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It's been a while since our last blog post. Where have you been? …you may ask and what have you been doing?
Well we haven't been on a long holiday (although that would be nice!) but it's been a bit like those little ducks swimming in the river – you know, calm on top, feet swimming furiously below. We've been researching, using our imaginations and thinking about what we can do to transform digital recordkeeping because it's an issue that's been troubling us for a while. We are very pleased that we can finally let you know what we've come up with and that some BIG changes are coming, so strap yourselves in for the ride!
Digital recordkeeping transformation
You may know that our mission in life is "to ensure the public records of Queensland are made, managed, kept and preserved for the use and benefit of present and future generations." Now that may not sound very exciting to you but for us that's a BIG deal and we want to make this happen for the benefit of all Queenslanders.
We see significant opportunities to improve recordkeeping across the Queensland public sector and to shift the focus from paper to digital records.
Public records form the cornerstone of democratic government. They are critical to good decision making and to delivering on ours rights as citizens to public scrutiny of those decisions. In this day and age, public records are more likely to be born digital. We also know that there are lots and lots and lots of them being created every day and we don't necessarily know what to do with them. How do we capture them, how long do we keep them, how do we access them and when do we get rid of them?
Over the next 12 months we will be working on some critical projects to transform digital recordkeeping – and we need you, our recordkeeping colleagues to be involved and help shape the future. Here's what you can expect to see in the next few months.
Minimum requirements
It's an ambitious goal to transform digital recordkeeping. One of the first things we will be looking at is replacing the current Information Standards 31 (IS31) and 40 (IS40) with new minimum requirements. The new minimum requirements will be more relevant and practical, and we hope will stand you in good stead for meeting the challenges of digital recordkeeping.
Keep an eye out as this project progresses and how you can get involved.
We know you like to talk so now you can!
We've launched the Community of Records and Information Management (CORIM) online forum.
The CORIM forum is an informal, collaborative online environment you can use to connect and collaborate with your colleagues about government recordkeeping issues, challenges and achievements. Got a question about your EDRMS that someone else might be able to help with? Ask CORIM. Want to know what others are doing about digitisation? Post the question to CORIM.
Sign up here so you can stay informed.
Public Records Act review
We all know and love the Public Records Act 2002 but like the information standards it's been around for a while. It's time for a review and a serious think about whether it still does what we want it to do i.e. ensure the preservation, management and accessibility of public records particularly in the digital age.
In the New Year we will be taking a long hard look at our Act and asking you for your views on what it should be, what it should cover and whether it meets the needs of Queenslanders and government. We'll be launching a discussion paper that asks all these questions and more so stay tuned for its release. We'll keep you posted about when you can expect to see it.
Disposal of source records
We've been working on a project to replace the Digitisation Disposal Policy and Toolkit for a while now. Some of you have been involved in helping us shape the source records disposal policy and for that we thank you. When it comes out it's going to look a bit different but don't worry we'll step you though it with guidance and advice. You could always post a question to CORIM for an answer! (Shameless plug!)
A Client Services Charter
Our government clients are a very important part of what we do at QSA so we've developed a client services charter to outline the service commitment we make to you. It gives you an idea of what you can expect from us and what we would like to see from you. We're all in this digital recordkeeping challenge together, so let's work collaboratively and see what we can achieve!
You should by now have received QCN, our new newsletter for government clients to keep you updated on projects and events and provide you with useful tips and advice on records and information management. If you haven't received your copy sign up here
What next?
So even though we've been a bit quiet, as you can see, we've been working on quite a few initiatives and we'd really like to hear what you think. Are we on the right track? Or do we need to change tack? Your thoughts and ideas are really important so do let us know because this effects all of us and our recordkeeping future.
You will hear a lot more from us in the coming months as we publish more blogs about our initiatives and keep you up to date through the newsletter. We'll be asking you for your help as we try to solve some of the big digital recordkeeping challenges and look to you to share your knowledge with your colleagues.
As you can see – we're definitely back!
Josephine Marsh
Director Government Recordkeeping


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A bird sitting (ok standing) on her eggs. She had laid the eggs on some grass in the middle of a parking lot, so I hope that they survive.
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I really hope the eggs survived. It would be so devastating if they did not. 62days- That is really off it though.

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Quick Gameplay Thoughts: June 30
Morning all, Lighter post today, lot of work on long term stuff not ready to be talked about going on right now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Usual Disclaimers** These posts will often contain talk about future work we're doing, or planning to do, that isn't yet guaranteed to ship. The nature of the work could change or, depending on what we discover, projects mentioned may get put delayed or even stopped. If you'd like to see a Tweet whenever a new one of these posts goes up: https://twitter.com/RiotMeddler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Diana** As you'll see on the PBE today we're continuing to explore Diana changes in testing. Those aren't intended to be a full fix for Diana's issues (we still expect to do a small update to her gameplay at some point), but are instead intended to put her in a better spot until then. We think it's likely the eventual direction for Diana includes auto attacking as a meaningful part of her kit, so one of the things we're looking it is ways to make that higher impact later in the game. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Garen** Speaking of champions we're doing smaller stuff on now and plan on giving larger gameplay changes later, Garen's in the same boat this patch. We're testing a W change where it's got a short window where it's much more effective when first cast. Goals there are to both give him a bit more power but also a bit more skill expression, with the timing on that cast mattering more. Garen's always been difficult to balance for different skill ranges and part of that's because his kit doesn't give the same degree of reward for mastery over many of its elements that other champs do. This won't fix that by itself of course, but expectation is it'll help somewhat and we'll look for similar changes for the larger changes coming later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Warded Ping** Is still coming, looks like 7.15 at this point (another casualty of that shorter than usual 7.14 development cycle, with other engineering work that's higher priority pushing it back a patch). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **No Posts Next Week** Due a combination of 4th of July having us out of the office and some other stuff going on I won't be able to do these posts next week. Next one should be on the 10th or 11th of July as a result. One thing worth watching out for next week though's that we should be getting a more regular series of Runes posts going, starting next week, with a goal of showing off at least a new thing or two each week until close to pre-season when the full system hits the PBE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Kayn/Darkin** Non gameplay sidenote, but wanted to call out that a bunch of us, myself very much included, have very much enjoyed the ongoing discussion about what the deal is with the Darkin based off the new info associated with Kayn's reveal, including speculation on future possibilities, whether any other Darkin are already in the roster besides Aatrox etc. Some theories that are pretty out there, or speculative, and some ideas that are pretty accurate. Makes for fun reading.
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"So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing"
It was dark by 6 pm, but pitch black by 7 pm. At first I read a few pages of a book by flashlight. When that got exhausting I played with the flashlight by creating different shapes in the shadows with my one free hand and voices to go along. I amused myself for a while. This power outage brought into sharp focus how dependent we are on electricity – being without tv, smartphones/tablets, and especially the Internet is hard. As I relaxed in the dark I imagined what people did before the days of radio, tv, and Internet to entertain themselves.
After a while I caught myself smiling. Why did I feel so happy though I couldn't go anywhere or do anything? I was brain exercising. I was reciting stories and songs I learned as a child; "What a wonderful world" by Louis Armstrong came to mind so I belted it out loud as if I were back in the 5th grade in my elementary school auditorium with my music teacher on the piano; then I was in my neighborhood park jumping rope, swinging on metal swings with my friends, eating 50 cent ice pops. I thought of people I hadn't seen in years, I wondered how they are? I thought of some people I need to check up on, send cards to, or visit. I made a mental list. Finally, I remembered a few good things that I have been blessed with. All these memories and thoughts brought me joy; that's why I was smiling.
In the still of darkness I sat still long enough to remember the beauty of living. In spite of the daily chaos that comes with life, if you pause long enough and disconnect from the news, social media, tv shows…you may come to realize the beautiful moments you've lived through, the memories you've created, each person who left a footprint in your life. I'm sure there are some great ones you could share. Take time to do so. There's nothing like the human connection.


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It took a year longer than it should have, but Justin Winch of SmithStag LLC finally got access to the public records he sought: the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau's financial records from 2000 to the present. And what he found was alarming.
The New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau spends up to $4.5 million in taxpayer dollars – half the amount allocated by the citizens of this state to the organization already for "tourism marketing" – on salaries for its CEO and multiple Vice-Presidents and other executives. There is no guarantee that the tax money generated by this bill would actually go to "tourism marketing", for which the tax payers are already providing millions of dollars.


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Event Reminder: Brazen Careerist Event Tonight
Just a reminder that we're participating in our second free Brazen Careerist Speed Mentoring Event tonight at 8PM ET. We were very excited to see that we were featured in Their Ultimate Guide to Finding the Perfect Career Coach this week!
For information on how Speed Mentoring works, check out our post on the first event.
And while we're talking reminders, don't forget about our webinar this Thursday, February 17th at 7PM on 12 Career Assessment Steps for 2011. RSVP for login information.
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Soundcheck: Memories, Destiny Unbound, Blues Jam
SET 1: The Sloth, Paul and Silas, Stash, The Squirming Coil, The Landlady > Fluffhead > Sparkle, It's Ice > I Didn't Know > David Bowie[1]
SET 2: Tube > Divided Sky, Cavern > The Mango Song > Chalk Dust Torture, Take the 'A' Train, You Enjoy Myself, Golgi Apparatus
ENCORE: Sweet Adeline[2], Rocky Top
SET 1: Carolina[1], The Sloth, Bathtub Gin, You Enjoy Myself, The Squirming Coil[2], Caravan[1], The Lizards, Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg, Bouncing Around the Room[3], Reba, Tela > La Grange, Lawn Boy, Esther, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
ENCORE: Harry Hood
SET 1: The Oh Kee Pa Ceremony > Suzy Greenberg > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu, AC/DC Bag, Punch You in the Eye, Rocky Top, Bold As Love, The Mango Song, The Lizards, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove
SET 2: Split Open and Melt, Take the 'A' Train, Divided Sky, Bathtub Gin, Funky Bitch, The Ballad of Curtis Loew, David Bowie, Undun[1], Alumni Blues > Letter to Jimmy Page > Alumni Blues, You Enjoy Myself, Harry Hood
SET 1: You Enjoy Myself > I Didn't Know, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Esther, The Sloth, Possum, Bold As Love, AC/DC Bag, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, David Bowie
SET 2: Donna Lee, Suzy Greenberg, Contact, Fire, Harry Hood, Golgi Apparatus > Slave to the Traffic Light, Divided Sky
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March 27, 1993
25 years ago
Warfield Theatre
Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: The Squirming Coil, Carolina
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[2] Fish on trombone.
[3] All Fall Down signal in intro.
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Forex Trader Sidekick - The Tool every Forex Trader needs !
Forex Trader Sidekick is a free windows software program made for all of you who trading forex and want a quick reference to real time forex market hours of Tokyo, Sydney, London and New York forex markets. This Program also offer the following features .
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Forex Trader Sidekick v 2.0 Released.
This progarm offers Realtime forex markets hours and other features like Economic calenders, Charts, Market News etc.


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Artist: John E. Bannon
City/State : Arlington Heights, Il
Sculpture: Universe (kinetic & light based)
Artist Statement:
This piece is a contemporary myth of the universe personified as a being projecting likenesses of himself. The reflections account for the movements of galaxies and repetition in heaven and nature.
Artist bio
Born in 1966, and living in Chicago, John E. Bannon is a multi-media visual artist whose work is seen in public and private collections worldwide. Education: BFA, 1990, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign; MFA, 2002, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibitions: Ken Saunders Gallery, Chicago; Truck Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada; Lollapalooza Festival, Chicago; Chicago Sculpture Exhibition; Fassbender/Stevens Gallery, San Francisco/Chicago; Center of Contemporary Art, Miami; Glass Art Society, Seto, Japan; Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Ft. Myers, FL; Glass Art Society, Hain-Chu City, Taiwan. Publications: The Chicago Public Art Guide and CTA Public Art. Collections: Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority; Rowan University, New Jersey; Chicago Transit Authority HQ; Clune Construction, Chicago; Cellular One, Baltimore. Awards: IAS, Grant Illinois Arts Council; CAAP Grant, Chicago; Governor's International Arts Exchange Program Grant, IL; Travel Grant, Fuji Hunt.
Material: Sculpted foam with armature and covered with epoxy and fiberglass, mirrors, painted steel.


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My mate Dave, who I've been doing some acid/techno stuff recently, has always wanted to make use of a huge sample/rant from the film 'Network'.
I then used the basis of the tune to enter a competition on the x0xb0x forum, to win another x0xb0x kit. I obviously had to remove the sample, but the tune won the competition! 🙂 Since I finally finished building the x0xb0x yesterday, it's definitely time to post the winning tune for your listening or downloading pleasure.
Paradigmx networkacid by Paradigm X
The original version with the sample needs a bit of work, but will be posted too, hopefully with a nifty bit of video editing.


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Virtual hosts, PHP and MySQL on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
A couple of weeks ago when I posted Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard improves accessibility I mentioned that I hadn't yet been able to get hold of a copy of Leopard to try the new features out for myself.
Well, later that week I decided to give it a try, so I went out and bought myself a copy along with a new hard drive so I could clone my current disk before installing Leopard. And that proved to be a very good thing.
Relying on my previous experiences of upgrading to a new major release of Mac OS X I decided to play it safe and use the Archive and Install option. I wanted a "clean" OS without having to create a new user and reinstall everything.
Archive and Install has worked fine for me before, but not this time. I'm not blaming Apple or anyone else for the trouble I had, but I think others may find themselves having similar problems, so describing my problems and what I did to work around them will hopefully be of help to someone.
First try: Archive and Install
As I write this I am running Leopard again, and this time everything seems to work properly. I say again, because after running into too many problems after my initial install I thanked myself for taking the time to make a bootable clone of my hard drive before installing.
Getting a working setup back was just a matter of visiting the Startup Disk panel in System Preferences and switching to the clone. A reboot and I was back to where I was before I started, except for one thing that I'll get to shortly.
The web development-related problems I had were these:
- The hostnames for my development sites were gone
- My Apache Virtual Hosts were gone
- PHP didn't work
- MySQL didn't work
The above were serious enough that after spending many hours trying and failing to get my local web development stuff up and running again, I told myself to get over it and switch back to Tiger. So I did.
When I told my colleagues at work about this I was met with surprised looks and "Well I didn't have any problems. Everything works fine for me. I just inserted the Leopard disk and upgraded." It turned out that the difference was that they had all picked the default Upgrade option instead of choosing Archive and install. That's what I got for trying to be smart.
Not really wanting to leave that brand new copy of Leopard on my shelf to collect dust I decided to try it again, but just upgrading this time.
Preparing for the second try: cloning a disk used by Time Machine
To prepare for the upgrade I wanted to clone my Tiger disk again, and that gave me my next headache: Time Machine. Immediately after installing Leopard the first time I was foolish enough to switch on Time Machine and let it make a full backup of my Leopard disk. Making backups is good after all. But not if you later decide to make a clone of the disk that is used by Time Machine, even after you have rebooted into Tiger.
I deleted a visible folder called "Backups.backupdb" that Time Machine had created, and I thought that was where all the Time Machine data was stored. Apparently not. I tried cloning the disk with Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper!, and both got stuck when they tried to copy a hidden folder called ".HFS+ Private Directory Data".
Reluctant to delete this folder without being sure that it was harmless I tried cloning everything else, but that also failed. What I did in the end was delete (in the Terminal) these files and folders:
.HFS+ Private Directory Data
I'm not sure that deleting the
.fseventsd folder is necessary, but as far as I can tell it is a Leopard thing, and I wanted to get rid of all traces of Leopard from this disk, so delete it I did.
After that scary episode of deleting files I wasn't sure that I should be deleting I verified that everything seemed to still be working OK and breathed a sigh of relief. I was then able to clone the disk with Carbon Copy Cloner without any further problems (other than it taking an hour and a half).
I suppose wanting to clone a disk with Time Machine data on it is a somewhat unusual situation, so perhaps there won't be many others who run into the same problem. Just in case someone does, knowing that deleting these files and folders fixed the issue for me without causing any apparent problems might be helpful.
Disclaimer: In no way do I guarantee that doing this is safe. If you delete the files and folders mentioned here and end up losing valuable data, do not blame me. If there is data that you cannot afford to lose on the disk, make sure you have a reliable backup.
Second try: Upgrade and web server configuration
A quick couple of reboots to verify that the clone really worked and I was finally ready to install Leopard again, this time without doing an Archive and Install.
The upgrade went smoothly, and after about half an hour I had rebooted into Leopard with no noticeable problems. So far so good. Time to get my development sites up and running again. To do that I had to do a number of things.
- Create a hosts file. I previously used Netinfo Manager to handle hostnames for my development sites. There is no Netinfo Manager in Leopard, so I had to reenter all hostnames into the
hostsfile. It's easy though – all I had to do was open
/private/etc/hostsand add the hostnames I need, using the same format as the hosts already in the file.
- Enable PHP. By default PHP is disabled in Leopard, so I had to uncomment the line
# LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.soin
- Tell Apache where my sites are located. Since I like to keep my sites in a different location than the default
/Library/WebServer/Documents, I had to add a new
<Directory>block to
/private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf(I could also have edited the default).
Copy my virtual hosts. Virtual hosts used to be configured in
/etc/httpd/httpd.conf, but Leopard comes with Apache 2, where virtual hosts are setup in
/private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. To enable virtual hosts I uncommented the line
# Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.confin
I then copied my
<VirtualHost>blocks to
/private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf, but the virtual hosts didn't work until I enclosed the DocumentRoot paths in quotes (""). As far as I can tell from the Apache 2 documentation, that shouldn't be necessary, so I'm not sure why I had to do it. Either way, adding the quotes made it work. The
NameVirtualHostdirective in my
httpd.conffile had an argument of
*instead of the
*:80that was in the
httpd-vhosts.conffile, so I had to change that as well.
- Tell PHP where the socket for MySQL is. I had to open
/private/etc/php.iniand change
mysql.default_socket =to
mysql.default_socket = /private/tmp/mysql.sock.
- Increase PHP's memory allocation. When I tried to access one of my sites I got a
PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted, which means PHP has run out of memory. The default is 8 MB, which I increased to 16 MB by changing line 232 in
memory_limit = 16M.
- Restart Apache. While going through this I restarted Apache several times, but once is enough if you do it after making all of the above changes:
sudo apachectl graceful.
Not too bad once you know what to do. It can take forever to find all the info though, so when it's time to upgrade my office machine I'll only need to revisit this article to find everything in one place.
After all of that, I finally have a Leopard install that I can use for Web development.
I got the info I needed to get my install of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard working properly from various sources, including the following:
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Since August 2013, the Kingdom Diversity initiative at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) addresses two issues: raising the voice of diverse cultures and of women on its campus.
Bruce Ashford, provost of SEBTS, said, "At the cabinet level, we began to discuss how we in the seminary community could best reflect God's love for His world and best minister to our given context.
"In order to do so, we need for our seminary community to reflect the future kingdom, which will be composed of worshippers from every tribe, tongue, people and nation … To be able to minister to multiple cultures and ethnicities in the United States that God has sent us, we need to have stakeholders from those cultures and ethnicities – such as non-Anglo faculty members – who speak into the life of our seminary helping to shape our curriculum, our courses and our campus environment."
Toward that end, Southeastern hired Walter Strickland, special advisor to the president for diversity, Edgar Aponte, director of Hispanic leadership development, and two female faculty members, Denise O'Donoghue, assistant professor of ministry to women and Adrianne Miles, assistant professor of English and linguistics.
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Walter Strickland works as Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary's special adviser to the president for diversity.
Strickland said SEBTS is trying to equip "each faculty member to apply the content of their discipline to contexts beyond their own, as well as draw upon the cultural experiences in the classroom to enhance the 'reach' of the course content."
This will be done through faculty development workshops and curriculum reform. SEBTS believes its faculty will assist students to better serve people who do not share the same ethnic and cultural background.
The school has added "Black Theology" (January 2014), "Hermeneutics in Spanish" (January 2014), "Reaching Hispanics Around the Globe" (January 2014), "Ministry in an Urban Context" (Summer 2014); and expects to add "Multi-Cultural Church" (Spring 2015) to its course content.
Southeastern wants to raise historically underrepresented voices on campus by working to be comprised of 20 percent culturally diverse faculty, staff and students. Currently, 26 percent of the students are women and the seminary is seeking to increase that number to at least 35 percent by 2022.
Outside of the school's parameters, SEBTS's goal is to build and strengthen partnerships with diverse churches, church networks and educational institutions.
This means being a servant to Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) churches as a resource to help foster diversity within the church and the broader denominational environment.
"Diversity itself is theological … In the doctrine of creation, God created … multiplicity – a profusion of variety – so theologically, there is value in diversity. Period," Ashford said. "The unity-in-diversity we see in the Trinity is reflected in the unity-in-diversity we see in creation."
Recently, SEBTS awarded 23 individuals with Kingdom Diversity scholarships, a fund established to honor president, Daniel Akin. These gifts range from nine full-time, 13 part-time and one $1,000 partial scholarship. Seven scholarships were awarded on the doctoral level, 10 on the master's level and six on the collegiate level.
"On average, students of color tend to be more financially in need and Southeastern seeks to help relieve the financial burden of ministry preparation," Strickland said. "These scholarships are another way to demonstrate that the recipients are valued on Southeastern's campus."
The individuals receiving these scholarships come from Central America, Korea and the Dominican Republic. They represent a variety of cultures such as African-American, Asian and Hispanic.
Eight of the scholarships were awarded to women and 15 to men. Two of the most sought after scholarships went to African-American and Hispanic women, one pursuing a doctor of education and the other a master of divinity.
In an article at ChristianityToday.com, Strickland said, "We are simply more comfortable [with] people who are like us. The challenges that thwart meaningful relationships between diverse believers are real, but by God's grace and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, God's people are enabled to display His redemptive power by simultaneously embracing and transcending the differences that enrich the tapestry of the Kingdom."


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Yale in New York kicks off season with The Legacy of Paul Hindemith
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Yale School of Music opens the 2013-14 season of YALE IN NEW YORK with THE LEGACY OF PAUL HINDEMITH on Friday, November 22, 2013 at 7:30pm in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall.
At once an innovative composer and theorist and a passionate educator, Paul Hindemith(1895–1963) served on the Yale School of Music faculty from 1940-53 and left behind a spirit of invention and exploration that remains at the heart of Yale's program. The Legacy of Paul Hindemith commemorates sixty years since the composer's stay in New Haven and fifty years since his passing, with a program focusing on composers, faculty, and students who have felt this profound influence.
The Legacy of Paul Hindemith is a follow-up to last season' Yale in New York concert, "Hindemith: Master and Prankster," which showcased the humorous side of the composer's early works. This fall's program features several Hindemith compositions from diverse chapters of his life. His quartet for four horns, written at Yale, will be introduced by jazz horn pioneer Willie Ruff ('53BM, '54MM), who studied under Hindemith and performed in the composition's first read-through. Two earlier works from the celebrated Opus 24 will be heard as well: Kleine Kammermusik for wind quintet, and the jazz-influenced Kammermusik No. 1 written for flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, harmonium, piano, string quartet, and percussion.


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This month, we hosted five training webinars for Church360° Ledger. Watch the videos below to learn more about core features of the software.
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How to Reconcile Transactions
Editing Transactions
It's bound to happen: You're adding a transaction, you make a typo, and you don't realize it until after you have saved the transaction.
When we developed Church360° Ledger, we wanted to make it easy to correct mistakes but difficult for anyone with ill intentions to manipulate actual transactions. We came up with a solution: give users an experience of changing a transaction, but create a new offsetting transaction in the background.
Writing and Printing Checks
Writing Checks
- Click "New Transaction" and select "Check."
- Enter the Memo of the check. This is optional but is highly recommended for reference purposes.
- Choose the date of the check. This should be the date that you print the check.
- Select your payee. If this is a new payee, type their name and the payee will be created. You can add contact details later.
- Enter your check number. This is optional as well. If you don't know the check number, leave it blank and it will be auto-generated for you at the time of printing.
- Choose your asset account. The list will only show any Asset accounts that have been selected as checking accounts.


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Welcome to America
Welcome to America, where…
We gain weight and just buy bigger clothes.
We run out of money and use credit cards.
We run out of space and get storage units.
Thankfully, we are no longer separated by race, color or creed… but instead united in the fact that we are all lifelong consumers.
We buy expensive laptops with hundreds of features but all we use them for is to get on the internet.
Where a man who has to pay for a $2 dollar soda with his credit card gets more respect than the man who pays for it with dimes and nickels.
We get our teeth whitened because we're too busy filling our mornings with cigarettes and coffee to take a moment to brush our teeth.
Cigarettes have gotten expensive to discourage us from smoking… so we "bum" off someone… and when that person hands over that rolled up combination of hundreds of poisons we can't even pronounce… we thank them.
It's illegal to serve alcohol to a 19 year old… but it's perfectly legal to serve someone who's been struggling with alcoholism for 19 years
We've waged a war on drugs against those who sell pot and cocaine but give part of our salaries to the pharmaceutical companies responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths a year.
We tell our children to "just say no to drugs" but then dope them up with Ritalin, anti-depressants and sedatives.
With all the acronyms they carry I'm amazed the parents can remember their names.
Parents make their toddlers walk so they can put their dog in the stroller instead.
Where the same republicans who hate paying for welfare burn down abortion clinics. Yet the man who created In vetro fertilization, which involves several abortions at one time, is given a Nobel prize. The process… which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars has eliminated the only hope that foster children had of being adopted. Because though fewer people pray to god… everyone loves to play god.
We eat to celebrate; we eat because we're depressed, eat because we're bored… and occasionally, eat because we're hungry.
You can feed your kid pounds of food a day and no one says a word, but if you send them to bed with no dinner as punishment, the government could possibly take your child away.
Every evening consists of a family sitting down to watch a tv program of a family sitting down.
The average American is more likely to run for political office than run four miles.
It is customary to greet someone by asking, "How are you?" But also quite common for no one to actually care to hear an answer.
People are more inclined to give you a business card than a hug; for they believe their product will product will make you happier than their affection.
It takes a website to tell you that you have 137 friends… but all it takes is a flat tire at 1:37 a.m. to show that you don't have any.
Our concerns for global warming don't start until our ac stops… working
We have no problem with Mexicans working for the U.S… as long as they build the fence from their side of the border. Immigrants are willing to work harder for $5 an hour than most citizens are willing to work for $12.
Rappers make a living by filling their lyrics with the very same word that thousands of blacks died trying to rid from our lips.
I think it's great that there are laws in place to keep white people from calling black people niggers… because now, only black people do that … and somehow that makes sense.
A 7 year old boy who still struggles to remember his home address knows every word to all 14 tracks of the latest Lil Wayne c.d.
You can speed through a school zone, traumatize a child for the rest of their life, but be back on the road for just $240.
18% of drivers on the road are uninsured because they can not pay insurance… but are quick to purchase a $300 cell phone without blinking… the same cell phones responsible for ¼th of the accidents on the road.
We tell people not to drink and drive but a 3rd of the billboards are telling them which beer tastes best.
Even the radio leads us into further stupidity…
"Get liposuction and breast augmentation and put it on you credit card…" … followed by… "Do you owe more than 10,000 in credit card debt? Are you stressed from harassing calls from creditors?" … followed by…"Come out to Gatsby's this Friday night… where ladies drink free because we use them like whores to get guys to come."…"Dui..? suspended license..? Pay us a bunch of money and we'll get you right back on the road."…"In a recent car accident… sue them… who cares who's at fault… sue everybody."
Dating sites make billions of dollars a year by offering long surveys and controlled communication… yet the divorce rate continues to sky rocket. Perhaps, because the best part of getting to know someone… is getting to know someone. Maybe it's because it's important to meet someone when we meet someone.
A woman gets Gucci sunglasses to match her Gucci purse… and fake tits to match her personality.
A woman who stands at a corner and offers sex for money is called a prostitute… but a woman who's unemployed, takes yoga classes all day, drives one man's car while living in another man's apartment is called a fiancée.
Most women don't want a man that thinks like Plato… they want a man they can manipulate like play-doh.
Married couples are more likely to open their heart to their cardiologist… than their spouse.
A man who stabs a woman in the chest with a knife has to pay $10,000 bail… but a man who does it with a scalpel can charge a $10,000 bill.
We pay…
$6 for a complete stranger to dance in front of us
$5 to park our car
$4 to wash a shirt
$3 to deliver our lunch
$2 to make a cup of coffee
But somehow we have a huge issue with giving a complete stranger $1 to get something to eat.
People take a few minutes from their lunch break to feed pigeons… but then ignore the emaciated homeless man desperately trying to make eye contact. We rush to hug babies and tell them how cute they are… well that starving homeless man IS someone's baby… why don't you rush up to him, give him a hug and tell him how beautiful he is? Is it the scent that keeps you away??? Because that 4 month old didn't smell too great either.
Everyone's homes and pockets are filled with devices to keep everyone connected… but we could not be any more disconnected from each other. Wait, that's not true… there was a moment when everyone paused, held each other, called their friends and family to tell them they loved them and realized how precious their life is. The people who caused that momentous event are called… terrorists and we are doing our best to kill them all so that we can go back to sleep.
A man who takes 3 lives gets far more media coverage than the man who saves 300 lives.
Our military recruitment process seems to take it's fundamentals from gangs. They look for teenagers in high school who aren't sure of what they want to do with their life. They lure them in by promising them that they'll gain skills of value and if they prove themselves, promotions that will bring them more money. They seduce them by offering family to those that may not have one of their own. Then they require them to undergo a series of physical tests and take drugs before they let them become one of the group. Once they're in, all they have to do is wear specific colors to show who their alliance is with, protect their territory at any cost, and understand that if they should they decide to leave without permission, they will be punished.
We would sooner blame our politicians, parents, partners or professors for all the problems in our life… than probe into the real source of our problems. You see most of us are not able to solve our problems because we refuse to believe that we're part of the equation. Well, brush up on your algebra… because the only constant in every problem… is you.
We all support the idea of "change"… as long as it doesn't involve any of ours.
We pay our bills online, shop online, do nothing to support local businesses and then feel compelled to complain about the lack of available employment.
The public school system has become a government funded daycare where teachers have become too busy raising other people's children to have any time left to educate them.
We pay teachers $26,000 a year to put knowledge into the minds of 160 kids a day for 3 seasons
But we pay millions for a basketball player to put a ball in a circle 20 times a day for one season
Comedians can fill 580 seats a night… but motivational speakers can barely fill a room of 100. Because everyone wants to laugh about their problems… but who the hell wants to solve them, right?
The only thing willing to claim it "trusts in god" is the dollar that everyone puts their trust in.
Where the place commonly referred to as Sin city has more people praying than Salt Lake City. Except that these people aren't praying for peace on Earth or good health… they're praying that the next number is a 7 or that the next card is an Ace.
Our optimism is wasted in Casinos… people that don't believe they could find a better job or a healthier relationship… but truly believe that the next time they pull the lever they'll become a millionaire.
Even atheists believe in a god… they call him Steve Jobs. For they tithe to him and pay homage to him… they believe that he will get them through tomorrows problems. In the Bible… Eve committed the first sin when she reached for the apple… I would hate to think what sins people commit when they reach for their apple.
There are several companies to protect you from having your identity stolen… even though most people don't have any sense of I-DENTITY… but an Iphone??? Everyone's got one of those.
You see… we are "The land of the free and the home of the brave"… but are we brave enough to be free?
Welcome to America… where millions have died to provide us freedom… so free them from the torment of dying in vain.
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kat permalinkFebruary 22, 2011 5:40 PM
No one has ever stated the truth in such a way..
You speak it in such a cut throat, yet humorous manner; one has no
choice but to be impressed & shocked at the ugly truth..
It takes a phenomenal writer to not only intrigue the reader,but keep them thinking, well after
the message was read..
Keep pushing forward, Kent:)
March 29, 2012 10:36 AM
Hi, Atlas…
You blew me away Tuesday night at Mystic Water Kava Bar.
And so great to talk with you outside afterwards.
When I was young I had a hero. His name was Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit Priest who burned draft files in protest of our napalming thousands of innocent women and children in villages in Viet Nam. He was tried and went to prison, When he was released he was arrested again for pouring blood over a nuclear missile war head. Since then I have not been overly impressed with anyone except maybe….Mother Theresa.
And now you appear….living the Beatitudes of Jesus. There are eight in total. You can google for them all. But three that you seem to personify are:
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.
I admire what you do and the conviction with which you do it.
Truly inspiring.
I hope our paths cross again…
Karrot Top permalinkMay 26, 2014 4:47 PM
I caught the last bit of this at Speakfridays, You've hooked me in away I can't quite pin-point. I loo forward to your next session.
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I write a monthly column for Inc Magazine called Dispatches from Techstars. Here's an excerpt from a January 17, 2012 Inc Magazine article.
Rule No. 1 about start-up mentors: They are not omniscient. In fact, sometimes they're just plain wrong.
It's something that's not always easy to see as an entrepreneur. You go to mentors for advice because they have see some of the things that you're going to see and they've made some of the mistakes that you're hoping not to make.
Still, they're not running your business—you are. There's no law that says you have to do what your mentor suggests. And the sooner you learn how to say "no" confidently, the easier it will be to manage these key relationships.
At Techstars, I have the privilege of working with hundreds of the best and brightest start-up mentors on the planet. We coach our mentors to take a Socratic approach and to provide data rather than decisions. But not all mentors (even some of ours) behave this way all the time. Sometimes a mentor firmly believes that she is right, and presents as fact what is actually strongly held belief.
The best mentors present their opinions simply as data and not as direction. They're hoping that their past experience will help you. But since the best mentors are also hoping to learn from their relationship with you, they should also be open to being wrong and to learning from the experience. If they're not, that's a big red flag that you've got the wrong mentor.
So what happens when a mentor tells you what to do and you don't agree?
Read the rest of the original article in its entirety at Inc.com.


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Read this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Expungement of Criminal Records and other DUI topics.
Those seeking a California expungement need to fulfill the requirements of the court before they are allowed to apply for felony expungement, relief, or other action. In felony cases, these requirements often include jail time.
This does not automatically erase your chances of getting an expungement. A good lawyer can instruct you as to the specifics, but many states will still allow relief to those who have fulfilled the jail time, probationary period and any other requirements. Remember any candidate for relief must do the jail time without incident for maximum consideration.
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"I have a dream that one day … schoolchildren will read about people like C.O. Chinn," Thaddeus Russell writes in a compelling review on Reason.com of "This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible," by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
"Chinn was a black man in Canton, Mississippi, who in the 1960s owned … a large collection of pistols, rifles, and shotguns with which he threatened local Klansmen and police when they attempted to encroach on his businesses or intimidate civil rights activists working to desegregate Canton and register black residents to vote," Russell recounts. "After one confrontation … a pistol-packing Chinn forced the notoriously racist and brutal local sheriff to stand down inside the county courthouse during a hearing for a civil rights worker…"
So would the monopoly of violence cultists deem Chinn and other armed civil rights activists, like the Deacons for Defense and Justice domestic terrorists? Anti-government extremists? Haters? Sexually inadequate and obviously compensating for their shortcomings?
Such accusations, routinely leveled at white gun owners, have been pretty much absent from that "national conversation on guns" the antis say they want to have. In their place are "progressives" hurling racist ridicule at gun rights advocates of color, but those attacks have mostly been for daring to depart from the official party loyalty line demanded by collectivist plantation overseers.
Not that some don't think racism is humorous, adding unintended meaning to "Funny or Die." A "comedic" effort, featuring the emotionally-challenged Sarah Silverman, who probably should avoid guns herself, received an appropriate ZoNATION response that skewered the "liberal" presumption that black people should not own guns (see embedded video, above).
Remembering the maxim that for "progressives," every day is Opposite Day, it's instructive to note those who portray themselves as champions of tolerance and social justice employ intolerance and injustice as a matter of course. The strong individual who dares declare his independence is condemned as a race traitor, and a mere lackey to white special interests.
That black gun rights activists are treated differently than white ones over the same advocacy issue is racist, pure and simple. But then again, what do I know, being what an official representative of a national gun ban group dismissed as "a white gun nut"?
By their roots you shall know them. And their motives haven't changed.
For more relevant and insightful commentary on Cobb's book juxtaposed against the ranting of hypocritical citizen disarmament cultists, take a few moments to read (and share) "New book will confound purveyors of 'gun rights advocacy is racist' myth" by St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner Kurt Hofmann.
If you're a regular Gun Rights Examiner reader and believe it provides news and perspectives you won't find in the mainstream press, please subscribe to this column and help spread the word by sharing links, promoting it on social media like Facebook (Dan) and Twitter (@dcodrea), and telling your like-minded friends about it. And for more commentary, be sure to visit "The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance."


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Stream Death Of Yesterday (Prod By Urban Noize), the newest drop from Jay Burna. The cut was released on Friday, November 12th, 2010. Jay Burna continues to impress with each new leak, and Death Of Yesterday (Prod By Urban Noize) is no exception. It's strengthens Jay Burna's already impressive body of work, which has seen positive change over the years. We're most definitely anticipating Jay Burna's next offering.
Have you heard Jay Burna's Lamborghini Dreams, Beach House Wishes? Check out Jay Burna's profile page for the most recent info, news, songs, and mixtapes.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Duh! I forgot!
I forgot to tell you more about where and when to find the October Artist of the Month, MICHELE BANKS. If you clicked on the title of my last post, you would have gone to her website. However, that wasn't clear at all. Sorry, folks, way too much work and not enough, chocolate?..
Michele's 411:
Next market: Bethesda Artist Market, www.Bethesda.org
Website: www.artmonger.net
While Michele is in Bethesda, I'll be in Ballston.
Ballston Arts + Crafts Market, Arlington, VA
Saturday, October 10, 10am-4pm
Welburn Square, Stuart Street, Ballston
This is the last market of this series this season, so come by, if you haven't yet. I'm looking forward to it and remain optimistic about NO rain!
Other very chill goings on this weekend, The Shakespeare Theatre is having a Costume Shop Sale this coming Sunday, just in time for Halloween. I was there this evening to drop off an order of little bags and bought a great doublet jacket for an absolute steal!
You should definately check it out. You might even buy a piece of clothing I made!
The Sale is Sunday, October 11, 1pm to 6pm. More details at http://www.shakespearetheatre.org/plays/details.aspx?id=197&source=l
Hope you have a great weekend, no matter what you do!~Jen
Green Tip~ Be A Clean Greenie
With the new and great habits people are creating by utilizing re-usable totes, there is also a new and not so great spread of germs. In using these bags more often, they are getting dirtier, picking up and retaining bacteria. Be sure to bag your meats before placing in your totes, then recycling that plastic wrap. Wash your carry bags often to deter contamination.
Pretty much, use common sense. If you ate off a plate and it was dirty, wouldn't you clean it? So, if you are carrying around food, between dirty cans from the grocery store to farm fresh produce from market, these bags could be less than pristine. Throw them in the wash at least one a week, using warm to hot water.
For more information on this issue, check out http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1475002
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Kendo Senior Grades
There are currently nine seventh dan kendoka who are members of the BKA. They are:
John Howell 7th Dan Kyoshi
Jock Hopson 7th Dan Kyoshi
Mike Davis 7th Dan Kyoshi
Geoff Salmon 7th Dan Kyoshi
Jeff Humm 7th Dan Kyoshi
John O'Sullivan 7th Dan Kyoshi
Gary O'Donnell 7th Dan Renshi
Kazuyo Matsuda 7th Dan Renshi
Yasuyuki Hiyama 7th Dan Renshi
Kendo Bu Management Team
Kendo Bucho (Head of Bu/Faculty): Gary O'Donnell
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Practices at: Do Shin Ken Yu Kai – West Yorkshire
Art and Grade: Kendo 7th dan Renshi, Iaido 2nd dan, Jodo 3rd dan
Outside Budo: tba
A bit about me: tba
Kendo Grading Officer: John Gale
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Practices at: Shinsei Dojo, Crawley
Art and Grade: Kendo 3rd dan, Jodo 1st dan
Outside Budo: tba
A bit about me: tba
Kendo Events Officer: Kristian Dela Cour
Email: email@example.com
Practices at: Yugenkai, Dunfermline, Scotland
Art and Grade: Kendo 4th Dan
Outside Budo: tba
A bit about me: Kendo, Running, Laughing
Kendo Cashier: Malcolm Smalley
Email: email@example.com
Practices at: Portsmouth Kendo Club
Art and Grade: Kendo 3rd Dan
Outside Budo: tba
A bit about me: tba
National Kendo Coach: Yasuyuki Hiyama sensei
Email: email@example.com
Practices at: Oxford Kendo
Art and Grade: Kendo 7th dan
Outside Budo: tba
A bit about me: tba
Kendo Squad Manager: Nigel Collins
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Practices at: Shozankan Dojo
Art and Grade: Kendo 4th Dan
Outside Budo: tba
A bit about me: tba
Kendo Dojo Representatives Committee Chair: John O'Sullivan
Email: email@example.com
Practices at: Reading Kendo Club
Art and Grade: I have practiced Kendo, Iaido and Jodo over the year's achieving grades in all three. I particularly enjoy Kata training. I also practice Kenjutsu: Mizoguchi Ha Itto Ryu, Niten Ichi Ryu, Shinto Ryu and even a little Ona Ha Itto ryu on occasions.
Outside Budo: In my spare time I am a school teacher: Design & Technology with ICT
A bit about me: I started my Kendo training in 1980 and have been involved on and off (Mostly off) with the national squad on several occasions over the years. I have lost track of the numerous competitions and events that I have taken part in over the years (I have a draw full of medals and cups of all shapes and sizes).
More recently I have focused mainly but not exclusively on refereeing and am currently the chair of the DRC.


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Morrie, Dearest morrie, My good friend Morrie, >I am sorry for the inconvenience I have caused people. I am sure >that my good friends are mature enough not to use this as a golden >opportunity to pick on me......at least I know which is the >smallest yeast chromosome ;-> M2 yeah, right. Got the e-mail address wrong? BAAA HAAAA HAAA HAAA. Dr. Science blew a COMPUTER question??? What a hoser! I meant Chr. 1 anyway. So there. So what's that on your shirt? **I apologize for using bandwidth for personal stuff, but he started it :)** marci (former department mate of, and oft subject of abuse by M2)


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Last week, sexy pop singer Enrique Iglesias released the video for his hit song Finally Found You and let me just say that it is super HOT! The track is the newest single off of the tumultuous album Euphoria Reloaded and features American rapper Sammy Adams. The album is still in the process of getting a release date since its first single, I Like How it Feels, achieved poor commercial performance.
The music video incorporates the classic video trope of a party/club. I call it classic because it seems like every artist out there has used it or is using it in their videos. The premise of the Enrique Iglesias video is quite simple. Going along with the lyrics, it shows a younger version of him chasing a lovely girl around a park and then shows them grown up in a chase inside a club. What does this chase lead to? Super hot sex, of course. Because when you are Enrique Iglesias, no lady can resist you. While the lady love is still asleep, Enrique gets redressed and leaves. Yup, he definitely "got you," girl. This might be even more controversial that his 2001 "Escape" video, which had a super hot makeout scene with still-girlfriend Anna Kournikova.
No matter the content, I must admit that this is one of my favorite jams right now.


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3805 is, like 3801 a genuine design classic. The cotton carpet is made in an indestructible quality. Its fluid character is one of the most typical qualities of this lively and modern carpet. Available in 18 blended colours.
Characteristic of Van Besouw: the 3805 is a knitted carpet. And it can be seen with the eye: a curly loop that falls playfully in all directions. The carpet is at its best when in use.
Available as wall-to-wall carpet or as made to measure rugs.


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As far as being stylish goes this tops the list because it is round and silver grey and a real beauty to look at. The functionality of this thing of beauty is also unsurpassed as it charges wirelessly which is something that none of the other chargers do in the Vaporfi range.
It gives a great power boost to the Pulse battery which is a great long lasting battery on its own to say the least. It brings out the good points in that battery and enhances them and makes your vaporizer perform better than ever before. Not to mention that aesthetics play a great role in the entire process so your vaporizer looks good when it is charging also.
The major selling point for this cordless charger has been the fact that it is the latest of its kind of technology which means you will not find another like this either in the range or outside in any other brand. It is a truly advanced wonder and it looks marvelous with its massive aesthetic appeal.
Since the charger is circular you have to place the battery right in the middle of the device for it to charge and it works nicely and charges rather quickly when you compare it with conventional chargers which are much slower. The batteries all stand vertically in the charger.
There is also an LCD which at all times is going to alert you to the status of the charge and at any time you can unplug the charger and start using your vaporizer. At the extremely feasible price of $19.99 the charger is a must-have if you own a Pulse vaporizer or battery and it will serve you well.
It comes with its own adapter as well if you are going to be traveling and it also comes with a charging cord.
For easy charging on the go, you will find this product currently on sale.


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George Noory hosted a night of Open Lines, offering a special 'bizarre' hotline. Steve from Nicholasville, Kentucky, recalled the time he was working at a seasonal haunted house and jumped out of a coffin to scare a young boy. According to Steve, the child did not jump, flinch, or even blink at him. Stranger still, the mysterious young boy was never seen exiting the attraction and a subsequent search turned up nothing, he added. Victoria in Manhattan believes she has stumbled upon a mid-air runway for military anti-gravity craft. On several nights she claimed to have witnessed a star-like beacon shining in the sky and multiple craft launching from the runway area. A caller named Rodney told George that he and a friend encountered The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia in a small Irish pub in Seattle about a month after he passed away.
Dr. Raymond phoned in to share his experiences working as a production manager on Herschell Gordon Lewis' The Gore Gore Girls. He recalled being given a mere 50 cents and asked to bring back a severed lamb's head for the effects department. Several callers recounted their own animal-related stories. Dave in Spokane, Washington, said he hit a moose and totaled his car this past May. John from Albuquerque, New Mexico, said he was driving his truck at 4:00am when he saw what appeared to be a row of sticks with white circles on top blocking the highway. As he got closer, John discovered it was a herd of deer crossing the road. Leonard in Berkeley, California, described the time a motorcycle buddy was t-boned by a deer while riding through Montana, and warned other bikers about the dangers posed by these animals.
The last half-hour featured a replay from 10/30/08, when George spoke with Dr. Bob Curran about zombies.
Gore Movies
In the first hour, George spoke with exploitation film director Herschell Gordon Lewis. Often called 'The Godfather of Gore', Lewis is perhaps best known for inventing the splatter movie sub-genre with 1963's Blood Feast. Lewis said he was inspired to do this kind of over-the-top gory picture after watching an old film in which a gangster was pumped full of bullet holes, yet died peacefully with only a small trace of blood on his shirt. Blood Feast turned out to be a huge success for Lewis, who went on to create other gory masterpieces, including his personal favorite, Two Thousand Maniacs!. Lewis also spoke about his most recent project, The Uh-oh Show, the challenges of independent filmmaking, and the importance of staying on budget and properly marketing a movie. Marketing is more important than the physical production of the film, he noted.


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Good morning lovely community!
\*good mornin' hugs* https://66.media.tumblr.com/49a21e182fcdfb3e96cc9d9421f8ee3f/tumblr_mkmipvUcxH1s9s0bdo1_500.gif How are ya'all doin'? as some of you might realize, or not, I managed to get up early today. \o/ Or rather, I hardly slept and wasn't able to sleep anymore, but that's kinda the same anyway. ;) So you can imagen that I'm rather tired, but that should work out somehow, so not too troubled. ------------------ #What did you peeps do last week? For me, I finally got that big D. And on that note, I think the main topic I'll talk about here is ranked: My whole ranked games this year are summed up quite nicely by just 1 picture: http://puu.sh/p9PnY/3948f60259.png Even tho the 53% winrate with Ezreal feels a bit off... because the 3 times I attempted promos literally were: 1) 2 times bot 1 time mid ending, 0-3 2) 4 times bot, ending 1-3 3) decided to go trioQ to secure mid for me, 3-0. I know there is some luck influence with that, but it pretty much feels like my performance with Lux is about *a lot* better than with anyone else. Which got me thinking a lot, One trick ponies always used to be a thing, but it seems to not work out for me like at all. v.v Therefore I'm considering to either simply stop playing unless I get TrioQ, or I start playing her in my secondary position too... but this would most likely mean Lux support, which I'm still hesitant off in ranked because it simply is subpar, let alone that that way I can pretty much say goodbye to playing her mid (or anyone mid) anyway... Dunno why I'm mentioning all of this, maybe you guys got an idea for me? x3 How do other OTPs handle this problem? At least, funniely enough, my overall winrate has been rising every since I reached Gold 1, so that much for approaching 50% :^) (I actually was below 50% back then, then overshot it and crawled my way up to 53% atm) ---------------- Then just 2 days ago my grandparents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary (there actually were 4 couples in their rather small place). And I'm just sitting here trying to image how long 50 years actually is, and just fail at it. >.< ----------------- Anyway, moving on, #what are you guys planning to do this week? I'm just stuck with the old, lets see what comes up. Practicing Taly again, I seem to be getting more consistent with her, and holy... her dmg is even more insane than I had imagened. Can't wait to take her into ranked once I'm good enough... but that would mean even less Lux for me. Q_Q But maybe I'm done with ranked for this season anyway... we'll see. x3 And I notice dthat my Lux mastery is painfully low (closing in on 250k, which is like nothing for a dedicated main like I want to be), so I need to play her more. v.v ------------------- And for a random topic of the day... #what part of your body do you like most? (Instead of constantly being displeased by thinking of the bad parts, lets just think about the good ones for once. :3 Unless you don't care abotu that stuff anyway v.v) For me it is most likely my, as it seems, unnaturally pointy canines, I can't really pinpoint a reason why I like that so much tho. ^^' ---------------- So have a great day all of you! And for those who haven't really woken up yet, have some musics! \o/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wpjYjcnN_A I didn't get to watch it that far yet, but the begining has cat punches and I like the rythm, so it can only be awesome! *cat punches* \*drools*~ Nothing better than seeing some people get beat up in the morning... ehh... I didn't say that! But CYA guys, have an awesome morning like you deserve! ;)
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Exercise Testing in Melbourne
Exercise testing (more commonly know as
cardiac stress testing
) is aimed at evaluating heart function for a variety of reasons, most often to check for coronary artery disease. There are different types of test, including
treadmill testing
and stress
. A treadmill exercise stress test is a screening tool to test the effect of exercise on your heart. You walk on a treadmill or pedal an exercycle while the electrical activity of your heart is measured with an electrocardiogram (
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Galwegians continue their march towards promotion to division 1b after an 11th straight Ulster Bank League victory and a seventh four-try bonus point.
Rivals City of Derry were the latest target when they succumbed to a 28-12 defeat as the Glenina outfit led by 21-5 at the break.
Colin Conroy grabbed the first try within seven minutes, and although Derry replied with a try from flanker Stephen Dickie, Galwegians' centre Jerome Harrimate scored the second soon after, both Wegian tries converted by Darragh Leader.
The hosts dominated the remainder of the first half, and effectively sealed the game with a penalty try from a well-worked 20 metre driving maul.
The fourth try arrived on 50 minutes courtesy of relentless pressure from the Wegian forwards from which scrumhalf Caolin Blade capitalised and dived over for his fifth try in three games. Leader converted to make the game safe.
Galwegians: D Leader; C Conroy, J Harrimate, B Murphy, J Cleary; R Shaughnessy, C Blade; J Naughton, C Muldoon, J East; D Nolan,B McClearn (c ); E Rooney, E Earle, D McCabe. Replacements, R Fitzgerald, PGriffin, R Parata, B Lee, A Ryan.


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Our Services
Funeral Planning
We're so proud to be the chosen funeral home in Springfield by many. This section of our funeral home website will introduce you to our funeral home team, our facilities, our story and much more. We look forward to years of continued funeral service in Springfield and surrounding areas.


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Mike's Monday Morning #Playlist – 9.9.13
Justin Martin's prelude to a month of wondering why we're not all basking on a freshly cut lawn somewhere, 'Don't Go' seems like a fitting way to start this week's playlist.
But if you need to start approaching the day with a bit of attack, Jacob Banks is the man to get you there, as long as you ignore the slightly cringeworthy moniker for his song.
Don't Go – Justin Martin
Lifestyle – Casey Veggies
Melt – Chet Faker, Kilo Kish
YOLO – Jacob Banks
Broken Heart – Alix Perez ft. Two Inch Punch
Forefather – Benga, Kano
Lion, The Lion – TEED
The Love Song – K-Os
Blood – MJ Cole
Flying – Wiley
I Don't Need a Reason – Dizzee Rascal
Poppin' Off – Watch the Duck
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Student anxiety is rising at alarming rates, starting in kindergarten with anxiety levels continuing to rise as our students progress through their elementary, middle, and high school years. What can teachers and school personnel do to help these students? In this course, you will learn how to recognize students with excessive anxiety, learn the difference between occasional anxiety v. a chronic anxiety disorder, learn how to talk with parents about your concerns, and most importantly, learn tools and strategies to help students manage their anxieties and succeed in school. This course is applicable to all content areas and all school personnel, K-12.The text, Helping Students Overcome Social Anxiety, is about $32 at Amazon.
|We advise you to review and download a summary of the course syllabus before registering.
The text, Helping Students Overcome Social Anxiety, is about $32 at Amazon.
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Course No. ED470b, ED570b
Tuition $120 ‑ $210
Are you planning to attend at least one Academic Camp or Professional Development Workshop this year? This course is for you. It's open to teachers Nation Wide attending ANY Academic Camp or Professional Development Workshops related to your professional assignment. You can attend these sessions and earn three (3) Continuing Education Quarter Credits or 30 Washington Clock Hours or Oregon PDUs. Attending more than one event during the year? Then contact the instructor.


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Its a…. BABY!!
Oh man, can we just tell you already?
Just to get you excited, here is a sweet picture of the babies face.
Andy and I are pleased to announce, we are are having a…
Yes, we are excited, yes, we are terrified, and yes, I have already designed the nursery. Want a peek? It's super cute.
Andy and I aren't super duper cutesy people. We don't really love all the matching sets in the stores these days so we decided to create our own theme. We have decided to go with an Adventure/Hero theme with some of our favorite heroes and adventurers, including Johnny Cash, Indiana Jones, and of course, Abe Lincoln.
Thank you so much for all your love and support, and sorry for making you all wait this long! We can't wait for all of you to meet little Baby Boy Casseday!


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Iloilo City bans sale of awarded relocation lots
November 10, 2011 10:48 pm
ILOILO CITY, Nov. 10 – Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog has welcomed the enactment of a city ordinance banning the sale of awarded lots in the city's relocation sites.
Mabilog confirmed he has received complaints from city residents on the sale of awarded lots and said the illegal practice must be stopped immediately.
The City Council, during its Wednesday regular session enacted Ordinance No. 2011-726, entitled "An ordinance prohibiting any form of conveyancing of the awarded lot on the relocation sites of the Iloilo City government and providing penalties for violation thereof."
Said ordinance prohibits the transfer of a property, including rights, of a lot awarded to a qualified beneficiary located at any of the relocation sites of the Iloilo City government. Further, it shall be unlawful for anyone to buy or lease the said lot after knowing that subject lot is an awarded relocation lot.
Penalties for violators include six months to one year imprisonment at the discretion of the court for relocation site awardees and perpetual disqualification from availing the relocation and housing program of the city government.
Also, three to six months imprisonment, at the discretion of the court and fine of P5,000 with subsidiary imprisonment in case of non-payment for buyer or transferee of the subject lot; and three to six months imprisonment for anybody who facilitated the conveyance.
Mabilog said he was informed that a practice is prevailing at the relocation site earmarked for more than 300 informal families from the old Iloilo airport. An awardee reportedly facilitated the sale of awarded lots to the detriment of those who were not yet resettled in the area at Lanit, Jaro.
The city mayor also directed the Iloilo City Urban Poor Affairs Office (ICUPAO) to strictly enforce the awards of relocation lots to qualified beneficiaries and monitor the status of the relocation sites. (PNA)


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The overall objective of the Farber Funds is the advancement and strengthening of the Department of Political Science at the University of South Dakota in its promotion of academically excellent student programs and activities, public service and civic leadership.
To meet this objective, the Farber Funds can be used to:
Farber Funds grants can be given for credit-bearing academic or non-credit educational activities.
To be eligible for Farber Funds assistance, you must:
Unless ALL of the above conditions are met, no Farber Funds will be authorized and/or released. Additionally, all undisbursed Farber Funding is automatically rescinded and returned to the fund at the end of each fiscal year (June 30) unless an authorized recipient has previously been an extension of time to fulfill any outstanding requirements of his or her funding.
In making funding decisions, clear preference will be given to:
With respect to partisan political activities, students who are seeking Farber Funds support for participation in partisan activities will only be considered for such support when the destination of trips is beyond a 100-miles radius of Vermillion. Political activities with a clear educational component will be given preference over those which do not have such a component.
As one way to measure student commitment to the project for which Farber Funds are sought, students are normally expected to pay a portion of any Farber Funds supported activity, generally at least 20% of the total cost including meals, registration fees, transportation, housing, etc.
Depending on the total expense of the event, students pursuing high cost programs may only be authorized for a fraction of their total costs. In making decisions about the cost to be borne by Farber Funds participants, the following criteria will be used:
To encourage students to participate in internships, support in the amount of $40/credit hour is available to subsidize internship tuition. Additionally, internship grants are available to support summer student interns receiving inadequate summer stipends but only after a final report has been completed and approved by the department.
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Bad task karma (BTK) -when tasks and appointments clog your schedule- results from approaching your schedule by ordering your tasks according to urgency.
Most tasks management systems tell you that urgency is the way to go, but they're dead wrong. Nothing will kill your productivity like bad task karma.
Urgency = Bad Task Karma // Relevancy = Good Task Karma
Zen-Journal orders tasks according to their relevancy and prevents BTK at the source! Scheduling using urgency is so last century…the enlightened way to schedule tasks is according to how relevant they are. It requires a shift in mindset, but the following articles will help you make it.
Here are three articles that explain how Zen-Journal kills BTK and will help you to never again be over-scheduled and overcommitted. Hey, no one wants bad karma, right?
Why Most Planning Systems Get It Dead Wrong When Prioritizing Tasks
Every planning system known to mankind teaches you to prioritize your tasks. While the goal is a worthy one, they usually go about it the wrong way and that's not only misleading, but it sucks to be you when you find this out. But there is hope.
The One Change You Can Make in Your Planning that Will Change Everything
If you had a magic wand like Harry Potter and just waved it over your planner, wouldn't it be great if.. like -POOF- your schedule became lighter and you felt less overwhelmed? Guess what, there is…kind of!
How the Zen-Journal Planning System Prevents Overscheduling, Overcommitment, and Overwhelm
Are you tired of trying every new planning system on the market and still feeling over-scheduled, overcommitted, and overwhelmed? I don't blame you because that's my story, too. After reading this article, it won't be a problem any longer.
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Now that you've seen the power behind the Zen-Journal Planning System, download my free set-up guides now and get started with the pen and notebook of your choice. There's nothing to purchase – use whatever you have on hand. The free guides will show you how!


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Batman Arkham Origins Steam CD KEY Žaidimas
Gamintojas: Warner Bros
Prekės kodas: Steam0119
Bičiulių taškai: 9
Ar turime:2
Prekės kodas: Steam0119
Bičiulių taškai: 9
Ar turime:2
9.00€25.00€ Kaina keičiant į bičiulių taškus: 900
Steam, Worldwide, Multilanguage
Play on Steam: The key is an official Steam Key (www.steampowered.com). It is activated via Steam, enables you to play on official Steam servers and your game will be kept updated with the latest patches via the Steam platform. To activate our key via Steam simply download Steam, create a new account or login into your existing account, click Games and Activate game on Steam.
About the Game
Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline set several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, the first two critically acclaimed games of the franchise.
Taking place before the rise of Gotham City's most dangerous criminals, the game showcases a young and unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, players will meet many important characters for the first time and forge key relationships.
The Arkham Story Begins: Batman: Arkham Origins features an all-new single-player campaign written by Dooma Wendschuh and Corey May, with Geoff Johns consulting. Players become an early-career Batman as he encounters for the first time many of the super villains that shape his future.
Enhanced Detective Mode: Batman's detective skills are tested as never before with an all-new Crime Scene system that allows players to scrub through the evidence in order to find key pieces of information. Players use Batman's cowl and Bat Computer to digitally recreate crime scenes, allowing them track clues that normal eyes would miss.
Gotham City as Never Seen Before: Explore areas of Gotham City before its transformation into Arkham City, and experience all new areas and other iconic locations. The dynamic and rich environments are filled with a variety of enemies, "crimes-in-progress" and other content that will encourage exploration and player engagement.
Most Wanted Side Missions: Hunt down villains who are connected to, but not part of the core story. It's the player's choice if and when they want to complete these threads.
New Enemies: Encounter new enemies such as the Armoured Enforcer and Martial Artist who challenge fans to approach FreeFlow Combat in different ways.
New Gadgets: Utilise an arsenal of familiar gadgets from previous Batman: Arkham games, as well as new items such as the Remote Claw. Batman can take down enemies by using the Remote Claw to attach enemies to one another or to objects within the environment for quick takedowns.
New and Familiar Characters: Encounter a full cast of iconic DC Comics characters including Black Mask, Penguin, Deathstroke, Bane, Anarky, Captain Gordon, The Joker and others.
System Requirements:
Operating System: Windows XP
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4GHz OR AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+
Memory: 3 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OR AMD Radeon HD 7470 1GB GDDR5
DirectX: DirectX 9
HDD Space: 20 GB
Operating System: Windows XP
CPU: Intel Core i5-655K 3.2GHz OR AMD Phenom II X4 905e
Memory: 8 GB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 OR AMD Radeon HD 6870
DirectX: DirectX 11
HDD Space: 20 GB
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All You Need to Know About Septic Systems and Wells
Septic tanks are believed to come from France many years ago. They were invented by Mr. Mouras in 1860, and then a patent was granted in 1881. By 1883, they were in America.
They were made out of concrete and had a bunch of pipes with one inlet and one outlet. There were three layers to filter the stuff and if it wasn't maintained you would have a sewer smell emitting from the site. You were very limited in what could go down the drain. No bleach or cleaning products, no oily substances and no garbage disposal usage. There were and still are bacterial enzymes you flush to keep the system clean.
Some people still follow the rules laid out above, but the modern versions are not quite so easy to clog. You still use the enzymes, but the results are far better. Now if you have a family of ten, you may still run into sluggish waste removal, but otherwise most people don't have any problems.
Today's systems are far more advanced and cheaper. The old method needed a leach field with layers of stone, pipes, more stone and dirt. Now they use something called an infiltrator chamber. They are plastic tubes that are buried in a trench and covered with dirt. The county usually requires a soil test to determine the rate of absorption, which is the deciding factor in how long your system has to be.
These work so well because of the new design. They have a large storage area for peak usage times, and side louvers to increase leaching ability. They also have an opening in the bottom for increased filtration. They are lightweight, and stack for easy transport plus they are inexpensive.
Now are they approved where you want to live? Yes, they are adopted in all 50 states and are leak free. There is another infiltrator system that is for larger homes, it's called a tw-series. They have a thick triple wall design and are approved for use as septic or water tanks and pump tanks. These guys are tough if you cover them with 12 inches of soil they can tolerate up to 16,000 pounds driving over them.
So now you know, there is no reason to fear septic systems. In fact, these are so easy to install it is now a do it yourself project. They are inexpensive too. They last longer than the old style cement forms, and they don't leak. Since it only requires a trench you can put them anywhere.
The county performs the soil test, so find out how much that costs and how long it takes to get it done. You should also ask if an inspection has to be done before it's covered up and if a permit is needed.
Now for a little information about well digging, just for the heck of it. The costs vary depending on the earth composites and accessibility. The average residential well is from 30 to 200 feet. If professionals do, the hard work costs can soar up to 100.00 a foot. Get several free estimates and gather all the knowledge they have in case you decide to do it yourself.
Ask about the terrain where you live and if that requires special equipment or materials. Ask how much the permits are and who would test the water for safety and is that expensive too?
You also need to know what type of water system you will end up with and why that is better than any other system. These are the pros remember; they should have all the answers. Require a written contract, a photocopy of their license and documents proving they have adequate liability insurance. If something goes awry the last thing you want to hear is that they don't carry insurance.
The contract needs to include in writing who will do the clean-up and the name of the company that will install the water system once the well is dug. In case they don't hit the water, ask for an agreement for a second attempt to be included in the price. A time limit is always a good idea. Once you sign an agreement, they could stretch it out for months while you sit waiting for them to come.
Negotiate a reasonable amount of time for the job to be completed and if it isn't the contract shall be considered null and void. Do not pay them up front either, that would be great for them and a disaster for you. No reputable company would even ask for that.


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I've not been blogging that long, but one of my friends has been and it was Martin that turned me on to blogging with his cool site, and also on to MovableType (MT) itself. Since then I've only looked back to appreciate the fact that I got MT installed and setup before I got too far into the blogging experience.
I did try two online blogging systems, neither of which I can now remember, just for a short time to understand what blogging was and if I'd actually have that much to talk about. They were both quite configurable on the look and feel side, but were really short of options and offerings when you started to understand what blogging was and what it could offer.
To start with I was just ranting about various things in life, but I soon realised what I actually wanted to do was to review products, companies, restaurants, wines, etc. Much like Martin has his sideblog, I wanted to incorporate them together and retain the ability to rant on occassion. This just wasn't possible with the online service, I'd have had to have treated both the reviews and normal blog entries in one big blog, and there would be no real way of separating them out.
So I tackled MT and at first I was baffled. I didn't even know HTML never mind understanding Web Servers and PHP modules. It wasn't easy initially, but with all the online help and support areas, as well as Martin in the background, I began to get over the daunting implementation and found it much easier than it first looked. I got MT installed and configured on the Web Server and began the process of customising it.
…make sure that your intended host provides all the PHP modules required…
A quick word of warning for all those looking at hosting before installing MT, make sure that your intended host provides all the PHP modules required, and if you think your site might take off and you'll be looking at MT-Blacklist (a plugin to enable automatic reporting and removal of spam comments en-masse) then you should really ensure the host provides the other PHP modules requred for that application.
I have to say I could have simply taken the easy way out and downloaded some of the standard templates available on the web which automatically configure your site one of many ways, but not me, oh no, I want everything right and set-up from the start.
It actually didn't take that long to learn the HTML I needed, and learning the MT language itself was easy using the online help and their support forums. Now I'm configuring other peoples sites for them.
MT provides a simple template approach to setting up your site. It's more than a blogging tool, it's really a content management system. Using HTML to design the index and individual entry pages, and the MT tags to reference the actual content, you can build a site pretty quickly. All it needs then are the entries!
Templates can be created as smaller modules, included within other templates, or as actual web pages and the MT tags are used to retrieve the information you've entered into MT and display it as per the HTML. It's surprisingly easy to do, and again there's help everywhere for the system.
What I discovered through my short time to date in blogging are the additional offerings that I now can't do without. Archiving, backups, importing\exporting, multiple syndication feeds, stylesheets and full HTML, full template configuration, commenting, etc, etc. All these things I hadn't even thought of when I signed up to an online service and after a few months of entries I've realised they are indespensible. If I'd carried on with an online version I think I'd have been stuck without these features and a heap of content tied into one site.
Apart from being totally free for most private individual use, the greatest feature is the ability to use plugins. These are pieces of software written by users and staff at MT which are designed to increase or bring additional functionality to the system. These take the form of the hugely successful and powerful MT-Blacklist, as mentioned earlier, to the plugin to allow your IMDB voting history to be displayed in a page, to the plugin allowing a photo gallery to be built in MT. There are many, many more plugins. On my site I use four and there are six on the MovieBlog site.
MT provides the user with enough content mangement that they could possibly want, and enough to slowly expand into as well, there is also real power in the multi-user and multi-site features available. If anyone is serious about blogging I would recommend making the direct leap to this software and avoid an online system, and if you're looking for a content management system, this is your tool.
I can't recommend this enough. If you use MT form the outset not only will it make the updating and general management of your site so much easier, but it will provide you with so many more features. Within a few months you'll realise you needed many of these features, and really couldn't do without them.
Update: 28/06/2005 I've just moved this from a five star to a four star review due to a hosting issue yesterday.
I always knew there was an issue with processing time on larger sites, and that people were concerned about the time it took to post comments, an entry or performa a rebuild. However I never really knew how bad it was until I'd worked with The Movie Blog.
The site has been suspended by the host once already due to server processing time, and just last night it was suspended again due excessive server time usage on the comments.cgi script. This time it kicked the Editor into action and he's moved from MovableType to WordPress.
Posting a comment was taking over a minute a shot, and it was getting ridiculous. This was really down to the rebuilding of templates required in the background when each comment was posted. These are the same templates marked to rebuild when an entry is posted. To me that's a bit over zealous and adding a comment should only rebuild the entry the comment is made against.
So a word of warning on large sites with comments open. When you begin to see your comments taking ages to post, check that server time and ensure you don't get locked out too.
Update: 30/06/2005 We decided to move the site back to MovableType as the work involved in getting the WordPress site looking close to how the site operates just now was quite a bit. So we thought the best thing all round was to go back to the MT setup we had and build WP in the background. Well. The reinstall has taken about three days, a complete nightmare.
The install of MT has been an arduous task. Importing the database has meant splitting the import file into multiple chunks. We've had errors of premature end of script on mt.cgi. There have been the horrendous 500 Internal Server errors, and all sorts. Publishing one page was resulting in an error!
We're finally operational, but that has meant sacrificing all but three of our plugins, automatically rebuilding all but the most crucial of templates, removing some code from templates and restricting the entries to rebuild to ten at a time! I just can't believe that we're that big and complex a site that we would have so many problems.
During the long slog of trying to get things back online we've been trawling the support forums for the hosting company and MovableType, and I have to say I'm surprised at the amount of unanswered and unsolved questions on the forums at MT. Why the staff aren't answering them or tying them together to ensure that answers are easily found I don't know. Couple that with my growing disharmony of the installation process of MT, I'm not such a fan as I was. I would consider dropping the review another notch if it wasn't for the fact that my site – touch plastic keyboard – is running so well on it.