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The holidays are such a cozy and fun season, one of my favorite things to do during Christmas time is to spend time with family and friends, do arts and crafts or simply read a book and sip tea under a warm blanket on the couch (or in bed).
If you want to do something fun for the holidays you can make your own DIY Christmas decorations. Save money and bond with family and friends by doing something creative & fun while spending time together during the holidays.
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Check out the following DIY Christmas decoration ideas that you should try out this season!
1. Golden Nutcracker Holiday Mantel
Bring some holiday nostalgia by adding some nutcracker figurines to your mantle or anywhere around your house this festive season. This DIY is easy to follow, all you will need is some spray paint and some blank wooden nutcracker soldiers.
Get the instructions at: The Sweetest Occassion
2. Photo Ornaments
Adding photos to your ornaments is a sentiment that you should try for the holidays. Walk down memory lane with this simple craft.
Get the instructions at: Simple As That
3. Rustic Candle Holder
Who needs expensive store bought candle holders when you can make your own! Forget the store and make your own rustic holders.
Get the instructions at: Make It Love It
4. DIY Advent Calendar
Make your own advent calendar and give it some of your own personality. The great thing about this DIY project is each member of your family can add their own chosen ornament.
Get the instructions at: Woman's Day
5. Door Hanger
The dollar store is such a great place to find supplies for your arts and crafts. For this particular snowflake door hanger, you can find what you need for an affordable price.
Get the instructions at: Rae of Sparkles
6. Lighted Hanging Mason Jars
Add some cozy and magical lighting to your home decor this season with this simple DIY using mason jars as a soft light source.
Get the instructions at: All Things Heart and Home
7. Pine Cones
Dress up your pine cones and give props to nature with this super easy and elegant Christmas ornament DIY.
Get the instructions at: Make It Love It
8. Giant Wreath
Go big or go home with this gigantic DIY Christmas wreath. Put your own spin on it by adding your own flair, colors, words etc.
Get the instructions at: Home Made Ginger
9. Vintage Stockings
Get a different look this year with these vintage holiday stockings. These are simple to make and you do not need too many materials.
Get the instructions at: Country Living
10. Bling Ornaments
Don't throw away your old CDs! Turn them into bling with this simple make it yourself craft for your tree this year.
Get the instructions at: Creme De La Craft
11. Tree Shelf
You do not need to be some handyman or master woodworker to make this cute little shelf.
Get the instructions at: That's My Letter
12. Christmas Pillows
Christmas home decor really adds to that holiday feel and having themed pillows is just the icing on the cake. You do not need to know how to sew to make these.
Get the instructions at: Woman's Day
13. Homemade Cards
Nothing says one-of-a-kind like a homemade DIY Christmas card this holiday season. Get your embroidery floss and start creating!
Get instructions at: Make and Takes
Go ahead and give these crafts a try! With home made decorations you can actually save alot of money and create something that nobody else has. Personalize your own holiday decor and turn your home into a magical place this season!


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Abuse isn't just about bruises. Not all forms of abuse leave bruises where we can see them,Abuse Counseling Near Me in South Africa . Although physical abuse is terrifying and needs to be addressed immediately there are other forms of abuse that can cause significant damage. One type of abuse that is very difficult for outsiders to detect is financial abuse. Marriage should be a partnership but when one spouse completely dominates the finances to the point that the other spouse has no control and no options financial abuse may be occurring.
What Are Signs of Potential Financial Abuse?
Every married couple handles their finances differently. In some cases one spouse handles the majority of the finances. They manage the accounts, pay the bills and deal with creditors. That does not by itself equal financial abuse.
Financial abuse occurs when one spouse is treated like an irresponsible child and Domestic Violence Guns . They are cut off from funds and their knowledge about the couple's finances is severely limited. Some signs of financial abuse include:
•Strict Allowances. This isn't an amount that the spouses have agreed to limit themselves to but is instead a set amount that is grudgingly handed out from one spouse to the other and is all that will be given.
Documents, documents, documents. Written evidence is incredibly strong and can range from credit card bills showing that there is a credit card but that you aren't named on it to emails from your spouse that show the financial abuse.
Other witnesses can be incredibly powerful on your behalf. Financial abuse is hard for people outside the relationship to detect. So when someone credible comes in and tells the judge that it is happening and they can see it the judge will listen and Domestic Violence Organisations .
Abuse Counseling Near Me in South Africa ?
Domestic Violence: Victims of Domestic Violence
If you are a victim of domestic violence or if you know someone who is a victim of domestic violence you may not know what to do in this situation. If it is an emergency you may want to consider calling 911. If you feel trapped in an abusive relationship that involves domestic violence, know that there are many ways to get away from domestic violence. Here are some ideas for victims of domestic violence that are worth exploring.
First you may want to consider a way to get away from the abuser and perpetrator of domestic violence. Right from the first domestic violence act, you may want to consider leaving the place that you share with the aggressor. Whether it is the first act of domestic violence or not it is much safer to get away from the abuser and find another place to stay. Too often, victims of domestic violence are afraid of leaving his/her place of residence resulting in more abuse by the perpetrator of domestic violence.
If you are a victim of domestic violence you may also want to consider obtaining some external help such as requesting assistance from the police or local law enforcement. If you are in need of legal advice, you will want to consult an attorney. You may also wish to consider contacting a friend or a neighbor to get away from the situation rather than try to get trough it alone. Sadly, victims of domestic violence, who are in a very vulnerable situation, will often be persuaded from attempting to obtain help. External assistance is often very critical to help keep the victim of domestic violence protected.
Local police officers and sheriffs are often trained to handle domestic violence cases and can be extremely helpful to the victim of domestic violence. Additionally, law enforcement personnel or city attorneys can provide victims with helpful information related to domestic violence or provide referrals to other local assistance centers such as emergency shelters or safe houses. There are also many local group activities on domestic violence for women which can provide counseling and legal assistance to women.
Another consideration would be to obtain a temporary or long-term restraining order in order to stop the domestic violence. A protective order generally provides that the abuser or perpetrator of domestic violence be restrained from having any form of contact with the victim, has to move out from the residence shared with the protected person, and should stay at least 100 yards away from the protected person at all times. If any children or family members live in the same place, they may also be included in the category of protected persons.
Anyone can be a victim of domestic violence whether you are rich or poor and whatever your background, such as a school drop-out or university graduate. Therefore it is essential to know how to get help with a domestic violence situation for your own health and safety as well as the health and safety of those close to you. If you are seeking legal advice regarding domestic violence and protective orders, you will want to consult an attorney in your jurisdiction.
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Divorce and Domestic Violence: Who Are The Victims of Domestic Violence?
I stopped by the house; my friend was crying. Her tears not from pain. They were tears of bitterness, humiliation, disbelief. She rubbed her shoulder as she wept; she couldn't look at me. Her husband had hit her again.
She wouldn't call the police; there was no point. When she did there was little they could do without a court order or visible marks of assault. He was long gone anyway. The children had witnessed his rage against her as usual. Watching their father beat their mother cut the remnants of their innocence to shreds. The eldest teenage son was torn between wanting to protect her and knowing that in his anger his father would beat him senseless if he tried. The neighbors, when they finally heard of the problems believed her husband's story not hers; he was such a decent guy, he could never act like that.
There's a reply that follows many domestic violence incidents that has become a cliché, when the victim is asked why she is staying with her attacker; 'because I love him.'
As I explained to my friend, her husband did not love her. There were a hundred 'buts' in response but they fell on deaf ears. I could only advise, 'leave...today.' It was up to her. In the end she did leave him and never looked back. She had a happy-ever-after story but many don't.
Domestic violence can follow a predictable pattern and it's progressive. It can start with shouting, threats, broken objects, punched walls. It moves to a push, a blocked doorway. A punch, a twisted arm, a black eye. Sexual abuse. Right up to death. The progression is no guarantee, at times it starts with death - by choking, gunshot, being thrown out the window, pushed from a moving car.
Where it stops depends not on the abuser but on the person being abused. That ability to put an end to it implies a responsibility to face what is happening and to make it stop. All the more urgent when children are involved.
People look for a cause for the abusers actions, as if that will change it. Alcohol, drugs, poverty don't cause it - they exacerbate it. If you're a batterer, you're a psychopath in need of treatment or jail. Just not at the expense of using someone as a punching bag as a gateway to treatment. You know it already. You're also a coward. Post-battering remorse, pleading "I'm sorry," means nothing. Empty words.
A good rule of thumb. The first time he or she hits you, leave. It's better live in a car with your kids than to live for a moment with someone who can defile or hurt you. They will eventually kill you, emotionally if not physically.
Victims give batterers permission to hurt them. Not the first time of course; certainly the second time.
It's done by not leaving after the first time; by not blowing the batterers brains out when they raise a hand to you or your kids; by not calling the police and filing a complaint that leads to an arrest.
Change starts with the victim. Change starts with you.

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Urgent Need For Medical Mission Radio Operators
A short video of what the Kruta River IHS Team experienced recently.
International Health Service has an urgent need for Winlink-experienced operators for it's medical mission to Honduras, February 12-26, 2016.
IHS has run for 30 years twice-yearly missions to Honduras to provide medical/dental/surgery/eyecare clinics to the Moskito Coast and mountain and island regions of Honduras. Their operations are a marvel of logistics and effectiveness, sending 10-15 clinic and surgery teams with support personnel, medications, equipment and supplies to remote locations with minimum infrastructure, all communicating via amateur radio. If you want to experience and learn emcomm techniques with real purpose, this is your thing. Minimal expense. Contact John Kirckof, KB0UUP, IHS Director of Communications at jmkkek at yahoo dot com or 320-634-4386. Info about IHS at www.ihsmn.org.


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Announcing IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management new UI beta drop 2
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Announcing IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management new UI beta drop 2
Do you want to help shape the new Application Performance Management user interface being built? If so, the second of three beta drops is now available for you to install on top of your existing management infrastructure. Don't miss out on the opportunity to provide feedback to development on this UI and participate in an upcoming conference call.
APM UI brief introduction
APM UI provides consolidated UI for operation data collected by ITCAM agents. It enables application owner and domain experts quickly understand the status of all components and aspects for application performance management. It provides out of box dashboard for common applications and components. Clients and business partners can customize and enhance it for building application performance management solutions. It is part of the IBM integrated service management solution with other products.
Conference call announcement
We will arrange conference calls for this beta program. The conference calls are to be used for communicating plans, requirements and feedback. The calls will be scheduled every 2 to 3 weeks and on demand. The presenters will be APM architect, product and develop manager and leaders.
The first call will be on Thursday next week (May 17) 10AM EST. We will introduce APM UI design, setup and use APM UI beta package. If you will join the call, please respond to this post with questions and topics that you would like to discuss in the call.
Call information May 17th 10AM EST
USA Toll-Free: 888-426-6840
USA Caller Paid: 215-861-6239
For Other Countries: http
Web Conference info
APM UI first delivery milestones
Milestone 1 (3/3
Release date targeted for 2Q2012
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Loveland, Colorado, is a good place for a lot of things: our valentines can't be beat, the pelican watching is fantastic, and when it comes to views we are amongst the best. But there's more than just the wonder of the Rockies in our lovely Loveland. We've got incredible pizza.
We at BlackJack Pizza not only provide Loveland the tastiest pizza specials to the area, but we also offer the best pizza delivery in Loveland. Ranking our pizza at a solid 21/10, we're the closest thing to pizza royalty in all of Colorado.
Our signature pizzas are supreme—they're our ace in the pie-whole. But of course, you might have a trump with some concoction of your own design. Our wide, diverse menu includes a number sauces to fit any palate, multiple cheese options to make sure you can get your dairy fix, and enough topping selections that we're fairly confident that we'll leave you appeased.
An assurance that you'll be happy with your order rests solidly on our coupons here online. We have a veritable smorgasbord of different options to make sure that you'll have enough food to leave you comfortably stuffed with delicious pizza. And what's better? You don't need to print out the coupons—that's right, we're happy to just let you mention them over the phone while you order and we'll apply the savings directly. So really, we're the ace up your sleeve.
It's BlackJack. It's proper pizza.


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Archive for May, 2009
Today Hud released rules allowing first-time homebuyers (FTHB) to use the $8000 federal tax credit as part of the down payment on their purchase of a home. That's good news, right? Well, except for this part:
Accordingly, the proceeds of the sale of the tax credit to FHA approved mortgagees, the seller, or any other person or entity that financially benefits from the transaction (or any third party or entity that is reimbursed, directly or indirectly, by the financing benefiting person or entity), may not be used to meet the 3.5% minimum downpayment, but may be used as additional downpayment, buying down of interest rate, or other closing costs. [emphasis mine]
In other words, this program is not going to replace the Nehemiah or Neighborhood Gold programs that allowed homebuyers to get into properties with nothing down. Yes, you can use the credit to cover closing costs, but those costs were in most cases already being covered by the sellers. Yes, you can use the credit to increase your downpayment (as long as you're getting an FHA loan), but because it's an FHA loan, that won't improve your interest rate. It will reduce the monthly payment by a few dollars ($400 a year, about), because the initial balance will be lower, but that's about it.
So, what do we give this? One cheer? A cheer and a half? Maybe, but not three cheers. Not for this.
Real Estate Top Ten and Jimmy's Steal of the Week!
These are all bank approved prices of foreclosures, no waiting to see if the bank accepts the offer!!! All are in average to above average condition as well and all were built in the past 5 years!10 best buys- May 27 20091. North east Lehi 1600 sq ft, Originally sold for $225k- bank approved price for $158k2. North west Orem, 2778 sq ft, exact same model sold in Dec 2008 for $205k, bank approved price of $165,0003. North East Eagle Mtn, 3030 sq ft townhouse, brand new, bank approved at $180,000, that's $60 per sq ft4. Ivory Ridge, Lehi, 2397 sq ft townhouse, same exact model under contract right now for $245k, bank approved at $185,0005. South west Saratoga, 3900 sq ft, bank approved price $245,000, similar house four houses down sold last June for $370,0006. North East Eagle mtn, 5894 sq ft, House on same street sold last August for $340k, bank approved $284,0007. South West Bluffdale, 5000+ sq ft, was once under contract for $700k, bank approved price $349,0008. South west Herriman, 6800+ sq ft, house 1000 sq ft smaller on street sold for $522,000 within last year, bank approved price of $350,000-This is the steal of the week!!!!!!9. North East Provo, 6200 + sq ft, house on same street only 600 sq ft bigger currently listed at $995,000, bank approved price $425,000!10. Pepperwood house, 6600 sq ft, half acre, bank approved price of $579,00011. Southwest Riverton, 6700+ sq ft, fully decked out, originally appraised for $1.8 million, bank approved price of $975,000Call to get more info on these or other great properties! These are all bank approved prices of foreclosures, no waiting to see if the bank accepts the offer!!!
Two Years Ago
Two years ago, I decided that I was tired of working for the broker I was with, tired of the screwups of others at that company making it hard for me to do business the right way, tired of making a decent living but having no pride in my work. Two years ago I opened my own brokerage, a one-man shop, right on Main Street.
Two years ago, the real estate market was flourishing, there were tens of thousands of loan officers actively plying their trade, and dozens of companies ready to welcome me with open arms. There were 600 different lenders I could work with, and Mortgage Originator magazine had 110 pages every month.
Two years ago nobody knew that the market would collapse, credit dry up, property values decline 25%. Two years ago nobody could have forecast the demise of GM and Chrysler, deficits of $1.8 trillion, the number of big-bank lenders declining from 25 to 4. Nobody knew that if you weren't a big shop, with FHA loan capability, backstopped by large correspondent lines, you were already dead.
In terms of the business, almost everything I thought was true, wasn't.
But two years ago I knew that I wanted to be on Main Street in Lehi. I knew I wanted to work in a small office, with people I hired myself, on a busy but – let's face it – sleepy two-lane street less than a mile from my home. I knew that I wanted to become part of the community, to put roots there, to learn the names and faces of everyone for two blocks in either direction. I knew I wanted this place to be my home, and that I wanted desperately for my business to contribute something to the health and vitality of the community around it. I wanted people to know me and to know they could trust me. And I wanted to know myself. And I wanted to trust myself. And I believed that this place was the place it could happen.
Almost everything I thought I knew about the place I was, and the reason I was there, was absolutely true.
Two years ago, the Chair of the Chamber of Commerce, the lady that I chose as my Vice-Chair and who succeeded me as Chair, presided at the grand opening of my brokerage on Main Street. Kris Belcher, who wasn't an author then, but who was, and is, one of the toughest, most genuine, smartest and finest people on earth, made a short speech in honor of the occasion. She said one thing that day that I won't ever forget as long as I live.
She said we would go through hard times, but that we had been through them before, and we would always come out right, because, she said, "the Chris Jones Group has the fighting spirit."
Two years ago, that was true.
By God, it still is.
RateWatch – The Day After
Analysis: Folks, it just isn't pretty out there. Bill Gross of PIMCO says the US is in some danger of losing its AAA bond status, the Obama Administration appears to be valuing labor contracts over the demands of Chrysler and GM bond holders, the government is offering record amounts of Treasury debt in an effort to keep spending, and the deficit is $1.8 trillion. The geniuses at the Fed and Treasury thought that they could game the markets, get rates where they want them just by saying "boo" (and spending a $ trillion or so). But that doesn't work, fellas. The market is bigger than that. It's bigger than you. It will go where it likes and you can't stop it.
Civil Rights 101
Amid the fountains of bloviation about the demise of Western Civilization because the California Supreme Court upheld a constitutional amendment, let's have a short civics lesson.
Civil rights are "civil" because they are granted by the civic institutions of the state. There is a lot of pontificating – yes, @ColinKelley, this means you, though you have plenty of company – about how civil rights should never be subject to majority rule. Sigh. People, think.
Civil rights BY DEFINITION have to be voted on. It is inalienable rights that cannot be voted on (among these are life, liberty, and property). By no possible stretch of the imagination is the right to have your sexual union recognized by the state inalienable. ALL rights granted by the state are alienable.
When you get rid of the idea of God, and stop basing your laws on moral conduct, then you reach the point where all rights are civil rights, and all power rests in the hands of the government. Then your inalienable rights, the ones that adults care about, can be violated at will.
[Side note here: if you are black, you understand all too well how government can do this. Slavery was a violation of civil rights, yes, but it was also a violation of inalienable rights. The Constitution did not emancipate blacks, but it did at least have a mechanism for the assertion of inalienable rights and it was that document that made emancipation possible, once people came to their senses. Slavery remains, however, undeniable proof that the existence of a document doesn't automatically guarantee its legal force.]
This is one reason smart people revere the Constitution, because it at least attempted to put restraints on what government could and could not do with respect to those inalienable rights. For this purpose, governments are formed. However, as we learn, no amount of law will prevent bad people from being bad. No set of regulations will make selfish people less selfish. No constitution can stop people from choosing to be treated like infants, abdicating personal responsibility, and trying to make everyone else pay for their own stupid mistakes.
This is why even smarter people don't believe that the Constitution can save the Republic. It's just a document. Only the people can save the Republic, and right now, my read is that the people don't care. They don't have enough understanding to process how the CA Supremes can vote 6-1 not to invalidate a constitutional amendment process that was as meticulously legal as anything could be. They just want to be mad.
Well, then. Wish granted.


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Adds new Certification Authority Authority Information Access (AIA) paths.
Add-AuthorityInformationAccess [-InputObject] <AuthorityInformationAccess[]> [-URI] <String[]> [<CommonParameters>]
Adds new Certification Authority Authority Information Access (AIA) paths. This command doesn't change actual settings, but just prepares AIA URIs.
Authority Information Access (AIA) extension is used to specify issuer's resources location like CRT file and/or Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) URIs in the issued certificates AIA extension.
When you define CRT file URIs it can be used by certificate chaining engine to retrieve particular certificate's issuer certificate. If an URI is missing or broken, certificate verification may fail and the certificate would be rejected. This command don't support physical CRT file publishing options, as the result you need to manually copy a file to the target locations. Original CRT file is placed in %windir%\system32\certsvc\certenroll folder. You may specify multiple URIs for redundancy. URIs are checked in the same order as they are placed in the certificate's AIA extension until issuer's certificate is retrieved. The most accessible URI should be placed first. This command adds new URIs below existing URIs. It is recommended to specify no more than two CRT location URIs. This is because if the first two URIs fails, client will fail chain building due to a timeout and certificate would be rejected.
OCSP URI can be used by a clients to determine certificate revocation status. Unlike CRLs, OCSP consume very little network traffic (about 2kb for request and response). Currently only HTTP protocol is supported by OCSP locations. In Windows Vista and newer systems OCSP has higher priority than CRLDistributionPoints extension. Thus OCSP URIs are processed first. OCSP URIs has their own precedence rules, thus OCSP URIs are checked in the same order as they are placed in the certificate's AIA extension until revocation status is determined. It doesn't matter whether OCSP URIs are placed prior or after CRT file location URIs, because they are grouped in a different access methods. Here is an example:
[1]Authority Info Access
Access Method=On-line Certificate Status Protocol (184.108.40.206.18.104.22.168.1)
Alternative Name:
[2]Authority Info Access
Access Method=Certification Authority Issuer (22.214.171.124.188.8.131.52.2)
Alternative Name:
in a given example even if CRT file URIs are placed after OCSP URIs certificate chaining engine will use Certification Authority Issuer's URIs first during chain building. The frist URI http://eu.company.com/MyCA.crt will be used. If it fails, http://na.company.com/MyCA.crt will be used.
Specifies the AuthorityInformationAccess object to which new CRT distribution points are added. This object can be retrieved by running Get-AuthorityInformationAccess command.
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Specifies new CRT file publishing points for specified CA server. Must be passed in the following format: <Flags>:<RelativeURI>, where <Flags> is a combination of publishing flags. The following values are possible for <Flags>:
1 - Publish CRT's to this location. This flag is deprecated and can be used only with default local path.
2 - Include in the AIA extension of issued certificates.
32 - Include in the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) extension.
Within <RelativeURI> you can use the following variables:
%1 - the CA's computer DNS name
%2 - the CA's computer NetBIOS name
%3 - CA's logical name
%4 - CA's certificates name
%6 - the LDAP path of the forest's configuration naming context for the forest
%7 - CA's 'sanitized' name. This is the same as CA name but with the following characters removed: \/:\*?"<>|
%11 - indicates that CA certificate is certificate object in AD CS
With Windows CA you should assert %4 variable within URI. This is important when you renew CA's certificate. After CA certificate renewal, CA server will maintain both certificates, previous and renewed. To differentiate them, CA server will include certificate index in the parentheses. For example you have specified the following URI: 2:http://eu.company.com/MyCA%4.crt
In a given example CA server with initial CA certificate will publish the following URI in the issued certificates AIA extension: http://eu.company.com/MyCA.crt
Once CA certificate is renewed, CA certificate will generate new CRT file with corresponding index and in newly issued certificates the following URI will be published: http://eu.company.com/MyCA(1).crt
Subsequent CA certificate renewals will cause URI update accordingly.
This allows clients to build correct certificate chains for previously and newly issued certificates. Also you don't need to change CRT file location after CA certificate renewal, because CA server will automatically place correct CA certificate file name.
Note: Windows PKI supports the following URI formats.
for CA certificate publishing:
UNC or absolute physical paths are no longer supported.
for CA certificate retrieval:
Note: ldap:///<DirectoryAccessProtocolPath> URI type assumes Active Directory usage and must contain forest root domain domain component (DC=...) within LDAP path. This may cause big retrieval delays. Since Active Directory may contain many domain controllers and specified in LDAP URI content is automatically replicated between all domain controllers in the current forest. To simplify content retrieval from Active Directory CryptoAPI may not contact forest root domain, but contact nearest to client domain controller. Nearest domain controller is placed in $env:LogonServer system variable (or %LogonServer% in CMD syntax).
Also Windows PKI supports another form of LDAP URIs with host name: ldap://<hostname>/path?query
In this case client will not contact domain controller, but specified host directly. Unlike ldap:/// URI form, ldap://<hostname> may use 3rd party LDAP-compatible directory. Automatic content (CA certificate or certificate revocation list) publishing to such directories is not supported. You will have to manually publish CA certificates to these directories by using external means.
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|Accept pipeline input?
|Accept wildcard characters?
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,
ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, InformationAction, InformationVariable,
WarningAction, WarningVariable, OutBuffer, PipelineVariable and OutVariable.
For more information, see about_CommonParameters (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).
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PS C:\> Get-CertificationAuthority -Name MyCA | Get-AIA | Add-AuthorityInformationAccess -URI "2:http://eu.company.com/MyCA%4.crt" | Set-AuthorityInformationAccess -RestartCA
This example will retrieve AIA extension configuration from 'MyCA' CA server and adds new URI that will be published in all issued certificates. After configuration is changed, the command will restart certificate services to immediately apply changes.
PS C:\> Get-CertificationAuthority -Name RootCA | Get-AuthorityInformationAccess | Add-AuthorityInformationAccess -URI "32:http://na.company.com/OCSP" | Set-AuthorityInformationAccess -RestartCA
This example will retrieve AIA extension configuration from 'RootCA' CA server and adds new URI that will be published in all issued certificates as OCSP location. After configuration is changed, the command will restart certificate services to immediately apply changes.


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Anti-Bullying Reporting Procedures
As required by law, our district has a detailed policy regarding harassment, Intimidation and Bullying, and another regarding how such behavior will be investigated. If a student experiences Harassment, intimidation or bullying by another student, the incident can be reported to the School Anti-Bullying Specialists listed below.
Mr. Jamie Edward Ciofalo, District Anti-Bullying Coordinator / email@example.com
Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying Prevention
Parents' Guide to NJ Anti-bullying Bill of Rights Act
- The NJ Anti-bullying Bill of Rights Act requires all school staff to immediately report to the principal all behaviors that may qualify as Harassment, Intimidation or Bullying (HIB).
- An investigation of HIB is not an indictment on a child and is not designed to label a child a bully or target. The purpose of the investigation is to identify behaviors, either intentional or unintentional, that are perceived by others in the school community as problematic. The goal of the investigation is to IDENTIFY problematic behaviors and to REMEDIATE these behaviors in hope that there will be no recurrence or need for future investigations.
- All investigative reports sent to the Board of Education are redacted and DO NOT include student's names or other identifiable information.
- HIB investigative reports ARE NOT part of your child's educational record.
- HIB investigative reports ARE NOT placed in your child's cumulative file.
- HIB investigative reports ARE NOT sent to colleges/universities.
- HIB investigate reports for cases in which your child is found to have committed an act of HIB, and in which your child received discipline for the behavior become a part of your child's discipline file and must be sent with your child's discipline file if you transfer your child to a different K-12 school (not college/university).
- The NJ DOE collects HIB data that may include your child's State Identification Number, not your child's full name, etc. This data is not shared with any other parties or institutions. Your child's State Identification Number is known only to the NJ DOE and is not used by any other educational entities.
- Parents are only entitled to receive information about their own child in the form of the enclosed letter within 5 days of the submission of the completed investigation to the Board of Education. Parents are not entitled to receive information regarding other students since this disclosure would be a violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
- The goal of the NJ Anti-bullying Bill of Rights Act is to prevent problematic behaviors that may lead a child to perceive him or herself as the target of HIB and to prevent such students from not attending school due to fear of HIB or from engaging in self-injurious behaviors, or worse, suicide. The goal of the NJ ABR is to ensure that all students feel safe and secure in school. The investigative process is a necessary component of the process to ensure that the school is upholding the requirements of the NJ ABR.
The Englewood Public School system, in accordance with the tenets of the National School Climate Council (NSCC), is committed to developing and maintaining a sustainable, positive school climate that fosters student development and learning necessary for a productive, contributing and satisfying life in a democratic society.
This climate includes:
- Norms, values and expectations that support people feeling socially, emotionally and physically safe;
- People are engaged and respected;
- Students, families and educators work together to develop, live and contribute to a shared school vision;
- Educators model and nurture attitudes that emphasize the benefits and satisfaction gained from learning; and
- Each person contributes to the operations of the school and the care of the physical environment.
The prevention of acts of harassment, intimidation, and bullying is a key component of the development and maintenance of a positive school climate. The Englewood Public School system engages in systemic and sustained harassment, intimidation, and bullying prevention efforts. These efforts include interdisciplinary school-wide, classroom, and district initiatives that are designed to intervene, empower, remediate and educate students and faculty about HIB behaviors. These initiatives result in a greater sense of self-worth and an overall greater sense of school and community membership for students and staff alike.
What is the definition of HIB under the NJ Anti-bullying Bill of Rights?
HIB means any gesture, any written, verbal or physical act, or any electronic communication, whether it be a single incident or series of incidents, that is reasonably perceived as being motivated by any actual or perceived characteristic, such as race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or a mental, physical or sensory disability, or by any other distinguishing characteristic; and takes place on school property, at any school-sponsored function, or off school grounds as provided for in N.J.S.A. 18a:37-15.3; and substantially disrupts or interferes with the orderly operation of the school or the rights of other students, and that a reasonable person should know, under the circumstances, will have the effect of physically or emotionally harming a student or damaging the student's property, or placing a student in reasonable fear of physical or emotional harm to his person or damage to his property; or has the effect of insulting or demeaning any student or group of students; or creates a hostile educational environment for the student by interfering with a student's education or by severely or pervasively causing physical or emotional harm to the student.
Conflict vs. Bullying
Bullying is not a conflict between students or among groups of students. Conflict is a mutually competitive or opposing action or engagement, including a disagreement or an argument which is a normal part of human development. Bullying is one-sided, where one or more students are victims of one or more person's aggression, which is intended to physically or emotionally hurt the victim(s).
"Harmful or demeaning conduct motivated only by another reason, for example, a dispute about a relationship or personal belongings, or aggressive conduct without identifiable motivation does not come within the statutory definition of bullying." K.L. v. Evesham School District (App. Div. 2011)
There generally are four types of bullying behaviors. These behaviors and some examples are identified below:
- Verbal – Includes taunting, name calling, malicious teasing or making threats (U.S. Department of Justice, 2001);
- Psychological – Includes spreading rumors, purposefully excluding people from activities, breaking up friendships (U.S. Department of Justice, 2001);
- Physical – Includes hitting, punching, shoving, spitting or taking personal belongings (U.S. Department of Justice, 2001); and
- Cyberbullying – Includes using the Internet, mobile phone or other digital technologies to harm others. (DuPage County Anti-Bullying Model Policy and Best Practices, 2011).
HIB Off School Grounds
School districts are required to address HIB occurring off school grounds, when there is a nexus between the HIB and the school (i.e., the HIB substantially disrupts or interferes with the orderly operation of the school or the rights of other students). The bully/victim relationship must be within the same school district for the district to have HIB jurisdiction. If not, then it may be referred to the home district administration as a code of conduct violation.


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We take it for granted today, but the food we eat does more for us than we think. But don't take our word for it. Take His.
We take it for granted today, but the food we eat does more for us than we think. But don't take our word for it. Take His.
I remember where I was on August 21st at the time of the eclipse. I was in Cleveland, Georgia with my coworkers and my eclipse glasses were on my face. The moon was slowly blocking the sun's rays, the temperature was dropping, and darkness covered the landscape. But when the light broke through on the other side, an important lesson came to my mind from this encounter with the heavens. Particularly, the last two eclipses we'll experience on this earth.
I've ridden public transportation for almost fifteen years, in several states. In doing so, you learn valuable lessons about yourself and life in general. But as I continue to ride on MARTA today and write about Jesus' Second Coming, there are several lessons that stick out.
Should we be concerned with our appetite in the last days? If so, why? To answer this question, looking at the following two Bible verses. What do they have in common?
I walk down a very steep hill on the way home. At the bottom of it laid a shopping cart from Target, stuck in the mud. For years, it laid there and endured the rain, ice, and heat of the seasons. I said to myself before Passover that I was going to get that cart out of there. But Passover came and went and the cart was still in its unenviable position.
Good evening, everyone
I hope 2017 is going well for you, thus far. We've got quite a year to look forward to, especially as we continue to keep an eye on the signs of the times. Prophecy is being fulfilled all around us and the coming of our Lord gets closer by the day.
When God created man and the dominion he was to rule over, He also created for him the diet that he was to eat. What is it about this particular diet that will help us in the end times?
A month ago, I was walking to Kroger on a Saturday night when the Lord stopped me in my tracks. I wanted to go grocery shopping, but He wanted me to go home.
The time is coming soon when God will deliver His faithful warning to the world. In those days, God's people from every part of the world will get ready. From all classes and lives will they come forward to boldly proclaim "The Lord cometh." They will unite with God's people and they will be one fold and Christ will be their One Shepherd. Hear this message and every message He will give you. Keep Reading!
Read Deut. 18:21, 22 and Isa. 8:20 for this lesson.
At 18 years old, Malachi Love-Robinson passed himself off as a doctor. He had no medical education or license to practice medicine, but he deceived a lot of people into thinking he did. Unfortunately, one of his patients was an undercover police officer. They found out what he was up to and arrested him for practicing medicine without a license. Keep Reading!


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Just when you were ready to dismiss Grown Ups 2 as a cinematic black hole, Chris Rock goes ahead and gives the Adam Sandler atrocity proper credit for inspiring his latest, hysterically funny comedy Top Five. So there's that.
Chris Rock brought his latest project – which he writes and directs – to the Toronto International Film Festival, where he sparked a fierce bidding war. Understandably. Rock's comedy is a biting commentary on the entertainment industry, and is packed to the brim with dozens of famous faces who'd cut together into an all-star trailer that should guarantee a huge opening weekend. It's also a relentlessly filthy and unbearably entertaining crowd-pleaser that actually needs to be seen in a theater with a lathered-up group. Something tells me the exact same jokes in Top Five will be 50% less funnier if you are watching them in your quiet living room on Netflix. But in a packed house loaded with rollicking Rock fans, Top Five has palpable energy.
How does Grown Ups 2 factor in, aside from Adam Sandler having a cameo in the end of Top Five? The way Rock told it during a ribald Q-and-A following our screening, he spent a lot of time on the set of the Grown Ups sequel just sitting around. Despite being third or fourth on the call sheet, Rock said, "I was in a movie with nothing to do." So he sat in his trailer and decided to come up with a screenplay that would give him something to do. He imagined all of the people that he'd want to work with, from Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union and J.B. Smoove to Rosario Dawson. And he wrote himself a juicy lead role.
Just so long as audiences are prepared for an unapologetically raunchy, nasty, filthy, dirty but perpetually entertaining comedy that's modeled after like Rock's observational stand up and structured (in my humble opinion) after Louis CK's smash-hit cable show, Louie. One Tweeter kind of nailed the comparison when he called Top Five "Chris Rock's Annie Hall." Because it's a conversational get-to-know-me plot that follows a successful comedian (Rock) and a NY Times journalist (Rosario Dawson) trying to peel back his layers for a juicy expose.
Top Five basically gives Chris Rock a chance to chomp down on the hand that normally feeds him. Not content to stop there, he essentially takes a machete, douses the blade with gasoline, ignites the lethal sword and starts swinging at all types of obvious but still deserving targets.
Andre (Rock) is a famous actor best known for a series of awful-looking cop comedies in which he played Hammy, a gun toting bear. Nope, I'm not joking. Now Andre is trying to go the serious route, producing and starring in the Oscar bait Uprize, about the leader of a Haitian slave revolt. "He killed a lot of white people," ensures Andre. The trouble is that fans don't want to take this previous comedian seriously, and since he's a recovering alcoholic, he's not sure he can be funny without some liquid courage.
Rock's comedy pulls few punches, going after topics of sex, addiction, reality television, and the entertainment industry with what his characters keep calling "rigorous honesty." He's no better of an actor, but he certainly has improved as a writer-director since I Think I Love My Wife. Top Five tends to wander, but you might, too, if you had a sparring partner like Rosario Dawson, who brings an open mind to some of Rock's crazy suggestions. (There's a subplot about her character having a gay boyfriend with an anal fixation. Eventually, it involves a tampon and hot sauce. For real.)
In general, though, Chris Rock hires funny – and often famous – people to fill his cast, and then let's them steal a scene or two. Brian Regan is hysterical as a radio station producer (where we get to see the now-separated Opie and Anthony on screen together, perhaps for the last time). Tracy Morgan gets shit on for his weight. Sandler and Whoopi Goldberg break off fantastic one-liners during a strip-club bachelor party, where Jerry Seinfeld (!!) makes it rain hundreds on strippers.
Top Five is that type of movie. And if you like that type of movie, you should get to a theater, and watch it with friends.


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on 1st review she says she saw traielrs but was shocked to see white people LOLyeah thats believable
I love how if its a bad review, rohan will be like "this person doesn't have any credibility" but if its a good one, it doesn't matter who they are.fact is everyone has opinions. while we want the movie to succeed and be awesome, there's nothing we can do about it if its not good.
I'm getting really worried. Many are saying it's M. Night's WORST film. After seeing Lady in the Water and The Happening, I can't even imagine.
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How To Increase Your Metabolism?
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There are a lot of ways to make sure that you will have the perfect weight, but all of them have anything to do with your metabolism. That is one of the main reasons, why you will have to make sure that you will learn how to increase your metabolism, which one the other hand will lead to loosing all the extra weight that you have. There are a lot of factors that affect the metabolism, like for example the age and the level of some particular hormones in your body. However, you will not be able to control your age and for that reason there are a lot of ways to control the hormone level in your body.
The best way to increase your metabolism is to do some regular exercises. There are a lot types of exercises that you will be able to do, like for example swimming, biking or walking, so you will have to find that one that you enjoy doing. Furthermore, making regular exercises will help you to gain more muscles and also it will help you to get rid of all the extra weight that you have. Another possible thing that you can use to increase your metabolism is to eat more often. Remember that you will have to make sure that you will eat smaller meals, but frequently. Furthermore, there are a lot of healthy snacks that you will eb able to get everywhere and you must make sure that you will eat them, because that is the best way to get rid of all the extra weight.
The key to a successful weight loss program is to control your metabolism. There are a lot of things that you can do that to make that happen, so make sure that you will spend some time searching the internet or simply visit your personal healthcare provider, because he will be able to tell you what you can do to control your metabolism. On top of thus, your body is actually smart & it goes in the survival mode. Because calorie intake has also dropped, body slows metabolism down & you burn lesser calories. Body gets the signal it is in for the lean period & it better conserve the energy until it begins to get normal amount of the calories again. What happens in case your body burns same amount of the calories like it is fed – Nil weight loss. For this reason there is generally short period when you begin the diet when there is the drop in weight, however weight loss slows-down, and then stops & you are then left frustrated as you can't achieve any more weight loss.


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Monday, November 7The CDP Worldwide Mix-Tape Trade 9.
September 2007
Theme - None
February 2008
Theme - Love & Sex
June 2008
Theme - Cover Songs
October 2008
Theme - Catchphrase
March 2009
Theme - The Top 10 Of Everything
September 2009
Theme - Six Degrees
March 2010
Theme - Your New Favorite Band
August 2010
Theme - Three Little Words
November 2011
Theme - The End
Here we go, one last time.
If you want to participate in the final CDP Worldwide Mix-Tape Trade, just give me your name and e-mail address by Sunday, November 13 at 10pm Central Time. No exceptions.
The theme is 'The End.' That's all.
Names will be drawn and you will be further notified on Monday, November 14. Sound off in the comments section, sign up ASAP and enjoy your day.


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Lending Club Launches Business Loans
America's Largest Credit Platform Now Offering Affordable Credit to Business Owners Nationwide
Mar 20, 2014, 08:00 ET
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- With the launch of a new business loan platform (apply at www.lendingclub.com/business), Lending Club (https://www.lendingclub.com), the nation's leading peer-to-peer lender, has officially entered the business lending arena.
"Everyone recognizes that small businesses are an engine of job creation and economic growth, yet their access to capital has been constrained," said Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche. "We look forward to delivering the same customer-friendly, transparent and affordable financing options to small business owners as we have been providing on the consumer side."
Lending Club has facilitated over $3.8 billion in consumer loans since inception, growing at a pace of over $750 million a quarter. Lending Club business loans will range from $15,000 to $100,000 initially, increasing to $300,000 in the future. The loans carry affordable fixed interest rates starting at 5.9% with terms of one to five years, no hidden fees and no prepayment penalties. The application process is simple and available online.
"We designed this product to fit the needs of small business owners," continued Laplanche. "Bigger businesses can get large loans from banks, but smaller businesses are not well served by existing banking products from traditional banks. We believe our technology-driven solution can bring costs down and make credit more available and more affordable to small businesses in America."
Since facilitating its first loan in June 2007, Lending Club has more than doubled annual loan volume each year. By using technology and automating processes online, Lending Club's platform is able to offer more affordable credit to borrowers and attractive yields to investors.
About Lending Club
Lending Club utilizes technology and innovation to reduce costs and offer borrowers better rates and investors better returns. Over $3.8 billion in personal loans have been issued through the Lending Club platform, which has more than doubled annual loan volume each year since launching in 2007. The Company has been prominently recognized as a leader for its growth and innovation, including being named one of Forbes' America's Most Promising Companies three years in a row, a 2012 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and one of The World's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Finance by Fast Company in 2013. Lending Club is based in San Francisco, California. More information is available at: https://www.lendingclub.com. Currently only residents of the following states may invest in Lending Club notes: CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, KY (accredited investors), LA, MN, MO, MS, MT, NH, NV, NY, RI, SD, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, or WY.
Some of the statements in this above are "forward-looking statements." The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "predict," "project," "will," "would" and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. The Company may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in forward-looking statements. The Company does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Information in this press release is not an offer to sell securities or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.
Additional information about Lending Club is available in the prospectus for Lending Club's notes, which can be obtained on Lending Club's website at https://www.lendingclub.com/info/prospectus.action.
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|Population 94,000,000
|Buddhist 52%
|Unreached People Groups 70
|Evangelical Less than 2%
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is located in Southeast Asia on the South China Sea The nation borders China, Laos, and Cambodia. Vietnam has a population of 94,000,000 people, and the official language is Vietnamese. Vietnam is a communistic state that suppresses religious freedom.
Vietnam is situated in the 10/40 window and a nation that spiritually bankrupt and blinded to the glories of Christ. Buddhism is the largest religion, making up over 50% of the population. More than 20% of the population remains unreligious while 11% embrace ethnic religions. Too, ancestor worship is deeply entrenched in the Vietnamese culture.
There remain 70 unreached people groups in Vietnam, with evangelicals making up less than 2% of the population. The church in Vietnam suffers from religious opposition from the government, spiritual darkness that blinds many to the gospel, and limited biblical resources to enable the church to mature.
Sources: Wikipedia, Joshua Project, and Operation World
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Binh B.
Pastor - Vietnam
Binh grew up in a Buddhist home, hating and opposing the Christian gospel. Finally, God broke through in 1995, and after finishing Bible school in 2000, Binh began to pastor... read more
Due H.
Pastor - Vietnam
Due was raised by Christian parents in a tough political and economic situation. After many years of struggling with no good church, he decided to start a church of his own... read more
Chi G.
Pastor - Vietnam
Chi was saved from a background in Catholicism when he was 23. Seven years later he began to serve as a missionary, and now he is pastoring the church that was formed... read more
Giang T.
Pastor - Vietnam
Giang pastors a church in a remote area of Vietnam. Growing up in a home that practiced ancestor worship, he was converted in 2000 through the witness of a friend who had... read more
Danh K.
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Danh was raised by strong Christian parents during a time when Christians were heavily persecuted. He was able to carry out his father's dream of building a place to worship God... read more
Linh C.
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So I heard this stuff about Russell Brand in the news. About how he hates profit and hates capitalism and is a dangerous man.
And I admit, I've never particularly liked his comedy. I liked Despicable Me, which he did a voice in, but that's about the only thing he's been involved with I cared much for.
So I thought I'd rant about "these celebrity bastids who go around telling the rest of us how it's just dandy for the state to redistribute our money, because they figure that they will be exempt, being CELEBRITIES!!! and also right-thinkers and all."
But, in the interest of knowing what I was going to be talking about, I went over to the New Statesman and tried to read the article he wrote, so I could see what he was really saying.
Emphasis on TRIED.
It's a big mess, guys. It jumps around a lot. In it, Brand confesses he's never voted (which immediately makes me give a bit of the stink-eye to anyone fomenting big political change. Okay, okay, that's probably a bit harsh. I admit there have been times I've threatened not to vote in state or federal elections because the choices I had were just so damn bad. And most of my adult life now, sadly, I've voted for the "lesser of two evils" than "a candidate I can really support").
I will say Brand really needs an editor. Or perhaps ADHD medication. I found his arguments really hard to follow. And I admit my comments in the next paragraphs jump around a bit, but it's because there's so much in the article and it's so mixed up that it's hard to organize my thoughts. (I also feel like I may have lost a few IQ points upon reading the article; I don't know)
That said, I think he's more a bit of a pillock (to use UK terminology) than really dangerous; I get the sense he's saying stuff he knows will sound extreme and transgressive and will get a lot of attention. I get the feeling he's upset but doesn't have a good thought of how to do concrete things to help others, other than talking about how bad banks and some corporations are. Somewhere in the mess he elucidates that noooo, he doesn't hate PROFIT (which, I suppose, is good, because one of my questions to him would be, "Well, then, if you hate people making money, have you sold all you own and given the money to the poor?"). But he hates big banks. And ummmm....some corporations. But Apple is pretty cool, except when they are like abusing their factory workers and stuff....
He speaks approvingly of winding up in the center of a "riot." I don't know. Based on the riots I've seen on the news, I'd be terrified for my life to wind up in the middle of one. He speaks of revolution and as I said before, I fear any big revolution (at least in the US and probably also in the UK - heck, perhaps MORESO in the UK) would be more like 1950s China than 1776 America. And, as someone who'd be tarred and feathered as an "intellectual," I have no desire for a Great Leap Forward or a Cultural Revolution.
A lot of people who talk about taking "corporations" down don't really think it through, I think. Do you enjoy growing most of your own food? Dealing with shortages? Having limited choices as to clothing and such? Going back to the kind of third-world, subsistence existence that he saw on his African trip?
Yes, some of the labor practices used by many corporations are awful. Yes, we probably should try to (a) change things and (b) buy from companies that treat their workers better. But most problems like this require solutions implemented over time, not a "BANG SMASH DESTROY" mentality. And not a sitting around and wringing one's hands and going "My fellow man is so blind and so selfish, and I am the only enlightened one"
I will also say the level of crudeness and rude-words that Brand inserts in his diatribe don't really make me any more inclined to listen to what he's saying. Yes, I'm a square and unhip, but you know, there are a lot of us out there who are put off by the use of a slang term for ejaculate in a situation where any other word....or no word at all....would have worked as well.
Brand describes a trip to Africa where he sees the poorest of the poor. Apparently this was not a mission trip or anything with an aid agency, it was tourism. He returned disgusted at his "santized" life....yet the thing is, I see no mention of concrete attempts to help, other than saying "All you lot here should feel very guilty that you sleep in a safe warm house and in a bed."
I may not be able to do much to change policy in my nation. But I can donate money to groups that help with, for example, education of children in some of the poorer nations of the world. Or to groups trying to give help after natural disasters. Or groups helping to improve agricultural practices for subsistence farmers. I realize in the grand scheme of things it may not be much....but no single person can do "much." We can do what we can. I think of the old story about the kid walking down the beach after a storm, throwing starfish back in the ocean, and the man who confronts him: "Stupid kid! You aren't big enough to save all the starfish. You can't possibly make a difference" and the kid throws another starfish back, and says, "I made a difference to that one."
I also think there is a certain sense of individual responsibility. Some of the things Brand is saying give me the sense that he thinks money should be taken from banks and corporations and just given to people, with no expectation that they use that money responsibly or go to work in the future. To quote a late countrywoman of Mr. Brand's: "The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money"
I would much rather choose to give a portion of my paycheck (and I do) to various groups doing work I can support, and whose work I can check up on and withdraw my support from, if, for example, I find there seems to be corruption or abnormally high salaries among those at the top. I cannot do the same with my tax dollars. I am sure some of those are used wisely, but I also am quite sure some of them are going to groups or individuals of questionable desert.
I have no idea if Mr. Brand gives money to charities trying to help with the issues he is concerned about. I hope he does. But it frustrates me to see someone who earns more than I do apparently trying to tell me what I should do with my money, and also implying things should change so there is more governmental control of people's lives.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
I tried, guys
So I heard this stuff about Russell Brand in the news. About how he hates profit and hates capitalism and is a dangerous man.
Monday, October 28, 2013
Presented without comment
(Honestly, it's bad enough having to eat lunch at work without having to carry on a conversation with people. I like my colleagues and all but after 3 lecture classes in the morning, I'm done with talking for at least an hour, thanks)
Thursday, October 24, 2013
something I wonder about....
How does Giorgio A. Tsoukalos (the Ancient Aliens guy) feel about the fact that he's an internet meme?
I can see three possibilities:
1. Ticked off and insulted. Aliens are serious business! People are not believing his research!
2. Laughing all the way to the bank....maybe more people watch the show now because of the meme, and it doesn't matter whether or not he believes the alien stuff
3. Really laughing at his epic trolling of people, because the whole Alien thing is a giant joke he's been playing for publicity
I suppose there's a fourth one, "Meh, it happens when you're famous," I don't know.
I don't watch the show so I don't know how earnestly he seems to believe that every breakthrough technology in the ancient world is the result of alien intervention.
Personally, I'd hate to become an Internet meme/joke, but I may have an overblown sense of dignity or something.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Something I think faculty need
A "Samuel L. Jackson-izer" microphone.
For those times when you need to say something a certain way.
I gave an exam in one class today. As another class uses that room the next hour, and as we have been informed that under some subsection of the new ADA laws we are not permitted to give any extra time on exams unless the student specifically has an accommodation (I suspect that's an over interpretation on the part of the lawyers, but whatever), I had to turf the last few students.
So first, I was polite: "Please finish your exams and hand them in in the next three minutes."
Then, I was less polite: "I need the exams done now. Please hand them in."
Finally, I went and stood near the two people not done and waited. Finally they finished.
But if I had the Samuel L. Jackson-izer microphone, I could SAY into it, "You need to finish your exams now" and the microphone would convert it to "HEY! Finish yo' asses UP and hand in the MFing exam, sumbitches!"
of course, I'd only get to use it once before losing my job....
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
not a football fan
I've heard a bit about the Redskins controversy. I don't know. I get that some Native people are offended by it. I get that a lot of others aren't. Some people are offended by suggestions the name be changed* This is one of the problems about living in the world today - whom do you offend, who is the least horrible person to offend? (Because apparently, there's always going to be someone offended)
(Best joke I heard on this? "Washington Redskins is a name that contains a word that makes a lot of people upset. So they're changing the name to Eastern Virginia Redskins." Heh.)
I don't know. I'm not a football fan, I don't have any Native heritage, so I can't work up an opinion on this. Change the name, don't change the name, I don't care.
Because at this point, stuff like this being news feels like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. There's a decent chance we will default on the 17th, and even if we don't, we're facing huge financial problems in the future, largely from a system that is growing increasingly unsustainable (more people receiving benefits, fewer people who are paying in).
I don't know what real effect a default would have. I've heard everything from "practically none" to "that's the end, better make sure you've pulled out of the stock market, because they're gonna crater and inflation is gonna spike."
I love this country but I really hate what many of the politicians are doing to it. We are a country full of decent, honest, hardworking people. How did we manage to send so many who were not to Washington?
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Early Saturday Mornings
Because I work fairly long hours (my hours are flexible but some weeks they are long when I'm trying to accomplish lots of things), I often use early Saturdays to run errands - gas up the car, buy groceries, do other stuff. This has upsides and downsides.
The upside is places tend to be less busy, and the really annoying people (the people who feel entitled to do stuff like open a bag of grapes, eat a bunch, and then decide they don't want them, and leave them somewhere in the cereal aisle) are generally not out and about. I can get what I need and scram, which is a good day of grocery shopping for me.
(I don't like shopping in general. I like shopping in bookstores and craft-supply stores and antique stores and SOMETIMES shopping for clothes if I'm not rushed and desperate and looking for that one thing I need that will turn out to be on offer nowhere....But usually, I don't like shopping, and I especially don't like grocery shopping)
Anyway. So I ran out first to get gas in the car. I couldn't hold off any longer in hopes that the prices would drop below $3 (apparently some places in the US they have. We're close, but not there yet).
I got cat-called by some guy at the gas station.
Now, this rarely happens to me, as I am of an age, body type, and general standard of modesty that most of the guys who would cat-call don't notice me. But for some reason today this guy did.
Getting cat-called is not fun. I won't say it was scary, though I could see how being cat-called if you were walking alone down a dark street and for some reason didn't have your piece on you for protection could be. This was more creepy and icky and "really, dude?"
Here's a hint to the gents: Very few women, and very few of the kind who make good long-term partners, will respond favorably to a cat-call. (Though then again, maybe the cat-callers are looking for short-term fun, rather than long-term partners, and that's why they do it)
Then at the Wal-Mart, I learned that the surly cashiers work the early shift. I suppose I'd be surly, too, if I were at my low-paying job at 7 am on a Saturday morning and was expected to go to happy-clappy "teamwork" meetings (one was just starting in the Hardware section - they call them for different locataions - as I was heading out of there).
I've also found that the local wal-mart has gotten a lot worse about restocking. Of late, I've not been shopping there as often because I discovered a new grocery store in Next Town Over, and it's really nice, so I've been trying to take the time to get down there as often as I can. But it's an hour's round trip, and I didn't have that kind of time or energy today. So I went to wal-mart. Got the last two cartons of the kind of skim milk I use - usually they had multiples, and actually, the last time I was there, they were out, so I had to get 1% instead. And it's the same on most of the shelves. And I notice their "great value" store brand is replacing more and more of the national brands. This displeases me because I've found the quality of "great value" to be incredibly variable - some of the stuff is okay, some of the stuff is most definitely NOT, and I'm unwilling to experiment and hope that the new stuff replacing, I don't know, Ronzoni or whatever, is.
Also, the yogurt I normally buy? All the cartons on the shelf had already expired. I was going to tell someone but all the workers other than a few checkers were at the "mandatory meeting" and I forgot about it by the time I got to the checker.
It just feels very....I don't know, I don't like the word "ghetto" but it just feels like the wal-mart here in town has stopped trying because they know people mostly have to shop there and don't really have a choice, so meh, whatever, why should we restock the plain yogurt? People can eat the expired kind or go with something else.
I guess it's time to start keeping a better "nonperishable" list and make sure I've checked everything off it when I go to the grocery in Next Biggest Town. Or to use Amazon for ordering some of my groceries.
We really need another large grocery in this town. I doubt we'll ever get it, unless the town swells another 10,000 people or so, but we really need something that's the same size as the wal-mart but that seems more committed to customer service and actually keeping stuff on the shelves. I'd shop there in a heartbeat even if it meant paying more. As much as I can, I shop at the small family-run place here in town, but they're small and don't stock some of the things I need and use on a regular basis....
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
a fantasy of mine
Flipping around last night, I hit on "Extreme RVs," which is one of those Travel Channel programs. Normally, I'm not a big watcher of that sort of thing, but one of the models they were talking about caught my attention.
It's called the Pangaea. It's an offroading RV. Built kind of like a military vehicle - very sturdy, on a high-clearance truck chassis. But what grabbed me was what the spokesperson from the company was talking about - how they designed it for people going "out" for long stretches of time. There's a lot of pantry storage, and lots of storage space for clothing. And a very large water tank; they said on a fill you could get 2-3 weeks worth of time (I have no idea if that included washing, or if things like the greywater was filtered and reused as greywater, or if the toilet were composting/incinerating).
They also didn't talk about how you got electricity out in the boonies. (They did observe it was all-electric, no need for propane). One of the fans of the model noted that "You can just drive until you're ready to pull off, and then you're good." So I'm assuming there's some kind of onboard generator. (I can't imagine a solar panel would generate adequate power via a battery system to do more than run a few lamps - and there's a full kitchen with an induction cooktop and everything).
But I have to admit, that thing taps into one of my big wants - to have the equivalent of a house, a REAL house, with a proper bathroom and kitchen and a place to sleep comfortably and a way to really be out of the weather (unlike in a tent) that I can just drive away to where ever. The idea that I could just pick up and LEAVE, go to the boonies or the deep woods or somewhere when life got to be too much, or when the zombie apocalypse started or when I really didn't want people to find me for a while, is a pretty attractive one for me.
And this thing, it's not just minimal "bathroom, kitchen, place to sleep" - it's pretty luxurious-looking. (And the storage....lots of storage everywhere, because, as the spokesperson said, a lot of their customers want to just go off and not be bothered with going into "town" for a while.
It won't ever be more than a fantasy, though, for me - the thing is multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars (!) I guess that kind of thing doesn't come cheap. But oh, how nice to just be able to go somewhere, anywhere, and have all the comforts of home with me, not have to worry about hotels or finding a place to rent or whatever. (And don't speak to me of "roughing it" camping. That is something I do not do. Pit toilets and gang showers in a wash house are not for me.)
Monday, October 07, 2013
I try to be nice
I guess I do have a "misery magnet." I try to be nice but keep people at arm's length a bit, because frankly, I don't NEED to know everyone's full life story.
But I get some people who just buttonhole me. I've learned that lots of people, especially young women, seem to want to share the details of their mental-health treatment with me. Now, I know next to nothing about the state of the art of "brain drugs," I have never studied anything in that field (there's a reason I became an ecologist and not a medical doctor). And I don't want to know the details as they're often sadmaking and uncomfortably personal.
I know why some people do this: the more people who know about mental health treatment going on, they figure, the less stigma. Yes, I suppose that's true. In a lot of cases mental health issues are biochemical in nature, kind of like type II diabetes has a biochemical component, and there is not much stigma tied to that. (Still, there is some: I have had students claim "If you're fat, you're going to get diabetes, and it's your own fault." Not true- there's a large genetic component, and some have even proposed that in some cases, a virus may be partly to blame)
Other people, I suppose, it's an attention thing. That always makes me uncomfortable, when it is. For two reasons: first, I don't like sharing lots of details of my own personal life with comparative strangers (she says as she writes on the blog...) but also because there have been a lot of times in my life when I might have liked a little attention, to be listened to a little, and there was NO ONE THERE. And it frustrates me to play the role of "comforter" to another when I feel like I may be using up all my emotional reserves and not have any left for myself when I need it.
And frankly, sometimes I'm busy, and getting buttonholed in the hall without any gracious way to say "I really need to scram now" isn't good.
I don't know if this is a small-town thing, or a Southern thing, or what, but I don't remember other places - like when I lived in Michigan - lots of people wanting to share the very personal details of their life with me, and I confess, knowing some of that stuff, hearing some of that stuff, makes me uncomfortable.
I don't know. I want to be compassionate to people, I want to help people. I just wish I had less of a misery magnet. Or a crazy magnet. Or whatever.
Wednesday, October 02, 2013
Based on some of the online commentary wankage I've read, I'm expecting to see a D vs. R civil war break out soon.
I'm well stocked with food and books and other necessities, so I can hide out in my house for a good while and probably avoid the carnage, but....there was discussion earlier this summer about "some percentage of the populace is agitating for an armed rebellion" and my reaction was, "In this day and age, the outcome is more likely to be like China in 1950 rather than the 13 colonies in 1776."
Yes, I'm that pessimistic. And yes, I'm considering ALL the outcomes of the Chinese revolution there, up to and including purges/forced labor of the educated classes.
I realize that's a pretty pessimistic and far-fetched concern, but....it's gonna get uglier before it gets better, I think.


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That time of year has arrived once again – not Halloween, but the selection of Gonzalez Byass' Finos Palmas Collection.
And this time, Spanish wine expert Pedro Ballesteros MW joined Gonzalez Byass' master blender Antonio Flores in Jerez to help curate the selection.
Ballesteros adds his name to list of international critics such as Jancis Robinson MW, Sarah Jane Evans MW and Michael Schachner.
The family-owned collection of Spanish wineries invites international wine professionals each autumn to taste their way through the fruits of its labours and help decide which will make the cut for the Las Palmas Collection.
They aided fifth-generation family members Vicky and Carlos Gonzalez Gordon and Carlos Gonzalez Gordon in tasting over 100 wines, with the very best making the 2017 Palmas Collection.
The wines, Uno, Dos, Tres and Cuatro Palmas have become well respected, and scooped numerous awards since launching in 2012.
'For me, first of all, it an unforgettable lesson in the bodega terroir, which is second to none. The flor yeasts transform the wines in unique unrepeatable ways; each bota is a different ecosystem, amazing!' Ballesteros said.
'Finesse, depth and complexity are the distinctive features of Las Palmas. It's a humbling and highly demanding exercise to spot so subtle concepts in long series of high quality wines. But the results are worth the effort.'
Una Palma is pale gold, sharp and intense with a floe-dominated aroma, dried fruits and a savoury finish. Expert a structured, oxidative style from Dos; powerful and the palate with a lingering finish.
After 10 years beneath the flor, considerably more age can be detected from Tres, with oak, a flavourful palate and a salty, creamy aftertaste.
Finally the Cuatro, an Amontillado Muy Viejo, leads with orange, concealing oak, dried herbs, lacquer, varnish and roasted nuts. Aged for 52 years, it's fino origins shine through with a delicious salty finish.
Uno 15.5% abv, Dos 15.85% abv, Tres 16% abv, Cuatro 21.9% abv; tbc/75cl; 017087274790


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COP21 Update – Thursday, December 3
By the time you read this, we might know whether UN members achieved their self-imposed preliminary deadline of Wednesday evening to have some kind of draft document by Saturday noon. Even working into last night resulted in little progress on some issues. For regular UN watchers this is not new, but it is disappointing because the leaders seemed to give such clear mandates on Monday. The President of the proceedings, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, has the prerogative to take steps to speed things up. Fabius will make a proposal by the end of the week, regarding how he plans to proceed in the second week. Nobody wants a Copenhagen-style compromise agreement.
UNANIMA representatives spent the day attending side events and visiting exhibits, meeting interesting people, networking, and discovering previously-unexplored parts of the huge complex. The first side event was at the Netherlands' pavilion (picture) to hear presentations on the financing of sustainable energy access projects. Since typical investors in most countries expect a return for their money, they tend to give grants to the middle income countries; the poor get about 3% for their projects. Also most energy development money goes for "big grid" projects like dams. The message we gleaned from this event was that—to combine poverty reduction and climate change mitigation benefits–the world would get "more bang for the buck" out of non-grid or micro-grid projects such as village solar, biogas, micro industry, or other small projects. One of the presenters showed data from a pilot study of a
single island in the Philippines; others spoke from their experience from India or granting agencies.One participant made the good point that sometimes we send the technology without the training for sustainability…e.g. the equipment,s use, repair, or long term maintenance, and it becomes useless. Including the training to do those things would actually result in more jobs and prosperity in the long run.
Another side event was on the completion of the review process for the first commitment period of the nations who signed onto the Kyoto Protocol. The whole process lasted about 10 years (2006-2016) even though commitments were from 2008-2012…and was quite laborious. Experts (469 of them!) had to be trained and tested, and 156 were actually used. There were scores of reviews before, during, and after. IT systems were needed for emissions trading (over a million transactions!) but the complicated process seemed to work. Only 6 countries had to be found out of compliance, but all managed to work their way back into compliance. We were wondering—what lessons did they learn In this process that might be useful to track climate change compliance in the future?
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An opportunity has arisen and I am moving on to a new job. I've made this difficult decision after significant consideration and I would like to share with you what will happen at Laurena's Longarm Quilting in the next couple of months.
I am offering the business for sale until February 17, 2017. Please telephone me at (781) 229-0734 if you are interesting in acquiring a flourishing business with a growing clientele of loyal, talented quilters.
Barring a sale, March 18, 2017 will be Laurena's Longarm Quilting's last day of business.
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Future classes are cancelled. If you signed up for classes in January, February or March and have already prepaid, I will refund your class fees.
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LLQ will be open by appointment only, Wednesdays through Saturdays.
Laurena's Longarm Quilting grew from one machine to a multi machine rental and quilting business. The thriving community of machine quilters in the New England area have been the cornerstone of this growth. I'm grateful for the support you've given me over the years.
Wish me well in my future endeavors!