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This blog is part of a series of technical blogs leading up to the release of openSUSE Leap 15. All of the blogs provide a use case regarding openSUSE Leap and the packages available in the distribution. Happy reading.
Transactional Updates is one of the exciting new features available in the upcoming release of openSUSE Leap 15, which is scheduled to be officially released May 25.
Contributed by the Kubic Project, Transactional Updates provides openSUSE systems with a method of updating the operating system and its packages in an entirely 'atomic' way. Updates are either applied to the system all together in a single transaction, or not at all. This happens without influencing the running system. If an update fails, or if the successful update is deemed to be incompatible or otherwise incorrect, it can be discarded to immediately return the system to its previous functioning state.
This differs from existing alternatives that already exist in the open source world. Some users use a rather exorbitant approach of maintaining multiple versions of their system in multiple partitions on disk to switch between the partitions to address a fear of tampering with a perfectly running system.
This juggling approach works, but takes an exorbitant amount of disk storage and maintenance efforts. More modern approaches like using ostree and snap attempt to address these problems and bring atomic/transactional updates to their users. However, these solutions have unintended consequence as users, developers, and partnering software vendors all learn new ways of managing their systems and existing packages cannot be re-used, which require either repackging or conversion. All of this develops to a situation where adopters need to redesign their mindsets, systems, tools and company policies to work with these clever tools. These workarounds have some key flaws that Kubic's Transactional Updates feature strives to avoid.
Under the hood, Transactional Updates are made simple. Utilising the same btrfs, snapper, and zypper technologies that are trusted defaults in openSUSE Leap, Transactional Updates do something very similar to the traditional snapshots and rollbacks in Leap. However, Transactional Updates it never touches the running system. Instead of patching the current system, the transactional-update tool creates a new snapshot. All of the operations required by the update are carried out into a snapshot that ensures the current system is untouched with no changes impacting the running system.


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Happy Sunday all!
I hope your Sunday is filled with glorious miles or even some much needed rest. Sundays are always my rest days. I use to struggle so bad with the rest day, like ummmm what do I do with myself I NEED to exercise or do some type of physical activity. My amazing coach (thanks Katie, check out my amazing coach she's doing some AWESOME STUFF) and some friends helped me with that, and let me tell you these rest days are now looked forward to and enjoyed! Life is too short and we work to hard to not take a break and recharge.
It's that time of year where sickness is around us! Everyone has colds, flu, sinus issues, just NASTY crap going around. Well, if you follow me on Instagram you will see that I too got the sickness!!! In this picture here it was about 6:00pm and I was in bed, with my jacket on trying to locate my sunglasses (on my head).
This sickness was brutal and on top of it I ended up with a terrible ear infection. So needless to say my training had to take the backseat. I listened to my body and took some rest days. I only averaged about 20ish miles this week. I HAD to listen to my body!!
Well, now that the sickness is over, I felt like I could take on training full steam ahead….WRONG! DANG IT! My hamstring has been bugging me like crazy, soooooo hello foam roller!! I have been foam rolling like a crazy lady AND taking advantage of my local spin studio.
I have realized a lot during this training (so far) and you know that that is? LIFE HAPPENS!! It sure does! There are things we just can't control. I have seen many people post about sickness, injury, or the fact that they have been stuck on the treadmill due to the winter and being freeze babies. Guess what??? It's OKKKKKK! Keep doing what YOU can.
There are so may times we beat ourselves up over the things we can't do. We need to (including myself) be better at celebrating what we CAN do. So your long run didn't go as planned…you got the sickness…..you have some injury that is nagging you. YOU DO YOU, figure out a plan to move forward. You only can control SO MUCH. YOU DO YOU and guess what you're exactly where you need to be.
Keep going strong friends! We have a little over 2 months yet, plenty of time to take on some awesome miles and plenty of time for LIFE to happen. Don't stress…… ROLL with it (or foam roll, hahah see what I did there =) )


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This workshop will help teach participants how to:
- Identify common communication problems that may be holding them back
- Develop skills in asking questions
- Identify what their non-verbal messages are telling others
- Develop skills in listening actively and empathetically
- Enhance their ability to handle difficult situations
- Deal with situations assertively
Base Cost
Calculate DiscountI will book and pay 10 business days before the course (less $22.99)
If you are currently resident in South Africa you will need to pay VAT at 15%.
Delivery Method
Instructor Led classroom based training. Scheduled classes are normally held in Woodmead - near to Sandton in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Stationary and textbook included. Refreshments, including 2 tea breaks and a cooked meal for lunch are provided. Contact hours are between 9am to 4pm.
Pre-RequisitesSelf Mastery Course
Course Outline / Curriculum
You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
- The Ten Commandments of Positive Relationships
- During this session, participants will explore ten ways to build positive relationships, including using uplifting messages.
- Self-Awareness
- Knowing your fears can help you address them. Participants will complete a self-confidence assessment and then the group will discuss fears and solutions.
- Communication
- During this session, you will help participants identify their strengths and weaknesses through a personal exercise and a role-play.
- Communication Barriers
- After a large group case study, participants will work in small groups to discuss barriers to communication. Participants will also complete a short exercise to illustrate how these barriers apply to everyday life.
- Asking Questions
- This session will examine questioning skills (including open questions, closed questions, and probing) through a lecture and a pairs exercise.
- Listening Skills
- Participants will work on their listening skills by participating in two quizzes and a role play. We have also provided two lectures for the trainer.
- Remembering Names
- To start the second day, participants will complete a list of the names of other participants. Then, the trainer can segue into a discussion on tips for remembering names.
- Body Language
- To begin this session, the trainer will talk about the idea of body language in a lecture. Then, participants will complete a small group exercise and a large group exercise to explore the concept further.
- Frame of Reference
- This session will explore our frame of reference and the assumptions that we make through a lecture, large group exercise, and group discussion.
- Assertiveness
- How we see ourselves has an impact on how we interact with others. Through lecture, case studies, and discussion, this session will investigate ways that participants can improve their self-image and thereby deal with difficult situations assertively and positively.
- Workshop Wrap-Up
- At the end of the day, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan.
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After watching The Windmill farmer, we set about adding text to an emotive video clip. We are proud of our results.
Early one warm morning a kind farmer began his work. Curiously, he strolled outside to inspect the soil. With a kiss, he carefully took a baby windmill seed from his pocket placing it gently but firmly in the newly hoed soil. The dedicated farmer repeated this several hundred times without complaining before returning proudly indoors like a chef with a cake in the oven. Maya
Very early one morning, before you or I would be awake, an elderly, hardworking farmer gazed at the soil below him. Like a hairdresser he lovingly combed the earth ready to plant some special seeds. In fact they weren't even plants . . . they were windmills! Ishika
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Charging down chimneys,
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somersaulting birds,
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Imaginative and creative minds in Year 3
In our first few English lessons this term, the children were learning how to start writing creatively using one page from the book 'I'll Take You to Mrs Cole' by Michael Foreman. The picture portrays a beast-infested dungeon filled with six scared, imprisoned children, with an intimidating or brave figure stood at the top of the steep, windy stairs.
Working in pairs at first, the children were asked to think, share and then write down their ideas for what the figure could: a) smell; b) see; c) taste; d) hear and finally, e) touch/feel. Then, as a whole class, each pair told the rest of the class their sentences. With a little bit of help and encouragement to think of more interesting adjectives, the children came up with the following work:
The disgusting aroma of the ancient nappy worn by the terrified baby.
An upside down, hairy spider dangling, waiting hungrily.
A small baby, sobbing loudly.
The stale, unpleasant air in her hungry mouth.
The clanking metal chains falling onto the stone slabs
Dripping goo splashing into the sewage water.
The hideous crocodile snapping extremely loudly, so much so it made the walls shake.
The scaly snake coiling around her nervous body.
The dark green slimy gunge on the crumbly stone walls.
Well done, Year 3!


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Re: Fake micro SD cards
The Market is flooded with fake microSD cards, especially on Ebay, these card mount OK, report correct capacity written on the package, and never report an error when capacity of the original card before modification has passed, These cards even format OK to the fake capacity. Here is an example, a card physically is 4GB but its label and FAT file has changed to say 64GB. You never know it is fake except to find out after 4GB in this case is reached and files start not to exit even when the FAT file tells you your file is in the memory. H2testw software is very slow, but you can test your card by writing a lot of large files like videos to the card and find out is it really is what claims to be. Also note older devices don't read exfat formated cards, so read the specs of your device may be SD card is not the problem. Buy SD cards from large chains or authorized dealers, consider the rest fake. Use your PC to Test the card immediately after purchase because you might pass the window to return it.
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I bought a fake Sandisk 64GB from Ebay, it was only 4B, he seller returned my money immediately and did not even asked to send card back. I read we can report incidents like these Sandisk to start an investion, but I don't know Sandisk cares or not, please let me know thanks..
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I put this post up originally (ages ago) because my wife had problems with two cards that she' d purchased in the Philippines; they were not bought on eBay, but through a retailer. These cards subsequently proved to be fake. We were unable to retrieve any of the images on these 2 Gb cards even after sending them to SanDisk themselves, who offer a recovery service.
As stated above. The cards read correctly as the stated size, could be mounted and formatted. However, once they had reached capacity they would no longer function; the images could not be read at all. Effectively the cards become unmounable.
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I think I am late to the party, did some reseacch on the net to find out this been going on for a long time. These fake cards drive you crazy because they don't give you a clue what is happening. I also found out Ebay does not really care what these scammers are doing, and challenging these seller is a big hassle that does not go anywhere, the best we can do make this problem as public as we can. I bought Samsung Evo class 10 card from Walmart so far it functioning perfectly and super fast.
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I'd recommend 7DayShop.com. They are safe and very reliable. I've been using them since the film days.
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I did checked 7dayshop.com, holly sh*t, they are Brits, unreal prices $98 for 64GB class 3, here a class 10, 64GB sells for $60 form the best retailer in US, where this is only place professionals trust, no I don't work for them I think the VAT tax really works over there,
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Here is one more free utility that you can quickly use to confirm your microSD card authenticity, using your Android device.
SD Insight on the Google Play store:
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Hi Andromeda,
This is very genuine way I found to detect fake sd cards using
There is also an android app available on Google Play store that helps you to detect fake sd cards directly from your android device.This is very good micro sd card test software available on Google Play store for FREE.This Android app will write a test file and read it back testing it's content to spot fake external memory of your device. It will test the speed and the storage capacity. Useful to check for a damaged or fake card.Check SD Card Tester Android App from Google Play Store.
Source : How to Verify Fake Micro SD Card
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Hi all
I recently purcased a Sandisk Extreme Pro 280MB/s SD Card from a reputable Sandisk Reseller & got the following results using H2testw v1.4:
Warning: Only 60317 of 60318 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
Writing speed: 34.1 MByte/s
Reading speed: 35.9 MByte/s
Am I getting my MB/s & MByte/s symbols mixed up?
The reason I tested is because I used it in my BMPCC & got drop frames.
Re: Fake micro SD cards
Very helpful. However, not that much use after you've already bought them. The cards that my wife bought and used initially checked out fine. She took many images until the card was full. All the images previewed before and after; it wasn't until she removed the card from the camera and later reinserted them that she noticed the fault - by then it was too late and she could no longer which shop she'd bought them from (in the Philippines). Anyway, thanks for the tip. 😊


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Here, theScore examines every NFL roster to find one notable veteran player who's in danger of becoming an early cap casualty ahead of free agency on March 13.
Years left on contract: 1
2019 cap savings: $4.5M
2019 dead money: $4.5M
Clay was virtually non-existent in the passing game this season after three straight 500-yard campaigns. The Bills need to get more playmakers around Josh Allen if they want to accelerate the young quarterback's development.
Years left on contract: 1
2019 cap savings: $12.9M
2019 dead money: $0
A trade market could develop for quarterback Ryan Tannehill, but that's not likely to happen for Quinn. The deteriorating pass-rusher won't have much of a role in Miami if the Dolphins go ahead with their rebuilding plan.
Years left on contract: 1
2019 cap savings: $7.4M
2019 dead money: $0
Allen has just 26 receptions and one touchdown since being acquired in a trade with the Indianapolis Colts two years ago. The Patriots can get an equally adept blocking tight end for a fraction of the salary.
Years left on contract: 2
2019 cap savings: $3M
2019 dead money: $2M
The Jets figure to be players in the Le'Veon Bell sweepstakes this offseason but should still eye an upgrade at running back if they whiff on their top target. Crowell could be one-and-done in New York despite inking a three-year deal last March.
Years left on contract: 1
2019 cap savings: $7.5M
2019 dead money: $1.75M
Quarterback Joe Flacco is the more obvious cut candidate, but Weddle is another veteran whose days in Baltimore are numbered. The six-time Pro Bowler wants to return to the Ravens but is uncertain whether that will happen.
Years left on contract: 2
2019 cap savings: $6.85M
2019 dead money: $1.81M
Burfict is in athletic decline and has an extensive concussion history and temperament issues. The new regime in Cincinnati is likely to let him go as it tries to establish a new culture.
Years left on contract: 2
2019 cap savings: $9.25M
2019 dead money: $2.5M
It's been a disappointing two-plus seasons for Collins, who hasn't made the type of impact the Browns envisioned when they acquired him from the Patriots. Cleveland was believed to be shopping him before the trade deadline.
Years left on contract: 2
2019 cap savings: $3.63M
2019 dead money: $2.83M
Burnett has already asked the Steelers for his release, citing his role in their defensive scheme. The 30-year-old will probably get his wish granted following one uneventful year in Pittsburgh.
Years left on contract: 1
2019 cap savings: $14M
2019 dead money: $0
The Texans may look to bring Thomas back, but not at his scheduled fee of $14 million. The five-time Pro Bowler is coming off a torn Achilles and may be sidelined to begin the new season.
Years left on contract: 1
2019 cap savings: $5.34M
2019 dead money: $0
Eric Ebron thrived in his first campaign in Indianapolis, making Doyle expendable. Doyle missed 10 games this season due to injury, and the Colts' offense didn't suffer in his absence.
Years left on contract: 3
2019 cap savings: $11M
2019 dead money: $4M
Jackson saw his playing time reduced late in the season, a sign the Jaguars plan to release him. Maligned quarterback Blake Bortles could follow him out the door in Jacksonville.
Years left on contract: 3
2019 cap savings: $3.18M
2019 dead money: $1.69M
Lewis only averaged 3.3 yards per carry in his first season with the Titans, who leaned on the power of Derrick Henry down the stretch. He may not get a second kick at the can in Tennessee.
Years left on contract: 2
2019 cap savings: $7.47M
2019 dead money: $1.75M
Leary is one of several Broncos veterans who've fallen short of expectations in recent years. Denver's much-needed renovation project up front could begin with the termination of Leary, whose salary and performance don't align.
Years left on contract: 2
2019 cap savings: $14M
2019 dead money: $7.1M
Houston is still effective, but his cap number may simply be too large for the Chiefs to keep him around. Kansas City has many defensive holes to fill and could use another $14 million to work with even if releasing the sack artist creates another void.
Years left on contract: 1
2019 cap savings: $5.25M
2019 dead money: $1.25M
Benjamin has never come close to living up to the four-year, $24-million contract he signed in 2016. The speedster's production was paltry in 2018, as he managed just 186 yards and one touchdown through the air in 12 games.
Years left on contract: 1
2019 cap savings: $5.48M
2019 dead money: $1.75M
Penn and Kelechi Osemele could both end up as cap casualties after underperforming this season. The biggest difference between the former Pro Bowlers is that Osemele still has age on his side and is more likely to bounce back in 2019.
Contract stats courtesy: Over The Cap


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Graham Horner from The Telegraph Group talks about how to empower and engage your customer with mobile applications at Loyalty World 2012. His presentation includes:
– What is the USP of mobile applications?
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Winner of the Flowd VIP trip to ADE announced!
October 17, 2011
We're absolutely sure there are 4 very happy individuals out there, who've just received some very good news from Flowd! Flowd offered Armin van Buuren fans the chance to win a VIP trip to the Armada Night at Amsterdam Dance Event, including flight tickets and a hotel stay for 4 (!), a meet & greet with Armin and a bottle of champagne to celebrate it all! The winner is now announced...
Armin fans were asked to upload their best picture ever taken of an Armin gig to Armin's Flowd artist wall. A selection of the best ones can be found here! The best picture taken was that one of Alice Caldani from Italy. Alice and 3 of her best friends get to enjoy this incredible trip, all made possible by Flowd!
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Last year, Nike held their first design competition for consumers. The winning design was a hit, and now the Swoosh has invited six more creators to produce their own signature sneaker with some help. Check out this year's Nike On-Air Winners and their designs.
Most sneaker fans are well aware of Nike's new On-Air initiative. The competition grants Swoosh fans with the opportunity to create their own shoe, which will then be produced and released to the public later on. Last year's competition yielded Sean Wotherspoon's famous Air Max 97/1, a uniquely colorful shoe that combined two of the brand's greatest silhouettes into one clean new take. This year, Nike invited creators from six cities across the globe to workshop spaces, allowing them to create in an unprecedented manner. Taking pieces from various Air Max and Vapormax sneakers, 18 of the contestants were selected by Nike to advance to the public voting round. Then, those 18 were narrowed down to just six by sneakerheads all around the globe.
The six design winners from the Nike On Air challenge will take their next steps in shoe production soon. Following the announcement of the winning models, each designer will travel to Nike's headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Meeting with product development and marketing teams, they will then begin the process of bringing their vision to life, and retail shelves. Check out the winners along with their designs below, and stay tuned to JustFreshKicks for an official release date.


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For more information on Romblon, read Romblon, Romblon is a heritage town.
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"The castle of Guiguan . . . is the best and most regularly planned in all the Visayas. It exceeds in grandeur the celebrated fort of Zamboanga. The Fathers with the aid of the townspeople built the fort for their defense. It is quadrilateral, each side being 70 brazas long. At every corner is a bulwark. On these bulwarks six pieces of artillery can be mounted. Within the fort, which is all of cut stone, stands the single-naved church, large and capacious, and the house of the priest with all the necessary offices. It has four large patios, one serves as a cemetery and affords a commodious space for the schools. The other has a garden where a two-story warehouse stands. The kitchen is found in one of the bulwarks. On the bulwarks facing the sea are mounted six bronze cannons of various calibers, and a large one of iron, plus various lantacas, whipstaff, swivel guns, muskets and other arms which the ministers buy with the alms given by the inhabitants. They also purchase gunpowder and bullets as an annual surety with which they can defend the town from any armed enemy attack" thus Fr. Delgado (1754, 239–40) describes the fortification at Guiuan.
The Guiuan fort is partially preserved. The southeastern bulwark where the Franciscans built a bell tower in 1854 still stands. So does another bulwark on the southwestern end, and parts of the southern and western wall. We gather from Delgado that the Jesuits did not build a bell tower because he mentions the bell used to sound alarms as hanging inside the fort. Mentally extending the remains of the southern wall shows it once bisected the convento built on the southern side. Although Repetti identifies this convento as Jesuit, he appears to be mistaken. Why build a convento outside the defensive perimeter? Besides, Delgado remarks that the Jesuits lived inside the fort. Rather the building on the southern side is the 1872 convento, while we infer that the Jesuit convento or what is left of it are the two rooms directly behind the sanctuary, beneath which the old sacristy stood. This would place the residence within the defensive perimeter, as Delgado states. Besides, the convento fits Huerta's description of a stone building.
The Franciscans apparently added a transept and a baptistry. This is the sense of Huerta's "reedificada." Architectural evidence bears this out. The main nave (Delgado's single-naved church) is unified in its interior motifs and dimensions. Stucco angels decorate the church interior, and the doors leading to the choir loft bear the emblems of Mary and the Society above their arches. The main nave is more than two meters taller than the transept and the concourse from the transept to the main nave is impeded by a few centimeters of wall, unusual if the transepts were planned together with the nave. The transept appears as an afterthought. The thickness of the church wall at the transept opening is less than that of the rest of the church suggesting that room was made for some structure, very likely a retablo, which was then removed and transferred elsewhere. In fact, parts of that retablo are in the church.
Guiuan owns numerous altars—a virtual history of the parish. Aside from the main altar two side altars stand along the nave. One bears mixed parentage, a retablo from Franciscan times and a rococo frontal with the Augustinian emblem. Each transept end has an altar. One which houses a templette has florid baroque motifs, probably remnants of the side altar from Jesuit times. The altar table itself is cuplike, typical of Franciscan rococo, similar to the altars in the Franciscan church of Baras. Could these altars have come from Luzon?
The main altar belongs to the Baroque style and traces to the Jesuit era. Divided into a number of niches separated by solomonic columns and encrusted with heavy floral carvings, the impression created is that of being heavy and overwrought. The carved wooden altar frontal bears the image of the Virgin Mary flanked by kneeling priests in chasuble with the images of Jesuits saints in floral roundels. Two processional candle holders are shaped like altar servers or sacristans, dressed in cassok and surplice. One wears a medal with a monogram of the name "Jesus" and the other "Mary." A pair of solomonic columns stretching to the ceiling flanks the main retablo. From a corbel shaped like a human hand hangs a pulley, probably used to raise and lower a sanctuary lamp or probably used to raise a curtain known as manto lanquin (manto from Spanish meaning veil; and lanquin from Chinese meaning black) that covered the altar from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.
An outstanding Franciscan addition is the baptistry located near the church entrance. It is decorated like grottoes—that is, with shells—and coral. Probably the only example of its kind in the Philippines. Recently, the National Museum of the Philippines documented the baptistery and identified at least eight types of shells used to decorate. The baptistry alone makes Guiuan church worthy of being considered a "national treasure."
The Guiuan façade gives a hint of the treasures within. While following the standard divisions into verticals and horizontals, the use of multiple but slim engaged columns gives the façade a delicacy lacking in many colonial churches. The decorations over the pediment further adds to the delicate feel. The original nave had three entrances, one in front two at the sides. These had elaborately carve hardwood doors. The two remaining doors are worth studying. The front door represents the apostles, a side door facing seaward represents the angels. The missing third door (said to have been sold surreptitiously in the 1980s) may have represented the Holy Family as indicated by the monograms of Jesus, Mary and Joseph on the door jamb. (Panublion)
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Parish Church of San Vicente de Ferrer in Dupax del Sur is the best-preserved church complex in Nueva Vizcaya. It was built during the second half of the 18th century, under the Dominicans. The baptistry and narthex are converted with carved stucco – work possibly unmatched elsewhere in the Philippines. The convento still preserves slits on the outer walls for archers to fire their arrows against raiders. (NCCA)
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Originally called Suaraga, Soaragam, Suiraga, the settlement was an encomienda under Esteban Rodriguez de Figueroa. Suaraga was a visita of Antique from 1591-92, when it became an independent town. In 1687, a resident priest was assigned to Suaraga. In 1692, Suaraga was made a parish with Miagao as its annex; later, in 1703, Guimbal was annexed to Suaraga; and in 1731 returned to Miagao. Finally in 1793 it became an independent parish and in 1801, Fr. Agustín Rico was assigned resident priest. The present church is attributed to Fr. Tomás Santaren while he was parish priest from 1855-66.
Heritage Features: Built of coral stone quarried from Igbaras, the church is flanked by a three story bell tower to its right and the ruins of a building, probably the convento to its left. The bell tower, however, is now damaged and the upper most story, a construction in reinforced concrete. The two stories of the façade are uneven in height, the second being about one-half the dimension of the first. The first story is decorated with rosettes and divided vertically by engaged columns on tall plinths like Guimbal. Composite capitals crown the columns. A plaque above the arched portal displays the Augustinian seal flanked by cherubs. The second story is plain compared with the lower floor. The façade's striking feature, however, is the disproportionately large pediment. When Fr. Santarén was still building the church news of the victory of Gen. Leopoldo O'Donnel over the Moroccan Crown Prince Muley Abbas reached Iloilo. The Spaniards recaptured Tetuan. Santarén's low relief mural captures the excitement of victory where cavalry and infantry are tearing down Moorish defense, near palms and a minaret. The troops are composed in an ascending spiral with figures of horse and rider becomes smaller the higher they reach. Spaces between the figures are filled with vegetation. The title of the composition "Rendición de Tetuan" is carved at the base of this animated relief. (Panublion)
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The fort was built on June 23, 1635 by Father Melchor de Vera, a Jesuit Priest-Engineer, to ward off attacks from the moros and foreign invaders. Originally named the Real Fuerza de San Jose, it was renamed after it was rebuilt in 1719. The Real Fuerza de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragoza, whose statue was embossed on the east wall in 1734 as a frontpiece atop the entrance, was eventually sealed when it became a shrine.
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How Paul Handled A Crises
Contributed by Paul Fritz on Jun 10, 2001 (message contributor)
Summary: What to do when you are facing a multitude of crisis? Are you becoming better or bitter?
How Paul Handled Crisis
Crisis - A decisive moment, a difficult time that becomes momentous.
"Crisis can make us either better or bitter."
Illustration:Rules for crisis management:
1) Hope for the best, bur prepare for the worst.
2) Look first, then act.
3) When you do act, act aggressively.
4) Seek help.
5) Don't get locked on a detail.
6) No matter how bad things get, be truthful.
7) Look for the silver lining. Reynolds
Dodson, Reader's Digest, June, 1992.
Many crisis coping skills can be distilled from the way Paul responded to problems. In Acts 27 we find Paul is on his way to face the judgment of the Roman Emperor Caesar aboard a prison ship. Suddenly, a terrible a storm rages. After three days everyone on board despairs of life. Just as everyone runs out of food, Paul stand up and shouts,
"Men, you should have taken my advice not to sail from Crete; then you would have spared yourselves this damage and loss. But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because not one of you will be lost; only the ship will be destroyed. Last night an angel of God told me, 'Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand trial before Caesar; and God has graciously given you the lives of all who sail with you.' So keep up your courage for I have faith in God that it will happen just as He said." (Acts 27:21-25)
Paul's Principles of Handling Crisis
1. Paul prepared himself to pay any price to do God's will - He said, "I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me." (Acts 20:24)
2. Paul was not deterred by warnings that he would be bound and imprisoned if he went to Jerusalem, but he said to them, "Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." (Acts 21:13) Be determined to follow Jesus at all costs.
Illustration:The 1992 Summer Olympics featured two tremendously poignant moments. American sprinter Gail Devers, the clear leader in the 100 meter hurdles, tripped over the last barrier. She agonizingly pulled herself to her knees and crawled the last five meters, finishing fifth--but finishing.
Even more heart-rending was the 400 meter semifinal in which British runner Derek Redmond tore a hamstring and fell to the track. He struggled to his feet and began to hobble, determined to complete the race. His father ran from the stands to help him off the track, but the athlete refused to quit. He leaned on his father, and the two limped to the finish line together, to deafening applause.
John E. Anderson, "What Makes Olympic Champions?", Reader's Digest, February 1994, p. 120.
3. Paul used his wrongful imprisonment to gain greater opportunities to proclaim Christ to people who might have heard of Him before. Always look at the positive ways that God can turn a tragedy into His triumphs
4. Paul realized that even if he could not alter his circumstances he could control his perceptions, attitudes and responses to the situation. Only a small fraction of all of our fears are legitimate. Fear can actually be described as F-E-A-R (Faulty - Expectations - Assumptions - of Reality)
5. Paul took a realistic look at the situation and realized that God's will would be done even if the ship were to sink. Many people rush into wrong assumptions when faced with crisis and prematurely despair.
6. Paul picked his battles. Do not think that you have to fight every battle that comes along.
7. Paul refused to give into unbelief choosing instead to use the situation to grow in faith. Just like Abraham, Paul staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but grew strong in faith being fully persuaded that what God had promised He was also able to perform. (Romans 4:20,21)
8. Paul did not let his imaginations and subjective anxieties cloud his objective belief in God's truth. So many people allow their subjective feelings to obscure their ability to act on God's facts.
9. Paul analyzed his resources encouraging others to take courage in the facts God had given to him. When you are sure of your facts do not let anything, anyone or any problem deter you from the truth.
10. Paul did not let people discouraged him. Many will try to break your heart. Do not let them.
11. Paul focused on serving others during the crises so he concentrated on helping others. This automatically took his mind off his own problems. Paul followed Christ's example. Jesus did not come to serve, but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many. (Mark 10:45)
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A stunning adventure involving Nazis, nukes, fighting, failure, and everyday heroes, from the author of the award-winning The Nazi Hunters. Neal Bascomb delivers another nail-biting work of nonfiction for young adults in this incredible true story of spies and survival.
The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping to harbor. Then planes roar over the mountains, and soon the Nazis occupy all of Norway. They station soldiers throughout the country. They institute martial rule. And at Vemork, an industrial fortress high above a dizzying gorge, they gain access to an essential ingredient for the weapon that could end the war: Hitler's very own nuclear bomb.
When the Allies discover the plans for the bomb, they agree Vemork must be destroyed. But after a British operation fails to stop the Nazis' deadly designs, the task falls to a band of passionate Norwegian commandos, young men who love their country and long to free it from Nazi rule. Armed with little more than skis, explosives, and great courage, they will survive months in the snowy wilderness, elude a huge manhunt, and execute two dangerous missions. The result? The greatest act of sabotage in all of World War II.
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April 27, 2011 will be remembered for a long, long time as the day the devastating tornado outbreak hit the southeast. One of the hardest hit cities was Tuscaloosa, Alabama, home of The University of Alabama. Not even a year before this fateful day, I had moved from my apartment in Tuscaloosa to Atlanta with my wife. I had lived in Tuscaloosa for five years and knew I would be back to visit, but didn't know it would be under these circumstances. After seeing the devastation on the news, I knew I needed to go help any way I could.
Two days after the tornadoes hit, the company I work for, Verizon Wireless, sent volunteers to the tornado-ravaged cities. I immediately jumped on board and went back to my home of five years. The destruction was unimaginable but the camaraderie of the survivors was undeniable. We set up generators in a Verizon store close to the damaged areas to make sure people who lost power or their cell phones in the storm were able to make calls to loved ones, charge their phones or receive new phones.
My main purpose was to coordinate the delivery of supplies brought in from Verizon stores around the southeast and make sure they got to shelters and relief volunteers. It was amazing to see how such simple things like water, a toothbrush or just someone to talk to could brighten the day of someone who had almost lost their life.
I recently went back to Tuscaloosa for a football game and although the rebuilding process is underway, there is still so much damage and many people still out of homes. It's important to remember that donations and supplies will be needed for a long time to come. Tuscaloosa has been changed forever. To donate to the relief efforts, visit www.donatetuscaloosa.weebly.com or www.redcross.org.


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WATER Replacement project at Calaveras Reservoir, key in S.F.'s supply
The days are numbered for the old tower and decorative arches at Calaveras Dam, which holds back the reservoir that is San Francisco's largest local source of drinking water.
Workers for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will begin shoveling dirt today as part of a $416 million project to replace the 210-foot-high earthen barrier that has collected water from Alameda Creek for 86 years.
The dam, built in 1925 on top of an earthquake fault, was deemed seismically unsafe a decade ago, and the reservoir has been operating 51 feet below capacity as a precaution. The plan is to build a new 220-foot-high dam immediately downstream in the same remote canyon surrounded by oak-dotted hills and grasslands northeast of Milpitas.
The Calaveras Reservoir, which is on the Alameda-Santa Clara county line, drains 100 square miles of watershed, including much of the southern sections of the East Bay and the southern slopes of Mount Diablo, but since 2001 the utility has been using less than half the amount of water it was designed to hold.
"This project is important to get this source of water back online," said Daniel Wade, Sunol regional project manager for the San Francisco PUC's water system improvement program.
The dam replacement is the largest of 81 projects in the PUC's $4.6 billion program to retrofit the entire San Francisco water-delivery system.
The new Calaveras Dam, scheduled for completion in 2015, will sit close to the old dam, and all but a small section of the old dam will be covered with water when the reservoir is filled. The capacity will remain the same.
Restoring capacity
The plan is to build it using mostly materials found on-site, but Wade said modern compacting techniques will be used. He said cement grout will be injected 150 feet below the base of the dam to minimize leaking and improve stability. The idea is to eliminate the structural problems that plagued the current dam and restore the reservoir to its historic capacity of 96,850 acre-feet, or 31 billion gallons, Wade said.
"A concrete dam would not be appropriate for the site because of the earthquake danger," Wade said. "What we are building is called a zoned earth-and-rock-fill dam, which is not brittle like concrete and will move and adjust with the earth's movements."
Workers will begin digging out the canyon below the current dam within the next two weeks. In all, 7 million cubic yards will be excavated, the equivalent of two Great Pyramids. The amount of dirt and rock removed would bury 1,200 football fields in one yard of dirt.
Hundreds of oak trees will have to be removed. About 3.5 million cubic yards of the excavated material will be used in the structure. Excess dirt and rock will be dumped at four disposal sites that will be graded and seeded to blend in with the topography. Workers are under strict orders to control the dust from the naturally occurring asbestos in the serpentine rock at the site.
"It's a major earthmoving project," said Steve Ritchie, the San Francisco PUC's assistant general manager for water. "The old dam will serve as a way to keep the site dry while we're building the dam."
San Francisco has owned water rights to Alameda Creek since the 1880s. Calaveras Dam was built by the Spring Valley Water Co., which was known for its ornate architecture and, thanks to this particular dam project, structural issues. Spring Valley was touting the project in 1918 as the largest earth-and-rock structure in the world until it collapsed under its own weight while still under construction.
The rebuilt dam blocked the historic coho salmon and steelhead trout migrations in Alameda Creek and, as it turned out, was not even a primary source of water for San Francisco, which purchased the entire Spring Valley system soon after the dam was completed.
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The Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, now provides 85 percent of the water used by 2.5 million residents in San Francisco, on the Peninsula and in the East Bay. Calaveras Dam is used as a secondary source. Still, the city diverts 85 percent of the stream flow from the upper creek.
In 2001, California dam regulators ordered the PUC to drain the reservoir to about one-third of its capacity in an attempt to avoid a collapse during an earthquake.
The commission drew up plans for a new dam just downstream, but the proposal ran into opposition from environmentalists, who demanded limits on diversions and guarantees that creek flows would be suitable for the migration and spawning of steelhead trout.
The 45-mile-long Alameda Creek is the third-largest tributary of San Francisco Bay behind the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. It has been the focus of intensive restoration efforts since 1997, when Central Coast steelhead were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
The rainbow trout in the reservoir are believed to be landlocked steelhead that are descendants of the indigenous fish population, biologists say. Conservationists hope to use those fish as a potential gene pool for restoring the original native steelhead runs.
Resurrecting habitat
San Francisco won approval for the new dam after officials agreed to year-round releases and guaranteed cold-water flows from the new reservoir. The utility also agreed to build a fish ladder and put fish screens on pipes at a diversion dam downstream from the Calaveras Reservoir.
"We're a lot happier with the project now than when it was first proposed," said Jeff Miller, director of the Alameda Creek Alliance and conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. "The cold-water releases and new flow schedules from Calaveras Reservoir, combined with the changed operations of the diversion dam, will resurrect habitat for steelhead in Alameda Creek and potentially open up the creek for fish all the way to its headwaters."
The ornate tower that has been the dam's signature for the better part of a century will be taken out along with most of the old structure over the next few years. In a nod toward history, officials said, a duplicate tower will be built over the new dam's intake valves.
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Click "Support This Game" to donate. All proceeds will go to a good friend's wonderful baby's college fund, that also happens to be the baby in the game.
Anyone who donates a dollar or more will have their name added to the credits. If you donate $5, you get a fingernail design of your choice added to the game. If you donate $10, you get a t-shirt design of your choice added to the game. If you donate $50, you can have your baby, or yourself as a baby animated and added to the game. If you donate $100 or more, you will have your logo or website show up in the intro and a link to your website on the main menu.
Oh no! The baby has a sneezing fit. Try to feed the baby without the baby sneezing all over you.
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A good friend of mine made a status about how she was feeding her daughter, and her daughter ended up sneezing food all over her. Originally, I decided to make a one level game as a joke so she can relive the moment over and over. As I was working on it, I decided to see if I can do some good with it by raising donations for her daughter's college fund. So I spent the next 2 days making this game and here it is. It's not a full game, so there isn't a lot to do but it serves it's purpose. I hope you all enjoy it. :)


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National Guard Sargent Second Class Giovanni Pantoja was killed in El Trigal, Valencia, during a confrontation with protesters this afternoon. He was shot by a bullet which struck him "in one of his eyes". A second soldier was struck in the leg by a bullet, possibly during the same disturbance.
The video below shows a group of National Guard soldiers in a confrontation with an unseen force down the street. At the end of the video, you can see a group of soldiers dragging a dead or injured companion to safety:
Anecdotally, I know exactly where this event took place. The building on the left through the video is a bodega. My family and I have walked down this same street to that bodega hundreds of times.
We've been in contact with our family throughout the evening, and the fear they and their neighbours have is that the National Guard will attempt to take some sort of retaliation against the neighbourhood for the death of the sergeant. Naturally, given the seriousness of the situation, we're hearing a lot of rumours of large concentrations of National Guard in the area, but it's all very hard to confirm at this time.
Judging from the fact that there were demonstrations yesterday and there appear to be many today as well, it looks like people are less willing to let this go on account of the carnaval than some might have thought (or hoped). I'm seeing the usual suspects on the list of "places with protests" today: Valencia, Caracas, Maracaibo, and Maracay.
Here are a couple of pictures from today, playing on the uncertainty regarding the protests continuing through this holiday weekend.
From Puerto Cabello, where some people showed up to protest in bathing suits. The white sign on the right says "Welcome, This year your beach is the street":
There was no information posted along with this picture, but it shows the same sentiment as the one above:
And this sign (which I believe is from a demonstration in Las Mercedes, Caracas today), which reads, "We're not 'missing' Carnaval, we live with a clown president"
And this is a picture from the demonstration in Las Mercedes today:
One from Valencia, at around noon today:
Today Henrique Capriles said about the protests, "Protests have a peak and things calm down, but this will continue because the economic crisis will lead to an economic crisis and Nicolas [Maduro] is not doing anything to avoid an economic crisis." He continued, "This isn't a game of strength. The government has the strength [force/power]. This is a game of ability."
He also made this prediction: "If things continue this way, the government will continue to eat itself away, until we get to a moment like el Caracazo. This could take a week, a month, we don't know."
This is a video montage put together by the Ministerio Publico (Public Ministry) of footage taken by several security cameras in Caracas on February 12. The video is really interesting because it captures from new angles the demonstration that lead to the deaths of Juan Montoya and Bassil Da Costa.
There are the events the cameras captured:
- A colectivo armado on the move down a street at 0:22.
- The same colectivo retreating "after exchanging rocks" with unseen protesters around 0:40.
- Some members of the colectivo firing on protesters and a residence starting at 1:18.
- A new group of armed men entering the same street and firing on protesters starting at 2:05.
- A pickup truck entering the same street from an area that was blocked off by the National Guard (implying that the National Guard let this truck through) at 2:49.
- That same truck returned the way it came, and this time it was transporting an injured Juan Montoya, who subsequently died at 3:18.
- A group of students throwing rocks at security forces/the colectivo armado on the same street but from a different camera at 3:47.
- The same group of students is fired upon after moving towards SEBIN agents and colectivo members.
- Bassil Da Costa is struck by a bullet in the head, killing him instantly starting at 4:32. At 4:58, the video points out that Neixer Arellano was shot in the left leg and Nicolas Yanes was shot in the left ankle, presumably while transporting Bassil.
- After the body of Bassil is removed from the scene by the students, a vehicle with SEBIN agents enters the street at 5:25.
- Starting at 5:47, you can see SEBIN agents picking up shell casings from the ground and pointing them out to other agents for pick-up.
The death of the Sergeant Pantoja is an escalation. The government line that violent fascists are behind the protests finally has traction. With this death, Venezuela has taken one step closer to a much darker, much more damaging scenario than the one it finds itself in now. Far away as that scenario might still be, each step closer to it warrants sombre reflection.


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We arrived here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia on Sunday afternoon and spent awhile talking to Charlie, a very courtly gentleman, in the big house, wide verandas, pleasant rooms filled with water colors and oil paintings.
He is a real Virginian with the manner and the accent. Dismissive, in an amusing way, of the other Virginians, those along the coast and the West Virginians. The farm is circa 1825, and parts of the house are from that era. Big stone verandas surrounded two sides of the house, big enough for 100 guests to mingle, but we seem to be the only guests in residence on Sunday evening.
The next day we visited the home of another house-proud Virginian. This is Monticello, the home of our third president, Thomas Jefferson. The Jefferson Foundation has owned the home since the 1920s and made every effort to maintain it as a kind of functioning historical experiment, like it was in Jefferson's time. For him, it was an experiment in democracy, in growing the new nation. That may be why the guides, the literature, and the tours are upfront about the issue of slavery and Jefferson's moral dilemma. Jefferson's signature belief , enshrined in his Declaration of Independence, is that individual freedom is a basic right of every human being. He put his life on the line for this belief in Philadelphia, like all of the plotters of the revolution. And he served the ideal for thirty years in his political career. He believed that slavery was the rock that could break up the young ship of state. But he kept hundreds of slaves and worked them from first light to dusk.
In confronting the issue of Jefferson's dilemma, the Foundation makes an interesting choice, which I suppose is widely familiar to everyone but me. The descriptive material uses enslaved people, enslaved workers, etc., rather than the more usual word slaves. This shifts the moral burden off the persecuted, who after all, did not ask to be enslaved, and onto the persecutor, even if it was the founding father of American liberty. Interesting and fair, even in hindsight, even in the South.
It was cool on the long winding drive to Monticello along the Skyline Drive, stopping now and then to photograph the view. But as we wandered the gardens below the house, we grew dizzy and faint. It would have been a hard life to work the fields and the gardens in this heat. In those days most everyone died young, not just the enslaved working the fields. Jefferson and his friend John Adams * were exceptions, dying on the same day, Independence Day, fifty years to the day since the Declaration of Independence was signed. They led long, extraordinary lives, Jefferson into his 80s, Adams* to 90. Neither of them lived to see the awful war that their compromises would bring about.
* This post has been updated to correct which president it was who died on July 4th along with Jefferson. Thanks to Gail for the correction.


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Thursday, April 26, 2012
The exhibitors will represent the very best in drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture and jewellery. Established favourites like Gene Pearson, Franz Marzouca, David and Allison Sinclair, and Owen Beckford, will be joined this year by award-winning sculptor Laura Facey. Facey, is most well known for Redemption Song—the monument at the entrance to Emancipation Park—and will be appearing with pieces from her recent RADIANT COMBS show, as well as other work.
The Festival, the brainchild of June and Tony Wong, owners of Liguanea Drug & Garden Centre, was created to give the opportunity to both experienced and up-and-coming artists, (whether amateurs or professionals), to create an outlet where they could show their work to the public. "The Festival has grown from a small exhibition to a calendar event, giving the over 80 artists invaluable exposure, and the patrons first-hand access to numerous art forms from our Jamaican artists," says June. "From 500 patrons attending, we are now proud to attract over 2,500 people each year. We look forward to welcoming our biggest crowd this year."
As always, the LAF committee will also be producing a publication to accompany the event. While the format of the magazine evolved over the years, it is now an established book that is a wonderful companion for the Festival. "The art festival book is an essential part of the Festival experience," says creative designer of the magazine, Mark Weinberger. "Not only does it incorporate editorial featuring upcoming artists, and stories about the art scene in the Caribbean, but is also a wonderful resource for members of the art community after the Festival." Magazines can be purchased at the event, and after the event at Liguanea Drug & Garden Centre.
This year's sponsors include: Jamaica National Building Society, Liguanea Drug & Garden Centre, General Food Supermarket, Victoria Mutual Building Society, Cari-Med, CVM-TV, RJR Communications Group, The Jamaica Observer, First Global Bank, Kirk Distributors, The Best Dressed Chicken, Dewlands Juices, Grace Foods, Hopwood, National Bakery, Olay Skin Care, Scotiabank, The Solid Agency, Wisynco, ZIP & Irie FM.
Presented to the public free of cost, the event will be held in the parking lot of Liguanea Plaza from 10:00AM to 8:00PM. Ample additional parking and shuttle services will be provided at the Sts. Peter & Paul Church grounds and Mailpac Services on Old Hope Road.


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