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FC: EUROPE | 1500-1770 | Reformation
1: Causes of Protestant Reformation | Martin Luter didnt believe in the Roman Catholic Church"s teachings like selling entrances into heaven. Actually started by Luther posting his complaints on the door of the church.
2: Branch of Western Christianitythought of by Martin Luther.. | Luther-anism | a | 95 Thesis | Split between Roman Catholic Church and Lutheranism began with the Edict of Worms. | Lutherans are divided by how they interact with each christian group. | Peace of Augsburg | Peace of Augsburg
3: Calvin-ism | washing machines here! | Influence on Protestant Reformation doctrines started with Institutes of the Christian Religion. | Stresses the absolute sovereignty of god. | Refers to the teachings of John Calvin.
4: How and Where it spread | England: King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were in power at the time and Henry wanted to break to church of Rome and then Anne Boleyn became queen and had an affair with Henry | France: Mary Tudor was the queen consort and restored Roman Catholicism to France
5: Switzerland: Started when a religious nenewal movemant began in politics. | Germany: Began in Germany because they were not united as one. | Italy: Church had way to much power then anything else. | Spain: When Spain invaded England as they defeated the Spanish Armada that was Elizabeth I grestest idea.
6: Anababtists | Rejected the idea of infant baptism; Followed Ulrich Zwingili in that infants can not be punished for sin and are not aware to accecpt baptism.
7: Reject the christian doctrine., Trinitarian doctrine, that god is as 3 different people. | Anti-Trinitarians
8: Religious: William Tyndale created the 1st modern bible in english, and John Wycliffe also wrote a bible in english but most people couldnt read at the time. Jan Hus said it came from the church. | Consequences | Social: ST. Bartholomule Masacure, 1574, 3 days of slaughter with 20,00 +/- people killed. Sir Thomas More cam with idea of a perfect society, Utopia., | Political: Church was the wealthiest buisness in the world. No one or thing could beat its profits
9: Catholic Reformation | Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus , catholic humanist, condemmed the excess of the church.
10: Religious Wars | French Wars of Religion | 1562-1570 | Between Catholic League and Huguenots. | Series of civil wars in France.
11: Works Cited | "Anabaptist." Britannica Mobile - IPhone Edition. Web. 11 Sept. 2011.


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I Was A Raw Vegan For More Than 3 Years Because I Was Insane
This past weekend I attended a dinner party where the topic of what it means to be healthy came up. I dined with five other guests, two of whom were strict vegans.
These days, I'd rather discuss politics and religion over the sad state of our food supply and what constitutes a "healthy" individual. However, after my good friend and host announced me as "Sami our resident nutritionist," the door was wide open for debate. If you're a practitioner, you know how this is going to go. One minute you're enjoying a beautifully prepared coq au vin, the next you're getting someone's entire medical history while wanting to know how you can help them.
The lady sitting next to me said, "You must be vegetarian then, right?" Since I get this question a lot, my response is always the same: "No, actually I'm not. I thrive on high-quality animal products and really need them to be healthy. Several years ago I was vegan and I really damaged my health. The truth is that we are all biochemically unique, each requiring different nutrients to thrive."
I could tell by the look on her face that this was not going to be pretty.
She went on to tell me that I obviously didn't do it right and that most people have it all backward. Clearly, more than five years in clinical and private practice working with all types of disorders was a moot point.
Oh how I remember the days of being vegan, when I was right and everyone else was wrong, and if you didn't agree with me, then I wanted nothing to do with you. Yes, I was one of those vegans. I wore the label with great pride.
Later, as my health suffered, I came to realize that I lost myself in what other people thought was good for me. I realized that as an adult, I was still perpetuating the childhood cycle of trying to fit in so others would like me, because deep down, I didn't like me.
Looking back, there were so many warning signs that I chose to ignore — major digestive issues, severe hypothyroidism, chronic fatigue, and multiple skin rashes to name only a few. Sadly, this false label was more important than me loving myself. Sadly, being rail thin trumped not having any energy to enjoy life. Sadly, all I cared about was being able to fit into a size 0 dress.
If something clearly isn't working for you, don't you owe it to yourself to figure out what does? If veganism works for you, that's wonderful! If not, I encourage you to explore other options. Again, we're all biochemically unique and require different nutrients to thrive. It's also important to honor the fact that what works for you at one point in your life may not be in your best interest at another point. Honor it without guilt, fear or shame. I wasted too much time in guilt and shame because I thought I was being "bad" for needing animal products to be healthy.
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C drive space disappearing
I'm constantly losing space on my C drive and the situation seems to be getting even worse recently: every time I use the computer I lose at least 0.5 GB of space on C, which means that getting on my computer twice a day costs me 1 GB of space. I keep deleting files or moving them to D. Usually, after an unpredictable amount of time, some space (but always less than what's been lost) is freed up for no reason that I can see: last week I had 6 GB free and then suddenly the free space was 10 GB even though I'd done nothing. But today the C drive was down to 2 GB even though I've moved files to D drive, and I'm getting desperate since moving stuff does nothing about the actual problem. I deleted 12 GB of photos, but all that free space has vanished.
I've tried some of the suggestions I've seen online, but the most space I've ever freed using cleanmgr has been less than the 0.5 GB I now lose every time I use the computer. I always clear my internet history when I close a browser. I just deleted 4 GB of old Windows Updates, but I've lost more space than that this week alone. The virus scan shows nothing. I'm wary of trying stuff like deleting System Restore; I'm a total amateur and my computer language isn't English, which makes instructions harder to follow since I have to try to interpret and translate terms I don't know.
What could explain the speed at which I'm losing so much C drive space? Why does some, but not all of it, reappear without me doing anything (this is something I haven't seen people mention when they write about disk space problems)?
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It could be restore points being stored in the shadowstorage. Those are between 500MB and 1GB each. You can check that with this command in an eleveted command prompt:
vssadmin list shadowstorage
The number listed under Allocated is the amount that was taken. If the Maximum seems to be too big for you, you can resize the shadowstorage. Post back and I give you the command if you tell me what size you prefer.
In addition you can run WinDirStat. That will give you a nice listing of everything that is on the C partition - except the shadowstorage.
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I right-clicked Command Prompt to run it as an administrator, but when I wrote vssadmin list shadowstorage it replied that there had been an unexpected error. That might mean I have to use the Finnish language version of the command, but I haven't yet been able to find a translation by internet searches.
I installed WinDirStat. According to it, I have 301 GB in Users, 20.5 GB in Windows, 11 GB in Files and 14.1 GB in ProgramData/Program Files (x86)/Program Files, so the C drive is 346.6 GB. My D drive is 80.6 GB so C+D is 427.2 GB: though I can't remember the exact number, when I bought the computer it was said that it has around 500 GB space. 70 GB is missing, perhaps that is shadowstorage.
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Try this:
Press Start > Right click on Computer > Properties > System Protection (third dow on the top left) > Highlight C: > Configure. Now you should have this little window which tells you the story. With the 'Max Usage' slider you can change the size of your shadowstorage.
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If you go to control panel/system/system protection/configure you should see a slider under "disk space usage".
How much is "current usage" next to that slider?
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Thanks to the advice, I found System Protection for C. Current usage: 12,11 GB. Max usage: 3% (10.00 GB). Does this mean that shadowstorage only takes up 12 GB right now, or that there might be several restore points but the biggest and newest is 12 GB?
"Delete all restore points (this includes system settings and previous versions of files)": if it deletes everything including system settings and you can't select what happens, is it potentially risky?
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If the Max is set to 10GB, then 12GB is an overflow. This is an error. I would set the slider to zero and Apply (you lose all restore points. Then I would reset it to 3% or even less and create a new restore point.
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I'd suggest running Treesize Free first, to see exactly where the space is going.
It may not be restore points that are the cause.
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I installed Treesize. For most folders it gives the same size as WinDirStat, but it also shows a Recovery folder with 164 MB (last changed 2010) and System Volume Information with 6.8 GB (last changed today 17.11.2014). According to Treesize's numbers, C+D drives is 439.5 GB.
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Show all files on your hard drive:
Open My Computer, Tools menu, Folder Options.
Click on the View tab.
Check Show Hidden Files, folders and drives.
Uncheck Hide extensions for known file types and Hide protected operating system files [Recommended].
Click Apply then OK.
Try Treesize and WinDirStat again, see if more is shown.
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Boris Johnson, grinning smugly at the media circus he's attracted, steps off the Virgin Pendolino from Euston. It's an image that was beamed into my home (and millions of others), I watched it on BBC News but, before that, I found out that it had happened via twitter.
What's remarkable here is not the fact that I found this out via twitter, it's the fact that 'Just Boris' or, rather, "Team 'Just Boris' " managed to leak so carefully the details of his train, that none of the media had time to catch it before he left London, or even join it en-route – leading to the scene we saw of him leaving the station, surrounded by a media scrum and a flock of his supporters. It wouldn't be unfair to liken his arrival in Birmingham to that of a football team returning home after a famous victory. Boris, of course, would be the star striker – Cameron, on the other hand, would be the coach, forgotten in the heat of the moment.
This is David Cameron's problem. He is the Prime Minister and Conservatives, but it's never been more obvious that he wants the top job. It's the career equivalent of being followed by the grim reaper, and the Prime Minister is doing his best to hide it whilst a man who he needs to be one of his closest allies is, in fact, surrounding himself in a cult of personality.
As expected, the coverage surrounding Johnson's speech was fairly extensive for someone who was not the main speaker at a party conference, and had little policy of note to talk on. The main remark that was focussed on was his compliment to the Prime Minister, suggesting that he's perhaps not a threat to him right now. Or, maybe, that he doesn't want all the attention, although this implies that he is most certainly the most important person in the Conservative party today. After all, he probably is.
Then the news broke that terms had been agreed for the Scottish independence referendum. This is pretty remarkable news, and it was hinted that something like this would come out during the Troy conference – it was spun as a win for them: one question, two options, a decisive result. Okay, I'll forget the SNP were leaning towards the same thing themselves quite some time ago. This isn't even the interesting part, however, it's the fact that it came out after Boris's speech. Call me cynical, but it's looks like Cameron was trying to divert as much attention away from Boris, Mayor of London, and back to the Government in Westminster. It worked pretty well, but it didn't help the Prime Minister, so much as steal Johnson's limelight.
If my theory is correct, then it shows the Prime Minister is fearing a challenge from the Mayor of London for the top job: the man responsible for today's referendum announcement was one Michael Moore MP. Scottish Secretary, and Lib Dem.
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Today on the House floor, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) ripped into Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) president Grover Norquist and his organization's infamous Taxpayer Protection Pledge. Wolf is one of only six Republicans in the House (and seven in the Senate) who have not signed the pledge, which represents a commitment by lawmakers to oppose anything that increases tax revenue, including the elimination of loopholes. After rattling off a list of Norquist's personal and financial connections, including alleged ties to terror supporters, Wolf argued that the ATR pledge is "paralyzing Congress":
WOLF: I raise these concerns today in the context of dealing with the future of our country. America is in trouble. Unemployment is over 9 percent. Housing values continue to decline. Retirement accounts are threatened. The American people are worried, yet Washington is tragically shackled in ideological gridlock. Some are dead-set against any change to entitlement programs while others insist that any discussion of tax policy is off the table. We are at a point today that the tsunami of debt in America demands that every piece of the budget be scrutinized. And that means more than just cutting waste fraud and abuse and discretionary programs. The real runaway spending is carried in our out of control entitlement cost and the hundreds of billions in annual tax earmarks in our tax code. Until we reach an agreement that addresses those two drivers of our deficit and debts, we cannot right our fiscal ship of state.
Everything must be on the table. And I believe how the pledge is interpreted and enforced by Mr. Norquist is a roadblock to realistically reforming our tax code. When Sen. Tom Coburn recently called for eliminating the special interest ethanol tax subsidies, who led the opposition? Mr. Norquist. Have we already forgotten the battle over earmarks last year? Unlike an earmark included in an annual appropriation bill, tax earmarks are far worse because once enacted they typically exist in perpetuity. Have we really reached a point where one person's demand for ideological purity is paralyzing Congress to the point that even a discussion of tax reform is viewed as breaking a no-tax pledge?


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Saturday was supposed to be my day outside, in the sun, loving the weather and reading my book; I'm currently in the middle of The Shadow of the Wind, which took me a little while to get into but I'm now 100 pages from the end and can't tear myself away. I couldn't wait to take my book and my blanket to the park and bask in the sun and the end of the novel. Instead, Saturday was changeable at best, chilly and cloudy with intermittent bursts of sun and showers. So how did I spend my time? I called up my friend Maya and we met in Brick Lane to make our first visits to East London's newest – and best – vintage temple.
Blitz London is by far one of the most enjoyable vintage experiences I've ever had. Calling itself a Vintage Department Store and housed in an old warehouse, it boasts spacious rooms, high ceilings, artful displays and QUALITY CLOTHES. Nothing is falling apart, everything is clean and EVERYTHING passes the sniff test. There is nothing worst than having a fabulous vintage find that reeks of old despite many washes. We found Vivienne Westwood, Comme des Garçons, Yoshi Yamamoto, an entire vitrine of 90s Swatch watches (Maya swears they had one she rocked for several years), racks of Converse, and tons of great furniture and home decor. Maya snagged a late 50s silk dress suit with a velvet collar (hello, Joan) and I picked up a brilliant blue mid-century wool blanket probably from the French Navy, with an anchor woven into each corner. I was trying to be good otherwise I'd have probably bought about 25 more things.
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It was announced from Kensington Palace that Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge is currently knocked up with her third child.
Question…am I the only one that immediately pictures a couple having sex when they announce baby news, thus making the announcement kind of gross and awkward? Just wondering amongst friends. Anyways….
Her Royal Highness is once again throwing up non-stop and is unable to carry on her royal duties of looking pretty and pretending to be interested in other people's problems. I do admire her though, she has already done what was expected of her by producing an heir and a spare. She had struggled with this extreme morning sickness during her last two pregnancies and if I was her, I would have screamed at my husband to never touch me again.
I have taken the liberty and named William and Kate's new baby for them. I believe that it will be another girl. Prince George, future King, is destined to be the only boy in that family. The bookies are saying that her name will be Alice. I don't like Alice. Every time I hear that name, I think about a little girl tripping on acid and falling down a rabbit hole after chasing a rabies infected bunny.
Royal babies are usually named after other royals and I think they should name the baby after some royals that never get much love. Like their distant, they have to be related somehow, cousin, Marie Antoinette. Or how about Mary Tudor. No? We shouldn't name the princess after the "let them eat cake" guillotine queen or Bloody Mary? Fine.
On the odd chance that it is a boy, he should be called Philip Arthur James. Since we have already established that it will be a girl, her name shall be Alexandra Victoria Frances. You're welcome.
In other royal news, what in the name of Sarah Ferguson is this?
Since when does a royal girlfriend get the cover of Vanity Fair? Isn't that against every royal rule? Aren't you suppose to keep your mouth shut until you are officially an HRH?
Duchess Kate kept her mouth shut for 10 years! It wasn't until the engagement interview that we finally heard Kate's posher than my future king husband's voice. So, just go back to Canada you silly American.
Further analysis of the cover leaves us with two possible meanings .
1). A royal engagement could come at anytime. Most likely in December thus leaving an opening for a June wedding. Followed by a spring baby. Girl is 36 and this job requires her to pop out two babies. There would be no time for waiting around.
2). This could also mean that the relationship is coming to a close. Meghan Markle was a D-list actress on a D-list show. No one had heard about her until she started dating the world's most eligible bachelor, the last good looking Prince in the only Royal Family that matters. She was the world's most googled actress of 2016 and no one had heard her name until November. Think about that, in two months she became the world's most googled actress, all thanks to the ginger prince. She has been given such an opportunity and good for her for milking it, especially if she sees the end is near.
I like most people believe that option #1 is the most likely scenario and I am fully expecting to write a royal engagement post sooner rather than later.
The "establishment", whoever they are, are apparently not happy about this at all. They say Ms. Meghan spells the end of the monarchy. I say that the monarchy has survived a king giving up his throne to marry some chick from Baltimore, that one time Queen Victoria decided not to be Queen for two decades, and of course when Fergie sucked on that one guy's toe. I think they can survive Meghan Markle, she's very pretty, well educated (she is a graduate of Northwestern University), and she knows her own mind.
My favorite part of this story is that she is an American. And not one of those Americans that grew up on the east coast, going to the best boarding schools, spending summers in the Hamptons and winters in Palm Beach, basically pretending that they were an aristocrat like Jackie O. or Princess Grace. No, Meghan grew up in Los Angeles, so she is super American. Like stealing a golf cart and driving barefoot, popping bubble gum bubbles up the corridors of Buckingham Palace American.
I will say though that if Harry wants an American, he should just marry me. I am violently American. I would bring those buck tooth royals to their knees with shock and awe and they would love every second of it.
Anywho good luck with everything guys! Babies and all!


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We were commissioned last year to design the book and exhibition for Basquiat: Boom for Real, which is set to open at the Barbican Art Gallery this September. We've been busy over the past months researching Basquiat's life and career, and working on our designs.
Our approach references certain visual and material qualities within Basquiat's work in an understated way, allowing the frenetic energy and immediacy of his artworks to take centre stage. The images to the right display some of these qualities. The proportion and scale of his graffiti writing (shown above in a still from the film Downtown '81) influenced our choice of type for titles throughout the show; we've also been looking at Basquiat's roughly-finished frames and use of found materials, which can be seen below in a photo of his exhibition at the Centre Culturel Français, Ivory Coast (1986).
The exhibition, for which we are collaborating with Carmody Groarke, opens on 21 September.


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Zee Media Bureau
Gauchar: After taking an overnight halt here, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday reached Guptkashi.
The Congress vice president visited the Char Dham air base and spoke to pilots and relatives of Uttarakhand floods victims.
Rahul Gandhi visited Gauchar, where he remained stuck till this morning due to bad weather, after he reached flood-ravaged Uttarakhand on Monday. He is expected to fly to Kedarnath, some reports said.
Rahul Gandhi`s Uttarakhand visit came amid criticism from the opposition for his absence from flood and landslide-hit Uttarakhand. Heavy rains pounded the hill state on June 16 triggering the disaster which has killed more than 600 people.
Rahul monitored the relief work being done by the party during his visit.
At the Congress briefing in Delhi, party spokesperson Renuka Chowdhary on Monday ducked the question on the number of days the Congress leader will stay in Uttarakhand, saying it is immaterial.
Congress has set up a control room at Dehradun to accelerate the relief work. Congress secretary Sanjay Kapoor and the party`s Seva Dal chief Mahendra Joshi have already been sent to Dehradun to monitor the work.


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You can learn a lot just by hanging around and keeping your eyes and ears open. At least that's been my experience.
I joined what was then Jacobs, Jacobs and Grudberg [with or without the PC, I'm not quite sure] in 1976. I had just finished two years with the US Attorneys Office in New Haven which I'd joined after a number of years as a Public Defender in Washington, DC. Before that I'd worked with Legal Services, first in Florida and then in Washington.
I'd grown up in Stony Creek before the infusion of lawyers, doctors and architects and, after college, lived away for more than a decade. Growing up, I didn't know from lawyers. No one in my family was one, knew one, or, as they would say, Thank God, ever needed one. The only lawyer I ever knew about was "that guy Jacobs in New Haven. You go to him if you're in trouble."
And so, when I got the chance to work for Jacobs, Jacobs and Grudberg, I grabbed it. The only firm I ever knew--real lawyers who went to court and did real lawyer stuff--wanted to hire me. Here was an opportunity to learn from and work with real pros. You just don't turn that down.
It's worked out well. I have learned a lot. And not just law. I learned about kvelling. That's Yiddish, I'm told, for glowing with pride, particularly at the success of others. [This was something the nuns at St. Therese who taught the public school kids in the church basement on Thursday afternoons had not discovered within the covers of The Baltimore Catechism.]
Kvelling is a wonderful, satisfying sensation. It is, however, for the most part, unavailable to the young. It's something you have to grow into. Parents know it. They know it when they recognize their child's accomplishments. Not the good grades or the athletic feats; but rather the development of character traits and values, signs that we've done our job well.
I learned about kvelling first when I came to this firm and the senior lawyers enjoyed--really enjoyed and took pride in-- the modest successes of a young lawyer. Howard, Ira and Stanley then, all acknowledged in a very paternal way, whenever I or any of us young lawyers did something well. It was never a direct compliment. No, not that. But it didn't have to be. It was more like, "Judge X, was saying nice things about you", or, "That was a good result". You felt their pride in what you had done. And you savored their approval.
Now that I'm a good bit older I know that the only thing better than being on the receiving end is being the one who kvells. [Yes, Sister Mary Agnes, I'm actually kvelling. I explain it to you later.] I've had no shortage of opportunities to do so here in our firm. I suspect other firms are similar. It is such a genuine thrill to watch young lawyers develop. You watch as their knowledge becomes skill and, then, best of all, skill grows into judgment. You watch them learn from their mistakes. Learn that silence is often better than speaking. That deflection is sometimes better than confrontation. That understanding the other person's perspective can be the key to resolving problems.
We've had, over the years, any number of people--lawyers and staff-- who have given us the opportunity to kvell. We enjoy their successes as they grow from young people into mature adults. They have families. They become responsible citizens. They tackle problems in their personal lives and deal with them maturely and rationally.
As for the lawyers, there's nothing better than watching their professional growth. You watch them become more confident. You see them gain the respect of their clients, their adversaries and the judges before whom they practice. Our firm, like many, has been blessed in this way. Some have moved on and we enjoy believing we have influenced them in their careers.
The ones who are here, of course, we enjoy the most. For them we can kvell on a daily basis. They raise the level of what we do and often we have to strive to keep up. Their successes are really our successes. We react to them with great pride. Our pride is based, at least in part, on our belief that we have actually had something to do with who they are and what they accomplish.
We are, as they say, entitled.


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Video – Putin just presented a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile with "almost unlimited range" due to on-board nuclear reactor
During his annual Federal Assembly, Putin presented two new warhead delivery systems, and polished up an older one as well. The first one, above, has yet to be named, but according to Vlad, it's a game changer.
"Putin then went on to weapons systems that were not previously known to the public. One is a yet-to-be-named cruise missile with an almost unlimited range. This is achieved thanks to a highly-efficient on-board miniaturized nuclear reactor, which powers the flight. Such a missile can fly low enough to avoid early detection, can change course to avoid enemy anti-missile assets along its path, and maneuver to pierce the anti-missile systems protecting its target. According to Putin, Russia successfully tested a nuclear-propelled cruise missile at the end of 2017."
That's right, a nuclear reactor aboard a cruise missile capable of delivering nuclear warheads.
Then there's the "Avangard":
"Another weapon that is being developed, but which was not shown being tested because its appearance is classified, according to Putin, is a hypersonic glider warhead deployed from space. Russia first tested one back in 2004 and has made significant progress since, the president said. The glider can fly in the atmosphere at speeds of over Mach-20 and can withstand a heat of up to 2,000C (3,632F) generated by air fiction."
And for old times sake, the "Sarmat" or RS-28 has been remastered and rerouted:
"One system is the new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) called Sarmat, or RS-28. It's already well-known, but Putin stressed that its increased range allows the missile to reach US territory from Russia via a South Pole route. The US has dozens of interceptor missiles deployed in Alaska on the presumption that Russia's ICBMs would approach from that direction, which would not be the case with Sarmat."
Well, if all this is actually true, Putin's big red button just got a whole lot bigger.


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An Odd Family
by Berni Dymet
Mark 3:33 And he replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"
There was a time when Jesus was out preaching and surrounded by crowds - as He often was - and someone said to Him, your mother and your brothers are outside. And he looked around and said "who are my mother, who are my brothers" - and He pointed to the people that were with Him and said "Here they are - anyone who does my Father's will is my mother and my brother and my sister."
What an odd response….but you know Jesus saw things so differently. He saw things - and still does - through the eyes of God. And my hunch is that what He's really on about with that odd response is making this point - that when we commit our lives to Him, to follow Him, to do His Father's will - then we're family.
I feel so inadequate some days - but I just take one step after the other and do my best to do His will. And it seems - well, so ordinary.
And then Jesus comes along amidst this mundane ordinariness of life, taps you on the shoulder and whispers "you - you're family".
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I'm voting for Cassandra Sage for Lake Washington School District (LWSD) board. I've witnessed her dedication in PTSA. I've had conversations with Cassandra about making sure that EVERY student regardless of race, gender or socio-economics is worthy of a top-notch education. She knows this happens through great public schools, both conventional and choice schools in LWSD.
Our students would be in good hands with Cassandra on the board!
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UncleSash replied to Lucky1's topic in XDMD - DMD Display Libraryhey guys... here is Sascha. I designed the V1 and V2 Shields for the Pin2DMD Setup. PinballSP just covered everything (but he makes a real good job and made it on one pcb with smd comp.). There is a new V3 Shield on the market right now. With WiFi functions, Seriell OUT (to trigger events over smart DMD function), REAL Pinball DMD Input Signal enhancer, GO-DMD function (check http://www.go.dmd.de ), flat design to hook directly to a P2.5 DMD 128x32 pixel (allmost the same size like an original DMD). and a nice discount for the next 7 Orders (and anyways cheaper as the german V3 Shield). The most parts on the Shield are bougth in the USA (everything except the PinHeaders, and GO-DMD Sensors). PCB is made in China, with a great Quality (sorry, but prototyping in the US is to expensive, I wish that the boards would be made here). here is the link to my Order Thread: http://vpuniverse.com/forums/forums/topic/2250-pin2dmd-order-thread-worldwide/ regards Sascha aka UncleSash FB: http://www.facebook.com/UncleSash <- check it out for some nice PCB stuff
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Ann Kelly grew up near the sea on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, where she was born. She went to the Laird School of Art and also Liverpool College of Art and Design. She subsequently taught children and adults painting, print making, ceramics and sculpture.
Ann lives in the Cotswolds where she is a member of the Fosseway Artists' Group. She paints all over the UK as well as in France and the USA.
She visits Cornwall regularly to paint for The Harbour Gallery, drawn and inspired by the quality of the light and vast expanses of sea and sky as well as by the buildings that cluster the harbourside villages of the county.
Her oil paintings are held in private collections around the UK as well as in Japan, France, the Netherlands and Australia.


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The Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. Prov. 12:22
by Toni Birdsong
Let's just call it what it is: cajolery, flattery, smooth talk, snowing, buttering up, or just good ol' brown nosing. The truth remains that insincerity (however unintentional) is part of the verbal currency of the digital landscape. And while flattering words can win you friends and fans online, this kind of daily digital banter can be risky business for a Christ follower.
While exaggeration has been part of social hierarchies since the beginning of time, it paints a spiritually destructive layer of duplicity over our hearts. It's often easy to rationalize the amplification of the truth but, by definition, exaggeration really is lying . . .


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I've just checked in at Academica.edu and was alerted to this article:
Stephen G. Nichols, Mutable Stability, a Medieval Paradox: The Case of Le Roman de la Rose, Queste 23 (2016) 2, pp. 71-103.
I've not yet read it, but a quick skim makes it clear that it speaks to a current debate in cultural evolution concerning the high-fidelity transmission of "memes" (Dan Dennett) vs. the variable transmission of objects as guided by "factors of attraction" (Dan Sperber). I've not yet read it, but here's some tell-tale passages. This is from the beginning (p. 71):
Yet even those who argue, to the contrary, that 'transmission errors' often represent creative 'participation' by a talented scribe, must recognize the attraction of a stable work.After all, despite an extraordinary record of innovation, invention, and discovery, the Middle Ages are an era that resisted change in and for itself. And yet this same veneration of conservative values underlies a fascinating paradox of medieval culture: its delicate and seemingly contradictory balance between stability, on the one hand, and transformation, on the other. It may be that only an era that saw no contradiction in promulgating an omnipotent, unchanging divinity, which was at the same time a dynamic principle of construction and transformation, could have managed the paradox of what I want to call 'mutable stability'.
Here's Dawkins in the 2nd chapter of The Selfish Gene:
Darwin's 'survival of the fittest' is really a special case of a more general law of survival of the stable. The universe is populated by stable things. A stable thing is a collection of atoms that is permanent enough or common enough to deserve a name. It may be a unique collection of atoms, such as the Matterhorn, that lasts long enough to be worth naming. Or it may be a class of entities, such as rain drops, that come into existence at a sufficiently high rate to deserve a collective name, even if any one of them is short-lived. The things that we see around us, and which we think of as needing explanation–rocks, galaxies, ocean waves–are all, to a greater or lesser extent, stable patterns of atoms.
Back to Nichols, a bit later in the article (p. 77):
In this case, however, it's one that allows us to understand the paradox of medieval narrative forms whose 'stability' over time – in some cases over several centuries – depends on what I call the generative – or regenerative – force of transmission. Why 'regenerative' if transmission involves reproducing the 'same' work from one representation to another? The answer to that question involves recognizing the complex forces at play in the transmission of me- dieval texts, beginning with concepts like 'the same' and 'seeing' or 'perspective'. After all, in a culture where the technology of transmission depends on copying each text by hand, what the scribe sees, or thinks she or he sees, must be factored into our definition of 'sameness' when comparing original and copy.
In the event, 'sameness', for the medieval mind had a very different connotation from our modern senses of the term. Indeed, it even involves a different process of perception and imagination. Whereas in our age of mechanical and digital reproduction, we are used to standards of 'exactness' for things we recognize as identical, me- dieval people had neither the means nor the expectation to make 'same' and 'exact imitation' synonymous. Indeed, one may even question the existence at that time of such a concept as 'exact imitation', at least as we understand it.
Here's the concluding paragraph (p. 100):
Yet, at the end of the day, is this the whole story? Is it really the case that we're forced to choose between a concept of the work 'as somehow above or beyond any manifestation of it', and 'the work-that-has-its-being in a given manuscript version?' I think not. After all, for a work to manifest what I've called 'generative force' sufficient to motivate a transmission history lasting well over two centuries and running to hundreds of manuscript versions, it must also generate in its readers a very strong 'hyper-concept'. If, as noted above, that is matter for a different theoretical study, we can at least see that the starting point of the inquiry – and the ending point for this article – lies in contemplating the tensile strength of literary form. Poetic structure in the manuscript age is dynamic; it constantly accommodates the stress of modification without losing its ability to adjust to load changes or to suffer any reduction in performance or loss of identity. That is the basis for the medieval paradox I call 'mutable stability'.
And here's something from the very end labeled "Summary", but it seems like what I'm used to called an abstract (p. 100):
The medieval codex fostered textual mutability as opposed to the 'fixed text' made possible by print.Yet, the Middle Ages resisted change in and for itself.This paper ex- plores the delicate balance between stability, on the one hand, and transformation, on the other in medieval vernacular literature. Only a culture that saw no contradiction in promulgating an omnipotent, unchanging divinity, which was at the same time a dy- namic principle of construction and transformation could have managed the paradox of 'mutable stability'. While this principle operates in a number of domains – not least in the myriad art forms known as 'Romanesque' – this paper focuses on manuscript transmission of vernacular literature. In particular, it examines the concepts of 'sameness' and 'resemblance' that shaped the concepts of vision in the Roman de la Rose, and thus manuscripts transmission. Using the idea of generative or regenerative transfor- mation of the text, the paper illustrates a basic principle of stability, namely,'the ability of an object to adjust to load changes without any reduction in performance'.


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The Archbishop of Adelaide has been sentenced to 12 months imprisonment after his conviction in May of failing to report allegations of child sexual abuse.
Archbishop Philip Wilson will likely serve the sentence under house arrest, and a judge is likely to confirm this arrangement at a hearing on August 14.
Wilson has not resigned as archbishop, but Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Greg O'Kelly as Apostolic Administrator of the archdiocese, giving him day-to-day leadership responsibility.
The archbishop was convicted of concealing child sexual abuse committed by a parish priest in the 1970s. Two abuse victims said they had confided in him, but he refused to report the abuse to the authorities.
The priest, Fr James Fletcher, was convicted in 2006 and died in jail.


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Friday, December 10, 2010
You better not pout...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
The Front Porch...
dreams, hopes and fears
endless hours I have spent
laughing and shedding tears
The rocking chair stands still
hiding in plain sight
waiting for a companion
to join it through the night
Seeking out laughter and fun
offering good advice
watching children run
giggling and chasing fire flies
The goals of a young boy
the angst of a teen
reflections of a man
how long ago it all seems
Sharing a moment alone
like looking through the glass
at a world that passes by
moving way to fast
A world within a world
where a boy could be king
over lands far away
free from everything
A small breeze passes through
sharing the scents of the night
as I close my weary eyes
listening to the last few cars drive by
The visitors come and go
creating memories for my past
as I sit on the front porch
alone with my thoughts at last
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Vintage Airplane Shoot...
Friday, June 25, 2010
My new pretties...
I just adore Holly's earrings that she makes from vintage looking findings and old jewelry. I am now the proud owner of 6 pairs. I always get so many compliments when I wear them. They make me feel so pretty. (I can use all the help I can get!)
Holly is such a sweet and generous lady!
Here's a link to her Artfire site Behind The Times.
Here's my other pairs that I already own... I'm thinking I need some purple pretties next.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Vintage Feature
My beautiful and talented daughter Autumn Rose was featured on a vintage style dress maker's blog today. Check it out!
And here is some more of her work in an aol news piece. Her friend Eak was featured in this article and used Autumn's photos of him. He's been to my house before...a very nice fellow.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Photo Collecting...
There are people who will dig for hours on end at antique shops and flea markets for the perfect photo for their collection. My daughter is one of them. She has several different collections going on. I know a few of them are "Sailors from World War II" and "Old carnival/circus photos." We both share a love for old photographs. She's always so excited when she finds a new treasure for her collection and can't wait to share them with me.
Can you figure out what these photos may have in common for a collection.
Have a great weekend!
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Summer Mantel
We honor the seasons at our house as part of our Native American culture. Also because we love nature and it just feels right to honor the gifts that the Great Father has given us in way of animals, the trees and plants, the changing seasons.
One way we embrace the changing seasons is to decorate the mantel.
This summer I've used sunflowers, lemons, a honeycomb, rocks and crystals, peacock feathers, sage and a smudging shell and lots of candles in gold, red and orange.
Some handmade items:
The sun medallion that Noah made (I adore that!) I've also added the gourd bowl I made a few years ago. I left the painting of my mom hanging that Autumn painted. We'll just call her "Mother Earth" for now:)
This weekend we'll have a bonfire in the back yard after the Pow Wow. We'll honor Dad with a prayer. (for Father's Day) we'll also do a Birthday blessing for Kevin. We'll roast marshmallows (just cause they're good!)
I'm also coming up with a strawberry dessert for the Solstice. The Ojibwa use the full moons to mark the months of the year. The month of June is Ode' imini-giizis meaning Strawberry Moon. So I'm thinking Strawberries are perfect! The Summer Solstice is also known as The Rising Day to the Ojibwa. It is a time of renewal, sacred ceremonies, a time to pray for healing medicines, good crops and good harvests.
Hopefully Noah and I will take a nice long quiet walk in the woods on Monday to refresh our souls.
I'd love to hear if you have any plans to celebrate the Summer Solstice!


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Hi Pipcrawler
I received your thread but I don't have enough postings to send you an email. However I have added you to my contacts if that is alright.
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Hi Pipcrawler, I was quite surprise when I read from this site daytradingforexlive that the forex market is manipulated by the banks, what are your thoughts on this?
yeah I'm interested in hearing about that as well
sometimes it will manipulate when have news or Central bank intervention… Like Japan …BOJ
Good advice here:
My Advice to all newbie: Start small( small lot sizes), walk first(increasing lot and account size while tuning your trading system)…then run( first mini or standard account and for the first years stick to a max of 0.5 lot)
This is my first response in the forum. I believe the philosophy of Ronald Reagan which stated, "Trust but verify." I believe this is true for many things including my child's story as to why the lamp broke… but also applies to trading.
I think a newbie´s real focus should be on discipline. Discipline is not just the skill to develop a trading plan and to adhere with it, it is also the strong mindset to know when your strategy is not showing the results that you desire and therefore, knowing when to stop employ it in your trading.
Discipline also entails the capability to give your trading plan enough time to work for you, or alternatively, work against you.
Discipline is the ability to take another trading position, after you have taken a loss. Discipline is the involves ignoring external information and distractions which are not related to the system you are utilizing.
Discipline covers being aware of using a correct position size, according to your plan. Distinguish a balance in the amount of trades you enter to avoid over trading.
A consistent discipline requires a full 100% understanding and knowledge about your plan, whether you are implementing a discretionary or automated trading system.
Most importantly, discipline is the ability to return to the market, regardless of yesterday results.
Thanks for the information.This can be challenge to all of us to improve their determination in life.
Hi traders. I started on my demo with FXCM in Sep.'12 with a 50$ initial sum.
There is a lot to learn: oscillators, trading approaches, chart patterns, averages,
Bollinger Bands… etc. etc. I have been doing a lot of reading and practising,
specialising in the EUR/USD pair. I am sure I am doing all the right things, e.g.
losing more money than earning it (typical learner mistakes, including getting to
grips with the trading station): about $11k lost in the first eight months, and $6k
regained in the last three weeks. I seem to have found a better approach in the last
month… I have a journal, and am becoming more organised with goals and strategies.
Knowing the best trading style that works for me is a journey that has taken nine months
and is finally starting to come into focus. I have a f/t day job and work extra hours some days,
so it has taken a while to find a way to balance my trading practice with the rest. I trade a lot
from my mobile 'phone and that too takes a skill separate than accessing a full-screen computer.
My plan is to re-gain my initial quota ($50k) and then open a $1k demo account to practise nano-trading,
as that ($1k) is the amount I hope to invest if/when I decide to go live (no rush).
My main reason to use Forex would be to gain small but consistent profits over a period of time on
the initial deposit - it beats the meagre returns offered by most bank accounts.
I am very happy with putting the time into it, and Babypips' "School" has helped a lot, and still does;
I am also on mailing lists from DailyFX.com, following mainly John Kicklighter and Ilya Spivak, followed
by all the others (David Song, Chris Vecchio, Michael Boutros, etc.)… My average daily study and trading
time is at least two hours - sometimes more - as that is the time I need to prepare, watch, open/close positions,
and take notes, including reading up on fundamentals and events commentary.
Thank you for listening.
Hello guys,
Well, discipline is good. But the biggest enemy of newbie trader are Emotions! And it does not matter how good your discipline is, your emotions will dominate. For me it is the biggest problem. I enter late or early, I close trades earlier or too late. I know about trading system I use, I know about rules, but anyway…
Depends on how attached you are to the money you use to trade with. If it's too important to you, your judgment will become clouded. Being emotional about the money will create pressure. losing a bit now and then shouldn't be treated as a disaster, even if it persists a little bit longer then you are comfortable with. It's all about sticking with it.
I agree with Katerina, and with Andrew: emotions cloud judgment… That is what being human entails, though, so unless you use automated systems, you will have to control when to open a trade or not, and when to close it…
But some trading styles definitely encourage emotional trading: if you are into scalping, for example, you will have more
opportunities to experience a heightened state (thrill seeking) than, for example, position trading or day/intra-day trading… I am moving into the latter just because I know that scalping is the way to kill my (demo) account, and to
over-trade, or to make decisions in haste: by standing back, looking at longer time frames (Day/Month/Week charts),
I can see the bigger picture, the fundamental themes, and let my heart rate not jump up when I finally open a trade - nor do I need to keep checking the screen every minute of the day…
the pipcrawler technical method is what i use…
Thanks for this thread guys, very useful to newbs like myself, and a good point of departure for other research. you've all given me at least one thing to go and explore further now.
Thanks again!
Very nice information mate. It's all about learning and controlling emotions and greed.
When you lift weights, your goal is to wear out the fibers in your muscle, signaling to your body that the muscle has inadequate power and needs to be added to. You huff and puff your way through a bunch of tough and painful repetitions to get to that point of exhaustion. The last rep is the most important.
BUT it takes discipline to push through the pain and the feedback from your body saying I"M TAPPING OUT STOP RIGHT NOW! Your body is sending you signals, but your understanding and knowledge of how to grow muscle makes you comfortable to ignore those signals and achieve your goal.
Trading is the same thing, except your pain is mental, and fear and anxiety are "the burn". Know that these are proper defense mechanisms which are triggering to get keep you safe from risk. It is your proper understanding and knowledge of how to grow the money in your account that makes you comfortable to IGNORE these signals and achieve your goals.
-Bo Yoder
hello all , i like all comments and idea , its awesome .
90% of trading is influenced by emotions… So if we take emotions out of the equation, anybody can become a successful trader…
I agree with what your saying but i use fxpremiere group forex signals and it works for me. Success in anything, especially trading is the same thing. You've got to learn, practice, and make the efforts to improve. And the reason why I compare trading to these different fields is because I see it as an art - where its not an exact science and every moment is different. Micheal Jordan didn't play against the same 5 guys his whole career, nor had the same teammates. Every song Miles Davis played didn't have the same chord progression or melody. And every patient in some way or another is different than every other patient a doctor may see in their career.
This is why it is important to learn and master the fundamental skills of trading. Learning and mastering the fundamentals will help you create a plan that you understand and works for you, and it will help prepare you to quickly react and adjust to the infinite amount of situations the market will throw at you. And it doesn't matter what your style of trading is (whether it's discretionary, systems, fundamental, technical analysis), the environment is constantly changing and you WILL have to make adjustments to your system or methods periodically.
Thanks a lot for this post im a newbie and this helps a lot my background is Economics/Mathematics and this is all new to me so im taking all the advice I possibly CAN thanks again
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Interest in Data Center Markup Language (DCML) seems to have fizzled. Does it still have a future or is it just another overhyped industry standard ultimately doomed to obscurity?
Back in early 2004, Data Center Markup Language (DCML) was all the rage. Industry press predicted DCML would revolutionize data center management by providing a tool to manage data center chaos. Since then, there has been little news about DCML. Is there really something to it, or is DCML just another overhyped industry standard ultimately doomed to obscurity?
Origins of DCML
DCML got its start when a group of vendors, including Plano, Texas-based Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) and Opsware Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif., tackled the longstanding problem of managing data center environments along with automatic server provisioning.
"We came up with the assumption that it probably made sense to have a standard way in which elements are managed in the environment," said Darrel Thomas, chief technologist of hosting services at EDS.
The group put together a set of papers and strategy documents; then, it began talking to various industry leaders, ultimately deciding to create a 501C nonprofit organization to foster the standard's development. The resulting DCML Organization released draft 1.0 of the framework specification May 24, 2004, before moving the standard to OASIS last summer. The group's sponsoring members currently include EDS, Opsware, Tibco Software Inc., Computer Associates International Inc. and BEA Systems Inc., among others.
"The concept was to take knowledge developed at the element level, add a thin layer or import a layer of intelligence between elements, then make that kind of the grammar for a standardized way to look at configurations in IT environments," Thomas said.
DCML's strengths and weaknesses
Nearly everyone agrees that DCML fulfills, or at least attempts to fulfill, a critical market need.
"With growing interest in utility computing and varying vendor applications of that concept, there was a need to create some operating standards for how various technologies could fit together," said Jeff Kaplan, a former industry analyst and founder of IT consulting firm THINKstrategies.
Thomas hopes DCML will ultimately bring a number of different benefits, including enabling automation and providing a level of inherent business continuity. Being able to understand blueprints in an environment would allow companies moving to another facility or carrying data across a data center to rapidly reconfigure a catastrophic environment without mass upheaval, he explained. Previously, most means of accomplishing this involved falling back on proprietary software.
"Establishing certain industry-accepted standards closes the gaps between various proprietary implementations," Kaplan said.
However, not everyone believes DCML is up to the task it sets out to tackle. Charles Betz, a prominent technical consultant in Minneapolis, and publisher of the erp4it weblog (www.erp4it.com), thinks DCML means well but may be fatally flawed in its structure.
"They are attempting a metamodel using Semantic Web standards that are not baked yet, are impenetrable by mere mortals and are not supported by any talent pool or serious production technology," he said. "For a basic information model challenge like DCML bounded by the walls of an enterprise's data center, it is complete overkill."
Where DCML is headed
For believers, DCML's biggest challenge is clear. While the standard has several prominent vendors behind it, DCML has yet to garner support from the largest names in the data center space. For example, companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft and Cisco Systems Inc., among others, are noticeably absent.
Betz said he believes larger companies may be biding their time while the market is still so immature, and they may not see DCML and related efforts as a revenue builder. Additionally, he forecasts DCML will eventually face competition from another source.
"I think it's much more likely that the OMG/DMTF [Object Management Group/Distributed Management Task Force] alliance will succeed, or perhaps some purely proprietary play by IBM or HP," Betz said. "Another possibility is the proliferation of built-for-purpose XML schemas requiring point-to-point mapping."
Kaplan chalks up the absence of large vendors to politics. "It's obvious this effort was being led by EDS, which was a competitive disadvantage to IBM and HP," he said. Kaplan predicts the standard will remain stagnant until more companies come on board and until the DCML work group begins to pump out frameworks that will demonstrate changeable value.
According to Thomas, EDS and DCML's other backers are currently focused on recruiting additional member companies and getting the word out about DCML, as well as creating and remapping collateral and presentation material. Thomas said he believes these efforts will soon start to resolve the problem of large vendor participation. He predicts consumers will compel companies to support the specification, and he expects to see DCML introduced to product sets by early next year or mid-quarter next year.
"The process framework strategy is a good one. It relates DCML usage to line of sight and to the holistic level of customers' existing environments," he said. "Any big company trying to standardize its environment is going to be innately interested."


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