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Rotary is a worldwide organization of volunteers who dedicate their time and talent to tackle the world's most pressing humanitarian challenges. With 1.3 million members in over 200 countries and geographical areas, the work of Rotary's 34,000 Clubs impacts countless lives at local, national, and international levels. Rotary Clubs are nonpolitical, non-religious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.
Rotary members represent a cross-section of a community's business and professional men and women. All Rotarians are committed to the Club's motto – Service Above Self. The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
First: The development of a network of acquaintances who, working together, foster opportunities for service.
Second: High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
Third: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life.
Fourth: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
The cornerstone of the Club's activities is the Rotary Four Way Test:
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The first meeting of the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island was held on July 1, 1947, and the Club was Chartered on October 8, 1947. The first Rotary Auction & Rummage Sale was held in 1960 to buy land for the Bainbridge Island Public Library.
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What a week it has been. The stock market has been rallying to new yearly highs, property has been showing small however very significant growth, consumer spending is still moving along and business confidence is restoring.
Is this optimism slightly ahead of time or has the global credit crisis been over exaggerated?(mostly by the media!!) We have been in a lull for over eighteen months now and many are saying the bottom has been reached.
The stock market has had high growth for over 3 months.
Australian Reserve Bank Governor sent markets into a spin last week saying the interest rates had bottomed. The immediate effect was reflected on the strength of the Australian dollar, which surged to 2009 highs of 83.21 US cents. This week at their monthly meeting they left rates unchanged.
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In a recent editorial published by the Delaware County Times, a murder case that occurred on May 25, 2013 was discussed. Julianne Siller, a senior at Spring-Ford Area High School, Royersford, PA was murdered on a park trail with Tristan Stahley, a "friend" and graduate of Perkiomen Valley High School, Collegeville, PA. Were these two teenagers boyfriend and girlfriend? No they were not, but according to court records the two were dating. Even though they were not dating, dating violence is serious and perhaps a comprehensive sexuality education program should teach teenagers (teens) about dating violence and healthy relationships.
What is Dating Violence?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014), dating violence is defined as the physical, sexual, or psychological/emotional violence as well as stalking that can occur within a dating relationship. A few examples of teen dating violence are:
- Relationship abuse
- Intimate partner violence
- Relationship violence
- Dating abuse
- Domestic abuse
- Domestic violence
What are the aspects of a healthy relationship?
According to Love is Respect, the key element to a healthy relationship is communication. Suggestions for creating and maintaining a healthy relationship include:
- Speaking up
- Respecting your partner
- Compromising
- Supporting
- Respecting each other's privacy
According to Nemours, a healthy relationship consists of respect for one another, trust, honesty, support, fairness, separate identities, and good communication. In an unhealthy relationship, one of the individuals gets angry when his or her partner does not focus all attention on them as well as criticizes their partner, keeps him or her from seeing friends or from talking to any other males or females, and wants them to quit an extracurricular activity that they enjoy. They also might raise a hand when angry, physically abuse their partner, and/or try to force their partner into going further sexually. A healthy relationship curriculum can help students understand the aspects of a healthy relationship as well as give them.
Why Teach Teens About Healthy Relationships?
Not all teenagers are involved in romantic relationships, but many of them have friends whom they socialize with on a regular basis. With so many teenagers being bullied via social media and text message, and relationships being subjected to violence, it is important for teens to understand that having positive relationships with friends can yield positive outcomes. Many teens do not know what a healthy relationship should look like.
What Does a Healthy Relationship Curriculum Look Like?
Peace Over Violence has implemented In Touch With Teens Violence Prevention, a curriculum for junior high and high schools and other community based youth organizations. The curriculum has eight units, which cover the following aspects of relationship violence:
- Roots of Violence: Global & Local
- Roots of Violence: Power & Control
- Relationship Violence
- Cycle of Violence
- Sexual Harassment
- Issues of Sexual Assault & Coercive Control
- Media Impact on Gender & Violence
- Building Blocks of a Healthy Relationship
Another curriculum available to educators is Love is not Abuse. Unlike the curriculum by In Touch With Teens, this curriculum is in three lessons of 45 minutes each and discusses the following:
- Dating abuse
- Power and abuse
- Digital dating abuse
The curriculum by In Touch With Teens Violence Prevention is a good curriculum in that it provides teens with an overview of the various forms of violence as well as how to build a healthy relationship. The benefit of a healthy relationship curriculum is that it can be taught at any age and students can apply the information to any type of relationship regardless of whether it is a romantic relationship or a friendship.
There is not one curriculum available for healthy relationships. However, it is important for us current and future educators to consider creating a healthy relationships curriculum to include with comprehensive sexuality education.


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Bryan Hopkins: Porcelain Vessels from Function to Dysfunction WS03 – Saturday & Sunday, 10-4pm, August 16 & 17, 2014 Fee: $200 member/$225 non-member In this hands-on workshop participants will push their creative limits, as well as the physical limits of porcelain. Porcelain will be used and exploited for its unique and amazing plastic and fired qualities. Bryan will demonstrate his methods for combining wheel-thrown elements to create unique utilitarian forms and vessels. Participants will investigate a range of surface textures and construction methods through the use of bisque molds, x-Acto knives, wood carving tools and water etching. These surface enhancements will be employed to create new dimensions on the forms while emphasizing the translucent beauty of porcelain. The workshop will offer a balance of instructor demonstration, image presentation, one-on-one attention and student work time to explore avenues. This course is open to both wheel-workers and hand-builders and requires a basic working knowledge of clay coupled with a willingness to explore new ideas before enrolling. Bryan Hopkins was born in Philadelphia, PA. He was a mathematics major at West Chester University when he took his first ceramics class. Bryan went on to earn an MFA in Ceramics from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Bryan has been a studio potter working in porcelain since 1990, and has lived in Buffalo, NY, since 1995. Bryan works as Adjunct Professor of Ceramics and 3-D Design for Niagara County Community College, and has also taught at Medaille College, SUNY at New Paltz, and SUNY at Fredonia. Bryan's work has been exhibited in group and solo shows nationally, including the NCECA Clay National Biennial (2005 & 2009), the Craft Guild of Dallas, TX, MudFire Clayworks in Decatur, GA and SOFA Chicago and his work has been published in Ceramics Monthly, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Studio Potter, 500 Vases, and Best of 500 Ceramics. Bryan is a founding participant in Objective Clay, a diverse on-line craft forum sharing ideas and new work from 14 utilitarian ceramic artists. Learn more about Bryan's work and process at www.hopkinspottery.com WS03 – Saturday & Sunday, 10-4pm, August 16 & 17, 2014 Fee: $200 members; $225 non-members Contact Matthew Hyleck at email@example.com for more information. Baltimore Clayworks 5707 Smith Avenue Baltimore, MD 21209 www.baltimoreclayworks.org


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NXServer and NXClient from NoMachine is a great way to run a remote desktop that is low on resources and very fast due to its use of compression. It also has the feature of storing your X sessions so when you log back to them later they are unchanged.
The procedure for installing this on Fedora or other Redhat based distros will be similar, but I only tested this on CentOS 4. It's also possible do on Debian, Ubuntu or any other Linux system for that matter, but that is not covered here.
Server Side Configuration
First check to see if the centos extras repository is enabled for yum. Open up /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and under the [extras] section, change enabled=0 to enabled=1 if it is not already done. While you are at it you may also want to do the same for [centosplus] and [contrib] to give you access to even more packages.
Install the "freenx" package with "yum install -y freenx".
For a KDE desktop, do "yum install -y kdebase".
For Gnome, do "yum install -y gnome-session".
Copy /etc/nxserver/node.conf.sample to /etc/nxserver/node.conf. The defaults should be sufficient so don't worry about making changes to it.
Create a new ssh key and copy it to /ect/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key. To create this key, do "ssh-keygen -t dsa -N '' -f client.id_dsa.key".
Client Side Configuration
Go to http://www.nomachine.com/download.php and download the NX Client. It is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris. Install it as you would any software for your OS. For Windows you will also want to install the nxfonts addon downloads.
Copy client.id_dsa.key from your server over to your local machine.
When you start up NX Client you will get a login window. Click the configure button to the lower left. Enter the hostname of your server and click the Key button. Paste in the contents of client.id_dsa.key. Choose your desktop type (KDE or Gnome) and your network speed, then click OK.
Now you will be returned to the login window, so click Login, and within a few seconds your remote desktop will be started.
If you want to disconnect from your session without logging out, start up the NX Session Administrator, right click on your session and choose Disconnect. This way your session is saved and you can come back to it later by logging in as before.


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Patient fitted with Valplast flexible partial upper denture. The strength of the Valplast material allows the denture to be made very thinly, allowing the underlying tissue characteristics to show through, providing a more natural appearance in the mouth.
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Xirong (Chinese: 西戎; pinyin: Xīróng; Wade–Giles: Hsi-jung; literally: 'Western warlike people') or Rong were various people who lived primarily in and around the extremities of ancient China known as early as the Shang dynasty (1765–1122 BCE).[1] They were typically to the west (in modern Gansu, etc.) of the later Zhou state from the Zhou Dynasty (1046–221 BCE) onwards.[2][3] They were mentioned in some ancient Chinese texts as perhaps related to the people of the Chinese civilization.[3][4]
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The historian Li Feng says that during the Western Zhou period, since the term Rong "warlike foreigners" was "often used in bronze inscriptions to mean 'warfare', it is likely that when a people was called 'Rong' the Zhou considered them as political and military adversaries rather than as cultural and ethnic 'others'."[5]
After the Zhou dynasty, the term usually referred to various peoples in the west during early and late medieval times. Prusek suggests relations between the Rong of Zhou and the Rén (人) tribes known in Shang.[6] Xirong was also the name of a state during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods of Chinese history.[citation needed]
The Xirong together with the eastern Dongyi, northern Beidi, and southern Nanman were collectively called the Sìyí (四夷; 'Four Barbarians'). The Liji "Record of Rites" details ancient stereotypes about them.
The people of those five regions – the Middle states, and the [Rong], [Yi], (and other wild tribes round them) – had all their several natures, which they could not be made to alter. The tribes on the east were called [Yi]. They had their hair unbound, and tattooed their bodies. Some of them ate their food without its being cooked. Those on the south were called Man. They tattooed their foreheads, and had their feet turned in towards each other. Some of them (also) ate their food without its being cooked. Those on the west were called [Rong]. They had their hair unbound, and wore skins. Some of them did not eat grain-food. Those on the north were called [Di]. They wore skins of animals and birds, and dwelt in caves. Some of them also did not eat grain-food. The people of the Middle states, and of those [Yi], Man, [Rong], and [Di], all had their dwellings, where they lived at ease; their flavours which they preferred; the clothes suitable for them; their proper implements for use; and their vessels which they prepared in abundance. In those five regions, the languages of the people were not mutually intelligible, and their likings and desires were different. To make what was in their minds apprehended, and to communicate their likings and desires, (there were officers) – in the east, called transmitters; in the south, representationists; in the west, [Di-dis]; and in the north, interpreters.[7] [The term 狄鞮 didi (ti-ti) is identified as: "(anc.) Interpreter of the Di, barbarians of the west."[8] Translated and adapted from the French.]
Note: "middle states" (Chinese: 中國; pinyin: Zhōngguó) in this quote refers to the "Middle Kingdom", i.e. China.
Spade-foot three-legged pottery vessels as well as one and two handled pots were primary cultural characteristics of the Xirong.[citation needed]
William H. Baxter and Laurent Sagart (2014)[9] reconstruct the Old Chinese name of Róng as 戎, OC:*nuŋ, mod. róng. Today, similar-sounding self-designated ethnonyms among modern-day Tibeto-Burman peoples in western China include Rgyalrong of Sichuan, and Nung and Trung of northwestern Yunnan (see also Rung languages).
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According to Nicola Di Cosmo,[10] 'Rong' was a vague term for warlike foreigner. He places them from the upper Wei River valley and along the Fen River to the Taiyuan basin as far as the Taihang Mountains. This would be the northwestern edge of what was then China and also the transition zone between agricultural and steppe ways of life.
- c. 964 BCE: King Mu of Zhou defeated the Quanrong and the following year attacked the Western Rong and Xurong.
- 859 BCE: King Yi of Zhou (Ji Xie): Zhou capital attacked by the Rong of Taiyuan.
- 877-841 BCE: King Li of Zhou: Western Rong and Xianyun raid deep into Zhou territory
- 827-782 BCE: King Xuan of Zhou sends the State of Qin to attack Western Rong who submit and cede territory, sends the State of Jin against the Northern Rong (probably 788); following year destroys the RongJiang clan.
- 781-771 BCE: King You of Zhou is killed by the Quanrong, ending the Western Zhou.
- During the Western Zhou various Rong groups are interspersed among the cities of the North China Plain. It seems that the Beidi were pressing the Rong from the north.
- 714 BCE: Northern (Bei) or Mountain (Shan) Rong attack the State of Zheng.
- 706 BCE: The same group attacks Qi.
- 693-662 BCE: Duke Zhuang of Lu), ruler of the State of Lu has many wars with the Rong.
- 664 BCE: Shan Rong attack the State of Yan.
- 662 BCE: Beidi drive the Rong out of Taiyuan.
- 650 BCE: Beirong attacked by the States of Qi and Xu.
- after 650 the Rong are rarely mentioned. They seem to have been mostly absorbed by the States of Qi and Jin.[11]
- 314 BCE: Qin defeated the last hostile Rong tribe.[12] Threats from unified nomadic incursions would eventually reappear under the Xiongnu identity during the subsequent Qin and Han Dynasties.[13]
Ethnicity [ edit ]
It is believed that the Quanrong during the Western Zhou-Warring States period (1122–476 BC) spoke a Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages, and united with the Jiang clan to rebel against the Zhou.[14][15]
The 7th-century commentary to the Hanshu by Yan Shigu says: "Among the various Rong tribes in the Western Regions, the Wusun's shape was the strangest; and the present barbarians who have green eyes and red hair, and are like a macaque, belonged to the same race as the Wusun."[16][17]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
Citations [ edit ]
- ^ Waugh, Daniel C: Professor. "Silk Road Texts". University of Washington. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011. CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ a b "Hun & Huns -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China -- Research Into Origins Of Huns, Uygurs, Mongols And Tibetans". www.imperialchina.org.
- ^ Nicola Di Cosmo, Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History ,Cambridge University Press, 2004 pp. 108-112.
- ^ Li, Feng (2006), Landscape And Power In Early China, Cambridge University Press, p. 286.
- ^ Jaroslav Průšek. Chinese Statelets and the Northern Barbarians in the period 1400-300 BC. New York, 1971. p.38
- ^ Wangzhi chap., tr. James Legge (1879), The Li Ki, Clarendon Press, vol.1, pp. 229-230.
- ^ Grand dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise, Vol. V, (2001) p. 938
- ^ Baxter, William H. and Laurent Sagart. 2014. Old Chinese: A New Reconstruction. Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-994537-5.
- ^ Cambridge History of Ancient China (1999) Chapter 13
- ^ Nicola Di Cosmo in Cambridge History of Ancient China, page 924
- ^ Mark Edward Lewis in Cambridge History of Ancient China, page 635
- ^ The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Xiongnu". britannica.com. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
- ^ Chapter 14 of Keightley,'The Origins of Chinese Civilization',1983
- ^ "Fortress Village - The Ethnic Minorities of Southwest China". ethno.ihp.sinica.edu.tw.
- ^ Yu, Taishan. A Study of Saka History, (1998) pp. 141-142. Sino-Platonic Papers, Number 80. University of Pennsylvania.
- ^ Book of Han, vol. 96bArchived March 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
Sources [ edit ]
- (in Chinese) "Exploring the roots of the Qin".
- (in Chinese) Ming Dynasty Record of 1574. Zhonghua Publishing. ISBN 7-101-00607-8.
- Grand dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise. 7 volumes. Instituts Ricci (Paris – Taipei). Desclée de Brouwer. 2001. Vol. III, p. 555.
- A Hypothesis about the Source of the Sai Tribes. Taishan Yu. Sino-Platonic Papers No. 106. September, 2000. Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania.


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Prof. Jim Best was awarded the 2018 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal by the European Geosciences Union at the EGU annual meeting in Vienna, April 9th, 2018.
The Lamarck Medal was established by the EGU Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleontology Division, in recognition of the scientific achievement of Jean Baptiste Lamarck. It is awarded to scientists for their exceptional contributions to stratigraphy, sedimentology or palaeontology. The medal is awarded each year alternating between the three subdivisions so that each third year a stratigrapher, sedimentologist or palaeontologist are awarded.
The Medal is awarded to Prof. Best this year for "major contributions to our understanding of physical sedimentary processes and their products in the geological record." The award citation states, "His work has established major paradigm shifts in the field of physical sedimentology. These include: a new model of flow at river channel confluences, a comprehensive model for the origin of turbulence associated with sand dunes, realisations of the influence of suspended sediment on the dynamics of flow and the modulation of turbulence, the provision of a new flow-bedform stability diagram that has application within many sedimentary environments, and the production of the most comprehensive facies model to date for the architecture of large alluvial braid bars."
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Socket artists Tracey Kershaw and Jane Pepper will each be undertaking a fortnight's residency at the University of Leicester's Embrace Arts, as part of Embrace's 'Meet the Artist' programme, in collaboration with Synapse Arts.
Both artists will be continuing to work with themes that occupied them during their recent residencies with the University of Nottingham's BA Fine Art department, and will be using the Embrace exhibition space to display some of the outcomes.
Above, detail from Tracey's 'Was she a good mother…?', part of her ongoing work-in-progress 'Tell me about your mother':.
Above, detail of piece from Jane's work-in-progress 'Roost'.
Jane will be in residence from Tues 3rd – Fri 13th Sept, and Tracey in residence Mon 16th – Fri 27th Sept.


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October 8, 2011
Do You Remember When You Were Young And Wanted To Set The World On Fire?
Walked past the Wall Street demonstrations again. Sound and fury symbolizing everything and accomplishing nothing. How about we all stop buying shit for a week from some companies? It's called boycotting. That's the only way the fuckers will ever notice... if it hits em in their bottom line.
We pay tribute to Steven Jobs by queuing en masse for the latest gadget. How about we pay tribute to "think different" by NOT buying shit for the week.
I've been listening to Against Me lately. Third or fourth or ninety seventh generation punks that wear their hearts on their sleeves. Anthemic ringing guitars and earnest lyrics.
I think Saint Joe (Strummer) would approve.
Highly recommended!
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The Secret Mother by Shalini Boland begins with a lot of questions with lots of proposed answers. Therefore, readers have a lot of suspicions about who is telling the truth. Tess arrives home one night to find a small boy in her kitchen. She had used her keys to enter the front door so how did it come about that a young boy was drawing pictures on her kitchen table? How did he get in? According to the young boy, Tess knew him as Harry because she was, after all, his mom. The problem was that Tess had no children, at least no living ones.
Who could Tess call at a time like this? She would call Scott, her husband. Although separated, she still called him her husband, considered him a friend, and was sure that he still loved her. It was just a matter of time before they would be together again. He would come over to help her and they would call the police. She couldn't call the police on her own as she felt she had no credibility with the police because of a child kidnapping allegation made against her a few years before. The allegation was false, of course.
Tom arrived to help but felt put out about receiving calls for help from Tess. Readers will instantly become aware, long before Tess, that the two might never reconcile. As far as Tom is concerned, Tess has probable mental problems. Tess even concedes that reality as she sees it might not be wholly accurate.
The real problem, however, is Harry. Who is this kid? Where did the police take him? Where did he end up? And why does Tess embark on a crusade to answer all these questions?
I felt this novel was more plot driven than character driven. I thought the most interesting character was Tom rather than Tess. Following his character, I even thought this might be a novel involving a complex scheme of gaslighting. Tom was interesting up to that point. When it became apparent this was not the case, Tom became a bit boring but by that time the plot was moving along briskly so I was interested enough to finish the story.
I was not surprised by the ending but I was interested in how it came about; that kept me reading. This was an interesting but not complex story but it had the basis to be one (note gaslighting comment above). This story was more of a comfort read, not a gripping psychological thriller as the subtitle claims. I gave this three Amazon stars for lack of promised complexity.


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Trevor Palmer must sink or survive, quite literally. Choosing to manipulate the changing hands of his company for his own good, he relocates to the rough country of Idaho, in searching for his great great grandfather's mine.
Porsche has sworn off all men but meeting Trevor has changed her best laid plans, throwing her resolve to find the perfect man for her sister against her, stumbling head on into the ideal man for herself.
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Trevor Palmer must not only deal with his emotional loss but cope with being wheelchair bound. Paralyzed he must choose to move on with his life or let his misery consume him.
Mercedes has worked hard to get her job as a therapist for a new age rehabilitation clinic but will her creative therapy heal Trevor or bring them both to destruction? Trevor's disability may be more in his head with his Conversion Disorder but it may be physical as well.
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Trevor Palmer is paralyzed from his mining accident but it may be in his head with his Conversion disorder.
Mercedes has worked long and hard to become a therapist for a new age rehabilitation center but will she let her feelings for her patient overshadow her life when a family catastrophe hits her family?
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Shaunna Gonzales currently resides with her family in the greater Seattle area. Married over thirty years, her role as wife and mother of four continue to be her priorities.
A storyteller in her youth, she endevored to extend her love of stories to the written word and in 2005 began to write her first novel. Though that manuscript will remain buried, she has continued to learn.
Once told by her doctors that she would never leave her wheelchair -- due to her Multiple sclerosis. It has been tucked in a closet while she continues on. (In other words muddles on.)
Shaunna has worked as a professional reviewer for InD'Tales eMagazine for three years. In 2012 she also served as the vice president of Moonwriters, the on-line chapter of American Night Writers Association (ANWA She prefers to write romantic fiction and has ventured into the romantic suspense, and time-travel genres. Her debut novel, Dark Day s of Promise was released by Desert Breeze Publishing in 2012 re-released 2015.Although she prefers to spend her days writing, she is willing to share what she has learned from the school of life and is often found "giving back."
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The copy I received of the first book in this series was not a full book, so I will leave it to others to review that book. I did read books 2 and 3 in the series.
Book 2, In Her Hands, is a continuation of the story between Trevor and Porsche Roemer after an accident that has left Trevor wounded as much psychologically as physically. He believes Porsche is dead, his belief reinforced by being unable to contact her family in Idaho, the location of his copper mine where the accident took place. However, Porsche is still alive, but in a coma, and she still plays an interesting role in this story. I enjoyed the way the author wrote her character along with the other characters in this book.
Unbeknownst to him, Porsche's sister, Mercedes, becomes Trevor's physical therapist once he returns to his home in Las Vegas. As much as the two interact, it seems strange they don't make this connection, but they are both very private about their feelings regarding Porsche.
Meanwhile, the relationship between the two of them grows. There is a lot of sexually suggestive dialogue in the book—some of it might be typical since Trevor is a young man worried about how he as a paraplegic appears to women. Beyond that, the issues of dealing with health care employees coming into his home and the details about his therapy were interesting, especially in light of his doctor's suspicions about the true nature of his disability. I found that even though I did not read the first book in this series, there was enough information in this book that I could read it as a stand-alone without feeling lost because I hadn't read the first book.
Book 3 in the Live, Love and Repeat series, His Choice, continues the story of Trevor and Mercedes. Some of the same characters from book 2 were also present. It continues Trevor's progress with his physical therapy he receives from Mercedes, plus he chooses to take more responsibility in his own recovery. He also resolves the true nature of the feelings he had for Mercedes's sister, Porsche, and his sense of guilt over her loss.
I found the characters engaging in spite of there being quite a bit of sexually suggestive dialogue. It was interesting how the author dealt with the relationship that grew between Trevor and Mercedes. He wished to return to his mine in Idaho, and she refused to return for any length of time to the home where she felt she always lived in her sister's shadow. And, although Porsche has left her earth life, she still plays an interesting role in this three-book series until the end.
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"I highly recommend checking this out, as it is not only fantastical but also… Fantastic, Five out of Five Stars" - Robert Anderegg
"What's really striking is that all of the main characters are young women. Even in books starring female characters, it's rare for basically all of the page space to be dedicated to women, which makes Mae remarkable in just how well it focuses on them and their stories, making them distinct from one another. Mae and Dahlia are unapologetically dorky, and all three clearly have strong emotional ties and responses, leaving them feeling fully fleshed-out and individual." - Caitlin Rosberg
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"Action-packed… Older comics and graphic novel fans will be pleased with this sophisticated, adventure-heavy series, and they'll be delighted with the included bonus drawings, background details, and author note." - April Spisak
"I'm ordering a handful of copies of Mae for my Graphic Novel class. I always have a group of kids that love sci-fi/fantasy-type books, and this will be right up their alley. If you have loved ones or friends that are into sci-fi/fantasy books but don't want all of the blood, gore, and sex that often comes along with them, check this book out. Fun for most ages, appreciated by 13+."
- Eric Kallenborn
"I highly recommend it. This could very well be today's comic book form of The Wizard of Oz. 10.0/10"
"Ha has obviously been paying attention and honing his skills while working alongside comics luminaries like Moore, Meltzer, and Morrison...Ha's exuberance for the material is barely contained in these beautiful pages. This glorious positivity makes for a comic that wears its heart on its sleeve, which, fittingly enough, makes it Midwestern as heck. Warm-hearted and immersive, Mae already feels like a comic series I've been reading, voraciously, for years and years." - Molly Jane Kremer
"If you haven't checked out this fantastic book, you should really give it a try... Gene Ha has the start of something wonderful that can appeal to all ages. I feel that it is safe for younger readers to adventure into, while still appealing to my inner child; and hopefully yours as well. It reminds me of a time in my childhood when I believed anything was possible and like Alice; a simple looking glass could lead you down the rabbit hole into a glorious new world."
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"Mae manages to make you fall in love with a fantasy world you don't even see in the issue. The bond, or lack thereof, between sisters is intriguing and will make you want more. Above all else though, the art is jaw droppingly good from the colors to the layouts. Get this to be astounded in more ways than one." - David Brooke
"Gene Ha has nothing but magic to offer his readers. It's clear that this is his story, and that he's having a blast telling it. Every character feels well-cared for, with plenty of room for growth and swerving narratives …While the story itself is bombastic and exhilarating, the art takes it to whole new levels. Think 'Mario dons the raccoon suit and flies above the clouds' new levels… Don't pass this one up if you're a fan of donning your expedition cap and trekking headfirst into strange exploits." - Nikki Powers


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"There is no 'I' in team."
When I began my coaching career in the 80's, I bristled at the ludicrous idea of that saying. I realized that it was a statement that sounded cute yet was harmful to winning outcomes.
So, I taught athletes that there was, of course, an "I" in team if you just looked for it.
The legendary Michael Jordan would later say, "There's an 'I' in win," and that solidified what I taught. Players learned things like, "if 'I' am in condition, 'I' make my team better," " if 'I' mess around in class, 'I' harm my team."
Are you getting this? It is all about you, the "I" the most important thing in your life and the lives of others. Let's face it. The longer "I" skip being fit, the more "I" expose myself to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, et al. Crikey, there's a lot of 'I's in those words.
On the other hand, when "I" do get fit, "I" live longer and better for my family and for me, "I" earn more money in my career, and "I" protect myself from future bankruptcy. Listen, stop what you're doing right now, run to a mirror and look into it and say, "There is an 'I' in fit and 'I' need to make this happen."
George Mangum is the Fitness Director at Heritage Victor Valley Medical Group and spends his time helping teens, educators and seniors make fitness a lifestyle. He believes that fitness is the answer, and doesn't care what the question is.


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Problem 2: Indraneel's Pyramid, (K Narayan Kumar, CMI)
Indraneel would like a build a pyramid of wooden blocks. A pyramid is built by placing a square block, say N cms by N cms, at the base, place another square block N-1 cms by N-1 cms on top of that, a square block of N-2 cms by N-2 cms on top of that and so on, ending with a 1 cm by 1 cm block on top. The height of such a pyramid is N.
Indraneel has with him M rectangular blocks of wood. He is willing to shape them into square blocks. His only cutting tool is a shaver that can be used to shave off the wood from any edge to reduce its length. This means that he can never get two square blocks from a single rectangular block.
For example, suppose the dimensions of the rectangular blocks available with Indraneel are 8×8, 2×8, 2×1 and 2×2. Then, he can build a pyramid of height 3 (the 2×1 block can be shaved to give a 1×1 block, and the 8×8 block can be shaved down to a 3×3 block.)
Given the dimensions of the blocks available, your task is determine the height of the tallest pyramid that Indraneel can build.
Input format
The first line of the input contains a single integer M indicating the number of blocks of wood available. This is followed by M lines of input (lines 2, 3,...,M+1) each containing the description of a block. A block is described by two integers i and j indicating the lengths of the two sides of the block. No block is longer or wider than 1000000 cms.
Output format
A single line with a single integer indicating the height of the tallest pyramid that Indraneel can build.
Test Data:
You may assume that M ≤ 1000000. Recall that all block dimensions are bounded by 1000000 cms.
Here is the sample input and output corresponding to the example discussed above.
Sample Input
4 8 8 2 8 2 1 2 2
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Farming is so various and complex and inter-connected with everything else that people do, and with wild nature, that at this point it is hard to offer a coherent introduction to this section. Suffice to say only that we will look at all aspects of food production – but focusing in this section on the practice. The underlying science, the marketing, the economics and so on are all discussed elsewhere.
Rough structuring is certainly possible, however . Clearly we must have separate headings for Arable, Horticulture, and Livestock, the principal kinds of farm enterprise. The growth of interest in Agroforestry worldwide (or so it seems) is one of the few encouraging signs in the modern world. Aquaculture has often been neglected of late – but in the past it has often played a huge part worldwide and it could be of outstanding importance in the decades to come, particularly in shallow seas and brackish waters as the world warms up and coastal plains are flooded. The pros and problems of Organic farming (including Permaculture), is important in all contexts. So too are Farming for Wildlife, Farming in Cities, and the broad- brush notion of "The Multi-purpose Farm" – farms that double up as places for people to live, centres of learning and of care, spiritual renewal, and relaxation, havens for wildlife, sites for windmills, and so on. Each topic will surely give rise to various meta-discussions, too — such as monoculture versus polyculture, and so on and so on.


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In a nutshell, this was a brilliantly deranged and gorgeous collection of Betty Drapers. Totally unexpected, it was a surge of creativity with a deconstructed Sixties vibe. Eat your heart out, Don. For fall, Tomas Maier presented what he called a collection poised between "restraint and exuberance." Juxtaposing clean lines with elaborate surfaces, it aimed … Continue reading "Bottega Veneta Couture Fall 2011"
Could it be possible? Could Ferragamo had gone the way of sexy for fall? By every indication, that seemed to be the direction creative director Massimiliano Giornetti was taking, what with the slew of eighties and early nineties power women he drew inspiration from, from Sharon Stone to Melanie Griffith. As body conscious as this … Continue reading "Salvatore Ferragamo Fall 2011"
No one works the masculine-feminine mix better than Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. The powerhouse pair, via the prowess of first look model Arizona Muse, sent out a collection that was androgyny at its best. Double-breasted black jacquard jackets, cropped trousers and oxfords were as ever present as a long-sleeved corset dress in a bevy … Continue reading "Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2011"
Not quite content to let go the tribal, fringe-meets-animal print, vibe he's so masterfully tweaked over the years, Roberto Cavalli took his hippie girl vibe up multiple notches, infused in a boatload of feathers and layered on the party girl eye makeup. While the results seemed pretty monochromatic, or one dimensional, the Cavalli girl will … Continue reading "Roberto Cavalli Fall 2011"
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I understand that genetic engineering is very precise. From the color of our hair to how our toes look is all from genetic engineering. Anything you can think is from coding DNA. There are only certain genes code for certain proteins. They take a a gene from one and inserting it to a DNA of another. Supposedly DNA acts as an instruction manual. First you need to what DNA codes from what in order to edit the parts you want. Scientist can cut certain enzymes to cut certain parts of the DNA.Tags: freemont-high-school
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Viral infections are actually better treated with herbal prescriptions. Many scientists use herbal active ingredients for treatments of viral-based diseases such as AIDS, influenza. Unfortunately they mostly base their research on microscopic level of one or two active chemical ingredients from the herbs rather than the overall effectiveness of hundreds of natural chemical compounds found in the herbs. And they have neglected the usage of these herbs based on traditional theories such as characteristics, nature, taste, target organs of the herbs and so on.
If we read newspapers in Chinese language around the world, there are plenty of info about herbal treatments as well as precautions of influenza, and influenza A (H1N1; formerly Swine Flu) belongs to one of them. Different body types require different prescriptions. And different stages of the disease manifestations require alterations to prescriptions too. Therefore, the timing is crucial.
For precautions or strengthening our body immune system, one can use a formula such as: 防风 (Fang Feng) 6g, 黄芪 (Huang Qi) 12g, 白术 (Bai Zhu) 12g, 大枣 (Da Zao) 1pc. This formula is good for those who tend to sweat relatively more and get cold easily. The tongue impression should be pale and a little obese and pulse being weak. This formula also helps for people of weak digestion due to weak spleen. By enhancing the energy production of spleen and lungs, our bodies thus are able to generate a layer of protection around our skins, preventing us from catching cold and flu. If the local weather is hot, add 菊花 (Ju Hua) 9g.
Where as for people whose bodies are lacked of energy and inner fluid, the following formula can help to retain fluid in the body so as to prevent inner heat. They are: 党参 (Dang Shen) 12g, 麦冬 (Mai Dong) 9g, 五味子 (Wu Wei Zi) 6g. People with this body type tend to have less fur coating on the tongue and complain of dry mouth.
In terms of creating a shield around the skin to prevent flu infection, former prescription is more powerful. The later serves better in preserving yin fluid to prevent onset of sore throat, headache, itchy throat and so on.
There are also those whose bodies are of the heaty and mighty type. For this category of people, they can afford to take prescriptions that are more cooling and detoxifying: 夏枯草 (Xia Ku Cao) 15g, 板蓝根 (Ban Lan Gen) 9g, 金银花 (Jin Yin Hua) 9g, 紫花地丁 (Zi Hua Di Ding) 12g, 蒲公英 (Pu Gong Yin) 15g, 连翘 (Lian Qiao) 6g, 生甘草 (Sheng Gan Cao) 6g. This formula is also suitable for people who live in high-risk cities as it's very effective against viral threats. Do bear in mind that the cooling and bitter nature of these herbs can hurt the stomach and spleen functions if used for unnecessarily long period. Alterations is necessary to suit different manifestations due to local climate and seasonal changes.
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The reuse library (transaction SE83) has gone through various makeovers in standard SAP R/3. In Release 4.5B it served as central storage for the then new ABAP List Viewer (ALV). Given that ALV is a technical tool, the reuse library was designed primarily for developers and still has a pronounced technical bent. In Release 4.6C it was unveiled as a one-stop shop that facilitated learning (via documentation, examples, and samples) and access (e.g., via links to programs and function modules) to SAP technologies such as InfoSets, ALE/Docs, and ALV. Starting with R/3 Enterprise Release 4.7, the reuse library was significantly enhanced, making it versatile with respect to creating and maintaining your own reuse products and libraries. It still retains some of its technical bias but a non-technical person can leverage it as effortlessly as a technical one.
All SAP users should now have access to it without developer rights, unless the enterprise's security needs have dictated that the Basis or security administrator create a security role or profile around it that might prevent or restrict access.
Organizing and maintaining the components of a product or application is an important activity in the lifecycle of any SAP implementation from inception to the post-production phase. Numerous tools and technologies, including third-party solutions, aid this activity.
In some of the latest SAP releases, including R/3 Enterprise 4.7 and mySAP ERP 2004 and 2005, project stores such as Solution Manager and applications such as Document Management System (DMS), Knowledge Warehouse (KW), and Records Management — all neatly packaged as "Knowledge Management" and possibly delivered via the SAP NetWeaver Portal — can satisfy most of your needs when maintaining project deliverables. Other available repositories include the ASAP stores and IMG. One other tool — the tool into which I'll dive more deeply — has been available for several years and is often overlooked by project, implementation, and maintenance teams. It is the reuse library.
When Should You Use the Reuse Library?
The reuse library is not a substitute for KW, Solution Manager, the IMG, or any third-party solution. I recommend using it for the following purposes:
I'll focus on two transactions: SE83 (reuse library) and SLIBN (maintain reuse library). I'll discuss the other related transaction, SLIBP (maintain reuse product), in a subsequent article.
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This is part of a series on how to build a successful movement, based on readings and observations, where I want to express my critique of what has been happening in activist land, and present a way forward. I've decided not to use this version of this post because it is too "political" in my series. But I'm keeping it for reference.
Building Safe Houses and Alliances
Whenever I hear Bernie say "revolution", the music from the Beatles (or The Who) passes through my head. Most revolutions fail to achieve their goals because most revolutions are simply one fearless leader's efforts to create change top down. But anyone involved in changing things knows that that rarely happens. Some of the reasons for this are are;
- The cream rises to the top and curdles.
- Movements attract ambitious and/or conflictive people.
- Movements rarely are institutionalized well.
In this post I'm going to talk about institutionalization (and how to do it right to avoid those pitfalls).
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Institutionalizing a movement starts with creating Safe Houses.
Anyone who likes spy or Police Thrillers, knows they depend on providing safe houses for people. A safe house is a place where someone under attack can rest, recharge and take refuge from such attack. For any movement or effort, involving change, to succeed it has to provide safe spaces for it's members to function. These should include:
Sometimes an institution can serve multiple purposes. For example the "Historically Black Colleges" served all four functions for the civil rights movement starting with their founding around the time of the civil war. But without institutionalizing a movement and taking advantage of existing institutions, a movement becomes short term. And real movements sometimes take generations to accomplish all their purposes. They develop in the face of opposition. In last night's debate both democratic candidates talked about the Koch brothers as oppositional persons, but the real problem with them, and their allies such as Pete Peterson, is that they've built anti-movements with their own institutions and safe houses -- and taken over existing institutions as part of that movement building. Consequently Pete Peterson's efforts to degrade Social Security and other social programs in the name of "saving it" or the Koch brother's efforts to do the same will be well funded for a long time to come.
Going After "The Enemy's Institutions"
Furthermore the right wing understands the role of institutions and has been going after our institutions in response. There is a reason they went after ACORN so viciously and go after Planned Parenthood now. It has nothing to do with the groups alleged vices. They went after those groups because they provided training, job training and jobs for activists and supporters. They were liberal/progressive institutions. ACORN for instance, was able to get public funds for vital work like registering voters. And by getting those funds they were establishing the right to vote as a positive right and demonstrating its legitimacy. Thus the real target for the Right Wing's attacks on ACORN was not any peccadillos in it's administration, but its function as a liberal institution. It goes after Planned Parenthood for much the same reason.
Subverting and Taking over Institutions
The Right wing has also gone after public colleges and Universities. At one time those provided safe refuges for academics and thinkers who sometimes were also activists. And those academics and thinkers, in turn, taught people activism, and more importantly; taught people to think for themselves which was a kind of "permissiveness" that couldn't be tolerated. Taking over academia thus became a project of the Right Wing from before Reagan championed it as Governor of the State of California. One of the means was to replace Free State and Community Colleges with high cost tuition, and then saddle those costs as high interest debt. Reagan explicitly saw this as a war on "permissiveness." And it was his war taken up by other GOP leaders over time. The war was so successful that few people remember when the alternative was the case and people like Reagan could rail about "subversives" in academia. Now many Colleges and Universities have chairs that are funded by the right wing and are safe houses for ideas that would otherwise be Crank Right Wing nonsense. The Right Wing subverted first the business and then the Economic field, forcing liberal economists into internal (or external) exile and through such dominance was able to keep pushing Supply Side and Free Market tropes up until they failed again. Because these right wing posts are now institutionalized, they can keep defending and advocating for Right Wing causes within academia long after the facts demonstrated otherwise. Essentially they subverted the Economics field.
To me subversion is not about the "right" or "leftedness" of a position but it's integrity. The Right learned their techniques from the Old Left.
Building and Rebuilding our Institutions
Rather than getting angry about the subversion of our institutions, or the weakness of our movement, we need to be doing what our forefathers did -- building and rebuilding our own institutions. We already have liberal and progressive institutions. Some of them have been subverted from outside -- but they can be restored. And we need to improve the ones we have.
Creating Movement Centers by Collaboration and Organizing
For most of us the Democratic Party was a movement center in the abstract. But movement centers are places where people organize and organize the organized. Organizing starts with communing and communication. For example the author Aldon D. Morris, whose book "The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement" I've been studying the past few months devotes an entire chapter to the subject of "movement centers" when he talks about the Montgomery Alabama Civil Rights protest effort which eventually succeeded in desegregating Montgomery Alabama. He talks about how the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)and the Inter Civic Council (ICC) overcame factionalism and the egoism of their leaders and then collaborated and worked together to accomplish desegregation. He talks about how they were brought together to talk to one another and collaborate with both top down and bottom up communication channels. This started with creating the ICC as an "organization of Organizations". His book demonstrates how they succeeded magnificently once the leaders put aside turf wars and personal politics to work together.
For a movement to succeed, it cannot be about the ego or the turf of a particular leader. If it becomes that, it will fail. It will point fingers at allies and create division instead of unity. If it can develop capable leaders then if one leader fails or "goes to the darkside" the movement can overcome that.
A movement center is created when the people in a movement organize the leaders to work together. That requires them to help each other and avoid fighting over resources. That in turn requires folks to focus on building those resources by recruiting and fund raising strong enough to ensure there are sufficient resources to go around. Movements have to becomes safe places where those involved share a common dream and work together. Morris focuses on the role of Martin Luther King in supporting multiple organizations and getting people to collaborate. It was his ability to bring people together, get them planning and discussing concrete objectives and giving them specific roles so that they support each other that made his efforts successful. His ability to be involved with all the movements needed to succeed and support all of them was instrumental in their success.
Movement centers develop where people coordinate their efforts. Leaders perform their roles for the good of the movement and everyone focuses on the tasks necessary for the movement to succeed rather than personal ambitions.
The Democratic Party is potentially a movement center and a safe house for progressives. But to get it there requires the creation of institutions that can organize Democrats, build support for progressive policies, influence Democratic officers, legislators, executives and officials; and organize people to accomplish the goals of the movement. The Tea Party has been a movement because it's been able to organize within the GOP. Progressives can do that within the Democratic party even better. If we can turn our efforts into creating movement centers to run candidates for offices and participate in running the party.
Using modern IT capabilities we should be able to create a movement world wide.
Educational and Training Institutions
I already mentioned the Historically Black Colleges and their role in the civil rights movement. But they weren't the only ones. Morris talks extensively about the Role of a school known as "Highlander" in educating activists and providing safety for them.
Halfway Houses
The Highlander school acted both as an educational institution and as a halfway house. Sometimes it is necessary for a movement to use education as a tool to prepare people so they can accomplish movement goals. For example Highlander trained many future leaders of the Civil Rights movement. The list of people who passed through Highlander school reads like a Whose Who of the Civil Rights movement. The same can be said about the classes of particularly influential teachers such as the Reverend Kelly Miller Smith I wrote about in another blog post But the Highlander school also played a role in the genesis for a Civil literacy movement that was part of the Civil Rights effort to overcome the literacy tests that the South imposed on black people wanting to vote. This Citizenship Movement trained people in civics and prepared them to pass the South's abusive Literacy tests. It was so successful that Southern Authorities labeled Highlander a subversive organization and tried to shut it down as "communist." But also had to give up on making people pass them.
Modern Workforce Training and efforts to help people get into College and Apprentice programs can create halfway houses for folks trying to escape poverty and oppression in a manner very similar to the role that the Highlander school had.
Halfway houses provide a refuge for people who need our help, a moment to breathe, and the resources to accomplish their goals.
Income Resources
When I hear "revolutionaries" talk disparagingly about industry and corporations I think of Karl Marx's collaborator Frederick Engels -- who was an industrialists. Any organization trying to accomplish a worthwhile cause or to privilege a basic positive right, functions on resources. For any movement to be successful it must be institutionalized and part of that involves access to long term resources. The Capitalist system is oppressive because wealth, income and capital are maldistributed not because those things are necessarily evil. Even monks need to eat. Creating income resources for people is a necessary part of institutionalizing a movement along with creating communications resources and organizing people.
Sources and Further Readings
- the Reverend Kelly Miller Smith Article
- Aldon D. Morris
- Naked Power and the Civil Sphere [http://www.sociology.northwestern.edu/documents/faculty-docs/Morris-Sphere.pdf]
- Leadership in Social Movements Aldon Morris and Suzanne Staggenborg* [http://www.sociology.northwestern.edu/documents/faculty-docs/Morris-Leadership.pdf]
- Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing For Change [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300054866]
- Origins of the Civil Rights Movement by Aldon Morris (Amazon)
- Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Civil-Rights-Movements-Morris/dp/0029221307
- Carson Review:https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/03_02_br_carson.pdf


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Drawlab Entertainment is a boardgame publisher form Greece company, who also excels manufacturing plastic and metal components (such as miniatures, metal coins etc).
Drawlab Entertainment has started publshing board games in 2014 with Spells of Doom and since then continues with:
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and continues on 2018 with new titles, yet to be announced.
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"Legendary Metal Coins" A series of unique designed metal coins in 21 different thematic categories
"Legendary Dice Throwers" A twist in the idea of dice towers, with cool Dice Thrower catapulting the dice.
Drawlab Entertainment is dedicated in creating unique experiences for all games aiming on top quality and innovative ideas and themes in both gameplay but also component-wise.


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Is the smartphone market dead in the water? The flood of inexpensive smartphones rushing into consumer hands globally is relentlessly pushing down their average price. Observers whine that the smartphone market has become "commoditized," a slugfest over cost between copycat handsets loaded with near-identical features.
Innovation in one sense will slow down, as exciting, new smartphone features become few and far between. Instead, innovation will come from manufacturers incorporating premium smartphone capabilities into low-cost and mid-range handsets. This too will require talent and creative thinking, as manufacturers experiment to build premium hardware for a lower price — without giving up on profits.
In a new report from BI Intelligence, we explain why the smartphone market is still dynamic and growing in the solid double-digits, as consumers around the world enter the smartphone market for the first time. We break down where future growth will come from, and explain our reasons for forecasting that the average selling price of handsets will approach $US150 in four years.
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- Solid growth: We estimate smartphone shipments will grow 35% in 2014 to surpass 1 billion units shipped annually for the first time. Last year, shipments grew about 45%, reaching just shy of the 1 billion annual unit shipments milestone.
- The next billion smartphones: The next billion in smartphone shipments will come faster than the first billion did. It took about eight years to reach 1 billion annual units shipped, but with steady, new growth from emerging markets, we estimate the 2 billion annual shipments mark will be reached in 2017.
- Tapering: But because the base of smartphone shipments is much higher now, earlier growth rates are unsustainable and will continue to taper off in the coming years.
- Emerging markets: China will be at the forefront of new shipments growth. There will be about 600 million smartphone subscriptions in China by the end of 2014, which is nearly 50% growth over the estimated 400 million smartphone subscribers in 2013. China will account for a 35% share of global smartphone shipments in 2014.
- RIP, dumbphones: The end of the feature phone is in sight. We estimate smartphones will make up almost 70% of total mobile phone sales during 2014, and that share will gradually rise to almost 90% by 2018 as smartphones become more ubiquitous.
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Step into Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen, where the Jungle Cruise crew serves up hilarious corny jokes, silly idioms and entertaining puns along side some creative and unique food.
Casually called Skipper Canteen, the entertaining outpost restaurant is located deep inside the jungles of Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom Adventureland.
An outdoor pavilion welcomes diners with an island vacation flair, showcasing comfortable wicker chairs, green shutters and a beautiful glass ceiling with cooling fans.
Three uniquely themed rooms with quirky, British outpost decorations create a quiet escape from the theme park crowds. The Crew's Mess Hall is the largest dining area. There is also a Jungle Room and the S.E.A. room–the secret meeting place for the Society of Explorers and Adventurers.
Take a minute and check out each room–there are some silly and interesting finds!
Walls are decorated with artifacts, sculptures, maps, photographs, masks and baskets collected from many high adventure explorations of the world's tropical jungles.
Muted, but colorful, the walls and moldings are painted to look like worn wood and fresco-style plaster, with plenty of shutters and exotic travel details.
Tables are comfortably spaced and can accommodate large parties or small intimate couples. Seating is mostly cushioned chairs, but there are a few tables with one-sided, fabric-lined, booth seating.
The restaurant servers are rusty, I mean, trusty skippers 'taking a break' from narrating tongue-in-cheek tours aboard Disney's light-hearted Jungle Cruise expeditions. Clever jokes and silly puns create a fun and entertaining interaction between diners and servers.
A creative, wandering menu, fusing exotic flavors of South American, Asian, Latin, and African spices and cuisines, represents the rivers visited on a Jungle Cruise journey: The Amazon, African Congo, Nile and Mekong River.
Skipper Canteen servers both lunch and dinner and the menus for these two meals are identical.
Appetizers include Baladi Salad, an Egyptian creation made with Romaine lettuce, red peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, and parsley served with coriander mint vinaigrette and Ambasha bread croutons.
Though the portion was too small, I enjoyed the Falls Family Falafel made with chickpeas, garlic, onion, lemon juice and herbs served with white bean dip and a tomato and cucumber salad. Try the Orinoco Ida's Cachapas, which is corn pancakes, mojo-braised pork, black bean salad served with an avocado cream.
Entrees include Char Siu Pork served with Chinese broccoli and jasmine rice, noodle bowl with chicken, lamb chops and a sustainable fish option.
My daughter liked Skips Beefy Baked Pasta, an Egyptian dish with spiced braised beef, pasta, cheese and Béchamel sauce served with seasonable vegetables.
We also recommend the Curried Vegetable Crew Stew, served with coconut rice and seasonal vegetables.
Kid's meals include sustainable fish, grilled flank steak, mac-n-cheese, chicken and fresh fruit.
Desserts are the artistic showstoppers at this Magic Kingdom restaurant. The coconut bar with pineapple basil compote, vanilla ice cream, vanilla chiffon cake with coconut lime, white chocolate ganache was delicious and probably the reason we will return.
The Kungaloosh is an African inspired chocolate cake with caramelized bananas, cashew caramel ice cream, topped with coffee dush. Our favorite part was the cashew ice cream.
Traditional sodas and teas are served as well as coffee, espresso, cappuccino and lattes.
Skipper Canteen also serves a few select beer and wines.
The bold menu also offers fun non-alcoholic beverages, like exotic Coca Cola Guarana Kuat from Brazil and Fanta Melon Frosty from Thailand.
Yes, lunch and dinner menus are identical.
Lunch is served 11:30 a.m. to 2:55 p.m.
Dinner is served 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Operating hours for all Disney restaurants can change due to seasonal crowd levels and refurbishments.
Family-friendly, tongue-in-cheek narration mixed with clever jokes from the skippers makes this a fun and light-hearted restaurant.
The food plays second fiddle to the fun interactions with the servers.
Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen was very clean and the service was top-notch. Though the food was original and bold, there wasn't anything we desire to eat again, except the coconut bar dessert. The food was underwhelming.
The ambiance is relaxing and since this is not a character meal, it is a peaceful escape from the chaos and crowds outside.
Skipper Canteen is a must for die-hard Jungle Cruise fans.
Dress is casual.
A theme park ticket is required to dine at Skipper Canteen. The restaurant is inside the Magic Kingdom and remember, any restaurant inside a Disney theme park requires a ticket for entrance into that specific park.
To travel to Skipper Canteen, take any Disney transportation to Disney's Magic Kingdom theme park. Enter the park and take a left before the castle and head towards Adventureland. The restaurant will be on your right.
Advanced Dining Reservations (ADR) are highly recommended and can be made directly on the Disney website, through the My Disney Experience app on a smart phone or by calling 407-939-3463.
Current and full menus for every Walt Disney World restaurant can be found on the Disney website. Click on "Things to do", then click on "All Dining". Every restaurant is listed alphabetically. Click on the name of the restaurant and then click on "View Menu" off to the right of the middle photograph.
Skipper Canteen accepts the Disney dining plan.
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City Watch of Oldtown
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The City Watch of Oldtown is the formal policing and protection unit of Oldtown. They are commanded by Ser Moryn Tyrell.[1] They are not as well-trained as the City Watch of Lannisport.[2]
After losing to Uthor Underleaf in the Whitewalls tourney, Ser Duncan the Tall briefly considered joining the City Watch of Lannisport or Oldtown.[3]
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Appendix.
- ↑ So Spake Martin: Military Questions (June 21, 2001)
- ↑ The Mystery Knight.


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On Sunday, July 27, 2014, we drove short Washington State Route 308 from one naval base to a brick wall.
State route No. 308:
A state highway to be known as state route number 308 is established as follows:
Beginning at a junction with state route number 3, thence easterly to Keyport.
Careful not to turn down the road toward the men with guns who guarded the Bangor nuclear submarine base, we start Highway 308 facing the other direction at the interchange with SR 3.
A mile and a half later, we're at the halfway point of Highway 308, which has no more junctions. So I asked Chunlin to photograph the dense forest.
And then we reached a brick wall. But first, actually, we crossed a causeway over an arm of Liberty Bay and entered Keyport. The submarine museum is a giant industrial-looking building. We entered the town, but after just a couple blocks, Highway 308 ended here at this wall. I had an urge to "drive to the end" by bumping my car against the wall, but I thought better of it. Men with guns, you know.
The street continues on the other side of the wall. If only...


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Denver May Create Law to Allow Cannabis Consumption at Restaurants and BarsLeafly StaffSeptember 21, 2015
A new policy in Denver could curb the city's public cannabis consumption issues while helping business owners branch out into cannabis tourism. An NPR report has highlighted a partnership between the Marijuana Policy Project's Mason Tvert and Councilman Albus Brooks which proposes the legalization of cannabis bars and clubs in Denver. The proposal could lead to the explosion of a more robust cannabis tourism industry in Denver, putting it alongside Amsterdam as one of the world's premier destinations for canna-seurs.
One driving factor behind the policy are the 1,000-plus public consumption cannabis citations handed out by Denver's police last year, a 471% increase since marijuana became legal in Colorado. "Our intention with pursuing this initiative was to reduce the likelihood that adults would consume marijuana publicly on the streets or in parks and instead consume it in private establishments," Tvert told NPR.
The proposal is facing a mixed reaction from restaurant and bar owners in Denver, but some believe it is just a matter of time before some kind of legislation around the issue is passed. While details and timeline of the plan are still in flux, it can be seen as a positive step for tourists, residents, and businesses alike in the effort to safely legalize all aspects of cannabis consumption in Colorado.


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