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Last night I went to a quiz night, my first quiz night. After living almost four years in England, my first ever quiz night was in a five star hotel in Amman. Quiz nights are supposed to involve beer and dark musty rooms and wooden creaky chairs in pubs, from what I've heard. This one was in the Four Seasons Ballroom, with the questions and their answers projected on three screens, computerised marking systems involving two laptops and five mini laptops, and a posh buffet served in between rounds 4 and 5, out of 7 total rounds.
It was sponsored by an association of Jordanians who had studied in the United Kingdom, so it was, I suppose, the optimal, if not a bit surreal, meeting of upper class Jordanian society with the English pub tradition.
And it wasn't actually written anywhere official that using cell phones to access the internet was not permitted during the quiz.
So perhaps table 11, right next to us and very strongly in the lead, was not completely amiss to be googling all the answers on their iPhone, but all of us at our table of mostly foreigners and mostly people who not only studied in Britain but actually were from Britain, felt like table 11 was cheating and should be disqualified.
We noticed the so-called cheating somewhere around round 3, and realised it was all around us. Table 3 behind us had three phones on the go, Table 2 across the aisle pulled a phone out now and then, table 9 a bit to the left seemed to be spending a lot of time text messaging. When the answers were announced, it seemed like everyone around us cheered gleefully. They seemed to be saying, "Yay! We put the right answer!" How exactly they were so excited about finding out they were right when they had JUST googled it was beyond me.
When rankings were announced halfway through, with table 11 in the lead, they really got down to business. All the phones came out, and they bunched together and strategised: these people write, these people plan and these people man the iPhones. But to be fair, there was one question which asked to identify a song played backwards, and they got that one right, too. There's no way they found that one on Google.
At one point, we pulled the quiz organiser over to ask, and he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Yes, it's a problem. It has been a problem for years, but we can't do anything about it. The good, thing, though, is that they will pay a hefty fee for using the hotel's wireless because all other internet connections here are jammed!" Well, that is something. Were we wrong for wanting people to do the quiz without accessing external resources?
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VEM Motors Finland
VEM Motors Finland
Functioning Partnership
A key factor in achieving energy-saving solutions is to choose the right machinery. VEM motors Finland Oy, a subsidiary of the German motor manufacturer VEM motors GmbH, specializes in AC drives with a product and service package enabling reduction and efficient control of energy costs.
The energy-saving potential of different options varies according to the special features of the application. With energy-saving motors the saving can be roughly estimated at 1-8% whereas the effect of correct dimensioning can be 20-30%. Frequency converters can save 10-50% in energy. Huge amounts of energy can be either wasted or saved.
Metso, Sandvik, Rolls Royce, Helen, Fortum, REPower Systems (VEM Group), Metsä, SSAB, Raumaster, BMH Technology
Key markets
Baltic countries, Sweden, St. Petersburg area (VEM Motors Finland); VEM Group: Global
Key figures
Turnover: EUR 12 / 263 million (VEM Motors Finland / VEM Group)
Employees: 23 / 1993 (VEM Motors Finland / VEM Group)

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If you care about Missouri's environment and want to make a difference, we need your help! Join MVC, the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Missouri Sierra Club and citizens from across Missouri as we convene at the state Capitol for Conservation Lobby Day on Tuesday, March 29, 2011.
9am – 4pm
The day begins at the Governor's Office Building
200 Madison St. – Room 450
Jefferson City, MO 65101
This is an important opportunity to share your passion for the environment with state legislators, and have a big impact on environmental policies affecting Missouri.
Each year, Missourians gather at the capitol to make their conservation values known – from environmentalists, scientists, students and business owners to hunters, anglers and farmers. On Lobby Day, advocate for one of these important issues:
- Defending Missouri Renewable Energy: Defending Missouri's 2008 voter-enacted Renewable Electricity Standard.
- Protecting Water Quality: Ensuring adequate monitoring and enforcement to protect Missouri's streams and lakes.
- Upgrading State Parks: Aquiring funding for vitally-needed capital improvements to maintain Missouri's excellent parks.
- Advancing Energy Efficiency and Green Building: Making buildings more energy efficient through green building standards.
Become part of the political process, and add your voice to others in Missouri's environmental community. By speaking out with a unified voice for environmental values, we can help shape the future of our state.
- Ameren's goal is to charge the people of the St Louis Area, the ratepayers, millions of dollars up front for an unnecessary, risky, and expensive power plant rather than investing in the cheapest energy resource available, energy efficiency
- US Department of Energy Statistics on Energy Efficiency-Saves 10% Energy Costs, 20-30% Heating/AC Costs.
The proposed legislation would chip away at a 1976 ballot initiative supported 2-to-1 by Missouri voters. This law protects Missourians from investor-owned utilities charging ratepayers up-front for the construction of a power plant until it is producing electricity.
Missouri General Assembly is considering legislation that would allow Ameren Missouri to charge ratepayers $40 million for a permit for a second nuclear reactor in mid-Missouri.
The proposed legislation-SB 321 and SB 406– would chip away at a 1976 ballot initiative supported 2-to-1 by Missouri voters. This law protects Missourians from investor-owned utilities charging ratepayers up-front for the construction of a power plant until it is producing electricity.
To understand the many other reasons why SB 321 and SB 406 are bad public policy, read Senator Joan Bray's guest column in the Joplin Globe last month.
Ameren admits it cannot find investors to fund the nuclear plant because it is too risky and expensive.
Scotts Contracting/Facebook Page Latest Estimated Costs for Nuclear Reactor is $10 Billion. we'll have to pay an additional $4 Billion Dollars
- Therefore, Ameren must pass SB 321 or SB 406 which shifts the financial risk of investment of a new nuclear plant from shareholders to ratepayers. But while shareholders dodge the risk, they still receive a financial windfall if/when the reactor comes online and Ameren then sells the excess electricity out of state for a premium.
- Ameren can easily meet Missouri's energy needs through energy efficiency instead of raising your electric rates to pay for a $6 billion nuclear reactor. In the St. Louis Post Dispatch on February 25, Steve Kidwell, Ameren Missouri Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, said:
"If we went after the potential that we've seen in our own study, we wouldn't have to build another power plant for 20 years, and
we could retire Meramec, and we'd be OK. But we'd lose $30 million a year. And we just can't do that. It's that simple."
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Weekend In London
Oh hey Tuesday, forever my least favourite day of the week. At least things are looking up a little bit, as today I am going to share with you guys what I got up to over the weekend - and it was a good'un!
On Saturday morning I headed down to the big smoke for a blogging weekend with the ever amazing Lindsey from Ropes of Holland. We shot a couple of outfits together and I can't wait to show you guys them both - and we did the usual stuff you have to do on a girly weekend; laugh, chat, eat and drink. Oh and sleep... and it was a bloody good sleep to..
The good sleep can be attributed to the fact I stayed in the comfiest bed EVER at the Citizen M hotel, London Bankside. Not only was the bed amazing, but the whole hotel was a treat! The staff were incredible, the room seriously swanky and high tech. And the breakfast looked so good it convinced me to give up on my plans of healthy eating in about 2 seconds flat.
They also sneaked into our room to leave me the cutest cat surprise ever that put the biggest smile on my face.. you can see what I am talking about by clicking here.
The Citizen M is bang slap in the middle of SO many amazing things - and was an area of London I had never really visited before. About 5-10 minutes walk you're at London Bridge, less than five to Tate Modern... and about two minutes to Borough Market which we had an explore of and accidentally on purpose ate a cheese board. Healthy eating going very well.
The winning meal of the weekend goes to Granger & Co, where we went for dinner - and oh what a delicious dinner it was. I had duck, and I honestly don't want to talk about it too much as thinking about it makes me wish I could eat it all again right now. But believe me, it was delish, and also a gorgeous place to eat too!
Obviously I had to throw an outfit in here too! This is what I wore on Sunday where I made the most of the hotel's amazing location and nipped to Tate Modern. I did dress a little optimistically - I often do in London as there are times it can feel quite tropical in comparison to the North!


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Darafeev Nomad Bar Stool
This is an example of a custom piece from Mikhail Darafeev Furniture in Chino California.
Specific Pricing and Design Samples are only available in your local Robbies Billiards Showroom.
There are dozens of fabrics, leathers, wood finishes, and custom options to choose from.
The price in this product listing is the manufacturer's suggested retail price in a basic configuration.
To schedule an appointment to meet with our in-house Darafeev Design Specialist please email or call 800-488-1143
Learn more at www.darafeev.com
For over 50 years, Mikhail Darafeev has designed and manufactured custom-made furniture which has been known to be some of the world's finest. Each piece is expertly constructed in our two Southern California factories, with a combination of Old World craftsmanship and state-of-the-art engineering. Our products are entirely American made.
The Darafeev product line includes Dining and Game Chairs, Bar, Counter, and Spectator Stools, Poker and Game Sets, Bars and Back Bars, and Pub Tables. All are made of genuine hardwoods and equally high-grade materials. Darafeev's unsurpassed quality, advanced product features, and a myriad of custom-order options make it the choice of discerning customers.


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Inglourious Basterds
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Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war movie directed by Quentin Tarantino. Brad Pitt leads the cast as 1st Lieutenant Aldo Raine, leader of the Basterds. The Basterds are composed of renegade Jewish and non-Jewish soldiers whose mission is to sow fear and chaos among the Nazis in World War II.
Other members of the Basterds include Lieutenant Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender), Staff Sergeant Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz (Eli Roth), Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz (Til Schweiger), Corporal Wilhelm Wicki (Gedeon Burkhard), Private First Class Smithson "The Little Man" Utivich (B.J. Novak), Private First Class Omar Ulmer (Omar Doom), Private First Class Gerold Hirschberg (Samm Levine), Private First Class Andy Kagan (Paul Rust), Private First Class Michael Zimmerman (Michael Bacall) and Private First Class Simon Sakowitz (Carlos Fidel).
Shosanna (Melanie Laurent), a Jewish woman whose family was murdered under the command of Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), is also seeking revenge. She resides in Paris at the present time and owns the cinema where the movie Stolz der Nation (Nation's Pride) premieres. She conspires with her lover, Marcel (Jacky Ido), to set the cinema on fire to exact her revenge. Both the Basterds and Shosanna have been informed that Hitler will grace the premiere, and both plan to assassinate him that night.
Tarantino wrote the script as early as 1998 but did not know then how to end the story so the project was shelved. He went on to work on Kill Bill (2003) and its sequel, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) and Death Proof (2007), before working on Inglourious Basterds again.
Inglourious Basterd was released on August 21, 2009 and became Tarantino's highest grossing film until Django Unchained in 2012.


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Thunder clouds, Mumbai
and what started as a race to beat the unexpected clouds...
seems to have become a chase to stay with them...
is it the love for thunderous rains...
or is it just another adrenaline rush???
Thunder clouds, Mumbai
Tarun Chandel
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- Stacey17x said...
wow that's so cool!! how did you make it look like that!?
that's my site if you wanna check it out! Great shots!!
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Adoni Astrinakis has been named as a finalist in the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award 2018.
The Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize is the richest prize in Australia for realistic portraiture.
You can view it along with the other finalists at
Saroo Brierley is an Indian-born Australian who, at age five, was accidentally separated from his mother in India. He was then adopted by an Australian couple who lived in Hobart. 25 years later, through incredible circumstances, he was reunited with his long lost biological mother. Saroo's story was immortalised in his best-selling autobiographical account LION: A Long Way Home.
In 2016, Saroo's book was adapted into the critically acclaimed film LION, starring Dev Patel as Saroo, Nicole Kidman as his adoptive mother, Sue Brierley, and David Wenham as his adoptive father John Brierley. LION was nominated for 6 Academy Awards including Best Picture
Saroo spent years searching images on Google Earth hoping to find his lost home. Relying on vague childhood memories of the railway station in which he was lost, he was eventually able to trace a path back through old streets to what appeared to be the place he and his family once lived. I was inspired by his blind faith and tenacity. I chose to paint Saroo from an unusual overhead perspective. I wanted to isolate him and throw a wink at the pivotal role satellite imagery played in allowing him to find his home.
The exhibition at The White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton, New York was a resounding success.
With an exciting guest list and electric atmosphere it was the event to be at in the Hamptons that evening.
Huge thanks go to Andrea McCafferty and team at the gallery and Susan Blond, Barry Bloom and Joshua Plant for the amazing publicity.
The Golden Age of Rock and Roll Part II
The White Room Gallery
2415 Main Street, Bridgehampton, New York


text: Home > Focus "Endo" remains a contentious issue a year into the Duterte presidency Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News Posted at Jun 29 2017 10:14 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MANILA - An intensive drive by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) against "endo" or the end-of-contract scheme has resulted in the regularization of almost 50,000 workers during President Duterte's first year in office. This is based on data from the Bureau of Working Conditions. According to the BWC, of the 49,393 workers who became regular employees, over 35,000 were voluntarily regularized by their employers. Labor Undersecretary Dominador Say said this was proof of the business sector's commitment to the government's campaign against endo. While the labor department said it was aiming to totally eradicate the practice of endo by the end of 2017, Say admitted that the campaign against endo remains a challenge due to the lack of labor compliance inspectors. "Sa Department, kulang tayo ng inspectors. That is why hindi pa natin masasabi with 100 percent assurance na totally wala nang endo, even if we have all agreed na wala nang endo," Say explained. The labor department however said it is confident that Department Order 174, which was a product of over nine months of consultations between the labor and business sectors, will be able to weed out illegal labor practices such as endo. DO 174 lists stricter guidelines on contractualization and prohibits 'labor-only contracting' and other illicit forms of contractual arrangements. It also states that workers deployed by service contractors are entitled to holiday, overtime and 13th month pay, retirement benefits and social security. The department order also states that a worker's employment with his service contractor is not co-terminus with his contract with the client's company. DO 174 also includes measures against illegal and fly-by-night manpower agencies, by increasing the amount of capital requirement and registration fees of contractors. Employers admitted that DO 174 was a tough pill to swallow. Despite this, they said that they will abide by the new order. "Do we welcome it? No, but we see it as a necessity, we must implement it. Otherwise, we will never have stability. Without stability, business will not function," said Donald Dee, president of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines. While employers are ready to follow the department order, albeit grudgingly, labor groups have overwhelmingly rejected DO 174. Labor groups insist that it goes against President Duterte's campaign promise that he will stop all forms of contractualization. "Ang department order na ito ay hindi tumutugon sa pangangailangan ng mga manggagawa dahil patuloy pa rin ang malawak na kontraktuwalisasyon sa hanay nila," Partido ng Manggagawa's Renato Magtubo said. Workers' groups have accused Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello of insubordination for going against the President's orders, and of favoring business over ordinary workers. DOLE meanwhile countered that it could not implement an absolute ban on contractualization as the Labor Code allows for certain forms of contractual labor, including seasonal and project-based employment. "Yung sinasabi ng ating pangulo na ayaw nya ng endo, ayaw nya ng contractualization… what he was referring to is yung illegal and unlawful contractualization. Kasi alam naman natin na gusto man ng ating pangulo, the problem is there are existing laws which allows certain forms of contractualization," Bello said in March. The Philippine Association of Legitimate Service Contractors (PALSCON) also warned if all forms of contractualization are banned, investors and big businesses may pull out of the country, or shift to automation. "Yung mga companies, yung mga investors na nandito they could just easily pull out, dahil nandyan lang naman ang Thailand, ang Indonesia, ang Vietnam," Rhoda Caliwara, President of PALSCON explained. Labor groups now pin their hopes on Congress, where at least two bills calling for the criminalization of contractualization have been filed. The Nagkaisa Labor Coalition has also submitted to the President a draft executive order calling for the prohibition of contractualization. "Nandun na kami sa puntong wala nang atrasan, nakakapit na kami sa pangako ni Pangulong Duterte na tutuparin nya ang kanyang pangako nung kampanya at nung Labor Day dialogue at nung iba pang dialogue namin sa kanya," Allan Tanjusay of the Nagkaisa Labor Coalition said. "Sabi nya sa amin hindi nya tatalikuran ang kanyang pangako na tatanggalin nya ang contractualization dito sa ating bansa," Tanjusay continued. Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn DuterteYear1, endo, labor, contractualization, DOLE, Silvestre Bello, DO 174 Read More: endo labor contractualization DOLE Silvestre Bello DO 174 /news/06/29/17/katapusan-ng-endo-di-pa-tiyak-kung-kailan/video/business/06/29/17/duterte-takes-on-endo-in-1st-year-in-office


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After some strides, change in Saudi Arabia stagnates
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Ahmed al Omran was among the first to proudly cast his vote in 2005 when Saudi Arabia held its first national elections for local councils, a political milestone that was hailed as a centerpiece of King Abdullah's push for modernization.
So when the Saudi king shelved plans two months ago for a second vote, al Omran was quick to criticize his government for backing away from its slow-motion embrace of Western democratic ideals.
"Delaying the elections is kind of disturbing at this point," said the 25-year-old university student behind Saudi Jeans, one of the country's more popular English language blogs.
"When you take a step backwards like that, you are losing the gains that you made with the first election," al Omran said. "Second, you raise questions about your commitment to reform."
While President Barack Obama is counting on Saudi Arabia to help him with his thorny Middle East political agenda and keep a cap on oil prices, the conservative nation, the home of Islam's two most sacred sites, Mecca and Medina, is facing internal social fissures and a growing debate over how much to embrace Western reforms.
Though Abdullah, who turns 85 this weekend, has carefully pushed through modest changes, there are simmering frustrations with the slow pace and concerns that a more traditional successor could bring the tentative transition to a halt.
Since becoming king in 2005, Abdullah has appointed the first female deputy minister to his cabinet, sought to dilute the power of the feared religious police and established a widely hailed program to re-integrate former militants into Saudi society.
Abdullah wins praise, even from his critics, for his attempts to balance demands from many Saudis for a more open society with resistance from powerful relatives who fear that the changes are eroding the kingdom's deep-rooted conservative values.
"There is a difference between stability and dormancy," said Ihsan Bu-Hulaiga, an economist who just stepped down after serving 12 years on Saudi's mostly-male advisory Shura Council.
"To be dormant is negative," Bu-Hulaiga said. "To be stable is positive. There is reform — and there is also stability in a very turbulent region."
Some, however, view talk of stability as an excuse to stall changes in a country where women are barred from driving, alcohol is largely banned, and stores close for prayer up to five times a day.
The push for change is rooted in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., in which 15 of the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia. That cast a harsh light on the oil-rich U.S. ally and prompted then-President George W. Bush to pressure Saudi Arabia to embrace Western democracy and values.
The U.S. pressure melded with demographic shifts in the kingdom, where more than half the 28 million residents are under 25.
Allowing women to drive in Saudi Arabia has become something of a bellwether. Many activists don't consider it the most important change, but the fact that the kingdom continues to impose the ban is viewed as a sign that bigger reforms will be even more difficult.
Last year, Saudi activist Wajeha al Huwaider openly challenged the law by filming herself driving to commemorate International Women's Day.
Her protests have had little effect.
The stagnation helped fuel al Huwaider's latest protest this summer over Saudi laws that require women to obtain permission from a male guardian before doing basic things such as opening a bank account or leaving the country.
The issue came to a head for al Huwaider last month when she forgot to bring two copies of her approval when she was driving to Bahrain so she could fly to the U.S. for her son's college graduation.
After much wrangling and a fax from her ex-husband (who is still the male guardian she must ask to sign letters so she can leave Saudi Arabia), al Huwaider was allowed to travel.
The standoff, however, prompted al Huwaider to stage repeated protests at the Saudi border with Bahrain to challenge the country's strict controls over women's lives.
"I don't understand how any free country can accept dealing with such a government," she said. "This is slavery of the 21st century. How can you tell if a person is a slave? If they have no control over their lives. And we cannot live a normal life without a man."
Saudi activists are concerned that Obama will temper his criticism of the kingdom because he needs Saudi help on virtually every Middle East issue — from accepting Guantanamo prisoners and battling Islamic extremists in Afghanistan to curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions and brokering Arab-Israeli peace.
"This is one thing that makes America's stand in the region very weak because they are willing to turn the blind eye to the undemocratic practices of regimes because they need their help in the war against terrorism, with oil," al Omran said. "This makes it really hard to believe Americans when they say they are serious about democracy and human rights in the region."
Saudi Arabia also is drawing new criticism for its internal crackdown on terrorism, a problem that threatens to destabilize the kingdom.
Following car bomb attacks on Riyadh compounds that killed 35 people in 2003, Saudi Arabia launched a prolonged campaign to curb militants in the country.
The country has won international respect for its ongoing program to re-educate militants and re-integrate them into society.
Amnesty International, however, issued a report this month that accuses the kingdom of using secret trials, torture and questionable killings to suppress human rights.
"These unjust anti-terrorism measures have made an already dire human rights situation worse," said Malcolm Smart, the director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Program. "The Saudi Arabian government has used its powerful international clout to get away with it. And the international community has failed to hold the government to account for these gross violations."
Another looming concern for skeptics is who'll succeed Abdullah.
While change may not be coming fast enough for these activists, both agree that Abdullah has made slow progress.
That could come to a halt if the royal family chooses a more conservative successor.
At present, many analysts predict that the next Saudi leader could be Prince Nayef, the country's interior minister and a critic of Abdullah's democratic reforms.
"The government could be bolder in its reforms," said one Western diplomat based in Riyadh, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of his criticism of the Saudi government. "Prince Nayef has moderated his positions so I don't think reforms will go backwards, but the speed will slow."
Despite Obama's appeal, Saudis unlikely to push Mideast talks
Saudi casting call: One kiss and it's over for women
Saudi Arabia's vice squad eases up — but just a little
Israelis are growing increasingly anxious about Obama's policies
Follow Middle East news at McClatchy's Checkpoint Jerusalem Checkpoint Jerusalem.


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Doo bee doo, la la, na na, - OH, it's my audience. Hi everybody. Don't mind my quiet singing to myself, it's just a sign of my complete transition into boredom. Thousands of thousands of dollars are sitting in my savings account, just waiting to help lift up my house. And if not lift up my house, re-do my bathroom, build a fireplace - who knows what else! But, as happens very often in the wide world of contractors and homeowners, I have lost track of all my bargaining chips and am at the will of the contractor.
I talked to our house lifter last week... I hadn't heard from him for over a month, and so I called to say, "Hey what's going on? I thought you were going to do this job over the summer - SUMMER"S OVER!" Good news was, a mutal friend of ours mentioned us to him. Never hurts to have a connection, no matter how small... keeps things human.... or so I keep telling myself.
Anyway, he said he was finishing up a few jobs. Again confirmed that our house would be easy and he wasn't going anywhere. He said he'd get a letter/contract with a start date in the mail ASAP.
That was a week ago. *sigh* So here I am, back to twiddling my thumbs. I have a feeling it will be another month before I hear from him. And I'll have to call him. It's depressing. I know he's a good guy - he is the undisputed source for house lifting on Cape Cod and I'd never go anywhere else. I just wish we could be first on his list.
Vegetables... thanks. - Today on the Natalie Dee Machine: Vegetables... thanks.
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Draw Hard *Limited Edition* Bluray
Draw Hard *Limited Edition* Bluray
Draw Hard is a documentary about illustrator and comic book artist John G. In Cleveland, his artwork is everywhere, but most don't know the face behind the gritty imagery of "The Lake Erie Monster" comic series and Melt Bar and Grilled. In this short documentary, director Jon Nix turns his camera on this enigmatic figure. Exploring his past, present and future by interviewing contemporary artists, friends and the man himself. Draw Hard reveals secrets of John G's past, including the accident that left him paralyzed. It is both the story of an artist as well as an exploration of how people confront and conquer tragedy.
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Filmmaker Commentary
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2016 | 20 minutes | 16:9 Aspect Ratio | Stereo | [Not Rated]


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Saturday night my grand daughter Kimmy and I worked on getting my old Christmas tree up and decorated. She had a great time and I loved her helping me. They are heading back to Louisiana on Sunday and I will miss them terribly. Here is a picture of her working on the tree.
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With talk of Christmas flying around the office we thought we'd take a look back at the first interactive video VideoFirst ever made. It was part of an XFactor Xmas Number One promotional campaign for Bauer Media. The concept was simple. We got pop stars to hold up a CD (yes a CD! They were still popular in 2011) and congratulate the user on being the artist who'd made it to the Christmas number one slot in the charts. The CD we used contained blue screen material and had tracking points printed on it. This enabled us to make the video interactive later on in post production. Back then the technology we had to use to make it work was Adobe Flash. We do it a much more efficient way these days. Every video was different after listeners were invited to upload their photos to their local radio station website and our Flash software engine superimposed their faces into the sequence then rendered the final sequence almost immediately.
X Factor Christmas Number One Video; The Pre-Render Version
Listeners to the Bauer Media radio stations were invited by DJ's across the country to upload their photo to a dedicated page on their radio stations website and within seconds we had generated a personalised video for them. The listener starred in their own video and was able to post it to their Facebook page. We achieved the speed by cutting the video in two halves and only having the interactive element in the second half. While the first half was streaming in the second half was rendering so the experience was seamless. Bauer Media Group owns more than eighty influential media brands spanning a wide range of interests, including Heat, GRAZIA, Closer, MCN, FHM, Parker's, MATCH, Magic 105.4, Kiss 100, Kerrang!, Q and the Big City Network, plus twenty local radio stations.
Users visiting their sites were able to add their own name, upload their own photo and watch themselves being hailed as the next big thing in the music industry and get crowned the UK's Christmas Number One by pop stars such as Pixie Lott, Olly Murs, The Saturdays, Eliza Dolittle, The Wanted, Duffie, Joe McElderry and Scouting for Girls. We were one of the first video production conpany's to launch a main stream interactive video of such complexity and it clocked up hundreds of thousands of views. The campaign was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award.
Need an interactive video for your business or brand? Contact us today for more information!
Producing an interactive video is a cost effective process because we film the content and write the code in-house. We are experts in HTML and Flash Interactivity with social integration across all platforms including Facebook Connect. Interactive videos are a hot topic right now. We can make all your video content interactive whether it be website introductions, games, quizzes, competitions, data collection, e-commerce, video commerce, Facebook Connect or something totally bespoke for your business. If you can imagine it, we can create it.


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Today's Above Avalon stories:
- Apple in Talks to Acquire Lit Motors
- Lit Motors 101
- Why Acquire Lit Motors?
Today's update is dedicated to discussing Lit Motors, the transportation startup that Apple is reportedly interested in acquiring. We take a deep dive into Lit Motors, including the company's history and self-balancing two-wheeled prototype. The email then turns to why Apple would be interested in acquiring Lit Motors. Would Apple be looking to rethink transportation by skipping the traditional car altogether? We go over my thoughts as to where transportation is headed, how Lit Motors would fit in such a future, and the reasons Apple would want to acquire Lit Motors.
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The state attorneys general and the Department of Justice filed the settlement with the top five mortgage servicers Monday.
The deal announced in February totals $25 billion, of which $20 billion will be provided as relief to struggling homeowners. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Ally Financial and Citigroup each signed on.
Of the $5 billion in penalties, roughly $1.5 billion will be used as a "Borrower Payment Fund." Borrowers foreclosed on between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2011, who qualify for the payouts could receive up to $2,000.
New servicing standards are also detailed in the filing.
The settlement is still pending final approval from the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia.
The documents can be found here.
While the filing ends more than one year of negotiations, the implementation process has just begun. Servicers are required to complete 75% of the principal reductions, modifications, forbearance and other relief within two years. All of it must be completed in three.
"The filing of this settlement is the first official step in the implementation process. This will be a long, complicated and expensive process for mortgage servicers with many pitfalls along the way," said Robert Bostrom, a partner with the banking law firm SNR Denton.


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ICYMI: An Aerial Exploration of LA
Aerial videographer Ian Wood has created a cinematic short exploring all Los Angeles has to offer by way of architecture, street art, and natural beauty.
With the controversy surrounding drones lately, it's refreshing to witness a drone video that is both thoughtfully produced and beautifully shot. The stunning city-wide video montage—simply titled Los Angeles—features aerial views of many of L.A.'s most iconic locations, shot from angles that we don't often get to see while stuck in traffic or walking around. From the Hollywood sign to the oil derricks of Baldwin Hills, the murals of Mariachi plaza to the waves crashing beneath the Santa Monica pier, the 6-minute video manages to gracefully cover over 100 locations.
Wood's Los Angeles short serves as a beautiful love letter to the city, and Wood even provides an appropriately stirring soundtrack, courtesy of BLu ACiD's electro-blues adaptation of "If You Ain't Never Had The Blues" by Boo Boo Davis.
Both the video and the music make for great Friday afternoon viewing, so turn up your speakers, switch to fullscreen and enjoy the journey across L.A. Link to the video here.
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SEPTEMBER STORM is considered one of the "lost" 3-D features of the golden age of 3-D cinema. Shot in 1959, it was the last of the 3-D movies to be filmed in the 1950s, and is most notable for being filmed in Stereo-Vision (utilizing the Natural Vision 3-D camera rig) and in CinemaScope. SEPTEMBER STORM hasn't been seen in it's intended 3-D and widescreen format since it's initial theatrical release in 1960, and the surviving film elements are deteriorating. If a digital restoration of the stereoscopic anamorphic version isn't done soon, it is at risk of being lost forever. Your donation to this campaign will help save this important motion picture so that it can be seen by future generations of movie fans.
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THE ADVENTURES OF SAM SPACE was produced by Volcano Pictures in 1953, but not released until 1960, when it was retitled SPACE ATTACK. Filming of the stopmotion short was supervised by cameraman Arthur C. Pierce, with superb animation by Herb Price, and featuring the vocal talents of Paul Frees. The 3D Film Archive had previously restored this film as part of its 3D RARITIES program in 2015, and on the completion of the SEPTEMBER STORM preservation this will be the first time both films will be seen together in over 55 years.
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Review all Group Policy objects that apply to a particular organizational unit, and make a note of the Group Policy settings they contain.
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I recently published my latest posting, a tome on making red wine. After a 5 month break the main reason for writing the post was to refresh my mind on winemaking as we approach the 2015 vintage.
I enjoyed writing the postings that made up a full year in the life of HHF. Some days I got so excited that it amounted to 2 postings in a day. My writing skills improved and the style changed. We now have a record in writing to which we can refer should we choose.
Writing daily journals comes at a cost. Compiling photographs, writing and editing are time consuming. To get everything done at the farm and maintain the writing meant getting up much earlier. Checking and rechecking the language, grammar and whether the post made sense resulted in reading the post up to 4 or 5 times.
So now I still get up early but the energy goes into the farm. There is still cheese making, wine, beer and cider making, More effort is going into improving the way we grow vegetables and fruits.
And if that wasn't enough there was a chance podcast that mentioned bread making by Josie Baker with just one little hint. That resulted in a huge leap in the quality of bread making at HHF and now after years of failure we produce fabulous pure sourdough with wholemeal stone ground Wheat and a pure 100% Rye with seeds. Gone are the bricks.
Then the coup de grace. Accidently came across a patisserie "Icky Sticky" in Lorn which made those traditional French pastries with Crème d'amande, Frangipane etc and topped with fresh fruit. Richard Bertinet's book Dough solved all the recipe problems and I'm having a ball turning out all sorts of great real cakes, tarts and biscuits. What is lovely about these traditional recipes and methods is that they get back to the basics of flour, eggs and butter. Honey has replaced sugar successfully. Once you get a feel for the techniques it is a simple matter to experiment with ingredients.
Can't say there won't be any more posts but at the moment living the lifestyle is consuming a lot of time. Writing was a great mental activity which can't be avoided forever.
Stories and tips about self sufficiency, growing vegetables, cooking, living cheaply, gleaning, cheese making, winemaking, preserving, animal husbandry, healthy living etc
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Sunday, December 21, 2014
Making Good Wine: Fermentation Part Three (Red Wines)
If you are growing your own grapes the decision to pick rests entirely with yourself. Naturally, weather and ripeness feature in the decision making. At HHF this involves a casual walk through the vineyard with a refractometer testing select grapes from different locations. Experience says that the overall impression of ripeness will be a degree or two higher than the true end result. Why is not a mystery. Once the bunches are de-stemmed and resting in a fermenter the sugar levels of ripe bunches are spread across not so ripe bunches.
Other considerations are seed maturity i.e. not green and not too brown, a taste test by crunching seeds in the mouth give an indication. The skins should also feel a little silky to touch giving an indication that ripeness is at its peak.
When buying and picking grapes from a commercial vineyard timing is dictated by their activity. Usually their winemaker makes a call and getting a share means fitting in with them. You take what you are given.
A good way to encourage better quality is to triage the bunches as they are picked. Getting rid of an rot, shrivelled or green grapes and even any under ripe fruit. The tool of choice is a pair of short nosed scissors. Their stubby length but sharp pointy end allows easy gouging out of any unwanted berries. The handles a rubbery lined making them comfortable to use for extended periods.
Picking is best in early morning when the fruit is cool. Crushing and de-stemming can commence immediately. If the grapes have been transported from another vineyard the picking bins will go into a refrigeration unit while the crush pad is setup and any other chores are completed. There is a long day after picking which involves a lot of cleaning once the grapes a crushed and de-stemmed. An important task is to weigh everything as this is the basis for payment to the grower but is also the basis for future calculations of sulphur, Acid and Oak additions.
As the fruit is loaded into the crusher de-stemmer any good bunches are set aside to be added to the fermenter as whole bunches which are placed at the bottom. The bunches chosen are undamaged and don't have green stems nor dried brown stems. What is required is mature stems which will add some additional tannin complexity not green herbaceous flavours. The usual ratio is about 10% whole bunches but if it is a particularly ripe year more can be added. A bit of a guess really. In a an under ripe year 0% may be the choice.
Once crushed and de-stemming is finished the resultant fruit and juice is placed under refrigeration for 1-3 days. 30 ppm Potassium Metabisulphite is added. Ideally the cooling temperature should be about 7 C but using old freezers results in the outer fruit freezing. Not a bad thing as the freezing breaks down the skin cells helping release the colour.
This is a good time to drain off 10% of the juice for Rose. Exactly when depends on how much colour is wanted. Again a bit of a guess, but 24 hours is a good start. Experience has shown that a little oak added after fermentation of rose i.e. at the first racking adds a excellent flavour to the dryness. Rose is ideally fermented at 20 C.
Reducing the juice by 10% means there are more skins and less juice adding even more colour.
24 hours after crushing is a good time to run some tests. Sugar levels should be what is expected. If not here is the opportunity to add sugar in the form of plain white sugar. pH should be in the 3.4 to 3.8 range. If it is above 3.8 then the addition of Tartaric acid may be the solution. Ideally testing for Total Acidity (TA) is better but that requires some more equipment and chemicals. Something that most amateurs don't bother with but then some do. I find pH is a reasonable indicator as to where acidity lies. We invested in a pH meter rather than pH papers.
After the cold soak the fruit and juice needs to warm up and the yeast re hydrated. By lowering the temperature of the yeast gradually it is possible to add it to the fermenter early. Usually that will be at about 20C.
Ideally the fermentation temperature should reach and stay at 30 C but certainly don't let it go higher than 32 C. Plunging of the cap of skins should be performed 3-4 times each day. This helps add oxygen to the must and aids the yeast.
5-7 days of fermentation should be followed with 10 days minimum although a total of 21-23 days from Commencement of cold soak to pressing is ideal. Post fermentation is a good time to cover the fermenter with plastic wrap and inject some inert gas such as CO2. We use CO2 because we own a SodaStream which has a conveniently sized spear pint over which a plastic tube can be fitted. CO2 or other gas cylinders are expensive to buy and tedious to rent for short periods.
Usually if the skins have completely fallen from the surface it is a reasonable guide to press. Pressing slowly is advantageous in reducing the amount of unpleasant flavours that can be forced from seeds and stems. Always a good idea to keep the pressings separate for later use in blending.
We use a fine sieve to reduce the amount of solids being funnelled into the fermenter. The addition of oak occurs at this stage in the form of chips. We found that 50% French and 50% American to be ideal but no more than 6 grams per litre in total and less if the wine is lighter.
If there is another batch of red still fermenting the addition of skins from the just pressed batch will add complexity.
Some people rack the wine 3-4 times before bottling. We found that racking once about 40 or so days after pressing was sufficient to get rid of the gross lees which might impart unpleasant flavours. It is at this time that a decision to add more oak can be accommodated. Ideally a little more sulphur helps, lets say the rest of the 50ppm that we try to stick with.
Bottling commences from 8 months after pressing. Using a Bio Dynamic calendar we choose the best week in each month when turbidity is at its minimum. With reds there will always be some sediment as they age but I'd rather have a bit of sediment and decant . Filtering to me seems to eliminate some of the goodness in the wine that makes it a healthy part of a meal.
That is the short version so any questions?
Some people rack the wine 3-4 times before bottling. We found that racking once about 40 or so days after pressing was sufficient to get rid of the gross lees which might impart unpleasant flavours. It is at this time that a decision to add more oak can be accommodated. Ideally a little more sulphur helps, lets say the rest of the 50ppm that we try to stick with.
Bottling commences from 8 months after pressing. Using a Bio Dynamic calendar we choose the best week in each month when turbidity is at its minimum. With reds there will always be some sediment as they age but I'd rather have a bit of sediment and decant . Filtering to me seems to eliminate some of the goodness in the wine that makes it a healthy part of a meal.
That is the short version so any questions?
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Have you ever heard this? I'm a firm believer in this statement. I saw this on Pinterest today and felt the need to open up the discussion of this topic. On the one hand, I think you have to picture things in your mind, set standards, have a level of expectations. You have to be able to set goals and know what you expect for yourself and of other people. However, I think it's bad when people cling to their picture of what they think things should look like and they are unable to stray from that image. To me, this is detrimental. Won't date the guy because he is younger than you or you make more money than him? Wake up--that's crazy, and please don't whine to me about not having a boyfriend because you are throwing out perfectly acceptable ones. I don't think this is lowering your expectations, but rolling with what the world brings your way. Yes, please don't date him if he is a drug dealer, but I think we can be a little flexible.
I blame a lot of this on movies and songs. I remember reading a status of a girl I know one day on facebook as she lamented about something or another about life and love and I swear I thought she was quoting song lyrics. She wasn't. I wanted to leave a comment to the effect of "honey, life isn't a Taylor Swift song--get over it". However, movies and songs build up this idea of what our lives and what our love should look like, feel like, be like. These characters don't have to "settle" because they get what they want at the end of 2 hours (or 2 minutes in song form). They don't have to manage expectations, roll with things, figure things out. Life is messy and doesn't always behave the way we want it to, and that's ok. It's ok for us to make adjustments to that picture and to be grateful for what we actually have instead of be sad that we didn't get exactly what we want. A friend of mine told me a the story of her cousin, who prayed that the Lord would send her a good man to marry. Well, she met this wonderful gentleman at church, however, he was from Kenya and she wouldn't accept dates with him at first because she thought people might not accept them together because they were different races. The cousin was conflicted and prayed some more and finally, she felt like the Lord looked her straight in the face and said "Are you really going to toss out this man that you prayed for and I sent you because he has dark skin?" Well now they are married and have the sweetest little family. Even if you aren't spiritual, you get where you I'm going with this. Create a picture, but don't be afraid to draw outside the lines, change the boundaries, roll with it. The image you create in your head when you are 5 or 15 or 20 or 30 may not match your reality later on in life. Please don't sabotage yourself because you can't be flexible.
I know it's hard to give up what you think should happen or what you want to happen, but I'm a firm believer that everything happens for a reason, in its own time. But, if we are patient and just keep our eyes focused on the big picture, the reality at hand, we should be fulfilled and happy. And to me, that's what it's all about.
What do YOU think about this? Did you have a picture for your life that you had to change? Do you think you should hold firm to your expectations and not relent? Let's talk it out!


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Arioto's return bolsters Call's title hopes
Editor's note: Graham Hays is counting down to the start of the 2012 college softball season with a look at each of the teams in his Top 20. Check back daily for updates.
No. 1 California
Last year: 45-13 overall, 15-6 Pac-10 (lost in Women's College World Series)
Who returns: Everybody returns. Really, everybody. For all reasonable purposes, California returns the roster that made it to the Women's College World Series for the first time since 2005 and finished two games behind Arizona State in the Pac-10, the only team in the conference to finish within six games of the eventual national champion.
Start the list with Jolene Henderson, the ace in the circle who went 40-10 with a 0.99 ERA and 333 strikeouts in 333.1 innings as a sophomore last season. Without Valerie Arioto (that's right, Cal returns its entire roster and welcomes back a player in Arioto who posted All-American numbers as both a pitcher and hitter before injuries wiped out her 2011 season), Henderson took the ball again and again in the nation's toughest conference and never wilted. There's even reason to think Henderson, who finished third on the team with six home runs at the plate but hit just .217 overall, could be even more valuable this season as her bat develops.
Cal was not a dominant offensive team last season, slugging just .401 and averaging 4.9 runs per game (ranking the Bears No. 125 and No. 67, respectively, in the nation). But in addition to Arioto, already a middle-of-the-order slugger for the United States national team, Cal returns special individual parts. In addition to being nearly impenetrable on defense, third baseman Jace Williams (.474 on-base percentage) and shortstop Britt Vonk (.502 on-base percentage, 26 stolen bases) tormented opposing pitchers. Outfielder Jamia Reid, one half of a twin combination with outfielder Elia, also spent a lot of time on base (.412 OBP), if not a lot of time on first base (31 SB).
Who departs: Amy Bishop recorded one start among 13 appearances last season, making her the only California player who appeared in a starting lineup who isn't back this season.
Who arrives: : For obvious reasons, this won't be the easiest lineup to break into, but Cheyenne Cordes isn't just any freshman. Take your pick of prep plaudits and Cordes probably carried it with her when she arrived on campus, from Gatorade Player of the Year in California to ESPN Rise first-team All-American. Perhaps most notably, and certainly most recently, she was named USA Softball's junior player of the year after winning gold with Team USA in the ISF Junior World Championship. Cordes started all 11 games in the tournament in South Africa this past December, the only American player to do so, and hit .577 with a team-leading 12 RBIs. She played third base and shortstop for Team USA, two positions that already seem to be in particularly capable hands at Cal with Williams and Vonk, but talent tends to find its way into lineups.
Another familiar name among the freshmen -- and there are five newcomers, despite all the holdovers -- is Danielle Henderson, younger sister of Cal ace Jolene and an infield/utility talent in her own right.
Preseason question: Is Valerie Arioto the difference?
Even if California had last season's roster back intact, its championship credentials might be subject to questions pertaining to pitching depth and power at the plate. Its continuity would also have been a conundrum.
Could Henderson really handle such a heavy workload two seasons in a row against the kind of schedule California chooses to play out of conference and has to play in conference? Could the team score enough runs to make a go of it in Oklahoma City, where it simply didn't have the bats to match up with Alabama or Florida?
What makes both questions seem far less pressing is Arioto's return. Her ability to regain the form that helped her post a .590 on-base percentage and .819 slugging percentage in 2010, walking 81 times and hitting 19 home runs in 63 games, isn't in any doubt after watching her play for Team USA this past summer and fall. Arioto went 5-for-13 with 10 walks in eight starts in the Pan-Am Games. She didn't pitch for an American side already loaded with good arms, but she threw more innings than Henderson in 2010 for Cal, finishing 21-9 with a 1.43 ERA and 264 strikeouts in 205.2 innings.
"Valerie Arioto is just one of those young women that just loves to play ball," Team USA coach Ken Eriksen said. "She loves to practice, she loves to play, she loves to hit, she loves to be involved with a bunch of great people and great teammates. She's such a happy person, happy-go-lucky, and that's the way she plays the game. I hope she continues with that youthful enthusiasm for the rest of her life; she's going to be successful in whatever she does."
Like Danielle Lawrie, who returned after a year away from the college game in 2009 and led Washington to a national championship, that success may make a stop in Oklahoma City this spring.


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Patients were recruited to participate in a market test for GUNNAR Optiks Digital Performance Eyewear, developed to reduce and minimize the eye muscle fatigue and dry eye symptoms associated with daily computer use.
•A total of 103 patients were recruited at three ophthalmologypractices located in the Los Angeles area. Patients were required to spend a good portion of their work day at a computer, and to have normal vision (uncorrected or corrected with contacts.)
•At the Initial visit, patient vision was assessed, and an appropriate pair of Digital Performance Eyewear was prescribed to wear while using the computer.•Patients visited the practice three times during the course ofthe market test.
•The Initial Visit assessed baseline symptoms, and Digital Performance Eyewear were prescribed.
•At the Second Visit—one week after the Initial Visit—symptoms were again assessed, and patients were asked several questions regarding their experience with the GUNNAR lenses.•The Exit Visit—approximately four weeks after the Initial Visit—was more extensive. Symptoms and perceptions were again assessed with a patient questionnaire, as was patient vision.
Data Analysis
Data from the three visits was analyzed using standard market research techniques, using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) software.
• Data frequencies were prepared, and appropriate means and standard
deviations were computed to facilitate comparing patient self-reported symptoms and perceptions across time.
• Improvements in Digital Sensation ratings (slides 20-23) were calculated by subtracting the Initial visit score from the Second/Exit visit score. For example, if a patient gave a rating of 'bad (3)' for their initial visit and a rating of 'mild (1)' for their second visit, the difference is -2, scored as 'Better'.
• Statistical significance testing was conducted using two-tailed t-tests, and was conducted at the 95% (alpha = .05) level. Results from this study are accurate to within +/- 11%, at a sample size of 103.
• In the opinion of the analyst—a professional market researcher with over 20 years of experience—the results of this study are robust, and demonstrate significant improvement in both symptoms experienced and perceptions.


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How to Give up – How to Quit – Read on…
Posted by kitoomal in Blessings, Born-again, Christ, Christian, Death, Forgiveness, God, Gospel, Gospel Music, Grace, Health and Fitness, Heaven, Life Issues, Mercy, Miracle, Sin, Suffering, Testimony on April 19, 2012
They say "Never quit." "Never give up." In some cases, that's not true. It depends on what you want to or need to quit or give up. If you are a slave to smoking or drinking, then you need to quit – give up – that. You need to be set free. Many people who live in democracies are in bondage – to sin. Or they are captives of disease, depression etc. Are they really free? No…! They need to be set free. Here's how…
"Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed." – John 8:36
The best way to be set free from sin is to repent of it before the true living God and ask Him to forgive you and restore you to what He wants you to be. Jesus Christ – the Son of God – wants to set you free today…now. All you need to do is ask him to forgive you and help you overcome your weaknesses. In saying this I assume that you are already a born-again believer in Jesus Christ. If you are not, then you need to become one. Click here to learn how to get born again. Once (or if already) you are a born-again believer, use the suggestion given earlier in this paragraph, exercise your authority in Jesus' name and choose to receive the freedom that is yours in Christ Jesus! Amen.
Don Moen's India Tour a Big Hit
Posted by kitoomal in Gospel, Gospel Music, Health and Fitness, Life Issues, Music, Praise, Suffering, Worship on December 1, 2010
O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth. – Psalm 96:1
Gospel music star Don Moen's tour of India this year was a big hit! He conducted a concert and a 'Worship Seminar' each at Chennai, Shillong and Mumbai.
I attended the concert at Mumbai since I live in Mumbai. It was a "Wow!" experience for me right from the time I reached the venue to the time I got back into my car. The stage, the sound, the choice of songs and the audience participation – all were of a very high level. To top it all, Don Moen and Team's performance was excellent! The best part though, was that Jesus Christ was glorified throughout – a great practice session before we worship him forever into eternity. I often feel that one of the reasons why eternal life is eternal is because eternity is what we need in order to thank, praise and worship the Living God! Anything short of that simply wouldn't do.
Coming back to the event, the tour was organised by The Friendship Club (TFC). TFC is a charitable trust that conceives and manages events surrounding the projects they undertake, like the current Project Friend.
A bit about Project Friend…
Project Friend is an initiative to help cancer patients cope up with tough times. It is not restricted to Christians. It covers cancer patients irrespective of religious affinity. TFC believes that cancer patients, especially the terminally ill, have multiple needs. Not all of these can be met by their families. What use are family members if they cannot support the patient emotionally simply because they are forced to look for funds to treat their loved one? TFC solicits charitable donations for Project Friend from various sections of society (in return for an annual membership to TFC) so that the funds collected can be used to arrange for day care nurses, medicines and other such needs. The TFC team can also periodically visit the patient and pray for them as well as counsel them. Who knows – some or all of them can actually recover completely and may even get saved in the process!
I request you to keep the TFC Team and Project Friend in prayer so that precious human souls on the road to an eternity in hell are saved and spend that eternity in Heaven instead – in the presence of God our Creator. I know how important it is, because just December last, I had lost my first cousin – my best friend – to leukaemia. After all, those other cancer patients too are somebody's first cousins – somebody's best friends!


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The wealthy wife of a renowned artist who is at the top of Boston society.
Even though Susanna Copley belonged to a very well-respected family, they were still forced to flee Boston before the beginning of the war. Although they chose to go to England, along with many others, some Loyalists chose other distant places, such as Canada or the Caribbean. Although they generally remained within the British Empire, these relocations were a struggle.
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- Your husband uses your face in a painting of the Goddess of Beauty.
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- Your father owns much of the Tea destroyed at the Boston Tea Party, which ruins his business. Your family become labeled Loyalist and forced to abandon life in Boston and flee to London.


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'Boro are home to Havant & Waterlooville on Saturday (tomorrow) so it's a perfect opportunity to purchase your Half Season ticket ahead of the Basingstoke home game (Wednesday).
A simple application form and £5 admin fee will get you a new Season Ticket card. The cards will have the numbers 400-500 at first. Any Season Ticket holders that paid for the full season must exchange their current card with a new one confirming a correct number.
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- Tue 14th January – Farnborough vs Ebbsfleet United – KO 19:45
- Sat 25th January – Farnborough vs Tonbridge Angels – KO 15:00
- Sat 8th February – Farnborough vs Bishops Stortford – KO 15:00
- Sat 22nd February – Farnborough vs Eastleigh – KO 15:00
- Sat 8th March – Farnborugh vs Sutton United – KO 15:00
- Sat 15th March – Farnborough vs Bromley – KO 15:00
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Jose Bautista's long search for a club may finally be over.
In a case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss," it appears the righ-handed slugger could once again be a Toronto Blue Jay.
On Sunday night, Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com reported that both parties are close to a deal.
Source: #BlueJays have emerged as the front-runner for Jose Bautista. He's nearing a deal with the club. #Toronto @mlb
— @JesseSanchezMLB
Bautista initially turned down the Jays one-year qualifying offer of $ 17.2 US in November to explore free agency.
However, the market has not been kind to the 35-year old and a return to Toronto appears imminent.
No financial details are known at this time. But, should Bautista return, he could provide the Jays with a much needed offensive boost, especially after Edwin Encarnacion signed a three-year, $ 65-million US deal with the Cleveland Indians in December.
Last year, Bautista, who suffered various injuries, hit .234 with 22 home runs and 69 RBIs while playing just 116 games.


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Agenda: to see and to do, attraction and art in Ostend
Museum Amandine
April 3rd 1995. On this day the Amandine entered Oostende harbour for the last time. On this day it dropped anchor for the very last time. The crew disembarked, swallowed hard and went home without looking back. The last page in Oostende's book on Iceland Fishing had been turned. Now, 13 years later, the Amandine has started her second career, a career as an interactive museum. It has taken two years of hard and concentrated work in the old shipyard 'Seghers' to restore the...Read more
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Timescape Escape Games
Challenging escape rooms with attention to detail and some surprisingly original puzzles! Timescape's first escape room is called the Quarantine but soon it will be adding a second one, called 'Battle Royale: Bunker Break-in'. These two rooms each have a floor area of 65 sq.m., meaning they are perfect for large groups! During the holidays, Timescape also organises pop-up escape rooms for children aged 10 or over. ...Read more
North Sea Cruise Oostende
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Racetrack Wellington
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JERSEY CITY -- Friendship have proven itself stronger than a mega storm or bullets in one New Jersey town after two dogs beat the odds and survived last month's blizzard by sticking together.
Braveheart and Faithful are now trying to clear one more hurdle -- finding a loving home.
The two adorable pooches are being cared for at the Liberty Humane Society.
"We believe these guys are brothers," director of operations Kim Saunders said. "They can't be separated."
Over the course of several days, people saw the dogs running free at Liberty State Park. They could tell they were together and that they didn't want to be captured, which posed problems for the officers trying to rescue them."
"They had been eluding them for a day," Saunders said. "Unfortunately, the dogs felt threatened. So they had to shoot one dog. That was Braveheart."
The dogs ran again, on the lam one more day, before getting caught in a trap set by Animal Control.
"On the day of the blizzard, both dogs went into the trap together," Saunders said.
The bullet, in Braveheart's neck, luckily missed all his vital organs. It meant that Faithful still had his best friend.
"When Braveheart went for surgery, Faithful cried all day while his brother was gone," Saunders said.
They were already trained and ready for good owners.
"Definitely someone active to stimulate them mentally and physically," the Humane Society's Rob Chamorro said. "They're going to need it."
This story made the news, but many more shelter dogs need homes. So through Valentine's Day, Liberty Humane Society is waiving adoption fees on all their adult animals.
For more information, visit LibertyHumane.org.
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When there is no Original Will, there is still a Way!
Friday, July 21st, 2017
Daniel Yazdani, Solicitor at Bowen Buchbinder Vilensky Lawyers
21 July 2017
You have invested a lot of time and money into having a carefully crafted Will prepared as part of your estate planning.
What happens if some time later you look for your Will and you cannot find it?
This question has been frequently asked. But why is finding the original Will important? The answer is: your original Will is required to be provided to the Supreme Court of Western Australia as part of your Executor's Application for a Grant of Probate of your Will.
What happens if an Executor can only find copies of the signed Will?
Although it is procedurally more difficult, a copy of a Will can (in certain circumstances) be admitted for a Grant of Probate. In these cases, the Supreme Court must be satisfied that the copy of the Will reflects the last Will of the deceased person concerned.
If only copies of a Will can be found in the deceased's personal effects, the starting point is to contact the deceased's lawyers to see if they have retained the original Will in safe custody. If that fails (or if it is unclear who the deceased's lawyers were), the following steps should be taken:
1. contact the Public Trustee to see if the Will is stored in their "Will Bank";
2. publish a notice of a lost Will in the West Australian Newspaper;
3. contact the Law Society of Western Australia and publish a notice for a lost Will in the legal profession's monthly newsletter;
4. contact the deceased's bank to see if the original Will was stored in the bank's safe.
If the above searches have been undertaken and the original Will has still not been found but copies of the Will (which are believed to be the last Will of the deceased) are available, then the Executor will need to apply to the Supreme Court of Western Australia for a Grant of Probate of the lost Will.
In order to obtain a Grant of Probate of a lost Will, the Court must be satisfied of the following:
1. that there actually was a valid and signed Will;
2. this Will revoked all previous Wills;
3. that the legal presumption that the Will was destroyed by the Will-maker with the intention of revoking it has been successfully rebutted;
4. that the terms of this Will are clear and established.
How to Avoid this Problem?
As soon as you have signed your Will and any other estate planning documents (such as your Enduring Power of Attorney, Enduring Power of Guardianship, Advanced Health Directive and any Superannuation Death Benefit Nomination Forms), you should store the originals in a secure location.
Whilst it is not required for you to provide a copy of your Will to your Executor and/or loved ones, it is recommended that you should at least inform them of where the original Will is stored. Your lawyer who has drafted the Will should also keep a signed copy of your Will in his or her records.
By taking the right steps to ensure the safe storage of your estate planning documents, and by letting the right people know where to find such documents, you will save your loved ones considerable time, stress and unnecessary expenses in the administration of your estate.
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"A Arte da Fuga" ("Die Kunst der Fuge", BWV 1080) é uma obra-prima de Johann Sebastian Bach:
um único tema musical persegue-se, a si mesmo e as múltiplas variações, num diálogo musical intenso desenvolvido a diversas vozes, rico de simetrias, inversões, ritmos e tempos diferentes.
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It's Not the Thought that Counts por Christian Newma:
So the next time you hear someone make the case that "it's the thought that counts," just remind them that it isn't. If it was the "thought" that counted, one would have to consider which means allow for a greater number of people to satisfy urgently felt needs, and to arrive in a position where they can say "keep the change," more frequently. If it was the thought that counted, the inevitable conclusion would lead them to free markets, voluntary transactions, capital accumulation, and the growth of wealth. When it comes right down to it, never is it the "thought" that counts. For people who either ignorantly or dishonestly profess such views, it is always the "feelings" that count.
Quem leva a sua avante na União Europeia?
Leaving the EU means joining the world
Leaving the EU means joining the world:
I was just too young to vote in the 1975 referendum. I would have voted "Yes" to the European Community and I think I would have been right to do so. It had contributed to European peace by blurring French and German economic sovereignty. It was a free trade area in a world of high tariff barriers, albeit within a protectionist wall that excluded other countries and continents. It helped to halt Britain's disastrous obsession with central planning.
Two decades later, the European project stopped being about economic growth (to this day it still has no trade deals with America, China, Japan, Brazil, India, Canada, Australia and Indonesia) and embarked on the drive for monetary and political union, embodied in the treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam and Lisbon.
The result has been horrible.
arguments for Leave voters
Patri Friedman sobre o video Brexit the full movie:
But exactly BECAUSE this is a propaganda film targeted at potential Leave voters; it represents the arguments that those potential Leave voters will find compelling. That's what it's for - swaying those voters. And what are these arguments? They are classic free-market economic points about free markets, deregulation, and reducing bureaucracy to create economic growth, as well as beliefs in transparency and democracy. True or false, based on accurate or distorted facts, these are the ideas that pro-Leave propagandists thought would appeal to potential Leave voters.
Rothbard e open borders
.. on rethinking immigration on the basis of the anarchocapitalist model, it became clear to me that a totally privatized country would not have "open borders" at all. If every piece of land in a country were owned by some person, group, or corporation, this would mean that no immigrant could enter there unless invited to enter and allowed to rent, or purchase, property.
A totally privatized country would be as "closed" as the particular inhabitants and property owners desire. It seems clear, then, that the regime of open borders that exists de facto in the U.S. really amounts to a compulsory opening by the central state, the state in charge of all streets and public land areas, and does not genuinely reflect the wishes of the proprietors. Under total privatization, many local conflicts and "externality" problems-not merely the immigration problem-would be neatly settled.
With every locale and neighborhood owned by private firms, corporations, or contractual communities, true diversity would reign, in accordance with the preferences of each community.
Murray Rothbard
Individualism > Nationalism > Globalism
Brexit: Individualism > Nationalism > Globalism por Jeff Deist:
Globalism, championed almost exclusively by political and economic elites, has been the dominant force in the West for a hundred years. World War I and the League of Nations established the framework for multinational military excursions, while the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank set the stage for the eventual emergence of the US dollar as a worldwide reserve currency. Progressive government programs in Western countries promised a new model for universalism and peace in the aftermath of the destruction of Europe. Human rights, democracy, and enlightened social views were now to serve as hallmarks of a post-monarchical Europe and rising US.
But globalism was never liberalism, nor was it intended to be by its architects. As its core, globalism has always meant rule by illiberal elites under the guise of mass democracy. It has always been distinctly anti-democratic and anti-freedom, even as it purported to represent liberation from repressive governments and poverty.
Yes, libertarians advocate unfettered global trade ..
But the EU, GATT, WTO, NAFTA, TPP, and the whole alphabet soup of trade schemes are wholly illiberal impediments masquerading as real commercial freedom. In fact, true free trade occurs only in the absence of government agreements. The only legislation required is a unilateral one-sentence bill: Country X hereby eliminates all import duties, taxes, and tariffs on all Y goods imported from country Z.
And as Godfrey Bloom explains, the European Union is primarily a customs zone, not a free trade zone. A bureaucracy in Brussels is hardly necessary to enact simple pan-European tariff reductions. It is necessary, however, to begin building what globalism truly demands: a de facto European government, complete with dense regulatory and tax rules, quasi-judicial bodies, a nascent military, and further subordination of national, linguistic, and cultural identities.
.. It's true that libertarians ought not to concern themselves with "national sovereignty" in the political sense, because governments are not sovereign kings and should never be treated as worthy of determining the course of our lives. But it is also true that the more attenuated the link between an individual and the body purporting to govern him, the less control — self-determination — that individual has.
Ultimately, Brexit is not a referendum on trade, immigration, or the technical rules promulgated by the (awful) European Parliament. It is a referendum on nationhood, which is a step away from globalism and closer to individual self-determination. Libertarians should view the decentralization and devolution of state power as ever and always a good thing, regardless of the motivations behind such movements. Reducing the size and scope of any single (or multinational) state's dominion is decidedly healthy for liberty.
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From the comforts of huts in the Chamonix valley participants will learn the fundamentals of mountaineering needed not only to ascend the Alps highest peak, 15,771 foot Mont Blanc, but also to scale other glaciated peaks around the world. This course achieves the objectives of our six-day Glacier Mountaineering Course and includes an ascent of one of the most sought after mountains in all of Europe. Participants will learn from their American guides proper ice axe and crampon use, practice crevasse rescue, travel on a rope team, and much more. You will also review rock climbing skills such as rappelling, belaying, and movement on rock. Included in the course will be an acclimatization ascent of one of the nearby peaks. This will also solidify your skills for Blanc.
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