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The Articles of Faith
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Chapter 1
1 We abelieve in bGod, the Eternal Father, and in His cSon, Jesus Christ, and in the dHoly Ghost.
2 We believe that men will be apunished for their bown sins, and not for cAdam's transgression.
3 We believe that through the aAtonement of Christ, all bmankind may be csaved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
4 We believe that the first principles and aordinances of the Gospel are: first, bFaith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, cRepentance; third, dBaptism by eimmersion for the fremission of sins; fourth, Laying on of ghands for the hgift of the Holy Ghost.
5 We believe that a man must be acalled of God, by bprophecy, and by the laying on of chands by those who are in dauthority, to epreach the Gospel and administer in the fordinances thereof.
6 We believe in the same aorganization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, bprophets, cpastors, dteachers, eevangelists, and so forth.
7 We believe in the agift of btongues, cprophecy, drevelation, evisions, fhealing, ginterpretation of tongues, and so forth.
8 We believe the aBible to be the bword of God as far as it is translated ccorrectly; we also believe the dBook of Mormon to be the word of God.
9 We believe all that God has arevealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet breveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
10 We believe in the literal agathering of Israel and in the restoration of the bTen Tribes; that cZion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will dreign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be erenewed and receive its fparadisiacal gglory.
11 We claim the aprivilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the bdictates of our own cconscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them dworship how, where, or what they may.
12 We believe in being asubject to bkings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in cobeying, honoring, and sustaining the dlaw.
13 aWe believe in being bhonest, true, cchaste, dbenevolent, virtuous, and in doing egood to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we fhope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to gendure all things. If there is anything hvirtuous, ilovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
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text: Keuffel & Esser, Pickett, Dietzgen, and other major slide rule companies often included an instruction manual in the purchase of the instrument. Some donors have provided these booklets and other paper items, such as advertising flyers, directions for cleaning slide rules, warranty certificates, and even cash register receipts. The Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago previously owned and displayed one of the Thacher cylindrical slide rules, and it arrived with its exhibit label. To see the instruction manuals alongside the objects they explained, please see the index by makers & retailers page.


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Police in the southern coastal town of Lewes say the 78-year-old Donaldson was stopped Dec. 1 for a traffic violation. Police say the officer determined Donaldson had been drinking and gave him field sobriety tests.
Donaldson was arrested and later released.
Court officials said Thursday that Donaldson waived the arraignment set for Friday. The case has not yet been scheduled for trial.
Donaldson was twice chief White House correspondent for ABC News, covering Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. He also co-hosted "PrimeTime Live" with Diane Sawyer and the ABC News Sunday morning broadcast "This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts."


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Symptoms: Friends of the Fear
Every case of fear of severely criticized is a little different.
Why? Because the core of the problem – the patterns of thinking, the images, movies, sounds and dialog that are internally associated with severe punishment – are different in each person.
(Note that most cures offered for fear of severely criticized – expecially using drugs and medications – will tackle only the symptoms, not the thinking that is the actual core of the problem).
But while the 'internal representations' as they are called are different from person to person there are a number of symptoms which are common to many rhabdophobes:
- A feeling of uncontrollable anxiety when you think about or are exposed to severe punishment
- The feeling that you must do everything possible to avoid severe punishment
- The inability to function normally because of your anxiety
- Often, the knowledge that your fears are unreasonable or exaggerated but feeling powerless to control them
Rhabdophobic symptoms can be mental, emotional and physical. The anxiety and fear can go from mild feelings of apprehension to a full-blown panic attack.
Typically, the closer you are to what you're afraid of, the greater your fear will be. You can test the severity of your problem with this 2-minute online fear of severely criticized test.
But because the fear is a physical response to patterns of thinking about severe punishment and not the actual severe punishment almost all people with fear of severely criticized can create a very strong reaction just by using their mind.
> For help chaging these patterns of thinking, read this article How to Overcome Fear of Severely Criticized.
Mental Symptoms
- Obsessive Thoughts
- Difficulty thinking about anything other than the fear
- Really bad images and/or movies of severe punishment
- Feelings of unreality or of being detached from yourself
- Fear of losing control or going crazy
- Fear of fainting
Emotional Symptoms:
- Anticipatory Anxiety: Persistent worrying about upcoming events that involve severe punishment
- Terror: A persistent and overwhelming fear of the same
- Desire to Flee: An intense instinct to leave the situation (which is tough when its purely in the mind)
While not generally experienced at the same time as fear of severely criticized episode, we find that overall when they think about their past, most clients have elevated levels of one or more of:
- Anger, Sadness, Fear, Hurt & Guilt
Physical Symptoms:
- Dizziness, shaking, palpitations.
- Shortness of breath or smothering sensation
- Palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate
- Chest pain or discomfort
- Trembling or shaking
- Feeling of choking
- Sweating
- Nausea or stomach distress
- Feeling unsteady, dizzy, lightheaded, or faint
- Numbness or tingling sensations
- Hot or cold flashes
Next Action
- Get One on One Help:
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Gluten-Free Goddess Flourless Chocolate Cake
Ah, flourless chocolate cake. The perfect rich dessert.
Forgive the hyperbole. But I just can't help it. This is rich, sexy chocolate deliciousness on a plate. And such an easy recipe, especially if you use a food processor to do the work. Serve this to non-gluten-free folks with no apologies. None. Zip. Nada. And for gluten-free folks? Hand out seconds (we deserve it, don't we?).
And the best part is- the recipe is inherently gluten-free and wheat-free. Always has been. No substitutions. No funny stuff.
This is the same flourless chocolate cake I've been making for decades. It never contained flour. The only thing I've tweaked post-celiac diagnosis is adding more coffee and vanilla.
Just because.
And PS: See below why I make this recipe in a food processor- thanks to Bobby Flay.
Happy SPRING!
Karina xo
Gluten-Free Goddess Flourless Chocolate Cake
This flourless chocolate cake is my go-to gluten-free dessert whenever I'm having guests. Everyone loves it.
Recipe originally posted 2007 by Karina Allrich.
Recipe originally posted 2007 by Karina Allrich.
16 oz. solid dark chocolate
1 cup organic light brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup organic white cane sugar
3/4 cup very hot strong coffee
2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature, cut into pieces
2 tablespoons unsweetened organic cocoa powder
8 large organic free-range eggs
1 tablespoon bourbon vanilla extract
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Prepare a 10-cup Springform pan by lining the bottom with a circle of buttered parchment. Wrap the outside of the whole pan (underneath, to catch any leaks) with a big piece of foil.
Break up the dark chocolate into pieces and pour the chocolate into the bowl of the food processor. Pulse until the chocolate breaks up into small bits. Add the sugar. Pulse until the chocolate and sugar turns into an even, sandy grain.
Pour the hot water or coffee slowly into the feed tube as you pulse again. Pulse until the chocolate is melted. Magic!
Add the butter pieces and the cocoa powder, and pulse to combine. Add the eggs and vanilla, and process till smooth. The batter will be liquid and creamy.
*Note for cooks across the pond: One stick of butter here equals 8 tablespoons, or one half cup, 4 oz.
Pour the batter into the lined Springform pan.
Bake at 350º F in the center of the oven, till puffed and cracked and lovely - about 55 to 65 minutes. (Note - it took an hour plus 15 minutes when I baked this at high altitude.) Use a wooden toothpick to check the center of the cake; pick should emerge clean, with maybe a crumb.
Place the cake pan on a wire rack to cool. The cake will deflate. Don't worry! When cooled a bit, press down on it gently with a spatula to make it even, if you wish. Or not.
When the cake is completely cooled, cover, and chill it for at least three hours (best up to eight hours), until serving. Overnight is even better.
Serve thin slices with drizzled chocolate sauce or a sprinkle of sifted powdered sugar. Garnish with a fresh berries or mint leaves.
Yield: 12 servings
Prep Time: 15 mins.
Total time: 1 hrs. 15 mins.
Recipe Source: glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com
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I'm often asked if this recipe can be veganized- made without eggs and butter. While a butter sub might work- I'm sorry to say that the recipe really relies on the eggs for structure and rise- and no vegan egg substitute is going to replace eight eggs.
That said--- the good news is that I have developed a technically flourless vegan chocolate cake recipe that is fudgy, rich and delicious. So if you are craving chocolate scoot on over to my Vegan Flourless Chocolate Cake Recipe. Or try my vegan Mexican Chocolate Cake.


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NEW YORK — Lovers of the unusual are getting another chance to impress their Valentines this year in New York City.
The Department of Environmental Protection is again offering Valentine's Day tours of the Newtown Creek sewage treatment plant in Brooklyn's Greenpoint section.
The DEP says it's offering three tours this year due to "overwhelming demand."
The 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. tours were quickly filled. So another was added at 11 a.m. Thursday.
Highlights include the plant's giant egg-shaped digesters, which break down noxious waste into harmless sludge and gas.
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When Asana was announced, founder Dustin Moskovitz posed this problem: No matter how enthusiastically a company or team may adopt project management software (e.g. Basecamp, SharePoint, Pivotal Tracker), and no matter how purpose-built, how feature-laden it may be, the users inevitably end up resorting to such crude implements as Notepad and email. The reason, he speculated, is that those overloaded suites are just too complex, and present too much friction between the thought and the action. Notepad and email are just quicker and easier. How convenient it would be to have something as instantly usable as our perennial standbys but, you know, actually quantifiable.
Enter Asana.
Is there a stable middle ground between the structured, (read: limited) world of traditional project management software and the formless, limitless sandbox of Notepad and email? That's what I set to find out. I was skeptical enough. Moskovitz comes from Facebook, a company not known for respecting its users. Fortunately, as it turns out, the product made the right impression on me.
Asana differs from its competition down to its DNA—its founder comes from a consumer software background and it shows. B2C idioms are conspicuously absent in the atavistic world of enterprise software. The difference is evident at first glance: Everything is intuitive and immediately usable without any sort of training, and the interface is completely devoid of those cheap-looking rough edges that characterize old school enterprise. In the old days, monolithic bureaucracies could impose dated and unpleasant software on their employees but those days are over and Asana seems to get that.
The driving force behind this ease of use is the fact that everything is one click or tab away—the entire experience feels 95% native, despite living entirely in the browser. See a piece of text? You can edit it by clicking and typing. That's it. No separate edit screens or pop-up windows, not a single trace of markup. Everything is WYSIWYG to remove any sort of barrier between thought and action.
Asana's information topography mapped for you… and only you!
In keeping with its free-form nature, Asana has a relatively straightforward—and extensible—information hierarchy.
- Each user belongs to a number of workspaces (I). The default workspace comprises the user's personal projects but the user can create new workspaces (companies, organizations, etc) or be invited to others.
- A workspace contains projects (II).
- A project is composed of tasks (III) which, in turn, contain optional subtasks (IV).
- Subtasks can contain sub-subtasks and so on (V).
That adds up to four default levels of information topography and an unlimited number more, should it become necessary. Tasks and all sub-levels can also be tagged.
The Experience
Moskovitz boasted of $10,000 stipends for each developer to create his or her own personal workstation simply to emphasize their focus on a potent product. Indeed, Asana contains miles of code poured into its user experience, and it shows. Asana piously adheres to nearly every UX idiom and best practice with abundant grab handles, subtle hover effects, and extremely contextual help cues unobtrusively sitting at the bottom of the screen. I found I was able to control practically everything with my keyboard, almost never resorting to my mouse. Power users will rejoice. After the short learning curve is mounted, the software is often a joy to use, with a paper-thin barrier between intent and action. Moskovitz may have come from Facebook, but he has thankfully taken an utterly different attitude toward the user.
While Asana scrupulously minds its Ps and Qs, it does make some missteps when tackling deeper usability issues. I mentioned the infinitely extensible information hierarchy earlier. This feature was added well after the product release and, without it, the entire course of this review would be different. However, as important an addition as it is, its deficiencies underscore a deeper problem in Asana, one not solved by following established UX guidelines.
It's easy to get lost in the maze of subtasks
Originally the product had no subtasks. Projects were limited in complexity by this shortcoming, though tags could be pressed into duty as a sort of uncomfortable intermediate level. Now, however, the gloves are off. On a task, one can add subtasks. On a subtask, one can add sub-subtasks. Any level of complexity is possible. If you're building an interplanetary spacecraft, you can coordinate the project on Asana. Unfortunately, navigating these subtasks is perilous. Asana's experience takes place across three panes. The leftmost supports two levels of hierarchy (workspace and project), the center—by far the largest—supports just one (tasks), while the rightmost must support subtasks, sub-subtasks, and everything beyond. This is far from an efficient use of space, but even outside of that inefficiency there are other issues.
The hierarchy of information flows in a zig-zag manner, back-and-forth across the screen, but once it hits the task-level pane on the right, it ceases to move in two-dimensional space. Subtasks are visible, but any content in the subtasks and deeper levels of information is completely hidden. A task may have three subtasks, but there is no way of knowing how deep the rabbit hole goes, or which subtasks go the deepest and widest.
Indeed, the existence of task levels deeper than sub-task is obscure. Subtasks et al do not behave like tasks that can be viewed with a single click anywhere. On a selected subtask, a speech balloon indicates the ability to add comments and clicking it allows one to view the subtask the way they view a task, but accessing this view and subsequently lower level views is unintuitive and illogical. Meanwhile, in the middle of the screen, very little happens. The user can navigate tasks but cannot expand them in this pane; it has to happen on the right. On the right, tasks cannot be expanded tree-style either, which would go a long way toward unclogging this information traffic jam.
Adding a feature to collapse or expand task trees would go a long way to making transparent an opaque pile of information. Hitting the "+" button would expose another level down while the "-" button would hide the lowest visible level.
Deeper Issues
While the problem of navigating information hierarchy is not terribly hard to solve, it illustrates the issues behind the challenge that Asana has attempted to solve. The original problem statement was the tension between orthogonal approaches to project management—structured and limited versus free form and wild. Asana makes great strides forward breaking down the barriers between thought and action but it gets waylaid once the information structure of a project becomes complex.
Creating a happy middle ground inevitably entails avoiding creating an unhappy middle ground. The latter happens when you mix the weaknesses instead of the strengths of both sides. While Asana does draw from the strengths of both Notepad and project management software, it occasionally draws from the weaknesses of both. Even though the software trades on its free-form nature, its three panes become a prison. The center and right panes, where most of the action happens, cannot be resized so if the action starts to center around the subtasks at the right, there's no way to make that section larger. Meanwhile, the function of the center pane is so limited and the function of the right so counterintuitive that the free-form data exploration is stymied.
Conversely, Asana is equally hobbled by some of its misguided efforts to come across as less structured. The bland grey workspace punctuated by sparse flourishes of blue certainly conveys Moskovitz's vision of Notepad-like neutrality, but it's misleading. In the leftmost pane, recently-accessed projects and tags are not strongly separated visually from the complete list of projects. Colors are not utilized to correlate one pane to another. And in light of the fact that the program is not always as free as it would seem, the implicit neutrality of the color(less) scheme could cause cognitive dissonance to a user who wonders why they don't feel as unencumbered as they should.
Even a subtle change like breaking a hole in the wall between the left and center panes goes a long way toward correlating linked elements.
The Takeaway
As of 2012, the general trend of web applications—possibly a side effect of the "lean" obsession—has been to reduce them to stultifying one-trick-ponies, completely idiomatically removed from the absolute freedom of the old school email and text editors we know and love. Facebook is attempting to shepherd its users away from open-ended email into their walled garden where the tenor of communication is seemingly dictated by Zuckerberg's whims. In the world of UX, the potent and equally open-ended Adobe Illustrator is besieged by toys like Balsamiq, Axure, Mockingbird, and Omnigraffle. Everything appears to be moving in one direction—therefore it is amazing to see such trend-defiance from an ex-Facebooker.
If we ever want to see a return to the user-empowering sandbox tools of the good old days, current tools will have to amalgamate those timeless strengths with the advances of the last decade. This means frictionless inter-platform experiences, pervasively social workflow, and nonexistent thought-action gap. It takes a deft UX touch to establish a stable middle ground between the anarchy and totalitarianism, but in doing so, Asana could collapse the entire productivity category.
Given Asana's continual improvement we can expect its problems to be solved sooner than later. But for those looking for a lesson here, it's this: if you're going to ride up the middle between two genres, you're playing a dangerous game. Be sure to pull the best of both worlds and not the worst. With Asana that means not imprisoning users in three improperly utilized panes and using graphical cues honestly to convey freedom where it exists and structure where it exists in the form of constraints and affordances.
The other takeaway is that Asana is probably the best project management software out there, despite its shortcomings. Use whichever takeaway suits you.


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When purchasing or selling a Trailer in Arkansas you always want to document the transfer of vehicle from the seller to the buyer. Typically this is done by signing the "Transfer by Owner" or "Assignment" section on the rear of the original title. We also suggest securing a valid Arkansas bill of sale to properly document the sale including the sales price, condition of the trailer, and hold harmless language to protect the buyer and seller.
Why Do You Need a Bill of Sale?
There are two general reasons why you want to get a Bill of Sale in Arkansas when purchasing or selling a Trailer:
1. These vehicles can be very expensive. Whether you giving or receiving cash for an item, you want proof of the transaction in the event someone makes a claim against ownership (if you are the buyer) or if someone is injured by or on the trailer (if you are the seller). It is a simple form of insurance.
2. Your state may require the trailer be registered with the department of motor vehicles. A proper bill of sale will be necessary when applying for registration as you will need to show ownership of the trailer.
In short, a properly executed Bill of Sale will protect you from future liabilities and allow you to register the vehicle.
What Does a Bill of Sale Need to be Valid?
A bill of sale acts as a contract between the buyer and seller of a Trailer. Each state has different rules for what they consider a valid bill of sale, but a contract itself must abide by the following rules:
Offer: The agreement to exchange the vehicle for an amount of money. May also include conditions of the sale for the buyer and the seller.
Consideration: The amount of money being exchanged. Usually in a numeric and written form.
Acceptance: Signatures of both parties on the bill of sale.
Competant Parties and Legal Intent: Both parties entering the contract must be competant (age, mental capacity, and not impaired or forced). The contract is also valid only if it is lawful. A contract to complete an illegal act is not binding.
What Should the Buyer do with the Bill of Sale?
After you have made your purchase and received an executed bill of sale the first thing you should do is put it in a secured location. If lost, you won't be able to apply for registration, won't be able to prove ownership if someone claims the vehicle is theirs, and you may have some difficulty selling. We always suggest locking up your bill of sale in a filing cabinet or safe, where a combination or key is needed to access
If applying for vehicle registration, most states now have an online registration portal you can use in which case you will need an electronic copy of the document.
Does the Seller Need a Copy?
We also suggest both the seller keep a copy of the Bill of Sale, and the buyer keep the original. This will ensure the seller can document the sale of their vehicle if property is damaged or someone is injured during its use.
Arkansas Trailer Bill of Sale Template


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What's in this year's gardening 'forecast?'
April 22, 2013 By M.L. Johnson The Associated Press
April 22, 2013, Milwaukee, Wis. — There's no question that Eric Ciula
picked a bad year to get into a competition for growing the biggest
April 22, 2013, Milwaukee, Wis. — There's no question that Eric Ciula picked a bad year to get into a competition for growing the biggest tomato.
The worst U.S. drought in decades was gripping two-thirds of the nation, and many gardeners were spending hours watering just to keep their plants alive.
But Ciula won his family's 2012 contest with an heirloom tomato that was just shy of two pounds. He credits his soil preparation and some experimental growing techniques, but he admits it was largely "dumb luck.''
"I didn't know we were going to have a drought, I was just trying something new,'' Ciula said.
April is a planning month for gardeners throughout the middle of the country, and many are trying to figure out what to do amid rapidly shifting weather conditions.
Ciula himself spent a recent rainy day going through his notes, researching tomato and pepper varieties and combing gardening blogs for new ideas. A cold spring and recent rain helped break the drought in parts of Wisconsin and to the east, but areas west remain dry.
More rain than usual is expected this spring, said Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Centre. But he noted last year's drought sneaked up on everyone, emerging over a couple of weeks in June.
With nothing certain, one expert said there a few things gardeners can do to foster success – regardless of weather conditions.
Mulch works wonders, according to Tim Johnson, director of horticulture at the Chicago Botanic Garden. It helps keep moisture in the soil, protects plants from extreme temperature, helps control weeds and, as it breaks down, improves the soil.
Johnson said shredded hardwood bark mulch is commonly used for flower gardens where he lives, but for vegetable gardens, he would use leaf mulch or apply compost.
Many gardeners water each day, but Johnson recommends saving time by doing it once a week with a big drink.
Perennials, trees and shrubs can be starved of water a bit without permanent damage, but gardeners need to watch for drooping or discoloured leaves.
"If you have a perennial garden or a shrub garden, and things are starting to brown up, you probably should water to save them,'' Johnson said.
Jean Roach, a 71-year-old retiree from Joliet, Ill., took that approach last summer with her perennials. She gave extra water to a few new plants she was trying to get established, but unless the older ones started wilting, she left them alone.
"They survived,'' she said, noting that her Lenten roses have already bloomed. "Thank God. Perennials are just so hardy.''
Vegetable gardens, however, are another story. Johnson said those need more water and on a regular basis. To help, till in compost to add nutrients and break up the soil so roots can more easily push down to moisture below the surface.
Ciula, a 40-year-old civil engineer, said he put peat moss into his 12-by-22-foot garden in Cottage Grove, Wis., and then layered mulch and straw on top to help hold in moisture.
He let his tomatoes – the focus of the family competition – get six or seven feet tall, but only caged them to four feet. The tops flowed over and created a canopy that he believes also helped hold in moisture.
Despite the drought and an abnormal number of days over 90 degrees, Ciula got 100 pounds of tomatoes from seven plants. He said he's not sure he would try the canopy in a wetter year, but he plans to stick with the layering, as it helped reduce weeds.
Alison Hess, a 35-year-old graphic designer from Columbus, Ohio, largely gave up last year. A number of her tomato plants didn't blossom, and then an animal began eating the fruit that did grow.
The one bit of success she did have was laying four tomato plants out in a Japanese ring. She shaped a trellis into a square, placed burlap inside and then filled it with compost. Then, she planted the tomato plants around the outside of the trellis.
She would pour water into the middle of the trellis, allowing it to flow through the compost before spreading out to the plants.
"I think the idea is that the plants are getting a constant drip of nutrition,'' Hess said, adding, "It worked, and I got a lot of tomatoes off of those four plants.'' She plans to do the same thing again this year.
The best water, however, is always stormwater. Rain cools down the atmosphere, washes dust from leaves and helps clear the air of pollutants – three things that foster photosynthesis, said Boyce Tankersley, the director of living plant documentation at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Tankersley, who monitors the garden's plants and growing conditions, said thunderstorms are even more beneficial because lightning gives off some nitrogen.
"The nitrogen is dissolved in the rainwater, and … you also get a small amount of fertilization,'' he said.
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Ace of Swords Tarot Card Meanings
Stay focused and resolute, for you are about to reach your objective.
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This suit represents the rational mind and its ability to discriminate. Swords cut through things in order to pierce illusion, to differentiate between fantasy and reality.
In the image of this Ace, a single upraised sword represents your prime motive or guiding ideal -- the vision that guides you through life's changing fortunes with single-minded clarity.
The sword is sometimes shown piercing a silver and/or laurel crown, a symbol of optimism implying evolution, progress, a sense of hope and victory. It is occasionally shown pointed downwards -- a darker message, which refers to sacrifice, challenges and a critical environment.
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The Ace of Swords reversed suggests that you are not allowing yourself to see the one thing that matters most. You may be using reason to create rather than cut through obstacles.
Stop clinging to illusions. Look again at your biases, the preconceptions you bring to situations. Ask yourself how you could represent circumstances in a less self-serving manner and perhaps get a better outcome. Reexamine your perspective so you can help break down barriers.
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The Ace of Swords in this position advises you to be steady--you are about to reach your objective. There may be no need to hesitate. Just concentrate on making your impact. This could be your moment. The arrow is pointed straight at the target. Your eye is keen, your grip is firm. Let that arrow fly! If you set aside distractions and hit your mark, you will be rewarded with insight and clarity.
Remember that this is not the time to hold back, worrying about the consequences. When you access this level of truth, you are very likely to cut through all illusion and nonsense.


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KUALA LUMPUR // Carried by soldiers and draped in the national flag, coffins carrying Malaysian victims of Flight MH17 returned home Friday to a country still searching for those on-board another doomed jet and a government battling the political fallout of the twin tragedies.
The bodies and ashes of 20 victims from the Malaysia Airlines jet that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July were given full military honours and a day of national mourning was declared, the first in the country's history.
Many people in offices in the nation of 30 million observed a minute's silence as the hearses were driven from the tarmac of Kuala Lumpur International Airport to private funerals. Some public trains in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, stopped operating.
All 298 people on-board died when the jet was shot down over an area of Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. The victims included 43 Malaysians and 195 Dutch nationals. An international investigation is continuing, but no one has been arrested.
The return of the bodies also represented a political triumph for prime minister Najib Razak, whose already shaky popularity ratings were hit by his handling of the still unsolved disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and its 239 passengers and crew in March.
"Today we mourn the loss of our people. Today, we begin to bring them home," Mr Najib said in a statement. "Our thoughts and our prayers are with the families and friends of those who lost their lives. Today we stand with you, united as one."
Mr Najib claimed personal credit for negotiating a deal with pro-Russian separatists for the return of all the bodies of the 298 people on board. Few details have been released over what the separatists were given in return, and some critics have said that the negotiations with people many regard as terrorists set a dangerous precedent.
"Everyone wants closure for the families, there is no question," said Bridget Welsh, a research associate at the National Taiwan University. "But on the other hand, they (Najib's advisers) saw this as an opportunity for him to look good. It was critical for the government to be seen as responsive and differentiate itself from the handling of MH370."
The victims were carried aboard a specially chartered Malaysia Airlines jet from Amsterdam, where they were taken from the crash site. Three had already been cremated. The coffins were individually lowered from the plane and slowly carried by teams of eight soldiers to waiting hearses.
"They were casualties of war, unfortunately, and the world community needs to work toward a solution to these conflicts," said Abdul Mueiem, a Malaysia Airlines pilot who attended the ceremony. "Everyone is feeling sad and depressed, but the important thing is that Malaysia Airlines is one big family, and we are together with the nation."
The repatriation was the first of the Malaysian passengers and crew on the flight. The government has said that the bodies of the remaining Malaysians would follow soon.
The country may never witness a similar homecoming for the victims on board Flight 370. The plane went missing on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and is believed to have crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean.
After several surface and underwater searches have turned up nothing, a new underwater search is expected to begin in September and take up to a year to search 60,000 square kilometres (23,000 square miles) of the Indian Ocean seabed.
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Do You Need A HIPAA Risk Assessment?
As a health care provider or owner of a health facility, you know about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. You know that you must safeguard and protect confidential patient medical information to avoid civil and criminal penalties against you and your practice. Did you know that you may need a HIPAA Risk Assessment?
If You Are A Health Care Provider You Face an Audit Risk.
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is stepping up enforcement around the country of "covered entities" and business associates. OCR auditors will send a letter informing you that within 30 days, they will be in your office reviewing your organization and interviewing your key staff members. If the auditor finds flaws with your office, you will be made aware of them, and then re-reviewed later, if you are not first fined or otherwise sanctioned. It is a very real and likely situation that many practices, facilities, and their business associates will be faced with in the coming months and years.
Frequently, an investigation into HIPAA violations is started due to disgruntled employees, patient complaints, theft or loss of records, security breaches, and improper disclosure.
A HIPAA Risk Assessment is Mandatory by Law.
[c]onduct an accurate and thorough assessment of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information held by the covered entity.
To see this regulation in full, go to http://law.justia.com/cfr/title45/45-220.127.116.11.18.104.22.168.html.
Practices Big and Small Can Be Audited.
All of these stories had something in common: they did not conduct a HIPAA risk assessment, they did not implement administrative safeguards, and they were fined a lot of money. Could your practice afford that sort of cost? Not to mention the potential criminal liability that comes with privacy violations.
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A HIPAA risk assessment can significantly reduce, if not entirely eliminate, your exposure to regulatory and litigation sanctions. It will identify areas for improvement and allow them to be corrected before an auditor finds the issue and causes unwanted problems for you and your practice.
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List of Internet Applications
From Openmoko
Software for using the Internet like web browsing, instant messaging and many more.
Midori is a WebKit based web browser.
Source Code released:Can't find.
Minimo is a Mozilla based web browser. It features full AJAX support and other goodies. It is listed as an alternative to the standard Webkit based browser.
Source Code released:Can't find.
A web browser.
Source Code released:Can't find.
Chat and IM
Instant Messaging Source code released:http://www.pidgin.im/download/source/
The Qtopia mail and SMS application, default Messages application on Om 2008.8
Source Code released:Can't find.
Openmoko Mail
Openmoko Mail is a mail client software, based on libtinymail.
Sourece Code released: https://projects.openmoko.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/?root=openmoko-mail
RSS feed reader (displays articles as plain text)
Source Code released:http://neo1973-germany.de/svn/pyFeedRead/trunk/src/
Mokopedia is one of the applications that runs on the Openmoko Phones. For a list of all applications, visit Applications
Read Wikipedia offline from small optimized dumps
This project aims to provide software to create and use small size wikipedia dumps for embedded Linux devices.
All Wikipedia pages will be stripped down html files compressed in a squashfs lzma image.
For more info visit the official website: http://mokopedia.mister-muffin.de/
Join our irc channel on freenode: #mokopedia.
It's the goal to make ALL the articles (except images) of Wikipedia (including formatting, linking, tables, formulas) fit on very little space.
Tests show that the German Wikipedia will be around 1.3GB and the English Wikipedia around 4GB so with flash storage prices dropping I will not bother removing certain articles - the dumps will include everything.
Some installation instructions can be found at http://rabenfrost.net/celtune/1-NEWS-WARNING-INFO (english) or http://seeseekey.net/blog/index.php?/archives/93-Mokopedia-einrichten.html (german).
Development status
Some people are already running the new mokopedia on their freerunners but i wont announce any official info until enwiki isnt done so up to now there are only dewiki and others that are possible to use.
I you are interested to get it running on you freerunner join our irc channel and i will explain the few steps you have to take.
In the near feature there will be ipkgs for everything.
To everybody that was familiar with the old implementation
There is no lighty needed anymore - i now implement the server in a simple python script.
Now we have FULLTEXT search - yeah you hear right. a fulltext search through 6.8 GB of dewiki is possible in mere 20 seconds on the neo1973.
Now there are also a lot of things already implemented as ipkg - only the server is left but will follow soon. Source Code released:Can't find.


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Building Android Games with NVIDIA NSight : Work Smarter Not Harder!
Simon Morris, Guest Blogger from Strawdog Studios
Welcome to the world of Android NDK. Please leave your debuggers at the door.
Veteran programmers of a certain age will happily recount old-school war stories where they've had marathon sleepless debugging sessions where bugs were discovered in DVD-only release builds at the 11th hour before shipping and that they managed to debug the problem and save the day using just printf and changing screen border colours when certain systems started up.
So it was our experiences with Android development over the last year that reminded me exactly how much we take debuggers for granted these days. I think it's fair to say that Android development requires a certain tenacity, but here at Strawdog HQ we have certainly found that getting a debugger to work with native code on Android requires something approaching supernatural powers! This is why until recently, debugging on Android had sadly remained an unsolved challenge for us, and that meant we were still in the trenches, developing on Android with only a printf to keep us going, and despite all the hard-core glory of printf'ing our way to a stable build, we were constantly and painfully reminded of how massively time consuming it is to develop without a debugger. And time means money, right?
Well, you can imagine how excited we were toward the end of last year when we heard that NVIDIA had a new solution for Android dev, that not only promised us a debugger, but also a development environment that integrated into Visual Studio. Sounded like purest win.
At the time we were busy working on our forthcoming Android title "Space Ark THD", which is a new mobile optimized version of our Xbox360 Live Arcade title (coming real soon to Google Play!!), and we were getting pretty fed up with the speed of printf style dev, so we thought we'd check it out.
Nsight Tegra – First Impressions
Now we'd already used the Tegra Android Development Pack, which massively simplifies the many tools, drivers and SDKs you need to get started with Android development into one single install (highly recommended, check it out here: /tegra-android-development-pack), so we installed the latest version since that included Nsight Tegra as well.
Out of the box, you get a toolbar that is integrated into Visual Studio (2010 for us) that has ADB device bridge and logcat output windows. There is also a solution containing a selection of sample projects and libraries, which we noticed are targeting a new integrated "Android" platform. (Nice!)
An initial survey of the sample project properties showed that the Visual Studio integration was impressively deep - the familiar configuration property pages are all present, but with Android-specific settings to control the full compile/link/sign/deploy APK build process. Hitting build in the solution just worked for me and everything compiled and linked first time (Something I always find reassuring), and I had a bunch of APKs to play with.
Next step was to try out the debugger, so I hooked up my Nexus 7, hit debug and sure enough, a new dialog appeared, which downloaded the APK to the device and started a debug session. I dropped some breakpoints and this also "just worked", complete with call stacks, memory views and single step in/out controls. I confess I almost wept with joy at this point.
Building our own Native Android App
In terms of our background, as a studio we have shipped many titles over the years that have been built using our own internal C++ cross platform game engine SDK, which allows our games to run on most mobile and console platforms (Windows/iOS/PS3/Xbox360 etc.)
Early last year we began our journey with Android integration, but for various reasons we had been unsatisfied with the solutions we had tried, and had been actively looking out for a good way to build native Android apps without middleware SDK's or complicated/unfamiliar build setups.
I can say that spending some time with the Nsight Tegra sample code was an epiphany for us. When new to any platform, it's hard to overstate how useful it is to single step and debug break through all the sample code to get a solid feel for how it all works and fits together. NVIDIA provide some incredibly useful and robust framework apps in their samples – both Java and Native – as well as documentation for some best practices when using the NDK. There are examples for covering most of the core systems you'll need like handling app lifecycle events, touch, joypad and accelerometer input events, plus multi-threading, display management and OpenGL ES and OpenSL ES sample code.
So armed, with the knowledge that based on Nsight Tegra, we could now build and debug native apps on Android within Visual Studio we took the decision to add a complete Native Android implementation of our API's to our tech.
Porting our game tech to Android
The first step was to get our codebase compiling and linking. We use custom jam scripts as a cross-platform means to compile and link the various libraries that comprise our SDK. Getting this working with Nsight Tegra was pretty easy – we just wired our scripts upto the same GCC toolchain used by Nsight Tegra and copied the build settings from Visual Studio.
Next step, was getting the build up and running . Once our tech was all compiling and linking against the NDK, our approach was to slowly introduce the engine systems one by one so we could see each core system was working within the framework we knew was stable. The first few days of the port were all about fixing asserts, adding missing Android implementations, and getting the file system working. Again, it's hard to overstate how productive one can be with a debugger here.
I should also mention that we based our new app entirely around the "native globe" sample application framework provided by NVIDIA and I'm certain we saved a whole bunch of time here. Our app is a fully 3D OpenGL ES 2.0 driven game – and re-using an existing framework saved us all the hassle and intricacies with native_app_glue, lifecycle management and JNI that I'd read about being necessary to getting to get a native OpenGL based app off the ground. We've also run the app through AppThwack - a really awesome online device compatibility testing site) and got an excellent report, so apps built this way will run on more than just Tegra devices.
Goodbye printf's, hello debugger!
So I know that it should go without saying why debuggers are useful, but I'd like to share a couple of real world examples of issues we had where not having
something like Nsight Tegra would have made life really (and I mean really) miserable:
- Getting systems working – Our audio library was adapted for OpenSL ES which kicked out some unexpected runtime issues like missing/Null callback functions, and API compatibility issues. With Nsight Tegra we were quickly able to identify these, fix them and iterate the solution.
- We found our build worked great on Nexus 7 hardware but when we tested on another device it crashed in some seemingly benign constructor code. It turned out the problem was unsupported VFPU instructions on that device, and we found that real quick by single stepping through the disassembly in Visual Studio. Our initial assumptions about the cause were completely wrong and actually fairly paranoid such as memory overwrites, member initialization order etc. so I cannot begin to imagine how long that would have taken to fix with the old-skool printf style!
- We've since isolated and fixed numerous compatibility and run-time issues in what feels like record time, since we can simply run debug builds on the target devices (no need to use slow emulators anymore!) and pick up any problems that way.
Space Ark THD now preparing for launch
Since then, we've gone from strength to strength beefing up our Android tech, and easily adding new Java classes for stuff like Facebook and we now have a fast, smooth and stable Android game that anyone of the guys in the studio can use Visual Studio to build, run and debug on any Android device that they have plugged into their USB, and all this took us about 6 engineer weeks to achieve, and we are back on track for a spring launch of "Space Ark" on the Google Play Store.
To sum up, if you're used to Visual Studio, and thinking about bringing an existing or a new OpenGL/C++ project to Android, NVIDIA Nsight Tegra and the Tegra Android Development Pack could be just the very tool you are looking for.
About The Author
Simon Morris is the Technical Director for Strawdog Studios. With over 20 years of experience and 18 titles under his belt, he knows a thing or two about painful debugging processes.
About Strawdog
Strawdog are a leading independent developer focused on building the best social and mobile apps for publishers and brands.
About Space Ark THD
Bounce your way through 36 challenging missions to terraform and breathe life into 5 new worlds!
Discover how to collect all the valuable crystals and get the best combos for the highest scores!
Beat your friends and unlock powerful upgrades to complete your mission!
Coming Spring 2013 to Android Tegrazone! www.spaceark.com


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- Self-discipline is paramount. It's not easy to stand down throughout a 6-hour window, especially when your Target is hanging his matzo ball out there just asking to be gunned down. But must you kill simply because you're given the opportunity? The answer, at least for me, has historically been a no-brainer 'yes' - but in the context of this game, suddenly I'm not so sure.
- As the bodies pile up, the available cover dwindles, and the danger rises.
- A burgeoning industry is developing around guessing your Stalker's lunch schedule.
- The dead lead a less stressful life.
Anyhow, let's rack 'em up! (for rules and side discussions, click here):
And I love how two days ago Karina killed Wicks with her eyes closed and then told him, "I hope you feel better :("
...and how yesterday, she offed Paul with the kill comment "Sorry..." then told him, "I didn't tell you at the moment because i didn't want you to suffer in advance."
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Days after it was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, reports have emerged that Instagram now has more than 40 million users in its photo-sharing community. The gain, which was derived from the service's API, represents a spike of 10 million Instagram users added in the past 10 days, according to Venture Beat.
Much of the gain can probably be attributed to Instagram's new Android app, which it released on April 3. But the free smartphone app also gained headlines and new interest when the Facebook acquisition was announced.
As we reported earlier this week, Instagram's new ties to Android and Facebook have not been universally popular. The Facebook deal, in particular, led some users to announce that they would be leaving the photo-sharing community and deleting the app from their phones.
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky thinks the 19th International AIDS Conference will be remembered as the moment when the world began to mobilize to end the pandemic.
The Harvard researcher probably speaks for many of the 23,000 scientists, activists and policy mavens who came to the Washington conference. But they're going home with a big question on their minds: Can the world afford it?
Walensky and her colleagues provided the beginning of an answer with a presentation on the final day of the conference. They looked at the cost implications of expanding anti-retroviral treatment to all HIV-positive people in couples where one partner is not infected.
"Is it worth paying for? The answer is yes, it's very cost-effective," Walensky told Shots. At least that's the case in South Africa and India, which the researchers chose for their analysis, and for the limited situation of these so-called discordant couples.
The starting point was a now-famous study published last year that has done more than any other to raise the hope that aggressive testing of people to see if they're HIV-positive followed by early treatment with anti-retroviral drugs can virtually eliminate their chances of infecting others.
The study, called HPTN-052, focused on the particular situation of discordant couples.
For the new analysis, Harvard researchers used the HPTN-052 findings and cranked in the cost of treating the infected partner over five years and their remaining lifetime, the number of HIV infections prevented and a slew of other economic and behavioral variables.
By the standards of the World Health Organization, universal treatment of these patients ranks as "very cost-effective." That means the cost of each year of life saved (both among treated people and those who didn't get infected as a result) was less than the per capita gross domestic product in the country where they live.
Far less, in fact. Universal treatment in these couples came in at around $500 per year of life saved — below South Africa's $8,100 per capita GDP or India's $1,400.
And Walensky's team was surprised to find that universal treatment was actually cost-saving over the first five years in South Africa. That is, treatment produced more savings than it cost, because of HIV infections that were averted.
"It's really hard to find health interventions that save money," Walensky says. "So we were really excited about that."
For time horizons longer than five years, universal treatment is not likely to be cost-saving, even if it remains cost-effective. "Think about it," Walensky says. "It's not going to save money because of its own success. People will live longer and that will not save money," because they need to be treated for a lifetime.
The findings are the first to demonstrate the viability of the new enthusiasm for universal HIV treatment, which has inspired that idea of treatment as prevention. So it's an important benchmark.
"If we hadn't found these results, that would have been disappointing," Walensky says. "It would have really made us as a society think about whether we should be investing in other ways."
But it would be a mistake to think this study can be generalized beyond the situation of discordant couples, or perhaps even to discordant couples in the real world, as opposed to those enrolled in a carefully managed clinical trial.
One big question is whether greatly expanded (not to say universal) treatment of high-risk individuals would be cost-effective, such as for HIV-positive people who have multiple sex partners, for instance.
That's going to be hard to answer. They're a lot harder to study than discordant couples in a stable relationship who sign up for a study. And Walensky notes that it took 12 years to do that study.
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