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As part of giving Zac a helping hand, I've been debating a theistic visitor to Zac's page called Lisa.
We've got a little Q&A thing going, and I'm just about to start typing out my replies, but to help me think I put the back-and-forth into a word document which I thought you all might like to take a look at - see below - and then I was curious, how might you go about tackling each of the claims and assertions she has made.
I'll let you know how I do.
Wow,that sort of thing is so not worth doing, unless someone is genuinely interested in learning. Are you doing this in front of an audience? If not, you're wasting your time.
2C and 6C are classic examples of faithful blindness to mounds of disproving evidence, grabbing onto any evidence that seems to support your beliefs and ignoring anything that contradicts it. Her statement that the Bible is the only one that does what it does is full of nonsense. There are no words of God in the New Testament. There are only the words of Jesus. If the Koran is right about him only being a prophet and not the son of God, then that puts them on an equal footing.
So, her book is the only one that contains the exact myth that she likes? The simple response is "So what?" They're all books of the similar caliber of myth. That's the point, not the exact stories. And if she thinks that the Bible is the only one that correlates with the world, she's reading from it so selectively. If she's not willing to read the whole thing cover to cover, rather than just reading the bits that her preacher feeds her, then she can't possibly make that claim.
Until you can disabuse her of the idea that the Bible is the perfect word, written by God, you're not going to get anywhere. I mean the freaking Catholic church has records of how they made the damned thing. Scholars have picked through it and discovered that whole chapters of the New Testament are almost certainly forgeries. God clearly did not guide its formation, which throws everything in it into question. Once you see where people have screwed with it after the stuff was written down, the original writing down of the text comes into question, as well.
Then, once you introduce things like the Ugarit texts, the whole damned thing falls apart.
Essentially, you're going about this all the wrong way. Having a huge list of questions going all at once allows her to bog you down and swamp you with preachy bullshit. You need to focus the discussion a bit more and address things in order. Until she demonstrates that the Bible is the word of God, discussing anything in it is useless.
Every other theist I challenged ran away screaming (ain't that so, Zac - Bill 2nd Law of Thermodynamics / evolution has never been observed - never seen hide nor hair of him again)
The Q&A arose becuase there was a bit of a tempestuous moment regarding challenges so we said, alright we'd think of some Lisa to her credit - actually said alright bring it on - the novelty of that was enough to pique my interest.
I thinkj of it a bit like t like Bruce Wayne fighting off those six inmates at the start of the rebooted Batman "You're practice" he says to the scary giant before breaking his jaw.
Have you ever known a discussion with a theist be productive? No of course not I'm just keeping my Occam Razor well oiled and checking the aerodynamics on my rhetorical hammers, ready for throwing. ;^)
The so what's / you can't possibly know that's / the bible isn't eyewitness testimony / no proof god exists therefore the bible can't be taken to be the word of god espeically when we know it isn't - is exactly where I was going..
Ahhh, true. There's always value in practice, for when you're ready to try out someone who really knows what they're talking about. And yeah, in this case, you work with what you've got.
And actually, yes, I've known discussions with theists to be productive. It's just very rare and only accomplishes anything when they're already questioning their faith. You need to be there at the right moment, rather than the pastor with his mindless, emotional, comfort bullshit.
This one definitely isn't in that camp. She's out to convert the atheists, because she's been lied to by her pastor or someone similar, about what makes someone an atheist (as evidenced by the first point in the document). We're in the enviable position of understanding our opposition while not being understood by them, ourselves. We know what makes people theists: childhood indoctrination, reinforced by emotional reinforcement (wow, I need to start getting more caffeine before I post; thesaurus fail) and threats of hell or similar.
There's a useful chunk mentioned here, at 5:55:
You'll have to do a bit of googling to expand upon the brief mention, but there's the bit I was speaking of previously, about part of one of the Gospels being a forgery. Hell, just watch the whole thing, though. Sunderb00t is a trip. He's called 4 times, before Matt banned him from the show, after the last appearance.
Ah yes, the last twelve verses of Mark. I have my copy of Misquoting Jesus within arms reach, I think it might come in useful for that bit about "God in the flesh" since scholars agree - that interpretation is just the sect that won the schism battle. The particular reference for that is I think in Luke in the garden of Gethsemane when Jesus weeps tears that fall like blood or as blood - depending on which manuscript you read, between the fleshy Jesus or the spiritual Jesus - or the third category the fully man/fully god compromisers who get the best of both worlds.
My favourite is the woman caught in adultary ('let he who is without sin') definitively not originally part of the bible - well see if I can;t wrangle her round to that one on the matter of "we know what Jesus said"
"as evidenced by the first point in the document"
Oh yes the unhappy childhood remark. Yes she said she was going out on a limb on that one - I said I wished her a happy landing on something soft 'cos that bough broke: my childhood was safe and warm and happy and my encounter with the godly fairly benign, I just realised somewhere around age 18 that I really didn't believe it and about 3 years later I really got sorting through why I didn't believe it.
Thanks for the AE link. I've been steadily consuming the archive....
Likewise. The worst you can say about the religious components of my childhood is that they were boring and nonsensical.
And yeah, I've been through the entire A.E. archive, myself. I had a lot of time on my hands at one point, recently.
As I recall church mainly revolved around pva glue and glitter in the side rooms while something I wasn't privy to and escorted out of - was happening in the the main church.
The whole thing? Wow. Martin's my favourite. He seems so cuddly but that fluffy bear's got claws.....
Yeah, I was unemployed for two months, recently. Stupid holiday layoffs. Just because they've run out of projects for me to work on, they don't want to pay me. Meh. First time I've ever had to draw unemployment.
Strangely, I can see what you mean about Martin. It has no hormonal effect on me, since I'm not drawn to men even vaguely, but he's ... appealing somehow, yeah. Very cuddly and friendly. I can imagine with the hormonal draw as well.
I'd have to hold up Matt and Jeff first, for a man crush, but Martin is definitely third.
You'd like him in episode 604, as well. He shines a bit more, without Matt overshadowing him:
His closing, in the second clip, is great.
On the subject of the The Martin man-fan-club, it seems I am not in luck.
But also relating to our conversation in the dating thread, it seems Quakers have something in common with The Free Masons.
Yeah, I've never seen anything to indicate that Martin is gay. I think Don is gay ... and then of course there's Jen who's completely open and talks about it regularly ... not that that does you any good ... well, and she's married, anyway.
So, the Quakers also do the whole "God is light," thing?
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Camp UREC Talent Week Wrap-Up
By Keala Mason
Talent Week was July 29-August 2 at UREC!
The staff of Camp UREC is comprised of both undergraduate and graduate students from JMU. Since Talent Week was the final week of camp this summer season, we thought we would ask our counselors about their experiences. We had a variety of personality types from different backgrounds who brought various strengths to the team! Each had their own responses as a wrap-up to the Camp UREC experience:
What is your favorite Camp UREC memory/moment this summer?
- Nick: Olympic track relays.
- Josh: The Safari Park and being on the truck and seeing the animals.
- Eileen: The Olympic ceremonies.
- Alison: When the kids had small successes (climbing to the top of the rock wall, for example)
- Megan: Olympics Week with the double points!
- Logan: Field trip to Luray caverns and the water games we did.
- Emmanuel: Whenever we played soccer.
In 3-4 words, sum up advice that you would give to future Camp Counselors:
- Nick: Sense of humor!
- Josh: Get enough sleep.
- Eileen: Bring enough lunch.
- Alison: Stay flexible, be positive!
- Megan: Have an open mind.
- Logan: Always be flexible.
- Emmanuel: Here for the kids.
Did you learn anything new about yourself or others this summer?
- Nick: Program development and management.
- Josh: More about how to approach and talk to kids.
- Eileen: How to double Dutch!
- Alison: Being more patient and learned a lot about myself.
- Megan: How to fill 60 water balloons in 10 minutes.
- Logan: How to communicate better with others and that it is different when you actually do it.
- Emmanuel: I learned that my nickname could be "Mr. E!"
What can we learn from kids?
- Nick: Being a businessman and learning to make trades at lunch.
- Josh: How to have fun and learn about yourself.
- Eileen: How quickly you can forgive and forget.
- Alison: I like how kids don't dwell on things, they move on to the next fun thing.
- Megan: Be creative & have a good time.
- Logan: Don't take things so seriously!
- Emmanuel: Be free spirited.
Any additional comments?
- Nick: Indescribable experience has to be felt to be understood.
- Josh: Definitely something to look back upon!
- Eileen: Going to miss the kids!
- Alison: Good experience overall.
- Megan: Truly enjoyed my summer.
- Logan: Camp UREC is the best!
- Emmanuel: Went by fast.
Big thanks to the Camp Counselor team this season for your time, energy, and effort!
See all photos from Talent Week!
Learn more about Camp UREC and register your camper today!
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DuPont and Athenix are collaborating to develop the next level of insect-resistant trait genes. Under their agreement, DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred will use proprietary insect-resistance trait genes from Athenix to develop and commercialize corn and soybean seed products.
Athenix will focus on microbial screening, molecular biology and genomics to discover gene leads that protect corn and soybeans against insect pests, including corn rootworm, European corn borer, earworms and cutworms. Pioneer researchers will validate and further develop these gene leads through the company's proprietary trait enhancement tools, including gene shuffling.
Under the agreement, Pioneer will have exclusive ownership of novel insect-control genes enhanced through its gene-shuffling technology and the corn and soybean germplasm it develops using Athenix and Pioneer enhanced genes.
Current work is in the research exploratory stage, and the companies have not set specific time lines for product availability. Pioneer expects the new products to complement current product offerings. It says, for example, that traits developed from the research collaboration could complement the insect protection offered by Herculex I and Herculex Xtra, as well as Optimum AcreMax 1 and Optimum AcreMax 2 insect protection program, pending regulatory approval.


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Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup background and environmental toxics in Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. The project aims at determining the influence of mt-DNA haplogroup background in cell death following exposure to different environmental toxics in order to explain some aspects of the penetrance of the disease in the population.
During the experiment we used three apoptosis inducers (etoposide, ceramide and hydrogen peroxide) in cells bearing a disruptive frame-shift mutation in MT-ND1, which impairs complex I assembly (HXTC17) and cells bearing a mutation causing an alteration Complex I proteins assembly (RJ206 e HL180) .
During the elaboration of data I found out that the cellular line HXTC17, have a major viability compared to RJ206 and control cells. An explanation could be that, according to Porcelli et. Al. these cells possess high productions of ROS detoxify enzymes as CAT and SOD2, this could allow the cells to remove efficiently ROS, and avoid all the damages caused by ROS and the activation of the apoptotic program.
After experiments and data analysis I produced and publish a presentation followed by a dissertation with detailed work and techniques used.
Please tell us why you would like to apply to this programme. Why are you interested in the project you have chosen? What makes you a good candidate for this studentship? (Maximum 400 words)
Because I'd like to work in a world top university with a state of the art laboratories and instruments a place where great scientific discovery were made and this discoveries were influenced the course of the human history as instance the discovery of the double helix of the DNA and researches that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
The mission of the Division of Cancer studies is combine first class clinical care with ground-breaking research to bring direct benefits to patients, this goal is the same for me: I'd like give my contribution with the research for improve knowledge about cancer for a better cure or even a better quality of life for patients.
I would be extremely proud to join this organisation and this urges me to improve myself and give the best of my skills to reach excellence.
I'd like to carry on and expand my knowledge about the different types of cellular death and their relationship. There are relations between apoptosis and autophagy as autophagy constitutes a stress adaptation that avoids cell death (and suppresses apoptosis), whereas in other cellular settings, it constitutes an alternative cell-death pathway. Autophagy and apoptosis may be triggered by common upstream signals, and sometimes this result in combined autophagy and apoptosis (Maiuri et. Al. 2007).
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are interesting research themes that could produce excellent results and new ideas for the developmental of this research field.
As newly graduated student in Biological Sciences at University of XXXX I possess modern knowledge in subjects like Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Pathology, physiology and anatomy. During my academic path I acquired laboratory experience of how to run a research project start from planning and execution of an experiment, obtain results and interpretation, confirm hypothesis and develop new ideas. My experience in laboratory includes how to perform a PCR, electrophoresis, SDS-PAGE, SRB and Bradford essay.
As completion of my profile I'm a quick learner, I have power of observation, excellent organisation skills and good eye to detail. Excellent communication skills and team skills able to do a good job as a part of a team and unsupervised.
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MAC In the Groove Online! Alice + Olivia!
MAC In the Groove Online! (And Alice + Olivia!)
Hey all! It's 5:30AM PST, but at least now I can fully sleep… LOL. Kept waking up (unintentionally!) every 45 minutes to check. MAC Cosmetics looks like it has it up now! Nordstrom has most of it – the MSF page still isn't updating to reflect all four, just Comfort. I've gotten some reports in that MACPRO also has it up. Alice + Olivia is also up.
Edited @ 6:27am (PST): Officially up with launch pages: Alice + Olivia; In the Groove.
Edited @ 7:30am (PST): Yes, Stereo Rose is showing as sold out (U.S. site). Other retailers (Macy's, Nordstrom, Dillards, Bloomingdale's) should have separate stock and come online shortly. If you see one pop up, leave a comment so I can update the most in case I miss it. Nordstrom still isn't showing the other MSFs online, and I did a LiveChat with them, but nothing helpful yet.
Edited @ 10:14am (PST): Nordstrom is now showing Stereo Rose (along with the other MSFs) available!
Edited @ 8:51pm (PST): I ordered at 6:49am (PST) and my Stereo Rose is on backorder, and while the representative said that since it sold out so fast, they are "trying to get more," I will remain skeptical. Sadface, since it means I might not have a Stereo Rose to swatch and review for you all. I put one on hold at my local MAC on Saturday, called tonight, and they couldn't locate it. 🙁 I put another one on hold, but we will have to wait and see if it's there on Thursday.
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- MAC Stereo Rose
- MAC Mineralize Eyeshadow Trios
- MAC Mineralize Blush Duos
- MAC Lipsticks (under main category of "Lipsticks")
- MAC Cremesheen Glass
- Alice + Olivia Pigments
- Alice + Olivia Dazzleglass Cremes
- Alice + Olivia Nail Lacquers
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- MAC Cremesheen Glass
- MAC Lipsticks
- MAC Mineralize Blush Duos
- MAC Mineralize Eyeshadow Trios
- MAC Mineralize Skinfinish (ALL MSFS ARE SHOWING, INCLUDING STEREO ROSE!)
FREE SHIPPING: Try using code LASH710 or code MACAO. For Nordstrom beauty orders over $50, you can use the code BEAUTY for $5 shipping; free shipping for $200+ orders.
REVIEWS: All reviews for both collections (In the Groove is only limited reviews right now) here.
Share your hauls in the comments! 🙂
P.S. – Stereo Rose and Comfort are *most* flattering for warm skin tones; Petticoat and By Candlelight for cool skin tones — BUT BUT BUT — all four work well on most skin tones in general. Petticoat and By Candlelight are definitely universally flattering, Comfort may turn orange on some, and Stereo Rose is typically flattering on most.
My haul? 1 of everything from In the Groove, plus a couple doubles, so I can photograph, swatch, and review everything! Anything that's a duplicate was bought to giveaway. Yes, expect giveaways! Don't even ask how much that cost. You can add it up. I'm pretending like I didn't see the totals… Yes, totals.


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1 cup sugar
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club soda
In a small pan, bring the rhubarb, sugar and water to a boil. Lower heat and stir occasionally until the sugar has dissolved and the mixtures has reduced into a light syrup, about 10 minutes. Strain through a mesh strainer and press the rhubarb bits* (they will be pretty mushy) with the back of a spoon to release all of the juices into a bowl. Add about a tablespoon (or more to taste) of the syrup to the bottom of each cup and top with club soda. Serve immediately.
Yield: about 3/4 cup of syrup
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Young Lionel Cosgrove (Timothy Balme) meets cute with Spanish Gypsy babe Paquita (Diana Peñalver) after her second-sighted mother reads romance in her cards. Lionel's own Mum (Elizabeth Moody)--a domineering harpy of a woman--is none too pleased with the new relationship, and spies on the couple to ensure that she remains the only woman in her son's life. When she follows Lionel and Paquita to the zoo and is bitten by the only Sumatran Rat Monkey in captivity, however, Mum picks up a rather nasty zoonitic bug--she runs a fever, bursts into cold sweats, and parts of her body start falling off into her custard. Soon Mum has passed the disease on to several local residents, and Lionel is sent scrambling trying to contain the mess. And what a mess it is...
Come on, do I really have to summarize this one?
One of the most over-the-top, silly, and gory movies of all time, Peter Jackson's Dead Alive is a flick that just keeps topping itself. You think it's got as crazy as it's going to get when it introduces the flip-top nurse zombie...then it throws in the famous Kung-Fu Priest (Stuart Devenie), bodies ripped in half, an animated (and strangely adorable) set of roving internal organs, and a skull-bursting Zombie Baby. By the time we get to the famous end party scene (Oh Crikey! It's Lawnmower Deth!), the viewer might rightly believe he's seen it all...but as Lionel warns his girlfriend, "I haven't seen Mum this evening..."
This is the movie I believe the term "splatstick comedy" was coined for, and imo the one to which it applies most perfectly. Jackson's movie is full of brilliant physical comedy and sight gags that would not be out of place in a Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton one-reeler--only without all the dismemberment and copious bodily fluids. Timothy Balme is a gifted physical comedian of the Charlie Chaplin school, and the way his Lionel goes to greater and greater extremes to maintain some semblance of normalcy while the world literally goes to pieces around him is both hilarious and affecting.
The special effects are as funny as they are disgusting--from faces being ripped off, legs being stripped to bone, multiple impalements (on grave markers, splintered wood, and memorably a still-blazing light bulb), to of course the show-stopping stop-motion Rat Monkey. Jackson also works in a nod to his touchstone flick King Kong (1931), and the early scenes in Sumatra starkly prefigure the scenes with the savage tribe in the director's 2005 remake.
For a justly celebrated horror-comedy classic, my rating of Dead Alive is a no-brainer: 3 thumbs way up!
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"This Thanksgiving is a very important one in our nation, as we cope with the tragic events of September 11 and move forward in the war on terrorism. As we gather to give thanks for our many blessings, we remember the victims, their families and all those experiencing loss this holiday. We send our best wishes to the brave men and women who are serving us in the military and in our local public safety agencies. We give thanks for the strength of our country and our community. And we give thanks that we live in a nation where we reach out and care about each other as families, as communities and as Americans."
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Publishizer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 479 diseños de 77 diseñadores freelance.
Hi 99designers!
Thanks for your interest in designing an iconic logo for our eBook publishing platform, Publishizer!
About us:
Publishizer is an ebook publishing platform focused on community, collaboration and premium content.
Simplicity, elegant design and 'playful professionalism' are the key values sought after for this logo.
Publishizer is geared towards its authors. It is a place to produce and consume premium content.
We will be targeting mostly non-fiction authors; experts in niche, narrow fields. Over time, I hope to encourage Publishizer's authors to produce locally-tailored content.
eBooks are categorised in broad topics such as:
- Social media
- Eco
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- Technology
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Our eBooks target niche interest topics, such as:
- PhotoShop for Beginners
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Hopefully this gives you a feel for our targeted audience.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me!
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12 March 2014
Surprises at the Lexington County Library
After leaving the South Carolina Archive, my mom and I went to the Lexington County Library's Main Branch location. From their website, I knew that they had a South Carolina Room for genealogy research, which included local newspapers on microfilm. Unfortunately, their website doesn't really provide any more information on what resources they had available. From their Obit Index, I knew that there was at least one obituary that I needed. I also wanted to see what else they had available.
When we arrived, we headed straight for the microfilm, a list of which was available in a small folder. To my surprise, the list started with church records. There were numerous rolls of records, and on roll seven I saw the names of two of the churches my ancestors had attended: St Michael's and Mt Pleasant.
I was extremely excited and sat down to the microfilm reader... which didn't work! I started getting anxious, but luckily the other machine did work. Whew!
I found the St Michael's Lutheran Church records first, which contained birth, marriage, death and membership records. I first found records for many-times-great aunts and uncles births, then found one for my 3rd Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Rachel Metz, who was born in 1826! This was an amazing find. South Carolina didn't start issuing birth and death certificates until 1915, so church or bible records are the only source before that date. I also found records showing that my 4th and 5th Great Grandfathers, Gabriel and Barnet Hyler, had attended the church.
The second set of church records were for Mt Pleasant Lutheran Church, which was lost when Lake Murray was damed up. I found a plot map of their cemetery, listing the exact location of my 3rd Great-Grandparents' burial - except for the fact that they were moved when the lake water rose. Luckily, I do know where they were moved to. I found some funny records too; it seems that my 2nd Great Grandfather, John W Hyler, had "gone astray," while his brother had "gone to the Methodists."
After browsing through these records, I didn't have a lot of spare time to browse newspapers. I did find the obituary I'd located in the index, but didn't spend much time on them otherwise. These papers are all slated to be added to Chronicling America sometime this year or next, so I'll have another chance to search them from the comfort of my home.
The library also had a number of books of interest that my mom found, as well as vertical files with newspaper articles. It's too bad that I don't live closer and could spend more time exploring their collection. But I'm extremely happy with what I did find.
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- Dave Price said...
Thanks for your post and interesting blog. I too, am searching my family's past in Lexington County, SC. I found many interesting documents at the Library but you have given me more ideas on things to go thru. Thanks so much! I have added pictures from the 1930s and a memoir to my Google account in an effort to share but your website is really nice.
- 30 March, 2014
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U.S. lenders are notifying more delinquent homeowners they face foreclosure, a step toward clearing a backlog of properties and helping to accelerate a housing recovery.
Initial notices of foreclosure, the start of the process, jumped 6% in the second quarter from a year earlier, the first annual increase since 2009, according to RealtyTrac Inc., a seller of housing market data. Banks at the same time found alternatives to the final step of seizing the home, either by working with the borrower or by agreeing to sell properties for less than what was owed, with repossessions falling 22%.
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February's Sip and Swirl Event Features Terlato
Monday, February 6
5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Free to Attend
III Forks Prime Steakhouse will hold their next monthly wine tasting event on Monday, February 6. From 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., guests are invited to sip, swirl and sample three of Terlato Wines International's varietals. The tasting, led by Proprietor Danny Payne and Wine Director Lance Gresak, will feature Terlato Family Vineyards' Pinot Grigio, Chimney Rock's Elevage and Flor de Campo's Pinot Noir. Executive Chef Tommy Nevill will pair the pours with hand-passed hors d'oeuvres.
Following the event, participating guests are then welcome to enjoy a glass or bottle of wine at half-price.
The tastings will continue to take place the first Monday of every month (March 5, April 2) from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
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Alfresco 3.4 Powers Collaborative Web Development and New Tools for Spring Developers
Alfresco Web Quick Start with office-to-web framework, with new developer services for Spring, give users the power to create, collaborate and publish across the web
LONDON—October 4, 2010 — Alfresco, the open platform for social content management, today announced the immediate availability of Alfresco Community 3.4 for download. Alfresco 3.4 broadens the reach of the company's open source and open standards-based content management platform with new tools and services for Spring developers, Web Quick Start for easy web site deployment and content integration with enterprise portals. This builds on Alfresco's strategy of offering the industry's only content platform that delivers the flexibility and affordability required across the enterprise.
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"The demand for collaboration and social sharing around enterprise content is rising – and content that was once meant just for the intranet is now being repurposed for the public web, external portals or even to destination sites across the web," said John Newton, Alfresco CTO. "Through our implementation of CMIS as a core standard and new features in Alfresco 3.4, our content services platform can now manage and deliver enterprise content to any internal or external application in a way that traditional, monolithic ECM products can't enable without significant time and expense."
Key product capabilities for the Alfresco Community 3.4 release include:
- Collaborative Web Authoring – Alfresco Web Quick Start is a set of out-of-the-box templates for building content-rich websites on top of Alfresco Share. Quick Start combines the power of Alfresco Share for web team collaboration, with powerful content authoring and publishing services like in-context web editing.
- Office-to-Web Framework* – Using Microsoft's Office SharePoint Protocol and CIFS (shared file drive), along with a new API integration with Google Docs, users can now author documents in their native office suite, collaborate in Alfresco or Google Docs, transform and re-purpose if required, and then publish straight to the web – even with sophisticated approval workflows.
- Web Content Services for Spring – Built using the popular Spring and Spring Surf frameworks, Alfresco now offers key content management services that can be accessed via OpenCMIS and integrated into any web application. A combination of standard development tools and lightweight scripting gives Spring and Surf developers many options for building content-rich apps.
- Integration with Enterprise Portals and Social Software – The new DocLib portlets allow seamless integration with enterprise portals like Liferay, Quickr and Confluence. Using Single Sign On (SSO), the portlets provide access to both content and project repositories from within any JSR168 compliant portal.
- Distributed Content Replication – Native support for content replication allows organizations to run federated content repositories. Key documents can now be replicated to remote offices, enabling greater sharing of information, quicker access, reduced wide area network traffic and removes the dependency on a single system.
"The increasingly networked nature of business has amplified existing requirements for individuals to collaboratively author, review, and publish content, as well as to quickly build websites using that content," said Larry Hawes, Lead Analyst, Collaboration & Enterprise Social Software, Gilbane Group. "Alfresco's 3.4 release exposes more content management features within Share and third-party collaboration environments, empowering business people to quickly work together to create and publish content to websites, portals, and social software."
To learn more:
- Download Alfresco Community 3.4 from http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Download_Community_Edition
Alfresco has seen major adoption of its open source and open standards content management platform throughout the world, with more than two million downloads of Alfresco Community. Alfresco Community is a free-to-download, free-to-use version developed on an open source stack that runs on Windows, Linux or Mac. Alfresco Community members are able to access and share knowledge on the Alfresco Wiki and Forums and contribute extensions on the Alfresco Forge.
Alfresco Enterprise is certified against a larger range of technology stacks (both open source and proprietary), goes through a more extensive QA process and is provided with full commercial technical support.
*The following functionality will be available in a follow-on release Alfresco Community 3.4.b in approximately four weeks:
- Vertical-specific Quick Start Sites – Three different Quick Start sites designed for the finance, government and media/entertainment industries
- Basic Microsoft Word-to-HTML Conversion – Automatically extract content from Word documents.


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Nkwichi Lodge, a halcyon paradise hidden on the pristine Mozambican shores of Lake Malawi. More than a lodge, Nkwichi Lodge is a complete experience offering a unique taste of Africa with exquisite lakeside scenery and unparalleled tranquillity.
Sit back, relax and imagine this scene….
You are in Africa, sitting under the shade of a fig tree, looking out over one of the world's largest freshwater lakes. To your right rock pools filled with crystal clear water, teem with fluorescent coloured fish darting amongst smooth ancient boulders. On your left lies a white sandy beach stretching away from you, backed by pristine green forest. All you can hear is the warm waters of this tropical lake lapping against the beach. Out on the lake the silhouette of a fisherman in his wooden canoe passes by as he paddles home with his day's catch.
Chalets : Tucked away in the treeline, each chalet is unique. All individually designed and built using local materials to blend in to their surroundings, they deliver absolute luxury in a natural setting.
•Complete privacy and intimacy
•Hand-crafted furniture, including 4-poster beds
•Rock-pool baths carved out of primordial boulder
•Mesmerizing vistas of the lake
Star Bed:The ultimate way to savour Lake Malawi, Nkwichi's 'Lake of Stars' Bed' is a unique and unforgettable experience.
Set on a deserted, virgin beach surrounded by breathtaking baobabs, or on a private rock island close to the shore with Fish Eagles soaring overhead, this is the perfect way to see the wonders of an African night-sky.
Houses : For those looking for the ultimate retreat, Nkwichi's private houses, designed for groups and families, offer sanctuary in a sumptuous setting.
•Private Chef and Guest Services Team
•Lake access and private beach
•Spacious open-plan, design
•Fantastic views of the lake


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I keep messing up this parenting thing.
I've had probably one of the most difficult weeks yet as mom. I've been a mom for TWELVE years, y'all.
{Dramatic pause}
Not only did we have an outbreak of eczema, poison ivy and impetigo (oh my), we also didn't have water in the house, a broken tub and new challenges with our non-profit. And out of respect for my kiddos, I won't air all our dirty laundry, but all three of my kids are going thru a challenging time. And I ache when my kids hurt, you know? (I also try to fix things that aren't broken and lecture too much, but that's for later).
It's probably not a coincidence that I'm flying to Indiana tomorrow to speak on being a Light in the Home, about parenting, marriage and family, huh?
And boy, have I beat myself up about that.
Pray for me? And I'll pray for you.
Parenting isn't for wimps.
I just keep giving it all to Jesus: my strong-willed preschooler, my sensitive son, my overachieving tween, my broken bathtub (sob), my control.
When it's all said and done, I find peace in the words of Erma Bombeck (seriously!)
I may fail every day, but no matter what, I'm going to keep trying.
I'm thankful He specializes in messes.
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Yoga is perfect for toning arms and building upper body strength.
To go into Crow Pose, squat down, with the arms on either side of the outer left and right arms. Spread your fingers wide, making sure that the elbows are in line with, and supporting the wrists. Squeeze the knees into the outer arms, just above the elbows.
The arms will form "a ledge" for the knees. Come up onto the toes, lift the hips up, lean forward and slowly lift the legs off the ground., finding your balance.
*** NOTE: To begin, try lifting one leg off the ground, then putting it down. Then lift the other leg, off the ground. This will enable you to build upper body and arm strength.


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I think these are at least 50 years old. A friend gave them to me. It's hard to distinguish what kind of animal they are--bears? They came as a pair and the male figure was holding a pipe and a red or yellow wristband (there might have been numbers on it).
The female figure held a wooden spoon.
The faces are not cloth--they are a hard substance that is cracking from age. Their arms and legs are made of a felt-like fabric.
Both are wearing their original clothing.
If anyone has any information, I would be very thankful as I have always wanted to learn more about them.
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Wroclaw: Portret Miasta by Tadeusz Drankowski.
Call number: DK4780.1 K36
Lech Walesa: The Struggle and the Triumph: An Autobiography
"In this speechifying autobiography, Poland's president delivers a dramatic and self-dramatizing account of the rise of the Solidarity movement, his role in the labor strikes of 1988, his battle with the Polish Communist party and his election to the presidency. Interspersing transcripts, Walesa presents a witty, Kafkaesque replay of government wiretapping and judicial harassment of him through 1986, and vividly re-creates the news-making kidnap and murder of the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984. He credits Solidarity's survival as due in large measure to the moral support of the Roman Catholic Church. In down-to-earth prose, the former electrician writes about his father's internment in a Nazi concentration camp, his own religious faith, and the joys of family life and of raising eight children. But in denying the existence of "racially based" anti-Semitism in Poland, past or present, he ignores history. Glaringly short on specifics about his plans for Poland's future, his self-portrait is padded with accounts of a blur of meetings, talks and travel, as well as encounters with Elie Wiesel, George Bush, Elton John, Pope John Paul II and Francois Mitterrand, among others."
Call number: DK4452 .W34 A3
Frederic Chopin by Victor Seroff.
Call number: ML410 .C54 S47
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by Wesley Ratko
Fire trucks keep getting wider, but the stations that house them stay the same size. In Chestnut Hill, the home of Engine 37 at 101 West Highland Avenue is a century old and can barely accommodate the size of its current truck. New equipment may exceed the capacity of this historic building and the Philadelphia Fire Department is looking for solutions.
The Chestnut Hill Community Association's Development Review Committee addressed this problem at its September meeting Tuesday night, Sept. 18. At issue is whether to modify the existing station or build a new one.
"It is an immediate problem," said Joyce Lenhardt, vice president of the Physical Division, adding that new equipment could be as little as three years away. "Planning [for a new station] has to happen now."
Lenhardt and Land Use Planning and Zoning committee co-chair Larry McEwen have been in contact with the Philadelphia Fire Department and put the topic on the agenda for discussion. No one from the Fire Department was present. Lenhardt said further guidance from the fire department regarding the right approach is needed.
That approach is one of two options – retrofitting of the existing station building to widen the front doors and accommodate wider modern trucks or build a completely new station. A vacant lot directly next to the fire station was identified as a potential site for the new station.
Lenhardt said the department is open about which solution to pursue, but said they want the community to stand behind them in support of a course of action.
Committee member Mark Keitz asked about location requirements and whether the station needed to be in Chestnut Hill at all. McEwen said that Chestnut Hill is so remote compared with other areas of the city and its other stations that it needs to be on the Hill.
John Landis said he couldn't make a recommendation without knowing what the fire department's preferences were. He was reluctant, however, to assume that construction of a new building would be the best solution.
"If this is the right location for the fire station, then altering the door is the cheaper solution," Landis said.
Any modifications to the building would compromise the historic integrity of the building, something the Chestnut Hill Historical Society is against.
Landis also expressed a concern about the fate of the current building should the fire department decide to move to a new building.
"There are many examples of older government buildings sitting unused," he said.
McEwen said there is interest in using the building for some kind of community purpose should the fire department leave it, although no details about what that purpose might be or who would purchase the building from the city's Department of Public Property. Landis said he'd like to investigate all possibilities regarding a retrofit.
Lenhardt cautioned that the best solution was not just a matter of money. She reported that there was only so much a retrofit of the building could do. "I don't see a good solution without completely destroying the front of the building," she said.
If a new building were to be constructed, it would be a single story structure. While the current structure is three stories high with living quarters on the upper floors, modern fire stations lack such accommodations.
When this came up at the August CHCA Board of Directors meeting, Lenhardt noted that Richard Snowden and Frank Niepold agreed to be part of an ad hoc committee that would investigate potential reuses for the current station building. Neither man was present at Tuesday's meeting.
Lenhardt recommended additional discussion with the fire department to get a sense of what they want.
"It sounds like the fire department wants community backing to build a new station," Landis said.
The committee took no formal action but agreed to investigate the wishes of the fire department and, if a new building were to be built, how the current station would be reused.
Mural Guidelines
Patricia Cove raised the issue of mural guidelines, which first came before the committee last spring, with the announcement that Philadelphia's Mural Arts Society would sponsor a mural on the side of Bredenbeck's Bakery at 8126 Germantown Avenue. Work on the mural is currently underway.
Cove said there was some division among members of the Historic District Advisory Committee regarding whether or not to have mural guidelines at all, given that murals aren't something members of the committee want. Cove said she felt the Bredenbeck's mural was the first of many and there should be guidelines in place.
"We're not going to stop the murals, so we should have some guidelines in place," Cove said. Cove first presented a statement on murals last March.
Landis suggested that there are some buildings in Chestnut Hill that are more appropriate for murals than others and that they might begin with a visual inspection of the Avenue to choose which walls would be well-suited for murals. More discussion on this is scheduled for the October DRC meeting – they took no other formal action.
The DRC considered a request for support of a zoning variance for a property at the corner of Germantown Avenue and Norman Lane. Property owner Cornelis van den Muyzenberg is looking to build a new, attached, two-car garage along Norman Lane.
He is scheduled to appear before the Zoning Board of Adjustment in November.
The Development Review Committee referred Mr. Muyzenberg to the meetings of the Historical Society and the Land Use Planning and Zoning Committee. Representing the Historical Society, Patricia Cove asked him to bring samples of the stucco and stone selected for the exterior façade of the garage to their October meeting.


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Blancpain itself makes a high proportion of the components of their movements. This control ensures the quality of its watches and its creative freedom.
Plates, bridges, oscillating weights or date discs, we make almost all the parts that compose our calibres. This independence is made possible by the technical capacities of the teams that work in our Manufacture au Sentier.
The most complex watchmaking components can require up to 50 different manufacturing operations before they are assembled. Some components are no thicker than a hair: 0.05 mm.
Production stages
The watch components are first cut out as rough blanks by automatic presses fitted with stamping dies.
Digitally controlled machines then take up the task. These are accurate to the nearest micron. In this way, the most modern data-processing technologies are harnessed in the service of centuries-old expertise.
Some components then go to the decoration and engraving workshops to be transformed into real miniature works of art.
Cutting-edge expertise
For the production of its components, Blancpain possesses a fund of human and technical skill of the first order. For example, only the stamping technicians are capable of designing and maintaining the stamping dies use to cut out the parts. Since professional training courses for this trade, which is specific to watchmaking, no longer exist today, we train these specialists ourselves. In this way, we preserve traditions of craftsmanship.
Creation of tools
Our watchmakers work with very special tools, not all of which can be found on the market. To meet their needs in the best possible way, our watchmaking mechanics design and make tools, in the purest tradition of Swiss watchmaking.


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Peregrine's Landing Senior Community and The Clubhouse Bro's Family Restaurant in Wheatfield have partnered together to bring "Memory Lane Café" to local residents beginning April 17.
The Clubhouse started the concept on a small scale in 2011. After recognizing the need to reach more people affected by Alzheimer's and dementia-related diseases, the two paired their expertise to assist more families learn how to live with the disease and enjoy the moment.
"No one should go through this journey alone," said Charlene Brosius, group leader for the Café. As a wife, mother, and daughter of a dad who had vascular dementia, I know first hand the struggles when trying to balance it all. As a registered nurse and certified dementia practitioner, I know how to help families live a better life while going through this experience."
The idea is to bring together people with Alzheimer's disease, their caregivers and trained professionals in a non-institutional setting where they can have food, entertainment, group activities and network with peers who are experiencing the same thing. Trained professionals are present to assist families in creating fulfilling moments, laugh and understand how to put a sense of normal back into their lives.
Participants will partake in group-appropriate activities and have a family style dinner. Families can network and vent and provide feedback for future discussions and events. Participants will be offered opportunities to plan other social outings both in and away from the Café and even get respite as a caregiver. The restaurant hosts the event and is closed for general business that evening.
Often family members find it difficult to go out socially to restaurants in a "normal" setting. They do not know how their loved one will be affected by the external stimulation and lack of a scheduled routine, all factors which play into the daily life living with the disease. Even if they do go out they often have to eat quickly and leave. There is still among some a substantial social stigma related to dementia, and even well meaning people sometimes do not know how to react.
"It's a comfortable-style support group for caregivers and their loved ones," said Kashia Baldelli, facilitator for the Café.
The first meeting on April 17 will be a planning meeting for caregivers only. The free event will be held once a month on the third Wednesday of the month, from 5 to 7 p.m. The group will meet at The Clubhouse Bro's Family Restaurant, 3386 Niagara Falls Blvd., Wheatfield. A $5 dinner is available, which includes beverages and desserts provided courtesy of the Clubhouse. Activity material is provided by Peregrine's Landing Senior Community. Call 716-474-3089 to confirm attendance.


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This is an activity about identifying solar flares. Learners will cross-reference data collected from a Sudden Ionosphere Disturbance, or SID, Monitor, the GOES solar catalog, and SOHO spacecraft images of the Sun to identify solar flares coming... (View More) from the Sun that are affecting Earth's ionosphere. This activity is part of the Research with Space Weather Monitor Data educators guide. Use of and access to a Stanford Solar Center SID monitor and the internet is encouraged but not required. Locations without a SID monitor can use SID data posted online: http://sid.stanford.edu/database-browser/. (View Less)
This is an activity about the Kp index, a quantification of fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field due to the relative strength of a magnetic storm. Learners will take a reading from a magnetometer site and make a Kp index estimate to predict... (View More) whether or not an aurora display will occur near that site. This resource is designed to support student analysis of THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) Magnetometer line-plot data. This activity requires the use of a computer with Internet access. This is activity 18 in Exploring Magnetism: Earth's Magnetic Personality. (View Less)
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Students simulate the process of remote sensing by using common materials to represent Earth's different ground coverings and a light meter to represent satellite instruments. The concept of albedo and its importance in Earth's radiation budget... (View More) are introduced. The lesson uses the 5E instructional model and is part of the book, "Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum." (View Less)
Materials Cost: $1 - $5 per group of students
This activity is a short engineering design challenge to be completed by individual students or small teams. A real-world problem is presented, designing buildings for hurricane-prone areas, but in a simulated way that works in a classroom, after... (View More) school club, or informal education setting. Students are given simple materials and design requirements, and must plan and build a tower as tall as possible that will hold up a tennis ball while resisting the force of wind from a fan. After the towers are built, the group comes together to test them. If there is time after testing, which can be observational or framed as a contest between teams, students can redesign their towers to improve their performance, or simply discuss what worked well and what didn't in their designs. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about using gravity to assist in spacecraft navigation. Learners will relate an elastic collision to the change in a satellite's or spacecraft's speed and direction resulting from a planetary fly-by, often called a "gravity assist"... (View More) maneuver. Both hands-on and online interactive methods are used to explore these topics. (View Less)
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Learners will study the essential components and variables of an ion propulsion system. Activities include an on-line ion propulsion engine simulation and design. Included are changes in energy and fuel consumption as a result of variable changes... (View More) (dependent/independent variable relationships). This is activity 5 of 5 in Structure and Properties of Matter: Ion Propulsion. (View Less)
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The growth hormone (GH) stimulation test measures the level of
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Alternative Names
Arginine test; Arginine-GHRH test
How the test is performed
The site is cleaned with germ-killing medicine (antiseptic). An IV is usually placed in a vein, typically in the inside of the elbow or the back of the hand.
The health care provider wraps an elastic band around the upper arm to apply pressure to the area and make the vein swell with blood.
Next, the health care provider gently inserts a needle into the vein. The needle is removed while the IV is left in the vein. The elastic band is removed from your arm.
Your blood will be drawn five times. To prevent many punctures of the vein, samples will be taken through the IV line instead of re-inserting the needle each time.
The first sample will be drawn between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. Then you will receive arginine through a vein for 30 minutes. After the 30-minute infusion, GH-releasing hormone is given to you through a vein. Then four more blood samples are drawn, once every 30 minutes.
Sometimes arginine or GH-releasing hormone is given alone for this test. Which form of the test is used depends on your health care provider's preferences.
Let your doctor know if you have severe kidney or liver disease, because an infusion of arginine could be risky for you.
How to prepare for the test
Do not eat and limit physical activity for 10 – 12 hours before the test to avoid changing the results.
Your health care provider may ask that you stop taking certain medications before the test, as some medications can affect results. (Do not stop taking any medications without first talking to your health care provider.)
You will be asked to relax for at least 90 minutes before the test, because exercise or increased activity can change GH levels.
If your child is going to have this test performed, it may be helpful to explain how the test will feel. You may want to practice or demonstrate on a doll.
This test requires temporary placement of an IV, and you should explain this to your child. The more familiar your child is with what will happen and the purpose of the procedure, the less anxiety he or she will feel.
How the test will feel
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain, while others feel only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing, or a bruise may develop at the site where the needle was inserted. These symptoms are temporary.
Why the test is performed
This test is typically performed to determine whether GH deficiency is causing slowed growth.
Normal Values
Normal peak value — at least 10 ng/mL
Indeterminate — 5 – 10 ng/mL
Subnormal — 5 ng/mL
(A normal value rules out hGH deficiency; in some laboratories, the normal level is 7 ng/mL.)
Note: ng/mL = nanogram per milliliter.
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
What abnormal results mean
If this test does not raise GH levels, there is a reduced amount of hGH stored in the
In children, this results in
What the risks are
Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Obtaining a blood sample from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight, but may include:
- Excessive bleeding
- Fainting or feeling light-headed
Hematoma(blood accumulating under the skin)
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Software Liberty
refers to the freedom to control your own computing. Because it empowers the user to work, study and communicate, free software is important for anyone.
Free software is relevant
just as free speech is. Software is run everywhere in our society today, governing most of what we can read and do. Unless the user has some fundamental freedoms over it, she/he has no knowledge or authority over what is happening inside it.
Free software is enabled
by the availability of source code, the "recipe" for the software. You should always be able to access and inspect this source code.
It does not matter if you do not have the knowledge or time to read and modify code: what matters is your freedom to do so, including the ability to have someone do it for you.
Free software can be copied
at no cost. You may pay, however, for it to be written, adapted and updated – this is how free software companies generate revenue.
You may always use free software for any purpose, including commercial; on the condition that it remains free if you redistribute it. You can think of it as "mathematics".
Free software is easy to use
and technically often superior to proprietary (non-free) software. Some famous examples, often merely called "open-source"1 , include the Firefox browser and the Linux operating system.


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steve_corinne needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 113 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
Edge Planning & Property
Edge Planning & Property is a boutique consultancy that provides city and town planning and related services to the private sector and government agencies.
The aim of Edge Planning & Property is to offer professional, hands-on, pragmatic, strategic and insightful advice.
Edge Planning & Property provide the following services:
subdivision applications;
planning applications;
project management;
due diligence;
strategic planning;
preparation of planning schemes and planning strategies;
policy development and review;
preparing submissions;
community consultation; and
locum work.
Edge Planning & Property provides city and town planning and related services to the private sector and government agencies within Western Australia.
Our market therefore includes the business sector, property developers,the general public and government agencies.
We are seeking to differentiate ourselves as a consultancy of choice and to provide a business edge for our clients.
We require an innovative logo for our city/town planning consultancy.
We are seeking a logo that is professional/classic, yet pushes the boundaries with regard to its design.
In particular,
1. we require the title "Edge Planning & Property" to be incorporated as part of the logo;
2. we do not want the use of cartoons or clipart/stock images;
3. we do not want the use of green;
4. the logo needs to be in both print and web file format.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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It's been my experience that seeking the truth is what keeps me sober, so I think you definitely can. :-) The part of the book you describe is exactly the core of sobriety in my view... the so-called (and accurately so, once you understand the 80 year old phrasing that sounds a little weird to the modern reader) entire psychic change. Before, even though I came to absolutely hate being addicted to alcohol, my whole life was devoted to drinking. Thinking about doing it, thinking about not doing it, thinking about maybe doing it tomorrow, thinking about buying alcohol, whether or not I would open the bottle now or later, how much I would drink, how much I actually drank, and of course just plain ol' being drunk.
Then, in the early days of sobriety, my whole life was devoted to not-drinking. And it kind of sucked, and I wondered if being obsessed with not consuming alcohol while kind of wanting to would be my whole life forever. But of course, I was trying to shed an obsession with an addictive substance, so it was a phase I needed to go through, sort of a counter-obsession. But I was afraid it was going to be like that forever.
Now, my whole life is devoted to the things I like to do, want to do, or need to do. Sobriety is a condition that I do a few things to maintain because it is a good way to be for me. It's like a healthy person not eating too many treats and going to the gym once in a while... not an obsession, just a damn good idea and one that makes more sense the longer I do it. Once it stopped being a counter-obsession and simply the way I live a life I enjoy, I stopped worrying about whether or not the beliefs of the majority of my fellow AAs were essential. I'm sober and happy, so I'm guessing I have the essential part. The 'entire psychic change'. The big change of mind and mental habits, of 'spirit', from being a drunk to being a sober human with a real life. I think that part of the book you're talking about is the real deal.
And, probably not too much of a coincidence, my sponsor is a vague deist as well. He has a few other sponsees that I'm aware of and they run the gamut from christian through buddhist to myself. Deists tend to be pretty flexible so far as spiritual tolerance goes, pretty live-and-let-live. If my sponsor thinks my atheism is a phase, he's certainly never said so. The only direct question he asked me about my higher power was early on when I started working with him, and it was 'whatever it is you believe in, is it bigger than you?' And that's another biggie... I may not believe in a deity of any sort, but as an active alcoholic I thought like some kind of tinpot godling. I got pissed off when it rained and I didn't want it to be raining, I got pissed off when people didn't pay me the attention and adulation I thought I deserved. Very old testament mindset. And who the hell can live a decent life acting like an old testament god? Ugh, nasty thought. But there it is.
Anyhow. That was a big ol' book of a response. Glad you're sober and thanks for a great reply. :-)
You too, thanks for taking the time to write about it. I never thought of it as a counter-obsession, but I know what you mean. I am just now really coming out of it, I think, and learning to live life for its own sake. I still feel guilty for not sponsoring anyone right now (not that they've asked), not being at every meeting, not "doing enough." I keep having to consciously remind myself that no one is watching me. I think the anthropomorphic god talk really did a number on me, even though I don't know if I ever thoroughly believed in it.
It was cool, I was just at a meeting and the topic sort of went toward living life to the fullest, and people were talking about how they got sober so they could live their lives (and not just living life to be sober, is what I mentally added). It's nice to get something out of a meeting, and appreciate that without having to think that someone out there arranged it just so I would hear what I needed to hear.
Again, it helps to hear this because I have to admit I'm a little scared that my sobriety is somehow in danger because I'm not praying, professing belief in a personal god, and seeking someone else's will for my life. Not that I believe a God is out there, but I am just told over and over by people in meetings that these things are necessary for sobriety. However, I think if I could just get over the guilt and doubt I would have some time free to enjoy my life more, as I do have a really good life overall.
I think the phrase "tinpot godling" is funny and I'm going to remember that. AA has actually helped me mature a great deal over the past few years, ironically to the point where I became a rationalist nonbeliever.
The praying thing... yeah, a lot of folks put a lot of stock in it, and sometimes it really is hard to hear everyone talking about it without thinking 'gee, maybe I should too'. Same for the god's will over my life thing.
But I don't have to be thankful to a deity to be thankful. Prayer is essentially an expression of being thankful for what is good in one's life, and a self-reminder of what one needs to work on.
You certainly don't need to be talking to a deity to say out loud to yourself, 'I'm thankful to be sober today' and 'Let me remember to do what I need to maintain my sobriety today'. A little reminder to myself of what is important to me. And much like a 4th/5th step, it's helpful to say it to another person once in a while too. Which is what I'm doing right here today by responding. No deities involved, just me and another human being. :-)
As for the seeking someone else's will part, what religious AAs call 'giving my will over to god'... it's nothing but remembering what your will is good for. What AA calls 'the proper use of the will'. When I want to work in the garden and it's raining its butt off out there, I can either get resentful and unhappy, or I can let go of my own will in the matter. My will that I work in the garden isn't something I have to hand off to 'god' like a baton. It doesn't have to go anywhere, it doesn't have to be lifted by some sentient power any more than a river has to be sentient to take a boat downstream.
I let go of my resentment that it's raining, and let go of my will that I work in the garden today. It doesn't have to go anywhere, because it doesn't literally exist. It's a thought and an emotion I have, and I can examine it, understand that it is irrational, and in that understanding it simply dissolves. Then I am free to do something else. Like respond to someone here.
Now, if you (or anyone else) can make any sense out of that, I release my will over it and await your response if you wish to respond. :-D
It does make sense. I know that psychologically prayer makes a big difference in some people's day-to-day lives (although I can't say I ever felt much more than guilt at not doing it right or doing it enough). I never really knew of a secular alternative. I got uncomfortable at a meeting last week when the topic (from some cheesy non-AA meditation book) was prayer, and everyone was going on and on about how great and important was. I kind of danced around the issue, but I admitted that I'm not really doing it, and that seemed to worry people. I thought I saw pity in their eyes (but could be my perception).
I also don't want to be "willful" in the sense that I do whatever I feel like and damn the consequences (which was the drunk modus operandi). So I will try to imagine it dissolving, going away. I have never heard anyone say anything like that. I guess that my acceptance of reality is enough submission to keep me sober.
Thanks again for a thoughtful response. This is a quite interesting take on these things. I feel like it's been so long since I heard anything genuinely new or revolutionary (to me) in a meeting.
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Going back to school is hard enough if you've only been out a few years, but what if you left at 14 and are now in your sixties?
Angela of Incense & Peppermint shares how it was for her mother in ...in which I humiliate my mother. (Be sure to have tissues handy toward the end.)
Angela's post reminded me of my own great-grandmother, Sarah (Denham) CUPP, who in letters to my mother as a young girl never missed an opportunity to champion education for women.
Born in Iowa in 1849 and then transplanted to rural Kansas at the age of 7, "Sallie" did what girls were expected to do in the 1870s: marry, have children, and keep house. Therefore, she repeatedly cautioned my mother not to fall into the same trap. First get an education! More often than not, her gifts to Mother at Christmas and birthdays were books.
Sadly, the only "degree" my mother ever wanted was an MRS from my father. Worse, she had absolutely no curiosity whatsoever about the world. None.
To placate Grandma Sallie, who had bought her a typewriter to practice on, Mother attended (and graduated from) the local secretarial school, but never used the training. Obviously she could read, but simply had no desire to do so for pleasure. The only book I ever saw her open was the Bible or a hymnal, and only in church.
Grandma Sallie, on the other hand, had a insatiable thirst for knowledge despite - or because of - the lack of schooling in her youth.
At 83, she decided "I don't know enough", and enrolled in a nearby community college. At 83! Her advanced age apparently didn't deter a door-to-door salesman from selling her a set of encyclopedia on "time" at 10 cents a week, which she paid off long before her death ten tears later.
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The team ranked No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press poll currently ranks No. 120 in NCAA categories for penalties and penalty yards.
You don't need a slide rule to draw that straight-line correlation.
Although USC has not been able to control itself on the field, incredibly, it still controls a lot of things. No team, including No. 1 Alabama, will have more impact on how this year's postseason plays out.
Did we not say in August that USC would be a major force?
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The six-man jury in the Jessie Haynes trial spent less than an hour this morning deliberating before reaching a guilty verdict.
Haynes, who earlier this week rejected a plea deal, has been convicted of the misdemeanor charge of obstructing a public passageway.
She asked County Court No. 3 Judge Langston Adams to deliver her sentence. The maximum punishment ranges from 180 days in jail to a $2,000 fine.
Adams sentenced Haynes to two years probation, a $2,000 fine and 100 hours of community service.
"The taxpayers should not have to cover the cost of putting you in jail," he said.
Adams also told Haynes she must take anger management, impulse control and behavior modification classes.
Haynes entered a not-guilty plea on Monday to the charge against her and rejected the prosecution's offer of one-year deferred adjudication and a $1,000 fine in exchange for a guilty plea.
The courtroom was silent as the verdict was read and Adams instructed a bailiff to arrest anyone who made an outburst.
The jury was comprised of three black men and three white men.
The punishment phase of the trial began immediately after the verdict was read.
Prosecutors declined to call any witnesses or give opening remarks.
Thomas Swanson, Haynes' attorney, called former Beaumont ISD Superintendent Carrol Thomas, Beaumont NAACP President Paul Jones, and Haynes' friend Evelyn Fontenot to testify on behalf of his client.
Thomas said he hired Haynes and that he knows she would never knowingly break a law. The former superintendent said he would not fire Haynes for this conviction.
Fontenot's voice cracked as she said she doesn't know anyone who has done more for the Beaumont community than Haynes.
Swanson asked Adams for a minimum punishment in this case.
Assistant District Attorney Ashley Chase asked Adams to send a message that Haynes' behavior will not be tolerated at BISD.
Adams said he is concerned about what is happening in the school district and also believes in the freedom of the press.
Swanson said he intends to appeal Adams' sentence.
Assistant District Attorney Waylon Thompson began his closing remarks in trial this morning by attacking Melody Chappell's Wednesday testimony, saying the Beaumont ISD attorney "does what she does best."
Thompson said Chappell is trying to protect the district because she wants to protect her own income.
Haynes, a Beaumont ISD spokeswoman, is accused of the misdemeanor charge of obstructing a public passageway.
Chappell told the court yesterday that Haynes did the right thing when she blocked a reporter and a trustee from entering a hallway after the conclusion of an Aug. 1 board meeting because the building should have been closed to the public.
"She cannot get on the witness stand and say anything derogatory about her client because she is paid to do otherwise," Thompson said.
Trustee Mike Neil and reporter Jerry Jordan were attempting to get past Haynes on the night of the altercation because Chappell was giving a press conference in the hallway.
Thomas Swanson, Haynes' defense attorney, is arguing that Jordan, who is a blogger, is not a member of the media and had no right to be in the hallway because it was closed to the public. The defense is also trying to prove the Neil had no authority to order Haynes to let Jordan into the hallway.
Residents don't have unmitigated access to public buildings, Swanson told jurors during his closing remarks.
"That's why there are locks on government buildings," he said.
Swanson also defended Chappell, saying just because she is the district's attorney that doesn't make her biased. Chappell pointed out that obstructing the public from a state or government hallway is a common practice, he said.
During his closing remarks, Swanson told the jury the state is trying to "blame Ms. Haynes for every frustration someone feels about the Beaumont school district."
Swanson asked the jury to look at the individual and not all of BISD when coming to a verdict.
Why did the Beaumont ISD board renew Haynes' contract just months after the incident, he asked the jurors.
"Because she's a good employee," Swanson said.
After Swanson concluded his remarks, Assistant District Attorney Ashley Chase told the jurors "it's time to begin the process of holding BISD and its administrators responsible for their actions."
Chase said administrators do not care about the district's students.
"The children seem to be the last thing on the minds of these people," she said. "The cover-up and corruption has got to stop."
Each side had 30 minutes for closing arguments. The prosecution split their portion into two 15-minutes segments and opted to bookend Swanson's closing remarks.
Following the Aug. 1 incident, Haynes told a BISD police officer that Neil grabbed her shoulders and pushed her during the altercation. Her claim was not substantiated by testimony or the district's surveillance footage.
As a result of her complaint, Haynes was put on assault leave on Aug. 5 and was paid for eight months while she was not at work.


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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was reportedly chased down by officials in a massive manhunt and killed. His brother, Dzhokhar, 19, was captured Friday night.
Tamerlan grew up in Grozny, Chechnya, the capital city of the Chechen Republic. Much of Grozny was destroyed during the Russia-Chechen conflict, and Tsarnaev and his family moved to the United States in 2003 in hopes of starting a new life, according to a Sun article from January 2004.
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Tsarnaev fought in the Lowell Sun Charities Golden Gloves tournament in the 178-pound novice class and won his fight.
"I wanted to fight in the Gloves to see how I would do," Tsarnaev told The Sun that night. "So far, so good."
He also said: "I like the USA ... America has a lot of jobs. That's something Russia doesn't have. You have a chance to make money here if you are willing to work."
It is alleged that beginning at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday and what would turn into a violent and anxiety-filled night that would grip several Greater Boston communities, Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at law enforcement in a car chase and gun battle.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old who had been known to the FBI as Suspect No. 1 and was seen in surveillance footage of the marathon in a black baseball cap, was killed overnight, officials said. His younger brother, who had been dubbed Suspect No. 2 and was seen wearing a white, backward baseball cap in the images from Monday's deadly bombing -- escaped and was captured Friday night.
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Following his fights at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium, Tamerlan Tsarnaev represented Team New England in the National Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions in 2009 and 2010.
John Curran, of Watertown, Tsarnaev's coach at the 2009 Nationals in Salt Lake City, recalled that Tsarnaev wasn't feeling well one particular morning during the tourney.
"So I went to his room and knocked on the door," said Curran, who knew Tsarnaev through the Somerville Boxing Club. "I walked into the room and he was doing that Muslim thing, he was praying. There was a little carpet. I didn't know he was a Muslim. I was surprised. I had never seen anything like that.
"If you had asked me two days before this happened what kind of person he was, I would say terrific, talented, respectful" Curran told The Sun from his home, which he couldn't leave because law enforcement had locked-down the community while the search for Dzhokhar was underway. "Suffice to say, I am shocked beyond belief today."
Curran called Tsarnaev "a perfect physical specimen" who could walk "50 yards on his hands with boxing gloves on." Curran said he could do a full split, run real fast, do hundreds of push-ups.
"He was a European-style fighter," said Curran. "No bobbing and weaving, anything like that. He stood straight up and took the fight to the opponent.
"He also played the piano very well," said Curran. Tsarnaev also studied music at a school in Russia and played piano and violin.
Curran said boxing coaches like himself try to keep aspiring athletes off the streets, "out of drugs and alcohol.
"Just flabbergasted that this young man was having these kind of thoughts," Curran added. "He just got lost. Got lost somewhere."
Bob Russo, of Portland, Maine, is the executive director of the Lowell Sun Charities New England Golden Gloves Tournament. He told The Sun: "We're all in just a state of shock. What I remember about this young man was that he was an incredible athlete. Didn't talk a lot. Very respectful."
"But in no way is this representative of the tournament or the sport," said Russo. Tommy Lee, president of the South Boston Boxing League, said Tsarnaev came to his gym in 2010 and 2011. He wasn't a daily boxer, but still a "phenomenal athlete," Lee said.
"He had great hand speed, great hand-eye coordination. Just everything you want in a boxer," Lee said. "He was very, very respectful, very courteous. He seemed like a very normal young man. There was no anger whatsoever.
"He was a bright young man and seemed to be raised right," he added. "His father was very accomplished, I was told."
Lee received a text Friday morning from one of the gym regulars, saying that Tsarnaev was the bomber and had died in a gunfight.
Lee responded with "haha."
"I thought he was joking. There was no way," Lee said. "Then I saw the most recent photograph, and my heart sunk."
Dr. Joseph Downes of Downes Chiropractic in Lowell, presented Tsarnaev with a trophy at the Lowell tournament in 2010.
"I only got to meet him minutes here and there, but I recall him listening to his coach in the corner and doing what most fighters do," Downes said. "He would listen to his coaches and try to make himself better and more effective.
"When I heard, it was shocking because Lowell boxing helps them along in life," he added. "Unfortunately, some kids get left of center and get themselves in problems."
Though Tsarnaev went to school here, the "pretty-good sized heavyweight" spoke broken English, Downes said.
"He spoke English, but not the way you and I would," he said. "He seemed to be a reasonable individual at that particular time, but something happened."
Peter Manfredo, a Rhode Island-based boxing trainer of 34 years, who traveled as a team coach with one of his own fighters and Curran and Tsarnaev on the 2009 Nationals trip to Salt Lake City. He recalled Tsarnaev as quiet and well-behaved.
"I remember (Tsarnaev) fought one time, kind of a close fight, but he lost and then he was just hanging around for the week with us after that," said Manfredo. "He seemed like a real nice kid, pretty quiet, normal. He didn't say anything like he hated America.
"But you never know what's going on in people's minds," added Manfredo. "I feel bad for those people in Boston. You just can't believe (the Tsanarnaev brothers) would do something like what they did Monday. What would make them do that? I just can't understand it."


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筍の木の芽和え(read as takenoko no kinome ae), simmered bamboo shoot coated with miso-prickly ash (木の芽) dressing. It is spring, there is abundant fresh bamboo shoots and I noticed that it appears in many restaurants' spring menu. My first encounter with this dish was at a private function, one of the dishes in a beautifully presented traditional lunch-box meal. It was a set lunch packed in a huge black rectangle box.
150 g boiled bamboo shoot, cut into 1 cm cubes or smaller
1/2 cup dashi stock
1 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tbsp mirin
8 stalks prickly ash leaf (incl. 2 for garnish)
40 g white miso
1/2 tbsp sake
2 tsp sugar
1-2 tsp stock from simmering the bamboo shoot
- Combine ingredients A in a small pot, add in bamboo shoot and bring to a boil. Then, simmer for 5 minutes and turn the heat off. Set aside allowing to cool down.
- Combine miso, sake, sugar and stock in a small sauce-pan, heat up and stir till well blended. Remove from heat. Set aside.
- Grind 6 stalks prickly ash leaf till pretty fine (I used suribachi), mix in miso paste and stir well.
- Drain bamboo shoot, add in dressing and stir to coat. Chill before serving.
- For serving, transfer into serving bowls, garnish and serve as an appetiser.
This is a small Prickly Ash/木の芽/山椒 plant I bought weeks ago, so far it is growing very well and fast too. After a search online, I decided to have it as a pot plant instead of my initial plan of grow it at a corner in the yard, to prevent it from growing into a giant tree. Prickly ash (leaf) is often use in Japanese cooking, for its beautiful green and aroma/scent. To me, it smells like lime leaf.


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