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Genesis 30:1-8 (NIV) 1 "When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I'll die!" 2 Jacob became angry with her and said, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?" 3 Then she said, "Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her." 4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife. Jacob slept with her, 5 and she became pregnant and bore him a son. 6 Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son." Because of this she named him Dan. 7 Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8 Then Rachel said, "I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won."
SHE BECAME JEALOUS OF HER SISTER (verse 1)!
When we look at our sister's situation sometimes, that old ugly, evil, vicious spirit of jealousy will rise up out of seemingly nowhere. But the origin of it is our flesh and we have to cut it off at the root because jealousy can fester in something even uglier. But even deeper than ourselves, the enemy has established a world system (Jesus called Satan the prince of this world because this is his domain). In the system, the media, movies, and public figures do worldly things to push the enemy's agenda – to include pitting us against each other. How? Depicting certain sizes and complexions. Creating shows in which cheating with someone's husband is not just ok but promoted. We allow all these things to go in our spirit and it causes dissension and even strife between us. The bottom line is that we have to know our worth. We have to realize that we are worth far more than rubies. Period.
These are some lessons to consider and confessions to speak over our lives to bind the spirit of jealousy, competition, covetousness, and vanity in the name of Yeshua!
1. I am in the world but I am not of the world; I renounce the spirit of jealousy and quarreling and conflict against my sisters in the name of Yeshua (1 Corinthians 3:3).
2. I have Holy Ghost power on the inside of me to cast down thoughts about other women and cast out spirits of jealousy and envy and covetousness. I will cast my cares, my flesh, my desires, and insecurities on Yeshua.
3. I know that a man can't give me what only God Himself can give. Only God can fill my void. Only Jehovah can make me whole. Only Jehovah can satisfy my soul, my thirst, and my desires. I depend on Jehovah.
4. I will not go into my marriage thinking my husband can fix what's broken in me. I will not try to make my husband give me things to compete with another woman. I receive my healing from Yeshua (Jesus) now.
5. I will test my spirit by the Spirit of God and check the motives of my own heart. Why do I want the things I'm vying for and dying to have? My heart is fixed in Jesus's name.
6. I will not get involved in another counterfeit relationship; I will not rush God in connecting me with my husband; I will not take matters into my own hands trying to manipulate a man to marry me.
7. I will not allow my body to be used as a punching bag for sex or for fists; I am worth far more than rubies.
8. I rebuke the competitive spirit that causes me to try to make something happen for myself that isn't God's plan for me at this time. I will wait on His set and appointed (Kairos) time.
9. I rebuke the competitive spirit that makes me say ugly things about my sister; makes me judge my sister; and makes me criticize my sister.
10. I rebuke the competitive spirit that makes me try to take my sister's man or sleep with her husband.
Do you know your worth? You and your sisters are worth far more than rubies. You are not her competition and she isn't yours. We are all so worthy to our Lord and Savior Yeshua! Know your worth! Order your tee now at www.drjarmory.com!


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JACKSON — Jackson State University has hired Vivian Fuller as its first female athletic director.
University President Carolyn Meyers introduced Fuller at a news conference Wednesday.
The 56-year-old Fuller replaces Bob Braddy.
The Clarion-Ledger reports Fuller's salary was not immediately available. Braddy had made $100,000.
The daughter of a North Carolina sharecropper, Fuller has spent eight years at Sojourner-Douglass College, where she is dean of the Cambridge, Md., campus.
She also has been an athletic director at University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, Tennessee State University and Northeastern Illinois University.
A pioneer in promoting women's sports, she served as a member of the NCAA Gender Equity Task Force.
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Landscaping the location around your home might appear difficult, yet it is not as complicated when you think. If you are taking time learn about landscaping, it's much easier to do than you might think. These article contains loads of landscaping advice.
If you landscape, you must know the many species of plants to ensure that situations are grown within the appropriate soil as well as at the proper times. Make sure you take different seasons into account when landscaping, too. This really is vital information for the prosperity of any gardening or landscaping project.
Begin your landscaping project if you make a long list of the type of material and stuff you requires. It really is terrible to begin a task, only to recognize that you don't come with an essential tool required for the job.
Increase your landscaping results by including multi-seasonal elements within your garden. Choose a variety of plants and flowers that thrive inside your region and bloom during different seasons. Trees which turn red in the winter months or evergreen bushes are fantastic options for the colder months.
You will find it daunting to try to landscape your whole yard at once. You are better off breaking up large projects into smaller phases. It will be quicker to implement any design changes that become necessary.
When planning your landscape project, include a number of different types of plants and shrubs. Your yard is going to be shielded from insect and disease attacks from this. Each of the same type of plants can be vulnerable to an attack if that's all that you have. To help keep your yard healthy, you have to maintain your landscaping diverse.
Lots of people will not realize that you do not have to employ a professional to plan your landscaping. Doing this could cost you a huge amount of cash. You might need a consultant though, as they will allow you to take the right steps.
Ahead of coming to the nursery to acquire the plants to your landscaping project, take a little good measurements of the area to become renovated.
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After mowing your yard, consider leaving a few of the grass clippings around. As soon as the clipping decompose, they add nutrients into the ground, which reduced the quantity of fertilizer you will need to use.
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If you're looking to reduce the amount you need to finance your next car purchase, trading in your current vehicle is an obvious way to do so. Many Americans choose to trade-in because it's easy to apply the credit to your down payment, reducing the amount you need to finance. But even if you've checked the Kelley Blue Book value of your car, it doesn't necessarily mean that's what money you'll get for trading in your car. There are a lot of factors that can play into the actual trade-in value of your car. So, if you're looking to get the most out of your trade, here are 5 great ways to increase your car's resale value.
So when it comes time to trade-in your car, take a look at your tire tread and tire pressure. Ask yourself, when was the last time I replaced my tires? If it has been a while since they were replaced (if you have replaced them at all), your tire tread is low, or your pressure isn't up to code – then it is definitely time to invest in a new set of tires.
This should be a no-brainer, but keeping up with factory-scheduled maintenance is often times something we put off or ignore. Keeping good and basic care of your car is a must for increasing your its resale value. We're talking about the little things here, not major repairs.
Minor issues like a crack in your windshield or a broken trim piece you from the driving quality of your car. But if enough of these little issues accumulate and go unaddressed, they can negatively impact your trade-in value. If you follow your factory-scheduled maintenance, you can easily tell your mechanic or service provider about these issues to have them fixed.
Before you trade-in, we also recommend tidying up your car as much as you can. Do an inspection: do you notice small dents, scratches, or stains on the interior or exterior of your vehicle? First impressions count! You can increase your car's appeal simply by having your car detailed before you trade-in.
The best way to keep your car in good condition is to treat it well by being a safe and smart driver. While we understand accidents do happen (after all, they are called accidents), reckless driving can increase your chances of collision and damage drastically. So remember, that your accident record is something you disclose when trading in your car.
Poor driving habits can also result in maintenance issues and hinder the life of your vehicle. "Driving your car into the ground" is an actual thing! It can cause fluid leaks, engine parts to fail, and oil to burn faster. We can tell when a vehicle has been treated poorly, and a used car buyer can too.
We recommend keeping ALL paperwork related to your car during ownership. And when we say all, we mean it! You might be asking, why is this so important?
First off, being able to show your repair history proves just how well you take care of your car. Proving that you had regular maintenance, preventative care as well as repairs when necessary can add value to your car.
Second, having ALL service records can head their questions if the buyer has any doubts at all regarding past work and repairs.
Lastly, if in the future your car becomes a classic, having the original owner's manual will add to its value and collectability.We recommend keeping all important documents together in an organized binder and keeping this binder in a safe place outside of your car.
Even though we mentioned before that you can't one hundred percent rely on the Kelley Blue Book estimate, we do recommend using their online tool to get a general knowledge of what your car is worth. It's important to be honest and realistic when it comes to the resale value of your trade. If you followed our tips 1-4 to increase your car's resale value, you shouldn't have any problem getting your asking price.
Something else you should consider is the vehicle you are looking to trade-in for. If you have time to shop around and find compare trade-in offers, that's fantastic! But sometimes you have to make a quick decision in order to take advantage of a great deal or snag a vehicle that may be sold fast.
Did you know that you can trade-in your vehicle at Pasadena PreOwned? We proudly serve Pasadena, Glen Burnie, Severna Park, Annapolis, Gambrills, Odenton, Fort Meade, Severn, Anne Arundel County and beyond. If you've found a used vehicle that you love, fill out this online application! Have your VIN number, make, model, year, and mileage prepared, and one of our sales associates will get back to you shortly!


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"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
But they find out quickly enough.
New Yorker cartoonist Peter Steiner captured something true about our virtual reality with this 1993 caption. But 23 years later, we don't call online yappers and growlers "dogs." The word "troll" has come to fit the bill.
NPR took a stand against trolls this week, telling its online audience it was going to stop allowing readers to write comments underneath stories, effective next week. The comments under this particular announcement were predictably disapproving of the move—at least for a short while. Within a few steps, the conversation devolved into which group is more hateful—Clinton supporters or Trump supporters.
Which only proves NPR's point. The comments underneath stories aren't worth the headaches and the money it costs to hire people to monitor them. Readers' comments stray from the topic at hand, and they are hijacked by a small number of opinionated aggressors. If you still think a utopia of community commentary can still exist under news articles online, then I suggest you read this piece by Chris Cillizza, political blogger for The Washington Post, who has tried unsuccessfully for the past decade to create a fruitful exchange of ideas in his blog, called the Fix:
"It was the opposite of the community I was trying to build. Instead of providing a place where political junkies could trade thoughts, ideas and jokes about the political scene, the Fix comments section turned into a town in which the loudest and most obnoxious guy appoints himself mayor."
Some media outlets still allow anonymous commenting—a real throwback to an optimistic era when people thought they could create the ideal community online. All anonymity ever accomplished in my experience was to show how many racists are actually out there. Read the Skagit Valley Herald comments circa 2009, and you will no longer wonder how Donald Trump could ever be nominated for president of the United States. (The running joke in the SVH newsroom was, "How many comments will it take until someone hates Hispanics?"—regardless of the topic of the story.)
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You can be confident that when you partner with CloudCo, your needs will be efficiently taken care of. And our dedication to innovation means that our portfolio of products and business markets will only continue to grow.
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The sky is the limit for your earning potential. The Yeastar Xcelerate Partner Program (VoIP Reseller Program) offers both upfront and recurring earning opportunity – truly evergreen. In addition to the industry-leading margins and special product discounts, Yeastar also works with CloudCo to provide incentives, promotions, and other perks that reward partner loyalty and fuel success.
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Partnering with Yeastar with CloudCo is a guarantee of both financial success and efficiency. Yeastar enables you to centralize your support for customer-premises Yeastar devices in an easy and remote way, which in turn, provides partners with a new source of recurring revenue by monetizing support services.
The innovative Yeastar Remote Management tool delivers a robust centralized platform where you can monitor and configure customer-premises Yeastar PBX Systems and FXS VoIP Gateways easily and securely. There is no need for you to travel to the customer to solve critical issues, and the real-time dashboard and alert systems of the Yeastar Remote Management tool also allow you to become more proactive with regard to customer problems, in turn, providing the best-in-class customer service.
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Welcome to the next generation of partner sales, marketing, and training management. The Yeastar Partner Portal gives you a clear overview of where you stand. It is a one-stop portal for all the information that partners could possibly need: latest news and updates, marketing and campaign, training information, support portal, service purchase and management, product warranty lookup, deal registration, etc. Intuitive menu navigation makes it straightforward to find exactly what you are looking for.
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Late last year, thousands of the world's top video marketers came together in California for an event called VidCon. This is where the best of the best reveal what has been working in the world of online video and where the big platforms reveal the numbers behind their business and unveil new features for video creators.
This year did not disappoint. In fact, what was revealed simply shows where the world is. Not where it's going or where it will be in 3, 5 or 10 years, but right now.
With that in mind, I wanted to share six of the top video marketing stats that should get you in gear to start thinking more like a media company and develop more video for your financial practice.
No. 1: YouTube Now Has 1.5 Billion Logged In Users Every Month
The CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki was on stage at VidCon to reveal that while Facebook is getting a lot of headlines about video, they are still the king of the block. Wojcicki started her keynote by revealing that every single month 1.5 billion people log into YouTube and watch videos.
Here are a few things to note about this stat that means something to you. First, this is only logged in users. That means more people are watching videos that are not logged into the platform. Second, if YouTube were a country, it would now be the largest in the world, edging out China at 1.4 billion people.
Third, and I think most important to financial planners like you is that with 1.5 billion users on YouTube, it means that people young and old, of every different race and language are watching videos on YouTube. It is not a platform strictly for young people with too much time on their hands. Your clients and your potential clients are finding, discovering and watching videos on YouTube. Right now is the time for you to start developing a strategy to start putting videos and episodes on the platform.
No. 2: Logged In Users Spend An Average Of An Hour Per Day Watching Videos On Their Phone
This stat is incredible. It also shows you where the world is consuming content right now—not on their computers, but on their phones. They are watching while in line at the bank or the grocery store, at lunch, on the subway and on their couch while the TV plays in the background.
What this also points out is the average watch time. One hour. Per day.
Here's why that's important (beyond the fact that we all need more and better hobbies):
If you only have one video promoting your financial services on YouTube, prospects can only watch that one video. If you have a back catalog of videos and episodes, users will watch them all.
This is why we develop 13 episodes for clients in one day. To give them an entire body of work, not just one episode to post online. We want folks to binge watch your episodes. We want them to engage with you and build a virtual relationship with you. That is why you need a strategy to continue creating new video episodes regularly, not just once in a while.
No. 3: 500 Million People Watch At Least One Video On Facebook Every Singe Day
Now we need to talk about the other 500-pound gorilla when it comes to online video—Facebook. Make no mistake about it, Facebook and YouTube are major rivals, going neck and neck to win the attention of everyone on the planet.
The biggest mistake financial planners make when it comes to video is only uploading their video to YouTube and then posting the link to it on their Facebook page. Facebook doesn't like this. They want you to upload your videos directly to Facebook.
And just like YouTube, you need to publish video content on a regular basis on Facebook. Don't think that you can post one video, once, and expect to book a bunch of appointments. The top financial planners are posting new video episodes at least weekly.
No. 4: A Third Of All Online Activity Is Spent Watching Video
This might come as a shocker, but it's likely your employees are watching online video while at work. They (and you) are also watching them nearly all the time when a device is connected to the internet.
If people (like your clients) are spending a third of their time watching video online, shouldn't you be making content for them to watch? It's hard to stop consuming video content and to start creating it, but the creators are winning, making money and growing their business.
No. 5: 59 Percent Of Executives Would Rather Watch A Video
I love this stat. All the time I hear from financial planners who say, "But Greg, my client is too busy (or wealthy) to watch video" or "There's no way my market would sit and watch a webinar or sales video."
This stat from Google shows that 59 percent of executives, the people with real purchasing and buying power, would rather get the exact same information sent to them via video, rather than text.
It's one of the reasons I have stopped sending proposals in Microsoft Word and only send them via a personalized video. People want to learn more about brands, products and services via a video that connects with them emotionally rather than in a document that bores them to tears.
What are some ways that you can showcase your message via video instead of text that will get the attention of the prospects you want to write business with?
No. 6: 6 In 10 YouTube Users Would Rather Be Influenced By YouTube Star Than A Movie Star
We wrap things up with this incredible stat that shows a big changing of the guard. Traditionally, we loved to get product recommendations from celebrities. A movie star showing off a new perfume or a celebrity drinking a Coke would influence our purchases.
Today we connect with people that we follow on a more intimate basis, be that a favorite YouTube star, an Instagram influencer you follow or someone who livestreams their life on Facebook Live. These new stars are becoming a big part of our lives and when someone becomes a big part of your life, they can persuade you to make major buying decisions.
This means that the more videos you create and put online, and the more that people watch and engage with them, the more influence you have over their purchasing decisions. It's one of the reasons we help our clients to create weekly video content. To build a long-term relationship with the audience so we can ultimately impact their future buying decisions.
The more videos and episodes you create, the more opportunities will fall onto your lap. But if you are waiting for things to simply happen to you because you've been a financial planner for 20 years, you are going to keep waiting. The top earning financial professionals of today get their message out and build an audience that then wants to invest with them.
My only question now is: what video are you going to create next?
Greg Rollett is the founder of Ambitious.com, an Emmy® Award winning media production and marketing agency for financial professionals and business owners. He is the host of the reality TV show "Ambitious Adventures," seen on Entrepreneur.com, and the host the Ambitious Life. Reach him on Facebook or Instagram to say hello and share your videos.


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Team Arizona OCC Board Meeting
Monday, 5/14/18
Attendees – Andy Thomas, Kui Eugenio, Diana Durham, Merrily Pychinka, Carlos Hernandez, Valerie Symth
Finance Status
Account Balance – $8,152.23
Expenses: SCORA dues/insurance – $1,244.70
Hull/Canoe insurance – $937.00
Jerseys – $908.85
Trailer/dolly repairs – $1,000.00
Upcoming Expenses:
Kimokeo Foundation/Maui Nui Race – $1,000 – they have reached out asking for the donation that we promised last year. Board discussed and approved.
OC2 purchase – $1,100 – Kui proposed the club purchase John Burns' OC2 canoe. Board discussed and decided against purchasing OC2.
Unlimited Canoe – Goal of the team will be to purchase 1 unlimited canoe
Sponsorships: Hegmann Realty – $1,002
Barefoot Surfaces – in kind
Tradewind (Aunty/Unko Martin) – $1,200
Coconuts –
Fundraising letters – all members received an email and notices at lake to use to reach out to companies, friends for sponsorships and donations. Asking needs to be done by June 14th for sponsorships/donations. Focus will be on general donations/sponsorships.
Letters have gone out to past sponsors for donations again this year. Have heard from 2, still working on Aloha Shoyu. Joan Howell's husband, Don, will also be helping with reaching out to companies for donations.
Fundraising season should be November – April to make sure we can have sponsors on shirts/website/banners.
Reach out to Merrily if you have a company that you would like help reaching out to explain who we are.
Separate fundraising for Kona racers this year. Maybe find sponsorships that are for this race specifically. Special shirts for the racers this year. Sell the shirts to raise money towards race fees, canoe donation, etc. After Iron season, we can focus on looking at fundraising options.
Holiday cards to donors/sponsors.
If we're going to have rules, then we need to be consistent in applying them to all paddlers. Ultimately, the coaches have final say on who is in crews and races. If paddlers have concerns about crews, practices or expectations, they should reach out to Kui or Amy.
Crystal Pier race results – Coach was very happy and proud of how everyone competed at the race. It was a really good start to our racing season but we can't get complacent in our training or expectations.
Long course – borrow unlimited for 1 of the races to try out. Kui would prefer us to not do so since we don't practice in an unlimited.
Equipment and Maintenance
Trailer – cradles on the trailer should be done professionally. Will look at options and costs on how to safely trailing our canoes long distance.
Key cards – need to get the forms from City of Tempe so we can purchase additional cards.
Canoe Maintenance – what still needs to be done
- Finish fixing the OC1
- Finish fixing the 2 – 6man canoes
Upcoming Events –
- Race fees due 5/19
Iron Champs – 6/24
- Race fees due 6/9
Coaches need to create and save incident reports. We should have a device that can be used specifically for Team AZ use for waivers, incident reports, etc.
Incident report – anytime someone is injured, brought to board/coach member attention then we need to fill out a report. Examples – cuts, toes run over by the dolly, contusions.
Andy has a copy of the Tempe Incident Report form that he will bring so we can keep at the lake.
Meeting adjourned 8:22pm. Next meeting is Monday, June 4th @ 6:00pm.


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This simple Coconut Lime Cake is perfect for those who are lactose intolerant since the butter is replaced with coconut oil. You can omit the lime syrup glaze if you want to use a little less sugar.
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease a 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan with coconut oil. Set aside.
2. Sift the flour, salt and baking powder together into a bowl. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, cream the sugar and the coconut oil together. When they are well combined and light, beat the eggs in a little at a time. Stir in the lime zest, then the grated coconut. Gradually sift and fold the flour into the egg mixture just until absorbed. The batter will be very loose.
4. Pour the batter into the loaf pan and bake in the center of the oven until it is golden and a toothpick comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Let the cake sit in the pan for about 5 minutes, then tip it onto a rack to cool.
5. While the cake is cooling, mix the lime juice and remaining 2 tablespoons sugar together in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over a medium high heat until the sugar has melted and has formed a syrup with the juice.
6. Set the cake onto a plate, it will still be warm, and prick the top all over with a toothpick. Gently spoon the lime syrup over the cake, letting the cake absorb it before adding the next spoonful. It will run down the sides of the cake. Serve with diced mango or a tropical fruit sorbet.
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When making cakes with oil instead of margarine or butter, the batter will always look runny in comparison.
To liquefy the coconut oil, simply stand the jar in a bowl of hot water until it has melted.
If you cannot find whole wheat pastry flour then substitute half whole wheat flour and half all-purpose flour. Just swapping in whole wheat flour will result in a drier and grittier cake.
Eat all sweet, sugary treats in moderation. A little bit of what you fancy does you good, but not the whole thing!
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American Neutrality in 1793: A Study in Cabinet Government
American Neutrality in 1793: A Study in Cabinet Government
This study is the result of an interest aroused in the author's mind when he first realized the importance of the events of the year 1793 in the development of the American policy of neutrality. A question developed concerning the influence of Thomas Jefferson upon the origin of this policy. It became evident that there was no thorough study of the relative contributions of the various members of the cabinet. Some writers gave Jefferson, as Secretary of State, credit for having originated almost all the principles of American neutrality that appeared in official documents over his signature. In turn, even the less prejudiced supporters of Hamilton attributed to him the wisest of these decisions. Both theories could not be correct. A preliminary survey showed that a careful study of available sources would probably furnish an answer to this question.
The more the author investigated this problem the more fascinating it became. Starting as an attempt to discover the contributions of Jefferson to this policy of neutrality the search soon developed into a study of cabinet government. It became evident that scarcely a single principle was added by an individual. They were nearly all the product of joint discussions in the cabinet, the result of compromises within a cabinet that contained, fortunately, as divergent elements as have ever been found in any American cabinet. The good fortune was that the necessity of compromise would and did produce a neutral course more nearly in the middle of the way, more impartial, than that which any individual could have found.


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On Track Models 82 Class DCC Sound Installation
with Lighting Modifications
On Track Models 82 Class DCC Sound Installation
with Lighting Modifications
Now available with a NEW Remastered
Custom Sound Project including the
"Full Throttle - Drive Hold" feature.
Custom Sound Project including the
"Full Throttle - Drive Hold" feature.
About the NSW 82 Class Locomotive
The 82 class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Braemar for FreightCorp in 1994-1995 with a total of 58 locos built.
When initially entered into service the 82 Class locomotives were used on Hunter Valley coal work alongside the 90 Class, although later members of the class were used for grain and interstate intermodal freight, first with FreightCorp and later as part of the commitment to National Rail.
When the NR Class eventually displaced these units from interstate container working, the 82 Class settled into coal and grain workings. When FreightCorp was sold to Pacific National in February 2002, they were soon devoted to Northern and Southern coal operations.
In October 1997 three were destroyed in the Beresfield rail accident (8219, 8246, 8247) and on the 5th June 2014, loco 8221 caught alight near Awaba while running as the fourth locomotive on a loaded ER64 coal service. It was stored at Cardiff for some time before being progressively stripped, and eventually scrapped, in October 2016. The remaining 54 locos are still in service.
DCC with Sound and Light Modifications
In March 2013, On Track Models released its NSW 82 Class locomotive which includes a 21 Pin socket for easily fitting a DCC decoder. No provision is made for the speaker, however there is adequate space for one or even 2 speakers. The locomotive will run in the wrong direction in DCC and can be fixed by changing CV 29 or swapping the motor wires on the locomotive's board.
For this installation we recommend the ESU LokSound V4.0 (Sound) with our Custom Sound Project for the 82 Class or the LokPilot V4.0 (No Sound) for those not wishing sound. We offer several different options of DCC installations for this model to suit all budgets and can supply the decoders only for the DIY installers.
We have tweaked the motor control of the ESU decoder to provide super slow smooth speed which is perfect for shunting operations allowing the loco to move ever so slowly towards its rolling stock. Also for those wanting the locomotive to move off slowly and build up speed like the prototype. You will be impressed with the smooth slow speed motor control.
We are able to modify the LED lights in this 82 Class release and in doing so we can offer 6, 8 or 12 individual light functions for greater flexibility when operating your NSW 82 Class model.
Original Factory Lighting
In the original factory setup, when operating in DCC the marker lights and ditch lights are controlled by the headlight function button (F0) and are directional. The front headlight and number boards are controlled by F2 (AUX2) and the rear headlight and number boards are controlled F1 (AUX1).
DCC Solutions 6 Function Standard Lighting Modifications
For an upgrade to 6 Function Standard Light Modification and we can separate the lights as follows:
1) Front Headlight/Numberboards - on/off directionally with the headlight button
2) Rear Headlight/Numberboards - on/off directionally with the headlight button
3) Front White Markers and Ditch Lights - on/off with 1 function button
4) Front Red Markers - on/off with 1 function button
5) Rear White Markers and Ditch Lights - on/off with 1 function button
6) Rear Red Markers - on/off with 1 function button
DCC Solutions 8 Function Premium Lighting Modifications
In addition to the 6 Function Lighting modifications you can upgrade to 8 function lighting and we will also separate the Ditch Lights as follows:
7) Front Ditch Lights - on/off with 1 function button
8) Rear Ditch Lights - on/off with 1 function button
DCC Solutions 12 Function Ultimate Lighting Modifications
Go all out and impress everyone with this 82 Class locomotive model by upgrading to 12 Function Lighting Outputs for the real life operation of all the lights on the locomotive. How impressive would that be to have your locomotive running around the layout with every possible lighting combination available for prototypical operation. Also available is the addition of front and rear cab lights,
So what do you get?
The 6 Function Lighting modifications plus the 8 Function Lighting modifications plus the following:
9) Front Number Boards - on/off with 1 function button
10) Rear Number Boards - on/off with 1 function button
11) Front Interior Cab Lights - on/off with 1 function button12) Rear Interior Cab Lights - on/off with 1 function button
The DCC Solutions NSW 82 Class Custom Built Sound Project with the EMD 12-710G3A Prime Mover Sound is packed with sounds and features not found on other sound decoders
Full Throttle – Drive Hold
This feature allows you to simulate a loaded or empty train by pressing the F1 function button. When the button is pressed, the motor will remain at a constant speed, while the sound can be controlled independently by adjusting the speed on the throttle. This exciting, new feature gives the operator the ability to have the train crawl in notch 8 or coast at 100 km/h. Release the Drive Hold function button and you simply go back to throttle-controlled speed and motion
Coasting on Demand
This feature allows you to enter coasting mode whenever you want with a press of a button.Often when coming to a stop, the throttle of a real locomotive is put into Idle and the locomotive coasts to a stop. Another situation that occurs is that once a train is up to speed when operating over
rolling countryside, the driver can coast to maintain a certain speed. By pressing the coast function button, the sound drops into coasting and remains there. Using the throttle speed control, you can now speed up or slow down the train with the sound remaining in coasting mode.
Press the function button to exit coasting and the sound will exit and return to whatever speed is set when exiting.
Working Brake
Press the Brake Function button and your locomotive will come to a stop at a much shorter distance than if you were to bring it to a stop by reducing the throttle speed. Release the brake and your locomotive will move off again or choose to have it remain stationary when the brake is released.
Working Dynamic Brake
Apply the Dynamic Brakes and the Prime Mover will wind down to idle while the Dynamic Fans engage to assist with cooling. Reduce the throttle and the decoder's dynamic motor logic will reduce your speed faster than normal. Disengage Dynamic Braking and the primer mover will returned to it's notched speed and the fans will turn off.
Random Start-up Sequences with Move Off and Stopping Sounds
Now with random start-up sequences including hot or cold engine starts your start up and shut down will not always sound the same.
As your locomotive begins to move off you will hear the sounds of brakes releasing with random speed activated wheel squeal, rail noises and other sounds. Some of these sounds are random or speed sensitive that will turn on/off automatically depending on your take off speed. When the locomotive comes to a stop you will hear the squeal of the brakes, air releases and then the compressor will cut in automatically to fill the reservoirs with air until full and will cut out.
- EMD 12-710G3A Prime Mover.
- Short Blast and Playable Horn - NSWGR Nathan P5
- Random Start-up sequences including Automatic Hot or Cold Engine Start.
- Air and Brake Release Sounds when loco moves off and stops including Brake Squeal.
- When the loco stops after braking the compressor cuts in to fill the reservoir and will turn off when the tanks are full.
- Speed sensitive Wheel Squeal and Rail Noise when the loco moves off.
- Full Throttle Drive Hold - Lock the loco speed and control the sound independently to simulate a heavy loaded or empty train
- Proper Working Dynamic Brakes: The prime mover winds down to idle, fans activate and brakes faster due to Dynamic Brake motor logic
- Coasting On Demand
- Working Brake to bring your locomotive to a stop even when Full Throttle Drive Hold is active unlike other ESU sound files.
- Directional Coupling and Release with brake line release with auto active shunting mode to reduce the speed of the loco for shunting
- Stop & Drive Random Sounds including fans, compressor, rail noise, track wheel squeal, air releases and more!
- Low beam to High beam Headlight operation
- Modified Lighting Options for more prototypical light operation, with 6, 8 or 12 Light Outputs/Functions
- And more (See below for full list)
- Motor settings and sound volumes tuned to specifically suit the On Track Models 82 Class Locomotive Model.
- Individual sounds slots and master sound volumes can be adjusted by the user to suit personal requirements.
- Full function button remapping to suit your personal requirements.
- This Sound Project is also suitable for other brands of 82 Class Models.
Standard DCC Installation: Non sound decoder with no light modifications.
Standard Sound Installation: ESU Select decoder or alternate brand of sound decoder with factory generic sound. No light modifications.
Premium Sound Installation: ESU LokSound V4.0 sound decoder with our Custom built EMD 12-710G3A Sound Project. No light modifications.
Premium Sound Installation and Standard Light Modification: Upgrade to 6 Function lighting outputs with the DCC Solutions Standard Light Modification to separate some lighting to have individual function control on your DCC controller plus our ESU V4.0 Custom built EMD 12-710G3A Sound Project which has been specifically set up to suit the On Track Models 82 Class
Premium Sound Installation and Premium Light Modification: Upgrade to 8 Function lighting outputs with the DCC Solutions Premium Light Modification to also separate the front and rear ditch lights to have individual function control on your DCC controller plus our ESU V4.0 Custom built EMD 12-710G3A Sound Project which has been specifically set up to suit the On Track Models 82 ClassPremium Sound Installation and Ultimate Light Modification: Upgrade to 12 Function lighting outputs with the DCC Solutions Ultimate Light Modification to separate all the lights on the model plus add front and rear cab lights. It includes our ESU V4.0 Custom built EMD 12-710G3A Sound Project which has been specifically set up to suit the On Track Models 82 Class
SOUND and OUTPUT FUNCTION LABELS
Premium Sound Installation and Light Modification
Function Description
0 (HEADLIGHT) Directional Headlights/Number Boards Only
1 Full Throttle Drive Hold
2 (HORN) NSW Nathan P5 Playable Horn
3 NSW Nathan P5 Short Blast
4 Dynamic Brakes
5 Coasting On Demand
6 Brake
7 Shunting Mode - Reduces Speed 50%
8 Start Up/Shut Down/Mute
9 Front White Markers
10 Rear Red Markers
11 Rear White Markers
12 Front Red Markers
13 Directional Marker Lights
14 Coupling and Release + Shunting Mode
Function Description
15 Fan
16 Compressor
17 Manual Brake Set/Release On/Off
18 Wheel Squeal
19 Reserved (Used in other DCCS Sound Projects)
20 Volume Control (+/-) Double Key Press
21 Volume Fader - Reduces Sound 50%
22 Headlight High Beam On/Off
23 Cab Door Open/Close
24 Sanding Valve
25 Spitter Valves
26 Short Air Release
27 Front Headlight On/Off28 Disable Start Off and Stopping Sounds
Options Available
ESU LokSound V4.0 Sound Decoder programmed with DCC Solutions Custom Built 82 Class Sound Project
ESU LokSound Select Sound Decoder programmed with ESU generic downloadable sound file
ESU LokPilot V4.0 (Non Sound Decoder)
Alternative brands of Sound and Non Sound Decoders of your choice.
DCC Solutions light Modification - 6, 8, or 12 light outputs
Supply only Decoders and Speakers for DIY Installations
Crew figures added to the cabs.


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Introduction: I-C-U 007 Spectacles
This Instructable is a very easy one and comes in handy for any would be spy!
Every good spy needs to always have someone covering his back, but what happens when you have to go it alone behind enemy lines? This is a solution for just such occasions. Enter the I-C-U 007 Specs. They supply the needed 'eyes in the back of your head' that your partner would have provided. Super simple, this can be done in only 10-15 minutes or less with only a minimum of tools.
OK so lets get to it... the bad guys are lurking behind you!!
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Step 1: Materials and Tools
The first order of business is to gather the proper tools and materials. Here is the list that I used but you can modify some of them to make use of items you have in your toolbox!
Materials and Tools
1. A pair of sunglasses
2. An old CD you no longer want
3. Duct tape
4. Tin snips
5. End cutting pliers
That's it!
Step 2: Get Cutting!
Now we're getting into the nitty gritty!
Put your glasses on to prevent any flying material from getting into your eyes.
Take your tin snips and cut into the CD!
What you are looking to do is to cut a small piece of the CD out, about the size of your thumb in a rectangle shape. You will be using the shiny side (top) of the CD so make sure there isn't and writing or graphics on the part you cut out. As you are cutting you will notice that there will be small stress fractures along where you are cutting. Don't worry about that right now, we'll get to that in a minute. The CD will most likely lose the back plastic panel as well but again that doesn't matter.
Once you have your rectangle cut out, take your end cutting pliers and snip the edges to get rid of the stress fractures. Now you have a nice clean edge!
Step 3: Duct Tape... It Holds the World Together!
Now that you have your little piece of CD you need to attach it to your glasses. How do we do that??? With every spy's best friend... duct tape!
1. Rip off a piece of tape about 2 inches in length. Now take that piece and fold it lengthwise into thirds back on itself. Pic 1 on this page. Now you have one long piece of double sided tape about the same height as your little CD. Pic 2 on this page.
2. Place one end of the tape on the CD. pic 3 on this page.
3. Making S-folds, continue folding the tape back on itself until you are done. Pics 4,5 and 6 on this page.
Step 4: The Right Position
Finding the correct position is the trickiest part of this whole deal but still very easy because if you don't have it just right you can pull it off and try again!
1. Holding the CD piece up to but not on the glasses lens with one hand as in pic. 1 on this page, slide the glasses on your head.
2. Move the CD around in very small movements to get the desired angle so you can see behind yourself. The best placement is near the middle of the lens.
3. Sick it on!
Note: The position is flat to your eye and does not conform to the angle of the glasses. Pictures 2 and 3.
Step 5: Your Back Is Covered!
That was easy right!!
Now your back is covered when you go deep into enemy territory!
Check out the finished project in picture 1.
In picture 2 you can see the reflection of a thumb in the CD!
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Cool idea, going to modify a little. Probly use something other than a cd. Get a profile pic, bro!
Ouch! More like "ICU Express Sunglasses"!
A few suggestions, so nobody gets hurt:
1. Sand off the CD edges, maybe round them off some more with a lighter.
2. Put the CD bits at the *edges* of the sunglasses, not the center!
Flatter sunglasses work better, though at the cost of the mirrors being more obvious.


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Thiruvananthapuram (TVC): The web of railway tracks crisscrossing the nation has rightly earned the description of being a 'lifeline.' Everyday, over 11,000 trains chug their way to nerve-centre cities and the remotest villages in the country. The fascinating history of Indian Railways has been encapsulated at an ongoing exhibition at the Central Railway Station at Thampanoor, commemorating 160 years of the organisation. Additional Divisional Rail Manager T. Kuppan inaugurated the exhibition on Tuesday morning.
Old photographs and snippets on landmark achievements of the national rail network has been arranged on the walls of the VIP lounge on platform one. Railways are now said to host 22 million passengers every day, which is more than the total population of Norway, Sweden and Denmark combined.
There is a reference to the 'Golden Square,' a network that connects New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata — a distance that is merely 16 per cent of the total network but carries nearly half the total number of passengers. Other impressive statistics include the 1.4 million strong workforce of the Indian Railway and the longest route, travelled by the Vivek Express which extends from Kanyakumari, right at the southern-most tip of the nation, to Dibrugarh in Arunachal Pradesh. This journey now takes 82 hours and 4,200 km between the two stations.
Stunning landscapes
The exhibition also shows the stunning landscapes through which the trains pass. The sheer range of scenes visible right outside the window is shown, including the mist-shrouded mountains plied by the Kalka-Shimla, Darjeeling-Himalaya railways, which have been declared as UNESCO heritage sites. Information on resources and production centres of rail components are also displayed.
Historical facts figure prominently among the 25 boards. There is a photograph of the first train journey in the country in April 16, 1853, from Bori Bandar (now, Mumbai) to Thane – that comprised 14 coaches and covered 34 km. However, all the display boards are in Malayalam and for the many tourists passing the train station, the information is lost.
The exhibition will continue till March 28.


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I am a druid priest and a native of Maine. I'm 49 years old and have been on an earth-centered spiritual path since my early twenties. My pagan studies began in earnest in 1990, completing a year-long apprenticeship in "shamanism". Concerned with cultural appropriation, I began exploring the European pagan spiritual traditions which led me to my life path, Druidry. I am a student and colleague of Emma Restall Orr, having worked with her since 1999. I completed her year-long Living Druidry course in the Cotswolds in 2006. I refer to my craft as Animistic Druidry or Mud and Blood Druidry. I am actively involved with pagan prison ministry. Besides teaching workshops and mentoring students, I've worked publicly leading ritual, giving lectures and radio interviews to share my vision of Druidry. I am licensed as clergy and on the Board of Directors of the Maine Pagan Clergy Association, serving in the role of president.
Some of my other interests include music, playing guitar, photography, poetry, writing, natural building and timber framing, sustainable living, and Permaculture. My passions are exploring Nature, working with the gods, ritual, and crafting the sacred relationships that bring Awen.
Rev. James Lawer, Founder
I came to Druidry after traversing many different spiritual traditions, until the deep, earth-centered commonality I experienced led to a natural home as an animist Druid. I have a teaching degree and was a teacher and college professor for 12 years, including having received a Masters in Theatre. Subsequently, I received a professional degree in theology and served various spiritual communities. Eventually took lessons from those people and shifted to focus on being a fulltime healer and spiritual consultant. I retired from the corporate world as a pagan chaplain for a non-profit hospice, then moved to New York City in part to help develop the Druid College. I maintain a private practice using trance states for healing. I bring to my work at the College many years in theatre, dance, music, writing, and ritual design, and leadership, as well as administrative directorships in those areas. I have studied with indigenous traditions in North and South America and in Europe. In addition to the Druid College, I am a Certified Instructor and the NYC Rep for the Cuyamungue Institute (Santa Fe, NM), and the Founder of Ritual Trance Induction (RTI) in New York, within which I work and sing with the dying and with all those who seek to grow their consciousness in ways practiced by our ancestors. A favorite motto is "Dedicated to Restoring Ecstatic Wisdom."
Sylvan Thorncraft, Facilitator
Daughter of this beautiful earth, I dwell in southern Maine, close to the tidal marsh, windy shores, and groves of oak and pine that have sung in me since I rocked inside my mother's belly.
My own spiritual practice is built upon tending relationships. Listening to the voice of Spirit in the weeds, stones, birds, trees, clouds, each other… has always been a practice for me. As artist, I engage in creative work to express what my sensual experience of the world continues to reveal, hoping to consciously understand more layers of that knowing.
Practicing herbal healing in the wise woman tradition, I am amazed by how much the plants have to teach us. How generous and powerful they can be. Especially when we approach them as wise, complex, spiritual beings.
Journeying through an undergraduate degree in anthropology led me into ongoing studies with elders from diverse spiritual and healing traditions, and work developing and co-facilitating a women's spirituality program. All this has been part of asking: What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be in right relationship with the ancestors, each other, and the earth? What is the nature of this numinous space that connects all creation? How can we be deeply nourished by and, in turn, offer nourishment through that connection? I welcome the opportunity to work in community and live into these questions, at this time, in this place. To remember and reconnect.


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Mt Washington Valley Ski Conditions for Feb 22
Attitash -60 trails, 51 groomed runs, 240 acres skiable terrain. 9 lifts. Base depth: 18"-24". 3" of new snow in the past 5 days. 76" of snow this season
Black Mountain – 22 trails,20 groomed runs. 3 lifts, more running this weekend. Base depths: 12"-36". 3" of snowfall in the past 4 days.
Bretton Woods – 40 trails, 244 skiable acres.8 lifts. Base depth: 30"-40". 4" of snowfall in the past 4 days. 136" of snowfall this season.
Cranmore– 44 trails, 43 groomed ,153 skiable acres. 7 lifts. Base: 16"-29". Tubing & Mountain Adventure Park open daily during Feb vacation week.
King Pine – 100% open. 17 trails, 94% groomed. 50 skiable acres, 5 lifts. Base depth: 12"-30". 6" of new snow in the past 4 days. 69" of snow this season.
Shawnee Peak -37 trails open (29 groomed), 3 terrain parks open. 6 lifts. Base depth: 24"-34". 6" of new snow in the past 4 days.
Wildcat – 18 trails (17 groomed) and 124 skiable terrain. 4 lifts operating. Base depths: 20"-40". 3" of new snow in the past 4 days. 108" of snowfall this season.
Mt Washington Valley's XC and Snowshoe Centers
Bear Notch Ski Touring – 45km trails open, 45km classic, 45km skating. Base depths: 19"-28". 4" of new snowfall in the past 4 days. Grooming in progress on: Waterfall Trail, Albany Brook Trail network, Lower Fields, Saco River Trails, Experimental Forest Trails and more.
Bretton Woods Nordic Center– 14 trails (23km) open. 0 trails track set, 0 trails skate groomed. Base depth: 2" – 8". 4" new snow in the past 4 days. No track setting on Thurs; to resume when snow conditions allow this weekend.
Great Glen Trails– 30km open for snowshoeing only; closed to XC skiing while base is rebuilt; Average base depth: 10"-20". 3" new snow in the past 4 days. Season snowfall total: 98".
Jackson Ski Touring Foundation – 54 trails/135km open, 42 trails track set (57km), 41 trails skate groomed (57km). 11 back country trails open. 18 snowshoe trails open. Base depth: 8"-24". 3" of snowfall in the past 7 days. Snowfall season to date: 65.5".
Purity Spring XC and Snowshoe Preserve – Nordic trails are open with approximately 8-14" base of machine-groomed and variable "spring-like" snow. 20km freshly "skate" groomed this morning, but no "classic" track groom. Snowshoe trails are accessible and warmer temps are softening the snow through the day.
Mt Washington Valley Ski Touring & Snowshoe Foundation – 40km open in Whitaker Woods and Intervale Networks. , 30km classic, 30km skate groomed. 45km snowshoe trails. 15km fat biking trails on designated trails. Base depths: 6"-10". 5" of new snow in the past 4 days.
Photos of the week
Sunrise on Mount Washington: Morning has broken on 2/21/18 with a beautiful alpen glow over Mount Washington. Credit: Wiseguy Creative Photography.
Spring Skiing at King Pine: It was shorts and shirt sleeves throughout the mountain as instructors for Ski and Snowboard Camps got into the spring spirit on 2/21/18. Credit: Wiseguy Creative Photography.
Cranmore: Snow maintenance is all about the grooming. This shot shows groomers setting up the Cranmore Tubing Park on 2/21/18. Credit: Wiseguy Creative Photography.


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Cara has graciously offered to give away a copy of the book (US ONLY). To enter, click on the Rafflecopter link at the bottom of this post. (Contest ends June 30, 2017.) If you are the randomly chosen winner, I'll contact you and pass on your information. Good luck!
June 1933
The wind stopped. The house grew quiet. Lillian kicked the oil rag out of the way and eased the kitchen door open to listen, to see if it was safe.
A single drop of rain splashed down on the rickety porch, and for a brief second Lillian could remember what the wood once looked like. But too soon the drop remembered where it was, that it had no place in the Oklahoma Panhandle, and it rolled, following a parched crack in the ever-present layer of dirt. And then it disappeared into the ground.
Lillian took a step out of the house and stretched her bare toes against the hot, soft dust. The screen door no longer hung in the way, and with a diminished need for the protective layer, no one felt the urge to retrieve it. The frail door had made it through the first summer. But the second summer, when the drought refused to loosen its hold, the winds had ripped it from its hinges, stretched the frail metal spring to the breaking point, and set the door down against the fence. There it rested, with one board broken and a ripped screen, leaning on a fence post that once marked the entrance to the garden. Now the fence marked nothing. An entrance to nowhere.
When the dust settled, she could see for miles from her kitchen door. Miles that once cradled golden fields of wheat, dew-covered footpaths, acres of grasses, and the occasional neighbor walking through to visit. Lillian took another hesitant step, careful not to stir the persistent cloud of soot that coated everything. In years past, the dirt—the rich topsoil of the Oklahoma territories—had been the source of life. Now that hope, the black wealth the old settlers had risked their lives for, smothered the city. It seeped into every crevice, into every building, into their lungs and ears. Their most valuable asset, once under their feet, now smothered their tiny town.
Lillian reached up to shade her eyes from the sun, looking for the stray cloud that had mistakenly dropped its burden.
Another drop fell. And then, another.
Lillian shuffled out of the shadow of the small farmhouse and up the side to what had been their front yard. Now dominated by rippling drifts of fine dirt, there wasn't much left of the grass that used to dampen the toes of her shoes or her flowers with their heavy velvet petals.
But a neighbor still lived across the street.
Her listless children, long since worn free of the desire to run and carry on with sticks and games, stood in the yard looking up. They'd seen it too.
The sun burned against Lillian's blonde hair. At least, it used to be blonde. The layer of dust covered everything, including people, and where there had once been defining characteristics, now there was likeness. The Negro man on the old shanty claim just outside of town was the same color as the horde of white children across the street. The dirt made sure of that. It was, if nothing else, an equalizer.
Lillian watched the shoeless children. There were five, and no one left in town thought it strange that they traipsed down the street without shoes. Shoes filled up with the soot. Add to it the summer heat, and the ensuing paste meant the freedom of bare feet outweighed the humiliation of it. At least for the children.
Lillian looked up at the lumbering brown cloud overhead.
"Here, over here!" A young boy jumped up at the sky, waving his arms and stamping around as if performing some kind of rain dance. The others joined in, hooting and calling to the meandering cloud.
Another drop fell, and then another, and for a brief second they watched each other from across the street while the rain crashed against the dirt in impossibly huge drops and a cloud of dust rose and fell from the miniature impacts.
Rivulets of water ran down Lillian's arms, streaking through the dust. She glanced across the street where the mother of the children stood in the middle of their undignified splashing dance. Lillian lifted up to her tiptoes and waved to the woman.
And then, her arm still in the air, the rain stopped.
The cloud moved on, almost as if it had been a mistake. Where it had blocked the sun, suddenly it didn't, and it took only a matter of seconds for the hot rays to undo the rain's damage. Lillian looked down at the unchanged earth and then back up to Mrs. Owen and her children, but she had already retreated into the house.
About Cara...
Award-winning author Cara Luecht lives in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin with her husband David and their children. In addition to freelance writing and marketing, Cara and and works as an English instructor for local college. Cara graduated summa cum laude with a. B.A. in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Farleigh Dickinson University. Currently, Cara is studying for a Masters of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary.
Cara has four published novels: Soul Painter, Soul's Prisoner, Gathered Waters, and Devil in the Dust. Soul Painter and Soul's Prisoner will be joined by a third novel in the series, Soul's Cry, in 2017.
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Virtual Reality and PC Hardware
Virtual reality used to be something that one could only expect in science fiction. However, today virtual reality has become an 'actual reality'! In fact, the future of the PC could be decided by virtual reality.
While the price of virtual reality can be high, it is still something that many customers can afford. In fact, most people can afford Google Cardboard – a simple device made out of cardboard! Not only is VR hardware developing at a furious pace, so is virtual reality content creation. What is to be understood is that virtual reality technology is dependent on the PC. While the roots of virtual reality development can be traced to videogames, virtual reality is quickly becoming a mainstream technology with multiple applications across many fields.
One aspect that needs to be considered is frame rates. A frame rate that is lower than 90 frames a second can lead to simulator sickness. This requirement will definitely affect chip design. As users experience more and more virtual reality content, their expectations will increase and they will want to experience more realistic content. Thus, the CPU will be put under the pressure of increasing expectations. One concern is the removal of latency so as to avoid seasickness.
There will be pressure to move from 4K displays to 8K displays, and to go from a total of 4K to 4K for an eye. After that, there will be expectations covering holographic images. In short, the demands for more and more immersion will keep coming in. Both AMD and Nvidia have been positioning themselves as the premier VR hardware partner. Multi-resolution shading is being used by Nvidia's Virtual Reality Works technology for preventing the rendering of pixels which are not view able for the user, and for warping the image for more comfortable viewing. AMD's technology called LiquidVR also carries out image warping. Both Oculus and Intel have started the release of 'VR Ready' certifications. The starting price of the first Oculus Rift-PC bundles was $1,500.
One mistake that many make is to assume that virtual reality and augmented reality are the same. While they are definitely close cousins, there are many significant differences between them. For example, VR headsets like the Oculus Rift are powered by a PC while AR devices can be taken around without a power cord. It is believed that the evolution of AR devices will take the path of laptops while the development of VR devices will take a different path with computing power receiving priority over portability and battery life. Soqui of Intel thinks that VR devices can be eventually tethered to a PC with data being streamed wirelessly.
Virtual reality is an extremely useful tool which can be used in multiple fields. Virtual Reality technology can be effectively used for promoting and growing your business. You will have to be very careful while choosing a virtual reality company. The right virtual reality agency will offer you the best results covering 360 photography, 3D virtual reality, virtual reality videos, etc., and create virtual tours and 360 panorama which are high-quality.


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Sunday, October 7, 2012
Every Sunday we have "family dinner". Both girls and their husbands have always come. Occasionally, Melissa comes with her girls from SLC. And, if we're lucky, one of the other kids are in town and they come too. When Terry and I were talking about getting married and what our future would look like, we always knew that we wanted to have a Sunday dinner tradition. And so it was and is still.
Only, now there is an empty chair. It sits at the "head" of the table (I'm at the other). It sits there. Empty. Like the flashing light of a hotel vacancy sign. Every Sunday. No one ever sits there because it's "his" chair.
Today that chair stood empty once again only, this time, it was our first Canadian Thanksgiving without him. He was always so excited for Canadian Thanksgiving because we would usually invite 30 or so friends, neighbors, and family to celebrate with us. He'd hang our gigantic Canadian flag, with more duct tape than you can shake a stick at, in the middle of our front room window. He'd make everyone laugh and make everyone feel important as he really listened to what they had to say. He'd most likely send something home with someone...or two. Then he'd eat the red jello, white chocolate cheesecake, and anything laced with sugar until he was sick. Then he'd eat more. Then he'd tell me, "That was the BEST meal I've ever had!" And I'd tell him he said that EVERY year. Eyeroll. Laughter. Love.
I missed that today. For my sanity, I had to scale it back this time. The girls and their husbands were here. And, of course, Eloise. Making it six of us rather than 30+. The food was delicious. We talked and laughed and missed the person who should have been sitting in that empty chair at the head of our family table. I miss him terribly. But, at this Thanksgiving time I am thankful for him. I am so very thankful. More than words could ever say. It's hard to realize that tears can't bring him back nor fill his empty chair. But, they can help me remember him and wet my cheeks with love.
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Double Trouble: VGC 17 on the Horizon! Alola to New Mechanics!
Prepare for trouble, and make it a double. Wait, what? It must be time for another installment of Double Trouble!
With Pokémon Sun and Moon literally just days away, the hype is growing bigger than the recent supermoon – which would perhaps be something to nickname your Lunala. Virtually everything from the game has been leaked, and VGC players are already preparing for a still-nonexistent format.The cusp of a new generation is always an exciting time for Pokémon fans, and this one is no exception. As with new generation, new mechanics will be introduced and old mechanics will see changes. Without revealing anything that hasn't been officially shown, here are five things I am excited about for VGC 17!
Of course I am looking forward to Z-Moves; they're shiny and new. They are also much less predictable than Mega Evolutions because ANY Pokémon can hold a Z-Crystal and use the appropriate Z-Move as long as it knows an attack of the correct type; the possibilities seem vaster than a Spinda's spot patterns.
I expect this will allow for a lot of creativity in teambuilding that can catch people off guard. And the fact that they will only effect a single turn in battle makes timing their usage critical.
Plus, they just look really cool (although some more than others). And isn't that reason enough?
Priority Counters
Priority is such a valuable thing. It's extremely strong, and it has been getting stronger and stronger with each generation. Gen IV gave us Technician which sees great use on the likes of Hitmontop, Breloom, and Scizor for their priority attacks. Then Gen V gave us Prankster, which is a complete beast on its own for so many reasons. And just when you thought something they couldn't outdo themselves at inventing dangerous uses of priority, Gen VI threw Gale Wings at us so we could all learn to deal with STAB priority Brave Birds. Ugh.
Don't get me wrong. I love using priority, myself, as much as the next person. But with more and more dangerous things having priority, it is nice to see some measures being provided in Gen VII that combat priority. Bruxish and Tsareena both have abilities that block priority attacks. Perhaps even more devastating to priority is Tapu Lele's ability, Psychic Surge, which brings with it the new Psychic Terrain which prevents all priority moves used on the field. Whether this will include Talonflame's Brave Bird (although if you've followed the leaks…) remains to be determined since most Terrain effects only apply to grounded Pokémon, but either way, these are all delightful tools people will now have access to for combating dangerous priority attacks in this VGC format. And people will have to be much more mindful about packing lots of priority moves onto their team.
Terrain Wars (The NEW Weather Wars)
Because weather wars are passé (not really, but who doesn't like new things to play with?). This is entirely conjecture on my part, but I expect terrain wars to be a big part of VGC 17 since the guardian deities of the islands of Alola have abilities that automatically summon them, three of them boost the damage of different types of attacks, and their status-related effects have huge consequences for a battle. Especially since we can expect the guardian deities to have solid, competitive stats by virtue of being legendaries.
For a doubles format in particular, there are a lot of intriguing considerations to account for. For example, immunity to Ground attacks is a highly valued asset in doubles because it gives you immunity to Earthquake, perhaps allowing a partner to utilize the move. But many of the terrain effects only apply to grounded Pokémon. Whether or not you want Pokémon to be grounded or in the air at a given moment becomes much more complicated when you factor in whether or not you want your Pokémon to be immune to sleep but susceptible to Earthquakes. The Levitate ability, generally coveted in doubles, will now carry with it pros and cons instead of just pros. I am really looking forward to seeing just how this effects the format and which terrain effects become most and least prominent. And balancing terrain on top of weather means you are going to have more things to stay on top of then ever before!
Less Popular Pokémon Getting a Chance to Shine
Whenever we have a Regional Dex to work with for a VGC format, various Pokémon that do not always get to shine in the spotlight wind up seeing great success. The more limited pool of Pokémon to pick from combined with all of the features unique to a doubles format give allow certain Pokémon to become breakout stars with niches nothing else can fill. Back at the start of VGC 14, for example, I do not think anyone would have expected Ludicolo to become one of THE most frequently and successfully used Pokémon of the format. But between Fake Out, the ability to check Rain teams with just one Pokémon, and access to recovery in the form of Giga Drain combined with its great special bulk with an Assault Vest, Ludicolo was able to do a lot for just one slot and saw more success than it ever has in any other format.
What will turn out to be VGC 17's Ludicolo? I cannot wait to find out!
A Vacation… From Mega Evolution
As the region inspired by Hawaii, it is easy to make allusion to vacation when discussing Alola. But I really am excited to have a break from Mega Evolution. Mega Evolution is great. I think it was a brilliant idea to bring new life into the series, reinvent old favorites, and add an exciting new mechanical layer to battles.
But Mega Evolution is also pervasive to the point of omnipresence. It is essentially a foregone conclusion that your team will have a Mega Evolution on it. To NOT have one is to deprive one's self of a powerful resource and to put one's self at a disadvantage. And I really do not have a problem with that, although there are those who do, claiming it stifles creativity.
But my point is that if you ever want a break, even a short one, from Mega Evolution, your options are really limited. VGC 17 is the gift of a new format untouched by Mega Evolution. And by the time it ends, I know I will probably be more than excited to get back to using them again. But it'll be a pleasant respite until then.
What are you most excited about in Alola? Until next time, PUCL. Sun and Moon will be out before you next hear from me!


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2015 has been quite the year for the vaping community!
I wanted to talk a little bit about SOME issues in the vaping community, things happening in the industry & what I have been up to.
Make no mistake,vaping as we know it is under attack. A year ago I would have never thought "VAPING" was really affecting cigarette / tobacco sales. Well it's clear we are doing just that!
-The FDA is working on implementing their regulations on our industry
-Some government officials are looking to replace revenue lost from tobacco products, trying to pass laws that would HEAVILY tax vapor products.
-Vaping bans are popping up left and right in cities across America.
-Some national "Heath Care" groups are going as far as demonizing vaping, telling people it's just as bad or WORSE than smoking..
Meanwhile the industry is growing larger, the vaping community is growing stronger & we are starting to "WAKE UP" and standing up for our rights.
EVERY vaper stands as an advocate for this life saving technology. We all are given the chance every day to represent "VAPING" in a positive light and share our stories with the world. The beautiful thing is, all we have to do is be honest.
It sure changed (and saved) mine.
I encourage you to get involved and help protect vaping. If not for yourself, for the millions of amokers that still need us, haven't found us yet.
Here is a quick list of groups that are on the ground and working hard on our behalf:
Well I closed my small vape shop in Lakeland, Florida and took a "Vape Ambassador" position with Njoy's "Artist Collection." https://ac.njoy.com/
This position has been the VERY reason I have been able to be so much more involved in vaping advocacy.
I travel to vape shops in Florida & Georgia and get a 1 on 1 view of what is really going on in the community. I am able to attend City Hall meetings, learn from respected advocates, meet fellow vapers & support the small businesses that make up the bulk of the vaping industry.
If you follow me on social media, you have seen the shift in the past few months from strictly product reviews to a blend of advocacy, topics and vapor industry awareness. AND reviews , always reviews.