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DETROIT (WWJ) – In what was described as a crisis in the city, Detroit police, fire and EMS struggled, Friday morning, without the use of internal radio communications.
Reporting from the 10th Precinct at Livernois and Elmhurst — just after the morning shift change — WWJ City Beat Reporter Vickie Thomas said some police officers headed out on patrol weren't too happy about having to use their personal cell phones to do the city's business.
As one officer told Thomas, "You can't make this stuff up."
The dispatch system went down at around 5:30 a.m. and the city was in radio silence for almost four hours.
Detroit Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens said 911 calls were not affected and communication capabilities were at about 85 percent by 9 a.m.
Speaking to reporters later in the day, new Detroit Police Chief James Craig said the communications meltdown delayed police response to more than a dozen priority one calls — and more than 100 non-priority calls.
"This is a service and a lack of accountability issues. I'm just gonna be clear; I'm not gonna put icing on something that doesn't need it," Craig said. "This should not have happened."
Craig said there are a lot of unanswered questions.
"I did ask the question as to why that could have happened. When was the last time we tested our system? It had not been tested," Craig said. "I am very concerned about it. I am going to make an exhaustive review of why that could have happened."
Craig said, for now, the department is only handling emergency calls. He asked residents with non-emergencies to go to a police station and file a complaint.
Friday afternoon, the system was patched into Michigan State Police towers.
Gary Brown, Chief Compliancy Officer for the city, said the fix is a temporary one — in place while Motorola technical engineers work on the communications tower.
"The fact that it's almost a holiday is helping us," Brown said. "And the fact that we now have Homeland Security as well as the state police helping to free up 10 channels should resolve the issue until we can get to the bottom of why that tower went down."
Brown, a former Detroit police officer himself, said this isn't the first time the tower has failed — and he says he knows firsthand what a handicap it can be to try to fight crime without radio contact.
A source talking to Thomas said there have been problems with the Motorola system since before the 9-11 terror attacks; and that someone dropped the ball because there is no backup system.
Worried city use might overload the state system, Craig said they're working with Verizon on a fallback plan.
Citizens are upset.
"This city is just in turmoil," said lifelong Detroiter, Carnel Williams. "I was just here to do community service and I can't even get inside the police station."
Hayward Hall, age 70, says Detroit public safety could use an infusion of federal dollars. "Detroit is a border … an international border city. If any resources should come, we should obtain it."
As of Friday afternoon, there was no timetable for when the city's communication system would be back up and running.


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ADRIAN, Mich. – The Adrian College men's volleyball team opened day two of the Michigan Men's Volleyball Invitational with a win over fellow Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League member Olivet College, 3-1.
Final Score: Adrian 3, Olivet 1 (22-25, 25-20, 25-21, 25-16)
Location: Adrian, Mich. (Merillat Sport and Fitness Center)
Records: AC 2-1, OC 0-3
Adrian didn't do itself any favors in the first set, hitting just .097 during Olivet's only set victory, a 25-22 decision. The Bulldogs would right the ship in the second set, holding off a late Comet comeback to even the match with a 25-20 set victory.
The Bulldogs' offense came alive in the third setting, hitting at .324 for the highest pct. of the match. Junior Noah Marcinkowski and senior Mike Gold each picked up five kills in the third set as AC put itself 25 points from victory with a 25-21 win in the third set. The Black and Gold would not be denied in the fourth set, cruising to a 25-16 victory in the final frame to take the match at 3-1.
For the first time this year Adrian was actually out-blocked, with Olivet stuffing 13 Bulldog attempts to Adrian's 11 total team blocks in the match. AC's offense got the better of Olivet's however, with the Bulldogs hitting .227 to the Comets' .113.
• Marcinkowski racked up 18 kills and hit .359. Gold added nine kills and fellow senior Michael Burkhardt picked up eight and hit at a team-high .412 pct.
• Junior Joseph Campana had 44 of Adrian's 46 assists.
• Junior Kevin Curley led the squad in digs with 16, while Marcinkowski and Burkhardt each had 3.5 blocks.
• Brock Pringle and Trent Robinson led Olivet's offense with 13 and 12 kills, respectively.
• Aaron Giorgi finished with 39 assists.
• Robinson and Dan Hayes each assisted on five blocks.
Adrian will finish the Michigan Men's Volleyball Invitational later today with the final match of the invite against cross-town rival Siena Heights. First serve is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
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Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple is one of the 12 Jyotirlingas, the most sacred abodes of Lord Shiva. Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple is situated at Srisailam, in Andhra Pradesh state, India.
When Lord Shiva and Parvati decided to find brides for their sons, their sons Ganesha and Kartikeya had an argument as to who is to get married first. Lord Shiva ordered that the one who goes round the world in Pradakshinam could get married first. It is Lord Ganesha who was successful in this test by going around his parents 7 times. (Going in pradakshinam round one's parents is considered as going once round the world). Lord Karthikeya went around the world and it took longer time. Lord Kartikeya, on completion of his Pradakshinam was enraged and went away to stay alone on Mount Kravunja in the name of Kumarabrahmachari. On seeing his father Lord Shiva, coming over to pacify him, Kartikeya tried to move to another place; but Devas requested him to stay nearby. Shrishailam is the place where Lord Siva and Parvati stayed when they visited Kartikeya. It is believed that Lord Siva visits Lord Kartikeya on Amavasya day and Goddess Parvati visits her son Kartikeya on Poornima day.
"Mahashivratri" is the main festival of the Mallikarjuna Swamy temple, Srisailam. There is a huge idol of Nadikeshwara in the center of the Mandapam in this temple.
How Do I Go to Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple?
Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple is at a distance of around 230 kilometers from Hyderabad city. Chennai and Bangalore alias Bangalooru are at a distance of 360 and 370 kilometers distance respectively from Mallikarjuna Swamy Temple at Srisailam.


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I'm not saying you have to pack up the beach towels and sunscreen yet. You are even welcome to continue wearing white shoes. In fact, all we need is one good Santa Ana wind and I'm thinking Thanksgiving by the sea.
Nonetheless, I am here to announce that the summer holidays are over and we are now officially on the fall-winter holiday track. I know. I complain about forcing the holidays as much as the next guy, but the signs are upon us.
How do I know this? Well, sure we have Labor Day, but the real hallmark is that I just bought my first stocking stuffer. Everywhere and anytime I shop from now until Dec. 24 will include cruising end caps, bargain bins and dollar stores for cheap, goofy, fun, perhaps useful sock-sized items to fill my family's Christmas stockings. I have to admit, finding the stuff is almost more fun than watching them unwrap it.
What? You say I have nearly-grown children so why would I be filling Christmas stockings? That's the trouble with having a terrific mother like I did, who filled our stockings to overflowing every Christmas of my life and then went on to do it for her grandchildren. I believe there was some brief discussion once of ending that tradition. My kids made it very clear that would not be acceptable, thank you very much. Hence, I have to get an early start to gathering the items, which goes against my nature. When it is still almost four months until Christmas, it basically takes all my willpower to hang on to the stuff I find that is either hilarious or they could really use right now.
OK. You need more definite harbingers of the shift in seasons? Catalogs. The wish-books have started arriving, with lots of Halloween decorating ideas, Thanksgiving goodies and a sprinkling of Christmas stuff.
The retail merchants are already sneaking stuff onto the shelves, as well. I shamelessly weakened and bought some Halloween mugs and candy dishes for my party-maven daughter. She had the good sense to ask me to store them away until at least the end of September. I hope she remembers where I put them.
If you need any more absolute proof, my gardener-husband told me that some of the seasonal plants in our backyard are starting to show signs of change. I have to trust him on this since they look the same to me. We'd really like a liquidambar tree to show its gorgeous red and orange leaves, but we have to find our Southern California indicators where we can.
I promise, absolutely no pumpkins on my porch until Oct. 1, but remember, ladies. The best part of the holidays is that you can start shopping with a completely clear conscience. That's my favorite present.
Jean Gillette is the Community News editor for The Coast News Group. As a journalist, she primarily worked in San Clemente and Los Angeles. She has been with the Coast News for 20 years and lives in La Costa.


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Fine Art: Transmission, a response to Anthony Caro's Sea Music
Caro's sculpture, Sea Music, became a stage for a new work combining projection, sound and movement by Richard Waring and Sian Hutchings.
Sea Music is considered an important sculpture created by one of Britain's greatest sculptors, Anthony Caro, and is the only site-specific public sculpture by the artist in the UK. The piece responds to the waves of boat sails and echoes the sound of the sea.
The performance, Transmission, supported by AUB and Arts Council England, re-envisioned Sea Music as a performative spectacle, created by BA (Hons) Fine Art Course Leader, Richard Waring, and artist and alumnus Sian Hutchings.
In the piece, performers reacted to pre-recorded audio; the noise of steel captured through contact microphones attached directly to Sea Music's surface. The performing artists responded to the sonic traces, an analogue from an industrial past, hearing it for the first time, live on the night. This discordant gesture, a play by the artists on unknowingness, gave the performance a vulnerability that echoes that of the sculpture itself, perched on the edge of Poole quay side.
As the performers responded to Sea Music's roars and hisses, a horizon of white light swept up and down, simulating the smooth progression of a scanner as it moves across a page. This white line connects the work to other possibilities and ideas – the blinding radiance of a nuclear horizon; the edge of a page; a row of glitched empty pixels. Through this machinic gesture, we witness the unfolding illumination of bodies as they move around the sculpture.
The work plays with the multiple meanings of scan. To scan is to search; to traverse; to resolve for transmission; to analyse the rhythms of sound; to convert into digital form. This conversion, the transformation of objects into numerical code, has enabled the digitization of archives, libraries and collections across the world. The scanner is like a vast universal eye flicking through space, translating everything in its field into signals. These signals, compressed and stored as bits and bytes, can be called upon at anytime to reveal the world as an image.
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To celebrate Sea Music, AUB took part in a number of events, including hosting a recent talk from Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Peter Murray.


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One of the coolest things about moving to New England is getting to experience New York City during the holidays. I've tried to snap a lot of photos whenever I see something festive, so I hope you enjoy the city at Christmastime too!
|The Rockefeller Christmas Tree is definitely a must-see. Did you know after the tree is taken down that the wood is donated to Habitat for Humanity?
|I suggest grabbing some hot chocolate and treats from Jacques Torres. There is one located on the lower level of 30 Rock. It's the perfect way to keep warm while watching the ice skaters or checking out the holiday window displays along 5th Avenue.
|I hate to say it, but I forget what store window this is! I want to say this is Saks Fifth Avenue. These dresses were gorg though! I wish I had an event to wear them to. Dressing up is my favorite!
|Many an engagement ring have traveled in and out of these doors on Gossip Girl…
Harry Winston had my favorite decorations this year. Unfortunately, this photo does the decorations zero justice. It was breathtaking.
|Of course Tiffany & Co. had to have my favorite window display! Their displays are really simple and gorgeous this year. I wonder if there is a lucky lady out there getting this lovely rock for Christmas or New Year's Eve this year…
I hope you enjoyed the photos. I had planned to run 20 miles in the city before I had to head into my new job today, but I figured I could just do it next week (when hopefully people are on vacation). My mapped route is a 20-miler from Harlem to Brooklyn and everywhere in-between. I'll keep a look out for more potential "Christmas in the City" photos! Any place you would specifically like to see? Let me know in the comments below!
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Mystery Sketch Theater
Mystery Sketch Theater happens every first Wednesday of the month. I went on February 5th. The sketch session happens in an empty warehouse in Winter Park, (784 Cherry St, Winter Park, FL). Kiki Aran was the model for the evening, dressed in a purple gown with a huge golden collar-breast plate and belt. For the February session, she was first dressed as Wonder Woman and then a female Ozymandias (comic version).
Kiki is a college professor by day and a cosplay crafting junkie by night. Best known for her Zero Suit Samus cosplay, her interests include FPS and Survival horror games, cerebral anime, DC Comics, and anything BBC. You can find her on FaceBook, or you might have seen her at Megacon 2014.
As always there was a competition and artists were given the challenge of sketching Kiki in a battle with corgis, that is right, those stumpy British pups. The winner walked away with Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece, "My Neighbor Totoro" DVD. Since I already own the DVD I don't feel too bad. I was nowhere near finished when it came time to put the drawings on the model stand. I needed every minute to finish what I had started. As usual my attention shifted to the creators rather than just the model.
It always feels good having the luxury of a model who stays still. I need to get out to these sketch sessions more often. The next Mystery Sketch Theater Presents, Tokyo Belle on Wednesday, April 2 at 8:00pm. The Warehouse is at 784 Cherry St, Winter Park, FL 32789.
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SLOW COOKER PORK CHILI VERDE — Tender pork, slow cooked in a spicy chili verde sauce. Delicious on it's own, or served with warm tortillas and a dollop of sour cream.
I've been wanting to make my own pork chili verde for a long time. But all the recipes I've come across seemed so complicated….requiring me to roast peppers and tomatillos and put in all kinds of time and effort. Until I discovered this Slow Cooker Pork Chili Verde!
I figured there must be a way to make a great chili verde without all that work. The secret, I think, is in searing the pork before placing it in the slow cooker, then cooking the vegetables in the same pan.
It gives this dish a great depth of flavor, but isn't as time consuming as all that roasting. And let me tell you, this stuff is amazing!
Like, I would choose it for my last meal kind of amazing–especially served up with some sour cream and cheese.
And with warm tortillas for dipping–knock your socks off good! My family wholeheartedly agrees.
No one ever complains that the recipe makes enough to feed us for two days.
Here's what you'll need to make Slow Cooker Pork Chili Verde
- Pork tenderloin
- Olive oil
- Produce: onion, Anaheim peppers, garlic, fresh cilantro
- Chicken broth
- Canned green chilies
- Green Tabasco sauce
- Flour
- Spices: salt and pepper, chili powder, cumin, oregano
Slow Cooker Pork Chili Verde
Tender pork, slow cooked in a spicy chili verde sauce. Delicious on it's own, or served with warm tortillas and a dollop of sour cream.
- 1 (2 pound) pork tenderloin
- 2-3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 Anaheim pepper, seeded and chopped
- 3-4 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 2 large (27 oz.) cans green chilies
- 1 (10 oz.) can green enchilada sauce
- 1-2 tablespoons green Tabasco sauce
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1/3 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- Heat 1-2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- Cut pork tenderloin into 2 or 3 large chunks and season generously with salt and pepper.
- Place pork in hot oil and sear on all sides until well browned. Remove pork and place in slow cooker.
- Add onion, Anaheim pepper and garlic to the skillet (adding more olive oil if necessary) and cook for 3-5 minutes, stirring to remove any browned bits from the bottom of the pan.
- Add pepper and onion mixture to the slow cooker with the pork.
- Cover with chicken broth and cook on high for 3-4 hours, or until pork is tender.
- Meanwhile, puree the 2 cans of green chilies, with juice, in a food processor or blender (you may have to puree one can at a time).
- Stir the flour, green enchilada sauce, Tabasco, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, chili powder, cumin and oregano into to the pureed chilies. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
- Remove pork from slow cooker and shred. Return to slow cooker, along with pureed pepper mixture and cilantro.
- Cook on low for another 3-5 hours. Serve with sour cream, shredded cheese and tortillas.
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Children's Day Cookout and Softball Game
We will have our annual Children's Day cookout this Sunday after the morning worship service. All are welcome! At 2 pm, please join us at Riverside Park to for a softball game between Ward Hill Church and King of Grace Church. It should be a great day!


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Oldham Sport Active Project
Community 1st Oldham supports the 2014 Oldham Sport Active Project, which is a new initiative led by Oldham Community Leisure (OCL), working alongside Oldham Athletic Community Trust and Oldham College. Community 1st Oldham and Sport England's Community Sport Activation Fund are providing funding for the project.
The initiative aims to inspire people from deprived areas to get involved in sport and will offer a host of sporting activities in leisure centres, youth zones, parks and community centres across the Oldham borough.
The project will build on the success of OCL's previous project, Energize, which Community 1st Oldham also supported, and hopes to encourage people to get involved in sport and increase participation in different sporting activities in all age groups from 14 upwards, creating sporting habits for life.


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We are thrilled to announce that we are finally starting a blog here at Radar Themes. Why is this news you may ask? We are very big advocates of WordPress and the WP ecosystem, thus would not only like to provide our users with great themes for their blog but, also provide them with tools and resources that will help them improve their day-to-day workflow.
Prior to now, our initial focus has been solely on creating the best personal WordPress themes for you (which we will continue to do) but, there is a lot more we can provide to our members and readers to help them become more productive. Over the coming months we will begin to update our blog more frequently with articles, resources, and videos.
Here are some things you can expect from us in the coming months:
Web Design Inspiration
When we are creating themes we often find inspiration from various sources on and offline. Such inspirations comes from music, blogs, videos, showcases, walking etc. There are many great resources for designers that allows us to create amazing themes. We are always looking forward to sharing some of our designs techniques as well as coding techniques.
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There are so many interesting tools available for bloggers and developers online. While we are users of various tools, we strongly believe in giving back to the community via open source projects. As time progresses we will begin to inform our users on tools we use on a day-to-day basis.
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Go behind the scenes to see what it takes to create a premium WordPress theme. We will cover the entire process, so our viewers are able to visualize how themes are constructed and brought to life.
As of now these are topics and subjects that we plan to cover via our blog. While these topics can be a little broad, we hope to expand your expertise by writing solely about WordPress and tools we use that interact and work with WP. Stay tuned!


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It's good to talk
I'm in the middle of reading this amazing book called: 'The Language of Life: How Cells Communicate in Health and Disease.'
My biology teacher would be so proud of me. The last real science I learned was when I was 14, and we'd just got up to the part where they give you the eyeball of a bull to dissect.
To say I didn't enjoy the experience would be quite the understatement - and now I'm reading books talking about WnT and Sonic Hedgehog and chemotaxis proteins. (Let's be clear that reading is not necessarily the same as understanding what the heck it's talking about…)
But I'm understanding enough to share the following amazing ideas with you:
Even the lowliest single-celled cell 'talks'. The language it uses is chemicals - it squirts out a bit of this stuff for 'turn left' and a bit of that stuff for 'stop here and eat lunch' - but cells, amoebas, micro-organisms all talk.
And when you shift up gears to the incredibly complicated mechanism that is the human body, the conversations get more and more diverse and intellectual. For example, hormones are one of the ways G-d created for the different parts of the human body to 'talk' to other parts.
That's how you can get a bad attack of PMS and instantly go for your husband's jugular. We all take it for granted that we want to yell at them, and a split second later that's what we're doing.
But if not for the chemical 'signalling system' that's been ingeniously set up in our bodies via our hormones, it could take days, weeks, or even months for the order to 'attack your poor spouse' to actually make its way down from our brain to our mouth.
Jews know from our sources that G-d 'spoke' the world into being with His 10 utterances. We also know how crucially powerful and potentially holy or destructive the power of speech actually is. What's amazing to me, is that even at the most basic level of biological life, G-d's conversation is continuing.
This has repercussions for a number of reasons: ill health comes about when a message gets 'misread' or misheard, or misspoken, leading to cells doing something destructive and 'sick-making'.
Good communication is key for life and health to continue, even at this most simple level of being. So imagine, how important good communication becomes when you start to deal with a sentient creation like a human being.
It's not for nothing that our Sages taught that 'Life and death are both in the tongue'.
If one mis-squirted chemical sentence can end in physical illness and even death, imagine what one actual sentence, with real words, can do to build or destroy our relationships, our families or our communities.
It's a scary thought.
But G-d in His wisdom has put a number of checks and balances in place, that means that even the most 'dangerous' conversations can usually be contained and turned around, as soon as the cells involved recognise that they're actually talking gibberish, or saying something bad.
In humans, I guess this equates to teshuva, when we suddenly wake up and realise that bad-mouthing the neighbours, or screaming at the kids, or criticising our spouse is probably not the most helpful thing to be doing with our speech.
G-d gives us, and our cells, so much leeway, to identify our destructive communication patterns, and to replace them with much more wholesome, healthy sentiments.
A final idea from the book: when cells stop communicating - when other cells ignore them, or give them the cold shoulder - they literally commit suicide. Cells are very sociable things.
I think of how all our face-to-face conversations are being replaced by email, or txt messages, or Facebook, and I shudder. Because while all these things look like communication, at least on some level, they're actually monologues, not dialogues.
And monologues really only work in theatre, not in real life.
So let me give us all a blessing, that G-d should continue to talk to Us, and we should try to talk to Him; that we should continue to dialogue with our loved ones, and not just get stuck in beautifully-crafted but energetically dead 'electronic set pieces'; and that our cells should continue to whisper words of good health, happiness and peace to each other.
Amen v'Amen.
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CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide. Since then it has evolved to be an all inclusive fitness program for people of any athletic capability. Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, sports, and life all reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.
The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We've used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don't change programs. The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ by degree not kind. Our armed forces, skiers, mountain bike riders and housewives have found their best fitness from the same regimen.
Here is a breakdown of our membership rates. If you're interested in giving us a try, schedule a free one-on-one and we'll show you what Stay Strong is all about. For more info on our class offerings, visit our PROGRAMS page.
Single CrossFit Unlimited:
Month-to-Month: $150
3-Month: $135 6-Month: $120
Couples CrossFit Unlimited:
M-t-M: $270 3-Month: $245
6-Month: $215
Family (3+ members):
M-t-M: $380 3-Month: $340
6-Month: $305
(6 sessions): $75
1-0n-1 Fundamentals: $45 per session
Personal Training: $60/hour
Small Group Training: $35/hour/per athlete (2 athletes) $25/hour/per athlete (3+ athletes)
Team Sports Performance Training (minimum of 10+ athletes): $10 per athlete per session
First, we'd like you to schedule a free one-on-one session so we can show you around Stay Strong and introduce you to our training methodology and culture. After that, we have a great program for people who are brand new to functional fitness. Our Stay Strong Fundamentals course is exactly what you need to join the group CrossFit classes with confidence. Here's a little breakdown of what we'll cover:
Class 1- Lower Body Pushing and "What is Crossfit"
ie. AS, BS, FS, OHS with a WOD
Class 2- Upper Body Pulling and "How to Scale Movements"
ie. Pull Up, Rope Climb with a WOD
Class 3- Lower Body Pulling and "Nutrition"
ie. DL, KBS with a WOD
Class 4- Upper Body Pushing and "Goal Setting"
is. Push Up, Dip, Pressing with a WOD
Class 5- Advanced Gymnastics and "Developing ROM and Mobility"
ie. MU, HS Walking, Pistols with a WOD
Class 6- Weightlifting and "What we have to Offer"
ie. Snatch, Clean, Jerk with a WOD
Plus, if you sign up before the month is done, we'll also throw in some awesome Stay Strong swag!
A WOD is the workout of the day. We program a different WOD everyday.
If you're an experienced CrossFitter traveling though, we'd love for you to stop in and train with us! Our drop in rate is $15/class.
Yes! We offer personal fundamentals classes for people who are new to functional fitness. We also offer one-on-one training for athletes who want to take their fitness and/or athletic ability to the next level. Check out our PROGRAMS page for more info.


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Like a ghost from the past, Cajun chef Justin Wilson lives on, laughing and wandering the endless hallways of YouTube. His 1980s Cookin' Cajun episodes from PBS are well worth squandering your free time.
As kids, we thought he was pretty hilarious. The New Orleans patois: Awn-yawn! That red string tie! Those matching suspenders. What a kook.
Gumbo. Jambalaya. Red beans and rice. Dirty rice. Hush puppies. Pralines. It was all so exotic compared to our WASPy facsimile of cut up hot dogs sauteed with onion and crushed tomato sauce, Worchestershire and scant red pepper flakes, served over steamed white rice.
More refined was chef Paul Prudhomme, clad in his head-to-corpulent-toe chef whites. His Cajun blackening craze was everywhere by this point. Blackened red snapper, anyone? Get that pan smoking hot, flip the hood fan and for god's sake, don't breathe in!
Decoding blackening spice pre-internet era was a labour. Long before Emeril was hawking his Essence, you had to make your own. It didn't take long for Cajun chicken Caesar salad to find a home on every chain restaurant menu. Even our beloved 1980s-era Seventeen Magazine took a crack at jambalaya. Cajun- and Creole- inspired cuisine limped along throughout the 2000s with chicken pasta dishes that were creamy, spicy and loaded with veggies.
Cajun refuses to go away. We can't think of anything more fitting than a sophisticated Louisana remoulade to enjoy with some shrimp or crab cakes while relaxing on deck with something cool.
Just yesterday, we spotted this:
Earls restaurant chain has steadfastly kept Cajun blackened chicken breasts on its menu for decades.
You can see by the amount of paprika in their recipe, they've toned down the pepper's kick. Paul Prudhomme would never stand for it. And you just know Justin eschewed black pepper for his love of the scorching cayenne: "That's much more better. Ah gah-rawn-tee!"
1 tablespoon sweet paprika
2 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon cayenne
3⁄4 teaspoon white pepper
3⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
1⁄2 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
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Do you sometimes find yourself waking up with a headache, even after a good night's sleep? Or maybe you jaw hurts in the morning and you have no idea why? If so, you may be suffering from bruxism which is the grinding and clenching of teeth. Most of the times it occurs at night during sleep, therefore most people suffering from it are totally unaware of their habit until they start to feel some very unpleasant symptoms.
Is bruxism dangerous?
It is very important to know that during grinding the forces applied on your teeth are about 90 times higher than during normal chewing, therefore bruxism can cause teeth to become painful or loose, and sometimes parts of the teeth are literally chip or crumble away. Eventually, bruxism can destroy the bone and gum tissues surrounding the tooth. It can also lead to problems involving the jaw joint, most commonly the temporomandibular joint (TMJ).
How do I know if I have bruxism?
Because for most people bruxism is an unconscious habit, they may not even realize they're doing it until e.g. a relative points out to them that they make a grinding sound while sleeping. For others, a routine dental check-up is when a dentist discovers their teeth are worn or their tooth enamel is fractured.
Other potential signs of bruxism include aching of the face, head and neck.
Your dentist can make an accurate diagnosis and determine if the source of facial pain is caused by bruxism.
How is bruxism treated?
Out of many different causes of bruxism, stress is the most common one. The appropriate treatment for you will depend on what is causing the problem. By asking careful questions and thoroughly examining your teeth, your dentist can help you determine the potential reason of your bruxism.
Based on the amount of tooth damage and its likely cause, your dentist may suggest:
- Wearing an appliance while sleeping. Custom-made by your dentist to fit your teeth, the appliance slips over the upper teeth and protects them from grinding against the lower teeth. While an appliance is a good way to manage bruxism, it is not a cure.
- Finding ways to relax. Because everyday stress seems to be a major cause of bruxism, anything that reduces stress can help-listening to music, reading a book, taking a walk or a bath. It may help to seek counselling to learn effective ways for handling stressful situations. Also, applying a warm, wet washcloth to the side of your face can help relax muscles sore from clenching.
- Reducing the "high spots" of one or more teeth to even your bite. An abnormal bite, one in which teeth do not fit well together, may also be corrected with new fillings, crowns or orthodontics.
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Back in 2014, Ferrari upset some purists when they first introduced their new twin-turbocharged V8 engine in the California T. That engine would eventually make it's way into the 458 Italia's successor, the 488, and the GTC4Lusso T; thus effectively killing off the last naturally aspirated V8 in Ferrari's lineup. Now, it seems as though the Italian automaker is looking to upset more purists with a hybrid V8 engine.
In an interview with Auto Express, Ferrari Boss Sergio Marchionne said "A Ferrari V8 hybrid is coming for 2019. The test mules are around now." Unsurprisingly, no power outputs or efficiency figures have been mentioned for now. That said, it will be the first time a production model Ferrari will use a hybrid system after first being introduced in the highly limited LaFerrari and LaFerrari Aperta.
Unlike the LaFerrari's hybrid system however, Marchione says that the new powertrain needs to 'become more of a traditional hybrid to fullfill a different role'. In review, the LaFerrari used a Formula 1 Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) to boost performance rather than increase efficiency. As such, a more traditional hybrid could mean that Ferrari will use a plug-in hybrid system on the vehicle.
Marchionne also did not mention as which vehicle in Ferrari's line up will use the new hybrid powertrain. The timing of its release suggests that it could be used in the brand's upcoming SUV, which is also slated to debut in 2019.
Source: Auto Express


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Good aim and timing will bring your team the win!
Step up to the plate for an exciting challenge. How many home runs can you hit before the pitcher runs out of balls? It's time to find out in this free online game.
Make a good position, hit the ball and score points.
Teamwork is everything in this baseball game!
Batter, yer up!!
When the weather's bad outside, there's a realistic summer sandlot waiting for you right here...
Slug that ball out of the park—and take out some birds while you're at it!
You'll need some serious skills (or a miracle) to score the winning touchdown!
Hank loves baseball but clowns? Not so much. Help him bop these bozos with a barrage of baseballs in this crazy sports game. They're trying to put a smile on his face but Hank would rather put a frown on theirs!
This big league slugger is facing the ultimate challenge! Join him at home plate while he tries to hit as many fastballs as possible in this intense sports game. Just like in a real baseball game, he'll be out if he gets three strikes!
Can you hit a few home runs and strike out the other team when they're up to bat?
How many balls can you block while you defend the wicket in this sports game? Join this wicket-keeper while he fights to prevent the other team from scoring runs.
This is what you get when you cross baseball with tennis...
All-star baseball has a new meaning now!
There art of batting all comes down to the right timing.
Head to the park and get ready to kick your way to glory, hipster style.
Just landing a hit won't cut it. You need to have accuracy and precision in this ball game!
The timer is running, but what's more important is your timing.
Step up to the plate and find out if you can knock a few balls right out of the park. Can you beat all of the different challenges that are waiting for you in this baseball game?
Enter this urban baseball field and show your skills!
Known as "America's pastime" (though it was originally developed in England and is also widely played in Japan and Cuba and other countries, too), baseball games are one of North America's most beloved sports. It's remained popular for centuries, with leagues ranging from the youngest kids to international associations of professionals. (The most prominent, of course, being MLB – Major League Baseball.) What do you do when you can't go to the park to play? Perfect your virtual pitch on the web instead of our baseball simulation games.
Our online baseball games let you focus on whatever aspect of the game you like best: pitching, catching or running the bases. Hit endless home runs or pitch the perfect curveball. Play as an individual player or a whole team, from kiddie games in the park to celebrity players and real teams. You can even win the World Series!
Graphics range from the cute cartoons of Ultimate Baseball and Baseball Blast to photo-perfect imagery in games like Super Slugger and Baseball Pro. Or mix the two with the Pixar-like realistic 3D cartoon of Big League Chew, where lovers of films like Sandlot can live out the retro fun with the boys.
A day in the baseball park is a great thing, but the rest of the time, you can slip into a simulation to get your baseball fix. Live out the fantasy of playing as a pro, or just escape with the other kids in an inner-city game. You'll never strike out with our baseball games.


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Saturday, June 8th
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Science Saturday!
On the second Saturday of every month, kids get to be the scientists – mom and dad can help. Join museum educators as they bring science down to earth and then across the universe. Hands on activities, planetarium programs, and more!
More information about this event is available at http://www.nmspacemuseum.org.


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Details from the Cybergun Annual Earnings Report for FY 2009
For More Details, check here: http://www.actusnews.com/communique.php?ID=ACTUS-0-20400
Details of the report, via Translation From Google Translate:
"Record 2009 annual results
FY March 2009-April 2010
Cybergun, world leader in recreational shooting, announced record results for fiscal 2009 (ended March 31, 2010) and consistent with objectives.
Business growth and improved margins:
The very strong business momentum, and strengthening of the distribution network and product catalog have enabled Cybergun to achieve a turnover of 50.7 Euros, up 19%. Economies of scale and productivity gains have produced an operating margin (EBIT) of 10.8%, up 3.6 points, and a net profit of 3.0 Million Euros, against 1.1 Million Euros from the previous year.
While announcing a .50 Euro-per-share dividend, Cybergun also looks into 2010 with great confidence. Enlargement of the European list of paintball items, increased commercial presence in the U.S. (with the aquisition of Spartan Imports) and the integration of Inokatsu, leader of high-end product development, are all asets for future growth. If the increases in the U.S. were to persist, it would be generally favorable to the group that produced 70% of its sales in the U.S.
Cybergun Group will publish its turnover 1st quarter 2010 (period Apr-Jun 2010) July 27 2010, after the stock market close."


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How can I set password expiration without locking out accounts?
The first time the policy is invoked, the security policy will check the last password date, which appears to come from the notes.id file rather than from the person document, as you have indicated. If the last change date is greater than 90 days, then the security policy settings are applied.
In my experience, if you are going to implement security settings via policy documents, it is best to remove the previous process -- that is, standard password checking through the Domino Directory -- and then apply the security policy once password checking (i.e., Domino Directory, "Actions" menu, "Set Password Fields," "Don't Check password") has been disabled.
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Lancashire fire and rescue service received a deluge of calls as torrential rain again battered the county.
Following on from Friday's thunderstorms which caused flash flooding in parts of South Ribble, fire crews were again busy last night as the rain returned in the wake of a "Spanish plume".
Firefighters responded to a flurry of calls in Morecambe and Heysham.
Some properties suffered flooding and residents were given advice and reassurance about the effect on electrics.
Crews were called to properties including Parliament Street. Morecambe; Fairfield Road, Heysham; Westboro Close, Heysham; Heysham Road, Heysham; and Westminster Road, Morecambe.


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The people have spoken! I asked you to help me pick a New Year card design, and between your Facebook votes and my kids, we decided to go with this Snippet card design.
Our New Year cards were simple to customize and easy to order. They arrived well before the estimated delivery date, and came well-protected in bubble wrap in a sturdy cardboard box. (Incidentally, my girls would like to extend a personal thank you to Minted for the bubble wrap. They sure enjoyed it!)
So what did we think?
We loved them!
They're the perfect 5″ x 7″ size and printed on thick card stock. The cards come complete with perfectly sized matching envelopes and sheets of vellum to slip inside the cards for shipping. The fancy vellum is a nice touch that made our cards ;that much more special. Our envelopes were printed with cute little snowflakes matching the ones on our cards, and I used Minted's free Address Assistant service to get our addresses professionally printed on the envelopes.
This was my girls' first experience with the vanishing tradition of holiday cards, and they loved the entire process from folding our cards, writing in them, placing them inside the envelopes, putting the stamps on, and taking them down to the mailbox. They didn't all go in the mailbox though. We ended up keeping a handful of cards back to hand deliver to their teachers and to Grandma. The girls were so very excited to deliver a little bit of New Year cheer!
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In 2008, I had a heart attack.
I had a stent inserted but during the operation I had a second heart attack and so another stent was needed.
My life until then had been spent working in the care field.
It began as a roving first aid responder at Heathrow Airport, then moved to caring for the elderly in a residential setting.
After a year working nights as a Care Assistant in a Nursing Home my nose took me into the field of mental health and dementia.
I found the work fascinating and heartbreaking due to the callous, profiteering nature of Care(!) Home providers.
I managed a sheltered housing scheme for 8 residents in East Sheen – which I hated.
Management meant staying in an office, dealing with budgets, Doctors and social workers.
I moved on a lot back then.
Learning Difficulties, Challenging Behaviour and the most upsetting for me – Acquired Brain Injury.
Owners of Homes used me to clean sweep their businesses.
Each home was eager for my knowledge and ideas on dealing with 'challenging' clients and to train other carers.
Exploring other ideas I had meant working for Agencies where I lived in Clients homes.
24 hours a day, 7 days a week gave me even greater insights into the issues that my clients faced.
I chatted with neighbours of my clients, dispelling their fears and getting them onside.
I asked local businesses to help spend time with them and even give them some unpaid work.
All to get them out of the house and meet and engage with the community.
Exhausting and wonderful.
It transformed their lives and I hope transformed those who gave their time, cash and love to them.
The heart attacks meant an end to all that, sadly.
I discharged myself from hospital after three days.
For the first three months, I was crippled. Gasping for breath, my liver shut down and I turned an interesting shade of yellow.
My doctor was useless so I stopped going though I did continue to take 7 lots of medication for a year.
I was living in Islington at the time but it was isolating for me and expensive. Relying on savings meant I had to find alternative accommodation quickly.
An old friend kindly allowed me to stay in his flat in west London when he holidayed abroad. Another friend allowed me to sit in his workshop during the day to keep warm and even threw me some money and bought me food in return for answering the phone.
Soon I was offered other flat sitting opportunities and some people even paid me to protect their properties when they were away on business. A weekend here, a fortnight there – time passed and my health slowly improved.
One year after the heart attacks, my girlfriend was diagnosed with Breast cancer.
Never rains but pours eh ? Long weekends were spent at her place in Surrey
My girlfriend struggled through the chemotherapy and the rest of her treatment but, one year on, she was given the all clear. She had beaten cancer but our relationship had changed from lovers to carers for each other and we parted.
A year later and I began suffering other health problems. My breathing had never properly recovered and I developed many infections.My back and neck stiffened and caused me pain. My left hand began to hurt and I could no longer clench my fist. By this time, the Conservatives had been elected, London became meaner and many of my friends had left the city. I found myself struggling to find accommodation and work opportunities were drying up. Care work was no longer an option because of Insurance issues and my worsening health meant I was no longer reliable, even for the piecemeal work I sought.
Cutting my needs and relying more and more on my meagre savings I struggled on for another two years. During this time I met up with an ex partner who also was my oldest friend. She was living in Gwynedd, North Wales, with an abusive partner and her autistic PDA son. I helped her leave the relationship and set up a new home.
Social Services in the Gwynedd area are appalling. She has had no support and Bangor CAMHS refuse to acknowledge the boy has any mental health issues, at all. After one incident, in which the teenage boy used violence against her, I gritted my teeth and moved in with both of them. That was 18 months ago now.
All my years in Mental Health did not prepare me in anyway for PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance). Within weeks my blood pressure went through the roof, chest pains, my heart rate became erratic. I ended up presenting myself at Shrewsbury A&E. (I have had experience of Ysbty Gwynedd and #BCUHB, who treated me after drinking contaminated water and, again when my partner miscarried our baby – it is my hope never to go there again). All the tests were good – well for a man with my cardiac issues and the Hospital put it down to stress.
I then signed on with the local Doctors Surgery and was given statins. Blood tests followed. The statin caused so much pain I could hardly move. A different statin and then Ramipril – more pain than before. I stopped the statin then realised it was the Ramipril. After nearly three months of pain and distress – I stopped the medication. My health improved – my stress levels did not.
The Doctor noticed something during an examination and ordered a Lung test. I failed and was diagnosed with COPD. I have not been back to see her since. My breathing has worsened this last year, blood pressure still too high but I need to be able to move quickly to deal effectively with the teenager and also my disabled partners needs are increasing as she ages.
The boy had recently been given four hours of support a week to aid with his social independence skills. Without warning or a re-assessment of his needs the hours were reduced to two – illegal in law. Take note anyone who has had their child's support pulled.
The Support worker and Officer do not engage in any communication with us re the work they do with him. They refuse to give email addresses – no paper trail – do not give honest replies and are very evasive of communicating anything. So unprofessional compared to the integrated planning around the client which I had been used to.
I believe my health issues are made worse by living in and dealing with the un-professionals in #Gwynedd. But without my support what will happen to the boy and my partner ?
In a few months my savings will be exhausted and what then ?


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The future of PR and RTB
The convergence of real-time bidding and public relations is inevitable according to the founder of PR online marketing agency aimClear, Marty Weintraub.
Weintraub said traditionally branding and PR have been less focused at scale than direct response sales online.
"That's because, as a rule in previous generations of marketing, distribution to the masses was limited in focus by lack of targeting technologies," Weintraub said.
"Today, however, we can target content promotion widely by highly focused demographic and psychographics segments.
"Therefore smart PR folks understand that, from journalists to customer segments, we can use data via DSPs or exchanges to brand at scale with much greater granularity."
Weintraub believes the biggest challenge facing marketers today is how to stay relevant amid the "tectonic marketing technology shifts".
The checklist of skills that online marketers need to be able tick off today is long, diverse and complicated according to Weintraub (see below).
Weintraub's Checklist:
- Do I market to psychographics and segment personas properly?
- Do I understand at least 10 archetypal site retargeting methodologies?
- What systems can I apply to vet the avalanche of would be vendors? How might vendors' wares apply to my marketing mix? Are the data points I use to decide what tactics to test first informed, reasonable, and fully defensible?
- Am I taking inventory of every type of online marketing that converts currently, and following non-converted traffic for greater scale conversion?
- Am I fluent in both organic and paid online video marketing in the new age.
- Do I really comprehend the variables in mapping search to display?
- How do emergent third party data interrelationships fit? Where does retargeting become straight up intent targeting? Do I really understand what's happening here?
- Do I understand content, amplification, and how social distribution feeds the system?
- Do I create first and third-party systems that draw qualified customers into the attribution funnel and lead to conversion?
- Do I use social data to advise keyword research and vice versa? How clever can I be on the mashup tip?
- What is my philosophy of conversion? How do I handle the attribution mind f*ck?
- Do I really understand the TAO of top-of funnel/bottom-of-funnel systems
- Do I embrace the everlasting importance of segmented creative, designed for each unique touch a user encounters?
- Am I aware of the inevitable confluence of RTB and public relations?
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Don Mattingly contract: Agent says skipper will stay with Dodgers
Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly is prepared to be a lame duck entering next season.
Mattingly's agent, Ray Schulte, said Wednesday that Mattingly intends to honor his contract and return for a fourth season in the Dodger dugout. A vesting option in Mattingly's contract kicked in when the Dodgers advanced to this year's NLCS.
Schulte's comments will not end the intrigue around Mattingly's contract, however. Mattingly wants a long-term extension and made it clear Monday that he was not happy with the current state of talks. The Dodgers, meanwhile, declined their option on bench coach Trey Hillman, a trusted Mattingly lieutenant.
Dodgers team president Stan Kasten expressed little surprise that Mattingly would return.
"I always thought that," Kasten said, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Absolutely."
As for speculation that the Dodgers' front office isn't sold on Mattingly as a manager, Kasten said, "I've always been a big supporter of his."


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Food and Spiritual Paths
Nobody wants to be killed. Nobody wants to die. Nobody wants cruelty. NOBODY !!! Exactly nobody, therefore, everything that exists wants to have respect because everything that exists has a conciseness, therefore a way(s) of experience(s) life even death is experiencing life, isn't that ironic but the truth? Without life, there is not death but... Continue Reading →
-The energy that divides men and women-
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The surgeons of Ayahuasca
Have you ever heard about the surgeries that Mother Ayahuasca performs in her ceremonies? Ayahuasca Surgeries are amazing experiences that do not happen in every ceremony but when they happen, you will never forget about. -What are you talking about?- I am talking about literally feeling in the surgery room, -we all know how a... Continue Reading →
How the energies works in Ayahuasca Ceremonies
In a ceremony a shaman knows how to feel, work and direct the energies. The shaman has learnt to identity the energies . When a ceremony is being hold a shaman needs to deal with the energies from the outside ( the surroundings, possible interference like attacks send by other shamans for example) and the... Continue Reading →
The healers needs healing
Every year, every January I like to take time for myself to do a cleaning, to do my own inner work. To understand the lessons that the previous year brought to me, to make space for a new year. This January my intention was to do it as usual but the amount of energy that... Continue Reading →
Some years ago it was circulating on the internet an article that says I am not longer lightworker. Https://lonerwolf.com/non-duality-lightworker/ In this article is mentioned that:… the notion of being a lightworker is essentially a destructive form of identification that hinders our expansion in the long term. Is also mentioned several points that I would check... Continue Reading →
-Dear Healer apprentice –
The best years in the practice of magic for a Healer, are the years in which he/ she began his/her training because it is the time when he/she can enjoy the teachings of his/her teacher. The teachings from the plants for example. The training time, it is the time to meet, to heal, to get... Continue Reading →
-The teacher that I must not named- Part 01
When you pray to the universe and the universe answers back in a miraculous way: Couple of days ago I got a strong feeling of going to do something in particular place in my town. I have a feeling I will find a spiritual master.I went to this place, and the first day I meet... Continue Reading →
Marijuana and Ayahuasca
"Everything becomes medicine when we understand the power of its core". At the same time, everything is poison when we abuse the power of its core. It's all about FINDING BALANCE. Too much of one thing either can become medicine or poison something as simple as water for example.Water Poison check it... Continue Reading →
Spiritual Deaths with Ayahuasca
In a previous article, I was talking about the possible causes of physical deaths connected with Ayahuasca. In this article, I am going to write about the Spiritual Ayahuasca Deaths. ( Ayahuasca Death Part N01) Dying in Ayahuasca is one of the most beautiful experiences one can experience but also can be as dramatic as... Continue Reading →
-The Demon that wanted me –
This past weekend during our weekend retreat with the MADRE we had a very unusual exorcism during the first ceremony. Honestly, we always perform exorcisms of different types and energy cleansings for all our participants during our retreats. Many people are not aware of the existence of these demonic or parasitic energies, but they exist,... Continue Reading →
-When you follow your heart –
Had you ever wonder, how it is when you start really following your heart? Well... Let me tell you it's the best most difficult decision that you can take for yourself. Probably you will disappoint your family, friends, and others ... Probably you will have to finish your relationship of years... Probably you will have... Continue Reading →
-My encounter with the angels-
Some skeptics have told me before that I need to get real Angels does not exist and I must be crazy for mentioned in the same phrase with Ayahuasca. I cannot say I had never believed in angels, but I thought they are just fairy tales from the bible until the first Angel came to... Continue Reading →
-From love you can't live-
These words come from the 15 year old woman I was one day and that woman did not know what to reply... From love you can't live my mother told me... Love doesn't provide food, she said... And I used to just silence myself and listen, but my heart told me that's not the truth.... Continue Reading →
Ayahuasca is not a Religion… LOVE IS
In many opportunities, I had heard from people that didn't try Ayahuasca yet or didn't understand the real purpose of this tool that when you do Ayahuasca you become part of a sect or you become a fanatic or part of a kind of new age religion. By definition, Religion is 1The belief in and... Continue Reading →
The dictionaries define stupidity as a: Behaviour that shows a lack of proper sense or judgment(1). We all understand what good sense means and in this context judgment is referred as the rational action of anticipate the consequences of one's actions beforehand and not like the act of judging another person. I will not... Continue Reading →
"Here we are, you had have an amazing experience that has changed your life for ever and now you are back into "reality", into "your reality"… "what is next?"... Ayahuasca is a tool that helps us to clean, clear, heal, reconnect, awaken … Ayahuasca helps you to accelerate this process but for your transformation and... Continue Reading →
-Ayahuasca Deaths- Part No1
"In this article we will talk about the spiritual experience of dying during an Ayahuasca ceremony and the deaths that has been going around in the social media about physical deaths where Ayahuasca has been "involved" . Ayahuasca it is a plant that is sacred to many native South American indigenous and non-indigenous traditions, born... Continue Reading →
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"In my thirties with now nine years of experience in my field of work ( shamanism) I see my own life as individual , as a woman and the things that I had done, decisions I have taken in order to continue developing my skills, increasing my energy , myself and my knowledge". While my... Continue Reading →
-I am not a business woman-
"A while ago when I advertised some of my upcoming events in a group where the guidelines are: a group for promote events with the sacred plants so Everybody can advertise there but apparently this person, this brother haven't notes that and , because I am a person and not a organization and because it's... Continue Reading →
-I will disappoint you –
The last months I had received a lot of friendship request , I like to have friends , I think friends are a big part of our journeys. Anyhow there is something important to remember when you send a friendship request and you are accepted , it is like entering a house , a request... Continue Reading →
Awakening for a better world
Shaman ? The word shaman comes from a word of Siberian origin that identifies shaman - medicine godman. The original Tungus word shaman scha contains the root, "know" , so shaman means "one who knows, knowing, that is a wise " or expressed in terms of Carlos Castaneda " man of knowledge " In Peru the... Continue Reading →
The 10 commandments purpose and meaning
"Many religions and sacred books recommend the practice of certain acts, commands or advice that when put into practice, bring us to paradise to access eternal life free from sin". Now before you start thinking I just finally got nuts after having so many Ayahuasca ceremonies, let me tell you nope, not the case but... Continue Reading →
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"Ikaro is the popular word used for difference the shamanic chanting from other music, singing or song . Ikaro comes from the quechua word Ikaray which means the action of blow tobacco smoke to a particular object with healing purposes ". What is the ikaro ? As mentioned the ikaro is a special kind of... Continue Reading →
"As long as I had walk this spiritual I had meet several people "trying to change" or "wanting change to happen in their lives" but what none of these people is absolutely doing is putting effort for this transformation to happen". My mother used to told me that as you get older and older it... Continue Reading →


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Transparent settlement of IT services
The IT Controlling of OeNB knows all cost drivers inside-out
Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) has brought transparency to the expenses and services of its IT department. To this end, the central bank of the Republic of Austria has implemented the financial management solution anafee. The use of this integrated platform has enabled the IT of OeNB to pinpoint the exact origins of IT expenses and settle them on a usage basis.
Previously, OeNB was using SAP for its IT accounting. The cost accounting module of this software, SAP Controlling CO, proved unsuitable for determining the detailed cost of the individual IT services, however. "As an IT Controller, I was able to settle the costs with SAP, but not to recalculate them," chartered engineer Wolfgang Pflegerl, IT Controller in the Main Department for Information Technology at OeNB, explains. "I never knew where exactly these expenses were generated. SAP CO does not supply that information."
Test calculations via SAP not possible
Test calculations are extremely important for IT Controlling and the financial settlement process. SAP works productively with real data, however, which complicates test calculations. As an additional, complicating factor, SAP is one of the National Bank's most critical systems. "Whenever I changed any data in the system, I had to be extremely careful not to modify other, real values in SAP CO," Pflegerl continues. "Test calculations were simply not possible." The use of SAP also entailed that any data changes in the system were the responsibility of the Controlling department. All statements were delivered to Wolfgang Pflegerl in their final state.
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Introduction of a new solution
Wanting to work with a more detailed statement, Wolfgang Pflegerl started looking for a new, more specialised software solution for handling the cost allocation of the bank. The IT Controller envisaged a tool that would highlight the proportional cost per user transparently. The financial-management solution anafee presented Pflegerl with a solution that allowed him not only to recalculate all incurred costs down to the minutest detail, but also to plan future IT expenses more effectively.
Cost allocation at the touch of a button
Today, the OeNB IT Controlling handles the entire IT cost allocation autonomously and, above all, considerably faster. "It used to be extremely time-consuming to put together the necessary information for our customers in the specialist departments. Today, we can take care of that at the touch of a button with anafee," Pflegerl explains. Twice a year, the IT department generates a so-called cost centre report. This report details the costs of all IT services used by individual customers. The document contains detailed information, including not only the sum of all expenses for PCs, but also information on the location and user of individual PCs. By implementing this solution, OeNB has improved both the internal overview of the individual and total costs of all services and the external overview of the service products and prices. This new transparency in IT allows customers to understand precisely which IT services they have accessed. In addition, the specialist departments are now able to verify whether the listed positions are indeed correct.
Accurate settlement constitutes another important factor in addition to awareness of the cost drivers, as anafee highlights potential accounting errors. In turn, IT Controlling recognises the actual cost drivers, allowing it to control IT expenses accurately. The scope of the solution also fits the concept of OeNB perfectly. "There are many solutions in which cost allocation only forms a small, subordinate part of the software. I do not need a vast system, however – I just want to use the cost allocation functions.
This makes anafee the perfect product for us," Pflegerl reports.
Usage-based settlement
Settling the costs of comprehensible products with their business users in a usage-based way is an important element of efficient IT cost controlling. The financial-management solution enables OeNB to carry out a considerably more precise calculation of all service prices that is based on the actual scope of the individual services. Test calculations in the system are now possible without the need for working in a productive environment. Scenario simulations and permanent target-actual cost comparisons facilitate the entire planning process by means of automated recalculations, creating higher planning security. "Thanks to anafee, I can run through different cost scenarios with just a few clicks. Settlement and planning have become significantly easier with the new solution," Pflegerl explains.
Further planning in IT Controlling
In its first step, OeNB has achieved usage-based cost representation at an improved quality. For its second step, OeNB aims to save IT expenses, e.g. for licences, IT hardware or operating systems. Another important factor: key figure generation. "At the moment, I am recording all key figures in Excel. Having reached approximately 50 key figures, however, I am now dealing with a huge table – I need to get all the data from SAP and then capture it manually," Pflegerl complains.
"It is extremely time-consuming, prone to error, and not very flexible. Simply not user-friendly." In order to replace the vast Excel sheet, Pflegerl is working together with Serviceware, the producer of anafee, to find a solution that will allow him to extract key figures directly from anafee. His experience of working with Serviceware has been highly positive: "No matter whether we work on site or remotely, cooperating with the anafee consultants has been extremely effective – especially in terms of their availability and support."


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Council discusses water ordinances
Water infrastructure was the main topic of discussion this week when the Beulah City Council met for its regular meeting.
At its previous meeting the council had tabled further discussion on Ordinance 408 pending input from Water Plant Foreman Gary Neuberger on whether or not to regulate seals on water meters. Neuberger was not available at the time of the council meeting.
City Attorney Scott Solem brought forward two versions of the updated ordinance, one reflecting the updated language and one without.
Councilor Brant Keller noted that he was in agreement with Neuberger's perspective that, in going forward, the installation of water meters should include seals.
"We talked about getting each one sealed," he said. "This week we'll do this section of town and next week a different section. One problem is that some people might not be home when you stop by or won't let you in their house. He wants to see seals left in there. Any new meters will be sealed. Any time the water is shut off, then Gary could put a seal in when it's turned back on."
Councilor Clyde Schulz said it appeared as though Neuberger approved of the seals being put in place and being referenced in the ordinance, so the official reading of the ordinance could happen. The reading was ultimately tabled by the council until members heard direct input from Neuberger.


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New images have been released by Crossrail reveal the project's progress as it hits the 60% complete mark. More than 23 miles (nearly 90%) of train tunnels are now complete, with tunnelling due to finish in spring 2015.
Above, train tunnel at Paddington. The new Crossrail station is being constructed directly next to Brunel's Grade I listed Paddington mainline station. Once complete, the station will be 250 metres long and 30 metres wide and will cater for 70,000 passengers a day.Picture: Crossrail


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TUF 8 winner, Ryan Bader has become the latestr man to call out former UFC light heavyweight champion, Tito Ortiz, explaining he would love the oppertunity to face Ortiz, or someone like Randy Couture or Chuck Liddell, legends of the sport.
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Happy long Labor day weekend! What plans are you concocting? I am laying low in L.A. and taking a mini road trip to explore San Diego on Sunday (I've never been!) Last night I was out dancing and heard this amazing song by Passion Pit, which I thinnnnnkk may be my new favorite band! I had to share it with you! (Thanks Miche for sending the video!) I am definitely determined to recreate the intro girl's sparkly pants outfit!
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So, I finished The Twilight Herald for a second time this past week – and I must say I enjoyed it much more than I had Stormcaller. I still had issues with Lloyds lack of what I can only call explaination. I know you find a lot of writers these days going for minimal 'info-dump' and that's great, but even authors like Erikson who land you smack-bang in the middle of events with little point of reference pepper their work with event landmarks that give the reader something to buikd a picture with. The use of a glossary would be good here – at least Lloyd does use a character list which I found myself referring to quite often as I read to recall just who particular characters were. That's not something I find myself doing often as I read (usually). But that being said Twilight Herald is a dark and broody novel, Lloyds dialogue is fantastic and Zhia Vukotic is one of the best characters I've ever read.
I am now reading The Unremembered by Peter Orullian – the great folk at Tor sent me through an ARC – and yes I am reading this even though I have in my hands The Crippled God by Steven Erikson. That will come next but as I beging writing the second draft of my 'epic' it might take me longer than I'd like to get through it.
But of course the most exciting news to pass my desk this week is that Janny Wurts has handed in the manuscript of the latest volume of The Wars of Light and Shadow to her editior at HarperColins in the UK (thanks to Laneth for the heads up! – I really need to pay more attention to her forums /sigh). Now I shall begin to bombard my contacts there with emails to get a copy for review – I can't wait!


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Now... do you see my conflict? As a Black American Muslim woman, I often find Black American culture in conflict with the Islamic laws that I am to follow. I was not raised in a culture to lower my gaze or one that says women have to be covered from head to toe and lists occasions when to be covered and who I can gaze at.
I often time feel myself being constricted and sometimes feel I am losing my Black Female American identity. I sometimes find myself wondering if I made the right decision... is this really what Islam is about... am I going to Hell because I sometimes am feeling this way or I can't remember to lower my gaze or I am not ready to dress a certain way... hecks... I have only been Muslim for 6 1/2 months... oh merciful ALLAH... how will I make it through these tests so I can receive your promised reward of ETERNAL BLISS in PARADISE?
Well, through my research with ALLAH's guidance, I was allowed to find... by ALLAH's will and grace... some comforting answerings that eased my anxieties and was able to speak to two beautiful Black American Muslim Sistahs during this research process. I discovered that the "lowering of ones' gaze" amongst us Muslim women, has three significant concepts.
The 3 Significant Concepts of Lowering One's Gaze
The 'Awrahs of the
Opposite Sex
It is considered haram or forbidden to lustfully gaze upon a non-mahram man or a man who you can marry and someone a woman should cover themselves in front of.
On the other hand, if they are mahram to a man, they cannot marry him. Such as her brother, father, grandfather, uncle or cousin, etc.
As I stated earlier, in American culture, we are taught to make eye contact when speaking to each other or it can be interpreted as shifty or disrespectful behavior if you negate making eye contact with the other person you are engaging with. However, lowering one's gazes is interrelated to proper dress for Muslim women.
The Covering Up of a Woman's 'Awarahs
MNCASA.org reported that nationally, "Nearly 1 in 5 women - or nearly 22 million - have been raped in their lifetimes." Other statics showed that "approximately 80% of female victims experienced their first rape before the age of 25 almost half experienced the first rape before age 18 (30% between 11-17 years old and 12% at or before the age of 10)' reported MNCASA.org.
MNCASA.org went on to report that "about 35% of women who were raped as minors were also raped as adults compared to 14% of women without an early rape history."
They continued to explain that 81% of women experienced psychological trauma that mirrored the symptoms and injuries of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
MNCASA.org continued to report that all women regardless of race are subjected to sexual violence while "some are more vulnerable than others: 33.5% of multiracial women have been raped, as have 27% of American Indian and Alaska Native women, compared to 15% of Hispanic, 22% of Black, and 19% of White women."
"In data from 2005-2010, most rape or sexual assault victims (78%) knew the offender. The vast majority (nearly 98%) of perpetrators are male," explained MNCASA.org.
How Muslim Women Should Be Dressed Based on Occassion
ejnosillA's Final Thoughts
Being a Muslim for about 6 ½ months, but an American Black female for over 44 years, the concept of lowering one's gaze and covering up is hard for me to practice because I was born into American culture and not an Islamic one.
As I try to grow spiritually closer to ALLAH, it is a daily struggle for me to conform to Islamic laws and traditions. I regularly feel that I am in a constant battle to find my identity within these two cultures. I often feel that I must choose and if I choose wrong my soul will be lost forever, but how can I turn my back on what I have always known... what makes me who I am as a person... a Black woman... and more importantly... am I really ready to go to the Hell fire for it?
Although, I do understand the severity and the reasons why Muslim women are strongly encouraged to cover their beauty, I currently have not transitioned into wearing the traditional apparel that is associated with Muslim women. I do realize that if I would have been born in an Islamic country that me not being covered properly can be severely consequential for me.
Their advice to me was that as I continue to make more of a conscious effort to pray my obligatory prayers every day and on time, read more of my Quran and become more acquainted with it and get closer to ALLAH; ALLAH will somehow make it more comfortable with the thought of truly embracing and wearing the attire that is associated with the Muslim woman.
Until than, I should continue to live my life and stop trying to force myself into being something or doing something that I am clearly not comfortable and ready to do. The doubtful feelings I was having... that I mentioned earlier... they explained to me that it was normal because I am being consumed with a lot of information all at once... and this is a new experience for me.
They both suggested that I slow down and pay more attention to perfecting my prayers and reading the Quran... and allow ALLAH to guide me as HE sees fit. I should stop comparing my spiritual process with others because ALLAH works with all on an individual basis. My closeness with HIM is solely based on me and I should take my time because we can't rush ALLAH!
Our closeness to HIM is based on his time and not ours. Also, they told me to stop letting others within other cultures dictate how I am supposed to be dressed because our dress is based on interpretation... although, we do have perimeters we are to stick within.
Meaning, Black American women have their own style of dress. We add our own flava or flare to our ensembles. They stated with evidence from the Quran that it was commanded that women cover their beauty or "veil" it and that didn't mean that I have to wear a hijab or an abaya... it just means I have to cover up. A simple scarf that covers my neck, hair and ears will suffice and to cover up my body... all I have to do is wear a long loose shirt with long sleeves or a mini dress... that covers my butt with long sleeves... throw on some leggings and keep it pushing!
These women taught me that I don't have to turn my back on my American Black culture for Islam... all I have to do is use that creative spirit and mind that I was born with and merge the two cultures while staying within the boundaries of ALLAH's commandments. There is no need to feel as if I have to choose, just have to creatively compromise.
So as long as I stay within the boundaries of Islamic dress for women, I am still following Islamic laws while being true to myself as a Black American woman... if only if the world would understand that it really is that simple for all of us to get along... but that is another post for another time...
|I do, I did, and it's done because ALLAH wills it to be!
Picture References:
'Awarah photo - Retrieved from: http://islamic-dictionary.tumblr.com/post/5658467793/awrah-arabic-%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9-is-a-term-used.
MNCASA.org Logo - Retrieved from: http://www.mncasa.org/what-is-sexual-violence/.
Saalih al-Munajjid, M. (Ed.). (2006). Lowering the gaze. Retrieved March 13, 2017, from https://islamqa.info/en/85622.
MNCASA. (n.d.). Causes, statistics & sex assault types | learn | MN coalition Retrieved March 13, 2017, from http://www.mncasa.org/what-is-sexual-violence/.
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5 Shocking lies about the oil sands
Lie #1: The oil sands has destroyed an area the size of Florida:
Reality: the oilsands deposits sit underneath an area comparable to the size of Florida BUT only 3% of the oil sands deposits are shallow enough to ever be mined. Anyone who says the oil sands will destroy an area the size of Florida is simply lying, and they know it. It comes down to geography plain and simple.
Lie #2: The oil sands has caused a massive increase in rare cancers
Reality: There is the well documented and quoted case of Doctor John O'Connor who claimed there was a epidemic of cancer cases which grabbed headlines, yet he was proven wrong and was sanctioned by the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons for serious ethical breaches. The investigator discovered that instead of a cancer epidemic Dr. O'Connor's public statements about the health of Fort Chipewyan's residents contained "mistruths, inaccuracies and unconfirmed information." This is where the rumours started. If you are looking for credible, factual, scientific information on the topic then The Royal Society of Canada is a good source. In 2010 the RSC released a report stating there was no correlation between the oil sands and elevated instances of cancer. The report went on to say the oil sands was not likely to cause an increase in cancer among the general population.
Lie #3: We don't need the oil sands, the world should focus on renewable energy
Reality: There has been a massive push towards new sources of energy but the fact remains, there are side affects to every energy source. Wind farms kill anywhere from 75,000 – 275,000 birds a year in North America and are only possible with rare earth minerals that are mined in China. Nuclear energy has its own misgiving also, with the Fukushima disaster fresh in our minds and the ongoing issue of where to store nuclear waste in several countries. We all want to shift our way of life towards renewable energy sources but it simply cannot happen overnight. Our entire way of life is only possible because of oil and gas. To quote the Pulitzer prize winning author Daniel Yergin " It is oil that makes possible where we live, how we live, how we commute, how we travel – even where we conduct our courtships. Oil makes it possible to transport food to the totally non self-sufficient mega cities of the world. Oil and natural gas are the essential components in the fertilizer on which world agriculture depends, oil also provides the plastics & chemicals that are the bricks & mortar of contemporary civilization" The world needs oil, energy demand is forecast to grow by 53% between now and 2035 and while we should focus on research and development of new technologies for renewable energy, the fact remains, we must live our lives. The USA spends $50 billion a year protecting OPEC shipping lanes so they can import OPEC oil, I would reason that the USA can source more oil from safe, friendly Canada and transfer that incredible amount of money into R & D for renewable energy. The world needs more Canadian oil, not less.
Lie #4: Development of the oilsands has destroyed an enormous amount of the Canadian forest
Reality: In 40 years of oilsands development 0.02% of the Canadian forest has been disturbed, furthermore all areas disturbed by oilsands mining must legally be reclaimed back to a vegetative state. Currently 10% of the mining footprint has been or is in the process of being reclaimed. Lush cosmetics among others has been so quick to promote themselves by bashing the oil sands with pictures of the mining operations. What they fail to mention is mining will only ever affect 3% of the total land area the oil sands occupies. In addition mining is not a new industry specific to the oil sands region only. Human beings have mined since the beginning of time and when you look at other industries you will see the oil sands is leading the pack when it comes to environmental performance, monitoring and improvement.
Lie #5: If we continue to develop the oil sands it is game over for the climate
Reality: The oil sands is currently responsible for roughly 0.1% of world greenhouse gas emissions. Now I am no mathematical expert but what about the other 99.9%? In this case I would question the sanity or education of anyone who wants to tell me that 0.1% of something is a game changer. Even according the the NEB's high oil sands production forecast for 2035, emissions are still less than 1% of the worlds total. In addition the oil sands industry has reduced greenhouse gas emissions per barrel by 29% over the last 20 years. Industry and government are spending $billions on research and implementation of better environmental performance, this will only accelerate as time goes on. Desmond Tutu on the other hand has publicly come out against the oil sands even though his country is currently building 2 coal power plants that will combine to emit over 50% of the emissions the oil sands do, and that is just 2 coal power plants. What about Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, India and China. China is commissioning several coal power plants per MONTH. Even in the USA the oil sands produces about 3.5% of the emissions the USA power generation sector does. There is even a single coal power plant in Illinois that produces all by itself 25% of the emissions the entire oil sands does. We all should now be thinking " Why don't the celebrities and paid professional protesters hold hands around coal power plants and sing kumbaya while protesting" and the answer simply is they are not paid to do so and the people who spread these lies about the oil sands also enjoy modern conveniences, driving, flying, electricity and so forth. For them their bus runs on hypocrisy.
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