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He (satan) was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. John 8:44
Some call it "an act if God", when there is a disaster or catastrophe. But the Bible states that God is good. He has the best in mind for the human race: His creation. It is sin which separates mankind from God.
Satan is the one who is cruel, a liar, robber and murderer from the beginning.
He is the one who causes pain, war, destruction, and bondage. He in turn uses unregenerated man to orchestrate his evil plans.
God will judge satan and all them that are his followers. They will all be cast into hell, because they choose this themselves by rejecting God.
For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. Luke 9:56
This is exactly why God the Father sent His Son Jesus Christ, so we would be saved from the ruler of this planet and from eternal death. This is, if we call upon the name of Jesus and accept Him as our Savior.
God doesn't send anyone to hell, but all can make a choice. If one does not want to accept Jesus as Sacrifice for their sins than they will be outside of God's presence, now and for eternity.
This does not include, they that never had a change to hear the Gospel or to read God's word.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
There is another lie going around that teaches that all of mankind will go to heaven. God is love and how could He send anyone to hell, they say.
What reason would anybody have to allow people entering into Heaven who reject Jesus, or who curse His name? Should they that abuse others and themselves and who live wilfully in sin allowed to enter the place which God has prepared for His children?
Why would Jesus had to suffer on the cross, while forsaken by His Father, if all mankind would be saved and allowed into Heaven after all?
The eternal punishment is what people choose themselves. We all have been given a free will, so the blame is on them that disobey God's word.
This can be compared to keeping the rules of the game so one may win. Reject the same rules and you'll be the loser. Right?
Hitler was a co-worker with satan, as so many other rulers are and have been.
Hitler was evil, but God is GOOD. Would Hitler be in Heaven?
Over the Ages, men, women and their children were killed by the claws of satan or because of their own disobedience and rebellion against God, the Creator. The killings of children of God-rejecting parents are the responsibility of the parents, NOT of God. Because they are born in iniquity of their parents.
Therefore, it is NOT God's hand who destroys, since God doesn't want anybody to perish but have everlasting life. His ultimate SACRIFICE was and is, His Only Begotten Son.
Isn't that enough?
It scares me that some dare to speak up like that, blaming the Creator. Life is just like a flower; today it blooms... tomorrow it is withered. Have they forgotten that they're made from dust? Who is mankind, to point the finger at God?
That your faith is down the drain does not change the fact that God is still the God of Abraham, Jacob and Isaac. Neither does it change the fact that there is a heaven for His children and a hell for the devil, his demons and the ungodly. If you want to believe this or not, does not make any difference. God is TRUTH!
THE CHOICE IS YOURS and your choice is your responsibility.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. Mark 16:16
I'm suggesting:
"Go for Heaven, stick by the rules and make the right choice while you can."


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I had a great night last night.
A great night.
Want to know why?
Pina coladas.
My husband is a champion pina colada maker. Nothing better to help an exhausted mommy unwind then one or two (or 4...yikes!) pina coladas.
We had friends C and K over for dinner last night along with their two daughters A and A. (We'll call them A1 and A2 so as not to be confusing.) We had a feast planned! A delicious appetizer of chili-cheese dip and chips, followed by steak and chicken on the grill, corn on the cob, salad, and double-baked potatos. The perfect summer meal.
And pina coladas.
C and I sipped them right when they arrived. We sipped some more while the men went outside to do manly BBQ-ish things at the grill. (That sounds dirty. Tee hee!) We sipped them with dinner, and we sipped them after dinner.
Before we knew it, C and I had each "sipped" 4 pina coladas. Our hubbies, quite brilliantly, remained sober in order that the children wouldn't go unsupervised. Such good men! Such presence of mind! (Lance was asleep by this time and A1 was starting to drift off. I don't want anyone to think we were getting trashed and not paying attention to the kids!)
This is unusual behavior for both of us. Our husbands were quite happy to let us get ourselves dizzy. Such great men they are! There we were, the two of us sipping pina coladas and giggling like schoolgirls.
I won't lie. We enjoyed it.
This morning though? Not so hot. Not horrible, but not so hot.
Do I have a point to this post? Just to say that every once in awhile, it's great to unwind, let your hair down, and relax. And if you're going to drink 4 pina coladas, you might as well do it with your friends from church!!


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Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes are silicon-oxygen cage or ladder molecules. The cubic form R8Si8O12 has silicons on the corners, bridged by oxygen atoms (making up the edges). Each corner can be functionalised by a variety of groups – H, vinyl, allyl, aminopropyl etc.
Vinyl Silsesquioxane (these things are hard to draw!)
JACS ASAP had a very cool paper this week using octavinylsilsesquioxane and 1-bromopyrene. Octavinylsilsesquioxane is commercaially available and was coupled to 1-bromopyrene using Heck conditions (palladium catalyst)*. Varying the ratio of pyrene to cube created 8 to 16 subsituted molecules fo application in organic light emitting diodes. For monosubsitution at each corner the 8-pyrene form was most abundant, for disubstitution, 14 pyrenes were most abudant, probably due to steric considerations. Putting so many pyrene derivatives around a small silsesquioxane is hard work.
When I printed this paper out, I was mesmerized for a few minutes – these molecules are beautiful. They have very high symmetry due to the cube structure and the 14 pyrene molecule is just elegant. I'm not going to attempt to draw the final products.
OLEDs were prepared using the 8- and 14- pyrene vinyl silsequioxanes. The fluorescent efficiency was found to be good, and possibly the highest achieved to date for silsequioxane based emitters. 14-pyrene vinyl silsequioxane gave lower efficiency, probably due to the higher density of pyrene groups and subsequent quenching in the solid state.
*Heck reactions are palladium -catalyzed carbon carbon couplings betwene aryl or vinyl halides and alkenes, with base.


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Soooo.... *sigh*
My son is out of school. He hasn't been able to make it thru a day in 3 weeks. In fact, most of those days, he's suffered massive panic attacks & not even made it out the door. Why? Mix aspergers, anxiety, cruel teenagers & adults (some well-meaning, some not) who just don't get it into a big mixing bowl, stir & bake.
Here's the problem in a nutshell. Social interaction. Social rejection. The inability to fit in no matter how hard he tries. He's not a normal kid. No matter how well he learns to "fake normal" he will never be normal. Kids pick up on that. Kids are cruel.
Tomorrow we go back to home tutoring. Maybe home schooling. He has no friends. None. Because of this group of kids who invited him into their group & then rejected him, he doesn't even want to try anymore. Fifteen. The kid is fifteen. And friendless. Alone. Rejected. Ostracized.
As a mother, I don't see the point anymore. Why should I force him to go to school to be made fun of, to be teased, to be bullied? Why should he have to accept that because he's different, he needs to work harder to blend, to be less of himself, to be "normal" when normal is unkind and hateful? Why should he have to take medication to just get thru that school day so that he can tolerate that hatefulness?
And yet, he's a smart, funny, loving kid. He's kind. He's brilliant with computers. He could have such a bright future. How is he ever going to function in this world that's not user friendly for him? I don't know. If I don't see it, how can he?
I don't know how often I'll be able to post now. All else falls away when we go thru these times. This isn't the first time he's had to regroup & start over from scratch because the world failed him. Each time I worry he'll make sure it's the last. My world is upside down. Again.
Be nice to others. The next time an odd person who won't make eye contact approaches you in the store and tries to strike up a conversation about Star Wars figures or books or whatever, instead of treating them like a freak, take a minute and talk to them. That little piece of conversation may be the only social interaction that person (who likely has aspergers or autism) has in a year. For those minutes you talk to them, they feel connected - like they matter. They don't feel that often. Too many people make sure they believe that different is worthless.


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We have basement walls! They poured the foundation on Friday and we were able to stop out Saturday morning to check it out. E loved exploring the construction site and especially enjoyed trying to clean up the mess. If I hadn't spent four days in labor with him and didn't know better, I'd swear he wasn't my child.
At this point, it's our understanding that the visible progress will slow down a bit. The walls need to sit over a week before the area is back filled. And, with Thanksgiving being next week, we've been told that they probably won't start framing until the following week. I'm still not sure when the porches and garage and basement floors will be poured, though.
Hubby spoke to our construction manager for the first time on Friday. He's new with our Builder but said that he'd been in the business for years. Hopefully we'll have a chance to meet up with him for coffee or something soon. Hubby already warned the Builder that I wouldn't be happy if the 'new guy' slowed things down. Ha!
Now, on to the fun stuff - new photos!
|[view from the corner of the garage]
|[moving buckets with sock monkey's supervision]
|[our little construction manager]
|[dirt pile!]
|[windows on the east side of the basement]
|[standing on the future driveway]
|[view from the northwest corner]
|[checking things out!]
|[just re-arranging and cleaning up a bit]
|[no comment necessary. the cuteness kills me.]
|[finally lined up and in order]


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As my four year college career is coming to an end, I want to look back on some of my favorite public relations courses that I took at Georgia Southern University.
My favorite PR course was PR publications. I love to create things and this course was all about PR Publications (obviously). We had the opportunity to create a brochure, business card, and letter head using Adobe InDesign. Eventually I want to go into event planning and these skills will help me when I reach that goal.
Another one of my favorite courses was International PR. It is important to know what is going on in the PR world outside of the United States. I learned a lot about PR in different countries and how it differs from the US. The course helped me to realize different aspects of PR.
A course that I wish I would have taken was PR Event Planning. The reason I did not take this course was because I would have had to take it in the same semester as PR Campaigns and I have always heard not to.If I could do it over, I would have tried to take event planning at an earlier semester because I think the course would have been very beneficial.
I hope this blog helps any up and coming PR majors. If I had one thing to tell them it would be to take what you think is interesting and take what YOU want to take. Don't always take the easy route just to get an A.


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|MyMama, OURGayla, Sister/Daughter-inLawDana,
JamesIII and me, March 2010
A few weeks ago, my beloved mother guest blogged "H is for Happy Home" to help me with the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. This is the second piece I told you that she wrote for me at that time. Is it possible to burst with love and pride? Each tear I shed while fixing this up for her, was filled with so much love and so much pride. Welcome back to "Aunt J-Me Says So"....my hero, MYMAMA:


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January 28, 2010
A Unique Addiction
Alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling...these are all extremely hard-to-kick habits. I am not trying to make light of recovery from these addictions, but when a person decides they are going to quit one of them they can do just that--quit. You can't quit food or you'll die.
Sometimes I think it would be nice just to have my mouth wired shut for a month or so. I'm not sure how healthy that would be (or if you can even do that and survive) but man, it seems like it would be so much easier that way.
There's no point to this post really....just me whining. Ever thought about this though?
4 comments:
- Minnesota Mami said...
Hi Keelie! YES, I've totally thought about this often! I used to work in a counseling role with many kids that had drug addiction issues and I remember doing a 3 month challenge with one of the high school girls...the challenge was for her to not smoke pot and for me was to not consume sugar (I'm a major sweet-tooth). We both had varying degrees in our success in the challenge, but I remember often thinking about how she did not have to smoke pot to survive...she could remove herself from the drug entirely if she chose to...whereas I could not remove myself from my *drug* 100%. Which makes the challenge that much stronger...but the success that much sweeter!
PS - adding you to my blogroll... :)
Holly @ Making Over Me
- January 28, 2010 at 9:26 AM
- Weighting Around said...
If food just didn't taste so darn good it would be a whole lot easier, wouldn't it?
- January 28, 2010 at 1:10 PM
- Cupcake Dreamer said...
It is a hard place to be in when we have to diet to lose weight with food. AS you said we need food to live. That's not the way any other addiction works. Good point all around.
- January 28, 2010 at 3:44 PM
- Stacey at Living by Faith said...
I agree and have thought this so often!
Just wanted to tell you again how much your blog is inspiring me. I actually gave you a shout out (link) in my latest post.
- January 28, 2010 at 10:47 PM


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"The jobless rate soared to 4.4% from 3.9%, the government said. Household spending slid 4.6%, a 10th monthly drop, as people grew more concerned about job security."2. William Sim at Bloomberg report that South Korean industrial production fell 18.6% from a year earlier in December, after recording a 14% decline in November. The decline was 9.6% from November.
"Confidence among South Korean manufacturers remained close to a record low, a central bank survey showed this week. Exports, which make up about half of the economy, probably plunged by a record 29.1% in January, economists forecast ahead of a Feb. 2 report.3. Choe Sang-Hun at the New York Times reports that North Korea declared today that it was scrapping all accords it signed with South Korea to ease military tensions between the two countries.
South Korean sales of consumer goods fell 1.8% in December from November and dropped 7% from a year earlier, today's [government statistics office] report showed. Construction orders plunged 33.5% from a year earlier and investment in factories decreased 24.1%."
"'All the agreed points concerning the issue of putting an end to the political and military confrontation between the North and the South will be nullified,' said a statement from the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, the North Korean agency in charge of relations with South Korea."The agreements include a 1991 agreement on reconciliation and non-aggression. Pyongyang also reportedly referred to the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War as "a useless piece of paper."
4. Keiko Ujikane and Kyoko Shimodoi at Bloomberg report that the finance ministers of China, Japan and South Korea together with those of ASEAN are planning an emergency meeting next month in order "to forge a pact to pool $120 billion of foreign exchange reserves to help defend their currencies."
"The grouping plans to increase the pool from the $80 billion proposed last May in Madrid in an expansion of an arrangement that allows only bilateral currency swaps known as the Chiangmai Initiative. The meeting may take place on Feb. 22 in Thailand, according to two Japanese Finance Ministry officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity."5. Danny Friedmann at IP Dragon reports that inventors and corporations in China have filed the sixth largest number of patents applications in the world under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) in 2008.
"Using the PCT, [corporations[ can file patent applications in different countries in an efficient way: filing ... patent applications in more than one country using one patent office. A real international patent does not exist yet, but the second best is to get a bundle of national patents, using the PCT."China surpassed the UK in patent applications using PCT. (h/t Carlos Tejeda at China Journal)
6. The International Air Transport Association published a press release yesterday announcing that global international air cargo traffic fell by an annual rate of 22.6% in December compared to December 2007. International passenger traffic fell by 4.6% against the same month.
"For the full-year 2008, international cargo traffic was down 4.0%, passenger traffic showed a modest increase of 1.6%, and the international load factor stood at 75.9%."(h/t Calculated Risk)
7. Janet Porter at Lloyd's List reports that container lines have cut the number of Asia-Europe ship loops by more than a quarter in recent months.
"The latest string to be removed is the Grand Alliance's EU5 service, which is being suspended for at least five months with immediate effect.That said, the Baltic Dry Index still appears to have bottomed, though the indicator is still sharply down from the highs of early 2008:
Member lines Hapag-Lloyd, NYK, OOCL and MISC said this would remove about 12% of capacity from their Asia-Europe network of services."
In an interesting piece of related news, Rajesh Nair at Platts reports that average daily demand for bunker fuel in Hong Kong "in January far exceeded expectations, even surpassing average volumes seen in November and December." Bunker fuel is the petroleum product used to power ships, and strong results in that category should indicate that shipping has bottomed, though from a steep decline--partially due to the comparative advantage of nearby ports in southern China. Delays in bunker fuel cargoes have even reportedly caused the Hong Kong market for the fuel to tighten.
8. Javier Blas at the Financial Times reports that the International Grains Council forecast a sharp drop in the world's wheat harvest in 2009-10. The crop is expected to fall to 650 million tonnes, or 5%, from the record harvest of 687 million tonnes in 2008-9.
"'The largest declines are expected in the EU, Russia, Ukraine, the US and China,' the IGC noted in its monthly report."Lack of credit is reportedly forcing wheat importers to purchase on a hand-to-mouth basis, reducing up front demand. The steep decline in prices has caused farmers to reduce acreage cultivated with wheat by 1%, globally. (h/t Yves Smith at naked capitalism.)
9. Eurointelligence reports that European Central Bank data shows that the volume of loans in the eurozone fell by 0.4% in December from November. But: "On an annual basis, loans to companies were still up 9.4% compared with 2007, and loans to consumers were up 1.8%.
10. Edward Evans and Francine Lacqua at Bloomberg report that Hamad bin Jasim, the prime minister and head of Qatar's $58 billion sovereign wealth fund, said the country's fund was on the hunt for three blue chip investments. The fund is reportedly interested in the financial services, industrial, and tourism sectors. (Clearly it believes that these sectors are near their bottoms. The news is also interesting insofar as most analysts believe that the Gulf's sovereign wealth funds have been hard hit by the fall in oil prices and equities generally. Evidently, Qatar has managed to weather the current financial crisis without too many losses.) "Bin Hamad said Qatar would 'very seriously' consider raising its stake in Barclays Plc, if the London-based bank seeks more capital. Barclays raised £5.3 billion ($7.6 billion) in October by selling securities including convertible notes to Middle Eastern investors such as Qatar Holding."
11. Sebnem Arsu and Katrin Bennhold at the New York Times report that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned home to a hero's welcome after an angry exchange with the Israeli president, Shimon Peres, at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Crowds met the prime minister in Istanbul waving Turkish and Palestinian flags and chanting pro-government slogans. Erdogan was upset that his comments about Gaza were curtailed by David Ignatius, of the Washington Post, who was moderating the debate. The final exchange is described thus:
"'Mr. Peres, you are older than me,' [Erdogan] said. 'Your voice comes out in a very high tone. And the high tone of your voice has to do with a guilty conscience. My voice, however, will not come out in the same tone.'The Associated Press reports that Peres told reporters he spoke with Erdogan after the incident and that "My respect for him didn't change."Turkey is a linchpin in Israeli security strategy in the Middle East and Tel Eviv hopes to link its energy infrastructure to it as well.
Resisting efforts by Mr. Ignatius to end the session, Mr. Erdogan continued, saying to Mr. Peres, 'When it comes to killing, you know well how to kill.'
Eventually, the prime minister gathered up his papers and departed, saying, "And so Davos is over for me from now on.'"
12. Emily Wax at the Washington Post reports that due to lobbying by Delhi, Jammu-Kashmir has been taken off the mandate of the Administration's envoy to the Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard C. Holbrooke. The decision has been received in India as a significant concession--a symptom of warming relations with Washington.
"'I think it is time for us -- having fobbed off Holbrooke--to sit quietly and ask where are we and how do we manage the situation,' said C. Raja Mohan, an Indian strategic analyst who served on India's national security advisory board in 2006."13. Dexter Filkins at the New York Times reported yesterday that the Karzai administration announced it would postpone Afghani elections until August.
"[The] decision, which appeared to contravene Afghanistan's Constitution, raised questions about the legitimacy of what could be President Hamid Karzai's final months in office."14. The news yesterday reported by the Guardian UK that the Obama Administration was composing a letter to the Supreme Leader of Iran (see Daily Sources 1/29 #9) appears to be false. From the State Department's daily press briefing yesterday:
"QUESTION: ... So is the State Department helping President Obama draft a letter to President Ahmadinejad, and what's the status of that letter?15. Michael Schwirtz at the New York Times reports that Raul Castro and Dmitry Medvedev signed a "strategic partnership" during Castro's visit to Moscow this week.
MR. WOOD: Look, what I can tell you – and I've had a number of conversations this morning about this issue. Nobody from the Administration has tasked anyone within the White House, the State Department, to draft any letter to the Iranians.
Now, there is a review underway, as you know, on Iran, and there are lots of ideas that are being bandied about. But until that review is completed, we're not going to be able to outline how we're going to go forward with regard to engaging Iran.
Could somebody in this building at some point have taken it upon his or herself to draft something? You know how large this building is. It's hard to know. But I can tell you with certainty that no one – not the Secretary, or the President, no one has tasked anybody within the Administration to draft any kind of a letter to Iran."
"Russian officials promised the delivery of 25,000 tons of grain and a $20 million loan for the development of Cuba's construction, energy and agriculture sectors."Cuba's economy is estimated to have contracted by at least 60% following the interruption of subsidies provided by the former Soviet Union after its collapse in 1991. Recently there has been considerable national oil company interest in E&P efforts off the Cuban coast in the Gulf of Mexico.
16. Carlos Camacho at Platts reports that PdVSA announced on Thursday it will certify 235 billion barrels in proven reserves this year.
"PDVSA has been working with Canadian oil accountancy firm Ryder Scott, as well as several national oil companies ... to assess the Orinoco reserves carefully as part of the Magna Reserva plan which began in 2006."When Magna Carta was launched, PdVSA announced that it thought there are 1 trillion barrels of crude in the Orinoco basin of which 20-30% is recoverable with existing technologies. Orinoco crude, however, is extremely heavy (tar essentially), and needs to be upgraded before it can even be refined. As it stands, the corporations with the most experience and technical competence in that field remain the major international oil companies.
17. Xinhua reports that the Nigerian National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (PENGASSAN) have threatened to shut down all of Nigeria's 21 crude oil export terminals by February 11 unless the government cancels a contract with Cobalt Services Nigeria Limited as a pre-shipment agent. The union does not believe the corporation has the requisite qualifications to fulfill its contract and that Nigeria's Minister of Petroleum, Rilwanu Lukman, has a stake in the company.
18. Timothy R. Homan at Bloomberg reports that US GDP contracted by 3.8% in the fourth quarter from the year before. The number is considerably less than what most analysts I have read expected and some expect the numbers to be considerably revised, on the downside. Unadjusted for inflation, the economy shrank by 4.1% for the period considered. Consumer spending led the fall, dropping 3.5% in the fourth quarter after a 3.8% decline in the third. "For all of 2008, the economy expanded 1.3% as a boost from exports and government tax rebates in the first half of the year helped offset the deepening spending slump."
19. Calculated Risk has an analysis of the recent Census Bureau report that new home sales fell at an annual rate of 44.8% in December. The blog provides a helpful graph plotting new home sales since 1963, with past recessions marked in blue:
You should check out their graphs of months of new home supply and and new home inventory. Not good for housing prices and thus not good for household debt to equity ratios. In short, bad.
20. Barry Ritholtz at the Big Picture posts that LPS Applied Analytics announced findings showing that as of December 28% of existing option adjustable rate mortgages are delinquent or in foreclosure. That is up from 23% in September. Ritholtz provides a graph demonstrating the rise in delinquencies and foreclosures as a share of outstanding option ARMs:
JP Morgan believes that fully 55% of borrowers with option ARMs are underwater, meaning that the nominal debt is more than their value of the home. The post doesn't estimate the share of option ARMs of the overall mortgage market.
21. In a bit of good news, Rebecca Wilder at News N Economics reports that investors are beginning to move money from low yielding treasuries to corporate bonds. She provides a graph illustrating the differential between 10 year treasuries and 10 year treasury inflation-protected securities (or TIPs which automatically adjust payout to inflation, guaranteeing no losses due to inflation):
She notes that the inflation expectation inferred from the differential is rather low given the fundamentals of the government's balance sheet, but that it is a great improvement from what we were seeing before. That said, the market is so volatile it is by no means assured that the indicator indicates long term direction. short and to the point, with several helpful illustrations--worth taking a look.
22. Jesse's Café Américain features a Reuters piece which reports that Goldman Sachs economists think that were the Obama Administration move ahead with the plan to set up a bad bank to absorb the "toxic" assets of the financial sector costs could reach $4 trillion. $4 trillion is about one third of US GDP.
"The figure far exceeds even the most pessimistic estimates of how great the loan losses might be because there is so much uncertainty about default rates, which means the government may need to take on a bigger chunk of bank debt to ease concerns.I'd like to say fat chance. But who knows? That said, it seems to me that there is little reason to absorb these toxic assets if they will cost the government more than purchasing the equity of the banks in question. (As Brad Setser points out in a recent post, $350 billion is enough to purchase most of the equity in the US financial system.) Clearly, much of the reason it is difficult to posit a value for any asset is because the books are cooked. Until we have an honest accounting and rating system--and a transparent market for the derivatives that are the source of the toxicity--there seems little point in buttressing the financial system.
Goldman Sachs economists said ideally the public sector would step in to remove the hardest-to-value assets, which would alleviate nagging worries about future losses and hopefully help get lending going again.
'Unfortunately, with an unprecedented meltdown in mortgage credit and a deep recession in the broader economy, there is a great deal of uncertainty about the value of almost every asset,' they wrote in a note to clients."
23. Barbara Kiviat at the Curious Capitalist reports that the freelance economy is being hit by the financial crisis as well, predictably enough. She points out, however, that the stimulus bill will do little for the self-employed, as "things like extending unemployment benefits and COBRA health care coverage ... do nothing for the self-employed people out there whose incomes are getting obliterated, too." She provides a graph to illustrate how that sector is being affected:
If the Great Depression is to be our guide, historically the sector is especially vulnerable.
24. I should have linked to this earlier, but better late than never, Putin's exclusive interview with Bloomberg. In it he suggests that he is far too trusting and treats us to his mother's advice: "never complain." I have to note that the notion of a former KGB operative being too trusting is, well, odd in its conceit.
25. Another thing I should have linked to earlier, but better late than never, Obama's interview on al-Arabiya:


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The story of Cinderella is considered a rise tale. This means that the tale demonstrates a motive of "rags to riches through magic and marriage". This simply means that any person can be saved from their troubles without any effort at all. We all know that people cannot be saved from their problems by counting on magic and marriage.
In the real world everyone would agree that with hard work you could be successful. Though, this motif was designed to persuade young girls that if they marry they will be successful. At the same time the motif teaches young men that they need to be successful in order to marry.In todays society we can only hope for the fairy tale life and be saved from our troubles. If fairy tales were real, no man would ever attend college or try to get a job because they believe in fantasies. If fantasies and magic did exist, everyone would be happier and life would be a lot easier, yet because of the false tales such as Cinderella that the public views as a story it may make some people believe in fate rather than choice. Even though rags to riches may be an actual stories such as Tyler Perry's life or the life of Biggie Smalls where they grew up poor, but with hard work and determination, they are able to achieve their respective dreams. But if they would have believed in fairy tales and fate rather than choice and free will, they probably would have stayed poor their whole life and not achieved their dreams.


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OBJECTIVE: To perform a large retrospective study designed to test cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) IL-6 levels in the context of neurological diseases, and evaluate its usefulness as a biomarker to help discriminate multiple sclerosis (MS) from other inflammatory neurological diseases (OIND).
PATIENTS AND METHODS: We analyzed 374 CSF samples for IL-6 using a quantitative enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Groups tested were composed of demyelinating diseases of the CNS (DD, n = 117), including relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS, n = 65), primary progressive MS (PPMS, n = 11), clinically isolated syndrome (CIS, n = 11), optic neuritis (ON, n = 30); idiopathic transverse myelitis (ITM, n = 10); other inflammatory neurological diseases (OIND, n = 35); and non-inflammatory neurological diseases (NIND, n = 212).
RESULTS: CSF IL-6 levels exceeded the positivity cut-off of 10 pg/ml in 18 (51.4%) of the 35 OIND samples, but in only three (3.9%) of the 76 MS samples collected. CSF IL-6 was negative for all NIND samples tested (0/212). IL-6 cut-off of 10 pg/ml offers 96% sensitivity to exclude MS.
CONCLUSION: CSF IL-6 may help to differentiate MS from its major differential diagnosis group, OIND.


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Yes, yes, we haven't even gotten to our September 25 New Jersey Authors Network Panel at the Woodbury Library and yet October is fast approaching with a bloody bevy of scary literary events! Can you say Fate and Fangs three times fast?
Stop by and see us first This Wednesday in Woodbury!! Our next NJAN events won't be until November for a special NaNo workshop series at the Cinnaminson Library.
You can also read an excerpt of Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family on The V Spot Blog and find us virtually at Vampire Book Realm!
Next, North Jersey and New York friends can find us at the Fall Atlantic Indie Booksellers Conference Tuesday October 1 with representatives from the A Novel Idea Bookstore in Vineland! And speaking of A Novel Idea, remember they and the Landis Marketplace are hosting an Anniversary Autumn Authors Fair October 19!!!
But wait, wait, Did we mention the South Jersey Writers Group and the Collingswood Book Festival October 5? And of course, we'll be with Brian McKinley and Krista Magrowski again for the Witches Ball October 12!!
Can't get out to New Jersey? Never fear! October 7-13 we're taking part in the Muse Online Writers Conference! 9 p.m. October 8 join our Horror Trends 2013 Chat Workshop!
Wow, we have so many more October events planned, both real world and virtual. Here's a list, and remember our complete calendar and event updates are always on our Vampire Family Facebook page and Yahoo group!
9/16 Vampire Book Realm V Spot Guest
9/25 NJAN Panel Woodbury
10/1 Indie Booksellers Convention
10/2 Muse Chat Party at Coffee Time
10/5 Collingswood Book Festival
10/7-13 Muse Online Writers Conference
10/8 9 p.m. Horror Trends Conference Workshop Chat
10/12 Witches Ball
10/15 Marsha West Tuesday Author Guest
10/16 South Jersey Women Authors Brunch
10/16 9 p.m. SJWA Coffee Time Chat
10/17 Vamp Chix Guest Day
10/19 Autumn Authors Fair, Vineland
10/22 9 p.m. Coffee Time Romance Horror Chat Night
10/25-27 Hallow Read Convention, Baltimore
10/29 Coffee Time Romance Halloween Bash


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Here is my list for May 7-13, 2017. Posting these links does not necessarily constitute an endorsement. On the other hand these are not all the blog post I read but only those I thought worth a continued conversation.
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APOLOGETICS and WITNESS
* Andrew / Alexis Olson: Olson Family in Africa video
* Aaron Earls: Americans, Especially Millenials, Want God without Religion
* Tejado Hanchell: Church Members, Here Are 10 Ways to KILL Your Church
* John Piper: Silence Is the Enemy of Love: Plea from a Christian Jew
* Wade Mobley: Pettegree Brand Luther review
* John Pless: 500th Anniversary Summer Reading
* David Sternbeck: It's all about relationships and Jesus
* Dudley Hall: What is Adult Behavior
* Lars Walker: Review of Dreher's The Benedict Option
* Peter Skurkiss: Opioids and the Failure of Compassion
* Regie Hammm: Rinse Cycle
* Denny Burk: David Gushee: Our "differences are unbridgeable"
* Andrew Wilsom: The Case for Idolatry: Why Evangelical Christians Can Worship Idols
* Samuel James: Everything Is Awful (But Only On Twitter)
* Steven Woodworth: Monuments and History
* Robert Oscar Lopez: The Truth Shall Set You Free
* Regie Hamm: The Il…
* Adam Ford: The Bible, Homosexuality, and Slavery
* J Warner Wallace: Does Belief in God Encourage Criminal Behavior?
* Ashley E McGuire: Why Pop Culture (and 'Say Yes to the Dress') are Going Wild for Polyamory
* Tom Parrish: A House Divided
* Amber Randall: Journo: Wind Power is 'Neither Clean Nor Green'
* Alastair Roberts: Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and FemaleÑand Childbearing
* Old World Farms Garden: 4 Unique Garden Plants To Try Your Hand At Growing This Year!
* Old World Farms Garden: Succession Planting – How To Get The Most From Your Garden This Year!
* Randy DeSoto: How To Plant And Grow Watermelons! Tips From A Seasoned Melon Grower
* This Is My Garden: Shade Loving Plants – 4 Great Perennials That Thrive Without Sunlight
* Joel Wolverton: Meddling in Medicine: 100 Years of Federal Healthcare Control
* Christopher Chantrill: The Meaning of Kinda-Sorta Obamacare Repeal and Replace
* Mike Holly: How Government Regulations Made Healthcare So Expensive
* Rachel Mills: The High Cost of Not Owning Your Healthcare
* Halfway Anywhere: The Pacific Crest Trail in Three Minutes video
* Eric Grundhauser: After Two Years in Orbit, a Secret Government Drone Has Landed
* Mario Munoz: Here Are 20 Ridiculous Fishing Memes (You're Welcome)
* Louise Pryke: The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Guide to the Classics
* Cara Giaimo: This California Man Has Dedicated His Backyard to Saving a Butterfly
* Selwyn Duke: The 'Consensus' on Salt May Be All Wrong, Scientists Say
* Warren Cole Smith: Why People Attend Church
* Michael Todd Wilson / Brad Hoffman: The Three R's of Re-creation: Rest, Recess, Renewal
* Michael Todd Wilson / Brad Hoffman: The Three R's of Re-creation: Rest, Recess, Renewal (part 2)
* Geoffrey Kirkland: How a Pastor Loves His Flock
* Aaron Earls: 4 Surprising Groups Not Showing Up on Sunday
* Alisa Childers: 5 Signs Your Church May Be Headed Towards Progressive Christianity
* Annie Holmquist: Survey: 60% of Millennials Don't Believe in Right and Wrong
* Chris Martin: 9 Facts About the Political Views of Millennial Evangelicals
* Lenore Skenazy: The Case for Free-Range Kids
* Fight the New Drug: For Parents: Updating "The Talk" With Your Kids About Porn & What To Be Aware Of
* Natasha Crain: For All the Moms Overwhelmed by Raising Christian Kids in a Secular World
POLITCS and GOVERNMENT
* Rod Dreher: Zombie Reaganism Rises Again
* Dan Mitchell: The Shadow Bureaucracy and the Burden of Federal Spending
* David Thornton: New: Cruz Issues Statement On Comey Firing
* Art Carden: Why Not Socialism?
* Susan Wright: Twisted: Liberal Writer Tries to Sell Abortion as a Sex Enhancer
* Whitney Williams: An Open Letter to Baby Bee Hummingbirds
* Wesley J Smith: Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine
* Paul Anderson: What About the Doubtful Things (part 1)
* Sam Wellumson: John 10:1-16 – The Shepherd
* Nicholas Davis: 10 Things Jesus Said That Will Never Go Viral
* Lutheran Ladies Connection: A Lutheran Laugh
* J Warner Wallace: Three Things You'll Have to Say to the World to live a Surrendered, Godly Life
* Thuyen Tran: Luther's doctrine of election
* Lutheran Ladies Connection: Remembering God's Grace
* Paul Anderson: What About Doubtful Things (part 2)
WORLD WAR T (fighting transgenderism)
* Pete Baklinsky: Science finds 1,500 genetic differences between boys and girls, destroys 'transgender' arguments
* Mass Resistance: VICTORY: LGBT bill to allow children to "consent" to psychiatric therapy is stopped in Colorado Senate — after hard-hitting pro-family testimony
* Nancy Flory: The Tip of the Transgender Spear in Virginia


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The F litter of puppies pictured yesterday morning as they arrived on Guide Dogs' California campus to be loaded onto the Puppy Truck:
Litter raiser Cathy Gregory (and custodian for breeder dog Christine) hugs one of the puppies she raised before loading him onto the Puppy Truck:
Cathy pictured holding one of the black Lab puppies:
A black Lab puppy pictured looking at the camera:
Cathy Gregory pictured handing over one of the puppies she raised from birth, a black lab:
Photos by Morry Anne Angell, Guide Dogs for the Blind
Also, check out a 2-minute video of the puppies, from their arrival in Cathy's car to being placed safely on board the Puppy Truck:
Thursday, August 7, 2008
The 'F' Puppies are Ready to Roll
Posted by Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB) at 8:19 PM
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Trixie came over and sniffed the screen! And when the puppy truck guy went "boop boopy doop", she started wagging like mad. Everybody with guide dogs, play this video in front of them and watch what your guide dog does.ReplyDelete
Who was the one who barked? Was it Faulkner?ReplyDelete
Ah! I can't wait to watch them grow up with their raisers! Hopefully they'll blog about their new babies!ReplyDelete
When you get to "Luther's" age, you cant fool him anymore with dog barks that are not coming from actual "real, in his line of site" canines! lol.ReplyDelete
Ah damn! Well Luther's an old pro. He doesn't get phased by much.ReplyDelete
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In Reply to: ALSO unimpressed with 3.15!!(more) and L-O-N-G posted by 540Power on July 06, 2000 at 14:31:40:
While this mod does make a DIFFerance (pardon the pun).. words like, 'worthwhile mod', 'crisper and more responsive' are much more realistic.. Exactly the kinds of feedback that the board needs.
Perhaps I was disappointed because the last upgrade to a car before the diff mod I did was adding a turbo charger to an MX6. THAT was a transformation...
Does anyone have any experience with both wheels spinning in a tourque? Any ideas about why that would be?
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Pro Cycling Manager 2014/Tour De France 2014 adds a host of new features to guarantee an even more immersive and addictive gameplay experience in the world of professional cycling.
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Another day, another batch of game trailers was released. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are trailers for:
- Pro Cycling Manager 2014/Tour De France 2014 [PS3/PS4/X360/PC] Debut Trailer
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Marie Peeler, CEO and founder of Peeler Associates, an executive coaching and leadership development firm working with individuals and organizations to increase their leadership effectiveness, recently accepted the position of chairman of the Pembroke Public Library Foundation.
The mission of the Pembroke Public Library Foundation, a nonprofit corporation, is to cultivate, secure and steward philanthropic gifts that will support the capital, programmatic and endowment needs of the Pembroke Public Library.
Peeler, a Pembroke resident, has long been a supporter of the Pembroke Public Library. Her community involvement includes serving as chair of the Marshfield, Pembroke, Duxbury Business Council through the South Shore Chamber of Commerce, member and past-chairman of the board of the Old Colony YMCA, member of the Pembroke Advisory Finance Committee and volunteer for the Bay Circuit Trail Alliance and her local animal shelter.
"We are excited at the prospect of Marie guiding the Pembroke Public Library Foundation," said Deborah Wall, director of the Pembroke Public Library. "Marie is a longtime, passionate library user, and we know that she will advocate for expanding our offerings and providing more to our patrons. Marie is a wonderful choice for this position."
"I am honored to have been asked to fill this role," said Peeler. "The Pembroke Public Library offers so much to our community, and it is gratifying to have the opportunity to work with the staff to continue to enhance the services the library offers to Pembroke residents, and to support the library's mission to serve as a resource for our community."


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People are always saying "Monkeys are our closest relatives." If that's the case why don't we ever invite them over for Thanksgiving? First off, it's chimpanzees and bonobos that are 96 to 99% genetically similar to humans, not monkeys. That really doesn't matter anyway. People get hear those numbers and they freak out, but science tells us that over 95% of the mice genome is similar to the human genome. Pigs are also highly genetically similar to humans. You'd be surprised at how much DNA we share with other animals. That doesn't mean they're close relatives. Chimps and monkeys aren't our closest relatives. If they were then you could get them pregnant like a cousin. As some of us know, that's not physically possible. That 1% of genetic difference accounts for a lot. That 1% prevents a human sperm from impregnating a monkey egg and it's also the reason you won't see spider monkeys at your next family reunion. If you truly believe monkeys are our closest relatives I better go on your Facebook page and see you're friends with at least five monkeys. Monkeys don't even have Facebook. If they did then the I Love Bananas and Flinging Shit pages would be among the most popular on Facebook. They're still popular, but they're not AT THE TOP.
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Fast forward a few weeks. I'm wasting time on Facebook and I see a post by Bon Appetit magazine asking readers to "cook the cover" (the pie!!) for a chance to be featured on their website. Well, hello opportunity! I hear you knocking loud and clear! So I made their heavenly pie and it is beautiful and delicious! My only tiny issue that I didn't use a deep-dish pie pan (as the recipe states, oops) and therefore my pie's proverbial cup runneth over! Oh well, she's still a knockout anyway! And here's hoping that I get some more traffic to the blog, and hopefully a plug on their site!
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Predictions for Chicago Bulls in 2013-14May 17, 2013
Predictions for Chicago Bulls in 2013-14
It's too early to predict that Derrick Rose will return for the Chicago Bulls during the 2013-14 season (I mean, what if he's only at 107 percent health?), but there are plenty of other subjects that are ripe for prognostication.
There will almost certainly be some serious roster turnover in the Windy City, as virtually all of the team's postseason backcourt rotation is primed to hit the free-agent market. Plus, the Bulls are going to have to sort out their financial situation—possibly via a big trade or the use of the amnesty provision.
Beyond that, there are some players, like Jimmy Butler, who look ready to go all "next level" on us.
After one of the gutsiest seasons in recent memory, the Bulls will be looking to recover, rebuild and recharge. Some of the faces will undoubtedly change, but the indomitable heart of the team will remain intact.
Which is really all that matters.
There's an Amnesty or a Big Trade Coming
I hate to toss out the biggest, most franchise-altering prediction right off the bat, but it's necessary. Everything else the Bulls do as they head into the 2013-14 season depends on their ability to clear up their bloated payroll.
The Bulls paid the luxury tax this season, a remarkable feat for the team's notoriously frugal ownership. With a projected payroll of around $73 million next season, they're in line to do it again. But here's the problem: That $73 million is owed to just eight players.
No matter how short Tom Thibodeau's rotations tend to be, seven more warm bodies are going to be necessary to fill out the roster. And the money to pay those guys—even if they're all on minimum salaries —is going to have to come from somewhere.
Which brings us back to the prediction that something big is going to have to happen in order for the Bulls to gain some financial breathing room.
Maybe Carlos Boozer will finally be amnestied, which would erase more than $15 million from the books next year and another $16 million the year after that. Or perhaps one of Chicago's other highly paid veterans could be the subject of a trade.
Look, the Bulls' current payroll situation in untenable. They can't address their needs—perimeter shooting and a backup center, to name two—without shedding at least one big contract. It's hard to predict how that'll happen, but there's really no other way for the team to improve the roster and avoid a second luxury-tax hit.
Rip Hamilton, Nate Robinson and Marco Belinelli Are Goners
We'll take the three guys who comprised Chicago's postseason guard rotation one at a time, but barring the kind of massive move discussed in the last slide, Richard Hamilton, Marco Belinelli and Nate Robinson are all going to be playing on different teams next season.
Rip Hamilton
Hamilton has a team option for next year that the Bulls would be crazy to pick up. Despite a nice cameo in Chicago's Game 5 loss, the 35-year-old guard was nothing short of a massive disappointment this past season. He averaged just 9.8 points per game on 43 percent shooting. Plus his diminished lateral quickness made him a big liability on D, which doesn't really fly in Thibodeau's system.
Hours after the Bulls were eliminated, K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune reported that the Bulls would buy out the final year of Hamilton's contract for $1 million, saving $5 million off of their cap figure next year.
Nate Robinson
Robinson made himself a whole bunch of money this postseason by proving he was capable of scoring in bunches and even carrying a team. He's still wildly inconsistent and something of a defensive liability, but his 23-point fourth quarter in Game 4 against the Brooklyn Nets probably priced him right out of a return to the Bulls.
He'll be in line for a multi-year deal on the free-agent market that the Bulls simply won't be able to match.
Marco Belinelli
Belinelli has bounced around nearly as much as Robinson over the past couple of seasons, and now that he's also a free agent, he'll be shipping out of Chicago as well.
With season averages of just 9.6 points and two assists, the former first-round draft pick isn't going to command a huge salary as an unrestricted free agent, but the fact that he'll get more than the league minimum basically means Chicago can't afford him.
Offense Will Return in 2013-14
Obviously, the return of the Bulls' offensive prowess depends on the health of Derrick Rose. But doesn't everything?
It's so easy to forget that Chicago averaged 107.4 points per 100 possessions during the lockout-shortened 2011-12 campaign, a figure that would have ranked just ahead of the Golden State Warriors' offensive rating this season.
That's a top-10 offense, folks.
And even though the Bulls can't spend big in free agency without clearing up some space by moving (or amnestying) Boozer, there are plenty of minimum-salary shooters out there to fill in minutes in place of guys like Belinelli, Robinson and even Daequan Cook.
Paired with a defense that should retain stalwart stoppers Joakim Noah, Jimmy Butler and Taj Gibson, that sort of offensive production is going to make the Bulls a far more dangerous—and more importantly, balanced—team.
Chicago Will Challenge Miami for the Best Record in the East
A few things make this prediction likely to come true.
First, Chicago figures to get better, regardless of whether it decides to suffer another season of the luxury tax or makes big moves to acquire some better role players. In any scenario, a healthy combination of Rose, Noah, Deng and Butler is a fantastic core.
Whether they retain Boozer or swap him out for replacements, the return of Rose instantly improves the Bulls. And remember, this team finished the 2011-12 season with the best record in the East.
The other factor here is that the Heat are likely to be coming off of a second consecutive title, which means they'll be in full-on "coast" mode for the vast majority of the regular season. With nothing to prove and the looming free agency of LeBron James as a distraction, perhaps Miami will relax enough to slip behind the Bulls in the standings.
(Note: Please don't remind me of this prediction when the Heat win 75 games next year).
Jimmy Butler Will Make the Leap
Jimmy Butler actually made something of a leap this past season, but be prepared for him to take another humongous stride forward next year.
The signs of his in-season improvement were undeniable: He raised his scoring average in each of the last three months of the season while also lifting his field-goal percentage. In April, he averaged 14.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game on 48 percent shooting.
Oh, and he also hit 56 percent of his threes in that same span.
Plus, Butler proved that increased minutes didn't hinder his productivity, as his terrific April came with a per-game average of over 42 minutes.
At just 23 years old, Butler has a ton of room to grow. He's also got the kind of shutdown defensive skills and tireless work ethic that Thibodeau favors. So it seems inevitable that he'll nail down the starting job at shooting guard for the entirety of the 2013-14 season.
If that happens, expect him to turn into one of the league's very best two-way wings.
More than any single factor besides Rose's return, the likelihood that Butler will raise his game provides Bulls fans with the biggest reason for optimism.
No Matter Who Fills out the Roster, Thibs Will Believe He "Has Enough to Win"
Throughout a playoff run that was riddled with injury, illness and a few lapses in composure that may have been caused by some unfavorable whistles, Thibodeau stuck to one of his favorite phrases: "We've got enough to get the job done."
That sentiment is a perfect encapsulation of the coach's no-excuses brand of leadership.
Rose is out? "We've got enough to win."
Noah can hardly walk? "We've got enough to win."
Deng was the subject of a medical experiment gone awry? "We've got enough to..."
You get the idea.
Whatever happens with the Bulls' roster, Thibodeau will believe in his heart that his team is good enough to get the job done. And as we saw during an improbable playoff run, that belief can count for an awful lot.


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here. That feature is more in-depth on the game as a whole, whereas this is specifically about the Adapt campaign, and the updates surrounding it. We'll properly review the game come the release of its final campaign episode.
If your reaction to the announcement of a sequel to A Link to the Past was anything like mine, you probably thought it would be a decent Zelda game. But at the same time, that it would in no way surpass the level of perfection on display in its predecessor. How could it? A Link to the Past is the Zelda game. although more recent entries like Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are wonderful in their own way, nothing could possibly beat the SNES classic's incredible dungeon design, nor its masterful pacing. Yet somehow, A Link Between Worlds does just that. Continue Reading
I was hoping for an unedited look at gameplay from the trailer, but even though it didn't provide that, I still remain excited for the next chapter in Geralt's story.
No new information on this one, just a new trailer. Continue Reading
I wouldn't color myself a fan of Dead Island, but its spiritual successor is looking pretty slick. Continue Reading
Telltell Is Well On Their Way To Making A Game Set In Every IP's Universe, Game of Thrones Game Announced
Second Telltale reveal of the day, a Game of Thrones game. They don't have much to say about it so far, as development has just began. Continue Reading
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Racing the Clock: managing expectations of what can be done in one summerBlog Home | 05.19.2016 by Jared Katz | Stones for Mérida
While designing this outreach program, I have constantly had to remind myself that this workshop will only be seven to eight weeks long. Another important factor is that I will be working with middle school students, not college undergraduates. When designing the overall structure of the program, both of these constraints have proven to be challenges I need to overcome. I knew both of these factors conceptually, but it was only when I was sitting down to design the entire program that I saw how limiting these factors could be.
While creating a lesson plan for the various topics that I will be covering this summer, I realized I was planning sessions based on college courses, not on middle school extra curricular programs. For example, I planned to give a 45 minute lecture on the first day in order to introduce the students to the field of archaeology. Remembering back to my middle schools days, I don't know how enthusiastic I would be if summer vacation had just begun and I was sitting in a workshop listening to a 45 minute talk.
I have been asking for advice from a number of middle school teachers from several different countries to help me come up with a successful strategy. They all had, for the most part, similar comments. They suggested getting the student's moving by having activities planned, and to break up lectures into shorter time frames spread over the duration of the class. I always intended the program to be largely based on hands on activities, but I also had planned several larger lectures throughout the program. I now need to shorten these lectures, creating natural stopping points during which we will pause to complete the exercises, and create additional shorter activities to incorporate into these units. Breaking up these lectures and including even more activities does change the original schedule I was intending to keep, but I am hoping this new schedule will keep the students more engaged.
I believe I will be able to accomplish the overall goal of the program within the time frame of this summer without too much difficulty. As mentioned in previous posts, I hope to turn the curriculum I use this summer into a program that can be presented to middle schools around the country, in order to help encourage more school systems to teach their students about Maya archaeology in an affordable and hands on way. I intend to create one program with three options; a one-week schedule, a two-week schedule, and a three-week schedule, depending on how much time the school wants to spend on the unit. The first week will be a stand-alone course, and both remaining weeks will build off of it, should schools want to discuss the topic in greater detail. Because the program I am running this summer is stretched over 7 weeks, I believe I will get a sense of what is working and what is not, and will have time to test several options to see works best. I will spend several months after the program ends writing the curriculum with detailed instructions on how the exercises are run, basic instructions on how to use the software I am using, and my own comments and thoughts detailing what worked, what didn't and why. I believe that the time frame I have available will be sufficient to run a successful summer workshop for the students and to complete the curriculum I am designing.


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The campaign aims to raise local, national and international awareness about the plight of the endangered cassowary and to educate the public about its importance in rainforest conservation.
The endangered southern cassowary will be Rainforest Rescue's 2014 ambassador species and the voice of the rainforest. Rainforest Rescue has initiated the Save the Cassowary campaign in collaboration with the Zoo Aquarium Association and partner zoos, the Queensland Department of Environment Heritage and Protection, local councils, Girringun Aboriginal Corporation and business partners to highlight the plight of the cassowary, our rainforest gardener.
The campaign is closely aligned with the Rainforest Rescue's expanded activities in the Wet Tropics which include rainforest buy-back, habitat restoration, cassowary population monitoring, community education, and support for the Garners Beach Cassowary Recovery Facility.
Rainforest Rescue is an active member of the Cassowary Recovery Team.


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I've always been a fan of the heartwarming Toy Story trilogy (honestly, who isn't?), which is why I'm certain my fellow Pixar-lovers will be equally obsessed with this incredible nursery.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I've forever had an emotional connection to the cloud pattern from the film; as a little kid I used to sleep on Toy Story cloud sheets, so the moment I laid my eyes on theseperfectly painted clouds, I knew this nursery was going to be something special.
New mom Desiree Cook had a similar experience when deciding how to decorate her first baby's nursery. Originally, she was obsessed with planning every inch of her little girl's room … until she found out she was having a boy. She was at a loss for what theme to choose, but her husband's love for a particular Pixar film inspired her.
She explained that her husband is obsessed with Toy Story, noting, "Our office (which was to become the nursery) looked more like a shrine to Pixar than an office. He has more Toy Story stuff than you could possibly imagine." All of this is to say that he already had the perfect accessories for their baby boy's room — the toys!
From the hanging barrel of monkeys, to the classic Toy Story toys, to the fun block letters on the wall, this room will make you feel like you've been transported right into Andy's room alongside Buzz, Woody, and the gang.
Cook said in order to make the room more fun, she played around with scale, explaining, "Some things are toy-sized; other things look as if you were toy-sized."
Who wouldn't want this kind of magical experience for their newborn?
She even included the Green Army Men, which she and her sister are in the process of making into stencils so that us fellow Toy Story enthusiasts can add them to our very own Disney-themed rooms. Everything is truly in the details of this nursery.
My favorite part about this room is the incorporation of cowboy and space themes. Why choose between Woody and Buzz when you can have both? Some may have seen this as a challenge, but Cook said, "I was inspired by Disney. They make whatever they dream up happen, no matter how difficult." Can't argue with that.
Picture it: your little one learning about the solar system while "You've Got a Friend in Me" quietly plays in the background. That sounds like the perfect room to grow up in if you ask me, but I may be a tiny bit biased.
Being the toy-inclusive room this clearly is, Cook of course made sure Rex, Slinky, Hamm, and the aliens were present. I can't help but hope she muttered, "You have been chosen!" as she placed her husband's personal collection of aliens atop the armoire. The toys surprisingly make perfect accents on the simple wooden furniture — who knew!
It's safe to say this nursery is an amazing tribute to the Toy Story films. I know exactly what kind of room my future little one will be getting, that's for sure.
In the meantime, I'll be marathoning all three Toy Story films and quietly humming Randy Newman songs until I can get my hands on those cloud and Green Army Men stencils …


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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Bar Mitzvah Battle - Who Pays for What?
Dear Ella,
My son Aaron's bar mitzvah is still a couple of years away, but I'm starting to think about it now. Aaron's father and I are divorced, and I don't know how that's going to affect Aaron's bar mitzvah.
Do we each have our own celebration? Do we have one together? Do we split everything down the middle? I have no idea where to start. Aaron's dad and I tolerate each other and communicate for the sake of our two sons, but the divorce left us both very bitter, and we certainly don't share any kind of friendly feelings. Financially, I'm not in the same bracket as Aaron's dad, and I can't afford to split an elaborate affair. Can you provide any kind of guidelines on how to handle this?
Bar Mitzvah Battle
Dear Bar Mitzvah Battle
Aaron's bar mitzvah is a very important day, and one he will remember for his entire life. With that said, both parents must bend over backward to make this day very special, and everything else must take a back seat. If the two of you can't be clear on that, then decide early and have separate celebrations.
Ideally, it would be special for Aaron to have all his family and friends together to celebrate his religious rite of passage. This will take much give and take from both of you, and complete co-operation and compromise. There are so many components involved: aliyot, invitation wording, cost, seating plans, number of guests, candlelighting, speeches, etc. All decisions should be put in writing, so there are no misunderstandings. Under no circumstances can Aaron be put in the middle. That's not to say that he shouldn't be involved in planning his bar mitzvah. He may have some very specific thoughts.
As long and the two of you continue to put your son's feelings ahead of your own, you should be able to get through this with class and maybe even have some fun! As for cost, split everything down the middle and budget according to what's affordable for both parents. A bar mitzvah can be very meaningful and tasteful without all the hype you often see these days. This is Aaron's day, a day he will have prepared and studied for. He'll be nervous enough. Make sure he's not nervous about either of you.
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Nonlocal resistance and its fluctuations in microstructures ofG. Grabecki, J. Wróbel, M. Czapkiewicz, Ł. Cywiński, S. Gierałtowska, E. Guziewicz, M. Zholudev, V. Gavrilenko, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretski, W. Knap, F. Teppe, T. Dietl
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We investigate experimentally transport in gated microsctructures containing a band-inverted HgTe/Hg_{0.3}Cd_{0.7}Te quantum well. Measurements of nonlocal resistances using many contacts prove that in the depletion regime the current is carried by the edge channels, as expected for a two-dimensional topological insulator. However, high and non-quantized values of channel resistances show that the topological protection length (i.e. the distance on which the carriers in helical edge channels propagate without backscattering) is much shorter than the channel length, which is ~100 micrometers. The weak temperature dependence of the resistance and the presence of temperature dependent reproducible quasi-periodic resistance fluctuations can be qualitatively explained by the presence of charge puddles in the well, to which the electrons from the edge channels are tunnel-coupled.View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6115


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There are ample places for hikes, serene walks and relaxation, as well as Hawaiian Loi's (taro patches) and educational gardens on site. We will have opportunity to experience this incredible land connecting with the richness of Hawaii, while also sharing and learning the rich culture of Guinea.
This year's conference features Gabriel Fara Tolno, Youssouf Koumbassa, Marietou Camara, Fode Bangoura, Naby Bangoura, Soriba Fofana, Lamine Bangoura and Sekou Camara!
We will be utilizing the Grace Center for Education at the Kohala Institute and the grounds include; a fabulous dining hall, indoor spaces with wood floors for both dance and drum classes, dorm buildings, 4 person cabins and camping.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS FACILITY IS COMPRISED OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS THAT HAVE BEEN NEWLY RENOVATED THIS YEAR!!! We will be some of the first to stay here!!
Below is a breakdown of lodging options with prices:
CABINS: There are six cabins available, each with sleeping capacity for four individuals, one bathroom, small refrigerator and sink. Cabins will be filled to capacity, if you know who you would like to share a cabin with, you will be given the option of writing in their names on registration. If you would like to have less than 4 people in your cabin, there are additional costs, please email us.
FULL CONFERENCE ALL INCLUSIVE; CLASSES, MEALS, CABIN LODGING: $765 per person
DORMS: There is a women's dorm and a men's dorm. Both are bunk bed shared space style with bathrooms for each gender. The lodging is simple, clean and functional.
FULL CONFERENCE ALL INCLUSIVE; CLASSES, MEALS, DORM LODGING: $725 per person
CAMPING: There are LOTS of places to camp on this property, whether you want seclusion or to be in the midst of it all, there is a prime spot for you! All camping requires you to bring your own tent, bedding etc. You will have access to bathrooms and showers in the dance building and dining facility.
FULL CONFERENCE ALL INCLUSIVE; CLASSES, MEALS, CAMPING SPOT: $685 per person
OVERNIGHT RATE: Includes one night of lodging, morning yoga, 4 classes, and 3 fabulous meals
Camping: $175 per person
Dorm: $185 per person
DAILY RATE: Daily rate including morning yoga, 4 classes, and 3 fabulous meals, no overnight stay.
$150 per person
We are also offering a FULL CONFERENCE WITH MEALS/NO OVERNIGHT RATE for our Big Island community.
$575 per person
$25 per West African Drum and Dance class.
$20 yoga and Hawaiian Hula
CHILDREN: IF you are bringing children please email us for youth rates for conference. We are not offering any classes geared towards children, but this location allows for us to be in community style and welcomes chidren!
TRANSPORTATION: There will be limited pick-up and drop-off times from the Kona Airport. Rides will leave the Kona Airport and drive to Camp at between 1pm-4pm on Wednesday November 2nd and will return to the airport on Sunday November 6th, leaving Camp at 4:30, and arriving at Kona airport by 6:00pm. Transportation fee is $20.00 each way. You can also rent a car with friends and that will give you the ability to leave camp premises for beach, hike, exploration adventures. :) Please email us with further transportation help or questions, we are happy to make sure it all goes smooth!
A five day drum and dance retreat on the Northern tip of the Big Island featuring 9 West African artists, Hawaiian Hula, Yoga and locally grown island food!
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Kissidugu Foundation
Come experience the amazing music and dance of the African diaspora and the Hawaiian islands at this years Camp Merveilles Hawaii!!!
We are also creating a school of Music, Dance and Education in Guinea, West Africa and are currently in process of building a community center, health facility and bringing clean water to the people of Bel Air, Guinea.
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Join us for a Bronx StorySLAM hosted by The Moth. Arrive by 7pm for the opportunity to put your name in The Moth "hat". At 7:30pm names are picked, and one by one, storytellers take the stage to tell a five minute story about the theme of the evening. Of the ten featured storytellers, one winner is chosen. The theme of the evening is BELONGING.
We have set aside a handful of complimentary tickets for Bronx residents. To RSVP email firstname.lastname@example.com.
$10 General admission tickets are available two weeks before the event.


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Party Time Tuesdays "Anything Goes"
TTCRD "Anything Goes"
Wow! What a stunning eye catching card! Beautiful colours! Xx
Lovely card xx Jan
Love the embossed flower and the background is deeelish!! :) xx
I love this Doreen - such beautiful colours. Love the black stamp against the background.
Enjoy the rest of your week.
Hugs Sharon. x
Hi Doreen this is a gorgeous card I love the butterfly and the colours. Hugs Jackie
Fabulous card Doreen, the colours are gorgeous
Wendy xx
Your colorful backgrounds are always so beautiful and amazing! Love the colors of this one especially! Pretty card!
Beautiful- stunning colours!
This is downright gorgeous with color and design! I LOVE it!!
Simply gorgeous Doreen~
love the card and the wonderful colours
Love the background you created with your gelto pens
Thank you for joining us at craft stamper magazine
What a lovely card!! Great colours use , I love the little butterfies!!
Just beautiful!
xxx Margreet
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This is stupendous, love the wonderful colours :o)
Jackie xx
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Sue xx
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Oooh those colours are just scrummy, Doreen! xxx
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Love the colour combo's, stunning creation.x
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WOW,do I LOVE that colour combo,great die too.Beautiful card in every way.xx
A gorgeous card Doreen, Fabulous design and colours
Lorraine x
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Big hugs
Donna xxx
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Linda xxx
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this is so beautiful Doreen
Gr Karin
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Donna x
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lorraine x
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Hi Doreen this is a gorgeous card I love the colour and of course the butterfly. Hugs Jackie
A beautiful card, great colors.
Love the blues and purples it's may favourite colour combination :) It makes a lovely CAS card - thanks for sharing with us at TTCRD
Andrea x
Hi Doreen. Sorry I have been MIA and so have missed a lot of your gorgeous cards. This one is superb. I simply love the colours.
Such a stunner Doreen with beautiful colours and stamping. Playing catch up again!!!
Just gorgeous Doreen, love Gelatos. Thanks for joining us at the Craft Stamper chalenge, and good luck. Elizabeth x
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Love the background technique, it's beautiful, as well as the card created. I haven't used my Gelatos too much yet.
I saw you on Unity FWF
This is so beautiful, I love it.
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Beautiful color blending with the gelatos! I will have to try it with a baby wipe.
Gorgeous colours as always..I LOve this stamp, butterflies and the sentiment looks such a nice die. I have a Merry Christmas one that's quite thin that I don't seem to be able to use!
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Lovely card Doreen what a great colour combo :)
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Noteworthy! Most definitely!
Love the Gelatos background.
So very pretty!
Simply gorgeous!!! Thanks for joining in with the Craft Stamper challenge ... good luck!! Linda xx
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Wunderschöne Farben!
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Great CAS card! Love those colors! Thanks for joining us at Party Time Tuesdays :)
Love your work with the gelatos! I have to get some of those! thanks for joining us over at Party Time Tuesdays!
Gorgeous Doreen, loving the effect with the gelatos, so happy you joined in at Craft Stampers Take it, Make it challenge xoxo
This inspires me to get out my gelatos. so pretty!!!
Love this card. Thanks for sharing.
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