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BEIJING, Dec. 8 -- China-Africa relations and cooperation have witnessed vigorous development since the two sides jointly mapped out in 2012 a three-year blueprint for cooperation in all areas, a Chinese official said here on Monday.
Lin Songtian, secretary-general of Chinese Follow-up Committee of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), made the remarks on the eve of the 10th Senior Officials Meeting of the Forum.
With concerted efforts, exchanges and cooperation in various fields have maintained dynamic momentum, and fruitful results have been achieved in the implementation of the 2013-2015 plan made at the Fifth Ministerial Conference of FOCAC two years ago, Lin told Xinhua.
Under the guidance of FOCAC, China and Africa have explored an unique path of cooperation, said Lin, also director of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's African Affairs Department.
First, both sides have maintained closer political contacts, cooperated in international affairs, and deepened political trust, he said.
They have exchanged more frequently high-level visits in the past two years, Lin said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping paid his first state visit to the African continent in March, 2013. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited African states and the headquarters of the African Union this May. And quite a few other Chinese leaders have visited the African continent.
For African states, 29 presidents or heads of government paid visits to China during this period.
China and Africa have also strengthened consultations and dialogues. China has held strategic dialogues or political consultations with seven African countries, and joined in economic and trade committee meetings with nine African countries.
Besides, progress in cooperation in other areas has also been scored, said the Chinese official.
Cooperation between China and Africa in important international or regional issues has also been boosted. Both sides maintained communication and coordination on such issues as the reform of the global governance system, climate change, and the Post-2015 Development Agenda, thus enhancing the discourse power of developing countries, he said.
Secondly, the implementation of the new measures announced in 2012 regarding China-Africa cooperation in such five areas as investment and financing, assitance, African integration, civil exchanges, and peace and security in Africa has achieved substantial advancement, said Lin.
Investment and financing to support sustainable development in Africa has been further expanded, Lin said. China's pledge to provide loans of 20billion U.S. dollars for African countries has been fulfilled ahead of schedule. Moveover, Two-way trade volume exceeded 200 billion dollars for the first time in 2013, and China has became Africa's largest trade partner for five years in a row.
China has fully committed itself to offering assistance to Africa. Since the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa, the Chinese government has so far offered four batches of emergency humanitarian aids totaling 750 million yuan (122.6 million dollars), the official noted.
Also, China has made great efforts in supporting the African integration process, enhancing people-to-people friendship, and promoting peace and stability in Africa.
Thirdly, the mechanism of FOCAC has witnessed continuous improvement. New platforms for dialogue, such as the ministerial seminar on health issues and the dialogue mechanism between environment ministers, have promoted China-Africa relations in an all-around way, he said.
As China is engaged in economic transition and industrial updating, which demands more investment in overseas market, and Africa is in urgent need of foreign investment for its industrialization process, both sides are facing historic opportunity for cooperation, Lin pointed out.


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Standout performances came from Ernest Palacious-Ramirez with eight points, six rebounds and two steals and Marcus Johnson, scoring six points, four rebounds and one key steal. Defensively, Eddie Grech, Travis Benham, Ryan Davis and Connor Lee had multiple steals while Shaun Solomon and Brett Daughtry pulled down numerous rebounds.. Benham broke the 4th quarter tie with less than a minute by sinking a free throw and Johnson shut the game down with a steal in the last seconds.
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The Celtics' Jared Julian tapped one in to open the scoring, Christian Falk scored on a pass from Julian and a drive to the lane, and Justice Turner added a free throw to establish a 7-5 lead at the end of the first stanza. Dylan McAdams made a nice move on an in-bound pass, and Turner hit a jumper to make the score 11-14 at the half. Christian Novelo provided tough rebounding and Payson Jones and Andrew Stibor matched Stuart Hall's speed in a fast-paced contest. Falk led the Celtics with 13 points, but they came up short.
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Did you know that most of the leading oceanographers will not eat seafood anymore? They will not eat things that come out of the sea. They're so concerned about the detrimental impact to their health for eating the seafood that they won't eat it anymore.
What I would like to see more of from a standpoint of emerging technology, emerging science, are things that are reversing global warming. Some of the things we're talking about will allow us to move away from technologies that hurt the environment and warm the earth, to things that either do it less, or don't do it all. We need to start cooling the earth, right? That's just the fact of it, unless we want to accept the sea level rises and the other really catastrophic things that are going to come from it. Notably absent on this list are technologies designed for that purpose, to not just slow down the warming, but to start cooling and start going in the other direction. That's the kind of thing I'm really interested in seeing and as far as I can tell, very little effort is being put to those endeavors.
It reflects industrial age thinking. As you mentioned, there still is a waste product from, for example, microbes that pull and process carbon dioxide that needs to be stored somewhere. I mean, we've happily stored garbage underground. We've happily stored nuclear waste underground. We can keep doing that, but it doesn't scale, right? 2016, what about 3016? At some point, we run out of places and the science fiction idea of jettisoning garbage and rubbish into space, that doesn't scale either. I mean, our world and by world I mean the greater, not just our planet or our universe, but everything. I mean, it's all interconnected at the end of the day, right? It's all interconnected, and we continue to take things and turn them into rubbish of varying degrees and toxicity, and putting it away for later, but at some point with later, there's a reckoning, right? I'd love to see us break out of that frame, of the industrial, going back pre-industrial.
I mean, I guess we go back to agrarian so well into the BC, but of just, "Hey, there's waste. Bury it, dump it, move it down the road and move on," I mean, let's stop with waste. Let's totally change our thinking and think long term, think sustainable in a more global way. I'm just tilting at windmills at this point.


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This begins with a phone call from a stranger. She said she'd been Google searching for a yoga studio, found mine and tried to click it, and suddenly just like that she was watching porn. No kidding. No filter. No warning. Slapped flesh and bared bums, thrust right in your eye. So close you felt sticky. So fast you weren't sure what happened, but that it happened in your belly and your mouth. So unexpected you were caught. I got three more phone calls within an hour. I got Emails. And I got silence. I'd been hacked. The silence was thundery. This I don't know what's happening. This this is out of my control.
There was a vomit of re-action, out of me. I was pissed. I recoiled. I muttered and paced. I spent hours hunched over my laptop, ignoring the physical need to pee. My face hardened and my voice went high and tight. I was embarrassed. I was crazy scared; what did I do wrong? How do I make it stop? What would happen to my writing, to the studio? To my students? What would happen to my name? I felt incompetent: I can send an email, post a blog, share on Facebook but I don't really know how the internet, or computers, or basic math, works. Have I been playing with fire, all this time? I felt insulted. I was afraid. I was terrified people would look, for the first time ever, to find some answers about yoga or some guidance, and be slapped in the face with an aggressively erect penis. I felt, sundered. My eyes burned. I spent the whole of the night with people more tech savvy than me coaxing me through the back end of a coded labyrinth. We were trying to find the one thread, the one glitch, something maybe that blinked or was red or broke a pattern. I was blind. Eventually, these kind and more skilled than I people managed to figure out it was deep, not a superficial or amateur problem we could lift up and off and out of all those numbers. It was a seeping, poison. The best we could do was to shut the whole thing, down.
We shut the whole thing. Down.
Then, the real re-activity began.
A real question was raised. Many questions. First: what happens when you lose so much? Second, what do you replace loss, with? If, faced with having to start from scratch or trying to resurrect something from years ago, why this pull toward not losing? What is it I think I've lost? What emotive and pathetic and visceral psychology is this, now?
Third: what does the internet have to do with me, with yoga, with a small studio in a smallish town in the Midwest? ** Fact: most people spend vast swaths of their day, of their lives, online. We know this is impersonal, and we do it anyway. Fact two: we are a globalized, socially mediated, enormously fast, culture. This is both alienating, and connecting. Revolutions are instigated on twitter. Police brutality is caught on cellphones. People are called to protest, effectively and quickly, out of the privacy of their own otherwise uncommitted lives. People date, hook up, end up married. It's unreal, in so many ways.
And yet there is something intimate in what we're doing online. We laugh, out loud, so often it's changed the language. Images, move us. Words come, into our hearts. We send out, words. I have found people I would never have been able to find – good, kind, wild, inspiring people - in the strangest of formats **. On the one hand, there is an irresponsibility and disconnect to who we are, online. We say things we would never say to a human face. We posture, frame, and pose more than we're able to in the flesh and the heat of moments. Much of our online presence is mimicry; reposting; liking and blocking without consequence; mindless click bait that dulls the brain; polemics and memes that we shouldn't have to post, anyway, because all our 'friends' are so like us they probably already agree with us. In this sense, what we're doing is masturbation. At what other time in history have individuals so been able to curate their identity, choose their own profile, correct their image?
The pleasure centers of the brain light up when someone likes a post. We're hooked, physiologically and emotionally and in the hours of our days. In real time.
In a sense, what we're doing is exhibition. There is a difference between what happens in a feed and our actual posture, gait, face.
Yet, in a sense, what we're doing is the best we can. And every once in a while, we find ourselves collectively mourning, collectively outraged, publicly validated and communally informed. We find things we would never have access to, otherwise. We browse, globally. We test world class educational systems, cutting edge research, second by second politics. We've access to experts and universities and artists, images, music, unimaginable to previous generations. Every once in a while, we read something that changes our lives. Sometimes, this is moving. Often, this informs our lives. We find our answers. We connect.
In the wild blue light of midnight, naked in our own bed, we sometimes get lost in human stories. We sometimes, tell them. Sometimes, we are braver than we thought. More vulnerable. More willing. More real.
This raises a question, of yoga. What was living isolated in a cave has become mass produced, readily available, consumed by millions. In the most recent Yoga in America survey, a staggering proportion of the millions doing yoga have only ever done it in their own home.
The implications, the questions, are dizzying. What if teaching were to become an internet based reality (already true)? What if this media provided a way toward depth, resources, community?
What if this is jet fuel?
Yes: the stupidity of yoga advertising, the way yoga is used to sell products completely unrelated to yoga, the blitzkrieg of 'mindfulness' and the stupidity of the Zen-esque memes with dubious quotes is silly. It's heartbreaking, at times. It's annoying and mind-dulling, always. Yet: what if we could make this, real? ** I never knew what I was doing. A long time ago, I realized procrastination and fear were a personal problem that had caused and was symptom of other deep, scary, entrenched problems in my life. I wanted, desperately wanted, to write. But most of my life was spent doing other things. Procrastinating. Deleting. Supporting other people's writing. Believing that I wasn't ready, wasn't good enough, that it wasn't gorgeous the way I needed it to be, yet. Believing I was a fraud. That no one could see the depth of what I intended to write. That if I didn't ever manage to get the writing, out, life was meaningless. Hyperbole, probably. I can see the obsession. But this is the truest thing I know.
I once had a favorite writing professor. I kept taking her classes. In the sixth or seventh, she said she'd fail me in her course if I didn't submit my stuff for publication. On the last day of that semester, she marched me to the corner mailbox. I dutifully deposited five fat, ponderous, promising manila envelopes, addressed and stamped, into the box's maw. What she didn't know, and I did, was that the envelopes were fat not with poems or even my name, but with hundreds of sheets of blank paper. What she didn't know, and I did, was that following this façade, I'd never see this woman I'd been calling a mentor for years, ever again.
That's mostly what my life, was. Phone calls that weren't returned. Goals that never got off the ground. Promises that weren't kept. A feeling that my face value was so low I'd be better off shooting blanks than offering my heart.
It was a problem, you see. If I wanted to change, I'd have to get over it. So. I committed to writing something, every single day, and hitting 'send'.
I did this, for years. I never knew what I was doing. I never did feel, ready. ** What happens, when you lose so much?
Nostalgia distorts what was a small, daily thing, to a romantic or breakthrough one. Memory renders us. As in, tenderizes us. What was just a normal old pair of jeans, or a kitchen floor, or the laugh of a girlfriend, becomes luminous and gilded and portentous.
Honesty tells me that none of the things were so very large, when they happened. They only accumulated. They ripened. They laid down a path for next steps and next ones until I'd arrived at some wholly other place.
And yet, they were: precious. And small.
They were the story, the record, of how I left Brooklyn a willowy, jaundiced thing with dirty hair, with no home or prospects or skills, and ended a yoga teacher whose name people know in Australia, LA, and New Orleans. They were daily moments of recovering from alcoholism and a lifetime of running away, to coming home. They caught, in mis-used Sanskrit and a terrified voice, the way it was yoga that woke me up, the way I went off to teacher training not sure what teacher training meant. They enumerated the insights; how to teach, how to move. How to love. How to be, upright. The seeking out of something that could answer, something that made sense, someone who could help me. The looking for teachers. The wisdom of the teachers. The becoming, my own, teaching.
I felt like a kid who'd spent all day painstakingly, deep focusingly, care-fully constructing a fort out of feeble materials on unsteady ground. Only to have it knocked over by wind. I felt like I'd been hunched over a jigsaw puzzle, for years, trying the strange little pieces in my hands at different angles and different light. The kinda puzzle that covers the dining room table. Takes months. Establishes residency and re-arranges your diet. Then, someone kicks it.
I never knew what I was doing. I just hit send, one day, and kept on sending. It was mostly rough. Hardly coherent. When I needed a tool, I'd slowly learn it. And then some other tool. So that given years, I don't remember the little things I learned along the way, what I started with, or how it's all jerry-rigged together. So many, words. So many times the tool was a bit of flesh and tenderness, a skinned knee insight, the calloused knuckle of many other hours, undocumented. So often, it was licking my dry lips, swallowing, and opening my mouth to break a silence. Or to invoke one.
People read them. People found their strange, oddly shaped little pieces and turned them in their fingers, held them up to different light, cocked their chin and focused their gaze. What happens when we lose something, or someone, or the way we took to be normal, is that we aren't sure we're ourselves, after all. The quip says something like, if you did a one armed handstand but didn't post to Instagram, did it ever really happen?
Of course, it did. Of course, this is what yoga philosophy is for. It's trite and it's full of pathos and lamentably awkward positions, but it is our life, our identity, and when our identity is questioned, all sorts of monstrous emotions erupt. Monstrous: wild, huge, irrational, strange.
This is what yoga, says: our identity is mostly a house of cards, a duct taped fort, a castle of twigs. Sometimes, they topple.
I answered a friend: it wasn't very good, most of it. If it was, it was good by its honesty. It's naked. Good by heartrending. It was good only for being the moment of change, scored in ink. It was, I think, a good story.
I went on: It's okay to let it go. ** It was a good story.
But the thing was, all of it, every flash of clarity or moment of rare authenticity, every long worked for skill or accidental wisdom, was nothing if passage to the next step and a new question.
The longing, the pull, to recover or not lose the past is a plea of identity. We fear we will lose, credibility. A thinking that our merit or goodness or worth lies in something we did, a long time ago. We tend to think we are, who we've been. Go ahead and try thinking differently. I mean it. I dare you. Try. For all our talk of neuroplasticity, healing, authenticity, and change, we none of us are very good at believing we can change.
And, in a sense, this is true. We are what we have learned, how we have loved, what we've experienced. But we are not limited to that experience. We are not, that experience. The experience is gone. We are, only, what we make of that experience, now. How we use the ingredients of this moment, the seasoning of what we remember, the courage of having survived, so far. It's uncanny to think about, really. That we are here.
You replace loss, with this. ** This isn't a story about yoga, I suppose. It's a private bitch session about having your work, though it's value be negligible, erased by something as faceless and as cruel as an internet hack and pornography. I felt lost and personally insulted, but had no one to be personally mad at or put responsibility, on.
It was only in the hours that followed, when other tech worldly people told me of their own experience of smut wiping out their sentences, their hours, and their accounts, that I realized part of what I felt was violated. I've written about that word, before. In the context of rape, domestic violence, a wider culture of violence. Somewhere, in that long tract of words I can't go back to, I said violation is having the self, destroyed, by a force or a person or a culture that is indifferent to the personal nature of the crime. It's having one's self, denied.
Shortly after realizing that was what I felt, I didn't feel it any more. It wasn't, personal. In the context of all the world, my website was nothing. Nothing compared to gun violence, terror and crime. All these things I was aware of, yet separate from, through that miraculous communication maelstrom called the internet. My loss was nothing compared to the things I know are not broadcast, but closer to home, so close I know they are secrets in my community, in my friend's lives, in every body that walks in the door: loss, time, violence, identity, tits and ass. In regards to wider culture, and the private lives, and the way I know most human beings are more likely to look for answers and support when alone, after hours, or before the kids are awake, the question is not what I've lost but what I'm going to do.
Yoga was once ascetic; lonely men, who chose to live in caves. Today, it's hawked at Walmart. It's so readily available there is a glut. As in, gluttony.
And yet, we moderns all seem isolated. We're every one of us weary. We are all, lost and seeking. We might as well be living in caves. Caves of modernity, lit by screens, shadowed by ancient human drives and young fears. The web (the weave, the tantra, the thread, the sutra, the line, the union) can function just as well as any ancient practice.
More. I say: more. I have three teachers that I talk with, once a month, via skype. Not a single one of those airy, oddly lit conversations is terribly meaningful. But the fact that I can have them, that I go on having them month after month until years have gone by, means something. The fact that I get handwritten letters from Belgium, wishing the author could study with me. The emails I get from students who have moved away, saying they miss my classes. The distant friends who have never practiced with me, but say 'I wish you taught here'. Young girls are googling yoga for eating disorders, middle aged women are looking for something more humane than the tripe offered by the health care industry, men and boys are looking up symptoms and workouts and top ten lists from smartphones and iPads. Even those in the minority who do seek out a yoga class in a gym or a studio or a library tend, after some little study, to start a process of wondering: how to find more; real; better; answers; guidance; teaching. It can be hard to find, teaching.
I often snarl at wider yoga culture. And I am leery of prescriptive, one size fits all, nothing but asana, approaches to yoga. People trying to handstand in their bedrooms, without ever having met a teacher. Reading about meditation, endlessly, but unable to find two minutes a day to make it real. Scared, if it does get real, because it's so real. And they are so alone. This frustrates me and worries me.
And yet: yoga is connection. Yoga is intimate, or it's nothing. I snarl and say yoga's gotten the soul kicked out if it, it's been prostituted, it's been bought and sold and it's hollowed. I say yoga is intimacy: wherever we happen to start, something in us touched, irritated, or called out. I say screw around all you want, take it lightly, go for the circus tricks or the weight loss or the stress busting. But sooner or later, you're going to have to get personal if you want it to keep going, at all.
We do, start to take it, personally. We start to wonder. What if? What is this? What more? Is it possible? We don't ask in a hypothetical kinda way, but in the ruthlessly personal one. The kind that shows up out of nowhere, surprises you with its immediacy, worries you with its questions.
We're asking some of the most private and scary questions of our lives. We're talking about our bodies, for god's sake. We're starting to feel things and wonder things we don't have easy answers for, can't quite wrap our minds around. The sense of feeling grounded and safe, of empowerment, of release, all the quirks and the hang ups that show up in our head, the behaviors that start to come out of us, all this is nothing if not personal. I'm looking for the light, please help me, said the student. Forget the light, said teacher: give me your reaching. The question isn't what I've lost, but what I can offer. What I've got left to.
Everything. Personal. My very own self; whole. In a world where sex is porn and yoga is cheap, I want to offer love. I want to have breathy conversations about the soul.
(The joke of it is, it all came back. All the words, the website, the format, the story. But in losing it, I realized that wasn't ever the question.)


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You speed away in the escape pod as the BOMB 001 explodes behind you, throwing your pod off trajectory…
War…War never changes. In the year 2253 a group of plagued prisoners escaped into the Southwest wasteland that were destined to change the face of the waste forever…
The dead shall wake no more. Dr. Willem Clark's prophesy of delivering the Promised Earth to the Children of the Wasteland fell into the realm of forgotten lore, carrying with it one of the last vestiges of nuclear research and development, and the last hope for ghoul procreation and evolution. Colonel Green took over the few remaining ghouls, and they isolated themselves from the outside world, never being able to trust humans after the catastrophe the prisoners had brought to them.
Blackfoot and Hangdog
Wiped out by the escaped Prisoner, the Blackfoots and Hangdogs vanished as a tribe. Their villages were looted by salvagers, and its dogs left to roam free.
Mesa Verde
With the Vipers gone, life at Mesa Verde returns to the normal routine of surviving from day to day. Most Ciphers remain nomadic, repairing whatever electronics they find and bringing a small measure of civilization back to the wasteland.
With Hecate still in control of the tribe and most their resources untouched, Ourobors continued their slaving operation for several decades. The United NCR/BOS did not let this stand, and eventually wiped out every last one of them, but not before the tribe claimed thousands of more lives.
The Legion
Although the legion had many set backs from the prisoners, it was not enough to stop them from raising in power. They lost a significant amount of power, but focused their efforts more on the west and eventually brought a great 4 prong war to the hoover dam….whose outcome is still unknown. They never were able to get a firm grasp on the southwest wasteland because of the prisoners, so it is unlikely they were victorious.
Boulder Dome
With their ZAX computer saved from cannibalistic suicide, the Boulder scientists were once again able to focus their attention on repairing the dome and researching a cure for their disease. Though they made some headway, success came unexpectedly a year later in the form of genetically-engineered fruit sent from the Nursery. Freed from their disease, environmental suits, and prison-home, the scientists left Boulder, ordering ZAX to seal it behind them. The sleepers remain, awaiting someone with the knowledge to wake them safely.
The skirmishes between the outcasts and the Mormons eventually turn deadly, and although the Mormons eventually win the conflict, much of the town is destroyed in the process. When the water plant eventually breaks down, the town goes from bad to worse, and many of its citizens choose to start over somewhere else in the wasteland, and the dream of Jericho…. is abandoned.
Maxson Bunker
With Andrea Bixley reestablished in power and the covert Citadel of Steel displaced, the brotherhood was slowly able to return to glory. They eventually take over the Hoover Dam and become a dominant power in the Southwest Wasteland. They unlock several unknown secrets from the Dam and are able to send advanced technologies back to their brethren in the west, where they are hailed as heroes.
Hoover Dam
With the Traitorous Crimson Caravan still operating from within, the war at the Hoover Dam continues for some time. Eventually Alice McLafferty sells the Dam's Military secrets to the BOS, and they are able to take the Dam with relatively little resistance. War, no matter how big or small, always has a high price. Governor Dodge shot himself as the BOS stormed through the front gates, and the NCR became a forgotten memory.
Fort Abandon
With the NCR overthrown, Ralphie is quickly raised to Mayor of Fort Abandon. Being the central point for the train hub, great wealth flows to Fort Abandon. Focusing on being a trade hub, ralphie eventually leads the town into a golden age, largely thanks to the train crossing through it regardless of where it is going. He eventually raises Fort Abandon to the peak of power in the region, even rivaling the BOS and the Hoover Dam. In honor of where they came from, the eventually become the New Abandon Republic, under a blue flag with a golden explosion and thirteen rays of vibrant radiation pouring off of it.
With the fall of the NCR the remaining NCR troopers and Denver Salvager's fend for themselves for a short time. Realizing they need more man power and assistance, the NCR troops reach out to the only friendly face left, Ralphie. Ralphie agrees to help and sends troops. The train station becomes the foundation for a fortified area in Denver. Salvager's and soldiers from Fort Abandon drive back the dog packs, fortify Union Station, and stake claims in the city. The evil salvager's slow things down, but are eventually driven back by Fort Abandon, who ultimately bring troops in numbers through the rail to deal with the situation. The original salvagers buy off their sentences, sell their claims, and move west, moderately wealthy for their years of hard work. In time, Fort Denver becomes an actual town, a vital part of the New Abandon Republic.
Burham Springs
Trade flowed out as Burham Springs mines were clear. Many downtrodden traveled there to help pick the mine. Phil, Sparky and Frank became its leaders and they salvage prewar technology that traveled over the entire wasteland. This technology greatly helped the wasteland. Eventually the succumb to trade pressure and become an independent province of the New Abandon Republic
Twin Mothers
With their relationship reestablished with Diana, the Twin Mothers were able to begin to really prosper again. Although there were still several menaces undealt with, with the robots brought back online Diana was able to eliminate them eventually, and the Twin Mothers continued to live their Tribal lives. They eventually help Diana expand the re-cultivation of the wasteland.
Black Canyon Nursery
With the nursery reestablished and back online Diana was able to bring many boons to the wasteland. She established a cure for Limit 115 and many other plagues as they popped up randomly in the southwest wasteland. The nursery was able to massively expand its holdings through the sale of of a green plant you could smoke, and eventually was able to clear the rubble blocking their Tram system. The wasteland eventually got used to the weird robots that went around selling purified fruits, vegetables and marijuana. Diana, although still trapped in her computer, was grateful she could help bring health and wealth to the wasteland, and overtime she was able to expand her industry into bringing plants and expanded growth into wasteland. The Southwest Wasteland recovers from the great war faster than any other region of the wasteland because of Diana's aid, though this still takes several more decades.
The Prisoners
The prisoners were known to be successful in their mission, and were worshiped as heroes. Idols were made of them in the Hoover Damn, Denver and Fort Abandon and the stories of their heroics were passed down for generations to come. Their great legend live on in the Southwest wasteland, though the Prisoners were never seen again….
…Although the surviving prisoners safely reentered the atmosphere, the blast from the BOMB 001 through them greatly off course. They reentered the atmosphere in a ball of flame seen from locals for miles around. They landed in another land far away from where they came from. It is unknown what became of them as they wandered away from the crashed shuttle, and they wandered into an unknown wasteland…. But you can be sure that in this new wasteland, fighting continued, blood was spilled, and many lived and died – just as they had in the Southwest Wasteland. Because war… war never changes.


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For the past two months, I've been working with a relatively new company that's been trying to build SEO organically. I've been writing articles and submitting to directories, creating competitive backlinks and commenting on the occasional product-related blog. After a month, we were starting to see increased traffic to the site, but beyond typing in every keyword I'd been targeting, I didn't really have a good way to see which pages were bringing in more of a traffic and which needed more work.
I started using the trial for Advanced Web Ranking, a website ranking software, about a month ago to see if it would help. It's a program that allows you to track the position of your website for certain search keywords, on several different search engines. Within a week I loved it and my boss loved it. I created different projects – one with all of the brands on our site, one with all of the keyword phrases I'd been working with, one with some keywords we especially wanted to target – and I started checking a couple of times per week. I would run it on the day when the company's marketing director had to go to KPI meetings so that he could show the owners of the company the progress we were making. I could also make different reports for the SEO consultants the company was working with. I learned that I could generate the reports in any format my employers wanted, with whatever information they needed (and excluding anything we didn't need.) I could even create graphs of the progress the keywords were making for presentations.
Another feature I loved was that I could right-click on any term and choose an option that would show me exactly where our keyword was in the search pages, and exactly which page it was indexing. I could show my boss where we were with one click. The program creates list of our top sites so that we can see what's working. We can tell how well we're doing for each search engine. We can see which keywords have dropped, which have risen, which have started appearing that haven't in other searches.We really realized how valuable the program was when it helped us catch a bug in the system. One day, when the marketing director was showing our progress to the company owners, they checked to see the ranking in the search engine and we were nowhere to be found. The website's traffic had been lower that day, but no one had been able to figure out why, so after seeing what was going on, I started running another update. All of the keywords that had been finding us in the first few pages of searches the day before were suddenly coming up with the big red x's that meant they'd completely fallen out of the rankings. We started trying to figure out why (at first we were convinced that Google just decided to hate us, which would be a very scary thing indeed) and found out that something had made the website's product pages start indexing as secure pages. Since Google had just reindexed, it had stopped finding us where we had been in the rankings. After we fixed the problem, we ran another update, and after a day or two (after Google reindexed us again, we assume) we were back up to where we had been before. The same thing actually happened a couple of weeks later – a quick update of one of our projects helped us to see that our low traffic was because of a search engine problem, and once we checked one of the words that had been ranked and wasn't anymore, we were able to tell that the same problem had occurred and were able to work to create a more permanent solution. Without this quick way to check our rankings, it may have taken a couple of hours to figure out where the problem was coming from, and it would have taken much longer to get the problem fixed and to get traffic coming back to our website.
This is a great program – it seems like every time my boss asks me if I can do something else with it I start out by telling him it's going to be a big pain, and then after I look around for a minute or two I find that the feature is built into the software. (Yes, I can list which pages are being indexed for those keywords. Yes, I can create a report where we show the difference between now and a month ago. Yes, I can absolutely arrange things by keyword or search engine or rank.) Not only has it been a great way for us to track our progress, but it's been a great way for us to find problems that are preventing potential customers from finding the website. I love it because it makes it easier for me to prove that what I'm doing is working, and I can see where I need to focus my efforts to grow in other places. The 30-day trial lets you try any level of the software, which means you can make an informed decision about which level has the things you need for your company. I'd recommend the free trial to anyone, especially because they don't rope you into paying for it if you don't cancel it before the 30 days are up.


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The best imports from the British Isles
The Mini course "Rock 'n' Pop" is a special feature about British musicians and other acts who sound like they're from Britain. The comprehensive training programme is aimed at music enthusiasts who are fond of British contributions to pop culture.
Rock out with island sounds and learn everything about the acts' history and the British music scene while improving your English. With this course you will achieve proficiency level C1.
Improve your English with:
20 interactive language learning videos
20 sets of interactive pronunciation exercises
60 interactive exercises covering grammar and listening comprehension
Each video comes with original subtitles in English. The best thing is: They are fitting word by word. So you are learning the language by watching the scenes, hearing the words and reading the subtitles.
Afterwards you are going to use the special pronunciation coach. Naturally, the sentences are the same you heard in the video before. Listen to each sentence again and improve your skills at the microphone. You will get feedback directly. So that's how you will be almost a native speaker in the future. Check it out!
Upon enrollment you will be taken to papagei.com's learning platform in a new window.


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Rebecca Blankenburg, MD, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Current Research and Scholarly Interests I am interested in graduate medical education -- particularly in understanding how learners learn in the clinical environment, and how learners can optimally communicate with patients and families, to improve patient understanding, patient satisfaction, and patient safety. My current studies include: (1) Coaching Initiative; (2) Improving Family-Centered Rounds to Improve Safety and Communication, (3) Shared Decision-Making, and (4) Scholarly Concentrations.
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Stanford Medicine Professor in Emergency Medicine and the Redlich Family Professor
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Dr. Andra Blomkalns is an innovation advocate who believes the best patient-centered programs depend upon clinical practice innovation, continuous data-driven improvement, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Dr. Blomkalns has a long-standing history of scholarship and publication on cardiovascular emergencies, point-of-care testing, innate immunity, and obesity. She has authored or contributed to more than 14 chapters and more than 40 journal articles in peer-reviewed publications on topics influential to administration and organization, clinical best practices, and scientific exploration. Additionally, her grant portfolio diversity reflects her multi-pronged, collaborative approach, and includes institutional, investigator-initiated industry, and federal funding.
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How to Hire a Real Estate Agent/
- Ask for a referral from your family and friends.
- Interview multiple agents. 3 to 4.
- Tips about hiring off of Yelp, Google, Trulia, Zillow.
- Are Yelp reviews real? Maybe yes, maybe no.
- Become the interviewer. You become Larry King.
- What neighborhoods do you work? You are in charge of the questions.
- How many transactions have you closed? Please provide a detailed transaction list from the MLS.


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I'm Over at Mamalode Today/
My essay It's Never Too Late to Start is featured today over on Mamalode. Dive In is this month's theme and is sponsored by Amy Poehler's Smart Girls.
Do you have a story to tell? I bet you do. Mamalode is taking online submissions for next month's theme Optimism, as well as looking for submissions for their next print magazine with the theme Positively. Click here for more details and share your genius.
Okay, now go grab a cup of coffee, settle in and pop on over to read my essay about going back to college after a 25 year hiatus.


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Common Core tests
Jindal has gone to war to oust the Common Core tests that not only represent but actually extend the hand of the federal government directly into classrooms.
An hour or so ago, I finished testifying about Common Core national education standards to the Arkansas legislature. It looks like Twitter may be obsessing a bit over the happenstance that I recited the Pledge of Allegiance for a mic check, since I testified by phone.


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Polygonum bistorta is a PERENNIAL growing to 0.5 m (1ft 8in) by 0.5 m (1ft 8in).
It is hardy to zone 4. It is in flower from Jun to September, and the seeds ripen from Aug to October. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Insects.
Suitable for: light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils. Suitable pH: acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils and can grow in very acid soils.
It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It prefers moist or wet soil.


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Interior Design Students Participate in Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia's Community Build Day
Building a home alongside other volunteers turned out to be a rewarding experience for the nine Interior Design students at The Art Institute of Washington, a branch of The Art Institute of Atlanta, GA, who volunteered with Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia's Community Build Day on April 12.
No construction experience was necessary, just a helping hand as the students did learn more about the construction process for building homes and engaged with their fellow classmates. Instructor Anne Holic said, "The students did a variety of jobs including hanging drywall, laying flooring, hanging doors and painting."
The project took place at a townhouse in Springfield, VA and the students worked all day on various projects. Habitat lead volunteers (mostly retired folks) instructed the students. Other Habitat for Humanity team leaders showed the students the process to installing plumbing, electrical, and structural parts of a house.
Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia (Habitat NOVA) brings our communities together to build decent, affordable housing – and provide hope – for people in need. Habitat NOVA provides a "hand up" to homeownership through sweat equity, donor generosity, volunteer labor and interest-free mortgages.
The Art Institute of Washington, a campus of The Art Institute of Atlanta, is certified to operate in the Commonwealth of Virginia pursuant to Title 23, Chapter 21.1, §23-276.4 of the Code of Virginia by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (James Monroe Building, 101 North 14th St; Richmond, VA 23219; 804-225-2600;www.schev.edu).
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text: Certain Things that you must remember about Homescapes Homescape is a new game by the creator of the game, Gardenscapes. Playrix games created this puzzle in order to give the best puzzle games a run for their challenges. This works on the match three together formulas and can be played even by beginners. The user interface is very easy and can be understood after the first use itself. There are different tasks and challenges given to the users every day, and they get coins, stars and other rewards for completing the task but then we also need to cross the harder levels, and thus we need homescape hacks . In this article we will discuss the different elements of the game in brief: • Remember the Task: You have to be very careful with the different tasks that are given to you on a daily basis. In the lower levels, the tasks will be easier but as you go forward in the levels, the tasks will get harder, and thus you will have to focus more on how to complete them within the time and moves allotted to you. Once you complete the tasks, then only you will receive a reward for the task. There will be a new task in each level so you will have to learn new tactics. There will be stages where if you complete certain items you can cross the level, so be careful about those. Keep your focus on the level you are playing and not the reward. • Working Style: There are different tiles and items which work according to their own rules, and you must know them before you start playing. The carpet tiles have different rules in comparison to the power-ups, and then the boxes and cookies differ from each other. In case of carpet tiles, you need plenty of them in a specific order for completing a row or column. For power-ups, there are different rules according to the different tiles that you want to use them on. Then comes the cookies which work in a manner of matching side by side. The boxes do not give you the option of swapping that you get in case of the cookies. • How to Renovate: When you are done playing the puzzles, or you are bored with the puzzles you can easily move onto renovating Austin's home. This is one of the things you can do from the to-do list you get to see all the time. In these cases, you need the homescape cheats for finding the best ways and tricks for renovating Austin's area. These cheats will help you in finding the correct stages and steps towards your win. With all these being said, it is very important to know that you will not always cross the levels easily, so you need to use those hacks and cheats for better gameplay. You will have to be careful about the moves you make and the way you play the game. This will give you a much faster and better outcome.


text: Has anyone experienced an issue where recovery keeps coming up instead of the ROM? I began by wiping my Htc One and flashing an updated twrp 18.104.22.168 and new boot .IMG then I installed my new KitKat maximus HD 30... Rom. However when it completes its installation and reboots it goes into my recovery. Any ideas? Thanks Gary


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Slovenian cycling project 'V troje' (Trio) organises an annual bike-to-work campaign from May till September. In 2015 the campaign run under the slogan 'Pripelji srečo v službo' (Bring the happiness to work).
How does it work?
The Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS) has been organising this campaign for several years and it is supported by the Slovenian Ministry of health, Ministry of transport and National institute for public health. In 2015 the campaign was even larger than before because it was attached to a number of events and initiatives, running from May till September 2015.
How does it work?
Co-workers or friends team up to form teams of 3 and cycle to work from May to September recording the number of journeys online.
Within the campaign there will be main prizes for all participants using their bike for more than half of their trips to work, intermediate prizes (for specific segments), prizes for participants from specific municipalities (prizes given by each municipality) and for participants from specific companies (prizes given to employees by the company).
Registration and data collection is managed trough and online platform: www.pripeljisrecovsluzbo.si
You can visit the campaign's Facebook page here.
Results 2016:
This campaign was organised within the Bike2Work Project with the support of the IEE Programme.


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Background Profiles constantly reviews state and federal law relating to Human Resource issues and employment screening. We utilize several legal firms, whose focus is employment law, to keep us up-to-date on new and pending legislation that might have an impact on our clients. We pass this information on to our clients through several communication channels including e-mail bulletins, voice calls, and quarterly newsletters. If you are seeking help and advance in terms of employment, looking into a law firm that deals with employment may the right way to go.
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Provides information on a wide range of topics pertinent to Human Resource professionals.
- Findlaw.com Business Law Center for Human Resources
Topics covered are hiring, firing, compensation and benefits, workers compensation and workplace safety.
- Employment Law Information Network
An employment law reference site for lawyers and human resource professionals.
- Alexander Hamilton Institute
AHI's Employment Law Resource Center and newsletter cover all aspects of employment law to keep managers and executives from making mistakes that could lead to fines and lawsuits.
- Employment Law Forum of California
provides employers and employees with general information related to frictions and controversies that occur between employers and employees in the workplace
- Law.com Employment Law Page
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A comprehensive resource covering employment and labor law .
- HR.com Legal Section
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On October 23rd, my son and his bride purchased a beautiful (and extremely large) new home that created a chain of events that will change our family dynamics forever. My husband and I, along with my ninety-two year old mother, have all moved into this home over the past few weeks.
Our kids bought this large of a house with the intention that they wanted space where my husband and I could live when we were ready to give up our home. In all honesty, we were not thinking we were going to move out of our home and move in to this new home immediately, but one day I had a strong realization… the realization that I did not want us to be burdened with two homes. This feeling was so strong for me that it pushed me forward to have some deep conversations with my family, asking them to support selling our bigger home and moving in with the kids.
This coming Friday, we will close the chapter of owning our home in the city when we sign the final papers and the new owners will take the keys and begin their new chapter in their lives as new home owners. I am thrilled that this young family will be able to have a beautiful home with plenty of yard space and a great locale to parks and schools, as they raise their two young boys.
I have to admit that moving three generations into one home all at the same time has been challenging at best. Three weeks later and we are still unpacking boxes and trying to figure out how to merge our households together. We have seen our share of frustration, anger, sadness, and stress within all of us at one time or another. It seems as if our moving boxes multiply like rabbits – as we get a few unpacked and broken down, more show up to be unpacked. It has felt like we take one step forward and a dozen steps back at times.
However, when the times get rough, all I have to do is look out of the back door of our living space. We have a beautiful woodland ravine that gives me a view of nature at its best. The wise old trees remind me to keep rooted and allow myself to sway to the winds of change versus feeling like I am toppling over in stress. I only have to take a few steps out of my patio door and I can sit by the mini waterfall and listen to the music of the water as it cascades down the rocks.
I have learned to practice what I teach… to breathe in slowly and remove myself mentally from the stress. I have allowed myself to release the emotions through my tears when I am feeling overwhelmed. I have given myself the okay to be vulnerable during this incredible life change and I remind myself that this is exactly what I have been looking for in our lives – Freedom and being unencumbered.
I know that this journey will have some interesting twists and turns along the way and I hope to share some of those that I feel will help others possibly find some humor and insight through our experiences as a multi-generational household.
A few things I have learned these past few weeks:
- Take care of the elderly first. My goal was to get my ninety-two year old mom settled in her mother-in-law suite first because any type of change for her is very disconcerting. We had mom moved in and settled into her space (which includes a bedroom, bath and sitting room) so she could retreat away from the chaos that was occurring in the rest of the house.
- Do not try to carry loads down outside steps in the dark because if you do, you may fall into the waterfall and pond. Both my husband and I lost our footing at separate times trying to maneuver down steps in the evening. Neither of us got hurt badly (except for my ego and 39 of my books that I had for sale). Trying to do too much all at once is really not the best practice.
- Moving is great exercise! I have been averaging 4 – 4.5 miles a day on my Garmin Vivofit device. Most of those miles are going up and down stairs carrying a load which has helped me lose a few unwanted pounds!
I need to cut this blog post short because I have just been surrounded by three of the four dogs who have also been included in this move and all are vying for attention! Yes, we have combined two household of dogs too and added in some fish from the pond into the aquarium for the winter… life has become a menagerie around here!
If you have any experience in this multi-generational living gig, please share your thoughts here! I would love to hear how it is going for everyone else and hopefully get a few pointers from my readers!


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A Day of Solo Backpacking (Puerto Prinsesa, Palawan)Friday, August 16, 2013
The aircraft of Air Asia landed on the runway of Puerto Prinsesa International Airport on the 2nd of August at exactly 8:30 am. It was my first time to take a plane alone. I've been on a plane numerous times, but it feels different when you are alone. It was also my first time in Puerto Prinsesa and I don't have any idea how to go around the city. Eto na yun, solo backapacker ang peg! Another thing crossed out in my bucket list!
|Travel solo - CHECK! Pero one day lang naman sya kaya for sure may Travel Solo 2.0 :)
I told Kuya Driver, I only want see three places. I asked him to take me to The Immaculate Concepcion Cathedral, Crocodile farm and the Baker's Hill. The church is the first stop. Whenever I am in a new place, I always try to visit the church first. Ayoko kasi magtampo si Bro :) We went straight to Crocodile farm after the short stop in the church.
|Thanks kuya driver for taking this photo :)
The entrance fee to Crocodile Farm is php 40. BTW, the place is now called the Palawan Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Center. There is a 30 minute guided tour around the facility. It's nice because the guide seems knowledgeable (I think so ^_^ ).
|real bones
|Philippine crocodile
|nice landscape
|basag yung likod nyan haha
|practice lang sa prime lens :)
|everything is in focus :)
|practice pa :)
This is the last photo before I tucked my camera away and spent my last few hours waiting for my office mates in San Jose Terminal. I started to feel sick prolly because I don't have enough sleep. The three hour city tour is OK, there's nothing special. But that's fine. The highlight of the trip will be in El Nido. Hopefully, I get to explore the rest of Puerto Prinsesa in the future. Kelan kaya yun? :)


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In the 1983 revised Code of Canon Law, there is not mention of Freemasonry. It is not explicit in Can. 1374 whether Freemasonry is one of the associations prohibited to Catholics.
Can. 1374 A person who joins an association which plots against the Church is to be punished with a just penalty; however, a person who promotes or directs an association of this kind is to be punished with an interdict.
Is it correct for a Catholic [or a Freemason] to believe that the ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons may have been lifted?


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Lincoln Electric Licenses Helical Robotics Mobile Robotic Technology
The technology and platforms Helical Robotics develops allows for integrating industrial equipment into mobile magnetic robotic systems. The company will continue to develop and market its robotic systems in manufacturing, inspection, and military, among other markets.
CLEVELAND, Ohio and OREGON, Wis., Sept. 18, 2014 -- The Lincoln Electric Company, a subsidiary of Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., and Helical Robotics®, LLC announced today that Lincoln Electric has been granted an exclusive worldwide license for Helical Robotics' proprietary magnetic robotic technology. This agreement will expand Lincoln Electric's automation solutions to include the industry's first trackless automated arc welding and cutting solution.
"We are pleased to add Helical Robotics' breakthrough technology to our portfolio," said Tom Matthews, senior vice president, Technology and R&D for Lincoln Electric. "Lincoln Electric's leading arc welding solutions combined with Helical's magnetic platform technology, enables us to develop the world's first omnidirectional trackless arc welding solution. We expect this solution will greatly expand the types of surfaces that can be considered for automated welding, and will dramatically improve the efficiency of metal fabrication techniques."
The technology and platforms Helical Robotics develops allows for integrating industrial equipment into mobile magnetic robotic systems. The company will continue to develop and market its robotic systems in manufacturing, inspection, and military, among other markets.
"Working with Lincoln Electric is a fabulous opportunity for us," said Bruce Schlee, president and CEO of Helical Robotics. "Their commitment to new product development and ability to rapidly bring products to their customers on a global scale was a principal driver in forging a partnership that will bring our platforms to an entirely new industry."
Helical Robotics and Lincoln Electric will work together to streamline product development and system implementation. Terms of the licensing agreement were not disclosed.
About Lincoln Electric
Lincoln Electric is the world leader in the design, development and manufacture of arc welding products, robotic arc welding systems, plasma and oxyfuel cutting equipment and has a leading global position in the brazing and soldering alloys market. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln has 48 manufacturing locations, including operations and joint ventures in 19 countries and a worldwide network of distributors and sales offices covering more than 160 countries. For more information about Lincoln Electric and its products and services, visit the Company's website at http://www.lincolnelectric.com.
About Helical Robotics
Helical Robotics designs, develops, and manufactures world leading mobile magnetic robotic platforms bringing factory-floor type efficiencies into the world at large. The robotic platforms are capable of deploying industrial, inspection, monitoring, and military equipment directly to a work location. Helical Robotics platforms are also ideal for accessing hazardous, difficult, or expensive to reach areas such as wind turbines, water towers, ship hulls, storage tanks, bridges, and confined spaces. For more information about Helical Robotics, visit the website at http://www.helicalrobotics.com.


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In the late 90's, our two co-founders Chris and Matt were university students, used to problem solving. It was a part time sys admin job at a local high school where Chris saw overflowing bins of printed paper - staff and students could print anything! Aha, the light bulb moment!
They set to work writing "a bit of code" to help the school monitor their printing and reduce waste, it soon spread like wildfire.
The idea is born and coding starts. NASA finds water at moon polar regions.
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If you're ever in town, or want to join our team, the coffee's always hot. Our reception is a cafe called /dev/coffee. Drop in. Our door is always open.


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Washington DC Wedding Photographer | Stephen Gosling Photography
Heading all the way back to 2010 and Kat + Kevin's wedding at the Rockville Rooftop / VisArts Center.
In addition to the shot above I wanted to play around with some Lightroom Presets. I have never all that interested in the presets that are available to buy for Lightroom/Photoshop as they always seemed a little gimmicky. But over the years I have warmed to them slightly and I wanted to check out what they can do. VSCO offers a lot of wonderful presents that can match films from times-past so I went ahead and downloaded their free sample {click here} to see what an image would look like with a few different presets. Take a look…
One of the great thing about photography is how subjective it can be, all of the images above, although looking very different, are all acceptable representations of the image. Depending on your editing style you may like images with more or less contrast. You may like images to have a warmer or cooler tone. And that is why photographers work can look so different. Each photographer has their own style and that is one of the unique sales points we can convey to a client.
The VSCO actions shown above might not be my cup of tea but I don't dislike the results as much as I thought I would. The final images would need a little tweaking to make me happy with them, but there are certainly points to each that I do like. So I am not writing off the use of actions/presets for the future. Who knows what form my style may evolve to over the coming years. Let's wait and see together!
Feel free to ignore the following text, it is mainly for search engine optimization. Stephen is a DC Wedding Photographer who shoots weddings in Washington DC, Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland. Based in Old Town Alexandria Stephen is a Northern Virginia Wedding Photographer, an Alexandria Virginia Wedding Photographer, an Arlington Virginia Wedding Photographer a Fairfax Wedding Photographer, a Reston Wedding Photographer, a Leesburg Wedding Photographer, a Vienna Wedding Photography and a Falls Church Wedding Photographer. Stephen is a proud supporter of LGBT Weddings and Marriage Equality. Stephen is also a Washington DC Wedding Photographer, a DC Wedding Photographer and a DC Wedding Photojournalist. Stephen also shoots editorial/commercial work and you view that work {here}.


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Padisák, Judit and Krienitz, Lothar and Koschel, Rainer and Nedoma, Jirí (1997) Deep-layer autotrophic picoplankton maximum in the oligotrophic Lake Stechlin, Germany: origin, activity, development and erosion. European Journal of Phycology, 32 (4). pp. 403-416. ISSN 0967-0262 (print), 1469-4433 (online)
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Autotrophic picoplankton (APP) abundance, primary production and vertical distribution were studied in the oligotrophic Lake Stechlin (northeastern Germany) in 1994 and 1995. Within the euphotic zone APP contributed 34% of phytoplankton biomass and 35% of primary production. Annual average APP cell number was 209 x 10(3) cells ml(-1), of which 95% were unicellular cyanobacteria, 2% were colonial cyanobacteria and 3% were eukaryotes. Three ecologically and/or morphologically different groups of APP were recognized: (i) unicellular cyanobacteria belonging to the genus Cyanobium, (ii) eukaryotic species growing in early spring under isothermal conditions and (iii) cyanobacteria, partly colonial species, growing in the stratified period in the euphotic zone. Three species of eukaryotic green algae were identified: Choricystis minor, Neocystis diplococca and Pseudodictyosphaerium jurisii, the latter two being colonial. This is the first record of the occurrence of colonial eukaryotes potentially of APP size in fresh waters. In summer picocyanobacteria were highly productive so the low net increase rates indicate that losses must be high. The dominant, Cyanobium population started growing in February with maximum abundance in late April, contributing significantly to the spring peak in phytoplankton biomass. During this growth period, the population was evenly distributed in the 60 m water column. By the time the maximum biomass occurred, inorganic nutrients had decreased below analytically detectable levels. Parallel to the onset of stratification a part of the population was grazed, most probably in the microbial loop and primarily in the upper 10-15 m. The rest of the Cyanobium population accumulated in a narrow layer in the upper hypoliminon. The APP remaining from the spring was persistent for much of the summer in this cold, high-nutrient (especially nitrate)/low-light environment. Short phosphorus-turnover times suggest that APP is probably phosphate-limited. The stability of the thermocline and the pattern of thermocline development in May affected the accumulation of the APP cells in the upper hypolimnion. Thus, this process is sensitive to the physical stability of the water column.
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Wow. Magnificen. I love the play of light, and the way it falls on the animals
Glad that I'm an early bird!
Herman 😉
I am an early bird only when I go on trips. Else, I am a lazy bum….
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Super cool effects!! Fantastic!
All natural! Pictured as is!!! (was 😀 )
Herman 😉
An awesome sight and great capture!!
Really love the second one capturing the whole scene!
I just love it! It looks so great!
Scharrelschapen … 😀
Spectacular! There is something quite Biblical about this ….


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Archive for March, 2007
Howto: Buying In The PQ
As prime real estate season gets into gear, we thought we'd bring you a few tips when it comes to looking for real estate for sale in the Penn Quarter (PQ). Like the label Georgetown, PQ now has some cachet (or brand equity as they say). Tip 1: The PQ lies in two zip codes […]
Blog Reminder: Comments Are Moderated
Just a short reminder that all blog comments are moderated and require approval. This means your comment will be reviewed and then appear on the blog. We encourage comments of all kinds so check the Comment Policy in the right column to see the criteria we use. Have a great weekend!
Another Penn Quarter Blog For Your Viewing Pleasure!
We'd like to send a shout out to Clara Barton Dweller at Penn Quarter Life! The blog features lots of nice pictures of the neighborhood. We're looking forward to more posts!
Self Checkout at the DC Public Library (MLK)
The MLK Library has a new self checkout machine. This blogger used it today and it was fast and easy. An added bonus (for those of you who have used self checkout at grocery stores or home depot) is it doesn't yell at you to "PUT ITEM IN BAG." Quick steps: Scan your borrow card, […]


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The egg that is now me used to be inside my grandma! That's right – the egg that became me spent five months inside the womb of my grandmother as my mother and her ovaries were developing during her pregnancy. And the eggs that became my children developed during my mother's pregnancy with me! Doesn't that just send you back in time! Chinese medicine has a beautiful process known as "Tonifying our ancestors." When we get into the real depths of healing at our retreats, we have the potential to overcome even that which has been passed through our DNA from our mothers, fathers, grandparents, great-great grandparents, on and on. Not too many years ago I found out that my great grandfather was an alcoholic who killed himself. This was the deepest, darkest secret of our hidden but shameful past. And although I didn't know about it within my thoughts, its message had been passed into my very cellular makeup, and came into this existence as shame.
Cellular biologist Bruce Lipton, in his book, the Biology of Belief, says that our thoughts and beliefs impact the functioning of our cellular makeup more than any other factor in our lives, and even overrides messages contained in our DNA. Dr. Candace Pert says that the Body IS the subconcious mind, carrying out and responding to the deep held emotional messages that we provide it. This new knowledge can feel overwhelming, but it can also liberate us from all physical, mental, emotional and spiritual limitations and place us in the realm of the miraculous, where limitless potential exists.
We are so much more than our habitual patterns; more than our life circumstances, roles, personal identify and point of view. Although most of us get lost in the trance of social, religious, and family conditioning, there is a part of us that is incorruptible, that resides in the place known as the unborn, where we have access to spiritual healing that goes far beyond physical adjustments and repetitive mental affirmations that merely make us feel better about our present conditioned lives. But we must have the courage to go into these places and stop the cycle of repetition before we can reach this place of divine healing.
This is also the place where life comes into existence in all forms, the place from which light, healing and wellbeing spring. This is the majestic and timeless realm of unbounded potential, the primordial vibration where all true healing comes. This is the Source, where you are nourished by the primal source of all life where the energy of the life force surrounds you. Here you are entirely loved, entirely cared for, entirely supported. Energy, nourishment and life surround you.
When life feels overwhelming, and you feel like running away from the accumulated conditioning, we teach our patients to go counter to the habitual reflex, stop and go within. Move away from the reaction and return to the source. This is the place where my shame dissolved, where my ancestry was healed, and where the cycle stopped reproducing itself in my offspring.
Here we are freed from all limitations, existing in the timeless, beyond all boundaries. Beyond all thoughts, limitations, and perceptions. Return to the center. The womb of the universe, the inner structure of the mind, the power and source of what you actually are. The unified field of all that exists everywhere, before your grandmother was even born, and beyond the time when your grandchildren have passed.
Here you are connected to; in fact you are, the pulsing creation of all of life. You contain the pure essence of the creative power of the universe. This is the place where true fertility resides. This is the place where the souls of your unborn children arise. You are always there, together.
This is your essential, original, highest self. Here you are perfectly as you should be. You are embodied potential, uniquely made to fulfill your distinct purpose. Your compelling task is to understand and fulfill this destiny. When you are aligned with your own highest purpose, the forces that structure all of creation are at your service. All powers of universal consciousness come to support your highest, most evolved self.
This primordial vibration is at this very moment waiting for your recognition within your own body. It pulses within your cells, beats through your heart, breathes through your lungs, digests in your gut, and resounds deep within your mind and your whole being; within your ovaries and deep within your womb. It is the silence beyond even your mind, the sound of all that is, all that ever was, and all that ever will be. This is the sound of creation, the sound of yourself.
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The Conrad Group is proud to represent Agincourt Capital, a global real estate funds management company dedicated to providing sophisticated real estate investment opportunities to its clients. Agincourt Capital is issuing a first-of-a-kind Renminbi (RMB) convertible bond fund offered to Chinese and foreign investors to capture real estate opportunities in Australia – one of the world's most stable, safe-bet economies. The offering includes three unique SPV structures: commercial, residential, and blended. Institutional and high-net-worth individuals can choose their risk and investment theme appetite through these special purpose vehicles (SPV's). To learn more abotu the bond and fund and opprtunity, please visit Agincourt Capital's website.
RMB Bond Deposits and Issues in Hong Kong: 2007- 2010
During the past several decades, China and Australia have developed strong trading ties and the two economies have become closely linked – China has urbanised quickly and Australia has provided the raw materials (iron ore, coal aluminium, etc.) to facilitate this growth.
Also, Chinese investors have traditionally been very comfortable with real estate as a safe and profitable investment. Likewise, many Chinese view Australia as a safe, stable and attractive investment environment.
In light of these trends and developments, Agincourt Capital is issuing RMB convertible bond funds investing into Australia and then into China and Brazil.
There is currently an estimated $60BN AUD equivalent of RMB cash held in banks in Hong Kong on behalf of investors, many of whom are Chinese nationals. These investors are being paid about 0.5% interest on their money and are looking for higher-yielding investments. The recent emergence of RMB-denominated bonds and a new variant, "Dim-Sum" bonds, which are RMB bonds that are paid in $USD, has created a new way for investors to get a higher yield for their cash while also being exposed to the perceived future currency appreciation of the RMB against the $USD. Money raised by these bonds has primarily been reinvested back into Chinese companies.
The popularity of these new bonds among investors led Agincourt Capital to develop a new and more powerful version of the "Dim-Sum" bond. Agincourt will offer a synthetic, hybrid-secured RMB bond. These are RMB bonds that are settled in $AUD and will be fully secured by real estate assets in Australia. The coupon rate of 4% is much higher than bank interest as well as offer safe bet investment into the Australian economy and its real estate market. Lastly, investors will have the opportunity to convert their investments into direct ownership of the asset when the fund closes after five to seven years.