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The Kindness of God -Bill Lewis, Lead Pastor
The kindness of God is given to us on a daily basis. He provides all the necessary components of life. You breathe, there is oxygen in the proper blend. Your heart beats, there is the piezo electric start for every pump of the heart. You eat, food is digested and turned into energy and nutrients for the sustaining of life. You see, the eyes are taking light and by the miracle of God, the light is inverted and registered as an image. All around us are the daily miracles of life. If only one breaks down, life is unsustainable.
The Kindness of God is given to us in spiritual matters as well. We, the complex beings that he has created, are fallen by nature. Fallen, meaning we are broken beyond repair when it comes to the ability to live eternally in the presence and with a pure, holy, perfect God. Our brokenness is so familiar to us that most humans believe they are all right and that eternity is a matter of playing a weights and measures game. If we can tip the balance in the favor of good works, then we are supposedly owed a heavenly pass. Yet, even if we were able to tip the scales in the right direction, it still does not make one perfect, pure, holy. His kindness is that he will bring us to himself by his kindness as we acknowledge the impure, unholy, imperfect beings that we are.
His kindness has some requisites. HIs kindness leads us to understanding. It leads us to the self revelation of our poverty and inability to earn anything from Him. The best action of my heart is to give up. Quit trying. Admit defeat. I cannot do it. When that revelation comes, then we are in a position to repent, throw ourselves on his mercy, acknowledge the wonderful gift of Jesus and then live like we just found the most wonderful gift ever received. We did!
What wonderful kindness that is extended. Rather than the constant wrathful God, we really have a God who is very kind, longsuffering, forbearing, patient. He wants us to come to him in full surrender and enjoy his kindness forever.
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Former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his war dog Kane are thrust into a global conspiracy that threatens to shake the foundations of American democracy in this second exciting Sigma Force spinoff adventure from New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood
Tucker Wayne's past and his present collide when a former army colleague comes to him for help. She's on the run from brutal assassins hunting her and her son. To keep them safe, Tucker must discover who killed a brilliant young idealist—a crime that leads back to the most powerful figures in the U.S. government.
From the haunted ruins of a plantation in the deep South to the beachheads of a savage civil war in Trinidad, Tucker and Kane must discover the truth behind a mystery that leads back to World War II, to a true event that is even now changing the world . . . and will redefine what it means to be human.
With no one to trust, they will be forced to break the law, expose national secrets, and risk everything to stop a madman determined to control the future of modern warfare for his own diabolical ends. But can Tucker and Kane withstand a force so indomitable that it threatens our very future?
My Review:
Yeah, yeah, yeah! I loved this book so much! I love each and every one of James Rollins books that I read, and this one is just another feather is his cap! Loved having more Tucker and Kane, they're just so great together!
It was so great to have Kane's perspective! He's so smart, and I love reading what he's thinking! And he has some pretty advanced commands in this book, commands that sometimes hurt, but he was such a good dog, and well trained, and he made it out!
Loved the combination of elements in this book, the World War II information, and how it's changing things today. The information warfare, with it's three prongs. There was a blast from their past from when they were in the military in the form of Jane and her situation. And Tucker's PTSD's moral injury!
There were a few moments of extreme worry. If you've read the book, you'll know what I'm talking about. The tunnel, the island, the church. Tucker had to make some tough decisions, and it was really hard to read those moments, but I had to know what was going to happen!
Such a great book, and I can't wait to have more of Tucker and Kane's adventures!
Authors: James Rollins and Grant Blackwood
Series: Tucker Wayne #2
Read: March 16th, 2016
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Love his books and this series, and it's a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2016 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: William Morrow
Expected Publication: April 19th 2016
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How can we monitor Internet usage in a classroom?
I am a network admin for a secondary school. Some of our students are accessing the Internet without permission. Our current set up has the workstations connected to a DHCP that is connected to an ISA server, which is administered by a third party company. How can we monitor the Internet usage and only permit usage when it's required? Should we install a switch, a firewall, turn off DHCP and allocate our own fixed addresses?
I'd start by contacting the third-party and asking them how you can enable and disable routing. They may already have a solution, because ISA can certainly do that. They may require you to call their support desk, though, which isn't much help for you.
You can cut off Internet access with a switch, firewall, proxy server, router, or a pair of electrically-shielded scissors. The real question is, how can you turn it on and off easily from within the classroom? Most firewalls, proxy servers, and many routers, provide a browser interface that you could use to turn routing on-and-off. Even my $100 Linksys home router has this. If you want to be able to turn it on-and-off with the press of a single button, you may need to find a programmer with networking skills, or an administrator with scripting skills.
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Shingles is a painful skin rash caused by the varicella zoster virus, which is the same virus that causes chickenpox. While most people who get shingles get it only once, it is possible for the condition to recur, explains WebMD.
Shingles typically appears on one side of the body as a band or strip, and common symptoms include pain, burning, numbness, rash, blistering, tingling and itching. People who have had chickenpox are susceptible to developing shingles, and heightened risk factors of acquiring the disease include being over age 50, undergoing cancer treatments and taking certain medications, notes Mayo Clinic.
Although there is no known cure for shingles, treatment using antiviral and pain medicines may help shorten recovery times and alleviate complications, states WebMD.
In some cases, shingles outbreaks can lead to serious complications. Secondary infections sometimes occur at the site of the rash, and the virus has been responsible for blindness, neurological disorders and nerve damage that can be extremely painful even after the rash has cleared, according to Mayo Clinic.


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I just came across this series of maps of territorial control in Somalia in my map archive. Note that these maps are based largely on James Dahl's map series on territorial control in Somalia and on UN maps of displacement, combined with my own research on conflict events. Forgive me if I mix my Somali and English while transliterating.
Clearly, any map purporting to show areas of control in Somalia is likely oversimplified; alliances are constantly shifting, and multiple insurgencies may exist within an area shown to be under control of a certain force. However, this represents an attempt to map the story of the aftermath of Ethiopia's invasion in 2006, and show how foreign intervention may have affected the growth of extremist insurgency, specifically in southern Somalia. "Unaligned" territories reflect those areas where it was unclear who was supported or in control. This is a work in progress, so please provide feedback if there are inaccuracies or changes that need to be made.
2007-2009: The Aftermath of the Ethiopian Invasion
December 2008: Cabdullahi Yuusuf Axmed resigns as president of TFG.
2009-2010: The TFG strikes an alliance and begins an offensive
As the TFG in exile brokered a truce with ASWJ, ARS, and ICU elements, they began to gain support and nominal control over parts of the country. Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Axmed, formerly of ARS, was elected TFG President. Along with AU forces, the TFG launched an offensive against the now divided Al Shabaab and Xisbul Islaam forces in southern Somalia.
Again, please let me know if there are corrections to be made. This is an ongoing initiative to map territorial control in Somalia, part of a more comprehensive effort at creating conflict maps of Somalia.


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Introduction to Picture Lights
If you're looking to accent your pictures and artworks, picture lighting is specially designed to highlight your treasured mementos and works of art. Lighting pictures is the perfect finishing touch to properly showcase family photos and pictures, so that you and your guests can properly celebrate your prized displays. Picture lighting enables you to present and exhibit works of art and images in a decorative way that shows off just how special your artworks and photos are to you. Typically mounted on a wall or the frames of individual artworks, LuxeDecor has a wide variety of options for picture lighting to choose from that will suit any of your needs. We carry all types of lighting for pictures from long lasting LED picture lights, convenient wireless picture lights, cordless picture lights, and battery operated picture lights (equipped with a picture lights battery), as well as, picture frame lights and picture frame lighting.
Different Types of Picture Lights
Lights for pictures can be found at LuxeDecor in modern, traditional, and transitional styles to enhance the beauty of your pictures and works of art. We carry the best lighting for pictures that will give a sense of intimacy with an artwork, and invites you and your guests to stand closer for a better look. Because they are decorative fixtures, these types of lights can also add to the overall aesthetic value of a room. LuxeDecor has lighting for pictures in many different sizes so that you enhance any sized picture from small snapshots to large-scale paintings. Dainolite, Hudson Valley Lighting, and Stone Lighting are a few of the brands that LuxeDecor carries that provide top-quality, fashionable picture lights. We also carry House of Troy picture lights who provide the most extensive selection for this type of lighting. We especially like the House of Troy "Horizon Direct Wire LED Wide Picture Light" for its subtle, yet strong industrial profile that presents a neutral, yet fashionable fixture that will light up any of your artworks and pictures for years.
Decorating With Picture Lights In Your Home
Longevity is very important in art, and investing in the right lighting will not only make them last longer, but also showcase the beauty of the actual picture. There are many appropriate styles of picture lights available at LuxeDecor in fashionable finishes that will complement your works of art without detracting from them. Metallic finishes provide a shiny accent that you can pair according to the color tones in your picture or the picture frame material. We have nickel, silver, gold, bronze, brass, and chrome finishes available. A black finish on your picture light is the perfect neutral backdrop to let your artwork pictures shine through. Browse through LuxeDecor's inventory of lighting for pictures to find the best fit for your artwork.


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Position: Sheltered area in full sun or light, dappled shade.
Soil: Moist but well drained, acidic soils. Cercidiphyllum japonicum 'Pendulum' will tolerate some lime but will grow better and produce more vivid autumn colour in lime free or acid soils.
Hardiness: Hardy. Cercidiphyllum japonicum 'Pendulum' requires shelter from strong winds.
Rate of Growth: Moderate.
Habit: Eventually a medium sized tree with graceful, weeping branches.
Height: 10 m (32 ft)
Spread: 10 m (32 ft)
Notes: This plant is also known as Cercidiphyllum japonicum 'Morioka Weeping'.
Further Information
One of the most beautiful of all weeping trees with 'fountains' of arching branches on established trees. Very long lived, it will become a large tree in several hundred years time but is effectively a small to medium sized tree in a normal lifespan! The origin of this rare form can be traced to a tree found by monks in Morioka, Japan.
They discovered a weeping tree and have cultivated it in the grounds of their monastery for many hundreds of years. Virtually all the weeping Cercidiphyllums in cultivation have originally been propagated from this old specimen in Northern Honshu.


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Join 5 Little People® friends on all-new imaginative adventures. Juggling in the jungle. Skywriting in space. Sharing ideas. Every animated episode includes a gentle lesson to help emotional and social development. You know, things like empathy, cooperation, patience, fairness, and more. And each 11-minute show is also full of music, laughter, make-believe moments, and just plain fun. In fact, a lot like your favorite preschooler!
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Sure, it was fun to look at red carpet pics from the 2015 Golden Globes but let's face it: what we really want to see are the behind-the-scenes photos, right?
So thank God then for Instagram, which was filled with tons of celebrity snaps showing them getting ready for the show, partying with their besties and getting goofy in their seats.
Check out our favourite celebrity Instagram pics from the 2015 Golden Globe Awards:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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Thursday, June 26, 2014
Cherry Lynn Challenge #138 Wonderful Wedding Card
Lace Corner Deco B165
Dutch Doily Rectangle Frame DL 130
Best Wishes Phrase B244
Baby's Breath Flower Kit B364
Two of Hearts DL 128
In the center, I used the Tattered Lace Couple Die. I cut out another Couple die from glitter paper and glued it behind the black cut out. I bought the white silk flowers.
Friday, June 20, 2014
Cherry Lynn Challenge #137 - Keep It Krafty
Cherry Lynn Challenge #137 - Keep It Krafty
There is a few tutorials that I followed making this Box Card.
I used Kraft card stock for the base of my Box Card and sponged it with rose red and used Graphic 45 paper on both sides of this card. I cut two Graphic 45 roses from the paper and used a McGill flower tool to mold it on the inside and only glued the rim of the rose to bring out an embossing look to accent the roses and glued my Cherry Lynn Baby Breathe flowers on the outside of these roses.
I made the lower rose using the Cherry Lynn medium rose die and surrounded it with the Cherry Lynn leaf and Cherry Lynn ivy leaf. The black and white doily frame is from the Cherry Lynn Polynesian die. The corners in the card is from the Cherry Lynn Deco. I used the Cherry Lynn saying "Celebrate".
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Cherry Lynn Challenge - Creative Corners
I made all of the flowers from the Cherry Lynn dies and all of the centers were made using the Cherry Lynn Build A Flower #1. The following Cherry Lynn flower dies were used to create these flowers:
B433 Small Gardenia Strip (made into the red rose)
B310 Shasta Daisy Strip (yellow and white daisy flowers),
B364 Baby Breathe flowers,
B307 Sweet William flowers (purple)
B241 Cherry Lynn Rose Leaf Strip, and B178 Cherry Lynn Flourish Leaf Strip . I used the Cherry Lynn sayings, "Sister" and "Hugs" and cut the "ter" off Sister.
Cherry Lynn Deco Corners B and Cherry Lynn Deco Corner E
The Paper came from Graphic 45 Secret Garden which I would recommend. The flowery frame is from the Martha Stewart Flower Punch around the page. I made the lady bugs from the Ranger Pearl black and red.
The frame is a Spellbinder Decorative frame.
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 135 - Red, White and Blue
I wasn't sure what I had in Cherry Lynn for a patriotic red, white and blue card. It took me a while since I didn't have a complete idea on how this card will look so I started with the Cherry Lynn Cape Cod DL 250 doily and made a red white and blue flag from the Sizzix die and cut out red and blue circles. After gluing the circle and doily, I cut the it in half and glued the flag in the center. The doily and flag looked better on the Cherry Lynn Step Card B348 than other card shapes that I tried out.
I cut out the bear with the flag, stars, the red, white and blue frame and "God Bless America" from an ole 4th of July Darice printed paper. I used paper came from my scraps to make the rest of the card. I cut out two fireworks which is on top left and curled and glued on top of the other to give it some dimension. I added Stickle glue on the printed fireworks, stars and on the bear's hat to add sparkle.
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New Wesleyan policy bans student use of unapproved houses
A new student housing policy at Wesleyan is drawing ire from students and other protestors. University administrators say it's designed to make sure students follow the university's rules, but many students say it interferes in their private lives.
The policy, which goes into effect in August for the next school year, specifies that students cannot live in housing "owned, leased or operated by private societies that are not recognized by the University."
Many protestors say the rule is targeted at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house at the corner of High and Church streets. The fraternity is not formally affiliated with the university, and university officials say they've had numerous disciplinary problems at the house, including an alleged rape at a party in October.
Since Beta house is not considered part of the Wesleyan campus, Wesleyan Director of Media Relations David Pesci said it does not follow Wesleyan's housing guidelines. Other Wesleyan fraternities are formally recognized, he said, and if Beta chooses to affiliate and agree with the university's rules students would be allowed to live at the house.
"We would love to have Beta abide by our rules," Pesci said. The president of the Beta fraternity, Jeff Tanenbaum, could not be reached for this story.
Pesci said the addition was "really not a major change." The purpose of the rule was to make sure that all students lived in approved housing and followed the university's rules, he said.
"It's predicated on making sure no one purports to be a part of Wesleyan who isn't part of Wesleyan," Pesci said. Any student who wants to live off campus, he said, can contact the Office of Residential Life for approval, he said.
Vice President of Student Affairs Michael Whaley announced the new policy in a campus-wide e-mail sent on Feb. 14. The new rule states that "this prohibition includes using such houses or property as residences, taking meals at such houses or property and participating in social activities at such houses or property."
Pesci said some protestors had interpreted the rule to be more far-reaching than it actually is, and he stressed that it only applies to housing. Student groups who wished to meet or socialize off campus would still be permitted to do so, he said.
But Lucas San Juan, a sophomore who's been organizing the protests, said that isn't clear in the policy, which never explains what a private society is.
"It's very, very overbroad, and it doesn't define anything it says," he said. San Juan has never been to Beta house, but said he knows a few of the fraternity members who are upset about the new rule.
A broader issue, according to San Juan, was that the policy intruded too much into students' personal lives.
"This policy gives the Administration the right to make life decisions for you, telling you where you can and cannot go," he wrote in the fact sheet.
Zach Malter, a member of the Wesleyan Student Assembly, said he was hoping the students and the administration could come to a mutual understanding about the policy.
"It's obvious there was thought put into the policy," he said, explaining that students wanted to know the administrators' reasoning. "It's very important that they also work with students."
He said the WSA had met last Sunday and denounced the policy, and had decided to move next Sunday's meeting at Beta House. He said University President Michael Roth was scheduled to attend the meeting, and the WSA hoped he would. Roth could not be reached this week to confirm if he would attend.
Students have organized other protests against the new rule - San Juan organized a rally on campus last Friday and he plans to hold a larger one this Friday afternoon, before a Board of Trustees meeting. He also set up an online petition against the policy and so far he's collected about 500 signatures out of a student body of 2,800, he said.
Malter said the WSA became involved because the issue could affect all students, and the student government would be better able to speak with school administrators.
"It's one thing to hear from a few students," he said. "It's another thing to hear from the student assembly."
The new policy, he said, was part of a larger pattern of administrators creating rules without seeking student input. Malter said that in recent years, the university had imposed rules about alcohol on campus and disclosure of university investments without consulting students. But this issue was larger than those, he said.
"I don't want to point the finger at anyone," Malter said. But, he added, "The overarching concern is that this isn't the first time."
The care has attracted attention outside the Wesleyan community. Will Creeley, Director of Legal and Public Advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Higher Education (FIRE), called the new policy "such a clear and obvious overreach on the part of Wesleyan administrators that we felt compelled to respond."
Creeley said students at Wesleyan had contacted FIRE's New York office about the policy, and FIRE was working to get the University to reverse its decision.
Creeley said that as a private institution, Wesleyan doesn't have to abide by the Bill of Rights in the constitution, but must still adhere to the promises it made its students. The new policy, he said, interferes with students freedom of assembly.
Creeley said his colleagues had written a letter to denouncing the policy to Wesleyan president Michael Roth, but were still waiting for a response. He said FIRE was encouraging Wesleyan alumni and current students to speak out against the proposed changes.
"We'd like to see Wesleyan keep its promise to students," Creeley said.
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That's a question you should be asking yourself numerous times every day.
As sales professionals, we have a lot of sensitive data on our computers and mobile devices that needs to remain private, like:
That last one may surprise you. We usually think about taking security measures to protect ourselves against external intruders. While it's unlikely that other members of your sales team would try to sniff out secrets in your digital files, it happens.
What are you doing to ensure that you are the only one who can get at all of the data on all of your computing devices?
Sometimes, it's what you're not doing. The easiest way to avoid being hacked is to refuse to click on links or attachments in emails. Even if the email comes from a well-known friend, you need to verify that he or she sent it in case that individual was infected and is unknowingly passing the virus or malware on.
If you knew that the file or link was coming, that's one thing, but any email that shows up out of the blue that just doesn't sound right should be verified.
Be especially security-conscious with your mobile devices. We tend to take serious precautions with our desktop computers, the ones that never go anywhere, and are less careful with our smartphones and tablets and laptops. Really, it's more important to protect your mobile devices against hackers, since this equipment can be easily stolen. So:
Where you use your mobile devices matters, too. So don't use public Wi-Fi networks. Period. They have all kinds of potential security problems, and a smart hacker can grab your passwords and other sensitive data. It doesn't matter whether it's your trusted doctor's office or a busy coffee shop. Use your cellular connection.
You may have heard all of this before, but are you practicing safe computing? We've been told so many times to create strong passwords and change them frequently that the directive has almost become meaningless. But it's your first line of defense, and it should be taken very seriously. Find a safe place to store your passwords (and not an app that resides on the same device).
One of the latest hacks that's getting a lot of press these days is "ransomware," which is just what it sounds like. An intruder locks down your computer so you're unable to use it unless you pay money to get your access back. Don't think that you're too small to be targeted: Even one-person shops have been hit.
In reality, I think we all know what we can do to keep our digital data safe. We hear that little voice telling us to actually read privacy policies. Run scans using malware and antivirus apps if they don't run automatically. Watch what we post on social media. Close browser windows after we use financial sites. That kind of thing. The trick is to stay vigilant. If you don't, you surely will if you're ever hit.


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How to Be a Savvy Tradeshow or Art Show Guest
How do you walk a tradeshow without looking like a novice? How do you keep your artful act together when reaching for your personal effects?
If you have vexing visions of your fifth grade awkwardness, follow some of these tips to streamline your tradeshow floor savvy. After all, we're all tramps, we just don't want to appear like one. Oh and as for the definition of tramps, I mean nomads, not hussies people! 😉
As a Savvy Tradeshow Tramp, you'll want to lighten your load and increase your stamina with a only a few personal accessories on the tradeshow floor:
SpotLight Savvy: A Sturdy Passport Case
We found these cases from a street vendor during a Spring street fair. There always happens to be a street fair during the same week as NSS, Surtex, & ICFF near Mid-Town Hilton. I *think* they were about $15 each and they're definitely worth their weight in gold.
Each case has 2 sides:
· One side for your tradeshow badge (in some cases you may have to fold an edge of your paper badge to slide it in)
· The opposite side contains a pocket for your business cards and pen
You can make your own or you can search a street fair or even eBay -I'm sure you'll find one to meet your needs.
SpotLight Savvy #1: Always keep your last attendance badge from the previous show tucked in your new badge holder. You may need it again to verify who you are at the check-in desk because one never knows when a technology snafu might occur –it happened to us last week.
While I did keep a journal during my tradeshow exhibits (to tape business cards on pages and make notes) and I also carry one while walking a tradeshow. My favorite kind of journal is a Moleskine (surprised?) that allows me to make notes and also tuck in businesscards and postcards in the back secret pocket. As a walker, I don't tape collected business cards to the inside of my agenda (eats too much time), I will make notes on the back of them -that's a must- and tuck them away. You will find this method of trading very effective.
SpotLight Savvy #2: Since my handcrafted journal covers also adds yet another 2 pockets (front and back), I separate my own postcards from the collected postcards -makes it yet another savvy spotlight on efficiency.
SpotLight Savvy: Your Phone
Along with my phone, I also carry a few of my business cards in my mobile phone sleeve. Because one time I got caught without them, I now make sure I insert a few w/my phone.
Since we're all tethered in one form or another with phone usage, think of the vendor's boothspace as a library. The tradeshow floor is already bustling with mania and interrupting phone rings just adds to chaos. Unwelcomed distruption to the vendor who is already attempting a discussion will instantly chafe your relationship. Learn how to stop calls in mid-ring (many people don't know how to do this!) and put your phone on vibrate for an amicable courtship.
Organize vs Monopolize
The idea is to be organized on the tradeshow floor. The vendors who have invested thousands, yes, thousands of dollars into their position on the tradeshow floor don't want to eat their time with novices.
SpotLight Savvy #3: Memorize where your belongings are and your nimble attendance will be admired. Holding the vendor hostage while you dig through your backpack is annoying, at the very least. If you must pack more print collateral than you think, use your passport holders & journals as satellites for your pieces -one can always reload collateral during your personal breaks.
SpotLight Savvy #4: Resist starting conversations with other booth visitors. Because this space is provided by and paid for by the vendor, they own the floor time. Every minute is costly and they struggle to recoup their fees through sales.
These vendors are waiting for buyers to form new or renew purchasing relationships –please please please consider their time first. It's about them, not you.
If you're curious about how much money is invested for even the smallest of companies, here is a brief breakdown of a vendor's typical tradeshow expenses:
Floor Space – Tradeshow floor space begins at $4,000+ per show (space that begins ~10′ x 10′)
Booth – Professional outfits can range from $2,000+ (that's usually for the small guys)
Travel – Depending if you're shipping your booth and product or hauling it yourself, it's begins at about $1,000
Travel 2 – Flying or driving? While the ticket of flying may be more cost effective, flying may be more economical (read: no bathroom, driver or food stops, no tolls, no traffic, no delays, no bad company = less taxing).
Hotel & Food – Finding hotels through the tradeshow Web site will help alleviate a few hundred dollars and one still needs a safe place to sleep.
Travel 3 – One must to get to the tradeshow floor in the morning. In some cases, a hotel is associated with the tradeshow, the management will have complimentary buses (close to the hotel) to transport to the center.
Print Collateral – Current business cards, postcards, catalogs, signage, and other unactualized POP display is printed and organized long before one arrives on the tradeshow floor.
Product – This is vendor's choice.
Overall, the sum of this business endeavor ranges ~$10-$15k per show. As you can see, these shows aren't part of the artists' hobby, it's their livelihood.
Trendspotting, Stalking, & Respect
In addition to visiting my partners on the floor to gauge our customer's response with our new product, I also like to walk through some of the specialty sections to review how the economy is treating them and what new products they're introducing. In some cases, I'm a silent observer watching (stalking) competition to understand the new directions they're taking. Watching their growth and reading industry publications helps me understand if I'm also moving in the right direction to build my empire.
SpotLight Savvy #5: If you're walking the show to determine if this show is a right fit for your business, tell them immediately -they'll appreciate it that you did. Compliment them on their work, empathize if you can and wish them well.
SpotLight Savvy #6: If you're walking the show to do some trendspotting, tell them. If you are trendspotting, consider including them in your write up -they'll appreciate that you did. Please don't ask them to review their products on the floor, just ask for their business card and let them know you'll get back with them after the show. Compliment them on their work, empathize if you can and wish them well.
SpotLight Savvy #7: If you're walking the show to steal ideas, move along. These artists have worked very hard to harmonize the right product for their customer and their customer's customer. Compliment them on their work, empathize if you can and wish them well.
If art & design is your goal to build your own business, reading, breathing, and walking various venues will aid in your understanding of what is popular (vs what is actually selling). Determine how you can apply some of the influence, but for the love of hardworking artists everywhere, rethink your position as a fellow copycat.
If you decide you want to string beads like the past four vendors you just reviewed, ask yourself 'why?' Getting on the same wagon as other artists doesn't make you unique and it dilutes their position -that's a huge disservice to both you and your competition. Not to mention, buyers will ask you why they should buy from you and not the artist they've already established a good relationship with. (Do you hear crickets chirping?)
Artists respect fellow artists and many collaborate due to complementary skillsets, but they won't continue relationships with you if you don't know where you're headed in your own business.
Update: May 10th: After exhibiting at a networking table this past week, I'm adding another tip:
Resist Faux Engagement
If you're walking the show, resist creating faux interest in the seller's products only to sell your own. The vendors who have invested thousands, yes, thousands of dollars into their position on the tradeshow floor don't want to eat their time with someone who doesn't have any interest in the product or services on display. I had this happen a couple of times and it was annoying, to say the least. My attention is fixated on them (good rapport is built on the one-on-one) only to watch other potential buyers walk by without notice.
SpotLight Savvy #8: If you're walking the show just to introduce your product or service to vendors, move along. These entrepreneurs have very little time to engage with the right people (galleries, media) and monopolizing their time with your product immediately renders you rude and now you're categorized as a shark. If you feel your product or service can benefit the vendor, take her card and contact her after the show.
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Lawless Legislators: The Federal Rupture of the Rule of Law
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 51 (1788)
The Rule of Lawlessness
In the American system the legislature is tasked with making laws, and the executive with executing them. For those rules to be just laws they have to be comprehensible and apply equally to all. Following them must entail reasonably predictable results. To be valid they must not contradict the Constitution; they must not violate the basic rights it outlines.
Lately, Congress and the Obama administration alike fail on all those criteria. While that's been a problem in the U.S. for generations now, that trend has worsened since the 2006 elections, and accelerated in the past 20 months. The Democratic majority that came to power in 2006 has violated the rule of law at every turn. The administration has upped the ante: from the petty to the critical, their actions have often been lawless in a very literal sense of the term.
In a dozen small ways, the ruling class expresses its contempt for the law and its intended function of protecting the rights of citizens.
Obama's aunt flagrantly violates immigration law for years but is not deported, thanks to her family connection. Timothy Geithner neglects to pay his taxes and is still appointed Treasury secretary. Chris Dodd gets a sweetheart real estate loan from Countrywide and remains in office years afterward to retire with a comfy pension.
There is, unfortunately, a treasure trove of major examples from which to choose.
ObamaCare violates the Constitution in at least three different ways, and still passed. The financial reform bill lets regulators force any bank in the country out of business whenever they decide it represents an undue risk to "the system." Obama himself violated long-standing bankruptcy laws by giving preference to union interests during GM's reorganization. He appointed Ken Feinberg to hand out billions of BP's dollars according to that petty dictator's personal sense of fair play.
Maybe most worrisome of all is the half-complete CyberSpace National Asset Act, which would allow the president to shut down the Internet whenever deemed necessary for "national security." (As it stands, the bill would limit the shutdown period to 120 days, but that can be extended by Congress. Cold comfort.) A more dangerous affront to free speech and the property rights of hundreds of millions of users would be hard to imagine.
This is the rule of men -- and not good men at that -- run amok.
Blending the Separation of Powers
One of the prime ways this has happened is the accelerated deterioration of the separation of powers in recent years.
As the examples above show, the executive has undertaken to decide issues intended to be left to the courts. In inserting himself into the discussion of which creditors get paid how much and in what order, Obama willfully ignored long-established precedents in bankruptcy law.
Likewise, Congress has significantly delegated its role to federal agencies who not only define details, but basic rules that serve as de facto laws. Those agencies have in turn usurped the role of courts by enforcing their own rulings. The Supreme Court sealed the deal by allowing the EPA to set acceptable standards of air quality, overriding the legislature's role.
Undermining Compliance
To make laws that man can not and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1860)
Worse still for the morality and practicality of the rule of law, Congress has been busy passing laws no one will or can obey.


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About the Seminar
[Chad Wellmon and Bethany Nowviskie will teach a year-long, non-credit Mellon graduate seminar at the University of Virginia, beginning in late August 2014. Advanced grad students will meet monthly through May 2015, to explore new digital tools and frameworks for composition and to "plot a more capacious history and imagine possible futures for the humanities." The course (including $500 travel/research stipends for participants) is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through UVa's College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and is supported by the UVa Library Scholars' Lab.]
IN RECENT MONTHS, the uncertain fate of the humanities in our digital age has been at the center of an increasingly pointed debate. Digital humanities practice itself is not new—the use of computation in humanities research and teaching has a 60-year history in the academy; even deeper roots in ars combinatoria, textual criticism, and the philosophy of language; and has been part of our local scholarly scene since the establishment of a number of humanities computing labs and centers at UVa in the mid-1990s. Yet articles in the New Yorker, The New Republic, and elsewhere have suggested that the digital humanities are deeply inhuman. With their purported obsession with data, graphs, and numbers, the digital humanities either tell us nothing we don't already know or, more egregiously, delegate the task of thinking to machines, to computers and their inhumane algorithms.
Describing the deleterious effects of digital humanities on English departments, Adam Kirsch in The New Republic recently claimed that advocates of a digital humanities make a "false analogy between the humanities and the sciences." But Kirsch's essay, like so many of its polemical ilk, isn't really about the digital humanities. It's about the humanities more broadly and some critics' truncated and ahistorical vision of what they ought to be. The problem with the digital humanities, Kirsch writes, is that they go against the "nature of humanistic work." Their errant ways, he continues,
derive from a false analogy between the humanities and the sciences. Humanistic thinking does not proceed by experiments that yield results; it is a matter of mental experiences, provoked by works of art and history, that expand the range of one's understanding and sympathy. […] This is why the best humanistic scholarship is creative, more akin to poetry and fiction than to chemistry or physics: it draws not just on a body of knowledge, though knowledge is indispensable, but on a scholar's imagination and sense of reality.
Here, Kirsch pits the technologically unadorned humanities, which produce subjective experiences, against the technology-dependent sciences that produce mere facts.
Kirsch's simple and false dichotomy manages to slight both the sciences and humanities at once, and to obscure more than it clarifies. It's a dichotomy that has long structured our universities and shaped graduate education. But it reveals a deep ignorance about the history of the humanities, a history that predates the more recent divisions of "the humanities" and "the sciences." The real issue in these debates, then, is not digital humanities per se or even the humanities in the digital age, but humanities more generally—that is, the debates betray disagreement and confusion about what the humanities refer to, what they do; what a "humanistic" knowledge might look like.
The goal of our Mellon Graduate Teaching Seminar is to use current analytical and new-media compositional techniques of the digital humanities and historical models of humanities practices to plot a more capacious history and imagine possible futures for the humanities. Our aim is to increase our students' fluency as writers (and as instructors of writing across the disciplines) working online and with new media and imaginative humanities computing toolsets. Through a set of monthly readings and composition exercises using digital tools or platforms, we will consider the humanities—both historically and conceptually—not as a particular method, canon, set of propositions, or a distinct group of disciplines but rather as a disposition, a way of approaching, knowing, and being in the world.
Our focus will be on the practices that have bound humanistic scholars together across time and space, be they manuscript, print, or digital. The kinds of things that humanists actually do when they engage products of human creativity, their practices, have always been bound up with efforts not only to create particular objects and imagine particular types of experiences but also to make connections, to generalize, and to capitalize on the greatest affordances of the technologies of analysis and communication available to them at the time. From Lorenzo Valla's careful and methodological debunking of the Donatio Constantini (On the Donation of Constantine) in 1440 to data miner Ted Underwood's recent mapping of nineteenth-century literature genres, humanists of all kinds have relied on particular notions of method, evidence, verification, and reasoned argument, just as the natural and physical sciences have relied on intuition and creativity. Simple oppositions—the humanities versus the sciences—confuse more than they enlighten and, in a timeless irony, produce deeply anti-humanistic polemics. They also ignore the historical fact that the humanities and humanistic inquiry more broadly have not only been concerned with particular human artifacts (one painting, one poem, one piece of music) but also, as Dutch scholar Rens Bod recently put it, patterns and principles to make sense of and enjoy these artifacts.
Our goal is to expose students to a long history of the humanities—digital, print, and experiential—and help them to understand the technological practices and attitudes of mind that have shaped and will continue to shape humanistic forms of knowledge. Monthly meetings will not be entirely discussion-driven, however: we will also experiment with and share provocations created in a set of locally-built tools, including Neatline, Prism, and the Ivanhoe Game. These platforms were developed (in part by UVa grad students) through the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Library of Congress, and all have been recognized as "quintessentially Virginia" in the intellectual contribution they make to the international digital humanities community. These will be introduced as three DH toolsets among many—not as eternal or favored approaches, but for interrogation through use: for what they help students to understand about all technologies of writing (manuscript, print, or digital). Together, we will produce and digitally publish a collection of reflections on and arguments about the theme of the seminar, composed in annotated Neatline maps and timelines, in crowd-sourced Prism word-counts and visualizations, and in ergodic, interactive, and collaborative Ivanhoe Game storytelling sequences. Our seminar participants will gain broad exposure to experimental modes of scholarly communication and greater confidence in their ability to pick up new tools in support of undergraduate writing pedagogy.
But they'll gain more than that. Contact with the interdisciplinary group of graduate student peers who have participated in the Library's Praxis Fellowship Program (through which the Ivanhoe and Prism software projects were created), and the ongoing support of Scholars' Lab staff for our seminar participants' work, will help them to understand the fundamentally collaborative, multi-disciplinary, public, and inter-professional nature of knowledge production in the digital humanities community. By the end of the seminar, students should better understand not only how specific DH composition platforms can be used in their own writing and teaching, but how open-source tools are constructed, augmented in response to scholarly questions, and maintained by technologists and information professionals within and beyond the academic humanities. This knowledge is of a piece with our larger argument about the long arc of the humanities and the self-defeating nature of the "two culture" dichotomy. They will also have gained marketable skills and proficiencies, added a distinguishing digital publication to their portfolios, and have entered into conversation with the broader DH community online, strengthening their personal networks ahead of the job search.
About Us
Look here soon for information about participating University of Virginia graduate students.
As instructors, Chad Wellmon and Bethany Nowviskie bring varied disciplinary perspectives and deep experience with the conceptual themes of the seminar and the humanities computing techniques and systems it will call into play.
Wellmon is an associate professor of German Studies, with expertise in European intellectual history, Romanticism, and media and social theory. His published work includes Becoming Human: Romantic Anthropology and the Embodiment of Freedom (Penn State UP, 2010) and forthcoming: Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Research University (Johns Hopkins, Spring 2015) and The Rise of the Research University, with Louis Menand and Paul Reitter (Chicago 2015). Among his recent articles are "Touching Books: Diderot, Novalis and the Encyclopedia of the Future," in Representations and "Languages, Cultural Studies and the Future of Foreign Language Education," in Modern Language Journal. Chad is also affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, has begun a computational inquiry into Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie, and edits and contributes to the new Infernal Machine blog at the Hedgehog Review, reflecting on "technology, ethics, and the human person."
Nowviskie is an associate librarian and director of the UVa Library's department of Digital Research and Scholarship, which includes the Praxis Program and Scholars' Lab in Alderman Library. She also serves as special advisor to the Provost for the advancement of digital humanities research at UVa, and is immediate past president of the international Association for Computers and the Humanities. Nowviskie, who holds a doctorate in English, has recently chaired the Modern Language Association's Committee on Information Technology and is a Distinguished Presidential Fellow at CLIR, the Council on Library and Information Resources. Over the course of an 18-year career, she has worked in most major areas of digital humanities research and has developed novel approaches to the scholarly editing, annotation, and modeling of texts, maps, images, and artifacts. The three core toolsets to be used in the seminar were created under her supervision.


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That's a fair point but the problem in this case was that its in such a gray area that determining whether it was cheating or not was up to the arbitrations committee. The decision that was made was with not visible bias. The event supervisor if he/she wanted could have pushed the committee to making a decision that was far more punishing or could have even waited a few hours before reporting the mistake to ensure his team made nationals and as Chalker point that is not the case. Also frankly put life is unfair and there are a lot of gray area decisions that are made that could go either way. From a literal reading of the rules Centerville didn't break any rules. They didn't run their device in the area between the starting and finish lines and the 1000 point penalty can only be applied for competition violations during the official runs. On another note, through this extensive argument Centerville reputation has been ruined and I'm sure that is what neither party would want (Centerville or Mentor). Quite frankly this conversation is becoming quite ridiculous and many of us weren't even there.As for those who are comparing this to past events where teams were treated unfairly:Just because unfortunate situations arose in the past where other teams were not treated fairly, that does not mean that it should be permitted to happen again. Your reasoning is basically saying "Well, this issue has always existed, so why bother changing it now? Besides, it would be unfair to the teams who were mistreated in the past." If we always settle on the decisions of the past, how are we ever to grow and improve? Realize that change needs to come about at some point, and there are always people who will just barely miss out on the positive effects of a change. While it is unfortunate that some teams have been mistreated, it is better to invoke change now instead of accepting poor policy simply because "life is unfair." Rather than being so willing to leave things as they are, we should focus on using this as an opportunity to improve Science Olympiad.
That is my take on this and there are better things we can do like being supportive of both teams and the administration or study for upcoming competitions/APs/next year.
NOTE: California only sends 2 team in each division to Nationals and even if they held a unified tournament the same 2 teams would win. They just host two separate tournaments for the sake of logistics (distance)


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International Research Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Vol.2 (2),pp. 9-13, December 2017
Available online at https://www.journalissues.org/IRJMBS/
Article 17/ID/JMBR011/ 05 pages
Author(s) retain the copyright of this article. Author(s) agree that this article remain permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License.
Original Research Article
Diabetic peripheral neuropathy and its risk factors : A community based study
1*Uwakwe J.N., 1Odoh G.,1Edah J.O.,2Enamino M.,1Chuhwak E.K. and 1Puepet F.H
1Department of Internal medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria.
2Department of Internal medicine, Federal Medical Centre, Keffi, Nigeria.
*Corresponding Author Email: uwakwejones(at)yahoo.com
Tel.: +2348036904117
Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder which has the potential of leading to the development of microvascular complications such as retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. Peripheral sensory neuropathy is common among persons with type 2 diabetes, and manifests as loss of sensory modalities such as touch, joint position and vibration sense. The vibrometer is an electronic device used in clinical diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy as well as in quantifying the extent or severity of the condition.
Aim: to determine the prevalence of peripheral neuropathy among individuals with type 2 diabetes, as well as outline its associated predisposing factors.
Methodology: One hundred (100) adults with type 2 diabetes participated in the study. Relevant history such as age, sex, and duration of diagnosis of diabetes was obtained from each participant. Anthropometric indices – height, weight and waist circumference—were also measured. A vibrometer was used to assess vibration perception threshold (VPT) in both feet of each participant. A VPT of greater than 15 volts in one or both feet was used as diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy. Serum lipids (triglycerides and cholesterol) were also assayed.
Results: Females comprised 68% of the study population. Mean age of study participants was 57.8±11.6 years and mean duration of diagnosis of diabetes was 10.1±6.6 years. Prevalence rate of peripheral neuropathy in study population was 75%. The independent predictors of peripheral neuropathy were age (OR = 4.00; 95% CI 1.46 – 10.77) and duration of diagnosis of diabetes ≥ 10 years (OR = 3.37 95% CI 1.23 – 9.25).
Conclusion: the risk of developing diabetic peripheral neuropathy increases with age and with the length of time an individual has been known to have diabetes mellitus. This information will be helpful in identifying high risk groups during screening programmes for diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
Key words: neuropathy, vibrometer, diabetes


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Big Ben Is Going Silent Till 2021!
Yes you read that right! Big Ben, the infamous bell inside London's iconic Elizabeth Tower is going silent for the next four years, during which the tower, clock and bells will be getting a refurb.
As part of the renovations, the tower will be getting a lift installed as well as toilets and a kitchen. The Great Clock will be dismantled so that its mechanism can be cleaned and restored piece by piece and any damaged parts can be repaired. The bells will also get a new protective coating.
While the repairs are taking place, one face of the clock will always be working, running on an electric motor and the bells themselves will still chime on important events like Remembrance Day and New Year's Eve, but will otherwise remain silent for the duration of the repair works. This marks one of the greatest conservation efforts in the 157 years that the clock and bell have been running.
To hear the Big Ben's last chimes before the repairs begin, the Houses of Parliament are inviting Londoners to listen on Monday 21st of August at noon, when the bells will sound for the last time until 2021 (except for the times mentioned above).
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The oil supply to the US from Venezuela has been cut once in recent years. The reason for this cut was the bosses' lockout at Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) that took place at the end of 2002 and the beginning of 2003. Ironically, the lockout was backed by US imperialism.
However, the recent trip of President Chavez to China has made top ranking members of the US administration uneasy. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a Congress investigative agency, is studying the issue at the request of Richard Lugar – Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Venezuela, the world's fifth largest exporter of oil, supplies almost 15% of imported oil to the US.
The oil in Venezuela has been under the control of the oligarchy since the discovery of this raw material more than a century ago. In spite of the state owned character of PDVSA the management of this company has always given priority to their own personal interests and those of the Venezuelan ruling class and US imperialism. It used to be said that it was not the government who controlled PDVSA – it was PDVSA that controlled the government.
This has now changed. The trigger for the coup d'etat of April 11 2002 was precisely the removal of the director's board of the company. After that, the overwhelming majority of the managerial elite of PDVSA were removed due to their role in the bosses' lockout that followed at the end of that year. The financial aims of the company have also changed. A large share of the money coming in from oil revenues is being used for social programmes known as "misiones" which cover housing, healthcare and education. Some people at that time were talking about "a second nationalisation". Since then President Chavez has warned more than once that he would "not send one drop of oil" to the US if the Bush administration carried out more attempts to oust him.
After his visit to China the concerns of the US have increased. On January 14 the Financial Times revealed, "Venezuela is currently studying how it can ship oil to China, either through the Panama Canal or via a pipeline across the Panamanian isthmus". A US official said "the US will not look favourably on Panama aiding Venezuela to sell its oil to a competitor of the US" (Ibid.). In recent years China has emerged as one of the biggest consumers and importers of hydrocarbons. China is now also an industrial and commercial rival of the US. On top of that the price of oil is rising higher and higher. In 2004 US crude prices rose above $55 a barrel. On January 13 oil prices rose again – this time to a six-week high due to fears of lower stocks of crude. It is quite clear that this future commercial deal with China is a movement of self-defence on the part of the Venezuelan government against the continuous attempts of US imperialism to undermine the Bolivarian Revolution.
In order to safeguard the gains of the revolution the oil is an important factor that must be skilfully used by the revolutionary movement. However, this is not enough. At the moment the prices are favourable for PDVSA and massive revenues coming from the oil are reverting to the poor and the workers but there are no means at all to keep the high prices of oil forever. If the prices of oil fall in the meantime, the Venezuelan Revolution will be jeopardised. The oligarchy still holds control of most of the economy and is using its financial power to attack the revolution by whatever means necessary. Massive media corporations like Globovision are using all their resources to spread lies about the Bolivarian Revolution and openly call for coups and foreign intervention. Meanwhile the landowners are hiring thugs to terrorise peasant and community leaders. The Venezuelan Revolution must take the initiative and expropriate all those who do not respect the democratic will of the majority and put these means of production under the control of the workers and the community.


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While Canberra doesn't have as significant a coffee culture as Sydney and Melbourne, there is certainly no shortage of great places to get a good coffee. Conversely, there's also a few shockers out there too. As an avid coffee drinker since an early age, I know what I like in a cup of coffee. So here is the first in a series of reviews of coffee in Canberra.
Part One: Major Chains in Canberra – Is the hype worth it?
1. Gloria Jeans
Coffee sampled multiple times at Tuggeranong, Woden and Civic stores since June.
Gloria Jeans offers a range of hot and cold drinks ranging from the staples like flat whites and lattes to unique flavored coffees such as the Irish Nut Creme. GJs also offers a range of non coffee drinks such as hot and iced chocolates, fruit chillers and chai tea. As a franchise operation, the quality of the drink is dependent on the store and how good the staff are, so one store can be good and another not so good as my testing revealed. The Tuggeranong store is consistent is quality and service while the Woden store often has poor service and the coffee is variable. Also, they have a perfume despenser on the wall, intended for public toilets. This lets off a fruity smell that can (and has) affected the taste and aroma of the coffee. The Civic store is good but food service is spotty with orders being forgotten. Interestingly, the food offered at these stores pales in comparison to that offered by three interstate stores I have dined at in Hobart (Tas), Warrnambool (Vic) and Bateman's Bay (NSW). They must think Canberrans have simpler tastes?
Caramel Latte: Smooth espresso with a little bit of bite and great flavorful caramel taste. Pleasent brew ideal for a morning cuppa.
Irish Nut Creme: Very similar in flavour to the Caramel latte with a pleasant Irish cream liqueur flavour, nutty tones and a hint of caramel.
Triple Hot Chocolate: Smooth, velvety drink with rich chocolate flavours and featuring pleasant complexity. Though it is a wonderful drink, some may find it too creamy and sweet. Interestingly, the taste and texture could be compared to a melted Macdonalds choc sundae.
Gloria Jeans offers solid coffee. Nothing spectacular and perhaps not gourmet, but enjoyable and better than what one can do at home. The roast is medium strength and finished product is smooth and well executed.
2. Starbucks
Coffee sampled multiple times at Starbucks Manuka and Civic (Garema Place)
Starbucks is an iconic brand with prominence in every facet of modern culture from historic sites to television and cinema. Whether its Aspen, the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin or James Bond, Starbucks is everywhere. But it is over rated. Except for the Manuka store, service ate every other store (interstate too) is mediocre. The Civic stores are slow and hygiene a problem. In Summer, flies are allow over your coffee while its being made and are in the food displays. Food selection is limited and flavours usually basic. The Espresso and chocolate brownies are a surprising highlight with great texture and flavour, worthy of a fine French patisserie.
Caramel Macchiato: Yet it's not a macchiato. It looks like a latte and tastes like a White Vienna. Despite the confusing name, this is Starbuck's signature brew and is the best coffee drink they can do. It's mellow with a bold caramel flavour and slight nutty characterstics. The hot varient, the more common type, is always nice after a lunch in Manuka. The iced variant (pictured) however is one to be avoided. Bitter, over powering espresso and a disgusting lump of caramel syrup makes for an unpleasant beverage, amateurish.
Signature Hot Chocolate: Smooth yet mild. It's nice, but nothing special. The caramel variant (ask for it specially) is good, served with whipped cream, it is quite nice. Mellow, with a crisp chocolate flavour and refreshing finish on the palette. The Hazelnut variant tastes
like urinal cakes unique and is to be avoided. The complaint about these is they are too milky and lack texture.
Vanilla Latte: When made correctly, the subtle vanilla tones blended with sharp espresso make for a bittersweet brew that compliments an espresso brownie perfectly. However, if too much vanilla is used, it is off balanced and synthetic in taste.
You may like the Caramel Macchiato, though it can be insipid to some. Many may enjoy the wonderful Signature Hot Chocolate. Most damaging for Starbucks is that there basic brews are awful. The lattes I tried were tasteless, luke warm, insipid and too milky. When the worlds most famous coffee shop chain can't make a simple latte, it's shocking. Finally, Starbucks coffees tend to be overly milky and simplistic in character. They lack the complex characters and tastes of Gloria Jeans coffees and that of local coffee shops such as Jindebah. Asside from a few exceptions, their coffees are glorified "cups of joe" with steamed milk. The saving grace is the staff at the Manuka store are about the best of any of the contenders here.
3. Muffin Break
Coffee sampled multiple times from Tuggeranong and Civic stores.
It's this simple. Civic good. Tuggeranong poor. It wasn't always the case, but sadly it is now. Three months ago, the coffee that I regularly consumed from the Tuggeranong store began to consistantly taste insipid and tart. The aftertaste was earthy in flavour and the brew way to acidic. The Civic store still makes great coffee. Given that they both use Muffin Breaks own coffee beans, this difference in quality is strange and I can not explain it. Food too. The civic store seams to have good food. The Tuggeranong store's quality has been variable with the muffins burnt on occasion, cakes dry and obviously old and lattes served in mugs instead of traditional glasses. Given that the Tuggeranong Store has been for sale for three months or so ( http://allhomes.com.au/c/ah?a=sp&p=290493 ), things may not be going well despite claims of high turnover.
Latte (from Civic Store): Mild roast, mellow flavour and served piping hot. The taste is crisp, smooth and refeshing. It is similar to the fine brew from Jindebah Hills coffees though more subtle and smooth.
So, with claims of heartfelt coffee making (GJ) and best coffee or get one free (MB), is the hype surrounding these three chains true?. They're some of the biggest in the country, do they deserve their market leading positions. No.
Gloria Jeans comes closest. The coffee is pleasant and I drink it often. It does however lack the gourmet qualities of Jindebah Hills for example. Of these three tested, only Gloria Jeans makes coffee that is any better than what I can do on my own espresso machine and therefore, worth the extra cost. Overall though, bigger isn't better.


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1. Inside a Bicycle Shop – Maglia Rosa (Carroll Gardens)
Tucked away in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, Maglia Rosa combines fine Italian coffee with fine Italian bicycles. Dedicated to providing its customers with high quality products, you can peruse their bicycles and build your own frame while crafting the perfect espresso drinks. The cafe at Maglia Rosa serves as an opportunity for the cycling community to come relax, take a break, and connect with like-minded folks.
2. Inside a Barber Shop – Blind Barber (Williamsburg)
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Blind Barber was created to be well beyond a typical barber shop but rather a place where the community could gather and get to know each other. That means along with your (men's) haircut, you can enjoy cocktails, delicious pizzas and other food, and, of course, coffee. In fact, your haircut even comes with a complementary beverage! With blue bottle beans, this is not a haircut to miss.


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Flower Specifications
Season: Perennial
USDA Zones: 4 - 8
Height: 18 - 24 inches
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Pink
Environment: Partial shade
Soil Type: Well-drained, pH 5.8 - 6.8
Deer Resistant: Yes
Planting Directions
Temperature: 65 - 70F
Average Germ Time: 28 - 35 days
Light Required: Yes
Depth: Do not cover
Sowing Rate: 10 - 12 seeds per plant
Moisture: Keep moist until germination
Plant Spacing: 12 inches
Care & Maintenance: Astilbe
Astilbe (Astilbe Chinensis) - Growing Astilbe seeds is a wonderful way to liven up shady areas with plumes of color. Astilbe Chinensis is the gardener's best friend for breaking up the monotony of various shades of green in the shady garden. Astilbe plants are strong, robust shade-lovers that produce extremely large pink plumes. They are quite tall plants, averaging around twelve to eighteen inches in total without flowers and with flowers they can grow as tall as 2 feet. Due to their graceful height they are often placed in areas of the garden that will use their height to advantage, such as a bordering plant or to line the side of a fence.
Often known as Astilbe False Goat's Beard, this perennial is not a difficult plant to grow from flower seed as long as you know the soil, water, temperature, and sun requirements. For optimum growth, you should plant Astilbe in average soil in an area that gets good drainage. It's important that the soil has good drainage because excessively wet soil could cause the roots to rot away. These plants are not very resilient against excessive heat or sunlight, therefore the area that you plant your Astilbe in should ideally receive partial shade. Astilbe flower seeds are usually sown indoors in early spring and transplanted outside when the weather is warmer. Use a loose, soft soil mix, and plant the Astilbe seeds on the surface, pressing them into the soil. Make sure that the soil drains well and is able to keep the flower seeds moist, but not wet, at all times. For the best results, add in a little fertilizer that has a high concentration of nitrogen. Keep the Astilbe plants inside until the seedlings reach about 2 inches in height. Transplant after last frost.
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Winter/Summer confusion- You know, I don't really care if the weather ever warms up for spring. If we get a few more days just like today, it will be fine with me. We had lots of sunshine, lots of wind, lots of waves, temp 37 F. O.K. my hands got cold a few times, but other than that, (and the knowledge that I was wearing my drysuit with 4 layers underneath), it felt and looked like a summer day. There was bright sunshine glistening off the water, children flying kites, families strolling along the waters edge, and plenty of picture takers and dog walkers. Never mind that it was 14 degrees F. below average for the end of March, sand was blowing horizontally down the beach, and everyone had on jackets, hats and mittens. It was glorious! So I'm going out on a limb here, being brutally honest. I would be happy if it stays frigid as long as it stays windy, especially sunny and windy. Of course, if the weather really does refuse to warm up, everyone is going to blame me for writing this.
Hand Warmers- I put them on the back of my hands in my Glacier Gloves. They seemed to give a hint of warmth as long as I kept my hands above the waterline. Stopping to let a little air into the gloves excited them. I had a good dunking, about halfway through my session, that spelled their end. At least they didn't fall apart like my feet warmer experiment.
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Sutherland was a special assistant to the GM, and had been in that position for 12 years, while Forsch had logged 14 years in the AGM role.
Bill Dwyre on Friday recapped the consequences of the Reagins ouster. My own feeling is that they're going to bring in someone from outside, though the popular choices are not likely, i.e. Pat Gillick.
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Interesting. I actually find this move somewhat encouraging, as it potentially signals Arte Moreno's willingness to hire a true, independent GM (i.e., not someone who merely does Scioscia's bidding) who will, in turn, be given free reign to hire his own underlings. Presumably, anyone interested in being more than a figurehead GM would also want to hire his/her own assistants.
I hope you're right. Scioscia's insane comments this year equating calling up Hank Conger with asking Mike Trout to catch (along with the Napoli trade, done as though he were a throwaway piece) makes me think he doesn't know the first thing about evaluating catching talent.
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zgrep contains the following gem:
for i do
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Protesters across Europe are striking from work and taking to the streets today to voice their discontent over the economic austerity sweeping the continent.
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Red Eléctrica de España, a big utilities company providing electricity in Spain, just said that Spanish power demand is 14 percent below normal amid the general labor strike taking place today, according to Bloomberg.
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JUST IN: DFA Spokesperson Confirms OFW 'Jakatia Pawa' Was Set to Execute in Kuwait Today!
Reports revealed that a 32-year-old OFW Jakarta Pawa underwent the legal process to prove her innocence, but then, she was unable to do so and her family failed to pay the 'blood money' that could have prevented her execution.
It was confirmed that the Philippine government had been negotiating regarding her case since 2007.
The President has recently written a letter of appeal to the Kuwait Government.
Paws were sentenced to death for supposedly killing her employer's daughter on May 2007. The victim was stabbed 28 times and died.
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Poll: Majority say Cuomo not doing good job on corruption
The latest survey by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute shows that while Gov. Andrew Cuomo's job approval rating is steady at 57 percent to 29 percent, it is significantly lower among men and Upstaters — likely as a result of the governor's push for gun control legislation.
The same poll shows a majority of voters, 52 percent, say Cuomo has not done a good job "cleaning up legislative corruption."
The survey of 1,404 voters found 46 percent of Upstate Americans support Cuomo, compared with 39 percent who do not approve of his job performance. New York City voters approve of Cuomo 67-18, and the governor enjoys a 58-27 approval rating in the suburbs. Men approve of Cuomo by a 49-39 margin, while the governor, a Democrat, has a 63-20 approval rating among women.
"That first-in-the-nation gun-control package continues to hurt New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo politically, although, by margins of 2-1, New Yorkers overall like the tougher law. The city-upstate split on the bill and the governor is huge," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "Overall, the Gov's job approval numbers stay positive, with the very blue New York City very much on his side."
"The State Legislature and its leaders are, as usual, unpopular, and more voters think that shared Senate leadership is a power grab rather than an effective way to get business done," Carroll continued. "They think it's the governor's obligation, more than the Legislature's, to drain the cesspool and they're not convinced he's doing a good job."


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You rose to the occasion once again and over 70 cards came in. We will once again be able to hand out a card to each and every senior at this care facility. Thank you so much to:
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This project was designing a miniature robot that would fit inside an Altoids tin. To make it compact but keep it re-programmable I designed it all on one PCB with an atmega328 chip. I also made an H-bridge to control the two tiny motors. I added functionality through push buttons, photo-resistors, a speaker, and a microphone.
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