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The hotel began in year 2004, in November 11th, with the desire of becoming the best choice for those who come visit the Southern Patagonia.
It is located in Puerto Natales, just 2 hours to the Torres del Paine National Park, and 2 and a half hours from Punta Arenas, the main city of the Province of Magallanes.
Our staff is professional and are a part of an organized, full and unified structure, with a single goal: to offer the best service possible and being constantly concerned of quality service.
The Hotel offers 12 Twin Double Rooms,
06 Rooms for couples (Queen Size)
04 Triple Rooms, 22 rooms distributed in the 2nd and 3rd floors.
The beds are American Beds by Rosen, Anatom models and dressed with fine cotton.
Also, shower door in the bathrooms. hair dryer, mini-bar, Cable TV, Telephone for National and International calls, central heating and digital safety box.
Wet Pipes for fire security system, emergency stairs and extinguishers for each area. Emergency escape plan and information for each room according its location.
The Hotel offers Buffet Breakfast everyday for up to 50 people.
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I was @ Starbucks in the afternoon with one of my daughter, in line to buy a snack before swimming lesson, and I was asking my little one what she wants to eat. She answers me loudly (I think everyone in the store ear it) : marble pound cake ! Not much to wait, only one woman before us, and the last piece will be for her.
And, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT, this "Barbie with Vuitton" chick order it ! Argggh ! The skinny heartless (fake) blond head didn't hesitate a second. I hope it went straight to her hips ! Luckily, they still have some cake pops and my daughter didn't regret too much her cake. But, come on Barbie, don't take the cake out of children's mouth !
Anyway, I have a great surprise when I came home later. My Blitsy order was there ! I was so happy I went directly to my scraproom after dinner and start a new project with the Tim Holtz stamp I told you about before. It's turning great, and I'm thinking about a new workshop to share it.
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The Bridge Hotel Brandon offers quality accommodation at Brandon, situated in the Thetford Forest and Brecks area. The stunning riverside views from our newly refurbished family run boutique-style hotel with its superior bedrooms and quality stone bathrooms make this a fantastic place to stay.
All seven guest bedrooms are finished to a very high standard each with its own 32-inch flat screen LED TV offering a good range of channels. Our Mattison Monarch beds are the very same ones that are used in the Gleneagles hotel home of G8 Summits and Ryder Cups! You will get a fabulous nights sleep in a quality English made bed with its 1400 sprung pockets in a deep mattress filled with silk and other natural fibres and covered in a luxury Belgian Damask fabric. In our first-year reviews of these beds have been simply stunning! Highest grade Travertine bathrooms are standard in our hotel and the deep pile soft carpeting and contemporary themed decor give each room a pleasing, luxurious and welcoming feel.
Breakfast is served in our riverside conservatory dining room with its underfloor heating programmed to make things warm and comfy while you enjoy your meal. Outside the views of the Little Ouse and the local wildlife in and around it are second to none.
There are plenty of interesting places to visit close by including:
Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
Art gallery of Southwestern.
Please visit our website for more information about our hotel.
Rates: From £69 single occupancy.
From £85 per room per night based on 2 people sharing.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 4:00 AM
with Terrorizer
"History is Philosophy teaching by examples." Thucydides, Athenian historian, c. 460 400 B.C.It's been said that one of humanity's greatest attributes is our desire to remember. In light of the ancient world's epic tales of invasion, occupation, conquest, enslavement, domination, and all-out war, situating history against the equally violent passages of death metal music in such a thorough a...nd reverent way had yet to be achieved until the birth of NILE.With films such as Ben Hur, The Ten Commandments, Land Of The Pharoahs, and Sodom And Gomorrah capturing his childhood imagination and driven by his own insatiable adult quest for unbridled sonic extremity, it was one nation's ancient culture namely, Egypt that fueled NILE founder, guitarist, vocalist, and head archeologist Karl Sanders' passion to learn of Egyptian gods and goddesses, temple carvings, inscriptions, papyri writings, hieroglyphics, and tomb paintings depicting battles, rituals, and religious ceremonies. Luckily, his encyclopedic knowledge has not been desecrated by amnesia. So vigorous did Sanders' zeal grow that it merged into the band's consciousness, elevating NILE into a peerless realm of flawlessly executed music and captivating lyrical content.Formed in 1993 by Sanders, bassist / vocalist Chief Spires, and drummer Pete Hammoura, then later augmented in 1996 by second guitarist Dallas Toler-Wade, NILE's symphonic arrangements unleashed a unique approach to their uncompromising technicality and Middle Eastern-tinged songwriting with their two EPs, Festivals Of Atonement (1995), Ramses Bringer Of War (1997), and their first full-length, 1998's Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka. Rightfully earning themselves a world tour with Morbid Angel and a festival debut at Dynamo Open Air in 1999, NILE were quickly gaining an onslaught of new fans that revered them as one of metal's most devastating new bands. Once home (and with the assistance of drummer Derek Roddy after Hammoura tore his shoulder), Sanders and company began work assembling and arranging the song fragments and ideas that were fermenting while on the road. Every night was spent obsessively researching (the lyrics alone took a year to finalize!), composing, arranging and re-arranging before entering Soundlab Studios in Columbia, South Carolina with producer/engineer Bob Moore to record the result of their meticulous labor: the masterfully grandiose and cinematic Black Seeds Of Vengeance, Terrorizer Magazine's coveted "Album Of The Year" for the year 2000.Relentless touring through the U.S. and Europe followed, and it would be two years before the band would return to work with Bob Moore at Soundlab Studios (with new vocalist & bassist Jon Vesano replacing Chief Spires and drummer Tony Laureano replacing Hammoura in tow) on In Their Darkened Shrines, enthusiastically commended by Terrorizer Magazine as "a hair's breath from perfection" and giving us the live staple "Unas Slayer Of The Gods." NILE joined road forces with Arch Enemy, Napalm Death, Voivod, Strapping Young Lad, Danzig, Opeth, and Superjoint Ritual, made renowned appearances at Italy's Gods Of Metal and Fields Of Rock festivals, headlined in Japan for the first time, came back to the States to tour with Kreator and Vader, then returned to Europe for the X-Mass Festival.Again, the band would rest before committing themselves to recording 2005's Annihilation Of The Wicked with engineer Bob Moore and producer/mixer Neil Kernon (Judas Priest, Nevermore) at Soundlab. Incorporating African choirs and the exotic instrumentations from sitars, tables, tempuras, and kettle drums, the album was summed up best by Guitar World Magazine who branded it "the perfect soundtrack to a blinding, flesh-burning apocalypse." Showcasing the drum talents of George Kollias, Annihilation validated every accolade heaped upon NILE. Tours with King Diamond, then Hypocrisy & Decapitated followed in the U.S.; with Unleashed, Hate Eternal, and
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Congratulations to the Green Bay Packers, who edged the Pittsburgh Steelers, and rode to victory on the crest of three turnovers. Without these turnovers, the contest could have easily gone the other way, but that's what football is all about. You can have the greatest team play in the world, but it is still possible to shoot yourself in the foot with penalties and turnovers. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just the way the cookie crumbles.
I'm always glad to see Green Bay win. It just goes to prove you don't have to enlist the support of a large metropolis to be competitive at the highest level. And not only is the Green Bay franchise given out to a comparatively tiny community, but the team is owned by the city municipality, instead of your usual billionaire tycoon. True, the iconoclast owners can be quite colorful to follow, but variety has its advantages also.
And then there were those lovable commercials. The one that stuck in my mind the most was the McDonald's ad just before the game began. You know the one where the bears turn a car upside down to shake loose the last remaining french fries, while the previous occupants hide in the woods. There were many good commercials during the game, but they kind of got blurred together. The one thing that came through was the large number of movie previews that got filtered into Sunday evening viewing experience. They were definitely fun to watch.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The Adrian College women's soccer team lost 1-0 at Calvin on Tuesday night. Ayverie Giller made five saves in the game for the Bulldogs.
Final Score: Calvin 1, Adrian 0
Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan (Zuidema Field)
Records: Calvin (9-2-0, 6-1-0 MIAA), Adrian (6-4-1, 3-3-1 MIAA)
Calvin scored the game's only goal in the 17th minute of regulation when Abby Koops scored off an assist from Emily Van Vilet. The Knights had a slight edge in shot attempts (5-3), shots on goal (2-1), and corner kicks (2-0) heading into the intermission.
The Bulldogs had a few chances to tie the score in the second half, the first was a header by Mya Oleksiak that was saved by Calvin keeper, Amy Kliewer. The second chance was a shot by Raquel Church that was saved by Kliewer.
The Knights finished with a 13-8 advantage in shot attempts, 6-3 in shots on goal, and 4-2 in corner kicks.
• Kirsten Chambers, Oleksiak, and Chruch each tallied a shot on goal for Adrian.
• Giller saved five of the six shots she faced in the losing effort.
• Mackenzie Wilcox had a team-high three shot attempts.
• Koops had a game-high six shot attempts, five of which were on goal, and a goal.
• Van Vilet had the game's only assist.
• Kliewer saved all three shots she faced.
Adrian will return home to host St. Mary's on homecoming Saturday, September 30. Kickoff time is scheduled for 1:00 p.m., ET.


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We often see advertisements for men with erectile dysfunction disorder. However, it's rare that we see solutions for women who suffer from female sexual dysfunction. It has been reported that approximately 43% of women and 31% of men suffer from some form of sexual dysfunction. According to research published by the US National Library of Medicine, FSD has been significantly less researched and less understood than male sexual dysfunction. The report indicates that FSD research is difficult due to the extensive range of triggers.
How do you know if you suffer from female sexual dysfunction?
If you experience difficulty being aroused or achieving an orgasm after prolonged stimulation, this may be a sign. Sexual pain is also an indication that something may be wrong.
There are three different types of female sexual dysfunction:
- Sexual arousal disorder
- Female orgasmic disorder
A reduction in the intensity of an orgasm, difficulty or inability to climax.
- Genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder
A decrease in libido and a reduction in the sexual pleasure and sexual thoughts.
Pain in the genital or pelvic area during penetration or intercourse.
The Sexual Cycle
Sometimes, a patient may experience dysfunction in one, two or all phases of her sexual experience. If one symptom is treated without another, it may cause further frustration for the patient. For example, arousal is treated, but a woman is unable to reach orgasm. The amount of time spent in each stage differs from individual to individual.
Arousal or desire consists of an amplified interest and response to sexual activity. This leads to an increased heart rate, faster breathing and flushed skin. Nipples will become hardened and blood flow to the genitals will increase; the clitoris will begin to swell and vaginal lubrication will begin.
During plateau, the vagina experiences increased blood flow and arousal. A surge in muscle tension, blood pressure, breathing and heart rate is expected.
The final stage, orgasm or the climax, takes place when you reach the peak of sexual arousal. It typically lasts for only a brief amount of time, a few seconds on average. During this time, involuntary muscle contractions are experienced, and there is a forceful release of sexual tension. There is an increase in blood pressure, oxygen intake and heart rate.
After an orgasm, the body slowly returns to its natural state. The amount of time it takes varies from person to person, and usually increases with age.
Hormonal changes may also cause female sexual dysfunction. When your estrogen levels decrease, this may in turn affect your ability to become sexually aroused. There are several factors at play regarding estrogen levels.
Menopause and Childbirth
After menopause, your estrogen levels decrease, which in turn can lead to a thinner vaginal lining. Nearly half of postmenopausal women experience vaginal dryness. Childbirth may also contribute to a change in hormone levels leading to FSD.
Psychological Disorders
Sometimes, sexual dysfunction can also be linked to psychological disorders. Depression and history of sexual abuse affect a significant number of women who suffer from it. Marital issues can also contribute to a lack of sexual desire, as well as redundant sexual routine.
Cultural Factors
Women raised in cultural environments that don't endorse sexuality or sexual expression may find difficulty reaching sexual arousal due to feelings of guilt or shame.
Drugs or Medication
Certain drugs or medications like antidepressants may cause sexual dysfunction. Alcohol abuse may also be a culprit. Atrophic vaginitis is caused by a thin and dry vaginal wall, which leads to painful intercourse.
Sexual Makeup and Satisfaction
Some women may find a decrease in self-esteem because of body image issues. Sometimes, undergoing certain surgical procedures like a mastectomy may lead to feelings of discontent.
Cardiovascular Disease
It has been reported that 87% of middle-aged women who have previously experienced heart failure will experience FSD, which also leads to a decrease in lubrication. 63% women with a history of cardiovascular disease also reported having difficulty reaching an orgasm.
73.3% of diabetic women report having sexual dysfunction. There is no evidence however, linking diabetic complications to FSD.
Gender Identity Conflict
Counseling is often recommended due to the psychological effects of sexual dysfunction.
Having a high proportion of body fat may lead to a hormone imbalance, which may affect arousal and sex drive.
Gynecologic Problems Leading to FSD:
- Lack of lubrication or thinning vaginal walls.
- Sexual pain disorders such as vaginismus and dyspareunia.
- Endometriosis, where a layer of tissue normally limited to the uterus, grows outside of it covering other organs such as the ovaries, fallopian tubes, bladder or bowels.
- Pelvic inflammatory disease, an infection of female reproductive organs.
- Nerve damage caused by surgery such as a hysterectomy.
Your doctor may recommend treatment depending on your symptoms.
Pelvic Floor Exercises
Pelvic floor exercises, more commonly known as Kegel exercises, help with arousal, lubrication and orgasm. Women, who experience FSD due to childbirth, usually see an improvement with Kegels.
Medical Devices
EROS clitoral therapy device can help with sexual arousal and orgasmic disorders in women. It is normally used for women who struggle with orgasms and arousal.
Lifestyle Changes
If obesity is a factor, weight loss is recommended. Quitting smoking and drinking has also been known as an effective form of treatment.
Behavioral Therapy and Psychotherapy
Women who experience pain during intercourse, or vaginismus may see an improvement with cognitive and behavioral therapy. Psychotherapy aids in eliminating inhibitions and increasing libido.
Female sexual dysfunction is not a widespread problem, and more research is being done to figure out the best methods of treatment. Billions of dollars are spent annually for the treatment of male erectile dysfunction, although more women struggle sexually. Zestra® is a topical oil that works in minutes, designed to help women achieve sexual satisfaction.


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A bored wealthy housewife on the verge of insanity cuts loose with some lively Yugoslavian immigrants who delight in their bohemian lifestyle.
An excellent B-grade euro-black comedy with ABBA tainted esthetics and late-night feature picaresque.
Delightfully strange comedy from Dusan Makavejev about a bored American housewife who lets loose with some Yugoslavian immigrants in Sweeden. I don't think I will forget such highlights as the shovel duel scene or the most creative use of a remote control tank and a dildo that has been committed to film thus far! My only gripes are that the first 30 minutes are a little boring and the 80's synth score can be grating.
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The National Center on Afterschool and Summer Enrichment (NCASE) has created a tipsheet, Summer Learning and Learning Enrichment: Tips for School-Age Care Providers, to share ideas with child care providers of things to think about before, during, and at the end of summer.
This concise, user-friendly tipsheet includes specific ideas for parents around promoting reading and math learning, creating opportunities for learning and staying active, and talking with their child, their child's teacher, and their summertime child care provider to set up for success.
On May 16, 2019, NCASE facilitated a webinar to share strategies and introduced new resources aimed at mitigating and preventing the "summer slide" of lost academic progress that many school-age children exper
This toolkit features more than 50 adaptable tools, sample documents, tip sheets, and guidance on how to use them drawn from five urban districts and their partners, who formed the National Summer Learning Project. It is organized into five planning areas: (1) staffing, (2) site climate, (3) student recruitment, (4) planning, and (5) academics and enrichment.
This issue brief is an interview with researcher Jessica Manta-Myer about an evaluation of the Summer Science Project in 10 elementary school sites in CA. The programs were provided with hands-on curriculum, training, and coaching in STEM. Evaluation showed increased knowledge, skills, and confidence for students, and staff confidence in leading STEM, as well as staff retention.
This issue brief outlines a policy agenda for federal, state, and local efforts that can increase participation in summer STEM learning, with a special focus on girls and students of color who have been under-represented in higher education and in careers.


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The End of Something Beautiful
In January, the oldest convent of Benedictine nuns in the United States (it's in Elk County, PA) announced plans to close:
The convent has 17 remaining members, their ages ranging from 58 to 91. They will move to various other Benedictine residences.
The timetable is yet to be determined, as is a decision about the future use of the property. The sisters own much of the property, while a portion of it is held by St. Vincent Archabbey, a Benedictine monastery in Latrobe, in trust for the adjacent St. Mary's parish, which will continue operating.
"It's certainly a loss for the community and for the Benedictine order," said St. Vincent Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki. "They've been an important part of the Benedictine order for all these years."
The convent traces its roots in 1852 to the immigration of three Benedictine from Bavaria, Germany, who came at the invitation of the St. Vincent archabbot at the time. They have worked through the generations as teachers and in other roles while also living out a life focused on regular prayer and contemplation.
The above advertisement appeared in the local newspaper today. Everything must go. They are even selling the pews from the chapel.
This makes me sad. I just can't tell you how sad.
Maybe there is a chance at rebirth. Peter Berger writes about a couple of new laity-led monastic models in Europe today. Excerpt:
The two stories, both dated September 13, 2014, were put under a heading "The New Monasticism". Story #1, by Liz Dodd, reports further on a development that I had commented upon in an earlier post: the invitation by Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, for a group from the Community of Chemin Neuf to live in Lambeth Palace (his historic residence). This project is now taking on a clearer shape. Chemin Neuf was founded in France in 1973 by the Jesuit Laurent Fabre. Originating in a Catholic charismatic prayer group in Lyon, it has now morphed into an international movement that does indeed propose a new model of the monastic life. Affiliates of the movement live together around a daily practice of communal prayer. In that respect the new model of monasticism doesn't differ much from the classical one. In other respects the difference is radical. There are no vows of permanence, individuals stay for shorter or much longer periods. The mix of people includes clergy and laity, men and women, married couples and singles, Catholics and other Christians. While living in a community, individuals work outside at all sorts of jobs. As of September 2015, twenty individuals will move into Lambeth Palace, and stay for one year. The mix will be much like that of the Chemin Neuf model, though the spirituality will be Benedictine (Welby is a lay affiliate of the Anglican version of that order) rather than Jesuit. The Lambeth experiment will be called the Community of St. Anselm. The name emphasizes its English location, but also the unity of Western Christendom before the great schism of the sixteenth century (Anselm was of Italian origin, a Benedictine monk and one of the fathers of Catholic scholasticism. He was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1033 to 1109).
Story #2, by Riccardo Larini, is about the Community of Bose (a town in Italy), founded in l965 by a Catholic layman, Enzo Bianchi. It is similar to Chemin Neuf in its ecumenical emphasis, though it is closer to the classical model of monasticism in that permanence is assumed. The Community had its origin in the radical student movement of the time and it continues to combine its spirituality with political activism. Its main focus is ecumenical and interfaith dialogue. Bianchi has recently been appointed as an advisor by Pope Francis I. Significantly, Bianchi was a close friend of Roger Schutz, who in 1940 founded the Order of Taize (though it was only called this much later). Schutz was a Swiss Reformed pastor, who during World War II was active in helping Jews escape from Nazi-occupied France to Switzerland. After the war Schutz and a few disciples created a sort of monastery at Taize in the heart of Burgundy. The group developed its own distinctive liturgy, which is congenial to its ecumenical membership—Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox. This too has now become an international order, whose members live and pray together, but disperse into the world in order to work. Taize has become a destination for pilgrims, mostly young people from all over Europe. I was there once, years ago. It is a tranquil place in a hauntingly beautiful landscape.
Take a look at the photo on this AP story about the convent's closing. It's a big place. There is agricultural land attached to it.
Is there anyone who would have the means to make this a Benedict Option community, in which Catholic (and perhaps other Christian) families live together in community, and work in the surrounding area? Are there some faithful Benedictine monks who could move into one part of the huge convent, and let the lay faithful — singles and families — turn the other parts into apartments for common living? They could pray the hours and have mass in the chapel.
Somebody, please help. This Pittsburgh-area building dedicated to prayer and community in the Benedictine tradition cannot be allowed to go. Here is a chance to pioneer new ways of monasticism and Christian communal living. Here is a chance to construct a new form "of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming ages of barbarism and darkness."
Monks of Fontgombault, what say you? Are there any healthy monastic orders who could spearhead this? Are there any faithful singles and families who would be willing to relocate for the prospect of living this way? Share this with the people you know. Let's see if we can get something going.


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We report on what we believe is the first field implementation of a continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) network with point-to-point configuration. Four QKD nodes are deployed on standard communication infrastructures connected with commercial telecom optical fiber. Reliable key exchange is achieved in the wavelength-division-multiplexing CV-QKD network. The impact of a complex and volatile field environment on the excess noise is investigated, since excess noise controlling and reduction is arguably the major issue pertaining to distance and the secure key rate. We confirm the applicability and verify the maturity of the CV-QKD network in a metropolitan area, thus paving the way for a next-generation global secure communication network.
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Shuang Wang, Wei Chen, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Hong-Wei Li, De-Yong He, Yu-Hu Li, Zheng Zhou, Xiao-Tian Song, Fang-Yi Li, Dong Wang, Hua Chen, Yun-Guang Han, Jing-Zheng Huang, Jun-Fu Guo, Peng-Lei Hao, Mo Li, Chun-Mei Zhang, Dong Liu, Wen-Ye Liang, Chun-Hua Miao, Ping Wu, Guang-Can Guo, and Zheng-Fu Han
Opt. Express 22(18) 21739-21756 (2014)
M. Sasaki, M. Fujiwara, H. Ishizuka, W. Klaus, K. Wakui, M. Takeoka, S. Miki, T. Yamashita, Z. Wang, A. Tanaka, K. Yoshino, Y. Nambu, S. Takahashi, A. Tajima, A. Tomita, T. Domeki, T. Hasegawa, Y. Sakai, H. Kobayashi, T. Asai, K. Shimizu, T. Tokura, T. Tsurumaru, M. Matsui, T. Honjo, K. Tamaki, H. Takesue, Y. Tokura, J. F. Dynes, A. R. Dixon, A. W. Sharpe, Z. L. Yuan, A. J. Shields, S. Uchikoga, M. Legré, S. Robyr, P. Trinkler, L. Monat, J.-B. Page, G. Ribordy, A. Poppe, A. Allacher, O. Maurhart, T. Länger, M. Peev, and A. Zeilinger
Opt. Express 19(11) 10387-10409 (2011)
Shuang Wang, Wei Chen, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Yang Zhang, Tao Zhang, Hong-Wei Li, Fang-Xing Xu, Zheng Zhou, Yang Yang, Da-Jun Huang, Li-Jun Zhang, Fang-Yi Li, Dong Liu, Yong-Gang Wang, Guang-Can Guo, and Zheng-Fu Han
Opt. Lett. 35(14) 2454-2456 (2010)


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Focus week is right around the corner. Please go to the website: Focus Week to register. Scholarship is available for those involved in CSF.
God is Love: His love is Unconditional, and His love is very different from human love. God's love is unconditional, and it's not based on feelings or emotions. He doesn't love us because we're lovable or because we make Him feel good; He loves us because He is love. He created us to have a loving relationship with Him, and He sacrificed His own Son (who also willingly died for us) to restore that relationship.
The Bible tells us that "God is Love" (1 John 4:8). But how can we even begin to understand that truth? There are many passages in the Bible that give us God's definition of love. The most well known verse is John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." This is an amazing love, because we are the ones who choose to reject God, yet it's God who mends the separation through His intense personal sacrifice, and all we have to do is accept His gift.
God's unconditional love may be a difficult truth for our human minds to grasp. But love is the Lord's very essence, and He is the source from which all true love flows. There are no restrictions, no limitations, and no exceptions to God's love. God's care for us is absolute and genuine, and through creation, He has unmistakably declared that love (Rom. 1:20). But in His most powerful proclamation of all, He sent His Son to die for us, so that we could enjoy His loving presence for all eternity. If you have not yet received Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior,we invite you today to surrender your life to Jesus. It is the best decision that you can ever make in your life. Jesus will restore YOU and give you a brand new life, filled with hope, joy and love.
The Christian Student Fellowship at IRSC –Chapter of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship/USA
CSF is a community of IRSC students who share the desire to:
1. Know God more personally
2. Grow as devoted disciples of Jesus Christ
3. Share God and His love with others at IRSC.


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All eyes on FBI chief as Russia, wiretap claims swirl
FBI director James Comey will be in the hot seat Monday facing lawmakers who accuse him of stonewalling Congress, as they demand answers about Donald Trump's potential Russia ties and the president's extraordinary accusation of wiretapping by his predecessor. The two explosive issues have preoccupied Republicans and Democrats alike for weeks, robbing Trump's administration of a smoother rollout and raising uncomfortable questions about possible collusion between Trump associates and the Kremlin. Comey will testify before the House Intelligence Committee at an open hearing aimed at investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election campaign.


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Morbid Curiosity
Jamaican Posses: High-Rise Horrors – Noted by police in Toronto in the early 1990s, posses have names like Striker, Spangler and Shower, and have ties to New York, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Washington, and other American cities where they exercise absolute, murderous control of the crack-cocaine trade.
Other gangs of young people aren't so organized, but use the term posse as a scare term, particularly in large Toronto apartment complexes.
Apartment complexes are appealing to posses because they house large numbers of youths, who are a ready-made market for the $20 to $60 "rocks" of crack the posses sell.
The posses smuggle in guns – especially 9 mm automatic pistols and the small submachine guns seen in many Hollywood movies – from the United States via the same route as the cocaine cooked up for crack.
The Toronto police have countered by recruiting Jamaican-born police officers who can understand the Jamaican patois picked up on wiretaps.
The posses are noted to be hard-core criminal gangs, born in the depressed areas of Jamaica and nurtured on free-enterprise drug markets. Membership is confined to Jamaicans, and each posse confines its members to Jamaicans – "Yardies" – from a particular geographic area, all of whom know each other.
Often, gangs use impoverished women as expendable couriers – "mules," in drug parlance. Typically, the posse supplies a rental car, train, or bus ticket to New York to the woman. There cocaine is picked up and smuggled back over the border. Air tickets to Jamaica or Florida are provided for women who are lured by the promise of a holiday.
See also: Robert Blackwood, Christopher "Dudus" Coke .
Jaworski, Doug: Big Sting – The tiny private airstrip in rural Burtts Corner, New Brunswick, looked just right to the Colombian drug barons.
The Medellín cocaine cartel planned to use rural New Brunswick as a North American distribution base in the late 1980s, and the plot was approved by cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, reportedly the world's richest criminal.
Instead, it became the site of the largest cocaine seizure in Canadian history. Unknown to Escobar and his workers, Doug Jaworski, the man who they thought was buying the tiny airstrip for them, was actually an undercover agent for the RCMP , directed by Insp. Wayne Blackburn.
Jaworski was one of only a handful of non-Colombians trusted by the drug lords. He sold many of them airplanes from a dealership he ran in Florida. He delivered planes to Colombia, and gradually got to know key cartel figures. They were impressed with his quick mind regarding technology, and he helped them with cellphone scramblers and wireless fax machines and was able to show them how a plane might find seams in radar systems to avoid detection. Eventually, however, Jaworski flipped and agreed to turn on the cartel in exchange for $200,000 and an agreement by U.S. authorities not to prosecute him on tax charges.
He told authorities he had previously earned between $300,000 and $400,000 from the Medellín drug cartel for "illegal activities" between 1984 and 1988. He said the cash was payment for ferrying drugs, selling and maintaining aircraft, and laundering "millions" in drug profits through Swiss banks.
Jaworski helped the cartel adapt to modern technology, like how to use portable FAX machines, multibranch banking, cellular phones, and transmitters that detect police bugs.
Now, the drug lords wanted him to study any weaknesses in Canada's ability to track airplanes off its East Coast.
While working undercover for the Mounties, Jaworski helped organize a shipment of five hundred kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to New Brunswick. Backroads of rural New Brunswick had been used by bootleggers during Prohibition, and now the Colombians planned to use them for cocaine.
In April 1989, Blackburn and a crew of Mounties were hiding in the snow as the first drug plane to attempt to land in the Maritimes brushed a tree, then touched down at the secluded airstrip.
Not long after the pilots were jailed, the cartel sent up a hit team to free the jailed pilots. One of them later told police the cartel "intended to kill the informer, his wife, and cat and dog," even though Jaworski was in witness protection.
The hit team was captured because of an alert gas-station attendant – also a moonlighting newspaper reporter – who called police about a van full of suspicious men.
Jaworski's knowledge of internal cartel operations was so extensive that he was questioned by U.S. authorities who were preparing a drug-trafficking case against former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega, and West German police tapped him for help in putting together a money-laundering trial involving cocaine that was hidden in shipments of pricey artichoke hearts.
He also helped American authorities prep for a trial involving the cartel's reputed "finance minister," Eduardo Martinez Romero, who was extradited from Colombia on charges of laundering or conspiring to launder $1.2 billion of cartel drug money.
Seized airplane in New Brunswick
Seized cocaine
The RCMP rated the potential risk against people on a scale from zero to seven. Jaworski, had a 6.5 security rating, just 0.5 below that of American President George Bush and the Pope and 1.5 above Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
Fears that the Mounties were abandoning Jaworski's parents drove the family to take their case for protection to the Supreme Court. Jaworski had threatened to sabotage the case from the witness stand unless he felt his parents were adequately protected and compensated for their losses in the case. The 1990 case was so sensitive that it caused the only secret hearing in the history of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Probably Jaworski's strongest Canadian critic was Sydney Leithman, the Montreal lawyer for convicted Colombian cartel members and other underworld notables, including Mafia leader Frank Cotroni and Claude Dubois of the infamous Dubois brothers. Leithman slammed Jaworski in court as a liar, criminal, and a "tarnished and paid informant." He also accused Jaworski then of having "a giant-sized ego," and said he was "flippant, arrogant and insulting."
For his part, Jaworski was unapologetic, saying he did Canada a service with his role in the sting. Police never had any evidence against him, so he could have just walked away, he said.
As Jaworski was beginning life under a new identity, the Mounties scrambled in June 1991 to assess the damage of one of his RCMP bodyguards, who they worry acted as a double-agent for the cocaine cartel. The officer under investigation faxed in his resignation and fled Canada for Portugal shortly after the May 13, 1991, contract-style slaying of Leithman, who had apparently taken on a huge retainer and then didn't deliver in court. The murder remained unsolved.
Meanwhile, Jaworski's old cartel friend Caycedo was also reportedly murdered in Colombia.
See also: Sydney Leithman .
Jodoin, Claude: Too Close to the Story – He grew up in east-end Montreal, studied law at McGill University, then chose a career in journalism. In 1967, two years after he began his reporting career, Jodoin met Claude Dubois, who was well on his way to becoming one of the province's most feared criminals. The two men became friends, a bond that would influence both of their lives.
Jodoin was making $120 a week as a reporter, and crime was a hot beat. This was a time of "New Journalism," when reporters were often encouraged to live the beat they were covering. Jodoin found himself growing closer to Dubois, who was moving up in the Montreal underworld.
The Dubois family became a household name in 1975 when the Quebec Crime Commission inquiry into organized crime described Claude and his eight brothers as the driving force behind a bloody war for control of underworld activity in Montreal.
Around this time, Jodoin was sacked by Le Journal de Montréal for becoming too close to the mobsters. He got a job running two bars for his underworld friends.
Police couldn't find anyone to testify against the Dubois brothers in court until November 1980, when Donald Lavoie, a self-admitted underworld hit man, came to them. Lavoie, forty-two, had just narrowly escaped an attempt on his life, and was seeking police protection. He told police – and later admitted on the witness stand – that he was a hired gun for the Dubois brothers for ten years, plotting several killings and personally gunning down so many people that he had lost count.
Local underworld figures were panic-stricken when Lavoie started talking. Some went into hiding and others plotted revenge.
"I didn't like what I was hearing," Jodoin told the Globe and Mail in 1982. "Some were talking about murders to shut Lavoie up, including the killing of women and children. I was getting in deeper and deeper and they were asking me to do things I didn't want anything to do with. I had to get out."
Finally, he contacted police, who needed someone to corroborate Lavoie's testimony about the murders of Richard Desormiers and Jacques-André Bourassa. Both men were connected to mobster Frank "Santos" Cotroni and both were slain at a Montreal nightclub in 1973.
With Jodoin's help, prosecutors were able to lay murder charges against Dubois and two of his associates nearly nine years after the killings.
For this, police gave Jodoin $4,000 when he began working with them, then weekly payments of $400, to a maximum amount of $25,000.
Before the murder trial, Jodoin worked for eight nerve-racking months as a double-agent, feeding information to police after meeting with underworld figures. "Dubois thought I was helping him build his defence, when in fact I was doing just the opposite," Jodoin recalled.
When the trial was over, and Dubois was convicted, his former friend Jodoin retreated far from Montreal, where he lived under the constant protection of bodyguards. "I'm not nervous about the prospect of being killed [by the underworld]," Jodoin told the Globe and Mail . "If it's going to happen, then it's going to happen."
But life in protective custody has other drawbacks. Jodoin moved "somewhere in the country in a prison without bars.… All I see out in the country is trees. I'm getting to hate them. I'm a city boy. I'd rather look at buildings."
See also: Dubois Brothers, Claude Dubois, Donald Lavoie .
Johal, Bhupinder "Bindy": Gang-War Victim – This B.C. gang leader was involved with co-defendant Peter Gill in the longest criminal trial in Canadian history. The trial was better known for the publicity around Gill's liaison with juror Gillian Guess than for the outcome, when Johal, Gill, and others walked free after being charged with hits on alleged gangsters Ron and Jimmy Dosanjh.
Johal was gunned down in a crowded Vancouver nightclub in December 1998. At the time of his murder, he was facing charges for the kidnapping of the younger brother of a rival gang leader. Johal's next-door neighbour had earlier been shot dead while walking his dog, and police believe he was mistaken for the drug dealer.
See also: Ranjit "Ron" and Jimsher "Jimmy" Dosanjh, Peter Gill, Gillian Guess .
Johnston, Bill: Accidental Patriot – A pirate by profession and a patriot by accident, Johnston was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, on February 1, 1782, and his family settled in 1784 in Bath outside Kingston. He worked as a farmer and merchant before finding his niche as a smuggler on the St. Lawrence River, where the Thousand Islands offered (and offer) countless hiding spots from authorities.
In the War of 1812, when he was suspected of smuggling goods to the American enemy, Johnston's property was confiscated and he was jailed in Kingston. He escaped from custody and, livid over the loss of his property, offered his services to the Americans as a spy and raider, using his six-oared boats to attack boats on the St. Lawrence. He also robbed mail coaches on land.
When the war ended, he settled in New York in the community of French Creek, which later became known as Clayton, New York State. Ostensibly, he was a merchant, but French Creek was a notorious smugglers' roost, and Johnson looked every inch the river smuggler, with six pistols and a Bowie knife tucked into his belt. He did his illegal work from a twenty-eight-foot, twelve-oared boat that could hold twenty men, and was light enough to be hauled overland.
When rebellion broke out in Upper Canada in 1837, rebels hoped for help from Americans, and Johnston the pirate found himself with the grand title of "commodore of the Navy in the East" for the rebel side. With a cloak of respectability from American authorities, Johnston terrorized the waterways, and in July 1838, Lady Durham, wife of the Governor General of British North America, travelled up the St. Lawrence and wrote to Countess Grey, "Our voyage by the Thousand Islands has been most prosperous, no appearance of Pirates or ill-disposed persons, but we heard afterwards that Bill Johnston, the most dreaded of these robbers, had been very near us."
It was around this time that Johnston became involved with the Hunters, a patriot lodge whose members used secret signs to identify themselves and swore oaths "to promote republican institutions throughout the world." Johnston took part in an ill-conceived effort by the Hunters to invade Canada through Prescott, Ontario, in November 1838. Their plot – and boats – literally ran aground, and Johnston surrendered to Canadian authorities near Ogdensburg, New York, on the condition that he could give his six pistols, twelve-shot rifle, and Bowie knife to a son.
Again he bolted from custody, but he was recaptured and tried in Albany for murder and piracy. Found guilty, he received a one-year sentence and a fine of $250. Six months into his term, he escaped yet again, and rather than being punished for his crime, he was granted a pardon by American President William Henry Harrison, who fought in the War of 1812.
Johnston's final years were spent in French Creek. He owned islands in the area, which he called Ball, Shot, and Powder. He died in French Creek at age eighty-eight, on February 17, 1870.
Jones, Frank – See Sam Kelly .
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The Q104 / Fees Kompany Pledge for Pets RadioThon raised over $80,000 over the weekend. Allan Fee, Glenn The Funny Song Man, Carley McCord and Woody The Producer hosted a live broadcast from 6am - 6pm on Friday and 10am -4pm on Saturday. Listeners called into the show with their donations.
This is the 9th year the show has hosted the fundraiser for The Cleveland Animal Protective League. "This is a very special event for everyone involved." Fee said. "The people here perform miracles every day. We need to do all we can to help."
Fees Kompany will host "TEQUILA FEST" this Saturday, May 10, 2014 at ZOCALO on East 4th Street in downtown Cleveland.
The event runs 1pm - 5pm and will feature several tequilas available for tasting.
This is the second fourth year the show has hosted the event.
2nd Annual Danny Parmertor Memorial Fundraiser
Date: Saturday, March 1, 2014
Time: 6pm-midnight
Location: LaVera Party Center, Willoughby Hills, Ohio
Tickets: 1 ticket per couple, includes 2 dinners is $125, or 1 ticket for a single person, includes 1 dinner is $75
You can support this event by:
• Offering a donation of your products or services
• Making a monetary contribution
• Placing a patron advertisement in our event program
CLICK HERE to view information about our 2nd Annual Danny Parmertor Memorial Fundraiser. Please note there will be an open bar, and therefore, the event is 21 and over only. Thank you.
The Chagrin Falls Park Community Center is bringing back Allan Fee to host its Monte Carlo Night on Saturday, February 8, 2014 from 6pm - midnight.
Try your luck at the blackjack table, or take a spin of the roulette wheel. Be a winner in your community at this fun packed benefit. An evening of casino-style gambling, raffle items, heavy appetizers and drinks with proceeds benefitting the Chagrin Falls Park Community Center.
Sun Valley Banquet Party Center
10000 Edwards Lane
Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44020
Tickets are $50 per person pre-purchase and $60 at the door.
For more info call 440-279-8184 or www.chagrinfallspark.org
Allan Fee is set to host a Browns tailgate / clambake at Billys Martini Bar in Mentor, Ohio. The "Mini Muni" is coming up this Sunday, October 20th beginning at 10am.
The Browns play an away game at Green Bay.
"These people know how to throw a party!" Fee said. "With the Browns on a roll, it will be an awesome event!"
The $25 tickets must be purchased in advance of the event. For reservation and ticket info, call 440-585-8815.
Billys Martini Bar is loacated at 7338 Industrial Park Blvd, Mentor, Ohio.


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4 Things Your Doctor Wishes You Knew About Enlarged Prostate
Chances are, you don't know much about an enlarged prostate and what it might mean for your health. If you're a man nearing or over age 50 and have had problems urinating, it's time to visit Mississippi Urology Clinic to see if you're dealing with an enlarged prostate. This condition, also called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), tends to be easy to diagnose and treat.
If you're worried about BPH or think the diagnosis sounds concerning, here are the four things your doctor wants you to know about what it means to have an enlarged prostate.
1. An Enlarged Prostate Isn't Usually A Big Deal
Your prostate is a small gland found below the bladder and in front of the rectum and is part of the male reproductive system. In its normal state, your prostate should be approximately the size of a walnut. As you age, it can slowly increase in size, reaching roughly the size of a lemon in an enlarged state, usually after turning 50. Although receiving a diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia might sound scary, one of the most important words in the name of the condition is benign, meaning it's not cancerous. Typically, if it's treated, it does not cause serious health problems.
2. BPH Is Treatable
Depending on your diagnosis, most cases of BPH are treatable. Some patients experience a minor case of BPH, where simple observation by one of our doctors is sufficient. Your condition can be monitored and left untreated if it does not pose a threat to your health or if it doesn't worsen. Other patients may experience a slightly more severe case and need treatment. At Mississippi Urology Clinic, we have a variety of treatment plans available depending on your individual health as well as the severity of your condition. The physicians of Mississippi Urology offer the UroLift® System for the treatment of BPH. UroLift® offers a minimally invasive approach that lifts or hold the enlarged prostate tissue, which in turn no longer puts pressure on or blocks the urethra. In addition to medical treatments, you might also need to make lifestyle adjustments like reducing alcohol and caffeine consumption, especially before bedtime.Want To Learn More? Book An Appointment.
3. BPH Is Extremely Common
With BPH, the question you should ask is if, not when, you will experience this condition. Almost 50 percent of men between ages 51 and 60 have BPH, with that percentage reaching 90 percent once you're older than 80.
4. BPH Shouldn't Be Ignored
Yes, it's common and it's not usually very serious, but that doesn't mean you should ignore it. If left untreated, it can cause discomfort while urinating, difficulty emptying your bladder, a long-term reduced capacity to store urine, kidney damage, or bladder infections. Diagnosing BPH is usually fairly simple. It can be found during a routine rectal exam, a urine test, or blood tests. You should come in for an exam if you're experiencing any of the common symptoms of BPH, which include having trouble urinating, straining to urinate, feeling the frequent and sudden need to urinate, or generally having less control over your bladder.
If you find yourself nodding along to this list, then it's time to make an appointment with Mississippi Urology Clinic. Our team of doctors has the experience, resources, and equipment needed to diagnose any of your urology needs.


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We have a warehouse of about 850 square meters, located in the industrial estate the Pañoleta, just behind the back of the PEUGEOT concessionaire and next to the HIERROS VELEZ.
The polygon has very easy access from any place from which you come:
- From Torre del Mar and the center of Vélez-Malaga, by the avenue Juan Carlos I.
- From the zone of inside of the Axarquía, by the highway of the circumvallation.
- From the railcar, or sense Málaga or Almeria, in the exit of Vélez-Malaga, following the indications of industrial estate.


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For some high net-worth individuals, an estate could be subjected to federal estate taxes prior to beneficiaries receiving their inheritance. Although the current estate tax exemption is $5.49 million ($10.98 million for couples), those who have accumulated significant assets may face an estate tax up to 40 percent. There are strategies that can help help to protect your loved ones from these tax burdens when you pass away, however.
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Family Limited Partnerships
A Family Limited Partnership or FLP is a type of limited partnership that is formed among members of a family. Generally, a limited partnership is comprised of general partners, who control management and are personally liable for partnership obligations, and limited partners, who are passive investors and have no liability beyond their capital contributions.
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A Myanmar activist holds a portrait of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi at a protest in Bangkok last year. AFP
It will be a very big problem for us, as they asked us to obey a constitution that we cannot accept."
US calls election law 'disappointing'
KUALA LUMPUR – Myanmar election laws that bar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from standing in polls this year are not what the United States was hoping for, US envoy Kurt Campbell said Wednesday. "I think it would be fair to say what we have seen so far is disappointing and regrettable," Campbell told a press conference during a visit to Malaysia, part of a tour of Southeast Asia. Campbell reiterated calls for the release of Suu Kyi, who has been detained for 14 of the 20 years since the military junta annulled 1990 elections which her National League for Democracy (NLD) won in a landslide. "We stand by our continuing statements about having her released and playing an active and full role inside the country," he said. "We want her to play an active role in the political life of the country going forward." The US has led calls from governments and human rights groups for the Myanmar junta to ensure the credibility of elections planned for this year by making the process fair and inclusive. "We would like to see steps taken by the government to encourage domestic dialogue in anticipation and in advance of the elections," Campbell said. AFP
via CAAI News Media
Thursday, 11 March 2010 15:02 AFP
US swift to condemn enactment of new law that effectively bans her from leading her own party in upcoming elections
YANGON – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces expulsion from her own party and is barred from standing in elections this year under the military government's new election laws unveiled Wednesday.
In a move swiftly branded "disappointing and regrettable" by the United States, the regime said in a law printed for the first time in state newspapers that anyone serving a prison term cannot be a member of a political party.
Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) – which won Myanmar's last elections in 1990 but was stopped from taking power by the junta – would in turn be abolished if it failed to obey the rules.
The Nobel Peace laureate was sentenced to three years' jail in August over an incident in which an American man swam to her lakeside home. Suu Kyi's sentence was commuted by junta supremo Than Shwe to 18 months under house arrest.
"I have noticed that we have to expel Daw Suu. Their attitude is clear in this law," NLD spokesman Nyan Win told AFP, using a respectful form of address to refer to Suu Kyi.
"I was extremely surprised when I saw this. I did not think it would be so bad."
The Political Parties Registration Act also gives the NLD just 60 days from Monday, when the law was enacted, to register as a party if it wants to take part in the elections, or else face dissolution.
"The NLD also needs to reply clearly, but I cannot say how we will respond," Nyan Win said.
Critics have dismissed the polls, which Than Shwe has promised to hold at a still-unspecified date this year, as a sham aimed at legitimising the military's nearly five-decade grip on power.
The 64-year-old Suu Kyi has been in detention for 14 of the the 20 years since the previous elections.
She was already barred from standing as a candidate under a new constitution approved in a 2008 referendum that stipulates that those married to foreigners are ineligible. Her husband, British academic Michael Aris, died in 1999.
"What I can say now is the law is meant to safeguard the constitution. It will be a very big problem for us, as they asked us to obey a constitution that we cannot accept," Nyan Win added.
The new law effectively also prevents more than 2,100 political prisoners from taking part in the elections.
It also explicitly bars people from any religious order – including Buddhist monks – and members of the civil service from standing as candidates.
Monks led mass anti-junta protests in 2007, which the regime suppressed with the loss of at least 31 lives.
The act is the second of five laws to have been enacted on Monday ahead of the polls, for which the junta has given no date but which are expected to be in October or November.
The first law stipulates that the regime itself will hand-pick members of the electoral commission.
Aung Din from the US Campaign for Burma, which uses Myanmar's former name, urged worldwide action in response to the new laws.
"Now, the ball is in the court of the United Nations, United States and the international community, who have been repeatedly calling for the regime to make an inclusive, free and fair election," said Aung Din.
Win Min, a Myanmar analyst based in Thailand, said party law was in some ways more of an attack on the NLD than on Suu Kyi.
"Than Shwe does not want the NLD to run for the elections. And it will be very difficult for them – they need to expel Aung San Suu Kyi and the other detained members, and they need to agree on the 2008 constitution," he said. AFP


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The countdown has begun. My big girl turns 6 in March, and she has been talking about her Octonauts birthday party since… last March. The pressure is on. There is a lot of planning, a lot of designing and a lot of crafting to do. But I have the first step down, coloring pages!
I always like to have coloring pages set out at birthday parties because it gives kids something to as they wait for others to arrive. It also seems to calm them down, at least a bit, focusing their energy on an easy activity.
In honor of our eight Octonauts, I rounded up 108 Free Octonauts coloring pages. (BTW – no I won't be printing out all 108, I'll let the birthday girl pick a dozen or so of her favorites.)
- 79 coloring pages available from DisneyJunior.com (not to mention online games my daughter loves)
- 13 coloring pages available from BBC.com
- 14 coloring pages available from Octonauts.com
- 2 activity packs (preschool and kindergarden) 1plus1plus1equals1.com
There will be more to come about the party, but for now you can follow my Octonauts Pinboard on Pinterest for inspiration. And check out our favorite Octonauts toys.
Sound the Octoalert!
Planning an Ocotnaut Birthday Party? Get ideas for decorations, food, crafts and more from my daughter's Ocotnaut Birthday Party.


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The Rotarian
Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
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- Arthur D. Batten
The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Flying Cross to Captain Arthur D. Batten for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight as an EB-66 Electronic Warfare Officer for the 42nd Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron, Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, from 8 July 1968 to 7 June 1969. During this period, Captain Batten provided electronic countermeasures support for fighter, bomber and photo reconnaissance aircraft, allowing them to operate in greater safety and with increased success. He also flew numerous electronic reconnaissance missions during which he gathered vital intelligence on the hostile fire control and ground control intercept radar net. While constantly exposed to the threat of ground fire and fighter attack, Captain Batten accomplished these missions in a highly courageous and exemplary manner. The professional competence, aerial skill and devotion to duty displayed by Captain Batten reflect great credit upon himself and the United Statea Air Force.


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Though hunting is an enjoyable sport, a large number of people suffer from injuries because of mishandling firearms, or because of negligence or improper use of firearms. Therefore, if you choose to go on a hunting trip, there are certain tips that you should follow to prevent any dangerous or fatal injuries caused by a firearm. It is important to know the kind of responsibility required to handle a firearm, and remember to treat your weapon with care.
The first tip is to recognize the weapon you hold. The first step is to break your rifle, piece by piece, and go through all the parts of the rifle. This will allow you to know how the rifle works, and will tell you important details about your weaponry system. Furthermore, you will be able to detect any flaws or irregularities in the gun, saving yourself from serious injury later. While training, ensure to use the rifle you normally employ, so as to perfect your skill and your aim with a specific weapon.
The next step is to make sure your weapon is blank if you are not planning to shoot. It is extremely dangerous to carry a loaded gun, so keep the artillery in a separate packet while hunting. If you are planning to go to a new location, make sure to remove the bullets from the gun before you leave. While traveling, make sure to never carry a rifle with bullets inside in your vehicle – if you get pulled over, it becomes dangerous to carry a loaded gun in your car.
While hunting for a target, make sure that you can see the target in plain sight and in clear view- do not shoot at a target if your aim is blurry, or if the animal is covered. While hunting, make sure to never track down a target after twilight or before sunrise – it is recommended to go on a hunting trip during the day, when you will be able to see your target clearly and with precision.
While carrying your weapon, treat it as though it is a loaded weapon. Make sure to carry your weapon properly – look up videos on how to properly carry your gun across various forms of terrain.
Finally, make sure you go hunting with a clear mind. It is important to be able to focus fully on the hunting trip and on your weapon, it is important to concentrate on the situation at hand. If you have a troubled mind and are distracted during the trip, you might cause an accident or an injury without realizing your actions.
Ready Aim Firearms Safety was incorporated in 2011, and is fully sanctioned by the Chief Firearms Office of Ontario. This company provides firearm training and firearm safety courses, to ensure that those dealing with firearms are properly trained to do so. By providing their services to the Greater Toronto Area, the company is able to ensure that people remain safe at all times, even with a loaded gun at hand.


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Greece Coast Guard Rescues 59 Migrants
Greece Coast Guard Rescues 59 Migrants
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greece's coast guard rescued 59 migrants in an inflatable dinghy in rough weather in the Aegean Sea early Wednesday, the coast guard said.
The migrants were picked up off the eastern island of Kos by two patrol boats. They were among a total of 147 people who arrived on three islands in the 24 hours between Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning.
Of the others, 44 reached the small island of Kalymnos and the remaining 44 were picked up by the coast guard from another inflatable dinghy off the island of Lesbos.
With many islands close to the Turkish coast, Greece has been the main entry point into the European Union for hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees hoping for better lives in Europe, especially in the continent's more prosperous central and northern nations.
An EU-Turkish agreement and Balkan border closures have severely reduced the flow of people through the country this year. Under the deal, new arrivals on Greek islands face being returned to Turkey unless they successfully apply for asylum in Greece.
The measure has left more than 57,600 people stranded in Greece. More than 10,700 of those are on eastern Aegean islands, many living in overcrowded conditions in camps that have long surpassed capacity, particularly on the islands of Chios, Lesbos and Samos.
The aid group Save the Children says those stranded on the islands include about 3,800 children, and has warned that women and children are living in "demoralizing and unsafe conditions."


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by Jerick Anonuevo
The only junior softball captain on the Galileo varsity team this year, Rachel Su Ang has proven to be worthy with her great show of skill and leadership on the field. Starting at left field since her freshmen year, last year, Rachel helped lead the lions to the semi-finals with an 11-5 record last year. This year she hopes the team will make it to the championship game.
The coaches & players believe that Rachel is well suited to be a captain. Head coach, Mr. Lance Cossey says, "Rachel shows great leadership. Another reason why I chose her is because I wanted a junior varsity captain and it was her."
Rachel started playing softball at Marina Middle School, where she fell in love playing the game, especially when it came to competing against old friends. Her transition to high school softball though was tough at first. "Middle school softball is less difficult than playing at the high school level. High schools pitch the ball really fast and who wants to get hit by that," says Rachel.
One of the things that has helped Rachel achieve success in softball is her physical stature. At 5'7" she has the advantage on defense to catch balls without jumping so high. Offensively she said, "I was told that taller people have an easier time hitting the ball farther, and for me that's been true."
However Rachel knows that she still has a lot of work to do. She wants to continue to get faster, both in running the bases and in her reactions on the field.
As far as individual goals, last year Rachel made all-city second team in the AAA, but hopes, before she graduates, to make all-city first team.


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BYOD … or bring me your questions! It's all good.Posted: April 25, 2015 Filed under: assessment, evidence-based teaching, teaching & learning, technology | Tags: BYOD, Long read, technology 1 Comment
About a year ago, I switched from using clickers in my classes to a web-based classroom response system (CRS) – Lecture Tools – where students bring their own internet-enabled devices (BYOD), as I've mentioned here before. After three terms, I am generally happy with the system as a replacement for clickers, and I'll likely talk more about that later.
This is a rather rambly account of something small I tried that worked out. I'm hoping that it might be of use/interest to other folks (or, at least, maybe some of the references will be). Oh, and it has a bit of my philosophy on class attendance. (I'm sure you were curious!) Read the rest of this entry »
The tenacious myth of preferred learning stylesPosted: January 10, 2015 Filed under: academia, evidence-based teaching, higher ed, teaching & learning | Tags: cognitive science, learning, learning styles, myth, teaching 1 Comment
Learning styles (the idea we each have a preferred style, such as visual or auditory, and that those should be catered to for effective learning) are a myth. This shouldn't need to be said again. Other people have said it well. (You can skip below for a list of references.)
But it's a tenacious, popular myth. I understand how attractive the idea is … when I was a neophyte graduate student in a TA training workshop, I remember the satisfaction of completing a learning styles inventory (like this: http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/LSI/LSI.htm & this: http://www.learning-styles-online.com/inventory/ & this: http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/learning-styles.shtml & I really need to stop because this is just irritating me …) and figuring out that I was a "kinaesthetic" learner. Of course! Of course, I was a science grad student, and this made sense! We do experiments! I learn by doing! (I didn't think about the fact that I could probably have found a rationale for being a "visual" learner …) It was an easy way for me to think about my learning! And to justify why I didn't perform so well in some courses … those ones were not tailored to my learning style! (Woe to those poor nasal learners … )
That was back in 1994.
Now there is ample evidence that teaching towards preferred learning styles does not seem to actually help people learn. Even trying to reliably categorize people into preferred learning styles is fraught with issues. Meanwhile, many teachers/professors and students waste time and energy on this, efforts they could be directing elsewhere. (Check out the book "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning" by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel for a good overview of what we DO know about teaching/learning based on recent cognitive science research.)
More evidence of benefits from increased course structurePosted: November 27, 2014 Filed under: assessment, evidence-based teaching, higher ed, introductory science, Journal club, teaching & learning | Tags: Active learning, Biology education, Long read Leave a comment
Sarah L. Eddy and Kelly A. Hogan (2014) recently published a paper "Getting Under the Hood: How and for Whom Does Increasing Course Structure Work?", a nice example of the next wave of discipline-based educational research (DBER) that goes beyond asking "Does active learning work?" to explore details of how active learning interventions actually work, and differential impacts on sub-populations of students. Here, Eddy and Hogan describe their results of a study based on the work led by Scott Freeman at the University of Washington (see Freeman et al. 2011, Haak et al. 2011).
Thinking (and reading) about gradingPosted: July 4, 2014 Filed under: assessment, evidence-based teaching, higher ed, Journal club, teaching & learning | Tags: Assessment, grades, Higher education Leave a comment
I just finished my intersession course (yay!), and am trying to catch up on some reading. Schinske and Tanner's "Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently)" paper, recently published in CBE-Life Sciences Education includes lots of good stuff: a brief history of grading in higher ed, purposes of grading (feedback and motivation to students; comparing students; measuring student knowledge/mastery) and ending with "strategies for change" to help instructors who want to maximize benefits of grading while reducing the pitfalls. There are many interesting points and suggestions in this paper, and hopefully it will be one of the ones we discuss in an upcoming oCUBE journal club meeting.
In the meantime … anyone else want to chat about some of the stuff discussed in the paper? <:-)
Schinske, J., and Tanner, K. 2014. Teaching More by Grading Less (or Differently). CBE-Life Sciences Education 13(2): 159-166.
Test question quandary: multiple-choice exams reduce higher-level thinkingPosted: August 13, 2013 Filed under: assessment, biology, evidence-based teaching, introductory science, Journal club, teaching & learning | Tags: Assessment, Biology education, Bloom's Taxonomy, Higher education, Long read, Multiple-choice, Research blogging 2 Comments
Last fall, I read an article in CBE-Life Sciences Education by Kathrin F. Stanger-Hall, Multiple-choice exams: an obstacle for higher-level thinking in introductory science classes. (CBE-Life Sciences Education, 2012, Vol 11(3), 294-306.) I was interested and disturbed by the findings … though not entirely surprised by them. When I got the opportunity to choose a paper for the oCUBE Journal Club, this was the one that first came to mind, as I've wanted to talk to other educators about it. I'm looking forward to talking to oCUBErs, but I suspect that there are many other educators who would also be interested in this paper, and some of the questions/concerns that it prompts.
The study:
Stanger-Hall conducted a study with two large sections of an introductory biology course, taught in the same term by the same instructor (herself), with differences in the types of questions used on tests for each section. One section was tested on midterms by multiple-choice (MC) questions only, while midterms in the other section included a mixture of both MC questions and constructed-response (CR) questions (e.g., short answer, essay, fill-in-the blank), referred to as MC+SA in the article. She had a nice sample size: 282 students in the MC section, 231 in the MC+SA section. All students were introduced to Bloom's Taxonomy of thinking skills, informed that 25-30% of exam questions would test higher-level thinking*, and provided guidance regarding study strategies and time. Although (self-reported) study time was similar across sections, students in the MC+SA section performed better on the portion of the final exam common to both groups, and reported use of more active study strategies vs. passive ones. Despite higher performance, the MC+SA students did not like the CR questions, and rated "fairness in grading" lower than those in the MC-only section. (I was particularly struck by Figure 4, illustrating this finding.)


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Ramp closure, lane reductions of 417 today – and watch for deer on back roads
Lots of potential traffic snarls out there today – some of them cute.
The city's traffic centre is warning that the ramp that leads from March Road westbound to Hwy. 417 eastbound is closed for construction until 7 p.m. The highway is also reduced to one lane in each direction at March Road.
The eastbound Hwy. 417 is reduced to one lane between Anderson and Rockdale roads until 2:30 p.m. for more construction.
Taking back roads to avoid the snarls? Watch for deer like the adorable fawn tweeted by one area resident.


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Brutal Trade-Deadline Travels
In terms of the baseball news cycle, the trade deadline — which passed less than a week ago, you might recall — is officially old news. But, as Wilmer Flores and the New York Mets very accidentally and very effectively reminded us, the trade deadline always has been and always will be a group of real-live human beings subjected to a gauntlet of some of the most mundane and anxiety-producing ordeals of the modern age: pursuit of a new residence, extensive travel, nagging doubts about one's job performance.
While their trades are old news, more than a few of the players who were moved at the deadline no doubt have their heads still spinning from the unexpectedly grueling calendar that befell them. If their performance has faltered, may they have our sympathy — and if it has not, may they have our further admiration:


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Pro-Mod Series
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Orthodontics is a branch of dentistry specializing in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of jaw, face and bite irregularities (malocclusions*). Orthodontic treatment is provided by an oral health care provider known as an orthodontist, who has completed two to three years of additional training beyond dental school.
Recent years have brought about many changes within the dental industry, specifically with regards to orthodontic treatment and care. Now more than ever patients are experiencing fewer incidences of cavities and missing teeth due to the heightened awareness of fluoride use and preventative dentistry. This increasing awareness on the health and look of a patient's smile has fueled the desire for many to seek out orthodontia not only as a medical necessity, but for cosmetic reasons as well.
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*Malocclusion is the technical term for teeth that don't fit together correctly. Malocclusions not only affect the teeth, but also the appearance of the face. Most malocclusions are inherited; however some are due to acquired habits such as thumb sucking and tongue thrusting. The spacing left from an adult tooth being extracted or an early loss of a baby tooth can also contribute to a malocclusion.
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