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wordpress | Social evils in Indian society or for that matter in any society is not a new phrase and India is fighting since long to eradicate the prevalent social evils in it’s society like Poverty, castism, dowry, child abuse etc. However, India successfully eradicated some of worst form of social evils previously prevailing in it’s society like Sati & untouchability with the help of immense efforts made to spread awareness in society by Raja Ram Mohan Rai and Mahatama Gandhi.
But when it came to Dowry System instead of changing the mindset in society by bringing in enough awareness, the Government has laid stress(under pressure from vested interests of NCW and WCD, radical feminists etc.) on using gender biased civil & criminal laws to curb this practice along with others relating to women. The Government in this process has mixed this social evil eradication with Women Empowerment which paved the way of gender differentiation in Indian judicial system and almost all the matrimonial laws or the laws of marriage in India are made gender biased favoring women which is resulting in gross misuse of these laws.
Created and promoted by the Government of India and radical feminists. It is taking upthe shape of a tradition on the part of young empowered wives.
Was practiced only on death of a husband.
May start any time after marriage and many deaths could occur till the completion of it’s trial.
Atrocities like physical, mental, emotional, economical and social harassment begins for the whole life of husband & in-laws and they caught entangled in a condition where it is neither life nor death to them. The loss of dignity, honor & humiliation many a times results in many deaths in in-laws & husband’s family.
Was considered as a honorable sacrifice by wife. Husband and in-laws are portrayed as inhuman, criminals & monsters in society.
Was having no financial dimension An open and legalized extortion tool.
Was a bad, cruel and condemnable tradition underlying thinking that wife be free from all miseries in future without her husband Is more condemnable and cruel being a legal terrorism.
Was a social evil effecting relatively (as compared to IPC 498A) small section of society.
So easy to misuse that it is effecting whole society at large by propagating breaking of family system and criminalization of marriage system.
So, after this annotated comparison, I am sure you are now somewhat convinced that YES, IPC-498A is a SOCIAL EVIL in India practiced & propagated by Wives ,Government, Judiciary & Police in India.
But then, larger question remains that why not Government Scrapes this IPC 498a ? Is it still awaiting some more social reformist like Raja Ram Mohan Rai Or Mahatma Gandhi to eradicate this social evil, the child of their own misqued wisdom? | 2019-04-22T11:56:33Z | https://baisedindia.wordpress.com/tag/498a/ | Porn | Society | 0.879291 |
typepad | Well, how have things been for you this week? I have had it up to here with this man who has done so much harm in our community yet we refuse to see it for what it is because he is white and Christian. If he wore a turban or a long straight dress with a beard he would have been called - a terrorist. It's all semantics. We choose our names according to the lens we wear. Some are whitewashed and other are black-dyed. Some things never change. Isn't that the truth?
Did you say that? girl do we have to go there? I can't keep track of my own life, why the hell do I care who Rihanna is dating or where Halle Berry takes her daughter shopping. I don't give a damn. My time is too precious for that and don't talk to be about those people again.
What about President Obama's Memorial speech? I think that was really splendid. He's still preaching that message of hope wherever he can since the hope has fallen out of the bottom of the economic train. Thank goodness the Republicans have taken over the hope and they too can't deliver a thing. Poor Sarah Palin, she had to defer the bloodied hand the politicians were trying to deliver to her, where it belongs - to the media. I can honestly say there is some truth to that. The media get a little nibble and they will just bite nothing into reality and get everyone in frenzy.
I heard that Sylvia Staciewiecz, the dog trainer who trained Bo for the President of the USA died at the tender age of 52 of respiratory failure. That's sad eh? A lot of young people appears to be dying these days. Talking about dying if people are not dying naturally, they're being killed by their partners.
It is very distressing to see so many women and children being killed by husbands or children killed by their mothers. A man in Novi Michigan killed his wife and two young children and then killed himself. It goes on and on. The more women try to be free and independent and say no to violence men appear to become more violent and desperate. Why can't they get it that women are not property. If they're looking for property, why don't they buy themselves some? Women might have to really start doing it for themselves because men don't appear to know how to play nice and some are so weak-minded they can't take no for an answer.
And now for some good news, remember that two-year old chain smoker from Indonesia, Ardi Rizal? Well he has quit his habit of smoking 40 cigs a day, after just one month therapy. How come it takes such a long time for adults to kick the habit?
And a dog that has been missing for 9 years 1200 miles from home was found in the same vicinity he was lost thanks to a chip that was implanted in him. Imagine that - how about chips for some of our spouses, so we can find them when they are lost after work. | 2019-04-21T08:40:59Z | https://livefully.typepad.com/my_weblog/cofee-tete-tete/ | Porn | News | 0.140275 |
google | Workshops will range from "Getting Started" to "Getting Geeky."
The EdTechTeam Summit featuring Google for Education.
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wordpress | SuperFly is primarily about producing creative events in unusual spaces and NEoN Knights 2010 (NKX), a QR treasure hunt that took place during NEoN (Dundee’s Digital Arts festival) in November 2010, was no exception. It was a collaboration between Jon Gill (SuperFly – game design and illustration), Rick Curran (NEoN Knights web application) and Tim Pryde (game design).
Each of the NEoN delegate bags contained a flyer with the basic instructions and a QR code to get the ‘bravest’ attendees started on their quest. Once scanned and logged in no further intervention was required.. you just got scanning! The flyer pointed you to a google map of QR locations around the City of Dundee – The further from festival centre you wandered the higher the value of the QR code.
With an XBox360 up for grabs we had allowed for a week of players dipping in and out of the game as and when the conference would allow.
In addition to the street posters several ‘wild card’ QR codes were introduced throughout the week around the festival campus.
As well as gaining points towards winning the XBox several of the QRs contained voucher codes for deals on food, drinks and clothes. Several local businesses joined in with offers for the codes (The Playwright), free posters and tshirts (TayPrint) and Street Advertsing Services took care of the poster sites, plus the Arts centre (DCA) had staff wearing super-high-scoring t-shirts with codes on them!
Tim’s blog post on NEoN Knights ‘as it happened‘ via the medium of Twitter. | 2019-04-25T00:22:56Z | https://hellojon.wordpress.com/projects/qr-codes/neon-knights/ | Porn | Arts | 0.334556 |
wordpress | What is frames per second?
The frames per second (fps) relates to how many pictures the DVR will record in a second. Real time recording is about 30 fps on each camera. To calculate the fps per camera take the total fps in the system and divide it by the number of video inputs. For example, a 60 fps digital video recorder with 4 video inputs would result in about 15 fps per camera. The technology has finally gotten to the point now where real time recording is affordable. If you are recording cash registers or something similar then you should definitely invest in real time recording.
The amount of hard drive space is very important because it will limit how many days of recording you can store before the system has to start recording over the oldest video. Each DVR will have its storage capacity listed in the specifications. But this calculation is just a rough estimate as there are many factors that affect hard drive use. The most critical factor being the compression format used by the DVR (for more info on compression formats click here). But also the type of cameras that are connected to the DVR make a difference (specifically the chip size and resolution) and also the features that are selected on the DVR. If you use the scheduling or motion detection features or tune down the frame rate that will extend the storage capacity of the unit. Even the field of view (what you are recording) will affect the storage capacity – the more complex the image, the more hard drive space it will take to capture the complexity.
What is the difference between a PC-based DVR and an Embedded DVR?
A PC-based digital video recorder is basically a personal computer that has been modified with hardware and software to work as a DVR. An embedded digital video recorder is a machine that has been manufactured specifically to work as a DVR. In embedded DVRs there is typically one circuit board with software burned into the chip.
There used to be significant differences in features between the PC-based and the embedded machines. But with recent advancements in the embedded DVR technologies the differences are becoming less. The advantages of an embedded digital video recorder is that they are extremely stable and reliable since they contain fewer parts. The software is often written in basic machine code or Linux code which tends to be more stable than Windows software. The advantages of the PC-based digital video recorders is that they are easier to interact with because you use the on-screen menus and a mouse (as opposed to embedded which you interact with more like a VCR – via buttons). And you tend to have more features and options on the PC-based machines.
How does a CCTV digital video recorder work?
A CCTV digital video recorder (or “DVR” for short) is essentially a computer that saves security video images to a hard drive. Most security cameras in use today capture an analog picture. The DVR converts the analog signal to digital and then compresses it.
Many cameras can be connected to one DVR. DVRs generally come with 4, 8, 16, or 32 camera inputs. The DVR will allow you to view all of these images at once or one at a time, and all of the video is saved to the hard drive. Additional switches, quads, or multiplexors are not required.
Are security digital video recorders hard to install?
Not at all. You simply plug the cameras into the back of the unit. For the PC-based: Plug in the power, monitor, keyboard and mouse – just like a regular computer. You will receive instructions on how to set up the machine with your shipment.
Most of our DVRs come standard with an 120 gig hard drive (unless otherwise noted). They also include the software (for setup, local, and remote viewing), power cord, and documentation. PC-based machines also come with the mouse and keyboard. You just need to add the cameras, whatever cable you need, and a monitor. For embedded machines you can use a TV set or security monitor. For PC-based machines you need a standard computer monitor. Also, we have on-site technical support available at no additional cost.
Why doesn’t the computer monitor come with the PC-based Digital Video Recorders?
We don’t supply the computer monitor with the DVR because frankly you can get one cheaper and easier locally. Large computer stores such as Best Buy or Comp USA sell these monitors practically at cost. And due to their heavy weight, they are very expensive to ship (and subject to damage). Also, we found that many of our customers have spare computer monitors available.
How do I see pictures from a remote site?
You can view the camera video over the internet using a modem which is slow but can display 1 or 2 frames every 5 seconds. Better is a DSL or cable modem connection which can generally display 1 frame per second. When viewing remotely, the refresh rate is restricted by the communications medium (your internet connection speed). When viewing or playing back locally, the display is dependent of the unit’s frame rate (fps). You will need a static ip address available to assign to the DVR (more about this in your documentation).
Our PC-based DVRs come standard with smart search capability. This allows you to highlight one area of a captured image and look for changes just to that area. For example, if an item is stolen off of a counter… you can go to a moment in the video where the item is still on the counter, then highlight the area around the item and search automatically through the video for the moment in time when that particular area changes, that is precisely when the item is removed and then view that part of the video. Pretty slick!
Should I purchase the card and software and build my own digital video recorder or buy one pre-built?
It is much better to purchase a DVR system pre-built than to build one yourself. There are many compatibility issues with DVR cards and related software. They are very sensitive to the type of motherboard in the computer, the cpu, the memory, even the video card makes a difference! We had to test many different configurations to find one that worked reliably. You also don’t want to be running any other software on the computer that your DVR is running on so you need a dedicated computer anyway. We have had so many customers call us that have had problems installing cards in their own systems that we won’t even sell the cards separately anymore.
We found a good website that actually computes your hard disk requirements.
Analog camera resolution or picture quality is measured by the number of horizontal lines the chip in the camera provides. It is called “TV lines of resolution” or TVL. The higher the TVL, the better the quality of the image.
Standard image quality is 380TVL to 420TVL.
High image quality is 480TVL.
Very high image quality is 540TVL to 700TVL.
Wired security cameras are the optimal choice, as they provide the best video quality, zero interference, and are cost effective. They can be installed hundreds of feet away from the security DVR system.
With wired security cameras you do not have to power the camera locally. Siamese cable provides video and power in the same cable, so you can connect your cameras to the DVR and power them remotely. We have a comprehensive inventory of wired security cameras. We also offer Siamese cable pre-cut to commonly used lengths and on a spool. For runs longer than 700 Ft., we recommend using CAT5e cable and Balun connectors. Using this method, the video signal can be transmitted up to about 1,300 Ft.
We can refer you to professional installers in your area; however, using our step-by-step installation guide, the layperson can easily and quickly install our video surveillance products.
Wireless cameras are relatively expensive and are not as reliable as wired systems. Most wireless systems are Line of Sight (LOS). Remember that wireless security cameras require power to operate. So even though by going with a wireless solution you can eliminate the need for coaxial cable for video transmission, you still have to wire the camera to a power source.
Each camera requires a power source. There are two types of power supplies: 12V DC and 24V AC. Most cameras operate on 12V DC.
Individual power supplies are a good choice for 1-2 camera projects. If you have 3 or more cameras, a multi-port power supply is advisable. You can connect 4, 8 or 16 cameras to a multi-port power supply.
If you are seeking a Security Consultant to give you the information and guidance you need to run a successful CCTV system; look no further. I am a Certified Security Consultant (CSP). Protecting business is our business. Call us today 416-1923, 475-7798, 6644-285 and 475-7798. | 2019-04-18T15:25:25Z | https://thecodefactory.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Computers | 0.17811 |
wordpress | Here is a compassionate letter I wrote to myself as part of my journey in learning to love who I am.
Self-doubt is something I, along with many others, experience on a day-to-day basis. In fact, the only reason I held off from creating a blog until now was because I didn't feel that I was good enough. I am constantly doubting whether my writing is of the same quality as others, and I know not to compare my work to others (we all have different styles after all) but it doesn't stop me from thinking that what I produce isn't as good as it could be. It is for this reason I suppose, that I hesitate before calling myself a writer. Instead, I call myself an aspiring writer. The word aspiring leaves some wiggle room. It clearly shows my aim, but leaves enough space for improvement. | 2019-04-20T08:27:14Z | https://rosiegigg.wordpress.com/category/personal-thoughs/ | Porn | Arts | 0.799756 |
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wordpress | We had a VERY lazy day on Saturday. Just what the doctor ordered. A good lazy day of doing not much at all. I wanted to give the kids a break from the camera so decided to take lots on Sunday to make up for it. The weather has been wild the last week. Wild winds and crazy storms, so when the sun came out and smiled it’s warmth, we headed out to the park for a kick around.
Eli was funny, he kinda went wild. Running and running and running around the field. Chasing us and dangling from our legs and arms. He started a game of dodge-ball and squeals of delight rang out as he tried to avoid being hit by the ball.
Arch got a bit tired and over the game, so we went on a nature hunt. Looking for signs of animals and bugs. We found some pretty suspicious tracks and a few holes, but weren’t sure what they were from. We decided it wasn’t a good idea to dig to find out. Good choice Arch. We found a cocoon with the butterfly still inside, and are going to go back this week to see if it’s hatched. We also found some stinky poop, clearly, we decided that was a bad one to examine closely.
Not long after the rain came again, and I am grateful for the beautiful sunshine we had, even for a short few hours. | 2019-04-22T06:31:35Z | https://katiemdocumentsdelight2012.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/day-17/ | Porn | Kids | 0.572339 |
wordpress | In this episode, the man, the myth, the legend that is the icon known as J Sarge makes his triumphant return to the realm known as The Nerd Blitz to take up his sword and continue our quest to kill a murderous dragon!
We start off with J Sarge making a cruel and unusual request of Doom, have a triple threat existential crisis, make far more tasteless jokes than would ever be considered necessary, and have fun rolling diceseses all while Fitz tries to keep the other 2 in line and on task.
Whether you have been here since the beginning or this is your first episode, we want to thank you all for joining us in our celebration of our 3rd anniversary of this podcasting adventure, so sit back, relax, and enjoy as we do what we do best…filth and fun!
Posted on August 21, 2018 by Scooby-Doom!
It’s Tuesday, and that means it’s time for a brand new Question Of The Week, gang!
Let’s dive in and get the conversation going.
Which are you backing to win?
Leave your answer in the comments below or post it on Twitter with the hashtag #TNBQotW.
In this episode, the fellas celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the show…and madness ensues!
After some reminiscing and other fun, they welcome the Master Of The Cowbell back into their digital domain to help them finally earn their name. Lots of anger follows.
Listen in and learn the original title for the show, when they locked down the twitter, email, and domain, they both do the Inside The Actor’s Studio questionnaire, Doom asks Fitz some other questions about the future, and much more.
If you’ve been here since the start or just jumped on recently, thanks for listening and strap in for our longest episode yet. | 2019-04-21T21:01:38Z | https://nerdblitz.wordpress.com/tag/dungeons-and-dragons/ | Porn | Arts | 0.504623 |
wordpress | Thank you to everyone who made this project possible, my dear friends in the Yarn Bomb Yukon Collective Vanessa Corkal and Bree- An Lucas, our project partners Director/Curator Casey Lee and staff at the Yukon Transportation Museum and Gallery Director Mary Bradshaw, Marketing Director Jerome Stuart, Gallery Intern Lusia Stetkiewicz and staff at the Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Arts Fund for funding the project, our conservator Valery Monahan and Cathie Richie Collections Management Advisor, Museums Unit, architects at Northern Front Studio Mary Ellen Read and Stephen Clayton, staff at Nomad Air, our install crew from Ketza Construction, Amber Church and Tyler Khun for photographing the yarn bombs and for their awesome support, the Skill Share Festival, Fireweed Community Market, Atlin Arts and Music Festival and Riverside Arts Festival for allowing us to teach knitting and crochet and demonstrate yarn bombing, everyone who donated yarn and supplies from granny squares to blankets and everyone who came out to sit and stitch together the yarn bomb for the DC-3 and to help out and support us on during the install on Saturday. If I’ve forgotten anyone I’m sorry, there are so many wonderful people to thank.
Thank you to each and every one of you has helped make this project possible – we couldn’t have done it without you! The support from so many people what makes a public art project of this scale so wonderful. | 2019-04-24T03:01:01Z | https://yarnbombyukon.wordpress.com/thank-you-volunteers/ | Porn | Arts | 0.970657 |
wordpress | « John Muir Trail Record!
I designed a single large loop that entails nearly 40 miles and 14,000 feet of elevation gain with spectacular views into the heart of the Southern High Sierra. I call the route the “Stanford Loop” because it encircles 13,963 ft Mount Stanford, which is known as the “shyest” major peak in the Sierra because its position makes it only prominent from a small area. The loop includes four passes, two over the Sierra Crest (University Pass and Kearsarge Pass), and two over the Kings-Kern Divide (Forester Pass and Milly’s Foot Pass).
There is extensive off trail travel, first in the climb up and over University Pass, and second in the traverse of Upper Kern Basin to Milly’s Foot Pass and down to Lake Reflection. The travel in the second off-trail portion is particularly arduous and cumbersome with extremely loose (kitty litter) class 3 downclimbing from Milly’s Foot Pass and several thousand feet of loose talus fields to negotiate in the descent to Lake Reflection. In all, the loop took me 13 hours and 45 minutes. Despite the substantial and grueling effort that is required to complete this loop, I think it is the greatest single day tour of the Southern Sierras. Obviously, my travels in the Sierra are not thorough, but this one will be tough to beat. The route is a highlight reel and I was treated to constantly changing views, including Center Basin, Upper Kern Basin, the Kings-Kern Divide, the Great Western Divide, Lake Reflection, Kearsarge Pinnacles, the list goes on. The remote and infrequently visited Upper Kern Basin is especially memorable with close views of the Great Western Divide. This area is typically only reached after a multi-day backpack and I did not see anybody from the JMT all the way to East Lake. This route is a gem!
Complete Trip Report with dozens of photos here.
Aerial Map and splits after the jump!
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“…greatest single day tour in the Southern Sierra’s”. Wow, that’s saying something … thanks for the excellent map, accurate splits, and good idea!
Great write-up, Leor! I’m hoping to do the majority of the your Stanford loop (with variation coming down to Rae Lakes Basin for a 2 day trip) on Halloween weekend. Thanks for sharing!
I’m salivating! Great tour Leor, I’m getting out my maps NOW!! Our season is soon to be over, with the arrival of the first snow. | 2019-04-23T12:49:52Z | https://adventurerun.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/the-stanford-loop/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.718432 |
wordpress | If you follow me on twitter or goodreads then you may already know how this mini-review plays out.
If you don’t, then welcome.
In January I read 12 other books, but then 10 days that existed whilst I tried to read Enchantée I made very slow progress on any books.
I really wanted to love this book and the synopsis really dragged me in, however after 80~ pages over 10 days I had to accept we weren’t going to be best friends.
Usually I will group my DNF reviews together due to their shortness but as I don’t think this is a bad book I’m pretty happy to let this review exist on its own.
My trouble with Enchantée is that I found it too slow.
There were a few elements that had been introduced in these pages that definitely held my interest but they just weren’t enough.
I wanted to know more about Camille’s magic, I wanted to get to know mysterious balloon boy better, and I wanted to see Camille’s brother get what he deserves (hopefully?). It was just happening too slowly.
I really don’t think it helped that January was also a very good book haul month for me so whilst I was struggling through this I had a very enticing book pile encouraging me to dive in.
I think when it gets to the point that you’re putting off reading you just gotta accept defeat and move along.
As I do believe this book has potential I think its worth you also read a review from someone who finished it and loved it so here is Beths. I also would like to try and rehome my ARC to someone who is super interested in it!
I felt the exact same way. I liked a lot about it, but it was so slow! It just didn’t click for me.
True. There’s too many 5 star books waiting. I feel even more guilty DNFing arcs though.
Ah I’m sorry it wasn’t for you. And yes, when you just don’t want to read because you would have to read that book then it’s time to dnf it.
It seems people either love this book or couldn’t get into it. The premise sounds so interesting but I struggled with The Night Circus, so I’ll probably pass on this one. Thanks for the review!
I really appreciate your honestyabout the book and your process as a book blogger, thank you for sharing this! It’s a title I have on my tbr and I like to read lots of reviews before deciding to add one…this has given me lots to think about and than ks for sharing another blogger’s viewpoint also!
It can be hard to DNF ARCs, so kudos to you. Also I’m glad I read this review. I was on the fence about the novel, but wasn’t sure if I would be into it.
Now, I’m almost positive I won’t be.
It’s such a shame it didn’t work out for you!
It’s on my TBR, but I think I might save it for when I’m in the mood for a slower read.
This is disappointing. Not your review but the fact that the book wasn’t what it seemed. I can’t stand slow books, so thank you for the heads up.
It’s a shame you didn’t love this, but I understand not getting on with slow books. I need my reads to be action packed! It sounds as thought this needed some rounding out too.
Slow books are thought to get through sometimes, love the cover though!
I’m sorry this book wasn’t for you, I was really looking forward to reading it but I’ll have to do a bit more research before picking it up.
Sorry this book didn’t work out for you. My friend was actually looking forward for this book. And me along with it. I think I should set this book up with my mood when reading.
It’s always sad when a book doesn’t work for you, but I know how daunting it can be when you find a book really slow. Great review!
It is a shame that you couldn’t get into it! It is definitely much harder when you are surrounded by books that you really want to dive in to. I think I will still give Enchantee a go at some point but I appreciate the heads up on it being a slow read!
Ah man! I was so looking forward to this book, the premise sounds so interesting. But I am definitely not in a place where I can read slow books. I just got out of a reading slump and I don’t want to get back in one.
I’m sorry this one didn’t work out too well for you! I feel like a LOT of my friends struggled with (or are currently struggling with) it and it makes me feel less bad that I’ve had it on my current-reads shelf for weeks with basically NO progress at all. I’m supposed to post for the blog tour Tuesday, though, so I guess I need to hurry up and finish it. The thing is, I kind of enjoy it so far, but I’m just not motivated to commit to finishing it? Sigh.
Sorry to hear that you didn’t enjoy it but thank you for the honest review.
I’m so glad I read your review before going out and buying this!
I have some patience for slow books if the writing/worldbuilding/characters are intriguing enough, so I think I’ll still give it a chance. sorry it didn’t work for you though, and I hope your next read is better!
I am so sorry that this one didn’t work out for you, Lauren! I’ve definitely read books that I didn’t dislike but just struggled with wanting to pick it up, and I’ve set them aside thinking it was a mood thing… but 6+ months later I am still not in the mood so who knows. I hope your next read is better and good luck finding a new home for the ARC! | 2019-04-19T10:30:48Z | https://northernplunder.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/arc-review-enchantee-by-gita-trelease-gifted/ | Porn | Games | 0.11255 |
wordpress | Nothing pithy to say, but I do love winter solstice, although perversely I always wish that it meant the nights got even longer, at least for a few more weeks. I like to settle into winter and be nice and cozy for a good long while.
Last night we went out on the local arts walk and met up with several friends at different points in the evening, both planned and unplanned. It was quite a fun evening, although I started off not at all enthusiastic. See above ^^^. However, it ended up being very engaging and interesting and fun and silly good times. We had dinner at our favorite pub, had a table next to the fire, and friends joined us throughout the evening. I felt inspired by the art we’d seen and happy about all the friends we saw. Lots of interesting perspectives, some I don’t agree with, but overall good fellowship. One of those evenings that reminded us of why we moved back. Good community with deep roots. I love that.
Before we were descended upon by friends, we took a few minutes to discuss the upcoming holidays again, including New Year’s Eve. Some years we do it up big, and some years we stay quiet. I think this year is a quiet one, although we’ve been invited to several parties and could probably pull together something at our house. I think the pajama plan is in full effect. Yesterday was a long day at work, just sort of draining for lots of reasons, and I am feeling the need to retreat for a few days. I have two long weekends in a row and need a break to just take it easy. Lots of books and sitting on the couch and spending time with the people we love most. I am probably going to paint my office before the end of the year, but not yet. First: a few days of rest. | 2019-04-23T08:52:49Z | https://wherethereisjoy.wordpress.com/2018/12/22/solstice/ | Porn | Arts | 0.526616 |
wordpress | One of the most common causes of weak or sludgy plots is the confusion of internal conflict with external conflict.
The two most important characters in your book are your protagonist and your antagonist because they’re the characters in conflict.
A lot of stories have slow starts because their writers confuse trouble with conflict.
Trouble is what happens to all of us, usually daily. Things go wrong, we make mistakes, others screw up and we have to clean it up. Trouble is part of life. | 2019-04-22T14:21:19Z | https://writingandromance.wordpress.com/category/conflict/ | Porn | Reference | 0.297146 |
wordpress | I am thrilled and honored to be on the Englewood Review of Books, “Ten Theology Books to Watch for-July 2018“.
I am so excited to announce that my new forthcoming book, Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Holy Spirit will be released July 1, 2018.
It is part of the Homebrewed Christianity Guide Book Series by Fortress Press and edited by Tripp Fuller. I am so grateful to Drs. Tony Jones and Tripp Fuller for their invite and guidance in writing this book.
You can pre-order it now and also order the complete set.
I am honored to be speaking at Drew Theological School. I will be speaking during the Community Hour: “Embracing the Other: Global Spirit and Justice for All” at 12p.m. April 4, 2018. This event is sponsored by the Wabash Center.
I will also be preaching at the weekly service at 6p.m. on April 4, 2018. Sermon title is “Here I Am” and Korean women students will help lead the worship.
I attended the COP20 meeting in Peru as part of the World Council of Churches delegation.
One important climate change event was held at Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, in Lima Peru, where Dr. Jeffrey Sachs (director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University) was the plenary speaker.
This is an excerpt from the introduction of my second book, The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other.
I am reposting a book review of my book, The Holy Spirit, Chi and the Other by Dr. Amos Yong at Regent University. It was published in the Journal Religions Oct 2012.
My book, The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other has been reviewed by Rev. Dr. Steve Simmons in the Journal of World Christianity. | 2019-04-25T02:48:26Z | https://gracejisunkim.wordpress.com/tag/chi/ | Porn | News | 0.637605 |
wordpress | We watched A LOT of Home Alone over the winter break. You love the basement scene and talked about it during our nightly stories. You now have your own shaving set to play with before bath time.
Tomorrow, we will say our final good-byes. But tonight, sweet Zain, we say one last goodnight.
You were born with degenerative hip displacia and your hip sockets never quite formed correctly. We found this out when you were only 6 months old. I remember crying in the vet’s office that day thinking that we were going to lose you then. The vet gave us some meds and told us to try to build up your muscles, so your daddy took you to OU Stadium every day to run stairs. Before we knew it, you were running around the yard again as happy as ever.
That was 12 years ago. TWELVE! You’ve lived to be an old man in dog years and you’ve been a hyper happy dog the whole time. From carrying the cat around the yard by his head (never hurting him, of course), to hiding in the bathtub when little kids came over, you were always ready to lick someone’s face and lay your head on their lap if they decided they didn’t want to pet you right then.
When Gray was born almost three years ago, we thought you might be scared of him like you were of other kids, but he was your favorite person to chase and lick. His face was just the right height for your tongue. We wish he could have more time with you…just as we wish we could have more time with you.
Unfortunately, buddy, your hips have given up for good this time. That’s too much pain to go through for an old man. So, we said one last goodnight this evening with steak and lots of love under the setting sun. You’ll get to spend one more night under the stars with your life-long friend, Nalla. We are so happy we found you wandering around that house so many years ago.
You had a great time tying your gran’s shoes tonight. After a long weekend at home, you finally got to go back to school today to play with your friends. It was really hard to say goodbye this morning, but our time together tonight was extra special (jumping jacks were involved).
“Close your eyes and think of something peaceful.” Those were Becky Bailey’s instructions in that conference room so many years ago.We were learning how to wish others well.
I closed my eyes. My mind drifted to something peaceful. I was holding a baby boy on my shoulder, gently rocking him to sleep.
I didn’t have or want kids at the time. Working with little ones was enough for me then. Still, rocking that baby to sleep was the most peaceful spot in my mind.
Perhaps my soul knew you before I did. Because years later, rocking you to sleep is my peaceful place.
On the eve of your second birthday, it is hard to believe that you are growing so quickly. Even when you’re throwing a fit because one of your terrible parents is forcing you to put on a clean diaper, you bring a spark of excitement to this world.
We are so glad that you are here, Jelly Bean. Happy Birthday!
I’ve known this little guy since he was born…and his mom and dad for a lot longer. He is such a cutie! Those eyes are going to break some hearts someday. It is so much fun to watch him grow up. | 2019-04-23T12:12:30Z | https://aroundthefarmhousetable.wordpress.com/author/evelez79/ | Porn | Kids | 0.192781 |
wordpress | I applied for a Chase card with no foreign transaction fees, and some other cool sign-up bonuses [that’s not an affiliate link]. I got rejected because I also happened to sign up for a credit card last month.
I read about someone who wrote a “reconsideration letter” to his credit card company after getting rejected, so I figured “it can’t hurt to ask.” I copy/pasted that guy’s email pretty much word-for-word into Chase’s “online messaging” system, and what do you know!
welcome package in about 2 weeks.
Didn’t even need an envelope or stamp.
PS: I hate credit card companies and I hate big banks. All the more reason to responsibly take advantage of their credit card sign-up bonuses. And then pay them off in full every month or throw them away!
Of course it’s not exactly that simple (they don’t carry stock shares at the mini-mart), but it’s the sentiment I agree with. Once you realize you have enough, extra income can be put towards investments instead of buying more stuff.
Here’s the king of “it never hurts to ask.” Don Johnson asked three Atlantic City casinos to tweak the blackjack odds in his favor, until he essentially had 50/50 odds at the high-stakes table. He bet big and won $15 million. Just another reminder that it never hurts to ask!
So when deciding whether I want an iPad 3, I don’t ask myself if it would be fun or convenient. That’s the wrong question. I ask myself, “will this thing really increase the level of my lifelong happiness?”. | 2019-04-21T07:08:44Z | https://foundryintheforest.wordpress.com/2012/03/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.465565 |
wordpress | Paul looks back at his life and the love of his life, Susan. He met her when he was only 19, she, at the time, was almost 30 years older, but fascinated by the boy. She was married, had her place in society, was experienced and could teach him how to love. For years they had an affair, then they ran away, and then their life crumbled and fell apart. Susan fell apart. Taking her away from her well-settled life-style did not do her good, but Paul was in love. As he had always been. She was the love of his life. His only love. His only love story. Until he couldn’t go on anymore. But loving her he never stopped, until the very end. And he could never and didn’t ever want to find another woman to love in the same way.
After writing certain kinds of biographies about Shostakovich and Sarah Bernhardt, Julian Barnes returns with a novel about the greatest topic in literature: love. And it is not meant to end well, like most of the great love stories; neither Romeo and Juliet nor Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary found the love they dreamt of and could live it.
The story is told from elderly Paul’s perspective. Many decades have passed when he remembers how it all began, but he does not judge his younger self, nor smile at his naiveté. He takes young Paul just like he was: innocent, inexperienced and with great expectations. There were adults around him telling him that he was just dreaming and naive – but this did not keep him from falling for the elder woman. His unconditional love and admiration for Susan are compelling, but the reader senses that this will not end well. However, it does not turn out as expected since Susan is not the woman she seemed to be. Taken from her natural surroundings, she is completely lost. Her roots are cut and she does not get a grip on the new life.
Julian Barnes is a great writer, he knows how to tell a story, how to pace it perfectly and he finds the right words to have his characters express themselves. What I liked especially throughout the novel was the search for a definition of what the big four-letter-word ultimately means. He concludes that it can be happy or unhappy but it surely will be “a real disaster once you give yourself over to it entirely”. Well, that’s it maybe, surrendering yourself, come what may and adhering to it.
A wonderfully told novel, sad but enchanting. | 2019-04-23T09:59:47Z | https://missmesmerized.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/julian-barnes-the-only-story/ | Porn | Reference | 0.316402 |
wordpress | A stranger approached me few weeks ago concerned naturally with the information that 2012 is coming to an end. Is it really ? As he rattled on quoting on what he had read, my mind drifted to many of our brothers and sisters from all the walks of life still asleep and not really taking in the seriousness of what is to come. The world is not coming to an end so rest your mind and your heart, however, those who are not doing the work as in looking to ascend and allowing the Earth to ascend are going to be pushed to step up and embrace the spiritual life and spiritual truth. People tend to procrastinate and leave things to fix in the last moment, will it not be too late by the end of 2012 if we humans are still wasting precious time on things that really do not count but to work towards the development of our spiritual life which is far more important and ought to be in one’s priority to-do-list. I wonder how many of us are going to be frightened and full of regrets when Mother Nature does Her final dance. We have already seen just how powerful Her wrath is. I wonder how many of us are going to be lying on our death beds in fear and trying to pray for forgiveness in the last hour. Will death even come quickly or will some of us suffer and pass away slowly and more painfully? Will you toss and turn in your grave, and cry in shame, and if there no Earth? Will one be able to utter the Divine‘s name on his/her last breath so to able to pass on to a better place as sage’s have done in the past and still today practised by many devotional people too? Well I do not know if this is enough and we will be given the opportunity to do so? What about our actions and thoughts which do not go unnoticed by the Divine, on daily basis these get recorded by the Higher Power, and just because we can not see it does not mean it is not happening. Mankind thinks he can get away with his sins, how foolish can we be? Seriously who wants to go to Hell? Or maybe the soul will be trapped elsewhere, restless and never finding peace and freedom? Will someone help you pass over if this does happen? I have had the opportunity to help souls pass over and much appreciative to be of such service, I saw so much and learnt some spiritual truths. However, I may be allocated to do something else later, I do not have all the answers or what the Divine plans are for me. What I can tell is you do not want to get stuck after death, although you are never alone! Well do you?
As far as my feelings and thoughts are on this matter it is time to take off the blinkers, the countdown that began long, long time ago is starring us in our faces again. The subtle signs were always there but mankind was too wrapped up in his greed and false perceptions to take any notice. This Universe has been patient with Her children but now even HE/SHE is exhausted of watching us destroy this beautiful planet and the crimes we have committed towards others and ourselves. Yet this very moment although so much has happened, mankind still has the chance to turn all his thoughts and actions into love and learn to live in harmony will all things living and non-living, not just on Earth but the entire Universe and beyond. A need for great respect and even greater compassion is required, we all must work fully present with open hearts and minds as true spiritual beings, Children of Light to impact those who are the path of great destruction and where we have lost our ways, we must take control. Our lives are not to be taken for granted and it does not matter who you are. You are here to live in peace and abundance but so can everyone else, regardless of where one comes from. The daily challenge is to be mindful of our thoughts and actions, to work consciously and create lots of positive results which feed your soul! Where are your actions and thoughts taking you at the end of this life, and how is your past affecting the present? Some people are too busy worrying about the future when the present lives are such a mess and Earth needs saving. We have to clean out the clutter first from our hearts and minds, our chakras, because you matter, your soul is worth saving, is it not? Do ask yourself what needs to change from here on. Take time to reflect. Your actions against your soul are far more taxing that what you pay the taxman. As end of 2012 is fast approaching where will you run to? The spotlight is on you, following you everywhere you go. One thing is certain death will embrace us all and we are all going to be judged by the Divine accordingly when that time comes. Our souls cannot enter the kingdom of heaven unless it is as light as a feather. Imagine a scale, held by Goddess Maat with your soul on one and a light feather on the other, are the two balanced? I hope this can be the ultimate vision for everyone. What a great achievement this can be, better than a gold medal or a million bucks I say. What’s the point of million bucks when you do not the wisdom to spend it! Take a good look around you, all the tools necessary to embark on the greatest adventure your soul has chosen for you is available to you, and through the magic ingredient called LOVE, hopefully this tonic still runs in your veins. Mission possible, definitely!
So please take charge and take your ultimate power back, save your soul for this is where the ultimate freedom lays, unfortunately for some of you this may be your last chance, the flag is waving so stop killing time! This gift of life is everyone’s greatest treasure, why throw it away? What you can do today can make a lot of difference tomorrow. Personally, I know where I’d rather be. When my time to exit this world comes my wish is to die an awakened soul! The thought of how someone is going to pass over can be uncomfortable but the thought of dying a soul that has not reached ascension is far more painful for me. And even after ascension if I choose to come back, I am not coming back as a cockroach, neither should you!
WHEN WE PUT FEAR INTO OUR WORK AND WHEN THE FEAR OF GOD HAS BEEN DRUMMED IN OUR LIVES, SOMETIMES THIS IS A BLESSING. I GREW UP WITH THE FACT THAT IF I WRONGED GOD IN ANYWAY HE WOULD GET VERY ANGRY WITH ME AND I WOULD END UP IN HELL SO I WAS TOLD OR SOME OTHER BAD PLACE. WHEN I FIRST SAW THE PICTURE OF LORD JESUS CHRIST ON THE CROSS, I WEPT. I HAD NO IDEA AT THAT TIME WHAT HE HAD DONE FOR SUCH A HORRIBLE DEATH , WHILE IT WAS HEART BREAKING I ALSO GOT CURIOUS. MY LAST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL I GOT MYSELF ENROLLED IN A MORMON SCHOOL. I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO MY PARENTS FOR LETTING ME BRANCH OUT THIS WAY.
WHILE A LOT OF CHANGES WERE TAKING PLACE IN THE BACKGROUND, I ALSO KNEW WHAT WAS NECESSARY FOR MY GROWTH AND THIS REQUIRED TAKING SOME RISKS, AND I AM GLAD I TOOK MY CHANCES. I WAS RIDDLED WITH QUESTIONS. IF OUR CREATOR IS LOVE WHY DOES MANKIND PUT FEAR INTO THIS EQUATION? I FELT BY BEING THE BEST LOVING PEOPLE WE COULD BE, THROUGH OUR ACTIONS OF LIGHT AND LOVE TOWARDS OURSELVES AND OTHERS, WAS WHAT PLEASED HIM/HER. IF WE SLIP NOW AND THEN BECAUSE AS HUMANS WE ARE BOUND TO DRIFT OFF IN OTHERS DIRECTIONS AT TIMES, OUR CREATOR IS LOVING, FORGIVING AND UNDERSTANDS US BETTER THAN WE DO OURSELVES. I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THERE WAS SO FEAR EVERYWHERE I USED TO THINK AFTER ALL HE KNOWS ALL, OUR THOUGHTS, OUR EMOTIONS, OUR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES. NO ONE CAN HIDE FROM HIM/HER.
THERE HAD TO BE A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY IN OUR ACTIONS AND BELIEF SYSTEMS AND HONEST INTENTIONS COULD EASILY BREAK THE WALLS THAT WAS ALREADY TAKING US AWAY FROM PEACE AND RESPECT FOR OTHERS, OUR OWN PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITIES WHERE NEGATIVE WAYS OF BEINGS WERE MANIFESTING AND SLOWLY WAS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL.
ADULTS NEEDED TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE YOUNG WITH LOVE AND PUT THEIR OWN FEARS ASIDE. THE FIRST SEED OF FEAR GOT PLANTED IN THE SUB-CONSCIOUS AT A VERY EARLY STAGE ,” WHO DO YOU LOVE MORE DARLING, MUMMY OR DADDY? ” WHY DOES THE CHILD HAVE TO CHOOSE WHO HE OR SHE IS GOING TO LOVE MORE, THE LOVE FOR BOTH PARENTS CAN BE EQUAL AND OUGHT TO BE THIS WAY. THIS SORT OF CANCER SLOWLY STARTED TO TAKE OTHER FORMS OF ABUSE IN THE HOMES, COMMUNITY AND THEN THE WHOLE NATION. A POINT TO NOTE HERE WAS THE FACT THAT OFTEN THE CLOSEST , NEAREST AND DEAREST ENDED UP DOING MORE DAMAGE TO THEIR OWN, WHETHER PARENTS WERE RESPONSIBLE OR OTHER RELATIVES. FEAR FOR CONTROL OVER OTHERS, JEALOUSY,ENVY,COMPETITION,GREED,IGNORANCE TO NAME WERE FEW COMMON POISONOUS TOOLS USED THAT CREATED NOTHING BUT PAIN AND MISERY. OUR BACKYARDS WERE FULL OF PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN HURT GREATLY AND SOME LIVES DESTROYED AND RUINED BECAUSE OF FEAR, A FOUR LETTER WORD WITH SO MUCH POWER TO REALLY CREATE MASSIVE HAVOC IN OUR LIVES. FEAR ONLY CREATES MORE FEAR, AND IF YOUR MIND IS WEAK … ONCE THIS FOUNDATION IS WEAK NATURALLY OTHERS HUNGRY FOR POWER TAKE ADVANTAGE, NOT IN THE NAME OF LOVE, MIND YOU THEY WERE ALSO OPERATING FROM FEAR, FEAR OF LACK PERHAPS , TO OBTAIN MORE WEALTH AND POWER.
TO SAY THAT OUR CREATOR IS NOT LOVING AND WATCHING OVER US IS OUT OF ALIGNMENT. THOSE WHO HAVE KILLED OR KILL IN THE NAME OF GOD ARE OPERATING FROM PURE EVIL, AGAIN FEAR IS A HUFE FACTOR . OUR CREATIVE FATHER LOVES ALL HIS CHILDREN, REGARDLESS OF OUR COLOUR, RACE, RELIGION,STATUS. WHEN A MAN’S MIND IF FULL OF FEAR HE HAS NO SENSE OF BALANCE AND MAKES FOOLISH CHOICES. TERRIBLE CHOICES AFFECTS EVERYBODY ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. MANKIND NEEDS TO BE MORE FOCUSSED ON HOW VALUABLE OUR LIVES ARE AND OF OTHERS, HOW FEAR CAN ROT THE SOUL OF A PERSON. FEAR CREATES ILLUSION. THIS WHOLE WORLD AND ALL THINGS LIVING IT IN ARE CONNECTED TO THE SOURCE. NO MAN IS SUPERIOR THAN ANOTHER. REMEMBER THIS WHEN DEATH COMES HE WILL NOT CARE WHO YOU ARE. AND WHEN JUDGEMENT CALLS, WE ARE ALL JUDGED BY OUR ACTIONS, NO MAN CAN ESCAPE THIS. I WAS TAUGHT THAT OUR ACTIONS ARE RECORDED BY OUR ANGELS EVERYDAY. TO LEARN TO MAKE WISE CHOICES WAS NECESSARY.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP PEACE AND WITH AN OPEN HEART AND OPEN MINDS WE ALL CAN TRULY LIVE. THERE IS MUCH NEED FOR AWARENESS IN OUR THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS AND THE EFFECT THEY HAVE IN OUR DAILY LIVES . THERE IS A NEED TO ALL HUMAN BEINGS TO MOVE AWAY FROM FEAR AND EMBRACE FAITH INSTEAD. THIS WAY WE ARE ALL WINNERS AND THE FLOW OF ETERNAL LOVE AND ABUNDANCE WILL DANCE IN EVERYONES BACKYARDS. IT IS TIME TO LAUGH IN THE FACE OF DARKNESS…. AND BUILD REAL STRENGTH AND HEAL OUR PAST AND THE PRESENT MOMENT. AS FOR THE FUTURE IT WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF WHEN WE AS HUMANS STARTS LIVING AS TRUE SPIRITS OF LOVE AND LIGHT. I BELIEVE THIS IS POSSIBLE..
THERE IS NO NEED FOR DESTRUCTION, LET DIVINITY TAKE CARE OF THAT BECAUSE NATURE WILL HAVE HER FINAL SAY. MANKIND NEEDS TO REALISE THAT WE ARE NOT AS POWERFUL AS WE THINK. IT IS AN ILLUSION CREATED BY THE UGLY EGO, HENCE FEAR DEVELOPS AND WHAT IS PRECIOUS TO ALL OF MANKIND IS LOST. IT COMES DOWN TO CHOICES, CHOOSE LOVE, FAITH, COMPASSION. CHOOSE FORGIVENESS… CHOOSE SOUL !
Are You Woman Enough To Change ?
I sometimes feel a lot of women in our society need to be trained to be a true woman, mother, friend, lover, teacher… Many have abused in the past and to this day because of their past hurts not dealt with and healed, often those near and dear tend to suffer such as their children and their partners. This is not an art of beauty or the divine feminine energy which is their true and rightful power from the Source. A power that is now so unbalanced which has crushed their softness and taken away the meaning of what it means to be a beautiful woman. Where are they in their hearts and their minds may be a mystery yet in other ways it is still clear to the world that they are still on the path of destruction. No amount of heavy make-up or fancy attire they wear can hide this fact from those who understand how energy works, the masks do come off eventually and it is painful to witness that these women have forgotten they are vessels of love first and foremost.
I honestly feel it is time we can do without blaming men as we have for so many centuries, and to this present time and embrace the fact that we are WOMAN, a creative force that truly is so loving, soft and forgiving, caring and all other qualities that make us just that, the Divine Shakti. This is your sacred relationship with your soul. Why put this on-line and for what ? Working with love is the answer, not being like a man because this is a man’s world is a dangerous attitude? This world belongs to both sexes, what we need is respect for each other, not power play. We need as woman to support other woman, not the unhealthy competition and cruelty. Women need to be centred in their hearts, and understand their first role is that of love. Controlling mothers/women are out. Abusive mothers /women are out. Takers are out, and God have mercy on those who practise dark magic. Back to open compassionate hearts and knowledge of their spiritual makeup should be embraced fully and this is a very attractive trait to have. Centred in this truth women blossom and radiate great power and beauty and this awesome energy also rubs on their children. Women/mothers who choose to embark on their journey of being a True Divine Feminine, claim back their power through love, protecting their young, nurturing them, and loving all things equally, not the other way around. And what of your inner-child? Does she have a say in this? Why waste any precious time dwelling on the past. For those who have yet to catch up , forgive and plant seeds of compassion and deep understanding of knowledge and light to embark on a journey that will determine your prosperous future because you have the heart and the strength of a lioness to do so. Your dedication and determination here is important as your survival as a strong loving woman.
When you make this conscious decision know the Great Spirit will joyfully aid you. You are not alone in this battle . Next time when a man is soft and tender pay attention also, it is embarrassing if a man has to remind the old and the gray or the modern woman/mother what softness is. The Universe is also creatively reminding you of your worth as a wonderful woman who is lost. I know I am speaking to your soul, and some women may find this very hard to digest. If yet after so much has happened you continue playing games, you are actually hurting yourself . We need to appreciate that being a female is a great blessing and understand what this really means. Please meditate on this. This is vital for your happiness and how you think and what your thoughts and actions are also creating in your life, and the nasty energies that gets sent out into the world also reaches our Earth Mother who is another woman! Be nice !!! | 2019-04-18T14:59:12Z | https://creativemeditations.wordpress.com/tag/god/ | Porn | Society | 0.874103 |
wordpress | That was amazing, Loren! I love your writing style and the names/personalities of your characters. Names are always really difficult for me. And to answer the question at the end of this post, my NaNo project is going pretty badly. XD I’m really behind on my goal, and I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to reach it thanks to school. :/ Anyways, great post, I really enjoyed reading it!
thanks so much, clara! yeah, picking names was pretty difficult for me this time because i wanted more unusual ones for most of them.
oh dear, i’m sorry. but don’t give up, there’s still time!
This is great! Now stop procrastinating and write! Lol.
great job so far! i really love your writing style, and your use of description is just. so. amazing. and, no pressure, but HOW AWESOME WOULD IT BE TO HOLD A BOOK PUBLISHED BY THE ONE AND ONLY LOREN????????????
thanks so much!! I PROMISE I’LL SEND YOU A COPY AS SOON AS IT’S FINISHED.
Heyyy, first person, present! Way to go and fabulous snippet.👌 Just be sure not to make any snippets more fabulous than my first person, present ones and there should be no problems.
thanks! nah, i’m sure i’ll never be able to top yours.
sure, i’d be glad to help. do you want me to email it to you?
Thank you, Loren. Sure! Or you can just tell me in a comment. Whatever. I have a contact page on my blog too. | 2019-04-22T04:14:46Z | https://blueeyesgrayeyes.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/nano-progress-report/ | Porn | Computers | 0.103526 |
wordpress | Our political system is dichotomous. We are Liberals (with a capital ‘D’) or we are Conservatives (with a capital ‘R’) or we are Independents (with a capital ‘Haha, you’re too dumb to have an opinion’). The truth is that I know very, very few people who fall distinctly into one category or the other. Most of us are somewhere in between. We lean one direction or the other based on our values, priorities, and experiences.
Think of a coin spinning on the tabletop. As soon as it starts leaning one direction, it falls over flat. ‘Heads’ is no longer on a level field with ‘tails’ and you can only see one side. With a coin, this isn’t really a big deal. With people, it’s huge. We stop dialoguing with ‘the other side,’ and as a result, we can no longer learn from them. In turn, they can no longer learn from us.
We put ourselves into categories and we end up conversing only with other people who think the way we do. I grew up in a very conservative household. I do not lean to the right, as anyone who reads anything I’ve ever written would quickly surmise. That doesn’t mean that I don’t still converse with or care for family members. There are many, many people who have changed my life in some small way that don’t think or believe the way I do. Sometimes we can talk politics; sometimes we can’t. Sometimes we can talk religion; sometimes we can’t.
We do not discuss Israel. Ever. Under any circumstances.
Our view of abortion is different. We can discuss this topic, but we never really change the others’ point of view.
Our view of the death penalty is likewise different. Again, we can discuss this topic, but even as our views change as we get older, they don’t change toward but rather away from one another.
During the 2008 election, our household was a cacophony of political conversation. We were talking about the same party, but our views were different enough—and strong enough—that we basically canceled each other out on the Presidential nomination vote. And yet, we love and admire and respect one another. It is because we respect one another that we continue to learn from each other.
I don’t believe for a second that there are only two sides to any coin, nor do I believe that because someone doesn’t believe in something, it means they are ‘hateful’ or ‘ignorant’ or ‘selfish.’ I believe that it means they have had different experiences than I have and that they have different priorities, but I also believe that we probably have some common ground on certain subjects. Example: I believe in the right to bear arms almost as adamantly as most NRA members, yet I tend to vote for liberal candidates because my priority is social justice (no one should be hungry in the U.S. ever!).
Now, this doesn’t mean that I don’t believe that there are hateful, ignorant, or selfish people out there. There are. But I recognize that the loudest voices seldom represent the majority. Most people just want the world to be a good place and we all have a different image of what a good place is.
Consider what the world would be like if we all agreed with one another 100% of the time. We would accomplish even less than we accomplish in our dichotomous culture. Yet, consider for a moment what the world might be like if we stopped assuming that ‘the other side’ was always, 100% of the time, wrong.
We might see a coin that never stopped spinning. A world that never stopped learning.
Author’s Note: The title of this blog post is from a refrigerator magnet. I have also seen this saying on bumper stickers, memes, wall hangings, and decorative pillows. I think it pretty much sums up the way our society behaves.
Posted on September 15, 2012 by Larina Warnock • This entry was posted in Commentary, current events, politics and tagged conservative, Democrat, liberal, relationships, Republican. Bookmark the permalink.
This is so true, Larina. Election years tend to bring more division among people as they battle and argue which side is right or try to convince each other that a chosen candidate is, for the most part, the better candidate to ‘restore’ our America. I lean right, there’s no question in that, but I also embrace and value the opinions of those different than mine. My daughter leans far to the left, and though we seldom have political discussions, we share the same passions and desires for our society as a whole. Besides, when we do discuss political values, the conversation is far too intellectual for anyone to assume one is more right than the other. The only wish I have for us in the American society is that we bond in common goals through prayer and contemplation in realization that we are not really in control; our time on earth is miniscule when we think of all the years, cultures, governments, and lives that have come before us and will come after us. Myself, I will continue in prayer to God that He will strengthen and heal our land, and I also pray that our leaders recognize, remember, and value the American people enough to do the same. | 2019-04-25T20:33:45Z | https://larina.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/you-can-agree-with-me-or-you-can-be-wrong/ | Porn | Home | 0.348407 |
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Many people do not comprehend that espresso can be used as a lot more than simply a caffeine rush. In fact, espresso is one of the most adaptable items on the planet! The less apparent utilizes of coffee do not get talked about a good deal because for the most part folks do not believe which they perform. You will find however, numerous folks which have bought to the unusual uses for espresso and so are at present enjoying the benefits.
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A wooden mortar-and-pestle grinder, accustomed to make "coffee powder," was listed in the cargo from the Mayflower in 1620. This is not a surprise given that Captain John Smith (c. January 1580-June 21, 1631), who was an English soldier, explorer, author and one of the primary arrivals inside the New Continent, became familiar with coffee during his visits to Turkey. It is intriguing to notice that the Dutch, who had early knowledge of coffee from their colonies all over the world, had been not the initial to carry coffee towards the initial permanent settlements. Nevertheless, coffee was almost certainly imported from Holland as early as in 1640. The British launched the coffee consume to the Ny colony sometime in between 1664 and 1673 which is noteworthy given that tea is the classic British beverage. In the 1670's coffee was roasted, ground, brewed, and then flavored with sugar or honey, and cinnamon. Without doubt the mortar-and-pestle coffee grinding approach changed as innovative New World settlers determined ways to ease the task of coffee grinding through the use of far more effective and long-lasting espresso grinding equipment.
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Young people should never ever consume espresso. Regular coffee usage might be as negative as alcohol for young adults, but since the effects of espresso aren't immediate, we normally consider it much less hazardous.
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By doing this, your espresso is performed and ready to go. If you are impatient, they make automated coffee makers with circulation interruption. Which means you can pull the flask from the device to pour a quick cup, as well as the movement of espresso stop momentarily.
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They do not sell factory coffee. Instead, all espresso is meticulously and skillfully prepared inside a classic drum roaster. The espresso is roasted inside a 10kg drum (22 pound) roaster and gradually roasted until all-around 17 minutes approximately based on which coffee they are roasting.
Once the T DISC is inserted into the Tassimo espresso maker, the TASSIMO brewer reads the initial bar code printed around the label Keurig Coffee. The code specifies beverage size, brewing some time and optimum temperature required to put together the beverage to provide you with a perfect beverage every time.
Roasting coffee yourself is also practical for storage reasons. The general rule will let you know that raw or green coffee beans can final up to a year or more and nonetheless be appropriate for consumption. Roasted espresso beans, on the other hand, may possibly roughly be clean as much as two months only. Ground coffee beans will last for a relatively shorter amount of time. | 2019-04-24T21:47:20Z | http://keurig427.blog.fc2.com/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.089924 |
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This is a view looking out to a boat at sea in Stromness on the Orkney Islands in Scotland.
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wordpress | I sometimes believe that I don’t have the time or the option to relax. If you’re like me, and you go to a school where competition is so high you just can’t get enough rest, you’ll understand what I mean. Or if you’re in a situation where your life is in disarray, things aren’t going as planned, and your stress levels are at all-time highs, you’ll be able to relate. Every day, I stay up till past midnight, sometimes even till 5 to get my homework done. Even if I don’t procrastinate, it still happens because that is the environment I live in. I can’t do anything about it except continue losing sleep in order to get grades which in the end don’t even make me happy, because I feel depressed and stressed out inside.
Many people constantly work too hard every day in order for a better future, but you can’t have a bright future if you aren’t happy in the present. I can’t stress enough how important it is to take some time out for yourself in order to keep a calm mind and make sure things don’t get out of hand. And you probably won’t take this advice from me hearing my sleep schedule, but believe me, I’ve started to change that and take my own advice. Even if it’s just sleeping a few hours earlier, or hanging out with friends, or even having some sweet alone time, I’ve started to loosen up. And I’ve noticed that even though my life is still hectic, I’m feeling better as time goes by. By getting my much needed relaxation, I’m finally realizing that I can control my life better and do things with more effort than I was before. So I hope you take the chance to calm yourself and get some peace, because it’s worth it in the end.
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Waiting for tomorrow for happiness and peace, for some miracle something to come save us is, perhaps, the greatest danger we could ever surrender to.
We live in a culture that always says, “Go, go, go!!!!”. But that is not the way God designed us to be. He understood that our bodies needed rest in order to recharge. That is why He created the Sabbath, not because He was tired, but because we were tired. What would be your day of rest? It can be anything from taking a extra hour of sleep, or even doing an activity you enjoy. Without rest, sooner or later, your body will burn out and you will be good for nothing. | 2019-04-22T17:56:58Z | https://silverliningcommunity.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/quiet-mind-is-the-best-cure-for-the-body/ | Porn | Health | 0.699246 |
wordpress | Using aspects of the natural world students will explore different aluminium etching techniques. Discussions about creative interpretation of the environment will be combined with practical exercises on how to create line, tone and texture using a variety of processes.
Participants will begin by collecting visual information from the landscape surrounding the workshop. Sketches will be turned into simple line etchings and then other printmaking processes will be added to create tone and texture. Students will be encouraged to use a creative and experimental approach to the subject working with both figurative and abstract techniques.
So, if you want to learn aluminium etching techniques (always experimental!), or improve skills you already have, using the lovely surroundings of the Dove as inspiration, this is the course for you. Email bronbradshaw@yahoo.com or message dovearts on facebook if you would like to reserve a place. | 2019-04-20T20:11:13Z | https://dovearts.wordpress.com/2018/03/03/nature-into-print-details-of-course/ | Porn | Arts | 0.970506 |
wikipedia | ↑ "Online version". Retrieved 2010-09-15. Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Ian Hancock's 1987 estimate for "all Gypsies in the world" was 6 to 11 million.
↑ "EU demands action to tackle Roma poverty". BBC News. 2011-04-05.
↑ Webley, Kayla (October 13, 2010). "Hounded in Europe, Roma in the U.S. Keep a Low Profile". Time. Today, estimates put the number of Roma in the U.S. at about one million.
↑ The Special Secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality estimates the number of "ciganos" (gypsies) in Brazil at 800,000 (2011). The 2010 IBGE Brazilian National Census encountered gypsy camps in 291 of Brazil's 5,565 municipalities. "Falta de políticas públicas para ciganos é desafio para o governo". R7. 2011. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
↑ "The Situation of Roma in Spain" (PDF). Open Society Institute. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-12-01. Retrieved 2010-09-15. The Spanish government estimates the number of Gitanos at a maximum of 650,000.
↑ "Roma rights organizations work to ease prejudice in Turkey". EurasiaNet. 22 July 2005. Retrieved 2010-09-15. There are officially about 500,000 Roma in Turkey.
↑ "Situation of Roma in France at crisis proportions". EurActiv Network. 7 December 2005. Retrieved 2010-09-15. The Romani population in France is officially estimated at around 500,000.
↑ "National Composition Of Population And Citizenship" (Excel). perepis2002.ru. Retrieved 2010-09-16. Census 2002 in Russia: 182,766 Roma.
↑ Demographics of Italy#Languages Estimated by Ministero degli Interni del Governo Italiano.
↑ "The 2002-census reported 53,879 Roma and 3,843 'Egyptians'". Republic of Macedonia, State Statistical Office. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
↑ "Catemaco gypsies". Catemaco.info. Retrieved 2013-03-12.
↑ Gall, Timothy L. (ed). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Culture & Daily Life: Vol. 4 - Europe. Cleveland, OH: Eastword Publications Development (1998); pp. 316, 318: "Religion: An underlay of Hinduism with an overlay of either Christianity or Islam (host country religion) "; "Roma religious beliefs are rooted in Hinduism. Roma believe in a universal balance, called kuntari... Despite a 1,000-year separation from India, Roma still practice 'shaktism', the worship of a god through his female consort... " | 2019-04-26T07:56:06Z | https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE_(%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%95) | Porn | Reference | 0.576054 |
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Holy Crap! Read the paper today can not believe it. Will be there on August 11. Gotta see this. I have two of Chris's albums and looking forward to seeing the band together again. Paper had no details but guessing they'll be some release as to the location of this grand event. If you're planning some sort of email blast please include me. See you guys next month.
Hey guys, it's great to hear you guys are back together! Tom Schmuhl sent me the news in Colorado. I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it back to the show but I'd sure like to. Please add me to your email list.
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imdb | Humorist Robert Benchley learns about the animation process at Walt Disney Studios while trying to find the great man himself to pitch him the idea of making a cartoon about a shy dragon.
Animation done to contemporary popular music.
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: "Bongo," about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and "Mickey and the Beanstalk," a take on the famous fairy tale.
Disney animators tour South America and present four animated shorts inspired by their trip.
An animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" followed by an adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
Goofy has to get a box belonging to a magician in time for the next train to pick the baggage. Clumsy Goofy drops the box and a lot of magician's props (a rabbit which multiplies, a bull, a woman sawed in half) appear.
Goofy learns the basics of ballroom dancing.
Narrator: No truer has ever been uttered than those of Confucius, or some other philosopher, who said, "The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man."
There's no denying that Goofy is the "How to" guy at Disney. Throughout the decades he has appeared in a number of shorts centered around how to do certain things. As the title suggests, this one here has him teaching us what the proper way is for us to ride a horse. Not only do we learn the proper way to ride but we also learn what we should wear. Obviously this is a charming film that doesn't take itself too serious. I wouldn't say it was a classic Goofy short but there are enough laughs that make it worth sitting through. If you're a fan of the series or Goofy then you'll certainly enjoy the short for what it is. | 2019-04-22T03:00:09Z | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033731/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.500556 |
imdb | This film just does not work. In fact, it was so painful, we turned it off.
The basic flaws are in the characters. The actions of the characters do not make sense and leave you gasping for breath at their stupidity.
It actually looks like part of the script was improvised or nobody checked the script after it was written. | 2019-04-24T18:48:07Z | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066970/?ref_=plg_rt_1 | Porn | Reference | 0.285082 |
wordpress | international coverage | SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE(S) OF HONDURAS!
Para leer esto comunicado de prensa en espanol, haga clic aqui.
June 23, 2011, Houston – Today, almost two years after the military coup in Honduras, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a complaint in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas, on behalf of David Murillo and Silvia Mencías, the parents of 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo who was shot and killed by Honduran military forces during a peaceful demonstration against the military coup d’etat of June 28, 2009. The defendant is Roberto Micheletti Baín, former president of the Honduran National Congress who assumed the role of head of the de facto government immediately following the coup d’état ousting President Zelaya. The complaint details extrajudicial killing, crimes against humanity of murder and persecution, wrongful death and other gross human rights violations that occurred in Honduras under the authority and/or direction of Micheletti.
On July 5, 2009, President Zelaya attempted to return to Honduras and restore the democratically-elected government. Zelaya intended to fly by airplane to Honduras and land at Toncontin International Airport in the capital of Tegucigalpa . Nineteen-year-old activist Isis Murillo and his family joined thousands of other coup opponents at the airport for a non-violent, peaceful gathering to welcome Zelaya back and support the restoration of the government. When Zelaya’s plane attempted to but was blocked from landing, Isis Murillo was shot in the head by Honduran military and died just moments after.
Subsequent to Isis ’ killing, the plaintiff and his family were subjected to surveillance and harassment by police and other authorities. This harassment took place in the context of what lawyers describe as an intense repression and political persecution that began under Michiletti’s regime that targeted the National Front of Popular Resistance, which formed in opposition to the coup, as well as journalists and other groups standing in opposition.
To view the complaint or for more information on the lawsuit, visit the Center for Constitutional Rights’ Honduras page or www.ccrjustice.org/honduras-coup. For information on the Center for Constitutional Rights Freedom of Information Act litigation around Honduras , visit http://ccrjustice.org/honduras-foia.
The U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs is to hear from the “Honorable Roberto Micheletti Baín (Invited)”, who is, they say, the “Former President of Honduras”.
Micheletti was a key leader of the June 2009 military coup in Honduras, and was a ‘de facto’ leader of the military-backed regime that carried out widespread repression against the Honduran people.
It is false to say Micheletti is a “Former President” of Honduras. The so-called swearing in process by the pro-coup Honduran Congress, one day after the illegal military coup, was based on a forged resignation letter of President Zelaya.
The ‘dishonorable’ Micheletti should be tried in court in Honduras for his role in the coup, not received by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs as “former President” of Honduras.
*NOTE: Further witnesses may be added.
Write to your own Member of Congress, and other government officials, demanding that Micheletti – a dishonorable military coup plotter and leader – NOT be invited to speak at this hearing.
Lawyer Kenia Oliva and human rights activist Mery Agurcia will represent the Committee of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) in three Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearings on October 25th and 26th in Washington, DC: Protective Measures, Freedom of Expression, and Criminalization of Human Rights Defenders.
The case of ‘The Six Students’ dates back to 1982, when army soldiers kidnapped six students – Milton and Marlen Jimenez Puerto, Gilda and Suyapa Rivera Sierra, and Edwin and Adan Guillermo Lopez Rodezno – and tortured them for four days. In July 1995, the Special Attorney for Human Rights, Sonia Dubon, accused ten military officials with attempted murder and illegal detention in connection with the “temporary disappearance” of the students. Among the accused military officials were Raymundo Alexander Hernandez and Billy Joya Amendola, who both currently live in total impunity.
READ MISF’s FULL BRIEFING, UPDATED OCT. 11 2010, HERE (PDF) AND IN SPANISH HERE (updated Spanish version coming soon).
In the months after the June 28 coup in Honduras, international media and NGOs reported on the de facto government’s suspension of constitutional rights, censorship of media outlets and repression of peaceful demonstrators. Less reported and harder to monitor has been an ongoing wave of human rights violations—illegal arrests, intimidation, police beatings, and suspicious deaths of journalists, resistance leaders, activists, advocates and their family members—which have continued, and in the case of journalists increased, since the inauguration of President Porfirio Lobo Sosa.
Human rights advocates say they have been witnessing a pattern of abuse strikingly similar to what citizens suffered during the political conflicts of the 1980s. They point to a culture of ongoing repression that has been cultivated by government and military impunity for human rights violations over the last 30 years.
“The connection is very evident in the patterns of repression that have played out. The mode of repression, the sowing of fear, detentions, and the general climate of terror is very reminiscent of the 80s,” Claudia Hermansdorfer, director of the Honduran Center for Women’s Rights, said.
In the 1980s the Honduran Military Battalion 3-16 kidnapped, tortured or “disappeared” citizens. Today at least five former military officers with ties to Battalion 3-16 are reported to hold powerful positions within the government or police (see Former Battalion 3-16 members in positions of power today, below) and little has been done to end a dysfunctional culture of impunity.
In 1994, then Human Rights Commissioner Leo Valladares published numerous recommendations in The Facts Speak for Themselves (Los Hechos Hablan Por Si Mismo) following his independent investigation into human rights abuses perpetrated by Honduran security forces in the 1980s.
In his report, Valladares advised that “the creation of [several specific] greater legal protections will be necessary to prevent disappearances from happening again,” including a “central registry of detained persons” and a “special law regarding detention.” He also recommended several reforms regarding accountability, noting, “The state has the duty and the right to use force against those who violate its laws. The legitimate use of force, however, flows from respect for the Constitution and laws of the nation.” His recommendations include those to “assure democratic and citizen control of all public security actions,” among others.
CLICK HERE to download a PDF of the full backgrounder on government-supported human rights abuses and the legacy of impunity in Honduras. The information provided is based on research that May I Speak Freely Media has conducted over the past 10 years. | 2019-04-22T16:03:22Z | https://hondurassolidarity.wordpress.com/category/english/international-coverage/ | Porn | News | 0.269357 |
typepad | Nigeria RPCV John Sherman writes libretto for opera "Biafra"
Nigeria Returned Peace Corps Volunteer John Sherman writes libretto for opera "Biafra"
The world premiere of the opera, "Biafra," was presented at the Artsgarden in downtown Indianapolis on December 6. Sherman wrote the libretto for the opera, based in part on his book, War Stories: A Memoir of Nigeria and Biafra, in which he provides details of his work with the International Committee of the Red Cross during the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s. This program fulfills the requirements for a presentation by Indianapolis resident John Sherman for his Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship received from the Arts Council of Indianapolis in 2005.
A "stunning array of talent" has been assembled to bring the opera to life. The leading role of Mary Okonkwo, a Red Cross nurse, is portrayed by Paula Ingram who received rave reviews for her performances in London's West End and in the PBS production of "Porgy and Bess." In the opera, Ms. Ingram wore the actual Red Cross badge worn by Sherman during the months he served on the food/medical team near the front lines in what had been the Eastern Region of Nigeria, then Biafra, and, when he was there, once again a part of Nigeria. Also in the set was a full-sized reproduction of a Biafran propaganda poster that Sherman found in one of the former elementary schools where they held a clinic. The sets have been lent for the performance by the Indianapolis Opera. A dozen dancers from the Kenyetta' Dance Company performed in a dream sequence, lending their talents to the setting in a clinic in an abandoned school in the heart of war-torn Biafra. The opera's logo is based on the Biafran flag – in that flag, the middle bar had a yellow "rising sun" that was the symbol of the secessionist republic that survived for 30 months before surrendering and becoming, once again, Nigeria. Read more and comment on the story.
The Opera is based on Sherman's Book "War Stories"
John Sherman had been a Peace Corps teacher in the Eastern Region of Nigeria for nearly a year when the region seceded and became the Republic of Biafra. He spent his second year in the Peace Corps in Malawi, then returned to Nigeria to work with the Red Cross. War Stories is based on a diary he kept in the Red Cross, with flashbacks to his Peace Corps/Nigeria days. Sherman, now a resident of Indianapolis, is a freelance writer and the author of three books of poetry and two pictorial history books on Santa Fe and Taos.
An Excerpt from "War Stories"
Every night we approach the roadblocks at about the same time, and every night it is the same reaction from the men guarding them: Screaming soldiers holding loaded guns which probably have their safeties off (if they have such devices at all), surrounded by blinding lights and more soldiers. What's worse, too often the soldiers holding those guns are drunk, so that the weapons are waving wildly about in the air.
I scream out, "Red Cross! Red Cross!" when I am challenged, but the goddamned soldiers can't hear me because they're too busy shouting for me to identify myself. One night, a few weeks ago, I got out of my Land Rover (something I have to do most nights, anyway), walked up to the man who had finally realized who I was, and said loudly, "I come through here every bloody night! At the same time, too, damnit! Why are you doing this?"
Read more and comment on the story. | 2019-04-20T10:21:08Z | https://peacecorpsonline.typepad.com/peacecorpsonline/art/ | Porn | Arts | 0.516884 |
typepad | Today's prisoner is Darian Ernesto Dufuss Preval.
An activist with the Patriotic Union of Cuba, or UNPACU, Dufuss was arrested May 13, 2014.
The human rights commission said Dufuss was a victim of a government-sponsored "act of repudiation," and a provocation that gave the dictatorship they needed to jail him. Charges and possible punishment remain pending, according to the commission.
Dufuss is one of dozens of UNPACU activists in Cuban jails. | 2019-04-21T10:18:35Z | https://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2014/07/cuban-political-prisoner-of-the-day-darian-ernesto-dufuss-july-23-2014.html | Porn | News | 0.605756 |
wordpress | To all Residents of Cuyo Island, Palawan, The 3rd medical mission by next year is now accepting pre-registration for Free Surgical Operation of Cleft Lip (Bingot) and Cleft Palate (Ngo-ngo).
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wordpress | This week is Night Camp! It is the week to explore space, Summer Solstice and find out what life is like when the sun goes down. I use to work at an environmental camp and there was a theme called Night Camp. Here the kids would gradually adjust their schedule over the course of the week so that by the last night they were up all night long. It was so much fun and gave them a chance to explore nocturnal animals, try out different experiments, swim at night, star gaze and so much more. When my kids are older, I hope to do something very similar but for now we will do a JR version of Night Camp. Here is what we have planned….
–Watch “Tonights Sky”–We do this every month but decided to wait until this week to watch this month’s edition.
-Day vs. Night Experiment-Can you run, jump, skip, count, sing etc. faster during the day or at night??? | 2019-04-24T14:04:28Z | https://magicschoolhouse.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/camp-mama-night-campsummer-solstice/ | Porn | Kids | 0.40317 |
wordpress | Carsharing: one of the fastest-growing new ways of getting around for day-to-day travel. Over the last decade it has increasingly proven itself to be an effective mobility option, serving thousands of communities of all sizes on all continents. At the same time, pushed by technology and changing user needs, it is evolving radically in four basic models: Traditional, One-way, P2P and private.
World Streets has since 2009 published more than 200 articles by contributing authors reporting on developments, barriers, visions and strategies for more than thirty countries on all continents. It also offers direct links to several supporting projects and sites, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ and several collaborative libraries. The articles that follow in this section are presented in reverse chronological order with the most recent postings up top. If you look to your left you will see at the top of the menu a section of hot links to key elements of the on-going World Carshare program.
Posted on 24/02/2017 by Eric Britton Tagged *ActiveTransport*Shared/Mobility*SoftCities2017CarsharingCity cyclingGrassrootsThanks LuudThe Third Force CommentsNo Comments on Grassroots 2017 campaign: Thanks Luud for all you have done, taught and inspired us.
Grassroots 2017 campaign: Thanks Luud for all you have done, taught and inspired us.
I propose we keep this simple and collaborative. Starting as we did yesterday with a simple announcement suggesting that perhaps this could be an idea well worth pursuing, together. And then as a next step in this process opening up several coordinated channels for your thoughts, comments and perhaps additional articles and references on Luud’s work and contributions that may, small step by small step, start to give us a firmer foundation to pursue this idea.
So at this point I believe that my best contribution will not be to add additional essays with my own thoughts and reasons on this, but rather to open up the field for sharing your thoughts. | 2019-04-19T22:52:23Z | https://worldstreets.wordpress.com/tag/carsharing/ | Porn | News | 0.397043 |
wordpress | #40a – Entrepreneur TMI? On dealing with business crisis.
In my days as an analyst in the merger and acquisition/competitive analysis industry, I would listen with utter shock as heads of major corporations would pour their “business hearts” out to my team. Product x was lagging in sales, and consumers hated it. They asked us for help. They were getting killed by a foreign competitor. Could we help them? We were the business therapists for corporate America. I always wondered if they spoke this way to everyone, or just a select few. Whatever the methodology, they seemed clear on one thing: Our clients had the wisdom to realize they must confront reality, to change reality.
Confront reality, to change reality.
#2. Discouraged me from writing about it.
Now mind you, everything turned out great (see news coverage), but it was quite the juggling act getting there.
So, I am still not sure I should “out” the series of crises that almost prevented #sisUdc from happening. Do I share what REALLY went on behind the scenes? Please vote below.
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#39 Pt 2-Is My Career Less Important Than My Spouse’s? The Part-Time Worker’s Bill of Rights.
In an effort to stave off the vampirism of my professional drive, I’ve entered a professional coma.
Or….am I simply entering a new, more mature phase of my life?
Pro argument: Don’t invite the vampire in. Having toned down the maniacal drive is a good thing. This is the “new phase” of my life where I learn that, in fact, the CEO of a major nonprofit being a snit is NOT that big a deal, but my daughter double-downing on Tylenol IS a big deal. There’s maturity, perspective, and fewer highs and lows. DON’T LET THE VAMPIRE BACK IN!!
Con argument: Invite the vampire in. I’m in a professional coma. The old “get-obsessed-and-do-whatever-it-takes-to-get-it-done” part of me is possibly gone, or on hiatus. Only, no one has cured me of my coma or – conversely – ordered a DNR. I’m probably the only one who can do either. It’s time to welcome back our old friend…maybe there can be some cross-breeding with a Fairy like in True Blood so I can walk in the light with my kids and not be a professional troll/vampire holed away somewhere.
Sookie, a fairy on True Blood, whose blood allows Vampires to walk in the daylight. Bonus!
Well, “crat“ (this is my seven year-old’s attempt at a curse word).
Both of these sound sort of compelling.
If I’m not there to make things better, then…well….and that is when I came up with the Part Time Worker’s Bill of Rights. To keep people from thinking they’re doing too much, or not enough, and get my reinforcements in gear if I do hop back on the runaway train.
3. Grievances of the part-time worker can and should be discussed, as they should for any member of the household. List what’s working and what’s not to be raised at a Sunday family meeting at 4:00. Use “I statements” in describing grievance, and make requests, not demands.
Read REAL Bill of Rights here.
Momentum Resources: Part-time work for skilled professionals. Momentum DC CEO’s Hot Mommas Case here.
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#39 Is My Career Less Important Than My Spouse’s? The Part-Time Worker’s Bill of Rights.
“Oh, remember all those hopes and dreams and cool goals? Yeah, just stick those in the ’70s style trash compactor and be happy about it, little lady.” (Dot-dot-smiley-face).
In this Women’s Business Fact Sheet, we learn an interesting fact: More women prefer to work part-time versus men. This one sentence, alone, could fuel some excellent cocktail chatter.
Newsweek reports that one in five Americans works non-standard hours.
So, how do these factoids apply to our real lives? Here’s a quasi-interesting tale. On vacation at the beach, my husband and I took a walk and talked about plans for the fall. Okay, that’s a lie. We sat at our computers and opened Outlook and were scheduling like total nerds and sending each other appointments. He (Josh) has a lot of commitments because he is chapter president of EO (Entrepreneur’s Organization – formerly YEO). I shared an observation with him: That, recently, he has been on the “EO Crack” big time. He has a killer board, is all revved up, and can’t seem to “put it down” if you know what I mean.
I empathize. This was me at a certain point in time. Now, I work part-time which I started doing when I had my second kid. I am deciding if I feel evolved, or lame. Am I on a weird kind of “professional-drive-prozac”…in some metaphorical institution for part-time workers, wandering around with bed-head and a weird gender-neutral gown that ties in back? A tech-guy at x4243 and a fancy lunch would be the professional equivalent of a mani-pedi right now.
Do I want the professional-crack back? To be continued…. Former professional “career crack addicts” – where is this going?
Most nights, I’ll embark on a several-part journey to ruin my vision by using Twitter on my Blackberry. I’m on the lookout for funny tweets. It’s a a good way to detox from the day. Recently, The Onion has been my most reliable source for laughing out loud. I’ll re-tweet stuff. People seem to like it. But, where is humor appropriate and NOT appropriate in business? It got me wondering: Are PEOPLE funny, but is business UN- FUNNY?
I can’t think of ONE funny business.
Bad news: My humor/cutsey approach did not work in a specific section of my book proposal.
What about humility? What about self-deprecating humor? And thus begins the complicated web of when FUNNY is okay in business, and when it’s not.
Takeaway: Publishers Want Your BOOK to be Funny, But Not Your Resume.
Takeaway: I heart DIRECTtv right now because of this ad. It’s working!
Takeaway: It’s not working. I get the willies from this movie trailer for “The BackUp Plan” with Jennifer Lopez.
PARTING THOUGHTS: Is it okay to be funny in business?
Where have you, and people, and companies you know used humor both appropriately and inappropriately? As I try to make a successful evolution from cheerleader…to leader, I ask you: Is it okay to be funny in business?
What? Multi-million dollar male entrepreneurs feeling the same as stressed-out, multitasking women? No way!
As the Hot Mommas Project has taken off and become the world’s largest women’s case study library, many many requests are now starting to flood in. See our list of 2010 winners HERE. I am very very proud of these amazing women who’ve shared their stories in a teachable format to help the next generation and each other.
When Busy is Bad. My Mother’s Day Resolution: A wife.
For Mother’s Day I’m making a resolution.
2. Having lists of things that never get done, but are important.
3. Feeling that the above things are starting to make me look bad.
My resolution is to get a personal assistant.
I often dream of having a wife, but, will settle for someone to help me deal with email, errands, and my calendar. I am a pretty hyper-organized person, however, with bandwith GONE we all must go to the next level. I am doing this, also, to up my game – in advance – in preparation for being even MORE busy. So, in addition to my wonderful team at the Hot Mommas Project, and the excellent, supportive folks at the George Washington University, I have decided to get myself a little gift. A personal assistant!
What Busy Women Want: The Research.
BUSINESS (aka BUSY-NESS), the irony of that name.
1. Support – from home (spouse/partner #1) and work (#2). It’s where you log the hours.
2. Control – over work schedule, and location.
3. Focus – what do you REALLY want to achieve. Focus on it like a laser. Sometimes, this even involves a pre-step of thinking about what you REALLY think of as “success” and what makes you happy.
Now, here is a question for the readers.
Exactly how does one use a personal assistant. Can you help me?
I am hoping you folks out there can share with me how you use personal assistants and what tasks are most helpful. In exchange, I plan to share the top things I’ve done over the past several to help save time, take care of my family, and take care of myself all of which make me feel like I CAN DO IT. Doing something is so much better than whining!
Good Guys & Gals: Helping busy women.
Below are “businesses that get it”: They admire, respect, and support women. We make 80% of household purchasing decisions ladies, so, here’s where to channel that power.
SEPHORA – A 2009 and 2010 Hot Mommas Project sponsor. We heart SEPHORA, doesn’t everyone?
Ted Gibson Salon & Hela Spa – This power duo is offering discounts to DC Hot Mommas between May 1 and 9. Contact them to take advantage of this special promotion offered to Hot Mommas! Love people who have our backs! | 2019-04-25T02:10:34Z | https://hotmommas.wordpress.com/category/business/page/2/ | Porn | Business | 0.959485 |
google | If you have any tips or techniques that you would like to contribute, or questions that you would like answered, please drop us a note and we may include them here.
After the body of the quilt has been pieced, gently press before adding borders. The logical place to measure the finished top is along its outside edges, and this is a useful measurement. However, measurements should be taken across the center in two or three places for both the width and length. If these measurements are different from that of the outer edge, accidental stretching has occured. To keep the finished quilt as straight and square as possible, you must measure the centers.
Determine the length of the quilt border by averaging the distance of two or three center measurements (Fig. 1). Cut two borders that length and pin them to opposide sides of the quilt matching ends and centers, and easing in the fullness. Sew and press.
Determine the width of the quilt border by averaging the distance of two or three center measurements (Fig. 2). Cut these borders that length and pin - easing in the fullness. Sew and press.
Lisa received a question recently about scalloped borders. This technique works on any irregular borders.
"I am creating a larger quilt using a scalloped edge baby quilt in the center. I want to attach a normal flat edge strip to the scallop so that the center is still scalloped but the rest of the quilt will be square. How can I do this, or can you suggest a site that will show me how. I am stumped. I appreciate your help. Also, the quilt with the hummingbirds that you show on this site....did you create the pattern or is the pattern available? Loved it!" - Catrina C.
Many years ago I made a Grandmother's Flower Garden (hexagons), and I wanted a straight edge, too. Since I had a plain quilt top, I first had to iron under all of the raw edges. Then I cut wide strips of border fabric and placed them under the quilt top leaving about 5-6" for the border, pinned every 2" or so, and used a hem stitch on the sewing machine to sew the quilt top to the border strips.
Since your project includes more thickness, you might use a wider zig-zag--it's hard for me to tell exactly what will work best without seeing it.
Finally, I turned the quilt over and trimmed away the extra fabric under the pieced quilt. Using this method, you would need to use a very thin batting under the baby quilt part so that it doesn't get too bulky to quilt.
As for the hummingbird quilt, I believe that a pattern was made for it, but I am not sure who carries it. I think that C&T also put out note cards with that quilt on them.
Lisa recommends using only bias binding. She has developed the following chart as a guide for estimating the size of the square needed to be cut to make enough binding.
Lisa has tried many techniques over the years, and has recommended Liz Porter's unique Lumpless Finish for some time now. However, she will soon be posting a new method when she has refined the instructions.
FABRIC REQUIRED: 2 yards of main fabric for the front 2 yards of coordinating fabric for the back, 5/8 yard main fabric for front and back of pocket, 2 yards batting for body of quillow, and 5/8 yard batting for the pocket.
Lay the pocket batting on table with pocket fabric right sides together on top of batting. Pin on all four sides. Sew both sides and bottom of pocket, leaving the top open. Trim to 1/4" and turn right side out. Press the edges. Quilt the pocket by machine. Use circles, squares, diamonds, or other appropriate shape.
Lay the batting on table (or floor) and put the backing fabric on it, right side up. Take the pocket and center it at the top of the quillow with the back of the pocket facing up. Pin pocket to backing and batting. Then lay the main fabric right side down, and pin across the top. Pin down the sides and across bottom. Use two pins together to mark the stopping and starting points, leaving an opening about 14" long for turning. Stitch around the quillow, leaving the opening in the side.
Turn quillow right side out by bringing corners through the opening. Remove pins from top of pocket. Press the edges of the quillow, and pin the opening shut. Hand stitch the opening shut.
Lay quillow on table with backing fabric face up. Pin the pocket in place down the sides. Stitch the pocket in place, reinforcing at top and bottom.
The Quillow can then be quilted or tied. Machine quilting holds up best, and can either be done on a standard machine, or Lisa can finish them for you.
If you want to use your own sewing machine to finish your quillow, use a walking foot (even feed foot), and mark a straight line from the bottom edge of the pocket down to about 12" from the bottom of the quillow.
Mark a parallel line from the other side of the pocket, and join the two lines with a straight line. (Chalk and a yardstick workwell, but if the chalk doesn't show up on the fabric, use a quilters' marking pencil, lightly). Stitch carefully down, across and up, taking care to keep the back smooth, without tucks.
If you are tying the quillow, use perle cotton or embroidery floss. Start 9" from the bottom and mark the center. Then mark 8" to the right and left, and another 8" to the right and left, making five ties across the quillow. Measure up 8" from this line and make five more ties as before. Continue till you are at the pocket line (usually six rows). A yardstick is very useful for this process. Quillows can be shortened to 1-1/2 yards, but do not diminish the size of the pocket.
Printed panels can be used for the pocket, but borders must be added to result in the correct size.
Turn pocket right side out; quillow will be folded in thirds lengthwise. Fold up from the bottom about 18", then fold it again. Fold one more time, stuffing the folded quilt into the pocket. Smooth out the corners. | 2019-04-21T01:42:32Z | https://sites.google.com/site/glenquilts/tips-techniques-1 | Porn | Reference | 0.115534 |
tripod | The first and only (to the best of my knowledge) Canadian Micra web site!
This web page is a tribute to the best econo car ever made: The Nissan Micra. No longer sold in North America since around 1990, the fact that we still see so many Micra's still on the road today demonstrates how well this econo-car was built.
A four seater two or four door hatchback, the Micra offered a lot of car for your money. Generally sold with a 1.2 litre four-cylinder carburated engine with either a 5 speed manual or 3 speed automatic, it's charm was in it's simplicity combined with features normally found in more expensive cars - no power steering, no air conditioning (both would've taxed the engine too much), no power door locks or windows available, no remote hatch release, no overflow bottle for the radiator...yet you could get intermittent wipers, child door locks on the 4 door models, a rear window wiper and washer, and a passenger side mirror. It's simplicity made it very reliable, yet it's little features here and there rewarded it's owner with some creature comforts.
What's so great about this car?
Well, it wasn't the world's fastest car by any stretch of the imagination. It'd hold it's own in stop-and-go city traffic, but on the highways you could forget about passing anybody and you quickly learn to get a run at steep hills. It's wheels were only 12" making for a choppy ride at times. So, what's so great about this econo-car?
Very reliable. You could drive this car hard all day every day...as long as you kept the oil changed when you were supposed to, it never will complain. Even after 200,000 km's of hard driving, it still won't burn any oil.
Easy to work on. Whether you're changing your brakes, replacing a rear strut, or replacing an engine component, no car could be easier. The small engine sits in an engine bay that offers plenty of room. Nothing is jam-packed in here (like more expensive cars).
Lots of ground clearance. You can change the oil in this car without having to jack it up. This means good off-road capability, and great winter snow driving...and yes, easy oil changes.
Cheap to own. You would be hard-pressed to find a car that's cheaper to own and maintain. $15 will fill the tank, and if you stick to city driving you can expect that to last you for a month. Parts are reasonably-priced, and easy to replace - if you need to. Generally, this is limited to belts and filters.
Fun to drive. It holds it's own off the start, and even though it's sort of pathetic on the highway, it handles nicely and it's easy to maneuver even in the tightest of spaces.
Lots of inside room. I moved a dresser chest of drawers in the back of mine - and yes, the hatch was closed! Open, I moved 120 6' tall cedar hedge trees. When you fold down the back seats, the room inside the back is amazing. Also, lots of headroom - more headroom than a Jeep Cherokee! Even the backseat was better than you'd expect for this type of car.
Oil changes every 5,000 km's with regular filter changes.
Installed new stereo and rear speakers.
Replaced alternator belt as necessary.
Recored the rad (removed and reinstalled in one afternoon) once.
Replaced all 4 tires once.
Replaced the timing belt once.
Replaced the rocker arm in about an hour once.
Replaced a rear strut when the old one got water inside it and froze solid causing it to break.
Had car oiled (rustproofed) every fall.
Did bodywork to minor rust spots on fender, doors.
Tinted rear door windows and rear hatch window with sun-visor tint across windshield.
Painted hub caps black when grey paint all chipped off.
Kept carburator oiled with healthy dosages of WD-40 oil.
Replaced fuel filter (very easy job).
This car always brought me home. Notice most of the work was maintenance or fun stuff, I only recall two serious items. The rocker arm broke on the way home, and the car brought me home running on only 2 cylinders! The engine was severely underpowered and ran extremely rough...but a replacement rocker arm shaft only cost me $40 new and took an hour to install. The other time was when I blew a top rad hose. I was halfway home, and I noticed steam spewing out from under the hood. I took it easy, brought it home and for a few bucks bought a new top rad hose and replaced it in no time.
Gizmo's Micra Pages: A great source for Micra info, with contributions from Yours Truly.
Nissan Canada Web Site: No more Micra, but info. on the hot new Nissan's (they still make great cars).
You can link to this graphic from your web page!
I can be e-mailed at psquirk@hotmail.com.
The contents of this web site are copyright Paul Quirk, please contact me before duplicating anything here. | 2019-04-23T00:00:38Z | http://psquirk.tripod.com/micra/index.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.205298 |
wordpress | I have a love hate relationship with London Marathon. The first time I ran it was 2010 when my 3rd daughter was 10 months old. I was under trained and under prepared. This was in my pre-SJ days and I had done all my long runs on my own, travelled to the start on my own, shivered in the down-pour at the start on my own and had a thoroughly miserable race finding it really hard to pace my run and get in the zone with all the screaming crowds. At the finish I had to fight my way through the crowds to catch the train home from Waterloo. It was such a disappointment I didn’t run for 2 years afterwards. Fast forward to 2013 and I secured a place at London through the ballot but this time had a completely different race experience having found SJs to train with, travel to the start with and travel home on the bus with I had an amazing experience, a fantastic run and really enjoyed the camaraderie of the whole experience including the post-marathon party. In the intervening years I have run many, many more marathons and marshalled at London and was lucky enough to be drawn a place in the marshals ballot for this year’s race.
On race day I got up an hour before I was due to leave home to catch the runners coach to the start. My usual routine is a cup of coffee and porridge before getting my kit on. This year I opted for contact lenses and sunglasses with a good slathering of suntan lotion. The only problem with this is that I have now reached the age where I need glasses to read so with my contact lenses in I am unable to read the digits on my Garmin – not much use if you are aiming for consistent pacing!
I was at the Red start for the first time so was a little disorientated by the layout of the start area but soon hooked up with Claire, Sacha, Sharon and Tina where we found a shady spot under a tree to lay out some foil blankets to sit on to pass the time before the start. As the weather was so warm no-one was reluctant to strip off their outer layers and put their bags onto the baggage trucks. Tina and I were both in pen 8 so we said good bye to the others and went off to find our pen. This year was the first year the start was in waves which meant it took 47 minutes to cross the start line, a quick piece of mental maths told me that this would mean I would not make it back to The Mall to catch the coach home. During our wait we were trying to stay out of the sun as much as possible but this was unavoidable in places and I managed to drink about 500 mls of water even before crossing the start line which led to the inevitable toilet stop.
The first few miles passed pleasantly enough, I was following the 5:15 pacer and finding it quite comfortable but the 500 ml of water was now nagging at me. Each time we came to a block of port-a-loos the queues were massive so I kept ongoing as long as I could. Eventually it was a now or never situation and I lost 12 minutes queueing but the relief was worth is and it was one less thing to worry about. By the time I came out of the loos a couple of hundred runners must have passed me and rather than the nicely paced runners I was with before the group was mainly run/walkers. My legs struggled to get going again and weaving in and out of the walkers added to my distance clocking up 27.5 miles by the time I reached the finish.
The day was heating up and I resigned myself to a slow race but tried to make the most of the atmosphere and the city landmarks which really are the unique thing about London. I ran with the Karaoke man for a while and sang along to ‘Valerie’ at top volume. I savoured running over Tower Bridge, I laughed out loud at the crowds dancing and singing alongside the road including the group playing the theme tune to Benny Hill which was causing all the runners to comically speed up. The charity cheer crowds were amazing and I managed to see three different friends at different points and get some much needed hugs. My absolutely favourite part of the race was an area taken over by Run Dem Crew, they had adorned the pavement with chalk graffiti and were blasting music out over the crowds whilst clanging cow bells and making a tremendous noise which gave me goose bumps and a real lift.
By Mile 21 the group I was with were like a scene from the Walking Dead with plenty of people shuffling painfully along. There were also plenty of casualties receiving support from St Johns Ambulance so I was very glad to be feeling tired but otherwise okay. At mile 24.5 I heard my name called from behind and Tina had caught up with me looking bright and breezy. We trotted along together for a mile or so before turning the corner at Big Ben and coming across a runner leaning precariously to the left. After checking he was ok and didn’t need any assistance, Tina ran on to see her family, who were spectating and then on to a strong finish. I ground out the last half a mile to the finish and into the arms of Richard Boese who was hustling at the finish line. I Rember thinking how nice it was to see a familiar face and if Richard let go, I would probably fall over. I then shuffled through to collect my medal and another hug from Chris Lambourn followed by a hug from another running friend who was giving out goodie bags – there are some very nice benefits of being an SJ!
I would usually have to layer up at the end of a race but it was still so warm that I just took my trainers off, popped my flip flops on and headed off to Waterloo to catch the next train home. Just as I arrive at Waterloo a train heading to Farnborough was ready to leave so I was able to walk straight on and into a much needed seat for the journey home. Just over an hour later I was at home with fish and chips and a glass of wine watching the BBC highlights of another epic London Marathon. | 2019-04-21T15:02:12Z | https://thejoggersjournal.wordpress.com/2018/04/27/emma-lewis-shares-her-secrets-to-the-best-way-of-enjoying-the-london-marathon-spoiler-it-involves-doing-it-with-other-sjs/ | Porn | Sports | 0.952465 |
wordpress | Went to see “Bobby” last night with the better half. I think that it is only fair to look a this film from two different directions. Firstly, from my point of view, I’d read up on the film and had a fair idea what to expect, and also being a bit of a history buff I was aware of Bobby Kennedy and the state of affairs in the US at the time of his run for the presidency. So, from my perspective I found the film to be an excellent look at the events of the night of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy through the eyes of the people working in the Ambassador Hotel, the scene of the event. However, if you were not aware of the background of this film, like herself, it is harder to get into, but still enjoyable.
This film is definitely a labour of love for director Emilio Estevez (of 80’s “brat pack”) and this seems to hold true for the inter-stellar cast, all of who put in excellent performances. It is an indictment of the impact that Bobby Kennedy had on American life that Estevez was able to assemble a cast of A-list actors without any one of them being the “lead” in the film. To me it definitely seems that all of them did this film because they wanted to, not because they were just paid to!
Go see it, let it was over you, take it all in and enjoy it!
~ by knightfall on January 29, 2007.
sorry – i thought it was a filum about bobby zamora and his “adventures” ! | 2019-04-21T21:08:56Z | https://knightfall.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/film-review-bobby/ | Porn | Reference | 0.251878 |
wordpress | As I sit here writing this I should be putting the towels in the washing machine. I should be sorting through the rest of the washing, putting colours on one side, whites on another and delicates somewhere else. I should be hand washing the delicates.
I should be vacuuming, cleaning the kitchen, washing up and washing down the floor. I should be ironing.
I should be sorting my drawers so I don’t go into the jumble every morning and come out dressed like I’ve been to a jumble sale.
I should be organising the never-ending re-registration of my car and a savings account online.
I should be budgeting for the rest of the month and sending a long email to my friend who I haven’t seen in ages.
I should be baking something wholesome for the whole family.
I should be grooming the dog whilst paying the bills over the phone (“EIGHT ONE OH ONE..SIT!…no, sorry, not you”).
I should be writing up pitches and sending them to all the contacts I can muster and following it up with cheery positive phone calls that result in arse-aching rejection.
It’s endless, what I should be doing instead of writing this. | 2019-04-23T14:45:25Z | https://theantiroom.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/ | Porn | Business | 0.495501 |
wordpress | Below are the student and teacher versions for the TI-84. The TI-Nspire versions are similar.
The TI-84 CE version is shown below.
Mathematical Modeling and Social Awareness Activity for Grades 8 and above.
This activity was created for two purposes: as a genuine real-world mathematical analysis of data activity and to create social awareness of issues that are confronting many people in the United States.
Click here to go to the website that contains all the materials. Obtain all the files for the TI-84, TI-84 CE, and TI-Nspire: student pdf’s, teacher pdf’s, 84 program, TI-Nspire document.
The following is the Teacher’s Notes of the activity for the TI-84 and TI-84 CE. It is very similar to the activity for TI-Nspire. | 2019-04-25T04:38:04Z | https://tomreardon3.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/page/2/ | Porn | Reference | 0.484147 |
wordpress | BEC Recordings is set to release the first recording from the band Shine Bright Baby. The national debut disc from the worshipful electronic rockers, titled Dreamers, is set to release July 23.
Emily and Nathan, who founded the band in 2007, started performing in the local scene in both mainstream club settings and amongst Christian circles, performing their inventive mixture of pop, rock, electronic and modern worship. During the time, most of the bands in town steered towards metal and Shine Bright Baby stood out from the pack, then adding Joshua and Karl to their lineup.
Shine Bright Baby soon found themselves headlining shows as well as opening for acts like The Classic Crime, Ivoryline and Manic Drive, then quickly graduating to playing the major festivals with very little promotion. Soon after, they signed with BEC Recordings.
“After we signed with BEC Recordings, we went into a really serious songwriting mode, coming up with 70 or 80 songs,” Emily shares. “We needed to find what we wanted and what felt right, and throughout that process, we experienced a lot of growth.” To create Dreamers, they worked with producer and songwriting collaborator Matt Arcaini, creative partners Mike “X” O’Conner and Tofer Brown, plus executive producer Pete Kipley.
One of the band’s personal favorites from Dreamers is “Made To Glow,” a song about letting God’s love shine in everyone’s daily actions, while the piano/acoustic ballad “Love Restores” was written in the wake of a highly publicized school shooting near the band’s hometown. The group also shows its more aggressive side on “The Brave Ones,” a guitar-charged anthem centered on living a bold life of faith with a little help from Disciple front man Kevin Young.
The first radio single from Dreamers is the redemptive tune “Beautiful Love.” After just three weeks since hitting the radio airwaves, the song is currently at No. 21 on Hot AC/CHR. Be sure to click here to view the “Beautiful Love” lyric video.
Shine Bright Baby is on an extensive tour in support of Dreamers. They just wrapped an Acquire The Fire Tour and will soon embark on the Air1’s Club Awesome Tour, as well as numerous festival dates throughout the summer and fall. | 2019-04-26T06:33:06Z | https://awakengeneration.wordpress.com/category/bec-recordings/ | Porn | News | 0.527957 |
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Username “Legoless1”. I don’t frequent many public servers – mostly play SSP anyway.
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wordpress | 50 years ago this year, Captain Kirk and his crew first appeared on small screens across America. The interstellar adventures of the Starship Enterprise quickly captivated audiences, turning the show into an iconic piece of television history. Press the button on the ornament to illuminate the scene and hear dialogue from the original Star Trek TV series!
Unfortunately, this piece was scarce when it was released at the October 1st Ornament Debut. I was the first one in the door and there were none to be had except for those that had reserved the precious few ahead of time.
I probably should’ve sprung for the Death Star Tree Topper as an investment purchase but that is a lot to ask of a Trek fan.
Press button to see scene illuminate and hear dialogue from original STAR TREK TV series.
This entry was posted in 079) 2016 To Boldly Go, 2016, Battery, Kirk, Magic Sound & Light, Master List, McCoy, Ornaments by Artist, Ornaments by Character, Ornaments by Era, Ornaments by Pwr Source, Ornaments by Series, Ornaments by Theme, Ornaments by Year, Orville Wilson, Scenes, Spock, ST: TOS (TV) on July 9, 2015 by garfieldandtrump.
Box Text: “Set phasers to stun.” Considering the alternatives, enemies of the Federation are lucky to hear this command from a Starfleet officer. With additional settings that include overload, disintegrate, and kill, the phaser is the versatile – and powerful – standard issue weapon carried by Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the original STAR TREK television series. Since then, versions of the phenomenally cool phaser have appeared in almost every STAR TREK incarnation. Now, with this ornament, STAR TREK fans can spend the holidays with phasers set on “fun”!
This entry was posted in 052) 2009 Phaser, 2009, Battery, Magic Sound & Light, Master List, Props, ST: TOS (TV), Uncredited on October 24, 2011 by garfieldandtrump.
Logic or loyalty? Spock remains true to both in The Menagerie, a Star Trek original series two-parter from 1966. Written by series creator Gene Rodenberry, the award-winning episode incorporates pre-Kirk footage from an unaired installment that was originally set to be the pilot episode. Spock and Kirk find themselves at Starbase 11, where they meet Spock’s previous captain, Christopher Pike. Now burned and paralyzed from an accident, Pike can no longer walk or talk. Communicating with flashing lights controlled by his brainwaves, he can only answer yes or no, and Spock in the only one who can help him! His predicament and the mutinous lengths to which Spock will go for his former captain and friend lead to one of the series’ most well-known adventures.
Press the button on the ornament to hear Spock and Captain Kirk speak and see Captain Pike’s light flash.
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If you had to invent a futuristic communications device, what would it look like? decades before flip phones beacame commonplace, the visionary prop artists of STAR TREK created the convincing, portable, and highly desirable method for 23rd ceturay Starfleet crew members to keep in touchwith each other. Its transmissions could cross great distances, and its functions included a locator that anticipated today’s GPS.
Open the lid and press the buttons inside to the lights flash and hear portions of actual communicator conversations form the original STAR TREK television series.
This entry was posted in 048) 2008 Communicator, 2008, Battery, Magic Sound & Light, Master List, Props, ST: TOS (TV), Uncredited on October 24, 2011 by garfieldandtrump.
Box Text: A routine cruise turns deadly when the U.S.S. Enterprise is prematurely pressed into service to protect the secret “Project Genesis” experiment. Responding to an enigmatic call for help, Captain Spock offers his ship and eager but inexperienced crew to veteran commander Admiral James T. Kirk. Together they face an old enemy, Khan Noonien Singh, who lures Kirk into a battle of revenge. Khan is defeated, but not before unleashing the experimental Genesis Device, creating new challenges for the future of the Federation.
Press the button on the base of the ornament to activate the sights and sounds of an epic battle scene from one of the most action-packed STAR TREK films ever!
This entry was posted in 045) 2007 Star Trek II, 2007, Anita Marra Rogers, Battery, Kirk, Magic Sound & Light, Master List, Scenes, Spock, ST: TOS (Films), Sulu, Wrath of Khan on October 24, 2011 by garfieldandtrump.
Aboard the USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701, Captain Kirk, Science Officer Spock, and Chief Engineer Scott enter the transporter chamber. The crewmembers are then converted into a beam of energy and reasembled in another location to begin their mission. No Starfleet vessel leaves spacedock without one.
This entry was posted in 043) 2006 Transporter, 2006, Anita Marra Rogers, Battery, Kirk, Magic Sound & Light, Master List, Scenes, Scottie, Spock, ST: TOS (TV) on October 24, 2011 by garfieldandtrump.
A flagship of Starfleet, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 embarked on its historic five-year mission in 2264. Commanded by Captain James T. Kirk, the STARSHIP ENTERPRISE transported us to the final frontier for unparalleled adventure. During their exploration, the ship and crew introduced us to life on new planets and unimaginable technologies. As an ambassador for Earth and the rest of the United Federation of Planets, the ENTERPRISE gave us an inspiring vision of the future.
To see this ornament come to life, place it on the included display stand. Press the button on the back of the stand to hear the theme song from the original TV series and see various lights on the ship illuminated. The lights will automatically turn off after 20 seconds.
Battery operated. Batteries not included.
This entry was posted in 042) 2006 Enterprise, 2006, Battery, Display Stands, Ent. NCC-1701, Lynn Norton, Magic Sound & Light, Master List, Ships, ST: TOS (TV) on October 24, 2011 by garfieldandtrump. | 2019-04-26T04:06:06Z | https://hallmarkstartrekornamentsdotcom.wordpress.com/category/ornaments-by-series/magic-series/magic-sound-light/ | Porn | Arts | 0.269273 |
wordpress | Hand-drawn flowers in the shape of a letter Z in Spin Cycle font.
Hand-drawn letter series #5 is complete!
A nice animation of all the letters in this hand-drawn series. Enjoy!
Hand-drawn flowers in the shape of a letter Y in Script MT Bold font.
Hand-drawn flowers in the shape of a letter X in Wagamu font.
Hand-drawn flowers in the shape of a letter W in Reckles font.
Hand-drawn flowers in the shape of a letter V in Poster Boy font.
Hand-drawn flowers in the shape of a letter U in Rockwell Extra Bold font. | 2019-04-19T15:09:04Z | https://abctypography.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Reference | 0.183439 |
wordpress | I am currently holidaying in Amsterdam and today’s activity was a trip to the Van Gogh museum. As you would expect it was quite breath-taking to see all those famous artworks up close. However, there was an exhibition running while we were there, called ‘Van Gogh and Japan’ which celebrated Van Gogh’s love of Japanese art, showcased his extensive collection of Japansese prints and demonstrated just how much Van Gogh’s work was influenced by this form of Japanese art. This was a real bonus for me because I really like Japanese prints and had no idea that Van Gogh’s work was so influenced by them.
Kono Bairei’s album of ‘Drawings of a Hundred Birds’ – a book of printed images of Japanese birds, as well as prints by Utagawa Hiroshige and Hokusai. Interestingly, there was a print of Hokusai’s great wave included in the exhibition. How funny it was that I was able to stand next to it, on my own without a crowd of people jostling me – unlike when I went to see the Hokusai exhibition in London! | 2019-04-22T19:04:54Z | https://graphicdesigncoreconcepts.wordpress.com/2018/05/22/1230/ | Porn | Arts | 0.955739 |
wordpress | A year ago, Secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke sat in Congress and said everything was fine and we might see a small “contraction” in the economic horizon – that is the brightest group we’ve got working on it?
You don’t put water in a bucket with a hole in it.
The off-balance sheet accounting is still occurring everywhere from the banks to the pension funds. Mark to make believe is still in use and hasn’t been corrected in a number of significant places.
A credit-based economy is not a strong macro-economic model but our authorities are continuing to try shoring up the very structural deficiencies that are inherent to it.
Not to be the one left out of saying it, we’re screwed.
Now, our government is going to buy or guarantee “legacy assets” which are the toxic assets of little, questionable or no value. That is not of interest to anyone with a wit of good sense in the marketplace, so we are going to buy them or back them.
Our Federal Reserve charter does not serve the interest of the American people but rather the banking industry and in particular, serves the interest of these mega conglomerate bank holding companies for lack of a better plan.
There is an open line of funding from the Federal Reserve and our Treasury using taxpayer money by the hundreds of billions of dollars and in some cases, totaling in the trillions of dollars being given wholesale to the corporate giants of banking, investment banking, insurance and others.
The necessary conforming standards and regulations of good sense and prudence have not been put in place where it concerns these massive institutions.
One department of their organization does not know what the other is doing. Credit products are being mis-priced as assets in one place and priced as something else in another.
Credit rates are being jacked up to those already under contract for that credit, not only in the US but around the world. Ratings for credit are being created and adjusted, not based on reality but based on the abusive power of the ratings agencies. They are not objective independent free-standing organizations without conflicts of interest, no matter what they say.
Those products which rely on credit for purchases to be made are arbitrarily priced higher than the market value of those products, from houses to cars to college educations to washers and dryers. The supply and demand in the marketplace cannot reflect the capacity in pricing because of the unnatural use of credit to underwrite those prices higher than the market value.
Many cities, counties, states and agencies of the Federal government are using credit and leverage against future taxes and existing assets to boost the available budget moneys for projects, services and administrative costs that consequently have skyrocketed.
Where there is a greater pool of money to access, costs are found to accommodate those higher financial quantities, even though it is acquired through leverage. It isn’t because projects actually would have cost that much to administer or to complete – it is based on a synthetically created larger pool of money to access.
Then, the same government budgets have used “mark to make believe” and “off-balance sheet’ accounting to manipulate reality for bond investors, the public and their oversight / regulatory committees. It is a fallacy based system that is not only out of touch with reality – it is unsustainable and has been simply a disaster waiting to happen. And, it still is because it is being allowed to continue in the same form using the same deficient processes.
As admirable as President Obama’s speech was last night, the Republicans were staunch in their determination to undermine whatever efforts are being made in order to “win” what they perceive as their own standing in all this.
It is a direct result of their governance and of many other members in both parties making choices that were not overviewed in light of macro-economics, but rather somewhere close to the end of their noses where immediate profits and opportunities to have quick, easy money available undermined the use of any good sense.
Even today, as changes must be made in order for our country to survive, there are efforts being made by Republican party owned governors, legislators and agency heads throughout the system who are bound and determined to undo whatever is done, to destroy any changes made and to have their way regardless of the cost to us all. That is a sham and a shame.
Last night, my Dad was very amused by my assertion that we are in a Depression – not a Recession, not a deep Recession, not a small “contraction” in our economy. I thought about it quite awhile last night after getting off the phone with him and decided it wasn’t worth telling him why I believe it is so.
Let him remember it how it was, when America was strong and filled with promise and hope and opportunity for all. Let him think it is all fine and will correct itself real soon with all these bright people up in Washington working on it. Reality doesn’t really matter all that much, does it?
** Besides which, there is no one that is going to change it, no matter what they do. That is the macro-economic fractures in the foundation of an economy when credit is its basis. It has just been a matter of time – complexity upon complexity, default upon default, distrust upon distrust, a closing of opportunity to all at the hands of a few. It was a disaster in motion.
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livejournal | Last night Windy was too weak to climb through the dog door and had trouble walking, after being no worse than normal for the last couple of weeks. He didn't eat this morning. I took him to Jim and Robin's anyway, and by the time he got there he seemed a little perkier and Jim was OK with taking him for the weekend; they will watch and see how he is doing. I fear he's pretty much at the end of his rope, but he has surprised me before and maybe he will again.
When I got back home, I managed to clip the garage wall and tear off my passenger side mirror.
I am totally unprepared for the con art wise, but I printed the next copy of the two images that I sold at Windycon, and I just piled everything in the car, so if I can find the spoons when I get to the con I can put any and/or everything into the art show.
I am similarly musically unprepared, but the guitars and the filk bag are in the car.
Packed enough food for the whole weekend in my cooler.
I feel absolutely like crap now and would rather just crawl in a hole and die, but instead I'm going to quickly change clothes, drive to Urbana, pick up birder2, and go to Springfield for the weekend. Either things will get better, or I will just die and not have to worry about it any more.
Take it easy at the con. There always seem to be decent folk around them who give a damn about your bad days. | 2019-04-25T22:34:26Z | https://tigertoy.livejournal.com/189009.html | Porn | Arts | 0.958683 |
wordpress | For a while, in the earliest days of my teaching career, I worked as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Sussex and a contract lecturer at Queen’s University (Canada) Bader International Study Centre at Herstmonceux (BISC). I taught a first-year, introductory Human Geography course to British and Canadian students respectively, with a sprinkling of others from the U.S., China, and Japan. I remember those times as so exciting. After decades of being the sign language interpreter in the classroom, it was quite heady to have my own classes for the first time. As a teaching assistant at Sussex I worked with Brian Short and Michael Collyer, both of whom affected my approach to the subject. With their initial guidance, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of walking our students through the vastness of the discipline. I approached the course as a humanist would, beginning with how we, individually, understand ourselves and our places, then moving on to other scales of understanding human geography, but for the end of each course, I liked to swing back around to the individual and grapple with emotional geographies.
What brought this to mind was an event I attended this evening, a long-standing community-based discussion group that concerns itself with a variety of intellectual topics and hosted by one of my RIT colleagues, Michael Brown. I am a sporadic attendee; I tend to dip in to the group when the week’s topic interests me and I can get my tired self out of the house on ‘Hump Day.’ This evening’s topic was ‘the romance of the mind.’ As the conversation got underway, I found myself smiling to remember my Human Geography teaching experiences, most specifically, the final reading of each term, John Wylie’s 2009 ‘Landscape, absence and the geographies of love.’ I haven’t taught Human Geography for four years now, and I miss it. I especially miss teaching this final component, where we began to describe our metaphysical and emotional experiences we have using geographical terms.
Be sure to look up John Wylie. His webpage is extensive and interesting reading.
Note this piece is published in Transactions. This is the most important journal in British Geography.
A note on geographical historiography…Suppose Wylie was writing this in the early 1960s. What would a quantitative piece on memorial benches look like? An article back then would have had to include at least one topography map of the location of the benches and, no doubt, several charts of all kinds of data relating to the physical make-up of the benches themselves, how many local councils promoted the scheme, etc. We would have had to wait much longer to read an article discussing the social justice of locating these benches, and even longer to read a piece about who could afford to have it and the privileging of certain people based on class, gender or ethnicity over others in getting a bench at all! This kind of writing couldn’t happen without the cultural turn and post-structuralism.
Lastly, Wylie states that these ideas are unfinished. Like Nagar & Geiger (2007), he resists the idea of drawing a line under this work and making hard and fast conclusions. This means that parts of this piece read less coherently than others. I quite like this reflexive transparency. We get to follow along on his thought experiments, and perhaps open up our own minds to new pathways. It also leaves the author an open door to changing his mind in the future. I also like that it disrupts the tradition of only publishing ‘complete’ works in academe.
Let’s begin by discussing the actual location. I’ve haven’t had the chance to visit Mullion Cove, but people who have tell me the description is very accurate. When I read it, I pictured the benches lined up on the hillside with the longest sea view in my town, Hastings. Do you have a place like that where you live? A hilltop park perhaps? I can also picture the parks at Greenwich and Hampstead Heath.
I want to consider memory benches in their practical and physical sense. As an American, I find memorial benches to be a fascinating and very British phenomenon. In the states, we tend to plant trees in memory of our loved ones, not erect benches. What are the politics of memorial benches? Who gets to have one? How is it decided? At the local council level? Are they expensive? Who pays? How do they get to be where they are? Do the loved ones choose? How does one choose the specific location? Is it a place loved by the deceased or one allotted by lottery? Who chooses their positioning in the landscape? The family? The council? The park’s grounds keeper who pours the cement footings? Why are they so often in a lookout position? Why aren’t they positioned with their backs to the vista? What happens when they are vandalised or destroyed? Are they replaced with a new bench and a copy of the same plaque? Or is it the moment the council can sneak in a new one? I want to come back to the idea of plaques later on.
Wylie is asking us to consider how we interact with landscapes, in this particular case, a location of memorials. I think he is also asking not just about the physical landscapes, but the metaphysical ones, the internal psychological/spiritual/emotional landscapes we continually construct and reconstruct in our mind’s eye. For example, think of a place that has strong and resonating memories for you. When you are in that location, what are you experiencing? Do you feel a sense of affinity with the place? How are you ‘reading’ it? Are your memories crowding up to jostle with one another and with what is happening there in real time? For me, they do. It’s a kind of hyper-speeding flipbook in my mind, a chronological layering (a palimpsest) of memories that overlays my real-time experience of the landscape and, as we have discussed before in terms of looking at art, that is reconstructed uniquely amd based on my previous experiences each time I am there. ‘Coincidence’ occurs when we experience these layers simultaneously. By engaging with a landscape this way, we are confronted by our internal landscapes, or memories, and perhaps learn more about ourselves.
Back to the benches. What is the purpose of these benches? Why do they look out over panoramic views? If I read the bench’s plaque, I might give a moment to think about the person to whom it is dedicated, and if it’s someone I don’t know I might assemble him/her in my imagination using the same layering technique I described above based on the information and perhaps the immediacy effect. Sometimes, I don’t really ‘see’ the person’s name but in my head think of someone I love and lost. For a moment or two or, if I’m lucky, three, my memory returns that person to me. It is, in a sense, a kind of haunting, not in the Amityville Horror sense, but in the sense of desire to have that person be with us again. If I let my mind wander, I might not see the pretty view ahead of me at all, but go into my memories of interactions with that lost loved one.
Take a moment to think about how we describe these experiences. We often use physical and geographical terms to describe this experience. Above, I used ‘wander’ and the act of a loved one ‘returning’ which implies a coming and going, a physical distance. Here’s another example. Think about the person you love most in the world, the person who is closest to you. And though they are the person who knows you best and you love the most, they are still not you and therefore separate entities, implying there is some measurable distance between you. How can we, as geographers, describe these distances? Do you know, I think love may just be the striving to close that separateness, the distance between us, and it is in this shared experience of moving towards that goal and at the same time thrilling in the distance that continues to separate us that is infinitely fascinating and the work of a lifetime. These are wonderful and heady ideas to work with.
These notes only begin to unpack the depth of material in this piece. There is plenty of room for continued discussion. Could you have imagined nine weeks ago that you would be discussing haunting and love in a geography course?? It’s been something of a rollercoaster ride as we have covered huge amounts of ground this term at breakneck speed, sampling the vast array of ideas that are continuing to challenge and invigorate geographers, I hope you have expanded your sense of the scope and possibilities this field has to offer. I wish you the very best as you continue in your studies.
Written with gratitude to my former students. Thank you for the conversations!
Wylie, J. 2009. ‘Landscape, absence and the geographies of love’ Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34(3) pp275-289. | 2019-04-23T06:03:00Z | https://mbkitzel.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/a-love-song-to-landscape-absence-and-the-geographies-of-love-teaching-wylie-to-first-years/ | Porn | Reference | 0.169372 |
wordpress | Putting someone in a role where they’re more privileged and have more power in a game makes them behave like people who actually do have more power, more money, and more status.
I have seen this behavior with employees within the bank, they suddenly inflate and act like they are superior to everyone else when they have to influence a decision to lend money or when the client needs to renegotiate terms of a loan. It has nothing to do with their ability to really assess the true risk of the situation, but just the fact they have the power to influence a decision the banking executives acted way superior to anyone. These are decent, honest, hardworking people who would not act that way in their homes or with their friends. Incentives matter and influences behavior. I also feel and know that the incentives i.e Salary, Bonuses, Stock Options, Perks and Benefits given to banking executives is disproportionately higher than other industries. It actually makes those working for the banks feel they somehow are superior to the rest of the community. I am not trying to say that we need to make the compensation for everyone the same on the contrary I think the financial services firms because they control flow of capital seem to be disproportionately rewarded for all the wrong reasons. The trading loss incurred by the JP Morgan trader occurred because he obviously has a bonus that is tied to this net return at the end of the day so he had an incentive to take disproportionate risk on the trading floor. This is easier for a trader working for the bank because he is not playing with his own money, it is a balance sheet actually already inflated because of the privilege that banks have i.e they can multiply their balance sheets 10 to 12 times the actual equity they have in the business. I think both of these things drive the risky behavior in banks. I think we need to rethink the incentives we give to traders, banking executives and the board of banks. In addition, banks should be barred from having the privilege to bet their balance sheet on the stock market. It provides for perverse incentives.
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wordpress | PDF (Portable Document Format) documents are a handy way to present text and images to others knowing they’ll look the same no matter what word processor or operating system they use. Basically, they’re a snapshot of a document, so saving images from them can be a hassle, even if your viewer lets you right-click them and save them as files. There are a few programs around that can do this for you, but it’s actually much easier and faster doing this from the command-line.
Your pictures will now be extracted into the folder with names starting with Cool Pix of 2011 -000.jpg.
Also, the -j option is to save the images in the .jpg format, otherwise they will be saved in .ppm (Portable Pixmap) format, with each file being over a megabyte. This can mean, for example, that an 18Mb document with 120 images can extract to 154Mb of files, whereas exporting them as .jpg ends up with a total of 18Mb, just like the original document. Of course, if you’d prefer to save them as .ppm images, simply leave out the -j option.
You shouldn’t see that with every PDF you try to extract from, but even when you do you should find the target images have been created without issue.
For more options for this command, run pdfimages -?. For example, you can specify a start and end page, but personally I find it easier to just extract the whole document and delete any images I don’t want afterwards. But if you need to specify a password, you will find the option here.
The system-wide cache is empty. You may want to run ‘apt-file update’ as root to update the cache. You can also run ‘apt-file update’ as normal user to use a cache in the user’s home directory.
is not visible, since it is right near the top, which is beyond scrolling. If this happens to you, edit your terminal settings and run the command again.
Generally speaking, if it’s a command/program, then the line that has /usr/bin/ followed by the command (like ccsm) will be the correct one. The actual package that contains it will be listed at the beginning, in this case being compizconfig-settings-manager.
Hopefully this is all you need to find that elusive file, or the package that installs a program you’re after.
At times when using the terminal, the output from a command can be so long, you simply can’t scroll to the beginning, as it is no longer in view. But you can actually set the terminal to display as many lines as you like, or even set it to unlimited scrolling.
In the terminal, go to Edit > Profile Preferences, and in the Scrolling tab you will see there is a default amount of lines to be displayed (probably something like 512). If you have an older computer and are worried about memory, you can up the amount to 2000 or thereabouts, as that should suffice, otherwise the best option is to place no limit on the amount of lines displayed. Under that, you will see “Unlimited“, so check that, and from the next command onwards you won’t have that limitation any more.
Various terminals available might differ as to where to change that setting (like a Settings menu, or Edit > Preferences or Tools > Settings), but they all should have it, and you should find it easy enough. | 2019-04-21T19:14:01Z | https://ubuntugenius.wordpress.com/tag/command-line/ | Porn | Computers | 0.629052 |
wordpress | Rosanne, Rosanne, Rosanne! You did it again! Opened mouth and insert foot. Its been numerous times now Rosanne that you have mis-spoke. This last time, I feel you have taken responsibility for inserting.
Looking back at all the tweeters including the biggest of all, Mr. Trump, there seems to be 3 R’s missing. Restraint, Respect and Responsibility. Restraint can be difficult but its an absolute. Respect comes easy especially if you want it in return. Finally, taking responsibility and not just by saying I’m sorry. It means taking it and owning it and not allowing it to happen again.
Mr. Trump, the same goes for you….
I was trying to stay out of politics here but with all the stamping of feet, pounding of drums, breaking of store windows and unadulterated behavior, I can’t hold back.
Its done. The election is over. We have winners and we have losers in any competition. Politics is very important to people even if it goes without saying. Most of the time it does. That is what happened in this election. There was a silent majority. To use an analogy….Custer at Little Big Horn. He was confident and arrogant until after the battle. The Sioux were there but just not seen.
I don’t need to write an epiphany like some are even though it is a right that we all have. I can’t help but think possibly the two-party system doesn’t work anymore. With the two-party system we need the electoral college, although, even when it was established in 1787, it wasn’t perfect and needed amending. What doesn’t even today?
Hillary laid back and did not lean into the blue states. The states that determined the election. Why not? To me, Hillary was a patsy for the Democratic Party because there was no one else to choose from. The Republicans had 16 people to choose from! That is democracy. Choice. That is campaigning.
Now its time to govern with whom we have whether we like it or not. One thing about not having a politician in the WH, it woke up America! We must move on as Americans with spine! The presidency is finite!
What Will Politics Be Like In 100 Years?
With the world in a mess as it is today, has any of us wondered what politics would be like 100 years from now? Will the United States have a two party system? Actually, I can’t imagine. The fore fathers would be amazed and in shock if they knew the Constitution is being challenged so readily and without any consideration for the the law of the land. A president that uses his Executive Order power to just write off laws like throw away Styrofoam cups is incomprehensible. Can we image in 100 years without a Constitution of the land, a dictator and beer summits all over the place? | 2019-04-24T21:55:50Z | https://janiceph.wordpress.com/tag/politics/ | Porn | Society | 0.364909 |
wordpress | The 99 Problems hitmaker and the Pretty Hurts star are said to have rejected the chance to attend the nuptials, which are expected to take place in France, because they don’t want to appear on Keeping Up With The Kardashians. An insider told The Sun newspaper: ‘Jay Z would be there if it wasnt going to be such a public event.’ Snub: Jay Z and Beyonce have reportedly turned down the chance to attend Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s wedding because he doesn’t want to appear on Keeping Up With The Kardashians While Jay and Beyonce are not expected to attend the wedding alongside the rest of the Kardashian clan, the rapper is going to make it up to the couple by splashing out 100,000 on a rented yacht for their honeymoon. Jay is also said to be preparing a lavish stag do for Kanye at his New York club 40/40. The insider added to the publication: ‘Instead hes making it up to his mate by throwing him the most extravagant stag do known to man. Nuptials: But to make up for the snub, Jay is set to splash out 100,000 on a rented yacht for Kim and Kanye’s honeymoon ‘It will cost a small fortune and to top it all off, hes chucked a 100,000 yacht rental in there as a wedding gift as well.’ Jay and Kanye have been good friends for years, and their partners Beyonce and Kim who has 10-month-old daughter North West – both recently enjoyed a catch up at their favourite dermatology clinic. A source told MailOnline: ‘Beyonce and Kim did speak at the clinic. They had a friendly chat and then went about their days.’ Happy couple: Jay (second left) and Kanye (second right) have been good friends for years, and their partners Beyonce (left) and Kim (right) both recently enjoyed a catch up at their favourite dermatology clinic It had previously been reported that Beyonce who has two-year-old daughter Blue Ivy with Jay wasn’t as keen to chat to Kim. | 2019-04-22T00:11:49Z | https://danialajue.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/jay-z-and-beyonce-to-snub-kim-kardashian-and-kanye-wests-wedding-mail-online/ | Porn | News | 0.327511 |
askmen | Matthew Dana, a New York State Sergeant, also took kratom. Dana was a healthy 27-year-old and was into bodybuilding, according to ABC News. Tragically, a recent police autopsy found an overdose of kratom was the reason Dana died suddenly in August.
Kratom is a natural supplement derived from a Southeast Asian plant and it's perfectly legal in most states -- my friend got a pack from a local head shop. | 2019-04-24T18:08:39Z | https://in.askmen.com/health-sports-news/1118304/article/police-sergeant-matt-danas-death-ruled-a-kratom-overdose | Porn | News | 0.704732 |
wordpress | Did some training over the weekend for OSHC (Out of School Hours Care- yep, one of the 5 jobs). Quite enjoyed it; I think mostly because I could immediately see how I could implement it in OSHC and other organisations I work in. It was also fun mucking around and playing games with my co-workers.
The Active After School Program is a Federal program for schools and OSHCs based on the playing for life philosophy. The idea is to get inactive children active by having fun playing sport. Coaches come to the school/OsHC to run games based on a particular sport for 8 weeks- we are having martial arts and tai chi this term. What I really like is the ‘capacity building’ aspect of it all. The children are asked for input- their ideas, what they liked/disliked, even the option to design games- giving them confidence and leadership skills. And then there are oportunities to link with sporting clubs in the community.
As someone who has played (and continues to play) sport, I know what I have gained from being involved in sport. Should I be more active? Yes! Do I let my crazy life get in the way? Yes! But at least I’ve got the skills to be able to do something about it. I can see this program giving children skills to be ‘active’ for life.
im really glad you enjoyed it(The training). Havnt seen you for a while. Hope you are all good!! | 2019-04-25T21:44:06Z | https://jafa73.wordpress.com/2006/07/24/active-after-school-communitiies/ | Porn | Sports | 0.238536 |
wordpress | Summer 2014: Lead, Balance, Sleep…Repeat?
Summer is a time for the beach, relaxing, and lots of ice cream. For me – it’s a little different (but I do love my ice cream).
I stay busy and try to get the most out of my time. Through Rutgers I am currently working every day at a hospital pharmacy where I am learning so much about the pharmacy industry and myself every single day. After that, I will be working five weeks in Manhattan at an acting studio, an internship I got through a fellow Rutgers student leader. Both jobs are very different but have one thing in common – being a leader. At the hospital, I am representing Rutgers with everything I do there and I help with many important health care decisions. Keeping calm and having a clear mind is always important. I always keep a notebook with me to write down any questions the pharmacists ask or any information they give. At the acting studio, my title is Camp Leader so I am left in charge of 30 kids (ages 7-13) and their daily schedule which includes classes with Broadway stars, rehearsals for an off-Broadway performance, and seeing a Broadway show (Oh and the numerous bathroom breaks). So I make sure that the kids have fun, but what is most important is that I show the kids an example of what a leader is and what type of person they can one day become.
Did I mention yet that I also work at a community pharmacy and a liquor store every weekend? I need some spending money for that ice cream. Balancing becomes difficult with all the different things I end up doing and that’s why staying organized is so important and you should always have a plan. Whether it’s planning your future post-graduation or planning your weekend trip to Point Pleasant, always go into experiences with a goal and write it down.
I have a crazy schedule on my computer that breaks down when I am going to wake-up, shower, eat breakfast, watch Wendy Williams, go to work, and see my family. I am huge family person so I always make sure I spend time with my family because your family is the longest and strongest bond you will ever have in life. Remember that for when you enter a new phase in life, whether it’s going to university or starting a new job, always make time for your family and show them love because they will always show you love back.
I am writing this blog after going church and before my shift at the liquor store – one of the rare moments I have to myself. But I try to take these moments and just reflect and see how my week was and how I hope my next week will be. It’s important to think about your life and try to be a better you than the day before. No matter where I go I try to make a difference and you should too! I work hard and stay busy, what R U waiting for?
James Duffy is a fifth year student in the Ernest Mario Pharmacy School. He is originally from Bayonne, NJ and (fun fact) is an identical twin! At Rutgers, he is a Scarlet Ambassador tour guide and a member of the Livingston Theater Company. He loves reality television and musical theater.
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wordpress | Trash Mash-Up are featured designers for Project Nunway V: Dissident Futures on Saturday, November 2, at 7 PM, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum Theatre. San Francisco’s preeminent Order of irreverently irreligious nuns returns to YBCA for a spectacular extravaganza of thehaute-est couture. Project Nunway V: Dissident Futures brings the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s annual gala back to the place of its glorious birth in the grandest fashion, featuring mistresses of ceremonies Pandora Boxx, of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 2, and Sister Roma, the Grand Marshal of San Francisco Pride 2012. Bay Area funketeers, Planet Booty, will provide the soundtrack as the Sisters turn out their best sashay and shantay, bedecked in original high-fashion (and high-concept) looks created from recycled materials in collaboration with local designers. Futuristic fierceness is the new black this year, so bring your Big Brother because it will be a night of glamour, drama—and, of course, cocktails—that you won’t want to miss. | 2019-04-25T04:00:09Z | https://trashmashup.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/tmu-are-featured-designers-at-project-nunway-v-dissident-futures/ | Porn | Arts | 0.959532 |
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wordpress | It’s been said by some that guns are the reason for gun violence. I would propose the idea that people are responsible for gun violence. It is truly sad that some in our population lack the education, social graces, motivation, mental capacity, or just luck. Some say that these limitations or obstructions to success are self inflicted, thus the blame falls squarely on those that tend to shoot their self in their foot.
I would argue that unless we completely build a wall around an entire state and ship all those covered under the previous categories to live out their lives in chaos within the walls then we need a viable solution to correcting their status.
The time has arrived for innovation, creativity, genius, open-mindedness, and an understanding that until we respect, accept that their exist a major problem within our population gun violence and or violence in our communities, schools, theaters, work places, and homes will not subside but rather heighten in occurrence. | 2019-04-26T14:09:39Z | https://patrickfox016.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/why-gun-violence-lets-take-one-state-and-build-a-wall-around-it-for-those/ | Porn | Home | 0.363111 |
wordpress | I am a stay-at-home mom of 2 children ages 2 and 4. We live in a very small town and have to create most of our own entertainment. I spend my days trying to figure out how to keep the house clean, laundry washed, and pets, husband, and children loved on.
The most important thing in my life is my relationship with Jesus. He is present in my heart and my home, and I hope you can see that reflected in my life and this blog. Without Him, we are nothing.
I love finding the humor in everyday situations with my children and really try to not take life too seriously, because there is so much more than this life, anyway! If at the end of the day I can remember what happened during that day, I try to write about it!
Wow! Thank you so much! How unexpected and kind of you!
I’M IN NORTH CAROLINA!!!! I saw your post on Marbles… I was just there with my nieces last month!! Where are you? I’m in Goldsboro, an hour east of Raleigh.
Are you serious? What a coincidence! I live in Bonlee, about 45 minutes southwest of Raleigh. I am a little familiar with Goldsboro because I went to college at ECU. So we are pretty close by!
That is so awesome!!! We will have to get together some time!!!
I would love that! Sounds like Raleigh would be a good halfway spot.
My little boy would LOVE to go to the Lego store! We’ll plan for that!
I just stumbled across your blog and am guessing that you live in Bonlee, NC. I went to Chatham Central and grew up around that area 🙂 so exciting!
What a small world! I did not go to Chatham Central, but my husband graduated from there in ’94. His name is Jason Watkins.
I don’t recognize the name, but I currently live in Cary (I work out of RTP). My parents own a feed store in Pittsboro and my sister is still in high school, so I spend quite a bit of my time out that way! | 2019-04-19T17:01:42Z | https://mommyinbonlee.wordpress.com/about/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.224103 |
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wordpress | A couple of days after Ironman Louisville I was visiting my parents in Canada and had trouble sleeping. I turned on the late night television and saw a very interesting ‘Infomercial’ advertising a fitness program called the P90X. It intrigued me as I was looking for something different: after 8+ months of training for Ironman I needed a distraction before I started training for Ironman Australia next year. I had been looking at Crossfit, but the P90X seemed to have some of the same philosophy—short, high intensity workouts—and as a perpetual traveller it would be nice to have some DVDs to train to. | 2019-04-25T12:40:44Z | https://triduffer.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/ | Porn | Sports | 0.590421 |
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wordpress | IBX acid or 2-iodoxybenzoic acid is an organic compound used in organic synthesis as an oxidizing agent. This periodinane is especially suited to oxidize alcohols to aldehydes. The IBX acid is prepared from 2-iodobenzoic acid, potassium bromate and sulfuric acid.
The reaction mechanism for an oxidation of an alcohol to an aldehyde according the so-called hypervalent twisting mechanism involves a ligand exchange reaction replacing the hydroxyl group by the alcohol followed by a twist and a elimination reaction.
The hypervalent twisting mechanism during conversion of methanol to formaldehyde: a) ligand exchange reaction (activation energy 9.1 kcal/mol (38 kJ/mol), b) hypervalent twist 12.1 kcal/mol (51 kJ/mol), c) elimination 4.7 kcal/mol (20 kJ/mol)). There is steric repulsion between protons in red.
The reaction mechanism for this glycol cleavage is based on initial formation of an adduct between 10-I-4 IBX and DMSO to an 12-I-5 intermediate 3 in which DMSO acts as a leaving group for incoming alcohol 4 to intermediate 5. One equivalent of water is split off forming 12-I-5 spirobicyclic periodinane 6 setting the stage for fragmentation to 7. With hydroxyl alpha protons presents oxidation to the acyloin competes. Trifluoroacetic acid is found to facilitate the overall reaction.
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Dess, D. B.; Martin, J. C. (1991). “A Useful 12-I-5 Triacetoxyperiodinane (the Dess-Martin Periodinane) for the Selective Oxidation of Primary or Secondary Alcohols and a Variety of Related 12-I-5 Species”. Journal of the American Chemical Society 113 (19): 7277–7287. doi:10.1021/ja00019a027.
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NMR spectroscopy techniques can determine the absolute configuration of stereoisomers such as cis or trans alkenes, R or Senantiomers, and R,R or R,S diastereomers.
In a mixture of enantiomers, these methods can help quantify the optical purity by integrating the area under the NMR peak corresponding to each stereoisomer. Accuracy of integration can be improved by inserting a chiral derivatizing agent with a nucleus other than hydrogen or carbon, then reading the heteronuclear NMR spectrum: for example fluorine-19 NMR or phosphorus-31 NMR.Mosher’s acid contains a -CF3 group, so if the adduct has no other fluorine atoms, the 19F NMR of a racemic mixture shows just two peaks, one for each stereoisomer.
As with NMR spectroscopy in general, good resolution requires a high signal-to-noise ratio, clear separation between peaks for each stereoisomer, and narrow line width for each peak. Chiral lanthanide shift reagents cause a clear separation of chemical shift, but they must be used in low concentrations to avoid line broadening.
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wordpress | I’ve written before about invisible disabilities. Mine of course is migraines. (specifically, chronic migraine, intractable) Most of the time I’m baffled by the way people like employers or insurance companies or whoever else can just brush it aside because, of course, they can’t see it, so why both to even acknowledge it? But a few days ago, someone I’ve been friends with for several years caught me completely off guard. She asked me to tell her about my disability because she really didn’t know anything about it. She said she knew that I had migraines, but that was all she knew. I was dumbfounded. I have known her for years. I’ve known her through the loss of more than one job, short and long term disability, insurance battles, the works. And somehow, she’s gone all this time without knowing what any of it is about. What had she thought it had all been about? I guess the small amount of information she had (that I had migraines) was a sufficient answer.
I found it baffling. Disturbing. Self-absorbed? Or…wait. (here’s the self-reflection part of the story – cue the music) Perhaps it was just self-absorbed of me to expect that she should know, or have made an attempt to know before now. Regardless, she made the effort on Saturday, so I decided to just be grateful for that and take the opportunity to share my story with my friend and hope that it would bring about a better understanding between us.
We sat at the counter at Chipotle’s and I began explaining it to her. I explained a bit about the difference between headaches and migraines, and then migraines and chronic migraines, and then chronic migraines and chronic migraines that are intractable. So by the end of my very abbreviated description of everything, (I tried not to bore her to death) she understood that I suffer from a kind of migraine that never goes away. Sometimes it’s better, sometimes it’s worse, but it N E V E R goes away. And this was something about my migraines that was a real shock to her. I didn’t expect it to be, but I’m used to it.
Even so, she didn’t have much of a reaction at first. But then she began asking some questions, mostly about what the doctors could do for me. I didn’t go through the 8 mile long list of things we’ve already tried. I just explained the few things that we have planned over the next several months. One of them, if the others fail, is to do a hysterectomy. She had a much stronger reaction to this than to anything else I’d said thus far. She wanted to know why I would consider such an extreme measure when I’m only 32 and I want kids so badly. Our other friend who was with us at lunch said, “Ah, because of everything she just explained to you – were you even listening to the first half of this conversation?” And it was in that moment that I realized, it still didn’t matter. It didn’t matter whether it was a new boss or an old friend or a stranger on the street. It didn’t matter if they had known about my condition for years, or if the very first description was so fresh in their minds that they couldn’t escape it. It is so invisible that it is actually incomprehensible unless you are living it.
And it’s not always because of callousness or the bottom line. I realized I play a huge role in this invisibility. In fact I spend most of my life making it invisible. My livelihood depends on it, for one thing. And the ability of the people I share my life with to be comfortable and at ease does too. When you’re in pain all the time, you can’t show it. Let’s face it, no one wants to be around that person. It’s awkward and no fun. And I want to have fun too and it’s easier to have fun when I’m the other girl; the one who seems like she’s fine and whose head isn’t trying to kill her 24/7. There are times when I can’t pull it off. And my closest friends are always the first to notice the signs. But all in all I’m a damn good actress. And so I guess maybe it’s not so much that my friend never really cared before now. Perhaps I just never let her see enough to realize how much there really was to ask about.
When I got home from that day out, my roommate said to me, “I wish that everyone could feel what you feel just for one week so that they could understand so they would be more compassionate” (not just in reference that this story, but in response to a larger conversation we were having). I said that I didn’t wish that; that I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. And part of me still stands by that. But on the other hand, I guess she’s right, without experiencing this, there just isn’t a way for anyone to truly understand, and for that, I would give almost anything. | 2019-04-25T10:19:33Z | https://lostonahorse.wordpress.com/tag/invisible-disability/ | Porn | Health | 0.940207 |
wordpress | So scan number 2 showed progress & was generally positive. I now have 13 follicles. The largest is 18mm so it’s grown 4mm in 48 hours! The clinic like to get 3 follicles to 17mm & then they trigger so it seems I’ll probably loose the biggest and go with the ones that are close behind.
Despite 13 follicles, they think that only 6 will be mature upon collection, which is disappointing but ok. That is six chances to get pregnant and I’ve never had one chance before!
They want me back for another scan on Sunday morning with a view to triggering that day & having a Tuesday egg collection. It’s all moving so fast! I guess that’s why they call it the short protocol!
1. The first thing that she said when she’d found an ovary was “You know about your cysts, don’t you?” Erm… I DO NOW! She then back tracked and said that they’re not causing a problem, they’re only small and they’re on my left ovary – the one that only had 2 small follies on Wednesday. Well those follicles have grown and more follicles have been “recruited” so it looks like cysty or not it’s not a big issue & we are go!
2. My doc had originally said that they wanted to scan me and do a blood test on day 5 so I booked in for the scan & at the end of it I asked the doctor where I go for the bloodtest and she said very confidently that they don’t do bloodtests. She said it so confidently that I didn’t argue. I always argue! I had been up since 5am & was tired and sleepy and just went with it. Today on day 7 as a result of my cysts the doc who scanned me today said that they wanted to do a blood test. The nurse who administered the bloodtest asked if it was my day 5 bloodtest, I had to tell her that no it was actually day 7. Then, I noticed a sign on the back of her door referring to day 5 bloodtests. Why did I just let that first idiot doctor convince me that they “don’t do them”?!
3. The second thing that the doc said after entering my hoo-hah, dropping the cyst bomb & applying far too much pressure to be good for me, was “have you had a history of endometriosis?” WTF?!?! 2 years of appointments with fertility specialists, at least 6 separate ultrasounds done by different people, an HSG & a hysteroscopy & no one has ever mentioned endo, although I have often wondered myself as I have very painful periods. Now the cysts hadn’t dawned on me. Even though my doc had mentioned that he suspected PCOS I’d never really believed him or worried about it apart from a potential to suffer from OHSS. How is now an appropriate time to decide I may have endo?! I assume if this cycle is unsuccessful we’ll schedule a lap – oh joy!!
I must snap out of this negative headspace though as today has been good news. Always one to try to prove people wrong, I am now determined to get more than 6 mature eggs.
I’ve cancelled my Saturday plans and I’m going to chill with a book/DVD & distract my over active brain for the next 48hours. And who knows? I may well end up administering the trigger shot from a toilet at the Paralympics on Sunday evening!! Classy!!!
I’m on the train to my latest scan on day 7 of stims. I had my first scan on day 5. There were 7 follicles: 5 on the right, with the largest measuring 14mm and then 2 small ones on the left. I didn’t get the measurements on any of the others. I was originally told that I was going in for a scan and bloodtest but then when I got there the doc said that they don’t normally do blood tests, which I thought was weird but I went with it. She said that she wanted to see me again in 2 days time and that she expected a lot to happen in 2 days.
They kept my gonal F injection at the same low dosage of 112.5iu & told me to start cetrotide injections, which are nowhere near as fun as Gonal F, although today is my third day on cetrotide and I think I have finally mastered it!
What I hadn’t anticipated was the rush of emotions that I would feel at the scan. As soon as she said we had follicles I was on the verge of happy tears. She showed me the right ovary first and when there were 5 there I nearly burst with happiness. I have been really concerned about OHSS so I was so pleased that I didn’t have too many. I was also worried about not responding as I was on such a low dose of Gonal F but 5 follicles on one ovary felt like a really positive number. Then she switched to the left side and showed me the 2 small follicles and I was immediately disappointed. Obviously 7 is a great number and once I left the room I felt really happy but in there it was such a rollercoaster of emotions that I had not prepared myself for.
This morning I am much more prepared for it and I am excited to see how much growth there has been, if a little nervous! I am hoping that they will start to estimate egg retrieval dates today as the not knowing is killing me!
I’ve got my first acupuncture appt since I started this cycle and I can’t wait to see her, I’ve been seeing her regularly for 16months now and she is so kind and lovely. I know that no matter what they say at the scan, she will make me happy, relaxed and positive by the time I leave the room. | 2019-04-25T06:48:17Z | https://immotileturtle.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/ | Porn | Health | 0.32763 |
wordpress | Arriving home from work, he sees a flower bouquet sitting on the front porch table. Red and yellow lilies in a clear vase with water. Wondering who they are from and thinking the delivery person must have made a mistake. Searching through the flower vase for a card or note to identify the sender, but there wasn’t such a note. Picking up the beautiful bouquet and unlocking his front door, he walks in and mentally makes a list of possible suspects who would send him flowers. Samantha!, No!, Sarah! No!, she and Nick have been hanging out a lot, must be something going on there. Monique! nah, she wasn’t interested in a relationship, plus she going to study aboard. Damn! this must be a joke. What girl would send me a bouquet? There must be some meaning since they are red and yellow lilies. Awhile feeding his dogs and putting fresh water in their bowl, still couldn’t think of anyone. Beside who would be so interested in me to send me flowers. No one ever pays attention to me or signal they have a crush on me. After an hour of thinking about this bouquet, it time to give it to someone that will brighten their day. I’ll give it to the nice lady three houses down. She very nice and who put in a good word for me to get this job that I have. He gets out a plain white index card and writes, “Thank You for your help. Your Neighbor.” He walks to her house and leaves the bouquet on a small table near her front door and walk back home with a smile. | 2019-04-20T02:27:25Z | https://stayingthecourseblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/daily-prompt-secret-admirers/ | Porn | Home | 0.98281 |
wordpress | I’ve been rereading some of my grandmother’s old SF. (I read them all in my teens.) Her two favourite authors in this genre were Julian May and Robert Heinlein, and it’s Heinlein I picked up first this time round; one of his Howard Families novels, Methuselah’s Children.
The Howard Families are the result of an ongoing experiment in – let’s not mince words – eugenics: the selective breeding of a species for one or more traits, in this case of people for longevity. The Howard Foundation actively encourages people from families where living to a 100+ is the norm to marry each other and pays them a large sum of money for each potentially long-lived baby they produce.
What I really like about Heinlein is that whereas most if not all other SF writers would have had this result in either tragedy or catastrophe, implying that these people were doing something wrong, Heinlein passes no such judgement and we find ourselves siding with the Howards when they start reaching ages like 150, 200, and it becomes necessary to hide this from the rest of society, the short-lifers.
However, some of the Howards prefer to be open about it, to “come out”. A mistake. It is not so much the envy and bitterness of ordinary “ephemerals” as the fury of the governing classes, who will stop at nothing to get hold of the Howards’ secret but naturally have no intention of sharing it with the plebs.
The arrests and tortures start. There is, of course, no secret to reveal, but no one will believe that.
Enter Lazarus Long, captain of a spaceship, paying a visit to his native Earth – and, as it happens, the oldest man alive.
Can he save the Howards? Of course he can.
Which brings us to To Sail Beyond The Sunset, the story of one of the earliest groups of Howards, set in the United States towards the end of the 19th Century. A historical novel then, but cross-genre, for it takes place within an SF frame.
Maureen, the heroine (who, it turns out, was Lazarus Long’s mother), tells the story of her first life-time as she awaits execution for a murder she did not commit somewhere, somewhen, in the future (approximately 2,000 years hence).
They just don’t write books like this any more, but luckily I have one still to go: Time Enough For Love, which continues the story of Lazarus Long. I’m trying to read it slowly, make it last! | 2019-04-22T00:46:21Z | https://mahadeviyakka.wordpress.com/tag/robert-heinlein/ | Porn | Reference | 0.588768 |
wordpress | Lolli Pots – candy creations!
Years ago I made everyone in the family candy as a Christmas gift – all kinds! I spent hours and money on tons of molds and created all types of combinations … it was a huge success. Since that time I will pick up candy melts on occasion and make some sweet treats. We are bringing a meat and cheese tray as our addition to the Christmas feast at my sister’s this year and I decided to make up some candy also. The candy melts are manufactured by Wilton and they were on sale so I couldn’t miss the opportunity.
I had lollipop molds and the sticks so I created what I call Lolli Pots. I painted a terra cotta pot deep red and you can paint any design of your liking on the pots. I painted family names along with all the names of the family members. These will be gifts for the families with children.
The procedure for making lollipops is quite easy. Melt the candy melts in the microwave for about a minute and then fill the candy molds with the melted candy, insert the stick and place in the refrigerator for about a half hour. Pop them out of the mold and cover with a little plastic bag and insert in pot (I placed a square of foam in the pot first). Then I attempted to make these chocolate bowls which was a bit more challenging.
After a few attempts I did end up with a dozen good chocolate cups that I intend to fill with vanilla pudding and little graham cracker critters. Here is a picture that came with the mold and fruit would be good also, but at this point I refuse to go to the grocery store any more!!!
were can i find these specific chocolate bowls?
Eric – I found the mold at Joann Fabrics – they are manufactured by Wilton Candies I believe. You may be able to order them online.
I found them at Walmart in the wedding/baking area for only $2.50! | 2019-04-24T00:26:56Z | https://therunninggarlic.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/lolli-pots-candy-creations/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.830067 |
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wordpress | Nancy Pelosi: Dumber than soap.
This is just delicious — Nates Pilosae, shilling for her Generational Theft Act, plows past a pig-ignorant mistake like butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth. Which it wouldn’t, since all the old battleaxe’s moisture drained away in her ten facelifts. In fact, Pilosae has a knot of hide at the back of her head like a schoolgirl’s scrunchy, so the devil can hang her on a hatrack when he’s done using her.
“I don’t think we can go fast enough, uh, just uh, to, to stop that.” Spit it out, dear. And somebody put that mangled metaphor out of its misery. | 2019-04-19T06:59:37Z | https://deanswift.wordpress.com/tag/stimulus/ | Porn | Reference | 0.341337 |
wordpress | Last Thursday, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), an assembly of national parliamentarians which meets four times a year, debated and agreed two demanding resolutions: on climate change and on energy use. The statements made during the debate were wide-ranging. Refreshingly, many speakers mentioned the connections between climate change and human well-being. The climate change report mentions the impact of climate change on the protection of human rights around the globe. Poverty, growing social inequality, and overuse of natural resources, were all pressing contemporary problems which were recurring themes during the debate. The rapporteur on the climate change resolution, John Prescott from the UK, highlighted two key words: equitability and fairness. Both, he said, are essential to any agreement.
The urgency and inevitability of the changing climate was highlighted. Or, as an Austrian parliamentarian put it, we are in the same position as the passengers on the Titanic, celebrating as the ship went down. The resolution states “Our success, or failure, in tackling climate change will shape the world we leave for future generations. If we succeed, we will not only safeguard our planet’s resources, but also unleash immense economic opportunities for sustainable development, quality job creation and anti-poverty action. If we fail, the disruption to the global climate, environment, biodiversity and human well-being will be unprecedented.” A Finnish representative described the situation as absurd: that we know fossil fuels are the cause of this emerging crisis and yet we are using more and more fossil fuels. A Russian parliamentarian called for decreased consumption of energy, and dismissed trading schemes, saying, ‘we should not trade in permission to pollute the atmosphere.’ European parliamentarians – at least those who stay for Thursday evening at the PACE (58 voted on the climate change resolution) – are aware of the problems and the need for comprehensive solutions.
One of the reports was on climate change and the second on the need for diverse and lower-impact energy sources. Both resolutions were passed, although neither report included a recommendation which would have been submitted to the Committee of Ministers for reply.
The debate was fascinating. Many parliamentarians called for greater energy efficiency and support for those who cannot afford to insulate their houses. The double bind in which we have put ourselves, by predicating growth on the use of natural resources including energy sources, was encapsulated by a Greek parliamentarian. She stated that Greece had discarded the idea of a policy of reducing energy demand, because it would mean fewer jobs in an already strained economic situation. Unfortunately, no one in that discussion seemed able to point out that increasing the energy efficiency of existing infrastructure, including residences and offices, can create quite a few jobs. Nor did anyone point out that the Canadian observer’s assumption that there is a direct link between economic activity and energy consumption is not proven. This is crucial, because it is this kind of thinking — jobs or the environment — which is a main obstacle to our taking steps to mitigate the severity of global climate change or to tackle other urgent environmental problems which we face as a global society.
The PACE resolution asks the G8 and G20 to push for development of a green economy – but exactly what a green economy is, is yet to be defined. It is difficult to know whether one is taking steps towards a target when it is still undefined!
The climate change resolution calls for a UN agreement which requires national legislation in each country by 2020, and an international review panel which would evaluate the implementation of national laws and their effectiveness in reducing carbon emissions. The resolution also calls for international cooperation to share best practice and develop shared approaches. And it demands a target of a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 20% compared to 1990 levels by 2030, and 50% by 2050. The EU has a roadmap aiming at a reduction of 80% by 2050. The EU is more committed: a week before this PACE debate, the European Commission announced binding EU targets of 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. On 5 February, this motion was passed by the European Parliament. The targets will now be debated by the Council of the European Union (heads of government summit) in March. Has complacency finally been vanquished; will the action taken be enough? | 2019-04-20T20:56:32Z | https://qceablog.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/paper-is-patient-but-nature-isnt/ | Porn | Arts | 0.129984 |
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Today - Partly cloudy with a high of 58 °F (14.4 °C). Winds variable at 6 to 12 mph (9.7 to 19.3 kph). | 2019-04-24T17:19:15Z | https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/ireland/offaly/tober-562372 | Porn | Reference | 0.222942 |
wordpress | Here’s a video of a gig I did at Brixham Theatre in September 2018. I hope that you enjoy it.
Next Next post: On haiku. | 2019-04-24T20:36:54Z | https://robertdgarnham.wordpress.com/2018/09/30/robert-garnham-live-at-brixham-theatre/ | Porn | Arts | 0.977013 |
wordpress | How Does TMS Compare to Medication?
Side Effects? They are few and mild.
If you or a loved one is one of the many people suffering from depression who have found little or no relief from antidepressant medications, we urge you to consider TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) Therapy, a treatment option that is clinically proven to improve symptoms of depression when standard treatment has not helped, or has created too many problems.
TMS therapy does not have the unwanted side effects commonly associated with chemical antidepressants such as weight gain, fatigue, sexual dysfunction, or drug withdrawal symptoms when doses are missed. No medication is added to your body, so side effects on other parts of your system are minimal.
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sfgate | Keep oven glass spotless with regular cleaning.
From baking a ham to roasting vegetables in olive oil, the foods you cook can leave greasy spots on your oven window. When you clean the oven, don't forget the greasy glass if you really want your kitchen to look spotless. Cutting through grease requires an acidic or abrasive cleanser, but you don't have to use harsh chemicals to get your oven window sparkling again. Eco-friendly cleaners do the job for a fraction of the cost of commercial oven cleaners.
Measure 1/4 cup baking soda into a bowl. Add water slowly, stirring constantly, until the baking soda forms a paste.
Dip a soft sponge into the baking-soda paste, scooping up a generous amount.
Open the oven door and scrub the glass gently in a circular motion. Leave the door open with the paste on for 20 minutes.
Wipe the baking soda away with a wet sponge. Dry the window with a paper towel.
Measure 1/4 cup of coarse salt into a bowl.
Add 1/4 cup of lemon juice or white vinegar, and stir to mix the ingredients.
Open the oven door. Apply the mixture with a soft sponge, and allow it to sit for 20 minutes.
Rinse out the sponge and remove the cleanser with water. Dry the window with a paper towel.
Fill a 1-quart spray bottle with water.
Add 1 tablespoon each of dishwashing liquid, white vinegar and hydrogen peroxide. Shake the bottle to mix.
Spray the oven glass and wipe with a damp sponge or paper towel. For tough grease, leave the cleanser on for 15 minutes before wiping.
Do not use abrasive sponges to scrub glass, because they can cause scratches.
Becker, S.R.. "How to Remove Grease Spatters From a Window in the Oven Door." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/remove-grease-spatters-window-oven-door-93319.html. Accessed 24 April 2019. | 2019-04-25T19:50:39Z | https://homeguides.sfgate.com/remove-grease-spatters-window-oven-door-93319.html | Porn | Home | 0.853712 |
wordpress | I find that there are many underutilised features of C#. The following is short list of some of the features I would like to see being used more often.
Are you getting tired of writing code like this?
Using this will often allow us to use the ternary operator e.g.
To prevent modifications to a list, return the list wrapped in a read only wrapper. This aids in encapsulation and helps to prevent unwanted changes to collections. This MSDN page provides a good example. | 2019-04-26T10:19:57Z | https://darynholmes.wordpress.com/tag/isnullorempty/ | Porn | Reference | 0.503478 |
wordpress | Ever since Bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency strode into the scene, cryptocurrency mining has become a topic of discussion among computer enthusiasts and interested parties looking to make money or have an alternative revenue stream going.
After an incredibly harsh week on the crypto market, Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC), and Ethereum (ETH) lead the crypto recovery for the top ten cryptos.
Out of the top 100 cryptocurrencies, only 10 are currently down – quite the turnaround from the rest of the week.
via Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC), and Ethereum (ETH) | Market Recovers?
It looks like Telegram’s billion-dollar ICO has reached its first milestone after the chat app company raised an initial $850 million, according to a filing.
As the image of Quasi-anarchic system has been portrayed in our textbooks that the system is here to demise our traditional economy, the truth is opposite. It is here serve people which are leading towards innovation and growth of our financial operations. Bitcoin concept is not all about investing for short-term and enjoy benefits. Rather it is a long-term process and we need to change our mindset to gather its complete welfare.
A nation’s currency is it’s nation’s backbone. Its value defines its position in the international market. Now, this was true when countries were held tightly by boundaries and the flow of money was restricted by taxes and conversion rates. | 2019-04-22T18:44:25Z | https://stevenkrohn.wordpress.com/2018/02/ | Porn | Reference | 0.205058 |
google | After many years of sterile arms control negotiations between the super powers, which did not produce a single genuine disarmament measure - and sometimes had the opposite effect of stimulating the development of new weapons to serve as bargaining chips - an agreement to abolish completely two categories of nu clear weapons, the INF Treaty, was signed and is now being implemented. This historical event, the first actual destruction of deployed nuclear missiles (although not of their warheads) became possible largely because of the radical changes in the policies of the Soviet Union, the "new way of thinking", ad vanced by its leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The relaxation of tension that resulted from this policy was one of the factors contributing to the successful conclu sion of the INF Treaty. Another, no less important factor, was the acceptance by the Soviet Union of on-site inspections as a basic element of a verification system essential to ensure compliance with the Treaty. This breakthrough led to the mutual acceptance of an elaborate and precise verification regime, and thus made possible the signing of the INF Treaty, which in tum contributed to the further lessening of tension between East and West. But perhaps the most important factor, one which carries much promise for the future, was the changed approach to security problems. | 2019-04-23T05:13:27Z | https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9783642750724&oi=book_result&hl=en | Porn | News | 0.623549 |
wordpress | Just got this shade the other day. This is OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts. I know I love OPI, but I absolutely love this shade. I’ve been looking for a cool gray for I don’t know how long and I can’t be happier with this color. It’s not too dark, not too blue. It may be a fall collection color, but you can get away with wearing this during the summer.
Here is a closer shot of this smooth cream.
Hope you guys are enjoying your Sunday as well, and as always happy polishing!
I was really debating whether or not to get this one since I already purchased Road House Blues, Honk If You Love OPI, and I Brake for Manicures. How do you think French Quarter compares to Skull & Glossbones? I wanted S&G to be more gray…maybe I really do need French Quarter!
FQFYT is much more gray than S&G. S&G is more of a newspaper color while FQFYT is like a storm cloud I guess you could say.
it’s a really gorgeous gray, I think I like it better than Pelican Gray from China Glaze. Do you have another OPI gray from the same collection to make comparison?
No not from the same collection. I do have other gray lacquers that are much lighter than this though.
Just did my nails with FQFYT too. I’m going for a weekend trip to the highlands with the family and realized this number is chic as a button! | 2019-04-25T03:54:45Z | https://polishedme.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/taking-it-easy/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.600014 |
wordpress | Hello everyone! You seem to have stumbled on my writing blog for some reason or another. How you got here is not important, it’s what your here for that is. My name is Brooke D. Wheeler and I’m a writer.
Yes, you heard me right. I’m one of those people.
After a very successful venture (after many unsuccessful ones) doing National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo) this year I decided to take the plunge. I completed a rough draft entitled Bloodstream, and I’m currently working on a few side projects and getting my platform base up and going.
So what do you expect from this blog? Writing, and lots of it. I’m currently working on a possible Web Serial to hopefully come out in late 2013, and editing for Bloodstream will begin in 2013 as well. That is unless the Mayans were right and we all go up in a ball of flame.
If that’s the case, this blog was all for nothing. Oh well. You’re all stuck with me until that happens, so keep a lookout for future blog posts and feel free to chat me up. I’d love to hear from you! | 2019-04-25T22:38:26Z | https://brookedwheeler.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/page/2/ | Porn | Arts | 0.652088 |
wordpress | A newborn’s blood spotted onto a Guthrie card. Photo: The New York State Department of Health Newborn Screening Program.
Over the last 50 years, the spotting of newborn’s blood onto filter paper for disease screening, called Guthrie cards, has become so routine that since 2000, more than 90% of newborns in the United States have had Guthrie cards created. In a study published online in Genome Research (www.genome.org), researchers have shown that epigenetic information stored on archived Guthrie cards provides a retrospective view of the epigenome at birth, a powerful new application for the card that could help understand disease and predict future health.
DNA methylation, an epigenetic chemical modification of DNA, is known to affect gene activity and play a role in normal development, aging, and also in diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. “But are these epigenetic marks involved in causing the disease, or a result of the disease itself?” asked Dr. Vardhman Rakyan of Queen Mary, University of London and co-senior author of the study. Rakyan explained that this is impossible to know when samples are obtained after onset of the disease. Guthrie cards, commonly used to collect blood spots from the pricked heel of newborns to screen for diseases such as phenylketonuria, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cells disorders, might offer a snapshot of the epigenome before disease develops. Many Guthrie cards are stored indefinitely by health authorities around the world, posing a potential wealth of information about the epigenome at birth.
Rakyan and an international group of colleagues purified genomic DNA and analyzed DNA methylomes from Guthrie cards and verified that this archived DNA yields high-quality methylation data when compared to fresh samples. The researchers then compared the DNA methylation profiles of newborns to the same healthy individuals at the age of three, looking for epigenetic variations detected in the Guthrie card sample that are stable into the early years of life.
“We found similar epigenetic differences between different people both at birth and when they were three years old,” said Rakyan, who added that these differences, already present at birth, are unlikely due solely to inherent genetic differences between the individuals, but also due to environment or random events in utero. Furthermore, Guthrie card samples could be analyzed for both genetic and epigenetic differences together to view a more complete picture of the genome at birth.
Your genes determine much about you, but environment can have a strong influence on your genes even before birth, with consequences that can last a lifetime. In a study published online in Genome Research (www.genome.org), researchers have for the first time shown that the environment experienced in the womb defines the newborn epigenetic profile, the chemical modifications to DNA we are born with, that could have implications for disease risk later in life.
Epigenetic tagging of genes by a chemical modification called DNA methylation is known to affect gene activity, playing a role in normal development, aging, and also in diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Studies conducted in animals have shown that the environment shapes the epigenetic profile across the genome, called the epigenome, particularly in the womb. An understanding of how the intrauterine environment molds the human epigenome could provide critical information about disease risk to help manage health throughout life.
Twin pairs, both monozygotic (identical) and dizygotic (fraternal), are ideal for epigenetic study because they share the same mother but have their own umbilical cord and amniotic sac, and in the case of identical twins, also share the same genetic make-up. Previous studies have shown that methylation can vary significantly at a single gene across multiple tissues of identical twins, but it is important to know what the DNA methylation landscape looks like across the genome.
In this report, an international team of researchers has for the first time analyzed genome-scale DNA methylation profiles of umbilical cord tissue, cord blood, and placenta of newborn identical and fraternal twin pairs to estimate how genes, the shared environment that their mother provides and the potentially different intrauterine environments experienced by each twin contribute to the epigenome. The group found that even in identical twins, there are widespread differences in the epigenetic profile of twins at birth.
“This must be due to events that happened to one twin and not the other,” said Dr. Jeffrey Craig of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) in Australia and a senior author of the report. Craig added that although twins share a womb, the influence of specific tissues like the placenta and umbilical cord can be different for each fetus, and likely affects the epigenetic profile.
Interestingly, the team found that methylated genes closely associated with birth weight in their cohort are genes known to play roles in growth, metabolism, and cardiovascular disease, lending further support to a known link between low birth weight and risk for diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. The authors explained that their findings suggest the unique environmental experiences in the womb may have a more profound effect on epigenetic factors that influence health throughout life than previously thought.
The human gut is home to a teeming ecosystem of microbes that is intimately involved in both human health and disease. But while the gut microbiota is interacting with our body, they are also under constant attack from viruses. In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers have analyzed a bacterial immune system, revealing a common set of viruses associated with gut microbiota in global populations.
Viruses that prey on bacteria, called phages, pose a constant threat to the health of bacterial communities. In many ecological systems, viruses outnumber bacterial cells ten to one. Given the richness of bacteria in the human gut, it was not surprising that scientists have found that phages are also highly prevalent. But how can viruses targeting gut microbiota be identified? How do viral communities differ between people and global populations, and what could this tell us about human health and disease?
In this report, a team of scientists from Israel has taken advantage of information coded in a bacterial immune system to shed new light on these questions. Bacteria can “steal” small pieces of DNA from phages that attack them, and use these stolen pieces to recognize and respond to the attacker, in a manner similar to usage of antibodies by the human immune system. The stolen DNA pieces are stored in specific places in the bacterial genome called CRISPR loci (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats).
Sorek’s team used this strategy to identify and analyze phages present in the gut microbiota of a cohort of European individuals. They found that nearly 80% of the phages are shared between two or more individuals. The team compared their data to samples previously derived from American and Japanese individuals, finding phages from their European data set also present in these geographically distant populations, a surprising result given the diversity of phages seen in other ecological niches.
The authors note that as evidence for the beneficial roles played by bacteria in the healthy human gut continues to mount, it is critical that we understand the pressures placed upon the “good” bacteria that are vital to human health. “Our discovery of a large set of phages attacking these good bacteria in our gut opens a window for understanding how they affect human health,” Sorek added. Researchers can now begin to ask how phage dynamics in the gut changes over time, and what it might tell us about diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, and how to more effectively treat them.
Mutations are central to biology—they explain diversity in life forms, provide fuel for evolution, and determine one’s susceptibility to certain diseases. But scientists have not always understood mutations as we do now—as molecular alterations in DNA.
“Mutation, of course, involves change,” writes Elof Axel Carlson. “But our understanding of that change is influenced by the time we live in.” In his latest book, Carlson explores the history—the people, science, and ideas—behind the concept of mutation.
There’s much excitement here at CSHL in anticipation of the popular annual Biology of Genomes meeting, which begins tonight. For the next 6 days, scientists from around the world will assemble on campus to discuss the latest advances in genome research as they relate to evolution, biology, and disease in a variety of organisms—including humans.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of the draft human genome sequence. What has it told us about human biology? Do we know the function of every gene in the human genome?
Cap analysis gene expression (CAGE) is a method used to discover new promoters and for quantifying gene activity, providing data essential for studies of regulatory gene networks. But CAGE requires large amounts of RNA, which are often not obtainable from rare specimens. In the January issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols Piero Carninci and colleagues from the RIKEN Yokohama Institute’s Omics Science Center present NanoCAGE: A High-Resolution Technique to Discover and Interrogate Cell Transcriptomes, a method that can capture information from as little as 10 nanograms of total RNA. The protocol describes how to rapidly prepare nanoCAGE libraries which can be sequenced with high sensitivity. As one of January’s featured articles, the protocol is freely available to subscribers and non-subscribers alike. | 2019-04-22T02:21:30Z | https://cshbenchmarks.wordpress.com/category/genetics/ | Porn | Science | 0.392612 |
tripod | North Manitou Island is one of several islands that make up the Lake Michigan Archipelago. It is located in northern Lake Michigan off the coast of the town of Leland.
Most of these pictures are over a 100k in size, so be patient after clicking on the thumbnail!
This is a view looking north from the dock. It looks like a sunset but is actually bright daylight. The photo lab messed it up but I kind of like it!
These next three pictures were taken from near the northeast corner of the Island. We had stopped for a rest break and to scarf down some oreo granola bars. *grin* As you can see, it was a beautiful sunny summer day! | 2019-04-19T08:24:54Z | http://hiker.tripod.com/manitou/manitou.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.979884 |
tripod | "Welcome to the home of Florida's #1 hurling club"
To conserve club funds we also stopped the $5 p/mo feature that prevents popups on this site. Uggh! Def visit our GAA sponsored site- no popups there.
While our current site will be maintained and update, we will be transitioning to the new site in the coming month. This grant is a great opportunity for new clubs so if you're starting one, for more information.
9/6/09 Thank you all for making our first raffle a success. With all of you visitors and locals standing behind us, there will be no stopping hurling in Florida. Please visit our page if we met you today but didn't take your phone number/email address.
It's the Irish sport that doesn't involve drinking too much beer. Like our brethren, "First we hurl, THEN we drink!"
Whether you're in it for recreation or competition, hurling is a fantastic sport and you have to try it at least once in your life. Come on out, meet new people, and give it a try. All levels of fitness are welcome. It's a great "something new" activity to share with your kids as well.
Visiting this site for the first time and haven't seen a hurling match?
Be sure to , prepared by Eamonn Gormley of the San Francisco Gaelic Athletic Association. If you liked what you've seen, then visit for the best videos and coverage.
Just visiting town and want to see a match on Setanta?
Call/visit The Lucky Leprechaun on International Drive. Click and contact info and .
Promoting all things celtic, the Orlando Chapter of the New World Celts meets the 2nd Thursday of every month at 7:30pm at "The Claddagh Cottage" 4308 Curry Ford Rd. Orlando 32806, 407-895-1555.
Gotta give it a try but don't want the pressure of meeting in a group?
Email/call Scott. Your puck-outs will be kept strictly confidential.
08:30 Sunday 8/23 Assemble in first parking lot on left.
09:30 Sunday 8/30 Assemble in first parking lot on left.
* It's brutal hot. We deserve air-conditioned comfort. Call for the televised Setanta Premium hurling/football schedule. I'll do my best to post the same. There's wall ball at the break (please don't take out the satellite dish), and there is a field within staggering distance of the pub (end of Carrier Dr.). Seriously though, skills can be learned in a parking lot. Just limit yer pints.
Note that the North American GAA Championship fixtures may change, but the dates remain the same.
Hurling has been described variously as 'field hockey in the air,' 'brutal field hockey,' 'like lacrosse but with solid sticks' etc. None of these descriptions really do the game justice. To truly get a feel for the spirit of the sport requires that you see it in action. It exhibits a unique combination of skill, athleticism, stamina and speed that few sports can match. It is acknowledged as the fastest field game on earth. It has the speed and continuous flowing action of ice hockey but on grass.
It is played with a long curved stick similar to a field hockey stick but with a broader and flat end which allows the player to control the ball in the air as well as on the ground. It is made of ashwood which has just the right properties that allow the stick to flex up to a certain point. The end (the boss) is usually slightly bigger on a goalkeeper's stick.
But the best thing about hurling is that you can play it in Orlando!
If you're at this site, then you've probably been singled out by our selectors as having the right stuff for hurling (a heartbeat, reckless abandon, strong legs, some teeth, otherwise savage good looks.) Next, click on ol' Uncle Sam to learn how to enlist (err, join).
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wordpress | Douglas Clegg is a very busy man. He is the New York Times bestselling author of psychological horror, historical, supernatural thriller, and dark fiction novels. He is the winner of many awards including the Bram Stoker Award, the Shocker Award, and the International Horror Guild Award. Recently, he even wrote a new introduction for the Signet Classic edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
And these are just a few of the reasons I’m excited to announce that he will be one of our first Guests on Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights Live.
Haunted Nights is a horror-themed radio show, hosted by my collaborator, Tamara Thorne, and me. It’s part of Authors on the Air Global Radio Network which reaches upwards of two million listeners in 44 countries. On Haunted Nights Live, Tamara and I will be interviewing horror authors, other macabre personalities, and discussing all things horror. The show begins on Thursday nights in November. Until then, you can listen to us through the month of October when we’ll be co-hosting Authors on the Air with Pam Stack.
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wordpress | Over the last few decades we have seen the introduction of so many new gadgets, utilities and conveniences. Most of these have become part of our lives so much so that we wonder how we survived without them! Some obvious ones are the internet, email, mobile telephones, iPod. Heck, even mundane things like an ATM machine, credit cards, a remote-controlled TV, a split a/c, I can go on and on. How many of us who are now 40 years plus would have seen these in our school days, or even college days?
While it is easy to list out the new stuff, you should take a look at some gadgets which were very much a part of our growing up days and are now virtually extinct. Ever think our kids would operate or even see any of the following?
In the real old days if you wanted to speak to someone over the phone, you could do so only via an intermediary, the telephone operator. He or she would juggle with some complicated connections inserting wires in multiple slots on a switchboard in front of him and then connect you with your desired number. With the advent of the dial phone and automatic exchanges, getting connected became a breeze!
For some reason all the dial phones were black in colour. In its dying years though it did get into bright red and pastel green avatars. These chunky phones occupied the pride of the place in the living room. An extension into the bedroom or any other place in the house was possible but P&T department would charge you an extra rental. Hence telephones with extensions were not too common.
Old-timers would remember the telephone dial where the numbers went clockwise from 0 to 9 with each digit having a dedicated slot on the periphery of the dial. You would stick you forefinger into the slot and rotate the dial clockwise till you could get no further. Then for the second digit of the phone number and then the third… till the process of dialing the entire number was concluded. And then you would pray and hope that the call would go through. It was perhaps a 40% chance that the call would go through at the first instance. When it did not, you would repeat the dialing process. Again. And again. Some creative ones would even rest their fingers and use objects like a pencil to do the dialing work.
The dialer community had two distinct sub-types. Those who would dial in consonance with the natural speed of the machine and stay with the dial on its return rotation to its orginal position. Then there were the others who would zip through the clockwise rotation as if they were driving their Bullet motorcycle on a highway and then stare helplessly at the dial on its return movement crawl back slowly to the original position in the manner of a moped (remember Luna?) negotiating the bylanes!
Very often the dial’s return mechanism malfunctioned forcing the dialer to apply considerable reverse force to get the dial to its original position before the second digit could be dialed!
When we got our telephone connection, my father had enough influence in the telephone department not only to get an out-of-turn allotment but also to get a number which others would find easy to dial: 5111. (Jamshedpur had only 4 digit number those days). This was a matter of great pride for us and a source of envy for others who had numbers like, say, 6987!
The slots in the dials also enabled enterprising fabricators to fashion little mechanical brass locks which could be affixed to the dial to prevent “unauthorized” people from using the phone. Or so the lock owners thought! I remember circumventing this several times. The system-beater, if you do not know, is simple! Taps of the button on the telephone cradle!! One tap= digit 1, four taps= digit 4 and ten taps for digit 0. This came in very useful on two occasions when someone thought he was being very nice to me by allowing me to receive calls but was “clever” enough to lock the phone so that I could not dial a number on it. The hostel warden in Nagpur where I did my plus 2 course and my landlord in my early days in Bangalore when I was a Paying Guest resident!
Why I had to do this is a different story altogether!
This gadget was a major symbol of cultural sophistication of a household. Or its affluence. The record player -also called a gramophone- occupied the place of pride in the living room. Often draped with an embroidered cotton cloth or a white lacy covering to keep the dust away!
We never owned a record player. Could not afford it! My experience of a record player has been either at my friends’ or relatives’ place.
Records would come in different dimensions, though all were black and round. The difference was in the diameter of each and hence the speed you could play a particular record in. The largest one- called an LP, for Long Play- could be played at 33 1/3 rpm while the smaller one- EP or extended play- at 45 rpm. Some really old ones could be played only at 78 rpm! The rpm was set by a knob on the record player, positioned at: 33 1/3, 45 and 78! If you wanted some real entertainment, you could play a playful Kishore Kumar (like in his Jawaani Diwani movie track) at a slower rpm and hear his voice convert to K L Sehgal’s! Or imagine playing a Lata Mangeshkar’s 78 rpm record at 33 1/3!
We kids could never figure out how these flat black objects would store music and songs so well! There was something magical to these discs. They would be reverentially pulled out of their cardboard sleeves, wiped free of dust and grime by a special duster and placed gently on the turn table which was covered with a soft felt padding. The “needle” would be placed lightly on the disc taking care that the impact of the needle on the disc was minimal lest the disc get damaged.
If the disc did get scratched, the needle would get stuck and the same small piece of the music would keep playing. Like if you were enjoying the aforementioned Jawaani Diwaani number and the needle got stuck, you might here the following: “Yeh jawaaani, hai deewani, hai deewani, hai deewani, hai deewani…”, till someone rescued the situation by nudging the needle along manually!
Totally scratched records too had their uses. Like the artistic one in the family would paint on the black surface a landscape, or a bunch of flowers or even portraits of Nehru or Tagore and this disc with its newly acquired work of art would get displayed prominently on the living room walls.
Among the many extra-curricular activities I indulged in during my campus days directing plays was one. The last play I directed while on campus was “Kamala”.
“Kamala”, written by the famous Marathi playright Vijay Tendulkar, is based on a real-life incident. An investigative journalist out to expose the trading of women in India actually buys a woman from a small town market. He brings her home and plans to keep her there till the time is right to announce this to the world.
The journalist’s wife, Sarita, who is well-educated discovers a kinship with the woman, Kamala. When she reflects on her own life and relationship with her husband, Sarita realizes that she is not any better-off than Kamala and that she was getting as much exploited as Kamala. Towards the end of the play Sarita decides that she has to do something about her lot. The play ends with her drunken husband entering the house at night after an altercation with his newspaper bosses. He stumbles in and falls in a drunken stupor. While Sarita is determined to assert herself, her individuality, she also knows that as a wife she has to be a pillar of support for her husband in his tribulations.
So that is the story of Kamala in a nutshell. But this piece is not about the plot of the play, but the first staging of my version of it.
While I had worked hard on the play, I had worked especially hard on the ending.
The way I had envisaged it was that the husband sprawls on the sofa in the living room. (Sarita, who has already made up her mind, decides to support the husband in his trying times). She takes her husband’s feet onto her lap and is in the process of removing his shoes. At this moment I had planned a freeze, a long freeze. While she is in the shoe-removal process (shoe-removal= being a support to her husband), wife looks away to a distant horizon (horizon= her emancipated future). The freeze was planned for ten seconds. This is a very long time for a freeze on stage. A spot was to come on to the wife’s face with rest of the stage fading into darkness. I had got a brilliant young carnatic flautist- a junior in college- to play Raga Bhoopalam which is the raga of dawn (dawn= awakening of the wife, in case you do not get it!). And then, after the freeze, the curtains were to come down on the play. I had briefed another helpful junior of mine to operate the curtains at the appropriate time.
After the curtains, would come the giant round of applause, I thought to myself as I marveled at my brilliant conception of the climax.
I was sitting in the audience and was watching the play. It was going on perfect! Even the moments where I had found my actors making odd movements during the rehearsals, their movements were fluid, with a capital F! And one of the key actors, who always forgot his lines during tense moments in the play, managed to deliver his lines pat! The audience comprised of my engineering college mates who, as anyone will know, can be very, very painful if the play does not go too well. Especially if the actors involved are their college-mates, which all the actors of “Kamala” were! The was a pin-drop silence in the auditorium! It was going on perfectly well.
I eagerly anticipated the applause at the end!
Came the climax scene. The husband sprawls picture-perfect on the sofa. In walks the wife and does her feet-on-the-lap and shoe-removal thing. Lightman dims stage lights and turns on the spot on wife’s face. Then freeze! Raga Bhoopalam comes on, as mellifluous as ever. Wow! I am about to start the clapping process myself!
Then suddenly, just after three seconds of freeze, our curtain-man decides to get active. He pulls the curtain! I am hopping mad. Hopping! Months of planning and my creative master-stroke shred to bits by a careless curtain guy! Apoplectic with rage, I run down the aisle towards the stage. The hapless curtain-puller in the wings sees me charging down and realizes his mistake. And guess what he does!! He opens the curtain back to full view! I give up and run away from the stage to the back of the hall. The wife and husband on stage mercifully are still frozen and the flautist and the lightman are still sticking to my brief.
End of second 12 and the curtain closes again. The round of applause does follow (my friends tell me later), but I do not hear it as I am already outside the auditorium, ruing the day I decided to do this play.
I pull myself out of bed and walk towards the tea-stalls near the hostel for a smoke and a cup of tea. The moment I seat myself on the bench, I am accosted by some friends who evidently had been doing a critical review of “Kamala” and wanted to know from me what the symbolism stood for.
“What symbolism”, I ask irritatedly.
I am agape with astonishment! The errors on stage were being analyzed for their symbolic meanings!
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wordpress | Welcome to Scholarship Programs! You can’t achieve a scholarship if you don’t apply. Northeast State has no guaranteed scholarship programs, so you have to apply and meet deadlines to be considered. Your past experiences and academic performance may qualify you for college resources beyond federal and state financial aid programs. Internal and external sources of scholarships exist; you just have to do your research.
The purpose of the office of Scholarship Programs is to create and promote scholarship opportunities for Northeast State students while offering a range of services to enhance the scholar’s collegiate experience. Students are identified for internal scholarship programs as well as for national competitions and are provided individual mentoring to produce competitive applications. Students are made aware of external scholarship opportunities at transfer institutions as well.
The Office of Scholarship Programs works closely with the Northeast State Foundation to support academic, community service, educational scholarship, and other programs offered by the College. This includes sponsoring the Northeast State Scholars Foundation. The Scholars Foundation supports the activities of the Northeast State Foundation through student-driven initiatives that promote private giving and service learning. | 2019-04-22T20:12:15Z | https://northeastnation.wordpress.com/scholarships/ | Porn | Reference | 0.187774 |
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wordpress | I saw the podiatrist and it looks like my plantar fasciitis is totally cleared up. The spiral fracture is healing, and he showed me a different way to tie my sneaker so it will put less pressure on the break (I wish he had showed me that sooner). Oh, and walking barefoot is bad which is… something I do a lot. I don’t know that I can commit myself to a 50$ pair of fancy (and ugly) “recovery” flip-flops to wear in the house. I probably will eventually, but hopefully I can find a sale or something. The tendon in my heel is getting better, and I only need to wear my night splint 2-3 nights a week now. Yay! I do have to keep up with my icing and topical treatment, which I am not as religious about as I should be. Argh.
Wednesday night about 6:30 I started getting a frighteningly familiar pain in my side. I checked the pharmacy hours and ran out to fill the pain prescription the hospital gave me. Sure enough, it was another kidney stone. Thankfully, I did not start throwing up this time (which would have landed me back in the hospital), and I was able to doze fitfully between cramps until it passed around 3 am. I slept in the next day, but I did manage to work four days that week, which is probably the most I’ve managed in over a month. If you factor in all my doctor appointments and lab tests I’ll be short a day this week and next as well.
Saturday night I fell asleep with a headache and woke up with it still in the morning. I fought a migraine most of the day until I gave in and took the prescription med for it. I really dislike the nerve buzzing I get from it, but it kept things down to a dull roar when our friends came over with their 2-year old. I hadn’t seen them in weeks and really didn’t want to reschedule again or have to hole up in my room and not socailize.
Oh, and I have a cold. And menstrual cramps, which is just adding insult to injury, really.
Mostly, I am badly fatigued. I’d like to blame it on cutting out all sodas but it’s not caffeine withdrawal. I’m worried it might be related to my liver issues. I get my follow-up bloodwork done on that today and I’m keeping my fingers crossed. | 2019-04-26T02:00:56Z | https://redefininggood.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/updates-2/ | Porn | Health | 0.922822 |
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wikipedia | The Moesian Limes or Limes Moesiae is the modern term given to a collection of Roman fortifications between the Black Sea shore and Pannonia, present-day Hungary, consisting primarily of forts along the Danube (so-called Danubian Limes) to protect the Roman provinces of Upper and Lower Moesia south of the river.
In addition the term Limes Moesiae may be used to include many other linked lines of defence were established in the region in different periods and later abandoned in favour of others depending on the military situation.
The frontier was divided into two major sections by the river Iskar at Oescus which also marked the border between the provinces of Moesia Superior and Inferior.
The narrowness of the river at Djerdap formed a barrier between north-west and north-east Moesia that was difficult to overcome, initially making communication between the Pannonian and the Moesian armies difficult. This problem was solved only by the construction of a 3m wide road under Trajan, who had the Legio VII Claudia chisel into the rock walls replacing a wooden towpath construction that was susceptible to damage by drift ice. Other improvements for shipping included the construction of a canal near Novi Sip to avoid the dangerous rapids and shoals there. The two ends of the canal were secured with forts. The best-known building on the Moesian Limes was Trajan's Bridge at Drobeta/ Turnu Severin from the early 2nd century AD, the first permanent bridge connection across the lower Danube which was also guarded on both banks by forts.
two lines of defense in Wallachia: the Constantine Wall and the Limes Transalutanus.
the Constantine Wall, or Brazda lui Novac de Nord in Walachia from around 330 A.D. and 300 km long.
the Limes Transalutanus, probably built by Hadrian to defend Roman Dacia, between the southern Carpathian mountains and the Danube.
possibly the so-called Trajan's Walls between Constanta and the Danube, Lower Trajan's Wall or Athanaric's Wall just north of the Danube delta in Moldova and Upper Trajan's Wall or Greuthungi Wall in central Moldova from the Prut to the Dniester rivers, although they may not have been Roman.
Many of these walls consisted of earth ditches, 3m high and 2m wide, and similar to the Antonine Wall.
During 29 and 28 BC shortly after the battle of Actium Marcus Licinius Crassus, proconsul of Macedonia and grandson of the triumvir, conquered the territory which was to become Moesia. Augustus formally proclaimed this event in 27 BC in Rome. Two legions (Legio IV Scythica and V Macedonica) were initially stationed in Moesia to counter threats from neighbouring Thrace and aggressive peoples north of the Danube. Auxiliary and smaller forts for vexillations of these legions were built along the Danube. At this stage forts on the frontier consisted of earth walls with wooden palisades. The wood and earth constructions were replaced by stone walls just before Domitian's Dacian War in 87 AD (for example at Taliata and Smyrna).
Trajan restored stone defences in the area and rebuilt all earthworks in stone. Just below the Pontes fort a large port and massive horrea were built.
Between the first and second Dacian wars, from 103 to 105, the imperial architect Apollodorus of Damascus constructed Trajan's Bridge one of the greatest achievements in Roman architecture.
Full military occupation of the plain between the Carpathian foothills and the Danube may already have occurred by the end of Trajan’s First Dacian War (101/102). The majority of forts here, however, were established after the final conquest of the Dacian kingdom in 106 AD. The abandonment of Moldova and the creation of the Limes Transalutanus can both be tentatively dated to the reign of Hadrian.
After a long period of peace Septimius Severus reconstructed the Moesia Superior defences and under Caracalla more reconstruction was done as can be seen at Pontes where, as with many other Iron Gates forts, the original layout was supplemented with the gates and towers. A new fort was built on an island at the Porečka river.
The Roman abandonment of Dacia probably occurred during the reign of Gallienus (260-68), before the traditional date of around 275 when Aurelian established the new province of Dacia south of the Danube (Cătăniciu 1981, 53-55).
In the Late Roman period, the extent of control and military occupation over territory north of the Danube remains controversial. One Roman fort (Pietroasa de Jos), well beyond the Danubian Limes and near Moldavia, seems to have been occupied in the 4th century AD, as were bridge-head forts (Sucidava, Barboşi, and the unlocated Constantiniana Daphne) along the left bank of the river. In this Roman fort, built by Constantine I, researchers found a thermae building.
The "Brazda lui Novac de Nord" (or "Constantine Wall") has been shown by recent excavations to date from emperor Constantine around 330 AD, at the same time as the "Devil's Dykes" (or "Limes Sarmatiae"), a series of defensive earthen ramparts-and-ditches built by the Romans between Romania and the Pannonian plains.
Similarly, although considered 1st century and believed to predate the Limes Transalutanus, the function and origins of a shorter section of bank and ditch known as the "Brazda lui Novac de Sud" remain uncertain. The absence of any evidence for Late Roman forts or settlements along its course and south of it rather suggests a later, probably medieval, date.
Roman explanation: Emperor Nero extended the Roman Moesia province north of the Danube delta in 56 AD until Tyras (near actual Odessa), according to Mommsen and this is historically confirmed. With Emperor Trajan they connected the conquered Dacia with the mouth of the Dniester river and probably did the first construction of the earth dyke that later was called Greuthungi Wall. With emperor Hadrian came the consolidation of the Roman territories and the limes was withdrawn to the "Limes Transalutanus" and the smallest "Trajan Wall" between Constanta and the Danube: these two Walls are confirmed to be Romans. When the Roman Empire expanded again after the loss of Roman Dacia, Emperor Constantine made the "Constantine Wall" as a Limes (occupying all Wallachia south of the southern Carpathians mountains) until the earth dyke later called "Antharic Wall". Has been demonstrated by academics that the "Constantine Wall" was built by the Romans around 330 AD and was increased many times until Emperor Justinian in the 6th century.
Byzantine possibility: Probably the Eastern Roman Empire built or enlarged the two sections of the Limes Moesiae north on the Danube delta, between the 6th and the 10th centuries. They wanted to defend the Greek colonies in the Black Sea coast (between the Danube and Crimea) from the continuous barbarian invasions.
There it is even another theory: the Barbarian. This hypothesizes a Trajan's Wall, not related to the Roman Empire. This Trajan's Wall should be connected to the Serpent's Wall, made by Barbarian Kingdoms, that stretched from Bucovina to central Ukraine. This theory supports the opinion that the "Athanaric Wall" and the "Greuthungi Wall" are not Roman, creating a controversy.
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For our group, we have tried to fuse our passions into a product/service through the weekly assignments, but we couldn’t identify the needs. Until yesterday, I realized that having seen ourselves from through others’ eyes is the way to find what we really want to do and passionate about instead of doing things that we are not into it. Thank you for all constructive comments from our “classmate” and Corrine which keep us back on the right track again.
Congratulation! =D now go for music & media! | 2019-04-19T09:20:42Z | https://isaraobba.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/now-thats-what-i-call-classmate/ | Porn | Business | 0.841427 |
wordpress | Warning: The Post you are about to read is capable of transforming your life.
God is able to change your situation – today is your day for change.! Let God handle it. | 2019-04-21T06:53:21Z | https://hspcomfort.wordpress.com/tag/god/ | Porn | News | 0.4076 |
wordpress | As most people are, I have a very diverse style. One day I may paint mother nature, only to sketch the bird’s eye view an apartment. Yesterday, I drew a self portrait in graphic novel style. I also use a vast array of mediums. For now, as I have limited space with which to post, I’ll only post pen sketches with nothing whatsoever to do with one another.
This is my latest take on Medusa. For some reason, she is one of my favorite mythological characters. I have drawn her many times. I am not sure whether or not this drawing is finished.
Cub. I haven’t much to say about this little guy. He’s dressed as a lion because he feels the world should see what he is on the inside.
This is an eye. If you know me you know that I love eyes. I couldn’t make a random pen series without adding an eye or two.
No introduction needed. This is an eye. However, I think this is more emotional of an eye than the previous one. So there’s your introduction.
Hands are literally the hardest things you could possibly set out to draw- except for, maybe, feet.
Not much to say about this face. the lips were hard to draw, especially without a penciled-out guide. Oh, and I should have been doing my Math homework instead of drawing.
This entry was posted in Art and tagged art, drawings, miscellaneous, mythological characters, obsession, Pen, pen sketches, Sketches, unrelated. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-25T06:04:28Z | https://dreamerheadquarters.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/a-collection-of-unrelated-pen-sketches/ | Porn | Arts | 0.976265 |
wordpress | Just a reminder. Download, share, help yourself to the image. Have a good weekend. | 2019-04-24T02:02:14Z | https://warriorgirl3.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/ | Porn | Reference | 0.345106 |
wordpress | Joining the ranks of such notables as former President Gerald Ford, film director Steven Speilberg and astronaut Neil Armstrong, Andrew Meketa of Troop 5, passed his Eagle Board of Review and is Troop 5’s latest Eagle Scout. Andrew’s Eagle Project consisted of coordinating the building of shelves at the Father Durmgoole Council of the Knights of Columbus in Richmondtown. Andrew is not your typical scout. Andrew is a special needs scout and Andrew is proof of the firm belief we have at Troop 5 that being disabled does not mean unable.
We hope you would consider attending!
Shamash J-Scout list advises that there is a Hebrew interpreter strip; this may be useful for boys to earn on their way to earning their religious emblems.
The Aquehonga District Membership Committee has published some new documents which are designed to be Adult facing documents.
The Pack Parent Guide is a good generic reference for new Scout parents so they understand more about the program and what to expect moving forward.
The Webelos Parents Orientation Guide is a valuable resource for parents to understand the difference between the Tiger, Wolf and Bear programs which their boys have been in prior to joining a Webelos Den. This document has had some content locked down due to the standardized nature of the material, but feel free to comment if you need something changed so an updated document can be presented.
If you have any comments, suggestions or documents which you’ve used successfully please send them to District Membership Committee Chair Matt Gaor at cubmastermatt@pack6si.com. | 2019-04-24T00:27:41Z | https://statenislandboyscouts.wordpress.com/2011/12/ | Porn | Reference | 0.931103 |
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