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But Peter said, "I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!" And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong…While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's. And when Peter saw it he addressed the people…Acts 3:6-7, 11-12
Are you old enough to remember when it was said of the U.S. that our "national pastime" was baseball? I can remember it being said. I'm not sure I ever really believed it. Those were simpler times, to be sure. Nicer times. Less complicated. But what about today? What would you suppose is this culture's favorite pastime? My educated guess is this: having a "take" and making it known. We are living in a culture obsessed with finding creative, persuasive, (controversial?) ways of communicating our beliefs or opinions about every single happening or news item or public personality. Racism? Here's my take… Same sex marriage? Here's my take… Abortion? Here's my take… Politics? Here's my take… Evangelicals? Here's my take… Muslims? Here's my take… You get the idea. It's an obsession. All of us feel compelled to have a take and make it known. And we spend an enormous amount of our time either reading/listening to other people's takes or coming up with our own.
In the Christian world, we usually call it "speaking the truth". We may or may not want to be seen as going along with the crowd, so we may or may not intend to jump on the social media bandwagon of "have a take and make it known", but we do feel a need to speak the truth in a world filled with lies. And so we do. And in a world of screaming opinions, our "take" then just adds to the white noise of a culture screaming its "takes" out into the universe. It is a chaotic conglomeration of noise and opinions and rants and pleas. And we wonder why fewer and fewer people listen to us. Even the truth gets lost in such a culture.
But Jesus taught a different model for speaking the truth; a model to which we in the church would do well to stick. You will recognize it immediately if you have done any reading of the gospels at all. More often than not, Jesus would DO something amazing, something helpful, something miraculous, and then he would teach about it. More often than not, his speaking of truth would be preceded by an act of servanthood or helping or healing. He would first cause a miraculous catch of fish and then he would call those fisherman to follow him. He would first heal a lame man and then use it as an illustration in his teaching. He would first feed thousands of hungry people and then teach about it. He would first wash his disciples' feet and then teach about it. You see, for Jesus, his good acts provided the very foundation for his speaking truth.
No surprise, then, that his disciples followed the same pattern. Peter first healed a lame man at the temple gates and then taught about it to the crowd which ensued. Peter did not START with a sermon or a message or a catchy Facebook post. He first DID GOOD, and then he spoke. It was how Jesus taught him. It was what Jesus showed him. And it has been a model for the church ever since. But is it a model we value today?
Do you wonder why the Christian church today seems to struggle so much with what the world might call an "image problem"? Could it be because we have been screaming what we believe to an unbelieving culture and have made the DOING GOOD a mere side dish to our speaking the truth? What if, BEFORE I speak the truth about the social issue du jour, I actually engage in a friendship with someone with that struggle and do good in his or her life? I wonder what that would do for my ability to speak truth?
These seem like important questions to me.
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SNK is bringing a selection of its classic arcade and console games to Nintendo Switch this fall as the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection. The compilation focuses on the company's games released during the 1980s — the pre-Neo Geo era.
The SNK 40th Anniversary Collection will include at least 13 titles, some of which have both arcade and console versions. In publisher NIS America's announcement, the company said more titles are to come, but here's what's confirmed so far:
- Alpha Mission (console/arcade)
- Athena (console/arcade)
- Crystalis (console)
- Ikari Warriors (console/arcade)
- Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road (console/arcade)
- Ikari Warriors 3: The Rescue (console/arcade)
- Guerrilla War (console/arcade)
- P.O.W. (console/arcade)
- Prehistoric Isle in 1930 (arcade)
- Psycho Soldier (arcade)
- Street Smart (arcade)
- TNK III (console/arcade)
- Vanguard (arcade)
The SNK 40th Anniversary Collection will include a few modern conveniences, like the option to "rewind and save at any time" and "redesigned control schemes for a modern feel." The compilation will also include an "SNK Museum" that promises a look at the history of the developer through high-definition artwork and promotional materials.
SNK fans are well aware that several of the company's Neo Geo games, including entries in the Art of Fighting, World Heroes, Samurai Shodown and Metal Slug series, are already available for Switch. They're released under developer Hamster's Arcade Archives (ACA) line of classic titles.
While a collection of classic SNK games is great news, the stand-alone collection appears to be another sign that Nintendo's Virtual Console for Switch isn't happening any time soon.

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Introduction to QTUM and Underlying Technologies
June 23, 2018
If you are an entrepreneur who wants to learn more about the backbone technologies of blockchain or a software developer who aspires to build your own Dapps, this is the course for you. QTUM co-founder Patrick and several experienced QTUM developers will lead you through a series of courses that describe the backbone technologies, innovation and use cases of QTUM, a leading blockchain platform that combines the merits of both Bitcoin and Ethereum. You will also get hands-on experience building smart contracts and creating your own Dapps.
The two-day workshop will begin with a general introduction to blockchain and QTUM from a business perspective. We will then dive deeper into the underlying technologies of QTUM, including the UTXO model, Hash, cryptography, consensus and algorithm. After gaining an overall understanding of the underlying technology, you will learn more about QTUM's specific codes and end Day 1 with an introduction to the security issues related to blockchain in general.
Day 2 begins with an introduction to Solidity, EVM and QTUM's X86 virtual machine, followed by two hands-on coding sessions where participants can learn to run qtumd with docker, transfer funds, deploy a simple smart contract and interact with the contract via RPC. It will be followed by another exciting session where participants can learn to deploy an ERC20 token contract. We will end the two-day workshop with another session on security and testing of QTUM.
This course emphasizes the technology of blockchain. Participants should have at least a basic understanding of blockchain and preferably coding experiences. Personal laptops will be required – please bring your own.
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Co-founder, Qtum
Patrick graduated from Draper University and dropped out of his doctoral degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Patrick was previously employed by Alibaba, and is committed to blockchain technology development, with abundant blockchain industry development experience.
Core Development Engineer, Qtum
Wenbin Zhong graduated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with a Masters of Information and Communication System. He is proficient in C/C ++ programming on Linux, GDB debugging, familiar with data structures and algorithms, has JAVA/Shell/Tcl knowledge and experience, and 4 years of experience in large-scale software development. Wenbin has known Bitcoin since 2013 and has even mined cryptocurrency.
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Howard is the author of "Deep Dive Into Ethereum Virtual Machine," a book dissecting the inner workings of Solidity and Ethereum. He is currently the Lead DApp Platform Engineer for QTUM, developing tools and libraries to create decentralized applications. Howard has 10 years of product and engineering experience in the startup world, and is passionate about building products that counter the centralizing tendencies of the old web.
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David's interest in Bitcoin and blockchain tech started in 2013. He has previously worked on several startups and has interned at Nasdaq. He recently completed his Master's thesis in distributed systems at Lund University.


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So I just got done reassuring a friend that this was no doubt a freak incident and then I found this on the USGS website.
1909 Jun 26 14:42 5.1M Intensity VII
Aurora, Illinois ( 41.6N 88.1W )
This earthquake has been related to the La Salle anticline in the Illinois Basin. Many chimneys fell, a stove overturned, and gas line connections broke at Aurora, west of Chicago. Several chimneys were downed at Forreston, Naperville, Streator, Triumph, and Troy Grove, and one fell at Waukegan. Brick walls cracked at Bloomington, and sidewalks cracked and many chimneys were damaged at Freeport. At Platteville, Wis., about 130 km northwest of Chicago, an old building was cracked; houses were jostled out of plumb at Beloit, Wis., about 240 km northwest of Chicago. Felt from Missouri to Michigan and Minnesota to Indiana.
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1912 Jan 2 16:21 4.5M Intensity VI
Near Aurora, Freeport, Morris, and Yorkville, Illinois? ( 41.5N 88.5W )
The highest intensity was reported at those towns in Kane, Stephenson, Grundy, and Kendall Counties, respectively. Slight damage to chimneys was reported at Batavia and Geneva, Ill., north of Aurora, in Kane County. Two distinct shocks were observed at some places. The stronger shock also was felt in parts of Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky (Fulton County), and Wisconsin.
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close right here. The USGS calls the 1909 quake perhaps the strongest to ever occur in Illinois. Leaving me to wonder why I know quite a bit about the New Madrid fault, but have never heard of the LaSalle anticline in the Illinois Basin.


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As the vice president of a national radio news network which serves over 1,700 radio stations nationwide, I—and my staff or anchors, correspondents and editors—take seriously our responsibility to keep any personal political beliefs out of the newscasts we produce. We operate on the apparently-antiquated premise that news organizations have a responsibility to be (wait for it) "fair and balanced" on issues and events we cover…including four 2016 Republican Presidential Debates in which we partnered with CNN.
Sadly, many of our colleagues in broadcast and print---led most egregiously by the Associated Press—have clearly adopted a different mission in the current presidential campaign: defeat Donald Trump first, worry about ethics or damage to our free press later.
Network TV personalities (who ride to work in limousines but adapt the personas of champions of the working class) are tapped as "moderators" by the Commission on Presidential Debates and have free reign to interrupt, badger or correct the candidates for the most powerful position in the Free World. But any casual observer can see that their toughest follow-ups and admonitions that "we have to move on to our next topic" are invariably aimed at you-know-who, not Mrs. Clinton whom the AP recently described in a news article as "the most famous working mother in America." (Don't hold your breath for any AP story to reference Donald Trump as the most famous working father…)
Echoing other mainstream media voices, MSNBC's Joy Reid bemoans the tone of this campaign, saying that "parents are concerned at what's coming out of their TV's because their children are watching." Apparently that, too, is laid at the feet of Donald Trump. No thought is given to MSNBC not running the obscenity-laden "Access Hollywood" tape 24/7 in the days before/after the Trump/Clinton debate at Washington University. Or making the radical proposal that parents actually control what their children watch on TV.
It is absurd to expect an American campaign for president to be conducted so it doesn't frighten a toddler population whose primary concern is actually why there's no little plastic straw attached to the juice boxes in their lunchbags.
The unchallenged fact that October has been Open Season on Donald Trump by the American news media is evidenced nowhere more obviously that by glancing through alleged "news" items distributed by The Associated Press. On October 15th, for example, AP writer Jill Colvin offered a textbook case. Here's her lead sentence, with bolding added by me:
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A beleaguered Donald Trump sought to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. presidential election on Saturday, pressing unsubstantiated claims the contest is rigged against him, vowing anew to jail Hillary Clinton if he's elected and throwing in a baseless insinuation his rival was on drugs in the last debate.
As an Associated Press subscriber, I have forwarded many examples of opinion-laden wordsmithing like Colvin's to AP management in New York and Washington. Invariably, I receive a courteous brushoff by folks like AP's Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll with suggestions that "I guess we are going to have to agree to disagree." (?) Yet the slanted articles continue to be written and distributed unabated to newspapers and broadcast clients nationwide and around the world.
Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll with Tom Tradup at SRN's Dallas headquarters. (Salem Radio Network photo)
Considering the above examples, it was all-the-more astonishing to hear President Obama lashing out last week in a Pittsburgh speech about citizens needing to "sift through lies and distortions" in the media. The President looked back fondly to the days before Talk Radio or blogging or Social Media when just three networks delivered what he called "fact-based news" that people trusted.
Mr. Obama—as the hourglass runs out on his time in the White House—added these chilling suggestions: "We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to, ……. There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just don't have any basis in anything that's actually happening in the world."
One can only speculate as to what Mr. Obama's proposed "curating function" for news could accomplish which the Associated Press is not already doing. But let's take a wild guess and say it would start by bringing back the discredited "Fairness Doctrine" to muzzle Talk Radio. And as Mr. Obama's curators "sort through" the news we will receive, there likely will be—as he so casually puts it—things that must be "discarded" such as debates over so-called "climate change" or immigration policy or whether people of faith will be allowed to speak out in their churches on issues which concern them.
But the question our outgoing President obviously has not "curated" himself is: Will he be as enthusiastic about creating a government board to review what news the American people receive if it occurs under President Donald Trump?
Tom Tradup is V.P./News & Talk Programming at Dallas-based Salem Radio Network. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Sure, it's still the middle of winter, but let us preemptively nominate the Song of the Summer. "Forever, Always," from the Nashville folk-rock band Judah and the Lion, is a sweet summer crush anthem. It has the grandeur of Mumford & Sons with the rock grind of Arcade Fire, making for a sound so massive it's perfect for a top-down, blaring-from-the-stereo cruise along the beach.
"'Forever, Always' is a song about finding a love that is not some one-night stand," says lead singer Judah Akers. The track is from the upcoming second album, Folk Hop N' Roll (out March 4), a genre-bending collection of songs that should tip the band as one of 2016's breakout acts. Catch them on the road starting March 8 in Charleston, South Carolina, with many dates across the South to follow this spring. Enjoy a first listen of "Forever, Always" now exclusively on gardenandgun.com.
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Wayne Hudson is a professor at the University of Queensland, Charles Stuart University and the University of Tasmania, Australia.
BRISBANE, Mar 13 2015 (IPS) - Although global citizenship education has now received the recognition it deserves, much of the literature recycles old agendas under another name – 'education to promote peace and justice', 'sustainability', 'care for the environment', 'multi-faith' and 'multi-cultural understanding' – and so forth.
Another literature proposes that children learn specific global knowledge: world history, global ethics, global law etc. In my view these approaches do not grasp the revolution that global citizenship involves.
They do not rise to the level of the times and promote an approach to education which is radical enough to bring about the changes which are needed. There is also a problem about the tendency for some advocates of global citizenship education to promote political and social activism under another name.
Finally, there is a major problem about the way global citizenship education tends to be presented in Western terms, heavily indebted to the European Enlightenment. I propose an approach to global citizenship education which is much more radical and involves a new conceptuality of pedagogical practice.
Clearly I would not argue for a global citizenship education that ignores the achievements of the West or the rich heritage of the European Enlightenment. Equally, however, global citizenship education cannot be education in the Enlightenment ideology of the West.
It cannot ignore the substantive claims of Islam. It cannot pretend that Russian Orthodoxy is some sort of private option and that the Russian Federation is a secular nation state. And it must relate to the actual diversities – political, cultural and ethical – found around the world, if it is not to be yet another example of educational utopianism with only limited impact on the ground.
Global citizenship education cannot be simply Western, and it must relate to children living in poor countries and in rural environments, and not only to the children of urban elites. Many current forms of global citizenship education do not seem to address their needs.
Global citizenship education which goes beyond both Western ideology and utopian dreaming needs in my view to make two radical leaps:
First, it needs to make a post-secular leap and reconcile moderate secularity with a recognition of non-mundane performances in both public and private life. This represents a rejection of American ideology about 'the public square' or 'the public sphere'.
It reconnects with real world realities, and involves a model of global citizenship education which takes different spiritual perspectives seriously at the level of religious citizenship, at the level of human rights, and at the level of the role of the state.
Pious declarations which simply recite Western Enlightenment mantras about these matters will fail in practice in the Islamic world and Russia. They may not even recommend themselves to Islamic minorities in Western Europe. In the longer term they may not be implemented in practice in much of Asia, including India, Burma and China.
To this extent, global citizenship needs to be more global than most writers on global citizenship education currently envisage. It needs to take cultural, religious and civilisational differences much more seriously than is currently the case.
What is at issue here is not particularism, or an irrational form of cultural relativism, but an approach that addresses actual heterogeneities and real world contexts and does not rely on Kantian moral philosophy, or on Anglo-American political philosophy.
'Global' cannot mean Anglo-Saxon or even European. A global approach must both respect, and to a degree explain, differences, and this implies the need for more powerful concepts than individual traditions traditionally provided. This leads on to the second leap.
In my view, global citizenship education also needs to make a leap towards a new conceptuality: one that can encompass historical and historical particularities, while also creating portability across cultures and nation states.
This is a strong claim, and one with which educationists around the world are relatively unfamiliar, even though it is possible that nothing less will adequately traverse the world of electronic media, especially social media, or allow an integration of the sciences with the humanities and the fine arts.
A new global conceptuality is not on offer in educational institutions at present, and it does not inform most thinking on educational development. This is partly because the type of thinking involved is more commonly found among mathematicians, physicists and philosophers than among professors of education.
However, it may not be that difficult to produce and exemplify such a conceptuality in pedagogic practice. Indeed, I think that it will be easier to establish this conceptuality in pedagogic practice than to explicate the new concepts in philosophical or other theoretical terms.
Here my position is substantially alternativist and obviously requires considerable exemplification. The approach I commend differs from many dominant strategies in education, which often assume that curricula should implement pre-existing educational concepts and strategies.
My approach to global citizenship education implies a very different conception of pedagogy and learning, one which paradoxically has links both with strong cognitivism of a type educationists tend not to favour and with strong pragmatism of a type they favour, but do not always practice.
It has particular links with the pragmatism of the American philosopher and mathematician Charles Sanders Peirce, as opposed to the weaker pragmatism of John Dewey, William James or Richard Rorty.
My claim is that such an unusual approach to philosophy and practice has benefits for global citizenship education. Pedagogy based on this approach has the advantage of being suited to delivery using new technologies.
It is also inexpensive, practical and easy to implement in local communities around the world. Of course, such an innovative approach may be controversial, at least until the foundations for the approach in contemporary philosophy, mathematics and cognitive science are better understood. However, this is the approach I am working on. It is one that I think can make a real contribution to the current debates.
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Jannick Børlum just graduated
Jannick Børlum just graduated as a photographer with fine marks. Jannick has been with us for the last four years and many of you have already worked together with him and know his style and way of working. The inspiration to his examination photos came from Cape Town where he lived for three months while working on his examination. Jannick has interpreted what Cape Town is to him – a country growing from garbage and poverty into blooming. All the stuff at the photos are found at different places in Cape Town and the photos include both garbage and objects from the nature put together in small sculptures. The south african girl at the portrait is Akello Patricia.


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Koji Fukada, the acclaimed Hospitalite helmer, obviously digs French titles. However, teenage Sakuko's experiences are distinctly Japanese. She will spend her summer vacation flirting with a Fukushima evacuee and studying for her university exams (supposedly). Yet, Fukada's themes and vibe consciously pay homage to Eric Rohmer's beach movies. For ten days, Sakuko will slyly observe and cautiously interact with the small seaside community in Fukada's Au Revoir L'été (trailer here), which screens during the 2014 New York Film Festival.
Sakuko's family takes a bit of explaining, even for her. Her Aunt Mikie has the same name as her mother, because they are step-sisters. While Aunt Mikie's full sister is off touring Europe, they will house-sit her peaceful Rohmeresque home. Thus far, Sakuko has been something of an academic underachiever, so it is presumably hoped Aunt Mikie, an accomplished ethnologist specializing in Indonesian culture, will be a good influence on her.
Smart, attractive, and single, Aunt Mikie is indeed quite the role model, who attracts ex-lovers like a magnetic. First, it is Ukichi, the former village rogue, who has settled into a responsible job at the local love hotel to pay his daughter Tatsuko's college tuition. He has also taken in his nephew Takashi, finding him work at the hotel, despite his minor status.
Eventually, Nishida also arrives for a guest lectureship at Tatsuko's school, solely in hopes of picking up with Aunt Mikie again. However, she has clearly grown tired of the arrogant married man. She seems to prefer Ukichi's earthy company, while Sakuko is similarly interested in Takashi. Yet, just as in Rohmer's A Summer's Tale, the timing for young whatever-it-might-be is always problematic.
It is almost bizarre how much Au Revoir looks like a mid-1980s Rohmer film, right down to the TV-ish aspect ratio. It shares a similarly pedestrian look and even obsessively marks the passing of each day with retro graphics. Of course, in each case the surface gloss is immaterial. It is the gentle depiction of human messiness that drives the films.
NYAFF's 2014 Screen International Rising Star Award winner Fumi Nikaido gives a wonderfully natural performance as Sakuko. Remarkably subtle, she ranks as a worthy successor to Amanda Langlet in Pauline at the Beach and Summer's Tale. Nevertheless, Mayu Tsuruta's Aunt Mikie outshines everyone, making intelligence and maturity look seductive whenever she is on-screen.
As Takashi, Taiga convinces us boys really do mature slower than girls. So does Kanji Furutachi's Ukichi, but there some world weary heft to his oddball persona. Producer and Japanese indie star Kiki Sugino also frequently gives the film a kick with her verve and attitude as Tatsuko.


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Chris Henry will stick to his ball-stealing strengths in his bid to offset the loss of "world-class" Sean O'Brien to Ireland's RBS 6 Nations campaign.
The Ulster flanker admitted any team would miss Leinster's wrecking-ball loose-forward O'Brien, who may not play again this season after shoulder surgery.
Henry slotted into Ireland's back-row alongside Jamie Heaslip and Peter O'Mahony for Sunday's 28-6 Scotland victory, and is expected to start against Wales this weekend.
The 29-year-old said he will not try to mimic O'Brien's rampaging style, favouring his natural breakdown abilities instead, especially against two of the finest turnover hunters in Sam Warburton and Dan Lydiate.
"There's always going to be a lot of talk about Sean not being there, he's one of the best in the world," said Henry.
"The only way I can approach it is to say, 'yes he's an unbelievable player, but I have to think maybe I can add something a little bit different, maybe there are certain aspects of the game I can bring that he can't'.
"Rugby's horrible in that way when people get injured when you get your opportunity.
"So for me, I certainly tried to give everything out there last week.
"Hopefully that can be enough to stay in the side, but we'll just have to wait and see."
Henry believes Saturday's Wales clash could be completely dominated by the breakdown battle.
Unless Ireland "blast out" captain Warburton and fellow scavenger Lydiate, they will struggle for control, he admitted.
The Ulsterman remains Ireland's premier turnover specialist though, and is confident Joe Schmidt's side have enough prowess over the ball to cope with Wales' approach.
"Whatever back-row the Welsh team put out we already know they are world-class," said Henry.
"Their big thing is on defence and how quickly they get onto the poach, taking one tackler low and the other in position to get a solid threat in there.
"It's going to be something that we have to anticipate, get in there early and do a good job of blasting them out.
"I certainly tried to give everything out there last week. Hopefully that can be enough to stay in the side, but we'll just have to wait and see"
"Warburton's probably one of the best in the business, so we've got to be on the money.
"Starting off with a win and to play alongside the likes of Jamie and Peter was fantastic.
"They are both class players, and they are strong on the ball as well.
"Will that performance from last week be enough to beat this Welsh team? Probably not, but we're pretty realistic, we know that, we're a bit fed up with an Irish team that performs one week and then doesn't perform the next.
"As a group of players we want to put that to bed, deliver performances every week and get results every week."
Ireland's coaches have made a big play of highlighting their exemplary disciplinary record heading into the Six Nations in a bid to stay on the right side of the officials.
Henry believes Ireland's "clean" approach is worthy of mention, but admitted one of the biggest challenges in this campaign is to roll away quickly enough after a tackle.
"If you want to win big games you've got to make smart decisions and keep the penalty count low," he said.
"I try to leave the talking to the captain, because referees won't like you chirping too much, that's something I've tried to work on!
"The big thing now is to make sure you move after a tackle.
"A lot of penalties were given last week for the tackler not rolling away.
"Sometimes it's very hard if you're tackling in a certain position, it's nearly impossible to get out of there – but that's your responsibility as the tackler.
"So for me personally that's something I've tried to work on, so if I make a tackle I can get out of there quickly.
"I think on the whole we were pretty clean last week, and we want to be a clean and honest team."


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This book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form.
Focusing on the songs recorded by African-American singers for pre-World War Two commercial recording companies, this is an excellent structural analysis of the formulaic composistion of blues lyrics.
This book gives a step-by-step description of the rules implicit in this formulaic structure and inspires new discussion of lyric structures.
A wide array of readers will find this insightful and informative: from students of African-American music, cultural studies, history and linguistics, to Blues fans fascinated by exactly how the lyrics of this influential music style are written.


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Dolphins, Lamar Miller have had 'no in-depth negotiations'
The 2015 season is an important one for Miami Dolphins running back Lamar Miller. He's entering his fourth year in the league and the final year of his rookie contract, and is looking for a long-term deal following this season. According to reports, however, it doesn't sound like Miller and the Dolphins will come to an agreement before the season kicks off.
As Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald noted, the two sides have had negotiations, but none that were "in-depth." This doesn't come as much of a surprise since there haven't been any reports of the two sides being close to an agreement. It's looking like Miller will play out this season and look for a big deal in free agency.
For Miller, an increased workload should help his case for signing a lucrative contract in the offseason. Philbin said earlier this week that Miller could see more carries this season, after failing to carry the ball more than 19 times in 2014.
"I would tell you I've never been in a meeting where I've said to [offensive coordinator] Bill [Lazor] or [running backs coach] Jeff Nixon or the offensive line coaches have said 'Lamar can't carry the ball 20 times a game, he can't do it,'" Philbin said. "I would tell you, if he's cranking and he got it 24 times a game and he's healthy and he's fast and he's explosive, it doesn't bother me one bit."
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Readers have been asking whether there will be a Black Friday 2021 deal on the Makita 18V X2 cordless track saw kit.
I have not seen any indication that there will be a Makita track saw kit deal this year, but we just found a clue that increases this possibility.
Shown above is the Makita 18V X2 cordless track saw saw kit, XPS01PTJ. This is a great tool and Makita occasionally holds promos where you can get a free guide rail, batteries, or both. We have not see any such deals recently.
Makita has recently launched a new XGT track saw, and the USA model has started to appear at online retailers under model GPS01M1J. This could be important for context. (You can preorder this XGT saw at Tool Nut.)
This is where things get interesting…
There is also a NEW Makita 18V X2 cordless track saw kit, model XPS01PMJ.
The Makita XPS01PMJ cordless track saw kit comes with 2x 4.0Ah batteries instead of the 2x 5.0Ah batteries that you get with their usual track saw kit and other 18V X2 cordless power tool kits.
Pricing on this new kit option ranges from $499 to $519 and up. The existing kit that comes with 5Ah batteries is regularly priced at $499.
The way I see it, there are 2 explanations here:
A) Makita launched the XGT track saw here in the USA and also introduced a new 18V X2 kit with lower capacity batteries at the same time for reasons unknown.
B) This could be a secret Makita Black Friday 2021 deal for the track saw, and it's bundled with the 4Ah batteries so as to allow for lower deal pricing than would have been possible with the 5Ah batteries.
Makita's cordless track saw promos usually feature a free guide rail and batteries. They could be taking a different direction here, where they've created a cheaper "special buy" that can be sold at lower pricing.
So, either Makita created this new kit with the lower capacity 4Ah batteries as part of their regular lineup, or as a Black Friday 2021 deal.
Makita's new SubCompact cordless drill and impact driver kits are bundled with 1.5Ah batteries (which their website says are actually discontinued) instead of the typical 2.0Ah batteries, and they're on sale for Black Friday.
We asked Makita USA to clarify what's going on with the new SKU, but don't expect to hear back.
If the new track saw SKU does go on sale for Black Friday, just keep in mind that it comes with lower capacity batteries than the usual kit. 5Ah batteries have 25% greater charge capacity than 4Ah batteries, but it's not a big deal if the price is right.
Also be aware of any "savings" or "was pricing" claims. The 5Ah kit is normally priced at $499. The 4Ah kit was introduced at $499 to $519 pricing (and higher at some retailers), but this doesn't mean anything if it was really only introduced as a Black Friday deal.
If this isn't a Black Friday deal, the battery downgrade seems strange. Most brands tend to raise prices when necessary, rather than cheapen the bundled contents of their cordless power tool kits. That's why I'm guessing – and hoping – this is simply a Black Friday "special buy."
Most retailers are not shipping the 4Ah X2 kit just yet. One retailer does have it in stock, and if this is a Black Friday deal, its availability should change around Thanksgiving.
Some retailers are reporting the 5Ah X2 kit as out of stock and with an extended ETA (e.g. April 2022). If the 4Ah kit is meant to replace the 5Ah kit, you might want to buy the 5Ah kit at comparable pricing if it's still available.


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Marilyn K. Folkers Passed on August 21, 2014
Marilyn K. Folkers, age 74 of Mission, passed away in Rapid City, SD on August 21, 2014.
A memorial service will be held at 2:00 PM, Thursday, September 18, 2014 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Mission, SD. A meal will immediately follow at the Bishop Harold Jones Building in Mission. Private interment will be held at a later date.
Survivors include 3 sons: Harlan & Brad (Mandi) Folkers of Mission and JR Folkers of Wall, SD and 3 stepchildren: Steve, Rick & Marilyn.
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Most backaches come from strained muscles in the lower back. Other causes include back injuries such as a slipped or herniated disc, arthritis, osteoporosis, and urinary tract infections. The goals of treatment are to treat the cause of the backache, relieve the pain, promote healing and avoid re-injury.
Improper lifting causes a lot of backaches. Here are some lifting "dos and don'ts" to help you avoid straining your back.
- Wear good shoes with low heels, not sandals or high heels.
- Stand close to the thing you want to lift.
- Plant your feet squarely, shoulder width apart.
- Bend at the knees, not at the waist. Keep your knees bent as you lift.
- Pull in your stomach and rear-end. Keep your back as straight as you can.
- Hold the object close to your body.
- Lift slowly. Let your legs carry the weight.
- Get help or use a dolly to move something that is too big or very heavy.
- Don't lift if your back hurts.
- Don't lift if you have a history of back trouble.
- Don't lift something that's too heavy.
- Don't lift heavy things over your head. Don't lift anything heavy if you're not steady on your feet.
- Don't bend at the waist to pick something up. Don't arch your back when you lift or carry.
- Don't lift too fast or with a jerk.
- Don't twist your back when you are holding something. Turn your whole body, from head to toe.
- Don't lift something heavy with one hand and something light with the other. Balance the load.
- Don't try to lift one thing while you hold something else. For example, don't try to pick up a child while you are holding a grocery bag. Put the bag down, or lift the bag and the child at the same time.
Self-Care Tips
Resting the back can help treat the pain and avoid re-injury. Resting doesn't have to be in bed, but lying down takes pressure off your back so it can heal faster. Up to two or three days of rest is usually best. Your back muscles can get weak if you don't use them or if you stay in bed longer than that. To make the most of rest:
- Get comfortable when you are lying, standing, and sitting. For example, when you lie on your back, keep your upper back flat, but your hips and knees bent. Keep your feet flat on the bed. Tip your hips down and up until you find the best spot.
- Put a pillow under your knees or lie on your side with your knees bent. This will take pressure off your lower back.
- When you get up from bed, move slowly, roll on your side, and swing your legs to the floor. Push off the bed with your arms.
Cold Treatment
Cold helps with bruises and swelling. You can make a cold pack by wrapping ice in a towel. Use the cold pack for 20 minutes, then take it off for 20 minutes. Do this over and over for 2 to 3 hours a day. Lie on your back with your knees bent, and put the ice pack under your lower back. Start as soon as you hurt your back. Keep doing it for 3 to 4 days.
Heat Treatment
Heat makes blood flow, which helps healing. But don't use heat on a back strain until 3 to 4 days after you get hurt. Any sooner and it can make the pain and swelling worse. Use a moist heating pad, a hot-water bottle, hot compresses, a hot tub, hot baths, or hot showers. Use heat for 20 minutes, then take the heat off for 20 minutes. Do this up to 3 hours a day. Be careful not to burn yourself.
Massage won't cure a backache, but it can loosen tight muscles.
Braces or Corsets
Braces and corsets support your back and keep you from moving it too much. They do what strong back muscles do, but they won't make your back stronger.
Relieve the Pain
Take aspirin, ibuprofen, or naproxen sodium for pain. [Note: Do not give aspirin or any medication containing salicylates to anyone 19 years of age or younger, unless directed by a physician, due to its association with Reye's Syndrome, a potentially fatal condition.] Acetaminophen will help with pain, but not swelling.
Don't "overdo it" after taking a pain killer. You can hurt your back more, and then it will take longer to heal.
More Tips
- After 2-3 days of resting your back, try some mild stretching exercises (in the morning and afternoon) to make your stomach and back muscles stronger. (Always ask your doctor before starting an exercise program).
- Don't sit in one place longer than you need to. It strains your lower back.
- Sleep on a firm mattress.
- Never sleep on your stomach. Sleep on your back or side, with your knees bent.
- If your back pain is chronic or doesn't get better on its own, see your doctor. He or she can evaluate your needs. A referral may be given to a physical therapist, a physiatrist (a physical therapy doctor), or a chiropractor.
Questions to Ask
Is the back pain extreme and felt across the upper back (not just on one side) and did it come on suddenly (within about fifteen minutes) with no apparent reason such as an injury or back strain? [Note: These may be symptoms of a dissecting aortic aneurysm.]
Did the back pain start inside your chest and move to the upper back? [Note: You may be having a heart attack. The pain may be dull and you may not feel it in the chest at all.]
Was the back pain sudden with a cracking sound?
Did the pain come after a recent fall, injury, or violent movement to the back and are you having a hard time moving your arm or leg? Do you also have numbness or tingling in your legs, feet, toes, arms or hands and/or loss of bladder or bowel control?
Did the pain come on all of a sudden after being in a wheelchair or a long stay in bed, or are you over 60 years old?
Is the pain severe, (but not a result from a fall or injury to the back), and has it lasted for more than five to seven days or is there also a sense of weakness, numbness or tingling in the feet or toes?
Does the pain travel down the leg(s) below the knee?
Does the pain get worse with movement, coughing, sneezing, lifting or straining or does it come with a loss of bowel and/or bladder control?
Are any of the following also present?
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If you are having a bad day, just remember it could always be worse. The number 13 is thought to be unlucky for some, certainly for these poor people (and one cat!) below! So it's only right that you sit back, relax, and count yourself lucky that you haven't made this list of the 13 worst fails ever!
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He's gone!
Why does this only ever happen when you're starving?
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Well, the plane did technically stop…
I got myself in and I can get myself out…probably!
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The guy at the top right is not amused.
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Growing up in the streets of Harlem in the 1940s and 50s, Sal Lucania survived by outwitting neighborhood bullies, the abusive priests who ran his school, local gangsters, and even some distant mafia relatives. He was born into a Sicilian family in 1942 and was named for his cousin Salvador Charles "Lucky" Luciano. As a Sicilian, he took on the philosophy of his culture: "No authority higher than our own." As a relative of … [Read more...]
100 of the Most Notorious Criminals Are Ranked From Bad to Worst in BROOKLYN'S MOST WANTED
"Brooklyn's Most Wanted" parades an impressive perp walk of 100 of the Borough's most notorious, ranking them meticulously from bad to worst. From crime bosses to career criminals to corrupt politicians, pedophile priests to Ponzi scammers, this is not your usual crime chronicle. You want labor racketeering, Ponzi scheming, hijacking, murder, loan sharking, arson, illegal gambling, money laundering? Fugetaboutit! Take this guided tour through … [Read more...]
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"The Kill For Thrills Gang" Snatches Spot on BROOKLYN'S MOST WANTED Rankings
Subject: Jack Koslow–The Kill for Thrills Gang Offenses: Murder, Kidnapping, Gang Violence, Arson, Assault, etc. Ranking: NO. 62 [The following includes excerpts from Brooklyn's Most Wanted–Ranking the Top 100 Most Notorious Criminals, Crooks and Creeps from the County of the Kings,on sale now.] We know the teenage brain is sometimes incapable of pumping the brakes. Yet there is a difference between reckless juvenile delinquency and … [Read more...]
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When WildBlue Press publishes Craig McGuire's second book, BROOKLYN'S MOST WANTED: Ranking the Top 100 Most Notorious Criminals, Crooks and Creeps from the County of the Kings you could say it wraps a project the author has been working on most of his life. No, McGuire is not a crime lord, con artist, crooked cop, career criminal or corrupt politician–all of whom are featured in his work. But like most Brooklyn natives, he may know one or … [Read more...]
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Verizon's recently released 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report finds that even as attacks rapidly increase in complexity, cyber criminals still rely on tried-and-true techniques such as phishing to compromise organizations.
Technology alone cannot combat cyberthreats, says Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst and group CEO at Delhi, India-based Greyhound Research. Along with investing heavily in security products and services, companies need to spend on people and training. Providing training to local technology service providers to create security awareness will also propel enterprise security adoption in India, he believes.
Miscellaneous errors, crimeware, insider threats and privilege misuse account for 75 percent of all security incidents, the report finds. Greyhound's Gogia says, given that large number of organizations in India, including SMBs, are moving workloads to the cloud, security threats have become more complex. Furthermore, with increasing dependence on third parties and managed service providers, enterprises first need to identify the existing complexities, both in-house as well externally. Weak data security laws add to the dismal picture, he says.
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Argentinian art collective Mondongo creates incredibly detailed portraits by using dripped and molded Plasticine. I can't imagine how much time they spend getting the skin tones just right.
We've posted our share of impressive portraits here on OC, made from the most unusual materials (from pancakes and chewing gum to written words), but few more detailed than the masterpieces created by Mondongo. The art collective, which consists of Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha and Agustina Picasso, was founded in 1999 and has worked with a huge variety of materials, from food to plasticine, depending on what best reinforces the concept of the work. Mondongo, which is the name of a traditional Argentinian tripe stew, was chosen precisely becomes the art collective creates its work from a cauldron of ingredients.
Some of the most impressive artworks created by Mondongo are a series of realistic portraits made with dripped and moulded Plasticine. It's hard to even imagine how long it took to get the vibrant colors just right by placing the strips of Plasticine at the right place on the canvas, but the end result is simply stunning.
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Megaphone News: Megaphone's new storytelling and overdose prevention series closes with impact
Confronting stigma, changing hearts
In Megaphone's fall storytelling and overdose prevention series "How to Save a Life: Front Line Stories," we held storytelling and overdose prevention events in six Vancouver neighbourhoods for six weeks. Members of the Downtown Eastside community shared their experiences with drug use, their insights on the overdose crisis currently sweeping B.C., and showed audiences how to reverse an opioid overdose using naloxone.
The events, held on weeknights in October and November, were powerful reminders of the importance of lifting up the voices and human experiences of individuals most directly impacted by a record-breaking overdose epidemic that can be difficult to comprehend when we simply look at the numbers.
Illicit drug overdoses are on track to kill over 1,500 British Columbians this year. As of the time of this writing in early November, Vancouver has already exceeded the total number of illicit drug overdose deaths for all of 2016, a year that already broke every previous year of record-keeping.
In a moment at the end of Megaphone vendor and "How to Save a Life" storyteller Spike's story, he asks the audience to join him in remembering people who died of overdoses by saying the names of loved ones they've lost. Spike starts by naming his friend Bobby. Then, the room fills slowly with the sound of so many names. Jilly Bean. Mikey. Mel. Marnie. Ryan. Tracey. Mary. The list continues. "That's a hell of a lot of people, huh?" Spike says. "Thank you for sharing. Thanks for listening."
Deep loss underscores the need for continued public conversations like these. And despite the sadness at the heart of these stories, people like Spike and his peers are working hard to create a better world. The "How to Save a Life" storytellers and overdose prevention trainers are caring, engaged community members working in overdose prevention sites, with drug user advocacy groups, and in grassroots organizations at the front lines of B.C.'s overdose crisis.
They took a chance on Megaphone and the Overdose Prevention Society by agreeing to participate in a series of events in which they courageously shared what's in their hearts with new audiences across the city. I wish to thank them all for their generosity of spirit in sharing so bravely of themselves with hundreds of people across Vancouver through these events.
This is a conversation we are keen to continue in Megaphone through our advocacy work, and if possible, through continued community conversations like "How to Save a Life." We thank the City of Vancouver for supporting this series, CBC Vancouver for its media sponsorship, neighbourhood houses across Vancouver for opening their doors to us for these events, and all of you who took time out of a busy autumn to attend an event, volunteer at one, or read about us in these pages.
Thank you so much for your support in amplifying marginalized voices, and creating spaces like these where we can build a more inclusive society.


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(The Hill) – Text messages newly revealed on Monday indicate that former NFL quarterback Brett Favre and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) communicated over an effort to use their state's welfare funds to help build a new volleyball center at the University of Southern Mississippi.
According to a report by Mississippi Today published Tuesday, Favre, Bryant and others discussed ways to funnel at least $5 million in state welfare funds for the new Southern Mississippi volleyball center.
The texts were filed in the state of Mississippi's civil lawsuit over the scandal. Southern Mississippi's volleyball stadium is not a part of the state's civil lawsuit.
An attorney representing the Mississippi Community Education Center (MCEC), whose founder, Nancy New, previously pleaded guilty to 13 felony counts of bribery, fraud and racketeering for her role in the welfare scheme, filed the text messages into court records.
The reported conversations took place between 2017 and 2019, when Favre's daughter was on Southern Mississippi's volleyball team. Favre, who spent most of his 20-year NFL career with the Green Bay Packers, had played football at the university.
"If you were to pay me is there anyway the media can find out where it came from and how much?" Favre asked New in 2017.
In response, New texted Favre that "we never have that information publicized," adding that Bryant, who served two terms as Mississippi's governor, approved of the plan.
"Wow, just got off the phone with Phil Bryant! He is on board with us! We will get this done!" New texted Favre.
In a text message sent in 2019, Bryant told New, who was tasked with spending tens of millions of federal welfare funds in the state, that he got out of a meeting with Favre and asked if she can help with their project, according to Mississippi Today.
"Just left Brett Favre," Bryant told New. "Can we help him with his project. We should meet soon to see how I can make sure we keep your projects on course."
Favre, a three-time NFL MVP, paid the remaining $600,000 he owed to the state of Mississippi last year over improperly receiving welfare money as a result of an extensive scheme.
The 52-year-old former quarterback received up to $1.1 million in welfare funds between December 2017 and June 2018 from MCEC for public speaking appearances he never made.
Mississippi's Department of Human Services filed a civil lawsuit against Favre in May, alleging that he did not pay back interest of the $1.1 million owed, which amounted to $228,000.
In a statement to Mississippi Today, Favre's attorney Bud Holmes denies that his client knew he received welfare funds, saying, "Brett Favre has been honorable throughout this whole thing."
Favre, who along with Bryant hasn't been criminally charged in the scandal, had previously told the nonprofit news organization in 2020 that he did not have any contact with Bryant about his alma mater's volleyball center.


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Regular Show: 25 Years Later #1 (of 6)
Publisher: KaBOOM!, an imprint of BOOM! Studios
Writers: Christopher Hastings
Artists: Anna Johnstone
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Letterer: Mike Fiorentino
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Synopsis: After the epic battle between Pops and Anti-Pops, Mordecai, Rigby, and the rest of the park continued to live their lives. Now, 25 years later, Mordecai and Rigby have a lot to learn about how things never stay the same…
Preview: Regular Show: 25 Years Later #1 (Of 6)
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Another favorite source of inspiration is Flickr. There are sooo many amazingly, talented people out there!
I love looking back into my "favorites" file and gushing over the beauty!
Here some of my most recent Flickr favorites:
To get a better view of any of these pictures and to check out the image credit, please click here!
If you don't have a flickr account yet, you need to get one. It's free :)
Have a great Sunday!! Today is the first day I can actually feel my allergies acting up :( My nose is stuffy and my ears are clogged. boo.
If I start to feel better (fingers crossed) my plan is to go geocaching today after church.
There are 13 different caches at the local park right by my house so I plan on introducing Adam to geocaching today. I think he's going to looooove it!!
love you.
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Wow! 13 caches! Sounds like fun! Hope your sinuses get better and you have a great day! )ReplyDelete
what is geocaching? can you please make a post on it? i wanna see all the fun you're having with it! love u!ReplyDelete
awwwwwww Janel! I'm on there!! Well not me exactly....but my sheets are!!ReplyDelete
So sweet.
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Round door hinge, in galvanised steel for gate doors.
This hinge measures 50 mm diameter by 40 mm high. It is composed of a turning plate with spherical ball bushing bearings. It also includes rubber sealing rings.
By welding it onto your gate doors and posts, as per the parts provided to this effect, it lets you perfectly adjust and balance your gate.
This hinge can bear a maximum load of 250 kg.


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Research and Development
At Škrlj d.o.o., we invest a lot in research and development, and encourage innovation and self-initiative.
We actively cooperate with external research institutes (Alpinenon, University of Nova Gorica, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia). Our company is in the official Research and Development Actors database, found at the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS).
Substitution of synthetic solvents in extraction processes with water - supercritical water extraction (SEV)
As part of this project we are going to design and create an operational pilot device for the extraction and dissolution of cellulosic materials. A particular emphasis will be placed on the selection and development of advanced materials. The device will be used for pilot testing and data collection, which will then be used for carbon footprint calculations (LCA) and cost benefit analysis (CBA), as well as the basis for the production of larger industrial devices. With this project, we will develop a new group of products that are ecological, while at the same time also gaining a whole new segment of customers.
Project goals and effects:
- Development of a new device for the extraction and dissolution of biopolymers using SCW;
- Entry on market of high-tech products with high added value on a global level in the pharmaceutical and food industry sectors;
- Positive impact on customer employees;
- Positive impact on the environment and society.
The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union.
Developing the intelligent and ecological UltraPRESS
The project RIP/09/21/12 "Developing the intelligent and ecological UltraPRESS" was selected at the public tender "Direct incentives for joint development and investment projects - DIP09" as part of the "Operational Programme for Strengthening Regional Development Potentials" for the period 2007-2013.
Working on the UltraPRESS project, we developed a new, intelligent, and technologically advanced pressing system (for grapes and other fruit), while also keeping in mind the ecological aspect. Both products, the UltraPRESS and the intelligent control unit, are innovations on the global market. Combined with the intelligent control unit, the UltraPRESS offers new ecological alternatives of grape pressing and enables optimal press fraction and must processing.


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January 8, 2013
We, the people of the United States, are not being fairly represented, if corporations, groups like Crossroads, Americans for Prosperity and the US Chamber of Commerce, are allowed to influence our representatives by their political contributions.
Require corporations to disclose their political spending. Do it this year.
Thank you for considering my comment.
Roselle Friedman
weston, FL


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This blog has sat (mostly) dormant for the past couple of years. As a mom with two little ones, it's just been easier to share my random thoughts on Instagram. Some things, however, don't share well on Instagram…like recipes. Which is what I'm going to do here over the next five weeks.
But not just any recipes. And not just for the fun of it.
Over the past three years, Chris and I have been blessed by so many friends and strangers, who have come alongside us and supported us so that we could adopt our beautiful boys (and hopefully, soon, our beautiful girl). Yes, we have worked and saved for these adoptions. We took out a second mortgage on our house, sold our second car, and I spent months writing a cookbook to boot. But even with all that, we couldn't have brought three children home in three years without the help of strangers. This is a blessing. I will be forever grateful for it. But a part of me also grieves over it.
Right now, there are so many women out there who face difficult pregnancies. They want to keep their babies. But they don't know how. Unlike me, they don't have 17,000 followers on social media who they can call upon for help. So, many of those women don't choose life for their babies. Or, they choose life, but entrust the child to another woman to raise.
Our sons' birthparents placed their boys with us for reasons that were not financial. No amount of money could enable one set of parents to parent. No amount of money could have persuaded the others to parent. I feel less guilty fundraising for our adoptions knowing that. But still, I grieve. I grieve for every woman facing an unplanned pregnancy alone and scared. I grieve for every mother who thinks she doesn't have a choice. I grieve for every woman who doesn't have the amazing community I have.
So, I want to do something about it.
Chris and I are currently $5,500 away from having the money we need to fully fund this adoption. Almost all of that money has come from donations to our cookbook fundraiser. I know, if I kept pushing the cookbook, we would reach that goal in short order. I also know, if I pushed a little more, I could surpass the goal, and have enough money to take some kind of maternity leave. But, I'm not going to do that.
Instead, I'm going to offer you something here: Three Meatless Meal Recipes a week, every week, until the end of Lent. That's 15 recipes in total. One will be super fast and easy (20-30 minutes start to finish, tops), with kid friendly adaptations. One will be allergy friendly (no gluten, dairy, or nuts). And the third will be just a little bit fancy. One of those three options each week will feature some kind of seafood or fish. The others will be veggie-based. So, lots of options for all families and no repeats.
I'll post the recipes on Wednesdays, with ingredients, instructions, and photos, BUT I won't post a 750 word essay before the recipe. No annoying stories. No fluff. I promise. Any tips I have, I'll put at the end. I have no advertisers on this blog, so I can do that.
Originally, I had thought about putting together this recipe collection as a download and charging a few dollars for it. But I'd rather just give it to you for free, with an option for you to leave a "tip" in my Venmo jar (@Emily-Chapman-33). If you've already contributed generously to our adoption fund, you can just enjoy the recipes as an extra thank you. If the recipes are helpful to you, and you want to help us meet our goal, you can leave any sized tip you like, even just $1.
If my tip jar accumulates more than $5,500, though, I won't put it towards a maternity leave. I'm working hard now on projects my clients need in April and May, so that I can take time off when we're in California and then have a lighter schedule for 5-6 weeks after that. I don't need anything more. Most women in the United States, especially moms facing crisis pregnancies, get no paid maternity leave. I can manage in solidarity with them.
Instead, any money raised over $5500 will go to the Sisters of Life, an amazing community of religious sisters who help women in crisis pregnancies choose life for the babies and then raise those babies themselves. They also provide loving support to post-abortive women. These women are doing the work in cities across America so that no woman has to choose abortion or adoption simply for financial reasons. They are some of the most lovely, joyful, generous women you will ever meet, and helping them in their mission, is a way to directly help vulnerable women who want to be mothers to their babies but can't without help.
So, that's my plan. I hope you want to be a part of it. At the very least, I hope these Lenten Friday recipes bless you and your family. Because you certainly have blessed me and mine.
See you tomorrow!


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Answers to Your Common Questions
The Fuel Express team has developed a flexible fleet fuel card program that supports successful fleet operations. We know you may have a few questions about our fleet fuel cards and how they work. That's why we've created a fleet fuel card FAQs page. Here, we address some of the most common questions and try to answer them as thoroughly as possible.
As a full-service fleet management solutions company, we've designed our products and services to meet all of your business needs. The fleet fuel card FAQs address topics that commonly come up for new or existing customers.
If you don't find the question or answer you're looking for, please reach out to us at 1-800-462-0799. We realize that the complexities of running your fleet might not fit neatly into typical scenarios. You'll get prompt responses to any of your questions or concerns from our industry experts.
General Fleet Fuel Card FAQs:
A fleet fuel card is a dedicated purchasing and tracking solution. It functions like a credit card, but is limited to spending within our network of over 320,000 fuel and maintenance locations. Unlike a company credit card, you don't have to worry about employees spending money outside of fuel stations. You assign an individual fleet fuel card for each driver and determine their specific budget. As purchases are made, you can access information for each fleet fuel card through an online account. The account presents real-time data about who bought what, where, and when.
The purchasing process for your drivers is similar to using a credit card. As the manager, you control the budget for each fleet fuel card. You can set spending higher for longer routes and restrict the budget for shorter routes. This prevents your drivers from going over budget without your authorization. You can monitor everything through a secure online account.
On top of spending data, the fleet fuel cards measure fuel usage for each vehicle. Reports generated by the online system provide valuable insights about driver spending habits and vehicle performance. Fuel Express fleet fuel cards also offer a fraud detection feature. The system will alert you to any unusual activity. Additional security can also be activated through the use of fuel pump prompts. If desired, you can require drivers enter a PIN or other type of identification.
The powerful features outlined in these fleet fuel card FAQs empower you to streamline your budgeting and expense reporting. As data comes in, you'll gain the ability to eliminate inefficiencies. You might spot drivers who use more fuel than others and train them in better driving habits. The data might also allow you to redesign your routes and reduce fuel consumption. Fleet fuel cards coupled with online reporting will reduce your paperwork load. You won't need to reconcile receipts from various sources. The system will record everything that you need in one place.
Fuel Express fleet fuel cards adapt to fleets of all sizes. We've built a card system appropriate for small businesses, government agencies, or corporations. The threshold to apply is very low. Your organization only needs 4 vehicles or a fuel consumption rate of at least 100 gallons per week. Beyond that, Fuel Express fleet fuel cards scale easily to large fleets with hundreds of vehicles.
Fuel Express has built a nationwide network of over 320,000 locations that accept our fleet fuel cards. Our cards are not limited to a single fuel company or brand. We have agreements with many fuel providers. This means that your drivers can conveniently choose the closest location for fueling and maintenance.
Fleet Fuel Card Application FAQs:
Simply fill out our short form and provide basic information about your company, fleet, and estimated monthly budget. A Fuel Express representative will contact you and will discuss the benefits of our fleet fuel cards and provide the next steps in the application process. Please note that the fleet fuel card FAQs state the minimum application requirements. Your fleet must use at least 100 gallons of fuel per week or consist of at least 4 vehicles.
You can reach the Fuel Express office in Mt. Pleasant, SC, at 1-800-462-0799. If it's more convenient, you can also reach us through our short contact form.
Fleet Fuel Card Spending FAQs:
Yes. You can designate each fleet fuel card for the purchase of fuel, maintenance service, or both. You can have different authorizations for each card.
Yes. Our fleet fuel card's versatile budgeting tools allow you to set monthly spending limits and restrict specific types of purchases. You can authorize specific drivers to buy fuel, maintenance, or both. You can block certain drivers from making purchases. If you detect unnecessary purchases, you can stop the overspending immediately.


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Earlier this week, Google finally launched Google+ Pages for businesses, brands and other non-human entities. After the massive growth and announcement that G+ profiles were only for humans with real names, things went very quiet in the Plus camp for businesses.
What Is Google+ (Google Plus)?
Google+ is essentially a social media platform. You can share updates, images, videos and links similar to Facebook. However unlike Facebook you can choose to share your information with different sets of connections, known as circles. There is also a rather cool "hangout" feature that allows you to video chat with your connections.
I quite like this video from Epipheo which explains it in a nutshell.
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I am not going to dwell too much on comparisons with Facebook or talk about the competition between the two platforms because this really isn't a question of comparing 40 million users to 800 million.
Like many of the initial G+ users, I looked and then neglected…
…and I do this stuff to pay the mortgage – I should care and be out there G+ing on my profile. But who needs or has time for another social media platform?
However, Google+ Pages are a different kettle of fish all together. It's time to look at the bigger picture.
Should My Local Business Create a Google+ Page?
Do you want the short answer?
Longer answer coming up.
Creating a Google+ Page for your local business is not about thinking of number of followers, it's very much looking at the bigger picture. The video above touches on that picture quite well.
Google search dominates the search engine market (84.26% of the UK search volume to date). Google is a search engine, its aim is to bring together as much info as possible and present it to interested searchers.
But, Google isn't just a search engine, it has so many pies on the internet I doubt they have enough fingers to stick in them! From analytics and apps to email to maps and places to video, and so many more…
Oh and advertising online too…
One could almost believe that Google are the Internet…
Anyway, to rank your website and Google Places page in search, Google use a variety of indicators from all over the web, including information from it's own properties. Search is changing, social indicators are becoming more and more important.
Google has just gone social on a big scale with Google+ Pages…
It's still in it's infancy, and no doubt there will be many tweaks and twiddles before it settles down a bit. But we already know that the +1 indicator can affect Google ads, and there's been a recent change so +1's are aggregated on your page when you connect everything together. And, while they're not connected yet, G+ does pull basic information from your Places page on set up.
That's just scratching the surface and I really don't want to try and second guess what Google will do next! When it comes to being found online through search, Google is the major player and it makes sense that they use their own data and web properties to influence the search results.
Things To Consider Before Setting Up Your Google+ Page
A word of warning, don't do what I did and click the button just to see if it was working yet!
A bit of organisation is needed.
First of all, there can only be one administrator of your Google+ Page. I would recommend you use the same Google account that has your Places, YouTube, Analytics, AdWords and other Google sites connected.
Setting up an account just for business rather than using your personal Gmail account means you can give the password to trusted others to manage your Google presence. It also means everything is in one place!
I have read that once a name is taken you can't create another page with the same name – well I just did. You can't transfer pages though, so creating your Google+ Page on the right account in the first place saves any hassle and messing around later.
I would also highly recommend you have a plan of action. Be prepared and have content to share – whether it's videos or images of your business. I think it's a great opportunity to do something a bit different rather than duplicating what happens on your other social media sites.
There are no vanity URLs for Google+ Pages (or profiles) so you are a very long number and that is very difficult to remember. Once you are set up, use a URL shortener such as http://gplus.to/
Your Google+ business page cannot add people to circles, they need to add you first.
Setting Up A Google+ Page
You need a Google account. If you do not have one already for your business, create an account free at https://accounts.google.com
Once you are signed in, create a Google+ profile by clicking on the +You link top left.
Fill out the details and click Join.
Then choose Create a Google+ Page from the right column.
Then choose Local Business or Place
Enter your business phone number and it will pull your basic details from Google Places (your business IS there isn't it?)
Add any additional details and click Join.
Don't forget to update your Google+ about page!
Will you be creating a Google+ Page for your business?What are Google+ Pages and What They Mean For Your Local Business by Jan Kearney