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KM Raja Manta Trip Reports
Welcome to the New White Manta
After an absence of almost three years, the White Manta Diving team have made our long awaited return to Singapore for our extremely popular weekend diving adventures, allowing us to introduce our beautiful new vessel, The New White Manta.
KM Raja Manta Banda Sea & Ring of Fire 16-24 Oct
Preparing for a KM Raja Manta trip in the Banda Sea & Ring of Fire is always exciting, expectation is high amongst both guests & crew as everyone is impatient to start our adventures in one of the world's best diving destinations. For this trip we were happy to see more than a few familiar faces amongst our guests, we quickly got settled and were ready for a check out dive close to Ambon. A nice muck dive, we put all focus on small creatures. Rhinophias (lacey scorpionfish) were the highlight but also octopus, ribbon eels, shrimps etc were found. The rest of the afternoon and night we crossed to our first hotspot for hammerhead sharks.
Sangalaki, Kakaban & Maratua July 2017
KM Raja Manta's 2017 Sangalaki season will soon be coming to an end, with just two further trips in the area before we return across the Halmahera sea to renew our Raja Ampat & Banda Sea adventures. With time to explore and discover more about this region, guests and crew have enjoyed some spectacular highlights & amazing interactions both above & below the waves here in Sangalaki and this trip, departing from Tg Batu on July 25th would prove again that this dive destination is one not to miss!
Diving paradise in Sangalaki with KM Raja Manta
The White Manta diving team has returned to the stunning diver's paradise of Sangalaki, Maratua & Kakaban, a string of Islands off the east coast of Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. This little known destination is a true hidden treasure with abundant marine life, action packed diving, beautiful island excursions and truly unbelieveable sunsets. So far this season the crew and guests of KM Raja Manta have been treated to some amazing highlights both above and below; read on for our Cruise Leader's trip report from the second trip of the season....
Lembeh,Bangka,Sangihe Island 29-Apr 06-May-17
For this trip Raja Manta made a cruise to an area where virtually no other boats operate anymore. We used our long term dive masters Anto and Stanny's experience in the Sangihe islands, where they had dived over 7 years ago. The whole region proved to be stunning both above & below the waves, with mighty smoking Volcanoes standing guard over azure blue waters packed with amazing marine life. AFter this trip we cannot wait to return!
Raja Manta Explores New Waters
This trip would bring to an end another terrific season in the magical diver's paradise of Raja Ampat and whilst we are always sad to leave such an amazing place we knew that after two days exploring the best of Raja Ampat we would be sailing across the Halmehera Sea to Manado and the Raja Manta crew were just as excited as our guests to explore a new route that very few dive boats follow!
Raja Manta 10-17th March Raja Ampat trip.
March is arguably when Raja Ampat's marine life really peaks. This time of year can bring some quite heavy plankton blooms but this plankton along with the strong currents & upwellings that feed the area are the lifeblood of Raja Ampat and one of the main reasons it is so very rich in marine life & bio-diversity. These conditions also encourage plenty of big fish & marine megastars!
Raja Manta's premier Raja Ampat Season
In her first season in Indonesia The KM Raja Manta is already firmly established as one of the premier liveaboard's offering dive safaris across the vast Indonesian archipelago. After the adventures of the Banda Sea guests and crew are experiencing some of the regions best diving in the fabulous diving mecca of Raja Ampat
Hammertime onboard the Raja Manta
It's that time of year again, Hammertime! Every year as the Komodo season comes to an end the thoughts and dreams of our guests and crew turn to the allure of the magical, remote and beautiful Banda Sea. Filled with highlights both above and below the waves, guests from all over the world come to enjoy amazing sunsets, stunning Volcanic islands, clear blue waters, thriving coral reefs, diverse marine life and, of course, the chance to encounter huge schools of scalloped hammerheads which can be found in these waters in massive numbers. Over the last few seasons we have had great success in locating the hammers, but of course nothing in nature is guaranteed and so as the first Banda sea trip of the season begun, one question hung in the air… would we enjoy a spectacular "hammertime?" This year, for the first time, the trip would be onboard our KM Raja Manta (previously the White Manta) – recently renamed and relocated to Indonesia this would be her maiden voyage – and so hopes were high for a spectacular trip.
White Manta in Tioman 22nd-24th July 2016
As our 2016 Singapore season gets closer to it's conclusion it's easy to look back and marvel at how time truly does fly by! Throughout these past few months the WM Dive crew & our guests have had the privilege to enjoy some fantastic diving in both Malaysia and Indonesia, with conditions being better than average on every trip, of course the great company inbetween and after dives has also been out of this world!
White Manta & The Manta Trust
The Similan Islands in the North Andaman sea are known to be a Manta aggregation hotspot, with sightings of the elusive Giant Manta Ray relatively common at this time of the year.
Manta Madness in the Similans
So, we have reached the high season for Manta Ray sightings in the Similans!! This trip we were fortunate enough to have some incredible encounters with these underwater giants over multiple dives whilst enjoying stunning conditions above and below the waves!
Whale Sharks in Thailand again!!
This year's Similan season in Thailand is already proving to be one not to miss!!!
Similan Season 2015/16 has begun!
The Similan Season in Thailand has begun! We have even had our first Whale Shark!!
WM National Day Long Weekend 07-10 August
The weekend of 07-09 August 2015 was a very special weekend for all Singaporeans as they proudly celebrated 50 years as an independent nation, from third world country to one of the most successful, developed nations in the world with an economy and GDP the envy of many more 'established' developed countries world wide.
Trip report WMVESAK 29th May – 1st June 2015
Guests clamoured to get on board MV White Manta for one of our early season long weekend excursions into Indonesia. Vesak is Buddha day.
Sarah La Caze at Pulau Damar - photo by DM: Daniel Kwok.
'Water' lot of madness.. Songkhran on White Manta
Celebrating Songkhran the Thai New Year onboard MV White Manta
April not only signals the end of the Similan season in Thailand, it also ushers in the Thai new year, with the Songkhran festival. It is a wonderful time to visit Thailand as spirits run high, water fights explode on every street corner, the wether is hot and balmy and the frisson of change hangs in the air as the monsoon wet season approaches.
WMT CNY 19-25th Feb
This new lunar year marks the start of the Chinese year of the goat and White Manta was ready to celebrate the dawn of a New Year with a large Chinese contingent of divers led by our friend Zhang Huimin (or Yoyo as she likes to be called!) We also welcomed Ryan from the United states, Genie from South Korea, Patricia from Singapore and returning friends Dow, Dome and Mon from Thailand who brought along some new friends, Amp, Karn and Nan. It would seem that the Chinese New Year brought us some amazing luck, as this would turn out to be one of the most spectacular trips of the season!
WMT 20 Similan Islands Mantatastic!
Brazil, The United States of America, Canada, Germany, Japan and Korea.. this week's multi national diving group again hailed from all corners of the globe, and what an amazing dive safari we were all to enjoy, as yet again the guests and crew of White Manta were lucky enough to dive with not one but two beautiful giant mantas at Koh Bon, here in the Similan Islands, Thailand!
WMT 20 Similan Islands Mantatastic!
Brazil, The United States of America, Canada, Germany, Japan and Korea.. this week's multi national diving group again hailed from all corners of the globe, and what an amazing dive safari we were all to enjoy, as yet again the guests and crew of White Manta were lucky enough to dive with not one but two beautiful giant mantas at Koh Bon, here in the Similan Islands, Thailand!
WMT18 Similans 31st Jan-4th Feb 15
With Christmas and New year celebrations already a distant memory, the Thailand season onboard MV White Manta rolls on. The weather is beautiful, conditions underwater fantastic and the 'Big Fish' are around! This trip's highlight, a stunning interaction with a Giant Manta cruising over Koh Bon ridge, was enjoyed by every guest onboard, providing a perfect post holiday season gift as we enter the second month of the year 2015.
Andaman & Similan islands WMT15
Whilst the White Manta's usual home in Thailand is the world famous Similan Islands, occasionally we take our guests on a slightly longer safari which encompasses the Southern Phuket, Andaman sea dive sites of Hin Deng/Hin Muang, Koh Haa and Phi Phi before heading North and exploring the Similans themselves.
2015 is upon us, a New Year and White Manta is now two months into the Similan 2014/15 season! Despite a spell of windy weather over December the diving has already thrilled and satisfied guests from across the globe. We've had Mantas, Whale-sharks, even rare sightings of guitar sharks, whilst for macro lovers, seahorses, harlequin shrimp, pygmy pouch pipe horses, ghost pipefish and a multitude of nudibranch have kept the trigger fingers of underwater photographers busy all season!
WMGFD 17-20 Apr 2014 - Easter holiday weekend to Anambas Islands
MV White Manta is back in Singapore! After a busy ADEX weekend - the boat was ready to embark on the seasons' opening trip to Anambas!
Similans Trip Report Feb 2014
Just a few clips of Mantas and Whale sharks on our most recent White Manta dive safari! The Similans are proving themselves to be a world class destination again with some incredible underwater action this year!
WMS16 18-20 Oct 2013 - Whale Sharks at Seven Skies wreck; Batu Kataoka; Tokong Malangbiru and Igara wreck
The first fish seen by the guests on this trip was a whale shark.
Photo courtesy of Laura Gordon WMDM
WMS15 11-15 Oct 2013 - Whale Shark and Manta Ray at Acasta Wreck & Reef; Badas Islands and the Garden of Eden
A long weekend in Singapore can mean only one thing... A White Manta diving trip to little explored and remote diving destinations!!! This Hari Raya holiday was no exception, and for those lucky guests who joined us - it proved to be one of, if not THE best, trip of the season! On this longer 4D4N trip we set out from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal (TMFT) to the distant submerged reef of Batu Acasta; almost 150nm from Singapore in the azure Indonesian waters of the South China Sea.
Photo courtesy of Russell Dark
WMS14 04-06 Oct 2013 - Amazing visibility at Tokong Malangbiru; Batu Kataoka and Igara wreck
A repeat fixture of last weekends' trip to Anambas and the Igara wreck was on the cards for MV White Manta – but it wouldn't be the same as the last week; because we hosted different guests and experienced different conditions!
WMS13 27-29 Sep 2013 - Stunning corals at Tokong Malangbiru; Batu Kataoka and Igara wreck
As the end of the Singapore season draws closer, our guests taking advantage of the last few diving weekends are rewarded with some outstanding diving! From the end of September until the end of October MV White Manta visits some of Indonesia's islands in the South China Sea; and the world class wreck diving sites including 'Seven Skies' and 'Igara'.
Sulu sea, Kapalai, Mabul and Sipadan
It was just over a year ago that the White Manta team confirmed a 'special' trip to the Sulu sea would take place in June 2013. Since the announcement most of the dive crew have been like kids waiting for Christmas, hardly believing that the chance to dive in one of the most famous destinations in the world could be described as 'work.' After a fantastic Thailand season, and a brief but rewarding few months in Layang Layang; finally! June 1st arrived and all the crew of White Manta were ready and eager to welcome aboard some familiar faces and new friends.
WMGFD 28-31 Mar 2013
A wonderful Easter holiday was enjoyed by all as MV White Manta temporarily resurrected its schedule in the South China Sea since returning from annual maintenance in dry dock, Phuket.
WMT24 16-18 Mar 2013
Mike Newman and Greg Reed 'followed on' for two trips; I swapped Greg from Heikki's group, with Mike from my group; for this trip. I figured they might enjoy a change; and Mike benefitted from a smaller group as Greg had on the previous trip. This would also be the last trip for our popular masseuse Dtik. I hope she can join us again in the future - if not just for her wacky hairbands!
WMT23 11-15 Mar 2012
Sigh! It is the last Similan island safari of the season. It is a rigorous and often hectic schedule on board MV White Manta, though the 4day / 4night with 24hr break between is an appealing routine. Thailand feels like home to me, and of course it is to our crew too.
This trip sees us return to Patong; so an inverse schedule was on the cards, starting at Tachai and finishing in the Similan islands.
WMT22 6-10 Mar 2013
MV White Manta had another large representative group from Hong Kong for this trip.
WMT21 1-5 Mar 2013
South Korea provided the majority of the guests this time out. Thanks to Duck and Peter of Dive Lab for recommending MV White Manta.
WMT20 24-28 Feb 2013
Our regular DM in Singapore: Glenn Wright, the mighty Springbok; joined this trip as DM and brought along his gorgeous partner: Jill, too. Jill lives and works in Singapore (save the travelling that goes with the job). She is originally from Georgia, USA. It was great to welcome Glenn into the team again, he added both professionalism and enthusiasm as a well seasoned veteran of scuba diving would.
WMT19 19-23 Feb 2013
Tristan Bellville and Oliver Fitch were returning freelance dive crew on this trip. Sadly, Hayami had to complete a visa run, thus the regular dive crew missed out on their "Chocolate Time".
WMT18 14-18 Feb 2013
Amazing international mix of guests join us almost every trip on MV White Manta, and this was no exception.
WMCNY 9-13 Feb 2013
Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Chinese New Year from White Manta.
Similans 4-8 Dec 2012
Finally, our first sighting of Manta rays this Thailand season!! 3 of them at Koh Tachai. It was my first inspection trip as well with Sharon and Vivienne our youngest daughter.
South Andaman Sea, WMDAENG 05-09 Nov 2012
As the winter months close in around the Northern Hemisphere, the days get shorter and darker, long summer evenings are replaced by cold dark and frosty nights, while summer wardrobes of shorts and T-shirts are replaced by woolen hats, scarves and thick cosy coats. For the crew and customers of the MV White Manta the arrival of November means something entirely different... The start of the Similan Islands safari season here in sunny, tropical Thailand!
Hari Raya Haji weekend 25-28 Oct 2012
Bon Voyage Singapore! Here we are at the end of October and our Singapore season is over, after four fantastic months offering dive trips around local Indonesian and Malaysian divesites, it is once again time for us to bid farewell to the City Island and head north to Thailand. Before sailing for those exotic waters, we did have time for one more farewell trip, The Hari Raya long weekend to Anambas islands, Seven Skies and Igara Wrecks, which turned out to be the perfect way to say goodbye to our friends here in Singapore.
Seven Skies Wreck, 19-21 Oct 2012
Saturday morning, Seven Skies wreck, thirty-four meters below the surface, clear blue waters, a ripping current and an ocean teeming with pelagic marine life: rainbow runners, barracudas, jacks, trevallies and tunas, all enjoying a frenzied attack upon a dense ball of bait fish who school close to the wreck in a vain attempt to protect themselves from the constant attacks of the torpedo like hunters of the sea. What a fantastic way to start the weekend!
Seven Skies Wreck, 12-14 Oct 2012
Our much loved Divemaster couple: Michael and Melanie Smith were back from their pilgrimage in Northern Spain to expertly guide our divers this weekend. Additionally, another important member of the White Manta family attended with his own family: Chris Phillips. His nieces; Emily and Jessica took the PADI Open Water and Advanced Open Water courses, respectively. Chris & Maria Phillips also brought along their young son: Zacharias; he and his carer Brenda were non-divers along with Katharina Hegi, mother of the Hegi family including husband Martin, and son & daughter; Oliver and Julia. They were each to attain their Advanced Open Water certificate. It was quite a family affair!
MV White Manta Open House evening 10 Oct 2012
We hosted another Open House evening early in October, inviting our friends, and theirs, to join us in some nice food and conversation in the lovely space of MV White Manta.
Seven Skies Wreck, 5-7 Oct 2012
First weekend trip in October on MV White Manta was full of expectations to see the big fish that can be a feature of our trips towards the end of the season. We embarked to the 'hotspot' as soon as we left TMFT eager to get an early start and 'catch the first worm'. Sadly it was not to be, luck was not on our side, the big fish didn't make an appearance.
Tioman & Jack Rock, 28-30 Sep 2012
Do you remember your first dive? Are you able to re-imagine all the feelings of nervous excitement and anticipation that precedes your first descent into the depths of the ocean? For a lot of us that first glimpse of a new world is enough to hook us for life, addicted to exploring a weightless world that seems so alien from the distant world back on land.
Seven Skies Wreck, 21-23 Sep 2012
Only two words really needed from this weekends' trip report..... WHALE SHARK!! Yes, those lucky divers who were able to tear themselves away from Singapore's F1 weekend were treated to, not one, but two! incredible dives with a very friendly and inquisitive Whale Shark at the Igara wreck, providing a very special end to a fantastic weekend diving onboard MV White Manta.
Pulau Aur, 14-16 Sep 2012
One of the great pleasures of working aboard the MV White Manta here in Singapore is that we often have the chance to welcome back returning guests numerous times throughout the season, guests we like to consider friends!
Anambas Islands & Jack Rock, 7-9 Sep 2012
Although it seems like only yesterday since the White Manta returned to Singapore, amazingly, we've been back for over two months! As usual we have been running our weekend trips to Tioman and Anambas islands sometimes including the Seven Skies and Igara wrecks. A big thank you to all of our guests who have joined us so far this year, it is always a pleasure to have you aboard and a privilege to enjoy some fantastic weekend diving with you all!


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While I did not vote for President Trump, my team got an email from me the morning after the election saying, "I love Donald Trump. I love RED!"
Let me explain. Several years ago I had been in a car accident and went to Enterprise Car Rental to
replace my sweet little Lexus convertible while it was being repaired. After signing all the paperwork the agent pointed out the window to one lonely little red Geo in the lot and said, "There's your car."
I quickly turned back to ask him if I had any other options. After letting his "nope, that is all we have" sink in, I turned back to him with excitement and said, "I LOVE RED!"
In that moment, what happens to the week I spend with that car and what is my week like if I don't choose to love red? Every time I got into that car I would have been unhappy, resistant, complaining and it would have created discontent. Instead, I enjoyed that little turtle-of-a-car and ultimately, I came to appreciate why some cars don't move when the light turns green. 😉
I believe there were a lot of people that were surprised that Donald Trump won, and out of that group I believe many were elated and just as many were devastated. It is as if the country has been divided into two camps. Whether it is the former or later, each group is choosing to be happy or unhappy. While you might acquiesce your happiness to who won or lost, I am not willing to do that. Why? Because I can always choose to be content no matter what is happening around me. I refuse to give my power away, my life away to someone else. Anyone else.
Along with choosing what I invest my life's energy in, I also want to choose what I do with that energy and what impact I want to have. If I'm busy complaining, resisting and reacting to the situation, I have now given away my power to create and instead, I am contributing to more chaos and the very thing I was resisting.
Here's how that works. Let's say you didn't want Donald Trump to win because you thought he was righteous, arrogant, and inconsiderate, threw temper tantrums, was a drama king and acted like a spoiled, self-centered child. If I go into resistance to him, what is my behavior now co-creating in the world? How do I show up as a result of my resistance and living in frustration?
Instead of going into resistance, I want to choose intentionally to be accountable for co-creating the kind of world I want to be in partnership with the President of the United States. One of the first places I go is to take full responsibility for having projected those two candidacy choices out into the world. As one of my clients said on his coaching call after 911, I ask myself "How did I create and contribute to that in the world?"
Here's why this is both radical and crucial. First, many, if not most of our problems in America have been created because no one wanted to take responsibility. I believe we have slowly and subtly slipped into an entitlement philosophy where we default to "What about me?" instead of "What about we?"
This belief system is stealthily destructive and insidious; it has silently crept in and replaced the knowledge that we are powerful and response-able for creating whatever we want. It has tricked us into believing that we should be receiving rather than giving and waiting rather than creating.
The first place for me to start reigniting and inspiring myself is to own my ability to create, and I invite you to do the same—because that is not only your inalienable right, but it is your Divine Design. Claim how and who you want to be in the world.
If I use Donald Trump as a mirror, I look internally to see where I am righteous, arrogant, and dismissive and controlling; I ask myself where I create drama and where I minimize and criticize others. Then, cleaning up those behaviors becomes my contribution to the world I want to live in.
Our president, whoever may they be, cannot solve the problems we have out in front of us. That will take a commitment from each one of us. We are all needed. The president I was hoping to appear was a president who would unite us by calling each of us all forth to take full responsibility for creating the world we want to live in. That president would invite us to partner, each of us individually and personally, to take full responsibility for our part in creating the chaos, and our part in co-creating what we want instead. That would be a compelling president to me.
Today I choose red. Today I choose Donald Trump. Today I choose to be fully responsible and accountable for creating the world I want to live in. I have no intention of leaving this important task up to anyone else. As Ghandi said, "Be the change you want to see in the world."
I choose "red" because that's where I can make a difference, where I can own my power and play my part in being response-able; creating instead of waiting and acquiescing leadership.
I hope you'll be radical and choose that with me. We need you. You are a difference maker. You matter. Don't give your personal power over to anyone or anything, under any circumstances. Choose to be a creator!


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ROUGECheveux Roux #1
by Leigh Talbert Moore
Publication Date: November 2012
Pages/Format: 300; Paperback, ebook
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Trapped in the underground theater world of 1890s New Orleans, Hale Ferrer has only one goal: escape. But not without Teeny, the orphan-girl she rescued from the streets and promised to protect. Freddie Lovel, Hale's wealthy Parisian suitor, seems to be the easy solution. If only his touch could arouse her interest like Beau's, the penniless stagehand whocaptures her heart. Denying her fears, Hale is poised to choose love until an evil lurking in their cabaret-home launches a chain of events that could cost her everything.
Mature YA/light historical/theater romance
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Leigh Talbert Moore brings readers a new taste of the New Adult genre. The first book in the Cheveux Roux Series is a slinky romance set in 1890s New Orleans that drives hope and desperation through readers like missiles. Rouge takes readers to a time and place where being on the bottom of the social scale means limited opportunities and just about no hope of moving up. It's even worse for Hale Ferrer since she's of mixed race and a woman. Her best options are to keep singing in the theater, where she also lives, and to marry. Hale has her eyes set on rich French gentleman Freddie Lovel. Her drive to move on to a safer life with orphan Teeny keeps her focused. Until she meets Beau, that is.
I've never truly been a fan of a determinedly loyal character that would do anything to keep their promises while forsaking all else. Thankfully, Hale had a more reserved loyalty that wasn't overdone or prone to the alienation of her loved ones. Moore's characterization of Hale was well-rounded and pleasantly level in intensity. I didn't always agree with Hale's choices, because sometimes she seemed a little obsessive and acted as though she let her emotions rule her at the wrong moments. She remained a steadily balanced character throughout the plot.
Rouge is an extremely interesting story and overall light read, but might leave you feeling averagely satisfied. The story has strong emotional waves and a general sense of intrigue that drives interest, but it doesn't last too long after the story closes. It is a story that readers can get into and fall in love with, some might even finish contemplating on what might come in the next installment.
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I have a son. He's my joy and delight.
And I don't know about you, but having a plan, a long term view, an end vision of what I hope to instill in him is part of how I raise him.
I want to raise a boy who knows how to think, to reason, to work, to care for those around him, to be called after God's own heart. That's what I want in my son when he's grown up and not needing his mother so much.
BUT how do I plan for that? What types of things should I be considering?
To that end, I read two books. Raising Real Men by Hal and Melanie Young, and Raising Boys by Design by Gregory L Jantz and Michael Gurian.
The approach is this, how do you use God's word and God's principles to raise up your boys to be men?
Raising Real Men by the Young's is a book with a ton of personal examples from life, showing how a principle could be put into action.
14 chapters, divided into two parts. Talking about the joys and the challenges of raising boys, and the way we need to talk to them, shape them, work with who they are. Boys are meant to be leaders in their households, to hold down a job, to learn to how cherish their loved ones and to rely on the strength of God.
When talking about how to deal with temptation, we were told of the fist principle.
Dealing with temptation
1. Leave the situation
2. Pray, ask the Lord's forgiveness and help
3. Read your bible
4. Sing praises or Hymns to God
5. Go to your authority and ask for help
These are five ways to make a fist to knock away temptation.
Doesn't that sound so doable? Easy lessons to teach your son and to apply to your own life!
At 255 pages it is not an overly long book, the text is easy to read and quite personable.
Recommended reading. 🙂
Raising boys by Design.
This is a more scholarly type book, with the science behind how men and boys think explained. 12 chapters, divided into two sections.
The first section is mostly the brain stuff. The science behind the workings of the male brain and body. In this section you will find chapters such as "what a boy learns from mom", "what a boy learns from dad" "how boys develop differently than girls" etc.
The second section deals with helping boys develop good heroes, to do their best in work and school, to the building of character and self-discipline. We also learn the importance of marking off stages in a lad's life… giving them good markers to show that they are maturing and not a young child any more. To the importance of giving a vision of what a strong Christian man looks like.
I appreciated this section "Making Faith Work for Boys"
1. faith must be individual, not merely institutional
2. faith must be flexible
3. faith must be interactive
4. faith must be relevant
5. faith must be muscular
6. faith must include room for questions
7. faith must include room for doubt
8. faith must be active
9. faith must be intergenerational
10. faith must cost something
11. faith must be relational.
It's a meaty book with a less personal touch, but a very good book none-the-less. It has good examples and stories of how to help a boy become a man scattered throughout it's pages.
I Love the combination of these two books.
The end result they have is the same, the turning of boys into men called after God's own heart.
The approach is different, but the result the same. They compliment each other very nicely.
I am so pleased that I chose to read them and be able to take the truths contained within it's pages to help me in the raising of my son.
I hope that you will find them useful to you as well. 🙂


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People high Anaesthetics caught on video
[dropcap color="#" bgcolor="#" sradius="0″]T[/dropcap]he new hilarious trend of filming your friend or family member, after being under Anaesthetics from a minor medical procedure is comedy gold! The people high Anaesthetics after effects of being 'spaced out' causes some people to say and act strange scenarios that to us 'awake' people is extremely funny to watch!
What are the effects of being under Anaesthesia?
After being Anesthetized, the patient feels numbness of the body and loss of awareness. The effects can also include, amnesia (loss of memory), analgesia (prevention or relief of pain), paralysis (relaxation of muscles rendering you unable to move) and unconsciousness (you pass out).
Why do we need Anaesthetics?
Anesthetics are mainly used in Dentistry and Surgery to aid in a medical procedure, such as having a tooth removed. The drug will numb the area so that the tooth can be removed pain free.
What are the risks?
There are major and minor risks of Anesthesia. The major risks can include death, pulmonary embolism and heart attack. The minor risks can include nausea and vomiting or a hospital readmission. It is proportional to relative risk of a complication arising, factors that are a decider in the use of Anesthetics are a patients health, the type of Anesthetic and the type of surgery involved.
The main factor is the patient's health prior to surgery, this is stratified using the ASA physical status classification system. The ASA physical status classification system came around in 1963, it was adopted by the American society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA).
The classification of a person's health falls into six categories :-
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4. Severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life
5. A moribund (about to die) person that is not expected to survive without the operation
6. A declared brain-dead (complete loss of brain function that's irreversible) person who is having their organs removed for donor purposes
What are the after affects?
A patient will awake within minutes once an Anaesthetist terminates administering Anaesthetics, and usually regain full senses within a matter of hours. One condition that can occur is long term post operative cognitive dysfunction, it mainly happens to older people that have undergone cardiac surgery (heart operation), and causes persistent confusion that can last months or a matter of weeks.
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Between age and chronic illness
And keeping pain away
My body is ashamed
It's betrayed me in all ways.
Everyday it's something
I thank God that I'm not twins.
Where is the old me, I muse,
Hidden in one of my chins?
Time, disease and treatment
Have all taken their toll
How are you surviving?
Are you on a downward roll?
Do your boobs hang low?
Can you swing them to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
My ankles are swollen
My feet have grown flat
My rear end is gone
Somehow it's gone splat.
I was sitting in the bathtub
When my thighs floated to the top
They say it's just the fat content
When will this destruction stop?
I'm trying to apply the brakes
I'm on the downward slide
My innards and my outers
All make me want to hide.
I have to exercise
Lest I trip and fall
Other days I forget to do it
I think, I can't recall.
My joints they are all aching
My skin is in a rash
I have to watch all foods I eat
Dinner's boring, so's my trash.
Everyday I have to trudge along
To keep these joints in shape
And a trip to any doctor
Involves so much red tape.
It seems to me this body
Is not really giving back
I invest in maintenance
And it just gives me flak.
Where's all the respect
For all those vegetables I ate?
Don't I get the credit?
How about a big rebate?
I wish for one lone day
I could just feel good
Come on, give me a break
I did everything I should.
Aren't I supposed to love myself?
Some days it feels like hate.
Maybe I got the wrong body
'Cause this one isn't great.
That's it, I found the answer.
I'll just return this one.
Perhaps they will pro-rate it
Based on all the work I've done.
So I'm off to scan the Internet
Maybe eBay or Yahoo
I'll exchange this body
And end this ballyhoo.


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We had an amazing cooking club at G's last week with the theme of ORANGE and it was great! Everything we ate and drank (well, OK, until the glass of red wine I had there at the end), was orange, involved something orange or included actual oranges. Man, did the girls bring their A game! As usual, I guess… You can see several of the dishes previewed above, including lasagna, two types of carrot salads and a greek feta salad with orange. YUM.
I'll start out with what I ended up making. I was going to go with savory stuffed sweet potatoes, but working late would have made that pretty tough, so I'll have to do that some other time. I had all these sweet potatoes, though, so I decided to set out looking for a sweet potato salad. I quickly found a vegan recipe that sounded interesting and delicious on Epicurious.com — and it was! I liked it, many of the ladies took leftovers and my squeeze polished off the rest for lunch the next day. So, I think those all count as glowing reviews! In the photo above, it's sitting at about 1 o'clock if it's not obvious what it is.
• 1/4 c. extra-virgin olive oil
• 2 Tbsp. pure maple syrup
• 2 Tbsp. orange juice (This was less than the juice of one orange)
• 2 Tbsp. Sherry wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar (I chose the latter)
• 1 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
• 2 tsp. minced peeled fresh ginger
• 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
• 6 pounds red-skinned sweet potatoes (yams), peeled, cut into 3/4-inch cubes (I had regular ol' sweet potatoes, not red-skinned yams, and I only used about 4 large ones. I have no idea how many pounds
• 1 c. chopped green onions
• 1 c. chopped fresh parsley (I fell a little short on parsley, but it was still good!)
• 1 c. pecans, toasted, coarsely chopped (I'm only now realizing I forgot to toast them and I think it was just fine.)
• 1/2 c. golden raisins
• 1/2 c. brown raisins
2. Steam cubed sweet potatoes in batches for about 10 minutes each (I did a little longer) until tender, but not mushy. Transfer each completed batch to large bowl and allow to cool to room temperature before proceeding.


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Bobby Avila, the American League batting champion in 1954 when he played for the pennant-winning Cleveland Indians, and one of the first prominent Latin major leaguers in the decade after World War II, died Tuesday in Veracruz, Mexico. He was 78.
The cause was complications of diabetes, the Indians said.
Avila, a native of Veracruz, became the first Latin player to win a major league batting title when he hit .341 for the Indians team that won a league-record 111 games. He did it despite a broken thumb incurred in early June when the Yankees' Hank Bauer slid into him.
In 1954, there were only a few Latin players in the majors in addition to Avila, most notably the Cuban outfielder Minnie Minoso of the Chicago White Sox, the runner-up for the batting crown; Chico Carrasquel of Venezuela, the White Sox' shortstop; and Ruben Gomez of Puerto Rico, the New York Giants' pitcher.
Three decades before Fernando Valenzuela enthralled his Mexican countrymen pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Avila buoyed a following for American baseball among Mexicans.
During the 1954 World Series, in which the Giants swept the Indians, an official of the Mexican Embassy in Washington presented Avila with a silver bat, a gift from a Mexican sports publication. A bat he used that season was sent to Mexico's baseball hall of fame in Monterrey.
Avila had a second career in politics, serving as a member of the Mexican national legislature and as the mayor of Veracruz.
"Baseball helped me in a lot of ways with politics," Avila told Rich Westcott in "Splendor on the Diamond."
"When you live with people so closely like you do in baseball, you learn how to deal with people."
Avila made his major league debut with Cleveland in 1949 and two years later took over as the regular second baseman. He became a smooth fielder, a three-time All-Star and batted .300 three times.
Avila, the last Indians player to win a batting title, played 10 seasons for Cleveland, then appeared with the Baltimore Orioles, the Boston Red Sox and the Milwaukee Braves in 1959 before retiring with a career batting average of .281.
The announcement of his death did not list survivors.
In the interview for "Splendor on the Diamond," Avila recounted his marquee season of 1954 and told how the thumb injury could not stop him.
"I started to hit well early, and once you're hitting well you build confidence," he said. "I felt like I could hit anybody."


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In Manisa, Turkey, in which production of raisins around 90%, raisins prices tend to increase just after the response buying of TMO by 4.00 TL/kg on September. Raisins prices are around 4.50 TL/kg in the internal market.
Mr. Ahmet Esref FAKIBABA – Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock Ministry, stated that, raisins prices will not be under 4.00 TL/kg for this season. This statement has become a guarantee for the producer and relieved the farmers who are not tend to sell their products.
Raisins prices has increased to 4.50/kg on Commodity Exchange Market and the prices are apt to increase.


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Mid March
Reading: Perfect Fit from Carly Phillips, that I love it so much! The first Serendipity Series and hit my heart like, ooooh, the strong characters she made are easy to stole every heart! Cara and Mike, the main character, are two love-birds life as police in small town, named Serendipity. They got a mission to reveal dormant case that turns out to involve people in the past, Mike's biological father. Along with it, their relationship growing starts from bed (read: sex), then finally they are getting fit, complete each other. I like Cara, and Mike too. Cara is kind of independent, sexy, smart, tough, strong determination, and care. And Mike, aaaaahh Mike! He's hot! Everything about him has flown me up high! Seductive, serious, funny (his own way), gentle, macho, I imagine Mike was like Christian Grey from 50 Shades of Grey, together with his hypnotic eyes and lips. God, I'm melting~
Moreover, others character here are very lovable, and they mean to complete the whole story. I love the way Carly combine every single piece into a very great role. Everything was sweet.
Enjoying: My new baby snowy, Asus A455LF Laptop in white color. My latest laptop finally retired after 8 years of great companionship. He did a very great job! My first Photoshop's activity, my thesis, this blog, love letter, journal reviews, family photos, rafting plans, rest in peace dear my handsome Compaq. I love you.
Planning: To do weekend gateway to Buah Batu, Bandung. A good friend of mine is getting married and the wedding reception will be held in Bandung. My husband and I think this is also a good day to us to give ourselves a little holiday. Hence, today my focus is blur because I'm too exciteeeeeed!
What makes me happy every morning: My yellow passion fruit plant is growing up so fast! It evergreen leaves are pretty, it travels to fence thru the wire we set, and I can't wait it grow over the roof of the garage.
Considering: I don't know why but my dismenore is getting worse lately. Nausea and breathless everytime my period come, is killing me. I wonder what makes me survive from this back in college, is because I regularly do some sports, 5 days a week. How about now? Saturday, if only possible (read: not lazy). That's all. Yes I know I need more! I need more move to make this dismenore fall off. Gym? Costly. Little jog every morning? More walking? Simple apps yoga? Where's your routine swimming time? This section is shoot me, hahaha. Ah, forget it. Move on.
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- The Peculiar Institution and National Honor: The Case of the Creole Slave Revolt
- Civil War History
- The Kent State University Press
- Volume 21, Number 1, March 1975
- pp. 28-50
- 10.1353/cwh.1975.0036
- Article
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THE PECULIAR INSTITUTION AND NATIONAL HONOR: The Case of the Creole Slave Revolt Howard Jones The slave mutiny on the brig Creole in 1841 has long been of interest to historians. Not only did it involve American domestic politics, it intimately concerned relations between the governments of the United States and Great Britain. Disposition of the case raised arguments and counterarguments similar to those which were to echo through American politics for two decades and result in the Civil War; it also indirectly affected the negotiation of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842. Because the Creole revolt occurred in 1841, not 1861, it eventually took its place as a minor incident in antebellum history; yet its potentially explosive nature justifies more attention than it has received. As far as this writer can tell, there has been no full, scholarly treatment of the Creole affair. Partially because of this, many accounts of the event have been either misleading or mistaken.' The reader is left with the erroneous impression that the British government won a diplomatic victory over the United States, that the incident was indicative of the spontaneous, disorganized nature of slave revolts, and that it caused many Southerners to consider seriously the possibility of having to fight England again. The purposes of this essay are to dispel some of the myths surrounding the Creole affair, to describe how such a seemingly unimportant event evoked serious questions of national honor, and to offer an explanation of the South's surprisingly subdued behavior in the latter stages of the controversy. By the I830*s that section of the United States, just embarking on the politics of slavery, was interested in almost any method to keep the peculiar institution intact. One of these was to prevent incendiary talk about the subject. Indeed, some * This essay was delivered in revised form before the Missouri Valley History Conference , Omaha, Nebraska, March 10, 1973. The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Professors Maurice G. Baxter and Robert H. Ferrell of Indiana University. 1 Examples are: Thomas A. Bailey, A Diplomatic History of the American People (New York, 1940; 8th ed., 1969), p. 211; Samuel F. Bemis, A Diplomatic History of the United States (New York, 1936; 5th ed., 1965), p. 265; Alexander De Conde, A History of American Foreign Policy (New York, 1963; 2nd ed., 1971), p. 157. The present article is derived from a book-length manuscript the author is preparing on the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. 28 Southern states passed laws against publications designed to encourage abolitionism, while freedom of the press on the slavery question did not exist in many Southern states after the 1830*s.2 William VV. Freehling has shown, in the South Carolina nullification controversy of 1832, that some Southerners sought to prevent widespread criticism of slavery by diverting attention from it to the tariff.1 In cases involving British interference with America's coastal trade in slaves, many in the South protested such actions as violations of the nation's honor. It is almost impossible to determine if they meant what they said, but it is a fact that some of the Southern press argued for maritime rights and national integrity when their real concern was the effect these British abuses could have on encouraging more slave rebellions. In its details—the event itself, and its ramifications—the Creole case constituted a microcosm of the ideas and actions of later years. The vessel had sailed from Hampton Roads, Virginia, for New Orleans in October 1841 with eight crew members, five sailors, a cargo of tobacco, 135 slaves, and six white passengers (three men in charge of the slaves, together with the captain's wife, child, and niece).4 For nearly eleven days the brig made its way down the coast, and during the evening of November 7 prepared to enter harbor at Abaco Island in the Bahamas the following morning. About 9:30 that night the chief mate, Zephaniah Gifford, discovered a male slave in the main hold with the females. When he and William Merritt, the white man overseeing the slaves, entered the hold, they found Madison Washington, the slaves' head cook. Merritt tried to seize him, but...


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Polydor Records - 2058-312
The single peaked at #2 in the UK, losing the top spot to Chuck Berry's My Ding-A-Ling. It did however, peak at #1 in the New Musical Express charts. Slade's two previous singles had charted at #1 in the UK. The single lasted 13 weeks in the top 100. It stayed in the top 10 from the moment it was released for 8 weeks. The single was also the most successful of Slade's 1970's singles in the United States, peaking at #68.
At the time, the band was on tour and needed a follow up track to Mama Weer All Crazee Now. The idea came to Lea while he was sitting by a pool in San Diego. He completed it in the toilet in the plane on the flight home. Holder's lyrics came from a TV show he saw in San Francisco on which the band appeared, and on which a girl called Jane demonstrated a Sex Toy. Holder completed the lyrics just prior to the session. Holder's original lyrics were Hello To Jane but Jim decided that it would sound better as Goodbye To Jane when they went to record it. The loose feel of the record is due to the fact that the band had never played the song before until that day, the single release was 'Take 2'.
|German / European Picture Cover of "Gudbuy T' Jane".
Belgium - Polydor - 1972.
France - Polydor - 1972.
|Italy - Polydor - 1972.
|Netherlands - Polydor - 1972.
Portugal - Polydor - 1972.
|Spain - Polydor - 1972.
Yugoslavia - Radio-Televizija Beograd - 1972.
Japan - 'Gudbuy T' Jane" - 1972.
The song was later covered, first by The Redbeards From Texas, produced by Jimmy Lea in 1986, released in November.
(Notice the different mispelling of'Gudbuy'!)
And then, later by The Metal Gurus (The Mission), featuring Noddy Holder on lead vocals in 1990.
The B-side, I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen was track 4, side 1 on the current album, Slayed?
Gudbuy T' Jane
(Noddy Holder & Jim Lea)
Goodbye T' Jane, goodbye T' Jane,
She's a dark horse, see if she can
Goodbye T' Jane, goodbye T' Jane,
Painted up like a fancy young man
She's a queen,
Can't you see what I mean,
She's a queen
See, see, she's a queen
And I know she's alright, alright, alright, alright
I say you're so young, you're so young
I say you're so young, you're so young
I say you're so young, you're so young
I said
Goodbye T' Jane, goodbye T' Jane,
Get a kick from her forties trip boots
Goodbye T' Jane, goodbye T' Jane,
Has them made to match up to her suits
Goodbye T' Jane, goodbye T' Jane,
Like a dark horse see how she ran
Goodbye T' Jane, goodbye T' Jane,
Spits on me cos' she knows that she can
I say you're so young, she's alright, alright, alright, alright.
I say you're so young, you're so young, alright, alrightI say you're so young...
I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen
(Jim Lea)
I won't sing, I won't shout if you throw me out
I'll just go on my way with nothing to say
But it's not gonna 'appen, and no, it won't 'appen
I won't let ,it 'appen agen.
You say you lie an' you say that you might
Let me return to stay aroun' with you
But it's not gonna 'appen, and no, it won't 'appen
Oh I won't let it 'appen agen, oh no, no no
I try hard to like you and that's all I can do
Let me return to stay aroun' with you
But it's...


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The Broadway
Sale price
Regular price
The Broadway is one the most complex shoes ever made, with more than 500 die cuts, layers and foxing tapes along the shoe. The construction requires serious engineer skills for development and production, resulting in one of the most incredible vulcanized shoe on the industry. The staggering and fine class design is based on rally cars, track bikes with the "Toe clip" feature and brutalism, creating a unique siluette and sneaker experience. The hidden PU midsole that goes along all the midsole gives great support and comfort with out compromising the shoe concept and design. Take a look of the Broadway features and get to know how the luxury is reinvented.
- Upper: Imported Italian Napa leather, Nubuk, waxed suede, tumble leather, Nylon mesh, Lycra sock liner with expandable elastics Velcro straps, 3M reflective layers and branded Stratica hardware.
- 20 different foxing tapes and layers over the outsole construction.
- 16 pieces of reinforcement under the upper paneling.
- Poliyou "Cork" insoles.
- Full length PU hidden insert trough the whole midsole.
- Textured rubber foxing vamp toecap.
- Midsole foxing tape with "Splatter" application.
- Underneath black foxing tape with blue foxing line.
- Textured rubber foxing back counter with Stratica logo.
- Flower of Life vulcanized gum rubber outsole.
- Cork insoles with "Gold Stratica logo" made of Poliyou anti bacterial feature.
- Full pigskin leather lining.
- 3 Shoelaces with golden tips included on a cloth bag.
- Flower of Life pattern wrapping paper and filler.
- Strobel construction.
- 100% handmade.
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River Rescue: For 3rd Time, Salt Lake City Strangers Step Up
Passersby entered an icy river to pull three children who were trapped in a car.
This weekend, Utah's Salt Lake City area upped its ranking as one of the nicest places on Earth after a dramatic rescue by people who just happened to be passing by.
On New Year's Eve, a group of nearly 10 strangers saved three children trapped in a car that had plunged into the Logan River. The driver had been trying to brake on a slick road and lost control.
Watch "World News" tonight for more on this story.
It was the third incident in nearly six months where passersby had stopped to help someone in danger.
In September, college student Brandon Wright was driving his motorcycle in Logan, Utah, when a car pulled out in front of him. The 21-year-old's bike hit the car's hood and became trapped underneath it with Wright still holding on. Both vehicles then burst into flames.
A crowd of eight or nine people, including construction workers and students from Utah State University, lifted the burning car and pulled Wright out.
"They should get used to being called heroes because that's what they are," Wright said during a hospital news conference in September. "They restored my faith in humanity."
Police Officer Consoles Bus Victim
And in December, when a Utah Transit Authority bus hit Aryann Smith in a crosswalk, leaving the 24-year-old pinned underneath, a West Valley City police officer consoled the badly injured woman by holding her hand and giving her words of encouragement.
According to Salt Lake City's Deseret News, Officer Kevin Peck crawled under the bus and held Smith's hand until the vehicle was lifted and she was pulled out. Though Smith's legs were badly injured, she was not expected to lose them.
"She asked me not to leave. So I said I would just stay under there with her until we got her out. ... She was afraid she was going to die," he told the newspaper. "I'm just praying and hoping for some reason the bus doesn't move. ... Just trying to reassure her and keep her calm."
Philip Zimbardo, president of the Heroic Imagination Project, said that heroes were special, yet ordinary people.
"They are willing to put their best selves forward in service to humanity, to risk their life and limb -- and sometimes career -- to help others and in many cases people they don't even know," he said. "For me, heroes represent an ideal that we all want to strive for."
In the latest act of random kindness from rescuers, this Saturday, Roger Andersen, 46, was driving northbound on U.S. 89 in a Honda Accord when he tried to brake and lost control. His car slid down a 10-foot embankment and flipped over. His daughter and another girl, both 9, and his son, 4, were trapped in the car.
Chris Willden, with three children of his own, and his father were among several men who made their way down the embankment into the water.
"I jumped out of the car, jumped into the river next to the children's father and started helping him trying to get into the vehicle," said Willden, a Defense Department contractor who eventually shot out one of the car's window and helped remove a girl from a seat belt. "I tried pulling on the door handles and none of them would open up."
"I didn't think they were going to be around for the new year," he told The Associated Press.
Though they were lifeless after rescuers pulled them from the car, the boy and his sister were reportedly treated for hypothermia at Primary Children's Medical Center and later released. The father and the other girl were not injured, authorities said.
"The Utah story should be a wonderful New Year's eve present to all of us," Zimbardo told ABC News today. "It's not simply that a single person sees this potential tragedy and decides to risk his or her life, but that everyone in that setting who saw the same thing, all acted nobly, heroically."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.


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Nikon D3400 Overview:
The Nikon D3400 DSLR Camera at a street price of $496 is one of the latest "entry" level Nikon DSLR cameras on the market. The standard kit includes the AF-P 18-55MM Lens, but it's also available in a dual lens kit with the 18-55mm lens telephoto AF-P 70-300MM Lens. It's targeted at budget conscious consumers still looking for good picture quality and looking to jump up from a point and shoot or their smartphone camera.
Key Features:
- 24MP APS-C CMOS sensor
- 11-point phase detect auto-focus system
- 1080/60p video capability
- Fixed 3″ 920k-dot LCD screen
- 5/fps burst shooting
✓ The battery life of the D3400 is really astounding. It's a slightly less powerful onboard flash, and less power used=battery savings. Nikon says on standard settings it can shoot over a thousand pictures before the battery needs to be charged. That's among the best that we've ever seen for any DSLR camera.
✓ The bluetooth functionality is really great. the connection is always on. The camera can synch photos to your smart device as you shoot photos, without you having to reconnect each time. And it doesn't drain the battery any more so than normal. Nikon calls it "SnapBridge" and it works in the background to transfer images. Once it's setup up, you can just pick up your smart phone and the photos will be there. The software automatically resizes them so you can send or upload pretty easily.
✓ Image quality is excellent. At the time of it's released, the 24MP APS-C sensor was the best available of any entry level camera from any manufacturer. Even if you are blowing up images to poster sizes, they still retain excellent picture quality. A really benefit for such a large sensor is the cropping capability that you now have. The more pixels you have to work with, the easier it is to retain superb picture quality if you just want to use or showcase a small part of the picture that you took.
Q: Is the D3400 better than the D3300? The D3400 is basically a "souped up" Nikon D3300. It offers a new AF-P lens, which features "Stepping Motor" autofocus technology, which essentially is designed to make the lens quieter. The AF-P lenses of the D3400 are also push button retraction, making them a little more space saving the a general fixed DSLR lens. It also offers advanced ISO max to 25,600, double the standard of the D3300. The D3400 is slightly lighter, and according to Nikon has nearly 35% battery life. Lastly, it also adds bluetooth and smartphone capability. As of the time of this review (January 2018), there is a $100 difference in the retail pricing of these cameras. So let your budget dictate your choice.


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Sound in motion
April 28th, 2012 at 10:06 pm (History, Technology, Vocabulary)
It never occurred to me to wonder where Motorola got its name. Recently, I heard this fascinating tidbit and followed up — it appears to be true!
From Motorola's own timeline:
In 1930 Galvin Manufacturing Corporation introduced the Motorola radio, one of the first commercially successful car radios. Company founder Paul V. Galvin created the brand name Motorola for the car radio — linking "motor" (for motorcar) with "ola" (which implied sound). Thus the Motorola brand meant sound in motion.
Today, Motorola's cell (mobile) phones give a whole new meaning to "sound in motion."


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Saul Audio Blog for Tuesday June 13th.
All is well! Do not focus with fear or alarm on the news of catastrophes and conflicts across the world. Just hold the steady intent to send love and healing to those who are suffering, it will help them to release all that is bringing suffering into their lives. Even in war-torn areas people can be happy! Happiness arises when you accept what arises without judgment – negative or positive – and deal lovingly with the issues presented to you. You are all on Earth to assist in humanity's awakening process which is, of course, also your own awakening process. Everyone on Earth is to awaken and needs to awaken into Reality, your natural state where you are Love and you know yourselves as Love.
To awaken is to allow the illusion and all its attachments and distractions to dissolve or disintegrate…
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Put the Candy Away and Keep the Roaches at Bay
Halloween calls for fun costumes, trick or treating, and an outrageous amount of candy. When it comes to be this time of year, you might think that no one can be more excited than your small children. However, there are a few reasons why roaches may just have them beat.
Piles of Leaves: As Halloween grows nearer, leaves are also falling off trees. Unnecessary accumulations of leaves can cause major issues for your pest problems. Roaches love to hide in dark areas that are unlikely to be touched. Removing excess piles of leaves from your yard can help prevent an infestation of roaches.
Easy Access: With trick-or-treaters coming to your house throughout the night, be sure to close the door whenever it is not directly being used. Make sure your screens are in good repair, as cooler weather allows for windows to be open. Roaches can sneak into your home even through the tiniest cracks. Keeping cockroaches out of your home is half of the battle in preventing an infestation.
Abundance of Food: Your children are most likely overjoyed with the large amount of candy they receive on Halloween, and so are cockroaches. Halloween candy that is left out on countertops or tables provides an open invitation for cockroaches to feast. After the counting, sorting, and dividing of candy, make sure it is properly put away. Roaches already have plenty of reasons to call your house their home; take away any additional ones they may have.
Amongst the excitement that Halloween brings, don't forget to take preventative measures in keeping your home free of roaches. With cooler weather cockroaches look for warm places to hide, and you don't want these places to be in your walls or under your appliances.
If you see one roach scampering across your kitchen floor, you're likely to see more. Take action quickly, and eliminate the entire nest. Combat Baits and Gels can begin working within hours and they kill from the source. Unlike spray insecticides, Combat Baits and Gels kill even the cockroaches you can't see.
Protect your home this fall in the war against roaches. With Combat as your arsenal, you're sure to win the battle. Utilize our Plan of Attack tool to get your troops ready.


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Benefits of CRM software
Customer relationship management software, popularly known as CRM provide companies with essential software tools that help integrate data from several databases within the company. Typically, the software integrates information from accounting, sales, technical support, marketing and accounting. The software offers numerous tangible benefits as it stores valuable data such as history of purchases and customer contacts.
1. Increased profits
You should strive to find suitable CRM software that matches your companies' objectives and strategies so as to develop an effective plan aimed at increasing profits and sales over the long haul. By implementing the software to business processes, managers can study expenses and revenue to decide what needs to be done to increase efficiency in production.
2. Improved sales leads
If your company can generate a substantial amount of lead sales, you can get high return in revenues and sales. With a computerized workflow system, CRM software allows managers to view leads on computer screen which then disappear after they become clients. Moreover, the software creates sale territories to ensure that employees can manage their allocated areas via automated reports that provide concise information.
3. Scalability
This is an essential factor for both small and medium-sized companies seeking to broaden their customer base over the long haul, but don't want to spend more money on CRM software. Most CRM solutions such as SalesProCRM provide a solution that doesn't require software solution and gives managers an opportunity to customize the system in order to suit their needs.
4. Better customer service
The software should include immediate access to e-mail templates as well as customer data that enable team members to highlight essential customers' details and respond to their queries when they require assistance pertaining to certain products or services. This information is then captured through point-of-sale systems.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vivendi SA (VIV.PA) said it agreed to pay $26.4 million to end nearly 15 years of U.S. litigation accusing the French media company of misleading shareholders about its finances in connection with a $46 billion three-way merger.
Thursday's accord resolved claims that Vivendi and officials including former Chief Executive Jean-Marie Messier made false or misleading statements that concealed liquidity problems after the 2000 combination of Vivendi, Seagram Co and Canal Plus.
A preliminary settlement was filed with the federal court in Manhattan, and requires approval by U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer.
It resolves claims by investors whose financial advisers bought Vivendi's American depositary shares on their behalf from Oct. 30, 2000 to Aug. 14, 2002, according to court papers.
The $26.4 million payment represents one-third of the maximum amount the investors might have won had litigation continued, the papers showed.
Vivendi said that including the payment, it will have paid $78 million to resolve the entire litigation, in which investors at one time had hoped to recover $9.3 billion.
A federal jury in Manhattan had in January 2010 found Vivendi liable for violating U.S. securities laws.
But a U.S. Supreme Court decision five months later in an unrelated case ultimately scuttled most claims by Vivendi investors, including over ordinary shares listed in Paris.
Vivendi said it will release a roughly 25 million euro ($26.6 million) reserve it had set aside for Thursday's accord.
The case is In re Vivendi Universal SA Securities Litigation, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 02-05571.
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This is the long-awaited feature documentary that explores the life, teachings, and "crazy wisdom" of Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, a pivotal figure in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Raised and trained in the rigorous Tibetan monastic tradition, Trungpa shattered preconceived notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave — he openly smoked, drank, and had intimate relations with students — yet his teachings are recognized as authentic, vast, and influential. Trungpa taught Buddhism as though it were a matter of life and death. Allen Ginsberg considered him his guru; Thomas Merton wanted to write a book with him; Joni Mitchell wrote a song about him. Filmed in the UK, Tibet, Canada, and the U.S., 20 years after Trungpa's death, with unprecedented access and exclusive archival material.
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DALLAS — Thirteen abortion clinics in Texas were forced to close immediately after a federal appellate court on Thursday sided with Texas in its yearlong legal battle over its sweeping abortion law and allowed the state to enforce one of the law's toughest provisions while the case was being appealed.
The decision by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, will have a far-reaching effect on abortion services in Texas, lawyers for abortion providers said. The ruling gave Texas permission to require all abortion clinics in the state to meet the same building, equipment and staffing standards as hospital-style surgical centers, standards that abortion providers said were unnecessary and costly, but that the state argued improved patient safety.
Thirteen clinics whose facilities do not meet the new standards were to be closed overnight, leaving Texas — a state with 5.4 million women of reproductive age, ranking second in the country — with eight abortion providers, all in Houston, Austin and two other metropolitan regions. No abortion facilities will be open west or south of San Antonio.
The "ruling has gutted Texas women's constitutional rights and access to critical reproductive health care, and stands to make safe, legal abortion essentially disappear overnight," said Nancy Northup, the president and chief executive of the Center for Reproductive Rights, whose lawyers were part of the legal team representing the clinics that sued the state.
But Lauren Bean, a spokeswoman for Greg Abbott, the Texas attorney general, whose lawyers represented the state and who is the front-runner as the Republican nominee in the Texas governor's race, praised the ruling. "This decision is a vindication of the careful deliberation by the Texas Legislature to craft a law to protect the health and safety of Texas women," Ms. Bean said.
The three-judge panel agreed with the state's lawyers that there was insufficient evidence that a "large fraction" of women seeking abortions would face an unconstitutional burden because of the surgical-center requirements and clinic closings. They wrote that the data provided by one of the plaintiffs' experts, Dr. Daniel Grossman, suggested that about one out of six Texas women seeking an abortion would live more than 150 miles from the nearest clinic if the surgical-center rules went into effect.
"This is nowhere near a 'large fraction,' " the panel wrote.
Two of the three judges were appointed by Republican presidents, and one, Judge Stephen A. Higginson, was appointed by President Obama. Judge Higginson concurred in part and dissented in part from the majority opinion.
The panel's decision was only temporary and left open the possibility that the clinics could reopen as the case proceeds. Nevertheless, abortion providers and their lawyers said they were considering all of their legal options, including appealing to the Supreme Court or to the full Fifth Circuit. Meanwhile, Texas Republicans and anti-abortion groups who backed the law praised the decision and said it countered a series of court rulings that struck down other abortion restrictions across the South.
Joe Pojman, executive director of the anti-abortion group Texas Alliance for Life, commended Mr. Abbott's legal team for "their effective defense of Texas law from challenges from the abortion industry."
In July 2013, the Republican-dominated Texas Legislature passed some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the United States, after a marathon filibuster that turned a Democratic state senator, Wendy Davis, into a national political star and set the stage for her campaign for governor. Some parts of the law were already being enforced, but the surgical-center requirement had yet to take effect.
This August, Judge Lee Yeakel of United States District Court in Austin ruled that the surgical-center rule put an unconstitutional burden on women seeking abortions, and that the effect of clinic closings and the reduced geographic distribution of clinics operated "just as drastically as a complete ban on abortion." In the months before the law was enacted last summer, Texas had 41 facilities providing abortions. In recent weeks, that number had decreased to 21.
Judge Yeakel also blocked a requirement that doctors performing abortions obtain admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of a clinic.
In an unusual move, the judge granted the abortion providers who sued the state broader relief than they had requested. Lawyers for abortion facilities had asked him to strike down the requirement as it applied to two clinics, in El Paso and McAllen. But Judge Yeakel ruled the admitting-privileges requirement and the surgical-center standards, operating together, put undue burdens on women statewide, and created "a brutally effective system of abortion regulation that reduces access to abortion clinics."
Lawyers for Mr. Abbott appealed Judge Yeakel's ruling to the Fifth Circuit, asking the court to temporarily block the decision while the appeal proceeded.
The Fifth Circuit, regarded by many as one of the most conservative federal appellate courts, had given Texas favorable rulings in past abortion cases and was expected to do the same this time. In March, a different Fifth Circuit panel sided with Texas in the first lawsuit over the new abortion restrictions, overturning a decision by Judge Yeakel and upholding the admitting-privileges rule as constitutional.
In court documents and at a hearing in New Orleans, lawyers for Texas had attacked Judge Yeakel's decision on several fronts, and some of their arguments influenced the circuit panel's ruling. Jonathan F. Mitchell, the state's solicitor general, said Judge Yeakel was legally barred from ruling on the statewide impact and constitutionality of the admitting-privileges requirement because the Fifth Circuit had already upheld it in March.
Judge Yeakel's actions "border on defiance of this court," Mr. Mitchell wrote in court documents.
The panel, in its ruling on Thursday, appeared to agree with Mr. Mitchell. Judge Yeakel's decision to invalidate the admitting-privileges requirement throughout Texas was "inappropriate because plaintiffs did not request that relief" and was "directly contrary to this circuit's precedent," the judges wrote.
Lawyers for Texas argued that the abortion patients who will face burdensome driving distances because of the law did not amount to a "large fraction," and that an abortion regulation cannot be invalidated unless it imposes an undue burden on what the Supreme Court called "a large fraction of relevant cases."
The lawyers representing abortion clinics said Judge Yeakel did not have to apply the "large fraction" test, and that even if he did, the affected population was indeed large. The clinics' lawyers said in one analysis that about 17 out of 100 Texas women of reproductive age would face a substantial obstacle to abortion services.


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