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Saturday, May 3, 2008
Evidence is stacking up to suggest that the alleged "suicide" of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey was in fact a calculated murder, as the manager of Palfrey's Florida Condo reveals that Palfrey was not suicidal when he spoke to her Monday and told him of her fears about a contract being out on her life.
The new testimony is backed up by at least four other recorded public statements on behalf of Palfrey attesting to the fact that she would never commit suicide and if she was found dead to immediately suspect murder.
Despite these on-the-record statements, the majority of the corporate media has ignored each one and instead given credence to the unverified claim of a professional conspiracy debunker who has been caught fabricating statements in the past.
The building manager of Park Lake Towers in Orlando, where Palfrey owned a condo, told WESH 2 news channel that he spoke to Palfrey on Monday as she was packing to leave for her mother's house and she did not seem upset or suicidal.
"Jean Palfrey was a class act. She wore very good clothes. She was well educated. Her way out of this world certainly would not have been in an aluminum shed attached to a mobile home in Tarpon Springs, Florida," said the manager, who did not want to be named.
The manager said that Palfrey had told him of her fears that a contract hit was out on her life.
"She insinuated that there is a contract out for her and I fully believe they succeeded," he stated.
According to the manger, Palfrey left for her mother's house with some suitcases and a box.
"She had one white paper file box that she told me had some important paper with her and then she just kind of raised her eyebrows like you're supposed to think oh yeah, that's all the information that she had on her business in Washington," her building manager said.
If Palfrey was planning to commit suicide just three days later then why did she leave with several suitcases and a box of files?
According to an AP report, "Blanche Palfrey (her mother) had no sign that her daughter was suicidal, and there was no immediate indication that alcohol or drugs were involved, police Capt. Jeffrey Young said," .
On at least four previous occasions, both in the past and more recently, Palfrey publicly stated that she would never commit suicide.
Twice on The Alex Jones Show, the most recent example being less than two months ago, Palfrey made clear her intention never to kill herself (Click here for MP3).
"No I'm not planning to commit suicide," Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show on her last appearance in March, "I'm planning on going into court and defending myself vigorously and exposing the government," she said.
"Not to be concerned, I have no intention of letting anyone buy me off or make any kind of a deal with me….and I'm not planning to commit suicide either," said Palfrey on a separate occasion.
Alex Jones also talked directly to Palfrey during show breaks and she re-stated her intention never to commit suicide and made it clear that if she was found dead to consider it murder. GCN Live radio board operators are also witnesses to these statements.
Though never confirmed directly, Palfrey strongly insinuated that both Dick Cheney and John McCain were possibly involved in the DC Madam scandal, and this could have been one of the primary reasons why she was murdered.
During a May 2007 interview with Carol Joynt, host of the Q&A Cafe interview series, during a discussion about the alleged suicide of Palfrey's former call girl Brandy Britton, Palfrey stated, "I don't want to be like her. I don't want to end up like her."
During another appearance on The Alex Jones Show, Palfrey said she thought it was possible that Britton's "suicide" was actually murder because none of Britton's loved ones considered her to be suicidal.
Palfrey is on record as warning that any "suicide" would just be a cover-story for murder as far back as 1991.
"If taken into custody, my physical safety and most probably my very life would be jeopardized," she wrote in August 1991 following an attempt to bring her to trial, "Rape, beating, maiming, disfigurement and more than likely murder disguised in the form of just another jailhouse accident or suicide would await me," said Palfrey in a handwritten letter to the judge accusing the San Diego police vice squad of having a vendetta against her.
Despite these four separate examples of Palfrey stating – on the record – that she would not commit suicide – the corporate media, within hours of the announcement of her death, immediately afforded credence to the claim of a "friend," investigative journalist Dan Moldea, who said Palfrey had told him of her intention to commit suicide.
Moldea has no tape, he has no other eyewitnesses, and he has been caught fabricating statements in the past, and yet the media took his words as gospel. In addition, if Moldea was aware of Palfrey's intention to kill herself then why, if he was her "friend" as he claims, didn't he try to stop her from doing so?
The numerous examples of Palfrey stating that she would never commit suicide in addition to her condo manager and her own mother stating that she was not suicidal clearly provide justification for an exhaustive police and FBI investigation to be undertaken. Despite these glaring factors, the police who discovered Palfrey's body immediately ruled that no foul play was involved and closed the book.
The knowledge that Palfrey had about members of Washington's elite being involved in and using her escort service for the purposes of hiring prostitutes would have been enough to end scores of careers and wreck the lives of countless influential power brokers. This alone, allied with Palfrey's on the record statements, demand an immediate and thorough investigation in an attempt to bring to justice the murderers of Deborah Jeane Palfrey.
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Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose 25 books include "Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War" and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen."
(CNN) -- And then there were 10.
"I think this is probably our last reunion," said Howard Van Schoor, 86, of Mentor, Ohio. "I wish it could continue, but we're getting shorter in numbers."
At a hotel where I was staying near an Ohio interstate highway exit, I had seen a small group of elderly men having breakfast together each morning. In front of the little area that had been reserved for them was a placard with a military insignia and the words: "Blood and Fire."
I would see them in the elevators; I introduced myself, and found out that this was the annual reunion of the 63rd Infantry Division that, in World War II, had fought its way through France and Germany. Fifteen-thousand American soldiers in that division had crossed the ocean to Europe; the men I spoke with said that some 1,100 had been killed in combat, with many thousands more injured, some grievously.
The ones who were lucky enough to make it home after the war began having reunions in 1947. They were large events during the 1950s and into the 1960s; 500 or 600 veterans of the 63rd Infantry would convene for regional gatherings, and would bring their families. Sometimes, the men told me, there would be thousands of people at the get-togethers.
Ten soldiers were well enough to come to the national reunion this year.
"They would love to hold onto it," said Mary Fran Collier, the daughter of former infantry sergeant Bill Byrnes, whom she had accompanied to the reunion. "But this will almost certainly be the final time. With so few of the men who are still alive and able to attend, we don't even have a large enough group to get a good rate at hotels."
Her dad -- 86, a retired carpenter who lives in Oak Lawn, Illinois -- said he was 18 when he went into the service. Fighting in Europe, he said, "You had to depend on one another for whether you lived or not. When you lost one, it was like losing a brother."
That is why the reunions have always meant so much to him: "We went through the same things, and we're the only ones who can understand that. When you're getting shelled together ... the lucky ones who made it through, it's just so good to see each other every year. You're just so glad to see them."
They were riflemen and artillerymen and mortarmen during the European campaign; they slept out in the open when the temperatures were below zero and when the temperatures were 80 degrees, they sometimes had to go weeks without bathing, they dug foxholes for shelter and ate cold rations and dreamed of home. They encountered, and helped to liberate, Nazi concentration camps and, the indelible horror fresh in their eyes and in their minds, they fought on. Young men then, they often feared that they would never have the chance to see their families again.
At the dinnertime banquets at the three-day reunion this year, even with family members and an honor guard present, there were only around 35 people in the room. A ventriloquist entertained the old soldiers one night; at one meal there was a combo playing songs from the 1940s.
In the weeks since the reunion, I have kept in touch with some of the men and have spoken with them some more. They told me that the motto of their division -- that "Blood and Fire" line -- derived from a wartime speech by Winston Churchill, in which he said that the Axis powers would "bleed and burn in expiation of their crimes against humanity."
The men know that very few people remain who recall the duty of the 63rd. But their pride in their combat remains fierce.
"This division accomplished everything it was asked to do," said Edward F. Fowle, 88, of Springfield, Ohio, who was 19 when he went in. "Never gave up an inch of ground, literally or figuratively."
The men said they hope that American military men and women who are serving around the world right now will someday find the same comfort and warmth when, 50 or 60 years in the future, their own surviving numbers grow small, and they are able to get together with those who fought beside them: with the people who know best what they went through, who shared such an arduous and defining part of their young lives.
"The feeling is still there," said Dr. Jack Linscott, 86, a retired family physician in Marysville, Ohio, who enlisted when he was 17. "We have something in common. We counted on each other then, and we still do. It helps to know that there is someone who will watch your back."
At the hotel the men sat and talked quietly. Some walked slowly; other guests at the hotel either waited patiently, or hurriedly walked around them, intent to get where they were going without delay.
"My eyesight isn't too good anymore," said Howard Van Schoor. "But I like seeing these friends every year. They protected me, and I am grateful for that."
During the war, Bill Byrnes said, when a member of the 63rd would die in combat, replacement troops would be brought in. "After a while, we learned not to get too friendly, in a way," he said. "Because we knew that it would be breaking up your heart again when one of them goes, too."
The end of the reunions is something the men say they know they will have to accept. "We don't cry on each others' shoulders about it," Jack Linscott told me. "The feeling is that it has come to this, and there's nothing we can do about it."
They understand that in the end, as at the beginning, they have each other.
"The kinship is not something that you set out to form," said Edward Fowle. "It's just something that happens.
"There is a bond between infantrymen."
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First, lets acknowledge that there are lots of other posts and threads on how to upgrade to a 1G MAS. If you are considering doing this modification, you'll want to read through the 1G Turbo MAS conversion thread located in Fuel/ECU System FAQ located here: http://www.starquest...topic=28110&hl= If you read through that thread you'll see in Post #19 zactek mentions swapping the pins on the SQC harness with the pins on your 1G harness, but doesn't really get into specifics ... that's what this is going to cover.
To begin with, you are going to need a 1G MAS obviously, and 1G wiring connector. The beauty about doing it this way is the connector doesn't have to be a turbocharged car b/c we're removing the pins anyway. This opens up your junkyard searching to just about any early Mitsu vehicle that had a 8 pin MAS connector.
1G MAS (MUST be from a turbo-charged model)
Wiring connector harness;
You're really only going to need one tool to do this - a dental pick. It took me several hours and multiple evenings to figure out how to do this and what tool was best, so, hopefully this will save you all some time.
Here's where it's going to get hard to "show" you want to do. You'll have to just try this out yourself and get the feel for it. There is a slot in the middle of the connector. Each metal connecting pin is held in place by a very small plastic clip, or finger. You need to get the dental pick between the pin and clip, pry slightly up and pull the pin out by the wire at the same time. It's not easiest thing to do, but once you figure it out and do a few you'll get a knack for it. If you look down in the slot with a decent flashlight you might be able to see the little clip/finger thing I'm describing.
Because we're not interested in the wires in this case, you just remove them from the connector and discard them. Continue one by one until all the wires/pin are removed you have just the connector in your hand.
Now, on the SQC side of things, we do have pay attention to wiring. For this, I'm going to use the same numbering system as the thread mentioned above to keep things consistent. However, in that thread the numbers are provided looking at the back of the connector where the wires enter. I never really look at connectors that way, I'm usually holding them in my hand looking at them from the front, so I made my own diagram to help keep things straight. Below is the connector on your Starquest looking at it face-foward with the associated wire colors. Below that is the 1G connector. We're going to connect 1 to 1, 2 to 2, and so on. Basically, the unused pin and 7 aren't used at all, so the right two slots will be empty.
Now, it's time to repeat the process, except in the engine bay of your car. Hopefully you've had good practice removing them from the loose connector on your workbench b/c working in the engine bay is a little more challenging.
Here's my first pin removed. Top right White/Black
A few more removed:
All of them removed:
You may want to plug each one in right away as you remove them, I didn''t b/c I had my pinout sketch to look at to make sure I had everything right. In the picture above I thought I had them all separated correctly in order, turns out I had the Red and White/black flipped on the left side there. I caught it before I installed them.
To install them all you have to do is carefully slide them back into the 1G connector, you'll feel a little "click" and that's it, they're locked in place. No hacking, soldering, shrink wrap or anything. Just a dental pick and a steady hand.
Here are the wires re-installed into the 1G connector.
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On the eve of the highest-profile event of his public life, Jon Stewart's power is reaching its pinnacle.
In a new poll released by the website AskMen.com, "The Daily Show" host has been voted the "most influential man" in the country, reports Entertainment Weekly.
Stewart topped a list of 49 men from fields such as sports, politics, entertainment, technology and philanthropy. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Steve Jobs and Kanye West rounded out the top five. Over half a million people participated in the poll.
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According to AskMen, Stewart is "our youths' most trusted source of information and its host the most trusted man in America."
Stewart moved "The Daily Show" to Washington, D.C., this week in advance of his "Rally to Restore Sanity," taking place on October 30 on the National Mall. A crowd of over 100,000 is anticipated and other informal rallies inspired by the event are taking place around the world. But before that, Stewart sits down for an interview with President Obama on October 27.
Stewart's Comedy Central running mate, Stephen Colbert, registered no. 11 on the list.
President Obama came in at No. 21, just below the creator of "Mad Men," Matthew Weiner. Other notables included James Franco at No. 7, Conan O'Brien at No. 12, Jay-Z at No. 13 and George Clooney at No. 18.
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The Ramen Rater's Top 10 Instant Noodles of 2013
I've been a fan of instant noodles all my life and in 2002, decided to turn this passion into a blog. While living in Seattle, I've found Asian grocery stores aplenty and my love affair with the instant noodle has only increased. Over the years, I've found some pretty amazing varieties; this list represents the best of the best.
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I had tried this ages back and wasn't very fond of it. But at the request of readers, I gave it another try and found it to be the best Thai variety I've eaten thus far. The strong bite of the heat and the crisp citrus flavors actually resemble authentic Tom Yum. The noodles are thin, and a very different texture from any others on the list. The creaminess is not of dairy but a cream-like color from boiling shrimp.
#9: Paldo Kokomen Spicy Chicken Flavor (South Korea)
It all started with a South Korean comedian in a TV show cooking contest. Kokomen is the result. The South Korean "white broth" instant ramyun has a jalapeno chicken flavor which has taken South Korea by storm.
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"Indio in April" sounds like a ballad that could have been recorded by some poolside-living Rat Packer back in the midcentury years. And it is a song, in a way, but one made by dozens of acts and major artists with about as much variation as the word "variation" will permit.
So. A goodly amount.
That particular song will play over the April 15-17 weekend at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival, which is, you might have heard, one of the planet's largest rock-it-out parties. And on Tuesday, Jan. 18, the fest's organizers hit "send" on the spread-the-word tweet on just who exactly is going to come assist in the rocking-it-out.
The oversized bold names, by date: Kings of Leon on April 15, Arcade Fire on April 16, and Kanye West and The Strokes on April 17. Other acts over the three days include The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Chemical Brothers, PJ Harvey, Duran Duran.
Surely, in all corners of the internet, discussions are going down on who might have returned but didn't and who exactly is making a surprise and welcome showing. But isn't that half of what Coachella is, at least ahead of the weekend itself? The chitchatter? The rumors zipping hither and yon? It adds to the Coachellaness of it all, in a good way.
Best follow this tweetery for updates and ticket info. Only three months to get that tent lined up, or that one friend's cousin's house near that one place. Chitchat away, Coachellans, but best start getting organized, too.
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Friday, April 15
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End Of The Year Grand Prize Giveaway 2006
Discuss in Forums {mos_smf_discuss:News Items and General Discussion About EH-Net}
Well here we are at the end of another year. Just like 2005, December brings us to our largest prize of the year. In response to a number of security pros' desire to take SANS training and GIAC cert exams without the travel expenses of attending a SANS event, The SANS Institute offers On Demand. This month's winner will not only get 6 months of access but also a voucher for a free certification exam for the 1 course of their choice:
SECURITY 401: SANS Security Essentials taught by Eric Cole (Course and Exam = $3295)
SECURITY 504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling taught by our very own Ed Skoudis (Course and Exam = $3195)
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Location and Time
Sunday, 11 March 2018 (before ELC [March 12-14])
Board meeting to start at 09:30 Developer's meeting to start at 10:30 Expectation is to finish by 1800
Lunch is provided
Location: Mentor Graphics Headquarters, Wilsonville, OR Carpooling is encouraged, see below
Yes, we know it is Sunday. Best we could do this year.
Planning to Attend
Carpool note: Please add a {#} after your name if you plan to drive and can take # of people in your car other than yourself
- Jeff Osier-Mixon "Jefro" {4}
- Philip Balister (Crofton)
- Denys Dmytriyenko (denix)
- Manjukumar Matha (manju)
- Joshua Watt (JPEWhacker)
- Zachary Booth
- Jim Lodes
- Armin Kuster (Armpit)
- Scott Murray (smurray)
- Tim Orling (moto-timo)
- Alejandro Hernandez (aehs29)
Agenda Items
OE Board
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Prior minutes
Minutes from Prague, Oct 2018: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R_pV_PumhZ9a8_aRDTuW7wBjqNwIDuau7FGr6sYYRu0/edit?usp=sharing
Minutes from Portland, Feb 2017: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ECCfBwdLUaW3I23RATWCU3kGnSh04Kv0DkH1_KfiLVA/edit?usp=sharing


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On Sunday 17th May assorted super folk with capes in full flight ran the course at Regent's Park. Thanks to a generous contribution from Jim Prevor, the founder of The Perishable Pundit, amongst others, the team raised nearly £2,000.
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The lifeblood of America's ailing economy—the Fed's emergency monetary infusion via QE—may be "anemic, oxygen-starved, or even leukemic," warns bond king Bill Gross in his June missive to PIMCO shareholders.
While the fund firm founder devotes just a single, final sentence to actionable advice—"investors should look for a pacemaker to follow a less risky, lower returning, but more life sustaining path"—it's clear he thinks they should be generally heading for the market's exits.
That is because his analysis is explicit that risk assets "are at risk due to artificial pricing." And what are those assets?
"Corporate and high yield bonds, stocks, private equity and emerging market investments are financial assets that immediately come to mind," Gross writes.
The PIMCO manager's analysis is based on the concept of "carry," which he defines as "return over and above the fixed, if mercurial, yield on an economy's policy rate (fed funds)."
More common terms are "equity risk premium" or "credit risk premium," which suggest that investors are willing to put their capital at risk if they can potentially earn a return greater than the risk-free rate they can obtain on short-dated government bonds.
"If the 'carry' or potential return on these asset classes were no more than the 25 basis points offered by today's fed funds rate, then who would take the chance?" Gross (left) asks.
By sustaining a zero-rate environment, Gross fears the Fed is depriving the economy of risk.
"Our global financial system at the zero-bound is beginning to resemble a leukemia patient with New Age chemotherapy, desperately attempting to cure an economy that requires structural as opposed to monetary solutions," he writes.
That is because quantitative easing and zero-rates "have lowered carry and risk premiums." While the lowering of interest rates was probably necessary to avert a Great Depression-style debt deflation, he says sustaining that policy beyond the initial crisis has stunted economic growth by dis-incenting risk-taking.
Gross says the global monetary policy response in the recent period is historically unprecedented, meaning that interest rates in the U.S. and U.K. have never been so low, such that "never have investors received less for the risk they are taking."
"Central banks – including today's superquant, Kuroda, leading the Bank of Japan – seem to believe that higher and higher asset prices produced necessarily by more and more QE check writing will inevitably stimulate real economic growth via the spillover wealth effect into consumption and real investment."
Gross challenges this notion, arguing that in the real economy low rates generate low income which limits consumption and economic growth.
Further, they destroy business models. "If banks, insurance and investment management companies can no longer generate sufficient 'carry' to support employment infrastructures, then personnel layoffs quickly follow," citing as an example the 189,000 job losses from just the four biggest U.K. banks since their peak employment levels. "The entire financial industry is now similarly threatened," he warns.
While capital-starved financial companies are hurting, the low rates serve to sustain less competitive "zombie corporations," he says, thereby further stunting economic growth.
Another insidious effect of low rates is that it drives corporations to return capital to investors rather than risk it through investment. "Apple has hundreds of billions of cash that is not being invested in future production, but returned via dividends and stock buybacks."
And in the bond market, "most new Treasuries wind up in the dungeon of the Fed's balance sheet where they cannot be expanded, lent out and rehypothecated to foster private credit growth," thus depressing credit expansion, he says.
Gross says these negative effects are acknowledged by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke but justified as a necessary temporary measure to return the economy to "old normal" growth.
"Well it's been five years Mr. Chairman and the real economy has not once over a 12-month period of time grown faster than 2.5%," the PIMCO manager protests.
Gross concludes that "more and more debt cannot cure a debt crisis" and advises investors to reduce risk-related assets. That is a frequent PIMCO theme these days. Gross' partner, PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian, has also recently warned it is time to exit markets.
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Enterprise and Skill Development
The Office of DC (MSME) conducts a large number of vocational and entrepreneurship development programmes. The Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EDPs) are conducted through MSME-DIs, with focus on entrepreneurial skills development coupled with specific skills relating to trades like electronics, electrical, food processing, etc, which enables the trainees to start their own ventures. The programe includes the following:-
(i) Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EDPs):- Entrepreneurship Development Programmes are being organized regularly to nurture the talent of youth by enlightening them on various aspects of industrial activity required for setting up MSEs. These EDPs are generally conducted in ITIs, Polytechnics and other technical institutions, where skill is available to motivate them towards self-employment. The course contents of such Entrepreneurship Development Programmes are designed to provide useful information on product/process design, manufacturing practices involved, testing and quality control, selection and usage of appropriate machinery and equipments, project profile preparation, marketing avenues/techniques, product/service pricing, export opportunities, infrastructure facilities available, financial and financial institutions, cash flow, etc.
Guidelines of "Entrepreneurship Development Programmes" Scheme
(ii) Entrepreneurial Skill Development Programme (ESDP):-Comprehensive training programmes are organized to upgrade skills of prospective entrepreneurs, existing workforce and also develop skills of new workers and technicians of MSEs by organising various technical cum skill development training programmes with the basic objectives to provide training for their skill upgradation and to equip them with better and improved technological skills of production. The specific tailor made programmes for the skill development of socially disadvantaged groups (OBC, ST, ST, Minorities and women) are organized in various regions of the states, including the less developed areas. This programme covers training across 60 disciplines.
(iii) Management Development Programmes (MDPs):- The objective of imparting training on management practice system is to improve the decision-making capabilities of existing & potential entrepreneurs resulting in higher productivity and profitability. Inputs on a variety of topics of managerial functions are provided to the participants in short duration training programmes. This programme covers training across 60 disciplines. These programmes are of short duration and the curriculum is designed based on the needs of the industry and are customized, if required by the clients. 20% of the targeted training programmes are conducted exclusively for the weaker sections of the Society (SC/ST/Women/Physically Handicapped), for which no fee is charged. Besides, a stipend of Rs.500/- p.m. is provided. During 2008-09, a total of 2400 training programmes were conducted and around 60,000 persons were trained.
(iv) Industrial Motivation Campaigns (IMCs):-Industrial Motivation Campaigns (duration of 1 day or 2 days) are organized to identify and motivate traditional / non-traditional entrepreneurs having potential for setting up MSEs so as and to lead them towards self-employment.
(v) Vocational and Educational Training:-The Regional Testing Centers, Field Testing Stations and Autonomous bodies like Tool Rooms and Technology Development Centers (TDCs) of the Ministry conduct long term, short term, trade/field-specific and industry-specific tailor-made courses as well as vocational training programmes.


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Alcon Research Institute Awards Rachel Caspi
Rachel Caspi
Dr. Rachel Caspi, chief of the NEI's Immunoregulation Section in the Laboratory of Immunology, recently received an Alcon Research Institute Award. This award was set up to support research in eye health and to expand the frontiers of vision sciences throughout the world. This year, Alcon awarded six outstanding vision researchers with $100,000 each in funding, an invitation to an honorary symposium, and lifetime membership in the Alcon Research Institute.
Dr. Caspi came to the NEI in 1984 as a post-doctoral fellow and quickly established herself as a leading investigator in the field of uveitis research. Her primary focus is on the cellular and molecular changes that may cause the immune system to attack eye tissues.
Dr. Caspi's research interests include cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in T cell-mediated, tissue-specific autoimmunity. She is focused on understanding the development and maintenance of self-tolerance to immunologically privileged retinal antigens, and on defining the processes that lead to their pathological breakdown. Her goal is to use this knowledge for designing new and effective strategies for immunotherapy.
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Marcus was a very prominent person who lived in ancient Michina. He once worked for Damos before he betrayed as the mastermind behind the whole plot to betray Arceus. He is the main antagonist in Arceus and the Jewel of Life.
Marcus was a sly and evil person, and many people followed his orders. He believed that the people of Michina should keep the Jewel of Life, or otherwise the land would return to its desolation again. Due to his belief of Michina becoming a wasteland again if the Jewel was reclaimed, a seed of selfishness and greed grew in him, like a poison.
As Marcus had no intention of returning the Jewel back to Arceus when it returned, so he told Bronzong to use Hypnosis on Damos, and made it look like he betrayed Arceus. Arceus, furious, caused the temple to collapse in on itself and Damos and Marcus fell to their death.
When Sheena arrived with Ash and his friends from the future, Marcus put Ash and his friends in prison with Damos. He pretended to be the good guy and questioned Sheena about the future. This time when Arceus appeared to get the Jewel back, Marcus gave Sheena the scepter that held the Jewel. When she opened it in front of Arceus, he was gone.
Since Marcus knew about the future, he was ready for Arceus, so he got all the Pokémon to use Shock Wave on it while they dropped Silver Water on it. Ash and his friends were able to stop Marcus, and this time only because Marcus fell to his death and his crown was left on the edge of a cliff.
Fortunately, the fall did not kill him, as it was revealed that Marcus had went on to work for Damos as a slave in the end credits.
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A second vehicle believed to be linked to fugitive and former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner was found in San Diego County Thursday evening, Irvine police confirmed.
A truck of a make and model similar to that of Dorner's Nissan Titan was examined at the Poway sheriff's substation, officials said.
Dorner may have stolen license plates from the truck, which was processed for physical evidence and fingerprints, Irvine police Lt. Julia Engen said.
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Engen would not say from where the truck was retrieved or how it ended up there.
This discovery came after Dorner's burned-out vehicle was found by police off a forestry road in the woods south of Big Bear Lake Thursday.
Officials confirmed the charred pickup belongs to Dorner, who remains at large following a statewide manhunt.
Dorner was not found inside the vehicle in Big Bear, but officials found tracks nearby.
San Bernardino County Sheriff-Corner John McMahon said he could not confirm what officials found inside the vehicle, though it will be sent to a crime lab in the area.
"He could be anywhere at this point and that's why we're searching door-to-door," McMahon said.


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Felix Baumgartner set for jump from edge of space
ROSWELL, N.M. Extreme athlete and skydiver Felix Baumgartner hopes to end five years of preparation with a death-defying 23-mile free fall into the southeastern New Mexico desert Tuesday morning.
Weather permitting, the 43-year-old Austrian will take off in a 55-story, ultra-thin and easy-to-tear helium balloon that will take him into the stratosphere for a jump that he hopes will make him the first skydiver to break the sound barrier and shatter three other world records.
The balloon is set to launch at about 7 a.m. local time from a field near the airport in a flat dusty town that until now has been best known for a rumored 1947 UFO landing.
After a nearly three-hour ascent to 120,000 feet, Baumgartner will take a bunny-style hop from a pressurized capsule into a near-vacuum where there is barely any oxygen to begin what is expected to be the fastest, farthest free fall from the highest-ever manned balloon.
But the former military parachutist can only make the jump if winds are no greater than 2 mph. A cold front already delayed the jump by one day, but his team was optimistic Monday that a break before a second cold front is due to arrive Thursday will give him the opportunity to complete his mission.
Baumgartner spent Monday at his hotel, mentally preparing for the dangerous feat with his parents, girlfriend and four close friends, his team said.
Among the risks: any contact with the capsule on his exit could tear the pressurized suit. A rip could expose him to a lack of oxygen and temperatures as low as 70 degrees below zero. It could cause potentially lethal bubbles to form in his bodily fluids, a condition known as "boiling blood."
He could also spin out of control, causing other risky problems.
The energy drink maker Red Bull, which is sponsoring the feat, has been promoting a live Internet stream of the event at this website from nearly 30 cameras on the capsule, the ground and a helicopter. But organizers said there will be a 20-second delay in their broadcast of footage in case of a tragic accident.
Despite the dangers and questionable wind forecast, high performance director Andy Walshe said the team was excited, not nervous.
Baumgartner has made two practice jumps, one from 15 miles in March and another from 18 miles in July.
"With these big moments, you get a kind of sense that the energy changes," he said Monday. "It really is just kind of a heightened energy. It keeps you on your toes. It's not nervousness, it's excitement."
During the ascent, Walshe said, the team will have views from a number of cameras, including one focused directly on Baumgartner's face. Additionally, they will have data from life support and other systems that show things like whether he is getting enough oxygen.
The team also expects constant communication with Baumgartner, although former astronaut Joe Kittinger, whose 1960 free-fall record from 19.5 miles Baumgartner hopes to break, is the only member of mission control who will be allowed to talk to him.
And while Baumgartner hopes to set four new world records, his free fall is more than just a stunt.
His dive from the stratosphere should provide scientists with valuable information for next-generation spacesuits and techniques that could help astronauts survive accidents.
Jumping from more than three times the height of the average cruising altitude for jetliners, Baumgartner's expects to hit a speed of 690 mph or more before he activates his parachute at 9,500 feet above sea level, or about 5,000 above the ground in southeastern New Mexico. The total jump should take about 10 minutes.
His medical director is Dr. Jonathan Clark, a NASA space shuttle crew surgeon who lost his wife, Laurel Clark, in the 2003 Columbia accident. No one knows what happens to a body when it breaks the sound barrier, Clark said.
"That is really the scientific essence of this mission," said Clark, who is dedicated to improving astronauts' chances of survival in a high-altitude disaster.
Clark told reporters Monday he expects Baumgartner's pressurized spacesuit to protect him from the shock waves of breaking the sound barrier. If all goes well and he survives the jump, NASA could certify a new generation of spacesuits for protecting astronauts and provide an escape option from spacecraft at 120,000 feet, he said.
Currently, spacesuits are certified to protect astronauts to 100,000 feet, the level Kittinger reached in 1960. Kittinger's speed of 614 mph was just shy of breaking the sound barrier at that altitude.


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More than 30,000 prisoners were still held captive there that morning, amid thousands of other corpses who had already perished and were jammed tightly into railroad boxcars.
The "Thunderbirds," as the men of the 45th Division were known, stared directly into the face of evil that day, and some of them, already weakened by too many days and months of direct front line combat, broke under the strain.
"Several of the dead had open eyes," Alex Kershaw a British-born author and historian currently living in Williamstown, Mass., writes in his masterful new book, "The Liberator." "Their last moments of agony were etched on their faces. It was as if others were staring at the Thunderbirds, remembered one scout, with accusing looks asking:
'What took you so long?'"
Kershaw recounts in excruciating detail the events of that day, but it is only a part of a larger and sweeping narrative that chronicles a story centered around one of the officers of the 157th, Felix Sparks. He rose from a second lieutenant in 1940 to command one of the regiment's battalions by 1945, and was decorated for his valor and leadership more than once along that journey.
Kershaw will be discussing his latest book — his eighth and the most recent in a long line of books about World War II that have included such New York Times bestsellers as "The Bedford Boys" and "The Longest Winter" — at the Northshire Bookstore Friday, Dec. 7. His talk will start at 7 p.m. His long running interest in writing about World War II stems from the fact that it remains the seminal event of recent modern history.
What we are today, and the type of world in which we we live, derive from the fact that, however imperfect, at that moment in time the forces of freedom defeated the forces of tyranny.
"World War II was the biggest event in history — it defines us, it's why we're able to vote — it's the defining narrative of our time," he said during a recent telephone interview. "If you don't know about it, if you don't honor and remember the true sacrifice, the true suffering of the people who preserved the world's freedoms, then we don't know ourselves."
Kershaw describes how on that April morning in 1945, as the scope and scale of the horror of Dachau became apparent, one group of U.S. soldiers in Sparks' battalion lined up about 75 captured German SS prison guards and started shooting them, killing at least 17 and wounding many more. When he realized what was going on, Sparks ran to the concentration camp's coalyard, where the shooting was taking place, raised his pistol into the air, fired several rounds, and brought control to the situation.
"It defines a moment in that guy's life that completely captures his humanity," Kershaw said. "He had every reason to wipe the SS guards off the face of the Earth, but he didn't."
But it wasn't until nearly 50 years later that Sparks was fully vindicated from all suspicion that somehow he had been responsible for the atrocity. He narrowly avoided a court martial in the weeks immediately after the war, and it was only through a flukish discovery of some film footage shot that spring morning in 1945 that his true role was proven beyond a doubt. This was in the wake of more than 500 days of combat, which included all the campaigns the regiment endured from the invasion of Sicily in July, 1943, through the brutal slog up the Italian peninsula, the bloodbath of a botched invasion at Anzio, the long march through southern France, the Vosges mountains and into the German homeland in the spring of 1945.
As riveting as the account of the liberation of Dachau is, it is but one part of a larger narrative. "The Liberator" tells one soldier's story in the global drama that was World War II, mostly from the frontline soldier's often grim perspective. And it is in the psychological toll war extracts from those who do the actual fighting that elevates "The Liberator" from being one more book about one of the most exhaustively mined chapters of modern history to one that offers a fresh perspective on the true butcher's bill of combat. It's one that will have relevance for new generations of Americans, as many of the thousands of returning veterans from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will have to adjust after undergoing the same transformations that Sparks and his fellow Thunderbirds did 70 years ago during World War II.
"… I think it's time we stopped talking about the 'greatest generation' and look at what these guys actually suffered — how painful it was and how damaged they were," Kershaw said. "There was no such thing as an unbroken combat veteran; it changes, alters and damages you. In the same way, when you fire and kill the people who are firing at you, and people around you are being killed, you are changed and damaged."
"My book shows that — it's in your face, the nature of the killing and the violence," he added. "It doesn't matter which war you're going to, you're going to be affected by different things in the same way."
Sparks' story is told from his birth in 1917 in a faded Arizona mining boom town through his survival of the Depression, his drive to better himself by going to college and his aspirations to become a lawyer, through his courtship and marriage. He and his wife, Mary Sparks, had a son that Sparks did not see until the child was more than two years old, when he finally returned to the United States. The central core of the book tells the tale of the long march from the shores off Sicily into the German heartland, studded with numerous major battles and firefights. Along with the shock and trauma of frontline combat, there is another theme — the burden of command. Sparks, as he is promoted from a company commander to a battalion leader, must learn to cope and deal with the stunning number of casualties, many fatal, suffered by the men he orders into combat. Almost 1,450 soldiers who served in the 157th Regiment were killed in combat over that less than two-year stretch. By war's end, few of the members of the regiment were left from the group that waded ashore in Sicily.
Though damaged inside, Sparks held it together under the strain of command, and went on to have a highly successful legal career after the war, which included serving a term as a state supreme court justice in Colorado. But in 1994, one of his grandsons was shot to death in a drive-by shooting. Although in his late 70's by then, led a state-wide campaign to make obtaining the type of handgun used in the slaying of his grandson more difficult. The effort met powerful opposition from the National Rifle Association — the NRA, which feared encroachment on second amendment freedoms. Due in large part to Sparks' military career and service record, as well as his standing as a former commandant of the Colorado National Guard, he was able to get the legislation passed. It banned everyone under the age of 18 from carrying a handgun.
But the death of his grandson also blew the lid off long buried memories as well, Kershaw said.
"All the years of repressed grief and denial were blown away," he said. "All that suppressed grief came back — it was not just his grandson but all the men he had lost under his command."
Sparks died in 2007, a few months after Kershaw had gotten out to Denver to interview him.
With each passing day, there are fewer and fewer veterans of the war around to tell their stories, which is another factor in Kershaw's long term interest in the epic clash of World War II. Somehow, he seems to keep finding fresh ways and fresh stories to tell of this event, merging the personal, human scale narrative with the bigger picture of global conflict. He's already at work on his next one, which will look at France under the German occupation of 1940-44, he said.
For more information about Kershaw's appearance at the Northshire Bookstore Friday, Dec. 7 — by coincidence the 71st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor which catapulted the U.S. into active combat in a war that had already been raging for more than two years — call 802-362-2200, or visit www.northshire.com.


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My most recent oil painting drying in the kitchen. I didn't name the painting 'in the pink', although it does have pink tones in the sky and water. But sitting on my pink formica table with chrome pink chairs, 'in the pink' seems to fit for this photograph. The oversized Ball blue mason jars in the background were a find from antique shop a week earlier. The card is artwork note card my stepdaughter created and send me for Mother's Day.


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It's hard to get away from history in a state that helped to write it. You can embrace whole chapters of U.S. history in a single day, if you take a walk along Boston's Freedom Trail. This 3-mile marked route through the capital's alleys takes you to Faneuil Hall—the so-called "cradle of liberty"—then on to the site of the Boston massacre, as well as to the famed 19th-century warship USS Constitution. Boston also has such renowned cultural institutions as the Museum of Fine Arts. The museum houses a collection of classic and modern art that's reckoned to be one of the most outstanding in the U.S. Away from the city, Cape Cod offers a welcome break, with its wide open skies and endless sand dunes. For a chance to see some living history, visit the Plimoth Plantation, where you can talk to 17th-century settlers in a farmstead from the colonial era.
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As the cultural and economic hub of Massachusetts, it is Boston that pulls in the most visitors. Whether it's for a short shopping break, a romantic vacation of wining and dining, or delving deeper into the story of America's beginnings, Boston offers up some of the best-located hotels in Massachusetts. Nearby Cambridge, the home of Harvard and MIT, is the place to stay for those visiting these learned institutions. If you want to spend time away from the city, the mill country around Worcester offers opportunities for a relaxing walks by its rivers. And families will love Cape Cod's resort villages, like Hyannis, where the surf-fringed beach is the playground.
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JamPlay welcomes back Prashant Aswani for an in-depth skill based challenge series to boost your lead and picking skills. During the course of this lesson series, you will be provided a new lick each day to get under your fingers. These licks are used as vehicles to introduce new and more difficult picking and fretting techniques to your repertoire. You will also be practicing along with Prashant each day over a 3 minute looped backing track.
Taught by Prashant Aswani in Power Picking with Prashant Aswani seriesLength: 3:37Difficulty: 0.5 of 5
A 30 day repertoire meant to help built your picking chops
Lesson 1
JamPlay welcomes back Prashant Aswani for an in-depth skill based challenge series to boost your lead and picking skills. During the course of this lesson series, you will be provided a new lick each...Length: 3:37 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
Lesson 2
Day one of power picking introduces a pentatonic lick to get you started. Nothing fancy here, just work on your basic alternating pick strategy.Length: 11:13 Difficulty: 2.0 FREE
Lesson 3
In day two's exercise you'll be looking at the same lick from day one, but this time adding different dynamic through use of hammer-ons.Length: 9:21 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 4
Day three of Prashant's 30 day picking technique course introduces the concept of hybrid picking. You'll start of slow and simple with this one and gradually add complexity in the next several lessons.Length: 10:17 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 5
In lesson 5, Prashant offers up a new lick to study that will incorporate multiple strings. This will work on your picking accuracy across those multiple strings and add more texture to your playing.Length: 9:59 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 6
Lesson 6 is all about discovering how to move licks into higher and lower octaves. You'll be using the lick you learned in the previous lesson and moving it to different strings.Length: 10:02 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 7
Day 6 in the picking workout consists of making the most recent lick you learned more complex. You'll be adding new notes and incorporating hybrid picking.Length: 9:50 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 8
In the day 7 lesson, Prashant introduces you to what is commonly referred to as sweep picking. This technique allows for fast and efficient scale and arpeggio runs.Length: 12:37 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 9
Day 8 you'll be continuing with the sweep technique while also adding longer phrases, octaves and slides.Length: 8:05 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 10
In day 9 of your picking course, it's time to start thinking more about motifs. A motif is a repeating rhythmic phrase that can add power and intensity to your soloing.Length: 9:28 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 11
In day 10 of your 30 day exercise program, it's time to once again take a look at hybrid picking. This time you'll be upping the complexity further by adding string skipping to your lick.Length: 16:50 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 12
Day 11 is all about adding to what you know with hybrid picking. Using a repeating progression, Preshant demonstrates how to add a third finger to this technique to help with both speed and accuracy.Length: 8:09 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 13
Day 12 has yet another hybrid picking style lick to challenge you. This technique is a cornerstone of speed and accuracy and as a result is revisited at length.Length: 11:37 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 14
Over the past couple days you've seen how hybrid picking can help speed and accuracy. It's now time to get there using alternate picking.Length: 12:59 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 15
Day 14 is all about adding what Prashant calls "motivic lines." Taking the concept of a motif, you'll be looking at how to include that aspect into your lick without making it sound like you've specifically...Length: 11:06 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 16
Building off of the motifs you've been working on, it's time to start incorporating patterns as well. Preshant offers up another practice lick to push your picking further.Length: 10:41 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 17
Starting off the second half of your 30 day training, Prashant talks about how to create memorable licks using the techniques you've been learning.Length: 9:13 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 18
You're looking at a much longer lick this time that encompasses all of the ideas and techniques covered so far.Length: 17:16 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 19
Day 18 is all about arpeggios and syncopation. You'll be utilizing the picking techniques you've learned so far to navigate a deeper lick.Length: 12:40 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 20
Just like in your day 17 lesson, day 19 is all about putting all the skills you've learned into a single lick. To make it a bit more difficult, this lick will be shorter and more packed with technique.Length: 8:23 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 21
A new day brings new challenges. In your lick today, Prashant provides a barring exercise mixed with hybrid picking.Length: 10:42 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 22
Day 21 is all about taking the barring techniques you've learned recently and transporting them around the neck. Prashant offers up a lick designed to help you with just that!Length: 9:58 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 23
Using the barre technique you've been working on, Prashant offers up a daily lick that traverses the neck of the guitar and loops back onto itself.Length: 12:15 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 24
The next lick in your 30 day picking challenge is a short lick that is designed to get into and out of quickly.Length: 9:45 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 25
Day 24's lick is all about linear movement across the fretboard. You'll be utilizing all of the techniques you've learned so far, but instead of focusing around a pattern or box, you'll move straight...Length: 9:14 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 26
Day 25 is all about increasing your fretboard knowledge. Using what Prashant dubs a sliding arpeggio lick, you'll be able to gain confidence with which notes you're after when you're soloing.Length: 9:43 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 27
Starting on day 26, Prashant is going to be dividing up a monster lick to round out the last part of his 30 day picking program. In this first installment, use all of the techniques you've learned thus...Length: 7:03 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 28
Day number 27 is the descending portion of the multi-part lick that Prashant is teaching over the closing days of this 30 day program.Length: 7:46 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 29
In lesson 29, you're going to add some small turnarounds to the ascending and descending portions of the lick you're working on, then put those pieces together.Length: 6:09 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 30
Now that you've learned all the licks of the course and have added several different techniques to your left and right hand repertoire, it's time to put them all to use along with another guitarist. In...Length: 6:05 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 31
The final day of your Power Picking training is here. In day 29 you had an accompaniment Jam with Prashant. In today's lesson you'll be doing the same, but he challenges you to go deeper. Add in some...Length: 10:26 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
About Prashant Aswani
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Few musicians can say they've had such a diverse background in music, ranging from Indian classical to rock fusion, and many genres in between. Even fewer can say they recorded their first solo album while still attending Berklee College of Music. Prashant Aswani, however, can attest to these, and even more, jaw-dropping experiences.
Prashant has recorded Four Solo albums including "Revelation", "Duality", "Sonically Speaking", "Visions" and one soundtrack "Frequency" released by Lakeshore Entertainment. Currently, Prashant is the featured artist on iFrankenstein Movie Soundtrack (Lakeshore Entertainment) and is Producing AJ Mclean's(Back Street Boys) solo album. In addition he is currently recording his fifth solo album with Jose Pasillas (Incubus) and Rhonda Smith (Prince, Jeff Beck).
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March 13, 2000 ~ January 5, 2018
Colton Roger Berrett, 17, of Farr West, Utah, son, brother, grandson, cousin and friend passed away January 5, 2018. He returned to his loving Heavenly Father where he is now in a state of peace and happiness.
Colton was born March 13, 2000, in Ogden, Utah, to loving parents, Robert and Kathleen Butler Berrett. He is survived by his parents; brother, Gavin; sister, Kaitlyn; grandparents, Russell and Linda Berrett, Ralph and Janet Butler; and many uncles, aunts and cousins who love and supported Colton.
He attended North Ogden Elementary, Farr West Elementary, Wahlquist Jr. High and was currently a senior at Fremont High School where he is admired and loved by all who knew him.
He was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where he served faithfully in his priesthood capacities. Colton was a great example of the principles he lived by and was fortunate to have such great leaders and teachers throughout his life.
At 4 months of age he began his many outdoor adventures including 4-wheeling and camping with his family and extended family. He started riding his own dirt bike when he was 6 and became an avid and talented motocross rider. He enjoyed playing basketball, baseball, soccer, football, swimming, airsoft wars, riding his bicycles, target shooting, bird hunting and any kind of outdoor fun. He loved spending time with his dad tinkering in the garage. As a young boy, Colton loved to follow his dad and grandfathers as they mowed the lawn, precisely following in their footsteps row by row as he pushed his toy lawnmower clipping any grass they missed.14.2pt
Coltons life drastically and unexpectedly changed at the tender age of 13 due to an adverse reaction to the Gardasil Vaccine, causing him to become completely paralyzed from the neck down and ventilator dependent. Colton faced this trial with courage and strength as he regained use of his legs and half of his left arm.
Despite his devastating limitations ending his ability to ride dirt bikes, he was able to fulfill his passion for the sport by adapting to piloting his RZR with which he conquered the sand dunes and desert with great skill using one hand. With his ability to adapt he logged many miles riding a recumbent trike that gave him a sense of freedom.
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I see on this site a lot of very wise people and I am certainly not one of them. I am however saved by God's grace, by faith alone in Christ alone.
Having said that I can only say that all you wise people who believe what your brains tell you to be true and not what God tells you, will as the Bible clearly states be made foolish.
I don't take any pleasure in that but there it is, God is the only one who knows all things and one day everyone, wise and foolish will see that God is true and every man a liar.
You can debate all you want not one iota will be proved wrong no matter how long you all fry your brains trying.
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Trade shows are an exciting time when industry leading companies and experts come together under one roof to promote their offerings. Yet, they can be challenging to market to prospects who may be interested in the information as many trade shows are advertised in limited groups. Trade shows can be expensive and time consuming to market because they are oftentimes huge events involving large groups of vendors all competing for business.
However, social media tools such as Facebook have become a cost effective and useful method to invite others who are not directly related to trade show publications. This makes Facebook a great way to draw attention to upcoming trade shows, months in advance, across multiple online networks. Here's how to start using Facebook for trade show marketing.
Create a branded, group Facebook page for the trade show network.
Your very first step as a social media marketer is to develop an actual group page on Facebook that displays the trade show information in all its blazing glory. You'll want to develop a nice header image and a logo that tells others in an instance what your trade show is about and how it can benefit attendees. The idea is to stand out from other trade show producers by developing an online brand that captures the essence of your industry and your expertise as a trade show manager.
Integrate the Facebook page with other advertising methods.
Once you have your Facebook group page established, you can then start sharing it with all of your networks. A good way to do this is to add a Facebook button to all your other marketing materials, like your website, your print promotional items, and even letters you send out to potential vendors. If you run radio or television ads, make sure to mention you are on Facebook and to follow you for exclusive updates.
Schedule vendor events prior to the trade show date.
Facebook is an ideal platform for creating trade show events and inviting others to learn more. Take the time to plan events months in advance with a monthly vendor webinar to explain the benefits and opportunities at the trade show. Offer special deals that are exclusive for participants, such as reduced table fees and marketing premiums. Create a buzz around upcoming trade show events and ask your social followers to share with those who may be interested in being part of your network.
Use the Facebook page to share trade show information and images.
In addition to the other methods you use to advertise your trade show events, your Facebook page is the ideal place to share lots of exclusive information, imagery, and offers to your followers. Post at least daily about your trade shows, how successful they are, what vendors are attending, and your focus on building quality events for businesses to launch their offerings. Get in front of your market through strategic posts by region and industry.
Any trade show can benefit from exposure on Facebook as well as other forms of social media promotions. Take the time to develop a brand across all your marketing methods, but be sure that you share your Facebook account to draw the right people to your events.
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Ed Koch wasn't always what he seemed
In the 22-plus years since his downbeat departure from City Hall, Ed Koch never really surrendered the spotlight, keeping true to a City Hall reporter's characterization of him as "unavoidable for comment."
He lost his bid for a fourth term in a Democratic primary to David Dinkins in 1989, following a tumultuous and controversial third term plagued by a corruption scandal in his administration, racial tension and high crime. Four years later, Koch endorsed Dinkins' GOP opponent, Rudy Giuliani. Many years after that, Koch would write a book about Giuliani -- called "Nasty Man."
It was as if the circle of embattlement was somehow complete. Koch, who said he liked to "tweak people," kept the limelight with endorsements, broadcast commentaries, movie reviews and continual emails to a long list of recipients. As a lifelong bachelor, it was if his public became his family to noodge. All the Koch books and profiles -- fawning, critical, autobiographical -- are completed and published.
Long ago Koch decided it was no problem to put all his opinions, world views, pointed jokes and personal alienations on full display, no matter who might have grown irritated. In the process, the larger-than-life Koch masked a life-size Koch, or what those closest to him insisted was a personal decency that he seemed to keep offstage -- such as his many devoted visits to a dying friend.
One year in the 1980s -- after both Koch, then mayor, and ex-rival Mario Cuomo, then governor, published books -- the late Newsday columnist Murray Kempton wrote: "To the governor of New York, language is a device for making oneself look better than one probably is. To the mayor of New York, language is a device for making oneself look worse than one could possibly be."
His humor-as-weapon could actually turn self-deprecating. In the early 1960s, as a left-wing member of the Village Independent Democrats, Koch suffered a defining primary defeat to the late Democratic Assemblyman Bill Passannante. As recalled in Jonathan Soffer's relatively recent "Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City," the young politician referred to this as the "SAD campaign" -- an acronym for his platform that advocated repealing laws from that time against consensual sodomy, abortion and divorce.
Much later, when he was about to be inaugurated for the first time as mayor, the story got around that someone talked him out of using as a signature song, "Send in the Clowns." The show-biz aspect of the job gained a life of its own. At one Inner Circle show performance, he appeared in a sequined suit from head-to-toe. One reporter's spoof portrayed Koch singing to the tune of "I Am Woman:" "I am Mayor hear me roar, cuz I'm too loud to ignore . . . "
All the New York glitz and glare was a long way from what Koch might once have been, coming as he did from working-class Newark and Brooklyn. Like many GIs of his generation, he didn't talk much about World War II. But Koch served in Belgium, France and Germany with the U.S. Army between 1944 and 1946 -- and was awarded two battle stars. He served in the 104th Infantry Division and later, the European Civilian Affairs Division, in Bavaria.
He wasn't always what he appeared to be, but then, which political performer is?