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About Us
Good Shepherd is a Purpose-Driven church. This means we work to seek Christ's purpose and vision in everything we do and offer.
Our purpose is to be a church where:
"Lives are changed in Christ, life's purpose discovered, and service begun."
Being Purpose-Driven means that we follow a model designed to lead individuals to spiritual maturity and our church toward health. It is a unique, biblically-based approach to establishing, transforming and maintaining a balanced, growing and vibrant congregation that seeks to fulfill the God-given purposes of:
Fellowship: God's people growing in relationships together
Discipleship: Learning, practicing and living the Biblical principles of
Service: Ministering to our friends and family in Christ
Evangelism: Reaching out to those in need and sharing Christ's love
Worship: Glorifying God in the way we live our lives
At first glance, the Purpose-Driven concept may seem to reflect the values and expectations of the typical congregation, just with a different vocabulary. Wouldn't most churches claim that they already nurture mission, worship, fellowship, discipleship, and ministry?
The key difference is that in the Purpose-Driven paradigm, church leaders insist that the accomplishment of the five purposes drive the process of making difficult decisions about priorities and the allocation of resources. All too often, factors other than the five biblically-based purposes determine the outcome of important decisions, with the effect that the faithfulness and effectiveness of the congregation is compromised.
All too often, congregational or denominational traditions drive decision-making. It's been said that the epitaph on the tombstone of many dying churches will be, "We never did it that way before!" Obviously, many traditions are essential. The Bible is a written tradition! And, many non-essential traditions remain valuable and meaningful. For example, many persons, even younger persons, don't find that contemporary music facilitates their own worship of God. The key in evaluating traditions is to strive to be good theologians, always listening to God speaking through scripture in order to discern what cannot change, as we seek to discern whether faithfulness to Christ compels us to change a cultural tradition when it serves as a barrier in the quest to fulfill the church's purpose. Among the traditions that faithful congregations should continually evaluate are the musical selections, the scheduling of services and activities, our dependence on long-time programs like "Sunday School", and the church's manner of organizing and empowering leaders.
All too often, churches are personality-driven. It's what a particular leader or family prefers, or what a popular staff person likes to do, that remains the programmatic priority, siphoning off precious resources of time, people, and money from what might best accomplish the biblical purpose.
All too often, churches are program-driven. Instead of being evaluated and modified, or even replaced, programs most suited to a past culture or schedules are continued merely because of inertia and/or nostalgia.
Many congregations are in fact, tradition, program, or personality-driven, regardless of claims to the contrary. The remedy is to be intentional in naming the church's core values, and asking persons to embrace those values as God makes them ready.
Our commitment to engage in evangelistic Mission means that we seek to prepare each member for the joyful experience of leading persons into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It means that we seek to develop a small number of large-scale "bridge events", which respond to the perceived needs of our unchurched neighbors, and tend to connect them to the Good Shepherd Church family. It also means that we shall seek to develop significant mission projects, locally and globally, which not only share Christ's love, but also develop greater awareness and depth within the participants.
Our commitment to nurture genuine Worship has led us to continue offering services that blend contemporary and traditional music, as well as a service which features contemporary music only, to facilitate many persons into the whole-hearted worship of God. Not only is such worship meaningful for members, it helps seekers to grow in their awareness of God, and prepares them to enter an authentic relationship with Christ and the church. We've also become more purposeful in the way we craft messages. We often include bulletin inserts for note taking during sermons, and utilize multimedia for illustrations, video-clips and PowerPoint note taking guides.
Our commitment to develop an authentic experience of Christian Fellowship means that membership classes emphasize the need for persons to make a commitment to having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and relating to other Christians in a small group or class. Joining the church involves the embrace of a "Membership Covenant" which lists Good Shepherd's expectations for members. By focusing our energies on developing meaningful small group options (called Groups in the Grip of GRACE), the majority of members now experience authentic Christian fellowship on a regular basis.
Our commitment to nurture meaningful Discipleship has led us to phase out traditional Sunday School classes for adults. In as much as small groups have become a more meaningful experience of membership, Good Shepherd's classes now focus on teaching biblical and theological truth without the distractions inherent when traditional "Sunday School" classes attempt to nurture fellowship. Good Shepherd's stewardship programs are now focused on the individual's need to give, rather than the church's need for money.
Our commitment to equip members for Ministry means that we take the time to help individuals discover their own call to ministry, and when they discern it, to ask them to embrace a ministry covenant, which gives clear expectations and guidelines for their work. Without apology we ask every member-minister to cultivate a "servant's heart", an attitude of humility, that welcomes the opportunity to be trained and coached for improved effectiveness. Because we seek to equip ministers for dozens of vital ministries, it's necessary that Good Shepherd's ministers agree to a shared set of values and boundaries, so that growth isn't slowed by confusion or conflict.
Purpose-Driven staffing means that those of us who are ministry staff see our primary task is to create ministry networks, train newly emerging member ministers, and coach them in their work. With such a philosophy, the church can, as Rick Warren claims, "grow larger and smaller, at the same time."


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The Huskies finished 3-9 in 2013, their third straight losing season, but there were several bright spots down the stretch. For starters, the team won its last three games. They also appear to have found their future quarterback in Casey Cochran. And Wednesday, redshirt junior linebacker Yawin Smallwood and senior defensive tackle Shamar Stephen were named to the inaugural American Athletic Conference All-Conference team.
Details via the AAC press release: Smallwood's honor comes after he we was named UConn's Defensive Player of the Year earlier this week. The linebacker started all 12 games for UConn and led the team with 118 tackles, currently placing him at 22nd in the nation and third in the conference with 9.8 stops per contest. Smallwood also picked up 9.5 TFL and a team-high four sacks, adding an interception, nine pass breakups and a pair of forced fumbles to an all-around dominant season.
Smallwood was honored by the conference two other times this season, earning a Weekly Honor Roll nod on Sept. 23 and Defensive Player of the Week honors on Nov. 25. He was also named CBSSports.com Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 23 after compiling 13 tackles with a sack and forced fumble against then-No. 14 Michigan on Sept. 21. His Player of the Week nod from The American came after sealing UConn's win at Temple on Nov. 23 with a go-ahead 59-yard interception return for a touchdown.
Smallwood notched double-digit tackles in six games, including a career-high 16 vs. Towson on Aug. 29, and at least seven in four others. He is a repeat member of the All-Conference First Team after being named to the All-BIG EAST First Team in 2012.
Stephen adds his All-Conference honor to the Team MVP he received earlier this week. The defensive tackle was a stalwart on the UConn front, starting all 12 games and compiling 60 tackles, including 10 for loss and three sacks. The UConn captain finished third on UConn in total tackles while leading the squad in tackles for loss and finishing second in sacks. Stephen had a career-high eight tackles vs. USF on Oct. 12 and finished with multiple tackles for loss in three games, including a career-high 2.5 against Buffalo on Sept. 28.
Smallwood has announced that he will enter the NFL Draft this spring, which means that neither he nor Stephens, who has used up his eligibility, will be available next season for new coach Bob Diaco, the former Notre Dame defensive coordinator hired Thursday to replace Paul Pasqualoni.

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PSG confirm massive sponsorship deal
Paris Saint-Germain have officially announced their sponsorship deal with the Qatar Tourism Authority which will net the Ligue 1 champions up to 200 million euros a year.
Mooted last season, the agreement was publicly confirmed on Tuesday making PSG the first club to be sponsored by a state.
Income from the deal, which will reportedly be retroactively paid back to 2012, is said to increase incrementally year-on-year through to a reported maximum of 200 million euros come 2016.
"Our association with the Qatar Tourism Authority allows us to give ourselves the means necessary for the development of the club in the direction that we envisage," PSG's CEO Jean-Claude Blanc said.
It clearly benefits the image, as well as the results, of the club. QTA's support enables us to offer our supporters a level of performance in keeping with their expectations and our ambitions."
The sum will significantly help offset PSG's annual budget, which this year totals 430 million euros, though the club will also have to provide details of the agreement to UEFA before European football's governing body takes it into account with regard to the club's obligations to meet Financial Fair Play regulations.
As part of the agreement, Laurent Blanc's squad will be able to use Qatar's high-performance ASPIRE centre for this year's winter training camp, the third successive year the French club will have travelled to the Gulf state during their winter break, to prepare for a high-profile friendly with Real Madrid in Doha on Jan. 2, which will launch the second half of their season.
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the noble art (of self-defense)
the noble art (of self-defense)
The sport of boxing. Any two yahoos can get into a fistfight, but it takes real skill, dedication, and training to learn the noble art of self-defense. He spent most of his career training in the noble art before joining the world of mixed martial arts last year.
the noble artboxing. chiefly archaic
A fuller version of this phrase is the noble art (or science ) of self-defence .


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Steps to Start Your SkillsUSA Year!
Want to ensure a great start to your school year? One that will engage students in program opportunities that will increase their technical, workplace and personal skills? SkillsUSA programs are integral to the career and technical education classroom and lab.
It is the perfect fit to support you academically and provide students with leadership opportunities. The following steps will ensure that you successfully start the school year and engage students in leading the chapter.
Want more info on the steps to starting your SkillsUSA year? Check out your Membership Kit. Need a kit? Email our office.
- Secure SUPPORT from you school administration
- CONNECT to your state director and state office
- INCORPORATE SkillsUSA into your syllabus, and include Membership Form, Parent Letter and SkillsUSA Brochure that showcases the value of SkillsUSA for students
- Create excitement and AWARENESS by showing students the SkillsUSA kickoff videos
- Select your first MEETING date, and advertise the meeting
- Hold officer ELECTIONS, select committee chairs and dive into the Program of Work
- Introduce SkillsUSA Points for Professional Development and Leadership to earn RECOGNITION
- Display the SkillsUSA THEME poster, Educated and Skilled to Lead America
- Display the SkillsUSA PROGRAM poster that includes all of the exciting ways in which students can get involved in SkillsUSA
- SHOW the SkillsUSA membership PowerPoint presentations during an open house
- INCLUDE administrators in your early chapter success
- REGISTER yourself and your students as members of SkillsUSA
Statement of Assurance
Every Advisor must complete this form and submit it to SkillsUSA Arizona once per school year. The Statement of Assurance verifies that each attending student has completed the Liability & Medical Release Form. Advisors: Keep your students Medical and Liability Release form on-hand at each conference. Do NOT send copies to the SkillsUSA office.
Advisor of the Year
The SkillsUSA State Directors Association created the Advisor of the Year award to recognize and honor dedicated career and technical education instructors who serve as SkillsUSA advisors. The Advisor of the Year program is sponsored by Delmar Learning, a part of Cengage Learning. State winners are submitted to the regional competition. At NLSC, regional winners are interviewed and a national winner is selected.
Application for SkillsUSA Arizona Advisor of the Year is due March 1. The winner will be announced at the opening session of the SkillsUSA Arizona Championships.
2018 Advisor of the Year
Norm Champagne from Kofa High School
Advisor of the Year Nomination Form
Training Modules
Several advisor training modules have been developed for your use. They were designed to help build successful SkillsUSA chapters. All advisors are welcome to use the training modules anytime, anywhere to learn how to develop a strong SkillsUSA chapter. Get them here.
Payment Policy
In an effort to be accountable to our members, Board of Directors, and accounting policies, SkillsUSA Arizona has published our policy for past due invoices. This policy is in no way meant to scold individuals but only to keep our organization financially responsible.
30‐60‐90 Day Past Due Invoice Policy
Fee summaries/Invoices are available at any time on our online registration system.
30 Days—an email is sent to the teacher with an invoice attached reminding them of the balance due
60 Days—a letter with a statement and invoice is sent to the Teacher, Principal, Local Director, and Accounting office
90 Days— a letter, statement and new invoice with late fee is sent to the Teacher, Principal, Local Director, Superintendent, and Accounting office. Invoices past 90 days are subject to a 2% late fee that will continue to compound monthly until the balance is paid.
If an invoice reaches 90 days past due, the SkillsUSA section will become ineligible to participate in SkillsUSA state-sponsored events until the invoice and late fees are satisfied. Pre‐payment may be required for all future events in the same school year.


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Wind and smoker proximity - WTF?/
Reason Magazine - Your Place: The Final Frontier
During Prohibition, making and selling liquor was illegal, but drinking it was not. With tobacco, we are moving toward the opposite situation, where it will be legal to make and sell cigarettes but not to smoke them.World gone mad, mad, mad arrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
A smoking ban recently approved by the city council of Belmont, California, a town halfway between San Jose and San Francisco, is so sweeping that saying where it does not apply is easier than saying where it does. Smoking will still be allowed in tobacco shops, in automobiles, in some hotel rooms, in private residences that do not share a floor or ceiling with other private residences, and on streets and sidewalks, assuming you can find a spot that is not within 20 feet of a smoke-free location...
The official justification for these ever-more-intrusive smoking bans is that the slightest whiff of secondhand smoke poses an intolerable hazard. The Belmont ordinance claims tobacco smoke is "extremely dangerous," regardless of dose, and warns that even "exposure to outdoor secondhand smoke may present a hazard under certain conditions of wind and smoker proximity." (emphasis mine)


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As Christ-followers, we are engaged in a real battle – a spiritual battle. The same grace that reconciles us to God antagonizes us to the enemy of our souls, the devil. Alistair Begg teaches us that our Heavenly Father does not leave us defenseless or alone. Learn how God equips and enables us to victoriously live the Christian life.


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When dealing with a legal issue involving your family, you need to seek the help of a respected attorney with the knowledge and resources to get you results. Divorce, child custody and spousal support cases can have tremendous repercussions on your life, and it's important that the legal resolution you receive protects you, your family and your assets. As a partner at Bollenbeck Fyfe, S.C., attorney Doug Fyfe has more than 20 years of experience handling family law cases in the Fox Valley. In addition to representing clients in court, attorney Fyfe also offers alternative methods to resolve your disputes, including negotiations, mediation and collaborative divorce.
The area of family law is incredibly broad and complex. Every client who comes to us for help has specific concerns, making each case different. At Bollenbeck Fyfe, S.C., our goal is to assist and protect our clients with any family law issues they have, such as:
If you are going through a difficult family law issue, such as a divorce or child custody dispute, make an appointment with Bollenbeck Fyfe, S.C. today by calling 920.735.1711 or contacting us online. We represent individuals throughout the Fox Valley area from our office in Appleton, which is located on College Avenue, one block east from the Appleton International Airport.


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We have begun to dig deeper into literacy topic poetry and we are now focusing on our spacing and pauses between our lines. We were given the task to use coloured paper to write words under the following headings (each colour being a different heading); nouns, adjectives, verbs, prepositions, colours, short words and endings. We were to choose one or two of each colour and to create a poem of it. We first did a poem without the spacing but did another one with it. You will now see why it is important to have spacing between your lines as it changes the way you say your poem. Eliza and I worked together to create our poems and we confident with our task.
Poem without spacing:The owl's greet her over green.
Poem with spacing:Green's inconsiderate talk, Over interesting Grey, Annoyed him red, Think soft say he, Push hard.


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From new construction to renovation, there may not be a better choice for your home or commercial building's exterior than stone masonry in Calgary. How so? Consider the core advantages:
If you want to be assured that you'll be able to pass your home on to your kids and have it last for generations as your legacy, stone is the choice to make. Give us a call today to schedule the implementation of your investment in stone masonry.


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Effect: Variable (assumed forms), Move Action • 8 points per rank
You can transform into different forms, gaining the physical traits (abilities, skills, advantages, and powers) of the assumed form. You gain (Shapeshift rank x 5) character points worth of traits. You can also redistribute points spent on your own physical traits (lowering your Strength to apply those points elsewhere, for example). You are limited to the inherent traits of the forms you assume and do not gain new mental traits, even if that form possesses them.
Shapeshift is often further Limited by the specific types of forms the character can assume, such as Limited to Animals or Limited to Machines.


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Citrus, Pain, and Experts
We started composting last year. Again. But this time we seem to be better at it than the last few times we tried. Our system is simpler. We put fruit and vegetable waste and coffee grounds in a gallon-sized, airtight, plastic container that sits next to our sink. When the container is full, I take it out to the back yard and bury its contents in the ground during the six warmer months, and during the six cooler months I put it in a trash can-sized tumbler we keep near the back door.
So far, there has been only one point of disagreement. My wife found out that it's a bad idea to put citrus in a compost pile, but I kept insisting on putting the citrus in our pile anyway because it didn't make any sense to me that it would be a problem.
Her argument was stronger than mine, given that her information came from smart people whom we also happen to love. One of them is a landscaper and landscape designer. The other is an engineer who seems to know everything, including a lot about organic farming. These aren't people I typically question, especially not about areas in which they have so much expertise and I have so little.
But I couldn't stop myself from questioning them, so I did an internet search and found no reliable sources that said citrus was a problem for compost piles. I did find several that tried to figure out how the myth had originated.
I was right, but it was a fluke, a semi-random bit of bad luck. My experts were wrong.
We like when the experts are wrong, but not our experts. This is why we love writers like Michael Lewis and Atul Gawande and Gary Taubes and James Surowiecki: when we read them, we don't necessarily feel smarter than the experts in the establishment, but we feel like we're right and they're wrong. We feel like we see the world more clearly than they do.
We also have our local experts. As a librarian, it's my job to be one of those. Also, as a son and brother and husband and friend, I get to play that role on occasion. People will ask me about their computer, or what book they might want to read, or where to take a friend to dinner.
In those instances, people want me to be right. They don't want to have to turn to Google or Yelp or Consumer Reports. They want an expert to save them from having to personally research every little thing.
Being right about the citrus, and being disappointed about being right, got me thinking about what I want in an expert. For empirical questions, the answer is relatively straightforward: I want an answer, I want an explanation I can understand, and I want reliability. For non-empirical questions, it's more difficult.
This question comes up, fleetingly, in a recent 99% Invisible podcast, the one about the the backlash against the proposed branding for the University of California. Do design experts know more than non-experts? Sure, it's something of a tautology. But it also reminds me that auditioning behind screens leads to more women musicians getting hired by orchestras. Training can be useful: it sharpens our perceptions and provides us with useful heuristics, whether it's in developing an eye for logos or an ear for virtuoso performances. Still, for most of us, our biases persist. And, in some cases, the process of becoming an expert may itself instill biases that are neither relevant nor helpful.
For instance, the idea of pain has been on my mind since I started running more consistently over the past several months. Like most sometime runners, I long ago had an injury that kept me from running regularly for quite a while. Even after I healed, I figured it wasn't worth committing to running because I would probably just hurt myself again. It wasn't until I read Christopher McDougall's Born to Run a couple of years ago that I decided to commit to running more regularly once again. I started with minimal running and liked it, and then tried barefoot running which I like even more. The idea is that pain is your friend, because it teaches you what not to do. If you pay attention to little pains, you avoid injury.
During the warm months, on roads or simpler trails, and on short or middle distances, barefoot running seems to be ideal for me. If I push too hard or my stride is off, I know it immediately. But now it's cold, and I sometimes want to run over craggier surfaces, and I sometimes want to run farther than I can currently run barefoot. So I bought some running sandals from Luna, and I like them quite a bit, but now the pain is asynchronous. When I run barefoot, any pain I might feel is generally limited to the run itself. When I run in sandals, I tend to feel great during my run, and usually for a while after, and then I'll find myself feeling sore hours or days later.
Runners understand pain. Scott Jurek's new book, Eat & Run, is as much about pain as it is about ultramarathon running or food. He is an expert in all three, but he's the sort of expert I rely on more for inspiration than practical advice, like Marco Ament when he writes about photography. They have resources I appreciate, but don't anticipate possessing.
David Morris's sublime Culture of Pain brought me as close as I've ever come to understanding how people experience pain. Reading it changed my life. But it's not the place to look for answers about running, about distinguishing between sensation and discomfort and pain and injury. Morris provides explanations I can understand, but not answers, and in the process calls into question the possibility of reliability. For Morris, pain is real, but it is also personal.
What we are left with is a scientist's serenity prayer, a wish for the ability to accept sensible empirical explanations, the courage to question empirical explanations that don't make sense, and wisdom to know the difference.


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Palaeontology Sensitivity Map for KZN
A detailed sensitivity map for the palaeontology of KZN has been released by Amafa. This will allow developers to accurately determine whether a development will impact on fossil sites. The study, commisioned by Amafa, was carried out by Metsi Metseng Geological Services, includes detailed shapefiles of three significance levels indicating the probability of encountering fossil material. Part of the team that carried out the study was prominent palaeontologist, Dr Gideon Groenewald.
This is the first provincial study of this type. The report and mapping will be available from the Amafa website


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Beside using Apache Solr or Katta, this article describes many ways to cluster a Lucene index:
- Use a shared file system between all nodes, and use FSDirectory.
- Use indexes on the nodes local file system and a synchronization strategy.
- Use a database using JDBCDirectory
- Use a distributed file system (eg Google File System, Nutch Distributed File System)
- Use a local cache with backup in the Database
Some other ways to distribute the index are discussed here. A document written at HP describes a parallel, distributed free text index called Distributed Lucene. This document from IBM gives some feelings about scaling-out versus scaling up using Nutch and Lucene.
A novel way is to use TerraCotta and Compass to cluster the index as described here.


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The following are some of my thoughts on the unrest in Baltimore surrounding the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of Police Officers.
- It's interesting that during the Peaceful demonstrations throughout most of the day in Baltimore on April 25th, there was little or no media coverage, but when all hell broke loose on Monday, all news networks went live, some through the night.
- It's interesting that with police officers being ambushed and attacked, the most prominent and repeated images broadcasted were of the looting and burning of retail establishments
- It's interesting that on Monday evening Gov Hogan spoke of destruction of property and Law and Order but mentioned nothing about the root cause for the violence.
- It's interesting that none of the Media reports mention that the violence started on Saturday night when spectators threw beers and racial epithets at the protesters.
- It's interesting that the Adjutant General of the Maryland National Guard, while explaining that this is not Martial Law, announced her intention to assemble a compliment of up to 5000 guardsmen to restore order to the city. (Good thing its not Martial Law).
- It's interesting that the press wanted to know what took Governor Hogan so long to declare a state of emergency but seemed to loose sight of the fact that it took the city 8 days to begin to investigate the circumstances surrounding Freddy Gray's death.
- It's interesting that when groups of 30 of Bloods and 30 crypts called a truce and unitied to stop the violence, the Baltimore Police Department shared on Facebook and Twitter that members of various gangs including the Black Guerrilla Family, Blood, and Crips have entered into a partnership to 'take-out' law enforcement officers.
The Baltimore Police Department / Criminal Intelligence Unit has received credible information that members of various gangs including the Black Guerilla Family, Blood, and Crips have entered into a partnership to 'take-out' law enforcement officers. This is a credible threat. Law enforcement agencies should take appropriate precautions to ensure the safety of their officers.
- It's interesting that all of the trouble started at Mondawmin Mall because, apparently, the police shut down transit service, forcing students from six high schools in the surrounding area who use that very bus line to travel to and from school, to be stranded at Mondawmin mall, all pissed off and no place to go.
- It's interesting that when ever I use the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, someone almost always has to respond with All Lives Matter. You just proved my point. Of course all lives matter, but rest assured when ever I use the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, it was in response to a situation where Black lives, in particular, were not being respected. I didn't say #OnlyBlackLivesMatter or #BlackLivesMatterMore and moreover, by adding your anti hashtag you are either saying #IDontCareAboutBlackLivesWhatAboutMe or #IDontUnderstand. If its the former, fuck you very much, if it's the latter, its okay if you don't understand, there are lots of things I don't understand like quantum physics, tertiary polynomial derivatives or Real Housewives of Atlanta. If you don't understand #BlackLivesMatter and you would like to, we can discuss it, or you can just stop at #IDontUnderstand. There are things in life that you wouldn't understand, things... you couldn't understand, things... you shouldn't understand. Get over it.


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Acentury ago the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto compared data on wealth from different times and places and graphed the results on paper. Expecting to see wealth distributed on some sort of bell curve, he was astonished see a very lopsided pattern that was thin at the top and fat at the bottom. He found, for example, that some 80 percent of the property in Italy was owned by 20 percent of the people. More remarkably, he found that 20 percent of the pea pods in his garden contained some 80 percent of the peas. Thus was born the Pareto Principle, sometimes known as the 80-20 rule.
Many are the patterns that conform to this principle. For example, in the financial advisory industry, it is commonly found that 80 percent of an advisor's assets are controlled by 20 percent of his or her clientele, leading many advisors to concentrate their attention on that fabulous fifth. While this principle may have empirical validity, it is only a statistic, which by definition characterizes an abstract population. When someone becomes a "statistic," he becomes nameless. But how do you make a name for yourself and get into that 20 percent?
This month's cover story ("Weapons of Mass Instruction") may shine a light on that. The article features an intensive training program that broker-dealer Raymond James has made available to advisors like Frank Pickett of Upland, Calif. When he started with Raymond James 5 ½ years ago, he was managing $18 million. After three years of coaching, that number is up to $75 million. Or, take John Vance of Valencia, Calif., who managed $10 million in assets when he joined the firm in 2003. Intensive coaching has helped him increase that figure more than tenfold to $105 million. Zack Hayes of San Jose close to doubled his production in just two years and Ross Marino, whose goal it was to reduce his hours on the job, cut the time managing his book by over 50 percent without impacting revenue.
All four of these advisors through their efforts and commitment escaped the probabilistic path that says that wherever you go in life you will not change your relative position. You can change your "assigned" seat in life. Learn well and move up to the front of the class. That this should be the case makes sense. We all get stuck in habitual ways of doing and imagining the world. True learning helps you to see the world in a new and fresh way, making new connections, seeing new possibilities.
It once happened that a doctor from Lawrence, N.Y., was giving a lecture in Hawaii. He left the lecture hall just as the sun was setting and was struck by the sublime beauty of the South Pacific sunset. Looking for someone with whom to share the experience, he turned to a hotel employee and said, "Isn't this amazing?" The employee said, "Yeah, I guess. To be honest, I come here each week on Monday morning and leave on Friday afternoon. It really doesn't look so special to me." Like that Hawaiian sunset, learning offers an expanded horizon, a fresh view from which you can see yourself critically, change and grow. Statistics suggest that not more than a fifth can accomplish this, but anyone can decide to be part of the few who do so.
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The other day I got a call from a long-lost friend of mine from college. And, as I always do when old college friends call me, I quickly asked him if he had seen a pair of burgundy and orange swimming trunks. I had lost them in 3rd year and have never seen them since except for a chance encounter in Bombay airport. Alas he had not and all he wanted was to check if I knew someone called Boris (not actual name) from Kanpur (not actual place) who may have studied with me in business school (not an actual school). He was apparently carrying out a secret background check on Boris for matrimonial purposes.
Let me assure you these are some of the most awkward phone calls you can ever receive. Even the most fun-loving (meaning mildly criminal) of people turn into massively self-rightesous zombies when they need to verify a person's marriageability. Now my friend, who we will call Friend, had miraculously turned into this malicious Jesuit from the Inquisitions. Every aspect of Boris's personality was ripped apart for the merest trace of moral weakness. The conversation was terse and highly unpleasant.
"So does Boris drink?"
"A little bit..."
"Good god..." said Friend. (Flashback to college when Friend routinely downed 7 bottles of beer and a couple of bottles of a whisky at a sitting. He even opened them sometimes.)
"But not too much, he was just a social drinker..."
"Thats how they all start. A few drinks in college, then a couple on the weekends at work. And before you know he is a wife-beating criminal..." (Friend conveniently forgot the time when he had one too many screwdrivers, picked up a cricket bat and beat the living daylights out of a goalpost. They later settled out of court.)
"And does he smoke? Tobacco? any of those other unspeakable plants?..." (To this day in Trichy they talk of the Great Smog of 1999, which was traced to Friend's room. He had smoked his way through a whole 4-kilo sack of premium fresh, run out, and was imbibing, out of desperation, the vapours of unwashed bed linen when we found him.)
"Nope nothing I knew of..."
'Hmm... I will need better sources. Sources who have more concern than you do for a poor girl's future..." (Friend holds the record for maximum arrests for eve-teasing in Thuvakudi police station history. A women's college was out on a "March for Literacy" and he was arrested for 43 violations in the space of 37 minutes. A plaque in the station commemorates the event and is a popular tourist attraction)
"But Boris is a nice guy. You have nothing to worry..."
"I will be the judge of that. And finally for 25 points did he have any affairs, romances and intimate interludes in college I should be aware of?"
"No da just the usual fooling around with the juniors..."
"Good god!! Sidin how can you speak of this so lightly??!! Wake up man!! Boris is a blackguard and a vagabond!!"
"No no he is a wonderful guy. Absolutely brilliant guy. If I could I would have married him!!!"
"What? Now you say he goes the other way?"
"No what I meant was any woman would want to marry him. He is a highly eligible bachelor..."
"Are you saying my little petunia is ANY woman for you?..." (Petunia was Friend's nickname for his sister. In turn she called him Tinku)
"No no sorry sorry..."
"Hmm... fine... and please dont tell me he is one of those porn junkies..." (Sometime in second year the college was moving to bring down an illegal construction adjacent to my hostel. Only to discover that it was Friend's bound collection of debs and playboys.)
"ENOOUGH!! No I think calling you was a big mistake... I know other people from your business school too you know..."
"No I have heard enough..."
"Ok I am sorry yaar.."
"And just so that you know... I DO HAVE YOUR BURGUNDY SWIMMING TRUNKS..."
"Noooooo... sob"


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Jewish Studies Center Presents 'General Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews' with Jonathan Sarna
On March 21, 2012, The Jewish Studies Center at Baruch presents a talk entitled "General Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews" with featured speaker Dr. Jonathan Sarna. The event is scheduled at 1 p.m. in Engelman Recital Hall, located on the first floor of the Newman Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Avenue.
"the single best description of American Judaism during its 350 years on American soil."
Dr. Sarna is the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of the new National Museum of American Jewish History. Dubbed by the Forward newspaper in 2004 as one of America's 50 most influential American Jews, he was Chief Historian for the 350th commemoration of the American Jewish community, and is recognized as a leading commentator on American Jewish history, religion and life. Dr. Sarna has written, edited, or co-edited more than twenty books, including the Jews and the Civil War: A Reader and A Time to Every Purpose: Letters to a Young Jew. He is best known for the acclaimed American Judaism: A History. Winner of the Jewish Book Council's "Jewish Book of the Year Award" in 2004, it has been praised as being "the single best description of American Judaism during its 350 years on American soil."
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12 February 2009
Pushing for Higher Speeds
World premiere at Geneva Motor Show from 5 to 15 March 2009
GUMPERT Sportwagenmanufaktur GmbH will be presenting an even faster apollo speed.
GUMPERT Sportwagenmanufaktur GmbH will be presenting the apollo speed at the 79th Geneva Motor Show.
The racer – made in Germany – has earned his name, and rightly so. For any speed limit is pointless!
Whereas optimum performance for racetracks, lateral acceleration and grip in all situations are the focus of apollo, apollo sport and apollo race, the apollo speed is aimed at an exclusive high speed clientel. Its domain is the mastery of highest speeds. Thanks to polished aerodynamics the drive side values of the speed are far above those of the competition.
Form follows Function
The appearance of apollo speed is now even more classy and aggressive. His striking two tone paint emphasises the racer's compact appearance, at 1,105mm being lower that his brothers at 1,114mm.
A good look from the front reveals the changed design around the wheel arches. A low restrict induction system rounds off the snappy appearance and provides fresh air to the engine. Further modifications have been made to the rear end of this super sports car: The redesigned tail lights concisely show where the apollo is headed to, before it vanishes from the sight of its pursuer. The two-seater also has a small adjustable spoiler to lend it the required drive side for its intoxicating speed.
With a fully enclosed CAS underbody (carbon / aluminium sandwich) and wheel caps (fixed at the front and rotating at the back) the speed takes Formula 1 to the road and is just asking for a challenge to a sprint.
The powerful 8 cylinder Biturbo of apollo speed provides an optional 650 / 700 / 800 HP and a torque of 850 / 875 / 900 Nm. His performance is top class: The car can go from standing still to 100 km/h in 3.0 seconds. A speed of 200 km/h is reached in just 8.9 seconds. His maximum speed is over 360 km/h. (Depending on equipment, country-related specifications, gear ratio and engine power)
The racer impresses by its sportive, elegantly equipped interior. It is available with either leather or Alcantara, and provides a whole panoply of details, such as air conditioning and a DVD moniceiver. The removable steering wheel makes it easy to get in. Embedded in the monocoque and held in by 4 point seat belts, the driver becomes one with the apollo apollo. An intense bond!
Get to know the new, extroverted super sports car by GUMPERT.
We look forward to welcoming you to our press conference at our booth 2045 at 11am on 4 March 2009.
GUMPERT Sportwagenmanufaktur GmbH will be showcasing its super sports cars at the Geneva Motor Show for the fourth time.
At a glance
GUMPERT apollo speed (700 HP)
Transmission: sequential six-speed gearbox with synchronisation and oil cooling, twin plate clutch configuration (diameter 2 x 200 mm), rear-wheel drive, differential lock by Torsen
Chassis: long and pushrod-operated double transverse control arm suspension with fully adjustable dampers front and rear and anti roll bar in front
Brakes: two circuit BOSCH-ABS brake system with six piston callipers, inside ventilated discs (378 x 32 mm) all around
Wheels & Tires: Aluminium cast wheels with centre look front: 255/35 ZR19 rear: 345/35 ZR19
Dry weight: 1.200 kg (For cars with standard equipment without filling. Special equipment may increase this value.)
Allowed total weight: 1,500 kg
Length: 4,460 mm
Width: 1,998 mm
Height: 1,105 mm
Wheel base: 2,700 mm
Wheel gauge: front: 1,670 mm, rear: 1,598 mm
Tank capacity: 120 litre
Engine: V8-cylinder-Biturbomotor with 90o cylinder angle, light metal cylinder heads with 5 valves per cylinder, four overhead camshafts, hydraulic valve clearance compensation, double-flow exhaust system with three-way catalytic converter, dry sump lubrication
Cubic capacity: 4,163 cm3
Engine performance: 515 kW (700 HP) at 6.500 rev/min
Maximum torque: 875 Nm at 4.000 rev/min
Litre performance: 123,7 kW/Litre (168 HP/Litre)
Maximum rev.: 7,200 rev/min
Top speed: > 360 km/h / 224 mph (Depeding on equipment, county related specification, gear ratio and engine power)
Acceleration figures: 0-100 km/h in 3,0 s
0-200 km/h in 8,9 s
Further information regarding price will follow.
Background information
Exclusivity is expressed by uniqueness
GUMPERT Sportwagenmanufaktur GmbH is a manufacturer of exclusive super sports cars based in Altenburg / Thuringia, Germany. The founder and managing director is Roland Gumpert, former manager of the Audi Sports department, his guidance leading to 25 victories in World Championship races and 4 Rallye World Championship titles gained for the Quattros from Ingolstadt.
The apollo is a thoroughbred high-power sports car that has racing performance and MOT approval. He provides an outstanding performance that defies the imagination: 650 HP, a maximum speed of up to 360 km/h and an acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in only 3 seconds. Each of these vehicles is unique, customised to the needs and wants of the owner and crafted by hand. The apollo guarantees maximum fun when driving, combined with maximum safety. Two additional models, the apollo sport and apollo race race, were included in spring 2007.
مرعبه السياره ونتريا ظهورها بشكل رسمي ...
ونتظر الاعلان عنها
شكله شرس من الامام
تسلم اخوي عمر
اسم على مسمى .. مركبه فضائيه
- تاريخ التسجيل
- Jul 2006
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تصميمها وحشي
وقوة محركها ايضا لاتقل وحشية عن التصميم .. حيث تبلغ قوته 700 حصان
لاشك انها صاروخ
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Writing for publication entails many drafts and many reviews of these drafts by friends, colleagues, copyeditors, and critics. The credibility of science depends on peer review, as explained by Frederick Grinnell in The Everyday Practice of Science and by me in Chapter 9 of Tools for Critical Thinking in Biology, where I give personal examples, historical examples, and contemporary examples that have been prominent in the news media.
Two readers of the published version of my book made several suggestions for corrections. I wish to thank them here and explain what they found in their careful reading. Don't get bogged down in the first explanation dealing with a problem that appears earliest in the book, but return to it after reading some of the later explanations that are more straightforward.
1) In Chapter 5, I use two main examples to show how researchers use, and sometimes abuse, comparative and correlational data to answer questions about causation. For instance, people have wondered whether microwave radiation emitted by cell phones can cause brain cancer. One source of evidence to address this question comes from comparison of past cell phone use by people with and without brain cancer; this is called a retrospective case-control study. Cases are people with brain cancer, controls are people without brain cancer, and the study is retrospective because the data come from estimates by cases and controls of how much they used cell phones in the past. Case-control studies often use odds ratios to report results: what are the odds of brain cancer for a cell phone user compared to those for a nonuser? More specifically, what is the ratio of these odds? If this ratio is greater than 1, a cell phone user is more likely to get brain cancer than a nonuser, although we also have to consider the possibility that a ratio greater than 1 could simply be due to chance.
Odds ratios are a little tricky to understand, so I use a completely different example to show how they are calculated. When the Titanic sank in 1912, 650 adult males died and 132 survived, while only 102 adult females died and 300 survived. Therefore the odds of dying for males were 650/132 = 4.92 while the odds of dying for females were 102/300 = 0.34. These translate to an odds ratio of 4.92/0.34 = 14.5. I then wrote "adult male passengers were almost 15 times as likely to die when the Titanic sank as adult female passengers." As one post-publication reviewer noted, this is incorrect; the odds ratio really means that the odds of dying were 15 times greater for males than females. We can also express the difference in mortality of male and female passengers on the Titanic as a relative risk. The likelihood of death for males was 650/(650+132) = 0.83; the likelihood of death for females was 102/(102+300) = 0.25. Therefore males were 3.32 times as likely to die as females (relative risk = 0.83/0.25). This is a pretty dramatic difference, but not as dramatic as I implied in the book.
Using odds to express probabilities of events has a long history that is intertwined with the history of gambling. According to FanGraphs on March 8, 2016, the Chicago Cubs have an 18.6% chance of winning the 2016 World Series. This means that the odds against the Cubs winning are 81.4%/18.6% = 4.38 to 1. If you bet $1 on the Cubs today, your friend should be willing to pay you $4.38 if they win in exchange for collecting $1 from you if they lose. Although odds and odds ratios are somewhat indirect measures of relative probabilities, they have some advantages for statistical analysis of medical questions like the relationship of cell phone use to brain cancer.
2) I describe how interactions between genes and environments influence human traits in Chapter 7, using studies of twins to develop this theme. I introduce this topic with a story about two genetically identical twins that were adopted at an early age and raised by separate families. These twins were reunited at age 39 and discovered that they shared a remarkable set of traits, starting with the fact that both of their adoptive families named them Jim. In addition, as I wrote, "both Jims smoked the same brands of cigarettes and beer – amazing!" As one post-publication reviewer noted, smoking beer is pretty amazing.
3) In Chapter 8, I used Hurricane Katrina to introduce the idea that events often result from complex webs of causation. About 1800 deaths and $81 billion in property damage in New Orleans were attributed to Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, but several other factors also contributed to this devastation. My diagram of this web of causation implies that George W. Bush's praise of his director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ("Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job") was one of these contributing factors. Instead, I should have described this praise as a symptom of an underlying cause, appointments of unqualified people to lead agencies such as FEMA.
4) Jim Estes of the University of California, Santa Cruz and the US Geological Survey has studied sea otters and other marine mammals in the Aleutian Islands for more than 40 years. Chapter 8 describes some of their research, including their discovery that predation by killer whales caused the population of sea otters to crash in the 1990s. This is a fascinating, multidimensional story involving questions such as these: The researchers first saw an attack by a killer whale on a sea otter in 1991 – why did killer whales switch from larger mammalian prey to sea otters at this time? The researchers saw six total attacks in the early 1990s, yet estimated that the sea otter population declined from 53,000 in 1991 to 12,000 in 1997 – could predation by killer whales account for such a large decline without more attacks being seen by humans? Sea otters are much smaller than other mammalian prey of killer whales – how many sea otters would supply the daily energy needs of a killer whale? I address this last question in Box 5.2. Killer whales require about 247,500 kilocalories of energy per day, and five sea otters would supply this amount of energy. One kilocalorie equals 1 Calorie in human nutrition (not 1000 Calories, as I state in the book). We use 2,000 to 3,000 Calories per day, only about 1% of the energy a killer whale uses. Of course, we're much closer in size to a sea otter than a killer whale.
5. Chapter 8 features several predators – sea otters that eat sea urchins, killer whales that eat sea otters, and wolves that eat elk. It describes the big effects that these predators can have on their prey and on the habitats where both live. I emphasize different kinds of evidence that researchers have gathered to understand these relationships between predators and prey in ecological communities, but I also ask readers to consider how humans influence these communities. These aren't purely scientific issues, but entail decisions about management – commercial fishing in the Aleutians, hunting in the Rockies, removal of wolves that kill livestock near Yellowstone National Park. These decisions involve not only science but ethics. In closing Chapter 8, I quote A Sand County Almanac by the conservationist Aldo Leopold: "I was young then, and full of trigger itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunter's paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." As one of my post-publication reviewers reminded me, the "green fire" refers to the wolf's eyes.
6. I use a rubric called FiLCHeRS to summarize six key tools for critical thinking: evaluation of claims by assessing their Falsifiability, Logic, Comprehensiveness, Honesty, Replicability, and Sufficiency. James Lett proposed this rubric in 1990 and illustrated its use in evaluating paranormal beliefs such as astrology and extrasensory perception. I apply FiLCHeRS to claims by those who dispute the scientific evidence for human impacts on climate change. In discussing sufficiency, I quote Lett: "extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." This idea actually has a long history, starting with the philosopher David Hume in 1748, continuing with a restatement by Laplace in 1812, another restatement by Carl Sagan in 1980, and finally Lett's version in 1990 that changed Sagan's verb from "require" to "demand".
7. Finally, I use the classic case of industrial melanism to explain how evolution works in Appendix 2. Peppered moths fly at night and rest on tree trunks during the day. All peppered moths collected in England before 1948 were light-colored, providing effective camouflage against predation by birds when resting on patches of whitish lichens growing on tree trunks. People began to collect dark-colored moths in the mid-1800s, and virtually all moths collected in industrial areas were dark by 1898. By this time, soot from factories had killed the lichens and coated the tree trunks, so dark moths were better camouflaged, as illustrated in Figure A2.1. In short, pollution had two effects that changed the environment for peppered moths – it killed lichens on tree trunks, exposing the naturally darker color of the trunks, and the particulate components of the pollution (soot) made the trunks even darker. With pollution controls starting in England in the 1950s, soot on trees was gradually washed away by rain, lichens returned to the trees, and light-colored moths were again favored by natural selection. H. B. D. Kettlewell did several experiments in polluted and unpolluted woods to test the hypothesis that predation by birds was the agent of selection on moth populations, with light moths being better camouflaged in unpolluted woods and dark moths being better camouflaged in polluted woods.


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Dance with life
Hello lovelies!
We finally got to kick off our shoes last night to celebrate a dear friend and fellow Wellness Warrior as she leaves our lives to start a new adventure and sit down at our one of our FAV Chattanooga hot spots - Alleia. Working together as friends can have it's challenges but we have found that having down time and giggling about the small things and maybe even a little wine is medicinal for all aspects of our relationship.
Make sure to tend to all aspects of your life, friendships, work, play, nutrition, sleep, and your spirituality to truly have an abundant life." What if the word "work" was changed to "dance with life," and instead of it being viewed as an alternative to finishing or a way of "paying your dues" it was seen as a chance to meet a parade of new friends, discover your own untested potentials and unpolished gifts, and open avenues for abundance to come into your life?"
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I have started quilting again and finished this hour glass quilt for a baby shower. The owl fabric is organic flannel is from the "Forest Friends" collection by Michelle Engel Bencsko for Cloud 9 Fabrics and the white is from Kona. The quilt is what I suppose you call "stroller size" and measures approximately 38 inches square (64 five inch blocks). To make the blocks I used this video by the Missouri Star Quilt Company (I love her videos!)
One layer of batting and fleece backed in aqua. I quilted it myself on the diagonal and bound the entire quilt with high quality white flannel. I considered self-binding the quilt with the fleece backing (like this example) , but I ultimate preferred the look of the white binding.
It felt good to finish this project and to keep the momentum going I have already started another baby quilt.
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Motion for mistrial at appellate stage
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33. […] A mistrial is a trial that has been terminated prior to its conclusion.[1] A motion to declare a mistrial must thus be filed during the trial. This type of motion is not available or necessary in the appeal phase of a case. Whereas at the trial phase, bringing such a motion may be "indispensable to the grant of fair and appropriate relief,"[2] in appeal proceedings an allegation of a violation to the right to a fair trial will be considered in the appeal judgement.[3]
[1] Bryan Garner (ed.), Black's Law Dictionary (St. Paul, Minn.: West, 2009, 9th ed.), p. 1093 ("mistrial …1. A trial that the judge brings to an end, without a determination on the merits, because of a procedural error or serious misconduct occurring during the proceedings.") (emphasis added).
[2] Delalić et al. Appeal Judgement, paras 643-645.
[3] [See Prosecutor v. Milan Martić, Case No. IT-95-11-A, Judgement, 8 October 2008 ("Martić Appeal Judgement"), paras 30, 39-46; Prosecutor v. Enver Hadžihasanović and Amir Kubura, Case No. IT-01-47-A, Judgement, 22 April 2008, paras 43, 77-107; Prosecutor v. Stanislav Galić, Case No. IT-98-29-A, Judgement, 30 November 2006 ("Galić Appeal Judgement"), paras 27-45; Prosecutor v. Zejnil Delalić et al., Case No. IT-96-21-A, Judgement, 20 February 2001 ("Delalić et al. Appeal Judgement"), paras 651-709; Prosecutor v. Anto Furundžija, Case No. IT-95-17/1-A, Judgement, 21 July 2000 ("Furundžija Appeal Judgement"), paras 164-215. See also Ildephonse Hategekimana v. The Prosecutor, Case No. ICTR-00-55B-A, Judgement, 8 May 2012, paras 12-21; Tharcisse Renzaho v. The Prosecutor, Case No. ICTR-97-31-A, Judgement, 1 April 2011, paras 13-50; François Karera v. The Prosecutor, Case No. ICTR-01-74-A, Judgement, 2 February 2009, paras 371-379; Ferdinand Nahimana et al. v. The Prosecutor, Case No. ICTR-99-52-A, Judgement, 28 November 2007 ("Nahimana et al. Appeal Judgement"), paras 18, 47-90; Laurent Semanza v. The Prosecutor, Case No. ICTR-97-20-A, Judgement, 20 May 2005, paras 12-58; Eliézer Niyitegeka v. The Prosecutor, Case No. ICTR-96-14-A, Judgement, 9 July 2004, paras 43-46; Georges Anderson Nderubumwe Rutaganda v. The Prosecutor, Case No. ICTR-96-3-A, Judgement, 26 May 2003 ("Rutaganda Appeal Judgement"), paras 36-125; The Prosecutor v. Jean-Paul Akayesu, Judgment, 1 June 2001, paras 85, 194-207.] See also Delalić et al. Appeal Judgement, paras 643-645.


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We heard Kangana Ranaut's recent comment on bras that went controversial. Yes! As she told, your bras are no disaster to the social harmony. Bras are the pretty, tiny things that hug our body like nothing else in the universe. So to show them off is of no harm. And, we are no more living in that black and white age! Go ahead discover your fashion, taste its tang and refresh yourself! After all, fashion is what you feel relaxed in!!
1. Kangana Ranaut: Here is how Kangana has turned her other wise sluggish grey top into sexy ensemble by showing a tint of lacy bra on her cleavage.
2. Kareena Kapoor Khan: A neon bra under white T-shirt is damn fascinating, especially when Kareena wore it.
3. Bipasha Basu: Bipasha is always hot, and when her bosom is throws its silhouette, she is even more..
4. Deepika Padukon: Deepika is always known for her unique sense of fashion. This time, she flaunted her bosom in a fabulous way.
5. Parineeti Chopra: Here, Parineeti Chopra had gone a long way in terms of boldness and checkout for her daringly contrasting colour mix ups!
6. Deepika Singh: This pic of cute Deepika Singh defines her bra as combo apparel like that of Dupattas to Salwars. Suits well on you girl!!
7. Sonam Kapoor: Sonam knows what to wear and what suits her. The delicate floral embroidery serves as an applique to the inner wear!
8. Ekta Kapoor:
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|One of our first caches (J holding a geocache!) March 2011
Once we were parked up, and into the park, we came across an old tree that was made into a carved seat, S really didn't like it.
|One of our first caches (J holding a geocache!) March 2011
It looks brilliant! I keep meaning to do this, so we really must, thanks for the reminder! #CountryKidsReplyDelete
I keep reading about geo-caching so must try and do it this year - I know there are some around where we live here in France.ReplyDelete
Geocaching is such great fun and you did very well and had a great adventure along the way. Thanks for linking up and sharing your lovely photos of outdoor fun with Country Kids.ReplyDelete
Geocaching is so much fun... but a lesson we learnt, after 5-10minutes of hunting for one and not finding, give up, and on to the next.... it may not be there anymore, and its no fun searching the same spots over and over again. We have had so many adventures on our geocaching walks. :-) worth a try :-)ReplyDelete
We've never done any geo-caching but it certainly looks fun and something that I think we'll need to start exploring in the Summer.
Nipping over from Country Kids.


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01767 680551The RSPB needs your help to give nature a home.
Earlier this year a group of 25 conservation and research organisations published The State of Nature report, which painted a picture of how well our wildlife was doing. Sadly, the news was not good with six out of 10 plants and animals in the UK having declined over the past five decades. These include hedgehogs, garden butterflies, bees, sparrows and starlings.
But while the UK's wildlife is not in the best of shape, the good news is we can all do our bit to help it thrive once again. As part of its Giving Nature a Home campaign, The RSPB has come up with a list of loads of different things you can do in your garden to help wildlife.
If you are feeling lazy, then why not give your mower a rest and leave an area of your lawn to grow wild. This will provide homes for lots of bugs and mini-beasts, which in turn are great food for birds. Making logs piles and growing flowering plants are also easy ways to attract insects like bees, while the more adventurous of you might want to dig a pond or build a home for swifts, house martins or bats.
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April started with a much needed Easter break catching up with friends and family around the Coast before getting right back into a big run of filming.
We first got back with our creative family Troy Freyee and Ainsly of Sticks & Stones for a Splendour promo vid focusing on the TeePee love section. We spent a crisp arvo out in Byron filming a taste of whats to expect going into this years line up. Its always a good day when we get together bouncing shot ideas to create a vibe around such a fun event.
From here we rolled into a good run of music videos with Richy Sand a Adelaide based artist for his second single Luv Sux as well as new music from Manu Crook$ Carmouflage Rose and another new local talent Dale Brumfield also from Adelaide.
Richy flew into the Gold Coast and we picked of the beautuful morning light in at Broadbeach for our first shots then moved onto a local house in at Burleigh.
Not long after this shoot, we receive the good news a fast approaching trip to LA was in the works with our Producer and good friend Alex from Sydney and it was not long before Nick was on his way to film some documentary style shoots as well as some side projects in the mix. Working with featured artist Tray Haggerty based in LA that is on a song with the Melbourne based artist Nyne. It was a good opportunity to triple up on shoots with some fast paced networking to come away with some epic visuals.
Meanwhile back in Australia Jáen was working with a Sydney based DOP Jullian Machucha to lock in yet another clip of Manu Crook$ Paranoia before he leaves on his Canadian tour. We faced a few hurdles with props and locations on this shoot but like always we make do with whats at hand to make it all come together. It also happened to be Friday the 13th mid shoot of this which made it evan more interesting.
With Nick still in LA we have multiple shooters working with myself Directing (Jon Baxter) on a number of projects. We have Jellan Merchant coming through and attend a local Mercedes Bens event where there is a FMX rider Pat Bowden performing a series of stunts in front of a decent crowed all for the release of there new vehicle.
Another two music videos with two more shooters is done before Nick returns, working witrh Jesse Lane to shoot the Carmouflage Rose clip Wild Flowers in and around the east coast. Beach, bush and studio shots were taken with the feature of a horse rider/Model Bronte Zaicew to star in the clip. On the back end of this shoot I team up with Alan Woodman a Burleigh based film maker to film a new artist on the scene Brummy and his first single to be released Back Seat. This clip features Shanti Griffin in a love lost moody film clip.
After a massive haul of music video shooting we roll into the mid week Anzac day commemorations and pay our respects to the Diggers fallen that have blessed us with this amazing country we call home. With the month coming to an end we continue our run of music videos for the month of April. We attend a Live show at TBC in Brisbane with TravyP and I.E. where we celebrate long into the night knowing the very next day we are rolling right into a shoot for there song together Mistakes. This clip features a couple plotting to rob a unwilling man that ends in a show down at his house.
We film long into the night wearing our hangovers on our sleeves we grind to get the shoot done. We come away with some epic shots around Brisbane china town and alley locations. We call it a night around 10pm with a few more scenes to go. They will be for the following month to pick up on as the boys are heading back to Sydney the Following day.
What a month it was in the life of Jáen see it all recapped below and a sneak preview of the vids to come. Bring on the Month of May
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DIY Back Door Re-Vamp With Home-Made Awning
The back door to our house was needing a little bit of love. Its paint was peeling and it was just generally uninspiring. It also still had a bloody Christmas decoration on it which I had been meaning to take down in like, forever. Instead of just giving it a new lick of paint, I decided to add a few more features to really jazz it up properly and give it a bit of 'wow-factor'.
I had previously worked in the prime-property-porn area of Kensington in London. On my lunch break I often took a stroll down some of the most expensive streets just to ogle the houses. Many of the homes had little striped canopies over the front doors or windows, which I recently found out was called 'awning'. I think they are more an American thing on houses over there than here in Britain, but they just look so cute. I decided I wanted to Kensington-up my Essex home, so set about DIY-ing some awning.
You will need:
- Awning fabric (I brought mine from from Fabric UK, it cost £20 for a metre)
- Couple of thin pieces of strong wood. I brought mine from Wickes for a couple of pounds each.
- Drill, screws, wall plugs, screwdriver, scissors, tape measure and a hand saw
- Staple gun
- Needle & thread
- Paint (optional)
After I'd chosen the black and white block stripe awning fabric online, I measured the width that I wanted my awning to be (basically, wide enough to cover my back door.) The fabric online was 120cm in width, which was just enough for me as I only needed one drop side to my awning (the other side was blocked by the wall) so I just ordered a metre for £20. When you measure for awning remember you need enough fabric for the top, then the two drop sides and the front drop. When the fabric arrived I held it against the wall to get an idea of how far out from the wall I wanted the awning to come, took a rough measurement, then set about creating these two triangle supports:
To make these two supports, measure how high you want your awning and how far you want it to come out. Screw all these pieces together with some long screws. It doesn't need to look perfect as it will be covered when it is up:
I painted these two supports black (I just used the same paint I was using on the door), then made some screw holes in the wood with a drill where I wanted to hang them on the wall. I also made a screw hole at the front of the supports where I would be attaching an extra support piece for the fabric. Drilling screw holes in the wood beforehand stops your wood from splitting:
I attached both the triangle supports above my back door with wall plugs and screws suitable for brick, then added an extra piece of wood to support the awning at the front:
Once most of the awning support was up, I took a piece of wood the width of the awning and used a staple gun to attach the awning fabric for hanging.
Place your fabric down, position your wood just near the top then fold the fabric over and staple it. This will give a nice tidy join once the wood is on the wall as you won't be able to see the staples:
Place your awning fabric on the wall and screw the wood in place. Drape the fabric into the correct position and then use a staple gun to secure it to the wooden support. Try and conceal the staples as much as possible - on my fabric I stapled only on the black stripes, then coloured in the staples with black permanent marker after so they were not visible. It worked pretty well!
Once secure, I set about hemming up the fabric. Now I know that I probably should have done this before securing it to the wall (hence I was sewing standing up a ladder for about an hour), but I wanted to make sure the fabric was level and didn't need trimming once up. It depends on what sort of person you are as to when to hem the fabric. If you are one of those people spot on with measurements, you should probably do it on the ground while having a cup of tea and watching Orange Is The New Black. If you suck at measurements, like me, you might want to join me getting a tan with a needle and thread halfway up a stepladder after the fabric has been erected...
I cut the fabric on the corner of my awning to create two separate 'drops' - one at the front and one at the side. I then hand stitched a simple hem line with a back-stitch, then cut away any excess fabric:
And this is the final result!
I was a bit nervous the first time that it poured with rain, but the awning was unscathed. I think the trick is to secure the fabric down as flat as possible so the rain just runs off. All in all, I was pretty happy with the awning, and it came in at around £30 in total.
As I went for black and white striped awning, I gave the door two coats of black gloss, and added this pretty wrought-effect outside rubber door mat to match
A house a few streets away has a ship bell for guests to ring, so I totally nicked the idea and added this chrome ship bell that I brought in my local St Clare's Hospice. They do also sell these ship bells in different colours and sizes on Ebay for about a tenner.
No Kensington home is complete without plush topiary, so I added this beautiful spiral bay tree in a gorgeous Heritage Garden Pottery pot.
What do you think to the re-vamp? Let me know in the comments section below!


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Look for McCrory's budget this week
Bad weather scrambled much of state government last week, including the expected release of Gov. Pat McCrory's budget plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
All signs point toward the budget release this week, probably midweek.
At a weather news briefing, McCrory suggested the cost of the recent storms has punched a hole in the transportation budget. He also said he would be talking to budget director Lee Roberts about the loss of sales and income tax revenue due to the weather.
Although the storm expenses come out of the current budget, McCrory seemed to be saying it will affect how money is spent in the coming two-year budget.
"We're going to have to do some reassessment of how this will impact our long-term budget," the governor said.
Following the path set out in his State of the State address last month, McCrory's budget will spell out what's important to him by putting money – or not putting money – into programs and initiatives in education, job development, roads, health care, the courts and the environment, among others.
It starts a long budget process that should conclude in late June.


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I've been interviewed twice in the last few weeks about yoga, how I got into it, what my practice means to me. One of the videos is on a subscription only site but reveals how I first got into yoga all those years ago. The other will be out in the next few weeks and I'll post it here when it is. Everyone finds their own way into yoga (something I'd be curious to know about from everyone that comes to class or reads this blog) and the answer to how I did is quite simple: Madonna.
I was (unfortunately I have to place emphasis on the fact that that is most definitely a deliberate use of the past tense) a huge Madonna fan, being fascinated by her power as a woman and obsessed with her chameleon like nature. It was through her that I was introduced to many of the artists, photographers and videographers I still admire today, and through her that, though I didn't know it so clearly at the time, was introduced to dance and physicality, both through her but more so through the dancers she worked with, and the dance styles she was influenced by and brought to the mainstream. None stand out more than Vogue – not the magazine, not the Madonna song, but the dance style best understood by watching probably one of my favourite documentaries of all time – Paris is Burning.
The video below showcases incredible dancers, voguing, and a particularly ravishing Madge in one of her most magnetic live performances. Haha, I just realized I was all of 11 years old when I first saw this…!


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"We are developing an algorithm for authenticating mobile banking with a combination of a fingerprint, heart rate and (an) electrocardiogram. The technology is expected to be much safer than existing biometrics including iris sensors, fingerprint scanners and facial recognition," Jason Kim, chief of KISA's security technology dissemination team, told The Korea Herald in a recent interview.
Kim is also serving as vice chair of the Korea Association for Biometric Identity Security and chair of the Asian Biometrics Consortium.
|Jason Kim, chief of KISA's security technology dissemination team (Korea Internet & Security Agency)
The biometric authentication reads heart rates and electrocardiograms on a user's smartwatch, which sends the information to his or her smartphone. The smartphone is then unlocked with the user's fingerprint which enables the use of mobile banking.
This is not the first time heart rate and electrocardiogram authentication is being used to unlock a device. The British bank Halifax and the Royal Bank of Canada are already using electrocardiograms for authentication.
"However, the use of the combination of a fingerprint scanner, heart rate and (an) electrocardiogram -- which makes mobile banking much safer -- will be a world first (when it is developed next year)," the security expert said, adding that he will apply for a patent in June.
Kim said he is also in talks with some smartphone makers in Korea and China for the adoption of the biometric technologies.
"If the discussion goes well, a prototype using the biometric authentication may be available in the market later this year," Kim said, without elaborating on the names of the firms.
The development of the biometrics technology is being led by Kim under the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning with an investment of 1.2 billion won ($1 million). KISA is working in partnership with the National University in Spain, the US Telebiometric Research Center and a small Korean tech company. The project started in June 2016 and will be completed by the end of 2018.
Kim said he would present the biometric technologies at the ITU Telecom World event to be held in Busan in September. ITU Telecom World is an annual ICT conference organized by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union. Global firms, including Visa, Mastercard and IBM Watson Research Center, are slated to participate in the conference.
The first biometrics technology used in smartphones was unveiled by Korean handset maker Pantech, which adopted a fingerprint scanner for its smartphone Vega LTE-A in 2013. Later that year, Apple adopted a fingerprint scanner for its iPhone 5 for the first time among its smartphones. Last year, Samsung featured the world's first iris scanner for its premium phablet Galaxy Note 7, which was discontinued due to safety issues.
Although Apple and Samsung touted their biometric authentication as the safest, their technologies were fooled by a German hacking collective, Chaos Computer Club, within a few weeks after the phones were launched. "The existing biometric authentication technologies have a long way to go to be popularized due to their technical incompleteness and anxiety among consumers," Kim said.
"But, after five years, the biometric technologies will be much more mature and be used for various areas, including financial transactions, remote medical care and self-driving cars."
Market research firm AMI predicted that the biometric technologies market would grow an average of 67 percent annually to reach $34.6 billion by 2020, with adoption in all smart devices, including wearable devices.
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Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with a recurring obsession Mom has about leaving the house to find her kids (us, when we were little)?
When it happens, she believes she left them "out there" helpless, and she also wants to go back to her house. (We take turns staying with her 24/7 at her home).
We give her a Xanax to calm her down but sometimes it does not help. Whatever we've tried telling her so far does not work well, except for making a fake phone call to see if "the kids are OK".
I'm worried that this may soon not work either. Please give me some tips! Thank you.
Carole Larkin responded.
You are off to a good start by lowering her anxiety by the fake phone call.
Next, try to expand your creativity and redirect her thoughts away from the obsession.
You want to develop a series of very short explanations -- one or two sentences at most and appropriate to the what is going on at the time of her obsession. For example, if the time she's remembering is school age children and it's during the day, then of course they are in school and will be home soon.
If it is later in the day, perhaps they are at a friends houses playing; or, aunt Mary took them shopping for your Christmas present, birthday presents, school clothes, etc. Whatever makes sense to her (a normal activity at that time).
Remember- SHORT explanation, simple, and matter of fact. Like this is a normal course of events.
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You could consider writing some notes which go with or fit the situations.
For example,"We are at Angela's house. We'll be home at 5:00". Or, "we are with aunt Mary at the mall." You can develop these notes with your siblings and have them handy at all times.
It might help if you hand the note to your mother and let your mother read the notes to you. In other words, instead of you reading them to her.
Let her read the note, then immediately refocus her attention on something else. Something physical might work best. For example, "Mom, I need some help with the laundry, I want to get it finished up quickly. Could you help me by folding these towels?" Have a basket of towels ready for her to fold.
Some activities like that or an activity like making peanut butter on crackers for a snack. She can help you make them. Pick a snack she likes to eat, then let her make some and sample them with something to drink. The objective, be creative in refocusing her attention off of her anxiety and on to something positive and pleasing to her.
You know your mother best. What does she like? Music, looking at magazines, talking about the neighbors or relatives (it doesn't matter what era you are talking about). Change it up so it doesn't seem that you are giving the same answer all the time. These things have a good chance of working. Develop and try your own ideas. Learn what works best, and leverage it up.
Don't be afraid to be creative. Be patient and try to establish a new pattern of behavior that replaces the undesirable pattern of behavior.
This might take several attempts, or it might work immediately. Be patient, you'll get there.
Good luck,
Carole Larkin
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Hello! My name is Predrag Dajic, aka Jaya.
I was born in 1972 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina, in the former Yugoslavia. My father is a music professor and I have been surrounded with music and instruments for the entirety of my life. Very early in my childhood music and musical instruments became my "healthy obsession" and passion. I've played classical guitar in my childhood and teenage years and finished music school. After 5 years spent as a music director on a National Radio Station and TV host in Bosnia and Hercegovina I decided to move to NYC with my better half and pursue my dreams. Soon after I graduated Institute of Audio Research in NYC I started working as an Audio Technician in reputable company where I spent 5 years learning more about audio. Parallel to work I began acquiring custom guitars, amps and through that process have become friends with some of most gifted guitar luthiers of our time.
I would like to share my passion and expertise in tone through "Guitars Electric" and help you finding unique, personalized instruments that will stay with you for life.
And a note from Guitars Electric Seattle!
Brian is my husband. This "about" page, therefore, will in no way be biased. Here is a tall, handsome character, who spends most of his time on the gear page and practicing and noodling on any guitar he can get his hands on. A wife could be upset by this if she wasn't me, but since I'm a musician and Brian's in my band, I am ok with his guitar obsession. I get it. I'm the same way about pianos, the difference being that it's hard to have lots of different pianos sent here to try out, as they are so big. Guitars, on the other hand, flow into and out of our house like a river. Brian likes it like that.
Brian and I have been playing in a band together in Seattle for about 7 years, and he's played in bands from the East Bay of California to LA to Portland. From Gilman era Hardcore, to East Bay noise improv, SF power pop, and kicking off the very first song played at the Noise Pop festival in 1993. It's a real joy to play with people you care about, no? I hope you are lucky enough to love your bandmates! I also play guitar, as well as keys in our band, and have had my own obsession with guitars over these past 20 years. My favorite guitar I've owned was my 63 Jet Firebird. I think Brian married me because I could talk to him about filtertrons.
I used to sell guitars at a great shop in Seattle called Trading Musician. I will vouch for my husband with experience in the vintage guitar trade: You can be most assured that any guitar you purchase from Brian has been meticulously researched and any anomalies detailed with an almost OCD like clarity. Seriously.
-Stephanie Emery