that the government will take diplomatic measures.
Coronel Jacaúna, chefe de operações do Exército em Pacaraima, disse que militares venezuelanos invadiram o território que tecnicamente é do Brasil, na divisa. Considerou uma “agressão” e defende que o governo tome “medidas diplomáticas”.
— Matheus Schuch (@MatheusSchuch) February 23, 2019
Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela said that Nicolás’ attitude is reminiscent of Noriega’s last days. “This time, international pressure must increase to achieve a peaceful, democratic and Venezuelan solution,” he wrote, also expressing his support for Juan Guaidó.
La actitud de Nicolás Maduro nos recuerda los últimos días de Noriega. Esta vez, la presión internacional debe imponerse para que se logre una salida pacífica, democrática y venezolana. Nuestro total respaldo al Presidente interino @jguaido y al pueblo venezolano.
— Juan Carlos Varela (@JC_Varela) February 23, 2019
The Peruvian government expressed its utter condemnation for the blockade against the access of humanitarian aid as well as for the violent repression and attacks against human rights. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said that “humanitarian aid partially managed to cross into the country, and it was very necessary; not all the aid got in, and that’s painful,” saying later that the fight continues. Argentina’s Mauricio Macri renewed his support for Guaidó and for “the National Assembly’s efforts to accomplish the arrival of necessary food and medicines to alleviate the suffering that Maduro has imposed on his own people.”
Una vez más renuevo el apoyo de Argentina al presidente encargado Juan Guaidó y a los esfuerzos de la Asamblea Nacional para lograr que lleguen los alimentos y las medicinas tan necesarios para aliviar el sufrimiento que Maduro ha impuesto sobre su propio pueblo
— Mauricio Macri (@mauriciomacri) February 24, 2019
Last night, Colombian President Iván Duque joined the statements made by Guaidó and OAS chief Luis Almagro, and said: “The dictatorship in Venezuela might appeal to violence to prevent the arrival of humanitarian aid, but today, they’ve sealed their moral defeat, their diplomatic defeat.”
#Cúcuta La dictadura en Venezuela podrá apelar a la violencia para evitar que llegue la ayuda humanitaria, pero hoy ha sellado su derrota moral, su derrota diplomática. Y ha quedado claro para el mundo que por más violencia que intente, Venezuela recuperará su libertad. pic.twitter.com/mDzbO4AVdy
— Iván Duque 🇨🇴 (@IvanDuque) February 24, 2019
Nicolás insists on the possibility of living a military confrontation that will turn him into a victim, that will clean his broad slate as a victimizer, the same one who savagely increased yesterday. It’s another vile gamble that we’ll pay in lives, in the lives of the most vulnerable, children, people with malnutrition and patients without medicines. We must remain steady and balance our expectations. It’s only been a month since Juan Guaidó took his oath of office (although it feels like a year) and with the possibility that such a dark day could erase what we’ve accomplished, let’s not fall into despair; the epic has been ours and that’s why chavismo hasn’t stopped making serious mistakes, including the cruel murder of unarmed citizens. Let’s honor our dead and hold on to our goals.
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Road Classifications base on location and function and has many categories. Road transportation is the main thing in modern times worldwide. Roads make the main income for economic development and growth. They are very important to make a nation grow and develop.
It provides access to employment, social, health and education. For this reasons, the road is the most important of all public assets. Roads help in the transportation of each and everything. These roads are of many categories base on needs.
Road classifications are of two main categories. They are,
Rural roads in the country classified into six major categories. They are,
- National Highways
- State Highways
- Major District Roads
- Other District Roads
- Village Roads
Expressways are divided highways use for heavy traffic at high speed with full control. It connects major places of traffic. Slow moving traffic, walker, Resting along the roadsides, loading, and unloading activities are not allowed in Expressways.
The design speed of Expressways is 120 km/hr. Expressways are of four-lane and six-lanes.
2. National Highways
The National Highways runs through length and breadth of the country. National Highways represents as NH. It connects capital of large states, like, Major ports, large-scale industries, factories and tourism centers. They provide continuous road connection throughout the country. And connect the whole road network.
3. State Highways
It connects the national highways to states. It connects the important places within the state. State highways connect towns, important cities within the state. State Highways represent as SH.
4. Major District Roads
It connects major district within states. And provides a link between national highways and state highways. It connects important areas of production and the consumption, railways, and harbors.
5. Other District Roads
They provide a link between village roads and other district roads. It connects rural areas with market centers.
6. Village Roads
It connects a group of villages within districts.
It connects urban areas. They perform three main functions like mobility, accessibility, and parking. Urban road classifies base on location and function. Some of the main classifications are as follows,
- Collector Streets
- Local Streets
It is mainly for the purpose of traffic distribution. It distributes traffic throughout areas. And minimize overcrowding. The maximum limit of these roads is 80km/hr.
It also serves the purpose of traffic sharing. It shares traffic throughout areas with a lower level of Arterial. The maximum speed limit of these roads is of 60 km/hr.
3. Collector Streets
It collects and shares traffic from local areas to streets. It provides access to arterial roads. The maximum speed limit of these roads is of 50 km/hr. Roadside Parking and loading and unloadings allow here.
4. Local Streets
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Air compressors have many applications in a craft brewery — from keg washing and assembly line processes to bottling beer and plain old power tools. Ingersoll Rand (IR) is a famous brand that has been manufacturing compressors since the 1800s. It’s had a keen eye on the craft brewing market for a while, and it touts tailored solutions for a brewery’s many and varied processes. The company just released two new air compressors for light commercial businesses like small breweries — both with energy and efficiency in mind.
The RS11-22kW and RS15-22kW are the first compressors in the Next Generation R-Series. The RS15-22kW unit includes premium features like a fixed-speed or variable speed drive (VSD) motor, which allows the unit to operate at different speeds for different products and industrial processes. Of course when it comes to compressors, it’s all about the airend, right? Well the RS15-22kW debuts a brand-new IR airend design that produces 20 percent more airflow compared to previous Ingersoll Rand compressors. That means big energy savings. The RS11-22kW on the other hand houses a redesigned cooling system to increases energy efficiency up to 12 percent compared to those legacy UP6 compressors. To the press release!
“The RS11-22kW and RS15-22kW compressors give smaller commercial businesses the efficiency and reliability of industrial-grade compressors, in a package that meets their unique needs around footprint and total cost of ownership,” said Kevin Kosobud, Contact Cooled Portfolio Leader, Ingersoll Rand.
Let’s dig into the systems and specs, shall we?
What was once an upgrade is now standard on the RS15-22kW ie and ne models
- The ne (VSD) unit is rated to operate efficiently in temperatures up to 115 degrees Fahrenheit.
- V-Shield technology enhances repeatability. Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) stainless steel-braided oil hoses and O-ring face seals mitigate the risk of oil leaks and pressure loss throughout the compressor system.
- RS15-22kW Total Air System (TAS) packages feature a three-phase dryer, which only requires one power input for the entire system. This saves the expense of a separate power line and simplifies setup. The dryer also has two power settings. The first mode runs continuously to ensure consistent, dry air. The on/off mode helps customers save energy costs based on air demand.
- RS15-22kW controllers have Progressive Adaptive Control (PAC). PAC is a unique algorithm that monitors key performance parameters to indicate when parts require maintenance or if temperatures reach the maximum temperature threshold. The controller automatically adjusts the equipment parameters to keep the machines running efficiently.
Manufacturers can customize compressors based on their unique requirements and operating conditions
- TAS: Both systems are available as TAS packages. TAS compressor packages include air treatment equipment inside the units which provide clean, dry air in an all-in-one package.
- Drain Valves: Customers that purchase RS11-22kW units will have a timer drain included. Electronic no-loss drain valves are available as an upgrade for RS15-22kW compressors. These components automatically drain water from a system.
- Outdoor Modification: Storing equipment indoors isn’t always an option for space-limited facilities. The outdoor modification option protects sensitive electric components from moisture and debris. With this rating, compressors can operate in temperatures between 35- and 115-degrees Fahrenheit.
- Low Ambient: When temperatures dip below-freezing it impacts system efficiency. The low ambient add-on feature includes internal heaters to prevent condensation from freezing.
- Cooling System: This innovative, free-floating system allows heat exchangers to expand and contract to reduce thermal stress. It also increases efficiency and system durability.
- Phase Monitor: The phase monitor prevents a compressor from starting up if it’s wired incorrectly, which protects the motor from crashing.
- Power Out Restart On (PORO): If a compressor loses power, operators can rest assured that their equipment will automatically turn back on with the previously-defined settings.
- CARE Service Programs: Ingersoll Rand offers a full suite of service programs that support Next Generation R-Series compressors. PartsCARE agreements provide customers with five years of additional coverage on their compressor’s airend. The program sends scheduled maintenance reminders and delivers genuine OEM parts to keep equipment running at peak efficiency.
- Both RS11-22kW and RS15-22kW units are available with a 120- or 240-gal air storage tank and include Xe-Series controllers.
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Researchers are warning users about a wave of recent attacks targeting U.S. financial institutions that leverage a new banking Trojan dubbed IcedID.
The IcedID Trojan was spotted in September by researchers at IBM’s X-Force Research team. They said the Trojan has several standout techniques and procedures, such as the ability to spread over a network and the ability to monitor a browser’s activity by setting up a local proxy for traffic tunneling.
“At this time, the malware targets banks, payment card providers, mobile services providers, payroll, webmail and e-commerce sites in the U.S.,” researchers wrote in a report released Monday explaining the discovery. Two U.K.-based banks are also targeted by the malware. | <urn:uuid:fd7e9339-087f-4eea-b144-4e9d33cb108f> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.criticalinfrastructureprotectionreview.com/news-november-2017/new-icedid-trojan-targets-us-banks/ | 2020-09-30T17:54:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.950587 | 155 |
Budgie Toys No.266
Express Delivery Sidecar Outfit
Issued 1962-64 Length 108mm
Third of the Motorcycles using the same bike casting as Nos.262 & 264 was No.266 Express Delivery Sidecar Outfit but for this model Budgie made a few changes.
First, the all-in-one motorcycle casting was painted in metallic gold or metallic silver including the handlebars. Next the tin-plate faring was discarded in favour of a cast metal upper section which included the seat, fuel tank and front and rear mudguards. Coloured mid-blue whether the bike was gold or silver (although the shades of blue varied), this gave the Express Delivery combination a bright and fresh appearance.
The unpainted wheels and black plastic tyres were the same as those used on the previous models. Similarly, the black plastic rider with painted helmet, gloves and face was the same although for the Express Delivery the helmet was usually silver.
Attached to the motorcycle was a red box-type sidecar with a lifting lid. On the front was cast 'Express Delivery'. The fixing onto the motorcycle was a stronger method than that used for the Racing sidecar, mainly because the sidecar wheel was the same size as those on the bike which enabled a single rear axle to be used for both bike and sidecar. The only id., as with the previous models, was a small 'Made in England' on the right side of the motorcycle.
No.266 Express Delivery Sidecar Outfit was in production for a couple of years and apart from the gold or silver motorcycle, there were no variations. Only one type of box was used (A9).
It is not a common model but often those which can be found are in nice condition. The silver bike is more scarce and the box is hard to find.
Budgie No.266 Express Delivery Sidecar Outfit
All models had BLUE upper section, RED sidecar, BLACK plastic rider with silver helmet,
unpainted metal wheels with black tyres, A9 box
1) METALLIC-SILVER engine
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Tipsy Records returns in full force to kick off the last leg of the summer season with their latest release \”Wrong\” produced collaboratively by talented up and comers Montis and Afreaux. Back with another memorable vocal tune, these two producers land the ideal combination of catchiness, and uplifting production. Topping off the winning formula is a singalong style chorus perfectly delivered by vocalist Eloy Smit.
This pop infused beat is sure to not only get you into a groove, but also singing this summertime anthem well through the season\’s end. Let this tune kickstart your weekend with some positive energy by grabbing the limited free download via The Tipsy Tortoise now! | <urn:uuid:058267e1-42e8-4a13-87f9-339909a82488> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.edmchicago.com/new-release-montis-afreaux-wrong-feat-eloy-smit/ | 2020-09-30T17:34:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.917904 | 148 |
The Egg Industry Center Research Grant Program has a goal to encourage high quality egg-related research at academic institutions in North America. This program is funded through the Egg Industry Center Endowment Fund, which ensures research resources remain available long-term for the egg industry.
Our highly competitive proposal process selects research projects based on scientific merit and relevance to current or emerging issues in the egg industry. EIC's Research Grant Program policy is to not pay indirect (i.e. overhead) costs or faculty salary and fringe benefits; however, EIC does allow submission of proposals that include salary and fringe benefit support for post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduate students and technicians, as appropriate.
The center is excited to continue to expand the variety of scientific solutions this research is discovering, and to help share that information with all who are interested in learning about it.
"The vision for the Egg Industry Center grew from the realization we had to sustain the ability to research the essential questions facing egg enterprises." - Kevin Vinchattle, former Iowa Poultry Association CEO
|Award Year||Pre-proposals Received||Awards Granted|
*Targeted RFP topic: Avian Influenza
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This section seeks to describe the land registry function within the overall conveyancing process together with any other services provided outside its core registration service.
1. How many stages are there in the conveyancing process?
2. How many other agencies/departments/registers etc. must be dealt with or checked prior to signing a legal transfer or mortgage?
3. Who is responsible for dealing with other departments/agencies?
4. At what stage of the overall conveyancing process is your organisation involved (i.e. from the time a person contacts a notary or a professional to act on their behalf on the acquisition of the legal title to the final act of registration)?
5. Is any or all of the conveyancing process dealt with electronically?
6. Is any or all of the registration process dealt with electronically?
7. When a deed/document or land registration form is lodged for registration, what is the general procedure involved in registering the effect of the deed?
8. How many stages are there in the registration of title process?
Please give examples for the following e.g. registration of a (1) transfer of all property, (2) mortgage (3) change of ownership on death where the estate has been administered if applicable (4) registration of right of way (5) transfer of part of property.
9. What kind of entries are in your system?
Describe their main features.
10. What is the average time taken to register a (1) transfer of all property (2) transfer part property (3) mortgage/charge?
11. At what level in the organisation is the final decision to register a title made?
12. To what extent are registration decisions in your country taken by a person with a professional qualification? What is that professional qualification?
13. If registration decisions are not taken by a person with a professional qualification, how are they taken?
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Gaylen D. Johnson
Gaylen Derold Johnson, 76, of Kanawha, passed away Monday, January 24, 2000, at the Kanawha Community Home.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, January 26, 2000, at 1:30 PM at the Lutheran Church in Kanawha, Iowa, with Pastor Keith Sievers officiating. Burial will be in the Amsterdam Township Cemetery in Kanawha.
Visitation will be Tuesday, January 25, 2000 from 5:00 – 8:00 PM at Ewing Funeral Home in Kanawha and will continue one hour prior to services at the church.
Gaylen was born on February 27, 1923, to Carolton and Adina (Hefte) Johnson on a farm west of Belmond. He attended country school.
On November 6, 1943, he was married to Delores Sturgeon in Belmond. He worked at Farmers Grain Company and for the City of Belmond and then moved west of Kanawha, where he farmed for 14 years. Then he worked at Winnebago Industries for four years and as parts manager at Broshar Implement until retirement. Gaylen was an active member of Kanawha Lutheran Church. He enjoyed bowling but his real love was to take Delores dancing.
Gaylen is survived by two daughters, Angela Strege and her husband, Kevin of Bakersfield, California and Andrea Mallen of Mason City and her special friend, Denny Honsey, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; one son Todd Johnson of Buffalo Center; one daughter-in-law Sherry Johnson of Kanawha; five grandchildren, Travis and his wife, Sue of Grimes, Chad of West Des Moines and his fiancee, Steph of Belmond, Jade of Clinton, Mitchell of Buffalo Center, Jacey of Britt; one great-grandson Drew; three sisters, Edith Shahan and her husband, Stanley of Ames, Carol Christenson and her husband Earl of Forest City, and Wilma Friesleben of Belmond; three brothers, Dudley Johnson and his wife, Janice of Kanawha, Arland Johnson and his wife Barbara of St. Johns, Newfoundland; and many nieces and nephews.
Gaylen was preceded in death by his parents, wife Delores, Thursday, January 20, 2000; one son, Tony Johnson, one great-grandson Jordan Chase Johnson, and two sisters, Laura Simon and Aileen Johnson. | <urn:uuid:da350428-432f-40c8-b4f4-633657116d7f> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.ewingfh.com/obituaries/gaylen-d-johnson/ | 2020-09-30T17:42:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.969398 | 505 |
The distance separating the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific in time and space is short, as little as 50 km and around 3.5 million years. This separation has resulted in very different oceanographic settings and coral reefs on both sides of the Central American isthmus. On our Central America cruise we focus on the Pacific coasts of Panama and Costa Rica where there are opportunities for seeing some of the corals during snorkeling outings.
Eastern Pacific reefs are smaller and more dispersed than their Caribbean counterparts. The absence of fossil reefs on the Pacific coast of the Americas may have been due to several factors such as changes in temperature and cooling due to intensified upwelling and warming during El Nino events. In Central America's past geologic history, there was also a period of large shifts in sea level, and so most eastern Pacific coral reefs are late starters (with growth beginning less than 2,000 years ago).
Corals themselves are small marine animals related to jellyfish and anemones which feed on plankton (microscopic plants and animals) and other suspended food particles with arm-like tentacles feeding a centrally located mouth. Most hard corals also host symbiotic algae, in a long-standing and successful partnership. Algae provide the corals with food through photosynthesis, and in turn, corals secrete hard calcareous (aragonite) exoskeletons, giving them structural rigidity. These colonial "hard corals" form elaborate finger-shaped, branching, or moundshaped structures and can create masses of limestone that stretch for tens or even hundreds of miles.
Coral reefs have been termed the "rainforests" of the ocean and are typically restricted to relatively shallow, warm tropical waters between latitudes 30 north and 30 south and require constant temperatures (77- 85° F/25 – 29° C), water clarity (for photosynthesis to take place) and minimal sea level change; all three of these requirements are difficult to find on the Pacific side of the Central American isthmus because the water in the Eastern Pacific is rich in nutrients that have been brought up to the surface from the deep sea, is often very green with algae and has variable water temperatures. Off Costa Rica there is a strong tropical thermocline (temperature gradient), and in Panama, episodic upwelling is caused by winds blowing across the Panama Isthmus from the Caribbean side. However, there are protected pockets where corals thrive, and some of the areas with coral reefs are on our Central America cruise itinerary; we know where to find them.
Reefs are ecologically important ecosystems and have a high biodiversity that serves as a storage bank of rich genetic resources, and none know better than researchers working around the island of Coiba, Panama. Coiba’s unique location has given rise to an extraordinary biodiversity in its marine life. In the past, this area had an ancient connection with the Caribbean Ocean, as evidenced by related species found in both bodies of water; it is presently situated where several ocean currents mix, both warm and cool, consequently harboring life forms from both, and is home to corals, tunicates, sponges, bacteria, and fungi that are proving to be rich sources of information about natural chemicals. The cyanobacteria—also known as blue-green algae—have yielded Coibamide A, a compound extremely active against cancer cells, named for Coiba. Veraguamide A, an anti-cancer compound named after the Panamanian province of Veraguas and Santacruzmate, an anti-parasitic compound named after the island, Santa Cruz. Recently, scientists from Panama and the U.S. working together have discovered a total of 45 new chemicals that show great promise as cures for cancer and a wide range of tropical diseases.
The undersea life off the shores of Coiba are unparalleled, and on our Panama and Costa Rica cruise we make time to explore the undersea world, one of the world's most fragile and endangered ecosystems.
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Prepare yourself for the best Adventures! This amazing 5 days Tanzania Safari Adventures Package take you to the outstanding wildlife parks Tanzania has to offer, amazing sceneries and natural natures.
We give the opportunity to explore four famous nationals’ parks in northern Tanzania like the Lake Manyara which is the seventh-largest lake of Tanzania by surface area, at 470-square-kilometre, home to flocks of thousands flamingos and different species of birds.
(NB:If you are looking for your own custom itinerary, we can arrange according to your preference and liking, just talk to our expert and we can take you through the whole process and make your itinerary the best possible. Don’t be shy we would love to hear from you today.)
Please arrive by 07:00 AM for a prompt departure at 7:45 AM
Approximately 6:30 PM
.All meals and accommodations during the entire safari
.A very high quality safari land cruiser with pop up roof
.Highly experienced safari guide
.Unlimited mineral water during the entire safari
.All park fees for all the national parks
.All government taxes
.Drinks at the lodges
.Any other things not mentioned above
Day 1 Lake Manyara / Nature walk
After breakfast, you will drive to Lake Manyara national park for a game drive with picnic lunch. In this small but very beautiful park with dense forest you will have opportunity to see lots of monkeys, giraffes, elephants, impalas, dik dik, flamingos in the lake and if you are lucky you may spot the rare tree climbing lions. In the late afternoon you will continue to Eileen’s trees inn for dinner and overnight.
Day 2 Ngorongoro Crater
After an early breakfast, depart with picnic lunch and drive to Ngorongoro crater for a game drive. Animals in the Ngorongoro crater include prides of lions, clans of hyenas, packs of jackals, a crashes of hippos, dazzles of zebras, herds wildebeests, bulls of elephants often with increadibly long tusks because of the highly nutritious grass rich in minerals, and may more animals. It is also the best place to spot the rare black rhino. In the late afternoon you will continue Serengeti Osinon camp, a small luxury camp located in the heart of Serengeti national park. You will have a hot shower to keep you fresh again after the African massage (the bumpy and dusty drive), then meet your guide at the fire place for a cold beer and story swapping. In a clear night you will have opportunity to learn about the African night sky as you wait for your dinner. Hyenas and lions are often heard roaring as you seat from the fire place that gives you unique experience of African night in the wild. After your diner you will be escorted by Maasai worriers to your rooms for overnight.
Day 3 Serengeti National Park
Wake up early in the morning for a cup of coffee/tea and snacks then collect your picnic breakfast and depart for game drive. Animals are normally seen right from the camp and in the early morning you still have chances to see them active. Serengeti is the park with the largest concentration of big mammals in the world and it is where you will see most of your exciting wildlife. The sightings in the central Serengeti will include prides of lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, giraffes, hippos, impalas, dik dik, monkeys, baboons, gazelles, warthogs and many more. You will return to Osinon camp for hot lunch and a short siesta, then depart for another game drive in the afternoon. In the evening again you will seat with your guide at the fire place and get some information about Tanzania from the pre-colonial time to independence until now. Dinner and overnight will be at Serengeti Osinon camp.
Day 4 Serengeti National Park / Tarangire
After breakfast you will have morning game drive in Serengeti national park. In the late afternoon continue to Eileen’e trees in at Karatu for dinner. After dinner you may wish to go out with your guide for a drink in a local per to have fun with the local people. Overnight will be at Eileen’s trees inn.
Day 5 Tarangire National Park / Departure
After early breakfast you will drive to Tarangire national park for a game drive. This park has the largest concentration of elephants, often seen bathing in the Tarangire river, lots of giraffes, monkeys, impalas and many birds. It is also one of the best places to see lions, leopards and lions. In the late afternoon you return back to Arusha for your departure/continue with own arrangement. | <urn:uuid:6bd8cd4d-a046-473d-8f86-c2eb3ec4cb4a> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.experiencezanzibar.com/tour/5-days-tanzania-safari-adventures/ | 2020-09-30T18:21:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.924135 | 1,028 |
Home Instead Senior Care commission an annual survey called PEAQ (Pursuing Excellence by Advancing Quality) which all clients, CAREGivers and office team members are asked to participate in.
We received very positive and encouraging feedback from everyone and are delighted to be voted so highly that we were recognised as a ‘4 star Employer’, Best Employers In Care Award for 2018.
Steven Frost, CEO of WorkBuzz (formerly smith+henderson), the awards organisers said, “We would like to congratulate Home Instead Senior Care Guildford and Woking as a 4 Star Employer. What makes this award extra special is it’s based on feedback from thousands of their CAREGivers and is only awarded to the top 10% of companies that enter the Best Employers in Care Awards. The care sector too often receives negative publicity – in contrast Home Instead Senior Care has a strong culture whereby CAREGivers have the right support and training; are well led and have a strong commitment to deliver outstanding care.”
We are always looking for more lovely, kind and compassionate CAREGivers to join our ‘OUTSTANDING’ Home Instead Senior Care team.
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Board Eligible or Board Certified Psychiatrist. All necessary
must be met to practice adult psychiatry in Oklahoma.
About Southwestern Medical Center
Southwestern is a 199 bed full service hospital with a comprehensive range of services and high quality care.
Southwestern is the oldest hospital in the region and was started in October 1907. Even from that early time, Southwestern has been an innovator in healthcare for Southwest Oklahoma. Southwestern has a history of firsts for both the state and the region. This started with the first hospital in Lawton (1906), the first school of nursing (1907), the first ambulance service in the area (1909), the first operating room (1907), the first OB services (1912), The first ICU (1959), the first cancer center (1992) and the first cardiac cath lab (1995), As you can see we have a proud tradition of being a trend setter and we continue that to today with the only CARF facility to receive a three year accreditation, the only facility in the area to receive Joint Commission accreditation as a primary stroke center, one of two hospitals nationwide recognized by The Joint Commission for Significant, Sustained Improvement, SWMC’s Sleep Services program is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) and is the only program of its kind in Southwest Oklahoma. Along with new technologies and new procedures, Southwestern remains first in Southwest Oklahoma.
Patient satisfaction, team member satisfaction, and responsibility to our community remain our focus. We strive every day to live up to our mission “to give you and your family exceptional service and quality care at all times.” and our vision “to be a place where patients want to go, physicians want to practice and team members want to work”
Becker's Hospital Review 100 best places to work in healthcare in 2013.
Oklahoma Top Workplace 2013
Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval
Joint Commission Certified Primary Stroke Center
CARF accredited rehab center
CAP accredited lab
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We need 2 volunteers
Malang is an education city and also one of the most popular tourist destinations in East Java. The temperature in Malang is generally cooler than most cities in Indonesia, but sometimes it can get hot too.
Our school has been working closely with volunteers from all around the world since 2014. We had volunteers from China, Japan, Ukraine, Germany, and Belgium where they were involved in various activities that we created for young learners. Through the program, our previous volunteers had the opportunity to introduce their country and their culture and at the same time learn about early childhood education in Indonesia. With our motto “learning is playing, and playing is learning”, this is truly a fun place to volunteer at!
We welcome volunteers from many different educational background and interests, so don’t worry about your degree. As long as you enjoy working with young learners (3-7 year olds), work hard, patient, care about the importance of education, willing to learn about early childhood education, and happy to share about your culture, you are the right person to join us
In general, volunteers will spend one week in each of our class (about 6-8 weeks long in total) observing how early childhood education is done at our school. Volunteers will act as an observer and an assistant to our teachers. In addition, we will give volunteers an opportunity in which they can contribute to the teaching-learning process with their unique skills such as foreign languages, story telling, fun cooking, traditional songs and dances from your country, games, sports, face painting, and so on.
So to put it simply, volunteers can think about what they can do well (for example playing a music instrument) and then think about how to elaborate it into educational activities for young learners.
Open for offers, contact us
We will rent a room or two for the volunteers. It is a kind of boarding house which rooms are for rent and it's very common in Indonesia. We choose the one within walking distance from our school so it will be easy for volunteers to reach us just in case they need help. We promise to help volunteers to ensure they have a decent and safe place to stay in.
We will also be providing food for volunteers. We normally calculate how much will be needed for food (3 meals a day for 6-8 weeks) with standard food price in Malang. So we will give the cash for food to volunteers. Volunteers can choose whether to buy ingredients and cook for themselves or just buy food. | <urn:uuid:ddf57fee-feef-4c8b-aa4d-cf0480bf514a> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.hovos.com/host/3998-Perfect-place-for-you-who-love-children-and-passionate-about-education-/ | 2020-09-30T19:10:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.969817 | 516 |
The GPN Revalidation Zone
The GPN revalidation e-portfolio, in partnership with HARTMANN, is available completely free to support you in meeting the NMC revalidation requirements. The e-portfolio can be used safely and securely to record any relevant revalidation activity (not just that associated with the GPN). The easy-to-use e-portfolio dashboard will show you at a glance the progress you are making towards revalidation.
Check out our video introducing the Revalidation zone.
Full details of how to use the system are set out below.
Accessible from both JCN and GPN, the Revalidation Zone dashboard will show you at a glance the progress you are making towards revalidation.
Also on the dashboard, you will be able to review each section of the revalidation requirements and check in on your progress.
Uploading information to your Revalidation Zone portfolio is quick and easy. You can store all the information the NMC requires, and upload supporting documents as you gather evidence.
When the time comes for you to revalidate, a simple click of a button will provide you with all your documents as well as a customised PDF of your information.
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Branding is incredibly important when you’re trying to build a new business. Sometimes, a company strikes gold on the very first try and their brand becomes instantly iconic. Other times, the name fails to register with customers and a return to the drawing board is required. This infographic reveals what 12 famous brands used to be called: from Pepsi Cola (formerly “Brad’s Drink”) to Nike (“Blue Ribbon Sports”). We think they made the right choice.
It’s important not to be too attached to your company’s name when you first go to market. While brand consistency has many benefits, there’s no point saddling yourself to a bland identity that nobody likes. The following companies all changed their names during their history – either to reverse flagging fortunes or to represent a change in services. With the possible exception of RIM, they all went on to bigger and better things after the name change.
If you’re considering a complete brand revamp, it’s comforting to know there’s a precedence for this kind of thing at the highest level. Whether your company’s name is too long, doesn’t describe your business properly or just plain doesn’t fit, it’s never too late to change! | <urn:uuid:bee846ba-4124-4ab0-943b-97bc4a2cdd73> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/12/12-world-famous-companies-that-used-to-have-rubbish-names-infographic/ | 2020-09-30T17:55:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.947748 | 272 |
Two researchers. Each looking at the same star. Stephanie Sallum (a UA graduate student) and Kate Follette (former UA graduate student now at Stanford University) were working independently of each other on their own Ph.D. projects. They were both observing LkCa15, a new star with a protoplanetary disk around it.
But LkCa15’s disk has a gap inside it. A relatively clear area where planets could be. And that’s what Sallum and Follete found. Despite being 450 light-years away from Earth and a dense, gaseous disk – the pair managed to capture the first photo of a planet in the making.
“This is the first time that we’ve imaged a planet that we can say is still forming,” says Sallum.
“No one has successfully and unambiguously detected a forming planet before,” Follette adds. “There have always been alternate explanations, but in this case we’ve taken a direct picture, and it’s hard to dispute that.”
Here’s the “direct picture” Follette is talking about.
Besides being a very young star with material left over from its formation, LkCa15 was a promising target because of what wasn’t there. Something had cleared the dust and gas from the star’s vicinity.
“It’s like a big doughnut,” said Follette. “This system is special because it’s one of a handful of disks that has a solar-system size gap in it. And one of the ways to create that gap is to have planets forming in there.”
How they captured this image
You might assume only a space telescope like the Hubble could capture this image. Nope, it was ground based telescopes. Sallum and Follette used the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) on Arizona’s Mount Graham to make the discovery.
LBT’s adaptive optics system helps the massive telescope overcome atmospheric turbulence. This mixing of hot and cold air gives you “a horrible-looking image,” according to Laird Close, a UA astronomy professor. “But it’s the same phenomenon that makes city lights and stars twinkle.”
Adaptive optics combined with new imaging techniques helped the researchers tease the crispest infrared images yet of LkCa15.
Using the Magellan Telescope in Chile, researchers were able to confirm what they saw with the LBT. Magellan also provided solid proof that it is forming planets they are seeing.
Magellan’s adaptive optics system MagAO looks for the planet’s “hydrogen alpha” spectral fingerprint. It’s a specific wavelength of light (glows dark red) researchers look for from forming planets and stars.
“We were able to separate the light of the faint planet from the light of the much brighter star and to see that they are both growing and glowing in this very distinct shade of red,” said Follette.
Without adaptive optics, this discovery wouldn’t be possible. What are they? They are deformable mirrors controlled by computers in real-time to offset the distortion caused by turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere. Usually, astronomers need a bright reference star to correct the distortion. But powerful lasers can also be shined into the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Thanks to adaptive optics, images from ground-based telescopes are almost as good as those taken from space-based telescopes.
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19.00 Ct. T.W. White Lab Grown Diamond Cross 14K Yellow Gold Pendant454800 $15,799.00
The Oliver Pendant
A bold expression of faith, this amazing cross is a treasured symbol. Fashioned with lab grown diamonds totaling 19.00 carat, with a color ranking of I-J and a clarity of VS-SI. This 3 dimensional religious symbol is created in 14K yellow gold and is suspended on a rope chain with a lobster clasp.
The Sku number is 454800
An IGL certificate can be requested, please allow the Lab time for certifying, a possible 2 weeks for shipping. We will ship sooner when possible. If you need it by a certain date, please let us know.
New World Diamonds ships across the United States. Most pieces will ship within two business days, custom creations can take around three weeks. This item is boxed for safe keeping or gift giving, we understand that jewelry is often given as a special surprise and we want to maintain your surprise. All orders are packed in earth friendly packaging and the label doesn't give it away!
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Two Tibetans set themselves on fire on Wednesday to protest Chinese rule and to call for the return of the exiled Dalai Lama, according to a report by Radio Free Asia. The Tibetans were identified as Tenzin Khedup, 24, a former monk, and Ngawang Norphel, 22. The self-immolations occurred in the Yushu Prefecture of Qinghai, a Chinese province that is traditionally the northeastern Tibetan area of Amdo. The burnings occurred in the town of Dzatoe, known in Chinese as Zaduo. The report, which cited a monk in India who came from the Yushu area, said that Tenzin Khedup died at the scene and that Ngawang Norphel was badly burned. | <urn:uuid:84433b19-a68e-4a1d-aef4-8e858c230573> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/asia/china-2-tibetans-set-themselves-on-fire-to-protest-beijings-rule.html | 2020-09-30T20:15:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.979448 | 156 |
SENATOR DINO MELAYE ,wat a true Democrat.
Born in Kano state on 7th January 1974, Dino is a Senator and a member of the 8th National Assembly, representing Kogi West constituency. He is a member of the ruling party, APC and also the Chairman Senate Committee on FCT but later decamp to the PDP the platform he won again for the second time in the Senate representing Kogi West
Dino was an active member of the student union during his undergraduate studies at Ahmadu Bello University where he was studying geography. He went on to lead the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), African Youth Council and Commonwealth Youth Council. He was subsequently appointed as the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Council on Youth by then President Olusegun Obasanjo.
His political career started early on, he is known for his bold moves, swagger and stylish personality.
Melaye was known for his strong opposition to the Goodluck Jonathan presidency. He was a Member House of Representatives under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party and later decamp to All Progressive Congress
In 2015, he won Kogi Senatorial West district under the platform of the All Progressives Congress He seconded the nomination of Senator Bukola Saraki that led to his emergence as Senate President.
DINO MELAYE’S AUTHORSHIP
His 600-paged book “ Antidotes for Corruption, The Nigerian Story “ was launched on 15th May 2017. This occasion was graced by who of who within Nigeria’s polity such as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Deputy senate president, Ike Ekweremmadu, Speaker House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara, former first lady, Patience Jonathan, Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Bello Mohammed, his Labour and Productivity counterpart, Dr. Chris Ngige and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Dr. Anyim Pius Anyim,Dr Emeka Anyaoku, Jerry Rawlings, amongst others.
The event took place at Yar’adua Centre in Abuja.
CONTRIBUTIONS & BILLS PASSED AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Constituency projects are a vital responsibility of every legislator. During his time at the lower legislative chambers, Dino pushed for electricity, solar power, motorized boreholes in over 15 wards, purchase of free jamb forms and payment of tuition fees to the betterment of Kogites.
Some of the Bills sponsored by Senator Dino Melaye:
Economic and Financial Crime Commission (Establishment, etc.) Bill 2015 (SB.94)-1ST READING
Disability Integration Bill 2015 (SB. 95)
Ecclesiastical Court (Establishment, etc.) Bill 2015 (SB.96) – 1ST READING
Protection Against Domestic Violence Act (Amendment) Bill 2015 (SB.97)
Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contract Act Cap D3 LFN 2004 (Amendment) Bill 2015 (SB. 98) – 1ST READING
Lobbying Disclosure Act (Amendment) Bill 2015 (SB 99) passed 2nd reading to the committee on Judiciary.
Anti-Jungle Justice Bill 2015 (SB. 109), passed 2nd reading to the committee on Judiciary.
Price Control and anti-protesting Bill 2015 (SB 110)
National Lottery Act 2005 (Amendment) Bill 2016 (SB: 227) Passed.
Lobbying (Regulations) Bill 2016 (SB. 258) 1ST READING
National Orientation Agency Act (Amendment) Bill 2016 (SB. 333)
Residency Right for every citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Bill 2016 (AB. 356) 1ST READING
Federal University of Agriculture Kabba (Establishment, etc.) Bill 2016 (SB. 402) Passed 2nd reading to the committee on Tertiary Institutions & TETFUND
Facial Mutilation Prohibition Bill 2016 (SB. 408) 1ST READING
Ethnic and Religious Hatred Bill 2017 (SB. 420)
MOTIONS SPONSORED BY SENATOR DINO MELAYE:
Motion on corruption in the Manitoba deal
Motion on ailing Ajaokuta steel company, a threat to Nigeria industrial growth
Motion on dredging of river Niger
The collapse of road infrastructure in Nigeria
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja contract
The abduction of Chibok girls – Two years on
A disturbing development in the Nigerian aviation industry – 03/2016
Discrepancies in subsidy payment and non-remittance of funds by NNPC to the federation account
Proposed policy on Federal Road Safety Commission ( FRSC) to sell and install limit devices on cars
Sustainable Development Goals
Motion on repatriation of over N2 Trillion from Nigeria by MTN
Abuse and Mismanagement of the Single Treasury Account regime
Nonpayment of teachers salary across the country, 07/2016
Matters of urgent public Importance regarding unfounded allegations by the AGF on presiding officers of the Senate.
Unscrupulous violation of the foreign exchange act
Co-sponsored with Senator Phillip Taminu Dauda – continued implementation of Federal Capital Territory Statutory Appropriation Act 2016
Motion on the deplorable state of the following roads: Kabba-Ilorin road, Iluke-Aiyetoro Kiri road, Abugi- Egan road, Iyara – Omuo road.
Matter of Urgent Public Importance “The unlawful and criminal withholding of public revenue by NNPC and NPDC from 2013 till date “
Irregularities in the awards contract by Bureau of Public Procurement. 01/2017
Urgent completion for OMI DAM. 11/2016
Despite his controversial nature, Senator Dino Melaye has received awards and accolades for his contributions to the development of his constituents and Nigerians in general.
National Association of Kogi State Students ( NAKSS) – Award of Excellence
News in Africa – Excellence Gold Award 2010
Chief Obafemi Awolowo/AWOIST Leadership Award – Most Outstanding Representative Award
International Parliamentary Watch USA – African Parliamentarian of the Year 2008
National Association of Kogi State Students – 2008 NAKOSS Legislative Award
Ijumu Legislative Council – Quality Representation Award
Ayetoro Gbede Students Union – Gold Medal Award
Ijumu Development Movement – Merit Award of Service
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Study Shows More Sales Jobs for New Grads in 2015
As graduation season approaches, there is good news for college seniors who have not yet landed a job. The number of permanent, full-time job opportunities for recent grads has increased more than 20 percent in the last year, according to Simply Hired. Overall, the field with the most permanent, full-time openings for new grads is sales (32,800, or 14 percent of openings). While landing that first “real” job is an exciting moment, grads still need to remember that overall job openings are still down and competition is fierce so making a good impression out of the gate is extremely important.
For graduates entering the sales profession, whether their focus will be on inside sales or outside sales, there are key skills that can help affect success.
Sell Yourself First – Sales reps need to keep in mind that they are not just selling a product. Before a customer makes a decision about a product or service they analyze the person selling it. A kind a helpful sales rep that is knowledgeable about the product he or she is selling will always appeal more to a potential customer.
Respond Faster – the early bird does get the worm. Find ways to respond to incoming inquiries faster and take advantage of technology. If a customer is difficult to reach by phone, try using text messaging or social media.
Become an Expert – investing the time to create a personal blog, LinkedIn page or other online presence where you can present yourself as an expert in your field will help potential customers recognize you as a trustworthy source of information and someone they want to do business with.
Read the News – by staying on top of current trends in your industry you will be able to identify sales opportunities faster and incorporate those trends into your sales outreach.
Customize Everything – whether you are buying a car or enterprise software for a business, every customer likes to feel special and valuable. By taking a few minutes to customize an email or letter to a customer, you will catch their attention during a busy day and improve the likeliness that they will reply to you. | <urn:uuid:c2974957-2f45-4271-b5de-1abf53ae52db> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.optifinow.com/blog/study-shows-more-sales-jobs-for-new-grads-in-2015-2/ | 2020-09-30T19:39:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.951616 | 428 |
Using PowerPoint and Keynote together
If you’re a Mac user you have the option of using both Microsoft’s PowerPoint and Apple’s Keynote, in conjunction on your machine. This opens up new opportunities as both programs have features unique to themselves that you may want to use together in one presentation.
Imagine you want to use a certain feature that only PowerPoint offers and also a feature that only Keynote offers. You could potentially create part of your presentation in PowerPoint and then save it as an import to Keynote to add the features you want to use from that software.
You will have to bear in mind that not all features will be able to be cross-translated between both programs.
In his excellent blog, Jason Valalik offers a great video example and tutorial on how to get the best out of both PowerPoint and Keynote.
PowerPoint vs. Keynote – Using both together to create visually rich presentations
You can find some free PowerPoint and Keynote themes to play around with on our page, new PowerPoint and Keynote templates.
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Meet Joseph Pilates
Pilates traces its origins to Joseph Pilates, born in Dusseldorf Germany in the 1880s. From an early age Joseph had the influence of a naturopath mother and champion gymnast father. One might infer these figures contributed to his knowledge and consequent early interest in the health and fitness arena (Reyneke, 2002).
As a child, Joseph Pilates suffered from ailments including rheumatic fever, rickets and asthma which saw him bullied by other children (Reyneke, 2002; Latey, 2002). This was apparently the major catalyst to spur him into becoming obsessed with physical fitness and creating a stronger physique through such avenues as bodybuilding, gymnastics and yoga. It is said he had an overall interest in sports and fitness and may have himself competed in gymnastics. According to sources, he developed such a well-defined musculature that he was asked to pose for anatomy charts at the age of fourteen (Reyneke, 2002; Latey, 2001a; Hering, 1956).
As an adult, Joseph Pilates became a professional boxer and taught self-defence. It is alleged this professional work led him to explore karate, meditation and ancient Greek and Roman fitness techniques. In terms of when Joseph Pilates specifically started to devise what we know of pilates as a uniform set of exercise principles, most sources agree took place in England. However the reasons and dates for Joseph Pilates moving to England vary. Some sources claim he became a circus performer and toured England in 1914 as a part of a troupe. Others put the date as 1911 to work as a boxer and self-defence instructor (Reyneke, 2002; Latey, 2001a; Hering, 1956). At this time in history and as argued by Door and Leach (1999) Germans going to Britain was most commonly economic. All sources do agree none the less it was for employment.
At the outbreak of WW1 being a German national Joseph Pilates was interned in Lancaster, then in the second year of the war was transferred to another camp on the Isle of Man. Over this time sources concur that he refined his ideas about health and bodybuilding and what would become the specific principles governing the practice of Pilates. He practised and taught inmates self-defence and wrestling. According to Cesarani and Kushner (1993), Door and Leach (1999) on the Isle of Man he volunteered to be a hospital attendant at the camp. It was here that what we know as the modern day reformer and affiliate pilates equipment was spawned; as a method to rehabilitate inmates, he used bed springs to provide resistance to enable bed bound patients the ability to exercise. Joseph Pilates observed muscle tone increased in those patients (Latey, 2001a; 2001b; Friedman & Eisen, 1980; Hering 1956).
After the war, Joseph Pilates returned to Hamburg, Germany (Door & Leach, 1999). Here he not only trained personal clients but the Hamburg Military police (Reyneke, 2002; Latey, 2001a; Friedman & Eisen, 1980). Joseph Pilates developed his equipment by refining existing and inventing new types. Many of the spring-based machines that support moving the trunk and extremities with resistance in a supine position still belong to the Pilates Method and make it a very unique and specialised form of exercise.
Around the year 1925, Joseph Pilates migrated to New York where he set up his own Pilates studio with wife Clara whom he met on the boat over. It is cited he left due to the social and political climate in Germany. It was here in New York he refined his pilates methods and concepts centred around “contrology” related to encouraging the use of the mind to control muscles. Focusing attention on core postural muscles that help keep the body balanced and provide support for the spine. In particular, Pilates exercises teach awareness of breath and of alignment of the spine and strengthens the deep torso and abdominal muscles. Here he taught into the 1960s and had a firm, established following including dancers and ballerinas (Reyneke, 2002; Latey, 2001a; Friedman & Eisen, 1980).
Joseph Pilates led a life which saw his influence, life experiences and passions culminate to facilitate his formulation of what we know as Pilates and its principles. It goes to show that a man born in the 19th century was truly ahead of his time in terms of exercise principles given the hiatus and now boom of the Pilates method in current day exercise and rehab establishments.
The modern-day Pilates approach has been adopted by physiotherapists and exercise physiologists over time to create a research-based, logical and useful rehabilitation and fitness regime. Physiotherapists have adopted the Pilates method with open arms, due to the benefits this form of mindful exercise offers with regards to pain relief, rehabilitation, mobilisation, stabilization and strengthening.
At Q Pilates, all our practitioners blend the traditional with the modern, the clinical and the fitness to formulate expert individualised programs for each and every client.
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By Shell Catalysts & Technologies on Aug 31, 2020
Refineries in the East Asia region have adopted innovative and strategic revamp projects to remain competitive through market challenges. These include South Korean refineries, which are among the largest refineries by capacity in the world.1 Revamps have been essential for these refineries to respond to changing market demands while also meeting regulatory and environmental fuel specifications.
Recently, three refinery revamp projects have been successfully implemented by Shell Catalysts & Technologies in the region and can be applied to refineries around the world.
Producing winter-grade diesel that meet Euro 5 and Euro 6 specifications
How can production for winter-grade fuel oil be increased while also meeting Euro 5 and Euro 6 emission specifications?
Normal diesel that is used in temperate climates has long-chain paraffins that freeze in low temperatures. A technology called diesel dewaxing must be used to change the hydrocarbon molecule structure and improve the cold flow properties of diesel.
Reactor internals revamp to increase select catalyst volume
For our first revamp with a refinery to increase winter-grade diesel production, our experts assessed the refinery’s existing assets and recommended revamping a diesel hydrotreater to increase the volume of select catalyst.
A reactor internals revamp would allow the refinery to increase the reactor’s capacity without having to build a new reactor. In a reactor, there are different beds, or sections, for catalyst. By installing latest-generation reactor internals, we were able to create an additional bed in the hydrotreater.
Our experts modified one of the beds to treat a type of catalyst that uses the zeolite component for paraffin dewaxing. With new reactor internals, we were able to separate a reactor into two beds to add a higher volume of active catalyst while also adding another layer of dewaxing catalyst.
Increasing the hydrotreater’s capacity presented not only technical challenges, but regulatory compliance challenges as well. Producing an additional grade of winter-grade diesel while meeting Euro 5 and Euro 6 fuel specifications for sulphur content required creative ways to insert an additional layer of catalyst.
With our experts’ extensive knowledge of catalyst, we were able to recommend catalyst that would reduce the hydrotreater’s emission of sulphur, nitrogen and CO2. The combination of new reactor internals and catalyst allowed the refinery to maintain compliance with the Euro 5 and Euro 6 specifications while also producing more winter-grade diesel.
Shifting to a heavier, lower-cost crude blend
Hyundai Oilbank identified an opportunity to improve margins at its Daesan, South Korea refinery by moving from a medium-sour Middle East crude blend towards super-heavy crudes such as Maya and Basrah Heavy. These low-priced crudes can provide high margins but are extremely challenging to process.
To enable such a crude slate while minimising capital investment and maximising returns, Hyundai Oilbank involved Shell Catalysts & Technologies to assist in a series of changes to the refinery configuration in a carefully designed combination of adding new hardware and revamping existing assets. The changes include:
- Installing a new C5 solvent deasphalting (SDA) unit (a residuum oil supercritical extraction, or ROSETM, unit licensed by KBR);
- Converting atmospheric residue desulphurisation (ARDS) module 2 to deasphalted oil (DAO) mild hydrocracking (MHC) service to process 100% DAO from the SDA unit;
- Revamping the delayed coker to enable it to process pitch from the SDA unit instead of vacuum residue and
- Revamping the ARDS module 1 to increase capacity.
One of the key constraints for processing a more difficult crude slate had been the maximum allowable metals content that the existing ARDS modules 1 and 2 could process. The new configuration lifts this constraint significantly for module 2 because the SDA unit concentrates the crude impurities, such as sulphur, nitrogen and metals, in the asphalt stream that is routed to the delayed coker.
Explore residue upgrading technologies
A phased approach
During Phase 1, Hyundai Oilbank revamped both ARDS modules:
- ARDS module 1 was revamped to process 50% more AR above original design, at 20% conversion, producing residue fluidised catalytic cracker (RFCC) feed (0.5% sulphur, 4.5% micro-carbon residue).
- ARDS module 2 was converted to MHC service and the capacity increased by 50% above original design, processing 100% DAO at 50% conversion. It produces feeds for the existing RFCC and the future petrochemicals complex.
In addition, Hyundai Oilbank installed a new C5 SDA unit, the largest-capacity ROSE unit ever licensed by KBR, and revamped the existing delayed coker to enable co-processing VR and ROSE pitch feed.
In order for the project to begin to generate returns, speed of implementation was also important. It took the Hyundai Oilbank and Shell Catalysts & Technologies project team just 30 months from the beginning of the feasibility study to startup.
In 2018, Hyundai reported in its annual report that it has the nation’s highest heavy oil upgrading ratio, and in 2019 it posted in its annual report the industry’s highest ratio of net income to sales. The Phase 1 project, which concluded in 2018, was a key contributor to these achievements.
During Phase 2, Hyundai Oilbank further revamped the ARDS module and MHC unit:
- ARDS module 1 was revamped from a single train to two parallel trains and added more fixed-bed reactors, which increased capacity by an additional 30% and the cycle length by 50%.
- The MHC was revamped by adding more fixed-bed reactors, which increased capacity by an additional 10% and the cycle length by 50%.
Enabling the processing of super heavy crudes has helped Hyundai Oilbank to unlock a major improvement in its refining margin. Crucially, it achieved this for only modest capital investment by leveraging revamps.
For this phase, it took just 20 months from starting the feasibility study to starting up the revamped unit. These changes also enabled the refinery to be further integrated with a new heavy feed petrochemical complex that was being built.
Preparing for refinery and petrochemical integration
For years, the refinery industry has been discussing refinery and petrochemical integration. The future for refineries is likely to be in producing chemicals.
Some refineries in the East Asia region have been able to use low-cost feedstock, which they process and convert to DAO. DAO is used as feed for ethylene crackers to produce chemicals; it is a cheaper chemical feedstock compared to naphtha or liquified petroleum gas.
We are also working with a number of refiners on how to process very heavy bottom feedstock. Through a feasibility report, we showed how a revamp can help them to produce both IMO 2020 compliant fuel oil as well as chemicals. Several South Korea refineries are already investing and constructing ethylene oxide crackers with a 2021 start-up target.
Shell Catalysts & Technologies’ expertise as owner-operators
We are proud to work with refineries around the world on revamp projects. Our experience as owner-operators allows us to apply our knowledge in licensed technology and catalyst from Shell refineries to service third-party customer sites.
Looking forward, the next challenge for many refineries will be maintaining compliance with the revised European Union Emissions Trading Scheme in 2021, which outlines targets for emissions cuts by 43% compared to 2005 levels.2 We plan to continue helping our partners find opportunities to evolve into new energy areas and to conserve and make better use of energy. | <urn:uuid:572be993-7631-40a7-b611-e3c76f253709> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.shell.com/business-customers/catalysts-technologies/resources-library/thriving-in-the-new-reality-3-refinery-revamp-projects-for-emerging-industry-trends.html | 2020-09-30T19:59:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.9208 | 1,611 |
Over the past few days, I've found myself deep in thought after going about my usual client work, personal practice, and devotional work.
Over the past few days, I've found myself deep in thought after going about my usual client work, personal practice, and devotional work.
It's occurred to me that spiritual work is often a cosmic game of "Telephone". "Telephone", for those of you caught unawares, is a childhood game wherein the party at the front of the line comes up with a sentence or phrase, tells it to the person next to them, then the recipient does the same and so on and so forth down the line.
Those of you whom have played the game I speak of know that the sentence or phrases starts out as something as simple as "Johnny's mom is also the doctor" and ends up as "Mom's Johnny is also the proctor" at the final person of the game. So too is this the case with client work, I find.
I am frequently approached by folks who either do not speak English or speak it as a second, third, or fourth language; frequently, they encounter the same troubles shared by their brethren from English-speaking countries - they are unsure how to put their concerns and wants into words which will then be clearly understood by someone like myself.
This brings us to a rather awkward point in a relationship, as its difficult to understand just what it is that we're being asked to do when we miss important contextual clues. This is doubly true when it comes to interacting with spiritual entities, as not only do they not speak our language, but they also tend to sense our emotions, our sense of purpose or lack thereof, our thoughts, our confusion, and so on. With this truth being as present as it is, we encounter a new difficulty; not only must we understand the goal of our friend, client, partner, spouse, or ourselves, but we also must be able to communicate those goals and intentions effectively to the spirits we conjure.
Language, being a finicky beast at the best of times, is something we must strive to understand intimately if we are to do this effectively; furthermore, we must also understand the language of the spirits we intend to work with. Sometimes the language is verbal and literal or it can be written and symbolic or any means and methodology in-between. Each of us is different in how we best perceive and understand the world around us and the spirits we work with, command, and/or serve are no different.
Not only we must understand how to communicate ourselves effectively, but we also must learn to listen to the people and the world around us. Perception is the key to greater and deeper understandings, and that starts at home with the ones we love. We must hear them out first if we wish to understand what the Gods and spirits tell us through speech, song, dreams, movies, games, situations, and so on.
With that said, happy hunting and blessed learning.
Greetings dear friends.
I'd ask that you pay careful attention and bend a knee in respect of the kingly sphere, for we've reached the last of the Planetary Keys. Where we of the "Seven Spheres in Seven Days" crew started is where the Keys, in their current renditions, end.
Finally, we've reached Jupiter, the sphere of Kings, rulership, management, and prowess. It is the regal Lion of our Universe and reigns supreme amongst the firmament. With that, I give you its key:
With this key, you are both empowered and armed with the ability to manage your sphere as you see fit, but know now that this has its perils. Should you lose control, your kingdom will rise up against you. Proceed carefully and with sincerity, take up these keys I've given you, learn them well, and then use them.
Greetings once again, dear readers. I hope this Sunday morning finds you well.
As a result of some of the magical work and the associated studies that I've been doing, I've been learning some interesting things about fate that seem to be worth sharing.
I've spoken on Karma previously, but didn't really go into much detail about how that cause and effect can play out with regard to magical work that has been started, then cancelled, or started, then left to fizzle, and so on and so forth. Over the past few weeks, I've had a few clients opt to not follow-through, and unfortunately, their decisions have left them in a troubling mire with some distinct, problematic consequences. This worries me, so I'm talking about it here.
Now, fate, wyrd, and karma are three words that are often used to describe happenings that seem to be destined to occur. Some of this reference, in the West, is incorrect, as the systems associated with these terms are ill-understood or are simply being manipulated to empower the person speaking on the subject. A lack of basic understanding of these forces is, in my opinion, grounds for someone to have their "magic card" taken from them, as we sorcerers, witches, shamans, and so on can do some serious damage if we're not careful.
Part of the trouble here is that its a bit of a catch-22 when doing the Work, especially if we're doing work for clients who don't understand the contingencies. When we do Work, whether its to get a new job, get a promotion, get a new lover, fix an old relatioship, or some other such goal, we are binding one or more people to a certain path as far as wyrd/fate are concerned.
Every step we take, every breath we make, every person we meet, everyone we hurt, everyone we have sex with, and so on are part of our ongoing wyrdic development. Literally, every time we do ANYTHING we create a connection with someone else that either pushes us further in one direction or restrains and constricts us; the same can be said for every action we DO NOT take. Realistically there's no way we're going to adequately manage all of those little interactions; we're human, and we don't have the awareness necessary to really be able to understand each and every step. Divination certainly helps, but there are times that even asking a question is enough to bind us to certain things. I've had many a time where I asked a question that I wasn't supposed to and had to deal with some nasty consequences as a result. Last night, in fact, was an occurrence of me being obstinate and asking too many questions....
That being the case, we really do have to take steps to ensure that the big steps we take in our lives, such as getting married, having sex with a man or woman, taking a new job, having magical work done, and so on are steps that are carefully considered. Learning to divine or having a skilled diviner do the work for you is pretty much mandatory, lest you strand yourself up shit creek in the future.
To further illustrate this point, I should note that I get a lot of clients who want me to do love-related work for them. Usually, this happens when someone is either unable to woo a girl or they have a dysfunctional relationship with another person. In situations like that, 99% of the time, I elect to divine, as starting a relationship with someone combines emotional forces as well as combines two distinct streams of luck into one pool; better understanding the effects this will have is all but mandatory, and more often then not, I have to tell clients that they don't want to proceed with the work. If, however, they elect to proceed, it always changes their life in one way or another.
So, for example, let's say that Abby contacts me because she and her ex boyfriend split up. Abby's completely distraught because she thinks the world of him despite the fact that he's clearly an abusive ass. That being the case, despite the fact that I tell her she doesn't want to return to him, that she needs to move on, etc. etc., she decides that she still wants him back, and I do the work to get him back. In doing this, she either delayed her ability to find happiness with another man or killed the chance completely. When she does wind up with this jerk of a boyfriend again, he now starts back up with the same nonsense that was going on before, only it gets worse. Now Abby's got scars from a broken nose, chipped and missing teeth, and she has severe sex-related PTSD because the boyfriend was not a kind man and only liked things a certain way. What's the likelihood, in that state and today's world. that she'll meet up with a kind, loving man whom she feels attracted to, who supports her, is willing to overlook her blemishes, AND help her through her PTSD? Really, its not going to be so likely, so her taking the easy route just made her life that much more difficult, and it bound her to the fate of having pretty miserable relationships.
When you think of fate and wyrd in terms like this, it becomes at least a little easier to understand, even though that understanding is far from perfect. The point, herein, is that we have, as magical folk, the ability to make some really crazy shit manifest. That being the case, we have to use those abilities wisely, lest they come back to haunt us later.
I hope this has been enlightening.
Greetings and happy Monday, ladies and gents. I hope this posting finds you well, or at the very least, awake and functioning.
In my wanderings, ramblings, gnosis, and the latent digestion of such things, I've come to a greater realization with regard to how our folk affect us. We often spend a great deal of time interacting with others and we often take more than we'd like from people. This function is something that's programmed into us at a biological level, as evidence by the fact that we even respond to how other people's hearts are beating. The links for such studies escape me at the moment, but sufficed to say, we are much more intimately linked than we like to admit.
We end up mirroring people we respect as a result of our focus on what they represent to us. We instinctually try to live up to the ideal they tout in order to become better in their eyes, and that can be a dangerous tendency. When someone is sufficiently strong-willed, they can project a great deal onto others and do a ridiculous amount of damage to that individual.
Its not at all uncommon for a mental patient, for example, to project his or her disease/disorder onto the doctor or that individual's spouse. I saw and experienced this firsthand as a child, when my mother's erratic behavior and lack of moral limitation "infected" my father. Not only did I witness him changing over the years, but I confirmed these changes with my family after the fact. Apparently, before he married my mother, he had a slight "bad streak", but it was never particularly volatile or violent.
We see the same tendency in schools, as noted by my significant other (she's a teacher); when a smart kid hangs out with the would-be thugs, the smart kid's test scores and schoolwork suffers. If that same student suddenly starts hanging out with a bunch of nerds, his scores improve.
In short, our values are ultimately set by the clan we interact with. If your friends, wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, or some other such individual or group is intensely negative, you will behave the same way as a result of your interactions. This may not be true initially, but eventually your Will will break down and you will fall in line with your pack.
The same interactions and changes occur with those of us who are religious, spiritually inclined, or to those of us who practice some form of magic involving interacting with spiritual forces. Our very interactions with those spirits, for weal or woe, changes us on some level. They, very literally, become a part of our life and our worldview, changing us from within even if we don't expect it. Its not particularly abnormal for a practicing mage's IQ to be raised as a result of working with planetary intelligences, for example.
I've personally experienced this over the years, as working with Zazel, for example, has helped me to become better at discerning limitations, exposing them, or strengthening weaknesses, even if this wasn't the goal of the work. It fits perfectly with His Saturnine nature.
That being the case, we can respond to this external stimuli in a couple of different ways; we can either use this to our benefit, or we can try to run from it and become a hermit. I would suggest that we should use this tendency to our benefit rather than pursue the goal of shielding ourselves from influences from others. It is, ultimately, futile to do so, as we're trying to escape biologically-programmed functions which help us to interact.
I would recommend that you surround yourself with successful folk that you can look up to and interact. I'd also recommend that you take it a step further and actually work with spirits that will benefit you in such a way. If you're looking to cultivate a sense of inner peace, either work with Shiva and Ayra-Tara-Ma or have someone else do the work for you. Just bringing an entity into your sphere can have far-reaching effects for the same reasons listed above.
Furthermore, cut the bad apples off the tree. Make the sacrifice and move on with your life if someone isn't benefiting you. Don't sit their and stew; it WILL come back to bite you if you don't heed this advice. Compassion is great until it drags you down; if it does, it needs to be managed like any other emotion or instinct.
The TL:DR version of this is illustrated pretty well by Hopsin in the following music video:
The long and short of it is that in order to grow, we have to cut loose the anchors that hold us down. If you want to get somewhere in life, make whatever sacrifices you need to, so long as they'll actually get you somewhere. If that means that you need to ask for help, realize this and then make it happen.
There are plenty of resources, spiritual teachers, spirit workers, teachers, therapists, business contacts, and potential friends who can help you to change your life for the better. All you need to do is reach out and work to make that occur.
If you should desire such assistance, contact me and we'll talk. If you're not sure what to do about your situation, but just want to do something general to help fix it, I can probably assist.
Take care and thank you for reading.
'lo again, my witchy friends. :)
At the urging of a friend of mine, I've written a prayer that may serve as the Buddhist version of St. Patrick's Breastplate. This piece calls Mahakala, a wrathful emanation of Shiva, for the sake of becoming a walking embodiment of His essence so that we might become the change we wish to see in the world around us.
Use this whenever you feel threatened, hopeless, weakened, or in need of a sense of purpose. Use this when you feel as though the odds are stacking themselves up against you.
By and through this prayer, one may seek enlightenment and cause others to do the same. Consider the use of this prayer to be an empowerment, if you should so choose.
Great God Mahakala, I call to you in all of Your forms
I prostrate myself before you
and I bind Your essence within and without me from this day forward
such that those who rise against me shall gain no ground
Let Your compassion flow through me so that I and all others
Might be freed from sickness, hindrances and troubles
I gird myself in Your garbs and pick up Your tools
They empower me such that I may always walk with You
Bettering lives, attracting and fulfilling needs
Providing antidotes for the poisons of the World
Let all seek Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha
As they see this kala which I've become!
You are welcome to use this as you see fit or repost this as you see fit. Please be sure to give me credit for it, however.
Greetings, dear readers. I hope this post finds you well.
Please forgive the tone of this post, as it is, in many ways, a small rant about a topic that has decidedly recurred in my work with clients, and it bears mentioning.
The topic at hand is the veracity of psychic information. To start, let's face it, we all get inklings of information that we don't have cause to know from time to time. Sometimes its a twinkle in our mind that suggests that our lover is having an affair, or other times its a strong negative feeling about a person or place. Some call it psychicism, others refer to it as instinct, but the long and short of it is that the information is pulled from the ether - either inside or outside of the microcosm.
The fact remains that this information may or may not be correct. When reading cards, runes, blood, wax, spit, seminal fluids, sweat, drink, crystals, bones, or any other means we are confronted with this psychic source of information which is up to us to interpret. No cards or other such methods have set interpretations, as much as some might think that they do, for they reflect us and the situation that we are asking about. The very fact that those results are open to interpretation means that it is possible to be dead wrong.
Now, for me, it doesn't happen very often, I've found. 99% of the time, when I feel something is the case, it is, and my friends and family have come to appreciate my talent for being spot on without actually having proof. I used to spend so much time saying "I told you so" that finally they started to listen. That does not, however, mean that I am always right. There's still a glaring 1% there, and while it may not come up often, it does still come up from time to time, and there's little that can be done about that until I, or someone else, figure out how to become omniscient.
These things do happen, and, while its unfortunate, that's life for you. I've found that sometimes we are actually bound to get incorrect information because someone is gunning for us on some level, or the Gods aren't really happy about what we're doing, and have decided to misdirect us. There's no real way around it.
Having said as much, please be aware that if you're going to hire me to do work or a divination for you, keep in mind that I, like you, am human and thereby error-prone. Even the Gods make mistakes, after all, so don't expect that I'll be 100% on target all of the time.
/Rant off. Thank you for reading, and I hope you have a pleasant day.
I've now read the latest posts written by Jow and Jason Miller, and I've found that I can relate to their respective sentiments. Over the years, I find that I have worn many, many labels....some were from school, and others were adopted by myself as a way to fit in and/or find a way to describe who I am, what I do, and I how I do it.
Now, to backtrack to my religious upbringing, it is worth noting that I was raised by a Buddhist mother and a Lutheran father, which led to a great deal of religious strangeness in the home. My father, rather begrudgingly, attended our Buddhist "church" alongside my brother, my mother, and myself, and over time, it was made clear to them, in their infinite wisdom, that I should also be exposed to the Christian side of things. As annoyed as I was at being forced to attend, I find that I must thank them for that exposure.
In tandem with my parent's religious ties and associated exploits, I, from a young age, was brought up and mentored by a spirit. That spirit is someone that I now serve as a fulltime thing outside of my day job, but as a child, much of what He told and showed me was far more in-depth than the other churches I was involved me could provide. I was taught how to do different things to make nasty spiritual presences go away, He taught me to bless things, as well as to curse things.
Such a strange trinity of mismatched religious beliefs and the teachers therein led to a rather different view of the world around me, I find. Instead of seeing things in a very linear, very boxed-in light, I see the spirit world as being as open ended and prone to strange minglings as the physical world. That, as one would expect, has led me to the path I know travel on, as eclectic as it may seem. I frequently weave in an intermingling of various pantheons in a respective fashion, and find myself intimately involved with various deities of completely different traditions and lineages. As such, despite the title I take herein, I suppose that I would best be defined as a pantheist.
As a sorcerous pantheist, I find that my goal, regardless of the name chosen for my path, is to experiment and find the most effective methods by which my will can be made flesh. Aside from my relationships with the spirits, that is my first and foremost goal, as it allows me to better my life and the lives of my clients. In realizing this fact, I've come to understand that defining your path is of less import tha
So, with that said, I find that I must agree with Jow's rather eloquent statement: "Our traditions do not define our essence. They shape our practice. They do not tell us who we are, but allow who we are to accomplish something." I'd urge you, dear readers, to keep this in mind as you wander upon your respective path(s), as it certainly is an interesting relations.
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Chinese Takeaway Geoffrey Kent, founder of Abercrombie & Kent, has started offering luxury holidays for Chinese millionaires. What does the world beyond the wall hold, Josh Spero asks
Geoffrey Kent, founder of Abercrombie & Kent, has started offering luxury holidays for Chinese millionaires. What does the world beyond the wall hold, Josh Spero asks
Geoffrey Kent has never been deterred by walls, Great or otherwise. When he first went to China in 1979, Mao was not long dead yet Kent was raring to expand Abercrombie & Kent – a defiantly luxurious, capitalist enterprise – into the People's Republic. He settled for opening an office in Hong Kong in 1982 and started bringing people into China.
Now, that wall keeping people out can also be seen as a wall keeping people in, and Geoffrey Kent has once again decided to ignore it, this time by taking Chinese millionaires on international tours. With over half a million Chinese dollar millionaires and growing, according to the 2011 World Wealth Report, there is an opportunity here.
'Two years ago I started to focus on getting in and understanding the outbound market,' which wasn't easy because of a lack of good distribution channels: 'They don't have travel agents. They like to keep their wealth very quiet. They don't mix in big social gatherings.' So he did what he'd done before, when he started the business by jumping on a plane from his home of Kenya to Texas: he went where the wealthy were and introduced himself.
He found that their expectations were limited: shopping trips to London, Paris, Milan, Rome with personal opening of the stores, French vineyards, furniture buying – 'everything European'. (The difficulties even wealthy Chinese have with getting a UK visa is 'an insult', says Kent.) So where else would he take a group of Chinese billionaires but Istanbul and Kenya? 'Everyone said they'll never do that,' but they touched down in Istanbul in their private jet, 'loved being on the Bosphorus' and took off for Nairobi afterwards, with Kent himself helping to guide.
'We went hot air ballooning, took a safari through the Masai Mara. They saw cheetahs, rhinos, elephants, buffalo. They were amazed by the hippos.' Kent went with them himself but had also prepared the ground by moving a Chinese guide to Africa two years ago so she could accustom herself to the region, instead of having a Sinophone who knew nothing about Africa.
A Bush dinner at the Sanctuary Olonana in Kenya
So what are the requirements of Chinese abroad? Language is the main barrier, says Kent, hence the immersed guide, and then food. In a wonderful New Yorker article on regular Chinese tourists in Europe, it didn't matter where they were, they always wanted Chinese food – or at least were always only offered Chinese food. Kent says they ate what was provided with aplomb – but always wanted noodles afterwards.
One of the highlights was an incongruous-sounding breakfast 'in the middle of nowhere. We had champagne. Everything was served on fine bone china. There was this juxtaposition of the ballooning and seeing the animals then sitting down to breakfast with the china with Masai warriors around you.'
'This is just the start,' Kent says. Add to this seam of tourism the new concierge division opening in the first quarter of next year and luxury lodges built in China for internal and foreign tourists (also opening early 2012), and it seems that Kent is broadening the cracks in the Great Wall every day.
The new Abercrombie & Kent Specialist Journey catalogue has arrived, trailing Geoffrey Kent's vision in glorious technicolour. Each trip is categorised – 'expert led', 'pioneering', 'solo' – but only one gets an X for Extreme: The South Pole – Conquering the Final Degree. Priced appropriately (£36,775 per person), you start in Chile and only get chillier. The aim is to reach geographical South Pole, 90 degrees latitude, after eleven days' trekking, six to ten miles a day. There is not even a sunset to indicate when to stop your strides.
They say you can catch a cold going from the warm to the freezing, in which case the catalogue is likely to lead to many an ague: on one page, a solo tour of Egypt, including a boat tour down the Nile; on the next, adventures in the Norwegian Arctic, twitching at the unique bird species and avoiding the polar bears' reach; on the next yet, a train journey into the Russian Arctic Circle, where those legendary names like Arkangel come to life.
Perhaps the cutest of these adventures is the chance to catch the lemurs of Madagascar before the BBC turns them into an adorable six-part series. | <urn:uuid:1371589f-fc0a-4b60-a397-301eba623668> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.spearswms.com/geoffrey-kent-on-hnw-chinese-tourism/ | 2020-09-30T18:49:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.966208 | 998 |
In science this week, we looked at burning. We burnt different materials and observed how they burnt differently from one another. Some of them resulted in the formation of new materials, and it was interesting to compare which ones ignited and how quickly they did so.
We discussed the difference between reversible and irreversible changes. Then, we carried out three observations to look at these more closely: heating an egg, adding water to mod-roc and mixing bicarbonate of soda with vinegar. We thought about what the materials we like at the start and then how they ended up when they went though a change.
This week, we learnt about filtration - the process used to separate an insoluble solid from a liquid. Firstly, we mixed soil and water together to create a mixture. Then, each table got a different filter to pass their mixture through: paper towels, cotton wool pads, a coffee filter, filter paper, nylon and muslin. We compared the success of the different filters, depending on how clear the water was at the end. It turned out that the paper towel was the best filter - we concluded that this was because it had the smallest holes, meaning it allowed the least soil particles through.
We have been focusing on mixtures in science. This week, we looked at dissolving - what happens when a soluble solid is mixed with a liquid. We learnt that the solid doesn’t disappear, but has simply mixed in so well that we cannot see it any more. Working in groups, we dissolved sugar in some water, and each changed a different factor (temperature of water, amount of sugar, type of sugar etc) to understand what affects how well sugar dissolves in water.
In this lesson, we learnt about refraction. This is when light moves from the air and passes through a transparent object, such as glass or water, and it bends. We saw the effects of this by putting a pencil in a glass of water - the pencil looked like it was bending, due to the refraction of the light.
In term three, our science lessons are focusing on light. After learning about how light enables us to see, we focused on how we see different colours. In order to explore this concept further, we conducted an experiment, where we used different coloured filters to shine a light on different colours. We discovered that the red colour reflected the red light, appearing red, whereas the blue and green absorbed it, meaning they appeared black.
This term, our topic is space. To start off, we learnt about the planets in our solar system: their order, sizes and orbits. In order to make a comparison, we were given different objects, and had to guess which object represented each planet - their sizes were based on imagining the sun was as big as a beach ball. We then went up on to the playground and measured their distance from the sun, imaging that it was just 10cm in diameter. We were shocked by the distances!
In our science lesson this week, we learnt about the reason behind night and day: it is all to do with Earth’s rotation. To explore this idea, we used torches and sport balls to model this process.
This week, we have learnt about the moon. To help us to understand why we see different parts of the moon at different times, we role played the role on sun, moon and earth in groups. This helped us to see that the part of the illuminated side of the moon we can see at any given time changes, due to where the moon is in the sky.
We conducted an experiment to see how the surface area of the blades on a spinner would affect the time it took it to fall. We found out that the smaller the blades, the quicker it fell - this is because there was less air resistance acting upon the smaller surface area.
This week, we looked at parachutes. Each group had to choose a variable to change and investigate its effects.
We have been learning about friction. We conducted an experiment to test which shoe had the best grip (therefore, which produced the most friction) To do this, we used Newton meters to measure the force required to move different shoes - the ones that required us to work harder to move them, produced the most friction and had best grip.
In our science lesson, we investigated levers. In order to do this, we created our own, using rulers and pencils. At one end was a load, the other a force to lift the load. As we moved the fulcrum, it was interesting to see how the amount of force required to lift the load changed. We found out that the closer we got to the force, the more force it required to lift the load. Therefore, levers are useful to make a little force have a greater affect.
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Noughties indie rockers Bloc Party head to Bristol
PUBLISHED: 14:00 01 February 2019
British indie rockers Bloc Party have announced a Bristol stop on their tour.
The band, who took the UK by storm in the early Noughties, will take to the stage of Canon’s Marsh Amphitheatre, in Explore Lane.
Performing their debut album Silent Alarm in full, the Bristol show marks Bloc Party’s first performance since their sold-out gig at Alexandra Palace last October.
That show was recorded for a live edition of Silent Alarm, which will be released in April.
Silent Alarm draws inspiration from the brooding post-punk of the early 1980s, with traces of The Smiths, The Cure and Talking Heads evident across the release.
The album garnered many accolades, including being shortlisted for the 2005 Mercury Prize.
Bloc Party will perform on June 28.
Tickets, priced £33, are available at www.gigsandtours.com
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Today on Interview an Awesome Author, I’m pleased to welcome Catherine Bybee, a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, as well as a #1 Amazon Bestselling Author and #1 Indie Reader Bestselling Author. Her books include contemporary romances such as the Weekday Bride series, and the Not Quite Series, as well as several paranormal and erotic titles, too. And might I add that since her latest release just a few days ago, Catherine’s book Not Quite Dating, has skyrocketed to the top of the Amazon charts!! I told her if her new release surpassed mine, I would be forced to heckle her. But alas, I really like her and so I have decided not to heckle but to celebrate!!!
TB: Catherine, congratulations on your success! Thanks for being here.
CB: Thank you so much for having me on your blog today, Tracy.
TB: Tell me a little bit about yourself.
CB: First and always I’m a wife and a mother. Second, I’m a writer… anything and everything romance. If it doesn’t have a happily ever after, I’m not interested. Le’ts face it. Life is full of… well… life. Having spent over a decade of my life working as a RN in urban Emergency Rooms, I want to escape when I pick up a book. And I now create those worlds for you to escape into.
TB: And we’re so glad! I’ve asked Catherine to answer this question: If you could choose a book to live inside of, which book would it be and why? And would you be a character or just wander around in there visiting ?
CB: Thanks for picking my guest blog topic. I don’t know why I have such a hard time picking topics for blogs. You’d think a writer would have no problem…but, well, I do. *grin*
As much as I’d love to say that I’d live inside or be one of my contemporary characters books… I can’t say that would be my choice. Probably because all of my contemporary romances have heroines who have some serious baggage. Family who didn’t love them, unplanned pregnancies, controlling relatives, huge money issues. I don’t think I’d want to live inside that pain to get to the prize.
On the other hand…Samantha in Wife by Wednesday did a wonderful job of separating herself from the drama and in the end had the guy, had the money…and had the amazing sex. LOL
If I were to actually be a character in a book, I’d have to pick one of my time travels. I know that living in any time period without flowing water or flushing toilets would be a complete drag…but in my time travels my heroes and heroines all have a special gift or power that makes life easier for them. So if I had to be a character in my books, it would be Lizzy from Redeeming Vows. She’s smart, snarky, has a kick-ass power and hellooooo? Fin? We’re talking kilted hunk here! Yum!
And in a time travel there is always the possibility of traveling forward, or back, in time. So you get the best of both worlds.
Since I’m here today on behalf of the fact that I have a new contemporary out…I might as well let my readers know that I’ve lived some of the life of Jessica Mann.
Some of the inspiration for the opening scenes of this book was from my nights of working the graveyard shift at a Denny’s in Ontario California. So there’s no need for me to crawl into Jessie’s character…I’ve already been there and done that!
TB: Life is often stranger than fiction! Tell me about your latest release which is already climbing the Amazon Best Sellers charts.
Waitress and single mom Jessica “Jessie” Mann is practical to a fault. Even if she had time to date, which she doesn’t, she’d be determined to provide her son with a more secure upbringing than the one she had—and that would mean a husband with big bucks. When Jack Morrison—a sexy-as-sin, seemingly broke customer with a cowboy hat and a seductive grin—tries to flirt with her, she shoots him down. She doubts a carefree dreamer like Jack can provide the financial stability she needs. Yet with Christmas just weeks away, and Jessie not wanting to spend it alone, the charming Texan is proving hard to resist.
As the heir to the Morrison luxury hotel empire, Jack is used to being fawned over. But Jack needs someone who will fall in love with him—not his wealth. He’s set his sights on Jessie, though her hardened heart just might get in the way…To be sure, he conceals his true identity and offers to help Jessie find the rich husband she seeks. But Jack’s daring charade may rob him of the holiday wish he wants most of all…
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After a year marked by numerous price spikes, construction costs declined in December but remained elevated compared to year-earlier prices, while prices of new buildings also moved higher, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of new Labor Department data. Association officials noted that the cost of many construction projects is increasing as firms cope with labor shortages and increased costs for many of the materials they need for projects.
"Steep declines in fuel prices in December offset mixed costs for other construction inputs, but most materials and services posted higher year-over-year increases than in 2017," said the association's chief economist, Ken Simonson. "The price index for new building construction outpaced the input cost index at the end of the year, but many contractors were probably caught by unexpected cost increases in 2018."
Simonson commented that the producer price index for inputs to construction industries—a weighted average of all goods and services used in construction—decreased 0.8 percent in December but ended the year 3.8 percent higher than in December 2017. The index for energy costs declined 11.5 percent for the month and 3.9 percent for the year. But the price of other goods used in construction climbed 0.1 percent for the month and 4.8 percent for the year, more than the 3.3 percent increase in the index in 2017. The price index for services purchased by contractors also accelerated, rising 0.4 percent for the month and 4.2 percent for the year, following a 3.7 percent gain in 2017.
An index that measures what contractors report they would charge to construct new nonresidential buildings was unchanged for the month and ended the year 5.3 percent higher than in December 2017, following a 2.7 percent rise in 2017, the economist noted. He observed that this "bid-price" index outpaced the index for construction input costs only in the last two months of 2018, implying that many contractors experienced unexpectedly high costs for materials and services during the year.
Association officials said higher construction prices will increase the cost of many public infrastructure projects and could undermine the financial viability of new private-sector development projects. They urged Washington officials to resolve trade disputes that have led to new and threatened tariffs on a host of construction materials. They also called for comprehensive immigration reform and new federal investments in career and technical education to prepare and recruit more people into the construction industry.
"Public officials may be forced to scale back planned infrastructure projects to cope with higher costs while many privately financed projects may no longer pencil out if construction costs continue to increase," said Stephen E. Sandherr, the association's chief executive officer. "Resolving costly trade disputes and addressing labor shortages will help relieve much of the inflationary pressure on construction costs." | <urn:uuid:ab625269-8530-4275-a194-f5d63e5c460a> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.wconline.com/articles/92133-construction-costs-dip-in-december | 2020-09-30T17:39:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.968903 | 561 |
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It isn’t a pretty face, but one scarred from a dark past, repackaged now by the frenzy of “resistance.” Accusing Donald Trump recklessly, implying he knows more than he lets on, promising redemption: John Brennan is the face of American politics in 2018.
But before all that, Brennan lived in a hole about as far down into the deep state as one can dwell while still having eyes that work in the sunlight. He was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was Obama’s counterterrorism advisor, helping the president decide who to kill every week, including American citizens. He spent 25 years at the CIA, and helped shape the violent policies of the post-9/11 Bush era. He was a fan of torture and extrajudicial killing to the point that a 2012 profile of him was entitled, “The Seven Deadly Sins of John Brennan.” Another writer called Brennan “the most lethal bureaucrat of all time, or at least since Henry Kissinger.” Today, however, a New York Times puff piece sweeps all that away as a “troubling inheritance.”
On Twitter this week, Brennan cartoonishly declaimed, “Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors. It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin.”
Because it is 2018, Brennan was never asked to explain exactly how a press conference exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors the Constitution sets for impeachment, nor was he asked to lay a few cards on the table showing what Putin has on Trump. No, Brennan is a man of his times, all bluster and noise, knowing that so long as he says what a significant part of the country apparently believes - that the president of the United States is under the control of the Kremlin - he will never be challenged.
Brennan slithers alongside those like Nancy Pelosi and Cory Booker who said Trump is controlled by Russia, columnists in the New York Times who called him a traitor, an article (which is fast becoming the Zapruder film of Russiagate) in New York Magazine echoing former counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke in speculating that Trump met Putin as his handler, and another former intelligence officer warning that “we’re on the cusp of losing the constitutional republic forever.”
Brennan’s bleating has the interesting side effect of directing attention away from who was watching the front door as the Russians walked in to cause what one MSNBC analyst described as a mix of Pearl Harbor and Kristallnacht. During the 2016 election, Brennan was head of the CIA. His evil twin, James Clapper, who also coughs up Trump attacks for nickels these days, was director of national intelligence. James Comey headed the FBI, following Robert Mueller into the job. Yet the noise from that crowd has become so loud as to drown out any questions about where they were when they had the duty to stop the Russians in the first place.
The excuse that “everybody believed Hillary would win” is in itself an example of collusion: things that now rise to treason, if not acts of war, didn’t matter then because Clinton’s victory would sweep them all under the rug. Only after Clinton lost did it become necessary to create a crisis that might yet be inflated (it wasn’t just the Russians, as originally thought, it was Trump working with them) to justify impeachment. Absent that need, Brennan would have disappeared alongside other former CIA directors into academia or the lucrative consulting industry. Instead he’s a public figure with a big mouth because he has to be. That mouth has to cover his ass.
Brennan is part of the whole-of-government effort to overturn the election. Remember how recounts were called for amid (fake) allegations of vote tampering? Constitutional scholars proposed various Hail Mary Electoral College scenarios to unseat Trump. Lawsuits claimed the Emoluments Clause made it illegal for Trump to even assume office. The media set itself the goal of impeaching the president. On cue, leaks poured out implying the Trump campaign worked with the Russian government. It is now a rare day when the top stories are not apocalyptic, rocketed from Raw Story to the Huffington Post to the New York Times. Brennan, meanwhile, fans the media’s flames with a knowing wink that says “You wait and see. Soon it’s Mueller time.”
Yet despite all the hard evidence of treason that only Brennan and his supine journalists seem to see, everyone appears resigned to have a colluding Russian agent running the United States. You’d think it would be urgent to close this case. Instead, Brennan admonishes us to wait out an investigative process that’s been underway now through two administrations.
The IRS, meanwhile, has watched Trump for decades (they’ve seen the tax docs), as have Democratic and Republican opposition researchers, the New Jersey Gaming Commission, and various New York City real estate bodies. Multiple KGB/FSB agents have defected and not said a word. The whole Soviet Union has collapsed since the day that some claim Trump first became a Russian asset. Why haven’t the FBI, CIA, and NSA cottoned to anything in the intervening years? Why are we waiting on Mueller Year Two?
If Trump is under Russian influence, he is the most dangerous man in American history. So why isn’t Washington on fire? Why hasn’t Mueller indicted someone for treason? If this is Pearl Harbor, why is the investigation moving at the pace of a mortgage application? Why is everyone allowing a Russian asset placed in charge of the American nuclear arsenal to stay in power even one more minute?
You’d think Brennan would be saying it is time to postpone chasing the indictments of Russian military officers that will never see the inside of a courtroom, stop wasting months on decades-old financial crimes unconnected to the Trump campaign, and quit delaying the real stuff over a clumsy series of perjury cases. “Patriots: Where are you???” Brennan asked in a recent tweet. Where indeed?
Is Brennan signaling that there is one step darker to consider? A Reuters commentary observes that “Trump is haunted by the fear that a cabal of national-security officers is conspiring in secret to overthrow him…. Trump has made real enemies in the realm of American national security. He has struck blows against their empire. One way or another, the empire will strike back.” James Clapper is confirming reports that Trump was shown evidence of Putin’s election attacks and did nothing. Congressman Steve Cohen asked, “Where are our military folks? The Commander-in-Chief is in the hands of our enemy!”
Treason, traitor, coup, the empire striking back—those are just words, Third World stuff, clickbait, right? So the more pedestrian answer must then be correct. The lessons of Whitewater and Benghazi learned, maybe the point is not to build an atmosphere of crisis leading to something undemocratic, but just to have a perpetual investigation, tickled to life as needed politically.
Because, maybe, deep down, Brennan (Clapper, Hayden, Comey, and Mueller) really do know that this is all like flying saucers and cell phone cameras. At some point, the whole alien conspiracy meme fell apart because somehow when everyone had a camera with them 24/7/365, there were no more sightings and we had to admit that our fears had gotten the best of us. The threat was inside us all along. It is now, too. | <urn:uuid:6146c824-e31b-4b5a-ba86-ee0c09551149> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-22/john-brennan-melting-down-covering | 2020-09-30T18:51:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600402127397.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200930172714-20200930202714-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.968481 | 1,598 |
Is there anything special you need during your visit?
I’m usually thankful for an easel and a big pad of paper. If the event in question is the sort of thing at which I could show slides, I like to have a digital projector on hand. Sometimes I’m asked about less practical things, however. Sometimes I’m asked if I have any sort of weird, non-negotiable contract riders like a certain thread count to my hotel sheets or a single ostrich feather for book-signing.
I got on this topic once with a library that was hosting me for a reading and signing on Dr. Seuss’s birthday. I no longer remember if I was just trying to be funny and broached the subject on my own, or if maybe the library started it by asking if I needed a bowl of all-green M&Ms or a bowl of everything but green M&Ms or whatever. How did green M&Ms become the yardstick of celebrity dressing-room excess? I Google it and find the legend attributed to Van Halen on one website and Aerosmith on another. Probably neither is true. Anyway, to the library I believe I answered that color was immaterial but that I wanted M&Ms with the “m” on each candy to be replaced with the Greek letter “pi”, and also a dozen live doves.
These kinds of events are generally booked weeks or even months in advance, so by the evening of Dr. Seuss’s birthday I’d forgotten all about the conversation. They anticipated this and had a copy of our last email exchange attached to the bags of custom M&Ms they gave me. It seems Mars Incorporated could not, at the time, put the letter “pi” on an M&M, but they could print “3.14…” They could print it on each and every green oblate spheroid.
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Square Enix revealed that Critical Mode is coming to Kingdom Hearts III tomorrow in a new post from Tetsuya Nomura on Twitter.
Greetings, it’s been a while since I last posted. Spring is here, and I hope everyone is doing well. #KingdomHearts III's long-awaited Critical Mode is available as a free update tomorrow (PT).
We’ve changed things up from the previous games, so I hope you enjoy – Nomura pic.twitter.com/Npz8FeKmCK
— KINGDOM HEARTS (@KINGDOMHEARTS) April 22, 2019
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On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the small Italian island of Lampedusa. Many of immigrants had come to Libya from other parts of Africa. When the Libyan uprising begun they sought to find greener pastures. Around 360 perished, with Italian Coast Guard rescuing 155. A week later another shipwreck occurred killing 34 people.
Lampedusa has become a hot destination of choice of smugglers ferrying migrants from Libya to Europe. The Lampedusa immigrants who perished had high hopes of reaching their new home, but they never made it to Europe. They each paid more than $ 1,355 per son and were crammed nto bought hoping they will get there. Many of the women endured rape, and men who rebelled were tied up and tortured. In the end they escaped danger in Africa only to meet it death later.
If you are a follower of Jesus you have also taken a journey from danger. You have been rescued from terrible conditions but unlike the Lampedusa immigrants you have not become shipwrecked. You have been successfully delivered to a new kingdom. Apostle Paul describes your situation like this :
[God] has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. (Col 1:13-14)
All true followers of Christ have been moved from captivity into a new Kingdom. Notice that this is not a transfer between two equal kingdoms. You have moved from a mere power (domain) to a functioning State under a King Jesus. Almost like moving from broken Libya to better organised states in Europe.
Your transfer as a follower of Christ is not merely a change of location it is also about personal transformation. Jesus has not just changed your spiritual postcode he has changed you from the inside out. Everyday you are being renewed in the image of Jesus. And this process of change is taking place because you are now within the confines of this new kingdom you live in. So what sort of kingdom is this?
First of all, it is a safe Kingdom. You have not just been rescued from Satan and left abandoned. Nor have you been rescued and having to come under attack. A bit like Denzel Washington in the movie Safe House, where he play the CIA agent Tobin Frost who cannot be kept safe despite how many safe houses he is taken to. In the end he has to fight his way to freedom. A key message of the movie appears to be that you fight for yourself because no one else can protect you.
As a follower of Jesus Christ you have no Frost problems. You have been moved from total darkness and into light. Apostle Peter echoes this when he tells the Christians in Asia Minor (and all true followers), "you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light" (1 Peter 2:9).
Being in a safe Kingdom does not mean trouble will now come your way. What it means is that Jesus is now your stronghold. An old prophet assured God's people people under oppression from Nineveh with the words, "the Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him”. Hundreds of years later Apostle Paul told the Colossians believers, “your life is now hidden with Christ in God”. Both statements reminds us that if you are a follower of Christ, you no longer need to rely on yourself for safety and protection because you are already safe!
This truth changes how you serve. You no longer need to fear the world when you talk about Jesus because you are safe in his Kingdom. May be you are a person prone to fear for many things. We live in an increasingly fearful society. Nationally, we fear the rumours of war that are gripping the world, the march of global terrorism and disease. At the individual level you may fear for your marriage, work, death and losing control! As challenging as these things may look, if you are a follower of Christ, you have come to a safe Kingdom and it cannot be shaken!
Secondly, the Kingdom of Jesus is a loving Kingdom. You are wanted by God. I recently came across a news story late July, about an Australian couple who had paid a Thai surrogate to carry twins. When the babies arrived the couple only accepted the healthy baby girl but rejected her twin brother who had Down syndrome. The case sparked international outcry and pleas of help for the surrogate and her rejected baby.
Apostle Paul is clear that God is not like that Australian couple. God has "transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son" or the Son he loves. The point Paul seems to be making at one level is simply that we are a love token from the Father to the Son. This makes you highly prized before his eyes regardless of your background. You may wonder what gift God would buy himself to demonstrate his deep love for His Son. The answer is you! Quite amazing, isn’t?
But there's a deeper point being made here. Paul is saying that God has drawn you into a love relationship between God the Father and God the Son. All true followers of Jesus are now part of a great Kingdom marked out by love. In the words of Apostle John, God’s love is a “out-of this-world” kind of love. A love for wretched undeserving sinners! A love that turns those rejected into children who belong to one kingdom of love! You now have a home!
Finally, the Kingdom of Jesus is a forgiving Kingdom. Even though God has rescued you, there will be moments when you turn against God from time to time. In those moments you will quietly wonder, ‘How do I know God will not get angry with me and hand me back to Satan?’ This is a question many children who are adopted or orphans go through. They struggle with acceptance and it begins to shape their behaviour in a negative way if it is not addressed.
Paul makes it clear that God our relationship to God in this new kingdom is marked by forgiveness: "in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins". We are all sinners before God. Even when we became Christians we did not stop sinning. This is why Apostle John says, “I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins”
In other words if you have truly repented, not only are you rescued you from danger, but Jesus also offers permanent forgiveness that ensures we remain morally perfect before God. Jesus our king stands before God bearing his perfect redemptive sacrifice for our sins that has turned God’s wrath into our favour. God now looks upon each member of His kingdom as he looks upon Jesus. In this new Kingdom forgiveness is available for struggling citizens!
God never gives us the Norwegian treatment. Norway's government recently announced that it was considering withdrawing Norwegian citizenship from people taking part in terror activities and wars abroad. Governments around the world are having to make tough choices about who they allow to hold citizenship. Norway's government is saying : you are not one of us! Thank God that under in the Kingdom of Jesus, God never says you are not one of mine, no matter how ugly our sins are! We all deserve the Norwegian treatment. But Jesus says to all who followers, 'my blood sets you free, go away and sin no more'!
What does it mean for you that we have a forgiving kingdom? It means that it doesn't matter how exotically righteous you are. It doesn't matter how pure you are in your dealings with sin. It doesn’t matter how strong or weak you are against temptation. As long as you are in the Kingdom of God you are totally forgiven because your standing with God is never based on your righteousness, but on his. The perfect life, death and death-defeating resurrection ensures that you stand forgiven in His kingdom.
It means that all of your sins past, present, and future have been covered by his blood. His righteousness has been attributed to your account. So even in your moment of greatest sin, you do not have to hide from God or fear his presence. Your penalty has been paid and eternal acceptance has been granted, so you can run into God’s presence, lost and broken as you often are, without fear of his rejection. The kingdom of Jesus is a kingdom of forgiveness because His grace guarantees your forgiveness, pays the penalty for your guilt, and lifts the burden of shame off your shoulders. So we see that in every dimension you truly belong to him!
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I wrote this post a week or so ago but never published it...
To start I have to give a big THANK YOU to Rosemary Shilling for taking care of us this weekend in Herne Bay. She was a lovely and gracious host.
On Saturday we started by going to Canterbury Cathedral. It is the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion and has roots all the way back to 597AD. After touring the cathedral and its grounds we did a little sight seeing in the city of Canterbury which was a happening little town. There is an old Roman wall around a big portion of the town including the cathedral.
Here are our Canterbury Pictures
Then we went onto Dover England to see the infamous Dover Castle. The castle is so rich in history its tough to know where to start. From being strengthened in 1066 by William the Conqueror to having its tunnels expanded to play a major role in World War II it is a tremendous place for history. Its keep was the home to Henry II and Henry VIII. We were able to take a tour of the Secret World War II Tunnels that would have been a nightmare during the war but a cool thing to see now.
Here are our Dover Castle Pictures. Due to the tremendous weather we were unable see France from Dover so we will have to go back.
On Sunday the weather was raining, windy and cold so we tried to stay dry while doing sight seeing around Herne Bay so most of it was from the car. Luckily Rosemary made reservations at a pub that was built in 1364 named the Red Lion so we were able to get out of the rain and grab some good ol' English grub. She introduced us to the traditional British Sunday roast dinner which is roast beef covered in gravy served with veggies and yorkshire pudding. It was excellent!
The journey home was a bit of headache because they were doing "planned engineering work" on the rail between Canterbury and London. At one point we had to get off the train onto a bus then back on the train into London. Needless to say it took us forever to get home. Arg we need a car... | <urn:uuid:d5b22b05-bf11-46b4-8818-e65a5082dd26> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://www.nolandtravels.com/2007/05/trip-to-herne-bay.html | 2020-09-18T16:28:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.984254 | 432 |
I met a friend for lunch after church, and as my husband and kids were heading out of town for the afternoon, I took my bike, even though it was pouring rain. My amazing bike took me from church to lunch in 7 minutes, through puddles and slipperly streets, without incident, and my pants kept me warm and dry. Amazing! And when I arrived at the restaurant and tied my trusty steed to the nearest pole and removed my bag from the rack, I was pleased to discover the contents bone dry.
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The University of Notre Dame’s Class of 2009 can be defined collectively, through a variety of numerical and statistical observations, as well as individually, through the stories of seniors with compelling tales to tell.
Some of the numbers are:
- About 95 percent of the students who enrolled at Notre Dame as freshmen in the fall of 2005 will receive a diploma Sunday (May 17) — a graduation rate exceeded only by Harvard and Princeton Universities.
- Some 80 percent of the graduates participated in volunteer and service-learning programs in the greater South Bend area, nationwide and around the world.
- About 10 percent of this year’s seniors will continue in volunteer service to society, engaging in a year or more of work in programs such as the Peace Corps, Teach for America, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and Notre Dame’s own Alliance for Catholic Education and Holy Cross Associates.
Beyond the numbers, here are some individual senior stories of distinction:
Tara Brito , Bellevue, Wash. — Brito, a science preprorfessional major, was a key researcher in a study of social networking published this year in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, a JAMA/Archives journal. The study of several hundred 18-year-olds’ public online MySpace profiles showed that about half mentioned sex, substance abuse or other risky behaviors on the site. The results have been widely publicized in dozens of national and international media outlets. She hopes that the study she was involved in, as well as future studies and publicity, including recent news reports about a suicide in Missouri as a result of online bullying, will help raise awareness about online risks. Brito, who spent the summer between her junior and senior years participating in an International Summer Service Learning Program in Calcutta, India, with Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, plans to attend medical school.
Brito can be reached at [email protected]
Coln can be reached at [email protected] Manion , Coon Rapids, Minn. — Manion, a mathematics and music major, is the first Notre Dame student since 1963 to receive a prestigious Winston Churchill Scholarship for graduate work at the University of Cambridge in England. His research interests include algebraic and differential geometry and algebraic topology and he will study for the certificate of advanced studies in pure mathematics at Cambridge. A Goldwater Scholar, Manion has participated in two National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates and is the recipient of Notre Dame’s Balles Award for the outstanding senior honors mathematics major, the Talifaerro Prize for first place in the mathematics essay competition for sophomores, and the Aumann Prize for first-year students in mathematics. He plays percussion, saxophone, oboe, English horn and piano and was a member of the Notre Dame Marching Band (drum captain), Symphonic Winds Ensemble (saxophone section leader), Orchestra (oboist), and Chorale. After his studies at Cambridge, Manion plans to pursue a doctorate in theoretical mathematics.
Manion can be reached at [email protected]
Andrew Nesi* , Fairfield, Conn. — An American studies major, Glynn scholar and finalist for valedictorian, Nesi completed his studies with a 3.99 grade point average and the “happiest senior thesis on earth.” After taking the courses “Disney in Film and American Culture” and “U.S. Environmental History,” Nesi decided to research the recreation and representation of nature at Walt Disney World. He received an Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP) grant supporting five days of research at Disney, where he toured the park’s Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom and EPCOT, interviewed Disney employees and studied in the Orlando Public Library’s Disney Archive. Nesi determined that Disney has the power to shape, reflect and reinforce our consciousness of nature and offers more entertainment than education – relying on consumption as its primary means of environmental civic participation. Nesi also served as a columnist for the student newspaper The Observer, a member of the Arts and Letters College Council, and a coach for women’s interhall football. He had secured a career opportunity in investment banking, but has decided to explore other possibilities, including international and domestic service.
Nesi can be contacted at [email protected]
Winschel can be contacted at [email protected]
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Last December, I held a mandala-only workshop for the first time. These are the circular “gwiazdy” (star) style wycinanki, but I called it “mandala” because it seems to be a more familiar term. I learned that we needed about an hour more than I scheduled. I also learned that it is better to pick out your color combinations first to save time later. When I work on these myself, I rarely do it one sitting so this was a good learning experience for me.
Everyone worked on their background shapes and designs before cutting began, then I shared my technique for cutting, folding and working in layers. It just takes patience and practice. Then I shared my technique for adding colorful layered shapes in the right sizes.
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The Joint Diploma program on the thought of Thomas Aquinas begins the 2020-2021 program with an open lecture by Prof. Vittorio Possenti. The theme of the Joint Diploma for this year is “I fondamenti della vita morale” (The Foundations of the Moral Life).
Prof. Possenti taught political philosophy at the Università Ca’ Foscari of Venice. He is a founding member of the Institut International Jacques Maritain (1974); member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas, and for many years a member of the National Bioethics Committee (1999-2013). His publications and interests include ethics, philosophical realism, personalism, metaphysics, human rights, and the science-philosophy relationship.
The Lectio Magistralis is open to the public, and entrance is free. After the lecture, certificates from the previous year’s Joint Diploma program will be presented.
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We’re being bullied by the Christians
For the sake of argument
DR. ROBERT W. BROCKWAY
When I was a student at Columbia University I became, for a time, a practicing Buddhist and joined a temple. Nearly all of my fellow worshippers were niseis (JapaneseAmericans) and many of them like myself came from the Hawaiian Islands. Nisei soldiers from Camp Kilmer used to drop in from time to time and several of them told us that the United States Army was doing everything in its power to persuade them to abandon their Buddhism and become Christians. "They order us to attend Protestant chapel services,” one of them told me, “and we go and sing the hymns and listen, but we’re still Buddhists.”
I do not know how general these experiences were. The American army is usually quite careful to respect religious beliefs, and, indeed, efforts were actually made to find Buddhist priests who could serve as chaplains to the nisei soldiers. The mere fact, however, that at least some attempt was made to pressure Buddhists into the abandonment of their religion is proof enough that religious intolerance is a live issue on the North American continent. What lies behind it, I think, is the assumption that this is a Christian society. People with religious beliefs which are other than Christian are usually tolerated, to be sure, but they are not accorded the respect they deserve, nor are their rights taken sufficiently into consideration.
I challenge this assumption that Canada is a Christian country and I also challenge the right of the Christian churches to impose their views and their ways of doing things upon all of us. I do this with all due respect to the Christian faith and to its adherents and without any desire to malign anyone’s religious convictions. The churches have every right to impose their beliefs upon the members of their own communions, but I question
their right to impose religious beliefs and practices upon society as a whole, by means of usurping the power of the state and using public funds.
To consider the first point, it is true that ninety-five percent of the Canadian population list themselves as being members of one or another of the Christian communions when the census taker calls. There is plenty of symbolic recognition of the Christian faith as exemplified in the practice of opening and closing parliament with Christian prayer. There is also the inescapable fact that historically speaking Christianity is an inextricable part of our Anglo-French heritage and that the Christian churches play an enormous role in our national life. Still, when all is said and done, none of these things actually proves that we are a Christian society in anything but name.
The huge statistical membership accorded the six major denominations by the census takers represents almost nothing by way of actual church membership and even this reflects only a most exaggerated picture of it, for, as every clergyman is only too well aware, a very large proportion of the members on his rolls are exceedingly nominal. By the time one has accounted for the vast number of people who join a church for no other reason than social prestige or business contacts the number of genuine Christians has diminished to a very small minority.
The practicing Christian who understands his faith and attempts to apply it in daily life is a rare bird indeed these days. I do not have the statistics of actual church membership (and am not sure that they exist) but it was recently stated at an annual meeting of social workers and clergy in Hamilton that nearly eighty percent of the people in
DR. BROCKWAY IS MINISTER AT HAMILTON’S FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH.
For other views on contemporary religion, see page 15.
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“Outside Quebec, Christianity seems too nominal to justify Canada being described as Christian”
that city are non-churchgoers, and I suspect that much the same exists in all of the cities of our country with the possible exception of certain communities in the pfovince of Quebec, which is one of the few remaining Christian societies in the world. Outside Quebec, however, Christianity seems much too nominal to justify Canada being called a Christian country in any meaningful sense.
What kind of society is it then? one mi»ht ask. It is certainly not Moslem or Hindu. I would say that it is a secular society in which the* Christian church is only one among many interacting social forces and influences.
Some notion of what I mean can he gained by comparing our modern culture in English Canada with the genuinely Christian society of the Middle Ages, traces of which still thrive in Quebec. As the English historian R. H. Tawney points out in his book Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, medieval Christianity was a social organism in which the economic. political, aesthetic and social realms of life were all integrated under the aegis of the church. There was nothing in life that was not religious or directly affected by religion.
The church penetrated all spheres of
life and was virtually supreme. Its teachings were not always practiced: medieval people were not living in the Kingdom of God; hut everyone knew what these teachings were and was aware of them as the standard of conduct in all things. Life was regarded as a pilgrimage, or better, an interlude in the eternal pilgrimage that ultimately led either to the throne of God or eternal damnation, and all political, economic, social and aesthetic values were judged in the light of this perspective.
The medieval guild, for example, was a religious fraternity. Unfair competition, shoddy workmanship and usury were not simply bad business practices; they were sins and the medieval craftsman was eternally conscious of divine judgment and constantly reminded of it by the master craftsmen of his guild. The medieval church and state were closely integrated. Kings, barons and priests were mutually dependent. The state was the secular arm of the church, the church the secular arm of the state. Almost all medieval art and architecture was for the purpose of teaching Christian doctrine to the illiterate, and theology was queen of philosophy and the sciences. Medieval Europe was a Christian society.
For good or for ill this is not the state of affairs now. From the Renaissance onward there has been a marked process of secularization throughout the Western world, a phenomenon that has been much commented upon by both Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians. The late Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, has given us perhaps the clearest picture of it in his book Nature, Man and God.
“During the fifteenth century,” he tells us, “many things were happening which tended to arouse the critical spirit. All tradition and the assurance associated with it was bound up with the Church. There was a scheme of thought embracing Theology, Metaphysics, Logic, Politics, Ethics and Economics. It was in itself coherent and close-knit; but Theology was the keystone of its arch, and the guardian of theological doctrine was the Church.”
In the course of succeeding centuries this scheme of things disintegrated. The breach took place first in the sphere of politics. The kings asserted their independence of ecclesiastical control and accomplished it. Then the guild system broke down and was replaced by competitive capitalism, the principles of which were economic rather than religious. The Dutch and Venetian painters led a movement in art away from Christian themes and in the direction of naturalistic ones. Philosophers became bolder and, as Temple tells us. the mainstream of Western thought and theology separated after René Descartes, the seventeenth-century French thinker, committed the faux pas (from the archbishop's point of view) of making skepticism respectable.
What religion can hide
Whether all of this is good or bad depends on one’s own point of view. Liberals tend to approve of secularization because it has led to greater freedom for the individual. The orthodox, on the other hand, quite naturally feel that many of the secularizing developments of the past three or four centuries have been disastrous. Few want to return to the Middle Ages; most, however, want to restore the Christian gospel to its original prominence as a guide in political, economic and social life. The motive is understandable. A devout Christian quite naturally wants a Christian society. Some of the methods used to attain it, however, are extremely questionable.
Religion is oftentimes a cloak for what is in reality the crudest sort of bullying of the weak by the strong. Too often, the teachings followed (though not necessarily practiced) are Maehiavelli’s and Nietzsche’s rather than those of Jesus. Because they can often claim a statistical majority, the stronger religious bodies oftentimes arrogate to themselves special privileges, demand conformity to their ways on the part of the whole community and deny ordinary rights and freedoms to the members of religious bodies that are financially and numerically weak.
Part of the difficulty perhaps lies with the prevalence within some churches of what psychologists refer to as authoritarian personalities. By reason of early upbringing and conditioning a great many people have fixed attitudes and think in terms of black - and - white absolutes. Oftentimes, they feel that theirs is the one true faith and that anything else is error. Those who follow error are in need of correction and so the fortunate ones who see the light have a moral obligation to lead those who walk in the darkness. Truth, says the authoritarian, is one, and I know what it is. Quite logi-
cally. people who feel this way find it easy to impose their beliefs on others and, as Arnold Toynbee points out in his An Historian's Approach to Religion, do so with a perfectly clear conscience. They do it in the same spirit by which a loving parent corrects an erring child. Dissenters, of course, resent both the correction and the spirit of condescension that accompanies it and hence there is conflict.
The solution to the conflict. I think, lies in a better observance being made of our traditional British traditions of constitutional freedom and human rights. Surely, orthodox Christians should have every right to preach, advocate and work for a universal Christian society. Moreover. any church should have the right to impose upon its own members any restrictions upon thought, expression and conduct that it deems essential to its message and mission. If it is essential to a man’s religion that he submit to an authoritarianism that is repellent to others of us. we must permit him that privilege. To do otherwise is to risk the chances of an otherwise democratic society becoming totalitarian in the process of repressing authoritarians in its midst.
Where church rights end
On the other hand, no church should have the right to impose its will upon people who are not of its faith or to force them to subscribe to its doctrines or participate in its observances. No church has the right to use the power of the state or public funds in its sectarian interests.
All churches, in other words, have the right to regulate the conduct and thought of those who are of their faith, but none has the right to regulate the thought and co..duct of those w'ho are not of it. All churches have the right to persuade those who are not of their faith, but none of them has the right to coerce them. Before the law' all men should be equal in their lights either to worship in the church of their own choice and after their own custom or not to worship at all. These principles are essential to democracy. If these principles were observed by all churches most of the conflict over religion would disappear.
There is a further problem related to the first and this is the fact that some Christians insist that their religion is the sole source of both our democracy and our ethical values. We are told that without common agreement on Christian essentials freedom will be lost, order will vanish and morality will disappear. From the historical point of view the basis of this argument is very tenuous.
Orthodox theologians such as Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr tell us that the ethical teachings of Jesus were neither original nor exclusive. The teachings of love, mercy and forgiveness had been preached by the rabbis and prophets of Israel for centuries before the New Testament was w'ritten and they were known and taught by the Greek philosophers long before the birth of Jesus.
Most orthodox theologians of both the Roman Catholic and Protestant faiths tell us that the chief significance of Jesus is that He is a self-disclosure on the
part of God and the supernatural means to the redemption of sin. He restated and reiterated the moral law that had already been revealed to the Jews and added to it the power of His own redemptive love. This, as 1 understand it. is the central belief of orthodox Christianity, and I do not see that it detracts from Christianity in any way for it to be admitted by Christians that the moral values they follow are. for the most part, shared by the adherents of Judaism, Buddhism. Hinduism and other religions. Even the most superficial study of com-
parative religions will quickly reveal this to be the case.
The Golden Rule, for example, is one teaching that is common to almost all of the eleven higher religions of the world. Furthermore, nearly all of the church fathers such as Justin Martyr. Origen and Tertullian were men who were steeped in Greek philosophy and a great deal of their moral teaching can be traced to that source. The ethical ideals of our Western civilization are not exclusively Christian. They are a continuous and evolving stream which began with the
Egyptians and has been fed by many brooks and rivulets.
This is also true of democracy. The oft-repeated notion that democracy is of Christian origins is without historical foundations. Western democracy was developed first by the pagan Greeks and most of our democratic principles have come down to us from them. Democracy disappeared in Greece after the Peloponnesian Wars and was not revived again until such idealists as John Locke, in the seventeenth century, and JeanJacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson, in the eighteenth century, began to expound its principles. Nearly all of these idealists were steeped in the Greek classics and were, for the most part, deists and religious liberals rather than orthodox Christians. In any case, it has thrived most successfully where church and state are separated and where people are free to choose their own religious convictions or none.
Who makes the rules?
Too many churchmen insist that all must conform to their particular brand of Christianity as a social duty and too many of them identify religious orthodoxy with good citizenship and decency in an exclusive way. In the name of Christianity and entirely contrary to the teachings of the Founder, members of religious minorities, non-practicing nominal Christians and those who prefer no formal religion at all are forced to make observances that are contrary to conviction and conscience.
This belief that democracy and morality are dependent upon Christian convictions underlies the program of religious education in the public schools followed by Ontario and certain other
provinces. Those who support religious education in the public schools usually insist that Christianity and morality are inseparable and that the one cannot be had without the other. As a consequence of this mistaken belief they use public funds and public facilities to work a travesty on Jewish children, JapaneseCanadian Buddhist children, Unitarian children and the children of parents who do not subscribe to any particular religious creed but who are very responsible in their ethical attitudes and conduct.
Even aside from the gross unfairness done to non-Christians is the injustice done Christians themselves. How does one find material that will be acceptable to Anglicans, Eastern Orthodox, Quakers, Mormons, Christian Scientists and Christadelphians? Beyond certain basic ethical principles common not only to Christians but to people of almost all religions, there are vast differences in belief and interpretation in all of these denominations which are necessarily done violence to by any common program of religious instruction however nonsectarian its intention. If there was this much unity among Protestants there would not be two hundred and fifty-four Protestant denominations.
The rights of both child and parents to religious beliefs of their own are entirely ignored under our Erastian school system and the child is left with the psychologically impossible alternative of leaving the classroom during religious instruction and suffering the consequences of insecurity and social isolation.
The Lord's Day Act is another example of the kind of public coercion, which takes place because of authoritarians who wish to impose their own beliefs and customs upon society as a whole. In spite of the fact that thousands
of Canadians loath the puritan Sabbath with all of its grim associations, all of us outside the province of Quebec are forced to observe it. Under the lame pretext that, the rights of the workingman are being protected, but for the real purpose of imposing a particularly sectarian brand of Christian morality upon all, practically all places of amusement must remain closed, concerts cannot be held and newspapers may not issue Sunday editions. Because of the Machiavellianism of an overzealous minority all of us are forced to subscribe to something that is obnoxious to many of us if not positively contrary to conviction.
There is also the kind of bullying that was exemplified in a recent resolution adopted by the Canadian Council of Churches and that contained the insidious proposal that the children of Jewish parents be evangelized since their elders had proven stubborn in their refusal to embrace Christianity and since all “Jews are potential children of God.”
One could cite many other examples. One could make mention of the occasional attempts at book censorship inspired, for the most part, by religious bodies that persuade law-enforcement agencies to intimidate book dealers and newsstands into removing from the shelves reading matter that they disapprove of. One could also make mention of our antiquated divorce laws, which are based on sectarian morality and which force thousands of Canadians into common-law marriages every year. One could deplore the way the Social Credit governments of Alberta and British Columbia mix religion with politics, and volumes could be written about theocracy in Quebec.
Surely with the world in turmoil and our secular society groping about in the dark there is much need for the light that all religions can shed. Must we all conform, however, to the beliefs of those who happen to be numerically strongest and financially the most powerful? Surely this is inconsistent with democracy, unjust and unfair. In a country like Canada where people are of many faiths there must be fair play on the part of all if any are to enjoy the rights of free men. Jesus said, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God's.” Surely we can respect that distinction. -fa | <urn:uuid:963a9416-2491-4ebf-91c0-0430abb01ece> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1957/9/14/were-being-bullied-by-the-christians | 2020-09-18T17:14:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.973075 | 3,840 |
Sharleze, The Good Mermaid
Daughters of Poseidon, The Twin Mermaids grew up in the sea as two spoiled princesses. Sharleze is the good one and sensitive while Marysha is a naughty bad girl! Marysha, the dark-haired Mermaid has the habit of “borrowing” her father’s powerful magical trident without his consent and gets her sister, Sharleze in all sorts of predicaments!
Characters in an upcoming Graphic Novel by ARH ComiX, the Twin Mermaids are sure to make a splash in any collection, and they will amaze you by the quality and craftsmanship of this fantastic 1/4th scale statue.
Digitally sculpted by Arahom Radjah, and painted by Arahom Radjah, the Sharleze Mermaids features a removable magnetic breast covers. | <urn:uuid:f8c5e287-d338-4667-be71-346bdb045c2b> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://arhstudioscollectibles.com/shop/sharleze-the-good-mermaid/ | 2020-09-18T16:46:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.916798 | 177 |
Nabhan Abdullatife, a graphic designer and illustrator from Oman has created a series of hilarious design illustrations where he uses everyday objects and turn them in to visual puns. Sure, he does have a great sense of humor along with amazing designing capabilities and that’s the reason his every sketch is better than the previous one.
Let’s check out some of his illustrations,
1. I am sorry Mom, but I couldn’t hold it any longer.
2. You make me feel safe.
3. Stay in shape.
4. I feel so empty when I don’t shop.
5. We met each other on the web.
6. I’ve been under a lot of pressure lately.
7. Just in Case.
8. Mr. Jelly Bean.
9. I am so ‘board’.
10. Here’s how to Take Off. | <urn:uuid:9cbd617f-246e-489b-a918-2fdad4e38637> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://beebom.com/nabhan-abdullatif-funny-illustrations/ | 2020-09-18T17:24:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.917534 | 198 |
Sunday Open 8/10/17
Dates: Sunday 8th October
Waters: Wallace & Queensberry
Draw time : 09:00 prompt
All in: 11:00
All out 16:30
Match fee £20 all in
(Ring fishery office only 01461 700386 if your running late)
Standard Broom Fisheries Match Rules Apply
|Scott Bond||34||58lb 00oz|
|Rob Swan||45||44lb 10oz|
|Dave Walker||35||37lb 00oz|
|Barry Young||44||30lb 06oz|
|Mark Clow||38||23lb 08oz|
|Dave Mcauley||42||23lb 00z|
|Steve Royle||37||17lb 00oz|
|John Wright||41||11lb 00oz|
|Ian Whitson||25||67lb 04oz|
|Simon Hayes||21||45lb 08oz|
|Myles Watt||22||42lb 00oz|
|Nick Aldersley||19||30lb 00oz|
|Don Lines||GP||16||29lb 00oz|
|Daryn Ritchie||15||27lb 04oz|
|James Woodrow||27||27lb 00oz|
|Geoff Brough||28||22lb 12oz|
|John Williamson||18||22lb 04oz|
|Jim Anderson||24||17lb 02oz|
Broom Fisheries Sunday Open Match Results
( 18 fished. )
A nice dry & mild day today, with very little wind and periods where it was pretty much flat calm.
Queensberry Water was a little more coloured than Wallace Lake, which reflected in the weights today.
Ian Whitson won comfortably on Queensberry Water catching some nice carp and skimmers on feeder rod with very little showing interest on his pole line, weighing in a superb 67lb 4oz to win the section and overall match.
Simon Heyes fished a good match to finish 2nd in section, catching ide, skimmers and carp on the pole to weigh in 45lb 8oz.
Myles Watt was a respectable 3rd with 42lbs, mainly ide caught on the pole.
On Wallace Lake the fish were a bit more spooky due to the clarity of the water, fine rigs and less feeding was the way forward.
Scott Bond won the section with a mix of ide and carp, with a few carp from his margin, but most getting caught on maggots on his silver line on the pole..! 58lbs.
Rob Swan made the most of his end peg advantage today, catching 37 ide fishing shallow with maggots, and 8 carp on sweetcorn from his left hand margin to weigh in 44lb 10oz, finishing 2nd in section.
Dave Walker was 3rd with 37lbs of carp caught on tip rod.
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Free Body Image CE Workshop in Boise, ID
May 17, 2018 @ 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Please join body image expert, Nicole Hawkins, PhD, CEDS for our Tea & Training Continuing Education Series in Boise, ID
Thursday, May 17th, 2018
Residence Inn Boise Downtown/City Center
400 S. Capitol Blvd
Boise, ID, 83702
8:00am – 8:30am: Check-in and Breakfast
8:30am – 12:00pm: Presentation
Nicole Hawkins, PhD, CEDS will present on Assessment and Treatment of Body Image Disturbances Across the Weight Spectrum
Offering three (3) CE credits
Although this event is free, space is limited so registration is required. Please register below:
This course has been approved by Center for Change, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider # 123302, Center for Change is responsible for all aspects of their programming.
Center for Change has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6766. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Center for Change is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Center for Change is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Center for Change maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Center for Change, provider #15417 is a continuing professional education (CPE) accredited provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) Activity #139407. CDR credentialed practitioners will receive one continuing professional education unit (CPEU) for completion of this activity.
This program has been approved for 3 hours at BSW level, 3 hours at MSW level and 3 hours at the MSW-Clinical level by the National Association of Social Workers-Idaho Chapter, and may be applied toward the continuing education requirements for social work license renewal.
The main goal of this presentation is to educate professionals on how to assess and treat body image disturbances across the weight spectrum. The presentation will focus on factors that contribute to negative body image and how therapists can effectively assess the influence of these factors in regards to the patients they treat. This presentation will also address the impact of the media and the diet industry, and how dieting leads to a loss of self-esteem and not necessarily weight. This presentation will provide information on individual and group assessment techniques and interventions for body image disturbances that professionals can take home and use in their daily practices.
Staff of Hospitals, Medical Centers, Mental Health Clinics, General Medicine Physicians, Psychiatrists, APRN’s, Psychologists, Counselors, Dietitians, Nurses, Substance Abuse Counselors, Mental Health Technicians for all levels including introductory to advanced.
- Describe three techniques to adequately assess body image disturbances in patients with eating disorders.
- Explain factors that contribute to the development on body image disturbances.
- List effective techniques to treat body image disturbances in patients with eating disorders in individual or group setting.
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and so it begins…
by Chris Kamalski
“SURELY WE CAN CHANGE SOMETHING…
To participate in the Story of God is to be God’s redemptive act in creation. We must endeavor to discern what it means and looks like to love our neighbors and to manage this good earth that we have been entrusted. WE MUST LIVE DECISIVELY” (David Crowder).
My Dear Community of Family and Friends,
The above quote by David Crowder has wrecked my life! Last fall I found myself waiting in a concert line outside the House of Blues Anaheim with hundreds of others, anticipating singing a few familiar songs, when I was handed a piece of paper describing a small redemptive effort Crowder and his band was attempting throughout the course of their tour, seeking to collect towels and socks for local homeless shelters in every city in which they played. Stopped cold by the vision that gatherings of Christians should result in the forgotten and broken being touched with loving care, they sought to do something now beyond playing concerts. My heart had been rumbling and restless for months, and this idea penetrated the soil that God had been softening for months, crystallizing the call that He had been whispering in my heart for years: It’s time to leap, Chris. You were made for more than this. My world is huge, and so is your heart. What if the two were joined together?
Fast forward a year, and my story is this: I have just turned 29(!), am graduating in December 2008 with a Masters in Spiritual Formation and Soul Care from seminary, have served as a Chaplain (Think Youth Pastor + Counselor) at Eastside Christian High School and Junior High in Fullerton for over four years, and am single with precious little debt to my name. I can speak Spanish almost-fluently, and have always come alive in cross-cultural contexts where the world’s need and my gifts and passions can merge together. I have a growing heart to use my training and experience in spiritual formation to come alongside national leaders in the global church and help them open to God’s work and development in their own life, and in the life of the church and city in which they live. Again, simply put: It is time for me to step outward, desiring to live a life of formation and growth in Jesus Christ amongst a community of missional servant-leaders, to bless the world that I live in.
Enter NieuCommunities (www.nieucommunities.org). NieuCommunities is a small network of missional communities scattered around the world who are committed to developing followers of God in the way of Jesus. Their purpose is primarily fulfilled through a 42-week missional apprenticeship year which is marked by intense focus and growth in communion with God, community through shared life with others, and intentional engagement in our neighborhoods, out of which flows a natural rhythm of mission and service with others. The outcome of this year is both simple and complex: To posture myself in a new environment for the purpose of being developed as a young, emerging leader for the benefit of the church and world. I have been accepted as an apprentice for the 2009 year (February—November) in Pretoria, South Africa! I find myself deeply anticipating all that God will do through this experience in my own continued development as a follower of God, and yet also sense that this year is an on-ramp to a much greater season of life in service and mission.
Much more should be said, but I’ll keep this succinct. My need to participate in NieuCommunities is significant, as I have the privilege of standing on your support, both financial and through prayer. I need to raise just over $22,000 for this 11-month experience. I am prayerfully looking for at least 10 monthly donors of $100, 7 monthly donors of $75, and 10 monthly donors of $50. Would you consider supporting me in this mission? In a future post you will find details as to how to support me. Please complete these simple steps and give me the honor of connecting with you on a more personal level. I greatly look forward to our future conversation. Thank you sincerely—you have shaped and readied me for this adventure! | <urn:uuid:daf5a6c6-0bb2-4505-b000-927e33ac17e0> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://chriskamalski.com/2008/12/07/and-so-it-begins/ | 2020-09-18T17:46:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.967777 | 883 |
A Page dedicated to a few of my favourite links for you to enjoy as well. If you would like to be featured on this page then please contact me with a description of you are your craft.
- Kids Knitz By Joy – A very good friends facebook page, go take a look at what she can knit together for you. She also has a crafting page covering all her other makes Handmade by Joy.
- I have created a facebook community group for all things crochet / knitting related. please feel free to search for Cosy Crochet Community and join us for a chat, share patterns and ideas with like minded people.
- The Knitting Network – a great website to buy yarn and patterns for both knitting and crochet. Quick service and delivery and respond to queries almost immediately.
- A SmarterU – I am a Brand Influencer for the Smart Coffee from RevitalU, click on the SmarterU link and join my facebook group and request your free sample today. Please let me know if you are UK or USA. | <urn:uuid:8eea67b2-1fd8-400d-b76b-f2c487b43e35> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://cosycrochetbymarie.com/links/ | 2020-09-18T16:13:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.941741 | 212 |
Blog cards Pro
Documentation and examples for blog cards. Cards are built with as little markup and styles as possible, but still manage to deliver a ton of control and customization.
Below is an example of a basic blog card with mixed content and a fixed width. Cards have no fixed width to start, so they’ll naturally fill the full width of its parent element. This is easily customized with Bootstrap 4 various sizing options
.bg-* modifier classes to make blog cards more creative.
David L. Brown
Following the release of the 16-inch MacBook Pro in late 2019, Apple was praised for the larger screen, the increased performance, and the improved keyboard.
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Trident?s Devlin DeFrancesco was twice penalised, as well as several others, at Spa-Francorchamps for driving offences in the two FIA Formula 3 Championship races.
The Canadian was deemed by stewards to be? wholly or predominantly to blame? for a lap one collision with Campos Racing?s Alex Peroni in Saturday?s race, which led to Peroni retiring.
DeFrancesco had locked up at Turn 8 and driven into Peroni, resulting in him seeing out the rest of the race down in 27th place. He was originally handed a drive-through penalty, which was converted to a 20-second post-race time penalty and left him in 29th.
In Sunday?s race, DeFrancesco was once again involved in a collision, earning him a five-place grid penalty for the first race at Monza.
This time, DeFrancesco outbraked himself on the run to Turn 5, colliding with HWA Racelab?s Jake Hughes. Both cars retired, with DeFrancesco being found at blame for the incident.
Since his title-winning Spanish F3 campaign in 2017, DeFrancesco is yet to score a point in single-seaters and is currently 23rd in the FIA F3 standings.
Carlin?s Logan Sargeant was another to get a five-place grid penalty for Monza, after he rearended MP Motorsport?s Liam Lawson at Turn 18 and span him around. Sargeant retired, while Lawson finished 19th.
A separate incident in the second race at Spa between Peroni and Lawson?s team-mate Simo Laaksonen resulted in the latter crashing at high speed into the Blanchimont barriers.
Contact between the pair had punctured one of Laaksonen?s tyres, resulting in a five-second penalty for Peroni, and the crash left Laaksonen?s car stuck underneath the tyre barriers.
Safety crews were able to free Laaksonen and he was taken to the circuit medical centre where the Finn reported that he had back pain.
He was then taken to the Spa circuit’s medical centre before being released. He reported that he just felt slight back pain after the incident, and told Autosport that in the crash the tyre barriers had made contact with his helmet despite the presence of the halo cockpit protection device | <urn:uuid:93e7ee24-d1ad-4f11-a8e3-015075ed155b> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://formulascout.com/defrancesco-punished-laaksonen-escapes-fia-f3-injury-at-spa/53987 | 2020-09-18T16:33:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.977088 | 501 |
Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a case that will decide whether sweeping religious exemptions can override local nondiscrimination laws—like Atlanta’s.
At the center of the case is a Colorado bakery that refused to sell a cake to a same-sex couple celebrating their marriage, directly violating Colorado’s nondiscrimination law preventing businesses open to the public from engaging in anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
The stakes in this case are huge. If the case is decided in favor of the bakery, it will implement a nationwide License to Discriminate, where businesses can claim a very broad religious exemption to many local and state laws, including those protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination.
That means cities like Atlanta that currently have LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinances would be unable to enforce them, leaving Georgians even more vulnerable to anti-LGBTQ discrimination and harassment than they already are and threatening Atlanta’s reputation as a safe, welcoming city for LGBTQ people.
It would also throw into limbo our efforts to pass LGBTQ-inclusive civil rights protections statewide. The statute in question in the Masterpiece case is the portion of the state’s public accommodations law prohibiting anti-LGBTQ discrimination by public businesses. That update to the law was passed by the Colorado legislature in 2008 and is similar to the civil rights protections we’re attempting to enact in Georgia.
A ruling in favor of discrimination in the Masterpiece case could also give momentum to lawmakers who support the dangerous religious exemptions legislation that we’ve fought in Georgia for the last several years, and may fight again in 2018.
All of this could happen despite the fact that a growing majority of individuals and businesses in Georgia reject such a License to Discriminate. According to a recent poll from Small Business Majority, 66% of small business owners in Georgia do not think a business should be allowed to deny services to someone who is LGBTQ because of their religious beliefs.
And in March, a poll from the Project Right Side Foundation found that nearly 3 in 4 Georgians (74%) support a comprehensive non-discrimination law to protect LGBT people from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations.
We’ll dive deeper into the legal analysis and implications for our movement on Wednesday, December 6th at a panel discussion and Q&A session featuring Georgia Equality, the ACLU of Georgia, Faith in Public Life, and Lambda Legal. Similar events we’ve hosted have filled up fast—so don’t wait to reserve your spot.
Georgia Equality will livestream the event on their Facebook page if you’re unable to join the discussion live in Atlanta.
And in preparation of the next legislative session, we’re working to expand our coalition of local business owners who support LGBTQ-inclusive civil rights laws. If that describes you—or someone you know—sign our business pledge and someone will reach out with more information.SHARE THIS STORY | <urn:uuid:84919200-1617-4b3d-afad-c403010650f2> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://georgiaunites.org/masterpiece-at-scotus-implications-for-local-statewide-lgbtq-inclusive-nondiscrimination-protections-in-georgia/ | 2020-09-18T17:21:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.940123 | 609 |
When Rin aced the Keju, the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies, it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard, the most elite military school in Nikan, was even more surprising.
But surprises aren’t always good.
Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school.
For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . .
Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.
So I’m a little late on this one, and this book already has an abundance of great reviews, but here I am giving it a late, great review. The Poppy War was a contender for best fantasy novel on the Goodreads 2018 choice awards, and one of my all-time favorite (and hard to please) reviewers, Kahn the Grinch on Goodreads, gave this one 5 stars, so I figured it was definitely worth the read. I wasn’t disappointed!
The beginning of this book was fantastic because I’m a sucker for school settings. The book starts with Rin, our main character, studying her ass off to be accepted into Sinegard, a top university in the country of Nikan. Sinegard is a military training school for the sons and daughters of powerful and rich men, of which Rin is very much not. I did get somewhat of a Hogwarts vibe at first, but Kuang quickly shattered this with intensity and brutality far beyond that of Draco Malfoy. And unlike Harry, Rin wasn’t chosen; she wasn’t set apart by her birth–in fact, the very opposite. She actually had to work for what she wanted, which was a lot more satisfying than it being handed to her in the form of a lightning-shaped scar. Her drive and motivation set her up as an admirable and fiercely determined character.
The character development continues long after the school setting has been ripped away, and Rin and her classmates are forced to face the brutalities of war. We see depth of character and relationships being developed and shaped by the world and through shared experiences. We see characters who once seemed shallow and immature grow into real human beings with emotions and drive. I loved almost every single character in this book because there was no good or evil, just shades of gray and conflicting inner turmoil. The interactions between them were organic and enjoyable to read. There was an emphasis on loyalty and trust rather than insta-love. The characters range from quirky to cruel and everything in between.
Another fantastic aspect of this book was the world-building. It was interesting to see how Kuang used Asian influences to set up what could have been an alternate China. There were a complexity of politics, culture, and inner workings that were slowly built up until I was completely immersed in the world. The magic system, more aptly named shamanism, was deeply intertwined with the cultural aspect of the novel and was based on psychological and spiritual depth. I got some heavy Kung Fu Panda vibes with the smallest amount of Doctor Strange mixed in. I really enjoyed how Kuang used the essence of martial arts, meditation and balance, as a source of power. It was incredibly unique and made the book unpredictable because it’s something that fantasy (at least fantasy that I’ve read) hasn’t really explored.
As I mentioned in the trigger warning at the beginning of the post, Kuang does not shy away from the brutality of war. It is gory and awful, and definitely not for the faint of heart. The aftermath is described in especially sanguine detail. While this aspect of the novel wasn’t enjoyable, it certainly added verisimilitude and a sense of purpose to the plot and the character’s motivations.
I knocked the rating down to 4.5 stars because I thought the pacing was a bit slow. From the description, it sounds like most of the book would be about Rin at Sinegard. While this was a significant portion of the story, it wasn’t as much as I would have liked it to be. The rest of the novel gets a bit repetitive when it comes to the war. I can fully appreciate how Kuang laid out strategy and dove into principles of war, but personally I didn’t enjoy this as much as character interactions or the development of shamanism.
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I just found out The Economist has a daily chart feature!
Today’s graph about age of population vs age of cabinet ministers is pretty fascinating:
It did leave me with a few questions though…..who did they count as cabinet ministers? I don’t know enough about the governments in these countries to know what that equates to. Also, why average vs median?
I initially thought this chart might have been representing Congress, not the Cabinet. I took a look at my old friend the Congressional Research Service Report and discovered that at the beginning of the 112th Congress in 2011, the average age was 57.7 years, which would make this chart about right. I had to dig a bit further to get the ages of the Cabinet, but it turns out their average age is 59.75. I was surprised the data points would be so close together actually….especially since that 57.7 was for Jan 2011, so it’s actually 59.2 or so now.
In case you’re curious, 7 members of the cabinet are under 60. The youngest is Shaun Donovan (46), Department of Housing and Urban Development. The oldest is Leon Panetta (74), Department of Defense. Panetta is actually the only member over 70. Half of them are in their 60s, 5 in the 50s, and 2 in their 40s.
I felt a little ashamed I only could have given name/position to 5 of them before looking them all up. That’s not great, especially when you realize I’m counting Biden. Still, I comforted myself with the fact that I bet that beats a very large percentage of Americans.
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Now back to chronological order. ‘Grandpa’s cinema still alive and kicking’, the Süddeutsche Zeitung commented on the edition of 1987 and rebuked the German films presented – among them HIMMEL ÜBER BERLIN (WINGS OF DESIRE) by Wenders, Jan Schütte’s DRACHENFUTTER (‘Dragon’s food’), and Percy Adlon’s OUT OF ROSENHEIM – for being ‘half-hearted and conform’.
A year later, Laurens Straub, one of the promoters of young German cinema, received the Film Award of the City of Hof and complained they had not succeeded in emancipating film from a so-called ‘false competition’, in which the only important criterion was to duly entertain the audience. Film, he continued, had distanced itself ever more from the participation in ‘what life’s all about’.
For German films, it was the year of the women. They showed films about love: Pia Frankenberg’s BRENNENDE BETTEN (‘Burning beds’), Monika Treut’s (highly controversial) DIE JUNGFRAUENMASCHINE (‘Virgin machine’), Ute Wieland’s (acclaimed) IM JAHR DER SCHILDKRÖTE (‘Year of the turtle’), Helma Sanders-Brahms’s MANÖVER (‘Maneuver’), Vivian Naefe’s PIZZA-EXPRESS, and Bettina Woernle’s DER EINBRUCH (THE ACCOMPLICE).
In 1989, the festival takes place in five venues, a first. The addition is the Regina-Kino which 22 years earlier had hosted the small initial festival lasting all of two hours. This year, the program comprises more than sixty feature and short films from eleven countries but fails to convince the national press that condemn it as a ‘feeble’, if not ‘bad’ edition.
During the 1990 festival, Hof was beleaguered as a popular shopping destination for tens of thousands of East Germans. Nevertheless, Badewitz did without entries from the former GDR: ‘We won’t participate in the hunt for the last film hidden away in some drawer.’ The film about the opening of the border came from the West. Christoph Schlingensief gave it the title DAS DEUTSCHE KETTENSÄGENMASSAKER (THE GERMAN CHAINSAW MASSACRE). East Germans (‘Ossis’) were massacred by West Germans (‘Wessis’) who wanted to turn them into sausage-meat. The German film scene was further represented by Praunheim with AFFENGEIL (LIFE IS LIKE A CUCUMBER), Peter Sehr with DAS SERBISCHE MÄDCHEN (THE SERBIAN GIRL), and Sönke Wortmann with EINE WAHNSINNSEHE (‘A mad marriage’). Dennis Hopper contributed to the international program with THE HOT SPOT, as did Paul Schrader with THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS. | <urn:uuid:65789828-73af-4793-9903-4738e3f458e7> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://home-of-films.com/en/chronicle-minor-crises/ | 2020-09-18T17:34:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.882228 | 714 |
Did you know that photographers for the Academy Awards have runners? Runners?
And what’s a runner you ask? Here, come and learn with me:
From Francis Specker:
"I got up at around 9:00 a.m. at the Roosevelt Hotel. I went through an equipment check, made a few phone calls to my editors, and then walked down to the Kodak Theater to check the strobes in the press room. From 11:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. the press room is closed for a security sweep, so if you want to check your lights you have to be there at around 10:30 a.m. After the lighting check I went to meet my runners who would be walking my digital cards from my spot on the red carpet to the hotel room where an editor was stationed.
I gave them a tour of the complex and told them the ground rules. Runners can’t take photos, can’t loiter and watch, and had to stay within a marked path. They do have a pass that give them access to all the regular media areas, which is great."
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If you’re new to the Kylie’s Corner & More blog, welcome to the family! Each time we go into a new month, I take the time to thank y’all for all the love y’all give this blog – I truly appreciate every one of you! In these appreciation post, I thank each country y’all have viewed this from in the month that ended, I then recognize some of the sweetest comments I have received during the previous month, and lastly, I do a monthly challenge for the new month!
Happy July! I appreciate all of you so, so much snd thank you for all the positivity from the past month, it doesn’t go unnoticed! I’m thankful I can express myself freely on this blog and not have to worry about people leaving mean comments underneath one of my blog posts. I love this little community we created and I can’t thank y’all enough for always being so encouraging and supportive!
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I changed up the look of the monthly challenge graphic!
For July, choose a topic you have always wanted to learn more about and educate yourself about, whether you read books, listen to podcasts, etc. For me, I’m going to start by reading White Awake by Daniel Hill for this month because I want to educate myself more about racism and what People of Color go through since it never occurred to me that other people get treated differently than the way I get treated. Knowledge is power and we never stop learning about something, we learn something new every day!
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The misgivings of conventional taxi drivers against the so-called transportation network vehicle services, exemplified by the operations of Uber and Grab, are piling up because of the perceived negative impact of these upstart services on their livelihoods.
At the Senate inquiry presided over by Senator Grace Poe into the state of the taxi cab sector, operators and drivers both spilled angst that, while they are tightly controlled by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRD), the rules governing the new players with their mobile application-driven service don’t seem to be marked with clarity and predictability.
Poe, chairperson of the Senate committee on public services conducted the hearing on ride-hailing or ride-sharing services to work on policies that will embrace innovation in the public transportation sector. She said she will work toward crafting a policy that will govern Uber and Grab, but vowed that the impending legal framework will consider public welfare and the common good.
“The public must be given more choices when it comes to transportation in the absence of improvements in the sector. Kailangan mag-adapt din tayo pero balansehin nang tama at maging patas ang gobyerno (We need to adapt but the government should achieve a balance by doing what’s right and fair),” said Poe.
Poe cited Article 1732 of the Civil Code which defines common carriers as “persons, corporations, firms or associations engaged in the business of carrying or transporting passengers or goods or both, by land, water, or air for compensation, offering their services to the public.”
She added the absence of a franchise is not a requisite for the incurring liability under the Civil Code provisions governing common carriers.
“If we want to move forward and craft legislation that is fair to all, then we should be forthright, respectful of the process and respectful to each other. Let’s respect each other, but we will be watching,” Poe said.
According to Atty Bong Suntay, President of the Philippine National Taxi Operators Association, “Co-existence must be on a level playing field; we cannot regulate one hand and deregulate the other. We can’t have rules for one sector and have none for the other. If we look at the service provided, it is the same for both, whether TNVS or taxis. We are both ferrying passengers for a fee.”
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Poe called on LTFRB to act on pending applications of Uber and Grab units with complete documents, and to come out with a decision on fare hike applications of regular taxis — which have been put on freeze for eight years despite inflationary and cost of living adjustments — by September.
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Fred Friction does not offer precision, flashiness or a flawless performance. He offers the truth. And though this local legend has an army of musicians to choose from when he wants accompaniment for his live shows, he frequently prefers to present his deceptively simple sings with just his voice and an acoustic guitar. He sings sweet stories of childhood dreams, relays booze-soaked tales of regret and pushes through sad love songs with twist endings. Friction’s songs are personal and touching in such a way that it is impossible to separate the man from the music. His sincere delivery is inimitable, and the tunes are always accompanied with wise, knowing eyes and a bemused grin.
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The new “council year” starts with our July 17th meeting. You are encouraged to attend, especially if you do not attend on a regular basis. We often talk about “the ten percent.” That’s the ten percent of any group that can be counted on to make the group work. But, just imagine if we could get 25% or 50% of our members to step up and make things possible for members of our parish.
What’s needed? Well there are over 100 ministries in our parish. There are also outside services agencies (non-Catholic community groups that we support) depended upon their Catholic neighbors. This includes Porch and the IFC…among others.
Why not attend our council meeting tonight and see your friends and neighbors at work. They will be happy to see you and look forward to working with you on a parish or Knights of Columbus program or project.
Oh, I forgot… We have new officers. They are the core of our Council. Many have served before and some have served as a Grand Knight or Faithful Navigator. You might think that they would take a break. Nope. Most will keep on giving because it is what needs to be done. But, I digress. I promised a list of Council Officers. Just click on this link or select “Officers” in the banner above: https://kofc10910.com/officers/
See you tonight.
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Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook Time: 15 mins | Total Time: 17 mins
Thai Green Curry Paste
- 3-6 green chillies (depending on how spicy you like it – you could reduce further to 1 or 2 and remove the seeds for less heat)
- 6 spring onions (scallions) roughly chopped
- 2 lemongrass stalks , outer leaves remove, inner stalk roughly chopped (replace with 2 tsp lemon grass paste if preferred)
- 1 thumb-sized piece ginger peeled and roughly chopped (replace with 2 tsp ginger paste if preferred)
- 4 cloves garlic peeled and roughly chopped
- 6 kaffir lime leaves
- zest and juice of 1 lime
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp white pepper
- 1/2 tbsp cumin
- 1 tbsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp shrimp paste (check for gluten free if needed)
- 2 tsp fish sauce
- 1 large bunch coriander (cilantro) stalks too
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 4 chicken breasts cut into bite-size chunks
- 4 heaped tbsp homemade Thai Green Curry Paste (see above)
- 1 chicken stock cube , crumbled (use bouillon for gluten free)
- 14 oz (400ml) tin full fat coconut milk
- 1 bunch of broccoli broken into small florets
- 1 cup (150g) sugar snap peas/snowpeas
- 1/2 cup bamboo shoots (from a tin, drained)
- 1 tsp light brown sugar
- Boiled rice
- Thai basil leaves
- freshly chopped red chillies
- Start by making the curry paste. To a high powered blender, add the green chillies, spring onions, lemongrass, ginger, garlic, kaffir limes leaves, zest and juice of 1 lime, salt, white pepper, cumin, ground coriander, shrimp paste and fish sauce. Pulse until fully combined.
- Add the large bunch of fresh coriander (stalks too) and pulse again until smooth. You might need to scrape down the sides a couple of times to ensure it’s fully combined. Put to one side.
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan (skillet) over a medium-high heat. Add the chicken and fry for 5-6 minutes until just cooked through. Add the curry pasta you made earlier – you need about 4 heaped tbsp. Stir and cook through for 2-3 minutes.
- Sprinkle on the stock cube, stir and pour in the coconut milk. Heat through until the coconut milk is very hot but not boiling.
- Add in the broccoli, sugarsnap peas (snow peas) and bamboo shoots and stir together. Heat through for a few more minute, stirring often until the vegetables are lightly cooked, but still crisp.
- Stir in the sugar.
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Beautiful Small Modern Persian Flat Weave Rug. Country of Origin: Modern Persian / Circa Date: Modern – This beautiful flat weave rug in sandy browns adds the feeling of a beach on a warm summer day to your interior. The colors gently shift from mediums to darker tones, creating a piece that is calm, gracious, and balanced. Eco-style is a trend that is becoming increasingly popular among urban dwellers, and among those who enjoy a more natural setting. It is a dominant trend in Nordic-style rooms, but it is also being found in a range of traditional styles where you would not expect it.
Persia is known for its fine, high-quality masterpieces that have been gracing the interiors of homes and palaces for many centuries. This piece was made by Persian textile artists using traditional methods and natural materials. The texture of the piece is soft, and it has a folk-art character that is becoming popular among those we enjoy a more traditional style. It is now common to find a more earthy piece in a more elegant and traditional style room to add a sense of warmth and coziness.
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Last week, more than 100 countries around the world celebrated International Women’s Day. While it was a celebration for some, the day also served as a stark reminder of the gender inequalities that exist around the world.
In Burkina Faso, for example, just three days before International Women’s Day, the United Nations (UN) humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) released a report detailing a grim state of affairs for this young west African nation. The UN describes ongoing violence and extremism, including incidents of genital mutilation, large-scale school closures depriving approximately 150,000 children of education, and overwhelming food insecurity. More than 70,000 people — mostly women and children — have begun fleeing their homes in the last two months alone as a result.
How do we begin to tackle gender equality when many are struggling to have their basic needs met? UNICEF shares that life-skills education has been instrumental in helping people to cope and adapt during these uncertain times in Burkina Faso.
Enter Anna Pertl
From food and water security to quality education and decent work, inequities like those described today in Burkina Faso can be difficult to imagine, especially if you have not experienced them yourself. But taking action and advocating for others has never been an issue for Anna Pertl.
Now 17, Anna founded One Women One Garden at 15, after becoming fed up with the socioeconomic disparities between women and men in Burkina Faso. As a teen social entrepreneur, her organization has helped more than 5,000 women achieve economic stability despite tumultuous conditions that exist today. What began with an only some seeds in fertilizer has transformed into an economically viable, self-sustaining business that allows women to break free from the cycle of poverty.
Anna has been recognized and selected as one of 32 teenagers from around the world who will participate in the 2019 We Are Family Foundation Three Dot Dash social entrepreneurship incubator.
“Peace is possible if our basic human needs are met.” – Mattie J.T. Stepanek
This week, the 32 teen leaders convened in New York City to kick off the 11th Annual Three Dot Dash Just Peace Summit. The global teen leaders represent 15 countries on six continents and they aren’t waiting around for anyone else to lead the way. They are forging their own path, taking complicated global issues into their own hands — and they are succeeding. This global cohort of social entrepreneurs was carefully selected from hundreds of applicants. They are innovating technology and harnessing creativity to keep our water systems clean, rethink approaches to cancer research, put youth at the forefront of civic engagement, transform urban forestry industries, and use machine learning to tackle modern day crises, among other vital challenges.
We Are Family
Legendary musician Nile Rodgers also knows a thing or two about forging one’s own path. He has successfully used his platform in the arts to convey the importance of creating a global family that fosters social innovation to help achieve world peace. As founder and chairman of We Are Family Foundation, Rodgers is nurturing and mentoring the vision, talents, and ideas of young people who are positively changing the world.
“Just listening to their voices and their ideas gives me a huge amount of hope,” he shares. “With their innovative and creative minds, they are changing the world for the better of all of us on the planet. We are honored again this year to have SAP as our partner to nurture and support the new generation of socially conscious humans.”
A Lesson for SAP in Reverse-Mentoring
SAP has a lot to learn from entrepreneurs like Anna, who is taking One Women One Garden to the next level with the help of technology. Anna is creating a cell phone platform that will help women connect, exchange experiences, and make digital purchases of garden resources — ultimately creating a network of women throughout Burkina Faso to further empower each other.
We are inspired by these global teen leaders’ efforts and seek to inspire them in return.
“It is an honor to partner with We Are Family Foundation and support its Three Dot Dash global teen leader initiative,” shares Alexandra van der Ploeg, head of Global Corporate Social Responsibility for SAP. “Our organizations are committed to equipping young people like the global teen leaders with the skills needed to tackle society’s problems and to turn the world’s greatest challenges into our biggest opportunities. The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow, and it is our duty to make them ready for what lies ahead.”
This week’s kick-off in New York City is a crash course for the global teen leaders in what lies ahead of them throughout this incubator. Creativity, hard work, networking, skill development, and, of course, accelerated social impact. Alongside Three Dot Dash mentors, SAP will also help the cohort absorb vital 21st century skills as presented in the Learning for Life portfolio while also helping the global teen leaders gain access to new markets and global ecosystems.
SAP is committed to helping every business become a best-run business, and being the best means making a difference. It means connecting people and information to address the world’s biggest challenges. When we accelerate the outcomes and impact of social enterprises like One Woman One Garden, we are helping the world’s economy, society, and environment prosper.
As SAP CEO Bill McDermott often says, “Being a purpose-driven company is more about who you dedicate yourself to than what you achieve.” That’s what this program is all about. SAP hopes to play a small part in creating an incredible experience for — and accelerating the impact of — these 32 13- to 19-year-old entrepreneurs. Because we’re confident that these are the leaders who will continue to play a large role in helping the world run better and improving people’s lives.
About We Are Family Foundation
We Are Family Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded by legendary musician Nile Rodgers and is dedicated to the visions of a global family by creating programs that promote cultural diversity while nurturing and mentoring the vision, talents and ideas of young people who are positively changing the world.
About Three Dot Dash
Three Dot Dash is a global youth initiative of We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) inspired by the late New York Times best-selling poet and peacemaker, 13-year-old Mattie J.T. Stepanek. It is a year-long social entrepreneur incubator and mentoring program designed to amplify the work of young people successfully addressing issues related to basic human needs (education, environment, food, health, safety, shelter, water), and having a positive impact on our global communities. “Peace is possible if our basic human needs are met.” – Mattie J.T. Stepanek
About Learning for Life
Learning for Life is an inclusive education, training, and workforce-readiness initiative from SAP. With a portfolio of more than 30 digital literacy programs, Learning for Life opens opportunities and changes people’s lives by ensuring everyone — regardless of age or background — has the relevant skills to thrive, innovate, and secure meaningful work in a digital world. Learning for Life focuses on three areas to equip people with digital skills: 1) preparing the future workforce; 2) reskilling today’s workforce; and 3) ensuring access for all. By putting people at the heart of digital transformation, Learning for Life embodies SAP’s commitment to building an inclusive, skilled workforce to power the digital enterprise. Together, we can help the world run better and improve people’s lives. | <urn:uuid:a48020fd-53a6-49bb-bf07-28317e358e90> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://news.sap.com/2019/03/we-are-family-foundation-sap-teen-social-entrepreneurship/ | 2020-09-18T16:47:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.942256 | 1,573 |
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My first memories of the city of Lviv in Ukraine are connected to grandmother, who leads me by the for a stroll in Kosciusko Park. Immense old trees, shady paths, and cast-iron benches that at some point in time have been occupied by charming ladies in elegant long dresses with small dogs on their laps.
Since childhood, Lviv always seemed to be a place from another universe, a city where everything is somehow different, where people are smiling cordially and sometimes even bow to each other just like the old times, where the saleswoman in a store politely asks “How can I assist you?”, where on Sundays the churches are filled with worshipers of all ages, a city where the Bolsheviks never seized the whole power, but I did not think about the latter as a child…
My grandmother lived practically in the center of the city and I’ve never visited the new Lviv but wandered steadily along the narrow streets of the old one. Oh, how I liked to hop on cobbled hexagonal tiles – it was great to step on them instead of dull gray cracked asphalt. And the paving stones on the roads that shine so wonderful after a rain, the openwork lattices of balconies, various Caryatids and bas-reliefs with semi-erased Latin letters and forgotten emblems.
When I reached my school age, my parents moved to Kyiv. Therefore, I came to Lviv only on vacation or with a school tour. I remember how having read Dostoevsky, schoolmates peeped into the gates, looking for a-la Raskolnikov courtyards. We found a few where time seemed to stop. As if the same people occupied tiny apartments, the same smells lingered in the air, the same old clothes dried on lines as in the XIX century. As well, we toured churches, cathedrals trying to figure out which movie was shot here.
I recollect how we were looking for St. George’s Cathedral for a long time, not daring to ask for directions in our far from perfect Ukrainian. When completely tired and desperate, we stopped some intelligent-looking man, he answered in pure Russian and even escorted us part of the way.
It seems that time has no power over the city. The same, colorful houses surround the Market Square, perhaps a little more dilapidated since my childhood. Behind iron gates, they hide magical courtyards with wooden galleries. Sometimes you enter it from one street and exit to another.
I dearly cherish the calm and dreamy feel of the historic city with passersby who, seeing a big DSLR camera, stop and politely ask which magazine you may present. But let’s continue and climb steep Town Hall Tower and keenly enjoy red roofs and cathedrals spires.
High Castle ruins, which used to be strategically located on the fortified hill, also provide a birds-eye view of Lviv historical center.
One may enjoy unique Lviv weather, when at any odd moment it can start raining steadily. The next moment, a dull gray day may change suddenly, the glorious sun will peek out of gloomy clouds and only wet pavement merely reminds about recent rain.
Lviv could very well set the world record by the sheer number of magnificent lions on its picturesque streets.
The city was established in the mid-13th century by King Danylo Halytskyi, who named it after his beloved son Lev, which in Ukrainian means “Lion”. Since then, many lions have occupied Lviv. They are pretty much everywhere.
This winged lion gently holding Bible represents the evangelist St. Mark and is a symbol of Venice. It adorns the building where the embassy of Venice long ago was in Lviv’s central square.
Completely tired, I sat down at a small café and enjoyed as always in Lviv traditional Viennese coffee and observed passers-by. On one occasion, I ordered a double espresso in a local café; this was the only way to get a decent drink in Kyiv. And the barista said in evident amazement — “Well, it is not coffee, but black oil.” Coffee has always been brewed remarkably well in Lviv. After that, it is impossible to refuse some chocolate delicacy or a hot, hearty sandwich.
So, with a cup in hands and the taste of coffee on lips, sitting at a tiny table and watching how the sun goes down over the old Town Hall and gilded the roof tiles, I want to remember the eternal city of Lviv – the home of a thousand lions, a little Paris. Or maybe Paris is a big Lviv… | <urn:uuid:4ae82539-71c3-4d03-ae74-e9a0ff712625> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://ontheroadtales.com/2019/10/03/lviv-thousand-lions-city/ | 2020-09-18T15:54:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400188049.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918155203-20200918185203-00609.warc.gz | en | 0.962512 | 973 |
Insider Tips For Hiring The Best Animation Company In Dubai
If you want a striking animated explainer video for your company, choosing the right animation studio is very critical. After all, that video is going to reflect your brand’s personality. Besides, you would want to leave a great first impression on your potential customers. Hence, a good animation company is imperative for your business. And it won’t hurt too if it were the best.
1. Don’t hesitate to ask for a portfolio
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2. Check out the number of projects the company has undertaken so far
Scrutinize the project completion rate. Experience is of paramount importance when it comes to professional animation studios.
3. Look into the presentation of their videos
A good video essentially creates a bond between the brand and its viewers. Make sure the videos of the chosen animation company transmit the underlying messages through proper engaging stories, are clear with comprehensible graphics, and include clear voice-overs by professionals.
4. Examine their customer service and support
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Verifying testimonials and seeking the feedback of previous clients will help you in your decision-making process regarding which animation company to hire. A reliable company will not hesitate to disclose this information.
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Exams are tests held for students to show their progress and knowledge in different subjects. These 'assessments' are kept at regular periods of time every academic year. But should exams be abolished? What are the advantages and disadvantages of exams? This topic is an argumentative one. Let's see what would happen if tests and examinations were abolished by looking at the advantages and the disadvantages. Disadvantages of exams: 1 . ) Students are stressed due to the pressure of exams.
They usually get nervous before the exam itself and end up forgetting everything they studied as soon as they look at the paper due to the tension. 2. ) Some students are able to rote-learn the content. This is unfair to other students as this gets the rote-learners good marks but they don't actually understand the concept and those who can't rote-learn aren't able to score satisfactory marks. 3. ) The pressure of exams has the students cramming the notes and staying up all night to study so that they complete the portion on time. ) The students are also pressured with the hope of their parent's to get nice marks and they may fall into depression and sometimes they might even commit suicide. These are some of the arguments supporting the disadvantages of exams. Advantages of exams.
Students study harder to achieve better marks than their fellow classmates. Exams may pressurize the students but if they do their work properly and on time, they can try harder and work harder to get good marks. 2. If we be honest, the students wouldn't actually study if exams were abolished. They wouldn't be worried about the tests, marks or grades and hence, they wouldn't study. These are some of the arguments supporting the advantages of exams. According to the disadvantages and advantages of examinations mentioned above, respectively, there would be different effects on the students regarding the abolishment of exams. Essay by Florins S. Credit to: Different articles on the internet. What If Exams Were Abolished?
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Color spaces, as ysap stated, can be a confusing issue. There isn't a single correct answer to this question, and what you intend to do with the "final copies" of your images will really dictate what color spaces you use and when you convert from one to the other.
While I think it is getting a bit dated, sRGB is still the "safest" color space these days. Many professional printing services require sRGB for print (although that is changing these days, as many professional printing services now support AdobeRGB or even ProPhoto RGB). If you are publishing your images to the web, sRGB is also the safest color space to convert your final images to, as many web browsers do not support proper ICM, and default to rendering in the sRGB space regardless of the profile embedded in the image.
What color space you use during your processing workflow, on the other hand, is a more complex story. First off, camera's see far more into the realm of green color than computers or printers can generally render. If you work in RAW, and want to preserve as much original color accuracy as possible throughout your workflow, it is best to keep your images in the widest possible gamut. If you are working with muted scenes, or scenes with limited color, particularly lower saturation, a narrower gamut will be ideal. Use of a wide gamut when processing RAW is usually done for you if you use a tool like Lightroom or Aperture, as those tools make the default assumption that RAW images will utilize a considerable amount of the ProPhoto RGB gamut...the only gamut that covers nearly the entire LAB space that represents human color perception. Converting from RAW to TIFF will, then by default, save TIFF images with ProPhoto RGB unless you choose otherwise. (When working directly in RAW, gamut is really not taken into account, as RAW images are generally not tagged with a gamut at all.)
Modern professional photography hardware, both computer screens and printers, have all moved towards AdobeRGB as the base or reference gamut. Top of the line, and even middle grade, LCD screens like the Apple Cinema Display, NEC, Eizo ColorEdge, or LaCie 700 RGB-LED series monitors all support 98-123% of the AdobeRGB gamut. Modern printers from Epson and Canon, particularly the prosumer models, but now also the professional/commercial lines, also support 98% or more of the AdobeRGB gamut. Epson printers tend to cover more of the blues and violets beyond the realm of sRGB and AdobeRGB, while Canon covers more of the reds and greens beyond the realm of sRGB and AdobeRGB. Therefore, if your intention is to process your photos on a professional grade wide-gamut LCD screen and print your photos on a prosumer Epson or Canon printer, the Adobe RGB gamut is the ideal choice for your final images.
Converting from a wide gamut to a smaller gamut can be a critical step in your workflow. There are a variety of rendering intents when converting between color spaces. The two most common are Relative Colorimetric intent, which aims to preserve original color value accuracy at the cost of perceptual accuracy, and Perceptual intent, which aims to preserve perceptual accuracy at the cost of original color value accuracy. Converting from one gamut to another should be done as infrequently as possible. Ideally, you would work in RAW until the moment you generate a "final copy" image for a specific medium, at which time you would convert that final copy to the appropriate gamut. If you are saving for web, the best gamut is sRGB. If you are saving for print, I would choose AdobeRGB unless you are sending off to a print lab for print, and they require sRGB.
When converting, it is important that you have your white and black points, curves, and contrast set correctly for. If you are converting to sRGB for display on the web, white and black points are far less important. For print, it is best to try soft proofing your image and tweak white and black points first before converting to a final gamut. You should convert and compare the original image to the converted image, and make sure you have not lost vibrancy or saturation in key areas. When converting from a wider gamut to a narrower gamut, the key areas where you may lose color will be in the greens and deep blues. If the difference between a source gamut and destination gamut color is broad, especially if that particular color is found in gradients, you may encounter some posterization or clipping. In such cases, you may want to adjust saturation, white and black points to reduce the range of color you are utilizing in your original image. This will lessen the amount of compression of color into the destination color space, and mitigate or eliminate posterization and clipping.
For a few general rules of thumb:
- Cameras "see" a much wider gamut with their sensor than computer screens or printers can render. Particularly greens.
- If you shoot vibrant, saturated scenes, a wider gamut will help avoid clipping.
- If you shoot muted or desaturated scenes, a narrower gamut will produce smoother gradients.
- Most professional photography computer screens and printers support the AdobeRGB gamut.
- Computer screens cover 98% - 123% or so of AdobeRGB
- Printers cover around 98% or so of AdobeRGB, with different brands covering extended saturation into blues, violets, oranges, reds, and greens.
- Saturated green is one of the primary colors lost when converting to a narrow gamut, with blue and red following.
- The key difference between wide and narrow gamuts is their chromaticity.
- Chromaticity generally refers to the hue and overall saturation of a color...its purity
- Wider gamuts reach greater chromaticity
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Recipe by ALEJANDRA SCHRADER
Alejandra Schrader’s culinary career began after becoming a top finalist and fan-favorite on FOX’s MasterChef with Gordon Ramsay. For recipes and more visit alejandraschrader.com. Alejandra lives in Playa Vista.
Yield: 10-12 falafels, 5-6 lettuce “boats”
½ medium brown onion
3-4 medium cloves of garlic
⅔ cup (packed) wild arugula—substitute: parsley, spinach
1 15-oz can garbanzo beans, rinsed and drained (~ 1 ups cooked beans)
2 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
3 tbsp oat flour—substitute: gluten-free or almond flour
Pinch of cardamom powder
2 pinches of ground cumin
¼ tsp cayenne pepper (optional)
½ tsp coarse sea salt + more to taste
¼ cup rice crumbs – substitute: panko, bread crumbs
⅔ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
¼ cup tahini paste
¼ cup cashews soaked in water for at least 4 hours, drained
1 clove of garlic
2 pinches of coarse sea salt + more to taste
2-3 tbsp cold water, if needed
5-6 romaine lettuce leaves
⅔ cup small diced, cored Roma tomato
¼ cup thinly sliced Persian cucumber
1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds
Fresh herbs—parsley, scallions, chives
uarter onions and add to food processor along with whole garlic cloves. Process for about 30 seconds, until both are minced. Add all remaining ingredients with the exception of the rice crumbs and process for approximately 1 min, until mixture is creamy and homogeneous but a few bits of the garbanzo beans remain.
Transfer to bowl, cover, and set in the freezer for 30 minutes. This step is important in getting the mixture to the right consistency to pan-fry the falafel and so it does not break in the process. Be patient!
While you wait, prepare the lemon-tahini sauce. Method below.
Take falafel mixture out of the freezer and break into 10-12 even portions.
Using your clean hands, roll into balls and flatten into disks. Carefully roll each disk over rice crumbs and coat on all sides. Lay flat on platter or board.
Heat a small to medium pan over medium heat (the smaller it is, the less oil you will need.) Once hot, add 2-3 tbsp of olive oil to pan. Pan-fry each falafel for about 2 min on each side, until crispy and golden. Remove from pan and lay on a piece of paper towel to remove excess oil. Do this in batches, if necessary.
Add all ingredients to a blender and process for 1 minute, until it is smooth and creamy. Add 1 tbsp of water at a time and blend until you obtain the desired consistency. Set aside.
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During last three years, the government has successfully done two rounds of next generation spectrum (3G/4G) auction. The Industry and sector has witnessed an exponential growth in result of these auctions. There was a phenomenal increase in the number of subscribers of broadband user in telecom sector where the broadband density today is surpassing 27%.
As a result of ongoing market expansion, Government has decided to consider auctioning the last available spectrum of 10MHz in 1800MHz. For this purpose, Prime Minister of Pakistan has constituted an Advisory Committee for auction of this spectrum which is headed by MoS IT & Telecom Mrs. Anusha Rahman while Special Assistants to PM for Law, Secretary IT, Secretary Finance, Secretary Law, Chairman PTA, ED FAB and Member telecom are the members of this committee. Member Telecom has also been appointed as “Committee Secretary”.
The inaugural meeting of this Auction Advisory Committee was held at MOIT today. MoS IT& Telecom Mrs. Anusha Rahman while chairing the meeting stated that we are committed to conduct the third round of Spectrum auction in most transparent and professional manner as were done earlier in 2014 & 2016 respectively.
Chairman PTA, Syed Ismail Shah apprised the committee of the consultant’s report on Market Assessment for auction of spectrum.
This advisory committee is mandated to determine the base price of spectrum and propose a policy directive for the purpose.
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Drashti Dhami is a sensational and a success version and actress who has flabbergasted spectators with her excellent appearing and dance overall performance. She has given numerous hits that have illuminated her profession and made her one of the stunning and prodigiously proficient actresses on the television display screen. Her stupendous looks invigorated with a spellbinding appeal has created an air of mystery of panache inside the television fraternity and has recognized her as one of the maximum attractive faces. Her fascinating character and glowing eyes have garnered copious fanatics and admirers who’re dying to get a glimpse of her. She turned into the winner of the illustrious dance primarily based fact show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6 and is now decked up to host its upcoming season host Drashti Dhami biography is the top hobby of all her numerous enthusiasts who wish to understand approximately her life and career. Drashti Dhami’s actress biography will honestly astound all the readers with her information about her achievements. Her sparkling face and appealing countenance is the name of the game key of her success and reputation that has made people fall for her.
Drashti Dhami Family Background
The famous and renowned actress Drashti Dhami has made her debut in a music video album ‘Saiyan Dil Mai Aana Re’. Her radiant smile has mesmerized visitors and opened many opportunities for her. Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 host Dhami profile talks approximately her childhood and circle of relatives’ historical past that stimulated her to take massive demanding situations in lifestyles and emerge positive. Drashti Dhami became born in Mumbai. Dhami date of start is January 10th, 1985. Drashti Dhami’s age is 29 years and he or she has already witnessed the big achievement. The beautiful actress is an epitome of beauty and her properly-toned determine gives her an image-ideal appearance. Drashti Dhami’s peak is five toes and 5 inches. Dhami’s weight is 61 kgs.
Drashti Dhami’s family historical past represents robust and conservative Gujarati roots and morals which have contributed toward her stardom. Her sister-in regulation Suhasi Goradia Dhami is likewise a totally famous and installed tv actress. Drashti Dhami’s sister-in-law name Suhasi Dhami was properly-unfold inside the tv world prior to earlier than Drashti made stepped her foot. Drashti Dhami’s sister Suhasi Goradia Dhami profile also marks an established call in this change. Drashti Dhami is surely blessed to have this type of beloved sister-in-law who has guided her in her stardom and permit her delight in the trip of recognition and spotlight.
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The extraordinary and remarkable actress Dhami made wishes to go away no stone unturned and hence is all prepared to assignment as a host in the popular dance fact show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. Dhami wiki unveils the captivating information about a career that has aced the race of her profession. Dhami’s first TV serial changed into Dill Mill Gayye. She played the bubbly and the chirpy role of Dr. Muskaan. Her cute and charming man or woman had enchanted hundreds of thousands of visitors and he or she received large prominence inside a brief time.
Dhami in “Dill Mill Gayye” had taken the serial to glorious heights. Her reputation and achievement had bagged her lead position in any other television cleaning soap opera ‘Geet… Hui Sabse Parayi.’ The romantic drama on this serial got an elite look with the marvelous overall performance of Drashti Dhami. The roles in different serials engraved her call as a completely a hit actress on the television display screen. This will honestly add feathers to her cap because of the host of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7.
Actress Drashti Dhami TV Serials
Drashti Dhami has climbed the pinnacle of glory and her march toward this scintillating zenith is commendable. Her achievement in the serial Geet… Hui Sabse Parayi spread out another platform for her that bestowed her with the lead function in Madhubala- Ek Ishq Ek Junoon. This serial also marked a humongous reputation and fulfillment. Drashti Dhami as Madhubala images are available in lots of famous web sites and can be effortlessly downloaded. Drashti Dhami first commercial acquired pretty tremendous responses and she has acted in many commercials. The fact display on Colors, Mission Sapne had invited this elite actress
Drashti Dhami in Mission Sapne had cheered up the visitors with her Nimbu-Mirchi adventure and perky talks. With the new and blazing season 7 Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa hostname, Drashti Dhami will set ablaze the level and break loose with an outstanding anchoring. Her excellent character is sure to dazzle every single spectator.
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6 Winner Drashti Dhami
Drashti victory in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season 6 had given splendid dance performances and stolen the hearts of hundreds of thousands of spectators who laurelled her with the winner’s crown. Drashti warm images may be easily downloaded from many internet sites. Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa winner Drashti biography is also deeply engrossing as she has outscored one of the first-rate dancers Lauren Gottlieb. Her performing career has taken a distinctive turn and she or he shall quickly dazzle every person because of the host of season 7 of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. New about Drashti first Bollywood film is likewise being heard in which she might be seen romancing with the smashing celeb Ajay Devgan. No wonder Drashti Dhami is traversing on the right course.
Drashti Dhami Boyfriend & Marriage Gossips
The best aggregate of skills and beauty is meditated from the remarkable work of the actress Drashti private lifestyles is ornamented with many crispy gossips and rumors as a result of her intimacy with many stars. Drashti’s boyfriend call became the speak of the metropolis when she becomes connected up together with her co-stars. She has been a visible relationship an honored NRI businessman for the remaining 4 years. Drashti’s boyfriend in actual existence is this setup and reputed businessman Neeraj Khemka.
Is Drashti married? Her enthusiasts are regularly baffled with the aid of this question but the actress nonetheless claims to be within the safe courting area. Drashti together with her boyfriend Neeraj Khemka has been noticed with the aid of the media and there has been information approximately duo tying the nuptial knot of marriage on this yr. Drashti boyfriend Neeraj Khemka pix also are uploaded on a few websites.
Drashti and Neeraj Khemka’s marriage rumors will be soon showed via the fabulous damsel. It is certain, this information destroys a million hearts of the kingdom. Till then Drashti marriage gossips will maintain portray the B-metropolis with its chirpy and smooth headlines. The wedding ceremony date of Drashti is predicted to fall in place shortly. With the blushing love tale of the duo, the sacred knot shall get tied real soon.
Drashti Dhami Awards & Performances
Drashti has already enthralled the humans of our country with her splendid performances in television soap operas and dance shows. Drashti in Nach Le with Saroj Khan had grabbed enormous interest and recognition that accorded her with the winner’s crown. She has gained several awards for her extra special contribution in television. Her profession has been beaten with appreciation and accolades. She had hosted a prestigious award show Golden Petal Awards in the year 2012 and she or he acquired the Lokpriya Naya Sadasya award in the equal function.
Drashti Dhami host in Golden Petal award had obtained the appreciation of film stalwarts and control. She has also received the Star Guild Award for excellent performance in a drama collection. Needless to mention she have been declared because the winner of many popular suggests of the country. Drashti Dhami Bollywood debut rumors surfaced after the after the achievement of her television indicates.
Drashti Dhami Real Life Boyfriend
Drashti Dhami has been connected up with lots of her co-stars that had heated up the ambiance with spicy rumors. News approximately Drashti Dhami’s love affairs had also encircled her lifestyles till she subsequently met a placid closure along with her present-day boyfriend Neeraj Khemka. We want that Drashti Dhami and Neeraj Khemka cut up information in no way ever storms the media because the duo makes a great couple.
However, Drashti Dhami has been victimized by means of many irksome gossips which encompass Drashti Dhami and Vivian Dsena’s off-display relationship. Drashti Dhami and Vivian Dsena’s love tale in Madhubala had created a fireplace amongst all visitors with an enchanting storyline and chemistry. The well-known episode which confirmed Drashti Dhami and Vivian Dsena kiss created sufficient media gossips, however, it failed to create magic in their real love lives and Drashti is luckily courting her commercial enterprise hero.
Rumors about Gurmeet Choudhary and Drashti Dhami dating and Drashti Dhami relationship Siddharth Shukla had additionally surfaced, however, it soon met a useless quit. Drashti Dhami has already been linked with multiple co-stars however none were given too severe to convince the enthusiasts of Drashti Dhami’s husband gossips.
Drashti Dhami and Sanaya Irani Fight
Apart from all the courting rumors, there was some other crispy and highly spiced speak of B-city about Drashti Dhami and Sanaya Irani friendship. However, the friendship headed closer to a horrific turn and Drashti Dhami and Sanaya Irani fight in public boasted huge trouble. Drashti Dhami and Sanaya Irani had a struggle of words that brought about this cat combat among the two popular cleaning soap opera queens. Drashti Dhami and Sanaya Irani in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa had narrated a distinct photo whilst Sanaya had luckily cheered for her buddy Drashti Dhami. Drashti Dhami’s controversy makes good tea time gossip, but her acting and hosting are equally noteworthy. She is anticipated to stir and enthrall the state again along with her outstanding website hosting inside the seventh season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa.
|Real Name||Drashti Dhami|
|Date of Birth||10 January 1985|
|Birth Place||Mumbai, Maharashtra, India|
|Hometown||Mumbai, Maharashtra, India|
|Zodiac Sign/ Sun Sign||Capricorn|
|Debut||TV: Dill Mill Gayye (2009)|
|Height and Weight|
|Height in Centimeters||165 cm|
|Height in Meters||1.65 m|
|Height in Feet Inches||5′ 5″|
|Weight in Kilograms||54 Kg|
|Weight in Pounds||119 lbs|
|Waist Size||24 Inches|
|Hip Size||35 Inches|
|Dress Size||8 (US)|
|Feet/Shoe Size||4 (US)|
|Eye Color||Dark Brown|
|Brother||Jaysheel Dhami (Elder)|
|Marriage and Affairs|
|Boyfriend||Neeraj Khemka (Businessman)|
|Husband||Neeraj Khemka (Businessman, m.2015-present)|
|Marriage Date||21 February 2015|
|Net worth||Not Known|
|Salary||1 lakh/episode (INR)|
|School||Mary Immaculate Girl’s High School Borivali, Mumbai|
|College||Mithibai College, Mumbai|
|Educational Qualification||Degree in Sociology|
|Favorite Food||Chocolates, Khaakra, Cakes|
|Favorite Actor||Ranbir Kapoor, Karan Singh Grover|
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Lots of us don’t know what to do to show our support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Here’s something easy — and delicious.
Eight metro Denver bakeries have joined forces with Bakers Against Racism to raise money for organizations fighting racism. Now through Wednesday at 11:59 p.m., customers can shop online from any of the participating bakeries through the Rebel Bread website and get their goodies at a pick-up party on Saturday, June 20.
The Bakers Against Racism campaign started with three chefs in Washington D.C., calling for bakers nationwide to sell cookies, cupcakes, bread and more for the fundraiser. In a June 4 Instagram post, organizers wrote, “We are armed to fight racism with the tools we know how to utilize, our FOOD.” By June 9, thousands of bakers signed up in 42 states and 15 countries.
Zach Martinucci, co-founder and owner of Rebel Bread, on Monday told The Denver Post that each Denver bakery chose an organization to donate to and a treat to sell. He’s making sourdough bread and family-style bagels “as big as your head,” for $6 to $8, with proceeds going to Black Lives Matter 5280.
“I was trying to figure out how to respond to everything going on,” Martinucci said. “It felt like a great project, with our online store and large team, and we acted quickly to get this going.”
In addition to the sourdough bread and bagels, customers can shop for these items from Denver area bakeries through the Rebel Bread website:
- Ruby Jean Patisserie is selling two cookie sandwiches (chocolate caramel & strawberry creme) for $8, with proceeds going to ACLU Colorado);
- Sugar Bakeshop is selling half a dozen summer cupcakes for $18, with proceeds going to Higher Heights for America;
- The Long I Pie Shop is making honey flower pies for $28, with proceeds going to the Center for Black Equity;
- A Denver Pastry Chef’s Collab Box filled with cookies, brownies and cupcakes for $24, with proceeds going to Black Lives Matter 5280;
- An assorted cookie box for $18 from Three Seeds Bakery, proceeds going to the National Black Food & Justice Alliance
- Sorry, Port Side‘s cinnamon rolls benefiting the Black Feminist Project and BLM cookies from Cāk, to benefit the Black Visions Emergent Fund, are already sold out.
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Sept 10 (Reuters) - Saga on Thursday unveiled a new plan that included a digital push as the British company takes steps to navigate through a coronavirus-hit market under its new boss Euan Sutherland.
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Are You Eligible for Dental Implants, Houston?
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You may have heard the buzz about dental implants. They are often the best treatment for missing teeth because of their unmatched functional and aesthetic resemblance to natural teeth. While many patients are eligible for dental implants, there are some exceptions. Let’s answer the question of, “Are you eligible for dental implants, Houston?
Determining Dental Implant Eligibility
The first thing to do when determining your eligibility for an implant procedure is to schedule a consultation with an implant dentist. One of the main things that the dentist will consider is the health of your jawbone. An implant procedure requires that an implant be placed into the jawbone to serve as an anchor for the artificial tooth. There must be enough jawbone for the implant to successfully be anchored.
There are methods and treatments to get around the lack of sufficient jawbone. The dentist may use imaging technology to find the best place to anchor the implants. Alternatively, the jawbone can be built up through a bone grafting procedure. Young patients and those with bone-deteriorating conditions are the patients who would likely lack sufficient jaw bone density.
Other Oral Health Considerations
There are other oral health factors that the dentist will take into consideration when determining a patient’s eligibility. The health of your gums and teeth will be examined. Ideally, a candidate would have no untreated dental issues such as tooth decay or gum disease. If such issues are present, you will have to have these treated before proceeding with an implant procedure.
Another factor that is considered is whether or not the patient engages in frequent teeth clenching or grinding. Tooth wear is a common sign of these activities due to the stress that is placed on the teeth. Patients who grind their teeth are not the best candidates for implants. This is because implants can become damaged or cracked due to the pressure caused by teeth grinding/clenching.
Medical Concerns Affecting Implant Eligibility
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The Dr. David Paolone Men’s Health Visiting Professorship was established in 2017 by a generous donation from David R. Paolone, MD to support men’s health initiatives in education in the department. This is a bi-yearly lectureship and will feature a national speaker who specializes in the treatment of male infertility and sexual health.
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Kenneth W. Angermeier, MD, FACS
Director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Genitourinary Reconstruction
Director, GUKI Fellowship in Male Genitourinary Reconstruction and Prosthetic Surgery
Associate Urology Residency Program Director
“Posterior Urethral Reconstruction: Trauma and XRT”**
Kenneth Angermeier, MD, FACS has been a Urologist at the Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urological Institute (GUKI) since 1993. He is the director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Genitourinary Reconstruction, a regional and national referral center for patients with disorders of the lower urinary tract and genitalia including urethral stricture, urethral fistula, urinary incontinence, Peyronie’s disease, erectile dysfunction, and congenital anomalies. He is also Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
His primary specialty interest is male lower urinary tract and genital reconstruction and prosthetic surgery, which most commonly includes urethroplasty, urethral fistula repair, implantation of genitourinary prostheses (artificial urinary sphincter, inflatable penile prosthesis, male urethral sling), correction of erectile curvature, and urinary diversion . Based on an extensive referral network, Dr. Angermeier also has significant surgical expertise in less common conditions such as genital lymphedema and penile/urethral cancer. He has lectured nationally and internationally and has authored or co-authored numerous journal articles and over 20 book chapters related to his specialty areas.
Dr. Angermeier received his Doctor of Medicine in 1985 from Indiana University with highest distinction. After completing a one-year internship in internal medicine at the Indiana University Medical Center, he served a five-year residency in urology at Cleveland Clinic. He then spent two years as a Fellow in Adult and Pediatric Reconstructive Urology at the Devine Center for Genitourinary Reconstruction and Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va.
In addition to full-time clinical responsibilities, Dr. Angermeier is Director of the GUKI Fellowship in Male Genitourinary Reconstruction and Prosthetic Surgery, and serves as Associate Urology Residency Program Director. Dr. Angermeier has been continually involved in clinical research throughout his career. His work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Urology, Urology, BJU International, Annals of Surgery, Urologic Clinics of North America, International Journal of Impotence Research, Urologia Internationalis, Annals of Diagnostic Pathology and the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics.
Dr. Angermeier has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons in the past. He is also a past President of this organization and continues to be an active member of the Society.
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One of the reasons I started keeping an online journal 9+ years ago and this blog 1.5 years ago was so I didn’t forget things. The good and the bad things- the things that make up our daily lives and that make my family tick. The way words were pronounced with my kids were really little, the love that swelled in my heart on a certain date, the times the kids cracked me up and, yes, even the times when I wondered why I thought having kids was a good idea.
Well, it turns out that recording the ups and down doesn’t mean I’m not able to push somethings right out of my mind.
Like how often little kids get sick their first year in school. Holy crow-we’re on the Bean’s 3rd illness in 4 weeks (stomach bug, ear infection/strep, stomach bug if you want to play at home). And no worries- that week that she wasn’t sick, Scorch was. My mind immediately does what it does best -internally overreact- when I started to think of this string of illnesses until I looked back and realized that, yup, Scorch was sick this much too. The good news is after his first year, Scorch has been pretty darn healthy, so I’m hoping that happens with the Bean.
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Associations to the word «En»
EN, noun. English
EN, noun. The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.
EN, noun. (typography) A unit of measurement equal to half of an em (half of the height of the type in use).
EN, preposition. Used in various phrases borrowed from French or formed as if borrowed from French (see "Derived terms" below).
EN, symbol. (metrology) Symbol for the exanewton, an SI unit of force equal to 1018 newtons.
EN BANC, adverb. (legal): As a group, particularly with respect to a legal decision rendered by all of the judges sitting on a court, rather than by a smaller panel of judges from that court.
EN BLOC, adverb. As a whole; all at once; all together
EN CLAIR, adverb. (of the transmission of a signal) In clear language without any encryption
EN CREUX, adverb. (engraving) In intaglio; by sinking or hollowing out the design.
EN DASH, noun. (typography) The symbol '–' (used to express ranges).
EN DASHES, noun. Plural of en dash
EN FAMILLE, adverb. Informally
EN FAMILLE, adverb. At home
EN FEMME, adverb. (LGBT) (of a trans or genderqueer person) Dressed in feminine clothing.
EN FLUTE, adjective. (nautical) (of a ship) with all or some of her cannons removed.
EN GARDE, interjection. (fencing) Used to warn one's opponent to take a defensive position prior to a fight.
EN HOMME, adverb. (LGBT) (of a trans or genderqueer person) Dressed in maculine clothing.
EN MASS, adverb. Misspelling of en masse.
EN MASSE, adverb. In a single body or group; as one; together
EN PASSANT, adverb. In passing; incidentally; by the way
EN PASSANT, noun. (chess) A move in which a pawn captures an opposing pawn on the same rank immediately after the latter moved two squares from its initial position as if it had captured it while the latter was passing through.
EN POINTE, adverb. (ballet) On the tips of one's toes.
EN PRISE, adjective. (chess) (of a piece) Undefended, able to be captured.
EN QUAD, noun. (typography) A quad which has a fixed width of 1 en.
EN QUADS, noun. Plural of en quad
EN RAPPORT, adjective. In agreement; harmonious
EN ROUTE, adjective. On the way.
EN ROUTE, adjective. Along the way.
EN SPACE, noun. (typography) A space which has a nominal width of 1 en
EN SPACES, noun. Plural of en space
EN SUITE, adjective. As part of a set or series.
EN SUITE, adjective. (of a bathroom etc) Connected to a bedroom.
EN VENTRE SA MERE, adjective. (legal) in its mother's womb.
EN VENTRE SA MERE, adverb. (legal) in its mother's womb.
EN, noun. Half the width of an em.
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On this episode of the Autoweek Podcast, host Rory Carroll joins Mike Pryson, Jimmy Pelizzari and Robin Warner to talk about the Formula 1 race in Sochi, Russia -- the Russian Grand Prix. The group talks about the team orders that put Lewis Hamilton in place to win the race and the fallout afterward. The group also talks about the growing problem of junior drivers in the series.
After the motorsports section, two-time NHRA U.S. Nationals winner J.R. Todd calls in to talk with Pryson and resident Hoosier Wesley Wren about his life, his transition from a Top Fuel dragster into a Top Fuel Funny Car and his recent trip to Kyle Larson’s wedding. Todd also talks about the Tanner Gray jump from drag racing to circuit racing, but notes all of his friends from the NHRA will support Gray after the transition.
After the interview, Graham Kozak and Jake Lingeman hop on mics to navigate Cadillac’s return southeast Michigan, the problems the company faces currently and Cadillac’s recent history. The group also talks about the wildly popular concept cars that never went into production. Before that, Rory talks about his experience at Rennsport Reunion VI.
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In addition to providing for our staff’s membership in professional organizations and attendance at educational programs, we offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package including a 401(k) retirement plan, medical and dental coverage, long-term disability insurance, life insurance, an FSA plan, as well as paid time off and flexible work arrangements. In addition, Bassetti is proud to offer paid parental leave as we believe in offering equitable opportunities and sustaining our employees’ families.
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