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Mr. Shaun Fanning, MS, has served as the Human Resource Director for the Northeastern Tribal Health System for 1 1⁄2 years. He has displayed leadership and vision in assuring effective time management for the medical facility. He is responsible for implementing BambooHR, a Human Resource software package that empowers employees to take responsibility for their leave balances. The program allows employees to request leave, the supervisor to approve/disapprove leave, and relieves the Finance Department of the burden of unnecessary paperwork. This innovative approach has resulted in a more efficient processing of employee time, employee knowledge of time available, and improved accountability.
♦ Kara North ♦
Northeastern Tribal Health System
Ms. Kara North, CPNP has served as the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for the Northeastern Tribal Health System in Miami, Oklahoma for nearly nine years. She has provided innovative leadership in promoting pediatric literacy. Ms. North was responsible for implementing the Reach out and Read Model. This innovative approach has resulted in the distribution of over 200 books to NTHS children and families in an effort to improve childhood literacy and improve parent and child interaction through reading. Reach Out and Read is designed to promote pediatric literacy. Ms. North is a valuable member of the Northeastern Tribal Health System Medical Department.
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Northeastern Tribal Health System
CDR Bearden has served as the Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services for the Northeastern Tribal Health System for nine years. CDR Bearden displayed innovative thinking and the ability to identify and solve issues which are critical to the health of the local native population. He was responsible for recognizing the high number of patients who are at risk for sleep apnea who had not been identified or screened. CDR Bearden worked with the medical providers to raise awareness of this deadly condition and developed the Overnight Pulse Oximetry Screening Clinic to assist the medical staff in assessing this critical health threat.
♦ Tiffany Koronis ♦
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Tiffany Koronis is an enrolled member of the Quapaw Tribe. She serves as a Registered Nurse Case Manager for the Northeastern Tribal Health System (NTHS). She has been employed at NTHS for 2 years. Tiffany has consistently displayed exemplary customer service skills while providing compassionate nursing care in the ambulatory setting. She was previously assigned as a staff nurse Northeastern Tribal Health System, and displayed exceptional dedication to the Native American population. Tiffany has shown her enthusiasm for customer service and nursing care by routinely going the "extra mile" for patients in need.
Mrs. Tiffany Koronis is an enrolled member of the Quapaw Tribe. She serves as a Registered Nurse Case Manager for the Northeastern Tribal Health System (NTHS). She has been employed at NTHS for 2 years. Tiffany has consistently displayed exemplary customer service skills while providing compassionate nursing care in the ambulatory setting. She was previously assigned as a staff nurse Northeastern Tribal Health System, and displayed exceptional dedication to the Native American population. Tiffany has shown her enthusiasm for customer service and nursing care by routinely going the "extra mile" for patients in need. Tiffany was awarded the Indian Health Service Directors Award for Individual Customer Service for selflessly assisting an elderly patient with an arm fracture clean their home, after hours so they would not fail a housing inspection. She also personally procured fairly expensive medical equipment with her own funds to assist in meeting the medical needs of a newborn.
On Thursday, Nov. 6 2014, Kim Chuculate, who serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the Northeastern Tribal Health System, was honored during a ceremony in Maryland by the director of Indian Health Services.
The ceremony included a plaque, which will be placed on display in the facility.
Chuculate was honored for her work to lead a project with eight tribes to secure funds and build the Northeastern Tribal Health System's 52,000-square-foot facility in Miami in 2012, and a 5,500-square-foot health education center a year later.
Chuculate and the project management team, which included Jason Flatter, Linda Taylor, Johnny 'Tink' Smith, Pat Hecksher and Donna Mercer, earned the 2013 Indian Health Service National Director's Special Recognition Award for Tribal Partnership.
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Channa Morton, RD/LD/CDE earned an AA from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College iin 1991, and a BS in Nutritional Science from Oklahoma State University. She began her career with Integris Baptist Regional Health Center in Miami, as a Dietitian for the County Senior Nutrition Program. In January 2010, she began working at Northeastern Tribal Health System in Miami, OK. Ms. Morton has provided patients with individual/group nutrition and diabetes education, weight management classes, and numerous community outreach activities including eating disorder awareness events.
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Tammy Smith, R.T. (R) (M), graduated from Labette Community College in 1992. She is registered in both Radiology and Mammography. She is currently the Mammography Technician at Northeastern Tribal Health System. In January of 2013, she was asked to develop the Mammography Department at Northeastern Tribal Health System in Miami, OK. Protocols, policies and procedures were created in accordance to the ACR guidelines. Quality Control limits and Physicist testing was completed. In March 2013, the Mammography Department was accredited by the American College of Radiology and the FDA.
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A murder victim's family is talking to police again after a News4 I-Team report about the oldest cold case in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Ralph Smith remembers his family never talked about the case when he was growing up in Bethesda in the 1930s. It wasn't until he was a teenager when he began to hear whispers his father had been a suspect in the Car Barn Murders -- one of the region's most famous murder mysteries.
"My dad was home asleep," Smith said, when police, "came and rousted him out of bed. They said at that time he was a suspect, they wanted to know where his uncle was. He said he was at work."
Smith's father worked at the Capital Transit Car Barn and its ticket station on Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase along with his uncle Emory Smith, the station's night watchman.
But a cold January night in 1935, someone stole more than $1,200, or $20,000 in today's money, and killed the clerk, who was found inside a locked office, Montgomery County Police said.
There was no sign of Emory Smith.
"They found him the next day in Rock Creek Park," Ralph Smith said. Police records show Emory Smith was probably shot about a mile north of the station, at what is now the Kensington Parkway Bridge and thrown into Rock Creek.
Ralph Smith said his father was quickly cleared of his uncle's murder and, along with three of his uncles, continued to work for the trolley company. "They always thought it was an inside job," Ralph Smith said.
But as time passed, the Smith family assumed police had given up on finding the killer -- until they saw the I-Team story showing how Montgomery County Detective Brian Stafford is still working on what is now his oldest cold case.
"I think they're all solvable," Stafford said.
But, he said, his files showed police lost contact with the Smith family in the 1980s, and Stafford wasn't sure if anyone was even still alive.
Ralph Smith's daughter Karen Smith said she couldn't believe it when a cousin sent her a link to the story.
"I called Dad and said, 'Did you know they have a whole case file on Uncle Emory?'" she explained. "And he goes 'Well, they have a little." And I said, 'No, they have a lot!'"
Karen and Ralph Smith said they had no idea the case file contained bullet fragments, original notebooks, hand-drawn maps and 81 year-old evidence photos.
"In 1935, it's not like everybody just walked around with a 35 millimeter digital camera and photographed everything," Karen Smith said. "That was a big deal to photograph the desk and all the evidence in the shoe prints, and they didn't know what we know now. To collect all of that and take meticulous notes, they did a really good job."
And she should know. She's a retired homicide investigator who now runs her own forensic evidence consulting firm in Florida. She estimated she's worked on more than 500 murder cases, including cold cases, and said finding evidence this old is extremely rare.
"Tells me they've taken extraordinarily good care of that case file," she said. "I'm very grateful for my family, for my dad. Especially want to tell them thank you for that."
Ralph Smith moved to Florida to be closer to his daughter. They've now gotten in touch with Stafford.
At 81 years old, Ralph Smith is the last of his generation who remembers what it was like after the murders. "This case, it's probably never ever going to be really solved," he said.
But Karen Smith then said, "I like to be more of an optimist."
She said the fact her family is still searching for answers shows how cold cases can haunt families for generations, as they continue to hold out hope their murder can be solved.
"To have some kind of catharsis," Karen Smith said. "Even though we know there will never be any justice, it would still be an answer."
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3/4 tsp garlic paste
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Sentiment and the Holy Grail
Sentiment hit a number of bearish extremes last week and I tweeted out a few charts illustrating this shift in the mood of market participants. The most striking of these was the percentage of Bulls in the AAII (American Association of Individual Investors) poll dropping down to 17.9%, below the extreme low it reached in March 2009 (18.9%) after a 57% decline in the S&P 500.
The immediate response on twitter was predictable: 1) subjective opinions that there was not "enough fear" yet, 2) that the fear was more than justified because of xyz bad news (imminent recession, china, crashing oil, etc.), and 3) the times in history when sentiment was bearish and the market continued to go down.
I know better than to try to have an intelligent discussion via twitter, so let's go through each of these responses here.
First, there is no way to test one's subjective view of fear and greed. It is meaningless. While admittedly not perfect, sentiment indicators at least provide an objective measurement with data going back in time.
Second, high levels of fear are always associated with a lot of bad news. That is the nature of markets. When markets are down, we find reasons (whether true or not) to rationalize the declines. They always seem justified at the time but the question for markets is of course 1) how much bad news is already priced in, and 2) will the news ever get better (it usually does).
Lastly, in terms of the false positives (when sentiment is bearish and the market continues to go down): there is no holy grail. There is no indicator – sentiment, valuation, momentum or otherwise – that will be "correct" 100% of the time.
Does that fact render sentiment analysis useless? Only if you require 100% certainty in markets in which case you would never invest because such a thing does not exist. There are only probabilities in investing, and when sentiment is extremely bearish, the risk/reward has generally improved and your probability (not certainty) of higher future returns has increased.
Let's examine the data.
The AAII Sentiment poll has been in existence since 1987. Since then, the percentage of Bulls has been below 26% only 10% of the time (the current condition). On the other side of the sentiment extreme, it has been above 52% only 10% of the time (we last saw this extreme in late 2014). (Note: sentiment analysis is only meaningful when at extremes; most of the time sentiment is telling you nothing about risk/reward or the likelihood of higher/lower future returns).
The table below shows the average forward returns after each of these conditions, extreme greed (above 52%) and extreme fear (below 26%). The table also shows the average forward returns for all periods.
What can we conclude from the tables above:
1) Extreme fear seems to lead to above average forward returns and a higher probability of a positive forward returns.
2) Extreme greed seems to lead to below average forward returns with a lower probability (though still above 50%) of a positive forward return.
3) While the market is often positive one year after extreme fear readings (90% of the time), it is not always positive. Again, there is no holy grail indicator and there have been times in history (during bear markets like 2007-09) when sentiment got very bearish (January 2008) and stocks continued to decline.
We'll only know in hindsight if the current bearishness is coinciding with a correction within an ongoing bull market or something more like the 2008 scenario. Regardless of your view, though, one thing is clear: the risk/reward and odds of higher S&P 500 returns are better today with the S&P 500 at a recent low of 1812 than when bullishness was rampant last year at the all-time high of 2134.
As I said last week on CNBC, when it comes to investing, it is not greed but fear that is good. With all due respect to Gordon Gekko, of course.
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It's kind of like the Bonds HR record to me. At first you are haha neener neener guy, then you are neener neener he never got caught guy.. Then you're well the pitchers were cheating too guy. If I'm Pats fan I don't care. I still don't think this was the difference in any meaningful game the Pats played in.
I agree with Vic.If it made no difference why do or worry about it. I think we underestimate how much a small change can be the difference in pro games. To me is like blackjack where the slightest edge repeated over course of 1,000 plays in a season adds up to a significant advantage.That said they had 4 close games in the regular season (defined as one score either way). They went 3-1 beating Oakland and the Jets twice and losing to the Packers. These games may have been decided by a turnover and even just a big third down catch helped by a soft ball. They had one with Baltimore in the playoffs before this hit. So they went 4-1 in close games. They clinched home field because of the wins which allowed them to rest guys in week 17 and or get home field. How does it play out if they don't have home field. So in some ways I get your take it is at best a slight advantage. Just that I also know that a slight advantage of the over course of 1,000 plays can add up quickly.


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Cameron's Britain was no socialist republic
May says she wants to defend the poor. But she continues to blame them for the plight of the 'just managing'.
In her 'shared society' speech last week, the Prime Minister said she wants to tackle the 'injustices' in our society, adding that we must acknowledge truths such as 'if you're a white, working-class boy, you're less likely than anybody else in Britain to go to university'.
However, she asserts that too much focus has been put upon 'obvious injustices', with an obsession on 'social mobility and social justice' rather than 'everyday injustices'.
She makes out that her predecessors were somehow running a socialist republic, when in fact, rather than defending the poor, they smashed them with a continued attack on welfare and housing.
May, for all her lukewarm interventionist platitudes, is continuing the project laid out by Thatcher, and continued by Cameron, to reel back the state.
What we have seen is a change in rhetoric, not intention. May will acknowledge the state to smash it, acknowledge the poor to disregard them, and use the 'just managing' as a means to cut taxes.
How can the Cameronite government be said to be the champion of social justice? Yes, Cameron went on a large publicity campaign and hugged a hoodie.
Then of course he introduced the Pupil Premium, a Liberal Democrat idea, while abolishing the Education Maintenance Allowance. The Pupil Premium was heralded as a milestone in social justice which in fact it was recycled money and did not reduce cuts.
But how could introducing a cap for benefits while reducing corporation tax be said to be advocating social justice? Or cutting the funding allocated to social housing by 60 per cent, and re-defining affordable rent as being 80 per cent of market value?
May however is trying to position herself as moving beyond this settlement. She is harking back to the position of Harold Macmillian.
Macmillian pre-dated the conservative fixation upon neoliberal economics, and was one of the conservative politicians to acknowledge the emergence of low income aspirational voters as key to the Conservatives' future success.
This new outlook was epitomized in the phrase a 'property owning democracy'. As Prime Minster, Macmillan sought to preserve the Keynesian consensus of the age. May is rhetorically looking to combine two aspects of Macmillanism in her narrative of the shared society.
Though May pays homage to the plight of the poor, unlike Cameron, they are not the group who she believes should be most protected.
In fact, their struggles are detracting from the ignored concerns of the 'just managing', those who 'have been ignored by government for too long because they don't fall into the income bracket that makes them qualify for welfare support'.
But the plight of those on 'modest to low incomes' has not been blighted by a government that only cared for the most disadvantaged.
The just managing 'don't always have job security' and 'own [their] home, but […] worry about paying the mortgage' not because Cameron's government spent so much on the poor that there was none left for the 'squeezed middle'.
They are in insecure jobs because the coalition government in 2013 took away employment protection: making employment tribunal fees exorbitant, changing the composition of tribunal panels to favour employers and allowing an employee to sack you without reason within the first two-years of employment.
With self employment at record levels, this leave the just managing extremely vulnerable to exploitative employers.
The just managing are worried about paying their mortgage because George Osborne in exchange for an anaemic recovery allowed house prices to soar, because he did not want to invest in public services.
As Osborne declared, 'hopefully we will get a little housing boom and everyone will be happy when property values go up'.
How is May going to get a better deal for the just managing? A hard Brexit looms on the horizon. Businesses are already irate about the National Living Wage. Does anyone think they are going to support employment protections which will decrease their opportunity to increase profit?
We have a housing market which is now rigged for what is affordable for developers, not tenants and home buyers. Following May's U-turn on putting workers on boards, its looks highly unlikely that she will take up cause of the just managing.
May has hit onto rhetoric that will ring true for many, in our low wage and high debt fuelled economy. She aims to present herself as a pre-Thatcherite, a one nation conservative, who will protect the just managing. In her speech she presents the just managing as having been 'ignored' because of a fixation on the disadvantaged.
However, it was a Tory-led government who put bankers before working people that neglected the just managing. The fact that May is willing to propagate this myth betrays that she is likely to be a continuation of the Cameron project rather than a departure, (bar Europe of course).
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Craps is a dice based game where everyone is playing against the casino. To be able to roll the dice the shooter must make a line bet (pass or don't pass bet). The payout is even money. The shooters first roll is known as the 'come out roll'. If the come out roll is a 7 or 11 the pass line wins and the don't pass loses. If the come out roll is a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 then that number is known as the shooters 'point'.
How To Win Craps
The shooter will keep rolling until one of two things happen – if they roll the number that they had to set the point the pass line bets win and the don't pass bets lose. If a 7 is rolled before the point number the pass line loses and the don't pass wins. Either way, the round is over. A new round always begins with the same shooter until he 'sevens out'.
The Big 6 & Big 8 bets
You are betting that 6 or 8 will be rolled before a 7. These win even money.
Field bets
You are betting that the next roll will be a 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 or 12. These pay even money, except 2 or 12 pays 2 -1.
Place bets
If your point number comes up before a 7 you win, if a 7 comes up first you lose.
Hardway Bets
Making a hardway means to make the total of two dice on doubles. Eg, if you wanted to hit a hard 6 you would need to roll two threes. The payouts on these vary.
One Roll Bets
Bets placed on 'any craps' covers numbers 2, 3 & 12. The payout is 7-1. Bets placed on 3 or 11 pay 15-1. Bets on 2 or 12 pay 30-1, any 7 pays 4-1.
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A one roll combination of craps (2,3, 12) or 11 should you throw any one of these combinations on the next roll you win.
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Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy has been named a finalist in two awards for this season's performance. The two awards are the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award and the Wureffel Trophy.
The Golden Arm Award is given each year to the nation's top senior quarterback. The award is given by the Johnny Unitas Arm Educational Foundation, Inc. and was first established in 1987. It has been awarded 23 times with Texas' Colt McCoy winning last season. This year's finalists are:
- Andy Dalton, TCU
- Pat Devlin, University of Delaware
- Nathan Enderle, Idaho
- Colin Kaepernick, Nevada
- Jake Locker, Washington
- Greg McElroy, Alabama
- Christian Ponder, Florida State
- Ricky Stanzi, Iowa
- Tyrod Taylor, Virginia Tech
- Scott Tolzien, Wisconsin
The Wureffel Trophy is presented by the All Sports Association to the college player who best combines exemplary community service and academic achievement. Last season's winner was Tim Hiller of Western Michigan University. This year's finalists for the award are:
- Greg McElroy, Alabama
- Christian Ponder, Florida State
- Ben Chappell, Indiana
- Dominik Riley, Memphis
- Kirk Cousins, Michigan State
- Chris Stewart, Notre Dame
- Stefen Wisniewski, Penn State
- Kyle Adams, Purdue
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New solar plants to be built on public lands.
Federal agencies are eyeing the possibility of converting vast areas of barren land in different states of the U.S. into solar power hubs, which can collectively generate more than 100,000MW of green electricity for the States. The zoning portion of the initiative has marked 24 tacks of Bureau of Land Management land located in half a dozen western states, which have enormous solar potential, and each site is capable of producing more than 10MW of green electricity.
Construction on the projects should begin as early as 2010, with a goal of powering more than 29 million homes with 100,000MW of solar generated electricity. The Federal Bureau of Land Management has received applications for 158 solar projects on 1.8 million acres, which collectively can help the feds achieve their goal.
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A man in their 30's has been flown to Royal Perth Hospital following a shark attack off the South West coast this morning.
The incident reportedly occurred at Cobblestones, just south of Gracetown just after 8am.
Authorities worked to help the man, who is said to be conscious and breathing and is currently being treated for leg injuries.
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Local business houses, financial services groups and Alternative Investment Funds will find it easier to rope in foreign partners to carry out fund management activities in India. The Securities and Exchange Board of India has spelt out that sponsors and managers of alternative investment funds, or AIFs, are covered by its regulations — a stand that will spare the sponsors and managers of these funds from a recent government rule that foreign direct investment (FDI) in unregulated financial services cannot be less than $20 million.
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The concept of investments has broadened immeasurably over the past decade. The main reasons being global economic slowdown in 2008 and the on-going technological advances. The ability to go online and choose the best trading platform from a choice of dozens allowed us to look in new directions. The arrival of an exciting new era of cryptocurrencies and the growing trend among private investors to consider real estate represent two alternative investment opportunities at opposite ends of the risk spectrum. But while we might still call these alternative investments, they no longer meet that dictionary definition. 2018 has seen a growing interest in what you might call "alternative alternatives," as investors continue to push the boundaries.
SEBI: AIFs cannot convert existing open-ended schemes to closed-ended ones
Markets regulator SEBI has issued a clarification that alternative investment funds cannot convert their existing open-ended schemes to closed-ended and vice-versa.
IIFL Asset Management Launches IIFL India PE Fund Focusing on Professional Entrepreneurship
IIFL Asset Management Limited (IIFL AMC) has launched IIFL India Private Equity Fund, a close-ended SEBI-registered Category II Alternative Investment Fund (AIF), and targets raising around Rs 1,500-2,000 crore.
Finance Ministry in talks with investors to set up strategic investment fund under NIIF
The finance ministry is planning to set up a fund under the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) dedicated for strategic investments.
Earlier this year, the NIIF kick started its funding activity with global operator of marine and inland terminals DP World by creating a platform for investing up to USD 3 billion in ports and logistics.
Avendus-owned UK asset manager Ocean Dial floats maiden public equity fund
UK-based Ocean Dial Asset Management, acquired by financial services firm Avendus Group last year, has launched a maiden public equity fund that aims to raise Rs 1,500 crore ($221 million).
The alternative investment fund has already received commitment of Rs 50 crore ($7.4 million) from anchor investors including family offices and high net-worth or very wealthy individuals.
Capital-Starved India needs availability and willingness of large pools of capital and the ability to access these
India is a capital-starved country and Indian startups and small businesses are struggling to access large pools of capital to grow, for technology, hiring, working capital, and other needs. India needs to attract more and more overseas capital to create and grow companies. Last year, over $26 billion in private equity/venture capital funds was invested in India, over 346 Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) formed with over $5 billion of investible capital. For a $2.2 trillion economy of India's size growing at 7+ per cent, the need for funds is enormous. Over $9 billion is waiting to be invested from earlier funds.
Edelweiss Alternate Asset Advisors raises Rs. 2,000 crore fund
Edelweiss Alternative Asset Advisors Ltd, a unit of the Edelweiss group, achieved the targeted base offering size of Rs. 2,000 crore for its infrastructure sector focused fund—Edelweiss Infrastructure Yield Plus Fund. The fund aims to raise another Rs. 4,500 crore via a green shoe option in the next 12 months, the company said in a statement.
Hedge fund bosses: man and machine key to beating markets
Hedge funds will need to adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning in order to stay competitive in the years ahead, increasing competition with the likes of Amazon for the brightest technological minds.
That is according to trade body the Alternative Investment Management Association, which spoke to 25 hedge fund executives and academics for a report entitled Perspectives — Industry leaders on the future of the hedge fund industry.
Avendus to raise Rs 3,000 crore via AIFs
Avendus Capital is raising Rs 3,000 crore to expand its kitty on alternative investments, with the financial services firm targeting family offices, high net worth individuals and corporate treasuries to sell its products.


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Buckingham Palace may be getting a call from Elle Fanning any day now.
Ancestry.com recently discovered that the Maleficent starlet and her sister Dakota Fanning have royal blood.
"It's so weird," Elle told me last night at the Maleficent premiere in Hollywood. "I saw it the other day. My cousins called me up and they were like, 'Look online!' I looked online and like King Edward III is my great great-great-grandfather. I was like, 'Is this real?'"
She's also a very distant cousin of Kate Middleton. "It's crazy," Fanning said.
Lucky for her, Fanning has always wanted to find out about her family roots.
"I've always wanted to do the ancestry.com thing because I think it would be really cool," Fanning said. "But someone did it for me, which I think is great."


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Morritt's Resort in East End celebrated the dedicated services of its employees Wednesday evening, making a special mention of one staffer who has worked at the hotel for 25 years.
Maintenance and engineering man Ransford Myers, 53, originally from St. Elizabeth, Jamaica, started working at Morritt's in 1991. His long service at the resort was recognized in front of friends, family and staff Wednesday night, when he was presented with a plaque and monetary reward by Jose Kirchman, the hotel's general manager.
Mr. Myers joined a dozen other employees who were collecting their employee of the month certificates and being honored by Mr. Kirchman, who thanked the staff for their loyalty.
He conveyed to Mr. Myers the best wishes of David Morritt, owner of Morritt's Tortuga, who was unable to attend, but who indicated he hoped they would work together for another 25 years. Mr. Morritt passed along that the team working at the hotel was the best he'd worked with since he started the business 28 years ago.
Mr. Myers started working for Morritt's on June 30, 1991.
Passing Morritt's one day with a friend, herding cattle, Mr. Myers stopped in and asked Frank Conolly, the general manager, for a job, and that was how it all began.
"This has been my only job in Cayman and I hope this is the only one till I die," Mr. Myers said. "I love the people I work for, I love the place, and I love what I do. I get to meet people from all over the world and share their experience …. It is enriching for life."
His first job at the hotel was to sweep the steps at 2101 building, which was right in front of the general manager's office at the time.
Mr. Myers went on to work in maintenance and engineering but that was not before he was refused his first work permit by Immigration.
"I remember Immigration not granting me the permit to work, but Mr. Frank went right down to the Immigration Department and told them he had a guy who lives in Swamp, George Town, that gets to the hotel for 6 a.m. and his workers in East End didn't reach there till 9 a.m. and he was asking them to reconsider my permit. They gave it after that," said Mr. Myers with a smile.
"That has stayed with me over the years," he added, as he heading over to where Mr. Conolly was sitting to say thank you and to give him a huge hug for giving him a start in life.
"I'm never absent, never late and never called in sick in 25 years, as long as I was scheduled to work. Other than my vacation, I was there," Mr. Myers said.
He built his home in Frank Sound. He said he would not live past Breakers, because where he lives, the breeze is fresh and cool, the fish are fresh and the people are extremely nice.
Present to see him honored at his longtime work place on Wednesday evening were Mr. Myers' two daughters, Kady and Sarah, and his wife Sharon.


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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Rating : 2.5 cookies
I was so excited about reading this play, since we no longer live in London, and can't go and see it. Also, there's something about reading plays that I enjoy. It must be because I've not worked as an actor for so long. Whatever the case, when I marched up to the till to pay for the two copies that we picked at our local bookshop, I had great expectations.
Of course I knew that the play wouldn't be like the books. JK Rowling wasn't involved in writing. She'd merely approved the story, which was of course based on that 19 years later epilogue. However as a Potterhead, I was more than willing to read this book in one sitting, devouring every stage direction and piece of dialogue. 308 pages? No, problem, I've read books slightly longer than that in half a day.
Then last night, I threw the book against the wall and gave myself a time out.
So let's break this down… I'm trying not to spoil the play, but there are things that I have to mention. Please read at your own discretion.
The best thing of reading the play is being able to go back to Hogwarts, and the wonderfully built world of JK Rowling's Harry Potter, and experiencing the life of those characters all grown up.
One of the things I liked the best was that Jack Thorne and John Tiffany don't shy away from making the lives of the characters uncomfortable and straight down complicated. The relationships are given more than just a shake down, they're thrown into tumult for the sake of the plot, and though at times it made me hate certain characters, the portrayal was on point with some relationships between parents and their children.
Revisiting the wonderfully built world of Harry Potter. Yes, I know this is the first thing on my Pro's list. The problem with revisiting the world is that it's not under the watchful eye of JK Rowling. Jack Thorne and John Tiffany wrote the play, and though I'm not going to complain about the length or anything like that, it's missing Rowling's magic touch. Perhaps my problem is with the format, and the constrictions of time and space imposed by it, the truth is that it wasn't as much fun to read this as it was to read the previous seven books.
The dialogue at times was a bit confusing. I wonder for more than half of the book if we were getting mixed signals from one of the characters. I was convinced the way the dialogue was written, that two of the characters were totally in love and we would have a big reveal at the end of the play. That never materialized. Instead the playwrights went with a more traditional route which I have to admit left me disappointed.
One of the key plot points seems to materialize out of thin air, without enough backstory to support it.
Ron Weasley's character is reduced to just being comic relief, like in the first few movies, when we all know he was much more than the funny guy out of the three main characters.
The playwrights seem to conveniently forget about all the other Potter and Weasley children and they're not mentioned but a few times at the very beginning and then poof.
There are brilliant moments, moments that will make you tear up. However, those moments are few and far between. Also they are moments which evoke strong feelings because we're too familiar with them, as they were part of the story in the seven books.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has a strong foundation built by JK Rowling over the course of more than a decade. However, it falls flat when compared to the previous masterfully entwined stories.


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The Mint report, quoting sources, said Snapdeal was in talks with Paytm E-Commerce Pvt Ltd and Flipkart for a potential sale.
"Snapdeal categorically denies having had any such discussion. The information is incorrect and without basis," a company spokeswoman said in a written statement on Wednesday.
"We are making decisive progress in our journey towards profitability and all our efforts are aligned in this direction."
Speculation that Snapdeal, backed by Japan's SoftBank Group , will be sold has intensified in recent months after the company fired employees and saw its valuations drop steeply, while remaining far behind leaders Flipkart and Amazon.com Inc in market share.
The company said it is focused on turning profitable. Snapdeal had said there was no immediate need to raise capital unless it makes an acquisition.
SoftBank, run by founder Masayoshi Son, is the biggest shareholder in Snapdeal and has been speculated as a potential seller of its stake in the company.
A burgeoning Indian middle class and the rapid growth in high-speed internet has prompted buyers to shop online, boosting sales at e-tailers and making the country's internet services market one of the world's fastest growing.
Paytm E-Commerce Pvt Ltd, the online marketplace unit of electronic payments firm Paytm, has been seen as a potential acquirer after China's Alibaba Group Holding picked up a 36.31 percent stake for $177 million, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month.
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One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.
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nSilition is proud to present its new line of silicon proven IP products: LVDS IOs in TSMC 65nm LP or GP technologies. It completes the TSMC 40 nm LP or G technology LVDS IPs silicon proven last year.
nSilition and IMEC are now partners through the ICLink program, aiming at pooling the talents and resources of the world-class design and IP companies located within the vicinity of IMEC. It gives us priviledged access to digital design services and high performance and high volume foundries.
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nSilition will participate to the world's premier space event, the international astronautical congress (IAC) 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, between the 29th, September and the 3rd, October 2014. You may come and visit nSilition on our booth (#815) to discover our IP and IC solutions dedicated to space and radiation tolerant applications!
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nSilition will participate to the DAC 2012 conference and exhibition. Come and visit nSilition on the booth of ChipStart, our representative partner, to discover our latest full custom IP products and our advanced IC design services!
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nSilition introduces a new up to 2Gbps LVDS and SubLVDS standards compliant IO library with dual 2.5V/1.8V IO voltage capability. This library will accommodate all demanding applications requiring to interface to one or more LVDS devices.
nSilition opens two new positions: one for an IC designer and one for a management team officer.
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Polish designer Zuzia Kozerska has come up with a brilliant, fast and simple way to decorate your dough-based cooking creations. Using a laser engraver she etches patterns directly into a rolling-pin allowing you to imprint patterns of cats, dinosaurs, geometric forms and more, right onto the surface of your cookies.
What is equally as intriguing as the function, is the aesthetic. These are really interesting objects that you can display proudly in your kitchen, rather than hiding them away in a cabinet. Kozerska's locally sourced wood is beautiful with the subtle patterned relief.
Check out her Etsy shop to get your hands on a design of your flavor, or request your own custom design!
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The Forest Growers Levy Trust (FGLT) is a statutorily endorsed forest industry organisation and was established on 4 March 2013 to manage the proceeds of the newly introduced levy on plantation timber products coming from the forest. The Trust was not formally established until the Levy Order was issued. It was preceded by the work of the Establishment Board during 2013. Information on the development of the levy and its implemention, including the work of the Establishment Board during 2013, is available here.
The purpose of the FGLT is largely to help advance the New Zealand plantation forestry industry both domestically and internationally.
It is the responsibility of the FGLT to ensure that the money collected under the levy is appropriately invested in areas of research, development and promotion that will further advance NZ forestry here and overseas.
It is the belief of the Forest Growers Levy Trust that working together will make the forestry industry in New Zealand a more profitable, sustainable and safe environment in which to work.


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TWO women were injured when the cars they were driving crashed on a busy road.
The accident between a Ford KA and a Ford Fiesta happened on Tettenhall Road, Ward End, Wolverhampton, at around 7.10pm on Saturday.
Both women were freed from their cars by firefighters before they were taken to Wolverhampton's New Cross Hospital for treatment, with the Fiesta driver suffering the more serious injuries.
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Sprint has finally announced a release date for its highly anticipated HTC EVO 4G LTE smartphone.
It will be available starting May 18. This is the first phone Sprint is offering with integrated Beats audio.
Pre-orders are available now: here.
Other features include, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), a 4.7-inch HD 720p Super LCD display, 8.0 megapixel camera with a 1.3 megapixel front facing camera, Google Wallet, and more.
The phone will cost you $199.99 with a two-year contract.
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Odisha's Sudarsan Pattnaik creates world's biggest sand Santa face
Puri: Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik clinched another milestone in his career with completion of world's biggest sand Santa Claus face here at the sea beach on Sunday.
Assisted by 40 of his students, Pattnaik built a 25-ft-high and 50-ft-wide face of Santa Claus at Puri sea beach on the eve of Christmas with a message 'World Peace'.
Taking to Twitter, Pattnaik wrote: #MerryChristmas :
May you be blessed & spread peace, joy. My SandArt of World's biggest sand Santa Claus face with message World peace at Puri beach in Odisha.
Also Read: Odisha's Sudarsan Pattnaik attempting another world record on Christmas
He completed the sand art in three days.
The sand sculpture will remain on the beach till January 1, the new year of 2018.
Last year, Pattnaik had smashed his own records in 2016 making one thousand Santas with support from 35 students over a period of four days to raise awareness about global happiness.
Earlier, the sand artist had created a 45-feet-high Santa Claus at Puri sea beach during Christmas in 2015. Along with 20 students, he created the sand art in 22 hours with the message of 'World Peace', to find a place in Limca Book of Records. In 2009, he first made 100 Santas and 500 in 2012 at Puri beach during Christmas.
In December 2013, Pattnaik created a 160-ft-long Santa Claus using green-coloured sand to spread awareness on the importance of environment protection. He constructed the sand sculpture in 16 hours with help of 15 students for Limca Book of Records and broke his own record of moulding a 100-ft-long Santa Claus in 2006.


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How much should I spend on online marketing?
10 ways to use online marketing to grow your small business
The question of how much you should spend on online marketing is a tough one. The answer is – it depends. There are several factors to consider including:
• The industry your business operates in.
• The size of your business.
• How much you want to grow your business.
• Your business model.
• How 'online-oriented' your business is.
Depending on your business model, half of your marketing budget could be spent on offline marketing (print ads, brochures, telemarketing) and the other half online. The more important the online world is to your business, the more marketing dollars you should consider spending online. Properly allocating a marketing budget is often a determining factor in the success of small businesses.
10 ways to use online marketing to grow your small business:
1. Local listing and classifieds
Claim your business listings on sites such as Google Maps and other directories. Appearing in the "7-pack" of local search results is key to gaining the business of consumers searching for nearby businesses. Read Local SEO Best Practices to learn more about how to rank higher in local search results.
TIP – Encourage your satisfied customers to leave a review of your business on Yelp and other similar sites by offering discounts or coupons. Each review will help your ranking in local search results and many customers use review sites when looking to buy a product or service, so the more positive reviews, the better!
2. Search advertising
AdWords and/or adCenter can help you deliver a targeted message to potential customers right at the moment when they are searching for the product or service you offer. Choose keywords that most closely describe your offerings so that prospective customers find you.
TIP – For cost-per-click (CPC) ads, you only pay when somebody clicks on your ad.
3. Contextual ads
Contextual ads place your ad on sites related to your products and services – where the potential for conversion will be much higher.
For example – if you offer a cleaning service using only green cleaning products, your ads will likely be more effective on sites with an environmental and healthy-living focus.
4. Display ads
Great ad campaigns start with great ads! Google Display Network allows for various types of ads, including text, static and animated images, rich media (more complex design and possible interactive components) and video.
5. Geo-targeting
Have a business that caters to a very specific location or neighbourhood? geo-targeting allows you to advertise to potential customers in a specific location!
6. Group buying
Even if you're not familiar with this term, you have probably used a group buying site at some point (eg: Groupon, livingsocial and many more). By offering a discounted product or service through a group buying site, you can quickly reach a large group of potential new customers.
7. Mobile marketing
Use the fact that people are constantly on their Smartphones and other mobile devices to your advantage – create creative promotions using text messages and location-based social networks.
8. Social networking sites
Do you have customers that love your products and services? Get them talking on social networking sites – it's online word-of-mouth!
9. Affiliate marketing
Let other sites drive prospects to yours – you pay only when the affiliate leads a customer to your site. Some affiliates (eg: comparison shopping sites) may allow you to set up a store on their domain.
10. Online videos
Reach a broader audience by posting videos on sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. The best videos are short and sweet (under three minutes), and motivate viewers to take action by offering a discount or other incentive.


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This trip takes you right the way across West Bengal, Nepal and the mystical kingdom of Bhutan. From the bustling streets of Kolkata to the cool, tea growing hills of Darjeeling you will experience India from its most chaotic to its most serene.
We journey through the foothills of the Himalayas to the mountain kingdom of Bhutan a country of incomparable charm and calm and a welcome relief after the chaos of Kolkata. Bhutan has a culture based on Gross National Happiness combined with Buddhism. The spectacular Zhongs and temples illustrate the countries heritage as do the people who daily wear their national dress.
Leaving Bhutan, we fly across the vastness of the Himalayas past the great mountains of Everest and Kanchenjunga and arrive at Kathmandu with time to explore the history of this beautiful city.
Border Information: If you are joining in Kolkata, you will most likely enter India at Kolkata Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (IATA code: CCU).
There will be an important group meeting at the joining hotel at 10:00am. Please look out for a note from your tour leader at the hotel reception when you arrive for more details about this meeting. The afternoon is free to explore Kolkata.
Please note that many of the options listed below will only be possible for those with extra time in Kolkata before the start of your trip with us - please contact the Sales team if you would like to book pre-tour accommodation with us to have extra time exploring Kolkata.
We will meet in the evening to board an overnight sleeper train from Kolkata to Siliguri - accommodation will be aboard the train tonight, where there are bunk beds with sheets provided.
We will arrive into Siliguri at around 9:00am this morning, meeting our jeeps and drivers at the station for our onward journey through the narrow winding roads to Darjeeling. The town of Darjeeling is really more a collection of villages situated on a high ridge, linked by a series of steps and winding lanes and surrounded by rice and tea terraces.
Jeeps are used in this region rather than our overland truck as they are perfect for the narrow, steep and winding roads of the area.
Estimated Drive Time (in jeeps) - 3-4 hours (please note that all drive times given here are the approximate number of hours that the vehicle will be in motion only, and does not include any time taken for coffee or lunch stops, border crossings, photo stops, activities en route, comfort breaks, shopping stops, toilet stops, etc. The times given are approximate estimates only and whilst given with the best of intentions, the drive times are heavily dependent on traffic, road conditions, weather, police roadblocks, and many other factors - flexibility is essential on any overland trip!).
In Darjeeling we will stay in a local hotel.
Today is a free day in Darjeeling to relax, enjoy the surrounding area and take part in some optional activities.
Border Information: Exit India at Jaigaon, enter Bhutan at Phuntsholing.
This morning we will drive in locally-chartered jeeps from Darjeeling to the Bhutanese border at Phuntsholing, where our local Bhutanese guide will be waiting to receive us at the border gate. This afternoon we will walk down to Bhutanese immigration to get the visa process underway in order to save time in the morning.
In Phuntsholing we will stay in a local hotel.
Estimated Drive Time - 6 -8 hours (in jeeps and locally charted bus).
This morning we will finalise our visas and then start our journey into Bhutan with a drive in a locally-chartered bus from the warmer climes of Phuntsholing up to the capital of Thimphu, nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas.
We will have time in the evening to take a stroll around Thimphu and start to take in the atmosphere and culture of this beautiful country and its gentle way of life.
In Thimphu we will stay in a local hotel.
Estimated Drive Time - 5 -7 hours (in locally-chartered bus).
Today we will have a day in Thimphu for sightseeing. We will have an included city tour from our local guides, including the Changangkha Temple, Memorial Chorten and the Takin Reserve.
In the morning we will drive to the old capital Punakha, via the Dochu La Pass at 3050m, where we will stop for a hot drink and to enjoy spectacular panoramic views of the Eastern Himalaya ranges. We will notice the change of climate and vegetation as we approach the low-lying Punakha at 1250m altitude.
This afternoon we will visit the imposing Punakha Dzong (Palace of Great Happiness). Built in 1637 CE, it is strategically placed at the confluence of two rivers, the Po Chu and the Mo Chu. After this, short walk to Chimi Lhakhang (Temple of Fertility) built in the 15th century by the Divine Madman (Lama Drukpa Kuenley).
In Punakha we will stay in a local farmhouse, where we will experience a genuine slice of Bhutanese life and hospitality. The facilities here will be rather basic, but the accommodation is exactly how a typical Bhutanse family live, and the food is in no way adapted for tourists.
Estimated Drive Time - 3-4 hours (in locally-chartered bus).
Today we drive to Trongsa, the gateway to central Bhutan at 2180m. Set amidst spectacular scenery, Trongsa Dzong, the ancestral home of Bhutan s royal family, commands the eye from miles away. We can also visit Ta Dzong - the newly opened museum in the watchtower is dedicated to the Wangchuk dynasty, tells the stories of the Dzong and the valley, and features personal belongings of the kings and queens of Bhutan.
We then continue through some of Bhutan s most beautiful landscapes to Bumthang, an area of high valleys at 2580-3100m.
In Bumthang we will stay again in a local farmhouse with basic facilities.
Estimated Drive Time 9 - 8 hours (in locally-chartered bus).
We will spend today sightseeing in Bumthang, the spiritual heartland of Bhutan, with its many legendary monasteries, temples and palaces. Bumthang is the collective name for an area of 4 valleys - Chokhor, Tang, Ura and Chhume.
Our guide will take us on a fascinating walking and/or driving tour of a variety of sacred sites including Jamba Lhakhang, Kurjey Lhakhang and Tamshing Lhakhang. We can also visit Bhutan s largest Dzong, Jakar, with its picturesque location overlooking the Chokhor valley.
Today we drive to Gangtey at 2900m. On arrival we can enjoy the views of the immense and remote Phobjikha valley and the black mountain ranges.
We will visit Gangtey Gompa (one of Bhutan s oldest monasteries which has recently been extensively renovated) and explore the valley where the villagers continue to live a traditional Bhutanese rural lifestyle. This is the site where black-necked cranes visit in their hundreds in November each year after spending the summer in Tibet.
In Gangtey we will stay in a local hotel.
Estimated Drive Time 6 -7 hours (in locally-chartered bus).
Today we will head out for a day hike in the beautiful Phobjikha Valley. We will first visit the Black-necked Crane Information Centre which has lots of information on both the environment of the the Phobjika Valley and the migrating birds the valley is famous for. From here we will walk through local villages and forests of blue pine trees covered with lichen ( know as old mans beard ) up to the Gangtey Gompa, beore following the Nature Trail walk back to our hotel.
The walk takes approximately 6 - 7 hours for casual trekkers.
Today we will drive to Paro, where, on arrival, we will have an included visit to the impressive Paro Dzong, one of the finest examples of Bhutanese architecture.
In Paro we will stay in a local hotel.
Estimated Drive Time 6 -7 hours (in locally-chartered bus).
Today we take a day walk to the Tiger's Nest , the sacred Taktsang monastery which clings to the rock face 900m above the valley floor. Guru Rinpoche is said to have flown to the site riding on a tigress, and subsequently meditated here for 3 months. It is one of Bhutan s most holy sites and draws pilgrims not only from Bhutan but also from neighbouring Buddhist countries.
Border Information: Exit Bhutan at Paro, enter Nepal at Kathmandu.
Today we will take a short flight from Paro to Kathmandu in Nepal. On arrival we will have free time to explore the incredible city, soak up its atmosphere, and visit its historical sites.
Please note: The flights between Bhutan and Nepal will be with Druk Air or Bhutan Airines - both airlines sometimes change their schedules at short notice. If this happens we will inform you of any itinerary changes as soon as possible.
Border Information: If you are finishing your trip in Kathmandu, you will most likely exit Nepal at Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport (IATA code: KTM).
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"Our state was careening towards bankruptcy and fiscal insolvency," Mr. Quinn told reporters, after indicating that he intended to sign the tax increase.
Meanwhile, in places like neighboring
Under the legislation, the income tax rate would temporarily rise to 5 percent from its current rate of 3 percent, and the rate for corporate taxes would rise to 7 percent from its current 4.8 percent. As part of the deal, the state's spending growth would be limited from one year to the next over the next four years — a provision Republicans complained did not cut spending enough.
Though the package designed by Democratic leaders here survived, at least one element of it did not: A proposal to borrow $8.75 billion to quickly take care of the state's months of unpaid bills failed, apparently meaning that struggling social service agencies and others who have waited months to be paid by the State of Illinois for their services may need to wait still longer.
By some assessments, Illinois's choice to raise taxes might not have survived without an unusual set of circumstances here, in terms of politics and timing. Although Republicans in November won control of state legislative chambers and governorships around the country, Democrats held onto control here. Still, by noon on Wednesday, the newly elected legislators were to officially take office, a fact that decreased the Democrats' margins of control in both the State Senate and State House.Continue reading the main story
And that was why the old set of legislators — including an even larger number of Democrats — found themselves racing through an emotional, fervent debate over taxes on the floor of the State Senate well after midnight on Tuesday. If they did not pass the tax increase before noon, its prospects looked doubtful. As it was, the measure barely made it, passing 60 to 57 in the House and 30 to 29 in the Senate. No Republicans voted for it.Continue reading the main story


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On Thanksgiving, Americans sat down to dinner, looked at the big turkey and thought about Donald Trump.
O.K., that was totally the wrong attitude. We're supposed to be having a reset. The president-elect has been going out of his way to build bridges. He came to The Times this week for a long conversation, during which he was extremely amiable. He blasted the alt-right twits who celebrated his victory with Nazi salutes. ("Of course I condemn. I disavow and condemn.") He had nothing but praise for Barack Obama ("I really liked him a lot.") He has no desire to see Hillary Clinton prosecuted. ("She went through a lot. And suffered greatly in many different ways.")
Policywise, he was still the guy who's not all that into position papers. In discussing climate change alone, Trump used the phrase "open mind" seven times. This is one thing you can count on. We haven't had a mind so open in the White House since Warren Harding.
Trump certainly hasn't been giving many hints about what he's actually going to do. But the real, and very important, message from his outreach was to remind the nation that he's not crazy.
Trump not crazy! The word spread throughout the land. The stock market soared. While it's true that the country has generally expected a little more from an incoming president, this election year has always been the story of a very low bar.
Look at his appointments. In another year, people might question whether Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina would be the right choice for United Nations ambassador, since she has virtually no experience whatsoever in foreign affairs. However, given the fact that last week Haley appeared to be a finalist for secretary of state, the U.N. seems like an eminently sensible assignment. Plus, once again we are relieved it's not Rudy Giuliani.
Ironically, Trump, who ran as the big-change guy, is spending his first days as president-elect trying to assure people the changes won't be too large. The Mexican wall is going to be a mixture of wall and fences — think of it as the Great Wence. The war on illegal immigrants is going to be all about deporting criminals, which is exactly what the Obama administration has been doing for years.
The most astonishing moment in Trump's visit to The Times came when the president-elect announced that waterboarding suspected terrorists was "not going to make the kind of a difference that maybe a lot of people think." Those people would include all the folks who went to Trump rallies and cheered when the candidate said things like: "Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I would. … It works."
"If it's so important to the American people, I would go for it," said the man who spent much of the last year trying to make it important. But, he said, he'd talked to Gen. James Mattis — the odds-on bet for secretary of defense — and found that Mattis thought waterboarding was pretty useless and much less effective than trying to win over a prisoner with cigarettes and beer.
Now, you can look at this two ways. One is that we have a president-elect who never bothered to talk with any experts about one of his major campaign themes. The other is that he's growing into the job.
Let's take the second. Sure, we'll probably be disappointed by Valentine's Day, but it could get us through the holidays.
I've been trying to think of a way to set an example — to come up with an olive branch that doesn't go overboard. Some little thing to smooth the edges before we start fighting about the Supreme Court and health care.
Over the past couple of years I have noted on several occasions that Donald Trump once sent me a letter saying I had the face of a dog. This was when he took exception to my description of him as a "thousandaire."
I've decided I will refrain from mentioning the incident again until he does something really, really terrible as president. In the name of accuracy, however, I have to correct the record. I dug out Trump's missive the other day and discovered he did not actually say I looked like a dog. He said I was "a dog and a liar" with the face of a pig.
Hard to believe I got that wrong. The moral is that you should always consult the primary source.
So off we go. Fiscal conservatives are terrified that Trump will spend a ton of money on construction projects and refuse to cut entitlements. Murmurs of the dread term "Rockefeller Republican" are probably wafting at Paul Ryan's holiday table. Perhaps liberals can take comfort in the fact that the other side is just as freaked out as they are.
Next year at this time, we'll be watching President Trump pardon the Thanksgiving turkeys. Unless he reverts and winds up ordering the turkeys tortured.


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by Nancy Campbell of Above Rubies – The Key of Knowledge
God is the God of knowledge (1 Samuel 2:3; Proverbs 9:10; Isaiah 11:2; Colossians 2:3). Are our children taught knowledge from God's point of view in our public schools? No.
God has the key of knowledge (Luke 11:52). Do our public school teachers use the key of God's knowledge to lead the students into His ways? No. They take away the key of knowledge and instead teach man's ways and ideas.
The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge (Proverbs 1:7) Are our children taught the fear of God in our public schools? No.
It is from God's mouth we receive knowledge (Proverbs 2:6). Are our children being taught from the mouths of godly people in our public schools? Praise God we do have some godly teachers in the system (although their tongues are tied), but the majority are not godly.
Why then do many Christian parents prefer a humanistic education for their children rather than an education based on God's Word?
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QUOTING QUIVERFULL is a regular feature of NLQ – we present the actual words of noted Quiverfull leaders and ask our readers: What do you think? Agree? Disagree? This is the place to state your opinion. Please, let's keep it respectful – but at the same time, we encourage readers to examine the ideas of Quiverfull honestly and thoughtfully.
'Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment' by Janet Heimlich
'Quivering Daughters' by Hillary McFarland
'Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement' by Kathryn Joyce


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"Here is a strange story that the Duc d'Orleans told me one day in a
tete-a-tete at Marly, he having just run down from Paris before he
started for Italy; and it may be observed that all the events
predicted came to pass, though none of them could have been foreseen
at the time. His interest in every kind of art and science was very
great, and in spite of his keen intellect, he was all his life subject
to a weakness which had been introduced (with other things) from Italy
by Catherine de Medici, and had reigned supreme over the courts of her
children. He had exercised every known method of inducing the devil
to appear to him in person, though, as he has himself told me, without
the smallest success. He had spent much time in investigating matters
that touched on the supernatural, and dealt with the future.
"Now La Sery (his mistress) had in her house a little girl of eight or
nine years of age, who had never resided elsewhere since her birth.
She was to all appearance a very ordinary child, and from the way in
which she had been brought up, was more than commonly ignorant and
simple. One day, during the visit of M. d'Orleans, La Sery produced
for his edification one of the charlatans with whom the duke had long
been familiar, who pretended that by means of a glass of water he
could see the answer to any question that might be put. For this
purpose it was necessary to have as a go-between some one both young
and innocent, to gaze into the water, and this little girl was at once
sent for. They amused themselves by asking what was happening in
certain distant places; and after the man had murmured some words over
the water, the child looked in and always managed to see the vision
required of her.
"M. le duc d'Orleans had so often been duped in matters of this kind
that he determined to put the water-gazer to a severe test. He
whispered to one of his attendants to go round to Madame de Nancre's,
who lived close by, and ascertain who was there, what they were all
doing, the position of the room and the way it was furnished, and
then, without exchanging a word with any one, to return and let him
know the result. This was done speedily and without the slightest
suspicion on the part of any person, the child remaining in the room
all the time. When M. le duc d'Orleans had learned all he wanted to
know, he bade the child look in the water and tell him who was at
Madame de Nancre's and what they were all doing. She repeated word
for word the story that had been told by the duke's messenger;
described minutely the faces, dresses and positions of the assembled
company, those that were playing cards at the various tables, those
that were sitting, those that were standing, even the very furniture!
But to leave nothing in doubt, the Duke of Orleans despatched Nancre
back to the house to verify a second time the child's account, and
like the valet, he found she had been right in every particular.
"As a rule he said very little to me about these subjects, as he knew
I did not approve of them, and on this occasion I did not fail to
scold him, and to point out the folly of being amused by such things,
especially at a time when his attention should be occupied with more
serious matters. 'Oh, but I have only told you half,' he replied;
'that was just the beginning,' and then he went on to say that,
encouraged by the exactitude of the little girl's description of
Madame de Nancre's room, he resolved to put to her a more important
question, namely, as to the scene that would occur at the death of the
king. The child had never seen any one who was about the court, and
had never even heard of Versailles, but she described exactly and at
great length the king's bedroom at Versailles and all the furniture
which was in fact there at the date of his death. She gave every
detail as to the bed, and cried out on recognising, in the arms of
Madame de Ventadour, a little child decorated with an order whom she
had seen at the house of Mademoiselle la Sery; and again at the sight
of M. le duc d'Orleans. From her account, Madame de Maintenon, Fagon
with his odd face, Madame la duchesse d'Orleans, Madame la duchesse,
Madame la princesse de Conti, besides other princes and nobles, and
even the valets and servants were all present at the king's deathbed.
Then she paused, and M. le duc d'Orleans, surprised that she had never
mentioned Monseigneur, Monsieur le duc de Bourgogne, Madame la
duchesse de Bourgogne, nor M. le duc de Berri, inquired if she did not
see such and such people answering to their description. She
persisted that she did not, and went over the others for the second
time. This astonished M. le duc d'Orleans deeply, as well as myself,
and we were at a loss to explain it, but the event proved that the
child was perfectly right. This seance took place in 1706. These
four members of the royal family were then full of health and
strength; and they all died before the king. It was the same thing
with M. le prince, M. le duc, and M. le prince de Conti, whom she
likewise did not see, though she beheld the children of the two last
named; M. du Maine, his own (Orleans), and M. le comte de Toulouse.
But of course this fact was unknown till eight years after."
Science may conceivably come to study crystal visions, but veracious
crystal visions will be treated like veracious dreams. That is to
say, they will be explained as the results of a chance coincidence
between the unknown fact and the vision, or of imposture, conscious or
unconscious, or of confusion of memory, or the fact of the crystal
vision will be simply denied. Thus a vast number of well-
authenticated cases of veracious visions will be required before
science could admit that it might be well to investigate hitherto
unacknowledged faculties of the human mind. The evidence can never be
other than the word of the seer, with whatever value may attach to the
testimony of those for whom he "sees," and describes, persons and
places unknown to himself. The evidence of individuals as to their
own subjective experiences is accepted by psychologists in other
departments of the study. {66}
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After my dad was done with his job that he was with for 25 years, he began to work in the flower shop next door to our house. This was the same flower shop my grandfather owned for years… Anyway, my dad started to work for Bob who had owned the shop for 30 plus years after my grandfather owned it. I would to work in the shop on holidays and deliver flowers for BoB. I always helped when I could. I would shovel the sidewalks when it snowed. In flower shop people would order flowers for funerals and things as such. Some would have to be delivered on Sundays when the shop would be closed. So I would go with my dad to bring them and sometimes we had to set them up.
Bob's father had passed away in January of 2000 and the flowers for the funeral needed to be brought about an hour away from where we lived next to the shop. It happened to be a Sunday and of course I took the ride with my dad. We would talk about different things, ya know father son talk. We arrived at the funeral home and dropped off the flowers. We both knew Bob's father so of course we felt for his family just like anyone else would.
My dad and I got back in the van and started to drive home. As I sit here on my couch writing this post, I specifically remember what part of the road we were on and what time it was as I said to my dad randomly. "Dad, if you were to pass away, I know exactly what mom would want me to do" but if mom passed away, I would have no clue what you would want me to do. We both were quiet for a bit thinking of what I just said. It upset me to think about that happening. A kid having a parent die! No that can't happen! My dad responded and said to me. "I don't even know what I would want you to do" but I know your mom would know…..
Well as you know by now from my previous blog post my mother passed away 20 days after that ride home on February 17 2000. I couldn't believe just 3 weeks before that we had talked about not knowing what to do if either of my parents passed away, and now I say to myself "what do I do"? Of course when you lose someone close to you like this you can't believe it's real. You think he or she will just wake up. You are numb, you are in denial, you are angry, sad, pissed off. Your anxiety is through the roof. You can't sleep. You cry so much your face hurts. If you are reading this you get my point.
When it's all over, wake, mass/chapel eulogy and bypass (gotta eat right?)reality hits, you are back to life REAL LIFE with just my dad, sister and me. I ask myself "What do I do"? I couldn't ask my dad since he was literally lost without my mom and my sister was only 15 and now going to grow up without a mom. I ask myself "what do I do"? Honestly folks I never did find that answer. I just did what I felt my mom would have done. It's as if she was and is with me the whole time. People always would say "Tom, I don't know how you do it. And I would say " I just do" It's funny now that I think of it and just wrote it, I have had the answer the whole time ( I just do/did what I felt my mom would have done)
So through all the grief and hurt that I had been going through at that time there were good grieving's. Knowing that all this time I have mostly done things the way I felt my mom would have done them. I guess what I am saying is, Take one moment, not day at a time and realize that there truly are "good grieving's"


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