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Forthwith, we continue my highlights from the 2017 incarnation of VinItaly, held in Verona earlier this year, and to which I was lucky enough to have been invited as a media guest.
[ For background on VinItaly, details on the first batch of wines that grabbed my vinous attention at the event, and the format for these highlight reels, see Part 1. ]
We have many a wine to highlight in this second installment, so… a rush, and a push, and the land will be ours… let's charge right into things. First, the bubbles:
2016 Ca' d'Or Lessini Durello Blanc de Blancs Selezione Vintage, $NA
Lessini Durello is an odd bird of a wine; it's growing, for sure (from 3 to 26 producers in the last two decades, now pumping out about one million bottles per year), but its primary calling card, aside from the bubbles, is still acidity. And I mean, acidity. As in, face-ripping, blood-of-the-Alien-zenomorph kind of acidity.
What I liked about the Ca' d'Or Selezione is that it offered aspects beyond the face-peeling and gum recession: tropical and exotic fruit notes, limes, white flowers, and pineapple hints that were more subtle than overt. This is Durello tweaked up a notch or two, with an emphasis on balancing all of that ample acidity with purity of fruit….


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I got my first tattoo when I was 17.
After a lot of pestering, my parents begrudgingly got in the car to take me to the 7th Street tattoo shop downtown.
Now, almost 10 years later, the Korean characters for "hope" still walk with me on the top of my left foot.
I discussed this tattoo with my parents for almost two years. They asked over and over, "Why hope? What is so significant about the word that you'd want it on you for the rest of your life?"
They weren't concerned about the language choice. The significance of Korean was obvious: my brother. Ryan was adopted from South Korea as a baby, and I chose Korean as a tribute to him.
Hope, I explained, is a driving force to keep pressing on. As a teenager, the word "hope" was even more significant for me than that. "Hope" is not synonymous to the word "wish." It's more emotional and practical than that. I had hope that I'd have closure about my first family someday, hope for primal acceptance, hope that I'd gain some sense of biological identity which loomed over me in school, hope for validation about everything I was feeling. Some school assignments had turned into triggers. Punnet squares in Biology, family trees in History, reports about ancestral countries in English, learning about reproduction in Sex Ed... the list goes on.
Hope became so ingrained in my longing for reunion, clarity or closure that it became a mantra. I don't think my parents realized the intrinsic significance I found in the word, but the ongoing two year discussion was enough to convince them.
We rode together to the tattoo shop. I was the first person in my group of friends to get inked, so a handful of friends showed up to watch. It was July 3rd. The shop was busy with patriots looking to get an eagle or American flag in time for Independence Day. My entourage crowded the small entryway.
We filled out the required paperwork. Mom and Dad signed on the appropriate lines, as did I. My name was called and I stepped behind the half wall to sit on a cushioned table. My line of spectators crowded into place on the other side.
The artist, Aron, put the temporary version of the tattoo on my foot to serve as his template. I admired it for a moment before propping my leg up for him to start working. The pen turned on, and the buzzing sound filled my senses. I kept my gaze locked in on my parents, who had amused smiles on their faces. The feeling of the needle was exhilarating and satisfying. It tickled more than it hurt. In less than 15 minutes, it was over.
I still love my tattoo just as much as I did the day I got it. I still proudly walk in hope every day.
Almost two years later, my hope and prayers were answered. I met my birth family. Time has given us a wide range of conversations to cover. We had lifetimes to recount for the 19 years we were strangers. Those conversations with my birth mother and father revealed something I never knew about my tattoo, and it sent chills to my bones.
I asked, "What did you call me in the hospital before I was Robyn?"
They replied, "Hope Star."
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Making Concrete with Carbon Dioxide
Injecting CO2 directly into ready mix trucks allows cement reductions
Concrete producers are increasingly being asked to provide mixes with a low-carbon footprint, especially for LEED-certified projects. Using fly ash as a substitute for portland cement is one approach, but with the current shortages of fly ash that has become increasingly difficult.
Another approach that has gained a lot of interest across the United States and Canada is the CarbonCure Ready Mixed Technology. Not only does this process consume CO2, but the compressive strength improvements from an optimized injection of CO2 enable the production of concrete with a reduced binder content without sacrificing performance.
This case study analyzes data collected by a producer using the CarbonCure Ready Mixed Technology to inject CO2 during normal concrete operations. This process uses controlled doses of carbon dioxide injected directly into the ready-mixed concrete truck during the initial batching and mixing. When liquefied CO2 is injected into wet concrete it chemically reacts with calcium ions released from cement to form solid, nano-sized calcium carbonate particles that become permanently bound within the concrete. The carbon dioxide binds as solid and stable carbonate reaction products in the cement matrix and provides a positive impact on the concrete properties.
Nano-scale (100-150 nm) calcium carbonate reaction products produced through carbonating freshly hydrating cement as imaged by scanning electron microscopy.
In a process that resembles the introduction of a chemical admixture, the producer connected a tank of liquid CO2 to the CarbonCure injection system. This metered an optimum dose of CO2 into the drum of the ready mixed truck at the same time as the concrete was loaded. Upon entering the mixing drum, the liquid carbon dioxide converted into a mixture of CO2 gas and solid carbon dioxide snow whereupon it reacted with the hydrating cement to form solid calcium carbonate particles.
The concrete was then subjected to assessment and testing.
The producer conducted a three-way comparison among a standard mix, a mix with reduced-binder content, and a reduced-binder mix that used a dose of CO2. The binder reduction leads to a decrease in paste volume, but can also serve to slightly increase the water-to-cementitious-materials ratio and admixture loading per unit of binder. The former was expected to have a negative impact on strength development while the latter was expected to have a neutral impact.
Strength Enhancement Results
The average compressive strength measured for each batch at three test ages is summarized in Figure 1. The binder reduction in the non-air-entrained batch led to a strength reduction at all ages including a 17% drop in 28-day compressive strength. However, by adding the carbon dioxide, the strength of the reduced-binder batch improved to be within 4% of the standard mix at 28 days. This suggests that a CO2 injection in conjunction with a binder reduction on the order of 7% can result in concrete without compromised performance.
Figure 1: Compressive strength development of non air entrained (A) and air entrained (B) concrete test loads. The binder reductions were 8% and 7% for the non air entrained variations, respectively.
The binder reduction in the air-entrained batch led to an 11 to 13% drop in compressive strength across the three test ages. However, when the carbon dioxide was added the strength of the reduced-binder batch improved to be equivalent to the standard mix.
These results lead to two conclusions:
- A reduction in the quantity of binder leads to a reduction in the compressive strength.
- That strength reduction can be offset, however, by the introduction of CO2 into the concrete mix during batching.
Extended Production Results
The producer moved on to test these conclusions on actual production concrete mixes with 28-day design strengths of 3000, 5500, and 8000 psi using binder reductions of 4.5%, 4.4%, and 3.1%, respectively. In each case, the addition of an optimized dosage of CO2 was shown to bring the performance of the reduced-binder concrete mixes within the expected performance range of a mix with no binder reduction.
The success of these two assessments encouraged the ready-mixed concrete producer to apply the CarbonCure Ready Mix Concrete Technology across their concrete production. Over a 10-month period, spanning March to December, the producer injected CO2 into roughly 56,000 yd3 of concrete with an average cement reduction of 5%. This resulted in savings of 600 tons of cement and 530 tons of CO2 emissions with no reduction in the performance of the concrete.
This data shows that producers in full-scale operation can use the strength-enhancing effect of CO2 to reduce the amount of the most expensive ingredient in concrete while also reducing the carbon footprint of the mix.
Click here to learn more about the trial performed by this producer.
About CarbonCure Technologies Inc.
CarbonCure's retrofit technology chemically sequesters waste carbon dioxide during the concrete manufacturing process to make greener and stronger concrete. CarbonCure is part of a growing industry of CO2-utilization technologies that are expected to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 15% by 2030. CarbonCure's technology is currently operational in a growing number of concrete plants across North America, including several of the world's largest vertically-integrated cement and concrete companies. CarbonCure is one of 27 semi-finalists in the $20 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE challenge, which has been called the Nobel prize for climate technologies. For more information, visit: www.carboncure.com.
Sean Monkman, PhD, PEng. Is VP of Technlogy Development for CarbonCure Technologies, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Mark MacDonald is Director of Research for CarbonCure Technologies, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
This article was originally posted in the Spring 2017 edition of Concrete Producer Magazine, the original version available here.


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Some weeks ago I ordered a Smokenator 1000 for my Weber Kettle Grill, but I haven't been able to use it until yesterday due to the rotten weather we've had in Belgium in this summer.
The Smokenator is a piece of metal that helps you in converting your standard grill into a smoker. That's really nice if you don't have the space or money to buy a bullet smoker.
The creed of a smoker is "low and slow"; indirect cooking at low temperature for a couple of hours will give a tender and flavourful meat.
For this first attempt at cooking spare ribs with the Smokenator, I rubbed them with Uncle Joe's (I mixed the Chipotle and Honey Mesquite rubs together to give a sweet and slightly spiced flavour).
I put them in the smoker on a rib rack for 2 hours and I used oak and beech as smoke wood and coconut briquettes for the fire. Then I wrapped them in aluminium foil and put them back in the smoker for a bit less than 2 hours. After that, I unwrapped them and put them back on the rib rack for a bit less than an hour, and let the water pan empty to dry the surface. Finally I basted them with barbecue sauce (using the Uncle Joe's Chipotle/Honey Mesquite rub as a base) for the last 15 minutes of cooking.
I managed to keep the temperature around 110-115°C during the whole process. The meat was falling off the bone easily and was really tasty and tender with a nice smoke ring ! The Uncle Joes' rub and BBQ sauce were giving an extra sweet and spicy taste to the meat.
In conclusion, this first try was succesful ! Next time I think I'll add a bit more smoke wood.. but I definitely want to try smoked brisket !
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Rubbed with Uncle Joe's Honey Mesquite and Chipotle
After one hour of smoking
After 2 hours of smoking (they look burnt but they aren't ;))
Putting the dry finish…
Before saucing with Uncle Joe's !
They're good to go !
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Five years after his death, Michael Jackson will release a new album.
Sony and Epic Records announced on Monday that they will release "XSCAPE," an album of music based on previously unreleased tracks by the King of Pop. Here's how it came together:
Epic CEO and Chairman (as well as former "X-Factor" judge) L.A. Reid was given access to decades' worth of Jackson's archives, and selected a list of eight tracks that were then retooled to sound more contemporary, with Timbaland serving as lead producer.
Also read: Michael Jackson Tops List of Highest-Earning Dead Celebrities of 2013
"Modern music and artistry would look and sound completely different if not for the groundbreaking contributions Michael Jackson gifted to the world," Reid said in a statement. "Michael left behind some musical performances that we take great pride in presenting through the vision of music producers that he either worked directly with or expressed strong desire to work with. We are extremely proud and honored to present this music to the world."
The album hits stores on May 13.


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Wage Centralization, Union Bargaining, and Macroeconomic Performance »
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Volume/Issue: 2002/143
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): James McHugh
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 August 2002
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451856354.001
Keywords: wage centralization, wage, aggregate demand, monetary policy, Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General,
This paper addresses two questions. First, under what circumstances will a centralized wage-bargaining system offer higher output and employment than a decentralized system? Second, what is the relationship between...


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Series: Bill Hodges Trilogy #1
on 6/3/14
Genres: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover, Audiobook
Source: Amazon
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In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands.
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes.
In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the "perk" and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy.
Brady Hartsfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of highly unlikely allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.
Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil, from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.
I haven't had this much fun reading a book in a while. Mr. Mercedes is far from my usual read (in case you didn't know, this girl loves romance), but I fell in love with this wild ride from the opening scene, and I was totally captivated the whole ride through.
I read this last year and had no idea how to review it, but I'm making myself put thoughts to paper this time around. Mr. Mercedes is the definition of thrilling and entertaining, with enough thoughtfulness and introspection thrown in to make this more than a shallow read. Bill Hodges and Brady Hartfield are insanely compelling characters: smart, insightful, brilliant, and multi-faceted. Yes, I think the psycho is smart, insightful, brilliant, and multi-faceted. He has to be to make him unforgettable, and contrast him against the veteran cop who is a vigilante for justice, and you have a highly addicting read.
Mr. King's writing is rhythmic and distinctive; there are times it almost feels like a rap. I love it. This story unfolds at such a quick pace (something I think is helped by the short chapters), and 400+ pages fly by. I'm definitely on board for the other books in this series, if they're as fun as this one. I also need to read more mysteries and thrillers if they're as cool as this one.
I highly recommend this book, to all readers alike. Mr. Mercedes makes the mind race, the heart break, the soul shake, and even the stomach ache. It is a must-read, page-turner for fans of good books.
Audiobook notes: I thought the narrator was fantastic and did a great job with each voice, especially Brady's. I could hear the crazy. I loved his cadence and the mood he set with each scene. I listened on speed 1.25x.


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Poetry Translation Centre
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Poetry Translation Centre
The Poetry Translation Centre was established in 2004 by the British poet, Sarah Maguire, to translate contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America to a high literary standard.
Poetry thrives on translation: it's impossible to imagine English poetry without it. From Chaucer, via Wyatt, Dryden and Pope, to Ezra Pound's Cathay, translation has been its life-blood. But English poetry has yet to engage with the rich poetic traditions of the many languages now spoken in the UK; for Islamic communities in particular, poetry is a particularly significant art form. Our work aims to redress that deficiency. By making their poetry at home in English, we aim to celebrate the cultures of communities that are frequently neglected in the UK, inviting them to play a vital role in British cultural life.
To date, the Poetry Translation Centre has translated 165 poems by 46 poets from 22 countries written in 20 different languages - from Arabic to Zapotec - all of which can be read on our website at www. Poetrytranslation. Org
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Established: 2004
Registered Charity Number: 1123056
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So here we are with a mile stone announcing that it is just eight miles to London Bridge, and reminds us that for most of its history Eltham was a place in its own right and only relatively recently became a part of London.
Location; Eltham, London
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From the great years of Italian Neo-Realism to the groundbreaking pioneers of the Nouvelle Vague. From the discovery of films from countries beyond the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, to the first great exploration of cinema from the Far East.
Not forgetting the impressive line-up of directors for whom Locarno was their debut international stage: Milos Forman, Marco Bellocchio, Glauber Rocha, Raúl Ruiz, Alain Tanner, Mike Leigh, Béla Tarr, Chen Kaige, Aleksandr Sokurov, Atom Egoyan, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Abbas Kiarostami, Gus Van Sant, Pedro Costa, Fatih Akin.
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Among the cache were weapons, apparel, propaganda to indoctrinate children such as harmonicas or puzzles, military decorations, statues and busts of Hitler and other Nazi symbols, even a Nazi sundial and Ouija board. The minister of human rights and cultural pluralism of the nation, Claudio Avruj also addressed the press on Monday, thanking the authorities for their work in bringing the macabre Nazi collection to light and commending the decision to donate the artifacts to the museum.
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Uber Considering Leave of Absence for CEO Travis Kalanick, Report SaysEmil Michael , Uber's Senior Vice President for business and CEO Travis Kalanick's right-hand man, has left the company . Women in Comms' next networking luncheon is coming up on November 1 in London. Uber has sincefaced other problems, including an intellectual property dispute over self-driving auto technology with Waymo, the self-driving vehicle business that operates under Google's parent company.
Oil market fundamentals heading in right direction-Saudi's FalihLibya recently announced that it would unblock 160,000 barrels a day of production, which has been halted for almost two years due to a dispute with a German energy company. If OPEC wanted to push stockpiles back down to their five-year average, its official target, then the cartel would need to carry out much deeper cuts in its levels of production, the broker said in a research report published on Monday but dated 16 June.
Amazon Bought Whole Foods And Is Aiming For Slack, Who's Next?This could be good news even if you don't shop at Whole Foods . Grubhub shares traded at about $45.14 midday on Monday, up more than 4 percent compared to the previous close. Culpepper, who owns Kroger Co shares, said Kroger is the company that would be most likely improve Whole Foods' efficiency, but that it would have difficulty matching Amazon's cash offer.
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Ireland's new gay prime minister pressed the DUP on marriage equalityTaoiseach Leo Varadkar offered his condolences to the United Kingdom following the Grenfell tower block fire, as well as the numerous terror-related incidents that have affected the country. Some political leaders in Northern Ireland fear a tie-up between the two could unsettle politics in Britain's smallest province, where pro-British unionists share power with Irish nationalists following a 1998 peace deal that ended three decades of sectarian violence.
Hays Advisory LLC Boosts Stake in Intel CorporationThe consensus recommendation by Thomson Reuters analysts is Outperform and their mean rating for the stock is 2.37 on scale of 1-5. Rocky Brands, Inc.is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of footwear and apparel marketed under a portfolio of brand names, including Rocky, Georgia Boot, Durango, Lehigh, Creative Recreation and the licensed brand Michelin.
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Retired Justice Karnan arrested in CoimbatoreThe Supreme Court eventually found Justice Karnan guilty of contempt , and ordered his arrest on May 9. Justice Karnan was arrested by a team of West Bengal CID, with the help of the Tamil Nadu police, from a resort near a private university in Malumichampatty.


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At Izway Wines, our task is to gently guide our wines to bottle so they are an accurate reflection of both the site on which they were grown and the prevailing conditions throughout the growing season.
We utilise the abundant sunshine to generate power. Our winery is the only one in the Barossa Valley this is completely off-grid and our own vineyards are organically grown.
Visit our cellar door and taste wines of purity, energy and vitality that speak clearly of the region we call home. Soak up the vineyard views, chat to us the winemakers, enjoy a glass of wine by the fire and experience wine making first hand during harvest months.
Nestled in the undulating hills of the Western ridge of the Barossa Valley; Izway Wines is easily accessible from Adelaide with the Sturt Highway just over the hill. You'll find us halfway between Seppeltsfield and Greenock on the picturesque palm-lined Seppeltsfield Road.


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Cricket concert at nightfall in Marloth Park near Crocodile River, South Africa. Marantz PMD751, Vivanco EM35.
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The love of my life passed away last week after losing a very long and hard fought battle to cancer. It was a fight we kept private for roughly a year and then went public about it at the beginning of 2017 to drum up some financial support to extend treatments in hopes of beating cancer or extending her quality of life to live with it.
There were a number of times where I wanted to sit down and write about how I was feeling during our journey. I find it therapeutic to sit in front of the screen and work out thoughts on the page. I just happened to find it more therapeutic to spend every available second bedside as I saw the disease slowly shut down her facilities.
So.. I'm a week into the grieving processes. It's been really weird. There's a number of lose ends I need to still tie down: 1.) securing her ashes 2.) finalize ceremony arrangements with the Church. 3.) commit to seeing a grieving group/therapist.
I've also made the decision to return to work tomorrow... something I wanted to do after Rhiannon's ceremony and ideally something after I spending some time by myself outside of San Antonio - but the calendar isn't co-operating.
I wish I could truly describe how I'm feeling inside right now. I'm upset and in disbelief about her being gone about 80% of the time I'm awake. The other 20% of my time is truly peaceful... Rhiannon and I spent a lot of time communicating clearly to one another about our mortality so I know we expressed absolutely everything that we needed to one another. We couldn't ever find any peace in knowing that it wasn't enough time to express our love to each other but we knew how deep and genuine it was at the same time.
Last bit of advice, from me to you.
Love your lovers.


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A rare thing occurred today: I saw an article in the newspaper that made me proud to be a Christian. It was the article Environment a Growing Cause Among Christians from the Sunday edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. It tells the story of Leanna Stitt, a young woman who's learned to integrate her faith with her passion for the environment, and is now teaching others to do the same. Read this article and pray that God will bless her ministry.
Unfortunately, the fact that this story is considered "news" means that our culture has until recently seen people of faith as unconcerned with the well-being of the environment. Many Christians will argue about how the earth was created, but avoid caring for God's creation. But what if our Christian obligation to steward the earth has much deeper historical roots than today's environmental movement? What if concern for creation was actually something we Christians inherited from Judaism?
Earlier this month, I finished reading Jon Levenson's Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel. In it, he traces the development of the doctrine of an eschatological resurrection of the dead in the history of the Israelites. The doctrine was first explicitly articulated (i.e. Daniel 12:1-3) in the second century B.C.E, but has antecedents throughout all the Hebrew Bible, as Levenson works hard to demonstrate. Most interesting for me, though, was that in the final chapter of the book resurrection is connected to God working within creation to bring new life out of death within the created order. Resurrection is an environmental event.
Levenson writes, "the religion of Israel did not effect a radical separation between history and nature or pit the God of history against nature. Quite the opposite: the order that we call 'nature' (a term with no counterpart in biblical Hebrew) is closely bound up with God's action in history, and when his kingship, so often challenged in history, is finally secure, nature flourishes richly along with the human community that does his will" (Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel, [New Haven: Yale Univ. Press 2006] pp. 207-208). Chew on that quote for a while. The healing of creation, resulting in resurrection of the dead, is the ultimate consequence of the Kingdom of God coming on earth!!! Levenson goes on to speak of the image of the "Divine Warrior" in Jewish tradition, a messianic figure who brings the reign of God on earth, healing human disabilities and ultimately conquering death (pp. 207-216).
As Christians who believe that the Kingdom of God was inaugurated on earth in Jesus Christ, we have to recognize that our confession that Jesus is the Risen Lord implicitly demands that we seek the well-being of the earth over which He is Lord. Creation-care is inherently Christological: environmental activism is thus a practical outworking of a belief in the resurrection of Christ.


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According to customers of Amazon.com, "Energizing Brain Breaks" by David Sladkey is the top-rated book of "Brain Breaks," as of 2015. The book has received 4.8 out of five stars. "Energizing Brian Breaks" is also viewed favorably by GoodReads users and has received many positive reviews on its publisher's website.
All but one customer review posted on Amazon.com gives "Energizing Brain Breaks" five out of five stars. The critical review gives it three out of five stars and indicates that the book is a good resource.
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Margie Plus: Faux Leather Jacket
Whether you're plus size or not, every fall wardrobe needs a leather (or faux leather) jacket. My favorite faux leather style? It's a toss up between the classic moto and the cascade-front.
I love the functionality: it can be worn with simple skinny jeans, or over a glitzy dress. In this picture, I'm wearing an awesome Alfani faux leather jacket that's not only super-comfortable, but also a unique twist on the classic moto style.
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This 8 day tour, starts and ends in Zagreb, Croatia, and also visits Bosnia and Herzegovina. This tour passes through Greece, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. along the way visiting Ljubljana, Mostar, Postojna Cave, Plitvice Lakes National Park, Split, Sarajevo and much more.
Welcome to Zagreb! Upon arrival to airport, you will met and drive to your hotel and the remainder of your day is free to explore. Overnight Zagreb
Today, we will start our journey to Slovenia. Our first stop is Ljubljana, the pocket-sized capital of Slovenia, boasts a dazzling hilltop castle and green Ljubljanica River. Then we will head to Bled a fairy-tale place where we will have a Bled tour including a visit to Bled Castle.
After a short drive, we will reach the mysterious Postojna Cave with 20km of underground tunnels and chambers. An underground train will take you on a journey past breathtaking cave formations unlike anything you have ever seen. Then we will head to Plitvice.
After breakfast we will be heading to UNESCO world heritage site, Plitvice Lakes National Park. It is home for spectacular foaming waterfalls and 16 turquoise lakes which are home to number of wildlife species. Then we will drive to Split which is the largest ferry port in Dalmatia.
In the morning we will have walking tour of the city visiting, Diocletian Palace, a Roman imperial palace and UNESCO World Heritage site. We will walk the southern part of palace, the Bronze Gate, through the Vestibul of the Emperor's Palace, The Mausoleum, St. Dujam's Cathedral, Cathedral Treasury, Temple of Jupiter, St. Martin's Church, Golden Gate and conclude the tour at the fruit square and visit the Venetian castle, Milesi Palace and the Monument of Marko Marulic. Then we will head to most post popular image from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mostar Bridge.
Today we drive to Sarajevo, which is Bosnia and Herzegovina's small but vibrant capital. Twenty years after the end of a devastating war, Sarajevo is slowly asserting itself as one of Europe's most beautiful and interesting cities. The city mixes east and west dotted with minarets, mosques, bazaars and the aroma of coffee. Today we will have chance to visit the Tunnel of Hope, the National Museum and the Latin Bridge.
Today we will head back to Croatian capital, Zagreb by passing through rural Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. We will reach Zagreb in the afternoon and you will have chance to explore city at your own pace.
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LifeFlight Doctor reunites with car crash Mum in hospital
LifeFlight Critical Care Doctor Matthew Mulkeen has had a special reunion with RACQ LifeFlight Rescue patient Amber Lowe, who is still recovering in Nambour General Hospital after her car rolled over near Kilcoy, on Tuesday morning.
Dr Mulkeen presented Ms Lowe with three RACQ LifeFlight Rescue teddies to give to her young children who were in the car at the time but uninjured.
Ms Lowe's seven year old daughter Olivia dramatically rescued her two and three year old brothers from the back of the wreckage.
Dr Mulkeen said the young girl was very brave.
"She's crawled into the back of the vehicle, unclipped the two smaller kids from their capsules and removed them one by one," he said.
"I wish Amber a speedy recovery and I am very glad that her children are safe and well."
The accident occurred on Tuesday at about 7.45am off Gregors Creek Road at Woolmar.
The Sunshine Coast based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopter airlifted Ms Lowe to Nambour Hospital in a stable condition with suspected chest and arm injuries, and possible spinal injuries.
In the last financial year, RACQ LifeFlight Rescue helicopters have attended the scene of 238 motor vehicle accidents, including motorbike and quad bike accidents.


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Newell Rubbermaid
The 10-second takeaway
For the quarter ended Dec. 31 (Q4), Newell Rubbermaid met expectations on revenues and beat slightly on earnings per share.
Compared to the prior-year quarter, revenue grew slightly and GAAP earnings per share increased significantly.
Gross margins dropped, operating margins dropped, net margins grew.
Revenue details
Newell Rubbermaid logged revenue of $1.52 billion. The eight analysts polled by S&P Capital IQ expected to see net sales of $1.52 billion on the same basis. GAAP reported sales were 1.6% higher than the prior-year quarter's $1.50 billion.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Dollar amounts in millions. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
EPS details
EPS came in at $0.43. The 12 earnings estimates compiled by S&P Capital IQ predicted $0.42 per share. GAAP EPS of $0.35 for Q4 were 30% higher than the prior-year quarter's $0.27 per share.
Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.
Margin details
For the quarter, gross margin was 36.5%, 70 basis points worse than the prior-year quarter. Operating margin was 11.4%, 40 basis points worse than the prior-year quarter. Net margin was 6.7%, 130 basis points better than the prior-year quarter.
Looking ahead
Next quarter's average estimate for revenue is $1.35 billion. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is $0.34.
Next year's average estimate for revenue is $6.05 billion. The average EPS estimate is $1.82.
Investor sentiment
The stock has a four-star rating (out of five) at Motley Fool CAPS, with 309 members out of 337 rating the stock outperform, and 28 members rating it underperform. Among 134 CAPS All-Star picks (recommendations by the highest-ranked CAPS members), 129 give Newell Rubbermaid a green thumbs-up, and five give it a red thumbs-down.
Of Wall Street recommendations tracked by S&P Capital IQ, the average opinion on Newell Rubbermaid is outperform, with an average price target of $24.59.
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It's that time of the year again. In a few days I'll be leaving Belgium for almost a month. You can probably already guess it where I'll be going. Yes! Morocco, here I come. As every year me and my family go to our little house in Saidia, Morocco. Saidia is a little town with the most beautiful beach of Morocco (I think). If there is a beach than there are beach essentials. Everybody has it's own beach essentials, so do I (obviously!). Curious what mine are?
First of all: A beach bag! All my beach bags are in Morocco so I couldn't show them but these totebags from Moroccan musthaves are perfect for all your beach supplies! And it has a fun quote on each bag. WIN-WIN!
Next to a beach bag, a pair of sunglasses is a real must! You all know that right now the marble trend is a huge, massive, big thing in the fashion industry. So I couldn't resist ordering these new pair from Polette. They have a pretty marble print frame a cool reflecting mirror glasses in blue. Pretty cool huh?
Another big trend are the flashtattoos. Oh man, I looove them. A received a whole bunch of new flashtattoos from Style moi and you can get them too! The tattoos are totally free the only thing you'll have to do is sign-up and pay a small shipping cost. For that small amount you receive 4 sheets full of shiny flashtattoos! I know I'll be having fun with them this summer vacay.
Next to all the trends some other essentials like good reading material (The newest Aya lifestyle magazine, order HERE to see my styling work), a pretty nailpolish color from Pronails, a shiny pink lipgloss/lipbalm and (yes this might sound weird) selftanning cream. You're probably thinking like why the hell are you going to put on selftanning cream if you're going to the beach to tan? Well, I always become so white (more yellow tbh) during the winter and as you may know, Belgium doesn't have the best weather reputation. So to avoid looking as a snowman who reflects the sun of my skin, I like to give it a little tan. Just to feel more confident.
And to finish this big list. The last essential is a bikini or bathing suit. I got mine from Bikinisonline.eu. A few weeks (maybe months, oops) ago I was invited to an event of Bikinis online. They celebrated the opening of their first real (non-online) shop where they sell all year round bikinis. You can match your own bikini and sizes. Great for girls like me (who have a big butt and a small chest)! You can visit the shop in Schilde (Turnhoutsebaan 253A) do not worry if you live far away because you can still order your bikini online!
– Bag// Moroccan musthaves (find HERE)
– Sunglasses// Polette eyewear (find HERE)
– Flashtattoo's// Style moi (find HERE)
– Nailpolish// Pronails (find HERE)
– Bikini// Bikinis online (find HERE)


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14 oz. Mrs. Miller's Whole Wheat Noodles
3 cups fresh broccoli florets
1 can (14 oz.) water packed artichoke hearts, drained and chopped
2 cup fresh asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1 inch pieces
1/2 cup fresh parsley, finely chopped
3 cups chopped fresh spinach
1 can (6 oz.) sliced black olives
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup sour cream
1 pkg. (1 oz. powder) Spicy Ranch Dressing Mix
1 cup Mayonnaise
1/3 cup red wine vinegar
3/4 tsp. salt
Cook noodles according to package instructions. Rinse with cold water and drain. Toss with 2 Tbsp. olive oil. Set aside. Add remaining ingredients to noodles and toss.
Whisk dressing ingredients all together in a medium bowl until smooth. Pour over pasta and vegetables; toss to coat. Refrigerate several hours before serving.
Servings: 12


text: Hello! I agree. My current Linux development box does indeed make use of a custom kernel, and runs Slackware Linux, their release numbered 11.0 as it happens. So far I've not had any problems with building the tools for checking to see what he uses for the superio function part of his mother board. Incidentally this box is a Dell Optiplex GX150 and uses the I810 chipset family. Depending on my finances and a few other things, I might be able to find a second unit, and work on a complete port. The big headache will be in obtaining one. I believe I've seen them for sale via Weirdstuff. Especially since my projects during the coming year just might require the presence of a legacy free BIOS on board. Incidentally Marc where are you based? I am based in NYC, Astoria Queens in fact. -- Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net "The Force will be with you always." Obi-Wan Kenobi > -----Original Message----- > From: linuxbios-bounces at linuxbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces at linuxbios.org] On > Behalf Of Marc Karasek > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 2:56 PM > To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger > Cc: ron minnich; LinuxBIOS > Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] [Fwd: Re: Patch file for Fedora 8 compile problems] > > That would work, but this brings up a rather interesting point. What > are we todo about all the other Distros? At some point (if not > already) they will also face a similar issue. > > /********************* > Marc Karasek > MTS > Sun Microsystems > mailto:marc.karasek at sun.com > ph:770.360.6415 > *********************/ > > > > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > Hi Marc, > > > > how about using /etc/*fedora*-release? > > > > Regards, > > Carl-Daniel > > > > -- > linuxbios mailing list > linuxbios at linuxbios.org > http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios


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Break-ups are never easy.
My relationship is over.
There it is, I've said it. I feel completely sick doing so, but it needs to be said (or typed, whatever). So there it is, it's out there now.
And the worst thing about putting that out there, however, is that now you have to accept it.
It starts so beautifully.. you have this amazing relationship: a man who is a constant in your life for 4-5 years. Your best friend as well as partner. Someone you love to that blind stage where you couldn't possibly imagine it ending. Where you picture the marriage and the babies and your name with theirs tacked on the end. Your friends can't imagine you ever not being together. You do everything together. You talk for hours every night. Hate being apart. And then you think that soon you'll be moving in together and taking it to that next level.. and suddenly he's gone.
You're not quite sure how it happened, really. There was a break and he left the country (or the other way around) and there was this constant hope of getting back together. He talked about it, you talked about it.. you both wanted it on and off. And he explained that though he loved you, he wasn't really in love with you, especially not across an ocean.
There's the crying-your-eyes-out-every-night stage, the angry stage, even the begging stage. There's wanting nothing to do with him and then contacting him daily. There's trying to forget him and not wanting to lose him.
Then you start to see that it's over. He no longer wants you. You try to deny it to yourself for months and your friends just keep telling you – and when you finally get past the mucking around and realise that when he comes home, it's not to you – there's the crumble. Those last few bricks fall down.
So you start to rebuild. It takes a long time – brick by brick. And some days they don't stick for long and they fall down again. But the construction continues.
And the more you tell yourself that he's not coming back, the more it actually sinks in. And one more brick sticks in place. You consider trying to win him back, and you do your best to be who he fell in love with.
But it's not you. And if you got him back, you know that it wouldn't be the same. He's hurt you too deep and you couldn't let go.
So it's the end. And the beginning. Brick by brick.


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From France24:
Ukrainian communists on Wednesday unveiled a controversial monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, despite angry criticism from nationalists.
About 1,000 supporters of the Communist Party, including many elderly World War II veterans bedecked with medals, cheered as the monument was dedicated in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporozhia.
"Long live Stalin!" said one of the speakers at the festive, Soviet-style event, as the audience responded: "Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!"
Stalin is a deeply controversial figure who is accused of causing the deaths of millions of Soviet citizens in his brutal Gulag prison camps and through the forced collectivization of agriculture.
Nationalists in Ukraine — which won independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 — revile Stalin as the instigator of a 1930s famine which killed millions of Ukrainians.
But Stalin's supporters praise his role in the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.
Svoboda (Freedom), a Ukrainian nationalist group, had sought to hold a protest against the dedication of the monument, calling Stalin "the executioner of the Ukrainian people."
But Svoboda was denied permission by Zaporozhia authorities to hold its protest, the Interfax news agency reported.
The dedication comes three months after the election of Ukraine's new pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Yaunkovych has downplayed the importance of the Stalin statue, saying it was a communist initiative not backed by the government.
"Since this territory belongs to the communists, the consent of the city council was not needed," Yanukovych said last week in comments carried by the presidential press service.
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The monument is the first to Stalin to be erected in Ukraine since 1953.
Ukrainian Communist Party leaders said similar monuments will be erected in the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk, Odesa, and Lviv soon.
Here is a video of the unveiling – is this progress?
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Based on the Everyone Can Create project guides from Apple, learn how students can communicate, connect ideas, and tell stories with music using GarageBand on iPad. You'll record a reading of a favorite quote or lyric, then add music. Recommended for teachers of students ages 5–18. iPad devices will be provided, or bring your own. To get ready, join Music Skills: Getting Started with GarageBand.
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In November, we will photograph People! It sounds simple, but there is actually a lot to consider. Remember back to our February Light theme, as light in portraits is very important. You'll also want to remember to include catchlights in the subject's eyes. And finally, remember that it is important for the eyes to be in focus.
Taking a portrait of a person requires thought. Yes, we learned about light and composition, but this month we will explore a portrait tells a little something about the person. We can feel something, or learn something about the person, just by looking at the image.
What do you see here? What do you think when you view this image? Do we learn anything about the man with the hat by the clues in the background? We see two cameras pointed at him. Given the closeness of the cameras, and the fact that they don't have long telephoto lenses, we learn that this group of people surrounding him are likely with him, rather than paparazzi photographers who would likely be further away from him. We also learn that he is comfortable in front of the camera on the street out in public. Could he be famous? Maybe, but if he were, we would likely have seen those paparazzi lenses. Do you have an idea of who he is or what is happening? I hope you can gather some sort of impression!
If you'd prefer to take a traditional portrait, that is fine too. Practicing posing is just as important as telling a story!
As photographers, we are usually more comfortable being behind the camera than in front of it. We find reasons to not be in pictures, but we need to exist in them too.
In order to take a self-portrait, pull out your tripod and set it up. Stand where you will be in your photo and point the camera to the tripod and focus your camera on the tripod. Then turn your lens into manual mode. Remember where you stood, and then put your camera on the tripod. Make sure exposure is correct, and turn the camera into self-timer mode. If you have a remote, that would be handy. Otherwise press the shutter release button with a 10-second delay and run to the spot where you had been. If you have a remote, take it in your hand and go to the spot where you originally stood. Press the shutter release on the remote to take your picture.
Now that you know the "how", think about the "what". What do you want to say in your self-portrait? Do you want to show a trait? or an interest? or your favorite place? do you have something political to say? or do you want to express an emotion? The "what" is just as important as the "how" as it tells us something about you.
Here, I tried to show the shy side of me. I tilted my head down and to the side as a way to express my quietness. I also purposely put the light on the side that will be blocked by my hair to further emphasize the fact that I stay "in the shadows" so to speak. My arms are pulled in, which you can see just a little here, further protecting myself from being out in the open. I left my hair messy, because it's usually that way, and I'm wearing a very dark grey/almost black because, well, that's me! Finally, I added a small smile, to show that I am not mean, and taken together with all of the rest, that I am approachable, although I may not approach you. Do you see it? I hope so!
This topic is a little easier in that you don't have to be in front of the camera! But it's difficult because you need to photograph something that represents you. Again, think of a trait, an emotion, an interest, etc and then pick something that can express it.
What do you feel when you view this? I had just completed a long marathon of things that took months and months to end, and I was exhausted. And just before taking this image, I received bad news in regard to those things I had only completed. Can you tell how I was feeling?
Anonymity is a wonderful thing. It allows us to associate more with an image because we do not see the face of the subject. It lets our viewer into the image where he or she can relate. It can be accomplished many ways; try to be unique!
We are in our last season of the year. Let's see what it looks like by you!
I hope you found this information helpful. Please remember to post your images to the appropriate albums on Facebook no later than November 30, 2017. The albums are located here: 44/52 Portrait, 45/52 Self-Portrait, 46/52 Selfless Self-Portrait, 47/52 Anonymity and 48/52 Seasons Part 4.
I look forward to seeing your work.
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The Threadbare Cloak
Of Invisibility
Jim Kirwan
- Last night in the Principality of D.C. we saw a re-run from the fabled days of Camelot, being acted out by Trolls and Orcs, inside the hallowed halls of what was built to be the House of Government. Here assembled before the television cameras were the leaders and the principles of those medieval and Machiavellian Courts of Privilege that once attended to the whims of Kings and Conquerors. Last night's version of this gathering of the dead and dying only clarified the key challenge before the populace today.
- The challenge on the lips of the young and naive is "CHANGE," but what this convocation proved beyond all doubt, is that everyone associated with that word is already a part of what is being rebelled against. Those soon to be chosen ones were there, or they were so close to this power that their spirits hung there just above the gloom that overlooked the scene. Throughout what follows it must be remembered that this nation was supposedly founded on the idea of "The CONSENT of the Governed," as opposed to our enslavement to secrets and to newly classified "rules of law."
- The 'consent' of the governed has been scraped, and replaced with a political lust for change! Yet those who now say that they embrace CHANGE, are lying-because we are where we are-because of what all those people in that room last night have helped this conspiracy to accomplish.
- What have they done? It's more than spending *A Million Dollars a Minute* on wars that they continue to lose, while they remain unwilling to include either the unemployed or the seniors, in the petty bribe they want to "give" the people. The victims of these medieval co-conspirators have already been saddled with $400.000.00 in debt per household: and households of one are responsible for the whole amount if they are both a senior and unemployed. There will be NO bribe for us it is our duty to just die or disappear. With inflation now pegged at 34% and the cost of living increase now at 2.3% it becomes very difficult to live. But the rest of you must continue to obey (because that's what the bribe is for).
- Where did all this begin? It began a very long time ago and it was known as the Old World Order. Its roots go very deep into the history of humanity, all the way back to ancient times, but their goals have always remained the same. Power and money are the totems they defend, and they have become very adept at staying hidden among the populations of the countries where they've prospered. They have many, many names. Their visible fronts are secret societies as small as Skull & Bones, and they go all the way to the huge and unimaginably wealthy that are the Bilderbergers, the Trilateralists, and the Committee of 300, the Council on Foreign Relations, AIPAC, and on and on. These are the provincial fiefdoms of the continuing-medieval rulers that have become that cancer that has invaded most governments in the world today.
- This explains why such a huge percentage of the populations around the world oppose what we are doing, yet their rulers continue to stand with the New World Order and continue to hope for admission to their inner circles. The global fraternity is in reality the Old World Order that is desperately in need of a brand new face hence "the New World Order." To usher in this brand new face, the Conspirators decided to cynically use the one word that signifies "new hope."
- 'CHANGE' is what is needed, but that cannot happen when all the agents that say they will bring it to America - are part of the many secret clubs that comprise the body-politic of the Old-new- World! This gives 'cynical' a whole new meaning; but their desperation to stay in power has forced them into that corner. They're not dead and they know they are being threatened with exposure - which only makes them more dangerous. Watching Kennedy's face last night endorsing Bomb-Bomb-Obama, I couldn't help but cringe. This man has been an insider all his life, and he's holding up this runt with nothing but a face, as the savior of the nation! I'm a thirty-second cousin of the Kennedy's, and that is a very- flawed dynasty at the very least. But Kennedy and MLK along with Lincoln and some others have died because they opposed this New-Old World Order each in his own degree. More will no doubt die, but what must be stopped is this farce that claims to be the government of the United States - because most of them serve only themselves, and they have been there forever.
- Look at the rigged elections, the virtual impossibility of ever overthrowing an elected office-holder, given the money and the connections that must be fought. Even after that, there are still the hurdles of the rigged election "machines" no way that this can ever end in any other way than those that have selected the winner well before hand - have pre-determined - "elections" are a joke. And even if by some miracle that failed - there is always the Electoral College to frustrate any Outsider from ever getting in. This is strictly an insiders club. They own all the money, and the media, and when they run for office they reap the profits which the media makes from all that campaign cash that you gave them along with all those billions in corporate cash. "Change"? That's only a word, and in the mouths of those already in this government, it will turn to ash upon their lips, before anything is ever done about it in the real world of everyday life in this ruin! Have you seen what just happened to Citigroup! (1)
- To fully understand this scheme you need to know that there has always been only one ruling class. This 'class' is modeled on the Kingdoms and Conquerors of old, where all power resided in the strength and wealth of absolute rulers. This power is applied through the robber-barons, and the Knaves and the Princes whose powers come directly from the thrones of the most powerful. All those beneath this level are either serfs or slaves. Women and children have no rights, and the judges serve only their masters which are not the law, but power only. The people's representatives are just for show, with the exception of a few dozen, they all serve their Real-Masters as well. The "LAW" was perverted long ago, and no longer has any bearing upon the real questions that we face today. The same is ultra-true of anything calling itself a political party.
- These Questions have been out there now for seven long years without any answers: that should tell you something about the reality of what we face. Yet instead of demanding answers the herd keeps trying to hire someone else to solve their problems. This will not happen, because all the candidates they say they might want to hire are already committed to the other side. Mostly they work directly for the illuminati in one of it's many forms: from what's left of the Holy Roman Empire, and the remaining vestiges of the Inquisition (just re-adopted by the Bushwhackers) in tandem with the Zionist government of Israel as the new Plan to kill the Middle-East and rid it of Arabs and Muslims alike is carried out.
- How were they able to do this? It wasn't really difficult. They simply used us all. They turned our trusting beliefs inside out and used the language to deceive us into thinking they were not only on our side, they even volunteered to lead us so in the end it was we who made them our leaders, and it is now 'we' who must dethrone them!
- The literal "how' of this is a bit more complex, but fascinating. In every age the 'fears' of the day and time were used to force the public to comply or to flee (back when there were still places to flee to). Whether people chose to stay beneath the iron heels of tyranny (they made good slaves or outright prisoners if they stayed): or if they chose to flee, then the adventurers became their surrogates (willing or not) in the lands to which they migrated.
- In the end the conspiracy never really had an equal, because it really has been only one world all along. When colonists came here (to ostensible freedom), part of the price was to do to the population here what had been done to them for centuries: Which was to conquer, convert, or kill them: one by one. When this was accomplished, the colonists saw only the new land, and the new promise for a real opportunity to put the tyranny of the Old World behind them. But this too was a lie, because the purse-strings from those corrupted Empires stretched all the way across the Atlantic: and the bonds of old-world-capital were never severed: So even our own beginnings were a mega-lie.
- Fast forward then, to the rise of the robber-barons, to those unchecked Capitalists hell-bent on recreating the powers of the medieval empires of old. While this fledgling new tyranny was being shaped; an international rebellion was being formed by workers and serfs in Russia against the Czar and against unchecked Capitalism everywhere. The American Giants of Industry were terrified that such a concept might soon spread back to America; where their policies had created yet another depression.
- Along came Roosevelt and his New Deal. At least his bribe had some real meat in it, jobs, wage guarantees, social security, a Department of Labor, all sorts of things to make the American workers forget about any romantic ideas of joining with workers everywhere, to overthrow the tyranny of unchecked capital and wanton wealth. This was a tyranny that had the working-world by the throat and was threatening to kill them all. The New Deal and the Communists combined forces and killed the idea of anything like co- operation between working people everywhere, and instead each side pursued its own version of the coming Century of the Self. (2)
- The New Deal stopped the Old World for awhile, but the Conspirators were resolute and began almost immediately to plan their revenge. With the end of WWII (the second war they had planned and executed) they began to put the tools in place to end the idea of America for all time. In 1950 Harry S. Truman created the National Security Council, the CIA and introduced Israel into the community of nations, on behalf of the British, and to the horror of the Palestinians that had no voice in the matter at all. The NSC took over governance from the congress: which is why we can have a congress that can now keep their meetings and their hearings secret because they are not the ones that decide anything, they are only the window-dressing the NSC is running the country, and does not take questions from the people that they dictate to.
- Reagan, altered FEMA under something called The Armageddon Plan (scrubbed from the web), to provide camps for those that disagree with the above concepts, and underground cities to protect the overlords of the Old-new Order from the people. Since the days of the Great Communicator, the days of the American people have become more than numbered-they have been recorded, tabulated, spun and mutilated by the Conspirators and that shall continue until there is nothing whatever left of this shell that used to be the USA. This is just the template for take-over, the political framework upon which the Orcs and Trolls of Treason can play out their remaining cards upon the all too pliable public that have become nothing but a herd of passive sheep.
- It is one thing to alter the form of any government but to succeed, the thoughts and minds of the people must be altered as well-this is how that was undertaken!
- Beginning about a hundred years ago with Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays, the Century of the Self got its start. This began as an advertising and marketing tool, to teach people to want things they did not need, and it grew into a major weapon in the mass-marketing of mind control, which the Conspirators used heavily to pull people away from community and even family-to coerce a new and deadly strain of arrogance and greed into an otherwise viable society. The politicians and the military in their respective roles in service to the Conspirators quickly put these ideas to work for the destruction of America and the conquest of the planet.
- As their commercially phenomenal profits began to soar, (the Conspirators also-known-as the Corporatocracy), began to use these new concepts directly to manipulate the global population. As the Old World Order began integrating these principles into politics and global diplomatic policies around the world-huge new vistas for total domination seemed possible. Several areas were used to experiment on the populations. Central and South America was always handy, but the Conspirators wanted to see how the world might react to something far more brutal: and Henry Kissinger found just the place for this to be implemented. It was called East Timor, an outlying province of Indonesia. It was here that Kissinger brought Gerald Ford to begin to play god in the Far East. (3)
- Basically the answer to their question was that the world didn't care-and so it began! This actually is what enabled Viet Nam to be undertaken: believing as Conspirators did that Americans would not bother about foreign wars, providing that they didn't have to watch them every night on the evening news! Hence the completely different Media policies when it came time in 1991 to begin the War on Iraq. Here is what we did and are still doing now in that obscenity we call the War on Iraq. (4)
- In 2005 I did an image of what I believed was The New World Order but I was wrong Dead Wrong! This is what they want you to think about them, and NOT who they really are! They are the Old World Order, using this concept to terrify and control what's left of us to conform to their every whim and secret contract!
- What they are is just the old world order, composed from the shreds of royalty that the new world rebelled against. Today they have re- packaged their old trappings into a new kind of royalty: an elitism born to power and control that has attempted to hide its true nature in a cloak of Invisibility. This cloak until recently was virtually impenetrable. When they over-reached on 911, and again in the insupportable invasion of Iraq, their vulnerability began to show.
- How was it possible to hide for so long! It was easy, once they had the cover of the Century of the Self, because people stopped paying attention. But just to add a bit more insurance, they tried a little experiment, something akin to Pavlov and his dogs. They created a little show in Washington around the red-scare in the 1950's-and they enlisted Joe McCarthy to be the public voice of fear and retribution, in his brave new quest to root out the communists in our midst! This too worked very well, and so began the crucifixion of the arts. Writers, artists, poets and musicians were easy prey. Film-makers, screen-writers, and Directors were a bit more difficult but were controllable through distribution links and government pressures. By the end of the 1950's a full scale war upon the arts was on!
- By the 1970's arts programs in most public schools had been discontinued along with civics and anything else that might really challenge students, and this opened the door to unbridled domination of the unimaginative and of the fallow-of-thought for total control.
- With the death of imagination and creativity in the arts America was soon turning out morons who thought they had an education, but instead of teaching themselves how to think and how to question; all these idiots learned was how to follow orders. It became a very sterile world. A College education was virtually free in California back in the day and then with the GI Bill - now it can cost more than some houses used to cost. But since there are no jobs, there is no point anymore to committing to all those student loans, especially given the new financing racket that the student loan business has become.
- The Century of the Self succeed beyond anyone's wildest dreams, and with that success, virtually all resistance to most forms of thought control and mind manipulation just faded into black-which brings us the end of what we thought of as our country. What can you do to survive? You must teach yourself to Question everything, not just in books or news releases-but on the streets and in the world: because this is the only way that the truth can be found. Once you know the truth, then and only then can you be truly free!
- The alternative is total subservience to the shriveling wraiths that are the deadly embodiment of the original Conspirators. Existing in that world you will have nothing. All questions are heresy all doubt is suspect and any language skills at all will soon be outlawed. Survival in that world is not guaranteed, but if you chose to live on your knees and give unshrinking support to those walking cadavers who say they are in charge of everything: And IF you swear undying loyalty to the New Old World, and to every crime they continue to commit-then maybe they'll let you live- the choice is up to you. Because that's where we are today!
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- (1) Citigroup's Self-Immolation and the Beginning Eclipse of American Style Capitalism
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-j-learsy/citigroups- selfimmolati_b_83518.html
- 2) The Century of the Self
- http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=8339
- 3) Massacre: The Story of East Timor
- http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/28/massacre_the_story_of_east_timor
- 4) Bush's Holocaust of Iraq Operation Desert Slaughter
- http://www.rense.com/general80/biggest.htm
- A Million Dollars a Minute
- http://www.rense.com/general79/tmrm.htm
- Be Angry at the Sun
- http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2007/art102.htm


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Sex in healthy relationships is about not making each other wrong. Making each other wrong is like the buzz kill of sex. When your partner feels wrong or ashamed, he or she is not going to feel turned on. It's so easy to blame your partner for what is not going right in bed, but the truth is that blame just makes everything worse. Is you want to have great sex in a healthy relationship, ask yourself this:
Would you rather be right or be happy?
If you dissect the root of almost every fight – one or both parties is determined to be right. In fact sometimes we're so determined to be right that happiness or the health of the relationship is our least concern. Winning the argument, or being able to say "I told you so," or getting the other side to "admit" that you're right, or give in to your point of view, are all versions of wanting to be right.
We all like being right. In fact sometimes I wonder if there isn't some organ in our primitive brain that they haven't identified yet that is our "control freak" zone. This squirrelly little trouble maker is determined to be right at the expense of logic, kindness, harmony…and most importantly great sex. Healthy sex and love relationships are about giving up the addiction to being right.
I guess no one hires a sex therapist to tell them how great their sex lives are, so by the time we see couples, they're feeling like their sex lives are on life support. The opening words Katherine presented me with in our first session were: "Our sex life is all wrong." She could just barely contain the words she was thinking, "And it's all Tom's fault!"
Sometimes when couples hit this impasse, they have a big investment in finding the other partner wrong. It's his fault or it's her fault that we don't have a great sex life. It's just so much more fun to make the other person wrong than it is to take responsibility for making something right.
The only cure to this lethal-to-your-love-life habit is to discover that it is more fun to find the other person right than it is to find them wrong. It feels better. And finding your partner right leads to more right behavior from both of you, and improves both of your sex and love relationships.
We were very careful not to argue with any of the fourteen-years-of-marriage-list of reasons Katherine presents as to why their lousy sex life is all Tom's fault. First, because at that moment she is more attached to being right than she is to hearing any new information, and second, she is more committed to being right than she is to finding a solution.
It's so easy to ruin your sex and love relationships. All you have to do is find your partner wrong. That's the fastest way to ruin sex in healthy relationships. Making someone wrong is done by judging, nagging, blaming, belittling, abusing, criticizing, and saying anything that makes them feel like a loser. Complain out loud.
Or inside your own brain. Make sure they know how unhappy you are. Play the role of victim. Assume it will never get better because it's (person's name) fault. Never ask for what you want, but always blame them for why you are not getting what you want. And always assume that you are right.
Making someone feel wrong makes them feel defeated. When we feel defeated we are less willing to try again – which means less willing to try to please your partner sexually. When we feel like a loser, we are less able to succeed. So becoming a loser becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy, ruining your sex and love relationships.
This is the cycle of why partners stop trying to do all the nice things they used to do in courtship when they felt they had a chance of pleasing you. When you feel you can please your partner, you feel like a winner – and that feels so good you are delighted to do more of it!
You probably have done all the research you need for one lifetime to know the experience of losing. You're ready to try something different. After all it's much more fun to have pleasure now than to have an epitaph reading "She was so right. Dead right."
After listening to Katherine's list, and watching Tom squirm, we asked Katherine; "What would it take for you to drop all charges and all complaints against Tom?" She didn't like that idea. But I explained: "Men have an allergic response to being wrong. It's actually a healthy self-preservation reaction. When they are made to feel wrong, it weakens them. So shutting down emotionally or physically is definitely a survival response.
And when men feel belittled they can't really please the woman. Or don't want to please her because they feel hurt. Or won't please her because they feel mad. I explained to Katherine that if she keeps making Tom feel wrong he will find somebody who finds him right. Most affairs are about people seeking someone who makes them feel right."
The stunned silence told us we had hit home. We asked Katherine what the pay-off was in making Tom wrong. After awhile she realized that she had this idea that if she didn't keep "on him" he wouldn't change. Tom chimed in finally, saying he didn't want to change because then it would mean she was right.
But this time they both could see the impasse they had co-created. They were both strong people and neither wanted to "give" in. Because neither Tom or Katherine wanted to be wrong which sets up that cycle of losing.
So we sent them home with homework. Give up making the other person wrong for seven days. Just as an experiment. Instead start making lists about what you find right about the person. Start with tiny things and work your way up to character traits. Maybe what brought you together in the first place. Make sure that you tell each other what you truly find right about them. Finding your partner right leads to more delight in sex and love relationships.
Tom and Katherine weren't all that hopeful when they left, but they were determined to try. What they found was that when they started reversing the flow of energy back to positive reinforcements, they began to start enjoying each other. When they came back the following week, they had had sex twice. This was the first time they had had sex in three years.
Once they began to find each other right (in many areas, not just sex) instead of finding everything wrong, the delight in each other began to emerge. Just feeling happy with each other opened them up to wanting to express amorous feelings. Enjoying each other once again led them naturally to each other's arms.
The Pleasure Line: To add more pleasure and delight in your sex life, find your partner right.
Sex And Love Relationships, Exercise Level One:
It is a self-defeating habit to find any part of your life wrong, because it keeps you in the victim zone and gives you little to no energy to change. Today, notice what you are making wrong. Just notice what you are disagreeing with. All the little complaints, the person at the coffee counter moving too slowly, the traffic light turning red when you are in a hurry, your boss or co-workers who always… (fill in the blank) your mate…(fill in the complaint of choice).
The point here is how it affects you to find someone else wrong! Maybe they're wrong, maybe they're right – it doesn't matter – what matters is how this thought process ruins your day. When you are finding things wrong you are in a state of resistance, which is the opposite of feeling joy and delight. Your job today is to take your focus off of what you believe is wrong. Just turn your attention to what is right. When you find it right, you turn on more delight.
Sex And Love Relationships, Level Two:
Next you want to direct this process to issues of your love life. At first this is just an internal process of self-examination. Notice how you are making yourself or your partner wrong when it comes to your love life. Practice switching this mental process. Put on your "right" colored glasses and begin to notice what is right about yourself (especially about your body!) and about your partner.
Remember, we are disengaging from the attachment to finding wrong, and we are teaching our brain how to have more pleasure by focusing on what is right about our sex-life. If you have a lot of accumulated "wrongs" in your mental file, you will have to start with small things such as "It's great that I have sexual desire." Or "I have a great imagination." Or "I have a great capacity for pleasure."
It really doesn't matter how great or how small the subject you start with, the mental benefit of switching works just as well on small issues as on larger ones. It may be easier to switch if you start with smaller issues. Even if you have to start with "negatives" such as "At least I'm not sexually abusing children and small animals…" whatever it takes for you to switch your focus to what is positive.
Sex And Love Relationships, Level Three:
After you've spent some time internally cleaning up your wrongs, you begin to erase the (conscious or unconscious) list of wrongs. And you get the benefit of having a mental clean slate. It can be like having a whole new partner when you drop the mental history you have been carrying.
So, with your old "new" partner, you get to start with a clean slate. You may not believe you can do this. But if you are willing to believe, it can be true. I have seen people clean the slate of affairs and betrayals and deadly sexual routines. If you are willing to find it right, you can have more delight!
So, now with your "new" approach, you are going to seek delight by finding everything right. Begin this new courtship getting to know each other's bodies and pleasure places as if for the first time. Begin a new process of finding what brings each other delight. And when something pleases you, be sure to let your partner know how good it feels!
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Mathematics Mastery are partnering with Assembly to offer powerful assessment analytics without requiring schools to waste precious time and energy on avoidable data-entry tasks. Here's their story...
Like so many school improvement initiatives, Mathematics Mastery really care about data. They're a professional development programme that partners with schools to deliver world-class maths teaching. And they know that good use of data can empower schools to improve.
Vijaya Ravindran, project manager at Mathematics Mastery, has two main reasons for collecting and analysing data. The first is to help teachers gather formative data so they are empowered to understand how their children are learning in the classroom. The second is to collect aggregated and anonymised data so that they can report to stakeholders, offer enhanced analysis to schools, and learn how to improve the programme.
However, Mathematics Mastery have also experienced the challenges of turning this vision into working processes.
Their secondary programme has a formative test at the start and end of each half-termly module, so that schools can spot and act on gaps in pupil knowledge. There's also an end-of-year test, to assess cumulative progress. But when they looked into how they could collect and analyse this data online, Vijaya found plenty of obstacles in their way.
"Initially we tried to handle assessment data through a combination of our in-house Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, Salesforce, and spreadsheets. However, we found this very time-consuming: data collection was quite onerous, and required teachers to re-enter data in our system that they already had in their MIS (Management Information System). We had to constantly monitor things, and even then it was hard to persuade schools to do things the way we'd planned. So we knew we had to find a way to make teachers' lives easier, and improve what we were offering them."
That's when Mathematics Mastery and Assembly started working together.
The Mathematics Mastery team had already decided to develop an online gradebook offering easier data entry and analysis on the fly. But to give a good experience to schools, they needed the product to take a feed of key data from a school's MIS. This would allow the gradebook to be configured automatically with student names, teaching groups, demographic information and so on. Not only would this reduce the school admin burden, it would greatly enhance the analytics capabilities of the product. They also wanted to be able to aggregate and analyse anonymised data from their schools in a robust and secure way.
For Joshua Perry, Director of Assembly, it made sense for Mathematics Mastery to use the Assembly platform API to provision their gradebook with MIS data:
"Our platform is built with school improvement programmes in mind, so we've done lots of work to be able to offer consistent, normalised data in areas like teaching groups, student demographics and assessment."
We were also able to help Mathematics Mastery to anonymise and aggregate their programme data for enhanced school reporting and to analyse the programme's effectiveness.
All secondary schools on the programme get access to the Mathematics Mastery gradebook as part of their subscription. This means they're able to use data to improve their mathematics teaching practices with the minimum of administrative hassle.
According to Vijaya, the impact has been considerable.
"At Mathematics Mastery our ambition is to be an evidence-based programme. That's something we aim for in everything we do, from curriculum design through to assessment. It's a core part of how we empower teachers to be the best they can be. It's about how we convey skills and knowledge through training and mentoring. But to achieve this we need the right kind of tools for data collection and analysis. Assembly has made this possible for us, and our programme is better for it."
Note: both Assembly and Mathematics Mastery are ventures incubated with the support of Ark, the education charity.
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