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The idea for The Deborah Ubee Trust was first suggested during a chat in in Costa Coffee in Blackheath in 2008. Denise and I had both had experience of counselling in the voluntary sector for a number of years and we both felt that there was a massive shortfall in the level of service available. Two factors in particular convinced us that there was a need for a new local counselling service.
Firstly, we both felt that although there were some excellent agencies catering for specific client groups and ample provision for those able to afford to pay, there was very little help available for most people in the community who needed emotional support. For many the best chance of access to the help they required was via their GP which might involve a waiting list of several months for a maximum of six sessions; not always enough to equip someone to restructure their emotional health.
Secondly, we both had experienced counselling in rooms that were not adequate, with poor lighting, little soundproofing and dingy waiting areas. It was obvious to us that clients needed to feel safe – they were often already feeling vulnerable – and that having to sit in a room with tatty furniture and no windows was not helping them or the counsellor.
We spent a long time discussing how we would go about designing our ideal counselling space and how a generic counseling agency could be set up. After a while we realized that we should try and make it into a reality.
Originally we planned to set up a Community Interest Company, rather than a charity, to be named "The Greenwich Centre for Emotional Health". The name was changed later as we felt that it was advantageous to have a title that was not specific about what we did, in order to offer more anonymity to clients. We named it after Deborah Ubee, who we felt was typical of someone who was unable to access the help she needed and who would have benefitted from the services we offered
We pitched our idea to The GLC Charitable Trust, who agreed to give us enough start-up funding to acquire premises and fit them out. Because of their restrictions, we had to become a charity rather than a CIC. We persuaded three interested people to become trustees and registered The Deborah Ubee Trust as a charity on July 4th 2011.
We first viewed the premises at 20 Egerton Drive in May 2011. After protracted negotiations and delays by the developers of the building, we finally took ownership on 25th January 2013. At this point it was a shell, with no internal walls. It took about 10 weeks to fit it out and we moved in during April. Our first client started in May and we had our official launch on June 14th 2013. We took on 4 volunteer counsellors in September and more in November.
We were very aware that we could not rely on fundraising for all of our running costs and spent a long time putting in place a financial plan that would offer some built-in longevity to the project. We did this by using the building to earn an income, renting out space when we are not using it.
We had our first major fundraiser in September 2013 on a Thames River Boat, raising over £7000. We have several fundraising activities happening this year and aim to have another big event in 2014.
The centre is now very busy and open Mondays to Saturdays, and until 9pm 4 days a week. We also offer yoga classes and counsellor training workshops.
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OER11: Cases of OER use: aspects that contribute to successful adoption.
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Renee Fisher and Jim Greeno from Carnegie Mellon University (and OLnet). Looking at reuse of OLI material in Higher Education taking an Activity Theory view of the use of OER as practice.
Preliminary conclusions:
- Assume OER will be used differently by different instructors. (Also confident that this can also be said of learners). Some dependence on subject domain of the OER.
- Need to not design for single use. Anticipate various uses – a "pedagogical pachage" rather than a course.
- Detail may add or detract E.g.: conceptual explanations facilitate some and detract for others
Interviewees – 3 elementary statistics instructors, 2 web design. Interviews every 1-2 weeks. Total of 40 interviews (30-45 minutes). Stats courses use OLI. Web design focussed on web based tools. Different way in which topic functions.
Three issues for productivity and usability:
- Alignment of OER conceptual focus with previous emphasis
- Match OER topics and sequence with previous syllabus
- Affordances and constraints on instructor-student interaction (e.g. OER providing feedback but only works for some sorts of use)
In this talk looking at conceptual focus examples:
1. Instructor functioning as a mentor: preparing students to join the community of practice (cf Lave and Wenger). Aim that students join the community of professional web designers). Encourage innovation/exploration. Develop connections through e.g. professional visits, attend conference.
2. Instructor functioning as a coach: sees students as cognitive apprentices (Collins). Web resources are tools to help reach goals.
3. Knowledge as problem solving and concepts. Use "wordy" text to explain which software illustrates. OLE leaves it to the technology. [Not previous practice as had emphasised the calculation.
a. Preferred by one and will adopt less computation in the future
b. Works ok for some students – produces a different distribution of results.
c. Augmented the material to meet curriculum
Does this mean that we should not seek perfection in OER?
- An interesting area to go to with this research to investigate what it means for uptake and adoption. How fully developed and specified should things be for release.
How is this different in an OER context?
- Interactive approaches can be more intrusive – tracking by the instructor can cause coercion
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Collinsville is located 85km west from Bowen, at the foothills of the Clarke Range. Collinsville is a quaint country town, far enough away from the tourist hubs to be a country retreat, and always offers a friendly and warm welcome to its many visitors.
Primarily a mining town, one of the main highlights for history buffs is a visit to the Coalface Museum, with the new Pit Pony Tavern nearby. Features of the region include stunning hinterland, a large dam for fishing and watersports and excellent outback four-wheel-driving.
The Collinsville region also plays host to the Bowen River Rodeo and Campdraft annually, on the long weekend in June. On your way to Collinsville you may even spot some wild emu's, buffalo or camels !!
The Collinsville area was opened for grazing in early 1861, with Strathmore Station established as the first property.
During the 1880s several gold mines were operated at Ukalanda, Mt Wyatt, and Normandy and later at Mt Coolon.
In 1865, reports of a large coal deposit at Moongunya (the aboriginal word for coal) resulted in extensive testing, and the area became known as the Bowen River Coalfield. Railway construction from Bowen to Collinsville started in 1916, with the first mine established in 1919; full scale coal production started in 1922, following the railway's completion.
The area was officially renamed Collinsville in 1921, whilst the main township was established in late 1922, when 20 homes were built. The state school and police quarters were already operational, as were a general store and butcher.
A hospital opened in the town in 1926, and in 1967 a powerhouse was built. The powerhouse was closed in 1988, yet later reopened under private ownership in 1997, only to close its doors again in 2013.
Things to do and see
Whilst in Collinsville you can stroll around and check out the historical mining murals and heritage signs that will provide an insight into the lives of the district's early settlers.
The Town Reservoir Hill offers spectacular sights of Mt Devlin to the north, the Leichhardt Ranges to the east, and Sonoma and Collinsville mines to the south and west.
The Reservoir Hill at Scottville offers a spectacular night-time view of the Collinsville Coal Mine, Collinsville Power Station and Sonoma Coal Mine.
Visit the Collinsville Bakery for the famous fresh bread and delicious baked goods, stroll downtown and delight in locally made arts & crafts or simply enjoy a delicious cup of coffee.
There is a pleasant walkway that leads from Collinsville to Scottville, at 3.7 kilometres long, it provides easy walking or cycling for those who want a bit of exercise.
Located adjacent to the Collinsville Hospital is the refurbished "Old Hospital" that now houses the Information Centre, Community Hub, local Centrelink agency and Historical Society.
Bogie River Bush House
Nestled on 25 acres of virgin bush land, a short drive between Bowen and Collinsville, is a tranquil little gem, known as the Bogie River Bush House. Surround yourself with abundant wildlife and birdsong, have lunch at the poolside café, take morning tea on the verandah, take a dip or walk in the bush. Don't miss a close encounter with the furry local residents, whilst being treated to home-style cooking and hospitality; a delight for children and adults alike.
Day trippers are welcome- please call ahead.
Bowen River Hotel- Strathmore Pub
Originally established around 1860, the Strathmore Pub, resting on the banks of the Bowen River, was donated to the National Trust of Queensland in 1974 by Ted Cunningham, of Strathmore Station. It lay abandoned for many years until 2003, when it was rebuilt, using traditional timber preparation and carpentry methods. The pub is comprised of two buildings, connected by a covered walkway and is a wonderful example of bush carpentry and jointing with wooden pegs. The hotel has a licensed bar, an informal beer garden that is family friendly, and serves lunch and dinner, with accommodation also available. There is also a wonderful collection of photographs, paper clippings and memorabilia from bygone years.
Free camping is available down by the river, caravans are welcome and asked to contribute a small fee to cover the cost of power.
Every May-Day long weekend, a fishing competition is hosted at nearby Terrible Creek, a junior competition is held there ever October, the Bowen River Rodeo and Campdraft is held annually on the June long weekend.
Bowen River Weir
Bowen River Weir is roughly a 20-minute drive from Collinsville. Take the Mt Coolon Road out of town, when you reach Sonoma Mine, the turn-off to the Weir is on the left-hand side, opposite the mine entrance. Mt Coolon Road is a dirt road, and can be rough, so care must be taken. The weir is a popular fishing and camping spot and the local fish stocking association restock the weir with barramundi each ear. Beware of crocodiles.
Coal Face Museum
Collinsville's mining heritage centre, the Coal Face Museum, is dedicated to the history of Queensland's coal mining industry and showcases the rich mining heritage of the region. Stories of struggle, strife and mateship are played out at a range of interactive displays, audio-visual exhibits, two theatrettes and historical records, presenting visitors with a great interpretation of the past, present and future of Queensland's coal mining industry. The museum also shows visitors what life was like for the coal miners, both above and below ground in the 1950s.
The museum's opening coincided with the 50th anniversary of the town's biggest underground mining disaster, in which seven men were killed in an underground gas explosion on October 13th1954. It honours those men, and 19 others who have also lost their lives on the Collinsville coalfield.
Collinsville Scottville Historical Society
Collinsville and Scottville and District Historical Society Inc. opened its Historical Display Centre in May 2014, at 81 Garrick Street. The rooms are filled with local photographic history, historical items, an impressive bottle display and much more. The small band of volunteers works tirelessly to preserve local history and items for public viewing. The Historical Display Centre is open every Wednesday, 9 am to 1pm. Out of hours opening can be arranged if volunteers are available. Phone: 0429 431 414
Creek picnics
3 Mile Creek:
3 Mile Creek is part of the Pelican Creek System and is located 15 minutes west of town as you travel through Scottville and out along the Myuna Road. It's a great little swimming hole and picnic area.
Pelican Creek
Pelican Creek is a nice little creek that runs from the north east of town around to the western area. It's easily accessible from several locations.
40 Foot
40 Foot is nestled up in the heart of Mt Devlin and in the wet season puts on a lovely waterfall display. A 15 to 20-minute hike up Mt Devlin will see you at the waterfall.
Terry's Creek
Terry's Creek is a 15-minute drive along the Peter Delemothe Road towards Bowen. It is another popular picnic and swimming place in the wet season.
Bowen River
The beautiful Bowen River can be accessed in many places from Collinsville out along the Bowen Development Road, on Strathmore Station, or along the Mt Coolon Road. Just after crossing the Bowen River bridge there is a turn left onto Exmoor Road, which takes you to Eungella Dam (Mackay Region). There are many tracks that turn off along this road that lead to the river. There are many lovely spots to picnic, fish and swim. However, be aware that salt water crocodiles and fresh water crocodiles inhabit these waters.
Fossil shells, opalised wood and petrified wood, hornblende, agate, perhnite, clear crystal clusters, jasper and calcite can be found in the Collinsville area. Fossickers need to get permission from property owners. For the best places to seek the local gems, contact the Bowen Lapidary Club on 07 4785 6312. A well-equipped clubhouse is located on the Queens Beach Esplanade, Bowen.
Mt Coolon Hotel
The Mt Coolon Hotel is a great, old pub with heaps of character and memorabilia. The pub offers big burgers for lunch, as well as a dinner menu, and has rooms from the weary driver. Mt Coolon is situated about 124 kilometres south-west of Collinsville, 200 kilometres north of Clermont, and is known for its gold mining history and the infamous Tom Coolon murders. A jackeroo called Luke Reynolds, from the Yacamunda Station, discovered gold there in 1913. Thomas Coolon was the first to peg a claim there in 1914. Today the town boasts an array of old buildings and ruins to capture the imagination.
The Pit Pony Experience
Bowen River Rodeo and Campdraft
Where to stay
|Bogie River Bush House – Bush Bunks
|Collinsville Motel
|Bowen River Hotel
|Motel Opal Ridge
|Cargal Apartments
|Mt Coolon Hotel
|Century 21 Property Specialists
|Pit Pony Tavern
Free Camp
Collinsville offers free camping to self-sufficient travellers. Caravans and motorhomes with their own facilities may stay up to 72 hours at the Town Common, located by the Showgrounds. A dump point is also available.
Travel Info
Self Drive
Travelling on the Bruce Highway (A1)
Collinsville is just over 80 kilometres inland from the Bruce Highway; turn off the Bruce Highway onto the Bowen Developmental Road, about 5 minutes north of Bowen. The Bowen Developmental Road is sealed and well maintained.
Public Transport
Bowen Transit provides twice-daily return services to Collinsville, from Monday to Friday. The journey takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes, and includes stops at the Normanby Road turn off and the BP Rio Don
Bowen to Collinsville: bus departs Bowen Bus Stop- William Street at 7.00 am and 4.15 pm,
Collinsville to Bowen: bus departs Collinsville Bus Stop at 8.15 am and 5.30 pm


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The management and treatment of a disease is often dependent on an accurate and precise pathology diagnosis. A second opinion from MyConsult can ensure that you are making the most informed decision about your diagnosis and treatments. In certain cases, special studies and molecular markers may be utilized to help further refine and subclassify the diagnosis, which in turn may offer additional treatment options and plans. Cleveland Clinic is one of the world's most prestigious healthcare organizations, built on a commitment to top quality patient care, education, and research, and has consistently ranked amongst the top hospitals in America by U.S. News & World Report.
The Pathology Department at Cleveland Clinic is one of the largest in the United States and is nationally and internationally renowned. With over 100 pathologists and 12 subspecialties, our pathologists receive many thousands of consultations per year and are consistently recognized as experts in their fields by their peers, frequently lecture in their areas of expertise and publish extensively. Many hold leadership positions in their professional societies and lead research to bring the latest medical achievements to patients as quickly as possible.
There are many situations in which an online pathology second opinion from Cleveland Clinic is valuable. You should think about using this program if you:
We are unable to provide second opinions for pathology readings completed at another Cleveland Clinic location (ie Cleveland Clinic Florida, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi).
The cost to receive an online pathology consultation is $300.00. We accept most major credit cards (MasterCard, Visa, American Express, or Discover) that will not be charged until your second opinion is completed and ready for your review online.
While we will not process your payment of the online second opinion until the final consultation report has been completed and ready for your review online, it is important to understand that once you have given online authorization in Step 5 to the MyConsult staff to proceed with your second opinion request, your opinion process has begun. At this time you may not cancel your request and you will be responsible for the full payment.
MyConsult Online Pathology Second Opinions are not covered by insurance and we are unable to accept any insurance payments.
Yes; however, the patient needs to provide written consent for another individual to request their online second opinion. A signed proxy form can serve as written consent. Please print out a Cleveland Clinic proxy form and have the patient complete, sign and date it. Then include this form with the packet of materials you send to the MyConsult office address.
Cleveland Clinic's MyConsult Online Pathology Second Opinion is currently available only to patients outside the United States who are requesting a second opinion.
If you are patient in the United States and would like a pathology second opinion consultation, you may request a comprehensive online medical second opinion through our medical second opinion service.
Yes, the following consent forms must be completed and submitted to MyConsult in order to receive an online second opinion.
*If the patient is unable to complete the form, a copy of the legal documents verifying the authority of the individual requesting the opinion (Power of Attorney or Court-Appointed Guardian) must accompany the Patient Consent Form when submitted. The form must be signed, dated, witnessed by 2 people, and if possible, notarized.
No, international patients are not required to acquire physician consent in order to request an online pathology second opinion consultation through MyConsult. You are your own best advocate for your health and seeking a second opinion allows you to gain additional knowledge about your diagnosis and available treatment options so you can feel comforted that you are making the most informed healthcare decision.
We are not able to process requests that are not in English and we do not provide a document translation service. All submissions pertaining to your online pathology second opinion consult must be translated prior to being submitted to the Cleveland Clinic MyConsult office. Medical translation services (not within Cleveland Clinic) are available and we would suggest researching to find the one that best suits your needs.
Yes, our staff will need to communicate with you via email to let you know that new information has been sent to your secure online MyConsult account that you will set-up during the registration process. We do not send any medical information to your email account as this is not a secure environment. We strictly send reminders and/or status updates about your pathology second opinion letting you know to log on to your secure account.
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Please make sure you specify that you would like the records released to you, rather than released to the Cleveland Clinic. Your physician or facility may require seven to 14 days to complete your request and may charge you a copying fee.
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International patients that are sending pathology samples need to indicate the following information on their package's commercial invoice to avoid delay at U.S. Customs:
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After carefully reviewing your second opinion request and medical records, our Pathology Institute administration will determine which Cleveland Clinic pathologist is most appropriate to handle your second opinion case. You can view biographical profiles for all MyConsult pathologists at our List of Providers page.
You may cancel your online second opinion request at any time while you are filling out the online forms. Simply click on the "cancel" button at the end of any section to delete your request. However, you may not cancel your consultation once you have authorized us to proceed (upon completion of the online steps) and we have started working on your request.
The timeframe for rendering your online pathology second opinion is typically 2-3 business days after receiving the slides and required materials at Cleveland Clinic. MyConsult pathology processing area will review all of the materials to determine if they have all of the necessary documents needed for the expert pathologist review. Receiving all the required materials is a key piece in making sure that the most comprehensive consultation report is issued to the patient requesting a pathology consult from Cleveland Clinic.
The timeframe may be delayed by a few days when any of the following circumstances apply:
Weekends and holidays are not included in the 2-3 day timeframe; strictly business days.
Please note: Sending materials from outside the U.S. typically takes 3-5 days to reach our office. Please factor this delivery time into the overall turnaround time.
Yes. You may check the status at any time. Simply visit our website and log in to the secure account you set-up during the registration process. Our staff will communicate with you via email to let you know that new information has been sent to your secure online MyConsult account so we recommend checking your email at least once a day. We will notify you by email when:
We will also contact you via phone or email if we have a question about your request.
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Donington – and the first round of the 750MC Toyota MR2 Championship – turned out to be a bit of a let-down instead of the warm welcome it was supposed to be for my new sponsor for this season. Alongside AMPS Ltd., Rogue Motorsport had stickered up the car with the WeShield logo and although the cars were able to complete their qualifying session, considerable snowfalls meant the meeting was cancelled before any actual races took place.
The car peformed fautlessly during our short qualifying session – on a mostly dry track – but it was discovered quickly afterwards that its alternator had failed so the Rogue mechanics were quickly under the car fitting a replacement. Some juggling of the programme meant that just as some drivers had sat down to lunch we were called to the assembly area, where we sat for the best part of 3/4 hour while the Donington and MSA officials decided whether it would be safe to race. I can't say I blame them for cancelling the meeting as with temperatures hovering around 0C, what snow was falling on the track had a tendancy to freeze. Whether the meeting gets resheduled for later in the season, we will just have to wait and see.
WeShield is a new range of car anti-theft products and their first product to market is an RFID key fob pouch that prevents the immobiliser code from being read by anyone while the key is away from the car. WeShield aim to launch other theft-prevention products in the coming year.
Meanwhile the key fob pouch is available from eBay for very little money given the peace of mind it brings.
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Kinder: Very Hungry Caterpillar
I read Eric Carle's book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar to my kinder students. Students were inspired by the bright colors, variety of textures Carle uses for his caterpillar, foods and butterfly. I ran off photocopies on cardstock of 5 circles. Students created a variety of textures on the caterpillar circles with crayons. Green and blue watercolor paint was added to the circles. Circles were then cut out and glued them down "caterpillar" style to a large colored paper. Students added caterpillar "fuzz", feet and antennae. They, then drew foods on separate colored paper squares and decorated them. Students cut out foods and pasted around the caterpillar.
These are so great!
Kinder: Metroplex Cities
I led Kinder students in a discussion of types of buildings commonly found in a city: office buildings, grocery, retail stores (toy stores!), residences, apartment buildings. We also talked about different kinds of vehicles we see in a city: construction vehicles, fire trucks, police, cars, school buses, city buses, etc.
We also talked about basic shapes (square, rectange, circle, triangle) and how we could fit these pieces together like a puzzle to form new shapes, like buildings and vehicles! Kinder students moved virtual shapes around on the Promethean Board to form vehicles and then set to work designing their own awesome designs. Students chose 2 of their favorite buildings and vehicles to create.
For buildings: Students drew with permanent marker the coutour of 2 buildings of their choosing on cardstock. Then, they added color with crayons, pressing really hard. Next, they chose a few sections to color with black oil pastel. Lastly, they drew lines into the black sections with "magic sticks" (wooden stylus tools) to create patterns and line designs.
For vehicles: Students drew 2 vehicles on cardstock with permanent marker. Then, they painted the vehicles with tempera paint.
Students added white dashes with white oil pastel to black colored paper "streets" and then glues the entire city scene together on a background color of their choice.
I am beginning to realize I need to "zoom in" when I snap pics of student art work, that way the pics will be the correct size to be added to this blog. I apologize for the "lopsided" art below...whoops!
These are so fun to look at! I feel like I can hear the noises of the city by just staring at these!
Kinder: Self-Portraits
Kinder students had fun drawing themselves. After following a step-by-step on drawing the figure, kinder students used texture rubbing plates and crayons to add texture to their clothes. Students also used wallpaper scraps to collage a floor for a room!
|Check out the cowboy boots on this one! Howdy!
Kinder: Color Creations:
Kinder students reviewed the color wheel, mainly primary, secondary colors. Students drew and colored a color wheel, mixing secondaries from primaries with oil pastels. Some students got the color sections out of order, however, the main point came across--how to get secondary colors! Students cut out their color wheel and created a scene around the wheel. Students made their "wheel" one of 3 objects: a helicopter, a bird, or a hot air balloon. I attached the wheels with brad fasteners so they would spin. Students just LOVED that!
Great color mixing KINDER!! And fantastic imagination to!
Birds were quite popular! I like the people under this nice large bird!
Love the nice large propellers on this one..up, up and away!
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"LET US DRAW near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. LET US HOLD unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. And LET US CONSIDER how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, LET US NOT GIVE UP meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but LET US ENCOURAGE one another – and all the more as you see the Day approaching." (Hebrews 10:22-25)
Inspired by the above passage, I titled this blog "Holy Salad" because it has "let us" (aka. lettuce) and various ingredients sprinkled on to give us the nourishment we need for our souls and for those around us. Are verses "toppings" to you or do you experience real flavor of every ingredient with each morsel of God's Word?
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LET US DRAW – the closer we get to God, the more intimate the experience. The heart softens, the tears may fall, and the posture may be humbled and one of submission. Yet in that space we feel stronger than we have ever felt because it is His strength and power by which we kneel in our hearts. We feel the cool sprinkle of His blood over our sin stained hearts and with only a sprinkle, we are washed clean again. Refreshed and ready to move forward on our journey.
Will you dare to draw near to Him?
LET US HOLD unswervingly. Don't let go. You think the tips of your fingers will hurt because you are holding on so tightly, but they really don't. Your flesh is lying to you, it always does. Your heart is holding on to His, He is the shadow to your soul. Be still in this space He says, just let go of your thoughts. Let Him hold your heart in a way like no one ever has.
Will you dare to hold Him like that?
LET US CONSIDER how to spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Not ones you want others to do but as you consider others better than yourself, trust them to be used by God and for His purposes. Think deeply about the other person and bring them to the throne of Grace where you enjoy a deep peace that can only be given to you by The Father. Consider how you might hold a heart and draw that person to the Christ you have come to know and love. Splash onto them the love and compassion that was sprinkled on you.
Will you dare consider how God might use you in this way?
LET US NOT GIVE UP joining others in community. Don't make it about your story, make it about what God can do in and through you as you join others. Put the pain and pride aside and do not give up the fight for what is right, true, noble, good, just. You are needed in the Kingdom to build the Kingdom with your story.
Will you dare to not give up for the sake of Christ and the salvation of another?
LET US ENCOURAGE one another and lift hearts to the Throne from which we find comfort. Build one another up in the LORD and not in the flesh. Take comfort in how God has made you and brought you this far in your story and share that encouragement as a testimony of God's goodness and faithfulness in your life.
Will you dare encourage another more than you have received?
- Take time to answer the questions.
- What ingredients would your "salad" have in it?
Thank you for joining me on this journey!


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We all know that lemons add a tart flavor to pies, teas and hundreds of recipes, but did you know that the bright yellow fruit has dozens of other uses around your home?
From kitchen to garage and from bathroom to closet, the lemon can be used in so many ways. It is a low-cost solution to many cleaning and beauty problems. Instead of buying ten different products, try using the lemon and see if you don't fall in love with its effectiveness, smell and low-cost!
Here are some of my favorites:
- Polishing silverware and chrome – dip a clean rag in lemon juice and polish gently.
- Cleaning and deodorizing the garbage disposal – Freeze some lemon juice and/or fresh lemons in water or vinegar in an ice cube tray. Every few days, drop a few in your garbage disposal.
- Improving mood – Just cut open a lemon and take a few sniffs. (You can use lemon essential oil for this, as well)
- Shining Faucets – cut a lemon in half and rub on your bathroom or kitchen faucet. It will shine and smell beautiful and fresh!
- Have fun with the kids and make invisible ink! – Dip a cotton swab or paint brush into lemon juice and write a message on a piece of white paper. After it dries, hold it up to a lamp or light bulb to see your hidden message.
- For a clean-smelling room – put a few drops of lemon juice in your vacuum bag or canister and vacuum for a fresh smell anywhere
- Keep rice from sticking – To keep your rice from sticking together in a gloppy mass, add a spoonful of lemon juice to the boiling water when cooking. When the rice is done, let it cool for a few minutes, then fluff with a fork before serving.
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Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples has defended his connection to the head of collapsed construction company Mainzeal after their relationship was criticised in Parliament.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has repeatedly questioned the relationship between the Government and Mainzeal since the company went into receivership last week, threatening 200 jobs.
He believed the Government knew of the firm's difficulties but continued to give it lucrative contracts in rebuilding Christchurch. Yesterday, he highlighted Dr Sharples' relationship with Richina Pacific chief Richard Yan, whose company owned Mainzeal.
Dr Sharples took a $10,000 donation from Mr Yan before the 2011 election, and has been a strong supporter of the Chinese-born businessman's proposal to build New Zealand House in Shanghai.
Mr Peters said these actions raised serious questions about the integrity of government negotiations. "This is another example of big business influencing government decisions behind closed doors."
He said Mr Sharples and Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully both refused to release correspondence with Mr Yan under the Official Information Act.
Dr Sharples would not be interviewed yesterday but said, "I know Richard through work I have done with Mainzeal to establish trade training programmes, and also through his work with New Zealand House. I have also declared that he donated towards my election campaign in 2011."
His statement added: "I have no formal relationship with Mainzeal, no current dealings with them or with Richina - but my thoughts go out to the people who have lost their jobs, and those who have been affected by the collapse of the business."
Dr Sharples and Mr McCully were in a delegation to Shanghai in June. Dr Sharples praised Mr Yan's proposal to develop New Zealand House, a Shanghai building to host New Zealand government agencies and businesses such as Fonterra. At the time he described New Zealand House as "an enormous, generous gesture".
The project is now in doubt.
In the House, Mr Peters noted Richina Pacific was delisted from the New Zealand stock exchange in 2009 for "inadequate corporate disclosure" and financial losses, which should have given the Government a sign of Mainzeal's potential struggles.
He also questioned why Mr Yan had last year made public statements about New Zealand House before it was confirmed by the Government.


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Startup AcademyStartup Academy is an optional 2-day (13-14 August 2019) pre-matriculation program designed to help graduate students across the University of Virginia connect and collaborate around innovative technology, product and service ideas. The goal of the Startup Academy is to give incoming students an opportunity to become quickly immersed in the entrepreneurial community at UVA, get connected to the people and resources available and build a network to help identify: 1) problems worth working on, and 2) people to help develop solutions.Program OverviewThe Startup Academy will begin on Tuesday morning (9:30am, 13 August 2019) with introductions and a quick overview of resources at the university. The program will begin to introduce topics to drive teams to develop and refine business concepts. Given the short timeframe, the sessions will focus on a few topics to include design thinking, customer discovery, and hypothesis-driven experimentation. Students will be split into groups to practice skills by focusing on a specific problem or a technology with potential for commercialization. The program will end with each team presenting their findings and suggested next steps at the end-of-day on Wednesday, 14 August. If a student has a startup already launched, he/she may apply to have their concept/venture be one of the group projects.Who should come?The Startup Academy is designed for any graduate student who might consider an entrepreneurial path while in school and/or upon graduation. Whereas some students may have already begun working on a technology, product, or even launched a business, the Academy also welcomes students who are not currently working on an idea. Regardless of background or entrepreneurial focus, anyone may participate by bringing their expertise and helping form a team around a technology or problem for purposes of the workshop.
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Posted by Steven Levin on May 18, 2017 at 9:24 AM
On Tuesday, May 16, CCSA Advocates-endorsed candidates Nick Melvoin and Kelly Gonez won their elections for the LAUSD School Board.
Nick and Kelly believe that a zip code should not determine the educational quality that a student receives and they value a parent's right to choose the best public school for their child, whether that's a traditional district, magnet, pilot, or charter school. They agree with educators that want to do more of what is working and less of what isn't.
These wins represent a new direction for the Los Angeles Unified School Board; we hope the District can embrace charter schools' important role in LAUSD to provide access to high-quality public schools to all students and to be partners in developing and sharing best practices.
Many of our supporters have spent months working hard to elect LAUSD's newest school board members. These wins could not have been possible without you. We want to offer our sincerest thanks. Your efforts gave a voice to our students and communities.
In Board District 4, Nick defeated incumbent school board president Steve Zimmer by a margin of 57.41% to 42.58%. This represents a mandate for a new leader in BD4 to ensure that every student in LAUSD has the opportunity to succeed.
In Board District 6, Kelly defeated Imelda Padilla by a margin of 51.47% to 48.52% to replace outgoing school board member Monica Ratliff. Kelly's experience in the classroom and in federal education policy underscores the breadth and depth she will bring to the school board to solve some of the district's biggest challenges.
We congratulate both of our endorsed candidates on hard-fought campaigns and our team looks forward to reaching out to them and working with them on behalf of all students in LAUSD.
We also want to acknowledge the good intentions of both Steve Zimmer and Imelda Padilla. While we may have differences on some policies and strategies, we know that we share many of the same goals to ensure the district puts kids' interests first.
We invite you to stay involved in our efforts and encourage you to get involved in the LA Advocacy Council or any of the Policy Working Groups. Please follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest news and information about the California charter school community.
Thank you again for your continued efforts.


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i dream of nerges
A few weeks ago I saw this book on J's coffee table and asked if I could borrow it. I had no idea what it was about other than lucid dreaming. This book has catapulted me into many new ways of thinking. This is partly because I have been seeking a new way of being. I have been fairly miserable for most of this year, and felt that new ideas, new thoughts and a new version of me was much needed to escape the despair.
The book begins with a introduction to the basic precepts of Tibetan Buddhism. I am not interested in dogma or any religion but was open to seeing what these ideas were. It said that people are caught up in a duality of grasping (desiring things) and aversion (avoiding things). I'm not keen on binary systems but I decided to do an experiment and go through a day observing how often I try to get something I want and how often I avoid things I don't want.
I discovered something surprising which is that I spend a good deal of my time avoiding things. Even something simple like walking down the street became an exercise of avoidance. The script in my head goes something like, "There's a person down the street approaching me. Should I look at them? Should I cross the street so I don't have to deal with them? Should I say hello?" I feel anxious and wish the person wasn't there. This happens A LOT because there are a lot of people in the population-dense Bay Area. I realized I spend SO MUCH ENERGY on this nonsense because I don't feel safe in the world. Not in the sense that any physical harm will come to me, but in the sense that I distrust people.
This leads to a physical posture of holding my shoulders in, a sort of folding in on myself, that protects nothing but probably became habitual because of my angry mother (or "yelly mommy"). To counter the posture and the feeling of hiding and protecting myself it evokes, I have been trying to feel and openness in the center of my chest. I have a visual image (okay, this will sound corny or hippie) of butterflies and songbirds flying out my chest. I have been working on my posture for decades. The most effective method I have found to date was the Alexander Technique. In the last couple of days, I have found that thinking of openness has improved not only my posture but my ability to be in the world while exerting less energy, which just feels good.
Tibetan Yogas also recommends a method of meditation where you focus on an object. The book recommends the Tibetan letter A but I didn't have that handy so I thought I'd just look out the window at a tree across the street. I'm a lousy meditator — too fidgety — but this method of visually focusing on something seemed to work very well on my initial tries. I then extended this idea to focus on something when I am walking around, such as a cloud near the horizon or a tree down the street. This focusing on an object had an amazing effect. First of all, it made me realize that most of the time when I am walking around I don't really see anything. I'm lost in my thoughts and can barely notice the world around me. I have tried to counter this by touching plants along the way but that has only had a minor effect. Somehow focusing on one thing at a time (a time being a few minutes) made me get out of my thoughts and into the world. More importantly, it had this very interesting effect in that, by focusing on one thing somehow I could see everything. All of a sudden my peripheral vision just came alive and I saw things I never saw before even though I have walk these same streets many times. A palm tree here, a blue house there, a view of the hills — these things were always there and I had never noticed them.
As if all this weren't interesting enough, the books also approaches lucid dreaming in a way completely opposite of the book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. In that book, Laberge (the author) recommends questioning yourself throughout the day with the thought, "Am I dreaming?" and then doing the same tests you would do in a dream to see if you are. The point is to prep your mind to be aware if you are dreaming while you are dreaming. Tibetan Yogas, however, instructs the reader to tell oneself that one is dreaming while awake: to tell yourself you a drinking a dream cup of coffee, driving a dream car, etc. The point here is to realize that the world is not real and only a projection of one's mind.
I agree that the reality of the world can be challenged in many ways, but I suppose I'm not receptive to discounting the exterior world as being completely a projection. I do think realizing that one's thoughts and feelings about the world are fabricated in one's own mind, and can be challenged and altered, is an interesting and helpful idea to explore.
To that end, another experiment: I've noticed when I'm talking with someone, I will often have emotional reactions to what they are saying, often negative, which I then have to hide. In addition, these reaction cause me to not listen as well as I get caught up in my own thoughts. For the last couple of days, I've tried to let go of these reactions. If I feel angry or annoyed or upset by what someone is saying, I don't ignore those feelings but try to just let them pass through me (for some reason I envision shaking them off the ends of my fingers. I've no idea why).
All these experiments are very exciting to me. I'm always trying to improve myself. By "improve" I mean become a kinder, more generous, and more compassionate person. I feel that these experiments of the last several weeks are very helpful in moving in this direction. I don't know how many of these things will stick with me, it's just too soon to tell. I do feel that these experiments are helping me to get out of the stuck and somewhat miserable mindset I have been in.
And to think I haven't even gotten to the lucid dreaming experiments yet!
In another mind games of freakiness, last night I was in the middle of a non-lucid dream when I said out loud, "You know, I don't even really exist. I'm just a construct of my own mind." What happened next is I basically faded away until I was nothing. My body just vanished and then my thoughts and then it was just… blank. Well, almost because there was still enough of me left to say, "Oh shit! Who cares if I'm a construct!" and then I faded back into "existence".
Now, remember, I didn't know I was dreaming so this was freakier than it sounds. I thought I had really almost annihilated myself through my thoughts. Yikes.
You may think this song has nothing to do with this post, but you're wrong.
I recently had a dream that I owned a baby miniature hippopotamus (even smaller than a Pygmy) named Sapphire. Throughout the dream I kept commenting on how smart she was.
Today, days later, I remembered that this is not the first dream I have had about a baby hippo. In fact, I already wrote about it hear.
I have no idea why I dream about cute tiny hippopotami.
But hey, check out these videos of pygmy hippos!
My latest adventure inside my brain was both frustrating and productive.
I was dreaming that I was at a conference when I became lucid. I thought, okay, time to float up, but it actually took a few times before I could float. This seemed ridiculous as I knew I was dreaming and capable of doing this. When I eventually succeeded, I floated over to the window and stood on the ledge. Even though I knew nothing was real, I still felt fearful jumping out the window. When I did, I had a hell of a time trying to fly up to the sky. First there was the inevitable power lines, but once I got through them, these nonsensical iron bars kept reappearing in front of me as I tried to ascend. I kept pushing them aside, and they kept reappearing. Finally, I got tired of fighting them, and just went back to the conference, where I just kept floating around the room. I thought, I should think of something else fun to do when I'm lucid for when flying doesn't work out. Maybe I could study some Ruby somehow (yes, a fun thing to do for a nerd).
After I woke up, I thought that maybe fighting back the iron bars was the wrong approach. Maybe I could somehow ask them nicely to let me through? I don't know why my brain is fighting my having fun while asleep. Seems weird.
The good thing is that I was lucid for longer than previous experiences, perhaps several minutes, where it had only been a few seconds or a minute before. So some progress was made.
At this point, every time I realize I'm dreaming, I immediately try to fly. Part of me feels this is incredibly unoriginal, but it is so fun that I can't seem to think of something else to try.
I had another weird experience recently which involved lucid dreaming and flying. I dreamt I was at my office, which, as always happens in my dreams, was much larger than it is in reality. I dropped something on the floor, but when I looked down, it was nowhere in sight. I thought… "that can't be, things just don't disappear… Hey, I'm dreaming!" At this point I decided to get up and jump out the window and fly. My coworkers just stood by in a huddle as I rushed to the window. When I got to the window and looked out, something strange happened. I guess I had realized I was dreaming so fast that my subconscious mind hadn't bothered to draw in all of the view outside. So what I saw was a partially-drawn urban landscape that just faded along the right side into nothingness. The "nothingness" was just a blank, light-gray fog, something one often sees around here in the Bay Area. My brain just hadn't bothered to draw in that part of the scene, and I guess since I already knew I was dreaming, it just left it that way.
After I was done being amused by the nothingness, I did indeed leap out the window and fly around for a brief time. Every time I noticed the lucidity fading, I was chant the line "I'm dreaming" over and over again. This did help me stay lucid for a little longer than usual, but I find it's still hard to stay lucid for more than a minute or two at this point.
In the dream I had last night, I was talking to my sister when I realized I had just talked to her just behind me… that there were two of her. When this thought occurred to me, I said to her, "Wait, there can't be two of you, I'm dreaming!" I grabbed her hand and said, "Come on, let's float up!" and we did, laughing.
After a few moments, as we tried to go higher, there began to be obstacles in our way. This is another common problem I've been re-experiencing when trying to fly up: that suddenly there are telephone lines, overhanging roofs, and all sorts of weird shit suddenly appearing for the sole purpose of keeping me from flying up "too high." Why my brain feels a need to do this, I don't know.
This time I kept climbing through the obstacles and knocking them out of the way, over and over, until the way was clear. Somewhere in the melée I ended up on my own. By that time I was floating very far above the earth and I laid down on my back and looked up. Above me were the stars, and I was looking straight up at Orion. I couldn't believe I had made it this for, it was yet another level of euphoria. As I just laying there, floating, staring at the stars, I slowly starting falling back down. And here was another great thing: although I was falling, I was not afraid, because I knew I was never going to hit bottom. I could just enjoy the feeling of falling. Eventually this scene and my lucidity vanished and I was on to the next dream.
So, I guess it'll still be a while until I try to do anything else when I'm lucid, because the feeling of flying of dreams is just too amazing.
In my first post where I talked about lucid dreaming, I mentioned that there was a strong recommendation by experienced lucid dreamers to try flying in dreams. I expressed that I thought it sounded very juvenile, but in my second post I let myself float up and found the experience enjoyable.
Since then I have, from time to time, suggested to myself at bedtime that I would like to try floating or flying again in my dreams, but it did not happen for several months until last night. I climbed up a tree, and seeing I that I was already up in the tree, I thought perhaps I could launch myself into space and fly. And I did. Not just float, but really fly, arms outstretched Superman-style, over a European-looking city, for a very long time. I discovered that stretching my arms out this way is some sort of dream code for "keep on flying."
While I was flying, I had the most amazing euphoric feeling, to the point that I was almost in tears. I just couldn't believe how great it felt, which is why I kept doing it for as long as I could. And as wonderful as that is, there's part of me that can't help but wonder, but why does it feel so wonderful? Is it just because it's something I can't do in reality? If so, would I get the same experience from scuba diving in my dreams? Hmm, I see another experiment coming up…
In other dreaming news, I have had a series of lucid dreams where I just sit back and observe how incredibly detailed everything is. I am just in awe of all that my brain is creating while I sleep. After some discussion with K, we've concluded a couple of things about this phenomenom. That is, one's brain must have to keep working while you sleep, just like your heart has to keep beating. So, without outside stimuli, it just goes to town with creating whatever it can. Secondly, one's brain has a vested interest in keeping you asleep, because you need to rest. So, if it's going to be cranking along anyway, why not create worlds that convince you that your awake, so that you don't try to get up? (Of course, there's insomnia, but that's a whole other discussion).
I had a dream recently where I observed all the crazy details, and then thought, "Well, enough of this, I'd like to get up and go back to reality now." I really wanted to wake up, but my brain was having none of it. I kept trying different things to wake up, and it kept countering me like a great chess opponent. At one point, I decided to stare into a mirror but my reflection kept disappearing. I mean, it was so obvious I was dreaming, but apparently the obviousness is just not enough to wake up. I found this whole endeavor frustrating, but I learned my lesson. You cannot will yourself to wake up when you are deeply asleep. Just forget it. In a battle between your conscious and subconscious mind, the subconscious mind wins. Which, I think, is a good thing to ponder in general.
Speaking of subconscious, as silly as this intro is, there's still a part of me that gets excited when I watch this. When I was 3 I loved Superman more than anything.
I've continued with my sleep experiments as found in Exploring the World Lucid Dreaming. I've come to realize that if I had no hobbies, I might possibly try all the experiments suggested. However, since I have 50,000 hobbies (count 'em!), I'm going to have to skip ahead in the book.
I did follow through with the exercise of trying to remember a preset list of ordinary tasks or cue while going through the day. This was fairly difficult, and often I would realize the cue — phone ringing, seeing my face in the mirror — had already happened an hour ago. I was going to do this exercise for a second week but realized that that would bore me stiff.
I mentioned in my previous post that I had written on a card "Am I Dreaming?" and now carry it in my wallet to practice reality testing when I'm awake. I recently had a dream where I felt I was dreaming, so I took the card out of my wallet. I'll be damned if it wasn't 100% accurate. As usual, my brain was trying to outsmart me. I just looked at the card and thought "Well, that didn't work." So I went off to find something else to read to see if it mutated. It did, and so I confirmed I was dreaming DESPITE my mischievous brain.
Then I had another dream with the cue or "dreamsign" that I was walking around in public topless, hoping no one would notice. Although I hadn't consciously identified this as one of my dreamsigns, I still managed to do so in the dream. I thought, "Wait, I must be dreaming, I never just forget to put my shirt on. So… I could probably make a shirt just appear." Sure enough, one did show up in my hand, and I put it on. Oddly enough, it was a shirt I used to own but go rid of many years ago. After I put the shirt on I thought, "That dreaming book keeps harping on how fun it is to fly on me. It seems dumb, but maybe I should try it." So I floated up a few feet. And it was REALLY FUN. So I spent several minutes floating around, about ten or fifteen feet up in the air, before the dream ended.
I have more questions now I hope this book will answer. Such as, why is flying so fun in dreams? Why are dreams so hard to remember? And why is my brain always trying to trick me?
For a long time, I have had dreams where I realized that I was dreaming. I didn't try to invoke this state of mind — it just happened spontaneously. I've conducted a very non-scientific survey and found that most people I know have never had this experience.
Recently I borrowed a book from the library, Exploring the World Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge & Howard Rheingold. This book was written in 1990, but a quick look around the internet shows that the lucid dreaming field has not changed significantly since this book was written. Other than you can now go on LaBerge dreaming workshops in Hawaii which sounds just about as hippy-dippy as you can get.
LaBerge is a pioneer in the field of lucid dreaming, as he not only devised ways to prove he was aware that he was dreaming in a laboratory setting, but also came up with proven methods to induce lucid dreams in just about anyone. Despite the kooky new-agey feel to a lot of his ideas, many are evidence based. I decided to be open-minded at try some of these methods.
LaBerge feels that as long as we are going to sleep for one-third of our lives, we may as well use that time for mind expansion. I only half agree with this premise, mostly because I enjoy sleeping. I think most people do. I know there's lots of folks who get a warm, happy feeling just thinking about their bed. So I don't think sleep is a waste of time because it is very pleasant, and probably the only thing I do that is pleasant for a full eight hours straight. However, I am all for exploration on all levels, and already spend a good deal of time exploring my mind. Perhaps a new method would be good.
Now, one problem I have with discussions of lucid dreams is that many folks feel that once you realize you're dreaming you should do something wild like fly to the stars. Let me tell you, not only do I have no interest in such shenanigans, but they sound pretty juvenile too me. This is probably because the reality-checking part of my brain is overactive. Even in a dream state, I couldn't fly to stars because I'd be saying "You know, you aren't really flying to stars. You're just dreaming that you're flying to stars. They aren't really the stars. This isn't real." It's pathetic, really, but that's how my mind works. So I'm not interested in play time for the brain. I'm interested in further investigations as to what is reality.
In my post "grief, dreams, permanence", I alluded to the dreams I have where I end up in an argument with others that we are in a dream. I was delighted to read in Exploring the World that this is a common experience. In fact, a lot of the methods I have read about so far are all about reality testing.
One of the first concepts introduced in the book is that what we do while awake, we also do while asleep. Therefore, it's unlikely we are going to ask ourselves if we are dreaming while we are asleep if we never do while we are awake. We first start with asking ourselves "Am I dreaming?" while we are awake. At first this seemed silly when I tried it (he mentions that it will feel silly), but then I realized that I do have to establish certain criteria to show I am NOT dreaming. Just saying "Because it looks different" or "feels different" is not concrete enough. K says that his dreams are not nearly as detailed as reality, so that dreams and reality clearly look different, but that is not at all the case with me.
LaBerge pointed out there are a few simple things that are always true in dreams. If you look at any text in a dream, look away, and then look at it again, it will not stay the same. It will warp or mutate in some way, or somehow conditions will suddenly change so it is no longer possible to read it. This NEVER happens in reality (other than in a sudden power outage). So, one can starts conducting reading tests in reality. LaBerge suggest carrying a card with you that simply says, "Am I dreaming?" on it. You can pull it out, read it, read it again, and it will always be the same.
I have begun this simple practice, and it's really pretty interesting. Recently I have been in a variety of situations that were far from my normal experience, for instance, being suddenly backstage at a Lady Gaga performance. That sure seemed like a dream. It was interesting to look around for specific, concrete examples* as to why I wasn't dreaming.
It's amazing that something that's puzzled me for years — the ability to discern dreams from reality — is really easy when reduced to a few simple cues. It's one of those ideas which was there all along but somehow I couldn't put my finger on it. Now that I know about it, I feel perplexed (and a little annoyed) as to why I couldn't have figured this out for myself.
I have continued on to the next set of exercises in the book. One is to read a set of four mundane events that may occur in your day. There is a week's worth of sets of four. Each day you try keep these in mind and test reality when they occur. They are such things as "Next time the telephone rings" or "Next time I check the time". The point is to train yourself to keep cues in mind while going through your day, so that you can keep cues in mind while asleep.
Another exercise is to find a pattern of cues in your dreams, the things the only occur in your dreams. Everyone's dream world is different. I often dream that I am with my family members, whereas in reality I am almost never with them. One cue I have set up is that if I dream about my family, I should test whether I am dreaming. Another pattern is being on public transportation about becoming hopelessly lost, so now when I ride BART or the bus I pay attention to how consistent the experience is in reality so that it will be more obvious when I am dreaming.
Another interesting thing that LaBerge discovered in his research that, contrary to the myth that dreams occur in some sped-up time warp, the events in them occur in real time. It's just that you jump from scene to scene, as in a movie. This has lead me to another discovery that makes reality different from most dreams: the long spells of the mundane. I am at work for hours on end, doing boring tasks, on and on. That level of continuous non-event does not occur in my dreams. I do occasionally dream that I have gotten up and am getting ready for work with a bunch of mundane details (getting dressed, brushing teeth), but it's pretty rare.
I'm curious what these reality testing experiences will lead to. I'll write more if and when I discover anything interesting.
This question — "Am I dreaming?" has led me to develop another question — "Am I acting?" during the day, I spend a lot of time smiling and making nice to those around me. I believe that this is good manners, and how one functions in society. By the amount of rude people I encounter, I realize not everyone adheres to the ideology. I realized, though, I should think about when I am acting nice out of politeness and when I really mean it. I think I can easily get into a gray area where I can't discern how I actually feel about a person or a situation until after it is over, because I am too busy pouring my energies into being polite. At times it seems I have too much energy being externalized i.e. focusing on others, and not enough energy focused internally. It's all fine and well to be polite, but not to the point where later I realize that I have suppressed myself to no end — just out of habit.
*Another cue LaBerge mentioned is digital clocks or watches. In a dream, you can never look at them twice without their changing the time non-sequentially. (He points out the analog watches in dreams are a little trickier).


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Little Tibet
The ancient teachings of PADMASAMBHAVA from the 8th century say:
"When the birds of iron fly and the horse runs on wheels, Tibet will be smashed. The tibetans will spread out like ants into the world. And the teachings of Buddha will be entering into the west."
Today McLeodGanj, a suburb of Dharamsala in the north of India, is the seat of the tibetan government in exile, where the 14th Dalai Lama established his private residence after fleeing from Tibet in 1959. Many tibetans followed him and live in this magical village above the clouds. At least for a while before looking for a place to go. The world has open arms and a lot of opportunities. Still the fate of their home is of big interest for most of them. So Tibetans rally, volunteer, inspire others to volunteer and rally. Many voices speak for Tibet and many others listen. This is their vehicle. And patience their greatest strength.


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Event marketing is the promotional marketing that involves face to face marketing between customers and companies. Events that can be established for event marketing plan are sports, music concerts and fairs etc. Most companies use this event marketing to contact with their customers by establishing music ant contests events. A successful event marketing campaign not only provide information about product and service but also give discounts and free samples to their customers. Due to this event marketing customers see live commercials of the products and also feel the benefits.
To make your event marketing campaign successful first of all you have to target your audience. You have to create such campaign which proves beneficial for company, memorable for customers and establish strong relationship between you and your customers. When the company identifies their target audience then they also find that which type of event they have to establish to promote their products. For example a support company must have to create a sport event for promotion. And for the promotion of technical products a company should have to establish event in which people are invited who have the interest of latest technologies.
Event marketing is very important and unique for the promotion of products because each event is established to keep in mind the target customers. These events provide a chance to any company to make a good impression on their audience. But a company must keep in mind three aspects to develop a successful event marketing strategy. First the company should consider the points and information that they want to share with their customers. Second they must concentrate on the target audience. Third is that company should consider that which type of impression they want to leave on their target audience. Companies can impress their customers or event crowed through a variety of ways. A company can impress their customers or crowed by creating fun in the event, by inviting the favorite celebrities of the crowed or by giving the free samples as gift to the customers through a quiz contest. An event marketing strategy can be successful for the promotion of products if a company offers some discounts and services to those regular customers who use the social media networks sites and appreciate your products.
So event marketing strategies are very beneficial for any company and it is a great way of face to face communication between customers and you. And also due to the event marketing people not only promote their products but they also get a chance to sit altogether can enjoy the different kinds of events.


text: Three things homeowners looking to sell need to be aware of. By Pat Mertz Esswein, Associate Editor April 10, 2012 You have less competition. And, in the healthiest markets, a negotiating edge. In January, the months' supply of homes for sale (the time needed to sell all inventory at the current sales pace) fell to its lowest level since the peak of the boom, in July 2006. The number of existing homes for sale hasn't been this low since 2004.SEE ALSO: How to Sell Your Home Fast Entry-level homes will sell fastest. That's especially true of homes in pristine condition located near job centers. In January, existing homes priced less than $250,000 experienced double-digit increases in sales over the previous year in all regions except the West, where sales fell from unusually high levels the year before. The market for condominiums is improving. For the first time since 2004, the supply of condos for sale is about the same as the supply of single-family homes. Both markets are roughly balanced between buyers and sellers.


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I've started a new weekly feature for Tuesdays! Not just Tip Tuesday anymore. Now I'll share technology ideas with you each and every Tuesday!
I recently bought an iPad so I wanted to share an amazing app for Science that I found...and did I mention that it's FREE!!!
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You can choose from the thumbnails to see a larger image with more information OR sometimes there is a video to watch!
Images and information are updated regularly. What more could you ask for...and it's all FREE!!! :)
If you have access to an iPad, I highly recommend this little jewel of an app!
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How to start designing a vSphere environment, what is involved, whom to involve?
What is a Design?
"A streamlined process which helps the various elements in the organization to determine how to assemble and configure a
Virtual Infrastructure which is strong and Flexible. A design should contain all the important information that meets the
Functional Requirements of an Organization."
The functional requirments unify 3 different facets of the design:
Technical – What to deploy?
Operational – How to deploy and Support?
Organizational – Who will deploy and support?
Why Vmware or any other Virtualization product for that matter?
There should be a strong reason/objective to deploy Virtualization in the organization, some of them are:
- Datacenter Consolidation which will help saving Datacenter space, power and Cooling costs etc
- New Application rollout, Exchange 2010 for ex.
- Disaster Recovery/Business continuity, Deploy new DR/BC Solution using VMware vSphere and SRM
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Facets of the design:
- What type of servers, blades or Rack Mounted?
- Type of Physical CPU's in the server?
- Type & Quantity of Storage?
- Kind of Networking etc?
- Who will manage the whole environment?
- Who will provision what? Storage, Network etc?
- Who will support VM's, their backup's etc?
- Who will be responsible for Security Policies?
- How will the Hosts be managed?
- How will the VM's be provisioned?
- How will I Failover to DR Site?
- How will compliance be verified?
How to go about desigining any Infrastructure?
- Review Infrastructure documents provided by the client, although it may not provide the complete but most of the Functional Requirements
- Interview the IT teams and IT Management teams (everyone and anyone as required) to understand the environment better
- Top 5 issues at the user level that can be resolved using VMware Platform
Assemble bits and pieces?
- It's always acceptable to remove functional requirements, if at any point, they don't serve any purpose what's the point in having them?
- Set standards and Best practices, but every Best practice recommended by a vendor may not suite your environment, get a deeper look into the Best Practices and ensure they meet your functional requirements
- Start documenting every bit of the Design, so that the implementation teams find it easy
All in all, "get your basics right" before you jump into any Technical Jargons 🙂
*Most of the information is being taken from Scott Lowe's Design book which I thought is the best information available so far 🙂


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Book Review - Food Not Lawns
Consider a few staggering stats about the average American lawn: "58 million Americans spend approximately thirty billion dollars every year to maintain more than twenty-three million acres of lawns .the same-sized plot of land could still have a small lawn for recreation and produce all the vegetables needed to feed a family of six. The lawns in the United States consume around 270 billion gallons of water a week — enough to water eighty-one million acres of organic vegetables, all summer long." When you put it like that, it seems like we should all turn our lawns into farms but Flores advocates garden awareness, not that we all become farmers overnight.Now wait just a minute, you might say, some US cities are not good for growing produce, say those in a desert, but the author has beat you to this, as she has tips for any, and I mean any, landscape and even those 'problem' lawns. At times the beginner may get lost among the horn manure suggestions (filling a cow horn with cow manure, burying it over the winter, and then mixing with water and sprinkling on a lawn for fertilizer) and the seed ball recipe (combining multiple seed types with clay into a ball as one way to re-vegetate an area), but don't worry, book is more of a resource and not a straight novel and can be picked up as needed as reading it through all at once may be a bit daunting.
Dubbed 'paradise gardening', the author suggests we return the land to a more natural state, where we see the earth and food production with a more holistic and natural approach. The author challenges the reader to think about where resources for a garden come from, how to limit ones footprint while still having an abundant and satisfying garden and offers tips on getting children excited about gardening. As the debate rages on about local vs. organic local vs organic , and the 100 mile diet 100-mile diet , this author suggests that by cutting out a lot of the excess consumerism and really get back to the land we will begin to heal ourselves, both physically and mentally.
You can find the book at Chelsea Green Publishing Chelsea Green Publishing, or at Amazon.com Amazon.com.


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The Select Committee's terms of reference are to examine and report on:
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Recently, I was playing golf on one of the more challenging courses in our area. My partner hit his ball over the water (almost) and it skipped off the surface into the weeds under a foot bridge. From my angle, I could see much more accurately where it came to rest, so I offered to go under and get it. His words to me were prophetic, something I wish I had known.
He said, "Don't bother Mike…it's not worth it".
Ignoring him, I hiked down to the level where I saw the ball settle. Carefully, I plucked it out of the little mud hole it was in. My partner had been skeptical I could get it out, so I was excited to show off my retriever skills. In my haste, I forgot something.
I was under a bridge.
I stood up quickly to tell him I had the ball in the palm of my hand and the top of my head thunked into the bottom of the bridge support; the METAL bridge support. It hardly had any give to it, which is something I can't say for the top of my head.
As I yelped with pain, I took a step backward and my right leg went entirely into the water. My golf shoe sunk into the mud quickly and it took all my personal finesse to get my leg out with the shoe still hanging on the end of it. So now I am wet on one side of my body, aching on the top of my head and dizzy from the concussion. I staggered up the incline toward the cart path. My partner came over and asked me what caused my yelping and groaning. When I told him the short, sad story he repeated his earlier comment:
"It wasn't worth it Mike."
I ended up with four days of concussion symptoms and on top of it all, I had to buy the world's most expensive sports socks in the clubhouse. After the fog cleared, I had time to ponder my escapade and something occurred to me. We could use that prophetic statement a lot in life.
We tend to wander through life with very little thought given to how a small action or attitude can affect the rest of our lives. But if you look at the major events of your life, most of them are predicated on a number of very small, seemingly insignificant, decisions.
Proverbs 14:12 capsulizes the essential idea of this:
"There is a way that appears to be right,
but in the end it leads to death."
It takes me all of thirty seconds to think of dozens of examples of this. A couple has an extra-marital affair, sharing a few hours of sexual pleasure and, in the end, this tryst can ruin their marriages, livelihood and can even end in death. An hour in a Las Vegas casino may seem like a short period of time, but it can empty out even a substantial bank account. A casual decision to shoplift, a spontaneous lie, an angry outburst in traffic, a rash investment, a one-night stand, a day of playing hooky, a resentment coddled for one day too long; all of these can produce wickedly harmful results, even though they take almost no time to indulge.
What is the antidote to these fast mistakes?
It is healthy to wake up in the morning and say, "I need to be careful out there. Not everything is worth doing."
It is even healthier to wake up and decide, "I am going to consult God before making decisions today."
It is healthiest to wake up in the morning and invite God to fill us to overflowing and then to allow His presence to guide all our steps.


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270 People Sick from "Tainted" Canteloupes
If you've seen the news lately you've heard about the outbreak of Salmonella from contaminated Cantaloupes. What you probably haven't heard is that Salmonella doesn't "grow" or live in fruit. For these Cantaloupes to get contaminated they had to have come into contact with Feces or raw meat at some point, which in it's self is a little upsetting.
I'm certainly no expert on the subject but my guess is that the farm was using manure from sick livestock or chickens to fertilize their crops and didn't sanitize them after they were picked.
The best way to avoid getting sick from something like this is to wash the outside of your fruits and vegetables with warm soapy water before cutting them. Keep in mind the only part of a fruit or vegetable that will be contaminated is the outside and if you cut the outside with a knife you drag the Salmonella into the fruit and contaminate it.


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攻击范围是一种用于衡量平A以及技能的距离的单位。 It shares the scale with movement speed, so one point translates to one game distance unit traveled. Note that autoattack range is measured differently to ability range. Given a source unit's hitbox and a target unit's hitbox, range is calculated as follows: Autoattack range from edge to edge; targeted skill range from center to center; skillshot range from edge to edge; AoE range radius from center to center. The difference is approximately 100 (i.e. 550 autoattack range is roughly 650 casting range)[1][2][3]
Each champion begins the game with a particular base autoattack range. This can vary from 125 to 175 for melee units and 425 to 650 for ranged units. The highest base autoattack range for champions is held by Caitlyn.
For comparison the turret's autoattack range is 800 making Twitch the only champion who can out-range a turret with his ultimate Spray and Pray activated.
Abilities that can increase autoattack range编辑
- 凯尔的Righteous Fury Righteous Fury increases her attack range from 125 to 525 for 10 seconds, which counts as melee attacks. The splash damage does not proc on-hit effects. Kayle is counted as a ranged champion for the purposes of Blessing of the Lizard Elder Blessing of the Lizard Elder, , and .
- 20px 克格'莫的 Bio-Arcane Barrage increases his attack range from 500 to 630/650/670/690/710 for 8 seconds.
- 锐雯的 Blade of the Exile increases her attack range from 125 to 200 for 15 seconds.
- 崔丝塔娜的 Draw a Bead increases her base attack range of 550 by 9 with each level (+153 at level 18).
- 图奇的 Spray And Pray increases his attack range from 550 to 850 for 7 seconds.
- 杰斯的Transform: Mercury Cannon Transform: Mercury Cannon increases his attack range from 125 to 500 until he switches stances.
- 20px 科'加斯的 Feast increases his attack range from 125 by 3.8/6.1/8.3 per stack. The maximum is +50 at Rank 3 and 6 stacks.
- 雷恩加尔的Unseen Predator Unseen Predator increases his range from 125 to 600 (750 with 9 trophies on ) while in brush and 0.5s after leaving brush, causing him to leap at his target.
- 20px 卡'兹克的Taste Their Fear Taste Their Fear increases his range from 125 to 175 upon evolving the ability after leveling his ultimate, Void Assault Void Assault.
List of ranged champions from highest to lowest autoattack range.
|Twitch (With Spray and Pray)
|20px Kog'Maw (With Level 5 Bio-Arcane Barrage)
|Tristana (With Draw a Bead at Level 18)
|Anivia, Ashe, Zilean
|Ziggs, Varus , Zyra
|Ahri, Brand, Cassiopeia, Corki, Draven, Elise (Human form), Ezreal, Heimerdinger, Kennen, Lulu, Lux, Malzahar, Miss Fortune, Ryze, Sona, Soraka, Syndra, Tristana (With Draw a Bead at Level 1), Twitch, Vayne, Xerath
|Kayle (With Righteous Fury Righteous Fury), Graves, LeBlanc, Nidalee (Human form), Orianna, Twisted Fate, Veigar, Viktor
|20px Kog'Maw, Sivir, Teemo, Swain, Jayce (With Cannon Stance)
|Karthus, Vladimir
|Karma, Morgana, Urgot
List of Melee champions.
|Rengar (with Unseen Predator Unseen Predator and 9 trophies on his )
|Rengar (with Unseen Predator Unseen Predator)
|Wukong (with Crushing Blow Crushing Blow)
|Riven (with Blade of the Exile)
|20px Cho'Gath (With Rank 3 Feast at 6 stacks), Fizz, Hecarim, 20px Jarvan IV, 20px Kha'Zix (With Evolved Taste Their Fear Taste Their Fear), Nautilus, Wukong, Xin Zhao
|Diana, Nasus (With Fury of the Sands), Pantheon
|Akali, Alistar, Amumu, Blitzcrank, 20px Cho'Gath (Excluding Vorpal Spikes and Feast stacks), Darius, 20px Dr. Mundo, Elise (Spider form), Evelynn, Fiora, Galio, Gangplank, Garen, Gragas, Irelia, Jax, Jayce (With Hammer Stance), Kassadin, Katarina, Kayle, 20px Kha'Zix, Lee Sin, Leona, Malphite, Maokai, Master Yi, Mordekaiser, Nasus, Nidalee (Cougar form), Nocturne, Nunu, Olaf, Poppy, Rammus, Renekton, Rengar, Riven, Rumble, Sejuani, Shaco, Shen, Shyvana, Singed, Sion, Skarner, Talon, Taric, Trundle, Tryndamere, Udyr, Volibear, Yorick, Warwick
- ↑ Hitboxes, Range and Deflection. Retrieved 13 August 2012
- ↑ Annie q and normal attack same 625 range, but normal attack range longer than q, Why?. Retrieved 13 August 2012
- ↑ What's the difference between spell range and autoattack range?. Retrieved 13 August 2012