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In 1710, George Berkeley published Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, in which he argued that everything that exists is just perceptions in the mind of God. The Principles made quite a splash, though were not taken very seriously. Some years later, when asked his opinion on Berkeley's theory, Samuel Johnson is reputed to have declaimed 'I refute it thus' and kicked a large stone at the side of the path.
Berkeley is sometimes credited as the founder of what in philosophy is known as idealism[1], a group of ontological positions which hold that there is no such thing as 'matter' (physical, or mind-independent, substance). As such, the ontological claims of idealism have usually been received with Johnson's derision, whatever respect has been paid to their arguments (and in some cases the respect is substantial; Kant and Hegel, for example, are both idealists).
This scorn has much to do with the dominance of the opposing view. Materialism, the ontological position that there is such a thing as matter (or more recently, that there is only matter), is the prevailing ideology of global-capitalist/anglo- or euro-centric/'western' culture. It is materialists, generally, who write our histories of ideas and who set the terms under which they are taught.
And this is important, because the contention between idealist and materialist is not really so ephemeral or absurd as it seems. Materialist histories frame the issue as one of obscure metaphysical curiosity, but the debate about what exists serves, and always has, as a proxy for a debate about what has value.
Berkeley himself understood his idealism to be fundamentally political. A cleric who would later become Bishop of Cloyne, he saw the turmoil of the seventeenth century as a result of the rise of mercantile and imperialist materialism[2]. For Berkeley, materialism placed matter between humans and God and interrupted our spiritual connection to the divine. Berkeley's project was to reassert God's immanent involvement in everything that happens or exists.
One need not buy into Berkeley's religion to understand the point, though. Idealism holds that value and worth depend for their existence on human (or human-like) experiences, thoughts and/or judgements. Material objects have no intrinsic value, and are only valuable insofar as they sustain valuable experiences. In this sense, idealism is potentially quite radical[3].
In video games, materialism becomes (what we tend to call) 'realism'. I'm not sure anyone has ever explicitly put it this way, but the thesis is roughly that, since it is material objects that have value, virtual objects can only have value to the extent that they are like material objects.
So a key element of video game materialism is simulation – specifically, I think, the simulation of space, time and physics. We see this in the specific cachet afforded to games with fully contiguous spaces ('metroidvanias', Dark Souls), games that 'take place in real time' (Majora's Mask, Lightning Returns) and games with detailed physics engines (Half Life, Portal and the many other children of Havok)[4].
There is something else, though, too, that is more difficult to pin down in words. If value is mind-independent, human-independent, then it cannot have the appearance of being man-made. So materialism in games also involves concealing the hand of the designer. For this reason, I prefer the term 'naturalism' to 'realism'.
Naturalism is the aspiration of any piece of art or media to seem 'found' rather than created. It is how we can debate the 'realism' of the visual effects representing Godzilla in a film, and the source of mysticism about the poetic muse. It's a particular vice among fantasy authors; we like to pretend that our stories are not crafted, that instead we merely document events in other realities, which arrive in our minds by transdimensional magic.
In games it is the dream of the virtual world that is a perfect, comprehensive equivalent of our own, constructed by algorithms that do more than a human designer ever could[5]. A lot of the excitement around No Man's Sky came from the suggestion it would generate a whole universe from a set of elegant, computable rules. Something similar underpinned Spore's hype, and contributes to the sense of infinite promise associated with Minecraft.
Discussion of naturalism – of realism-in-fantasy – usually crops up when someone is using 'realism' to excuse lazy, regressive or harmful worldbuilding; the infamous 'it wouldn't be realistic to have black people in The Witcher III'. This assertion is obviously nonsense, but it's not the only pernicious product of video game naturalism.
'Kinaesthetics' is a slightly controversial term, and 'gamefeel' much worse, but Dr Johnson's sore toe does suggest that, in some way, tangibility – the capacity to be (or seem to be) touched – is more important to our perception of materiality than visibility or appearance. One of the major reasons that mainstream games discourse fetishizes 'interactivity' so centrally is the sense of tactile contact that games (commonly) provide but other screenbound art forms (generally) do not.
Of course, we cannot literally touch virtual objects (in the sense of applying force to them with our bodies to stimulate pressure-sensitive nerves in our skin). But we do touch things as we play, and in response to that, virtual objects that we can see touch other virtual objects, and some very deep neural wiring involved in our ordinary hand-eye coordination is activated. The metaphor of touch is often useful to describe the phenomenal (experiential) effects of this process.
Software input/output loops which are not presented in such a way as to be interpreted as touch-centric often invite scorn for 'not really being games'. This is evident in the response to 'walking simulators', which generally deny the player any touching except through the out-of-sight-out-of-mind soles of their virtual feet. It was evident, too, in the 'excel spreadsheet' jokes I and many others used to make about football manager games; and it persists especially in criticisms of JRPGs for their heavy reliance on menus and statistics.
It's worth noting that our vocabulary for describing tactile sensation is not as rich nor as heavily theorised as our visual vocabulary. I struggle, as have many philosophers before me, to avoid my talk of perception slipping into talk exclusively of visual perception. So it isn't a surprise that the discussion of kinaesthetics has often been burdened with ill-defined use of words like 'sharp', 'precise', 'sluggish' or 'heavy'. We may each have some feeling about what these words mean, but they are frequently opaque without direct experiential context.
Still, because of the capacity to suggest tangibility, it might be thought that video games naturally favour materialism. Indeed, there's a very plausible argument that the emphasis placed on realism/naturalism in mainstream gaming has helped create the overwhelmingly conservative climate in the big-money parts of the industry and audience. But I don't think it has to be this way.
Precisely because of the kinaesthetic element, games are perhaps better-placed to challenge materialism than other screen-bound artforms. Games don't have to valorise simulation; they don't have to feel kinaesthetically 'right' or like our world. It's not just that we can experience different kinds of motion and physics, though this is valuable in its own right. Games can challenge our assumptions about the place of materiality in our value schemes.
'Dreamlike' isn't much better than 'sharp' or 'heavy' as a kinaesthetic term, but it was the best I could come up with when talking about Kingdom Hearts. It's not just the kinaesthetics – the game's wonderful opening movie is rife with the cinematic language of dream sequences, too – but they're a big part of why the game feels so ethereal.
In the interest of being specific, here's the things I identified as contributing to this feeling:
- How much time Sora spends with his feet off the ground. Jumping lasts a long time, and the amount of horizontal steering you can do while airborne has nothing to do with 'real-world' physics. To add to that, Sora will jump when you attack enemies that are over a certain height above the ground; the threshold for this is arbitrary and difficult to judge. It's easy to find yourself floating in an aerial combo almost without realising.
- Enemy movement. Many enemies in Kingdom Hearts evade damage by moving out of reach or range. This is true right from the very earliest heartless, whose gimmick is their ability to sink into the floor as shadows. This means that often you will reach for an enemy and find it not there. Amid the frenetic visual noise of combat, this can feel like your keyblade passes straight through an enemy's body.
- More specifically, the way the camera behaviour interacts with locking on to enemies. The camera follows the wild movements of targeted enemies pretty much one-to-one, so your perspective swings around a lot in ways you can't control. A lot of things you need to keep track of only happen in your peripheral vision, and you can't always direct visual attention to them when needed.
- The game's environments are generally small, and lead into one another in awkward, difficult-to-follow ways. It's very easy to get lost, or to feel like you've turned back on yourself but ended up in a different place from where you started. You couldn't build spaces like this; they'd collapse. They can exist only because they are not material, but virtual.
I leapt to understanding these phenomena as dreamlike, I think, because I don't have many other conventions to apply to a world and physics this different. There's nothing in Kingdom Hearts' narrative, though, to suggest that its events are to be understood as sleeping hallucinations. Sora never wakes up. The game's world is his world.
It might feel solipsistic, as so many games do, as if only Sora is real, the game's environments sustained purely for his experiencing. But Kingdom Hearts' story includes at least one character as real as Sora: Riku. Not for nothing are all the game's most compelling boss fights duels against Sora's closest friend.
Kingdom Hearts isn't really about Heartless, or Maleficent and the Disney Princesses, or even defeating Ansem(/Xemnas/Xehanort). Those are part of its iconography, they add meaning, but the heart of the game is the relationship between Sora and Riku. Everything that happens matters mainly because of how it affects the two boys' understanding of each other.
All the ways in which the world is made to feel intangible, insubstantial, materially impossible, serve to prioritise this emotional and social core. Yes, one can take an interest in other elements of the story, as subsequent games have done, but Kingdom Hearts itself lives and dies by how it engages you in Sora's effort to understand Riku, how their conflict, the slight desynchronisation of their goals as they begin to mature, moves you.
Idealists do not deny that the tangible, physical world exists; Doctor Johnson's sore toe proves nothing. Instead, for the idealist, the things we commonly take to be material exist only insofar as they facilitate relationships among human experiences.
It is not that there is no rock for Johnson to kick; the rock is the relationship between the brown, irregular shape you see and the stinging pain in the good doctor's toe. We use the expression and concept 'the rock' to communicate about the pain he felt; to explain how it came about, how it might be ameliorated, and crucially whether you can empathise with him over it.
Something similar can be said of scientific 'reality'. We (take ourselves to) know that atoms exist because they are the most effective way of relating many different experimental results. To the idealist, those experiments are ultimately experiences, and atoms are nothing over and above the explanatory relationship between those experiences.
If this seems trivial or silly, consider that exactly the same goes for 'big' concepts like justice. Justice is a concept we must agree on, that we must negotiate from a position of equality. Just as Dr Johnson may invoke the rock as an explanation for the pain in his toe, you may invoke injustice for the pain of how you have been treated by an organisation, culture or individual.
This appeal asks me to recognise not only the negative experience you have had but also your moral sense, your capacity to make judgements about your experiences. It asks me to acknowledge your humanity, your personhood.
A materialist treatment of justice (and here, to add another loaded word to the mix, 'materialist' starts to line up with 'essentialist') holds that justice – like the table – is a thing that exists independently of us, above us. It is not a thing we create and live, but a thing we discover.
And 'discoveries', of course, are more a matter of who gets to claim them than of who does the actual finding. So it is that Columbus could 'discover' the Americas, a landmass settled thousands of years earlier and even visited from Europe many times before him. To get credit for a discovery, you must have a platform of influence and power from which to make your claim.
You can see where I'm going with this. Materialism enables those with a platform to ignore or dismiss counterclaims, to bypass the process of negotiation that would otherwise humanise the marginalised. Appeals to 'nature', 'realism', 'objectivity' and so on all serve this purpose, to excuse the powerful from negotiating on even terms with the disempowered.
Kingdom Hearts shows one way that video games can challenge these assertions. Free of our-world physics, the game conveys thoroughly how intangible its objects are. Things matter only insofar as they matter to people.
[1] Like any history, the history of ideas is more complicated than this. Berkeley's is the first comprehensive, unequivocally idealist work of the modern period, but other things that might legitimately be called idealism predate him by up to a couple of millennia.
[2] The hypocrisy should not be overlooked, that this came from a man of noble birth who would rise to Bishop of an Anglican congregation in Ireland.
[3] Etymologically, the consonance of metaphysical idealism with political 'idealism' (naive optimism) is barely more than a coincidence, but it is not entirely inappropriate.
[4] None of these games draws its sole appeal from its approach to simulation, but the highlighted features are prominent in responses to and discussion of them.
[5] Of course, a human designer did achieve everything the algorithm achieves, by creating the algorithm, but naturalism insists or at least pretends otherwise.


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An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein, and Sheryl Sandberg.
Today's young women face a bewildering set of contradictions when it comes to beauty. They don't want to be Barbie dolls but, like generations of women before them, are told they must look like them. They're angry about the media's treatment of women but hungrily consume the very outlets that belittle them. They mock modern culture's absurd beauty ideal and make videos exposing Photoshopping tricks, but feel pressured to emulate the same images they criticize by posing with a "skinny arm." They understand that what they see isn't real but still download apps to airbrush their selfies. Yet these same young women are fierce fighters for the issues they care about. They are ready to fight back against their beauty-sick culture and create a different world for themselves, but they need a way forward.
In Beauty Sick, Dr. Renee Engeln, whose TEDx talk on beauty sickness has received more than 250,000 views, reveals the shocking consequences of our obsession with girls' appearance on their emotional and physical health and their wallets and ambitions, including depression, eating disorders, disruptions in cognitive processing, and lost money and time. Combining scientific studies with the voices of real women of all ages, she makes clear that to truly fulfill their potential, we must break free from cultural forces that feed destructive desires, attitudes, and words—from fat-shaming to denigrating commentary about other women. She provides inspiration and workable solutions to help girls and women overcome negative attitudes and embrace their whole selves, to transform their lives, claim the futures they deserve, and, ultimately, change their world.
- Imprint: Harper
- On Sale: 04/18/2017
- Trimsize: 6.00 in (w) x 9.00 in (h) x 1.25 in (d)
- Pages: 400
- List Price: 26.99 USD
- BISAC1: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
- BISAC5: PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health
- BISAC7: SELF-HELP / Eating Disorders & Body Image
"Girls learn that how they look is more important than who they are—the essential symptom of beauty sickness.' But Engeln doesn't stop at diagnosis: she offers the possibility of a cure." - Peggy Orenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex
"Her solid ideas...will help women think positively about themselves regardless of body shape. Thorough research and helpful personal stories effectively relay the dilemma that nearly all women face on a daily basis." - Kirkus Reviews
"[Beauty Sick] will blow the top off the body image movement…provocative and necessary." - Rebellious Magazine
"Renee Engeln...argues that our obsession with women's looks amounts to a society-wide psychological illness...The book indicts social and news media in helping to create beauty sickness by drawing on research and interviews with real-world girls and women." - Pacific Standard
"[P]rofessor Engeln's sharp examination of beauty sickness reveals its disturbing impact on women of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds...Engeln's writing is engaging and conversational...Engeln's book is thought provoking and will be fascinating for all readers, especially those interested in psychology, cultural studies, media, or gender studies." - Booklist (starred review)
"Inspiring." - -- PureWow
"Info-packed...highly readable..." - Elle
"Beauty Sick is the title of Engeln's new book, which has more than 350 pages of exhaustive research, interviews, and analysis into the set of contradictions that inform the reality of millions of women's lives." - The Times (London)


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How to troubleshoot Acrobat Reader installation in Windows?
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It's very common to face an error while downloading or installing Acrobat reader. Such kind of issues can be resolved in an easy way as you are required to follow the instructions which are provided over here with all the steps in it. By following the steps carefully, you can resolve the issues in a proper manner. In case you face some error while following the steps then there is one more option for you to resolve the issues in the form of Adobe Customer Care Phone Number where qualified experts will assist you in resolving the issues without any hassle.
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As it can be observed easily that there are plenty of ways to download the Acrobat Reader and you have to just follow the methods as they are given in the process. By following the process you will be able to handle the problem of downloading the software in different ways. In case you have some issues while following the process then there is another option to rectify the issue through Adobe tech support number where certified experts will assist you in resolving the issues in an easy way and without any hassle.


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Crystal Investment Property, LLC, a member of Hotel Brokers International, announced the successful sale of the Trollers Lodge in Depoe Bay, Oregon. Crystal Investment Property, LLC, a licensed Oregon broker, exclusively represented the Seller in the sale. Joseph P. Kennedy, President of CIP, worked closely with the Seller, Buyer and Buyer's Broker as well as the parties' other professionals, to negotiate a mutually acceptable sale. The final sale price is confidential.
The 12-key property is sited on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean in the Whale Watching Capital of the Oregon Coast and offers sweeping views of Depoe Bay and ocean from most of the guest accommodations. Adjacent to Highway 101 and walking distance to shops and restaurants, the hotel is well located to take advantage of the attractions in the surrounding town. The hotel offers an outstanding mix of rooms for a variety of guests as well several managed units offering full house rentals for larger groups. The new owner intends to complete some capital improvements including a renovation of the owners' quarters and possibly adding rooms.
Joseph Kennedy, President of Crystal Investment Property said, "Trollers Lodge is a unique and special lodging property which radiates pride of ownership throughout. We were pleased to have a strong level of interest during the period CIP marketed the hotel and we were especially pleased to find a strong, local Buyer who will continue the proud tradition of excellence in operations the Sellers have begun!"
Crystal Investment Property, a premiere hospitality investment advisory and brokerage company located in the Pacific Northwest, maintains the most cutting-edge technological, online and social media presence as well as a full range of traditional and web-based marketing reaching local, regional, national and international clientele. The firm's core services of hospitality asset acquisition/disposition are supported by innovative and creative solutions to maintain position as the most active and successful hotel broker in the region. Crystal Investment Property represents the full spectrum of hospitality real estate owners and their experience covers all hospitality assets types, including: full service hotels, boutique hotels, select service hotels, limited service hotels, as well as development projects, and leasehold transactions. Crystal Investment Property may be accessed online at www.crystalip.com.
Founded in 1959, Hotel Brokers International members lead the industry in hotel real estate sales. HBI hotel brokerage specialists have successfully negotiated more than 10,000 hotel real estate transactions and consistently account for the largest share of all select-service and economy hotel sales in the United States. The organization's database currently comprises more than 100 property listings and the HBI website attracts site visitors from around the world. Founder and host of the popular Hotel Investor's Marketplace Webcast, HBI also developed the Certified Hotel Broker professional designation program. In addition to hospitality real estate advisory services, HBI offers affiliate membership to professionals in allied fields, including franchising, lending, appraisals and investment services. For more information about HBI's hotel listings or to become a broker or affiliate member, visit www.hbihotels.com.
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On 22 March, 1981, RCA introduced a brand new but curiously retro analog video format, the SelectaVision CED VideoDisc system. Today the CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) is all but forgotten but even at its most popular it wasn't well-known and was much widely-adopted than contemporaneous video formats like Betamax, VHS, and LaserDiscs.
CED collection, Ron Treverton of Brantford, Canada (source: Personal Computer Museum)
Although doubtfully part of the plan, with the release of VideoDiscs RCA seemed to inadvertently anticipate the vinyl revival of the future by rejecting the use of lasers to read information (technology used by LDs and Compact Discs, which would be released commercially the following year) in favor of a stylus — a technology developed in the 1870s to play wax cylinders. The result was a format that was neither recordable (unlike magnetic tape formats) nor possessing of superior image quality (unlike LaserDiscs).
The reason the CED was so anachronistic was because the technology was originally conceived seventeen years earlier, in 1964. Back then, it represented in a significant increase in the recording density of vinyl LPs and was therefore a not insignificant technological advance. Unfortunately for the product's viability, behind-the-scenes bickering and other obstacles held up its release for the next decade and a half.
Sales of the "brand new, you're retro" format were bad from the get go. In
1986, after having lost a reported $600 million on the VideoDisc, RCA finally performed a mercy killing on the format.
Today when VideoDiscs are encountered, it's usually at thrift stores (hello Goodwill), yard sales, and occasionally on Amoeba Hollywood's mezzanine. That's where I first saw one — although I didn't know what it was. Artist Wayne Shellabarger had to educate me. If you don't see any VideoDiscs at Amoeba, it may because there are none in stock. However, ask at the information counter and you may be pleasantly surprised as they've been known not to make it to the sales floor.
19 April is Record Store Day and 7 September is Cassette Store Day but as far as I know, there's neither a holiday for videodisc stores nor has there ever been such a thing as a videodisc store. VideoDiscs are honored online with an appropriately retro-looking website, CED Magic. It's actually quite a thorough and loving look at the sometimes-maligned and even more often- forgotten video format. Happy hunting!
Eric Brightwell is an adventurer, writer, rambler, explorer, cartographer, and guerrilla gardener who is always seeking writing, speaking, traveling, and art opportunities — or salaried work. He is not interested in writing advertorials, clickbait, listicles, or other 21st century variations of spam. Brightwell's written work has appeared in Amoeblog, diaCRITICS, and KCET Departures. His work has been featured by the American Institute of Architects, the Architecture & Design Museum, the Craft & Folk Art Museum, Form Follows Function, Los Angeles County Store, Skid Row Housing Trust, and 1650 Gallery. Brightwell has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Magazine, LAist, Eastsider LA, Boing Boing, Los Angeles, I'm Yours, and on Notebook on Cities and Culture. He has been a guest speaker on KCRW's Which Way, LA? and at Emerson College. Art prints of his maps are available from 1650 Gallery and on other products from Cal31. He is currently writing a book about Los Angeles and you can follow him on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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Learn the basic elements of creating a 2D game using Scratch Programming, developed at MIT Lab. Learn to use sprites, set background images, add sounds and music, actions, think creatively, learn to reason, collaborate and work with others. This course is designed for students who want to learn to develop simple 2D game such as animated images, soccer game, maze and draw tool. The students will learn to add background sounds and music, special effects, text, add pictures, animated image, score, timer and more.
Level: Beginner.
Age: 10+.
- Computer Basic or equivalent
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Create simple games using Scratch Programming Language
- Add animation and special effects
- Add voice-overs and background music
- Share game with friends and family
Target Student
This course is designed for an students who wants to learn the following:
- Learn how to create game using Scratch Programming
- Learn to add animation and special effects in a game
- Learn to add voiceovers and background music
- Share games with friends and family
- Introduction to Scratch
- Installing Scratch
- Adding a sprite
- Controlling Sprite Movement (Right, Left, Up and Down)
- Using Sprite Library
- Adding Background Image
- Creating Animated Image
- Adding background Image
- Adding Sound to the character
- Adding Background music
- Creating Soccer Game
- Initialization Bouncing Ball
- Control Player with Keyboard
- Detecting Collision and Managing Score
- Detecting collision and Managing Live
- Creating a Maze
- Adding the Maze
- Adding A Reward
- Adding timer
- Creating Pen Tool Assumptions
The course assumes that the learner is familiar with basic computer skills.
- This course depends on the student's commitment to work in class and, if necessary, to work independently at his/her own time on project assigned to them that will require access to a computer.


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New Delhi, Alleging authorities bias in compiling the national register of citizens (NRC) in Assam, the CPI-M on Sunday accused the ruling BJP of "playing with emotive issues" in the state for electoral gains.
It said that the proposed amendment to the Citizenship Act on the basis of religious affinity of the people was "straining the already fragile unity of the people in Assam".
"Religious and linguistic minorities are under severe pressure due to incomplete and deliberate discrimination in the process of the updating of the national register of citizens (NRC) and the category of doubtful voters," the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said at the conclusion of its three-day Central Committee meeting wherein the issue was discussed.
"The unity of the people belonging to different religions, languages and ethnicity must be the foremost objective. Playing with emotive issues for electoral gains by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and RSS is worsening the situation," it said.
"The CPI-M opposes any amendment based on the religious affiliation of the people to determine their citizenship," it added.
On electoral reforms, the CPI-M reiterated its demand of scrapping the electoral bonds scheme.
The party said it would conduct a nationwide campaign and organize seminars/conventions/public meetings demanding urgent electoral reforms.
"This will include the propagation of the CPI-M stand for proportional representation with partial list system in the elections. This campaign will also highlight the need for making funding of political parties transparent and demand the withdrawal of the electoral bonds introduced by the Narendra Modi government as also the amendment made to the FCRA which is only legalizing political corruption," it said.
This campaign for electoral reforms will be conducted in the coming three months, it said.


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Have you ever thought about raising goats for milk, meat or just as a pet? I have had that dream for some time now. We have been making plans to purchase two Nigerian dwarf goats. I have never raised goats before and I did not want to jump into this project without doing thorough research on the subject of raising dairy goats. While looking into all the information online I came across the book titled, "How To Raise Goats Everything You Need To Know" By Carol Amundson. I immediately
I am so thrilled to tell you this book is very comprehensive in dealing with the subject of raising goats. The first chapter describes each type of goat and their breed. Its is important to research all the available breeds and their types so you might be able to choose the best goat breed for your needs. I myself am interested in a small dairy goat. I have no need for a meat goat. I am not interested in fiber goats. I just want goats for their milk. Well maybe also their pet qualities. The book has helped me decide what my needs are and made it easy for me to choose the best breed for my situation. So, after choosing a breed of goat the chapter goes on to give a quick peek into the physical and behavioral view of goats in general. There are several charts included on the parts of a goat. And also a chart on body condition scoring.
This will come in useful when I inspect my goats for purchase. Its nice to know I won't just be picking a goat because of its pretty coat or striking blue eyes. Knowing a little about what a good body condition is and what to watch out for is very important when purchasing a goat. Next, in chapter two I read about preparing your goat farm. The topics included animal diseases, management systems, dead animal disposal, auctions, breeders, acquiring your goats, housing, fencing and much more.
Chapter three Breeding Your Goats was fascinating. I am looking forward to having some kids and the fresh milk resulting from their birth. Very exciting indeed. There is so much more great goat information in this book. From milking a goat, handling goats milk, meat goats, fiber from fiber goats, goats as pets and even showing goats. I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to start raising goats on their own.


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Metal Techniques – Octave Riffing
Practice Tips
- Octave shapes are a great way of learning all the note names of the fretboard. Once you know the shapes for each set of strings, you can then start playing scale fragments on one string, and then using your knowledge of octaves to play the same fragment an octave higher. Eventually, you'll be able to see 3 string scale patterns in the next octave.
- Muting is an integral part of playing octaves, so remember to listen out for notes that should not be sounding out. I recommend playing all six strings at the same time to check your muting skills. I also recommend doing this with a distorted guitar tone. If your muting technique is up to scratch, all you'll hear are the 2 notes of the octave.


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Created by Bastian Hermann and Hans Berger as an idea how to get your hands on tons and loads of money without spending a dime or lifting a finger, HBSwiss or app, software and trading robot is now proved to be an online scam that was meant to rob you of all your money. The angle is with the offshore companies who are ensuring you that you will make a lot of money if you just trust their unlicensed brokers, who will make sure that your deposits reach the wanted destination. This is nothing more than a fraud to get your credit card data in order to take all your money while leaving you with a belief that you will get a huge profit in return. You risk everything, from an identity theft, credit card fraud to denial of any withdrawal of your money.
The minds behind this scam are counting on all those opportunity seekers and uneducated money makers who strongly believe that they can get their hands on large amounts of cash if they hit the right trading opportunity online. What they do not know is that there are only a few of legit trading systems and software that will actually make you any money. Unfortunately for them, before they even realize what is happening, their money is already gone. There is a list on the Internet that states all the trustworthy systems which are not fraudulent software that will only waste your time and steal all your hard-earned cash. HBSwiss is for all these aforementioned reasons put on the Blacklist. If you really want to try and make some online money, try using the alternative investment channels that will actually bring you some nice returns.
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The Perth food scene is growing at a rapid pace, new bars and restaurants are popping up all the time and as our city expands, so too will the stomachs of many Perthians seeking culinary adventure, whether it be a 3 Michelin Star dining experience or just a kebab after big night out. Despite the endless variety, American-style food stuff like burgers, hotdogs and fried chicken that aim to be more indulgent and decadent are what's sweeping the independent and pop-up food scene here in Perth. There has never been a better time to seek out these particular crowd-pleasing meals, there are a lot of great little spots to chose from. So here are a couple of American food spots in Perth that'll have you reaching for your insulin pen and leave you wheelchair ridden:
Run Amuk resides in the sleepy beach-side suburb of South Fremantle, known for its alternative vibes and the occasional fallen out dreadlock lying on the pavement. The modest hotdog store serves up some on the most mouth watering and ambitious hotdogs in WA. Located on South Terrace approximately half a kilometre from the coast, Run Amuk is a great pre/post beach bite, and for those craving long buns stuffed with meat tubes this place is a little slice of paradise. Vegetarians and vegan options are available too, so no one misses out on the artery clogging goodness that is Rum Amuk.
All in all I give Run Amuk 4 dreadlocks with abandonment issues out of 5.
Ever crave fried chicken? Most people do, but I'm not here to crack on about a KFC bucket full of soggy chicken limbs that leave much to be desired, I'm here to talk about RoyAls in East Victoria Park. For those more traditional southern fried chicken fans, RoyAls pretty much has you covered on all fronts. The small joint dishes out decadent buttermilk fried chicken, cheese burgers and po-boys that'll make the Colonel's '11 secret herbs and spices' seem like random handfuls of dirt and sand mixed together in an attempt to mimic the iconic taste of the South and cut costs while doing it. This taste is REAL, it's authentic, and it's made in a tiny kitchen filled with sweaty cooks that have a passion for great taste and fried chicken.
I give RoyAls 4.5 coronary bypasses out of 5.
Now in this crazy world of ours, there's a lot of pain and suffering. Nations are more divided than ever in recent years and it seems like the system is about to explode (quite literally, North Korea, I'm looking at you buddy). In spite of all that, there's one thing all humans can agree on and that's the appreciation of tasty food in your mouth hole. So go out now and try some food before we blow ourselves up.


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A Conversation on Creating Support for Wide-Scale Changes to Developmental Education How can we improve Illinois' developmental education system? How can we ensure that stakeholders, including faculty, have substantive input in the process? Women Employed hosted a webinar on September 27th 2013, that featured leaders from Rend Lake College, Miami Dade College, and Texas State University,… Continue Reading
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A Webinar Conversation on Creating Support for Wide Scale Changes to Developmental Education
New Look Informational Webinar PowerPoint
The FY14 New Look Informational Webinar explains the New Look Project, tell about changes to be implemented in FY14 and gives instructions on how to participate. FY14 New Look 8/29/13 Archived Webinar FY14 New Look Informational Webinar PowerPoint
STEM College and Career Readiness: Partners in Readiness
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ILSADE (Illinois Learning Specialists & Developmental Educators) Fall 2013 Conference
October 18 Illinois Learning Specialists & Developmental Educators Fall 2013 Conference, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, Illinois. The theme is Unlocking the Gate: Promising Strategies for Improving Student Success. The Call for Proposals is open until September 20, 2013.
Midwest Region Association for Developmental Education 2013 Conference
October 2-4 Midwest Region Association for Developmental Education 2013 Conference, Alton, Illinois. The theme is Bridging the Gap.
National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY)
National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY)is a national grassroots membership organization/association serves as the voice and the social conscience for the education of children and youth in homeless situations. NAEHCY connects educators, parents, advocates, researchers, and service providers to ensure school enrollment and attendance and overall success for children and… Continue Reading
International Rett Syndrome Association
International Rett Syndrome Association is an organization which provides information and resources about Rett Syndrome for parents and professionals. International Rett Syndrome Foundation website
The Autism Spectrum Institute
The Autism Spectrum Institute is an organization which provides supportive education programs and trains pre-service and teacher educators as well as parents and families of children and youth with autism spectrum disorders. Autism Spectrum Institute Website
Taking the Road Less Traveled: Educator's Toolkit to Prepare Students for Nontraditional Careers
This tool kit has been created for educators to easily work through four specific areas dealing with students in nontraditional careers. Taking the Road Less Traveled CIMC – Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center
GPS for Perkins IV Special Populations Executive Summary
This document provides resources for Perkins professionals seeking understanding of the 2006 law and its impact on special populations in the state of Illinois. GPS for Perkins IV Special Populations


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For all of us madly in love with our 9-5s, having a perfectly bad day at work can be a real challenge. Our bosses always appreciate us a bit too much, there is never any queue to the office microwave and our colleagues volunteer to do all the most mundane tasks to make themselves more miserable for a change. Oh, and especially now in the late autumn, all the rooms are perfectly toasty, just to our liking. It sucks, huh? Don't worry, I have the perfect solution for you – a guide on how to ruin your work day – and all free of charge as well!
Preemptively ruining your day before even getting to work is not obligatory but it will make your task much easier.
Answer the emails
You know which emails I am talking about.
There is no better way to ruin your work day than facing a good batch of emails that you have been avoiding. From the guy who never understands anything. Or a person who asks the same question over and over again. And the one who sends you emails every day around 1am because they had a revelation in bed. Or the 'What do you mean by It's in testing? Does it mean I can test it?'. Go ahead. You know it's time.
Do something really good – and don't tell anyone
You remember the project you've been killing yourself over for the past few weeks? You know, the little thing you picked up on the side that grew into a crazy beast, eating every minute of your life bit by bit? Sure, it was just a tiny improvement, but no one else was going to do it, and it annoyed you all. And now it's done. Finished. Fixed.
You know what you should do next? Become the silent hero.
From your desk in the corner you will get to watch all the idiots who do not appreciate your work enough. Well. Who don't even notice the problem has finally been resolved – and resolved by you! Doesn't that sound like a lovely way to spend an afternoon at work, holding a grudge for no good reason whatsoever?
Check out the recycling bin
There's bound to be someone who thought it's a good idea to throw a half-empty salad box in there.
Play watch the clock
The best game that will ruin your work day is surprisingly easy. Just look at the clock and discover how long it takes for a new minute to clock in.
It will keep you busy for ages, I assure you.
Forget about your lunch break
Who needs food when work is waiting?
Nothing destroys stressing out about the incoming deadline like a good break. Even five-minute breaks can ease one's mind way too much to deem them acceptable for a ruined work day. And a lunch break? A proper lunch break? With WARM, TASTY food? Are you insane? Nobody has time for that!
When a deadline is coming, breaks simply cannot happen. Nothing helps one concentrate as well as staring at the screen for ten hours straight, no food, no coffee, no bathroom. We've all been there.
Get involved in some good, office gossip
The best way to achieve the perfect atmosphere in your workplace is to get yourself involved in the office gossip.
Office gossip just keeps everyone so in love with each other, doesn't it? And close, and connected, like a mini family, really. It rejuvenates and creates new friendships. And has nothing, ABSOLUTELY nothing, to do with feeling vicious or jealous or hostile or mean or negative. Nothing at all.
Remember that everyone is your enemy
And since we're already on the topic of forming office friendships – remember that everyone, absolutely everyone is there to help you ruin your work day.
Some people claim they go to work to… work. Don't listen to them. They are not at all in the same situation as you are. They are not trying to earn a living. They do not have families and cats to feed. They could be just laying on a beach somewhere and enjoying the sunshine. Instead, they are there to spite you.
They send you emails and call you for no reason. They need your help. They break the coffee machine. They arrive late. They arrive early. They ask you about your day. They distract you. They are too busy to talk with you about your weekend. Finally, they all just want to get you fired.
They. Are. All. Your. Enemies.
Yes, even the ones who bring in chocolates. They just want to see you fail your diet.
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I like to start my day with a huge juice or yammy fruit platter, but truly enjoy my meal I have to sit down and eat with peace and take my time. Yeah.. I'm definitely not eat on the go kinda girl. So when I know that in gonna be tight on time or just want sweet and nutritious pick me up I always bake this bars.
they are wonderful alternative to raw energy balls( I always have on hand anyway:)) which I love, but what would be life without variations?
Nutty, sweet and chewy and perfectly satisfying, what more can you ask? And they can be done in under 40 min, including clean up time. Simply blend, mix, spread and bake and let them to fill you home with the best aroma possibly imagined:)
Cinnamon date bars
- 100 gr of oats
- 70 gr of almonds
- 50 gr of linseeds
- 25 gr of coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
- 250 gr of dates
- 150 gr of water
- pinch of salt
- coconut for decorating
- Soak dates in 150 gr of water prior cooking
- When they are very soft blend till smooth
- Add almonds to the food processor or a blender and pulse a few times till there is no longer big pieces left
- Add the rest of the ingredients and process just till everything is incorporated
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees
- Transfer all the mixture to the tray and press firmly and then cut into bars
- Decorate with coconut shreds if you wish
- Put the tray in the oven, check after 15 min, they should be dry to the touch and if you lift the silicone mat they will not stick to the edges, in case if the look little bit sticky return to the oven for additional 5 minutes
- Let cool completely before removing from the tray, store in air tight jar.
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Deck Staining Service In Northern Va
Deck Power Washing and Staining
Our Deck Staining Service team has over 15 years of experience power washing and staining decks in Northern Virginia. A wood deck for you home is large investment and staining it is the best way to keep it looking beautiful, safe from splinters or rotting wood that makes your rails and steps come loose. Many of the other companies in our area just offer it as a service then only do the power washing and subcontract the staining part to professional like us. Here are some examples of difficulties that other companies run into and are forced to call professionals. The age of the deck can have a impact on the chemicals you use to drawl out the dirt and the technique you use to apply the stain because of the way older wood absorbs the deck stain & seal. If you currently have an oil based stain or a solid stain and you don't know what color or brand you used originally then that requires a good eye for color and a in-depth knowledge of the different types of stain products available over the years.
Getting Your Deck Ready To Be Power Washed And Stained
Every deck job starts with us clearing the deck of your grill, furniture, tables, leaves and any sticks that have fallen in the cracks. This is important because if you are just moving stuff from one side of the deck to another you will be dragging things across stain that is still a little wet and you can leave streak. If you don't remove even the small sticks from the cracks you will notice discolored areas where the stick was blocking the stain from completely being absorbed into the wood. Once the deck is clear we can start to prep the deck with chemicals to prepare it for a power washing. If your deck is old and gray we would need to add our cleaning mixture that we make and let it soak for a few minute to loosing up the dirt. Now if you would like to make a color change and we would need to cover any patio's that are below to prevent stain for dripping on it. Then using our stain striper we will need to soak the deck followed by a deep power washing.
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Power Washing Algae Out Of Your Deck
One of the hardest types of decks to prepare for stain are ones that have gone past looking gray and look almost black with spots of green on the surface. The green that you see on most decks is algae on the surface but what you don't know is that when the deck turns black the spores for the Algae are impeded in your wood. If you have a deck like this then you will notice every time it rains and you walk on your deck it may feel slippery. Many of deck staining services will just recommend to replace the deck but not us, we have discovered the "Secret Sauce" that helps save your deck.
Power Washing Before You Stain
After the deck has been properly prepared we need to power wash it to remove the top layer of dirt or algae so the stain can absorb correctly to the wood. For power washing we use High Pressure High Water Volume power washers using 4000 PSI pushing out 8 gallons a minute. Now you can buy a power washer from lows or home depot but they wont have the high water volume equipment that is necessary. Even if you get an industrial grade power washer to clean you deck you will be limited by the water pressure at your house. Do you think your garden hose pushes our 8 gallons of water per minute? That why you see professional companies with water tanks in their trucks.
Once your deck has had a full day to dry out before we stain it we may need to do a little sanding. Depending how old you deck is you will notice some fuss on the wood. Most of this will naturally lay back down once your apply stain but some jobs may require sanding. We do not charge extra for sanding even if we have to spend and extra day hand sanding the deck.
What Type of Deck Stain Should You Choose
Now that your deck has been power washed and it's dry we can apply the stain. First you will need to choose between Oil Based Stains or Solid Stains. Oil based stains allow you to still see the grains in the wood and don't flake off if you drop something on the wood or your dogs are scratching it with their nails but oil based stains don't last as long and requires more frequent maintenance. Solid stains look more like paint so you won't see the grains of the wood and it does scratch easier but it requires less maintenance. We also offer custom staining & painting services where we can paint the rails white or match the color to your siding and sating the floor to give it a good contrast.
A long term maintenance plan for your deck is the best way to prevent damage leading to costly repairs. The best way apply an oil based stain would be to have the deck stained with in 60 days of having it built and then apply satin at the start of April the next year. Once we have a few layers of satin down you would only need to redo it every 2 -3 years depending on how long the deck is in direct sunlight, the winter weather of that year and how much you use the deck. A good solid stain from a company like Benjamin More can last as long a 5 years if it is applied correctly using multiple thin coats.
A long term maintenance plan for your deck is the best way to prevent damage leading to costly repairs. The best way apply an oil based stain would be to have the deck stained with in 60 days of having it built and then apply satin at the start of April the next year. Once we have a few layers of satin down you would only need to redo it every 2 -3 years depending on how long the deck is in direct sunlight, the winter weather of that year and how much you use the deck. A good solid stain from a company like Benjamin More can last as long a 5 years if it is applied correctly using multiple thin coats.
Advanced Pressure Washing is a locality owned and operated House Power Washing Company working across Northern Virginia from Gainesville to Loudoun and Prince William County.
We are always happy to see you Visit Our Showroom
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Print A prim lace party dress featuring a bustier bodice that's as sweet as it is sultry.
- Sweetheart neckline. Strapless.
- Bustier seams. Boning detail at bodice.
- Tiered-lace detail. Drop-waist skirt. Lace trim at hem.
- Concealed center back zipper with hook-and-eye closure.
- Lace: Nylon. Mesh: Polyester. Lining: Polyester, Spandex.
- Dry Clean.
- Imported.
- Measures approximately 26.5" from neck to hem.
- Classic fit.


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My boys are such avid, little builders, they are happiest when they are building with Lego, blocks, connecting toys or anything they can use to build structures and towers, etc. They love being imaginative, designing, constructing and then playing imaginatively with ther=ir wonderful inventions, it allows them the freedom to use their engineering skills, logical thought, fine motor skills, problem solving skills and their imagination. Best of all, it keeps them happy and engaged for ages too, which allows me time to get dinner made or other chores while they are so busy at work.
They also ADORE glow in the dark activities, so I wanted to come up with a way to combine their two most favourite loves and came up with this!!
Glowing Construction with Straws and Pipe Cleaners.
You will need:
A lamp with black light globe.
Flourescent Neon Pipe Cleaners. (Fluorescent items glow so beautifully under a black light!)
Flourescent Neon Drinking Straws.
I set the black light up over the boys work surface, our surface was on the table with a black tablecloth underneath so that the glowing effect would look more vibrant! I then asked my boys to cut the pipe cleaners in to 8cm lengths, and then showed them how to join the straws together by inserting one of the pieces of glowing pipe cleaner halfway in to the end of one straw and the other half of the pipe cleaner in to the other end of their next straw to join them together. You could bend the pip cleaner at this join or keep it straight if you wish. I then demonstrated how if you wanted to build a structure that also went up vertically, that you could then insert another length of pipe cleaner in to the same straw join but bend the other half of the pipe cleaner upwards to put in a straw that would then stick right up vertically. Then I let them be guided by their own imaginations and they came up with the most wonderful ideas!! They made "race tracks" with them, towers with them, plain shapes with them and even little houses with them. They had such a fantastic time and this kept them busy for ages, they only stopped playing with it when I ran out of neon pipe cleaners! Whoops! Must get two packets of them for next time I think!
I actually forgot to get photos of their final creations as I found myself getting a tad too enthusiastic with this and before I knew it I was making things with it too, and then afterwards realised I was having so much fun I forgot to take more photos of the process! Whoopsie!! Never mind, we had quality time and fun together being all involved and engaged in the same project, it was so nice just playing with them and having fun, however at the expense of more photos to show you! Sorry!
This was such a cheap, easy and super fun and engaging activity and I loved how much thought had to go in to balancing their structures and how to shape them properly, etc. My boys loved it and I hope that your children love it just as much as mine did!
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Organisers of the papal visit have announced a new venue for John Henry Newman's beatification, almost halving the number of people able to attend.
A Vatican team, led by Dr Alberto Gasbarri, visited the new site on Monday, choosing a Birmingham park over Coventry Airport, which had been originally earmarked for the ceremony.
Cofton Park – the venue in Birmingham ultimately chosen for the main event of the papal visit in September – can hold around 80,000 people, according to an early estimate by organisers. Coventry Airport would have been able to accommodate approximately 150,000 faithful.
A spokesman for the Church said the location had been chosen because of its closeness to Rednal, where Cardinal Newman was buried. He said the new location would also enable the Pope to go to the Birmingham Oratory.
Pope Benedict is expected to go straight to Cardinal Newman's rooms and pray in his private chapel dedicated to St Francis de Sales. St Francis coined the phrase Cor ad cor loquitur, or "Heart speaks to heart", which is the motto for the papal visit.
The spokesman said: "Coventry was being discussed in good faith but as the detail of the planning became more apparent and the Pope was keen on something with more historical references and links to Newman the attraction of moving it to Cofton Park became more apparent.
"After lengthy discussions with the Vatican we were hoping for something with close historical references. And Cofton is our preferred venue in Birmingham."
There were some doubts about whether the Pope would be able to go to the Birmingham Oratory because of controversies within the community. Two members were removed to abbeys in Leicestershire and Scotland last month while a third was sent home. In December last year Fr Paul Chavasse was replaced as Provost of the Birmingham Oratory and actor for Cardinal Newman's Cause.
Fr Richard Duffield, the current Provost of the Birmingham Oratory, said: "It's marvellous news. We're utterly delighted. It was the Holy Father's personal wish to come here and now he's able to come. I believe – and I don't want to put words in his mouth – that he is pleased too."
Mgr Andrew Summersgill, who is in charge of organising the papal visit on behalf of the bishops of England and Wales, said the "original intention had been to locate the beatification in a venue that had some experience of a papal celebration – Coventry Airport".
"But we came back to looking at a place that would be more explicitly connected with the ministry and with the life and the death of Cardinal Newman, and to try to weave that theme much, much more obviously and carefully into the day of the beatification. So Cofton was chosen because it is immediately adjacent to Rednal, which is the house where Cardinal Newman would go and spend some time, both to work and to have some peace and quiet.
"It is, of course, the site of his burial and, as I understand it, it would also be a place with which he personally was quite familiar, where he would have walked and visited while he was at Rednal."
Councillor John Mutton, the leader of Coventry City Council, said he received a phone call last week from Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster explaining that Coventry would not be the venue for the beatification Mass.
He told the Coventry Telegraph that the archbishop said that the work that had been done at Coventry could be used in Birmingham.
Mr Mutton also said: "Obviously, there will be a large number of Catholics and maybe a number of non-Catholics who will be disappointed.
"However, I can understand the reason given. Birmingham is not the other end of the country and people will still be able to go there for the day."
The Church announced that Coventry Airport would be the venue for the Mass in March. Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass there during his pastoral visit in 1982. Reports about the soaring costs of the visit fuelled speculation for weeks that the Mass scheduled for Coventry Airport would take place elsewhere.
Both Longbridge car factory and the seminary at Oscott were reported as possible venues for the beatification.
A source close to the Church said that the airport had been booked but that in April a new owner, Sir Peter Rigby, bought Coventry Airport. Although Sir Peter was happy for the airport to be closed for five days for the Mass to take place – a longer period was commercially not viable – the planners for the event decided that the allotted time was not sufficient for setting up for the Mass.
Lord Patten of Barnes, who was nominated to be the Government's representative for the visit, said the total cost for the visit has not been established.
In a letter to the National Secular Society, Lord Patten wrote: "Overall, costs can be divided into two categories: policing costs, which will be met by the state from existing policing budgets, and non-policing costs, which will be split between the Catholic Church and the Government. The total size of the costs are not yet confirmed, but discussions are continuing both to establish clear figures for the total costs and to decide the appropriate levels of contribution from the Government and the Catholic bishops' conference."
Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham said the decision to beatify Newman at Cofton Park emphasised the cardinal's "long association with his adopted city".
He said: "The finest recognition Cardinal Newman received was from the ordinary people of Birmingham, whose lives were changed because of their contact with him, and more than 15,000 people spontaneously lined his funeral route … as a final tribute to this holy, caring parish priest."


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We are the leading dive shop on the north east side of Hawaii's breathtaking Big Island
Conveniently located on the Mauna Lani Resort at Maka'iwa Bay on the beautiful Kohala Coast of the Big Island Hawaii, Mauna Lani Sea Adventures offers a variety of ocean activities at reasonable prices
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Whoa, where did the last many, many months go? What have I been doing? How has my blog gone so utterly untouched?
Here's a little glimpse at what I've been up to, in no particular order:
- Watching Hallmark Christmas movies since November 1
- Starting and re-starting the fifth Harry Potter book for four months and counting
- Walking the aisles of Target and buying things I don't need
- Looking at pictures of dogs, kids, and dogs with kids on Instagram
- Reading travel blogs and planning dream trips to places like Iceland and Amsterdam
- Talking to my (super, absurdly) long-distance boyfriend into the wee hours of the night
- Getting addicted to Westworld, live texting each episode and exchanging theories with said boyfriend
- Seeing how long I can go without doing laundry until I run out of undies
- Watching old (and current) episodes of Survivor and wishing I was a contestant
- Thinking about chopping my hair off (but not actually chopping my hair off)
- Listening to Christmas music and anxiously awaiting the month of December
- Drinking Diet Coke
So there you have it—it's a thrilling life I lead. I'm going to try to get back into the groove of blogging in the coming weeks, but alas, my late-night phone calls, Survivor marathons and trips to Target may continue to take precedence. (I'm just being honest.)


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In conjunction with our Faculty Show, several Palette & Chisel instructors will conduct demonstrations. I am honored to participate for the third year in a row. I will be broadcasting on Facebook Live. Here's the line-up.
Saturday, February 16 schedule will feature:
• Audry Cramblit 9:30 am - 12 pm, Sculpture
• Helen Oh (10:00 am - 12 pm, Palette Knife Still Life
• Dale Popovich 10:30 am - 12 pm, Watercolor
• Larry Paulsen (1 - 4 pm, Portrait Drawing
Saturday, February 23 schedule will feature:
• Lenin Delsol 9 - 11:30 am, Oil Painting Portrait
• Stuart Fullerton, 12 - 1 pm, Palette & Chisel History Lecture
• Steve Puttrich 1 - 3:30 pm, Watercolor
• Michael Van Zeyl :30 - 4 pm, Still Life Oil Painting
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is an award-winning watercolorist and teacher who is passionate about capturing the raw beauty of the American landscape with the fluid stroke of a brush. As you will see the works selected in his portfolio represent the breath of his holistic approach to painting. You can also learn along with this talented and experienced teacher through his workshops, Palette & Chisel, Mainstreet Art Center i Lake Zurich, IL, Elmhurst Art Museum, Towering Winds Academy of Fine Arts an online art school, and Popovich Studio classes.
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Pensilvania man gets letter postmarked 1954
The letter, with a 3-cent stamp and postmarked Oct. 26, 1954, was encased in a large Postal Service window envelope. There is a return address — in nearby Richland Township — but no sender's name.
Brian McAteer said that the letter appears to be sealed and has not been damaged, and that he will not open it. However, he hasn't had any luck finding Yost. Among his efforts have been to contact Yosts in the area, speak with longtime residents and search on the Internet.
"I haven't given up trying to find him," McAteer, a road foreman, told the Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown.
The newspaper reported that its archives show Yost's parents, both of whom are dead, lived in Ferndale in 1954. His father was a sports editor at the newspaper, which reported that the younger Yost had moved to Florida.
Tad Kelley, a spokesman for the Postal Service in Pittsburgh, said he could not comment specifically on the letter without investigating.
"Sometimes pieces of mail do get lost behind equipment or transporting equipment. ... It is infrequent, but every once in a blue moon, it does happen," Kelley said. "No matter how old it is, we will deliver it."
Ferndale is about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.Copyright © 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved
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