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I've been reviewing a lot of coffee drinks lately. I haven't been reviewing much, truth be told, but I've been reviewing a lot of coffee drinks. I don't know why. Probably because I feel like all I do is work, come home, watch my dumb kids and then after they are in bed, just watch YouTube and go to sleep. It's been a repetitive couple weeks and trust me, I'm as bored of it as you are reading about it.
So how is this, you ask? Well, it's fine. It's got a decent but not great coffee taste. I'm no connoisseur but the coffee might be a bit dark or perhaps a little burnt for my liking. The chocolate is fine but it's strong. It might also be a little too sweet. I don't know if anyone who likes coffee would actually like this. I'm right in the middle so I'm fine with it but it's either "too this" or "too that" for anyone who has a solid opinion one way or the other.
I've got to get out of this rut...this coffee isn't helping. I think the next step is going to be a Buick, starched collar and a start to that suicide note I never thought I'd write.
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Engineered yeast could amp up wine's health benefits and eliminate hangovers: study
Researchers at the University of Illinois' Energy Biosciences Institute have designed a "jail-breaking" yeast that could increase the health benefits of wine while simultaneously decreasing the number of toxic byproducts responsible for hangovers.
Yong-Su Jin, a professor of microbial genomics, said that he and his team used a "genome knife" to make precise changes to the way in which yeast reproduces.
"Fermented foods — such as beer, wine, and bread — are made with polyploid strains of yeast, which means they contain multiple copies of genes in the genome. Until now, it's been very difficult to do genetic engineering in polyploid strains because if you altered a gene in one copy of the genome, an unaltered copy would correct the one that had been changed," he said.
But with this new "genome knife," Jin said that there is boundless potential for adding nutritional value to food.
"Wine, for instance, contains the healthful component resveratrol," he explained. "With engineered yeast, we could increase the amount of resveratrol in a variety of wine by 10 times or more. But we could also add metabolic pathways to introduce bioactive compounds from other foods, such as ginseng, into the wine yeast. Or we could put resveratrol-producing pathways into yeast strains used for beer, kefir, cheese, kimchee, or pickles–any food that uses yeast fermentation in its production."
Moreover, winemakers would be able to correct improper malolactic fermentation — the process by which the toxic byproducts that cause hangovers are created.
Jin also said that he believes that using this technique will make genetically engineered food less objectionable, because it doesn't require using antibiotic resistance creating "markers" to alter the product.
"With the genome knife, we can cut the genome very precisely and efficiently so we don't have to use antibiotic markers to confirm a genetic event," he said.

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Free printable fortune-telling cards?
Does anyone know where I can find printable fortune telling cards? I don't really like tarot and I don't have any money.
Answer by ricnoodle
You can buy pokemon cards at the macs. they work for fortune telling.
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Answer by amleecdt
wait… you don't like tarot, but you want fortune telling cards…. im' confused.
You can use a standard deck of playing cards. look it up. 😉 you can print out the meanings of each card. You can also make your own deck. 😉
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try this
Anyone here knows a free and legitimate fortune telling site?
Answer by Eric
Nothing in fortune telling is really legitimate… especially if it's free… and ESPECIALLY if it's online. Sorry, but that's fact.
Answer by michaelstjohn2001
Legitimate and fortune telling in the same sentence?
Answer by Shorty
LOL good luck
Answer by Professor
When Dionne Warwick's Psychic Friends Network went belly up, do you think they saw that coming?
Fortune telling hotlines that answer for FREE ONLY?
I think it would be fun to have my fortune told, but I don't want to get into all that business about credit cards, etc. So if you know of any efficient fortune telling phonelines please let me know! 🙂
Answer by Fire Byrd
aren't they all fake?
Answer by tiaksmilesalot777
Lucky for you. I am a fortune teller online. Email me what you ask. email@example.com.
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Good luck to you. I think they are all in it for money, even the legitimate ones.
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Hey Gerry,Sounds good. I have yet to buy tickets, but planning to hit Superbike for at least one day. I'll PM my cell # and plans once they are set and maybe we can connect.Cheers
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Question: Which 8 colleges make up the "Ivy League?"
Answer: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale.
The term Ivy League refers to 8, east-coast universities highly regarded for their academic rigor, impressive standards, and history. These schools are some of the oldest universities in the nation, and they got their Ivy title from a New York Herald Tribune sports writer, as they all competed in the same athletic conference. The term stuck, and today high school students everywhere aspire to enter the gates of these esteemed institutions – but for their academics and not their athletics.


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QR Codes in Marketing
QR (Quick Response) codes are beginning to appear in an increasing number of traditional marketing advertisements. You will see these codes in various formats, some of which include business cards, movie posters and even direct mail pieces. There are several ways for you to use QR codes in marketing when it comes to promoting your small business or services. By incorporating these codes into your marketing plan, you add greater accessibility for your audience, which allows them to use the camera on their smart phones to obtain information on a particular product or service you offer.
A QR barcode can be used to transfer the user to a predetermined website, and can also be used to deliver vCards or even make phone calls. Before determining the exact method you plan to use for your marketing plan, you must decide whether or not your business will benefit from this type of marketing approach. Since many customers will not recognize the codes since they are relatively new in the United States, you will need to find a way to make them noticeable and easily understandable. Compare the various options that are available for QR code marketing.
- Promotions. Promotions are perhaps one of the best ways to go about marketing your business whether you offer products, services or both. Put together giveaways and create discounts that require the use of QR codes so that your customer base becomes familiar with them. Incorporate these codes into social media marketing by turning the promotion into a smart phone application and tweet the codes for the discount.
- Business Cards. Place a QR code on your business card that has all of your contact information on it. When the customer scans this code, they then have access to your business profiles on social media networks, as well as any other information you wish to provide them with. The goal of using these codes on business cards is to minimize the amount of information that is displayed on the card itself. This lessens clutter, which makes your business appear more technologically advanced than others.
- Labels. Put QR codes on your product labels. For instance, if you own a wine distribution company, or bottle wine yourself, use these codes on your bottles so that customers have the option of scanning them to find out more information on that particular bottle of wine or other products you have to offer.
- Store Hours Sign. Another creative way to use these codes for marketing your business is to place a code directly next to the sign that displays your store hours. This is particularly helpful because it turns a potentially lost sale into an online sale. Once the customer scans the code, they are taken to your online storefront, which allows them to purchase the items they wish to purchase, but are not able to since your business is closed.
- Email Subscriber List. Use the quick response code to get your customers to sign up for your subscriber list. When they are in your store or place of business, have the cashier offer a free service, or another offer that entices your customers, to get them to sign up for your list. This allows you to send future product offers, which increases the amount of sales you get.
There are many ways for you to make productive marketing use of these QR codes. Once you have determined the ways you can use the codes for each area of your company, make sure to implement the plan. Without implementation, you do not benefit, which will make the marketing plan seem useless. Instead, think carefully about how you plan to use the codes, monitor its effectiveness and modify it as time goes on. As you add more products and services, your customer base will come to enjoy the ease of using these types of codes, and will eventually prefer you over your competitors.


text: Retirement Redefined Around the country, attitudes about retirement are shifting. Share | Have A Question About This Topic? Name Email Address Question Thank you! Oops! Related Contents Should You Tap Retirement Savings to Fund College? There are three things to consider before dipping into retirement savings to pay for college. Choosing a Retirement Plan that Fits Your Business To choose a plan, it's important to ask yourself four key questions. Retirement Plan Distributions There are a number of ways to withdraw money from a qualified retirement plan.


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Outside Intervention and the Syrian Civil War
Lionel Beehner asks the wrong question:
Rather, we should be asking: Is the world back in a 19th century multipolar paradigm, whereby civil wars were primarily fought between pro-democracy versus conservative/monarchist forces, and the latter typically won because their interventions were more robust and one-sided? As Hironaka and some historians (Sperber 2000) find, during 19th century interventions, the side most willing to use greater force was the anti-democratic side (in this case, typically the Concert of Europe).
In the current context, the anti-democratic axis as it were – that is, the Russia's and Iran's of this world [sic] – appear more willing to go "all in" to support their "proxies" than their pro-democracy counterparts in the West.
I'm not sure how useful it is to ask this question, since the answer is pretty clearly no. This doesn't explain civil wars elsewhere in the world, and it doesn't describe the Syrian civil war very well, either. The conflict in Syria mostly pits one set of authoritarian regional states that happen to be aligned with the U.S. against another set of authoritarian governments. Authoritarian Gulf states and private donors from these countries have had a huge role in funding and supporting anti-regime forces in Syria. It is more than a little strange to compare the side in the conflict supported by conservative Sunni monarchs to that of 19th-century liberal revolutionaries.
Many Westerners would like to see the Syrian civil war in these terms, or as a replaying of the Spanish Civil War for another generation, but this is mostly just projecting Westerners' preferences onto anti-regime Syrians. It is a mistake to think of contemporary civil wars in terms of some sort of international contest between democracy and authoritarianism, not least because it creates the false impression that the U.S. and its democratic allies have something at stake in these conflicts when we don't. There are illiberal authoritarians aplenty on both sides in Syria, but there are hardly any democrats of any kind to be found, and that wouldn't have been changed by a larger commitment of U.S. resources at any point. The ability to provide arms and funding to anti-regime forces has never been in doubt, but skeptics have been absolutely right to doubt the wisdom and desirability providing this aid.
Regarding Beehner's larger argument, I don't think the examples from the 19th century prove the point that he wants to make. Yes, there are several examples of outside intervention in the 19th century that show that foreign powers can end civil wars and revolutions through massive use of force, but that was a world in which the great powers cooperated with one another in suppressing opposition to monarchical rule. There was no chance that any of the other great powers would aid the insurgents, because they were all committed to suppressing revolutionaries wherever they appeared. To the extent that the world today is becoming multipolar, the major powers today don't agree on how to react to popular and armed uprisings. Some actively support the regime faced with rebellion, others don't commit to either side, and still others support at least some of the rebels to some degree.
The one-sided 19th-century interventions also involved invading the countries in question and siding with the established governments in brutally suppressing rebels, which is a much more aggressive policy than any that has been seriously discussed for Syria. That makes the conflict in Syria more like the post-1945 civil wars than the civil wars and revolutions of the 19th century as far as outside support is concerned, and it suggests that a much larger commitment to arm and support Syrian rebels from the U.S. and its allies would have fueled an even more destructive and prolonged conflict than the one we are seeing now. At the very least, it is extremely doubtful that this would have made the conflict any shorter or less devastating.


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I have about 20 minutes to post this. I feel a little worn today. My brain is just a tad tired. As for me, I just wanted to write a quick update. I could go on and on about the specifics but I will get into the good stuff.
I feel like crap, I am battling this sleep apnea with a new diet plan consisting of a high veggie diet. Yesterday and today I ate fish salads. I had a couple bowls of granola as a midnight snack which I am trying to avoid but my sleep was shit last night. But I slept alot to balance it out, almost 12 hours in bed. But guess what?
Where there is bad news, there is good news. I will try to right a post about what is happening with the sleep apnea and all my whiny, bitchy, painful shit later, because right now, I have something more important to talk about and I only have a short time to write this…
…because I am on my way to a private VIP party, where I am one of 3 bartenders out of all the bartenders at my new bar that have been picked to work the very first event at my new bar. Go figure. Maybe no one else wanted to work that day or could. But what they told me is they liked my enthusiasm and all that. So who knows? Last night was mock service. We basically practiced how service would work. I was tired as fuck, but the good thing is I can pull out and push past that shit. I felt like I was in a fog, but I was totally making the girls I was mock serving smile and laugh and was owning it.
Tonight I have more energy so I should be able to dominate. And then they want me to work the very first opening shift, Friday am. That will be a challenge maybe. Early hasn't been my strong point lately. I don't have to be there till 10:45am but… We'll see. I gotta come to terms with the fact that in Key West that was about the same time I was going to work every day.
So the good news is, we're off an running. Stay tuned for an update pretty soon and hopefully more details. Keep the love comin. You're only encouraging me. 😉


text: In 1981, science essayist Jeremy Bernstein wrote a piece for The New Yorker that touched upon a historic backgammon game two years earlier, in which reigning champ Luigi Villa lost to a computer. It was the first time an artificial-intelligence program had defeated a world champion at a board or card game. In the essay, Bernstein wrote: "What does this mean for us, for our sense of uniqueness and worth -- especially as machines evolve whose output we can less and less distinguish from our own?" He might have asked that decades ago, but the question is now more relevant than ever. Google's AlphaGo recently won four out of five matches against Go master Lee Sedol. And that's just the latest example: In the intervening years since Villa's loss, humans have challenged numerous robots and programs. Let's take a look back at the most memorable of those competitions.


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text: The big decisions have been made, the date selected, your dress purchased, the location booked. What are your wedding colors? Are you on the cutting edge of fashion or do you just want to create a nice warm intimate feel for your wedding? Linens, their sizes and colors, are a very personal choice and we here at Pacific Party Canopies have an extensive linen inventory to help you create colorful and textured table scape's. Fabric swatches are available here in the office to take with when looking to match colors of the dress, cake or other decore elements. Whether napkins, runners, round, square or rectangle linens we can serve your rental needs. Visit our web-site and check out the options or call us to arrange a meeting today.


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The late great, Italian cookbook author Marcella Hazan, who passed away at 89 years old last weekend, had a profound effect on the way Americans approached Italian food. I'm no exception.
Throughout my life, despite efforts (and threats) by my Italian-born mother and grandmothers, I was completely indifferent to cooking. I loved to eat. I loved good food. I especially loved good (as in real) Italian food. However, I had no idea how to cook and little interest in learning.
I became engaged to my husband while I was in law school and like two kids in a candy store, we abused our "zapping gun" and registered for the best kitchenware and gadgets Williams-Sonoma and Crate & Barrel had to offer – Le Creuset, All-Clad, Wustof, Mauviel, etc. I recall hearing my dad's cousin Dora remark at my bridal shower, "Wow, she got a lot of kitchen stuff. She must really like to cook." I then heard my mother sneering behind me.
Right after our honeymoon, my new husband and I moved into an apartment in Chelsea and I started my job as a first-year associate at a large Manhattan law firm. I began working 70-hour weeks in a stressful post-9/11 economy and it didn't take long before I felt jaded by the long hours and lack of personal fulfillment of corporate law. My beautiful new kitchen equipment remained untouched as I ordered take-out to the office nearly every night.
At the same time, however, any time I needed a break from document review and SEC compliance checks, I found myself surfing the Internet for Italian recipes. One day, I searched, "best Italian cookbooks" and that's when I discovered Marcella Hazan. I ordered "Essentials of Italian Cooking" online and had it delivered right to my office. I remember the day it arrived – its light green cover, which has since become oil-stained and tattered, was shiny and creaseless. No glossy, over-styled photos – just a few diagrams and illustrations to support Mrs. Hazan's meticulous instruction and fluid prose. I carried that volume back and forth to work every day and read it on the subway, during lunch breaks and at bedtime. Mrs. Hazan, with her insistence on simple techniques and fresh ingredients, got through to me in a way that my poor mother never succeeded despite their shared cooking philosophy.
I finally broke out the new cookware, with Marcella as my guide. Cooking – Marcella Hazan's brand of honest regional Italian cooking – became my singular release from a stressful, unsatisfying career (a career I would eventually give up years later to do the very thing she taught me to love). For one of the first dinner parties I ever hosted, I prepared Mrs. Hazan's "Braised Carrots with Capers," a side dish I've served at every holiday and event I have since hosted. Simple, thoughtful Italian food – the very epitome of Marcella Hazan. La ringrazio dal cuore, Signora Hazan. Riposi in pace.
Braised Carrots with Capers
From Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan (verbatim)
For 4 servings
- 1 pound choice young carrots
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon chopped garlic
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
- Salt
- Black pepper, ground fresh from the mill
- 2 tablespoons capers, soaked and rinsed if packed in salt, drained if in vinegar
Peel the carrots and wash them in cold water. They ought to be no thicker than your little finger. If they are not that size to start with, cut them in half lengthwise, or in quarters if necessary.
Choose a sauté pan that can accommodate all the carrots loosely. Put in the olive oil and garlic and turn on the heat to medium high. Cook and stir the garlic until it becomes colored a pale gold, then add the carrots and parsley. Toss the carrots once or twice to coat them well, then add 1/4 cup water. When the water has completely evaporated, add another 1/4 cup. Continue adding water at this pace, whenever it has evaporated, until the carrots are done. They should feel tender but firm when prodded with a fork. Test them from time to time. Depending on the youth and freshness of the carrots, it should take about 20 to 30 minutes. When done, there should be no more water left in the pan. If there is still some, boil it away quickly, and let the carrots brown slightly.
Add pepper and the capers, and toss the carrots once or twice. Cook for another minute or two, then taste and correct for salt, stir once again, transfer to a warm platter, and serve at once.


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President Obama has commissioned Congress to create a violent video games study written by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While many feared the Obama gun control speech would announce executive orders that bordered on being treasonous, as previously reported by The Inquisitr the President mostly made suggestions to Congress related to gun control laws and issued three Executive Memoranda. Buried in the arguments over the second amendment and gun control laws was the idea that violent media, and specifically violent video games and movies, might factor into the national discussion over preventing further school shootings like those seen in Kentucky, St. Louis, and Newtown.
As pointed out by The Washington Times, embedded in Obama's suggestions to Congress is the requested allocation of $ 10 million to study violent media, with the president highlighting video games:
"Congress should fund research into the effects that violent video games have on young minds. We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science of this epidemic of violence."
However, the writer of the Times believe that this move should not be taken too seriously as a threat to video game companies since "President Obama's pushback against gun violence focuses heavily on new firearms restrictions and on mental health, but video games and movies – two cultural issues that many Americans blame for violence – get little attention."
Kotaku points out that such studies have already been done and thus Congress would be throwing more money away while it's facing a national debt crisis:
"The results of this experiment—conducted by Ohio State University professor Brad Bushman not to measure brightness, as they had told the students, but to examine the connection between violent video games and aggressive behavior—were conclusive, the researchers said. The people who played violent video games were more likely to write more aggressive stories and dish out higher, more unpleasant noise. Violent video games, Bushman and his colleagues concluded, have a direct causal effect on aggression."
Nonetheless, should Congress vote to allocate $ 10 million to the CDC for the violent video games study, the group will be able to undertake a study "investigating the relationship between video games, media images and violence." Even so, while it may be interesting to have another study on what we already know, federal or state laws are unlikely to be influenced since the White House also believes that controlling what Americans see in movies and games is best left to parents:
"The entertainment and video game industries have a responsibility to give parents tools and choices about the movies and programs their children watch and the games their children play."
What do you think about Obama's Executive Memorandum for a violent video games study?
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Ken Horton is a 25 year old 199cm forward from Ossining, New York that is playing his fourth professional season and first in Germany with medi Bayreuth which will be his sixth team. Last season he tore up the league in Finland playing for Joensuun Kataja Basket (Finland-Korisliiga) winning the league title and playing 55 games: 16.2ppg, 8.6rpg, 1.5apg, 1.6spg, FGP: 58.8%, 3PT: 37.1%, FT: 86.8%; EuroChallenge: 6 games: 17.3ppg, 5.3rpg, 2.0apg, 1.5spg, FGP: 76.3%, 3PT: 43.3%, FT: 87.5%. He started his basketball career with Cent.Conn.St. (NCAA) in 2007 and as a senior played 28 games averaging 19.0ppg, 8.9rpg, 1.7apg, 2.1spg, 1.4bpg, FGP: 59.8%, 3PT: 31.3%, FT: 80.2%. He started his professional basketball career in 2012 with SO Maritime Boulogne (France-ProB): 16 games: 12.5ppg, 5.4rpg, 1.3spg, 2FGP: 62.5%, 3FGP: 25.8%, FT: 75.9%, in Mar.'13 moved to Forex Time Apollon (Cyprus-Division A): 2 games: 12.0ppg, 9.5rpg, 1.0apg, 1.5spg. IN the 2013-2014 season he played for teams Huracanes de Tampico (Mexico-LNBP)playing 16 games: and averaging 17.1ppg, 7.6rpg, 2.1apg, 1.4spg, 2FGP: 59.1%, 3FGP: 24.1%, FT: 87.0% and Ballarat Miners (Australia-SEABL) playingb 18 games averaging 19.6ppg, 11.3rpg, 1.7apg, 1.8spg, Blocks-2(9.7bpg), FGP: 47.2%, 3PT: 27.3%, FT: 39.9%. He spoke to German Hoops after the teams first season win against the Mitteldeutscher BC
Ken congrats on the 82-77 victory against MBC. This was a game of the two door mats of the league. Did you know before the game started that it would be such an ugly game?
Thank you. I wouldn't say "Door Mats" of the league. We both got off to rough starts yes, but its still early in the season. Yesterday I think we did exactly what we wanted to do in the game and that is win. Ugly or not as long as we won I'm happy.
You said in the pre-game interview that medi Bayreuth would be ready and you were. How relieved are you that the team finally got their first win of the season?
I'm very happy that we got our first win but I'm definitely not satisfied. I want to win more.
After losing a tight game in Oldenburg what was the difference against MBC that the team was able to keep their nerves and not too fold?
We were able to stay poised. We didn't let them rattle us. They hit some big shots at the end but we were able to stay within ourselves and get the job done.
Medi Bayreuth kept MBC to 77 points and was the lowest amount of points let up this season. What adjustments and improvements did the team make in the last week to correct their mistakes?
The biggest adjustment was just like I said before the game. We played aggressive and with HEART. That's what we have to bring to every game.
How much of a factor was the deeper bench of medi Bayreuth? You got big production from experienced German Steve Wachalski?
Steve played big for us. We all know he can come up big for us all the time. Everyone on our team contributed from the Starting 5 all the way down to the last man on our bench. That was really big for us. Having guys that can make plays for us helps us out tremendously.
The three guards Xavier, Odum and Leslie combined for 14 assists. How valuable is it having three good creators like them on the floor at all times and how do their play stimulate the play of the team?
There is always a threat with them. They can make plays for everybody.
You had your break out game with 20 points and 14 rebounds. Did you eat something special today and how good were you feeling and confident when you stepped on the court?
It was a good game for me. Good for my confidence I just felt like I needed to show the team that I wanted to win so badly and I'm willing to do whatever it takes. Whatever the team needs I'm willing to do.
In your first three games you were 3/11 from outside and tonight 3/5. Are you starting to feel more comfortable shooting the three now in the BBL?
Shooting is going get better. 6/16 in my book still is awful so that has to get better but that will come. Being comfortable definitely helps me as far as shooting goes.that's coming along as well.
It never gets any easier as now medi Bayreuth will play against might FC Bayern Munich. How excited are you to play one of the top teams in Germany and what will be key for getting the win?
Munich is a great team with a lot of history but just as we do for any game we will prepare during the week and we have to bring it all when we step on the court.
What is your take on Lamar Odum and how he has been handled by the press? How do you feel he will be remembered as an NBA player?
The Lamar Odum situation is crazy Cant really say much because I don't know everything about whats going on. I just hope he gets the help that he needs and that he gets well.
Thanks Ken for the chat.


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opal-spec is a minimal spec lib for opal, inspired by RSpec and MSpec. It is designed to run on opal, and provides the bare minimum to get specs running.
Writing Specs
Your specs should go into the
/spec directory of your app. They take
the same form as rspec/mspec:
describe MyClass do
it 'should do some feature' do
1.should == 1
it 'does something else' do
nil.should be_nil
false.should be_false
true.should be_true
Supported notations
* describe "foo" do ... end
* it "should foo" do ... end
* before do ... end
* after do ... end
* let(:foo) { ... }
* async # see below
* obj.should == other
* obj.should != other
* obj.should be_nil
* obj.should be_true
* obj.should be_false
* obj.should be_kind_of(klass)
* obj.should eq(other) # compare with :==
* obj.should equal(other) # compare with :equal?
* obj.should raise_error
* obj.should be_empty
* obj.should respond_to(method)
* obj.should_not xxx
Async examples
Examples can be async, and need to be defined as so:
describe 'MyClass' do
# normal, sync example
it 'does something' do
# async example
async 'does something else too' do
This just marks the example as being async. To actually handle the async
result, you also need to use a
run_async call inside some future handler:
async 'HTTP requests should work' do
HTTP.get('users/1.json') do |response|
run_async {
response.ok?.should be_true
The end of the block passed to
run_async informs opal-spec that you are
done with this test, so it can move on.


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There is something fundamental in a person's life that heavily influences his receiving. Every person is born and set up into certain connections in an early stage of life; parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and other family. Later on it expands to friends, schoolmates and neighbors.
The family that you are born into, the friends and the connections along the way are there for him intentionally for the good and the bad and influence his life in different times directly and indirectly in the reactions to them and how we behave towards them.
You may ask yourself sometimes if you were born into the wrong family, if you grew up in the wrong neighborhood, the answer is no. There is a reason and a purpose for a person's family, groups and associations.
The question is even harder when a person feels that some of the groups that he belongs to are hurting or damaging his life and he has to deal with toxic relationships. Unfortunately, we see relationships where family and friends are acting not in good faith, insulting each other, criticizing each other, harassing each other, cheating each other, suing each other, breaking up relationships, gossiping about each other, lying to each other.
People doing the worst things against their own blood, business partners, friends, marriage partners, girlfriends and boyfriends etc.. In the worst cases, its not bad enough that the person lost his closest family or friends but now he has to deal with the problems they created.
Is G-d Sending Bad People Towards Me?
We answer this question here and in reality you have to have some merits and good luck to get out of a situation with people that you trusted that betray you. Our sages taught us some methods to recognize when things change in a relationship that it might go sooner or later against you and even how to block and stop people that are trying to harm you, which from our experience works most of the time when the timing is still in the stage that things are still in process.
The Good Influence Side Of Being Part of The Group.
As we said a persons links to other people is vital for his life and his influence also for good comes from his surroundings. Like in reality, you cannot be part of a group where everyone around you smells something and you don't. The goodness of the badness, the positive and the negative are constantly shared within a group or family that you are part of.
Like in the physical world, also in the spiritual. A thief that is part of a group of thieves receives his share of the good, what they stole, and the bad, the punishment, as he is part of the group that executed harm against people. It is the same when belonging to a good group that are executing actions and part of good things and good activities, will receive the rewards and the results of the goodness and kindness and blessing.
The spiritual world works exactly the same. So if you are part of a spiritual activity, charity, doing good for others, you receive a part of the direct and indirect abundance generated by the group.
We created a group that shares this philosophy after we saw that people responded with positive reflections when working with us. You can read about it here.


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With 20 years of experience in the field, Stratix has achieved great milestones to become Australia's leading supplier of high quality barcode products.
Online PR News – 01-September-2012 – Seven Hills NSW – No other company has delivered excellent barcoding solutions for the packaging industry in Australia more than Stratix. With the launching of their new and improved web site, www.stratix.com.au, Stratix makes it possible for clients to conveniently browse through their products online and learn about their services in just a mouse click. Their website features detailed descriptions of their products and allows customers to easily make an enquiry.
With 20 years of experience in the field, Stratix has achieved great milestones to become Australia's leading supplier of high quality barcode products. They are driven to assist manufacturers, importers, and suppliers throughout Australia and New Zealand meet and implement the guidelines set by the GS1 Australia global barcode standards. To date, they supply tools such as barcode labels, barcode scanners, barcode readers, barcode verifiers, and thermal transfer printers, as featured on their website.
Stratix sources their products from trusted international brands such as Toshiba, Zebra, Axicon, and Labelview. Interested customers are welcome to arrange a demonstration of their barcode software by contacting them through their website.
For more information about Stratix and the products and services they offer, visit their website at www.stratix.com.au.
About the Company
Stratix Pty Ltd is Australia's leading provider of high quality barcode labels, tools and resources for the implementation of the GS1 Australia global barcode standards. With 20 years of experience in the business, Stratix has become the authority in addressing customers' barcode printing, scanning, verification, and creation needs.


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Behind the Brush: An Interview with Arizona's Top Dental Hygienist Lynn McKinney
Lynn McKinney has been Making People Smile for more than 20 years. Through her experience and dedication to her patients, Lynn has become Arizona's Top Dental Hygienist, an honor given to her by her patients.
"My teeth have never felt better after my cleaning with Lynn. She took the time to thoroughly do a great job which helps me to achieve optimal oral health," stated Laura, one of the many patients Lynn treats at Scottsdale Dental Arts, the Family and Cosmetic Dental practice of Dr. Jason D. McCargar, DMD.
Stay tuned for more Q & A with Lynn! Submit any questions that you've ever wanted answered about dentistry!
Q: Should I brush first or floss first?
A: "There is no difference as long as each step is done thoroughly."
Q: What compels you as a dental hygienist?
A: "Being able to help people just like you! I have always enjoyed helping both people and animals. After a very brief career at the horse racing farm, I made a career decision to switch to dentistry. As a dental hygienist I am able to treat many different patients on a daily basis. This is the most personally rewarding part of my job. I strive to make a difference in our patient's overall health."


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Every Vote Equal:
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- Birch Bayh (D–IN)
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Governor Deval Patrick signed a law today that is designed to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote.
"I am proud to join other states in this effort to bring more voters and more states into the presidential campaign process," the Democratic governor said in a statement. "Voter participation in all 50 states is critical to the strength of our democracy and the national popular vote movement will bring more voters into the fold and ensure that every vote counts."
Under the National Popular Vote bill, all 12 of the state's electoral votes would be awarded to the candidate who receives the most votes nationally, no matter what the results of the election are in the state.
The law would take effect only if it is approved by enough other states to account for a majority of the presidential electoral votes — or at least 270 of 538. Once that happens, the winner of the national popular vote is assured a victory in the Electoral College, no matter how the other states have voted and distributed their Electoral College votes.
Illinois, New Jersey, Hawaii, Maryland, and Washington have already approved the legislation, according to the National Popular Vote campaign's website.
Supporters say the proposal will give every vote an equal weight in the presidential elections. They point to what they call a "broken" Electoral College system that gave George W. Bush a victory in 2000, despite his losing the popular vote.
"With this measure, each and every voter will have an equal voice in our presidential elections," House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said in a statement. "This initiative will ensure that our presidential elections reflect the will of the people."
But many conservatives view the initiative — which the Massachusetts Legislature enacted last week — as nothing short of a liberal conspiracy and an assault on the Constitution, the Globe reported this week.


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It's a no-brainer that working out is good for you and provides a number of physical benefits. But a new study suggests that weightlifting may have more benefits than just relieving stress and building muscle, prompting more people to incorporate such exercises into their workout routine. According to the findings, doing a hard or intense workout in the gym for as little as 20 minutes can boost your long-term memory by around 10 percent.
A group of 46 young and healthy adults were asked to remember 90 photographs that were shown to them on the computer screen. They were split in half into two different groups. One group worked out on a leg-extension exercise machine and did 50 reps. The other half of the group sat in a chair and did not exercise. Two days later the same test subjects were brought back to look at a series of 180 photographs, which also included the original 90 photos they saw.
The researchers found that the people who were in the exercise group remembered 60% of the pictures from the 90 original photos, and the people who didn't exercise only remembered around 50% of the original photos.
Though the results had a 10% difference, they indicated that weightlifting for a short period of time had positive effects on long-term memory.
Information gathered from an article on Huffington Post.


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Financial options are discussed during the initial visit. Dr. Clinebell and his staff are committed to providing excellent dental care and helping patients to select the best payment option for their individual needs. We realize that orthodontics can be a major financial investment in the life of your child or loved one. Our goal is to make orthodontics affordable for all patients who seek care. We provide flexible payment options to assist you in obtaining this important care for your child or for yourself. We accept cash, check, Visa, MasterCard and Discover credit cards. We also offer low- and no-interest financing through our office as well as longer term financing through the CareCredit® system.
Dental Insurance
-Dental Insurance is a contract between your employer and an insurance company.
-Orthodontic coverage is based on the negotiated plan your employer has chosen. Orthodontic offices are not involved in determining which services are covered, the percentage of the fee that is covered or whether a specific service is covered at all. We urge you to read the policy so that you are fully aware of coverage and any limitations of the benefits provided.
-Often the dental insurance company will pay a portion of the patient's orthodontic fee. Typically there is a lifetime maximum payment that your insurance company will pay toward orthodontic treatment. Insurance companies determine the timing and the amount of each payment that you receive up to the lifetime maximum.
-Our office will do everything possible to help you understand your coverage. To make the process easier for you, we will be happy to help by submitting your insurance claim to your dental insurance company.
-Insurance reimbursements will be sent directly to the patient. If you have not received a payment within 8 weeks of our filing, please contact our Insurance Specialist, Lisa, at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 404-325-8116 and she will be glad to assist you.
-Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) can be used to pay for orthodontic treatment. We will be glad to help you maximize use of funds in these accounts if you choose to use those dollars towards orthodontic treatment. Please contact our office if you need any documentation for your plan.
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Saturday, January 09, 2010
january eight: it's a tribal thing.
This is how I started my day, today. Not bad. :)
Of course I had to apply it to my outburst yesterday, and ask myself if this is why I felt (have been feeling lately) the need to claim for myself the title (pretty esteemed, in my book, though I realize that certainly isn't a terribly popular opinion) of Unschoolers?
Might be.
Might be, too, that it's something that I truly believe in, and want to re-member myself with the ideals.
Unschooling to me isn't just about the educational system. It's about my spiritual philosophies, too - having a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing. Being what I imagine to be God-like. Loving. Embracing. Accepting. Willing.
Ahem. Sorry 'bout that.
I'll get on to our day today.
(Yes, it's related, I'm not just spouting.)
We had grand plans today!
Grandma was making a fourty minute drive north to go with us to see a children's dance theatre program (Ring Around the Rose at RDT for the locals) to see African Drums.
Not only a worthy and noble cause, but hopefully a fine, engaging program.
Trev last night said something like, "Look, Mom... you said I could choose, and I choose not to go."
I, in turn, said something like, "I don't remember saying it was okay for you not to come...."
"It's my decision."
It's one of those times, friends.
Most of you don't read my Mama's blog, so you don't realize that I hash things and process things and quite often have conversations with myself at such times.
In times such as this, I need to think.
Why do I wish him to come with us?
Of course, I tell myself it's for his sake, but do I mean For His Sake as in "this is what we do... we're homeschoolers... we do things like this in the name of Education and Culture?" (because that doesn't taste very good.)
What is my real reason for wanting him to come?
"Here's the thing, Bud... I really think you'll have a great time."
"It's just listening to drums, right?"
"Well, yeah, it's drums.... but it's made really fun for kids. It's a stomping and dancing sort of thing."
There was probably a bored, blank stare, here.
"I'd really like you to come, and if you don't like it, I won't ask again."
I didn't think we had really resolved anything, and I wasn't yet sure what my position was going to be this morning (that was last night).
So this morning I got Maddie and I ready, and had Trev's clothes ready, and woke him up ten minutes before Grandma was due to be here.
"Bud... it's time to wake up."
"Oh, hi, Mom."
"It's time to wake up and get ready to go. Your clothes are in the livingroom."
He got right up and started getting dressed.
Grandma came, Daddy cut up an apple for breakfast - we had a date for a sit-down breakfast after the performance - and we were off.
Yes, I was a little surprised that it went quite this way.
We arrived early, as we had not gotten tickets, yet, and were concerned about a sell-out.
When we were allowed into the theater, a few minutes later, we still had quite a long wait before the performance began. You know how that goes. It wasn't horrid, however. Considering it was noisy and irritating for my Little Son who said (er - a bit loudly) a couple of times "Why won't these people just Be Quiet!" It was really noisy. And we sat there for at least fifteen minutes.
But eventually it started.
With a beautiful song. And drums.
"What do you think, Bud?" I asked Trev, who was snuggled against me, and had been in my arms since we sat down in the theatre.
You know it. Wanted to cry, I did.
It was all going to be okay, then.
Which is, truly, friends, why I wanted him to come.
Because I thought maybe it was going to be a magical experience, and I don't like to live magical experiences without my children. Because my babes are my sidekicks and best friends. Because when the Love and the bestest stuff happens, I want them with me. Because when I'm happy, I look to them to see if they're sharing in my happiness. Because Life is Beautiful, and I want them to know that truth, too.
That's why I wanted him to come. (Though I didn't have the words to voice those thoughts last night.)
After the first song, the Leader introduced his dancer and his fellow drummer,
and told us about the Project that he and his wife had started for West Africa.
And then he said that they would be inviting everyone (God love them for inviting everyone, and not just a select few) up onto the stage to perform and play.
Maddie for the next five minutes kept asking about that. "When are we going Up... On... The... Stage!?!" lol.
"As soon as we're invited," I said.
I was sure that Trev was heading for the drums, djembes (JEM-bays) they're called.
Okay, after a few lovely and lively songs and dances, and talks about the soul of the music and finding the beat.
"Who wants to Dance?"
Maddie piped right up. She did.
And left with the dance teacher, wondering if I was coming with her.
"I wanna dance."
"You wanna dance?"
"Yeah." said Little Son.
"You want to dance, and not drum?" I just wanted to be clear, lest he was disappointed later that he didna get to drum....
"Yup. I wanna be a Dancer."
"Let's go."
So we did.
We learned that taking pictures was quite alright with them, by the way.
Right up at the front, those two were, most of the time.
In the first few seconds, Trev turned my way, and gave me a thumbs-up.
Oh, heart be still.
They practiced and learned for about twenty minutes this tribal dance.
And it was a fun and beautiful thing to see.
Quite proud and flushed, were my two babies.
And then it was time to go back into the theatre - via the stage door, of course, and dance, dance, dance.
. . . . .
We came back to get Daddy, and went to breakfast at a favorite spot.
And then walked over to the bookstore, and did some window shopping.
Pretty soon, Grandma left us, and shortly thereafter we headed back to our neighborhood.
Up the street we went, though, to the luxe toystore to see if they had any of those games that I listed yesterday.
Bought one that my friend Julie told me about, and also Subtrax.
'Be telling you about those tomorrow.
The rest of the evening (and it was evening by this time) was spent going over the days photos, I, Carly, the Flintstones, and whatever else will be.
Life is Fine
and Good
and just as it should be, I think.
Prob'ly we'll see you tomorrow.
12 comments:
- Anonymous1/09/2010 7:17 PM
cool! love it too when that happens!ReplyDelete
That looks like so much fun. A great experience to have had.ReplyDelete
It's hard when someone decides they don't want to do something when it is planned. Especially when you just know they will love it. Glad it all worked out.
Your message brought tears to my eyes. It is so nice when things work out so nicely, congrats. <3ReplyDelete
I often stop and think why I want my kids to experience things with me as well. Very beautifully put!ReplyDelete
p.s. let me know if you didn't get my e-mail :o)
Wonderful post - sharing the best bits - that's exactly it!ReplyDelete
The workshop/performance looked like great fun as well. What an experience. :-)
Tears in my eyes too - wow wow wow.ReplyDelete
I love that you share the whole story - not just "we went here and did this and it was great" - but the whole honest background story and truth and your real thoughts.
*That's* why you're such a light in my life. And *such* fun to read!
Awesome awesome awesome.
Always enjoy your entries so much. You seem to live a really full life. I am hosting an art giveaway that you might find interesting. Stop by when you have a chance to take a peek.ReplyDelete
So glad you all had a great time! That is way cool that they let everyone come participate. With children, that's just as it should be:)ReplyDelete
Wow...looks like a great workshop...and an even better choice to go!! ;) I can feel your warm heart in your words.ReplyDelete


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By Joshua Gordon-Blake
The personal relevance of a remittance is key to understanding its power as a loyalty opportunity.
For customers, sending or receiving money cross-border is a very personal act. More than 50 percent of senders report that their primary reason for immigration is to send money home, and receivers depend on the transferred funds to cover essential costs such as food and utilities.
What mortgages or student loans are to any young urban professional, remittances are to each of the millions of immigrants who leave their home countries each year in search of a way to support their family — it is their most important financial decision.
If customers can trust your institution with their most personal financial choice, then — presuming you continue to earn their trust — you can maintain them as customers across other financial products.
Impact of Technology
Tech innovation is rapidly changing the remittance market and one of the most substantial changes continues to be the move to mobile.
The premium (and personal) user experience offered through mobile is key to leveraging remittances to create a lasting customer relationship. A study from Juniper Research, which surveyed roughly 3,000 money transfer users from the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, revealed that more than 83 percent of respondents expressed an interest in sending money internationally via mobile. With smartphone penetration surpassing 80 percent in many immigrant groups, the stage is set to convert a transactional experience (e.g. traditional remittances) into a customer relationship.
An estimated $582 billion was sent by migrants to family and friends in their home countries in 2015 — and remittance market growth is on the rise. As globalization continues to influence payments and consumers increasingly become mobile-centric, the opportunity to deliver value through the money transfer experience grows. With that opportunity, banks may also gain access to new revenue streams and the potential to deepen customer engagement and loyalty.
Taking Action
Competition in the remittance market is fierce as well-funded startups have already caused a meaningful shift by offering a premium digital user experience. While the market for remittances is huge — the World Bank projected that remittances to developing countries will increase by 3.3 percent, reaching $444 billion this year — how does a bank enter the market?
The rapidly changing technology landscape leaves banks with two choices to use remittances to differentiate and increase retention — build an industry-leading technology offering or partner with a technology provider.
International money transfer startups from around the world have partnered with banks to offer their premium user experience to the bank's customers. This provides banks with both a fresh pipeline of a new customer base, and increases retention by allowing customers to access the best remittance experience without leaving the bank's ecosystem.
A good technology partner will enable banks to offer a premium user experience, to navigate the regulatory compliance obstacles specific to international money transfers, and to market to a new customer base.
Premium User Experience
While money movement across borders is complex, providing customers with a premium experience requires simplifying the process.
This can be done by enabling users to pay and accept funds in their preferred methods, rapid onboarding and know your customer, and clear and transparent pricing. It's also important for banks to remember the various challenges faced by customers who send funds to other countries, such as language barriers, financial illiteracy and minimal credit history.
Optimizing the global money transfer experience — and standing out against a growing number of fintech alternatives — means banks must go the extra mile to ensure the remittance services offered are focused on the needs of those who rely on them the most.
By keeping customer needs front and center, while also taking advantage of new digital opportunities, banks can use remittances to differentiate their financial services, open revenue streams and establish a loyal customer base.
Joshua Gordon-Blake is vice president of global partnerships at Pangea. For more information, visit www.pangeamoneytransfer.com.


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The Arts in Higher Education
The role the arts play in higher education continues to be a complex and highly debated topic, especially in the changing climate of North American education. Showcasing cutting-edge research, this series illuminates and examines how engagement in the arts helps students meet the challenges and opportunities of a twenty-first century life and workplace by encompassing a wide range of issues from both scholars and practitioners in the arts. Key topics the series will cover include: evolving interdisciplinary degrees that include the arts; creating innovative experiential/pedagogical practices in the arts; discovering new methods of teaching and learning that involve the arts and technology; developing inventive narrative forms that explore social issues through play making; exploring non-traditional sites for creative art making; demystifying the process of creative thinking (especially as creativity relates to business practices, scientific thought, inter-active media, and entrepreneurial activities); engaging the arts in understanding global perspectives; and illustrating how the arts create lifelong skills that help students manage a challenging job market. While the scope of the series is focused on the arts in higher education in North America, the series may also include scholarship that considers the total educational spectrum from K through 16, since there is now interest in creating a seamless educational progression from kindergarten through the baccalaureate degree.


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The year is winding down to a close. Some of you might be feeling a bit blue, others a bit over fed, over served, overwhelmed. We have a tea for that. TeaSympathy is happy to bring some tea recipes to help your funny tummy or your end of the year blah's. Have a cup of tea, find a quiet place and start looking forward to a happy, healthy, productive new year!
End of the year blues tea
Put 15 drops of Bach flower remedy "Rescue remedy" in a glass of water and sip throughout the day. This tisane will help keep you mood smooth and even.
Digestive aid tea
Ginger tea for digestive support. Cut a 2-3 inch piece of ginger into small slices, boil ginger in 2 cups of water, simmering for 10 minutes. Add honey and a tiny sprinkle of cayenne pepper. This is also a wonderful tea for cold prevention.
Invigorating tea for cold nights
For 4 large cups of tea:
Place 2 teaspoons of Assam tea leaves in 2/3rd cup of water and 1/3rd cup of milk. Add a vanilla and a cinnamon stick and a few cloves. Let it simmer for 10 minutes to absorb the flavor of the spices, add brown raw sugar. Pour through a strainer into your favorite bowl/cup and sip slowly while inhaling the delicious smell .
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In Service to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.MP3 is a computer file format designed to compress audio files into small sizes. In an uncompressed form, a Music CD would consume about 10 Megabytes of hard drive space for every minute of audio. The MP3 audio format allows the file to be compressed, so that a 60 minute sermon, rather than taking up 600 Megabytes, could fit into a file about 20 Megabytes in size or smaller.
MP3 is a lossy format, meaning that the MP3 file does not sound as good as the original. However, the various parameters of the encoding can be adjusted so that the MP3 file sounds very close to the original. The main tradeoff is size; larger files will sound closer to the original.
You may have a library of cassette tapes with sermons that you
like to listen to. Using MP3, you can now store many of these
on a single CD-ROM disk for play in a computer or portable MP3 CD
player such as the Apple iPod.
Use the links below or the TABS across the top of the page to
naviagate to the various articles:
Cassettes to
CDR: An article on how to transferr your old cassette tapes
to MP3
format Oct 2009 (minor updates)
CD Labeling Programs: A review and link page to programs that allow you to create labels for your CDs. (Please note: putting paper labels on DVD is not a good idea as it upsets the balance of the disk) Oct 2003
Digital Audio Editors and Tools:
brief descriptions and a long list of many of the available
WAV editors and other software tools that will be handy for
audio processing, CD burning, converting to MP3, and so forth. Last Update Mar 2010
Please note that unless the originator has provided permission to copy, the resulting MP3 sermon files should be used for personal use only to preserve copyrights.
Some Christian Links for sources of MP3 sermons, Bibles, etc:
http://www.sermonaudio.com The Sermon Audio website has tons of MP3 files you can listen to live or download for later listening. There are quite a variety of theological views represented, so surf with caution!


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Equipment Classes
1 Class 35
5 Classes 175
10 Classes 350
Mixed equipment classes
55 minutes
These classes assume you have taken personal training sessions and have become familiar with Pilates fundamentals and the use of the equipment. Pilates Equipment classes explore the core from every angle and may use the full suite of Pilates equipment or focus on one piece. The spine's stability and mobility are fully challenged and fully engaged throughout the entire repertoire of equipment exercises. The body will experience movements through several planes, and functional movements will also be introduced. Expect to sweat and increase your heart rate once you have learned and become proficient in the basics. It takes time, but it is well worth the effort. (limited to 8-12)
Reformer only classes
55 minutes
Will focus on the Universal Reformer and will progress through Basic and Intermediate Level exercises, adding advancements and modifications according to class participants' skill level. Your body will like the support and challenge offered by the Reformer. Your leg and hip musculature will begin to loosen up and you will discover how releasing tight hips can actually relieve back stiffness and pain. This class is not designed for the beginning student. Limited to 8.
Beginner Equipment
55 minutes
This class is designed for anyone new to Pilates or interested in learning the Pilates equipment. Clients have also taken this class as a refresher and it is always great to revisit the fundamentals on all the equipment. This class is also recommended if you want to join other classes. We will rotate through the Reformer, Tower, Chair and Barrel.


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A Limited Amount of "Caring": Parents and Advocates React to Realm of Caring's Federal CBD-Only Bill
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The bill proposes to exclude industrial hemp and cannabidiol (CBD) from the definition of marijuana, ensuring that children and individuals with epilepsy and other debilitating seizure disorders have access to life-changing Cannabidiol (CBD) Oil and therapeutic hemp such as the Charlotte's Web™ brand of hemp products. High CBD hemp strains have provided relief for thousands of people in the United States as it's shown to reduce the amount and duration of seizures in children suffering from epilepsy and other seizure disorders.
One might think that the introduction of a federal medical marijuana bill with a good chance of passing would receive widespread support from cannabis reformers. However, in the pediatric cannabis community, parents are expressing disappointment, frustration, and even disgust over the proposed legislation. Perhaps, as RoC says in their press release, that's because the bill would only allow for a product that's not really medical marijuana at all.
Pediatric cannabis pioneer Jason David has been treating his 7-year-old son Jayden with medical cannabis since June, 2011 – about a year longer than Charlotte Figi, the Charlotte's Web namesake who captured national attention in Sanjay Gupta's first CNN "Weed" special in August of last year. In fact, in the first viral Realm of Caring video featuring Charlotte and her mother Paige Figi, Figi credits David with inspiring her to try medical cannabis for Charlotte, who has Dravet syndrome, the same type of epilepsy as Jayden.
While hopeful parents across the country are celebrating the announcement of the new legislation, David is skeptical about the number of patients the new bill will actually be able to help.
"I wish Charlotte's Web worked for all epileptic kids, but it doesn't," says David. "The worst seizures Jayden ever had on medical cannabis was while we were using Charlotte's Web."
Realm of Caring Executive Director Heather Jackson, who was also on hand for the bill's introduction, reports that her son Zaki has been seizure free since October 2012 using Charlotte's Web. But children like Zaki seem to be the exception rather than the rule, according to David.
"They're not telling the whole truth," says David. "There's no way possible that all these children in Colorado could get seizure contol and get off all their medications without using different ratios and adding THC and THCA (which are not allowed by the newly proposed legislation). Charlotte's Web can work great in the beginning but it's impossible to get off all the medications and go through benzo withdrawals without being able to play with the THC ratios."
According to David, "The only realistic option is having the whole plant available, THC and all, so people can trial and error just like with pharmaceuticals. There are so many ways to use this plant, and it's only ok to have one ratio? That doesn't make sense. This plant isn't half-good and half-evil."
As more parents have been able to access cannabis for their epileptic kids and have shared their stories, the need to supplement with different cannabinoid ratios has become increasingly clear.
"CBD is a very important part of the mix, but only part," says Brian Wilson, whose daughter Vivian has Dravet syndrome. The Wilson family was featured in Gupta's "Weed 2" special, which aired on CNN earlier this year.
"We saw minor seizure control and developmental progress with CBD alone, but we didn't see real seizure control until we added measurable levels of THC to the mix," explains Wilson. "Others see great results with THCA added in. Some see very good results with no CBD, like in NJ where there is little to no CBD available. The point is, this is highly individualized medicine. There is no magic bullet."
Jason David agrees. "Many other parents in California tried Charlotte's Web and while a lot are having success, others are not getting seizure control with Charlotte's Web," says David. "They have different options in California to try different kinds of medical cannabis, and many have found that different strains and ratios are working to control their kids' seizures instead. Low THC/high CBD doesn't work for everyone; just like pharmaceutical medications, it's not one size fits all."
Families like the Wilsons and the Davids live in medical marijuana states where they can access THC and THCA medicine as well as CBD-rich strains including not only Charlotte's Web but also R4 and Haleigh's Hope (CO), Remedy (WA), and Cannatonic and ACDC (CA); however, if this legislation passes, families in non-medical states will not have the opportunity to try cannabis that has higher levels of THC.
While many parents in states without medical cannabis are hopeful that Charlotte's Web will be a live-saver for their children, more experienced activists continue to warn that these expectations may not be realistic. Pediatric Cannabis Therapy (PCT) organization founder Rebecca Hamilton-Brown, who has been treating her epileptic son Cooper with cannabis for about 2 years, believes that parents who support CBD-only legislation may be setting themselves up for disappointment. Brown's PCT facebook group conversation got heated yesterday when parents discussed the new bill.
"It is ignorance that leads people to believe that CBD only is the way to go," explains Brown. "They either have never dosed their children or they are totally naïve when it comes to how the political machine works. I have experience in both areas and I will never support CBD-only legislation; it is ridiculous and a waste of resources when many sick people need the whole plant including most epileptics."
It is critical to also mention that low-THC/high-CBD legislation ignores the needs of many other patients who could benefit from medical cannabis, including those suffering from cancer, HIV-AIDS, PTSD, and countless other health conditions that respond to higher levels of THC.
"(This legislation) is so exclusionary," says Jill Osborn of Massachusetts, whose daughter has epilepsy. "It leaves out so many patients with other conditions and even seizure patients who need different ratios or cannabinoids. How did we get to the point that one condition is more worthy of treatment than another? My daughter's life is important, but I don't know that I can support legislation that makes her more important than someone else's child. I can't find it in me to celebrate all the lives that will be lost waiting because "we" decided "we" come first."
A number of other patients, parents, and advocates echoed Osborn's sentiments in their opposition to the legislation in online support groups across the country.
"I used to think CBD-only was best for my condition until I learned more," says Dae Aligheri, a registered medical cannabis patient from New Jersey who suffers from neurological complications related to Lyme disease. "I need the entire plant, and that includes CBD, THC, and the other cannabinoids. The Lyme bacteria is an antibiotic resistant bacteria. CBD only treats the symptoms, offering relief, but the THC kills the bacteria, so both are needed."
While most advocates acknowledge that a more comprehensive bill would be preferable, many parents are celebrating the introduction of this legislation as a "baby step" in the right direction for cannabis reform. However, experienced activists like Brian Wilson warn that baby-steps come along with serious pitfalls.
"With the way the federal government works, we probably have one shot to get medical reform passed," says Wilson. "I cannot understand the logic of side stepping all of the momentum we all have and putting time, energy and money behind a bill that will help so few."
"We have the New York Times calling for full legalization and we want to back off and shoot for CBD only? The tide is turning and the momentum is there."
In Pennsylvania, where the bill was announced by representatives from the RoC, local activists expressed concern that their state's pending comprehensive medical cannabis legislation would be overshadowed by the new push for CBD-only federal reform.
"We are all hoping this will not affect our SB1182, which is whole plant medicine for all who need it including our nation's vets," said Louann Speese Stanley, a Pennsylvania mother whose 17-year-old daughter Diana suffers from intractable epilepsy.
"I just have to pray that this stupidity doesn't get in the way of what states are doing individually – like in Pennsylvania," read one parent's post in a state advocacy group discussion. Another Pennsylvania parent sent a message to Ladybud to clarify that "the PA advocates had nothing to do with this bill."
A public statement released by Pennsylvania's Campaign4Compassion reads, "We are hopeful that this small step will reinforce the fact that cannabis IS indeed medicine and should be available to all in need. We pray that this measure will serve as an example to other members of congress and we anxiously await federal support for a more inclusive, well-rounded piece of legislation to be introduced."
While Campaign4Compassion's response is exceptionally eloquent and diplomatic, many advocates representing other reform organizations took to the internet to air their frustration with Realm of Caring.
"The Stanleys have been around to every high CBD legislation state lobbying like hell because they want a monopoly on the business, plain and simple," wrote Alabama Medical Marijuana Coalition board member Sonja Franks, whose son suffers from Crohn's disease and a traumatic brain injury. "They did it here in Alabama for Carly's Law. Since they cannot ship their products from Colorado, they are going to try to ship them in from another country as "Hemp"…They put dying children on waiting lists instead of giving them a list of other strains and providers. See, in my world, there is enough money to go around, especially if it comes from desperate and sick people. I would be damned if I would withhold that kind of info so I could make a dollar."
Indeed, the press relase from RoC states that "The 'Charlotte's Web Medical Hemp Act of 2014' in no way federally legalizes the recreational use of marijuana, nor is CBD marijuana." RoC's re-branding of cannabis-derived CBD as "not" medical marijuana has already drawn dividing lines in the cannabis reform movement in recent months, and the organization's comments as well as the trademark symbol attached to every mention of Charlotte's Web in their latest press releases will no doubt continue to divide the community between whole plant cannabis activists and CBD-activists even further in the coming weeks.
Many activists believe that RoC's labeling of their medicine as separate from medical marijuana is completely disrespectful to the activists that came before them. Indeed, how would the Stanleys have ever been able to develop the Charlotte's Web strain without comprehensive medical cannabis legislation in Colorado? At a time when public support for widespread comprehensive reform is at an all-time high, many of the most prominent pediatric epilepsy activists in our country are becoming more and more skeptical of RoC's intent.
"I can't understand why this would be proposed instead of putting all efforts into real reform that can benefit children with cancer, soldiers with PTSD and many more with really debilitating, life threatening/ending conditions," says Brian Wilson. "The only hope I have for this bill is that it both fails and rallies a stronger effort by the community at large to support bills like HR 689 and HR 710, which would protect states rights to control their own medical cannabis laws as well as federally rescheduling to a lower schedule, removing barriers from states to pass laws."
Jason David hopes that the proposed legislation will inspire more parents to lobby their elected officials for broader medical cannabis reform.
"I believed in Realm of Caring's product, and I got caught up in Charlotte's Web," says David. "Parents shouldn't have to put all their chips in one basket. We should be fighting for more options."
"We are all suffering or have loved ones suffering," adds Brian Wilson. "Let's act like a community and fight for all in need."


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Margaret Costa, the well-known cookery writer at the time, was coming to dinner and my then girl friend decided to make a gougère. It was not a success, being rather flat and solid. But our culinary guest loved the result. There must, I thought, be an easier and quicker way of making such a delicious failure. A taste-alike, quick-to-make equivalent was needed for times when people were invited for drinks on the spur of the moment. The following was the result. Everyone loves it - especially children. It is not just a Shrove Tuesday treat, but one to be enjoyed at any time of the year.
You will need:
Plain flour with baking powder or self-raising
Salt and pepper
Egg or eggs
Dijon mustard
Chilli sauce (like Tabasco)
Cheddar cheese (or a stronger kind)
Olive oil
Sieve some plain flour with baking powder or self-raising (say 3 ½ heaped dessert spoons) into a large bowl. Add pepper, salt. Stir.
Break a large egg or two small ones so that their contents fall into a depression in the centre of the sifted flour. Add a good dollop of Dijon mustard and a shake or two of Tabasco sauce (or another kind of chilli sauce).
Break the eggs with a whisk and start to stir from the centre outwards, adding milk (1/4 pint). Keep stirring and beating until the mixture is thick, yet smooth and free of even the smallest lumps. Or I'm sure a blender would do the same job.
Add some grated Cheddar (done beforehand), or blue cheese to make a stronger taste (too much cheese may make the pancake oily). Stir again.
Put olive oil in a frying pan to coat the bottom and sides. Add at least a couple of garlic cloves, squeezed from a press. Spread these morsels evenly around. Cook them until they are about to brown.
Now pour in the mixture to coat the bottom of the pan evenly. Reduce the heat to very low and wait until the bubbling mix begins to dry out on its upper surface. This will take about 20 minutes (depending on the heat and the pan),
It is now time to toss the pancake - or turn it over as best you can.
Tossed, with its brown and garlic side now uppermost, with the point of a knife cut slits in the surface to allow moisture to escape from within.
Lift a corner to inspect the under side (cooking will take a further 10 minutes or so). When cooked and golden brown, turn the pancake on to a board. Offer it to your guests cut into small sections.
With my frying pan and gas heat source at just above its very lowest, the whole cooking process takes 30 minutes. So half an hour before guests arrive for drinks I start to cook the pancake.
It is a good idea to make quite a lot of the mixture if guests for a party will be arriving over the period of an hour or two. Then, as you leave the kitchen with the first hot pancake, add some more garlic and mixture to the frying pan - and so on. The success of this delicious pancake will surprise you, and delight your guests. Children love it, too. But don't tell the young about the garlic, as some don't like the sound of it.
Get children to hand around these pancake squares. Reward them. Like dogs, if given a job to do, they (and you) are happy.
Friday, April 16, 2010
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The Barbary Corsairs, also known as Barbary Pirates or Ottoman Corsairs, were a group of pirates and privateers that operated from the Barbary coast in North Africa.
Islamic sailors, known as corsairs, sailed from the Barbary Coast in the southern Mediterranean and raided European trade vessels during the time of the Crusades. Then counter-corsairs subsidized by the Knights of Malta were sent forth to battle the Barbary pirates.[1]
By the 18th century, one of their most prominent and notorious leaders was Pirate Lord Ammand, who commanded a fleet of galleys.[2] The Barbary Corsairs were known to attack trade ships of the "Christian infidels", and preyed on all trade from the Gulf of Morocco to Turkey, due to Ammand serving as a privateer for the Ottoman Empire.[3] They frequently crossed blades with the Spanish Treasure Fleet of Eduardo Villanueva as they operated in the same waters.
Known shipsEdit
Behind the scenesEdit
- The name "Barbary Corsairs" was used in the "Inside the Brethren Court" special feature for At World's End.[4]
- In Pirates of the Caribbean Online, a player can buy an outfit called the Barbary Corsair.
- The name Barbossa might have been derived from "Barbarossa" (Italian for "Redbeard"), the nickname of the legendary Turkish Barbary pirate Aruj, and his brother Hayreddin Barbarossa; the Barbarossa brothers were infamous across the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean in the 16th century.
- Many of the stereotypical features associated with pirates in popular culture are partly derived from the Barbary pirates. The eye patch, for example, dates back to the Arab pirate Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah, who wore it after losing an eye in battle in the 18th century.[5] The prosphetic limb, used by pirate characters like Peter Pan's Captain Hook, for example, is derived from the legendary Turkish pirate Barbarossa (Redbeard), who in the early 16th century lost his left arm, earning him the nickname Silver Arm, in reference to the silver prosthetic device which he used in place of his missing limb.
- Legends of the Brethren Court: Day of the Shadow
- The Star of the Sea
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (video game) (First appearance)
External linksEdit
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Bring Me That Horizon: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean, p25.
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide, p90-91: "Pirate Lords"
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: Pirate Lords Map
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End "Inside the Brethren Court" featurette
- ↑ Charles Belgrave (1966), The Pirate Coast, p. 122, George Bell & Sons


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The Disability and Learning Resource Center is committed to ensuring that Concordia University Irvine is a campus that is inclusive and accessible for its diverse population of disabled students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
"Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access"
The mission of the Disability and Learning Resource Center is to advance inclusion, diversity, equity, and access by addressing barriers in the learning, working, social, and physical environments of Concordia University Irvine. We address barriers by providing disability resources in diverse partnerships with instructors, campus departments, disabled students, and University leadership.
Concordia University is dedicated to providing students with disabilities access to the programs, services, and activities of the University as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) and Amendment (2008) and by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (1973). Section 504 states: "No otherwise qualified individual shall, solely by his or her disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
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At the School of Mining Engineering at UNSW your learning experience will be boosted by the wide range of laboratory facilities we have. These facilities are a vital component of the undergraduate course in Mining Engineering – and make the learning experience 'real' for our students.
VR Simulator
This cavernous dome, at the heart of our School, provides a virtual setting for students to explore an underground mine. A new reality opens up as you duck underneath the overhead pipes and step safely beyond the hazard zone to accompany your peers beyond the boundaries of traditional education and into experiential learning.Students have the opportunity to be immersed in staggeringly realistic underground mine scenarios through our VR Simulator. This facility – also referred to as the Advanced Visualisation and Interaction Environment (AVIE) – casts 360-degree 3D images against has floor-to-ceiling screens with cinematic clarity.
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