domain
stringlengths 2
38
| text
stringlengths 21
166k
| timestamp
stringlengths 20
20
| url
stringlengths 16
3.61k
| V3
stringclasses 15
values | label
stringclasses 15
values | probability
float64 0.07
1
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
wordpress | The Republicans nominate a dark horse who likes women to whom he is not married. Henry Ford’s newspaper carries anti-Semitic articles. The Democratic National Convention opens at the end of the month. The propose Nineteenth Amendment is not yet ratified and the Republicans are not doing much do complete ratification.
June 1– Tuesday– Washington, D. C.– United States Supreme Court rules that state referenda are not part of the federal constitutional amendment process.
June 1– Tuesday– Mexico City, Mexico– Adolfo de la Huerta becomes president of Mexico.
June 2– Wednesday– Dover, Delaware– The state legislature refuses to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.
June 3– Thursday– New York City– The American Jewish Committee telegraphs automaker Henry Ford, age 58, protesting the anti-Semitic nature of the series entitled “The International Jew” which Ford has been running in the Dearborn [Michigan] Independent, a newspaper he owns.
June 5– Saturday– New York City– The Literary Digest poll puts Warren G. Harding eighth among Republican presidential candidates, below even Calvin Coolidge and William Howard Taft.
June 7– Monday– New York City– Harding visits his younger mistress, 23 year old Nan Britton.
June 8– Tuesday– Chicago, Illinois– The Republican National Convention opens at the Coliseum with 984 voting delegates present. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, age 70, delivers the keynote address.
June 11– Friday– Chicago, Illinois– The Republican National Convention has adopted a platform which favors continuing intervention in Mexico, reduced taxation so as to not “needlessly repress enterprise and thrift,” protective tariffs, conservation of natural resources, exclusion of Asian immigrants, reducing the number and types of immigrants granted admission, denying free speech to aliens, the construction of highways, an end to lynching, quick ratification of the Woman Suffrage [Nineteenth] Amendment, enforcement of civil service laws, vocational and agricultural training, restriction of child labor and limitation on the hours of women working “in intensive industry,” no additional appropriations for disabled veterans, and which opposes the League of Nations, recognition of an Armenian state, and strikes by labor. It accuses the outgoing Wilson Administration of being unprepared for war and equally now unprepared for peace.
June 12– Saturday– Chicago, Illinois– The Republican National Convention closes, having taken ten rounds of balloting to nominate Warren G Harding for President. The decision on Harding as the choice was literally made in the early hours of the morning in a smoke-filled hotel room by party leaders, including six senior U S Senators. Harding, a native of Ohio, is 54 years old, a journalist, businessman and a member of the U S Senate since 1915. In the primaries he won only 4.54% of the total votes cast. While privately a heavy drinker, he publicly supports prohibition, favors big business and high protective tariffs, opposes the League of Nations and voted against the nomination of Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court. Married to Florence King De Wolfe, he has liaisons with two other women, one of whom– Nan Britton– bore his daughter in 1919.
June 12– Saturday– Chicago, Illinois– “Ours is not only a fortunate people but a very common-sensical people, with vision high, but their feet on the earth, with belief in themselves and faith in God. Whether enemies threaten from without or menaces arise from within, there is some indefinable voice saying, ‘Have confidence in the Republic! America will go on!’ Here is a temple of liberty no storms may shake, here are the altars of freedom no passions shall destroy. It was American in conception, American in its building, it shall be American in the fulfillment. Sectional once, we are all American now, and we mean to be all Americans to all the world. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, my countrymen all: I would not be my natural self if I did not utter my consciousness of my limited ability to meet your full expectations, or to realize the aspirations within my own breast, but I will gladly give all that is in me, all of heart, soul and mind and abiding love of country, to service in our common cause. I can only pray to the Omnipotent God that I may be as worthy in service as I know myself to be faithful in thought and purpose. One can not give more. Mindful of the vast responsibilities, I must be frankly humble, but I have that confidence in the consideration and support of all true Americans which makes me wholly unafraid. With an unalterable faith and in a hopeful spirit, with a hymn of service in my heart, I pledge fidelity to our country and to God, and accept the nominations of the Republican Party for the Presidency of the United States.” ~ Letter from Warren G Harding, accepting the Republican nomination.
June 13– Sunday– Chicago, Illinois– Seymour Stedman, a lawyer, age 49, opens the campaign of the Socialist Party. He is the Party’s nominee for Vice-President. Eugene V Debs, the candidate for President, is in federal prison for speaking out against American entry into the European war in 1917.
June 20– Sunday– Chicago, Illinois– Violence erupts between white and black people. Grover Cleveland Redding, a black man, is arrested on various charges, including murder.
June 23– Wednesday– New York City– Charles F Murphy, age 62, political boss of Tammany Hall, is indicted along with five others on federal charges.
June 25– Friday– Boston, Massachusetts– Governor Calvin Coolidge, age 48, Republican nominee for Vice-President, announces that he will not pressure Vermont and Connecticut to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment.
June 26– Saturday– Dearborn, Michigan– The Dearborn Independent, owned by Henry Ford, begins publication of another series of anti-Semitic articles.
June 27 – Sunday– Washington, D.C.– William Gibbs McAdoo, age 56 and married to Woodrow Wilson’s daughter, declares that he will accept the Democratic nomination for President if it is offered to him.
June 28– Monday– San Francisco, California– The Democratic National Convention opens in the Civic Auditorium with 1,091 voting delegates in attendance. It is the first time that a convention of either major party is held west of the Rocky Mountains. Almost 30% of the delegates arrive unpledged.
June 29– Tuesday– Albany, New York– Dudley Field Malone, age 38, graduate of Fordham Law School and a liberal activist, is nominated by New York State branch of the Farmer-Labor Party for governor of the state.
June 30– Wednesday– San Francisco, California– Franklin Delano Roosevelt places Al Smith in nomination for the Democratic standard bearer in the up-coming presidential race.
June 30– Wednesday– Jaffa, Palestine– British soldiers shoot and kill two Arab demonstrators.
The Monroe Doctrine is alive and well as the United States intervenes in Cuba and exploits Mexico. Natural disasters and man-made accidents take lives and do damage. The Republicans spurn former president Roosevelt and nominate Taft for re-election. At the end of the month, the Democratic National Convention remains in session, looking like Speaker of the House Clark will win the nomination instead of Governor Wilson. Both parties go on record in oppopsition to corporate donations to political campaigns.The issues of working people draw attention. Law and politics make news around the world.
June 1– Saturday– New York City– Waiters from 17 major restaurants are on strike, demanding regular wages in place of tips from patrons. The strike was organized by Joseph James Ettor and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn of the Industrial Workers of the World, both key helpers to the textile workers who went out on strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, back in January of the year.
June 1– Saturday– near Lake Opinicon, Ontario, Canada– Premature detonation of dynamite kills 18 men working on construction of the Canadian Northern road.
June 1– Saturday– Heidelberg, Germany– Daniel Hudson Burnham, age 65, American pioneer urban planner and architect, designer of Chicago’s Montauk Building [at 10 stories high it was the city’s first distinctly tall building] and the chief planner of the buildings for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, dies while traveling in Europe with his sons.
June 1– Saturday– Fez, Morocco– French troops open fire with artillery, killing 600 Moroccan lightly armed tribesmen who had marched to protest French presence in the country.
June 3– Monday– South Orange, New Jersey– Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster, author and magazine editor, dies from a cerebral thrombosis at age 74.
June 3– Monday– Hampton Roads, Virginia– President Taft welcomes a visit by German warships, led by the battle cruiser SMS Moltke.
June 4– Tuesday– Boston, Massachusetts– The state becomes the first in the United States to pass a law authorizing a guaranteed minimum wage. The law will take effect on July 1, 1913, applies only to women and children, and provides that a state commission will issue regulations and the penalties for its violation are light.
June 5– Wednesday– Washington, D.C.– George S. Nixon, age 52, Republican U.S. Senator for Nevada since 1905, dies from an infection following surgery.
June 5– Wednesday– Mexico City, Mexico– President Francisco I. Madero and the Standard Oil Company agreed to “one of the most one-sided business concessions imaginable” with Standard Oil being allowed to operate in Mexico tax free for ten years, and the rights to eminent domain over any private or public property it wished to obtain to support its oil fields in four Mexican states.
June 5–Wednesday– Havana, Cuba–American Marines, 570 in number, land in order to protect American interests.
June 6– Thursday– Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska– The Mount Katmai volcano erupts, dumping a foot of ashes at Kodiak and killing hundreds of people, wiping out the populations of seven villages.
June 7–Friday– Gulf of Mexico– The first hurricane of the season forms. It will make landfall near Intracoastal City, Louisiana, causing minimal damage.
June 7– Friday– Rome, Italy– Pope Pius X issues an encyclical to the Catholic bishops of South America calling upon them to stop exploitation of the Indian peoples, which includes slave trade, by people motivated by “the lust of lucre”.
June 8– Saturday– Washington, D.C.– At the unveiling of a monument to Christopher Columbus President Taft eulogizes Columbus as “the greatest mariner in history” as he addresses an audience of 100,000 people, many of them members of the Knights of Columbus.
June 10– Monday– New Orleans, Louisiana– Sophie Wright, educator and welfare worker, dies from heart disease at 46 years of age.
June 10– Monday– Havana, Cuba– The cruiser USS Washington and the battleship USS Rhode Island arrive to support the Marines protecting American interests.
June 10– Monday– St Petersburg, Russia– Tsar Nicholas II of Russia pardons Kate Malecka, on condition that she leave the country forever. Malecka, of Polish and British parentage, had been sentenced to four years imprisonment for aiding secessionists in Poland. The British public and elements of the British government have pressed for her release.
June 11– Tuesday– Bar Harbor, Maine– Elizabeth Kimball Hobson, philanthropist, welfare worker and advocate of educational reform, dies at 80 years of age.
June 11– Tuesday– London, England– For the first time in the Parliamentary debates over the Irish Home Rule question, the proposal is made by MP Thomas Agar-Robartes to treat northeast Ireland differently from the rest of the island. He offers an amendment to exclude the predominantly Protestant counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down and Londonderry from Home Rule.
June 12– Wednesday– Dalton, Georgia– Three people are killed and 30 others injured in the wreck of a passenger train.
June 12– Wednesday– Neuilly-sur-Seine, France– Frederic Passy, economist, author, educator, peace advocate, and co-winner, with Henry Dunant, of the first Nobel Peace Prize in1901, dies at 90 years of age.
June 15– Saturday– Kansas City, Missouri– A tornado sweeps through Bates, Johnson and Henry Counties, killing 26 people and injuring more than 50 others.
June 17– Monday– Washington, D.C.– President Taft vetoes the Army appropriation bill that had been passed by Congress with cuts to defense spending. The President says, “The army of the United States is far too vital an institution to the people of this country to be made the victim of hasty or imperfect theories of legislation.” It is reported that Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson had threatened to resign if the bill was not vetoed.
June 17– Monday– Ottawa, Ontario, Canada– The Supreme Court of Canada holds that Parliament could not pass a national law governing marriage, and that mixed marriages of persons from different religious faiths solemnized by Protestant clergy can not be outlawed.
June 18– Tuesday– Chicago, Illinois– The Republican National Convention opens with incumbent President Taft having 454 ½ committed delegates, former President Theodore Roosevelt having 469 ½ committed delegates and 239 claimed by both sides. With a simple majority (513 of 1026) required to win the nomination, the awarding of the contested delegates is critical to the nomination. The Republican National Committee, controlled by Taft’s supporters, resolves the matter by finding 6 in favor of Roosevelt, and the other 233 in favor of Taft.
June 18– Tuesday– Hastings, Colorado– An explosion at the Victor-American Fuel Company mine kills twelve coal miners.
June 19– Wednesday– Washington, D.C.– President Taft signed into law a provision that workers on U.S. government contracts are limited to an eight-hour day.
June 20– Thursday– St Petersburg, Russia– The State Duma votes in favor of a £50,000,000 program to increase the size of the Russian Navy over the next five years.
June 20– Thursday– Chicago, Illinois– Voltairine de Cleyre, age 45, anarchist, feminist, orator and prolific writer, dies of meningitis.
June 21– Friday– Chicago, Illinois– The Republican Party finalizes its platform which favors “all measures for the establishment and protection of the peace of the world”, an international court of justice, establishment of the Federal Trade Commission, strong enforcement of laws against monopoly, continuation of tariff protections against foreign goods and foods, support of “a prompt scientific inquiry into the causes” of the high cost of living, “a sound currency and . . . safe banking methods” along with the establishment of organizations to loan money to farmers, enforcement of civil service laws and regulations, the establishment of pensions for elderly and disabled civil service workers, prohibition of corporations making campaign contributions, conservation of natural resources, establishment of a parcel post system, construction of additional warships for the Navy, improvement of rivers and harbors, an end to “the constantly growing evil of induced or undesirable immigration”, and greater efficiency in the financial affairs of government.
June 22– Saturday– Chicago, Illinois– President William Howard Taft receives the Republican Party nomination, by a vote of 561 to 107, after 344 of the delegates refused, out of protest, to participate in the vote. The aggrieved delegates are primarily supporters of former President Theodore Roosevelt. Robert M. LaFollette received 41votes and Albert B. Cummins received17. Roosevelt has left the convention and proposes to form a new Progressive Party. Hiram Johnson, Governor of California and also a progressive Republican, voices support for Roosevelt’s third party movement.
June 23– Sunday– Grand Island, New York– Over 100 people fall into the swiftly moving waters of the Niagara River when a dock collapses. Thirty-nine drown or are hurled over Niagra Falls several miles away. Three of the dead are children under 10 years of age.
June 24– Monday– Washington, D.C.– President Taft implements the first specific regulations governing the proportions and design of the flag of the United States, with the signing of an Executive Order. The President accepted the recommendation of a committee, chaired by former Admiral George Dewey, hero of the war with Spain and now 74 years old, for the new, 48 star flag, to be arranged in six rows of eight stars each.
June 24– Monday– Paris, France– Julia Richman, American educator, author, school principal and administrator, dies at 56 years of age during a visit to Europe.
June 25–Tuesday– Baltimore, Maryland–The Democratic National Convention opens at the Fifth Regiment Armory with 1,095 voting delegates present. The main contenders are House Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri and Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey. Both Speaker Clark and Governor Wilson have won a number of primaries. Although Clark enters the convention with more pledged delegates than does Wilson, he lacks the two thirds vote necessary to win the nomination.
June 26– Wednesday– Southampton, England– The R M S Olympic, a sister ship to the Titanic, sets sail for the United States with 397 passengers on board. In response to the Titanic disaster, Olympic carries additional lifeboats.
June 27– Thursday– Miraca, Cuba– Soldiers of the Cuban Army kill Evaristo Estenoz, leader of the uprising of Afro-Cuban rebels, in battle. His death brings an end to the uprising, which had caused the killing of 3,000 black Cubans.
June 28– Friday– Baltimore, Maryland– On the first ballot at the Democratic Party convention, former House Speaker Champ Clark received 440 ½ votes, New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson 324, Judson Harmon 148, Oscar Underwood 117 ½ and Thomas R. Marshall 31.
June 29– Saturday– Baltimore, Maryland– Champ Clark moves closer to the Democratic nomination for President, when a shift of votes from the New York delegation gives him 556 votes, more than all of the other candidates combined, but still short of the two-thirds (730) needed to win. However, the New York support has come through the machinations of Tammany Hall Democrats from New York City. This infuriates William Jennings Bryan who remains a leader of the progressive wing of the party. Bryan introduces a motion which says “As proof of our fidelity to the people, we hereby declare ourselves opposed to the nomination of any candidate for President who is the representative of or under any obligation to J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas F. Ryan, August Belmont, or any other member of the privilege-hunting and favor-seeking class.” Bryan switches his support to Woodrow Wilson.
June 30– Sunday– Baltimore, Maryland– On the 30th ballot, Woodrow Wilson edges slightly ahead of Champ Clark for the first time, with 460 votes to 455 for Clark, as the Iowa delegation swings its support to Wilson. | 2019-04-18T22:48:52Z | https://musingwithclio.wordpress.com/category/world-survey/ | Porn | Society | 0.454482 |
yahoo | Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Karan Johar, Aditya Roy Kapur and Madhuri Dixit at the screening held in Mumbai (Source: Varinder Chawla).
Karan Johar’s production venture Kalank is all to set to hit the screens on April 17. Ahead of the release, Karan held a special screening of the period drama in Mumbai.
The screening, which was held on Sunday night, was attended by the likes of Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Sonakshi Sinha, Kunal Kemmu and Manish Malhotra among others.
While the story of the Abhishek Varman directorial is still under wraps, the movie boasts of magnificent sets, comparable to the likes of Sanjay Leela Bhansali movies. Kalank also marks the coming together of Madhuri Dixit Nene and Sanjay Dutt, who have earlier worked together in Saajan and Khalnayak.
Shweta Bachchan at the Kalank screening (Source: Varinder Chawla).
Hiten Tejwani with wife Gauri (Source: Varinder Chawla).
Madhuri Dixit Nene looked graceful as ever (Source: Varinder Chawla).
Sonakshi Sinha strikes a pose for the shutterbugs (Source: Varinder Chawla).
Karan Johar arrives for the screeening (Source: Varinder Chawla).
Producer Sajid Nadiadwala with wife (Source: Varinder Chawla).
Alia Bhatt, Karan Johar, Varun Dhawan and Aditya Roy Kapur flash a smile for the camera (Source: Varinder Chawla).
Manish Malhotra also marked his presence (Source: Varinder Chawla).
Kunal Kemmu spotted at the Kalank screening (Source: Varinder Chawla).
Despite multiple stars, Kalank seems to primarily revolve around the star-crossed lovers played by Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan. Alia and Varun share a great chemistry and have previously collaborated on Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania, Badrinath Ki Dulhania and Student of the Year.
Speaking about her experience on the movie sets, Alia had earlier told Mid-day, "Varun (Dhawan) makes me feel comfortable at work and that's essential because this is a difficult film. There is moral support when work gets overwhelming. I was shooting Brahmastra and Kalank simultaneously, some days were just impossible to get by."
Kalank has been jointly produced by Karan Johar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Hiroo Yash Johar and Apoorva Mehta. | 2019-04-21T11:17:31Z | https://in.news.yahoo.com/alia-bhatt-varun-dhawan-karan-040511829.html | Porn | News | 0.366161 |
cnn | WASHINGTON (Creators Syndicate) -- There is hardly a more resolute supporter of Israel in Congress than Rep. Henry Hyde, the venerable chairman of the House International Relations Committee.
That is why his March 25 letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell is so important. It is a plea to deflect Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's wall around the Holy Land from its planned position blocking the Scriptural pathway of Jesus Christ.
"I fear that important religious sites will become museums for commercial purposes and will no longer be maintained as places of spiritual worship shared by billions across the world," Hyde, a prominent Roman Catholic layman, told Powell.
As Holy Week approached, he asked the secretary's help to "ensure that the Stations of the Cross are not cut off from each other, preventing the normal celebrations of Easter and the commemoration of the last days of Christ."
Catholic clergy and laity from the U.S., inspecting the deplorable conditions for Christians in the Holy Land, have found the attitude of the Israeli military and bureaucracy ranges from uncooperative to hostile.
When worried Catholics first visited Hyde last year to tell him of the havoc wrought by Sharon's wall, he told them to come back with proof. A delegation headed by the Rev. Donald Rooney of Fredericksburg, Va., and the Rev. John J. Podsiadlo of Baltimore did just that in March. They returned to Hyde bearing photographs, taken despite the objections of Israeli soldiers.
"If we do not turn the tide of events," Fathers Rooney and Podsiadlo wrote after they returned, "Christian charity, sacred sites and the living Christian community in the Holy Land will be destroyed." The wall, the priests said, "could forever change the Holy Land and the people who live in and visit this cherished historic land."
With corroborating evidence supplied by his own staffer sent to investigate, Hyde was convinced. In his letter to Powell, he laid out the problems created by the Sharon wall.
An 8-meter high concrete wall will completely enclose the last passage from Bethany to the Mount of Olives, restricting the Palm Sunday procession from Bethpage into Jerusalem.
Access will be blocked to the Sisters of Emmanuel Monastery north of Bethlehem. A proposed route of the wall will separate the convent and school of the Rosary Sisters. The process also is certain to accelerate the continuing Israeli expropriation of West Bank land still held by the dwindling Christian community there.
Henry Hyde is no Israeli-basher. "I would never criticize Israel for building that fence," he told me. He said he is just trying to set in motion "some negotiations" to protect the Christian holy places.
The problem is that the Sharon government won't negotiate. The Vatican charges that Israel has violated the 1993 agreement between Rome and Israel guaranteeing West Bank land owned by the Catholic Church. Sharon has refused to enforce the concordat.
The Rev. David Jaeger, representing the Holy See, is a native-born Israeli citizen who has been working on this problem for 27 years but has run into the Sharon wall. The Israeli government pulled out of negotiations with Father Jaeger on August 28. The response to me from an Israeli embassy spokesman in Washington was "no comment."
This state of affairs did not appear on screens of Bush administration policymakers until it was called to Hyde's attention and the congressman wrote his letter.
Colin Powell, who clearly has not been enthusiastic about the wall, can be counted on to carefully study the problem in the Holy Land.
But a dilemma faces Powell, Hyde and all official U.S. supporters of Israel. The wall manifests Sharon's policy of blood and iron, with severe collateral damage. | 2019-04-19T23:02:57Z | http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/01/israel/index.html | Porn | Society | 0.34955 |
google | Transitions among schedulable entities executing in a computer system are tracked in computer hardware or in a virtual machine monitor. In one aspect, the schedulable entities are operating system processes and threads, virtual machines, and instruction streams executing on the hardware. In another aspect, the schedulable entities are processes or threads executing within the virtual machines under the control of the virtual machine monitor. The virtual machine monitor derives scheduling information from the transitions to enable a virtual machine system to guarantee adequate scheduling quality of service to real-time applications executing in virtual machines that contain both real-time and non-real-time applications. In still another aspect, a parent virtual machine monitor in a recursive virtualization system can use the scheduling information to schedule a child virtual machine monitor that controls multiple virtual machines.
This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/541,444 titled REAL-TIME SCHEDULING OF VIRTUAL MACHINES, filed on Mar. 31, 2000, and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/752,134 titled NEW PROCESSOR MODE FOR LIMITING THE OPERATION OF GUEST SOFTWARE RUNNING ON A VIRTUAL MACHINE SUPPORTED BY A VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITOR, filed on Dec. 27, 2000, both of which are assigned to the assignee of the present application.
A VMM can monitor scheduling QoS at the level of all applications within a VM as disclosed in the related application Ser. No. 09/541,444. However, such monitoring cannot distinguish between real-time and non-real-time applications in the same VM, nor can it distinguish among recursive VMs in the same VM, leading to problems in providing adequate scheduling QoS. Furthermore, a system wide performance monitoring facility that executes as part of a VMM will need to distinguish events in one VM from those in another VM.
FIG. 11 is a block diagram of a hardware computing platform suitable for hosting the machine environments of FIGS. 1A, 1B and 7.
FIG. 1A illustrates a bare hardware system 150 within which various embodiments of the invention may be practiced. The bare hardware system 150 comprises a bare machine 101 that runs a computer operating system (OS) 157 as privileged software (e.g., in ring 0). Operating systems and their typical features and functionality are well-known by those skilled in the art. Bare machine 101 is a hardware computing platform that includes, at a minimum, a processing unit, a memory, and a bus coupling the processor and the memory. One embodiment of a hardware computing platform suitable for practicing the invention is illustrated in FIG. 11 and described further below.
The OS 157 schedules processes A 153 and B 155 for execution on the bare machine 101. In addition OS 157 may directly schedule threads A-1 163, A-2 164, A-3 165 and B-2 166, for execution or it may allow the processes 153, 155 to schedule the threads 163, 164, 165, 166 themselves. The actual mechanism(s) used to schedule the processes and threads for execution on the bare machine are well-known by those skilled in the art.
FIG. 1B illustrates a virtual machine system 100 within which various embodiments of the invention may be practiced. The virtual machine system 100 comprises a bare machine 101 hosting a virtual machine monitor (VMM) 107 that runs as privileged software (i.e., in ring 0). VMMs and their typical features and functionality are well-known by those skilled in the art and may be implemented, for example, in software, firmware, hardware or through a combination of them. Bare machine 101 is a hardware computing platform that includes, at a minimum, a processing unit, a memory, and a bus coupling the processor and the memory. One embodiment of a hardware computing platform suitable for practicing the invention is illustrated in FIG. 11 and described further below.
The VMM 107 schedules the virtual machines, VM A 103 and VM B 105, for execution on the bare machine 101 in a fashion that allows the VMs to share the computing resources of the bare machine 101. Each VM allocate its shares of the computing resources to its guest operating system (OS) and to any user-level applications running in that particular VM, such as guest OS1 109 and applications 113 within VM A 103, and guest OS2 111 and applications 115 for VM B 105. The actual allocation of the computing resources by the VMM 107 depends, at least in part, on the particular embodiment of the virtual machine system 100 and the applications 113, 115 being run by the guest OSs 109, 111 within the VMs 103, 105. In particular, when one or more of the applications 113, 115 are real-time applications, the VMM 107 must allocate the computing resources to provide adequate scheduling Quality of Service (QoS) to the real-time application(s), i.e., the VMs are scheduled for execution with sufficient frequency and for sufficient durations that the deadlines for their real-time applications can be met.
Real-time systems theory and practice teaches that a real-time application thread (or other schedulable entity such as a process, guest operating system, virtual machine, etc.) can be guaranteed sufficient scheduling QoS by reserving a certain amount of processor time for the real-time application, typically expressed in terms of a percentage of the processor (X) and a period of (cyclic) execution (Y). In other words, the scheduling requirements of a real-time application can be abstracted as X microseconds of execution time every Y microseconds of wall clock time. For example, to provide adequate scheduling QoS to a real-time application 113, VM A 103 might need to receive 2 microseconds of execution time on the processor of the bare machine 101 every 10 microseconds of wall clock time. Once VM A 103 has received its 2 microsecond during any 10 microsecond period, the VMM 107 saves the state of VM A 103 and switches in the state of VM B 105 for execution.
However, the actual computing resource requirements X and Y of the VMs 103, 105 are not directly accessible by the VMM 107 and thus must be inferred from events within the VMs that are visible to the VMM. Assuming that real-time processing in a guest OS is interrupt driven via a periodic clock interrupt (or other periodic interrupt), the VMM 107 can deduce the computer resource requirements for a VM executing a real-time guest OS or applications based on the instruction stream executed by the VM since instructions can be trapped by the VMM (illustrated by arrows from the guest OSs 109, 111 and the applications 113, 115 to the VMM 107 in FIG. 1). In particular, detection of real-time process and/or thread switches within the VMs 103, 105 enables the VMM 170 to monitor scheduling decisions by the guest OSs 109, 111 and to determine if the current computing resource requirements allow the VMs to provide adequate scheduling QoS to their real-time applications.
To deduce the periodic frequency (Y) for VM A 103, for example, let YA be the minimum Y for all real-time applications being executed by the guest OS1 109. Given that all processing in VM A 103 is driven by a clock interrupt having a rate TA, then YA>=TA. The calculation of Y in a system driven by some other periodic interrupt source is analogous. By incorporating a component that detects interrupt frequency into the VMM 107, the VMM 107 can track interrupt frequency for each VM and can thus deduce a Y for each VM. Cases where a combination of periodic interrupt sources are used can be resolved by choosing the smaller period (or more generally, the GCD or greatest common divisor), or other arbitration scheme that results in a period that closely matches the rate.
In one embodiment, the determination of how much execution time (X) to allot to each VM uses a feedback loop in which the process/thread switches for real-time applications within the VM serve as the feedback. Any of a number of well-known feedback loops can be used to close the loop in a self-dampening way and such techniques have been successfully applied to real-time software. The VMM 107 deduces X for each VM by initially assigning the VM a provisional “MHz rating,” setting X to match the provisional rating, and monitoring each VM to determine if it is getting enough execution time to provide adequate scheduling QoS to its real-time processes/threads. If the active real-time process/thread is switched out before the interrupt at X occurs, then the real-time process/thread has met its deadline(s) without needing all the execution time currently assigned to the VM and the real-time application has received adequate scheduling QoS from the guest OS and from the VM. Conversely, if the real-time process/thread is still executing when it is interrupted at X, then the real-time process/thread needs more execution time. By monitoring the frequency with which real-time processes/threads within a VM receive adequate scheduling QoS, the VMM 107 can make necessary adjustments to the value of X for the VM. The VMM 107 can also detect the frequency with which a guest OS enters an idle loop, i.e., has no useful work to do, by detecting halt (HLT) instructions. Because the VMM 107 detects process and thread switches at the operating system and application levels, it can calculate its scheduling for a VM at granularities beneath the whole VM.
FIGS. 2A-C illustrate methods performed by the processor of the bare machine 101 to track schedulable entities in the systems 100, 150. The processor is assumed to manage the state of OS processes and threads, VMs controlled by a VMM, and processes/threads within VMs, using one or more state registers, which will typically be protected and thus only accessible by privileged software. The processor is further assumed to have the ability to detect attempts by software executing at any privilege level to modify the protected state registers. The term “protected state register” is used generically to refer to any data structure that changes upon a process or thread switch or upon a transition from one VM to another. Specific values in the protected state registers are associated with a particular process, thread or VM. Different processors will have different data structures that can serve as the protected state registers and various embodiments are described below.
In an exemplary embodiment illustrated in FIG. 3, a protected state register 363 contains an identifier for the currently executing OS process or thread, or VM controlled by a VMM, while one or more state match register(s) 357 contain an identifier for a process, thread or VM to be tracked. The state match register 357 enables specific operations to occur when the value in the state register matches (or fails to match) the value in the state match register as explained further below.
FIG. 2A illustrates a method in which operations 250 performed by the processor of the bare machine 101 track process and thread switches within OS 157 in FIG. 1A and transitions between VMs 103, 105 in FIG. 1B. When software executing on the bare hardware attempts to modify the protected state register, e.g., register 363, at block 251, the processor determines if state tracking is active (block 253). If it is not, the processor modifies the protected state register at block 255. On the other hand, if state tracking is active, the processor checks whether one (or more) state match registers, e.g., register 357, match the current (i.e., old) value of the protected state register. For each match, the processor disables state tracking because the currently tracked process, thread or VM is being switched out (block 261). The processor modifies the protected state register at block 259, which effects, respectively, a process, thread or VM switch. The processor checks whether one (or more) state match registers match the current (i.e., new) value of the protected state register. For each match, the processor enables state tracking for the new process, thread or VM at block 267. The statistics obtained by the state tracking can be input into various performance tools used to optimize the performance of the hardware.
One embodiment of the processes represented by blocks 261 and 267 in FIG. 2A is now explained in conjunction with FIG. 3. The processor of the bare machine 101 has previously configured a performance event configuration register 355 to turn on counting of performance events by configuring functional unit block 361 to signal performance events (e.g., instructions retired) to performance event count register 351. By only asserting the signal from the state match register 357 to an And gate 353 when there is a match between the state match register 357 and the protected state register 363, the performance event count register 351 will only count events occurring when the matched process, thread or VM is executing, thus tracking the schedulable entity. At block 261, the signal from the state match register 357 to And gate 353 is de-asserted to disable the counting of performance events by the count register 351. Similarly, at block 267, the signal from the state match register 357 is asserted to enable the counting of performance events by the count register 351. For clarity, a “state tracking on” register is not shown in FIG. 3 and state tracking is thus implicitly assumed to be always on in such an embodiment.
In an alternate embodiment not shown, the effect of a state match could be the reverse of that illustrated in FIG. 3, so that a match inhibited counting of performance events and a non-match enabled them by swapping the actions performed at steps 261 and 267 of FIG. 2A.
FIGS. 2B and 2C illustrate a method in which operations 200 performed by the processor of the bare machine 101 work in conjunction with operations 210 performed by the VMM 107 to track process and thread switches within VMs 103, 105 in FIG. 1B. The guest OSs 109, 111 are assumed to be executing on their VMs without privilege to access the relevant protected state register(s) (e.g., not in ring 0 or in a guest processor mode designed for VMMs). As disclosed in the related application Ser. No. 09/752,587, one embodiment of a guest processor mode allows a guest OS to run at its intended privilege level, i.e., ring 0, for most operations but transfers control over operations that may result in access of certain privileged hardware resources, such as the protected state registers, to the VMM. A look-up table correlates the values in the state register with a process/thread identifier specific to the VMM and a status table records the VMM identifier of the currently active process/thread, enabling the VMM to track execution of individual guest OS processes and threads on an ongoing basis. An exemplary embodiment of a look-up table 400 is illustrated in FIG. 4A and an exemplary embodiment of a status table 410 before and after a process/thread switch is illustrated in FIG. 4B. FIGS. 4A-B are discussed in conjunction with FIG. 2C.
Beginning with FIG. 2B, when software executing in a VM attempts to modify a protected state register (block 201), the processor determines if the software is privileged (block 203). If so, such as when the attempt is by the VMM 107 itself, the processor modifies the protected state register at block 205. On the other hand, if the software is not privileged, such as the guest OS 109, 111 or the user-level applications 113, 115, at block 207 the processor traps the attempt to privileged software, the VMM, which causes control to be passed to the VMM 107 at block 209 (“virtualization trap”).
Turning now to FIG. 2C, when the VMM receives control, it uses the contents of the protected state register to determine the VMM identifier for the current process/thread through the look-up table 400 and marks the current process/thread VMM identifier as not active in the status table 410 (block 211). Referring to FIG. 4A, each entry 401 in the look-up table 400 contains a state register field 403 and its associated VMM identifier field 405 so the values in the state register identify the appropriate entry 401 and the corresponding VMM identifier 405, e.g., 12320000. Referring to FIG. 4B, each entry 411 in the status table 410 contains a VMM identifier 413 and a status indicator 415. In the entry 411 associated with the current process/thread, e.g., VMM identifier 12320000, the status indicator 415 is set to a value indicating that the process/thread is active. When the processing at block 211 is completed, the status indicator 415 associated with the VMM identifier 1232000 is reset, indicating that the process/thread is no longer active. It will be appreciated that a single bit can be used as the status indicator 415. In one embodiment, the look-up table 400 and the status table 410 are stored in memory; in an alternate embodiment, they are stored on a mass storage device, such as a hard disk.
The VMM modifies the protected state register on behalf of the unprivileged software (block 213), which signals a process/thread switch within the currently executing VM. The VMM determines the VMM identifier, e.g., 12330000, for the new process/thread through the look-up table 400 using the contents of the state register after it has been modified (block 215). The VMM also marks the corresponding VMM identifier as active in the status table 410 (block 217). Thus, for example, the processing at block 217 marks the process/thread VMM identifier 1233000 as active in the status table 410 in FIG. 4B. The VMM resumes execution of the virtual machine in which the new process/thread will execute at block 219.
As stated above, the data structures that can serve as the protected state registers vary from processor to processor. One embodiment of the invention can be used with processors that provide a virtual addressing space to executing processes. One or more “address space” registers containing the values for the current address space must be updated on an operating system process switch. For example, when executing on an Intel IA 32 processor, the VMM 107 can detect operating system process switches by monitoring changes to a control register (CR3) that contains the base address of the current page table. Similarly, the VMM 107 executing on an Intel IA64 processor can detect operating system process switches by monitoring changes to region registers that map virtual address regions into a global address space. Processors with hardware-managed address translation look aside buffers (TLBs) typically have one or more registers which are generally protected from modification by unprivileged software. Thus, VMM 107 can track changes to these registers to effectively monitor operating system process switches. Processors with software-managed TLBs also provide hardware to assist with address translation. For instance, the MIPS R10000 RISC processor associates an address space identifier (ASID) with each TLB entry to avoid costly TLB flushes upon context switches. A special register containing the ASID of the current process must be updated upon every context switch so the VMM 107 could track changes to this register to detect operating system process switches on a R10000 or similar processor.
On any processor that supports multi-threaded processes, each thread is associated with an instruction stack and a stack pointer that points to the current top of the stack. Typically, the guest OS 109, 111 will store the stack pointer for a non-executing thread in a data structure in memory (often called a thread control block). By monitoring loads or stores of the stack pointers from or to memory, a processor could detect thread switches. However, current processors do not protect the stack pointers from access by unprivileged software, and thus do not fault when load/store instructions on the stack pointers are issued by unprivileged software. By modifying the processor to protect the stack pointers in such a fashion, the stack pointers would serve as the protected state registers and the VMM 107 could detect memory loads/stores of the stack pointers by the guest OSs 109, 111, thereby monitoring thread switches in the VMs 103, 105. Although such changes could be accomplished without impacting the usability of the stack, they would likely make implementation of light weight user-level thread packages problematical. Moreover, microarchitecture design considerations and microcode implementation issues make it difficult to modify many standard processors, such as the IA32 and IA64, to fault in this fashion.
In some processors, such as the IA32, the current instruction stack is stored in a segment and identified by a segment selection in a stack segment register. Because certain operating systems, such as the Microsoft Windows 9x family and some optimized real-time operating systems, leverage the processor's segmentation architecture for low cost address space protection, they must modify the stack segment register when switching threads. Thus, in yet another embodiment of the invention, the processor would be modified to fault when unprivileged software attempts to load a stack segment register, enabling the VMM 107 to track thread switching in these operating systems executing on a segmented architecture processor.
Other processors, such as the IA64, incorporate instruction level parallelism that uses speculation techniques to determine the next instructions and data most likely to be required by the processor. The processor uses a data structure to hold the data speculative state of the processor, referred to hereinafter as the Advanced Load Address Table (ALAT). Entries in the ALAT are invalidated by events that alter the state of the processor and such events are relatively well-coordinated with thread switches. Therefore, the ALAT could serve as the protected state registers if the processor is modified to fault on ALAT invalidations caused by unprivileged software. This would enable the VMM 107 to track thread context switches performed by both guest OSs 109, 111 and user-level applications 113, 115. It will be appreciated that although ALAT is the name of the data structure within the IA64 processor, the invention is not limited to use only with that particular data structure.
One embodiment of VMM 107 that bases its scheduling of virtual machines, at least in part, on resource requirement values derived from process/thread switches is illustrated in FIG. 5. The VMM 107 includes an idle detector 501, a proportional integral derivative (PID) controller 503, and a scheduler 505. Any of these components may be implemented in software, hardware or firmware, or in any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the VMM 107 operates according to a method 600 shown in FIG. 6.
When the VMM 107 receives a virtualization trap for VM A 103 or VM B 105 from the processor as previously described in conjunction with FIG. 2B, it notifies the idle detector 501. The VMM 107 may also receive halt instructions (HLT) that indicate the guest OS executing within a VM has no useful work to do and this information is also passed to the idle detector 501. The VMM 107 performs operations at blocks 603, 605, 607 and 609 as previously described in conjunction with FIG. 2C. At block 611, the VMM 107 runs the PID controller 503 and the scheduler 505. PID controllers are typically employed in feedback loops to iteratively derive a second value from a measured first value and are well-known by those skilled in the art. While the invention is not limited in scope to the use of any particular configuration of a PID controller, in the particular embodiment shown in FIG. 5, the idle detector 501 passes the measured value to the PID controller 503 as a binary, e.g., did a switch occur before end of time slice or did all real-time processes/threads run on a VM, or a scalar, e.g., a number of switches before a HLT on a VM. The PID controller 503 determines the VM resource requirement value X for the VM as described previously. The resource requirement value X is used by the scheduler 505 to determine the schedule for the VM. At block 613, the VMM 107 schedules the execution of the appropriate VM in accordance with the output of the scheduler 505.
A recursive virtualization environment is illustrated in FIG. 7, in which a child VMM 701 operates at a non-privileged level (i.e., not at ring 0) to schedule virtual machines A1 703 and A2 705 within the virtual machine A 103. Many current processors do not include hardware support for recursive virtualization, thus all state related to recursive virtualization must be maintained by software instead of through hardware registers. Additionally, maintaining the state of multiple levels of virtualization in software and transitioning among those states becomes increasingly difficult as more levels of recursion are added. Therefore, some form of hardware support for virtualization is required to successfully achieve recursive virtualization.
In one embodiment, no special hardware support is provided for virtualization so the VMM 107 executes with full privilege (e.g., in ring 0) and both the guest OS 111 and guest applications 115 execute without privilege (e.g., in ring 3). In one embodiment on such hardware the VMs 103 and 105 have separate address spaces so that guest OS 109 and guest OS 111 are protected from one another. On such hardware the child VMM 701 would thus execute without privilege (e.g., in ring 3), as would guest OS 3 707, guest OS 4 709 and applications 711 and 713. Since the parent VMM 107 executes with full privilege it can switch processes on behalf of guest OS 1 111 executing within VM B 105 and it can switch execution to VM A 103 without having those instructions trapped by the processor. However, the child VMM 701 cannot switch processes on behalf of guest OS 3 707 executing within VM A1 703 nor can it switch execution from VM A1 703 to VM A2 705 because the child VMM 701 is in fact executing without privilege. As noted earlier, in one embodiment the parent VMM 107 transitions from VM A 103 to VM B 105 by effecting a process switch, but as noted earlier the child VMM 701 executes at ring 3 and so an attempt by it to switch from VM A1 703 to VM A2 705 by switching processes will trap to the parent VMM 107. As a result all attempts by the child VMM 701 to switch VMs trap to the parent VMM 701, which is thus enabled to track VM switches by the child VMM 701.
In an alternate embodiment, the child VMM 701 executes in a non-privileged virtualization mode on a processor that includes a hardware VM-state register and a VM-run instruction. The VM-state register is loaded with the state information for a virtual machine and the VM-run instruction causes the processor to begin execution of that state, analogous to a state register for a process/thread and the transition to a privilege level in which the execution of a process/thread is invoked. Thus, the processor could trap either an instruction to load the VM-state register or the VM-run instruction to track VM switches by a child VMM 701. However, many of the executions of the VM-run instruction will not be as a result of a change in VM but will be due to attempts by a guest OS to execute a privileged instruction, page faults, etc. By trapping, instead, on loads of the VM-state register, the processor could ensure that the parent VMM 107 only receives virtualization traps from the child VMM 701 in response to actual VM switches by the child VMM 701.
As shown in FIGS. 8A and 8B, at block 801 the processor 101 could trap either the issuance of an instruction to change the contents of the VM-state register or the issuance of the VMM-to-VM mode transition instruction. If the instruction was issued by software not privileged for the instruction (i.e., a child VMM 701), the processor 101 would trap to privileged software, the parent VMM 107, at block 807 and jump to the parent VMM 107 at block 809. The parent VMM 107 would maintain machine look-up and status tables for the various VMs as shown in FIGS. 9A-B, which are analogous to the corresponding data structures described above for processes and threads. The parent VMM 107 would mark the current VM identifier as not active in the machine status table 910 (block 811), perform the appropriate instruction on behalf of the child VMM 701 (block 813), determine the identifier for the new VM using the machine look-up table 900 and mark it as active in the machine status table 910 (blocks 815 and 817), and resume execution of the child VMM 701 at block 819.
The VMM 107 of FIG. 5 can schedule VMs for child VMM 701 in a recursive virtualization environment using a method 1000 shown in FIG. 10. At block 1001, the idle detector 501 is notified when the VMM 107 receives virtualization traps from the processor in FIG. 8A. The operations performed by blocks 1003, 1005, 1007 and 1009 are as described above in conjunction with blocks 811, 813, 815 and 817 in FIG. 8B. At block 1011 the PID controller 503 and scheduler 505 are run to process the information from the idle detector 501 and the execution of the child VMM 701 is resumed at block 1013. The child VMM 701 subsequently schedules the appropriate VM according to the schedule calculated by the scheduler 505. Again, the parent VMM 107 would still track halt instructions as well, but the idle detector would now receive idle indications at, for example, the granularity of VMs of the child VMM 701 (i.e., VMs inside a VM).
Thus, the current invention enables a parent VMM 107 to monitor machine scheduling decisions made by a child VMM 701. The parent VMM can use this information to schedule a child VMM 701 for execution in such a way that the child VMM 701 is able to schedule its VMs as may be necessary in order that applications executing in VMs of the child VMM 701 receive adequate scheduling quality of service.
The following description of FIG. 11 is intended to provide an overview of a processing system in which embodiments of the invention can be implemented, but is not intended to limit the applicable environments. FIG. 11 illustrates one example of a conventional computer system containing a processing unit 1151 that incorporates supports the execution of a virtual memory monitor of the present invention through hardware, firmware, or software. Memory 1159 is coupled to the processor 1155 by a bus 1157. Memory 1159 can be dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and can also include static RAM (SRAM). The bus 1157 couples the processor 1155 to the memory 1159 and also to non-volatile storage 1165 and to display controller 1161 and to the input/output (I/O) controller 1167. The display controller 1161 controls in the conventional manner a display on a display device 1163 which can be a cathode ray tube (CRT) or liquid crystal display. The input/output devices 1169 can include a keyboard, disk drives, printers, a scanner, and other input and output devices, including a mouse or other pointing device. The display controller 1161 and the I/O controller 1167 can be implemented with conventional well known technology. A digital image input device 1171 can be a digital camera which is coupled to an I/O controller 1167 in order to allow images from the digital camera to be input into the computer system 1151. The non-volatile storage 1165 is often a magnetic hard disk, an optical disk, or another form of storage for large amounts of data. Some of this data is often written, by a direct memory access process, into memory 1159 during execution of software in the computer system 1151. One of skill in the art will immediately recognize that the term “computer-readable medium” includes any type of storage device that is accessible by the processor 1155 and also encompasses a carrier wave that encodes a data signal.
tracking an execution of a schedulable entity that is being switched in for execution as a result of the change in execution.
scheduling, by the privileged entity, the schedulable entity that is being switched in for execution according to its estimated resource requirement.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the privileged entity is a virtual machine monitor and the schedulable entities are selected from the group consisting of processes, threads, operating systems, virtual machines, and child virtual machine monitors.
a scheduler logically coupled to the PID controller to receive the estimated resource requirement and to determine a schedule of execution for the schedulable entity that is being switched out of execution.
increasing the estimated resource requirement for the schedulable entity if the schedulable entity does not complete execution before the estimated resource requirement is exhausted.
initiating, by the privileged entity, the change in execution.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the tracking of the execution is performed as part of the change in execution initiated by the privileged entity.
initiating, by the processor, the change in execution if the change in execution is being requested by the privileged entity.
detecting an instruction to change a state register that identifies a schedulable entity.
comparing, by the processor, the state register that identifies the schedulable entity being switched in for execution with a state match register that identifies a schedulable entity that is to be tracked, wherein the schedulable entity being switched into execution is tracked by the processor if the state register and the state match register match.
detecting an instruction to change between privileged and non-privileged modes.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the schedulable entities are selected from the group consisting of operating system processes, operating system threads, virtual machines, and instruction streams to be executed by the processor.
scheduling, by the privileged entity, the schedulable entity that is being switched in for execution according to the estimated resource requirement.
15. The machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the privileged entity is a virtual machine monitor and the schedulable entities are selected from the group consisting of processes, threads, operating systems, virtual machines, and child virtual machine monitors.
19. The machine-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the tracking of the execution is performed as part of the change in execution initiated by the privileged entity.
24. The machine-readable medium of claim 13, wherein the schedulable entities are selected from the group consisting of operating system processes, operating system threads, virtual machines, and instruction streams to be executed by the processor.
the privileged entity executed from the memory to cause the processing unit to track an execution of a schedulable entity that is being switched in for execution as a result of the change in execution.
26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the privileged entity further causes the processing unit to calculate an estimated resource requirement for the schedulable entity that is being switched in for execution based on the tracking of a previous execution of the schedulable entity and to schedule the schedulable entity that is being switched in for execution according to the estimated resource requirement.
27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein the privileged entity is a virtual machine monitor and the schedulable entities are selected from the group consisting of processes, threads, operating systems, virtual machines, and child virtual machine monitors.
30. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the processing unit is further configured to trap a change in execution by detecting an instruction to change a state register that identifies a schedulable entity.
31. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the processing unit is further configured to trap a change in execution by detecting an instruction to change between privilege and non-privilege modes.
32. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the privileged entity further causes the processing unit to initiate the change in execution.
33. The apparatus of claim 32, wherein the privileged entity further causes the processor to track the execution as part of the change in execution initiated by the privileged entity.
34. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the processing unit is further configured to initiate the change in execution if the change in execution is being requested by the privileged entity.
a processing unit configured to trap a change in execution among schedulable entities, to compare a state register that identifies the schedulable entity being switched in for execution with a state match register that identifies a schedulable entity that is to be tracked, and to track the schedulable entity being switched into execution if the state register and the state match register match.
36. The apparatus of claim 35, wherein the schedulable entities are selected from the group consisting of operating system processes, operating system threads, virtual machines, and instruction streams to be executed by the processing unit.
FR2717286B1 (en) 1994-03-09 1996-04-05 Bull Cp8 Method and apparatus for authenticating a data carrier for enabling a transaction or access to a service or to a location, and the corresponding support.
Jones et al. 2006 Antfarm: Tracking Processes in a Virtual Machine Environment. | 2019-04-19T23:41:49Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US20030037089A1/en | Porn | Arts | 0.142689 |
tripod | Background Sound: "Holy, Holy, Holy"
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? Isa. 58:6, 7.
We are living in the last days of this earth's history, and it is time we understood what we must do to be saved. The Lord will work intelligently for all who will work intelligently for Him. My brethren and sisters, there is something more for you to do than to sit in your churches Sabbath after Sabbath and to listen to the preaching of the Word. You have a work to do for [your] friends and neighbors. God requires . . . that you visit these families and seek to create an interest in the truth for this time. You are not laboring together with God if you neglect the work of helping others to take hold upon eternal realities.
Our ministers are not to be encouraged to hover about the churches to repeat to the believers week after week the same truths. We have a truth that is saving and precious. The Word of God must be planted in many hearts; the bread of life must be dealt out to many hungering souls. . . . It is a blessed work to lift up Christ before the world.
When the work of the judgment is finished and decisions have been made for eternity, it will be seen that it is those who have given themselves wholeheartedly to the service of God who will stand right with heaven. Some of these may not have been able to leave their families to go to some mission field, but they have been missionaries in their own neighborhood. Their hearts have been so filled with the love of God that their great anxiety has been to win souls for Him. This has been more to them than silver and gold and the precious things of this world. And as they have labored in simplicity to minister the Word of truth, the Spirit of God has sent home the Word to the hearts of the people.
My brethren and sisters, let us study the simplicity there is in the Word of God. Let us see what we can do to advance the cause of Christ in the earth. Christ was in this world as a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. There were many who set themselves against His work. There will be those who will oppose you. But your work is to preach Christ and Him crucified; and when you do this, the salvation of God will be revealed in the conversion of souls. . . .
"Address to the Church at Salt Lake City."
Thank you for being my # visitor!
Barb does not endorse any of the computer- generated advertisements which may appear on this page. She is sincerely grateful to the site provider, TRIPOD, for the privilege of FREE use of this web space. | 2019-04-19T12:35:39Z | http://rccsda.tripod.com/index.html | Porn | Reference | 0.378738 |
wordpress | As we approach the times of Christ return we must remember we are not in control. The world may seem that way if we believe in him who loves us and admires our strength and faith.
Don’t believe people who say this is the end because only God knows the time of the end. He will be the one who sets the day, it will be a time of great turbulence. Some will only believe the end will come when you see the Son of man on the clouds, but I say to you pray and wait for His return it will be closer than you believe.
So much time is spent worrying about it that our prayers have become futile if we are not helping others see Him and know his favor. Be glad you are a follower and be ready for His return as it approaches soon enough.
He will send his messengers out among the earth and the good news will be preached everywhere….. Alas the day of atonement is at hand for the son sees who has worshipped him and who will be with him on the resurrection day.
The Might of the Kingdom will come down to meet us as the stones from heaven begin to fall and the fire will be unquenchable and will consume many on the day of destruction. For if we are to meet Christ we must first be ready to wear the hat of suffering as he has done for us. If we meet him on that glorious day we are so blessed by his love and everlasting kindness.
For which man can see the everlasting truth that is of God.
Many will come to the cross of Christ and wonder how He took His pain. But we must remember as christians that christ came into this world for us to be the savior. He did not come in to be glorified but to serve and to heal the sickness of people who had lost all hope. The fall of many people will happen as time progresses we shall see the son of Man rise again and His glory will be as far wide as the sands of time. Let no man be so bold as to say that Jesus was only a man. They are not speaking from Gods point of View.
Rest in the Savior’s words that today, mark this day as the beginning of the time of transition. the world will not be the same after this time, it will begin to see that Christ is walking among us in greatness and power and that no one can stand in His way or ours. blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosana in the Highest.
He suffered for you and me. remember this as you celebrate the resurrection Sunday!
When the son of Man comes it will be a day of glory, all the followers of Christ shall see Hi glorified on the clouds. But do not be worried about when he comes but that you wait for Him in eagerness and humbleness, so be watchful – He is right at the door.
As time progresses you will be thinking about the Lord’s return, yes it is at your door, be ready and in prayer.Seek the Kingdom of God in all you do and sacrifice time each day to worship Him and pray.
We do not know the day or the hour, so be ready, with your lamps burning.
32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door.
When you see the son of man coming it will be powerful, He sees all we do and knows that the time is prepared just for His glory. Don’ t be alarmed when you see pestilence or famine. Remember God is in charge not people. The world shall surely come to its end in time. Try not to focus on things of this world, but on prayer and praying for others that may not know how to handle these signs from God.
At the time of the end Jesus will be a thief in the night, know one knows He’s coming, so be ready for whenever it is. The righteous will be saved and for many others, they will die in their sins and know that the son of man is in control not them.
When we look at the text in the Bible, we must always ask God to open our spiritual eyes to what the scripture is showing us. Some scripture that we read will penetrate our minds and soul that we can see Jesus fully in all ways. But if we rely on our own knowing then we will not see what the scripture actually holds. | 2019-04-20T10:48:55Z | https://godssimplekindness.wordpress.com/2011/04/ | Porn | News | 0.152766 |
wikipedia | The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Simplified Chinese: 无产阶级文化大革命, Traditional Chinese: 無產階級文化大革命, Pinyin: Wúchǎn Jiējí Wénhuà Dà Gémìng, literally: Proletarian Cultural Great Revolution); shortened in Chinese as 文化大革命 or 文革, also known simply as the Cultural Revolution, was a time of large cultural change in China, started by the leader Mao Zedong. It happened from 1966 to 1976.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 People's Republic of China: III. Retrieved on 2009-09-12.
↑ Butterfield, Fox (1976-09-10). "Mao Tse-Tung: Father of Chinese Revolution". Retrieved 2009-09-12.
↑ /r-2713.html China: Events During the Cultural Revolution Decade, 1966-76. Retrieved on 2009-09-12.
↑ Giles, John; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan (April 2007). "The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and Returns to Schooling in Urban China" (PDF). Retrieved 2006-09-12.
This page was last changed on 4 March 2019, at 06:29. | 2019-04-26T11:46:08Z | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution | Porn | Reference | 0.916955 |
wordpress | This entry was posted on May 15, 2015 at 6:05 pm and is filed under Articles, Arts, Black British Literature, Black History, Books, Community, Culture, Current Affairs, Education, Fiction, Literature, Music, News, Newsletter, Poem, Poems, Publications, Reggae, Short Story, Television, Theatre, Writing with tags Articles, Arts, Black British Literature, Black History, Books, Community, Culture, Current Affairs, Education, Fiction, Literature, Music, News, Newsletter, Poem, Poems, Publications, Reggae, Short Story, Television, Theatre, Writing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-20T11:22:15Z | https://panthernewsletter1.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/greetings-welcome/ | Porn | Arts | 0.715305 |
livejournal | • The student demonstrates an understanding of the problem.
• The student plans and solves the problem.
• The student explains how the solution is arrived at.
• The student demonstrates confidence/persistence.
• The student properly displays the results.
• The student creates similar problems.
Do students show awareness of the progression of problem solving abilities? | 2019-04-24T16:47:03Z | https://pandemo.livejournal.com/64704.html | Porn | Reference | 0.484836 |
wikipedia | 62 Hello dear friend and neighbor!
This star is a small token of my gratitue for your love for Greece. Thank you!
Dearest Omicroñ'R, how are you? Do you remember me? It's a long rime we don't correspond. Here it's arriving Summer.... I hope!!!
Please, I put a line in English in this page, and a red link. Please, can you open in Armenian this red link Catetinho? You can look for English page Catetinho. I'll be pleased to help you in Italian and Portuguese, it's just to ask!
Thanks a lot for your great help, have a nice week-end, and God bless you.
Would you please translate some Georgia articles into Armenian? There are some that would be great if theres Armenian article about it too :) Can you help in any way ?
Hello friend again! Thanks for your kind response.
These articles would be great if translated in Armenian. | 2019-04-25T16:41:16Z | https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AF%D6%81%D5%AB_%D6%84%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4:Omicro%C3%B1%27R | Porn | Reference | 0.126298 |
wordpress | I’ve uploaded some of my photos to flickr, so you can get a sense of the size of the rally. Here are some video clips I took.
1) The view of the rally from the steps of the Capitol building, one hour before Obama’s speech.
2) Audience chants of ‘yes we can’ during Obama’s speech.
3) Uplifting segment of Obama’s speech about unity and the ‘united states’ of america.
No, Meghan can’t see Russia, or even Canada, from her window. But she’s on the ground in Pennsylvania – in Steelton and elsewhere – blogging about the sights and sounds of the election campaign’s final days there. And, video camera always at the ready, she is talking to the people that she meets on the streets nd in restaurants and capturing their thoughts on the election. Definitely worth taking a few minutes to look at her site and prodigious output these past few days.
This is no ordinary election campaign, that is for certain. In case I needed any reminders about this, I’ve experienced it first hand these past 36 hours. And it is the level and intensity of support for Obama that I am talking about. Today another record fell: that of largest campaign rally. 100,000 people (including me) turned up in and around Denver Civic Park to hear Obama speak. But just as symbolic and humbling was the fact that over 800 people turned up on a Saturday evening to sign up as volunteers for the rally and take part in a 90min training and briefing session.
I’d heard from Amalie about the opportunity to become an event volunteer and decided to join her and a couple of other swing semester folk in attendiing the session. Everyone was taken aback, impressed and inspired by the size and diversity of people who come to be volunteers.
There were various pep talks, putting our efforts in the context of the wider race(s) to be won, and also information on early voting and other related advice that we were meant to pass on to others at the rally. We were then split off into two – one half who would be doing the staffing inside the venue and at the entrance; the other half (which I was in) would be encouraging people to sign up for volunteering over the final week of the campaign and also to early vote. We were then split off into small teams of 20-30 people, each of whom were headed by a ‘precinct captain’, an Obama staffer. My team leader was called John Manners and he was the guy who would we would find on the Sunday morning to give us our final instructions and the sign-up forms to hand out.
I have ‘lucked out’ in many respects with this trip. And one of those is that my time in Denver happily coincides (by complete chance) with an Obama campaign rally. In 7 hours time I will have started my shift as a volunteer at the ‘Early Voting for Change’ rally in downtown Denver. The man himself – Barack Obama – is going to be speaking, so this event is going to be huge. So excited.
It is another early morning for me though. Today I was picked up at 1030am to go to Boulder, Colorado, and join the fantastic Bus Project in going canvassing in Longmont. Beautful weather and beautiful scenery. The door-knocking was mainly for local races and ballot initiatives / state constitutional amendments. The lack of people in on a lovely Saturday afternoon, coupled with the high rates of peole who early voted (ie already posted their ballots or voted in person at one of a number of special locations), meant it was quite frustrating. The wealthy neighbourhood, backing onto a golf course, and the number of McCain-Palin signs, were also good pointers to not getting the most receptive audience. More on my experiences, plus photos, in a later blog.
Likewise, you’ll get an insight into the volunteer training session I went to tonight. i thought it was going to be a relatively small thing. But over 800 people turned up, just to learn what needed to be done for the rally. It is an awesome organising programme that the Obama campaign has. Fascinating seeing a little window into the whole process.
But for now sleep is a necessity; especially as expected I got off the plane and went out on the town (via someone’s house for dinner), and only made it home at 2am. That’s one way to deal with jetlag I guess.
I was never going to be able to stay away from America in the final days of the election campaign. I had to be here. It’s also a trip that has been long in my mind – 4 years really, since I was in Chicago and DC for the last election. That was just a pure holiday. This is a little of that, but so much more.
Just two months since being in Denver for the Democratic Convention, I am now back here in this lovely city; staying with my buddies Hunter and Tyler. That’s only for a few short days though, as this time I am doing a whirlwind tour. I’m off on Monday evening to Minneapolis; Thursday to Cincinnati (and hopefully some other places both in Ohio and over the border in Kentucky); election night in Chicago; and finally to DC. I’ll be seeing and taking part in a variety of Obama campaigning and general GOTV activities; hooking up with a colleague and the Fairvote folk for some electoral reform work in Cincinnati; and on election night and after looking into how votes count/ed (or not). You can follow my journey / epic mission on this blog.
Also – and here’s a new development – for part of my trip I have volunteered to be trailed by a freelance documentary maker, who is making a short on why non-Americans like me are taking so much interested and getting so actively involved in these elections. Meghan is going to be accompanying me for the 5 days I am based in Cincinnati, as well as election night in Chicago. You can follow her following me via her blog http://adollarandadream.typepad.com It’s quite an odd experience being the subject, and seeing posts like “Meet Malcolm”. But I’m really looking forward to it.
Now though it’s time to hit the campaign trail. Despite only arriving in Denver last night and going out on the town til late, I am up earlier than usual on a Saturday. I am about to join a group of Obama campaigners and volunteers doing canvassing in a swing district outside of Boulder, Co. | 2019-04-25T13:46:39Z | https://sixfifty.wordpress.com/category/on-the-campaign-trail/page/2/ | Porn | Reference | 0.081426 |
wordpress | Barcelona is full of art, and when I say full I mean really full ! It is everywhere you see, old art and new art.
I think you need a life time of holidays to see all the art in Barcelona. But pictures say more than words, right , so here we go.
WHAT A PITY SOMEONE SPOILED IT WITH GRAFITTI !
When we were unable to visit the Picasso museum we found the museum of contempory art nearby and what a pleasant surprise it was !!!!
The following pictures were all taken there.
HERE YOU CAN SEE THE LIVE MODEL, THE CLAY MODEL AND THE END PRODUCT IN COPPER AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST THE ARTIST HIMSELF RICHARD MACDONALD.
The following works are from many different artists but also in the museum of contempory art.
ALL THE PHOTO’S YOU MAY THINK ARE PHOTO’S ARE IN FACT PAINTINGS !!!!!
This was just a small selection of the art we saw in just 3 days ! My next blogpost will be about Gaudi.
Have a great week all and thanks for stopping by ! And to all mums, HAPPY MOTHERSDAY !
Last weekend was a long weekend for us so we headed off to Barcelona for a city trip. Little did we know the whole world had the same idea !!! We knew we wouldn’t be there alone but we never expected it would be so crowded. I had plans to see some things I really wanted to see, alas we had to change that but despite everything I enjoyed every minute of it. Barcelona is a wonderful city but you need to have good feet and a lot of patience as the cues to go see something interesting are loooooong !!!!
Enough said, I’ll show you some pictures of Barcelona in this blog post, the next blog post will be about the art exhibitions we went to and the third blog post will be about flowers and plants, cacti and succulents.
Many of the following pictures were taken from a riding bus so they are not always of good quality.
AND HERE SHE IS, THE SAGRADA FAMILIA,THEY ARE FOREVER WORKING ON IT………, IF YOU WANT TO VISIT THIS CHURCH INSIDE YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR MANY HOURS OR SLEEP ON A BENCH IN FRONT OF IT THE DAY BEFORE IN ORDER TO BE THE FIRST VISITOR IN THE MORNING….
THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING INTO THE FOOTBALL STADION OF BARCELONA, THERE WERE 120.000 VISITORS THAT NIGHT, THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN AROUND NOON, THEY WERE ALREADY ARRIVING FOR THE MATCH A 21.00 H !!
This was just a small selection of the photo’s I took in Barcelona, feel free to ask questions if you have some, ok ?
Have a great week ! and thanks for stopping by ! | 2019-04-18T22:50:51Z | https://gwenniesgarden.wordpress.com/tag/art/ | Porn | Arts | 0.340743 |
livejournal | Sign-ups are now closed; thank you for your interest!
I hope you'll help us celebrate Severus Snape throughout his ages!
Any questions about Snape Showcase may be directed to snapecase [at] gmail [dot] com. | 2019-04-21T22:42:32Z | https://snapecase.livejournal.com/3505.html | Porn | Business | 0.37435 |
wordpress | Preheat the oven to 400°F. Boil a large stock pot of water.
Core Cabbage and submerge into boiling water. Let boil for 3-5 minutes. Remove cabbage from water and let cool. Using a tong, peel cabbage leaves back. You will need 8 large leaves to make the rolls.
Lay cabbage leaves flat and add about 2 ounces of corned beef, one slice of Swiss cheese, 1 Tablespoon of sauerkraut, 1 Tablespoon of Shredded Carrots, and 2 Tablespoons of Bolthouse farms dressing to each leave. Roll and place seam side down in a casserole dish.
Cover casserole dish with foil and bake for 20 minutes.
While cooking chop remaining cabbage and boil or sauté for a side dish.
Serve with roasted potatoes and carrots for a complete meal!
This entry was posted in Entrees, Meal of The Week, Recipes and tagged cabbage, corned beef, Dietitian, MEAL OF THE WEEK, Recipe, reuben, sauerkraut, St. Paddy's, st. Patrick's Day. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-19T23:13:56Z | https://villagesupermarket.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/reuben-cabbage-rolls-recipe/ | Porn | Health | 0.97741 |
wordpress | Recycled Inc aims to provide support to local communities and people who come to our attention by any means. We recognise the vulnerable position many people face due to various circumstances and we try to assist where possible.
Recycled Inc is funded completely from the sales of “recycled” art, decor and various other hobby and craft projects. The funds raised are used to assist with the planting of vegetable gardens, providing of ingredients for meals to food organisations and assisting needy families.
Recycled Inc was started in October 2009, sprung from an idea to make use of all the craft, hobby projects many people do and be environmentally friendly by recycling unloved items. Recycled Inc runs on the assistance of many friends, family and other volunteers. Based in East London, we are trying to make a difference, one craft project at a time!
To contribute to our community and needy individuals through a green consciousness and recycling hobbies and crafts, Recover, Reuse and Payforward.
We are passionate about our hobbies, crafts and talents and we have a strong drive to contribute to recycling and living a “green” life. We need to care for our environment and communities around us. With that in mind, we have tried to combine our talents with giving back.
Collection boxes called “Unloved Items” are placed at various stations throughout East London and contents are collected once a week.
Help develop veggie gardens at local schools to assist with sustainable feeding schemes.
Host craft and hobby days at old-age homes and community schools to enrich their lives and spread some joy.
Host events i.e.: dances, demonstrations, talks etc to old-age homes and community schools to educate and develop talent.
Host fund raisers for organisations/projects like WWF, CHOC, SPCA, SOS Children’s Village and Salvation Army.
Decrease our carbon footprint by recycling “junk” and unloved items into beautiful, handmade items. Educate the community on been water wise, energy savvy and keep SA clean.
Spread the Love – Payforward all our blessing to others who need it.
Recycling benefits both the environment and the economy.
Yes, you can help us!
Donations of unloved and junk items are always welcome and are vital for us to continue our work.
Donations of time and resources to our various projects and fund raising efforts are always required, getting involved in your community is extremely rewarding. Hosting a “Unloved Items” box is a simple, effective way to benefit our projects.
Our craft, decor and kitchen projects are inexpensive, hand-made and unique. Hosting a craft or hobby class is gratifying and we are always looking for new classes to offer. We have many projects we need help with, you need only ask!
I wonder that, are you Chinese person who do this business, for me, it is so creative.
Thanks for visiting us, I’m not Chinese, I’m South African – living in a small coastal town. Been creative is an important part of my life.
You are welcome to share us with your FB page, friends and family. Pls share your comments, thoughts and ideas with me. | 2019-04-25T12:49:59Z | https://recycledinc.wordpress.com/about/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.234913 |
wordpress | Though if you ask me, he has a very elven face. I would have liked to see him play Thranduil. Lee Pace is going to do a marvellous job, no doubt, but to me, Lee is more of a Legolas (yes, I heard that gasp, and no offence to the Bloom fans, just my humble opinion this… 😉 ) and Benedict is more of a Thranduil.
The cat is out of the bag. The actor is named. The latest recruit to the Jackson troops is the superb Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock Holmes to Bilbo’s Watson. Martin Freeman let it slip when he picked up his BAFTA.
Martin told me he was “chuffed” about the prize. So was the entire crew back here in Wellington; and about Benedict. Now, what can he be playing in The Hobbit?
To read the entire entry please visit here. | 2019-04-19T04:47:54Z | https://thehobbitfilms.wordpress.com/tag/bard/ | Porn | News | 0.573761 |
wordpress | This is, of course, the long-awaited fifth book in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire and it takes up the story of perhaps the three best characters: Jon Snow (not the newscaster), Tyrion Lannister and Daenerys Targaryen. These characters were conspicuous in their absence from the equally long-awaited fourth volume, A Feast for Crows; much of Dance is therefore contemporary with its predecessor; towards the end, however, the timelines of the two books merge and other characters, such as Jaime and Cersei Lannister and Arya Stark, make appearances.
It’s a long book – this is epic fantasy, after all – at a little under a thousand pages. You’d think that, after five years of writing it and such a bloated page count, a lot would happen in this fifth of a promised seven books. Stuff does happen of course, but nothing hugely momentous, really. Jon manages men on the Wall; Daenerys does much the same in Meereen; Tyrion has the most interesting narrative, but he doesn’t have much control over it, being passed from pillar to post. Theon Greyjoy also has a fairly prominent role, but he gets faded to the back of the mix as the book progresses; ditto Bran Stark.
Minor characters also crop up along with the aforementioned major players who rejoin the narrative near the end. Each has minor character that gets a viewpoint character necessitates several pages of exposition detailing their backstory; such infodump is, I find, acceptable at the start of a book, but, at the end, it just bogs things down and dilutes the sense of a rising climax. I wonder how necessary they are, as well, being fairly small links in an already mighty chain.
An important new character emerges in this book – another Targaryen, and yet another claimant to the Iron Throne of Westeros. Unlike Daenerys, he actually leads an initially successful invasion of the western continent, leading me to think he’s fulfilling Daenerys’s narrative purpose since the Mother of Dragons lost her way occupying the slave city of Meereen.
Most frustratingly of all, pretty much all of the plotlines end in cliffhangers that probably won’t be resolved for another five years.
Also most frustratingly – if you’ll grant me the contradiction – are some frequent problematic lexical choices. Firstly, Martin often uses the word ‘oft’; a word that is described in dictionaries as being ‘poetical’ or ‘literary’ – which basically means ‘pretentious’; it’s oft-used here, and grates consistently. Worse than this are two equally over-used words that are actually incorrect. ‘Wroth’ is an adjective that means ‘angry’ or ‘wrathful’; however, Martin uses it repeatedly to mean ‘wrath’, which is a noun. Presumably, he’s confused by the British pronunciation of ‘wrath’, which is ‘roth’ or ‘rawth’. He also uses the word ‘mayhaps’, the etymology of which Wiktionary defines as ‘A misconstruction of mayhap after maybe and perhaps.’ This particular lexeme isn’t even listed on Dictionary.com.
On the whole, then, it seems that I didn’t really enjoy this book. On the plus side, it’s quite readable. There are a couple of notable scenes where very striking events take place – particularly one involving Daenerys and a dragon – but they’re not really followed up in this volume. The titular dance with dragons is a ponderous affair, and the dragons themselves are sorely under-used – no doubt because of the quite logical problems one would have in dealing with a fire-breathing wild animal. This book is very much a chapter in the overall story. It’s not quite as pointless as Robert Jordan’s Crossroads of Twilight, but it does seem to highlight many similar issues that afflict writers, and, consequently, readers of epic fantasy – namely the risk of sinking in a morass of plotlines. | 2019-04-24T02:25:18Z | https://captainmaybe.wordpress.com/tag/fantasy-literature/ | Porn | Arts | 0.113482 |
wordpress | Hello guys! I’m here to tell you about different college looks which will make you star of the crowd.
For college, you must select comfortable and decent outfit but at the same time, it should be trendy and stylish as well.
Here are some of the looks in plazzos which are in trend and very comfortable. It also makes you look slimmer.
Here I’ll show you some of the looks in jeans and trousers. You can make yourself look both hot and cool in this outfit depending upon the choice and how you dress.
Now, I’ll show you some looks in dresses, skirts and shorts. These looks are the best for Summers.
I hope it helped you to dress according to the trends . Keep yourself updated about latest styles and trends at @www.nikitaslifestyleblog.wordpress.com!!! | 2019-04-21T04:44:12Z | https://nikitaslifestyleblog.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/top-looks-for-college-fashionblogging-fashionista-fashiongoals-style-fashionaddict/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.497793 |
free | Statistical programs and eventually data enabling to replicate the statistical tables of my articles. Page under construction.
Statistical programs permitting the replication of my comment "Can We Use Alsace-Moselle for Estimating the Employment Effects of the 35-Hour Workweek Regulation in France?"
The statistical programs permitting the replication of my comment are written for the Stata software. Data enabling the replication of my results can be accessed through the Réseau Quételet.
Those programs exist both for Stata, Sas or R. Data can be obtaine from Réseau Quételet. | 2019-04-20T11:20:48Z | http://olivier.godechot.free.fr/hoprubrique.php?id_rub=97&lang=en | Porn | Science | 0.562632 |
wordpress | This time I’ll review a Mujack one. I’ve been into this program since I found it very interesting. And yes. If it wasn’t because Takamina as the host, I wouldn’t follow this program.
The one that will be reviewed is the one that Takamina went to Osaka to have a part-time job and visiting NMB48 Theater.
So here goes my review!
In the beginning of this episode, Takamina was interviewed by the director. | 2019-04-24T18:52:42Z | https://inchanish.wordpress.com/category/available-download-link/ | Porn | Arts | 0.919687 |
wordpress | I spend a lot of time thinking about what we are doing wrong, but in that moment, I knew we must be doing something right.
Happy Birthday to Jesus and happy family, indeed.
Saturday marked the 1 year anniversary of Sprout and Rosebud’s arrival. This year flew by…but then again, it feels like I’ve been their mommy forever.
That day was such an odd combination of nerves and normalcy – there really isn’t any other experience I could compare it to. I knew that day my life would be changed forever but I could never have anticipated the joy and fear and sadness that was around the bend.
This is exactly where I was meant to be.
A painful struggle to get licensed and far too many months battling infertility (unsuccessfully) and it was all necessary to wind up where I am now. Happy, whole, at peace.
Happy 1 year to my beautiful Sprout and Rosebud. You are so loved and so welcome. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hoping for many more.
I want to be Daisy’s babysitter.
She’s a foster mom who lives around the corner from us. She’s retired and single (widowed? divorced? I don’t ask) and has committed the rest of her life to caring for drug exposed and medically complex foster babies. She jokes that she hasn’t slept through the night in 10 years.
She has had over 100 babies through her home most of which she’s gotten straight from the hospital – either after birth and detox, or recovery from an injury. She’s seen the worst of the worst and has witnessed the most horrific and disgusting things people do to babies. But it doesn’t stop her…she will say yes to any call within her age range no matter the difficulties or complexities of the baby’s needs. She has rocked every last one of those babies to sleep.
I’m sure she’s rarely thanked. An afterthought in the eyes of the system. She’s not in it for keeps. Even the babies will not remember her. But she does it anyway. She embodies the saying, “It takes a village to raise a child.” She’s such an inspiration to me.
Can you believe there are angels like this in the world? Thank God there are.
I apologize to the handful of you who’ve requested the password to this blog and haven’t gotten a response. I’m actually in the process of un-passwording the posts about our struggle with infertility. It’s not a very pretty story, but one that I don’t feel like hiding any longer. So just give me a bit and you’ll have access to all the nitty-gritty.
Its been one week since we met our sweet Daisy and became a family of 5.
One week into our placement with Sprout and Rosebud I was panicking. Convinced I had gotten myself in way over my head and terrified that I had made the biggest mistake of my life. I was desperate for a break and fatigued emotionally and physically. I have an acute memory of the way my ears rang and my head spun from all the crying and whining. Those were some dark and scary days, but somehow we managed to put on a happy face and do the work we were called to do, simply putting one foot in front of the other. Thank God we did. Because today? One week after saying yes for the second time?
Today I have the most incredible family ever.
There are still some tears and whining and doubts. And all I want for Hanukkah is a nap. But I’m loving it.
Even as life settled into a happy routine with Sprout and Rosebud, there was always the feeling that someone was missing. We were under the assumption that the missing person was the one we had yet to conceive and so it was that we were off to the RE for try after miserable try. But the minute she came, that empty space was filled. Last Friday, after we had kissed 3 little heads goodnight, A and I collapsed on the couch and she said, “Something about this feels right.” Who says that after getting the shock of her life with a surprise 3 day old straight from the hospital who’s barely a year younger than the other baby you already have and holy crap, what did we just say yes to?? But she was right. This family feels so right. | 2019-04-23T22:03:17Z | https://2mommies2be.wordpress.com/2010/12/ | Porn | Kids | 0.830053 |
yahoo | According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, more than half of small business owners who apply for loans fail to obtain them. The primary reasons: poor business and personal credit scores, or the fact that owners have been mismatched with lenders.
Related: Do You Know What’s In Your Business Credit File?
I talk to hundreds of small business owners each month – from tech entrepreneurs to pizza shop owners. Turns out, most people have a good understanding about personal credit, but few know how business credit works, or even that it exists. The credit-knowledge gap is preventing too many smart, hard-working business owners from accessing the funds they need to thrive.
Many of these folks turn to friends, family and personal loans to fund their business. You may have taken this route yourself, and I understand why. If you’re deeply passionate about your business idea, you’ve got to be willing to risk everything – even relationships – to see it through. Unfortunately, people exploring this option do not realize that there are simple and proven ways to get what they need for their business.
By taking steps to build a credit profile for your company, separate from your personal credit history, you may be able to access 10 to 100 times more credit than you could as a consumer. And you need this extra capacity. On average, a business owner uses at least 10 times as much credit as a consumer. It’s nearly impossible to run, let alone scale, a business using personal credit alone. What’s more, building business credit is easy to do, but too few business owners realize its importance.
With a business lender, you’re contractually required to pay the loan back, whether through collateral or business profits. The clear expectations and deadlines set down force you to use the money wisely.
If you don’t separate the two and your business fails, you risk losing your personal savings or indebting yourself to someone you’re close to.
If the business is ever sued, your personal assets could be at risk.
Separate business credit makes it easier to identify business expense deductions for tax purposes.
Separate business credit protects your personal credit scores. Many business owners who rely on personal credit to run their business wind up maxing-out their credit lines – a big mistake.
So, you get it: Keep your business and personal credit separate. But how do you get started?
1. Establish your business as a separate legal entity.
This could be as a sole proprietor, LLC or S-Corp. Sit down with your tax advisor or financial planner to determine which legal entity fits your business and financial situation. Sites like LegalZoom and Rocket Lawyer can take care of the legwork. You just complete an online questionnaire and pay a small fee. The websites fill out the documents and file them with your state. You can receive your official formation documents in about seven to 10 days.
2. Set up a business checking account.
This keeps your business financials more organized and allows you to get a clear picture of where your money is going. It usually takes just 30 minutes to set up an account at your local bank.
Use the business account for all business-related expenses. When paying yourself, deposit the money into your personal checking account. Your business checking account also allows your business to use employee payments as tax deductions from income, while letting you show personal income for the purpose of loans, credit and taxes. Business lenders will want to see your bank statements to get a true picture of how you’re performing.
3. Build a business credit history.
Start by opening a business credit card and always paying on time. The business credit bureaus will add this positive payment history to the credit file dedicated just to your company. Unlike personal cards, you may be able to deduct interest from business credit cards. When applying for a business card, just be sure to verify that the card provider reports to business credit bureaus and not to personal ones.
One of the biggest mistakes new businesses owners make is relying on personal credit cards to fund operations. Not only do you take on liability, you can damage your personal credit. If you have a personal score of 800 and max out your cards, your score will drop below 700. A 100-point drop will definitely cause your odds of getting credit to tank. It’s that severe.
Along with getting a business credit card, you should also open credit lines with your vendors and suppliers. This is known as trade credit. It gives you extra time (net 15, 30, or 60 days) to pay for your supplies and services. Depending on what type of industry you’re in, you can open accounts with businesses like Office Depot, Staples, UPS, Home Depot, etc. These companies are usually willing to establish a small credit line for your business without reporting or checking on your personal credit information.
As you establish a consistent history of on-time or early payments with these suppliers, your business credit scores will improve. This will allow you to access even more credit with even better payment terms. It’s a snowball effect.
4. Monitor your business credit regularly.
After establishing healthy business credit, you’ll want to stay on top of it. According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, the credit score of 33 percent of businesses may decline over just a three-month period. That’s why your lenders and creditors reassess your company’s creditworthiness on an ongoing basis. If your credit deteriorates, terms can be adjusted or stopped altogether. Without notice, you could be forced to pay cash on delivery for your supplies in place of your normal 30 days payment cycle. Regular monitoring helps avoid these nasty surprises.
As a small business owner, you may feel like the odds are stacked against you. Building a strong business credit profile separate from your personal credit is an easy way to level the playing field. By taking a few simple – and proven – steps, you’ll access more financing from more sources, and at better rates. This is when things get fun. Your credit actually starts to open doors rather than causing them to slam in your face.
Credit is something you’ve got to stay on top of, but the payoff is huge: growing your business dream into a reality. | 2019-04-22T11:59:59Z | https://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/post/117615465447/take-the-time-to-build-a-credit-profile-for-your | Porn | Business | 0.167875 |
wordpress | I am a twenty something almost thirty something mom of 2 insanely wonderful little girls. I am married to an amazing man, one I don’t deserve most days. I love love love the Lord and I am learning, growing, failing and persevering in my journey with Him. Christ is my all sufficient treasure. . . standing in my stead daily. . . speaking on my behalf. I long to love people, love my kids, love my husband and love Christ, well. This blog is simply a place to work through where my heart and head are troubled. . . to grow in holiness and hopefully encourage others along the way. Thanks so much for dropping by. I am so glad to welcome you to The Pender Place. | 2019-04-20T20:36:11Z | https://thependerplace.wordpress.com/about/ | Porn | Kids | 0.556431 |
wordpress | I have been such a slow blogger of late, I fear my readers may just run away. To be honest with you, the reason I am so quiet is because I have been sick, and it is half term, finally, and who wants to spend their much deserved half term sick? I have a terrible cold/sinus/flu/ thingy and it just won’t go. So I am feeling very sorry for myself, and I have no energy whatsoever, and therefore not a great deal to share. I thought this would be a half term of exploring Bahrain, picture taking, discovering, but no. It has instead been a time of shepherding children from one friend to another, criss crossing Bahrain, errands and catching up on all those little things that work stops you doing,and lots of sleep. I can safely say that I will not hit that mall again for 1 whole week.
But on the upside I am getting a new phone, eventually? Tomorrow? So I will finally be reconnected now that my phone took one last breath and died. In order to keep the same number I had before there needs to be come technological mating ritual between two companies, the one I am leaving because I hate them, and the one I can moving to. Since it has been Eid everything is closed and the mating can only resume tomorrow.
On the upside I have found a place to re heel my shoes. It has only been 3 months so that is one big shiny tick, right there.
On the upside we were invited to a BBQ, and I got out of bed to go; I was not to miss our big social event of the past 3 months, now was I? So the social calendar is perking up. It was great fun and the end of the night saw teenagers squirting dish soap all over the pool side stone floor and sliding, full body prostrate, from one side of the terrace into the pool.
On the upside we had one very exciting and rare experience of rain. Yes, the desert rains came. And they were definitely making up for 7 months of no show. Big dramatic clapping thunder, sharp flashing lightning and thick juicy raindrops that fell all night long. The next day the temperature had dropped and it is now a chilly 21 degrees Celsius. We drove out to a sodden desert the next morning and roads that had mini floods. We have no idea when we will see rain again.
On the upside Handsome had a birthday. Sadly it was the day after the rains so he did not get the hot sunny beach day he requested but he did get a breakfast fit for Kings, a walk on the beach, a movie, plenty of divine chocolate cake and a date with his lovely wife to a seriously trendy Japanese restaurant. I tried to remove the pliers that were wrapped around my head for the day, pull myself out of the cold funk and pretend I was not sick.
There are still four more days of my big week off. I am off to find some fun. | 2019-04-26T16:33:03Z | https://3limes.wordpress.com/category/being-brave/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.823985 |
sfgate | The homes in Dayton, Ohio, were restored as part of an economic program attracting immigrants to the neighborhood.
But it is increasingly outdated to think of that as a problem for other countries. The deepest challenge for the U.S. economy may really be about demographics. And our understanding of the implications is only starting to catch up.
A report from the Economic Innovation Group, a Washington think tank funded in large part by tech investors and entrepreneurs, adds rich new detail, showing that parts of the United States are already grappling with Japanese-caliber demographic decline — 41 percent of U.S. counties, with a combined population of 38 million.
At the national level, slower growth in America’s working-age population is a major reason that mainstream forecasters now expect the economy to expand around 2 percent each year rather than the 3 percent common in the second half of the 20th century. As a matter of simple arithmetic, lower growth in the number of people working will almost certainly mean slower growth in economic output.
But demographic change doesn’t hit everywhere equally. Besides the inevitable effect of the extra-large baby boom generation hitting retirement age and stepping away from the workforce, decisions by working-age people can accentuate or lessen the effect of that underlying shift.
Many younger workers move to bustling urban centers on the coasts, leaving smaller cities and rural areas behind. Immigrants bolster the labor force but also disproportionately go to those same big coastal cities.
“Dayton’s height of population was 1953, and we’ve seen stagnant growth for the region since 1990,” said Nan Whaley, the mayor of the Ohio city.
“A lot of people say this was just going to happen, that this is the way it is — I hate that comment,” she said, arguing that policy decisions had provided incentives for investment in coastal cities.
Overall, 80 percent of U.S. counties encompassing 149 million people experienced a decline in the number of residents ages 25 to 54 between 2007 and 2017, according to the paper, which was written by Adam Ozimek of Moody’s Analytics and Kenan Fikri and John Lettieri of the Economic Innovation Group.
Policies to encourage American families to have more children would help over the long run by increasing the supply of potential workers in the future. So could efforts to ensure that even struggling cities have the kinds of amenities young families desire, particularly good schools.
The population of different places is always fluctuating, and economists have traditionally viewed that as a mostly healthy process. Workers make their way to where they will be the most productive, enabling the overall economy to adapt and grow.
But people who study regional economies are increasingly concerned that some aspects of this wave of demographic change make the pain more severe for places left behind — which can get stuck in a vicious cycle.
“There’s a possibility that once local areas start on this downward spiral, it’s self-reproducing,” said Timothy Bartik, a senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
The authors of the EIG report suggest a potential solution: an immigration policy that would stop the vicious cycle. They propose that visas could be made available to skilled immigrants on the condition they go to one of the areas struggling with demographic decline. The idea would be to create growth in the working-age population in those places, increasing the tax base and the demand for housing, and giving businesses reason to invest.
Dayton is the kind of place where that approach may just have some appeal. Whaley, the mayor, said a program called “Welcome Dayton,” intended to help immigrants move to the city, has been helpful in holding the population steady after a long pattern of losses. | 2019-04-21T12:54:07Z | https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/America-s-biggest-economic-challenge-may-be-13765826.php | Porn | Reference | 0.169291 |
wordpress | Road: Pune is 255 Km. State transport buses play regularly between Aurangabad and Pune.
Rail: Aurangabad is the best rail head for Ghrishneshwar.
Air: Aurangabad is the nearest Air Port.
It is recommended that tourists stay at Aurangabad.
There are lot of things which you could see around Aurangabad. You can plan a week long trip for Aurangabad. A short break of a weekend could also be planed. | 2019-04-25T02:54:20Z | https://ontimecars.wordpress.com/pune-ghrishneshwar-special-holiday-tour-package-by-car-trip-rental-hire-quote-ontimecars-in/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.978922 |
typepad | I wanted to show you my swap card for Convention.
I am very pleased how it turned out. I made 50 this year and all of them were swapped! Phew..lol.
I really, really love the ribbon. It is great to work with. It is the 5/8" Organza Ribbon - it only come in Whisper White.
I am now counting down! LOL Oh yes, I am over the half way mark in the pregnancy! This kid is VERY active. Mr O is excited while Miss M, well, she has no idea! LOL.
It is 10pm Sunday night......Mr O's bag is packed ready for school tomorrow, clothes are out ready so I am going to log off, relax and watch some television before heading to bed. Night all!
As my title suggests, our internet connection isn't very good at the moment so I won't be posting until it is back up and running properly. It is taking me twice as long to do things.
Last week saw me fly to Melbourne for Stampin' Up! Convention 2011. For the first time it was over 3 days, not the usual 2 days. I roomed with my usual roomie, Nicky and we had a ball. I've got lots of swaps and I will show you some of them (once connetion is back to normal). Lots of news and lots of sneak peaks at upcoming sets for the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Cataogue. Can't say anything just yet so I'm afraid you will have to wait and see.
One important bit of news from convention is that if you want to sign up to be a demonstrator, you no longer need to apply for an ABN (Australian Business Number). You can sign up online within minutes. However, once you start earing an income from Stampin' Up!, you will then need an ABN.
How would you like to earn an extra $70 in hostess benefits???
If you host a workshop or place an order from the 23rd May until the end of June, you will qualify for the extra benefits. Your order needs to reach $450 in sales. Share your catalogue with your friends and gather orders from them to help reach $450. It works out to be $110 worth of products for free, just for you! You will get your usual $40 hostess benefits plus a level 1 hostess stamp set - then you get an extra $70 on top. Woo hoo!
Are you ready for some weekly surprises? You may have seen our ad in the May issue of your favourite crafting magazine letting you know that throughout the month of May, we are bringing you a new deal on our exclusive products every week! Check our website every Wednesday in May, and get up to 40 percent off a selection of incredible products from the 2010-2011 Idea Book & Catalogue!
There are no limits to the number of Deals of the Week you can purchase and no minimum purchase is required. Now is your time to stock up on your favourite products!
So that is it from me today. I hope the rest of your week is good. | 2019-04-21T10:36:19Z | https://kraftykylie.typepad.com/blossom_designs/2011/05/index.html | Porn | News | 0.48889 |
wordpress | In May of last year (2011), I was invited by Tammy to be a guest on her show “24×7 with Ayesha Tammy Haq” to speak on the topic of Internet and Social Media in Pakistan, particularly in the light of the recurrent Facebook ban case that was being contested in the Lahore High Court.
The program was aired live on May 18, 2011. Fellow guests on the show were Jehan Ara, President of P@SHA and Raza Ahmed (aka Raza Rumi) who is a writer and an editor for The Friday Times.
The program went very well and we decided to do a follow-up on the same topic which was aired on May 20, 2011. | 2019-04-19T17:19:37Z | https://discomaulvi.wordpress.com/tag/ayesha-tammy-haq/ | Porn | News | 0.829521 |
google | Eric grew up in Bucks County Pennsylvania. He was the top small bore shooter on Central Buck HS Shooting team and shot three position indoor rifle and field archer at the Bucks Co Fish and Game Club. Eric earned his Eagle badge and was a member of the Order of the Arrow with the Boy Scouts of America.
In 1970 he graduated from the University of Maine, Orion with a BS in Wildlife Management. He was an officer in Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity. He worked summers in wildlife with the US Forest Service and Maine Dept of Inland Fisheries and Game.
In 1971 Eric started with the Vermont Department of Fish and Game as a Game Warden. In his 32 year career he served as a police trainer, hunter education coordinator and on the core management team. Honors included: NRA National champion for conservation officer police revolver, State champion police revolver, and Warden hunter education instructor of the year. During this time he earned his associate degree in Criminal Justice, became a certified public manager and graduated from the VT Agency of Natural Resources Leadership and Management program.
After retiring Eric moved to Wellington, CO to take the Executive Vice President position with the International Hunter Education Association. Accomplishments included developing the organizations first strategic plan, facilitating the switch to the Carver form of board governance, improved funding, developing and implementing on line Hunter Education courses and strengthened international ties. Eric represented IHEA on committees and task forces with the Association of Wildlife Agencies, USFWS, American Wildlife Conservation Partners, National Bowhunter's Educational Foundation and the National Wild Turkey Federation.
In 2006, Eric moved back to Vermont and set up his consultancy, Eric C. Nuse and Associates. He has served on numerous VT Fish and Wildlife Department and Agency of Natural Resources committees and working groups as a sportsmen representative.
Eric was invited to join the Board of Orion-the Hunter's Institute in Helena, MT. In 2010 he was promoted to Executive Director taking over for founder Jim Posewitz and currently serves on the board of Directors.
Currently Eric is on the board for the Backcountry Hunter's and Anglers New England chapter, the Johnson Conservation Commission and Friends of Green River Reservoir.
Eric is married with 5 children, 10 hens, and 2 cats. He is an avid hunter, fisher, hiker, wildlife watcher, tracker, skier, wilderness canoeist and reader.
Memberships include: Life member National Rife Association, Izaak Walton League of America, Orion-the Hunter's Institute, life member International Hunter Education Association, Vermont Hunter Education Association, Lamoille Valley Fish and Game Club, Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partners, the Vermont Wildlife Partnership and, the Vermont Warden's Association. | 2019-04-25T23:44:27Z | https://sites.google.com/site/ericnuse/ericnusebio | Porn | Sports | 0.364053 |
escort-ireland | You need to be logged in before you can send Amna a message.
I will be delighted to meet you and spend great time togheter !
Let your hands to exploring my curves and have a romantic adventure !
I am everything could you ever desire in a women !
Come at me to release you stress !
Amna charges for time and companionship only. Anything else that occurs is a matter of coincidence and choice between consenting adults.
These are the times that Amna will make appointments to meet you.
Amna may not always be available at the specified times. | 2019-04-19T12:38:43Z | https://www.escort-ireland.com/escorts/amna5-spanish-female-escort.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.470722 |
wordpress | View from inside the detached cabana style gazebo by Archadeck of Maryland, truly the heart of this versatile outdoor space.
We recently completed a project in Silver Spring which encompasses everything you could ever ask for in an outdoor oasis. The homeowner works for a company that takes care of high-end hotel renovations, so he already had an eye for design. Archadeck of Maryland was able to create the outdoor oasis within this Maryland homeowners imagination into a reality, and now these homeowners have a place to relax and soak in the feeling of “no place like home” upon return of a long business trip.
This outdoor space has it all, these homeowners don't have far to go for relaxation and entertaining.
These homeowners really wanted a space the whole family could enjoy but also, with two teenage boys, they also wanted the capability to have privacy and separation within the design. The homeowners said the main uses they wanted to utilize were socializing, grilling, eating and reading. We were able to create a place for each activity and also create a space that could please a crowd or serve as a place of solitude and quiet built for two. This space is versatile in its layout and design. This outdoor space brings new meaning to the phrase ” a place for everything and everything in its place”.
Another view of this stunning outdoor space by Archadeck of Maryland.
The space has a detached cabana style gazebo, a gorgeous paver patio, a grilling area, a deck that is large enough to accommodate two separate areas for dining as well as seating, a fire pit, a hot tub with deck surround and a privacy fence with a pergola-style decorative feature which adds character and uniqueness.
The detached cabana style gazebo is truly the heart of this versatile outdoor living space. The gazebo boasts a spacious 12×12 area that can be used for seating, reading and also has protection from bothersome insects and the harsh rays of the sun with the addition of having the area screened in. The detached gazebo is perfectly placed within the space for a bird’s eye view of everything going on around the outdoor space as well.
The privacy fence serves as much for visual appeal as it does for safety and seclusion.
The hot tub’s deck surround creates a safe haven to enter and exit the hot tub, and the privacy fence with pergola style decorative features will add style and pizazz to an area that serves as a necessity to keep prying eyes away, and gives these homeowners peace of mind.
The Deck is 20″ above grade and is large enough to serve as two living areas, there is ample room for seating as well as dining. The deck steps down to a beautiful curved paver patio. The curvilinear shape is really popular for patios right now, and the homeowners wanted an overall shape to the structure that offered more visual interest and aesthetic appeal than a rectilinear shaped structure. The addition of the custom fire pit within the patio creates perfect design harmony within a space that creates a perfect spot to gather to take the chill off and maybe enjoy some roasted marshmallows or s’mores by the glow of the fire.
Notice how beautifully each area and structure flows into one another.
These homeowners are excited to make use of their new “outdoor oasis” with the cold evenings of September right around the corner. This outdoor space in its entirety is everything they could have hoped for and much more.
Red is one of the most powerful of all the warm colors used in design and these homeowners in Silver Spring MD are in the midst of a wonderful transformation within their backyard by transforming their less than functional and unattractive hardscape into one that whispers relaxation along with the rustic hues of red they chose for this endeavor.
These homeowners are busy professionals and have two teen-aged sons, so they wanted the backyard to promote relaxation and fun so their family could make the most out of the time they spend together. They decided upon a screened stand-alone gazebo, a patio with a seating area which encompasses a fire pit, a deck, a hot tub with loads privacy, and an outdoor grill/kitchen area. This construction is “in progress”, but once completed will be the perfect family hot spot or a great place to spend a “stay-cation”.
Each Archadeck of Maryland client gets a design rendering showing exactly what their project will look like. This is the plan for this Silver Spring backyard.
Archadeck of Maryland had a difficult challenge to overcome because the yard slopes as it descends into the back, and the deck inside corner portrays close proximity to the family room and kitchen, the family room is actually two steps down to the kitchen. It was tough to incorporate the deck and it’s traffic flow with these close quarters. The homeowners did not want to drop the deck down to the latter level because that would entail having three steps down. We were able to make it all fit together as you will see in the design rendering submitted for this structure.
Still in progress... We are finishing up the gazebo, deck and patio.
The screened, stand alone gazebo is going to be placed at a 45 degree angle with arches in between the screened panel opening for a stunning effect. The color palette chosen by these homeowners is stunning as well, with hues of brick-red, and red tones used alongside grays for a beautiful rustic feel.
These Silver Spring, MD homeowners chose a Guardian Guardeck in a brick, red-toned color. The paver color they chose is called, Canyon Blend, and it will blend in the red tones with the gray stone. The paver in made by Fendt, and is part of their Spectrum Collection. The fire pit is going to be finished with Onyx red, and the grill will be finished in Onyx natural. The fire pit is gas so we will be running a gas line to it. The homeowners had to get the meter updated to accommodate the fire pit running off the gas line from the house.
We are really excited to see the finished product for these Silver Spring, MD homeowners. Stay tuned for more pictures to come on this glorious project.
If you are thinking of a transformation in your own backyard, contact Archadeck of Maryland to find out more at (301) 926 – 3001 or email us at centralmaryland@archadeck.net and don’t forget to visit our photo galleries to see design ideas and pictures from other stunning outdoor structures.
Take a look at our Archadeck of Central Maryland website. | 2019-04-25T05:44:38Z | https://decksmaryland.wordpress.com/category/screened-porches/screened-stand-alone-gazebos/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.864279 |
wordpress | My poem I Can Only Imagine What’s Buried Beneath is published in The Camel Saloon, August 2012 Thank you so much, Russell Streur, for publishing it!
This entry was posted in poetry and tagged August 2012, I Can Only Imagine What's Buried Beneath, Meg Tuite, poem, Russell Streur, The Camel Saloon. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-20T18:24:55Z | https://megtuite.wordpress.com/2012/08/02/my-poem-i-can-only-imagine-whats-buried-beneath-is-published-in-the-camel-saloon-august-2012/ | Porn | Arts | 0.98017 |
wordpress | Montreal/Königstein, 27 October 2014 – The international Catholic charity “Aid to the Church in Need” will support refugees who fled from attacks of the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria. Answering a request from Bishop Oliver Doeme from the Roman Catholic diocese of Maiduguri in North Eastern Nigeria “Aid to the Church in Need” has just approved a $64,000 aid package to help the diocese of Maiduguri manage the situation of the refugees.
The beneficiaries of this support will be the men, women and children, young and old, who have found refuge in the Cameroons, in the mountains, in Maiduguri and Yola. Also 200 catechists and their families, as well as those priests from the diocese taking refuge in Yola will benefit from this help.
Since 2009 the Diocese of Maiduguri is the worst hit diocese by the Boko Haram attacks. The three Northern Eastern Nigerian states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa are at the centre of Boko Haram activities. And the Catholic Diocese of Maiduguri covers two and half of these states. Since 2009, many of the Church’s structures, priests rectories, schools, hospitals, shops, personal houses of lay people and business centers have been destroyed whilst over 80,000 of the diocese’s members have fled their ancestral villages and taken refuge in different places.
So far the Nigerian Army has failed to protect the civilian population. Given Boko Haram’s technical superiority, the mastery and resilience with which they fight, the military are unable to face their attacks and they flee, asking civilians to do the same. The government seems unable to protect the lives of its citizens and there is a total disconnection between what is being reported on the Nigerian media and the reality on the ground.
As a consequence of Boko Haram’s almost unchallenged over-run of many towns and villages in the Northeast part of the country, thousands of these Internal Displaced People (IDPs) are living in caves in the mountain or in the forest. Others who managed to escape from the terrorists are being absorbed by friends and relatives in Maiduguri, Mubi and Yola. Thousands were able to escape to the Cameroons and are living under very difficult conditions of lack of food, shelter and medication.
or click the image to make a secure on-line donation.
All projects underway adding up to a total amount of 5.77 million CAN – one of the largest efforts in ACN’s history – shows the scale of the drama experienced by our Iraqi brothers and sisters. If our partners recognize us for our support, we still know that they are far from the end of this unspeakable catastrophe. The threat remains and the fragility of their hearts no less persistent.
This is why we still your help to continue supporting our brothers and sisters of the Middle-East trapped and forced to seek refuge elsewhere in their country… if not in another.
Bombs fall and the sound of the explosion sends shock and fear into the hearts of the people.
Amid the sound of crying and frenzied activity, people pack up what belongings they can carry and make off into the night.
In the midst of it all stands Martin Baani, a 24-year-old seminarian.
The realisation is dawning on him that this is Karamlesh’s last stand.
For 1,800 years, Christianity has had a home in the hearts and minds of the people of this village, full of antiquity. Now that era is about to be brought to a calamitous end; Islamic State are advancing.
Martin’s mobile phone rings: a friend stammers out the news that the nearby town of Telkaif has fallen to “Da’ash” – the Arabic name for Islamic State. Karamlesh would surely be next.
Martin dashes out of his aunt’s house, where he is staying, and heads for the nearby St Addai’s Church. He takes the Blessed Sacrament, a bundle of official of papers and walks out of the church. Outside a car awaits – his parish priest, Fr Thabet, and three other priests are inside.
Martin gets in and the car speeds off. They leave Karamlesh and the last remnants of the village’s Christian presence go with them.
Speaking to Martin in the calm of St Peter’s Seminary, Ankawa, it is difficult to imagine he is describing anything except a bad dream.
But there is nothing dreamy in Martin’s expression. “Until the very last minute, the Pashmerga [the Kurdish armed forces protecting the villages] were telling us it was safe.
Taking stock of that terrible night of 6th/7th August, Martin’s confidence is bolstered by the presence of 27 other seminarians at St Peter’s, many with their own stories of escape from the clutches of the Islamic militants.
Martin and his fellow students for the priesthood know that the future is bleak as regards Christianity in Iraq.
A community of 1.5 million Christians before 2003 has dwindled to less than 300,000. And of those who remain, more than a third are displaced. Many, if not most, want a new life in a new country.
Martin has already made the choice that marks out the priests who have decided to stay in Iraq; his vocation is to serve the people, come what may.
“We must stand up for our rights; we must not be afraid.” He explains. Describing in detail the emergency relief work that has occupied so much of his time, it is plain to see that he feels his place is to be with the people.
Martin is already a sub-deacon. Now in his final year of theology, ordination to the priesthood is – God willing – but a few months away.
Aid to the Church in Need is committed to supporting Martin and all the seminarians at St Peter’s Seminary, Ankawa as they make their journey to the Altar of God and prepare to serve God and their suffering people as priests.
Aid to the Church in Need announces 12 urgent aid packages for Iraq to help the thousands of displaced Iraqi Christians. They are to receive food, shelter, schooling and gifts for children in a concerted emergency relief program rushed through by a Catholic charity before the onset of winter. The 4 million Euros scheme announced by Aid to the Church in Need – one of the largest in the charity’s 67-year history – also includes pastoral support for priests and Sisters displaced by the crisis that has swept the country.
Monday to Thursday: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. | 2019-04-24T13:52:23Z | https://aidchurch.wordpress.com/2014/10/30/ | Porn | News | 0.705216 |
typepad | Premier Wen Jiabao emphasized that China would continue to promote "gradual reforms to political institutions," but focus primarily on economic development, according to a speech carried by Xinhua on February 26.
The transcript (audio and written) of the December 5, 2006 conference on Rural Discontent, Rule of Law, and Social Unrest in China sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is now available here.
The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is currently seeking to fill TWO positions to assist with the implementation of academic programming of East Asian studies at Yale.
Attached you will find the job descriptions for CHINA PROGRAM ASSOCIATE (Requisition #CPLN59464) and ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT (Requisition #CKHN59465).
The Law on Professonial Farmers Cooperatives - Mild Liberalization for Rural Chinese Civil Society?
Chinese authorities have implemented somewhat liberal reforms with respect to rural civil society organizations in issuing the he Law on Professional Farmers' Cooperatives [LPFC] on October 31, 2006 (effective on July 1, 2007). The law creates a channel for farmers to register and obtain legal status for organizations that they create to protect their collective economic interests. The LPFC requires farmers to register professional farmers' cooperatives with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, but does not subject them to the sponsorship requirement that Chinese authorities use to control the growth of civil society organizations such as social organizations or non-governmental, non-commerical enterprises.
What's Happening With Chinese Civil Society?
People keep asking me the above question. Generally, it comes in one of two forms. The first is: are Chinese authorities liberalizing or tightening their controls over domestic and foreign civil society organizations in China. The second is: what are the interesting topical areas to focus on for organizations that want to do work in China.
The State Council's Standing Committee is currently reviewing the revisions to the 1998 regulations governing social organizations. Sun's speech notes that MOCA has already submitted these to the State Council's Standing Committee.
Chinese authorities are moving ahead with the creation of a new "rating" system for civil society organizations. Experimental projects have been launched in a number of different regions and areas.
MOCA officials are making strong efforts to increase their work with rural professional economic associations. This follows emphasis in the Party's "No. 1 Document" for 2007 regarding the importance of these organizations.
Chinese authorities continue to supress and root out illegal, unregistered civil society organizations.
So, to return to the initial two questions. First, are Chinese authorities loosening or tightening their restrictions on civil society organizations?
Chinese authorities have clearly taken additional steps to curtail civil society organizations in the past two years. Monitoring and harassment of these groups has increased, and there has been a "virtual paralysis" on the registration of new groups, as the Congressional-Executive Commission on China noted in the civil society section of its 2006 Annual Report.
But Chinese authorities are undecided on how to proceed. Expected revisions to the 1998 regulations have languished for five years. There seems to be some serious internal debate inside the Chinese bureaucracy on exactly how to manage these organizations. Earlier MOCA versions of the draft regulations apparently would have done away with the requirement that civil society groups have a Party or government sponsor organization in order to register and obtain legal status. But State Council officials appear to have vetoed these proposals, as as the Congressional-Executive Commission on China noted in the civil society section of its 2005 Annual Report. The sponsor organization requirement is one of the key devices by which Chinese authorities keep a check on the development of independent Chinese civil society organizations.
In all likelihood, whenever the regulations do issue, the sponsor organization requirement will be retained. Media reports on the MOCA draft have noted as much. It's also likely that the sponsor organization requirement will be expanded to include foreign NGOs operating in China as well. Sun's speech notes that the revised regulations "severely need to come out, in order to respond to challenges presented by foreign civil society organizations." Moreover, when Chinese authorities revised their regulations on foundations in 2003, the sponsor organization requirement was extended to cover both foreign and domestic groups. (For more information, see the article on page 110 of the April 2004 issue of the International Journal of Civil Society Law) It seems likely that the newly issued foundation regulations would serve as a template for future revisions to the corresponding 1998 regulations governing social organizations and non-governmental, non-commercial enterprises.
The second question: what are the interesting topical areas to focus on for organizations that want to do work in China. Take a good hard look at the rural professional economic associations. Chinese leaders have particularly emphasized the importance of resolving rural problems, and have specifically indicated a degree of openness in working with these groups. Since one of the main problems faced by Chinese farmers is a lack of organizational structures to use to defend their collective interests, the development of these groups is a particularly interesting and positive. Of course, how it plays out in practice remains an open question.
The China Law Center of Yale Law School is seeking a graduating student or recent university graduate for a Research Associate position based in Beijing. The Research Associate will support Center projects in China by providing administrative and logistical support; conducting research and writing on issues related to legal reform; and communicating with scholars, officials, and lawyers.
Ministry of Public Security (MPS) spokesman Wu Heping and deputy director of the MPS's criminal investigation bureau Yu Xinmin emphasized MPS successes in breaking homicide cases, but provided no information as to trends regarding citizen protest activities, at a February 6, 2007 State Council Information Office press conference discussing general public order trends for 2006. A transcript of the event is available on the Chinese government's website.
The MPS officials provided numerous statistics related to law enforcement work in 2006. They noted that the MPS handled roughly 4.65 million criminal cases in 2006, roughly the same for the last three years. They also strongly emphasized MPS successes in solving homicide cases, claiming a national average 91.4% in solving eight types of these cases.
The MPS officials did not provide any statistics related to citizen protests in China. In 2005, Zhou Yongkang, minister in charge of the public security bureau, noted that mass incidents (群体性事件） had risen to 74,000 in 2004, up from 10,000 in 1994, according to media sources cited on the website of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC). MPS authorities announced in 2006 that the total number of crimes of "disturbing public order" for 2005 had risen by 6.6 percent over 2004, to 87,000, according to media sources cited on the CECC website. The use of different terms (and the absence of corresponding information for 2006), renders direct comparisons impossible. For further discussion on this point, see the EastSouthWestNorth blog.
Why Don't Chinese Authorities Repress Every Single Protest in China?
You read about it in the news. Another case of several hundred Chinese villagers gathering together to protest illegal taxes. Or, a group of migrant workers demanding that local officials compel the construction company that they work pay them the back wages they are owed. And you think, is this is China? Don't Chinese leaders have authoritarian political controls they can use to stamp out these protests? Why don't they do it in every case?
One - it's tough. There is a lot of discontent in China. Squelching every protest through armed force requires a big investment of time, energy, and money. It also results in a lot of negative publicity at home and abroad. Central Chinese authorities prefer to save their strongest repressive measures for cases such as Tiananmen Square in 1989 or organizations such as Falun Gong.
Second, China's leaders themselves recognize that some of these protests are valid. Many citizen protests are directed against local corruption and illegal abuses by local cadres, rather than directly challenging Communist Party rule by officials in Beijing. In recent years, Chinese officials have repeatedly emphasized that 80% of citizen petitions are justified, and 80% of them reflect problems of local governance. Central Chinese leaders are willing to tacitly permit some of these citizen protests, such as those that challenge local abuses they themselves are trying to crack down on, as long as the protests don't get too out of hand, and as long as the protests remain directed at local (rather than central) officials.
Third, instead of simply calling in the troops every time a group of farmers mount a protest, Chinese authorities have developed an alternative strategy for dealing with citizen unrest: taking out the leaders. The thinking goes, if you can remove the organizational structure behind protests, you don't need to crack down so hard on the hundreds of participants who simply join in. This is why Chinese leaders often come down like a ton of bricks on those they perceive as active organizers of citizen protests, whether or not those leaders have attempted to pursue peaceful and legal methods of protest.
This focused (and long-standing) policy of selective use of criminal sanctions is reflected in a recent opinion issued by the Supreme People's Procuratorate on December 26, 2006. It directs procuratorate officials to "strike hard" against those who organize or lead "mass incidents" (a term that Chinese officials use to include riots, demonstrations, or collective protests against government action). In contrast, it directs procuratorators to "cautiously use coercive measures and criminal suits against ordinary participants," and notes that "if it is necessary to file suit, [procuracy officials] may request leinency from the people's courts." | 2019-04-19T08:47:36Z | https://sinolaw.typepad.com/chinese_law_and_politics_/2007/02/?asset_id=6a00d8341c5ad553ef00d8353fc7bf53ef | Porn | Society | 0.760762 |
wikipedia | For other uses, see Future tense (disambiguation).
In other languages, mostly of European origin, specific markers indicate futurity. These structures constitute a future tense. In many cases, an auxiliary verb is used, as in English, where futurity is often indicated by the modal auxiliary will (or shall). However, some languages combine such an auxiliary with the main verb to produce a simple (one-word, morphological) future tense. This is the origin of the future tense in Western Romance languages such as French and Italian (see below).
A given language may have more than one way to express futurity. English, for example, often refers to future events using present tense forms or other structures such as the going-to future, besides the canonical form with will/shall. In addition, the verb forms used for the future tense can also be used to express other types of meaning; English again provides examples of this (see English modal verbs for the various meanings that both will and shall can have besides simply expressing futurity).
The past of the future, marking an occurrence expected to take place before some future reference time, is typically marked by a future perfect form (in languages that have such a form), as in the English "I shall have finished by tomorrow afternoon."
The "future of the past" may be expressed in various ways in English. It is possible to use would in its capacity as the past tense of the future marker will (see English modal verbs and future-in-the-past); for example: "The match started at midday but would not end until the evening." It is also possible to use the past tense of other expressions that express future reference, as in "I was going to wait"; "I was to wait"; "I was about to wait." Such expressions can also be put into other tenses and moods (and non-finite forms), to achieve future reference in hypothetical and future situations, e.g., "I would be going to take part if ..."; "I shall be about to leave." More examples can be found in the section Expressions of relative future in the article on the going-to future.
In Germanic languages, including English, a common expression of the future is using the present tense, with the futurity expressed using words that imply future action (I go to Berlin tomorrow or I am going to Berlin tomorrow). There is no simple (morphological) future tense as such. However, the future can also be expressed by employing an auxiliary construction that combines certain present tense auxiliary verbs with the simple infinitive (stem) of the main verb. These auxiliary forms vary between the languages. Other, generally more informal, expressions of futurity use an auxiliary with the compound infinitive of the main verb (as with the English is going to ...).
English grammar provides a number of ways to indicate the future nature of an occurrence. Some argue that English does not have a future tense—that is, a grammatical form that always indicates futurity—nor does it have a mandatory form for the expression of futurity. However, there are several generally accepted ways to indicate futurity in English, and some of them—particularly those that use will or shall—are frequently described as future tense.
The will/shall future consists of the modal verb will or shall together with the bare infinitive of the main verb, as in "He will win easily" or "I shall do it when time permits". (Prescriptive grammarians prefer will in the second and third persons and shall in the first person, reversing the forms to express obligation or determination, but in practice shall and will are generally used interchangeably, with will being more common. For details see shall and will.) The meaning of this construction is close to that expressed by the future tense in other languages. However the same construction with will or shall can have other meanings that do not indicate futurity, or else indicate some modality in addition to futurity (as in "He will make rude remarks", meaning he has a habit of doing so, or, "You shall act on my behalf", giving an order). For details of these meanings, see the sections on will and shall in the article on English modal verbs.
Present tense forms, as in "The train leaves at five," or, "My cousins arrive tomorrow." Since these grammatical forms are used more canonically to refer to present situations, they are not generally described as future tense; in sentences like those just given they may be described as "present tense with future meaning". Use of the present tense (rather than forms with will) is mandatory in some subordinate clauses referring to the future, such as "If I feel better next week, ..." and "As soon as they arrive, ...". For more details see the sections on the simple present, present progressive and dependent clauses in the article on English verb forms.
The going-to future, e.g., "John is going to leave tonight."
The construction with a finite form of the copula verb be together with the to-infinitive, e.g., "John is to leave tonight". (With the zero copula of newspaper headline style, this becomes simply "John to leave tonight".) For details see am to.
Use of modal verbs with future meaning, to combine the expression of future time with certain modality: "I must do this" (also mun in Northern English dialect); "We should help him"; "I can get out of here"; "We may win"; "You might succeed". The same modal verbs are also often used with present rather than future reference. For details of their meanings and usage, see English modal verbs.
Questions and negatives are formed from all of the above constructions in the regular manner: see Questions and Negation in the English grammar article. The auxiliaries will and shall form the contracted negations won't and shan't (they can also sometimes be contracted when not negated, to 'll).
The various ways of expressing the future carry different meanings, implying not just futurity but also aspect (the way an action or state takes place in time) and/or modality (the attitude of the speaker toward the action or state). The precise interpretation must be based on the context. In particular there is sometimes a distinction in usage between the will/shall future and the going-to future (although in some contexts they are interchangeable). For more information see the going-to future article.
In zehn Jahren bin ich Millionär.
"In ten years, I shall be a millionaire."
Literally: "In ten years am I millionaire."
Ich werde dich morgen nach der Arbeit anrufen.
"I shall call you tomorrow after work."
Literally: "I become you tomorrow after the work call."
"I shall have called you."
All these wordings do still exists, but nowadays (usually) only ich werde loben (future I) and sometimes ich würde loben (conjunctive II future) are labeled future forms.
gaan + infinitive: Ik ga het boek lezen (I'm going to read the book). "Gaan" is a cognate of "to go".
zullen + infinitive: Ik zal het boek lezen (I will/shall read the book). "Zullen" is a cognate of "shall".
present tense + context or a temporal adverb or clause: Hoe lang blijft hij in Nederland? (How long is he staying in the Netherlands?) Its English-language equivalent uses the continuous or imperfective aspect.
English will and Dutch wil, although cognates, have over the centuries shifted in meaning, such that will is almost identical to shall, whereas Dutch wil means want, as in Ik wil het doen (I want to do it).
skulu (shall) implying obligation or determination.
It is believed that in Old Norse munu expressed the pure future, skulu (shall) expressed obligation or determination as it still does, and a third auxiliary, vilja ("will"), expressed will or intent.
The verb verða (become) is also very commonly used in the meaning "will be", making the lesser used mun vera (will be) have a bit stronger emphasis on the future than the English translation has.
Like many other Germanic languages, the future can also be expressed by simply using the present tense and having in the sentence words that imply future action (e.g. "tomorrow"). Because of this, if it is already evident from the sentence that one is talking about the future, then the verb is almost always in the present tense.
mon (or in Nynorsk mun.).
Det vil aldrig ske "That will never happen" (a prediction) but Det skal ej ske "That shall not happen" (a promise).
Hvad skal du i aften? "What will you (do) tonight?"; Jeg skal besøge mine forældre i weekenden "I shall visit my parents this weekend"; Skal du hjem nu? "Will you go (are you going) home now?".
Han vil hentes "He wants to_be_picked_up"; Han skal hentes "He must be_picked_up". Han vil blive hentet "He will become (get) picked_up (it's already arranged)", but Han skal blive hentet "He will become (be) picked_up (I promise)".
Jeg skal til fødselsdag i morgen "I shall (go) to (a) birthday_party tomorrow". Det bliver sjov "That becomes (will be) fun". Vi bliver 15 "We become (shall be) 15 (there will be fifteen of us)". Han bliver 40 "He becomes (will be) 40".
Swedish:pp.107–108 skall strongly implies intention, but with an adverb such as nog "probably" it can avoid the implication of intentionality: Det här skall nog gå bra "This will probably go well". However, the past tense of skall, skulle, can be used without such an adverb to express predictions in the past : Pelle sa, att det skulle bli varmt på eftermiddagen "Pelle said that it would be warm in the afternoon."
Pure future, regardless of intention, is usually expressed with kommer att (literally: "comes to"): Det här kommer att gå bra "This will go well", Du kommer att överleva det här "You will survive this".
The future tense forms in Latin varied by conjugation. Here is a sample of the future tense for the first conjugation verb amare, "to love".
See Latin conjugation for further details. Sound changes in Vulgar Latin made future forms difficult to distinguish from other verb forms (e.g., amabit "he will love" vs. amavit "he loved"), and the Latin simple future forms were gradually replaced by periphrastic structures involving the infinitive and an auxiliary verb, such as debere, venire, velle, or especially habere. All of the modern Romance languages have grammaticalized one of these periphrastic constructions for expressing the future tense; none of them has preserved the original Latin future.
From this construction, the major Western Romance languages have simple future tense forms that derive from the infinitive followed by a conjugated form of the verb "to have" (Latin habere). As the auxiliary verb lost its modal force (from a verb expressing obligation, desire, or intention, to a simple marker of tense), it also lost syntactic autonomy (becoming an enclitic) and phonological substance (e.g., Latin first singular habeo > ayyo > Old French ai, Modern French [e]).
Thus the sequence of Latin verbs amare habeo ("I have to love") gave rise to French aimerai, Spanish amaré, etc. "I will love".
In Portuguese, the simple future, called "futuro do indicativo", is quite similar to Spanish. However, the future may also be formed with the auxiliary verb ir ("to go") in the simple present and with the main verb in the infinitive (vou cantar, vou bater, etc.), but it cannot be done for the verb ir, as something like vou ir would sound very strange.
In Portuguese a pronoun may be placed between the root verb and the future tense ending, as in dar-lhe-ei ("I will give it to you"), where the pronoun lhe ("to you") is inserted into the future verb darei ("(I) will give"), between the root (dar) and the future tense ending (ei). This phenomenon is called mesoclisis.
Sardinian, due to its early breaking off from Proto-Romance, displays different traits in its morphology. Notably, in the future tense, the verb habeo (aere in Sardinian) is instead proclitic, and does not have an individual conjugation on the verb. Instead, aere is conjugated into present tense, and the other verb's infinitive form is used. Thusly, app'aere, app'appidu and app'aere appidu are aere's future, perfect, and future perfect.
-będę mówił (m)/mówiła (f)/ mówiło (n)/mówić (I will say, I will be saying).
-będziesz mówił (m) / mówiła (f) / mówiło (n)/mówić (You will say, you will be saying).
-będzie mówił (m) / mówiła (f) / mówiło (n)/mówić (He/she/it will say, he/she/it will be saying).
-będziemy mówili (mp) / mówiły (nmp) / mówić (We will say, we will be saying).
-będziecie mówili (mp) / mówiły (nmp) / mówić (You will say, you will be saying).
-będą mówili (mp) / mówiły (nmp) / mówić (They will say, they will be saying).
(m) refers to a male, (f) to a female and (n) is neuter, used with inanimate objects. In Plural, (mp) refers to the masculine-personal gender and (nmp) to non-masculine-personal. The form with the infinitive is less common.
This example follows the rules of the verbs which conjugate according to the model -em, esz. The other models are -am, asz, -ę, esz, -ę, isz and -ę, ysz. Irregular verbs may change their root, but never their desinence (like in the example above where the root powi changes to powiedz in the third person plural).
In Scottish Gaelic, the future tense is formed in regular verbs by adding aidh or idh to the end of the root form of the verb (idh is used if the final vowel in the root is i).
Inserting cha before the root forms the negative. The initial consonant of the root is lenited where possible, except for d, t or s, which in certain cases is not lenited. Chan is substituted if the root begins with a vowel or an f followed by a vowel, which is also lenited.
In the interrogative, an is placed before the root of the verb. If the root begins with b, f, m, or p, am is used instead.
As in English, some forms are irregular - mostly common verbs. For example, the root for the word "to see" is faic, but the positive future tense form "will see" is chì.
The copula is bidh (will be), cha bhi (will not be), am bi (interrogative), and nach bi (negative interrogative).
The linking verb (that will be) is gum bi (positive) or nach bi (negative).
In Irish, the future tense is formed two ways in regular verbs, depending on verb class. Class I verbs add faidh or fidh to the end of the root form of the verb (fidh is used if the final vowel in the root is e or i).
Class II verbs add óidh or eoidh to the end of the root form of the verb (eoidh is used if the final vowel in the root is e, i, or í).
The negative is formed by adding ní. The initial consonant of the root is lenited.
In the interrogative, an is placed before the root of the verb, which causes eclipsis.
The future of verb tá (be) is beidh (1pl. beimid). The copula is ("is") is is (will be), ní (will not be), an (interrogative), and nach (negative interrogative).
The linking verb (that will be) is go mbí (positive) or nach bí (negative).
In Welsh, most verbal functions are expressed using constructions with bod (to be). The future may be expressed in the same way using the future tense of bod.
Fe fydd e yn... (he will...) etc.
(The affirmative marker "fe" has no real translation in English and can easily be left out or replaced with 'mi' in North Wales. Neither word should be confused with subject pronouns which follow the verb in Welsh).
Dwi'n mynd yna heddiw: I am going there today.
The simple future, which uses verb suffixes conjugated with the verb, is used to express determination of action or to emphasise confidence in outcome. As in the future of bod, the affirmative marker is fe.
Biblical Hebrew has a distinction between past and future tenses which is similar in form to those used in other Semitic languages such as Arabic and Aramaic. Gesenius refers to the past and future verb forms as Perfect and Imperfect, respectively, separating completed action from uncompleted action. However, the usage of verbs in these forms does not always have the same temporal meaning as in Indo-European languages, mainly due to the common use of a construct of inverting the time reference with a prefix "Waw consecutive" (ו' ההיפוך). With this construct, the Perfect-consecutive refers to the future and the Imperfect-consecutive refers to the past.
as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
Modern Hebrew always employs the imperfect as the future tense (and the perfect as the past tense). The usage of "Waw consecutive" has practically disappeared, except for quotes from the Bible and Poetic language.
To form future tense in Arabic the prefix (سـ) "sa" is added to the present tense verb, or (سوف) "sawfa".
For example, consider the sentence: I eat apples > "آكلُ تفاحاً" "Akulu tuffahan"
To express the future we have two ways: I will eat apples > "سـآكلُ تفاحاً" "Saakulu tuffahan" or: I will eat apples > "سوف آكلُ تفاحاً" "Sawfa akulu tuffahan"
The first is written as part of the verb, whereas the latter is written as a Clitic to indicate the future but preceding the verb.
In Classical Arabic the latter indicates an individual future action that usually takes place further in the future than the first mentioned form, which is usually used with verbs that relate to other actions, and mostly referring to rather near future actions. However, in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) the distinction is minimal.
Moreover, the indication of the future tense in dialectal Arabic is quite varied from one dialect to the next. Generally speaking, the words meaning "want to" (بدي / أريد أن), "go to" (أروح), "intend to"(ناوي /نويت), and many others are used daily to indicate future actions. In Moroccan Arabic, the word "Ghad" (غاد) is used to indicate future, which literally means "there" (or there is to happen), that is in some way similar to the English formation "there I go.."
The future marker in Jamaican Creole is /de go/:pp. 93–95 or /a go/: /de go hapm/ "is going to happen", /mi a go ɹon/ "I am going to run".
In Belizean Creole, the future tense is indicated by a mandatory invariant pre-verbal particle /(w)a(n)/, /gwein/, or /gouɲ/.
In Gullah the future is indicated by the pre-verbal marker gwine: Uh gwine he'p dem "I'm going to help them".
In Hawaiian Creole, the pre-verbal future marker is gon: Ai gon bai wan pikap "I'm going to buy a pickup".
Haitian Creole, based on a French superstrate, interchangeably uses pral or va (from French 3rd person singular va "goes") pre-verbally to indicate the future: Mwen va fini lit. "I go finish"; Li pral vini jodi a "He will come today".
^ a b Östen Dahl, Tense and Aspect Systems, Blackwell, 1985, pp. 105-106.
^ a b Fleischman, Suzanne, The Future in Thought and Language, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982: pp. 18-19, 86-89, and 95-97.
^ Comrie, Bernard, Tense, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985: pp. 21, 47-48.
^ Stern, Henry R. (1 October 1984). "Essential Dutch Grammar". Courier Corporation. Retrieved 9 May 2018 – via Google Books.
^ "Dutch Grammar • Using the simple future". www.dutchgrammar.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
^ The Importance of Lithuanian for Indo-European Linguistics - Antanas Klimas Archived 2018-05-09 at the Wayback Machine See section 9.
^ Zink, Gaston (1997). Morphologie du français médiéval (in French) (4th ed.). Paris: PUF. ISBN 2-13-046470-X.
^ "future tense". wordreference.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
^ "All dialects: Future markers غاد ، باش ، ح ، راح". wordreference.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
^ Bybee, Joan, Revere Perkins, and William Pagliuca, The Evolution of Grammar, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994.
^ a b c d Holm, John, An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000.
^ Sakoda, Kent, and Siegel, Jeff, Pidgin Grammar, Bess Press, 2003, p. 38.
^ Turnbull, Wally R., Creole Made Easy, Light Messages, 2000, p. 13. | 2019-04-22T07:05:31Z | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_tense | Porn | Reference | 0.151655 |
wordpress | Poplin, comparing mocha with the new Adobe Mask Tracker. The Mask Tracker works by drawing a mask and then telling After Effects to track the area within the mask. Mary discusses many of the pitfalls and limitations in the new Mask Tracker; however, it is also pointed out that the tool works adequately for tracking some objects, mainly rigid surfaces.
My personal conclusion is that the Mask Tracker is a quick-and-dirty, yet inflexible, tool for simple planar tracking tasks with limited movement. Despite its limitations, however, this may be a tool with yet unrealized potential and one that Adobe may develop further.
AtomKraft is a fantastic plugin for After Effects. It provides an alternative to the native Classic 3D and Ray-traced 3D renderers, using a 3D unbiased renderer based on the Renderman-compliant 3Delight application. As such, it is really excellent at previz, making composites, and 3D motion graphics. It supports OBJ, Alembic, and RIB file formats. You can find out more at Jupiter Jazz, the makers of AtomKraft.
I have a set of tutorials about AtomKraft, although I apologize in advance for the poor quality. I will hopefully have a better series on AtomKraft 1.0 shortly.
Live Photoshop 3D is a feature that allows loading 3D layers in Photoshop into Adobe After Effects. It’s costly in terms of performance and now outdated by plug-ins such as Element 3D and AtomKraft and the new 3D tools in CS6, but it can be an option if these tools are unavailable. Note however, that this feature has been removed in CS6.
These are some tutorials that briefly explain how to bring in 3D Photoshop documents and work with them.
I found these free plugins for After Effects on the Red Giant website. These include Colorista and Quick Looks for color correction and Knoll 3D Flare for creating lens flares. Check them out and download them from http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/free.
I did a short series of tutorials explaining how to use the new camera tracker in After Effects and how to integrate 3D text and track solids into your scene in 3D.
I put together some new tutorials for After Effects. They were made in CS6, but aren’t particular to that version. I made the first one because the idea has been with me for a fairly long time. I see other people color correcting using other methods, but not with the way that I’ve found. I’ve shared this with a few other people already because I believe that people don’t realize the good that Color Finesse can do in their lives. | 2019-04-18T17:10:27Z | https://stringhamd.wordpress.com/category/motion-graphics/ | Porn | Computers | 0.068143 |
wordpress | Dodgeball is going on in Italy!
The great success of the Dodgeball tournament of last October 2017 for the Project 3SP-Special Sport for Special People event, influenced a new tournament starting from the next Monday, April 9th 2018. It will be held at the Centro San Salvatore – Villaggio del Ragazzo the 1st CFP Dodgeball Tournament to which the classes attending vocational training will take part during the break hours from the lessons.
All the products of 3SP are finally ready!
The main objective of the 3SP Project is to promote motor activity and sports practice in order to favor, in the young people who frequent the paths of Education and Professional Training, styles of healthier lives, interpersonal relationships aimed at welcoming others, more motivation and concentration in the study, greater awareness of the importance of health, greater participation in the activities proposed by the training center.
The 3SP project has led to the development of educational proposals – over 80 structured in 3 kits accompanied by operational manuals and a Methodological Guide – that have been jointly developed by a multidisciplinary staff belonging to the project partnership, and tested during the year 2017 with over 750 young people in Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Croatia and the United Kingdom.
The methodological guide describes the values, methodology and benefits for the age group in question.
The approach adopted is that of flexibility understood as a key element, both in the combination of activities and in all aspects of the organization of the exercise that can be carried out in the classroom, it can last a few minutes. The goal is to promote physical and sporting exercise not in a competitive sense, but rather to promote socialization, inclusion and well-being.
It’s focuses on the importance of Sport and Physical Activity to improve health and prevent diseases related to a sedentary lifestyle (eg obesity, stress, etc.).
Promotes fairness and loyalty as well as the inclusive value of Sport and Physical Activity in order to promote healthy lifestyles of people with fewer opportunities and as a tool for social inclusion for disadvantaged people.
This kit looks at Sports and Physical Activity as a tool to encourage learning and development of so-called soft skills.
The 3 kits are been developed thanks to the collaboration of all the partners and the technical-sporting support of the CSI (Italian Sports Center).
The activities contained in the three kits were tested during the year 2017 with over 750 young people in Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Croatia and the United Kingdom.
The kits are presented as sessions linked to activities of different durations that can be offered to the students and to the students by all the trainers, not only those of the sports area. Each practice is distinguished by color that corresponds to a degree of difficulty and mode of development (Green: simple; Yellow: intermediate; Red: difficult).
The 3 kits have been developed thanks to the collaboration of all the project partners and the technical-sporting support of the CSI (Italian Sports Center).
Scuola Centrale Formazione, as the coordinator of this project, decided to translate all the final documents in Italians, in order to deliver a better and clear idea of the project to all the associated members. Thanks to this operations we are sure our trainers, professor, tutor and teachers can disseminate in the best way the concept of this materials.
Si è svolto, giovedì 26 ottobre presso il Cierrebiclub di Bologna, l’evento “Let’s Play Together, Let’s Feel Good” che segna la chiusura del progetto Erasmus Sport “3sp – Special Sport for Special People”.
La giornata si è aperta con i saluti di Giuseppe De Biasi, Capo di gabinetto della Città Metropolitana di Bologna e del presidente di Scuola Centrale Formazione, Emilio Gandini, ed è proseguita con gli interventi di Michele Marchetti, direttore generale del Centro Sportivo Italiano e di Andrea Segrè, Professore ordinario Università di Bologna, i quali hanno messo in evidenza i valori che sostengono questo progetto: l’approccio adottato è quello della flessibilità.
Let’s play together, Let’s feel good!
L’evento chiude 2 anni di attività del progetto europeo “3SP – Special Sport for Special People”, uno dei 24 progetti italiani di cooperazione finanziato dal programma ERASMUS SPORT che ha promosso tra i giovani adolescenti, di età compresa tra i 13 e i 20 anni, stili di vita più sani, inclusivi e responsabili, attraverso la promozione di attività motorie e sportive accessibili a tutti.
Sono attesi oltre 380 studenti dalle organizzazioni partner del progetto e dagli istituti scolastici e dai centri di formazione della Regione Emilia Romagna e della molte altre regioni italiane.
L’evento seminariale rivolto agli operatori previsto per la mattina del 26/10 sarà aperto dal Sindaco di Bologna, Virginio Merola. Previsti gli interventi di Andrea Segrè, Università di Bologna, Cesare Moreno, Presidente dell’associazione Maestri di Strada, Michele Marchetti Centro sportivo Italiano, Raffealla Milano Save The Children Europe. Sono stati invitati la Ministra dell’Istruzione, Valeria Fedeli che interverrà con un messaggio scritto, e il Capo dell’Unità Sport della Commissione Europea, Yves Le Lostecque, che interverrà via video.
Le riflessioni proposte durante l’evento seminariale intendono (ri)mettere al centro dell’attenzione educativa l’importanza di offrire a tanti adolescenti che oggi sono esclusi dall’attività motoria e sportiva, – così determinante per una crescita armoniosa di cittadini e di futuri lavoratori sani – pari opportunità di accesso, anche attraverso le strutture scolastiche e formative che frequentano per studiare e formarsi.
Con l’occasione saranno presentati i 3 kit di attività (oltre 80) – che sono state sono già state sperimentate nel corso del corrente anno 2017 con oltre 750 giovani in Italia, Spagna, Germania, Belgio, Croazia e Regno Unito -, corredati di manuali operativi ed una Guida metodologica prodotti dal progetto 3SP e tradotti in italiano.
Il progetto 3SP, infatti, è frutto di una cooperazione europea tra soggetti pubblici e privati aventi responsabilità e finalità diverse ma complementari rispetto al target e alle tematiche trattate.
Fondazione Casa di Carità Arti e Mestieri (Italia).
The orienteering day was organized by Casa di Carità in Turin.
This activity is one of the Unit of the Kit Soul&Sport, aiming to improve concentration, team building and orientation.
ROME – “The numbers are never enough than what we want the sport to achieve. We’re talking about 70,000 people on a potential of about 700-800,000 girls and boys in Italy who could do it.” To say about the importance of sport for people with disabilities, is Luca Pancalli, Italian Paralympic Committee (Cip), in the margins of the presentation of Oso-Ogni Sport Oltre, the first digital community to bring people with disabilities to sports, Presented today in Rome.
4° Steering Committee in Brussels!
The 4° Steering Committee has taken place in CEC (Brussels), during that meeting we discussed about the implementation of the kits concerning the testing phase and we proposed the layout of the Kit Soul&Sport.
On the 1st of April, 2017, the German project partner CJD Verbund NRW Süd/Rheinland, Germany, organized a mainstreaming event at one of its facilities in Germany in order to promote the ERASMUS+ Sport project “3SP: Special Sport for Special People” to its youngsters and other interested stakeholders and to do altogether some sport activities. A sports tournament was (mostly soccer) organized, where young people from the CJD facilities from Wissen, Siegen, Königswinter, Frechen, and Hanau (all in Western Germany) as well as youngsters from all over the region took part. The tournament took place at the gym of a public school in Wissen, Germany.
Here, in two groups 13 teams played against each other and enjoyed it to do sports together with their friends, thereby promoting underlying concepts and values such as fair play, inclusion, integration, respect, tolerance, and others. During the time in between their playtimes they had the opportunity to inform themselves about the 3SP project at the project information desk or by directly talking to the CJD project coordinator.
On the 16th of March, 2017, the German project partner CJD Verbund NRW Süd/Rheinland, Germany, presented the project „3SP: Special Sports for Special People“ at the first regularly held employee meeting at the CJD in Frechen, Germany. As project coordinator, Mr. Martin Stolz presented the 3-SP project to many of his colleagues, head of other departments, and other professionals working in the CJD in Frechen in order to give them more information about the project, its European dimension as an ERASMUS+ Sports project, its aims, its implementation, and also its so far achieved results.
In the assembly hall Mr. Stolz presented a detailed presentation to cover all the points mentioned above. He also showed some photos of the trainers trainings (international and local) and of the implementation of the project in Italy for this reason.
After this more theoretical part, Mr. Stolz showed some activities out of the unit developed by the ALTEO Sports, one of the Belgian partner organizations, to his colleagues to show them more practically how the projects works and also to engage them actively. On the stage he explained the sense of this unit in detail with all its parts and demonstrated three activities as an example. Hereby he has chosen only such activities, that can be done by many people in many different situations – one characteristic underlying the whole work of the 3SP project – and without needing special infrastructure – another underlying principle of all kits that were developed within the project.
The last point of the agenda has been reserved for for questions and discussions about the 3SP project itself and European projects in general, especially ERASMUS+ projects.
Finally we can present the new promotional card for the 3SP Project created by the support of different partners! | 2019-04-22T10:05:43Z | https://project3sp.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Sports | 0.486949 |
wordpress | Sports activities like tournament, rallies and races have become popular lately. In special events like professional matches you will observe the gathering of thousands of fans.
Sports enthusiast have developed many ways to show their support to the individuals and teams through the use of different materials like banners, cheers, balloons and even face painting. One of the most popular item is using of custom flags which allows the people to show their creativity. Jet-Flo printing is a printing method which provided more choices and opportunities for people for their team or individual style.
Before people used to complain about poor quality in printing and colors fading but it is no longer the case now. There are lots of excellent quality works from reliable flag manufacturer and stores.
The new technology makes it possible to use from one to a thousand colors. Colors are richer and does not fade even when long sun exposure. You are assured that the flag will last for years.
The custom made flags can be placed inside or outdoors and can endure the harsh weather conditions because of good quality of material and printing. Eco-friendly ink technology is being used and this is helpful to Mother Earth. There is no more problem in terms of toxicity not like before.
You will observe that 70%-90% of the print is at the back because the style is direct onto the material. AL will depend on the design and colors that you will use.
Flags now are more appealing because of the new approaches. Individuals can now create their own special custom flags that will show their creativity and display their support to the player or team they are rooting for.
This entry was posted in Advertising, Arts and Crafts, Business, Economy, Education, Family, Home, Interior Design, Lifestyle, Marketing, Outdoor Design, Sports, Travel and tagged advertising flag, custom flag, custom flag maker, custom made flag, custom printed flag, customized flag, personalized flag. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-19T06:57:25Z | https://northstarflagsblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/getting-creative-with-custom-flags/ | Porn | Sports | 0.415263 |
tripod | The mathematical aspects and the physical properties.
Problems involving circles are among the most interesting in the mathematics.
Links for some texts in pdf format.
Banja Luka is the second largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative city of the Republika Srpska entity. | 2019-04-26T11:43:17Z | http://gimbl.tripod.com/ | Porn | Reference | 0.59502 |
wikipedia | Agricola is a Euro-style board game created by Uwe Rosenberg. It is a worker placement game with a focus on resource management. In Agricola, players are farmers that sow, plow the fields, collect wood, build stables, buy animals, expand their farms and feed their families. After 14 rounds players calculate their score based on the size and prosperity of the household.
The game was published by Lookout Games and released at Spiel 2007, where it was voted second-best game shown at the convention, according to the Fairplay in-show voting. The game was released in English by Z-Man Games in July 2008. Playdek released an iOS conversion of the game in June 2013. A second edition of Agricola was published by Mayfair Games in May 2016.
Agricola won the Spiel des Jahres special award for "Best complex game 2008" and the 2008 Deutscher Spiele Preis.
It was also the game which ended Puerto Rico's run of more than five years as the highest-rated game on the board game website BoardGameGeek, staying at the top of the rankings between September 2008 and March 2010. As of February 2019[update], Agricola is ranked 25th among all board games on BoardGameGeek.
A two player version called Agricola: All Creatures Big & Small was released in 2012. There is also a corresponding iOS app.
A game of Agricola being set up.
Players start the game with a farming couple living in a two roomed hut. Each round, they take turns to place their family members on action spaces to get resources and improve and grow their households. Only one family member can occupy each action space within the same round, so players need to time their actions to get maximum profit while denying progress to the opponents.
The game is played in 14 rounds, divided by 6 harvests. At each harvest, food is grown, people are fed, and animals multiply. Players lose victory points if they have trouble feeding their family, which makes food production a major point of tension in the game.
At the end of round 14 comes the final harvest after which victory points are counted. Scoring in Agricola rewards a middle of the road strategy. Players are penalized for not focusing on any one aspect of the game, and stop scoring in any area they focus on too much. The player with the most balanced and prosperous farm wins.
To achieve variation between games, players are dealt a hand of optional cards – occupations and minor improvements. Players get additional resources and various bonuses for playing these cards. They can also get an initial direction for their strategy, based on the occupations and improvements they were dealt. Numerous expansion decks have been released to fill in gaps in gameplay and add thematic settings. The game offers a simplified 'family' variation for less involved players, in which occupation and minor improvement cards are not used.
The original Agricola used multicolored wooden pieces of the same circular shape to denote various resources (clay, wood, reeds, etc.). The 2016 edition offered shaped wooden pieces for resources that make it easier to differentiate between the many types of resources. The new edition also included fewer optional cards – two decks for a total of 96 cards (as opposed to three decks with 308 cards in the original edition). Some reviewers praised the balance of the new decks.
^ "Best eurogame: Agricola, Caverna, Puerto Rico or Terra Mystica?". Netivist. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
^ "Boardgame News Convention Report". Boardgamenews.com. Archived from the original on December 16, 2008. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
^ "Board Game Geek comments". Boardgamegeek.com. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
^ "Playdek's highly-anticipated agricola challenges players to build the most productive farm; plough, sow and reap victory". Gamasutra. June 13, 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
^ a b c McDuffie, Tina (2016-06-04). "Agricola Revised Edition - How it compares to the original - The Glass Meeple". The Glass Meeple. Retrieved 2016-11-09.
^ Stefan Ducksch (2008-05-25). "Spiel des Jahres 2008: Best complex game 2008 (German)". Spiel des Jahres. Archived from the original on 2008-12-12. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
^ "Deutscher Spiele Preis 2008 (German)". Deutscher Spiele Preis. Archived from the original on 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2009-08-06.
^ "BGG Top 50 Statistics". Board Game Geek. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
^ "Browse Board Games | BoardGameGeek". boardgamegeek.com. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
^ "Agricola: All Creatures Big and Small". boardgamegeek.com. Retrieved 2016-12-12.
^ Temkin, Max. "Agricola". playtestblog.com. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
^ a b "Agricola – Mechanics and Tension". A Cardboard Empire. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
^ a b c Appelcline, Shannon. "Anatomy of a Revision: Caverna". Mechanics & Meeples. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
^ "Eurogames". martinfowler.com. Retrieved 2015-10-05.
^ "Agricola: Gamers' Deck | Board Game | BoardGameGeek". boardgamegeek.com. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
^ "Review: Agricola World Championship and NL Decks". GameHead. Archived from the original on 2015-11-20. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
^ "Agricola Expansion: Belgium Deck - The Gamer Nerd". The Gamer Nerd. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
^ "Review: Agricola". Retrieved 2015-10-05.
^ "Game Publisher :: Zman Games" (PDF). zmangames.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-30.
^ Meyer, Benjamin. "Agricola Unofficial Rule Book" (PDF).
^ "Agricola: Revised Edition Review - Let Them Get Their Own Food!!". Broken Meeple. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Agricola (board game). | 2019-04-26T08:17:49Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricola_(board_game) | Porn | Games | 0.22867 |
wordpress | Sometimes—no most times, I think to myself, “you must be crazy…” I wonder whether it is even possible to demonstrate God’s kind of love to people because let’s just be real….people cray!
The greatest command in biblical scriptures is not don’t cheat, don’t lie, don’t steal, but Love God with your everything and love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus is recorded saying that we should love one another as he loved us (John 13:34; 15:12) and these words humble me. I am compelled to take on the challenge.
But I personally have found it sometimes unbearable to bear with…or to love others. It occurred to me this week, that loving others sometimes feels unbearable because I am offering my love…and my love is wack. My love is shallow; it can be insincere. My love runs out! My love can be a bit–ok a lot egotistical. So when rejected it hurts ME, but loving others is not about me. It never was.
I discovered love in the quiet times I spent reading the bible and trying to understand this God I said I believed in. Then he caught me by surprise. I wanted to know his power and he showed me His heart and I fell apart. I was amazed at the capacity of God to forgive, to see beauty in the midst of ashes, and to speak life to the things that were dead in me (i.e. hopes, identity, my worth). My own heart was so overwhelmed by this kind of love that it flowed out of me easily. I couldn’t contain it.
Although loving is intentional, it is not pure without receiving it from the pure Source. We humans are a lot of work, and only God has the patience to deal with us, yet we are called to love like him, so that means we need to stay plugged into him so that we can offer what we receive. Put another way, it takes God to love like God.
I believe when we love from a place of overflow, the rejection won’t sting as much, the refusal to change won’t frustrate as badly, and the temptation to judge or be bitter will not be there because we remember it’s not about us.
The love that we have for one another is a testimony to the power and reality of the Supreme yet merciful Deity. Love testifies of the fullness of God. And this is our high calling. | 2019-04-25T16:18:02Z | https://lovekulture.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/love-from-a-well-that-wont-run-dry/ | Porn | News | 0.113288 |
wordpress | My poem, “My Mother in a Washing Machine” was published in the 2011 Cosumnes River Journal. Inexpensive copies may be purchased (or complimentary copies acquired) at the Cosumnes River College Bookstore, The Book Collector and several other local bookstores in the Sacramento area. A larger version may be viewed by clicking on the above photograph.
My first “official” publication, “Prem is a Sanskrit Word Meaning Love,” may be found at Haggard & Halloo Publications. | 2019-04-20T06:39:02Z | https://goldmountainpoet.wordpress.com/category/published-poems/ | Porn | Arts | 0.963339 |
wikipedia | Singer, Isaac Bashevis. In My Father's Court. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967, .
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. A Little Boy in Search of God. New York, Doubleday, 1976. .
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. A Young Man in Search of Love. New York, Doubleday, 1978. .
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Lost in America. New York, Doubleday, 1981. .
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Love and exile. New York, Doubleday, 1984. .
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. More Stories from My Father's Court. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999.
Последната промяна на страницата е извършена на 22 април 2019 г. в 16:28 ч. | 2019-04-26T16:40:21Z | https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80 | Porn | Reference | 0.302613 |
wordpress | ← Who checks that councils are running correctly?
I totally agree with Jim, particularly with the last line about the commons. However more than this it needs to then move across to County , District Councils and then to town and parish council, as so often the councillors hide behind their voting. In my experience the clerk sometimes does not have their head up when voting happens ( due to recording the meeting via shorthand etc.) , and so relies on others to say how many voted rather than who voted. It also means that chosen people are promoted (often by the chair and with party allegiance) by being written down as the proposer and seconder, whilst others are ignored. Added to this, as most of the decisions are decided out of the council meeting via allegiances or clerk requests, then I question the need of a council at all. It just becomes, (as another councillor kept saying when I started) ‘a rubber stamping experience’ and I for one did not sign up for that.
Interestingly I also experienced over many meeting as a councillor that if your face doesn’t fit then if you voted controversially i.e. for the people rather than for an allegiance, it is logged against your name. I find this sad as the needs of the people are valued far below the ego of the individual councillors and more so the further down the tree you go. So much for transparency!
Today I voted in one of the most bizarre elections in the world. And I voted for someone who was eligible to be a candidate because he is the great grandson of Herbert Asquith, the former British Prime Minister. I was also one of an exclusive electorate, as members of the House of Lords were the only people eligible to vote.
But the Lords are not elected, I hear you cry! That is mostly true but not when it comes to the ones that are there by birth. Yes, this was the by-election for a vacancy for a hereditary peer (see my earlier blog), and on this occasion the whole House was eligible to vote (with convention saying it ought to be a Liberal).
I voted because I thought I should, but clearly this is the Lords at its most ridiculous.
This entry was posted in Politics and tagged Councillors, ego, Parish and town councils, politics, transparency, values. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-22T02:05:17Z | https://mydevon.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/from-the-ridiculous-to-the-sublime-the-lords-delivers/ | Porn | Reference | 0.302979 |
wordpress | 8.1 The Non-interactive Shell* DON’T RUN INTERACTIVE PROGRAMS (e.g. FTP without -s switch) USING A REMOTE SHELL.
run the file and test. | 2019-04-21T06:14:20Z | https://insekurity.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/file-transfer/ | Porn | Reference | 0.374988 |
wordpress | Armchair/Shotgun, as you may know, is a blind-submission, print-only literary magazine. A/S publishes fiction, poetry, and beautiful artwork, thanks in large part to the efforts of the unpaid staff (all of whom have demanding day jobs). Full disclosure- I co-founded this magazine and was a managing editor for years. But I think I can say impartially that A/S publishes amazing material, and does great things for independent literature in Brooklyn and beyond, not only by creating a venue for new voices, but by reaching out and helping to build a literary community through events like the Brooklyn Book Festival and LitCrawl.
Looking forward to the next five years, A/S has big plans, including nonprofit status, subscriptions, and expanding to new cities, but the magazine needs your help to get there. That’s why A/S has launched an IndieGoGO campaign.
The world of independent publishing ain’t easy, as many of you know, and while many “independent” magazines thrive with angel donations from large corporations such as Amazon, A/S is turning to you fine folks– the lovers of amazing writing from new and established authors– to help independent publishing continue to thrive.
So please, if you have a few extra bucks, kick it over to the A/S IndieGoGo campaign. A small contribution really goes a long way. And if you’re in the Brooklyn area, come out to the Greenlight Bookstore Indie Party this evening and raise a glass with us, and/or stop by the Armchair/Shotgun table this Sunday at the Brooklyn Book Festival to say hello, buy one of our rad t-shirts and try out our nifty typewriters.
Here’s an interesting piece about Chet Baker (a favorite of mine), who, according to his critics, may have been talented, but wasn’t really an innovator. Chet was a pretty boy, playing smooth, listenable, not-particularly intellectual West Coast Jazz while his East Coast counterparts where actually honest-to-god changing music forever.
Frankly, the word “innovative,” when applied to fiction, makes me flinch. It’s my wariness of writers who break the rules before they know how to follow them (or indeed what the rules are). Appearing experimental can be a short-cut to being taken seriously. It’s the emperor’s-new-clothes problem. True innovation make look like crazy crap when it first arrives on the scene, but so does crazy crap. It can be difficult to distinguish brilliance from b.s.
I often gravitate toward more formal pieces of writing– traditional story structures– when I look for new clients or pieces for Armchair/Shotgun (and let it be said there seems to be less room, market-wise, for experimental stuff in children’s literature, though this is changing, I think). It’s so very difficult to tell a compelling story that makes your reader *feel* something– to be able to do that and *also* change the medium? Forget about it.
But amazing, totally new, experimental and innovative stuff *is* out there, recognized or not, and for our medium to thrive and grow, we need it. When I first read Dolan Morgan‘s short piece Infestation (A/S No.1), I was turned off by its odd structure– but the fault was mine for being a poor reader. Morgan truly was innovating. Upon rereading, and deeper reading, I saw he’d found a new way to talk about loss, and the result was strange and beautiful.
So whaddya think, gang? How important is it to innovate, as an artist? Do you try to innovate with your own work, push the boundaries of the medium, or no? Must all artists be innovators, or at least try to be? And what is our responsibility as readers? How far do we allow an author to draw us into uncharted waters?
A late night high school party. Some harmless flirting. And a pre-fab time machine.
Next Monday, February 11th, Y.A. Review will publish my brand new short story: 700 Years In Heaven.
I’m so excited about this one. Mark your calendars! And in the meantime, you can check out Y.A. Review’s post of Abandon Changes: A Girl Parts Story. | 2019-04-20T11:08:40Z | https://johnmcusick.wordpress.com/tag/fiction/ | Porn | Reference | 0.206762 |
wordpress | A brace from Jonas Hoog saw Swindon Wildcats claim their first four point weekend of the season. Swindon started the game by gifting the puck a couple of times to Basingstoke, but the returning Stevie Lyle stood firm in denying the Bison an early opening score. It was the Wildcats who opened the scoring in the eleventh minute through a well-worked powerplay, finding Carlo Finucci unmarked at the far post.
The start of the second period saw the Wildcats on a powerplay again and they extended their lead further through Adam Harding. However, two quick goals through Joe Rand (on the powerplay) and Ciaran Long saw the scores level by just after the halfway mark; both goals were quite scrappy, but the Wildcats second had hardly been a goal of beauty. Some tempers began to fray, with Matt Selby seeming to be looking for a fight and Sam Bullas and Tomas Karpov exchange words after a check, which saw Karpov move towards Bullas before joining the bench – both ended up with 2 minutes for unsportsmanlike behaviour. Penalties mounted for the Bison, with Aaron Connolly (charging) and Ciaran Long (delay of the game) joining Karpov in the penalty box.
The third period was a relatively tight affair, but a third powerplay goal (Hoog’s first) gave the Wildcats the lead with six minutes and thirty seconds to play. Bison pulled Tomas Hiadlovsky with around 90 seconds to go and camped themselves in the Wildcats zone. With 16 seconds to go, Neil Liddiard picked up a cross checking penalty; four seconds later and Bison were level again through Karpov. The game went into 3-on-3 overtime and both teams had shots, but a shot over Hiadlovsky’s blocker side shoulder by Hoog inside the first minute of overtime secured the two points for the Wildcats.
SOG: Wildcats: 26 (8, 10, 8); Bison: 43 (16, 13, 14).
Points: Wildcats: Hoog – 2+0; Finucci – 1+1; Harding – 1+0; Kostal, Malasinski, Nell – 0+1; Bison: Rand, Long, Karpov – 1+0; Thompson, Mogg, Greener, Vantroba, Rounding – 0+1. | 2019-04-25T20:35:46Z | https://matthewoswin.wordpress.com/tag/basingstoke-bison/ | Porn | Sports | 0.738902 |
wired | Ryan Singel (@rsingel) is media and strategy fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and the CEO/cofounder of Contextly.
Existing net neutrality protections have made it cheaper to start an online business than a cafe. I know because in 2012 I left a job I loved at WIRED to pursue my own startup dream of improving publishers’ recommendations and start Contextly, which is still going strong.
I truly am one of the lucky ones. I got a shot at starting something new because the cost of launching a new idea was extremely low. Future entrepreneurs should have the same chance I did.
When I started Contextly, we paid $19.95 a month for one server; a year later, when I left my job to run the company full time, Contextly’s recommendations were showing on tens of millions of news articles a month, and we only paid $288.55 per month for 8 servers. That’s cheap. I didn’t need outside funding to launch a business.
But if Pai’s plan had been in effect, I couldn’t have afforded to start Contextly, and I wouldn’t have. Here’s why: Under Pai’s proposal, broadband providers will be allowed to charge all websites and services, including startups, simply to reach an ISP’s subscribers. That’s a huge threat to the low cost of starting a company, and it totally up-ends the economics of the internet.
It’s also what ISPs have been wanting for years. In 2006, AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre said that "for a Google or Yahoo or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes free is nuts." In 2013, Verizon—Pai’s former employer—told a federal court that it should be free to charge any site any amount of money to reach its customers.
These types of fees have never existed in the US in the history of the internet. When ISPs began floating the idea to charge fees, more than a decade ago, the FCC began investigating whether they should be allowed; it finally prohibited such fees in 2010. So when Aji Pai says eliminating net neutrality would simply be taking us back to the pre-2015 internet, that simply isn’t true.
But Pai’s plan doesn’t stop there. The FCC chair wants to allow ISPs to create fast lanes inside their networks; online services will have to pay to stay out of the slow lane.
The argument is simply wrong. Speed matters online. You have to be fast just to compete. Users bounce and customers don’t buy if sites or apps are slow to load or feel laggy. If there are fast lanes, every website, every startup, and every small merchant will have to be in them, not just those that need speed—a k a Quality of Service—guarantees.
"Paid prioritization could allow small and new edge providers to compete on a more even playing field against large edge providers, many of which have Content Delivery Networks and other methods of distributing their content quickly to consumers."
First off, arguing that startups can’t compete with incumbents because incumbents have Content Delivery Networks is hilarious to anyone running a startup. CDNs, for those not familiar, help speed up websites by putting commonly used files, like images and videos, on servers around the world, so that users download the images from a server physically closer to them.
But almost every startup uses a CDN because they are cheap, and some are even free. Startups have their choice of Amazon Cloudfront, Akamai, Fastly, MaxCDN, and dozens more. Cloudflare offers its CDN for free, and anyone who starts a WordPress blog can use Automattic’s CDN for free with just a few clicks. Startups don’t need ISP fast lanes so that their apps can be fast. But if fast lanes are allowed, startups will have to pay for the fast lanes simply not to be slow.
In fact, fast lanes will make it harder for startups to compete. Incumbents will pay for fast lanes just so their upstart competitors have to as well, a clever way of making younger companies burn through their resources. If startups can’t afford to pay, their businesses will grow slowly due to their services’ poor performance—a situation beyond their control. Either way, incumbents win and startups lose.
Only in Ajit Pai’s upside-down world would startups have the money to pay for fast lanes and incumbents wouldn’t.
"[W]hile it is common to claim new entrants would not have the deep pockets necessary to implement such an entry strategy, new economy startups have demonstrated that capital markets are willing to provide funds for potentially profitable ideas, despite high failure rates, presumably because of the large potential gains when an entrant is successful."
That’s. Not. How. Startup. Investment. Works. And. It’s. Historically. Wrong.
Investors do not put money into “ideas.” They fund companies with substantial and growing numbers of users or revenue.
How’s a self-funded startup going to reach that point, if it must pay off dozens of ISPs simply to get its first dozen paying customers or thousands of daily active users? The examples Pai chose just prove how wrong he is.
Facebook’s server costs were $85 a month when it started, and the social network’s founders didn’t drop out of school and get funding until the social network had 250,000 users. Jeff Bezos funded Amazon himself for six months, then took small investments from his mother and father. Google had more than 10,000 search queries a day before it got any angel investment, and it was named one of PC Magazine’s top 100 web sites before raising any venture capital funding.
These companies were able to launch because starting a company was inexpensive. They succeeded because they did not have to contend with access fees and fast lanes at their inception; they’re not examples that prove startups would be fine if fees did exist.
If fewer startups can get enough traction to raise funding, there will be fewer breakthrough companies, and VCs that do invest will provide less money for more equity to compensate for the risk that startups are vulnerable to ISP rent-seeking. It will be like returning to the pre-iPhone app store days, when investors shied away from investing in apps for mobile devices because getting onto a device required making deals and paying off carriers keeping their subscribers inside walled gardens.
What does this mean for you if you’re unlikely to launch a startup? All the services you pay for as a consumer, producer, or business will become more expensive because those services have to pay off ISPs, raising their costs. There will be fewer free and freemium services, as the cost to run the free versions of paid services grows too high to maintain.
There will be (even) less local news. Fewer quirky startups. Fewer entrepreneurs who figure out how to make it online without or without raising any venture capital.
Services from the big platforms like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft—again, companies that largely would not have succeeded without net neutrality protections—will become even more dominant, because they can both afford the fees and have the market clout to negotiate bulk discounts with ISPs.
It’s that simple. The net will become more boring, less free, and less innovative, thanks to Pai’s plan.
As a reporter at WIRED, I was lucky enough to see up close the excitement of fired-up startup founders building things that never existed before. I got inspired enough to leave behind a great job with healthcare and put my savings into building my dream.
Pai’s short-sighted plan will crush that dream for future would-be founders.
Congressional Republicans say they love entrepreneurship, free speech, free markets, and innovation. Yet they are standing by in silent assent as Pai’s vote draws close, ignoring the pleas of the citizens and entrepreneurs they claim to care about. They are the only ones that can still stop Pai, and they ought to be loudly denouncing Pai’s plan and defending startups and small businesses. | 2019-04-21T11:00:35Z | https://www.wired.com/story/expect-fewer-great-startups-if-the-fcc-kills-net-neutrality/ | Porn | Business | 0.979767 |
moonfruit | GOV’s annual tournament is held each spring and hosts teams from across Canada and the United States. This year marks our 25th anniversary: an event not to be missed. Our tournament has both intermediate and competitive divisions.
The tournament has been scheduled for April 9th - 10th, 2016. Please stay tuned for more information in the new year. | 2019-04-25T23:44:15Z | http://govleague.moonfruit.com/ottawa/4590943132 | Porn | Sports | 0.728441 |
wordpress | The Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival organized by Inizjamed, now in its eighth year, will be held on Thursday, 29, Friday 30th and Saturday 31st August, at the Msida Bastion Historic Garden, in FLORIANA, opposite the Central Public Library. Entrance to all events is free.
The Trinidadian-UK novelist Monique Roffey will be interviewed on Friday by freelance journalist David Schembri about her most recent, prize-winning book Archipelago, and about water, which is a theme which this year’s festival is exploring. On Saturday, writer Glen Calleja will interview the Macedonian poet Nikola Madzirov, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary European poetry. Born in a family of Balkan War refugees in Strumica in 1973, he grew up in the Soviet era in the former Republic of Yugoslavia ruled by Marshall Tito. When he was 18, the collapse of Yugoslavia prompted a shift in his sense of identity — as a writer reinventing himself in a country which felt new but was still nourished by deeply rooted historical traditions.
The writers reading on Thursday 29th August are Karl Schembri (Malta/Gaza), Denisa Mirena Pişcu (Romania) and Fahredin Shehu (Kosova), while those reading on Friday are Mazen Maarouf (Palestine), Angela Bonanno (Sicily), Monique Roffey (UK), and Immanuel Mifsud (Malta). The Dutch poet Tsead Bruinja (Netherlands) will be performing with Maltese musicians on Thursday and Friday.
The evening of Saturday starts with the celebrated Maltese bilingual poet Maria Grech Ganado (Malta), followed by a reading from In Praise of Hatred by the Syrian Damascus-based novelist Khaled Khalifa and Nikola Madzirov (Macedonia, FYROM). The festival ends with a short reading by all the writers.
There will be a food and drink stall and a book stand selling works by the authors invited to the festival. Live music will be played by Jes Psaila, Justin Galea and Michael Galea (Thursday and Friday) and Joe Debono and Manuel Pulis (Saturday). Short films from Reel Festivals by Roxana Vilk will be shown on every night and will be introduced by Caldon Mercieca.
The writers will be in Malta throughout the last week of August to take part in the LAF Malta Literary Translation Workshop. They will be translating each other’s works into their languages, and reading some of these translations during the three nights of the festival.
The festival is organized by Inizjamed with the support of various partners, namely Din l-Art Ħelwa, the British Council, Middlesea Insurance, the European Commission Representation in Malta, Reel Festivals, and the Culture Programme Success Scheme run by the Cultural Contact Point of Malta. Full programme and details at www.inizjamed.org or write to inizjamed@maltaforum.org. | 2019-04-20T15:19:41Z | https://inizjamedmalta.wordpress.com/press-release/ | Porn | Arts | 0.971633 |
wordpress | R. A. Seckler is the author of the zombie novel Containment Zone and the upcoming post-apocalyptic novel The River Phangies. He currently resides in Eugene, Oregon where he spends his nights working, days sleeping, and 95% of the free time left over with his wife and two infant daughters. That leftover 5% he spends jotting down ideas for bizarre stories.
Containment Zone is available in print and as an eBook for Kindle on Amazon. The launch date for The River Phangies will be soon.
That’s a fascinating premise for a novel. Very unique. But I have one question. Are they actually flesh-eating zombies?
Great question! The short answer, yes. There is lots of flesh-eating the ‘zombies’ in my novel take part in. Flesh-craving…eh, not exactly. One of the things I’ve long admired in zombie films, television shows, and movies (aside from the fantastically gruesome ways writers and directors invent ways for zombies to eat people) is the fascination with the question: ‘Is there anything left of us in them?’ That’s what I really wanted to explore in this novel.
This really is a different kind of zombie novel. One that focuses on one man’s struggle to accept that his life is over and that he will decay to the point that he becomes a stark-raving-lunatic creature very, very much like the traditional zombie concept.
I wanted to write something that I had never seen before, but not stray too far from the zombie theme I love so much.
So in my desperate attempt not to mislead you, I’ll try and lay out the following. The dead in my novel don’t attack and consume people simply because they crave flesh or brains or anything like that. It’s more that they are attacking and consuming flesh out of their anger, fear, desperation, and confusion over what is happening to them. They’re so balls-to-the-wall crazy when they decay too far that they really are just frightened, primitive creatures reacting to hostilities on instinct, and what more primitive of an instinct is there than to bite, and bite, and bite, until your prey/threat is no more?
Hope that helps, thanks for stopping by my blog and considering my novel.
I’m not a zombie fan(Or any fan even; I certainly don’t have blades and different speed settings), or at all a monsters fan(Vampires, werewolves, the lot. Also, the fan joke again). Horror literature isn’t very popular around here, and discovering them now didn’t interest me much. I admit to little knowledge of them, and the genre altogether(Monster virgin?).
Yet your answer to Justice Burnaugh really interested me. For some reason I’m always drawn to the inward moral battles, the more eccentric the better, and the quest for moral salvation, and, though you didn’t explicitly say that there is any salvation, I look forward to it.
sounds interesting. zombies are not really my thing but i love a good horror story.
I love a bit of zombie action – will check it out!
Nice to know there are other zombie novelists out there! Cheers. | 2019-04-22T20:59:59Z | https://rasecklerfiction.wordpress.com/about/ | Porn | Reference | 0.149716 |
wordpress | Congratulation to Jack Doyle’s, our bar of the week!
Jack Doyle’s Jack Doyle’s is a warm, fun and friendly Irish pub, where you gather with your friends. Home of the New York Rangers and West Virginia University. Jack Doyle’s a great place to watch this weekend’s UFC event. | 2019-04-24T12:41:07Z | https://sportchaser.wordpress.com/tag/ufc/ | Porn | Sports | 0.604825 |
wordpress | So, I’ve been using Firefox for the better part of week now. Honestly, I’m a little surprised I’ve lasted this long.
I’ve made some progress with a couple of the issues that I mentioned in my earlier post about the switch to Firefox. However, some new problems have also arisen.
Predictably, as time went on, credentials became less of an issue. I am now to the point where authentication is no different than it is in Safari.
Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler has also assured me that contextual menus will be much improved in the next update.
At Download Squad’s advice, I also installed the GrApple Delicious Blue theme which makes Firefox look very much like Safari. Overall, it’s certainly an improvement and, best of all, the ugly blank favicon icons have been replaced with the same nice globes that Safari uses.
I still have no complaints about Firefox’s speed.
Unfortunately, as I’ve used Firefox more, its faults have become more apparent.
My biggest beef with Firefox is its download management. I hate the popup that comes up whenever I download something asking what I want to do with it. I also miss the nice little files that Safari had with the progress bar right on the icon. Firefox just plops the actual file in your downloads folder and leaves you to guess when its complete. Of course, I could check the download’s progress in Firefox itself, but Download Statusbar seems totally incapable of giving accurate information (this isn’t Mozilla’s fault, of course, but still).
Firefox also lacks Safari’s PDF handling. I like the ability to just look at a document without having to download it, but in Firefox, there’s no such option.
Firefox’s history menu also really bugs me. To view anything from more then a couple minutes ago, you have to open up the history sidebar. In Safari, you can access days of history from the menu alone.
Considering that I left Safari to escape a text entry bug, it’s ironic that I’ve run into another (much less annoying) text entry bug in Firefox. On Facebook (and maybe other sites, but I haven’t found any), I get an annoying little line coming off the cursor which makes it look like I have an extra apostrophe. As you can see below, the some affliction doesn’t affect Google (and other sites which I tested).
I’m not sure who’s at fault, but it’s a pretty annoying bug, especially when using Facebook Chat.
Even considering all this, I don’t think I’ll be switching back to Safari anytime soon. Especially with version 3.1 on the way and a growing number of Add-Ons, it seems that Firefox can only get better.
Some time ago, I made the decision to move past David Lanham’s Agua folder set (as lovely as it is).
I settled on Pry by Jonas Rask (who has a variety of excellent work). Pry was designed for Leopard and therefore includes all the necessary icons (downloads, etc.). However, the folders are not front-on (something I mentioned about Agua v.2), so they don’t really jive with CoverFlow. This problem is solved by the Pryspective set by Vibe Star AKA Sander van der Heijden. While making the Pry folders CoverFlow-compatible is certainly a good idea, I’m not a huge fan of the Pryspective icons. Unless you’re a big CoverFlow user, I’d go with the regular Pry set.
Jonas created a number of variants including both etched and overlaid versions (I prefer the more colorful overlaid Pry Aluminum set). He has also made matching hardware icons and CS3 and MS Office-specific folder sets. MacThemes members have also made a variety of versions including “Pry Ply” (wood), white, red and chocolate.
For those who don’t know, the best way to apply new icons (such as the Pry and Agua sets) is to use Panic’s CandyBar. While you can do it manually (some icons more simply than others), CandyBar is much, much simpler and its integrated icon organization features make it worth the $29 price tag if you’re really into customizing your computer. Of course, there’s also a fifteen day, somewhat limited trial (you can only have 250 icons in your library) available.
As I mentioned earlier, I’ve recently transitioned from being an ardent Safari fan to using Firefox. While the plugin-ability of Firefox is certainly nice (even if many individual plugins are rather clunky), that’s not the reason I switched. As I also mentioned before, I was experiencing an extremely obnoxious text entry bug in Safari (on the bright side, it taught me a lot of ways to get rid of text without the delete key) and I figured it was time to get away from it.
I was kind of dreading having to manually bring all my Safari bookmarks across to Firefox. However, Firefox offers a handy little import wizard that allows you to bring just about all your data from Safari (or another browser) into Firefox. While it worked as advertised, I was left with the bookmarks in Firefox in addition to the ones that were imported from Safari. While deleting the duplicates wasn’t as much work as entering them all manually, the transition still could have used some smoothing out.
Even with 1Password integration, most credentials need to be reentered for the new browser, but I suppose that’s to be expected, and it’s not a terrible pain.
Obviously, I’m a pretty big interface junkie: The AHIG is practically my bible, and I like all my applications’ interfaces to be as coordinated as possible. Since it was developed by Apple, Safari is pretty clearly on the top of the heap as far as interface matching with the rest of the OS goes. While Firefox 3’s interface is a massive improvement over its predecessor, there are still some elements that don’t sit too well with me.
Firefox relies pretty heavily on favicons: They show up in the address bar, the search bars, the tabs. Now, on a conceptual level, I have no problem with this; favicons are a nice visual aid to navigation. However, the realty is, most favicons are pretty ugly and I would rather not have to stare at them constantly. I’m also something of an interface minimalist, and since I can get on just fine without favicons, I prefer the cleaner look you get without them. Also, considering how much time I have to spend looking at them, I wish Mozilla would provide something other than an ugly document icon for the blank favicon.
It’s a minor issue, but Firefox’s non-standard contextual menu also bugs me. I’m willing to look past the squared edges and such, but what really gets to me (since it’s what I use the contextual menu for most often) is the spell checking– it just looks so much worse than the layout the rest of the system uses.
Once you consider plugins, many of which are pretty disastrous interface-wise, Firefox can be something of a visual train-wreck on a Mac (and believe me, themes don’t help).
One of the main reasons I’ve been so resistant to Firefox is its speed: I’ve always thought it was a slowpoke compared to Safari. While I’m pretty sure the benchmarks still indicate that Safari is snappier, I haven’t been noticing much of a difference in my everyday browsing. When it comes to load speeds, it seems like the two browsers are pretty evenly matched.
Admittedly, Safari does not have a whole lot that Firefox lacks in terms of features. Off the top of my head, I think the ability to resize text boxes is the only thing which Safari has and Firefox doesn’t.
With a plethora of plugins available, Firefox is pretty much set for features. While it would be nicer if it had things like private browsing and easy user agent switching out of the “box”, installing plugins is easy enough that I don’t really mind.
Ad blocking, one of my favorite features in any browser, is really quite impressive in Firefox thanks to the Adblock Plus plugin. While AdBlock for Safari is very unobtrusive and does the job 90% of the time, Adblock Plus, while slightly more obtrusive, offers more effective, fine-grained control.
Firefox is a nice browser, sure, it wouldn’t be gaining users like crazy if it wasn’t. It has great features, especially with extensive plugin-ability, and although the interface isn’t everything it could be, Firefox is just as fine a browser for OS X as Safari is. That said, if that pesky text entry bug were to resolve itself, I’d be back to Safari in a jiffy. Some things just feel right.
For quite a while, Agua by David Lanham has been my favorite icon set. A while back it was updated for Leopard with 512×512 icons, slight restyling and additional Leopard-specific icons (downloads folder, Time Machine drive, etc.). However, because these folders were angled (rather than front-on like Apple’s Leopard folders) they looked super messed-up in CoverFlow. Now (well, a bit back) David Lanham has updated the folders so they are front on (he also added a couple drive icons and another alternate downloads folder) and look decent in CoverFlow. If you use the Agua Leopard icons or are looking for an alternative to the regular icons in Leopard, check out the twice updated Agua icons.
If you were wondering, I do hope to make Desktop Extras a regular feature (I made a banner for it and everything). I plan to cover things such as icons, wallpapers, dock styles and whatnot. As always, if you have suggestions or questions for Desktop Extras (or any other feature) give me a shout in the comments or you can email me (see the contact page).
Some people did not like the agèd nature of MacJournal during the original match. So now, considering that MacJournal has just released a new version and Journler will soon be going commercial, I figured I would do a “fairer” match-up.
I must say, kudos to Mariner for the improvements in the MacJournal interface. It is starting to look like a nice, Leopard-worthy app. However, one thing I simply do not get is the fact that some of those godawful toolbar icons from v2 are still hanging around. I mean, they have a new dock icon, I don’t think it would kill them to get some new toolbar icons as well. Those hideous, Panther-y icons are what’s really killing this interface. I’m not crazy about the fullscreen here (but I’m not really big on fullscreen writing anyway) but it is quite customizable. The option to display entries either in the sidebar or above the actual entry text (like you would see messages in Mail) is nice. The calender looks a bit odd swimming in a see of white space when one’s sidebar is extra wide but otherwise it looks a-okay. One thing I do not like is that while in three-pane view, the entry list does not have an alternating background. The entry selection buttons (on the far left of the toolbar) are a little odd because they go up and down rather than left/right. Although this makes more sense I still think it looks a little odd (however, the plastic finish on the buttons is nice).
The Journler interface recieved a pretty small facelift with the latest update. The main change is that I noticed is slightly more spacing in the entry list. Overall, the Journler interface is quite similar to that of MacJournal. I prefer the calender in Journler and I obviously prefer Journler’s toolbar icons. Magically, Journler finds out what your system folder icons and uses them in its sidebar. I also like the more integrated header in Journler because it is both easier to fill out and, in my opinion, looks better.
MacJournal: 7/10 – This would be a really solid interface if Mariner would just redo those buttons!
Journler: 8/10 – A nice, consistent interface that could use a couple tweaks.
I’m not sure if journals in MacJournal are supposed to act like folders, but I’m not feeling it. Although journals can be placed inside each other, I really don’t like how the hierarchy works. Bad folder structure aside, MacJournal has all the features I would expect. It has wiki-linking, labels, fullscreen and blogging as well as sound and video recording.
Journler has finally brought real tags, a feature I have been waiting for for a while. Journler has all the features of MacJournal except blogging support which was recently dropped because the developer decided it was an underdeveloped feature. However, I do feel that the fullscreen (which includes all three panes rather than just the text) isn’t as strong as the fullscreen in MacJournal.
MacJournal: 7/10 – Bad folder hierarchy aside, a very nice set of features.
Journler: 7/10 – Good features but no blogging and fullscreen is lacking.
Journler is ahead by just a little bit and because it will be selling for ten dollars less, I think it’s the better choice.
MacJournal ($34.95): 14/20 – Needs more polishing, but it’s a good app at the core.
Journler ($24.95 as of v2.6): 15/20 – A good journaling application that needs a bit of work in some areas.
Look here for more screenshots from this edition of Software Sumo.
Yes indeedy, time to review alarm clock applications: Aurora, Awaken and Alarm Clock 2. I have decided to review the Aurora 4 kinda-private beta rather than the stable version 3. I know I may be criticized for this just as I was for comparing an old version of MacJournal to Journler, but deal with it. (I was originally planning to review Alarm Clock Pro as well, but my trial has expired and I do not know it well enough to review it without playing around for a while).
The new version of Aurora boasts a nice new interface. Although it is basically the same as the old one functionally (meaning users of Aurora 3 will have no problem using it) it has nice new graphical elements that really bring it up to speed with the new OS. I love the new toolbar icons, and although the sheep was cute, I’m glad to see it go. Overall, Aurora 4 presents a nice, simple interface that is really all about the alarms, making it very easy to do what you’re supposed to– wake up. That said, it does lack a full screen option for both alarms and the Fall Asleep option.
Awaken also has a nice interface with a semi-transparent clock as the centerpiece. Although the clock looks nice, it doesn’t serve any real purpose in my mind and just serves to distract from the alarms (in Awaken, there is a dropdown box for editing alarms). I’m not too crazy about the “back-end” interface for Awaken, but the full screen interfaces can’t be beat. For both alarms and falling asleep, there is a gorgeous full screen display showing album art et al (similar to Front Row).
Alarm Clock 2 hasn’t been updated in a while and is starting to show it. A couple years ago the simple transparent alarm was nice, but now it is starting to age. Combine this with pre-Tiger graphics in the back-end and you’ve got a problem. The back-end is also accessible only from the menu item which really annoys me. Perhaps this application would be best for your blind aunt.
Aurora: 8/10 – A gorgeous, clean interface. But no fullscreen.
Awaken: 9/10 – Not the best back-end, but the fullscreen is to die for.
Alarm Clock 2: 6/10 – It seems my alarm clock has woken me up in 2003.
Aurora has the two main features we have come to expect in alarm clock apps: the alarm, of course, and also the fall asleep option. The alarm is clean, easy to use and reliable because it uses Aurora’s built in player rather than iTunes (I quit using Aurora 3 because its iTunes reliance effected dependability). The alarms play in a pane of the main window that shows album art and a variety of other information and options. Although the fall asleep pane has more options than the one in Awaken (you can choose to fall asleep after a number of songs, at a specific time, once a movie has finished or after a set number of minutes) I find it annoying that Aurora will not start iTunes/Quicktime/DVD Player like Awaken does (because, let’s face it, I’m a lazy bum. However, some people probably won’t mind this). In addition to iTunes, Aurora also has EyeTV support but I haven’t had a chance to use it. Otherwise, Aurora doesn’t have a ton of extra features (this isn’t a bad thing however, it has everything I need).
Awaken has alarms and fall asleep just like Aurora, but no EyeTV support. To make up for it, it has a timer (and of course, full screen). By far my least favorite part of Awaken is the fact that it still uses iTunes for just about everything. You can use sound alarms that play right from Awaken, but these are limited to certain file types (and you miss out on album art). However, I have not found this reliance to effect reliability (not much anyway, the first time it didn’t go off because iTunes wanted me to update). The only option for falling asleep is after a certain amount of time. This is kind of a pain, but overall I think the fall asleep option is stronger here than in Aurora. The timer is pretty simple– you tell it when to go off and it does. Easy as that.
Alarm Clock 2 does not have a fall asleep option. However, it does have both a timer and a stopwatch. Surprisingly, Alarm Clock 2 plays alarms locally and because of this it has never missed an alarm (I used it for quite a while). Also nice is the ability to choose a specific song in a playlist rather than having to play from the beginning.
Aurora: 7/10 – Has the two most important features but no fullscreen (and the fall asleep option isn’t the best).
Awaken: 7/10 – The biggest weakness is its use of iTunes for playback.
Alarm Clock 2: 6/10 – No fall asleep but some other handy features.
Because Aurora and Awaken are so close it really comes down to personal choice. If you’re not big on fullscreen, Aurora is probably the way to go. However, if you really like the fullscreen and other showy effects, Awaken is probably the way to go. And, if you’re hard-up on cash, Alarm Clock 2 (or Aurora 3) will do in a pinch. Bottom line, pick up your trial of Awaken and the Aurora beta and see which you prefer.
Aurora (v3 is free, but v4 will sell for an unknown price): 15/20 – Great interface even without fullscreen. Easy (and fun) to use. Definitely a strong contender.
Awaken ($12.95): 16/20 – The fullscreen really makes up for some rough bits. A great, great-looking app that’s pretty good as far as first things to see in the morning go.
Alarm Clock 2 (Free): 11/20 – Bad interface and a mixed bag of features. That said, the price can’t be beat.
Additional screenshots for this edition of Software Sumo can be found here. | 2019-04-20T22:18:07Z | https://endkvetch.wordpress.com/category/apple/ | Porn | Arts | 0.079134 |
tripod | Stockholm Syndrome: Summer internship was a welcome relief from the grind that the first year brought. It felt good once again to go to a regular 9 - 8 job and concentrate on a single thing - it was the race for a PPO (pre-placement offer) where you were competing with other B-school fellow besides your own (rest assured most are as good or bad as you) - competition heightened. At the same time, this change of pace left a gaping constant ache in the side - yes, we missed the constant grind and had learnt to love those bastards (read Chairman PGP & Co.) who gave us so much pain.
Refer to the PGP Manual: Day 1 everyone is given a PGP Manual containing the numerous ways one can get oneself screwed out of IIM L. If you do badly in a couple of courses or miss some classes due to illness (and earned a consequent letter grade drop) and take up the matter to the PGP Chairman, he will simply ask you to refer to the PGP manual. If so happens, then the person is on the threshold of getting out of IIM L or in the words of a professor, "You did something hanky-panky and you had it big time".
Student: Please grant me leave for 3 days.
Chairman PGP: What is your CGPA and your grade in term 3?
Student: Its 5.68 and in term 3 it was 6.36.
Chairman PGP: You please go and study in your room.
Student: Sir, I have to visit my mother. She has not been keeping well for a month.
Chairman PGP (with a sorry expression): I am sorry. But you please study in your room.
Bottom line: You did not pay 3 lacs to be a student but to be our slave.
Bankman, Brandman, Stratman & Riskman: Each of us took fifteen electives performing a load balancing exercise and trying to hedge ourselves for the placements. Of course our ever- helpful seniors had given us 'valuable' tips for choosing. They were not always accurate. They said Bankman was a 'chill' course - only that the end-terms had about 2000 slides and some 40 excel sheets of enriching material to be gone through.
Lesson 1: The seniors are not always right. 15 of them had got a D in Bankman last year in the course as 'chill'. We knew it too late.
Lesson 2: Try as we may, we will also give similar guidance to our juniors. 240 people have 240 points of view.
Stratman brought a daily 40 page (in fine print) case analysis - God forbid if you don't read the case, you can get a bad grade and this course is the heaviest in MBA curriculum. The last sentence was by the instructor and then he asked us to do an impact analysis on our CGPA. Brandman further made it worse by submitting a written analysis of similar cases. And when you believed that the last term, the matters would be cool, the Risk Man(agement) instructor announced, 'Some of you have taken a 'risk' here - you might flunk out in the last term'. The one who did was asked to leave before 2 days before convocation and come back next year (2 years of hard work and struggle down the drain). Another was asked to leave on the last day of classes in the sixth term (actually the entire MBA course) when the fifth term results came out. B-School is merciless and relentless - only the fittest survive. It embodies the cutthroat corporate culture.
The Ego has landed: Placements for our seniors came and went like a nightmare. Of course the economy was bad, the reason every institute offered and a recovery was in offing, but the summer placements suggested otherwise. The official end of summers left the entire institute stunned almost in darkness. Many of us who left cozy jobs realized that they might join at lesser salaries in worst companies. We no longer commanded the pedigree of our seniors who sat back in comfort waiting for companies - in fact we were begging for jobs. Like true MBAs we countered this and so in 5th term Murphy awakened.
In Deep Frijoles: Murphy says, "If you think that things can't be worse, they will worsen.". In the fifth term, the learning is put to test when almost all B-School grads all over India are pitted against each other in case competitions and live projects (with handsome prize money) organized by companies and colleges. This pursuit is for improving the resume with 'differentiating bullet points'. So the sleep lost after the summers' nightmare was put to constructive use by almost all and sundry. So besides the usual workload, a person is writing software for placements or doing marketing research for a leading pharmaceutical company or watching the stock market fluctuating in an online stock-trading contest - all in one term. So those who believe that their CGPA will not fluctuate as much as the Infosys stock sacrifice academics for a 'silver bullet' in extra-currics that will land them with a good job. Often I wonder - Why am I doing this? The answer is, " If I don't someone else will have an advantage over me; so if I invest my time, I better win".
Sure this was a difficult time but then again when would a bank like ICICI would give a bunch of 300 odd b-school students to speculate in the stock market with 20000 bucks each and give a cash prize of 1 lac for making maximum profits (or losing least money). True it was one hell of a ride with night-outs and slogging for days at a stretch but surveying the city of Lucknow gave you insights on how people thought before making decisions about buying soaps, chocolates or health drinks.
Judgment Day 0, Judgment Day 1, Judgment Day 2: For people like me, placements were over before they started being a lateral (with 20+ months of work-ex) and so for the 52 other souls who had a job (laterals or ppo) before going into final placements. The other 177 were 'Alive' (a euphemism for yet to be placed) in the process and were about to go through one of the most strenuous, stressful and in some cases traumatic experience of their lives. With an uncanny similarity like IIT-JEE, the hard work and toil of a year and a half boils down to your performance in 3 days of placements.
The sheer intensity of each GD and interview; the tension in the waiting rooms where all people 'Alive' or placed sit throughout the 3 days; the laughter of those placed and the crying of those who are left; eerie placements causing frustration where people with no finance courses getting into banks or systems experts into FMCG or the 4th ranker among last 30 to get a job or 200th being the first one; the desperation of the last 10 or the last trauma of last 5 suffering the indignity of being 'leftovers'. All those 'Alive' strain their ears for the sound - 'Job Offer '. As the placements go on and the count (of those 'Alive') reduces fights breakout in GD sessions and people break down in front of companies. Said a company official, "He had some excellent concepts but why did he start crying 10 minutes into the interview". The pressure and the weight of expectations of those back home and the peers' gets to people as they crumble.
But this is one time for solidarity as the entire institute comes together. The first years run the placement process and those placed help out other by giving them last minute ideas and more importantly standing by them. Teachers join in by taking spot sessions and counseling the students. Hostels remain empty till the process ends, which it did when the last guy was placed at 6:45pm. An earth-shattering roar went up with a wild storm of clapping and shouts. The last one was chaired to the waiting rooms and in hearts of everyone was the thought, "Thank God, its over".
"What would you do if someone asked you to do the first year again?"
The answer is always the same: "Drop on my knees and Beg for Mercy" | 2019-04-25T10:32:59Z | http://bnitin.tripod.com/cse99/continuum/02-03/hell2.html | Porn | Business | 0.664871 |
livejournal | beyond the pale, shades of grey - Wisdom is the retention of innocence through adversity.
you know - the whole thing about the folks who aren't comfortable about gays marrying each other, or women choosing abortion even if it's "morally wrong", and just about everything else, is this: to them, everything must be an extension of their own ego - and they must COMMAND and CONTROL it. that's what nether guy is like - and where does this lead? it leads to social atomism, or else great waves of popular fascist/force movements ultimately towards genocide. it leads to putting conclusions before evidence. ends before means. "guilty" before innocent. it's bad science and reduces everything around them to the same boring, violent system of fear and fundamentalism. and it becomes its own fuel. how? well, if they feal they can't command/control someone or something, i.e., it refuses to be trapped into being an extension of their ego(s), then they fear it and must destroy it. its ALL ABOUT running from, denying, fear in the first place! so, when you reduce the people around you to a dysfunctional atmosphere of... FEAR and egoism, then what does that do? It drives the need of everyone to command/control others even MORE. and then, because "might makes might," only the biggest, most forceful jerk rises to the top of this house-of-cards pyramid scheme. king of the hill. destined soon to all fall down! it frustrates me to no end that people can't see this. but i can see how it is that they can't see - it necessary to, or intrinsic, in their game. blinders. tunnel-vision. fight-or-flight. black-vs-white.
Many of my antiabortion friends see their opponents as part of a "culture of death." And they are probably correct in their assessment. Ours is a culture of death. What they do not realize is that they and other fundamentalists/conservatives are even more into that culture than those they criticize. The actual scent of death surrounds them and it carries through the media without the aid of "smellavision." The local Catholic newspaper had a big picture of the Pope and our local Bishop. Putting my nose against the newsprint i could clearly detect the corruption.
You've got a point on the command and control thing. In fact, you've described my icky neighbour to a tee. I think the intolerant people want others to act a certain way/ do or not do certain things because they're afraid of being wrong. And that's the Worst Thing Evah for them.
Ah, so you DO know Icky Neighbour! | 2019-04-18T13:19:25Z | https://madman101.livejournal.com/1104625.html | Porn | Reference | 0.169305 |
google | The mission of a Southern Baptist Disaster Ready Church is to be prepared in the event of a disaster, connect with resources and potential disaster response partners, and respond when disaster strikes.
Disasters can strike anywhere. This is why every church should be a Disaster Ready Church. Register now to find out more about getting your church involved in becoming a Disaster Ready Church and prepare to mobilize for Disaster Relief. | 2019-04-20T07:22:39Z | https://sites.google.com/site/knsbdr/current-unit-activations/ready-church | Porn | Reference | 0.635717 |
yahoo | 5%87°67°Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 69 °F (20.6 °C).Thunderstorms with a high of 85 °F (29.4 °C). Winds variable.
25%77°67°Rain today with a high of 77 °F (25.0 °C) and a low of 67 °F (19.4 °C). There is a 25% chance of precipitation. | 2019-04-18T21:32:29Z | https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/brazil/minas-gerais/ladainha-437525 | Porn | Reference | 0.404284 |
yahoo | The first few days after giving birth can be trying on any woman’s body. Not only do the ligaments of the body remain loose for several weeks, but up to 20 per cent of new moms also deal with postpartum depression.
Kayla Gonzales, a birth and motherhood photographer from Austin, Texas, recently shared a candid photo that accurately summed up her first 48 hours after she gave birth. This image, taken by fellow photographer Heather Gallagher, shows Gonzales sitting on a toilet seat, with her head buried in her hands as her baby sleeps next to her in a cradle.
Gonzalez details how that day of the photo had been particularly stressful — her toddler woke up and realized that the new baby was in fact staying, and as a result had cried most of the day. To add to that stress, the family had unexpected bills due on a very short deadline.
Gonzalez says the cramping was so intense, it felt like she was in transition all over again. As soon as the labour had begun, it was over, before she even had a chance to realize what was happening.
“My beautiful baby seemed unfamiliar — smaller than my others, and unexpectedly male. He seemed strange and foreign, and I was struggling to bond with him the same way I had when my other children were born,” Gonzalez added, noting how her milk hadn’t come in yet, and the baby was getting hungry and impatient.
The moment captured in the photo was the first time she had put her new baby down. They had been skin to skin since birth. | 2019-04-22T16:14:00Z | https://ca.news.yahoo.com/moms-heartwrenching-photo-shows-reality-post-baby-life-165018758.html | Porn | Kids | 0.48504 |
wordpress | First off let me go ahead and say how insanely thrilled I am to have been nominated for this little honor! That is so incredibly encouraging for me since I have only been blogging since Oct 1 of this year and am bumbling through this as best I can.
You must answer the 11 questions given to you by your nominator.
You must pick 11 bloggers, each with under 200 subscribers, to be nominated for the award.
If there were a movie based on your life who would play you and why? Holy crap, I don’t have the foggiest idea! Let’s go with Natalie Portman because she is beautiful and amazing (I love Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium).
What is one of your guilty pleasures? M&Ms… ohhhhh my gosh.
What is the one thing not many people know about you? I’m the most social ADHD antisocial… I’m socially awkward due to a significant amount of bad experiences with people. It’s a strange phenomenon.
If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing about your life would you? What would it be? I would love to change a lot of things, like postponing my father’s death for several years. I would like to have known the correct path to take in college (psychology wasn’t the right choice)… I would like to have completed a degree while it was free to me. I would like to change a lot of things sometimes… but in reality I would change nothing. Every decision I made in my past has led me to where I am today.
What is your favorite Disney movie? That’s a loaded question. I have several… The Beauty and the Beast… The Little Mermaid… Hercules… Mulan… I’ll stop there.
What is your favorite place to be? I don’t really have an answer to that. I am nomadic by nature. I love to be with my husband or my brother and his wife or my crossfit family… When I am with them I am happy. I am also content when I am on the road… with my feet or in wheels, it does not matter.
Here are my 11 nominations of pages that offer inspiration and incredible personalities to match. This took me a long time to compose. Some of these pages are new to me since I had to browse for less than 200 followers. I have read several posts and look forward to future posts from all of these. I found a way to learn how many followers a page had and I think it’s inconsistent and possibly correct. So I apologize to these people if they have more and I have mistaken. As I stated right off the bat, I’m kinda handicapped when it comes to this stuff.
Lastly, I have to come up with 11 questions.
Win lottery. What is the first thing you would do?
How do you escape frustrations?
What’s something you would never do?
What’s one food you cannot, and will not, live without?
What famous dead person do you think it would be neat to talk to?
Speaking of heroes, what is one super power you wish you had?
For the impending zombie apocalypse, what will be your weapon of choice and why?
You have 3 days to live and an unlimited supply of money. How do you spend your last 3 days on earth?
There you have it folks! Thank you for your time. This has taken me days to prepare. But if you make it to this point you definitely have a better idea of who I am!
I’m trying things from a Paleo cookbook little by little. The hubs and I love sauteed spinach and were excited to give this a go.
It has made its way into our Palatable Dynamite recipe book.
Heat oil in a cast iron skillet over medium flame. Stir in garlic for one min.
Toss in spinach, basil, and cilantro and mix for 2 min. Remove from heat.
Top with the pepper slices.
Squeeze half of the lemon over the greens.
This is the bottom of my peanut butter barrel… I don’t even know what to think.
I feel like my world came crashing down.
I’ve been addicted to peanut butter for years.
Eat it virtually every day.
I understand Jif isn’t the way to go for the new goods, but it was quite literally my only option at the time. Don’t judge. It’s a baby step in the right direction.
I am not afraid to change.
Have you given up a favorite food to promote health?
Any readers Paleo? What was the hardest thing to transition for you? | 2019-04-22T20:09:26Z | https://theroadtophysicalfitness.wordpress.com/2013/10/ | Porn | Games | 0.088206 |
wordpress | What accounts for our longstanding fascination with the sea, with ships and with the siren call to distant destinations? Anne Tews Schwab applies her own love of all things nautical to Capsized: A Novel In Verse – an imaginative story told in poems about sailing, music, family and swirling teenage emotion.
Q: Let’s start with telling us how your personal journey as a writer began.
A: My writing journey began at age three. I had recently mastered writing my first name, and was eager to share my writing prowess with my whole neighborhood. Red crayon clutched in my hand, I hurried outside and proceeded to write on the walls of the house, the door of the garage, the silver trash cans and the slats of our white picket fence. I was proud of my work but my mother seemed to disagree. Soon after my crayon masterpiece was discovered, I had my first experience in editing as my mother handed me a bucket and a sponge and instructed me to start scrubbing!
Q: Were you a voracious reader growing up?
A: Yes! We weren’t allowed to watch any television except for PBS, so my sisters and I all became voracious readers at very early ages.
Q: What authors and titles especially resonate(d) with you (and why)?
A: I read so many covers off so many books, I wouldn’t have the space to name them all here, but a few that come to mind include: The Anne of Green Gables series by L.M Montgomery (because my mother read a chapter out loud to me every night before bed), Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (because I dreamed of one day having a family as big as theirs), the Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene and Bobbsey Twin books by Laura Lee Hope and Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (because I had dreams of one day becoming a detective or spy), A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (because I wanted to be as smart as Meg and wanted to believe it possible to time travel).
Q: What is Capsized about and what was your inspiration to write it?
A: Written as a series of poems, Capsized is a fictionalized version of the some of the highs and lows and joys and woes of scow sailing and lake racing combined with a deep love of piano playing and music. Dani’s story began many years ago when I wrote a short story featuring a girl from a sailing-centric family who was deathly afraid of the water. Like Dani, I grew up sailing and playing piano, but unlike Dani, I loved the water, and my sailing and piano stories are quite different from hers!
Q: Who is your target audience and what is the takeaway value you hope to achieve with those readers?
A: I hope that young adult readers will emphasize with the plight of the main character as she struggles to balance the demands of her father, her mother, her brother and the friends that come and go in her life. In addition to empathizing with the story’s theme, I hope that teens and tweens will come away with a new found love and/or appreciation for power and beauty of poetry.
Q: You describe Capsized as “a novel in verse.” What influenced your decision to go this particular route?
A: As part of my MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults at Hamline University, I had the privilege of penning two theses – one critical, one creative. For my first thesis, I researched extensively in the field of poetry, focusing specifically on the epic poem and how it related to a novel of my own. As I dove deep into the epics of yore and was immersed in the world of verse, I had the lightbulb idea to rewrite a shelved prose novel entirely in poems. When the award-winning verse novelist, Ron Koertge, was assigned as my final semester advisor, I knew I had made the right choice.
Q: What were some of the challenges you encountered in developing the story and its themes?
A: The first challenge came when my advisor advised me to put the whole prose novel away, make a bare bones outline of the general story structure from scratch and then begin again, but this time in poetic format … Yikes! The next challenges arrived as I struggled to find the poetic forms that would best represent character, setting, action and emotion.
Q: What part does setting play in the development and progression of the plot?
A: Dani’s home lake — Black Bear Lake — plays a large part in her life and the lives of her friends and family. In addition to being essential to the sailing action that takes place in the story, the lake also sets the tone and pace of the poems and prose throughout the books. The rhythm of the winds and waves across the lake are reflected in the rhythmic development of the story and the ebb and flow style plot progression.
Q: If you could be any character in the book, which one would it be?
Q: If you were to set sail around the world with only one person for company, who would it be and why?
Q: How long did this book take you to write from start to finish?
A: If we count all of the prose drafts, plus the short story that began it all, the whole process adds up to nearly ten years. If we only count the poetic drafts, it would be closer to two.
Q: Tell us a little about your writing process. For instance, do you do outlines and research in advance or create and research as you go along?
A: I am more of a pantster than an outliner – I tend to write by the seat of my pants, letting the plot develop and the story grow until the first draft is done. After that, I will go back and outline the basic structure to find the holes, pinpoint the flaws and discover what more is needed.
Q: What are some fun or interesting facts about Capsized you’d like readers to know?
A: The sail number and name on the X boat pictured on the cover are the same as my boat’s name and number from back when I was an X-boat racing teenager, but that’s not me or my boat in the picture!
Q: In classrooms across the country, the study of poetry has seriously fallen by the wayside. Further, aspiring writers are often discouraged from writing poetry because there just isn’t any money in it. What’s your reaction to this?
A: It’s true, there is not a lot of money in poetry, but, as I tell teens today, poetry has a power that cannot be denied. With poetry, deep emotions can be expressed in non threatening ways. With poetry, teens can speak deep truths. I like to borrow the words of a certain wise doctor when I speak with teachers and teens and tweens of today about poetry, telling them that, with poetry in their pocket, “Oh, the Places You Will Go!” (apologies to Dr. Seuss).
A: I submitted my book to a wide range of traditional publishers, but as a quiet verse novel, Capsized did not garner a strong interest from agents and/or publishing houses. After some careful research, I found North Star Press, a local publisher with strong poetry collections. Through their guided self-publishing arm, Polaris Publications, I was able to bring Dani’s story from manuscript form to published fruition.
Q: What kinds of things are you doing to promote the book now that it’s out?
A: Interviews, book signings, mailings, book club appearances, teaching classes about poetry, teaching online workshops, contacting schools and libraries.
Q: For writers that are just starting out, what are your three best tidbits of advice?
A: A middle grade fantasy fiction story about pirates and mermaids and destiny and family.
Q: Anything else you’d like readers to know about you or your work?
A: I write a poem a day and I would encourage all of your readers to do so as well — poetry is perfect for all people, all places, all the time. Poetry is perfect for you! | 2019-04-24T20:53:46Z | https://fromtheauthors.wordpress.com/category/anne-tews-schwab/ | Porn | Arts | 0.090099 |
livejournal | It must be lets be depressed night.
Current Music: The Island of Dr. Moreau?
It's a weird night, for sure.
Minus one mouse....I need to kill them all, the fuckers.
My schedule is changing, again. 2300 -> 0800 M-F. Yay.
I think. At least I'll be able to 'sleep' in a chunk...problem is going to be sleeping in the day, I think. At least, I'll have less transition time, and more time to do stuff. Yay.
I had stuff to say, I really did. But I don't anymore.
So I think I'll go back to beating on PHP. Which is an amusing story, in and of itself I love dictating the direction of a class. Yes I do. Cause I'm obviously smart.
We were talking about web development before she ended the conversation with that.
And I was just told my firealarm works. I don't want to burn to death, so that is good.
I want a costume. Alas. | 2019-04-20T03:24:49Z | https://daimones.livejournal.com/32956.html | Porn | Computers | 0.763097 |
wordpress | ← Jury Finds Bayer’s Roundup Weedkiller Caused Man’s Cancer: Where was the Science?
Islam is a very special cult.
It randomly deals out punishments as those in control of a given area see fit, they are very inconsistent in doing so.
Islam is made up of dangerous fools who blindly follow the words handed down by Mohammad when he was allegedly given orders to codify the rantings into the Qur’an.
The words were supposed to come from Allah with plenty of room to change.
A very odd choice indeed when one considers Mohammad could neither read or write accords taken down at the time.
To put an end to this it would be worth considering, giving the same punishments to those who commit atrocities in their acts of terrorism harming or killing Americans.
Dec. 2, San Bernadino, Calif.: Fourteen people are killed and more than 20 wounded when two people open fire at a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center, a service facility for people with disabilities and special needs in San Bernardino, California.
The suspects, husband and wife Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, are killed in a shootout with police after the rampage.
Officials say they believe the attack is terrorism related.
So where were they when they were needed?
If a group of oath keepers tried to do the same they would likely be put before a grand jury.
This goes to political correctness and little more.
Our legislators are scared to death of Muslims when law breakers coming up with their own police cars.
It is the worst mass shooting in the United States since 26 people were killed in Dec. 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
The FBI also concludes that while the couple was not working with ISIS directly, their actions were inspired by the Islamic State.
Upon further sourcing the brothers were not refugees.
April 15, 2013, when two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more than 260 other people.
The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” This amendment prohibits the federal government from imposing unduly harsh penalties on criminal defendants, either as the price for obtaining pretrial release or as punishment for crime after conviction.
The Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause is the most important and controversial part of the Eighth Amendment.
In some ways, the Clause is shrouded in mystery.
What does it mean for a punishment to be “cruel and unusual”?
How do we measure a punishment’s cruelty? And if a punishment is cruel, why should we care whether it is “unusual”?
Muslim terrorists have been assured a place in paradise with 72 Virgins.
It us certainly within the realm of reason that something was lost in the translation.
They will likely be met by…….
If this is supposed to be such a special deal, why is it the guy who does the flogging covers his identity with a hooded mask.
Hundreds of spectators gathered to watch the public flogging, including children.
They all watched as a masked sharia officer lashed the offenders as they cried out in pain, with two women being so severely injured they were left unable to walk after the punishment had been administered.
“Our society and the Muslim youth should certainly not be celebrating non-Islamic holidays,” declared Mayor Illiza Saaduddin Djamal.
“The law says it is haram.
This entry was posted in What is actually going on in the minds of Islamic Jihadists? and tagged Banda Aceh, Faith, Indonesia, Islamic law, Israel, Jim Campbell's WethePeople, Middle East, Muslim Sharia Squad Cars, Nuns with Guns, Politics, Sumatra. Bookmark the permalink.
2 Responses to What is actually going on in the minds of Islamic Jihadists?
This doesn’t do much for their attempts at boosting their tourist industry, does it?
But then again, it explains a lot about Obama, who grew up in that sordid place.
On the day after 9-11 I was supposed to dive The Red Sea on a live aboard boat. Of course all flights were cancelled except for members of the bin Ladin Family. We waited an extra day and flew to Micronesia and dove in Palau. | 2019-04-19T07:05:04Z | https://whatyouthoughtiwentaway.wordpress.com/2019/03/20/indonesias-aceh-invokes-islamic-law-and-whips-amorous-couples/ | Porn | News | 0.17488 |
wordpress | To view the new interactive story library, please visit Short Stories.
The final words of Deck hand Isaacs.
What would it be like if reality broke down around you?
Transformation of a young man into… well something else.
If you watch for long enough, you to will see the world differently.
If you’ve liked a story here. Vote for it below.
This entry was posted on 18/02/2013 by Supernova1987. It was filed under Uncategorized . | 2019-04-25T16:25:55Z | https://supernova1987.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/short-stories-list/?shared=email&msg=fail | Porn | Arts | 0.730605 |
wordpress | For the first time in 11 years, I received normal pap smear results! Long ago, I had many troubles with my reproductive system and eventually precancerous cells were found on my cervix when I was 22 years old. I had to go through surgery to remove quite a large portion of my cervix, which may or may not have rendered me unable to have children. Luckily, I have never had plans to give birth.
After surgery, it was required I go in for check ups every three months to make sure all the precancerous cells were gone and to make sure I was recovering. I’d still end up with abnormal pap results, but nothing that required action. Finally, today, I received results in the mail with the words “Good news!” hand written on top of the paper. I almost jumped for joy! Now I only have to go in every three years for a pap. After one year of every-three-month pap smears, I went to yearly ones, and now every three years FINALLY! This makes me so happy.
I hope for more good news soon regarding my other medical stuff!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged health, life, women's health.
← Sleep…how can something so essential be so elusive?
Isn’t it frustrating have your reproductive system be such a source of problems when you weren’t ever planning on having kids anyway? Congratulations on the good news! | 2019-04-25T00:27:58Z | https://diagnosisunknown.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/good-news/ | Porn | Health | 0.910493 |
wordpress | Having the 11th pick I was hoping on scoring either Jimmy Rollins or Chase Utley. Well, mrcane was sitting with the 6th pick and we all know he loves Rollins so he went #6. In position #9, dtb23 (a Phils fan) was ready to scoop up Utley but he went one pick earlier at #8. Since I really wanted a 2B or SS I was planning on taking Kinsler….but Ryan Braun fell into my lap at pick #11. I thought about Beltran for a brief moment but went with Braun.
Coming back at pick #20 I was hoping on Evan Longoria but he went a couple picks early so I kind of went a bit early on Dustin Pedroia but I wanted a top 3 2B or top 3 SS and this was my only chance.
Going into the 3rd round I was happy to see a number of SPs flying off the board as my strategy was to put off pitching until at least the 6th round. For my pick in the 3rd I was eyeing Carlos Quentin and Matt Kemp but both went before it got back to me. With Aramis Ramirez sitting on the board I ensured my team of having a strong infield by snagging him in that spot.
For the 4th round I had some power and a bit of speed in Pedroia but I was looking to get a speedster and was eyeing Carl Crawford or Jacoby Ellsbury. Crawford went 3 picks before me so I settled in with Ellsbury.
For the 5th round I really wanted Stephen Drew to fall to me. He went about 8 picks before it got to me so I passed on the temptation to take Rafeal Furcal and instead solidified some power with Adam Dunn. I would have taken Bobby Abreu but he went 5 picks earlier to mrcane. Victor Martinez was also a consideration but I figured I’d be able to get him next pick about 10 picks away.
Turns out I was wrong as VMart went to tallkid1 and I chose Carlos Delgado because 1Bs were flying off the board and he was the only one left that I would be happy on as my starter.
Heading into the 7th I really needed to take some pitching since I planned on starting that in the 6th. There was still a number of “aces” on the board (Billingsly, Lester, Shields, Zambrano, Liriano, Gallardo, and F. Hernadez) all of whom went before my pick. I then chose Scott Kazmir for his Ks and followed up with Josh Johnson for his upside in the 8th round.
9th round I continued my quest to fill out my staff by selecting Joba Chamberlain. I was scouting Brett Myers but he went 2 picks earlier which I was fine with since I got him in my points league draft on Saturday. I really like Myers this year.
For the 1oth I was going to take my 1st closer and planned on Brian Fuentes. Mike Scioscia loves giving save opportunities only to his closer and their style of play really sets up a number of close games so I think Fuentes is in line for quite a few saves this year. He went 2 picks before me and I reluctantly selected Kerry Wood.
Wood and I have a history. During his prime when he was the next Roger Clemens I once traded Nomar Garciaparra for Wood and Barry Larkin in a keeper league. Wood proceeded to tear ligaments in his elbow 2 months later and Nomar became one of the top fantasy players for the next few years while I sat with an aging Barry Larkin. I must say I’m not a big fan of Wood.
My next few picks I took Ryan Doumit (can’t believe he was still there in the 11th), Matt Capps (wanted to ensure I got 2 guys guaranteed the job), Lastings Milledge (still wish he was a Met, love his power/speed combo) and Oliver Perez in the 14th (Ks!!! and his inconsistency doesn’t hurt as much in a total year tally league like it does in a H2H league).
For the rest of the draft there was slim pickings so I wanted to focus on young upside guys and guys who may be under-valued due to previous injuries. In the 15th I took Jeremy Hermida (great spring, last chance for this one-time stud prospect). I then took Max Scherzer (upside!!) and Todd Helton (great spring, is his back OK?).
I still did not have a shortstop and guys I was targeting for late in the draft (Yunel Escobar, Elvis Andrus, Ryan Theriot) had just come off the board so I continued to punt that category and took Jason Kubel (full time DH in Min, 27 years old). In the 19th I finally took a SS with Christain Guzman over Khalil Greene because I needed the avg more than the power.
I rounded out my draft with Edwin Jackson of the Tigers. I love this guy this year as a sleeper and I’ve so far got him in all 3 drafts I’ve done. I plan on scoring him as well in my 4th and final draft tomorrow night.
Overall I think my team came out pretty good. I wanted a better ace and I think I abandoned stolen bases a bit too much after the Milledge pick but I can pick some SBs during the season. If Josh Johnson and Joba Chamberlain bust out into super stardom this season and Kazmir stays healthy, I will have a real good team and do Darryl Strawberry proud!!
Jimmy Rollins….The 6th Best Pick?
throw Grady Sizemore in the mix who has consitently been the 5th or 6th in most drafts..
Grady .275avg 30hr 85rb 35sb 110rs…..those are almost exactly what Rollins is expected to do AND Rollins plays shortstop, typically a more difficult position to fill.
Let’s look at it from another prospective….after the big three shortstops we have to chose from Derek Jeter (whos numbers are similar to Mike Aviles), Rafeal Furcal (coming off back surgery) and Stephen Drew a far cry from Rollins. It has come to my attention that far too often we take for gold what is stated by the the majority, when in fact we are just as capable of looking at the numbers and making a reasonable decision.
It is reasonable to say that Rollins can hit more home runs than Jose Reyes, steal more than Hanley Ramirez, have a better batting average then Grady Sizemore while leading MLB in runs scored….why are we so willing to take Sizemore, Ryan Braun and Miguel Cabrera before him? Go against the grain, do what’s right, pick Rollins because “I guarantee he will help you win the league”.
In case you didn’t know, the name of this post was taken from the song lyrics of “Centerfield” released by John Fogerty in 1985. The front man from Creedence Clearwater Revival actually played every instrument on this album; thanks to a process know as overdubbing.
By now everyone has seen some sort of list that ranks the top prospects in baseball. These lists are great for keeper leagues and leagues with minor league systems, but what about non-keeper leagues? What good is a pitching phenom in single A going to do a fantasy team this year? The answer is nothing except eat up a valuable bench spot.
The purpose of this article is to identify some of the young players who will be on the field when their big league team opens the 2009 season. I’ve excluded guys like Evan Longoria, who has already reached superstar status, and Joey Votto, whose extremely impressive stats have him ranked among the best at his position. My list is more about the young players that may be overlooked on draft day but who could help pave the way to a fantasy payout at the end of the season.
Nobody f#cks with De Jesus! Sorry I had to throw that one in there for all of my fellow Lebowski lovers. Flores showed great potential last year when he drove in 59 runs in 300 at bats. Don’t expect him to keep up that pace in 2009 but he can be among the top 10 fantasy catchers.
FANTASY BASEBALL ADVICE – He deserves to be in the second tier of catchers behind McCann, Mauer, Victor and Soto.
This smooth swinging lefty has Giants’ fans reminiscing about “Will the Thrill”. Ishikawa hit two HR’s in SF’s first spring game and recorded 24 long balls last year in the minors. Ishikawa was never considered an elite prospect but if he continues to exhibit HR power he will be a serviceable fantasy 1B.
FANTASY BASEBALL ADVICE – Consider him a steady back up that you can take in the late rounds.
Getz is competing for the starting job in Chicago. He doesn’t have a whole lot of power but his high batting average could help him find his way to the top of the line-up where he should score some runs.
In my opinion this guy is already a star, but some casual baseball fans still don’t know who he is. His wirey frame and immense power remind me of Soriano.
FANTASY BASEBALL ADVICE – Draft him in the mid rounds after Hanley, Reyes, JRoll and Drew.
FANTASY BASEBALL ADVICE – Stewart could be a breakout performer at a fairly weak position. Draft him in the middle rounds and you can realistically expect him to finish in the top ten at his position.
This super prospect is expected to start in left field this year for the Blue Jays. He has incredible potential and could end up hitting in the middle of the line-up. Travis had an off year in AA in 2008, however 40% of his hits went for extra bases, which translates well into fantasy numbers.
FANTASY BASEBALL ADVICE – Snider will be available in the very late rounds in most drafts. Select him with a late round pick and he could end up being one of your starting OFs once he gets past some of the growing pains of facing the best pitchers in the game.
This guy is unbelievable. He should have been the starting CF and lead off hitter for the Fish last year but the team opted to leave him in their minor league system. The few Marlins fans that actually show up to games are going to love young Mr. Maybin. He has all the tools and his potential is off the charts. He will be among the league leaders in steals this year and will put up great numbers in every fantasy category.
FANTASY BASEBALL ADVICE – Don’t wait until the middle rounds to select Maybin or you will miss out on the Marlin’s next superstar.
This young slugger could potentially hit 30 HRs this year and he will be 22 on opening day! Jay has elite power and playing 82 games at the Great American Ballpark is a terrifying proposition for opposing pitchers.
FANTASY BASEBALL ADVICE – Bruce is ready to break out in a major way. Consider his a top 25 fantasy OF who could be substantially better than that if he continues to improve.
Stay tuned and I will give you some of my young pitchers who could make a splash in the fantasy world…. | 2019-04-23T12:29:47Z | https://fantasybaseballadvisors.wordpress.com/tag/stephen-drew/ | Porn | Sports | 0.987639 |
wordpress | Crab Rangoon is one of the simplest appetizers to whip up. There are many variations and everyone has their favorite style. I’m going to share a super simple recipe and method made especially easy for kitchen novices.
Start out by softening two 8oz blocks of cream cheese and thaw if need be about 8oz of cooked (or imitation) crab meat. Everyone likes their Rangoon spiced differently so play with it a little if you find something you might like or if you dislike something on my list. I suggest white pepper, ground celery seed, garlic powder, chili powder and salt. You don’t need much. Maybe a half a teaspoon or so of each depending on your tastes.
Just put it all in a bowl and mix it up with a fork. Simple.
Now you’ll use that water to seal up the edges. Simply dip your finger into the water and run it along the top corner of the wrap.
Then fold it over to seal. Viola!
Perfect little packages made especially for dippin’.
Try the envelop method and tell me what you think. | 2019-04-25T14:14:12Z | https://eatpaintthink.wordpress.com/tag/crab/ | Porn | Kids | 0.392915 |
wordpress | Software-defined networking (SDN) technology is an approach to cloud computing that facilitates network management and enables programmatically efficient network configuration in order to improve network performance and monitoring. SDN is meant to address the fact that the static architecture of traditional networks is decentralized and complex while current networks require more flexibility and easy troubleshooting.
SDN suggests centralizing network intelligence in one network component by disassociating the forwarding process of network packets (Data Plane) from the routing process (Control plane). The control plane consists of one or more controllers which are considered as the brain of SDN network where the whole intelligence is incorporated.
In this rapid evolvement of Software Defined Networking space, Hyperconvergence is the only segment. Majority of the SDN has been confined to large cloud service providers, cloud start-ups, building new data centers and hyperscale companies. But SDN is best for SMBs, in which IT teams need ways to manage large environments efficiently.
Hyperconvergence helps 200 employees who are supported by five IT staff members; this is possible as Hyperconvergence has everything in one box which simplifies support.
SMBs should soon upgrade to SDN and Hyperconvergence. The IT teams of SMBs should do an upfront planning, make the right technology investment and prepare their staff for any particular problem.
SDN is very valuable for SMBs. As SMBs are implementing SDNs while building new data center stands to benefit them, legacy equipment will not be an issue.
SMBs are very much beneficial with the help of SDN as SMBs can avoid huge investments on infrastructure and on the IT staff required to handle a work place.
If SDN is installed it allows the network to adapt to applications without making any change in the software. SDN allows network to adapt to quality of service, but quality of service is time consuming and difficult under the best circumstances.
SDN is very much time saving if you have not planned your things. If a few applications are not working, or any equipment which is not working, means downtime in business which will result in lack of business hours which will in turn affect the business and which will in turn affect the salary of employees.
SDN is not just plug and play. IT officials have to be fully prepared for SDN deployment, they will need administrators with virtualization experience, staff training or they can also take help from third party provider. The best preparation for SDN came from understanding implementation objectives and studying options for accomplishing them. Do the due diligence by talking to vendors to see what’s out there, as the tried-and-true isn’t necessarily the best way to tackle an SDN or HCI project.
You can opt not to invest in tools and staff up to do everything manually. You can choose to run an efficient operation with a lean staff, which means buying the right tools.
SDN’s not for everyone, but if SMBs want to be able to react through technology to changes that impact their business, it can be a great fit.
Previous Post How SMBs can adapt easily to cloud according to Dell EMC? | 2019-04-23T14:47:41Z | https://kayimpex.wordpress.com/2018/02/09/how-sdn-can-help-smbs-to-manage-large-it-environment/ | Porn | Business | 0.959814 |
wordpress | A friend pointed this one out on the Internet and I had to share it and my musings.
Lot 479: A Late 16th/Early 17th Century Leather Black Jack/Water Carrier.
The spouted vessel having a crown-form handle to the top and a ropetwist and beaded seam leading down to the circular foot. 14½ ins (37 cms) in height, 13 ins (33 cms) in width.
This is a lovely piece and it’s really nice to have the dimensions. The person writing the catalogue entry probably honestly believed the bottle to be English based on the current location and of just an unusual form, optimistically dating it to the 17th century based on the patination and stitching.
I have a problem with the description: I think the bottle form is Arabic. You can see much earlier examples showing similar features here. If you look closely at the top, you can see a hole where a missing strap handle was attached. Similarly, there are a few stitches missing on the spout, it looks like the spout has been damaged and the leather trimmed to straighten it at some point.
Note the height of the spout and the arrangement of strap and cord handles.
Close up of the base showing the base and side stitching and the roped and beaded decoration.
Handle decoration. The edges are bound with another layer of leather.
View of the spout and showing the strap handle in profile.
Inside spout, clearly showing welt and seam.
Top-ish view showing handle attachment. Note the double row of stitching on the top seam.
Three leather firebuckets at the top of the main stairs in Cawdor Castle, dating to the eighteenth century, later emblazoned with the lst Earl Cawdor’s coronet and monogram. Construction is riveted throughout and virtually identical to those at Cotehele House in Cornwall, HMS Victory and any number of other sites (including this). The top band and handle loops are metal, these buckets have a particularly fine paint job.
Here’s some more photos of the same buckets. | 2019-04-26T13:54:57Z | https://leatherworkingreverend.wordpress.com/2012/06/ | Porn | Reference | 0.889816 |
wordpress | We have reserved some cabins for us (biggest for 8 persons, smaller for 4 to 6 persons). Staying in these cabins is included in the fee for the Annual Meeting. If you prefer to stay in a single room apartment (for1-2 persons), it will cost you 100€ more.
Register on e-mail: netta.novas@gmail.com with name, address, tel.no, e-mail, NoVAS member, Vet/Vet student or PT/PT student.
If you are travelling by train or flight to Tampere, we’ll organize transport from railway station / airport (14.10 Finnair and/ or 14.55 SAS) to Sappee. By registration, let us know how and when you are arriving!!!!
Registration at the latest: March 15th !!!
The course fee includes: lectures and lecture-notes, tea-coffee/break-snacks, lunch Friday, Saturday and Sunday, BIG dinner party Saturday and accommodation in a cabin.
The most comprehensive veterinary acupuncture course outside China.
This course can be attended by licensed veterinarians and last year veterinary students.
The participants will be able to integrate acupuncture into their practice immediately.
Price: 8.100€ incl. books and course material, excl. travel and hotel expenses.
!!! The deadline for registration is December 15th, 2018. !!!
It is time to pay the annual fee right now and the good thing is; it is lower than last year due to a low exchange rate to $!!!
Topic for annual meeting this year will be FOOD, FEEDING and FOOD THERAPY. Linda Boggie will be main lecturer.
For Dr Hielm-Björkman’s lectures; non-acupuncturist veterinary colleagues are also invited.
See Gothia Towers’s homepage for information; the address: Gothia Towers, Mässans gata 24, Göteborg.
Make sure to book your own hotel-rooms directly with the hotel! Find the lowest price on the hotels web site; https://online.gothiatowers.com/reserve/s/home. We have been given a price for double room: SEK 1375,- NB: Your hotel-rooms and travel are not included in the course-fee.
The hotel is 20 minutes from Landvetter airport; buses to/from airport stop near hotel. For more information and details on how to reach the hotel from railwaystation or by car, please see hotel’s homepage!
Register on e-mail Venla Kärki venlakarki@gmail.com with name, address, tel.no, e-mail, NoVAS member, Vet student.
Registration at the latest: February 23rd!!!
The course fee includes: lectures and lecture-notes, work shop/“food” lab, tea-coffee/break-snacks, lunch Saturday and Sunday, BIG dinner party Saturday !!!
1400-1445 The Finnish food frequency questionnaire: Canine raw feeding seems to be healthy!
1445-1530 The wolf is a wolf and the dog is a dog, so what should the dog eat?
1645-1730 Practical application – how to advice clients in feeding raw food. From puppies to geriatric, from slow start to medical conditions.
Since 1998 she has lectured for various acupuncture courses, advanced continuing education seminars, congresses and symposiums in the USA, Canada, Scandinavia, Europe, Australia, China and Taiwan and Brazil. She currently organizes courses in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in the Netherlands.
In 2003 she moved to The Netherlands and has an integrative practice in Deventer with her husband, a veterinarian specialized in dentistry and orthopedics in companion animals. She enjoys Chinese veterinary medical practice, lecturing on Chinese medicine, acupuncture and the use of Chinese herbs in small animals. Any spare time is enjoyably spent with her husband, their Friesian horses, cat, two dogs and a Shetland pony.
Anna Hielm-Björkman is a DVM, CVA (IVAS) PhD and Docent and is working at the Dept. of Equine and Small Animal Medicine and at the University Animal Hospital at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki in Finland. She is the leader of the DogRisk research group that focus on translational Medicine and Ani-Man One Health. That means that her group study diseases that occur spontaneously in both dogs and humans. Her main interest here is nutrition related epidemiology, aetiology, and pathophysiology.
She also has researchers working on metabolomics, nutrigenomics, gut microbiota, nutrition profiles of the healthy and diseased animal and clinical outcome measures for pain and quality of life. She also validates and studies scent discrimination dogs that sniff diseases from biological samples; now cancer from urine samples. Dr Hielm-Björkman is also head of the pain- and rehabilitation clinic at the University.
In this seminar she will talk about results from the group’s big food frequency questionnaire (www.ruokintakysely.fi) as well as other research the group has done, and about practical raw feeding.
Anna Hielm-Björkman became certified by the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society (IVAS) in 1992 and has used acupuncture in her practice ever since. She has organized courses in acupuncture as well as in canine rehabilitation. She lectures at courses and congresses in Europe and America. She was President of NoVAS board from 2004 – 2016.
November already…some of us took part in the “new” Nordic tradition, Halloween, recently with kids and grandkids – carving pumpkins and overeating on sweets?!
Even if you don’t’ “do” Halloween, you might want to include the main Halloween-ingredient in your dog’s diet after next year’s Annual meeting! Subject for the 2018-meeting is FOOD – and feeding. Linda Boggie will lecture on Chinese food therapy for dogs and cats; digestive issues – TCVM vs Western diagnosis; Anna Hielm-Björkman will present results from her research on Raw food-feeding for dogs and we will have a food-oriented work-shop including western herbs well suited for digestive issues. So – find your calendars and hold the dates 16 – 18 March, 2018 – we hope to see lots and lots of you at the 2018 Annual Meeting in Gothenburg!!!!
Details for the agenda will be ready and sent to you well in advance of Annual meeting.
This year’s BIG happening has no doubt been the IVAS International Congress in Cairns, Australia, August 23rd – 26th 2017. Those of us lucky to go there had a fantastic time Down Under.
In the first photo we see Netta Tammissalo thanking Birgitte Langvad for her excellent lectures “Acupuncture, herbal medicine and rehabilitation works perfectly well together in neuromuscular and musculoskeletal disease”.
Next; Birgitte introduces Barbara Fougère – lecturing on moxibustion; “Where acupuncture meets herbs” .
And here we see a picture from the Tui-na work-shop with Michelle Schraeder.
And here we see a picture from the Tui-na work-shop with Michelle Schraeder. All in all we had 3 days with inspiring and interesting lectures covering various subject on dogs, cats and horses supplying us with new “tools” and ideas to include in our clinics. You will find all proceedings on IVAS homepage. And – of course – in addition we had social gatherings with wonderful colleagues from all over the world.
Main congress co-ordinator in IVAS, Debbie Prevratil, had also done a great job in organizing trips for us to Kuranda Village, Great Barrier Reef and to the Daintree rainforest; we hugged koalas, saw cangaroos, snorkelled/dived on the Reef, and were generally awed and impressed with the beauty and diversity of Australian East Coast.
On our outings we were lucky enough to see plenty of wildlife – here represented by an impressive crocodile on the river bank and a cassowary (reputedly the most dangerous bird in the world…but this one kept his calm surrounded by us tourists ).
Thank you to IVAS and also AVAG – Australian veterinary acupuncture group – for making the 2017 congress a HUGE success both professionally and socially!
BOARD MEETING – The NoVAS board met at Astri’s place in September for a board-meeting to sum up this year’s activities and to plan for next year – most important: PLANNING for our next Annual meeting! As you now know – we believe you will all be happy with the subjects and the lecturers.
Kim Samuelsen arranged a course in Equine Respiratory Diseases in TCVM, at his place in Ejdrup, Denmark, in October 21st – 22nd 2017. The week end was a great success with a mix of lectures and practical demos with patients. Katja did a great job, was super organized. (And Kim comments that he now believes he understands how to interpret symptoms in order to come up with a proper TCM diagnosis on LU conditions).
Rikke Schultz and Cecilie Stadler, PT, are responsible a new series of courses with Patricia Kortekaas from Oregon. The course is open for veterinarians and human PTs and the first of 6 modules, Introduction to Animal Osteopathy®class took place in Roskilde in June. Contact the course arrangers if you want to know more about this!!!
NEXT NEWS LETTER will be out early 2018 with more information about the upcoming Annual meeting! We on the board wish you all a lovely and “hyggelig” November – and even if a bit early; have a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones!
A new board was elected at the Annual Meeting in Denmark – see the board page.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact the board!
REMEMBER TO WRITE YOUR NAME (not only the clinic!!) SO WE CAN SEE WHO HAS PAID!!!!!!
You should all have received information about this course on email.
The teaching is on dogs in English, please read the attached description of the two first modules. When you have learned, the techniques it will be possible to see them transferred to horses by Cecilie Stadler, PT and Rikke Schultz, DVM.
The course is open for veterinarians and human PT’s.
The course will be in 6 modules over three years 2017 to 2019 -2020. The dates for the two first modules are 15th to the 18th of June 2017 and possibly the 4th to the 7th of January 2018 (will be clear at the first modul).
Place: In the Roskilde area about 25 km south-west of Copenhagen.
Price: The price for the two first modules are 1000 EURO + VAT. It covers the teaching, material, breakfast the first day and lunch all 4 days as well as coffee/the, cake and snacks. Payment no later than two month before beginning of the module. An invoice will be send out. I case of cancellation later than 30 days prior to the first course day there will be no refund.
Maximum 20 people and there will be 4-5 teaching assistants.
Please contact us for registration or questions.
NoVAS Annual meeting this year was arranged together with DMAS (Danish Medical Acupuncture Society). And thanks to Birgitte Langvad, who is member of both NoVAS and DMAS, we had the meeting at nice Refborg hotel in Billund; actually the same place we had our annual meeting in 2014, but this year even nicer as the hotel has been totally renovated! Attendees for the meeting was a new “record” for us; 30 NoVAS members present – in addition to the 19 members from DMAS – very nice indeed ��. There is every reason to believe that this was due to the lecturer we were fortunate to “get hold” of – Dr Daniel Keown.
He is the author of the book “The Spark in The Machine – How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine”. If you have not already read this book – it is highly recommended! Also – take a look at Dr Keown’s videos on the vimeo channel – www.vimeo.com/ssoma or on YouTube. Inspiring and interesting lectures, indeed!
And of course – we enjoyed good food and drink and great company with old and new colleagues!
IVAS is counting down to the IVAS Congress which will be held in Cairns, Australia this year. | 2019-04-19T06:59:26Z | https://novasweb.wordpress.com/author/novasweb/ | Porn | Home | 0.711976 |
wordpress | This week’s CFFC is on Alleyways, after the last few weeks, this is one challenge I am ready for!
The existence of horses means you can take a photograph of a particular horse, but it does not prevent a horse painting from showing no horse in particular. You cannot, however, take a photograph of no horse in particular.
Sights and sounds of food preparation………my breakfast is not so grand. | 2019-04-23T04:00:59Z | https://juliepowell2014.wordpress.com/2016/03/ | Porn | Reference | 0.186001 |
wordpress | Going though the new photo album for Ashland Square, these kitchens are so beautiful, and wood floors! My passion.
Formal dining is just a few steps away!
Including the latest floorplan, this is Harvard II – 2907 sq ft of living space!
Where to put overnight guests?
424 W 27th St, Ashland Square single-family home offers an apartment above the detached garage! Perfect for another bedroom and full bath living area or guest quarters or office!
These furnished room photos are from the model home and offer great inspirational ideas.
Bird’s Eye View – Montrose!
Avondale Park by Drake Homes Inc.,located in the Montrose area. I captured a bird’s eye view of the area! There are some well known Houston streets nearby.
Ashland Square – new construction photos!
Ashland Square by Drake Homes Inc!
One exciting living area – four views.
A mini-virtual tour if you will, of the living area in one of our stunning homes at Stillman II by Drake Homes Inc!
Exotic – Drake Homes Inc!
All found in our luxury Avondale Park Manor homes. Oh..and it’s a gated community! Could you ask for anything more! Three stories of luxury living!
I love the wood floors which are part of Drake Homes. The care and cleaning of wood floors shouldn’t be a concern! Here is a great article, on the Armstrong web site about Hardwood Floor Care! | 2019-04-20T12:17:56Z | https://drakehomesinc.wordpress.com/2015/04/ | Porn | Reference | 0.506047 |
wordpress | This look was supposed to be a Post-Apocalyptic Warrior(ess) look but I don’t know if that’s clear or not. I took inspiration from Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara’s Lisbeth) with “bleached” brows. I only put a little bit of white foundation in the front of my brows. | 2019-04-21T00:10:30Z | https://cravingwords.wordpress.com/2016/11/05/she-would-rather-be-beaten-to-death-than-take-any-shit-halloween-2016/ | Porn | Reference | 0.699011 |
wordpress | A Guarantee according to my Oxford dictionary is: formal promise to do something or that a thing is of specified quality and durability; thing offered as security.
It is just a little over 2 years when my family up stakes and moved from my husband’s home country, Poland and headed west to England in the UK. The excitement and hope we carried along with us was unprecedented. Of course, we had SOMEONE going before us to prepare the way. Like Joshua’s time, we had done our homework. We had allowed ourselves to spy on the land we were going to settle in. And the report was all good.
But alas, as soon as we got off the bus…we were all on our own! There was no-one to meet us on the other side. We didn’t know where to start to begin us. With limited resources in our pockets, we did eventually manage to get accomodation albeit with much difficulties attached to it. The challenge of looking for jobs and with money quickly running out made matters more complicated.
At the back of my mind….there was always the thoughts of GOD….yes, GOD. But…it wasn’t GOD as I had come to know Him. You see, faced with all these challenges, I couldn’t understand why God couldn’t come through when we need Him the most. My Father seemed as if He had failed to keep His word; I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.
But… truth be told. He was there. He was there when I questioned; He was there when my husband got his first job…and 2 months later, I joined him. He was there when we moved into our first house on our own; He was there when dad fell ill and later went to be with the Lord a couple of months later. He was there when I doubted His ability to deliver and above all… He was there to meet me on the OTHER END.
As a child of God, I now realised that His GUARANTEE does not cover me from pain, death, lack, destruction and all kinds of adversity. His ONLY GUARANTEE is a continual everlasting presence from the beginning, in-between and at the end of whatever life brings my way. Read Romans 8:35-39 and be encouraged.
He is a covenant keeping God!
A COMPASS according to Wikipedia is a NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT for determining direction relative to Earth’s magnetic poles.
Suffering for a Christian also works in the same way as the compass. I have heard this question asked over and over again. WHY DO GOOD PEOPLE SUFFER? Or, IS IT NECESSARY FOR A CHILD OF GOD TO GO THROUGH SUFFERING? Before I answer these questions let me put the record straight. SUFFERING is a part and parcel of our everyday life…e.i for the unbeliever and the believer alike.
Psalm 90:10 The length of our days is seventy years or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but TROUBLE AND SORROW for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
But here is the difference. For a believer, suffering is a means to an end and not the end itself. Like the above scripture puts it….trials of many kinds will come to test our faith. And when we have endured suffering, it produces in us, MATURE CHARACTER and makes us COMPLETE or in other words, gives us WHOLENESS! Hence, good people or the child of God will endured suffering because, we live in a fallen world, and secondly God allows us to suffer so that we may also share in the sufferings of Christ and in turn, we will be glorified in Him. | 2019-04-21T22:53:55Z | https://gladwellmusau.wordpress.com/tag/suffering/ | Porn | Reference | 0.429443 |
wordpress | Today I can no longer introduce myself as “Maths Teacher” as I leave the classroom. Though I might still use my former job title for introductions at parties to make things simple.
I move from the classroom to take up a training and consultancy role supporting schools looking to implement change and embed technology for the benefit of learning. That is less snappy isn’t it!
As I move on from the classroom after 13 years I thought it worth taking a moment to reflect. Telling other teachers you are leaving the classroom was hard, not just the ones you are leaving your tricky classes with! My own reasons were varied but an opportunity came up at a time I was traveling 54 miles to my school. I have also come to the decision that the way schools work can improve for the benefit of teachers and students. I don’t see myself as someone who would necessarily implement this change from within by moving up so I have another route to take. I have had great feedback from my educational technology (edtech) training and speaking events so I am going to embrace this and work to support schools with change.
In my first classroom after PGCE training I had an overhead projector to project notes and develop diagrams on. However, don’t be fooled into thinking I am that old. Within a year I had a Smartboard installed and smartnotebook was my lesson planning tool for years. My own view on interactive whiteboards is they are not a cost-effective resource for schools to invest in, despite replying on mine for many years. It proved invaluable for demonstrating concepts but I feel sure that £2000 per classroom could be spent more effectively. I never had a chance to try out my ideal scenario of whiteboards (normal dry wipe ones) on every wall and surface but I must take this opportunity to apologise to the classroom cleaners who removed dry wipe pen from my desks every day. If there is one legacy I have from my time in Maths classrooms it is writing on desks.
My embracing of technology for learning was due to two factors. Firstly the summer I tried out twitter and discovered teachers sharing! The second factor was a teacher called Dan File who joined our Maths faculty as an advanced skills teacher (AST). We could be found in school beyond 6pm most of the week getting excited about ways we can change learning in our lessons that didn’t work the way we wanted. He joined us having pioneered instructional videos at his last school and we both set about populating our youtube channels with videos. Exam paper solutions to avoid that boring lesson when you go through the exam paper… instead “watch the videos of the questions you got wrong”. Then children started requesting videos so we moved to revision videos. We tried our own versions of the flipped classroom with classes too.
One part of our work which was most important was our efforts to get parents through the doors of the school to see what we were trying and why we were trying it. We we trying to get their kids more excited about maths and make them achieve more. We were willing to fail infront of our classes trying something and take the feedback on board to improve. We had some of the best results in the school’s history over those years but that wasn’t because of technology, it was because we had a dedicated department open to trying things out. And in subsequent years the politics of education has made it hard to hit those results again… so a bit of luck and timing too.
Trying new things in schools take effort, determination and a bit of nerve to seek forgiveness instead of ask permission.
Good culture is easy to break and hard to build, however the school’s culture is critical to success. What makes it possible for teachers to walk through the doors in the morning with a spring in their step instead of dread? Many teachers are going into work with dread, fear, stress and concern. I have been fortunate to work with teachers who are so committed to their students they put phenomenal hours in and take incredible pride in doing all they can to help students achieve. However, in some schools the culture is such that even working at their limit teachers feel they are not doing enough, failing or letting someone down.
Culture is the difference between a teacher spending an evening planning an parental engagement activity or just marking another pile of books.
Culture is the difference between teachers choosing to spend their Saturday at professional development events or sipping on a Lemsip (other medicinal products are available) so they can be ready for next week.
Culture is critical and every school leader will agree, but their words, actions and emails contribute to a culture that doesn’t bring the best out of their colleagues or leaves them unable to manage the workload.
Get the oxytocin flowing and your school will improve more rapidly than you could ever dream. Avoid your school being cortisol factory!
I have spent time in head of faculty roles, working within a school leadership team and alongside school improvement partners in a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT). There are things you learn in leadership and things you discover you bring to it. You learn more about your leadership skills when you leave a role (because that is when people choose to tell you), and the weaknesses… come on, we all know our weaknesses don’t we? The challenge is whether to hide them or address them and I think I have done both at times.
If you read anything else on this blog you may spot my interest in deign thinking. I was aware of the term for a while in passing on social media but it was something I understood better and its place in education first via Tom Barrett and Ewan McIntosh. Sometimes referred to as user-focussed design, design thinking is a culture and set of tools that schools can use to super charge their improvement. Get empathy and find the problems you need to be solving before any ideas get thrown around. Develop a culture where ideas are not precious and owned by individuals. I strongly believe that schools who embrace a design thinking culture could reap profound results in the way their staff think and work. Design thinking provides an empathetic view of the way your school works (or doesn’t) and gives the chance for democratised decision making to prevail. Earlier I mentioned making your school oxytocin rich… this is how you can do it.
I wrote abour the results of our maths faculty a few years back. These are sometimes attributed to me as head of faculty. It is easy to let that stick (with good results) and accept #fakenews. The reality is very different and something I have learnt to be more honest about over the years. I was lucky. We are often judged against our best moments, which are often lucky. I had great teachers in the faculty who came to work and worked hard with integrity every day. I had good leadership who asked me direct questions but let me try things. I preceded some of the changes that have taken place to GCSE’s and A-levels in the last few years which have taken measures to make the qualifications more rigorous. My point is, think team. I see some teachers coming into the profession with an expectation that they should be ordained with promotions and more pay too quickly. Teaching is a fickle beast so take your time to tame it before you put your head in its mouth.
To give a clear understanding or my own view of education’s rate of change in relation to other industries consider the London Marathon. If the elite and club runners represent the nibble industries able to change and even lead change then I see education as Lloyd Scott (look him up), well intentioned, honourable, hard working, but so very slow.
The challenge I am taking on, leading schools to embrace technology to support learning, is a backwards problem. I hear “We need to use more technology” but I have to ask “Why?” and the answers are not convincing yet. Here is another reason to utilise a design culture of finding problems worth solving; attainment gap, accessibility, aspirations are all worthy causes and we haven’t even reached the b’s yet. A teacher in US will have his class voluntarily arrive at school 2 hours before school starts to come to his lesson. The reason? He has arranged a video call with someone on the other side of the planet as part of their current topic. Technology made it possible but is not the reason he does it.
Would your kids arrive at school for 6am for your best lesson? This has resonated with me and I pass the baton on to you… but let me know if you want help making it the case!
Jeff Place, Jon Chaloner, Jack Mayhew, Hugh Proctor, Dan File, Pete Taylor, Tom Barrett, Ewan McIntosh, Allison Mollica, Jon Neale, Dean Stokes, Oli Trussell, Mark Allen, Donna Tueber, Ashcroft twins, Christina Dimitrantzou, Matt Duffield, Evan Scherr, Dan Taylor, 10a1, Asiq, Glyn digital leaders, Keri Cloete, Martin Giles, Simon Brown, Tom Able Green.
Should we expect, as educators, that the technology used in schools has robust reliable research that demonstrates the impact it has on learning before we implement it?
Is it troubling? Should we be surprised that educational establishments are not trawling research before implementing educational technology (edtech) strategies? If we start with an analogy. When pencils are ordered, it is not underpinned by research about the impact pencils have been proved to have on learning. However, we should expect that the learning taking place that involves the pencil does. For example, in kindergarten or early years we might expect pencils to be favoured over pens for handwriting to enable learners to correct their writing and fail without fear more easily than with ink. Educators should be aware of robust research regarding learning reading and write to inform the curriculum, which in turn helps them place orders for equipment to support the curriculum.
Here, a learning approach is supported by appropriate resources. In the edtech world it seems too often the resources are purchased and the learning approach is then discussed or the new tools are made to fit the existing approach. Therefore is edtech efficacy worth considering, when learning and curriculum efficacy should be paramount?
A range of superintendents, assistant superintendents, technology leaders/specialists, principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches, and teachers from 17 U.S. states responded to the online survey. Results demonstrate only 11% of 515 respondents demand a tech-based product have the type of independent, gold-standard research championed by the federal government for funding prior to adoption or purchase.
This piece of work is part of a wider Edtech Efficacy review which took place as part of Edtech Efficacy Symposium in May 2017.
Are schools using evidence to inform their learning and teaching policy and practices? How much research underpins homework, marking, duty rotas/lunch supervision, school timings, learning spaces and so many day to day aspects of every school’s approach to providing exceptional learning?
In the UK, a professional body for teachers, The Chartered College of Teaching, has recently being created (cards on the table, I am a founding member) and here is a video of the impact it is having of headteachers. Watch and then reflect on where edtech fits in this story.
Sally wants her school to base decisions in research and evidence. On this occasion there was no mention of asking one of their software provides or IT services to produce evidence for the impact their product has on learning. However, there were many questions about how every aspect of the school impact on learning. Their research may show that teachers are setting online homework that children cannot complete because of access to devices… which may inform their device purchasing and policies. Their research may find that teachers are spending too long marking homework, which is not impactful or valued by parents… which may lead them to develop their use of edtech to share feedback with parents.
Therefore, should it be troubling that schools are purchasing edtech without the research to back up the impact on learning? It should be troubling if the policies, pedagogies and approaches to learning in school are not based on valid research and evidence, edtech is a tool, one of many, that support schools in delivering their vision for learning and teaching.
Pedagogy efficacy surpasses edtech efficacy when it comes to impact on learning. The article is focussing on one particular area, which for me elevates edtech towards pedagogy and this must be treated with caution. Make sure your pedagogy efficacy is strong and at the forefront of your thinking and your use of appropriate and impactful edtech will follow.
I welcome and expect some comments, there is much more left to discuss around this area and I have only scratched the surface in this short blog post. There are some very interesting findings from the edtech efficacy group. particularly around claims edtech companies make about the efficacy of their product. I have only focussed on whether we should be troubled that schools are not expecting to see the research before purchase, and there may be a reasonable answer to why… they trust their pedagogy? | 2019-04-24T18:46:39Z | https://benrouse.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Reference | 0.128131 |
cnn | Rumford made light of testing conditions to claim the halfway lead in Qatar.
(CNN) -- Australia's Brett Rumford claimed the halfway lead at the Qatar Masters after a six-under-par 66 in testing conditions on the Doha Golf Course.
Perth native Rumford dropped just one shot in his second round to go into the clubhouse on nine-under 135 with joint overnight leader Bradley Dredge in second place on eight-under.
A clutch of big names are still in contention with Race to Dubai winner Lee Westwood and his Ryder Cup colleague Oliver Wilson just two shots behind.
Wilson, who carded an opening round 67 in blustery and windy conditions, needed two late birdies to salvage a 70, while Westwood followed his opening 68 with a 69.
The world number four admitted the early start had not been to his liking.
"The conditions were easier and 64 or 65 would have been a really good score," Westwood told the official European Tour Web site.
"I had a wake up call at 4.50am and I am not a morning person. I just could not put it together with my swing on the golf course. But I am still in contention for the weekend," he added.
Peter Hanson (69) and Africa Open and Joburg Open winner Charl Schwartzel (69) are a further shot back with Ryder Cup stars Sergio Garcia and Paul Casey on four-under with Peter Lawrie and Ignacio Garrido.
Rumford is returning to the European Tour after a disappointing season on the PGA Tour having headed there after winning the 2007 European Masters.
"My goal is the world ranking points at the moment to get my ranking up higher," he said.
World number 13 Kenny Perry of the United States just made the cut at two-over, but former British Open champion Todd Hamilton missed out after rounds of 78 and 75. | 2019-04-22T21:37:40Z | http://www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/01/29/golf.qatar.rumford.westwood/index.html | Porn | Sports | 0.881437 |
wordpress | I’m sure that you’ve already figured out by now, that I’ve received another package from my mom (I just love her.) and Bill (my stepdad).
Usually when mom (I just love her.) tells me she has a package ready to send, I respond by saying . . .“Thanks Mom. No rush. Take your time.” I say this because I know the package won’t arrive immediately, but when it does, it’ll be filled with wonderful things and definitely be worth the wait. This time though, our package conversation went slightly different.
Early Wednesday morning I get a call from mom (We usually talk in the afternoon, and did I happen to mention that I just love her?). She enthusiastically tells me that she and Bill have just finished packing the box and will be mailing it this afternoon. The package should arrive at my house on Friday. Oh, and instead of just one package, there will be two. Bye . . . Love you . . . Mom.
Much to my surprise and delight, the boxes arrive Friday afternoon. That’s right, Friday afternoon, just like she said. What’s up with that? We have a routine and here she goes changing it on me.
I brought the packages into my studio, photographed them and gave mom (I just love her.) a call as I began to open them. As I leisurely sorted through the boxes, mom (I just love her.) and I would laugh and talk. She would tell me a little about whatever item I had found and why she has included it.
These conversations are not monumental, but they are the best part of getting a package from mom (I just love her.). Each time I discover something new, it’s like Christmas morning. Each item a gift. Each object a jewel. A box like this is filled with treasure, not the shiny kind, but the emotional kind, because each item gives us a chance to connect and to share. I know these moments are special and I cherish each and every one.
After our talk, I realized that I couldn’t think of any sound in the world that I love to hear more than her laughter. It’s the greatest sound on earth.
Since I had a blast sharing these treasures with mom (I just love her.), I thought it would be great fun to share them with you too.
For those of you tuning in for the first time, these treasures are from Bill’s mother’s stash.
A sampling of the fabric from Laverne's stash.
From the assortment above, I think Laverne (Bill’s mom) had quiet an affection for solid-color fabric. I’m much more of a tone-on-tone kinda guy.
Even though we have different opinions on printed fabric, we definitely agree on color. The more, the better.
Tulle and flocked organza, Laverne is my kind of quilter.
Laverne and I are a lot alike when it comes to fancy fabric. We both believe that tulle and organza are essentials for every stash.
Laverne loves pearls and didn't limit herself to white. You go girl!
I’m usually not a big fan of pearls, but after sorting all of this stuff, I”m starting to reconsider that stance. The colors are luscious—but the finish is over the top.
Laverne's like me. She loves shiny objects.
I love how the light bounces off the beads. The finish is so subtle and luminous. It doesn’t shout at you, but you can’t miss it.
Yummy. I'm sure I'll find something special to do with these.
Besides an affection for pearls, Laverne fancied gold and silver.
I love how beautiful the pearls look mounded into a pile.
I’m sorry, I can’t think of a thing to say, other than, WOW! These aren’t real pearls, but they are stunning to look at.
I love how these embellishments seems to glow from within.
The combination of textures, shapes and finishes stirs my imagination. I love the shells!
The package also included a little book on quilting.
Isn’t the cover of this book beautiful? My mom loves quotes and I love quilting, so this is a perfect gift—and a pleasant surprise. It’s not even my birthday.
When I said little quilt book, I meant it.
The buttons in this box came from the Levi factory in Morrilton, AR.
No care package would be complete without buttons. These buttons are from the Levi factory that my mother worked in over 30 years ago. The factory closed in the early 80s.
These buttons are over 30 years old, but don't look a day over 16.
I love these simple buttons. They are the wallflowers of the apparel industry. Most people think they are boring and uninteresting. I however, think they are full of potential and loaded with charm. I think I have a crush on them.
I love these buttons. They are so honest and humble—and oh, so photogenic.
What can I say? They’re buttons. I have to shoot them. I wouldn’t be me if I only posted one shot.
Thanks for indulging me. I’ve had a blast going through the shots again and reflecting on my time with mom (I just love her.). I hope you enjoyed the show. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
This entry was posted on August 13, 2011 at 10:42 pm and is filed under Exclusive Previews, The Beginning. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
How neat was this! Great post. It made me smile and it was just like getting the best Christmas present ever. You are so lucky to have such a wonderful and thoughtful mom and stepdad.
Hi there, I’m glad you enjoyed the post. I feel very lucky to have them both in my life. I think they enjoy making the packages, as much as I enjoy getting them.
Listening to the stories is really the best part of getting a box. Mom and I have the best time talking about everything inside. It’s so much fun.
• • • WOW! Look at those pearls. (I just love them) And aren’t you special to receive two packages within a month from Mom and Bill?
Hey there, I know! The pearls are wonderful. I can’t wait to play around with them. My only concern is the finish. I don’t know how long it will last. Since my quilts won’t generate a lot of wear and tear, I’m hoping they last for a while.
I think these will work really well with my glass beads and sequins. The contrast of between the finishes will make for really interesting embellishment effects. All I have to do now, is find the right project for them to go on.
Sooo cool!!! Your mom is awesome!!! My mom will send packages of this-and-that too and we’ll chat while I open the box. By the time she finally gets it mailed she has forgotten everything she put in it. So I tell her what I’m taking out of the package, then she remembers whatever story needs to go along with it.
Great post, thanks for sharing….and hugs to your awesome mom!!!
Hi Penny, Yeah, I think she’s pretty awesome. It sounds like you have the same wonderful experience I do. Mom fills these boxes over time, so she forgets about what she puts in them too. It’s so sweet, and always a blast to go through the boxes.
Are the buttons great? I love them. They are very photogenic. I have been collecting this style of button for the last few years. I don’t know what I’m going to make with them, but I know they will be perfect for some future project.
I’ll keep this group separated from the rest. These buttons have a unique history and I want to include it in the the story of the quilt I put them on. Knowing this history makes the embellishments even more special to me.
I’ll give mom a hug for you, the next time I see her.
Hi Thearica, Yes, she definitely knows how to make me happy. She is pretty amazing. If I were to make a mom from scratch. I doubt I could have made a better one. I’m very lucky to have had her in my life. Who knows where I’d be without her.
I have a ton of things in the creative pipeline so there is no telling where these buttons will show up.
I love that you said that her laugh is the best sound in the world-cherish her.
Nice bling! Your future projects should be awesome.
Hi Eileen, I do cherish her, so much so that it’s hard to put into words. She is a constant source of inspiration. She clever, smart, funny and a joy to be around.
I’m looking forward to playing around with these embellishments. They are very different than what normally use, so it’ll be a lot of fun to work with them. I’m sure they will push my approach to embellishment into new directions.
I can’t wait to get started! Who knows where they will take me?
Hi Lynn, I think I’m going to need a couple of lives to use all the stuff I have acquired over the past few years.
I’m up for the challenge. My pieces are getting more embellished with each new quilt I make, so I may only need two lifetimes, but I’d like to sign up for three, just in case.
Do you can you point me to the registrar’s office?
Luv-erne! What a gal! Wasn’t it thoughtful for her to leave these treasures for your mom (gotta love her!) and Bill to discover and share with you! I look forward to seeing some pieces you use these gifts in…and the stories you’ll share so we’ll know/remember how they tie/button together.
Hi Sherry, Yes, I think Laverne was quite a gal. She passed away in 1993, so I never met her, but I feel I know her better after going through her stash. I’m sure we would have been great friends.
Oh yeah, there will be stories—lots of them. I’ve been very fortunate to be gifted with wonderful things from quilters who are no longer with us. I will make sure that their stories and treasures live on in my work.
Tom, it’s obvious that your mom just loves you too! How fun that she and Bill send you these treasures.
Hi Sharon, Yea, she loves me. She says so every day. Listening to her talk about how she and Bill discuss what goes into the box is hilarious. Bill has a hard time visualizing how this stuff would go on a quilt, but mom assures him it can. They are very cute and I am very blessed to have them in my life.
Hi Debbie, Yes, another box of treasures. These were really packed too. I still haven’t figured out where I’m going to put all this stuff. I was pretty much maxed out on space before these boxes arrived. Guess I need to do a little reorganizing.
The little book is so cute. I couldn’t get over it. I’ll look for the charm book mark. I was so enthralled with photographing it, I didn’t actually open it. I think it’ll be a great read, but I’m really looking forward to finding a great place to display it.
just one of those things on my list!
Enjoy those treasures from your mom….
Hi Kathie, Yep, I’m a pretty lucky guy. Mom was so excited about the little book, she could barely wait for me to find it in the box.
I agree. From what I’ve read so far, it’s fill with inspiration messages. I am looking forward to spending more time with it. I don’t have a way to carry it around with me, but I can keep it handy for those days when I feel lost.
I think these buttons would be great on a plaid quilt. The colors aren’t dynamic, but the textures are fantastic! I know they will be perfect for some quilt, all I have to do it make it. Like you, I find them very inspiring.
Thanks. I will be enjoying them. Every time I look at them or sort through them, I will be reminded of where they came from. They are treasures indeed.
I think I am as excited as you….I had to scroll thru and look and then go back and read. What a nice surprise and so many wonderful treasurers. I don’t know if you remember or not, but Sharon Heidingsfelder would buy solid fabric and paint her designs on it. I remember one time when she was making polka dot fabric that she had a special place for in one of her quilts. Have fun.
Hi Kelley, I’m pretty excited too. I couldn’t get over how much stuff they had packed into the boxes. I didn’t show all of it, but there was a ton of stuff. Laverne was quite a crafter/quilter and had a wide range of interests.
I do remember Sharon and her fabric. She was teaching silk screening at the first Ferndale Retreat I went to. She made wonderful fabric. Like with most things, she made it look easy.
I hadn’t thought of manipulating or painting the fabric, but that’s a great idea. Thanks!
I’m looking forward to the next box too. Not so much because of what might be in it, but to share more laughs with mom. We talk every day, but the time we spend going through the boxes is very special. It is really the greatest treasure in the box.
Thanks for writing. I hope you have a great day!
OH MY WORD!!! Your Mom ( I just love her TOO) and Bill are sooo much fun! Laverne has a victorian taste in fabrics and pearls! I’m feeling a crazy quilt after all these treasures! Thanks for sharing.. Those Levi’s buttons are delish-ous!
pssssstttt.. the buttons are fun but I am CRUSHING on the pearls right now!!
Tom, I loved this article as you can imagine. You make your mom come to life. I too love the infectious laugh. The package is full of lovely things. I know you will enjoy working with all of them.
Love the love you have for your Mom. How refreshing to see you verbilize that feeling. Your collection of buttons make me envious. | 2019-04-23T04:27:52Z | https://tomrussellquilts.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/mail-call/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.104459 |
wordpress | What a marvelous sunny happy day in San Francisco! A gorgeous Sunday afternoon for a long parade filled with a joyousness I hope will lead to even more progress! Yes, Love wins! Love is love. | 2019-04-25T02:14:00Z | https://cleodubois.wordpress.com/2015/07/ | Porn | Reference | 0.442761 |
tripod | Bob, you sure are a kind person deep inside your heart. I wish you will work to let it be more on the surface. I am often rough, I habe been taught the hard way, not with kindness and soft love.
I have no scars left, only some ruffled feathers when someone shows me that kindness and love it is not the ultimate goal.
I have a lot more to tell you about how people could be negative.
I am glad to see that you are trying to reach out to help. I do not defend myself about the truth.
However "Reality is here. It belongs to you and me and God, and is perfectly satysfying to all of us. Only this awarennes heals, because it is the awareness of truth."
I learn that long before I found the "Gifts" book.
There were to teachers who guide me to it: Father Joaquin and Father Anselmo, despite the arrogance of superiors who could not read their message, they were in the heart of God, and accepted all human beings as wonderful children of God, to the point that they always respected my ideas, and miraculously we never had disagreements about basic philosophy.
"Remember that we always choose between truth and ilusion."
>>Harry Dean's brother has not been baptized. He is a pretty baby, very sweet and good. He has never done anything wrong. Can he go to heaven if he dies just as he is?
Thank you are extremely kind, to the point that your love for all human beings bring tears to my eyes.
I do believe that we are in comunion and that we are sat at the same table with God.
Both we are receiving the same sacrament, the love for all human beings.
You do not any help to change, because you have reached the heart of God. Do not feel sorry about me. God gave me a road a little bit more bumpy than to other people had. Perhaps he is expecting more from me than others.
Please do not believe that I am out to get revenge from the Catholic Church, I have very good loving friends within it and now I received your love.
Yes I am strong, because I followed the "Moral forces" of Jose Ingenieros for many years. But what made me really strong was to find priests like father Joaquin and Father Anselmo. They pull a few spider webs from my eyes, and permitted me to see a dim light at the end of the cave, which was God=Love=Wisdom.
Sometimes I think that God gave me strenght to help others to search for the truth, not to see my truth. You have the truth, the love of God. Moreover, you have already help me by reaching out with love.
Some young friends in this Forum, needed a sting to wake up or at least to begin to wake up so they could see that DOGMA is not LOVE. You and them are entitled to believe whatever you wish, but nobody has the right to own the truth. I am sorry that some of them are not ready yet. But others, I know it in my heart, have already a spark in their hearts, let us hope that the spark will grow to be a beatiful light like the one that reside in your heart.
Please pray for me and my sick wife.
I will answer this here but you should take your questions, and answers over to the Baptism thread.
I know it because it is in my heart.
"Do not defend yourself against the truth."
>>but you should take your questions, and answers over to the Baptism thread.
I didn't see that thread until I posted in this one. Sorry.
"Over the last few years, I've watched EWTN regularly and studied the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic church. I've said the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet every day for over two years now, and I probably would have already been through RCIA except I have some physical problems which make it nearly impossible for me to get out of the house."
Welcome home -- you're almost there!
A thought I had that perhaps one of the more knowledgeable folks on this list could answer is: If you can't make it to RCIA, can RCIA come to you? Is it possible to go through the initiation process at home?
Keep on saying your daily Rosary and Chaplet, and I'll pray that the Blessed Mother continue to care for you and St. Michael to protect you.
Thanks, Rich. I'm trusting God to provide the means to get me where he wants me to go, so either a way can be found for me to attend RCIA or, as you suggested, there might be a way for RCIA to come to me.
Matt has announced that this thread will be closing this evening. I think most who have wanted to comment on salvation have posted. Since we are trying to keep threads on topic, maybe it is now time we start a new thread to discuss other areas, Paul, if you would like to do so. There is also an area to post prayer request, so that those not reading this thread can join in prayer for you and your wife. Not everyone follows all the threads, so that might be a good place for more prayers to be obtained.
Thank you for your kindness, I use all the help that I can get because I am only a small dot of dust in the universe. But I am not so important as to go and ask everyone to pay attention to me. Lets be together in comunion with God.
I wish Matt will be with us one day.
ok. iT SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS IS PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE ARROGANCE, pAUL.
As far as I know, Matt is regularly receiving the Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our dear Lord, Jesus Christ. He is doing this in obediance to the Divine Revelation coming from none other than God made flesh, Jesus Christ. Therefore, he is in communion with God, Paul.
Are you not afraid of insulting a brother?
Also, let me ask you this, Why have you stopped beating your grandmother this year?
No I am not afraid of insulting anyone because I attack no one.
I would like to find you in the comunion table of the peace of God.
I work in the RCIA ministry at my parish an am delighted that the Spirit is leading you in the direction of the Church. I entered into full communion myself last year. The RCIA documents state that, although the RCIA process is the preferred method of entering the Church, it is not the only. In fact, these documents point out that, in special circumstances (such as yours) other paths may be preferable. One such path might be a form of private catechesis, such as was widely done before the introduction of RCIA.
I think it is hard to see how words are being spoken across the computer screen. One sentence sent with peace can be read by others as attack. I'm afraid on this thread such misunderstandings may be taking place.
I should not speak for another, expressing what it is I believe they are meaning. However, I will step out of my comfort zone and say to Paul, I believe Matt loves the Lord and tries to serve God by helping others to better understand the Word of God. I believe Paul does not accept the teachings as a whole of the Roman Catholic Church and wishes others to know the Love of God, either by the means he has found God or in the person's own direction toward God.
I think all who have posted here are looking for a better understanding of God and of sharing what they have found with others. Sometimes what I read in another person's post is not what a third person reads in it. I pray that we can all better love the Lord by the gifts of Catholic Source.
Please, I do not wrote this as any attack to anyone. I, and I believe all here, wish for peaceful exchange of directions to serve the Lord.
This is very hard for me to post, as I mentioned it is out of my comfort zone to do so. Yet, I feel I should post it. I hope I am following the right Spirit in writing this.
>>One such path might be a form of private catechesis, such as was widely done before the introduction of RCIA.
Thanks for your kind words and prayers... Would I contact someone at the local church for information on this?
You may want to post this under a new thread heading. This one "Salvation Outside the Church" will be closed tonight. You could start a new thread and title it RCIA. I don't want you to get confussed when this one closes tonight.
The holy Spirit spoke for you.
I am glad that you lighten up the right path.
May the love of Guide you for the eternity.
Sorry I garbled my last sentence.
May the Love of God Guide you for the eternity.
This is my final message to Matt.
I never intended to say that you do not Love. I do not believe that I ever wrote that. Your ilussions might make you read what it is not there. If somebody stings you intellectually does not mean that you are a bad boy, neither means that the other person hates you. This was a public forum, until you decided to show that you are the boss and closed it down. That is not a very graceful way to show your power.
You are so sure of ways that you enjoy buldozing other people, and then that make you mad, and angry.
I am at peace, because I has nothing to keep for me I am not afraid because I am beyond fears. I am happy, because I DO KNOW that I know nothing.
Neither one of those thoughts are mine nor they belong to "Gifts from a Course in Miracles"
You will find them in the bible, my translation from Spanish may not have proper English construction you are used to. That is your challenge to find those ideas.
I have already done it, many decades ago.
God's love will guide you to them.
This thread was closed due to the fact that I did not feel like banging my head against a brick wall - Paul Evar`. It was no longer posessing the nature it was originally intended to have. I believe most have grasped that fact.
Paul, understand that there are hundreds of other messages on this forum....this is merely one single thread. I acted in the way I did, because you are not, in anyway ready to listen. You have your mind made up as to what I believe or do not believe, and anything I say to the contrary has no effect. I did not want this to go on any longer, so I closed this message thread - not the whole forum, as it does not belong to me. It is not I who am not interested in hearing truth, it is you.
You have not only attacked my ideas (despite your lack of understanding of them), but you have attacked my character and integrity as well. I will not accept that! I have responded to what you have written, by telling you what I believe....and you have consistently maintained that I hold to a set of beliefs that I do not, DESPITE my REPEATED attempts to both gently and not-so-gently correct you in your error. Clearly you are only interested in argumentation and not growth.
You may have never intended to say that I do not love, but you did, in saying that I HATE.
You have not "stung me intellectually". You have misquoted me consistently. I have merely attempted to correct such injustice to my character.
All messages on this thread are still available, so I invite you to go back to the beginning and READ SLOWLY. Then, READ THEM AGAIN.
Again, this is the last response that will be kept on this thread. After 30 days, all these "back and forth" responses will be deleted, and only those pertinent to the topic of "Salvation outside the Church" will remain.
Since this is a closed thread, and doesn't particularly relate to "salvation outside the Church" as a doctrine, I am going to move it to a new thread, related to the "nature of the Church".
Since all the Apostles were Jewish and practiced Judaism as did Paul, how can they be of the "church?"
Baptism is a not a NT invention. Baptism has always been a part of Judaism.
I apologize. I did not know this thread had been closed.
If you look back at some of the posts, you'll see why I had to close this thread...however, the present discussion is ok...though, maybe we could take it to a new thread.
My last post under this thread.
I quite agree with you that baptism was prefigured in the OT, and that God made quite clear it's necessity.
There was no misunderstanding about baptism of infants in early Christianity. Some held it should occur on the eighth day, the Church said it need not WAIT until the 8th day. | 2019-04-21T20:55:31Z | http://youngforest.tripod.com/churchsalv5.html | Porn | Reference | 0.138358 |
wordpress | I have woken up – late in the day, but better late than never – to the way in which individual liberty, privacy and human rights have been sliced away in Britain, like salami, under New Labour governments that profess to find in liberty the central theme of British history. “Oh, these powers will almost never be used,” they say every time. “Ordinary people have nothing to fear”.
For me, “the innocent have nothing to fear” is the siren song of tyranny. When the innocent hear these words the innocent are strongly advised to head for the hills.
A case in point of the Labour government’s determination to drive state control into every part of our lives was illustrated in another report in the same day’s paper. The government are now proposing, on the grounds of interfering with the activities of ticket touts, the photo ID will be required to get into gigs. Now, cynical old Hector that I am, I don’t see this as part of a strategy to protect music-lovers from the predation of the ticket e-selling trade, but rather part of a concerted programme of actions to reduce the resistance of young people even further to the idea of having to carry, and produce, identification cards for just about anything they might want to do and, hence, reduce the overall civil resistance to ID cards.
Bear in mind that there are some parts of the UK that you can’t now travel to at all using public transport without holding, and producing, photographic identification papers such as a passport or ID card. Surprised? Well, I’m even more surprised that no-one’s made a bloody fuss about it. I’m talking about travel to the Orkneys and Shetlands where you can’t even board the internal ferry, which is state-owned, without producing a passport. And bear in mind that the arm of the state which owns the ferry services is the Scottish Government who have publicly and very strongly vowed never to predicate the delivery of public services in Scotland upon the possession or production of ID cards. No doubt this is all about “maritime security”, but no-one ever checks what’s being driven onto the car decks of ferries – that’s too difficult – but it’s easy enough to use the spectre of terrorism yet again to lower the resistance of the population to the idea of having to hold and produce ID cards even to exercise the simple liberty of freedom of movement within the state.
You can be sure that these measures will have been agreed at an inter-governmental level between states and based on European directives or regulations. It is still the imposition of law without democratic control on the convention that the Royal Prerogative permits the making and agreement of treaties without the intervention of the Houses of Parliament. Another way of saying, what America wants from its allies, America gets.
I predict that the last open border, that between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, will be closed to those who don’t carry ID cards or passports within the next year. It will then be too late to leave.
It is for these, and many other reasons, that I am now standing up to be counted. This is why I’m attending the Convention on Modern Liberty on the 28th and why anyone who cares at all about their future in the UK needs to think seriously about these issues and decide for themselves whether to stand up now or lie down later. | 2019-04-23T08:46:49Z | https://patthechooks.wordpress.com/tag/shetland/ | Porn | News | 0.313941 |
yahoo | "Prejudice is extremely complex and multifaceted, making it critical that any factors contributing to bias are uncovered and understood," he said.
The findings combine three hot-button topics.
"They've pulled off the trifecta of controversial topics," said Brian Nosek, a social and cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia who was not involved in the study. "When one selects intelligence, political ideology and racism and looks at any of the relationships between those three variables, it's bound to upset somebody."
"The unique contribution here is trying to make some progress on the most challenging aspect of this," Nosek said, referring to the new study. "It's not that a relationship like that exists, but why it exists."
In the first study, verbal and nonverbal intelligence was measured using tests that asked people to find similarities and differences between words, shapes and symbols. The second study measured cognitive abilities in four ways, including number recall, shape-drawing tasks, defining words and identifying patterns and similarities among words. Average IQ is set at 100.
As suspected, low intelligence in childhood corresponded with racism in adulthood. But the factor that explained the relationship between these two variables was political: When researchers included social conservatism in the analysis, those ideologies accounted for much of the link between brains and bias.
People with lower cognitive abilities also had less contact with people of other races.
"This finding is consistent with recent research demonstrating that intergroup contact is mentally challenging and cognitively draining, and consistent with findings that contact reduces prejudice," said Hodson, who along with his colleagues published these results online Jan. 5 in the journal Psychological Science.
Hodson was quick to note that the despite the link found between low intelligence and social conservatism, the researchers aren't implying that all liberals are brilliant and all conservatives stupid. The research is a study of averages over large groups, he said.
"There are multiple examples of very bright conservatives and not-so-bright liberals, and many examples of very principled conservatives and very intolerant liberals," Hodson said.
Nosek gave another example to illustrate the dangers of taking the findings too literally.
"We can say definitively men are taller than women on average," he said. "But you can't say if you take a random man and you take a random woman that the man is going to be taller. There's plenty of overlap."
Nonetheless, there is reason to believe that strict right-wing ideology might appeal to those who have trouble grasping the complexity of the world.
"Socially conservative ideologies tend to offer structure and order," Hodson said, explaining why these beliefs might draw those with low intelligence. "Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice."
Hodson and Busseri's explanation of their findings is reasonable, Nosek said, but it is correlational. That means the researchers didn't conclusively prove that the low intelligence caused the later prejudice. To do that, you'd have to somehow randomly assign otherwise identical people to be smart or dumb, liberal or conservative. Those sorts of studies obviously aren't possible.
The researchers controlled for factors such as education and socioeconomic status, making their case stronger, Nosek said. But there are other possible explanations that fit the data. For example, Nosek said, a study of left-wing liberals with stereotypically naïve views like "every kid is a genius in his or her own way," might find that people who hold these attitudes are also less bright. In other words, it might not be a particular ideology that is linked to stupidity, but extremist views in general.
"My speculation is that it's not as simple as their model presents it," Nosek said. "I think that lower cognitive capacity can lead to multiple simple ways to represent the world, and one of those can be embodied in a right-wing ideology where 'People I don't know are threats' and 'The world is a dangerous place'. ... Another simple way would be to just assume everybody is wonderful."
Prejudice is of particular interest because understanding the roots of racism and bias could help eliminate them, Hodson said. For example, he said, many anti-prejudice programs encourage participants to see things from another group's point of view. That mental exercise may be too taxing for people of low IQ.
"There may be cognitive limits in the ability to take the perspective of others, particularly foreigners," Hodson said. "Much of the present research literature suggests that our prejudices are primarily emotional in origin rather than cognitive. These two pieces of information suggest that it might be particularly fruitful for researchers to consider strategies to change feelings toward outgroups," rather than thoughts. | 2019-04-25T16:05:56Z | https://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservative-beliefs-linked-prejudice-180403506.html | Porn | Home | 0.098799 |
wordpress | Miresevini to my first blog post, and mirupafshim to my time in Tirana! Welcome to my first blog post, and goodbye to my time in Tirana.
Yes, that’s right; it’s nearing the end of my last week as an intern with the National Coastal Agency, and this is just the first post I’ve written. To clarify, we just managed to get this page back up and running, just in time for me to hop on a plane back to Detroit and say goodbye to Tirana.
I have been in Albania for 6.5 weeks now, and I have traveled all over the southern part of the country and I know almost too much about trash. My project with the NCA is to develop and implement an adequate waste management system for the village of Nivicë in southern Albania, as the NCA is in the middle of developing the village for sustainable tourism. But you can’t have tourists coming into a village and seeing trash scattered all over the otherwise idyllic mountainside. Hence my work.
I’ve Googled a lot and read a lot of articles, and my mind has expanded exponentially with information about rural waste management, environmental effects of waste dumping, and how to compost. It’s very interesting; I’m passionate about the health of the environment, and my project is relevant to keeping our planet healthy for generations to come. Now, at the end of my internship, I have an 18-page project proposal and a PowerPoint presentation to show for my time here, and I would say that my seven weeks with the NCA have not been for naught.
The best part about my work, however, is the fact that I don’t have to do it in an office, and I don’t. Instead, my boss, Auron, head of the agency, has taken me from the city to the coast, to the mountains, to the rivers and valleys in between. I am not an office girl, and I don’t like sitting at my computer for hours every day. I didn’t know what to expect from my internship when I got here, and now, looking back at my time here, I am more than happy with my experience traveling Albania — for work! — from the eyes of a local. | 2019-04-23T06:26:08Z | https://albaniannationalcoastalagencyinternships.wordpress.com/2017/06/28/nora-my-work-28617/ | Porn | Business | 0.582704 |
wordpress | ← Are You Searching for Truth? Love? Immortality?
Who here likes a good mystery? What does that mean to you? What is your favorite kind of mystery?
Who baptizes with the Holy Spirit?
The baptism with the Holy Spirit is something new.
3. The Holy Spirit Falling on or Coming on People: Saul, Elijah, Elisha, David, etc…prophesying, performing miracles, etc….
The Apostles did all these things while Jesus was with them as part of Jesus’ Ministry.
So, What is different about the situation with the Holy Spirit that Jesus is promising?
5“Now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. 7But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 9in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me; 10in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
1.Jesus said that, based on our obedience, when he went away we would send a counselor to be with the disciples forever, the Spirit of Truth.
2. He said that the Spirit had been with the disciples but would be IN THEM.
3. UNLESS Jesus went to the father the Holy Spirit COULD NOT COME in this new sense.
22“Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. 23This man was handed over to you by God’s set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross. 24But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.
29“Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. 30But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. 31Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his body see decay. 32God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact. 33Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.
1. There is an extremely loud noise like the rushing of a mighty wind that causes literally thousands of people to rush to this house where the apostles are.
2. Divided tongues as of fire rest on the heads of the apostles.
3. Peter states that what has happened is the fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy that in the last days God will pour out his spirit on “all flesh”, “male and female”, his servants will prophecy and everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.
4. In explication of this event he told how he and the apostles are witnesses of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead and that Jesus, having ascended into heaven and received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit “has poured out what you are seeing and hearing.” He uses the past perfect tense in Greek which is very significant because the perfect tense is used to refer to completed action, and the past perfect to something completed in the past with perhaps continuing effects.
5. The sense here is that Jesus, as only he could, ascended to the Father and received the Holy Spirit and baptized all flesh, the world, in the Holy Spirit by pouring the Holy Spirit completely out and now the Holy Spirit is in the world to convict the world and for God to send the Holy Spirit into the hearts of anyone who purifies themselves by obedience to the gospel, by repenting and being baptized for the forgiveness of sins to become an adopted, born again, child of God, a clean vessel into which God sends his Holy Spirit.
Now let’s look at the explanations of the indwelling Spirit made in the letters.
26You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, 27for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
1What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. 2He is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. 3So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world. 4But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, 5to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. 6Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” 7So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.
We become children of God through the adoption process and then God sends the real Spirit of Sonship into our hearts like a homing beacon identifying us to God!
29Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
Look how baptism in water is closely connected to being born again and then the Spirit is now able to be part of the process because Jesus baptized the world in the Holy Spirit and God Can now send the spirit into our hearts.
26Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. | 2019-04-20T17:03:50Z | https://brentdavis1.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/bibletalk-notes-the-baptism-with-the-holy-spirit/ | Porn | Reference | 0.134774 |
wordpress | Excess: Let the Mutiny Begin!
everything.” 2012 is “I was wrong about everything, so let’s get right.” The wrong we are tackling is that I thought Christianity was about living a happy, comfortable life with a little Jesus tossed in to top it off. WRONG. So. very. wrong.
Enter 7. (http://www.amazon.com/7-Experimental-Mutiny-Against-Excess/dp/1433672960/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328048327&sr=8-1) An experimental mutiny against excess. We have too much. Period. We have so much, and I want more. When life gets tough, I don’t want Jesus. I want a latte…or a pedicure…or a new book…or a fancy dinner…and the list goes on and on. For months, the Holy Spirit has been revealing this darkness inside of me, and I’m ready for some light!
This month, we (and a few other couples from church) are starting the mutiny. 7 foods for 30 days. Only water to drink, and we are praying that God will reveal our sin and redirect our desires. We want repentance and a new heart. We want to break addictions and reveal this stuff for what it is – just stuff. And we want to desire Jesus more that chocolate. I am trusting that Jesus will show me how much better he satisfies. It’s not easy, and the Devil is bringing strife and temptations around every corner, but it’s a worthy quest. I desperately want the blinders to come off so I can see life for what it is – an opportunity to glorify God.
So, Wednesday night, I took a break from working, and I found a link to photos of the orphanage where our kids are. The photos were just taken a couple weeks ago. We flipped through them all,and we saw a bunch of pics of Carolyn! How fun! She looked happy and healthy. Thanks Lord for more undeserved grace.
This past weekend I was struggling with doubt. I was feeling pretty overwhelmed about life, and I prayed, “Lord, show me you are real. I can’t see it.” This is a common problem I have – I regularly experience crises of faith. I am going along ok, and then I lose it – doubt creeps in, and I let it take root. I’ve just been feeling that I am in the midst of a full-fledged spiritual battle, and I am losing. My mom reminded me on Monday that the prophets, Paul, and even Jesus himself looked defeated from the outside when they were about to be great victors. Let’s hope that’s what going on with me (but I’m no prophet or Paul!).
I’ve been reading Radical by David Platt, and it’s been firing me up! It’s so good thus far. The premise is that the American Dream (work hard/our ability = security, rewards, STUFF, comfort) has crept into American Christianity and is directly opposed to the gospel. This liberal, watered-down gospel says that you are great, God loves you, and just wants to be a part of your life. Thus, we tell people to “accept” Jesus (gag me!) and then they will live a happy, comfortable life. The TRUE gospel says that God hates us, and we need him. Also, when you surrender and place your trust in God, life gets ugly hard. As Mark Driscoll says, we worship a homeless guy who got murdered. Following him is never easy (but it’s SO worth it). I love this because it makes me feel so much more secure in my struggle. I think I spend too much time looking at casual Christians, who don’t seem to be struggling, so then I start to doubt, thinking that I’m doing something wrong. But the Bible shows me that the struggle is what it’s all about. Jesus was not particularly happy, definitely not comfortable, and was battling his whole ministry. I suppose that’s what I should be expecting in my own life if I’m a Christian.
This is not to ignore grace. Certainly there is grace – so much grace – abundant grace! God does love me and does bless me in more ways than I can count. Honestly, the fact that I wake up in the morning and live my 1% life is a pure, undeserved miracle. God is SO present in this struggle. Sometimes I lose sight of this because I’m just not looking. I’m looking inward instead of outward – I want to “feel” better, but the cure is outside myself. Then, God gives me grace, even when I am still whining and wrestling. On Monday, we got an email from our case worker stating that one of our docs came in from the DRC government! Wahoo! It’s not much, but it’s something. God is real, and He’s right here.
The Wait (as I like to call it), is taking it’s toll. We are cranky, we are bored, we are tired, we want to quit, we are angry, we are lonely. The holidays really put us over the edge, and the funk continues. More and more, we are sitting at dinner or on the couch, looking at each other and asking what else we can do to pass the time. We have nothing left to talk about, and we are sick of the day to day activities of life. I’m out of pep talks to myself. I can’t psych myself into being excited or joyful. There’s no silver lining. This just bites.
I’m leaning on the prayers of others. I’m trusting that God has a purpose for the waiting and that it’s not pointless. Only God can provide the joy that I am lacking. It’s not coming through effort.
I realize this is complaining and sounds bitter. It’s not really from a bitter place, but I do want a record that it is how we feel. The wait is harder and longer on the children, for sure. I hope that in some small way, we can tell them that we shared their pain. There are few things that give me comfort right now. One is that it’s a challenge because it’s spiritual warfare. I know without a doubt that adoption is God’s work. It’s hard, long, painful, and complicated specifically because the Devil hates it. Why wouldn’t he? It’s an actual picture of the gospel.
One thing I’m struggling with is how to answer the questions. People want to know what’s going on, how we are doing. I want to answer with Christ-centered joy and hope, but I can never find the right words. The reality is that there’s no update, and we are struggling, but that sounds depressing. There’s another piece of the picture that’s not as obvious. God is sustaining us. He is working (although I can’t see it). He has not forsaken us. But, this is a battle. Everyday is a fight to keep at it. I certainly count myself lucky to be in the fight on the side of the Lord, but it is not easy.
At times, we have felt that we want to continue experiencing trials because it’s the time when God really refines us. Our desperation makes us lean on Him and causes us to grow closer with him and with each other. Lord, let that be true!
This Sunday, Pastor Lutzer preached on trusting God – transferring our burdens to him. He spoke about how we often ask God to help us, but we don’t actually let him or want him to take the burdens. We hold on to these things as if our life depended on them. They define us, and as much as we say we want them to go away, we can’t let go. Change is too scary.
http://jenhatmaker.com/blog/2011/12/26/an-experimental-mutiny-against-excess.) Seven areas where we have gone overboard. We are going to try and cut out excess to make room for God. It’s absolutely terrifying to think about having less. Don’t I need everything I have? How can I love without these things? I have been praying that God would glorify himself at my expense. I’ve been praying for radical change in my life. Now it’s time to put my money where my mouth is. If I really want God to work in my life, I have to let go of the death grip. It’s only through the Holy Spirit that I can. I am so excited!
When we were kids, the holidays were so fantastic. It was so fun to go to Grandma’s house, play with cousins and eat endless amounts of dessert! Our parents didn’t seem equally excited. In fact, they seemed like they were dreading it! Why? Because, unlike our childlike view, Grandma is a drama queen, the cousins are horribly behaved little devil children and Uncle Steve is sleeping with his secretary and everyone knows it except his wife! (This is not actually a portrait of my family – except the cousins part, you know who you are – but you get the idea.) This is the family we walk into for a holiday celebration. No wonder it’s no fun! Why do we expect any different? We are all fallen people, and for some reason, the rules of common courtesy and respectfulness don’t apply among people who are related. However, we are expected to put on a smiley face and hang out on Christmas.
So what’s to be done? A boycott?
Love thy neighbor as yourself. (Matt 22:39) What is love?
Expectations kill love. Expecting something from someone else is not loving. Love is not quid pro quo (yes, I am a lawyer). This is love – not that we love God, but that he loved us, and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:10) Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving. (Paul David Tripp, “What Did You Expect?) God didn’t expect anything from us. He just loved us. We were the most unloving and the most undeserving.
Am I willing? Am I self-sacrificing? Certainly there are people in my life who are unloving and undeserving. Am I loving to them or only to those who are deserving? More than that, do I even know what love is?
Why can’t I stop counting? I want to stop so badly. Why can’t my brain forget the passing of time?
The time has a purpose.
Lord that I may know that you are counting and trust that the time passing has a purpose. | 2019-04-22T00:03:53Z | https://delightedinthelord.wordpress.com/2012/01/ | Porn | Kids | 0.211964 |
wordpress | Emotions are downloaded “software” programs that enable us to more fully enjoy the richness and complexity of the human incarnational experience. There is nothing wrong with them, and they certainly do not need to be eliminated. Far from representing some kind of enlightenment, a life without emotional energy would be robotic and stagnant. The only problem (entanglement) with emotions comes when we cling to some and avoid others. That alternating cycle of craving and aversion establishes the sense of a separate and enduring self — a “me” — who wants this but shuns that.
In any case, emotions themselves are not the problem. We are not victims of emotions. When they arise as they will, we do not need to grant them any enduring reality, but simply recognize them for what they are — temporary modifications of consciousness, with no inherent substantiality. They are part of the play of life, to which they add spice and interest, but emotions are not us, they are not who we are, and they do not constitute a justification for establishing any solid and unassailable personal identity based on their arrival and elaboration. Nor do they require any measure of reactivity, which invariably serves to merely complicate and confuse. Rather, emotions can simply be acknowledged as fundamental aspects of the human experience, without the addition of subjective praise or blame.
The same goes for thought, perception, sensation, and even consciousness. We can see them for what they are, watch them rise and dissolve like waves on the ocean, and let them be just that, without trying to manipulate, add to, or subtract anything from them. In that way, they can be appreciated as gifts that life presents to us. They need not be clung to or avoided, but simply experienced. We are curious by nature, and so seek out the infinite variety of experiences the cosmos has to offer, for the purposes of self-discovery and enjoyment. Grasping at nothing and yet turning nothing away is ancient wisdom, but ever-fresh and potent.
One of the reasons that we as immortal spirit are attracted to this momentary human circumstance is to experience the richness and innocent rawness of emotions. Those who proclaim that our task is to suppress, renounce, or flee from them have got it backwards. Rather than promoting and prolonging an internal conflict — a war with ourselves that cannot be won — we can instead allow them to reveal their self-liberating potential.
For example, if we are to embark upon the conscious process of transmuting fear into love in our life and relations, we must really get to know ourselves by paying careful attention to our present condition. We can’t release impediments that we are unaware of, so we need to first get intimately familiar with our emotional fluctuations, see how they arise, how they change in response to conditions, and how they tend to rule us, without our conscious intent. This is what real spiritual practice entails, as opposed to sitting around trying to be peaceful and blissful while by-passing the emotional aspect of one’s being (as some might imagine).
Just so, emotions themselves can be transmuted into living wisdom if recognized as transitory and non-binding energetic movements inherent in the human experience. In such recognition, our attention can be restored to the unchanging background against which the fleeting movement of thoughts, emotions, and personal stories appear and disappear – our prior, natural state, Awareness itself.
When we become emotionally invested in our self-images, the whole world can seem to represent a potential threat of emotional harm. Based on this dualistic view, we perceive the need to defend ourselves from possible danger by forging a kind of armor which we then wear into “battle”. Ironically, the more we fortify this armor in reaction to assumed emotional threats, the further we stray from our own inherent happiness. Rather than relaxing and resting in the care-free enjoyment of life and relationships, we must busy ourselves with strategies of ceaseless emotional warfare, marked by the struggle to protect and preserve the fictional person we have assembled out of bits of thoughts, emotions, and memories. What a nightmare, and yet it happens to be the usual conflicted condition with which most of us go through life.
One of the most powerful generators of emotional dysfunction is our habitual failure to maturely adapt to the sexual impulse. Sexual impulses arise naturally as part of a healthy human animal’s biological program. In other words, the impulse itself is what it is, but invariably we add something extra to it, superimposing emotionally reactive qualities on to that which is merely an innocent part of the human functioning. Indeed, upon inspection, we can see that a form of chronic emotional-sexual contraction is at the root of much of our personal and collective dis-ease, and as such is a big contributor to the presumption that we are the body.
Based on the mere presence of a sexual impulse, we mistakenly construe the sense of a concrete (and demanding) self through a process of ensuing identification with and consequent attachment to the body, thereby initiating and perpetuating the mechanics of suffering. In other words, by imagining that we are the body, we commit ourselves to the body’s fate – impermanence.
Now, whether or not one actually follows through on the sexual impulse from this point matters little, since a fictional but very realistic sense of self has already been assembled around the impulse. An internal division has been set in motion, a vicious cycle of desire and frustration that comes with the self-sense package, which then ripples on, even to the point of infecting the totality of our emotional life.
A powerful antidote to the contracting entanglement of that cycle is the practice of non-dwelling within the context of true meditation, which involves neither embracing the impulse nor turning it away. In fact, it entails doing exactly nothing about it — just letting it arise and dissolve as it naturally will, without using it as a platform to identify with the body and therefore establish a self-matrix, a “me-story”. It can be inspected, seen through, and released without creating the dramatic conditions which lead to the assumption of an independent and enduring self. Attention is simply returned again and again to the prior spaciousness of awake awareness itself.
Since what is not used or fueled becomes obsolete, so too do the afflictive poisons that characterize the usual human being’s emotional state, through the power of non-dwelling. Once freed up from the deluding influences of greed, envy, hatred, pride, and ignorance of one’s true nature and condition, the energy and attention that constitute the emotional and mental processes are naturally transmuted, becoming more and more characterized by spontaneity, wisdom, clarity, and above all, compassion.
Having recognized the ephemeral nature of all experience — whether it be in the form of emotion, thought, perception, sensation, or consciousness — we can relax. When we relax, we are freed of all associated binding emotional reactivity, such as fear, stress, annoyance, and moodiness. Having been thus liberated, we can say, “Released!”, and move on to enjoy the next scene in the panoramic movie entitled “The Play of Consciousness”.
Very insightful Brother, thank you.
It occured to me years ago upon observing this apparatus that feelings arent the problem, the problem is they get exchanged for ideas, then those ideas settle and are the seed for future emotions, which then arent raw emotions, but emotional reactivity, even though the one reacting at that time is not aware and just calls them “my emotion” often defended as “naturally human”. And yes when it comes to spiritual teachings, in time it is often forgotten that a stimilus or method becomes an adoption of views which then is being picked up misconceived (as a “truth” rather then a temporary expedient medicine) and can be transmitted by basically anyone as such.
Thank you for your very clear eyes, Brother! You describe the chain of reactivity very well, and I certainly share your view on spiritual teachings.
A team of scientists in Finland has used a topographical self-reported method to reveal the effects that different emotional states have on bodily sensations. After five experiments and over 700 participants from Finland, Sweden and Taiwan, who reported where on their bodies they felt different emotions, the scientists discovered surprising consistencies.
“Feelings are the language of your soul and the celebration of your spirit. Feelings are that part of you which tell you the perfect truth of how it IS. Thoughts on the other hand seek to tell you your personal truth of how it is and all the ways in which it is NOT. There is no such thing as a good or a bad feeling, but through a thought which convinces you so. Human beings have been conditioned to drive their lives through personal truth, and this is why their eyes are closed to the perfect truth of who they truly are.
In learning to let go of your ownership of thought you learn to let go of the boundaries and barriers to perfect truth. When you are not held within a thought, when you are not captured by an attitude, you can become one with your feelings, you can become one with perfect truth. When you stop using the mind to tell you how you are feeling, your true feelings can be understood with consistent clarity as to become your greatest guide.
Your human persona is also a personal truth, for it is constructed from adopted thoughts and attitudes. To see beyond your human persona you must feel your way to the perfect pure truth. Feel beyond the edges of your physical skin where you think and define where you begin and where you end. There is no beginning and there is no end but in your mind. Every cell you have can be in more than one place at any time, and be at any state and at any place it is granted outside the box of attitude. You are everything you allow yourself to feel.
These things you experience and define as emotion, derivatives of love and fear, these are by-products of the human condition, and the human species. Should you have joined with the genetic cells of a completely different species, on another planet, you would not experience these exact sensations, feelings, and emotional states which you are so quick to disown as some sort of disease. In truth, the unpleasant sensations you call negative emotion are only so because you do not understand them, and thus you alienate them and battle against them, allowing yourself to alter your vibration. It is not the emotion itself which lowers your vibration, but your thought and judgement upon it, you see. That, my dear friend, is why it matters not what emotions you created in life, but how you have come to value them and understand them which determines your transition in the afterlife.
Emotional wisdom is your inherent ability as a being to relate and connect with other aspects of the universe, aspects of experience, and aspects of your Self through means beyond the physical. It is a form of language which allows you to connect and communicate with other states of being, and other beings of other states. So in a sense, getting in touch with your feelings, rather than alienating them, is indeed a bridge to greater consciousness maturity, as well as sensitivity to other forms of inherent energy and language in the universe.
Emotions have the potential for manifesting wisdom, strength, sensitivity and connectedness. A gift commonly bypassed as our energy is caged by personal storylines, avoidance and self-centeredness. In simple openness and a loving embrace, self-centered emotions and suffering are unveiled as living grace. It’s a sharp edge’s balance, demanding one’s willingness to let go and embrace existence, as it is; raw and ruthless. | 2019-04-25T07:56:06Z | https://theconsciousprocess.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/emotions-2/ | Porn | Reference | 0.140879 |
wordpress | In the same way an athlete’s performance on the field determines his or her results on a consistent basis, so does your behavior dictate the results you achieve. You’ve heard the saying, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” The way to change the outcome is to change the behavior, and the way to change the behavior is to change your attitude about yourself or the activity.
How do you think or feel about a certain activity – about yourself carrying out that endeavor? Do you disguise your lack of results in false humility by telling yourself any of the following?
There are more talented and able people than me in the workplace.
I’ve passed my peak and the new, young guns are taking over.
I don’t have the skill, talent or ability for this position.
I’m just as talented and able as the next person.
This position is a perfect fit for my skills, talents and abilities.
When you choose to change your attitude and reframe your statements you trigger new corresponding emotions of enthusiasm and evoke new mental pictures of achievement. This combination of words, emotions and pictures puts you on the path to creating a new life story. And, it puts you in the director’s seat for producing that story.
There are three primary things to remember as you coach yourself for new results.
I am an effective communicator, and I speak the language of DISC fluently.
With Dominant types I’m direct, bottom-line and too-the-point.
With Inspiring types I’m fun, upbeat and engaging.
With Supportive types I’m warm, friendly and considerate.
With Cautious types I’m factual, logical and less-emotional.
You don’t have to force any changes. Just create a new set of statements and deliver them to yourself in a heartfelt manner in the present tense on a regular basis. As you go through your day look for times to speak to yourself in positive ways. It could be as you prepare for work in the morning, drive to the office, stroll during the lunch hour, hit the treadmill late in the day or pray or meditate in the evening before bed. | 2019-04-24T13:54:58Z | https://richdrinon.wordpress.com/2015/04/04/personal-motivation-professional-relevance-part-2/ | Porn | Business | 0.577127 |
msu | On the South side of Lansing, along Washington Avenue, R.E. Olds would give Lansing its second automobile manufacturing company in 1905 and for the first two years it would flourish. REO was third behind Ford and Buick, but lack of progression in model design and mechanics would drop REO to tenth, REO was struggling by 1908 (Thomas, 1986). In 1910 REO would begin moving forward with a truck model, and in 1915 introduced the legendary REO Speed wagon. It would quickly become know as one of the best made vehicles that one could buy. The Speed wagon was the father of what we now know today as a pickup. Its success was duplicated by other manufacturers, with sixty individual variations soon appearing.
REO’s management team would take on an ambitious project to try and expand their market to a more broad array of vehicles and price ranges. Company profits were utilized for model expansion, and when the market crashed in 1929, the company suffered. In 1933, R. E. Olds (who had retired almost completely from the company holding only an honorary seat) returned to the company to retain leadership, but resigned in 1934 and never returned to the company. R. E. Olds the father of auto industry in Lansing, MI, would die in 1950 at age 86 unattached, save his name, to any automobile production.
During 1936, REO abandoned the manufacture of automobiles to concentrate on trucks. After Olds left Reo, the firm continued to experience serious financial problems. Building trucks for World War II allowed REO to make a little bit of a comeback, but for one reason or another the company could not reach solidity in the postwar era. In 1954 REO was sold to the Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corporation of Detroit, and 3 years later became a subsidiary of the White Motor Company. White merged REO with Diamond T trucks in 1967 to form Diamond Reo Trucks, Inc. On May 30, 1975, this firm filed for bankruptcy (Diesel Power, 2009). | 2019-04-23T06:13:49Z | http://michiganhistory.leadr.msu.edu/reo-speed-wagon-not-the-band/ | Porn | Business | 0.984202 |
wordpress | Happily to wive and thrive as best I may.
Beautiful short film about life.
I shall trust you, and trust God more. Hasn’t it been about this all the while?
The day started early since we had to be ready to board the transport at 0745. By the time we reached our first island it was about 1030.
Our first stop was disappointing. The scenery was undoubtedly idyllic, but it was totally marred by the sheer number of tourists there. It was also pretty dull since it was just a beach and we couldn’t even swim. For us it was just a toilet stop, really.
From there it was a couple of phototaking stops which weren’t really exciting, and then lunch which was dismal. As you can see the morning was pretty much a drag. It gets worse for a while yet.
After lunch we went out a little bit to a spot to swim/snorkel. The tide was pretty low so we could literally see the corals right below us. However because of that they also warned us about sea urchins, which were just chilling beside the corals and all. So anyway all of us went into the water and began swimming in pairs, my dad with my sister and my mum with me. My mum was squeezing my hand like crazy because she was afraid of being washed away or something. The sight was wonderful, with the fishes swimming right before you and all around. After a while we swam to a high piece of coral to stand and take a break. Unfortunately that is a less stable position then it sounds since the waves weren’t light. My mother refused to let go of my hand, which only made it worse since it is much harder for two people to balance together. In my struggle to get both of us firmly on the coral, my foot was pricked by an oblivious urchin hiding beside it. Tough luck.
Luckily, the pain soon subsided and I was assured by the crew that it will go away in three days. The real highlight of the day came after that, at our last island. Unfazed by my little accident, I joined my dad and my sis to swim out with our bread to feed the fishes as we snorkel. It was really amazing, watching the schools of fish swarming before you or around your hand, picking at the bread until it vanishes. Pretty fun stuff. We then relaxed at the beach until it was time to go, and made the journey back.
Another interesting thing during the day was the people who were with us in our boat. Such a diverse group! It was intriguing to watch them.
The second day started slowly and gradually, as if we were easing into our stay here. Yet strangely we were all down pretty early for breakfast at a nearby place. The Western breakfast was a good start to our first proper day here.
Thereafter we took a leisure walk to the beach, which wasn’t very near. We allowed ourselves to be distracted from our journey by the roadside shops and attractions, and so our food was fully digested by the time we reach the sandy shores. We were still pretty early as far as tourists were concerned, so the beach was pretty empty and still cool. Deck chairs spanned the length of the shore, and a strong breeze billowed around us. After much haggling and deliberation, we finally accepted a deal of one session of parasailing and jetski each for me and my sister respectively for a total of 2500 baht, with 2 deck chairs thrown in.
Parasailing is easily one of the most fun things I have ever experienced. Perhaps second in exhilaration only to rappelling. They ask you to run at the start just as the rope is beginning to run out (thus soon becoming taut), but really you can only manage a few steps before you are lifted into the air, rising sharply and quickly some 3 or 4 stories up. It is the closest I have ever come and possibly ever will come to flying. I would recommend this to anyone. The entire thing was pretty fast though.
We chilled at the beach a while more before leaving to go for a massage. Not much to say about this. It was lunch after that and some shopping before heading back to the hotel for a rest. One noteworthy thing was that we were actually chased away by a saleslady at one store, which was incredibly curious and slightly offensive. Oh well.
Now we will be leaving in a little bit to get dinner and some short shopping before going to see Muay Thai boxing matches at half past eight. More on that tomorrow!
It has been some 5 hours since we touched down, following a slightly delayed flight. Not a terribly long period of time, so there really isn’t much to write about. This will be brief.
The hotel is nice enough. Very homely although it is only two stars. Perhaps the only disappointment is the mistaken race of the owner. My mum told me he was German so I was looking forward to practising some German with him, but I think he’s British. Oh well. The good news is that I have a queen sized bed to myself, and the wifi is pretty great too. Dinner was yummy Thai food. | 2019-04-21T14:07:52Z | https://shrekyreky.wordpress.com/2014/01/page/2/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.537033 |
wordpress | What’s happening?! – Oh The Places You'll Go!
Welp, Whole30 is almost at an end. Just a week left in this “challenge.” I can’t believe it. Surprisingly but at the same time not surprisingly, I’ve noticed a change in my overall well being. I don’t feel as bloated and I haven’t had an upset stomach, which I’m sure is a result from cutting things from my diet, i.e. dairy products. Wahhh, I love ice cream! Cutting out the processed carbs and sugar was definitely difficult at first. Like the first week my mom and I complained about it and we just wanted something that would satisfy the craving. But as we got farther into the month, we started enjoying and actually liking the cooking process, instead of sort of resenting it haha. Cutting out the processed carbs and sugars was sad. I wanted to have chocolate. And bread. Plus it didn’t help that both of those things were still in the house, since Papa Wong wasn’t participating in the Whole30, what a stinker!!!
Some of our favorites from the past 30 days have been oven roasted brussel sprouts, kale chips, and spaghetti squash. All of these foods haven’t been in our dinner rotation before, but they are now and I’m sure they will be here to stay! Yeah, it’s slightly time consuming, but I think it’s worth it and because the results are soo yummy.
My Dubai trip is just a little over a month away! I cannot believe it! It is really starting to feel real. Fundraising is going well. Thank you all so much that have been praying and have contributed to this wonderful mission. I figured I’d share my letter that I sent out detailing our trip and just letting know where my heart’s at. Enjoy!!
Hola mis queridos familia y amigos!
I’ve returned to the motherland and I’m so pleased to say that my time in Spain was fantastic and a life-changing experience; one that I will soon not forget! Thank you all so much for your support and love as I was preparing for the move and while I was away. I would so love to catch up with each and every one of you and retell my stories and adventures, so please do not hesitate to reach out for a coffee date!
I’m writing to you all to ask for your support once again. Since being back in California I’ve found a church family at Garden City Church. March 9-19 they are going on a mission trip to Dubai and I have been selected as one of 12 for the team! Garden City has a sister church, Redeemer Dubai, to which the team and I will be visiting and building relationships with the congregation there. We want to come alongside our sister church and support them as much as possible during our stay. Being able to plant and foster relationships with those at Redeemer is something I am personally looking forward to during our visit.
In addition to visiting Redeemer Dubai our team, along with a team from Redeemer will be traveling to Beirut, Lebanon to serve at Home of Hope; a non-profit organization that serves abandoned, abused, and orphaned children, many who are victims of violence and neglect. Their mission, and ours while partnering with them, is to create a nurturing, encouraging, and safe environment to help the children recover from their traumas, and to educate and raise them to be intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually prepared to face their futures, which is something that is near and dear to my heart.
First and foremost I ask that you pray with me. Pray for my team and I, that God would ready our hearts and minds for our time in Dubai and Beirut. Pray that God would grow me spiritually and prep me to build his Kingdom. Pray for safe travels and stay while we are overseas. Next I ask that if you feel lead, to please contribute financially. I need to raise $3,000 by February 15. If you would like to be a part of this mission through financial support, please send me a check made payable to “Garden City Church” and write “Dubai 2016-Danielle Wong” on the memo line. All contributions are tax deductible. While money is important, it’s a far second to my need for prayer support. Above all else please prayerfully join in supporting me in this trip!
Previous Post January and Whole30. | 2019-04-21T12:27:15Z | https://daniellewong09.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/whats-happening/ | Porn | Home | 0.2539 |
wordpress | This weekend, I released some new mesh stuff in my Second Life store, Bounce and on the marketplace (the new marketplace submission system is so easier and faster now, it is quite a pleasure to complete my marketplace). And I wanted to make some pics to show those clothes in action ! 😀 This Tutti Fruity skirt is out this weekend for Taste Of SL event (Theme : “Summer lovin”, see full listing on Seraphim blog!), and will be back in store on monday at regular price. | 2019-04-21T12:07:29Z | https://fashionpixels.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/summer-lovin/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.948442 |
wordpress | I predicted from the beginning that ACA (Obamacare) would not achieve the two primary goals that were set for it. First, to provide health care financing for everyone and second, to reduce the cost of health care. I was extremely dissappointed when single payer health care was not even a part of the negotions…in fact some of the single payer advocates were jailed as they protested non-violently about not being included. I was hoping that at least the public option would be a part of the final law…but no, it too was eliminated.
What should we have expected when the health care insurance industry essentiall wrote ACA? As long as health care is seen and treated as a commodity to be bought and sold we will continue to pay too much for too little care. The only real way to provide health care financing for everyone (100%) and REDUCE the per capita cost of health care is to enact a single payer system such as HR 676.
I know that socialism is a scary word for many but we have a combination of capitalism and socialism now. Socialism in not a form of government, it is an economic system. Democratic socialism allows the people to decide how and when our tax dollars should be spent.
I know that a single payer system will require a raise in taxes but the taxes requried to fund HR 676 would be less than what 95% of us are currently paying in insurance premiums. HR 676 would provide comprehensive medical, dental and vison care with no copays, no deductibles. 95% of Americans would be left with more dollars in their pockets, not fewer.
Previously, we saw there are wars happening within ourselves and wars happening with each other. Today, we will discover the primary reason we are at war with ourselves and, consequently, with each other: we are at war with God. We will also discuss how this war can be stopped.
The root cause of every war, internal and external, is rebellion against God. At the beginning of Creation, mankind beheld perfect harmony, but sin came into the world and this led to conflict. Sin is lawlessness (1 John 3:4) and lawlessness is rebellion against God.
How does a believer declare war against God? By being friendly with God’s enemies. James names three enemies we must not fraternize with if we want to be at peace with God.
God obviously needs us. And, apparently, we need God.
Chapter 2 of Jeremiah reads like a letter from a bitter lover whose been taken advantage of, cheated on, and abandoned. Many of us have been there. Lost in love and mutual happiness, something happens and it all falls apart. The memories of rapturous fulfillment are still palpable, but something’s changed. The relationship’s broken. They don’t need you anymore…of they don’t think they do…or they never did. | 2019-04-23T17:55:14Z | https://terryflowersblog.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Society | 0.202084 |
wordpress | “Berlin is the newest city I have come across”.
Since we have only 2 days to visit the city and a lot of places to see, let’s get ready for a big walk…so don’t wake up late on Day 1!
The best way to optimize your time is to start from the East side and go to the West.
East Side Gallery (Berlin Wall): this is the largest open air gallery in the world. It stretches from Ostbahnhof station to the Oberbaumbrücke. 118 artists from 21 countries have painted several pictures on a 1,316 meter long section of the Berlin Wall, which is now a listed landmark. In 2009 the popular paintings, whose condition had deteriorated considerably in the last few years, were restored.
From the East Side Gallery, take one of the S-bahn mentioned above and get off at Alexanderplatz. Originally, this square laid just beyond the gates to the city. It received its current name on the occasion of the visit of Czar Alexander I. in 1805. Now the big place is very known for its stores, the World Time Clock, the Fountain of International Friendship and most of all for its TV Tower, visible everywhere in the city.
Rathaus: just on the left side of Alexanderplatz is the Rathaus, the Berlin Town Hall, now the official seat of the mayor of Berlin. Because of its color, the imposing building is known colloquially as the “Rotes Rathaus” or “Red Town Hall”.
Museums area: just opposite the Rathaus, the Museums area begins. It starts with the Dom (the main church of the city) and it goes on with several interesting museums. One that you cannot miss is the Pergamon museum, with its magnificent art from Greece, Rome, Babylon and Middle East. The museum is open everyday from 10:00 to 18:00 and on Thursday till night.
Sinagogue: from the Museum area, keep on following the river and then you will be arriving in front of the Sinagogue, a wonderful building, as beautiful as the rest of the area.
Friedrichstrasse and Checkpoint Charlie: Friedrichstrasse is a very elegant street, with historical buildings everywhere. At the end of Friedrichstr., after having crossed Unter Den Linden, you will run into the Checkpoint Charlie, the best known border-crossing of Cold War days. The sign, which became a symbol of the division of Cold War Berlin and read like a dire warning to those about to venture beyond the Wall – YOU ARE NOW LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR – in English, Russian, French and German – stood here. It is today an iconic marker of territorial boundary and political division. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, it signified the border between West and East, Capitalism and Communism, freedom and confinement.
Unter den Linden: This is a huge street, plenty of shops, offices and historical buildings and museums (for instance the Guggenheim and Madame Tussaud are there).
Brandenburger Tor: at the end of Unter Den Linden you will arrive in front of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin’s only remaining city gate, the true symbol of the city. The sandstone construction has 12 Doric columns and is based on the propylaeum of the Acropolis in Athens. After the decision of Berlin’s senate on October 22, 2002 Brandenburg Gate remains closed for cars, cabs and buses. Berliners and their guests can enjoy now the renewed beauty of the Pariser Platz. Just next to the Brandenburg Gate is the magnificent Reichstag, the Parliament building, where you can go up and admire the amazing view of the city.
Holocaust Memorial: once you cross the Brandenburg Gate go on the left and you will arrive in front of the Holocaust memorial. It consists in 2711 cement blocks of different heights, where you can walk and get lost in it. From Cora Berliner str. you can then enter in the underground Ort der Information, an exhibition on the persecution of Jewish with several documentation.
Potsdamer Platz: Potsdamer Platz is one of the most popular attractions of the New Berlin. With its mix of restaurants, shopping opportunities, theater and cinemas, both Berliners and tourists can enjoy their time over there. The place is full of office buildings, shops, hotels, apartments and restaurants as well as the Theater am Potsdamer Platz and a casino. The 22-story debis-Haus was designed by Renzo Piano: its atrium, boasting cathedral-like dimensions, contains Jean Tinguely’s machine sculpture “Meta-Maxi”. Next to this are the Potsdamer Platz Arkaden – a big shopping mall. In 2000, the Sony Center opened on Kemperplatz. Seven buildings surround the forum, which is conceived as a light-flooded arena with a tented roof. The futuristic building also houses the Filmhaus with the Filmmuseum, the cinemas Arsenal and CineStar and an IMAX film theatre, as well as restaurants. The complex of hotels, offices and residential units reminds of early modern American skyscrapers.
After the big rush of day 1 it is time to relax and give some space to the culture and fun.
Zoological Garden: The zoological garden, one of the largest in the world, is among the most important sights in the city. It is now the most important animal collections in the world, with around 19,000 animals and some 1,400 different species. There is a beast of prey house, a hippo house and a nocturnal animal house, and the largest aviary in Europe. The aquarium is one of the largest in the world and has the largest number of species of any in Europe. Visitors can either enter the zoo through the Elephant Gate beside the aquarium in Budapester Straße, or through the Lion Gate on Hardenbergplatz, directly at Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten.
How to get there: Line S5, S7, or S9, stop “Zoologischer Garten”.
Museum of Photography and Helmut Newton Museum : Located just in front of the Zoological Garden, the museum presents changing exhibitions on the life and work of Helmut Newton, one of the most important fashion and portrait photographers of the 20th century. Newton loaned a vast collection of photographs to the museum for exhibition. The Kaisersaal of the Museum of Photography displays installations by contemporary photographers and artists. The museum is open from 10:00 to 18:00.
After the visit at the Zoo and the Museum, depending on the time you have left you can do other activities. You can for instance postpone some Day 1 activities to Day 2 (e.g. have Pergamon museum, Guggenheim and Holocaust Memorial on Day 2, so that you have one day of sightseeing and another day of museums), or do some shopping, or have a nice tour in the East side of the cit (totally different from the West one, but in continuous evolution, especially from the cultural and artistic point of view). | 2019-04-20T14:32:53Z | https://crazyplaneat.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/2-days-in-berlin/ | Porn | Arts | 0.789343 |
livejournal | It’s only a split second - a last minute glance as she says goodbye and a hundred other things that never pass her lips - but it’s time enough, and she steps backward into nothing.
Above her, the hollow metal ring still rises, shaking in the wake of bombs.
Then he’s there beside her, warm and real as he grabs her arms, half shaking her, half pulling her into a hug. “Dammit, Elizabeth!” he yells at her, the anger and fear in his voice almost enough to cover everything else.
She can’t believe this is how it ends.
but then I realized I didn't really have anywhere to go once they both... you know, died.
Favorite sentence of the day!
beautiful! so happy to see new fic from you.
plus, your icon is purrrrrty.
btw, i like this drabble.
I tried to change the ending! In fact, I had this whole scenario where the bomb didn't go off and they looked at each other all "omgwtf?!" and then made a mad dash to a puddle jumper, took it under the ocean, bombed Atlantis from there, made their way to the mainland where death and destruction lingered from the hands of the Wraith, started to have a woobie moment before realizing that the Wraith had followed them, so went all "on the run in the jungle" until the rest of the expedition that made it through the Stargate came to retrieve them.
Heeeee. *loves you* Thanks for the comments!
JEN I LOVE YOU AND NEED YOU WHY DO YOU NOT WRITE TO ME ANYMORE??
You must watch the ComicCon vids, too. I WILL CONVERT YOU.
I will be available for chat this weekend as I will create massive lies to keep me at home regardless of what work wants. Are you going to be around?
I also love that you clearly charged the whole thing to work.
Did you likey the Sparky postcard?
Are you going to be around?
Also...is it just my computer...but on your journal reply screen the writing is tiny!
You know, someone else mentioned that before. But when I reply to a comment in my own journal, it looks fine. I have a feeling it's part of the code I got from Cat when she helped me redo my LJ way back when... I'll have to take a look and see if I can figure it out.
You know what, you give me some options and I'll pick one.
Let's start with Saturday 8:30pm (12:30pm) and then if our love is not quenched with this chat, we could continue Part Deux with your Sunday Skype idea!
That whole sequence in the episode and your drabble did funny things to my heart. Kind of ouch but in a good way. ;) Thank you.
Heh. :) Glad you liked it! | 2019-04-19T15:08:04Z | https://phrenitis.livejournal.com/111070.html | Porn | Computers | 0.977242 |
fc2 | [2015/4/3] It updated to Ver 3.1.
Promotional video on the right is the old ones Ver1.0.
This app calculate the drip rate by setting the required time and volume of infusion.
The blue progress bar and flashing images, display the dropping interval.
Timer and alarm will help the management of each drip intravenous injection.
- There is a 20 gtt/mL and 60 gtt/mL infusion set of initial display.
- It calculate "Rate" by setting "Volume" and "Time".
- It calculate "Time" by setting "Rate" and "Volume".
- It calculate "Volume" by setting "Time" and "Rate".
- Flashing Image will be able to tap.
- The List display the remaining infusion time.
- It will be notified by the alarm at the end of the infusion.
- Sound, vibration, or both are OK.
- Name, room, memo, can be registered.
- Name can be used as a display of the timer.
This app supports iOS7 or more.
The vibes function applies to only iPhone. There is not vibes function in iPod and iPad.
This application is not a thing taking responsibility in the medical care. Please use it with the responsibility of the user. | 2019-04-25T08:52:53Z | http://studioileaf.web.fc2.com/dripinfusion.html | Porn | Reference | 0.645773 |
tripod | I met him twice, both times at Builders Square II grand openings!!! The first time was in N.J. The second time in Miami, Florida. He was signing autographs at both locations. He was very nice and took time to talk to the fans and have his picture taken with them. | 2019-04-18T18:25:57Z | http://soapia.tripod.com/debbie.html | Porn | Reference | 0.208023 |
wordpress | Accompanied by charts, statistics, and analysis, The Global Ranking of the Publishing Industry 2014, traces the changing dynamics of the top ten publishers along with a look at the book industries in Brazil and China. It shows how the STM market is a real driving force in the profitability of certain publishers. Compare with: The World’s 56 Largest Book Publishers 2014 from Publishers Weekly; and EBook Publisher Power Rankings, First Quarter 2014.
Here are some activities: listing of fireworks displays by county is online; Hudson County and north Jersey activities are also available; don’t forget the Jersey City Freedom & Fireworks Festival as well as this guide to south Jersey festivals.
How Clean Are New Jersey Beaches?
As people travel to the Jersey shore this summer, they can be comforted by the fact that New Jersey ranks #3 in the nation (out of 30 states listed) in cleanliness of its beach water. In fact, New Jersey contains more “superstar beaches” than any other state. The Natural Resources Defense Council issued Testing the Waters 2014: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation beaches that compiled statistical information the states have on their beach quality. State rankings are found in the executive summary. See how your state fared.
The judge’s 100+ page decision is posted online. Analysis/comments/reportage are at: the Wall Street Journal, The Star-Ledger, Asbury Park Press, Bergen Record, NJ Spotlight, NJEA, and NJ Politicker.
S2169 is a bill just out of the Senate State Government Committee; its goal is to rescind the requirement that school district employees in New Jersey must reside in New Jersey. It applies to those counties that border New York and Pennsylvania. It is very specific in its intent as it does not apply to police, firefighters, or college professors; it is strictly geared for teachers at the K-12 level. Here is a Star-Ledger editorial advocating the repeal of the entire law – the New Jersey First Act.
We have received word that the process of turning part of the Library’s first floor into a 2,000 sq ft Dunkin Donuts is about to start. Next Thursday, June 26, the Library reference desk (not the beautiful piece of furniture we have now, that will be demolished) will be re-located to the second floor. To track the transition, please visit the Library’s Facebook page where you can see what has already been done. Leave a comment, we’ll get back to you.
We have come across two more of these works. The Encyclopedia of Detroit (Detroit Historical Society) features articles arranged alphabetically or by broad topics; you can also search using full text. In addition, a timeline is included and a special feature entitled Arsenal of Democracy that singles out Detroit companies that played a significant part in the war effort during World War II. The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (based at Rutgers-Camden) provides linked writings by themes or full text search; it also has a timeline, maps, an informative blog, and a 300+ page bibliography. | 2019-04-22T01:13:12Z | https://njculibrary.wordpress.com/2014/06/ | Porn | Reference | 0.08047 |
wikipedia | This is a documentation subpage for మూస:Db-t2.
This template is used to tag pages for speedy deletion under the speedy deletion criteria, specifically CSD T2. There is a separate template for each criterion – see the table to the right.
This template places the page into the categories: Candidates for speedy deletion, and Templates for speedy deletion. | 2019-04-23T16:53:01Z | https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%82%E0%B0%B8:Db-t2/doc | Porn | Reference | 0.403669 |
wordpress | Hey it’s just Zoë here today, and I’m going to be reviewing Alienated by Melissa Landers, which I read a couple of days ago and loved.
Two years ago, the aliens made contact. Now Cara Sweeney is going to be sharing a bathroom with one of them. Handpicked to host the first-ever L’eihr exchange student, Cara thinks her future is set. Not only does she get a free ride to her dream college, she’ll have inside information about the mysterious L’eihrs that every journalist would kill for. Cara’s blog following is about to skyrocket.
Trail by fire follows the main character, Lily Poctor whose life-threatening allergies have always kept her from enjoying many of the experiences that other teenagers take for granted, which is why she is determined to enjoy her first high-school party. But after a humiliating incident in front of half of her graduating class, Lily wishes she could just disappear. | 2019-04-25T16:03:24Z | https://twintalesbookreview.wordpress.com/tag/ya-fantasy/ | Porn | Kids | 0.312843 |
wordpress | After much debating (with myself oddly) I decided to take the plunge and pick up a team for Guild Ball. I originally wanted to play the Fisherman’s Guild but the sculpt for the Captain is really oddly posed and it killed the idea of playing them for me. Next up was the Butcher’s Guild but the store didn’t have their Mascot in stock and I wanted to pick up a full team in one swoop. Finally I settled on the Engineer’s Guild. Its not really a bad choice for me as the team has a lot of interesting combos and some interesting minis.
The figures are all metal and clearly 3D designed. The models have cuts between the various pieces that don’t look man-made and are more akin to GW plastic figures. The minis are also gorgeous with crisp details and almost no mould lines. I was actually surprised by how well they looked as most of the painted samples I have seen have not really done the figures justice and made them all look a bit plain.
Everything went together quite well with the exception of Hoist. The tab on the miniature was so small that I needed to put green stuff into the slot before gluing it to make sure that it held properly. I also did the same on the left lower leg of hoist which had no connection point so required some green stuff to ensure a solid bond. Most of the figures had very well defined, and large, connection points but the female figures are much smaller and are more akin to the old Confrontation metal figures.
I picked up enough figures to do a full team (Ratchet, Mainspring, Hoist and Colossus) and also picked up the Union starter so I could do some demos and also use Cutter and Decimate in my team as they will both play for the Engineers. I’ll be adding them to the painting schedule and try to get to them as soon as I finish the Shroud Mage ships I am currently working on. | 2019-04-25T03:06:22Z | https://zacgaming.wordpress.com/2016/05/28/guild-ball/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.959792 |
wikipedia | Tinyatoxin (TTX or TTN) is an analog of the neurotoxin resiniferatoxin. It occurs naturally in Euphorbia poissonii.
It is a neurotoxin that acts via full agonism of the vanilloid receptors of sensory nerves. Tinyatoxin has a potential for pharmaceutical uses similar to uses of capsaicin. Tinyatoxin is about one third as strong as resiniferatoxin but is still an ultrapotent analogue of capsaicin, with a heat intensity estimate of 300 to 350 times that of capsaicin.
^ Szallasi, A. & Blumberg, P.M. (1991). "Characterization of vanilloid receptors in the dorsal horn of pig spinal cord". Brain Res. 547 (2): 335–338. doi:10.1016/0006-8993(91)90982-2. PMID 1884211. | 2019-04-23T12:08:11Z | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinyatoxin | Porn | Science | 0.56217 |
wordpress | I’m looking forward to taking up residency in Down County Museum from 3rd – 5th June, working with schools on poems about the famine.
This is part of the build up to the 150th anniversary commemoration of the famine. Some of the poems will be read at a special event in Newry in the autumn.
Here’s a video of me reading some poems from my latest book The Return of the Buffalo. Hope you enjoy. | 2019-04-24T03:47:46Z | https://dcartmill.wordpress.com/tag/poems/ | Porn | Arts | 0.936991 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.